Questions tagged [macos]
The latest operating system for Apple Computer's Macintosh line of desktop and laptop computers.
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How can I back up my iCloud Drive?
I have a Mac and an external hard drive that I want to use to automatically and periodically back up my entire iCloud Drive.
I don't know if it's possible to change the iCloud default location to ...
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Simple multile-format ebook reader for macOS (no backup/sync, library management, etc.)
I'm hunting for a simple ebook reader for PDF and eBup, and preferably Mobi too. On Linux I use mupdf, which has almost no features: it opens files when I run mupdf the-file, and has Vim-like keybinds ...
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RPA Software for macOS
I'm currently an RPA developer using UiPath, I'm looking for a similar software to perform surface automation on a Mac running macOS Catalina (10.15.4).
I have tried Automator, however I am struggling ...
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MacOS timer app which remains active only when the mac is awake
The purpose is to start it at the start of a workday to improve productivity. So the timer should also sleep when the PC is sleeping. It would be good if the app displays the remaining time in the ...
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Alternative to Apple Books for power users that works across all devices?
I'm quite sick of Apple Books as it randomly deletes books from my library on the iPad, and find myself out of a book exactly when I need it the most and I'm offline. The app also makes it ...
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What should I use for 3D graphics before OSX 10.11?
10.11 and on I use Metal, but what should I use for earlier versions? On Xcode on a computer I have that has OSX 10.8.5, it didn't offer an OpenGL game template for OSX, only for iOS. It only offered ...
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Is there any free keylogger for Mac?
I have only a single home computer and many people use it. I'm afraid someone is trying to get access to my account. I tried to install a keylogger but all of the ones I've found are paid. Does anyone ...
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Paint.net Alternative for macOS
When I used windows, I used paint.net and loved it. I used it all the time. I switched to a Mac and was disappointed when I found out there is no paint.net for Mac. Has anyone found any good ...
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Is there an “invisible” video player which doesn't show controls at all?
Is there a video player that I can use on Mac that plays the video without showing the controls at all so that it doesn't look like I'm actually playing a video?
I could still be able to pause and ...
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Firewall app for MacOS that I can quit
I know there is a few firewall solutions for Mac, I use one - "Little Snitch" and while it's great, it does not satisfy one of my requirements.
My use case is as follows:
I'm offline, maybe ...
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Antivirus app for MacOS that I can quit
I know there is a number of antivirus solutions for Mac, ranging from complete suites like Norton to just plain antivirus solutions like Avira. But I have not found anything that satisfy my ...
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Deduplication script that runs with both bash and zsh for Linux, macOS, etc?
I have a scenario where we frequently pull in duplicated files that take up a lot of space. There's no reasonable way to stop the intake of these duplicated files due to their irregularity and the ...
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Looking for a simple stock portfolio app (macOS)
While Apple introduced a rudimentary stock price application in macOS recently, it is not relly functionally adequate for even the most basic requirements.
I did not, however, find an app with the ...
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A command line calculator that supports numbers with commas
I often want to copy/paste some numbers from a website into a calculator to do some quick arithmetic. These numbers are typically formatted for display, so they include commas as thousands separators (...
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Grapher for Linux
There is a graphing tool bundled with macOS named Grapher. Is there a similar graph plotting software for Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)?
The software should be able to take equations as input, and produce ...
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Free FLAC to MP3 batch converter for MacOS
I need to convert approximately 15000 FLAC files to MP3 as a one time job.
It is a large audio archive containing 50 years worth of interviews, talks-shows, radio-speeches and monologues belonging to ...
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Any good C++ ide for MacOS
I would like to know the best free c++ IDEs for MacOS Catalina. I would not like the limited xcode for c++. So please anything else.
Any help appreciated
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Installing NimEDIT on MacOS Catalina
I would like to install NimEDIT on my Mac but I can't figure out how.
Any help appreciated.
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Video calls for 20+ members for free?
I'm looking for free software for weekly video calls for 20 - 25 members and at least 3 hours duration of continuous video calls and it should be compatible with Mac os and Windows and should have ...
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Brainfuck ide for OSX
I want to try Brainfuck, and I would like to know if there is there any good Brainfuck ide for OSX?
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Software to count clicks and keypresses on macOS
I'm looking for some software that will count my mouse clicks and keypresses throughout the day, and show a report of my activity.
I would like to use it to inform decisions about ergonomics, such as ...
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Historical Timelines
Could anyone recommend good macOS software (either free or low cost) for creating graphics of historical timelines?
I have found Istoriam in the macOS App Store, but I'm curious about alternatives, ...
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Note taking software with link to PDFs
I need a non-linear note taking, I tried personal wiki, but they seem to be too difficult for me without any basic programming knowledge and issues.
I need a basic, macOS, personal wiki-based ...
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macOS app to check if an image is already on the computer?
I'm looking for a photo de-duper app for Mac, but from a different angle than normal.
If I download a new image from the web, I want to know if I already have it on my Mac or not.
I have had trouble ...
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Any Way to Use zRAM on Mac?
My friend has an old Macbook that doesn't have much RAM. I am mostly a Linux person, and I don't know that much about Mac, though I did grow up using older ones. I know that on Linux, it is possible ...
