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Can I disable the Lion animation when switching to/from fullscreen apps?
In Lion there is an animation when switching to and from full screen applications. Full screen apps are great, especially on a 11" screen, but this animation is getting very annoying. Is there a way to turn off these animations?
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How to increase "tracking speed" beyond the maximum?
For a Macbook Pro, I've set trackpad settings for Three Fingers to "Dragging":
However the tracking speed is too slow, and often it's impossible to drag for a larger distance due to the size of the physical trackpad.
How do we increase the tracking…
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How can I install the Command Line Tools completely from the command line?
I'd like to script the installation of the Xcode Command Line Tools.
On Mavericks,
xcode-select --install
will open a dialog prompting the user to install, but I'd like to trigger the install without the dialog, like using the softwareupdate…
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Is it bad that my MacBook Air is passing me electricity?
Whenever my MacBook Air is connected to the AC power and I have my hands on the palm rest, I feel it passes some electricity to me. If I unplug it from the AC power it stops doing that.
This has recently became obvious, when other people can feel…
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Prevent Mac Terminal from reverting to default theme
I can't find any way to change the Terminal theme and have that theme applied permanently.
I want to change to another darker theme other than the default 'basic' theme, and (most importantly) have it remain as the theme every time I open Terminal.
Andy
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The headphone jack on my MacBook Pro just stopped working. How do I fix it?
The headphone jack on my MacBook Pro stopped working. It was working fine, then just spontaneously stopped while I was using external speakers plugged into the output jack. Now, neither speakers nor 3 different headphones have sound. The internal…
Shari USA
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Are there keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp in OS X?
How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)?
I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows…
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How do I write to NTFS drives in OS X?
What is the best, easiest, preferably cheapest way to make OS X write to NTFS-formatted drives in Mac OS X?
Markus Hedlund
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Disable automatic iTunes launch when iPhone is plugged in via USB
How do I disable automatic iTunes launch when iPhone is plugged in via USB (for charging)? In fact, I would like to disable automatic launch of anything when an iPhone is plugged in (including photo sync).
amphibient
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File can't be moved by root on OS X
I tried to move a few files to a subfolder on OS X. One refused to move. It said Operation not permitted. I tried again as root:
$ sudo mv file subfolder/
mv: rename file to subfolder/file: Operation not permitted
$ sudo mv file filex
mv: rename…
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Changing the default size of iTerm2 when it opens
I feel like this is a pretty stupid question but I Googled it and played around with it and still didn't figure it out so here we go:
When I open iTerm2, it opens in a default size. How can I set it to open in a different window size?
EricFromSouthPark
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Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in screenshot?
I’ve captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on Stack Overflow, actually), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is there a tool to quickly do this?
studgeek
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Where can I download Filemerge - the app for comparing two tools and merging them?
I would like to install Filemerge, but can't find where to go to download it. Where can I download it?
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Catalina Upgrade Cannot Delete Relocated Items
After upgrading to MacOS Catalina, I have a Relocated Items folder on my Desktop. Inside this folder is a PDF explaining what these items are.
Inside the folder are two sub-folders - Configuration and Security. These folders contain items that were…
Tim X
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How do I reset the scrollback in the terminal via a shell command?
When using Terminal.app, you can clear the screen by using the shell builtin clear or by pressing ^+L (Control-L).
However, all this does is push the current screen content back one screen height and reset the cursor/input at the first line.…
Jason Salaz
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