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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?

There are multiple companies that rent out access to a Mac in the cloud. I used one of them for a few months when I had to port an Android app to iOS, which needs a Mac to compile. If you only need ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?

Is it possible (and legal) to buy a macOS license to have it as a VM on my Linux machine? No - at least not according to Apple's software license agreement for MacOS. The license agreement for MacOS ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?

As others have said, the only way to legally virtualize Mac OS X (according toApple's EULA) is on Apple hardware. So the purchase you need to make isn't a software purchase, it's a hardware purchase: ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?

I'm currently using Ubuntu, but there are still some apps I wanted to use on macOS. I found macOS-Simple-KVM. However, there will be a bit of tweaking you'll need to do before being able to use the ...
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PDF organizer with virtual hierarchy, fast viewer, highlighting, search

One tool that seems to meet your requirements is Zotero. I recommend it highly. In particular, I've had good experience with it across multiple platforms and web browsers, including Ubuntu with ...
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Open-Source alternative to Photoshop

Besides GIMP, which you already mentioned that is generally the go-to alternative for Photoshop, there is also Krita. While it is a fully capable general purpose image editing application it's main ...
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A mac app for screen annotation?

You can use Presentify. It lets you annotate your screen and also highlight your cursor/mouse. You can draw over anything, be it images, pdf, browser, videos, and the list goes on. The app is ...
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How to determine what exact color an app is using?

macOS has a built-in application called Digital Colour Meter. It's installed by default, in the /Applications/Utilties folder: Here is me using it to find out the background color for Software ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?

You can legitimately download and run VM specifically for testing purposes (which is exactly what you are doing) directly from Microsoft at a price of $0.00. You just need to know where to go. It's ...
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Glider (sailplane) simulator app for macOS

You could give FlightGear a go. Free, Gratis & Open Source - no purchase needed. Also available as a DVD Purchase currently under $70 Avoids a large download and includes world scenery. Window, ...
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Open-Source alternative to Photoshop

In the past, as substitutes for Photoshop & Lightroom, I've used: GIMP ImageMagick And as an Illustrator substitute: Inkscape The reality is, they all pale in comparison to their commerical ...
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Is there free book-writing software without the page break?

You can use a Markdown editor such as Typora. Typora supports exporting to PDF, and for other formats such as docx or EPUB, you can use Pandoc. See https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ if you ...
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Antivirus app for MacOS that I can quit

There is an app called Malwarebytes that will scan your system for malware and viruses. It is currently very popular with Mac users. The personal copy is not free. It sales for one device for $3.33 ...
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Transparent file compression apps for macOS

afsctool There is a afsctool tool which allow to compress the folders in HFS+ file system. AFSC (Apple File System Compression) tool is an utility that can be used to apply HFS+ compression to ...
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VPN server on macOS High Sierra & macOS Mojave

At my company we had VPN access through macOS Server, and we could follow the steps below to get it operational on Mojave. (NOTE: This response is copy-pasted from another thread I created). These ...
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Displaying IP address path geographically

The magic word is traceroute, so you are looking for a visual traceroute. Since you don’t tell us which operating system you use, or whether you want to pay for it or not (please read [ask] and tell ...
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Is their an official macOS download for virtual machines?

As far as I know, there isn't any special download for virtual machines. However, this doesn't really matter if you specifically want a legal option, because you couldn't legally run it on your ...
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Video player with dual subtitles

According to this list, multiple subtitles are supported by the following players: Daum PotPlayer PotPlayer is from the same developer that’s responsible for creating KMPlayer who decided to leave ...
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Video player with dual subtitles

Beside KMP I've also used Media Player Classic with ffdshow filter, which are both included in the K-lite codec pack. No other filters are needed ffdshow can be configured to display subtitles, to ...
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Software to get the selected rectangle as margins in inches in a PDF file

The tool pdfCropMargins will (partial list): Automatically detects the margins and can crop a given percentage of them. Can crop all the pages to the same size to give a uniform appearance (such as ...
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Local Website Caching Application

See some of the tools to download a site in a previous stackexchange question here e.g. GNU wget - which runs on both Apple & Windows
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JavaScript Debugging on macOS

So I found out my own answer. Hopefully this helps someone down the line. To use your own iOS device: 1. On your iOS device, go to settings -> safari -> advanced, and toggle on javascript and web ...
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Mouse automation software for macOS that's still maintained?

Try Sikuli. I a Python framework for: daily usage of applications or web pages playing games administration of IT systems and networks Watch this video to see how it works
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Mounting an SMB share using Swift

I know this is question is a little old but I thought I'd respond in case someone else stumbles over this. I have a simple little app (Mounting Yard - https://github.com/dagronf/MountingYard) which ...
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App to put a circle around the mouse pointer

There are several apps to do this. Presentify, Mouse Locator, Mousepose', and Cursor Pro. All 4 of these apps will do what I want. I would test drive each one and select the one you like best.
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Video calls for 20+ members for free?

When you write "free software" it seems you really mean free-of-charge services. I can recommend to use Free Software (a.k.a. Open Source), which means software that is both free-of-charge ...
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Open Source macOS Uninstaller

There is an app called app cleaner that will uninstall completely any app you choose. It can be downloaded from here.
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A PDF viewer that can save and reopen tabs at the exact page one last stopped at

You can check out zotero. It has an amazing pdf reader where you can open the same pdf in multiple tabs, and it'll reopen to whatever position it was closed at. You have amazing options to annotate ...
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Free software for focus stacking on MacOS

Focus stacker available at the Apple app store works well and has a one off purchase cost which is very reasonable. I have stacked in excess of 100 files, but for much larger stacks I use blocking, ...
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MacOS for Beginners - Which Tools to Install?

A popular code editor is Visual Studio Code. It is a free offering from the vomit company (I hate them too but VScode is a very nice app). There are 100's of extensions for many different programming ...
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