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Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Haggins posted:

Also pro-tip I learned not too long ago: The hotkey to automatically log into web pages is "CMD \" .

How did I use 1Password for years and not know this - thank you!

# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 23:12

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:56

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

pipebomb posted:

Do you guys have any recommendations for a task/project manager with an iOS companion app? I have a Things (http://itunes.apple.com/app/things/id407951449?mt=12) for Mac license, but don't want to shell out $40 more for the iOS apps.

Nested projects with tasks, alerts, etc. would be nice.

Remember the Milk is good and cheap. You can access it anywhere and if you have a paid subscription they have an iPhone app as well that does offline syncing.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 03:12

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

It wasn't on the developer page, but I was able to get it from the e-mail link.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2011 00:48

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

TACD posted:

If we're doing favourite clock screensavers, I can never get enough of PolarClock: http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock

If we're doing favorite clock screensavers, I can't get enough of Uniqlock - http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/ - go over to downloads to get the mac version.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 13:16

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

I love Linkinus and highly recommend it.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 01:56

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Does anyone know of an adblock plugin that works with Safari 7?

# ¿ Jun 16, 2013 20:08

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

I ended up going with MailMate because it's the only mail client I've had that stays under 1 on the energy saver tool in Activity Monitor.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2013 06:14

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Actually the smuggest Mac writing app is Ulysses.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2013 22:14

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Arrowsmith posted:

If it hasn't been asked already, is it against NDA to say if TRIM Enabler still works?

It does with a little bit of configuration.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2014 20:51

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Literally every version of OSX released in the last four years has had "fixed Wifi" somewhere in the changelog.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2014 23:15

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Merging folders is a pain and cannot be accomplished through finder, you need to rely on ditto or rsync.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2014 23:49

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Just pay the five dollars it's worth it.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 05:25

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Martytoof posted:

drat my 2014 rMBP feels SNAPPY again. It was starting to feel a little sluggish near the end there but this is pretty amazing now. I don't know if Metal is helping with this, but Spaces/Expos�/Mission Control feels MUCH more responsive. I know there was general unhappiness about the graphics performance of the 13" rMBP at times and I was one of those who complained. This legitimately feels like a new machine. Wonder if it's just a placebo effect of the upgrade or whether I'm actually noticing these changes.

Going to install it on a 2007 iMac tomorrow, that should be a pretty good test on REAL lovely hardware.

Wha-what? How could a 2014 rMBP possibly be sluggish? It's not even close to out of date. My Early 2011 MBP is still rolling along just fine and snappy!

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 02:18

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

I like my mac.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 20:15

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

just use qbitorrent it is super easy

# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 17:00

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

This came up earlier in the thread but BoxCryptor + Any Cloud Service (I use OneDrive's free 1 TB with an Office 365 sub) is a great way to put things in the cloud and protect them. I would move away from anything that uses dropbox as its only sync option. I don't think I have anything left that uses it.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 14:39

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

yeah fastmail is great

also doing the hover + 10 yr domain w/ autorenew

# ¿ Oct 17, 2016 22:14

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

i have an echo and it feels functionally limited compared to how i use siri, even though i know you can download tons of skills for it

not being able to call or text from it is a big miss

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 13:08

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

ive only ever used pixelmator but it suits my needs and goes on sale regularly

# ¿ Dec 17, 2016 20:59

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

the time capsule (RIP) has wireless ac but you have to turn on the 5ghz network to use it, also you should make your laptop forget the other network unless you want it to suddenly switch back to n at random

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 02:46

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

i like the app amphetamine for this purpose

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 22:29

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Mike Danger posted:

Does anyone here use a Pomodoro app that they like? I'm looking to try it out at work.

i like Be Focused it's freemium on the app store

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 12:50

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

i use sharemouse for this exact use case and it works well, be sure to set a special toggle key for when you roll from one monitor to another so you don't accidentally switch monitors in a fullscreen game or w/e (i use shift)

# ¿ Apr 17, 2017 12:07

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

also if you want to share audio to one machine (e.g. headphones) airfoil will do this with a slight audio delay

# ¿ Apr 17, 2017 12:08

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

just had to completely flatten and restore my macbook pro because of an apfs issue, also it wouldn't convert back so i had to make a usb recovery drive to finally fix it...

# ¿ Jul 31, 2017 04:50

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Boxcryptor has been solid for me for cloud encryption

# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 01:58

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

irssi on homebrew

# ¿ Mar 31, 2019 16:13

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

that one and also the one where the photos agent goes nuts and pegs the cpu until killed

# ¿ Sep 5, 2019 17:50

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Sad Panda posted:

Marginally confused about using brew cask to get the latest versions of applications.
code:
$ brew cask upgrade
==> No Casks to upgrade
But then...
code:
$ brew cask upgrade firefox
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
firefox 71.0 -> 72.0.2
What's the command I need to be running for it to find that Firefox is outdated without me having to name it?

cask ignores any casks with auto updaters when running the upgrade command, if you want it to include those pieces of software you need to add the --greedy flag, so as seen below:

brew cask upgrade --greedy

# ¿ Feb 1, 2020 12:58

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

i love 1pw and i hope their taking venture capital doesn't turn them into poo poo - generally anything the start-up world touches turns to poo poo eventually

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 01:02

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

homebrew has been the standard over macports for like... 7 years

# ¿ May 15, 2020 20:05

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

big sur's ui looks awful so far - sort of feels like a wet fart to me

# ¿ Nov 11, 2020 20:49

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Lazyhound posted:

Apparently some people on the MacRumors forums were able to upgrade by VPNing to Australia.

i thought you were joking but that actually worked for me

# ¿ Nov 13, 2020 01:50

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

i installed big sur and it's fine

# ¿ Nov 13, 2020 14:20

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

it's not bad honestly when you are actually using the system and not looking at 400x blown up screenshots like hyperventilating nerds

# ¿ Nov 14, 2020 06:54

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

it�s fine other then the internet thing that also nuked catalina

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 04:00

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

badjohny posted:

I am still getting errors trying to update to Big Sur. �The requested version of macOS is not available�.

Have there been any fixes for this? It finally worked on one of my computers on launch day so I figured it was all fixed. Tried to update another today and it is still giving the error.

it got fixed for me by going to the mac app store and trying to get it through there

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 23:49

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

PRADA SLUT posted:

Is there a way to disable automatic scanning for WiFi networks in Big Sur?

I play games through Parsec (Remote Desktop for games), but whenever macOS scans for wifi networks (even in the background), I get some hideous lag / stuttering.

sounds like a bug in parsec - i use steam streaming and do not have this problem

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 01:46

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

it looks fine

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 05:51

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:56

Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Quantum of Phallus posted:

No sluggishness but I�ve recently started getting video bugs in every single browser I use

sounds like an SMC and PRAM reset is in your future imo

# ¿ Jan 18, 2021 22:06

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