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App to put a circle around the mouse pointer
In some videos, I have seen a circle or a ring around the mouse pointer but I am not able to find any options in my mac to do so.
Is there a way in mac to do this or do I need an app for this?
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MAC cat-proof and kid-proof the keyboard and trackpad
In MAC OS Catalina, is there a setting or app which can lock both keyboard and trackpad so that only typing some specific combination of keyboard keys will unlock them back.
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A mac app for screen annotation?
I want to draw on all over the screen and not just on a single screen or app. Is there any mac app that does this?
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Send Later, Tracking, etc. for Apple Mail.app?
There are a couple of relatively nice mail options for macOS that include Canary (limited tracking), Spark (send later), Mailbutler (tracking, send later, etc.) - but Canary and Spark have various ...
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An editor for HAML and PHP (macOS)
I tried several editors, TextMate, Coda2, PHPStorm.
None of them supports such an exotic combo.
I usually use a trick by adding a HAML comment with PHP opening tag at the beginning:
-#<?
That ...
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Free video editor for Mac, with MPG/MKV support
I want to do some basic video editing on Mac:
Import a few video files of the same height/width
Cut portions of each file and gather them to make a new video
Export it as a new video file
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Could you recommend an IDE that is suitable for writing and running C, C++, C#?
Could you recommend an IDE that is suitable for writing and running C, C++, C# and works, can write code, run code out of the box on macos Catalina?
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Free Svg to vector PDF converter
I'm looking for a free interactive or CLI tool to convert SVG files to vector PDF running on a Mac.
The goal is to use the resulting files in Xcode image assets.
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MacOS-app as replacement for snomD305-SIP
Problem: At work we have the snomD305-SIP hardware telephones, but due to the coronavirus we are all working from home now and don't have the phone with us.
Question: Is there an app for MacOS (or ...
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Frequently installed macOS software that can be updated via the command line
What software / package managers are frequently installed on macOS that can be updated via the command line?
The software / package managers could either be included with macOS, or they could be ...
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Git UI for macOS with Independent Git Binary
I'm looking for a Git client with graphical UI with it own GIT binary (Independent of the system wide Git) for macOS.
It should free for personal usage.
Any idea?
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What is the best alternative to SwiftUI for MacOS?
SwiftUI seems to have good features, but only works on MacOS 1.15 and newer. Is there a framework for MacOS that is efficient, and shares the capabilities of SwiftUI. Well technically, if I put ...
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SizzlingKeys (Music / iTunes Key Control) replacement for macOS Catalina?
I'm in love with SizzlingKeys. It has been the best tool for iTunes for me for the past decade and I just can't live without it. :'(
It allows me to do everything I want to do with my music with a ...
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Grapher for Windows?
On a Mac, there is a Grapher.app which has many functions like: ordinary graphing, polar graphing, lin-log and log-log graphing, 3d graphing, derivatives, integrals, implicitly defined functions, ...
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Nintendo DS emulator for Mac with more than 2x speed?
I am currently using DeSmuME, and it can only be sped up to 2x.
Is there any DS emulator for Mac that can do faster than 2x? My hardware can handle it.
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Primitive text editor for Mac
I'm looking for a MacOS counterpart to the classic Windows Notepad -- a primitive text editor with minimal functionality. I'd prefer open-source, though other zero-cost software is acceptable.
Must ...
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Black/Dark/Night mode PDF/PPT Viewer MacOS?
I read a lot during the night and I have so many books in the .pdf .pptx format that my eyes get strained during whole reading sessions. on an average, I roughly read 200 pages daily.
The thing is I ...
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Is there free book-writing software without the page break?
Is there a software for book writing like LibreOffice or Pages where you can write without having trouble with the page break? (In LibreOffice you can scale it, but that's not really what I'm looking ...
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Is there a macOS native MongoDB GUI?
I'm using Robo 3T at the moment, but a bug that will probably never be fixed is making that difficult for me at the moment. Is there a MongoDB GUI that's native to macOS? I'm a huge fan of Postico and ...
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Gamma adjustment with per screen control in menubar for macOS?
I need to sometimes adjust gamma very quickly on a per monitor basis (I have multiple displays) sometimes and would like to find a menubar app to accomplish this perhaps similar to Desktop Dimmer for ...
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alternatives to Adobe PS Sketch, that work on macOS desktop
I want to doodle every now and then and save my drawings.
Adobe Photoshop Sketch looks like a perfect app for me, unfortunately it's mobile-only.
I want an app that will run on my MacBook that:
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Mounting an SMB share using Swift
I am looking for any kind tips or libraries that would allow me to mount an SMB share from within Swift. I looked into AMSMB2, but it doesn't actually mount the share, it just connects to it. I have ...
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Rename the files with date appended in MacOs
I want to append the date in the file name. I have seen many batch file script. Is there any software available for that?
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Mac application or code that records single window
For a while now; I have been looking for a way to record the screen on macOS, but only of a single window (e.g. any other windows blocking it will not be recorded).
There should be a way to do this, ...
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Is there a Wine-like application for wrapping Mac applications?
The application Wine allows you to run windows applications natively on several OS's. Is there a similar application that allows you to run Mac applications on a Windows machine without a VM?
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