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Scaling all UI elements when using an external monitor

When I use my Macbook Pro's internal monitor, I have the following options in the Display settings menu: The best thing here is the Scaled option, which means that I can use the native resolution of the screen and rescale all UI elements bigger or…
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macOS keyboard shortcut to dismiss notifications?

I'd like to be able to dismiss and open macOS Notification Center notifications with the keyboard. (I'm not talking about opening/closing the Notification Center itself.) Is this possible in some manner with a tool or setting or other software?
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Is there a quick way to relink my homebrew kegs?

I just upgraded my MacBook Air to Mavericks. The process appears to have removed almost all of the symlinks that homebrew put in /usr/local/bin. As I notice things missing then I relink them via brew unlink && brew link (although the…
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Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro)

I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events. I thought it was the trackpad, so I connected a wired mouse, and the symptoms…
Jon Sandruck
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How to force OS X Notes application to lose formatting when I paste text from clipboard?

While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iCloud integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application. I just want to be able to copy text from web pages and paste it as plain…
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What leads to Windows thinking I pressed the Insert key on a MacBook Pro?

Note: This question is how to send an Insert keypress to Microsoft Windows running directly on Apple hardware. This is not about how to use Insert in OS X or through OS X to Windows running in a VM. See here or here for non-Windows Q&A's. Somehow…
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Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)?

What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department.
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How to skip Safari's "Do you want to allow this page to open X" dialog?

I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any setting or installed anything other than software updates, but today I've started getting this dialog when I clicked a magnet link: How do I get rid of this dialog? I've clicked okay once, but then I've clicked…
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Export MOV to MP4 with Quicktime on Yosemite

I have a screen capture of my computer screen using QuickTime's Screen Recording feature, but that saves it to an MOV format. I'd like to export it to MP4. Is that possible without installing anything else? I'm using Yosemite, and I'm pretty sure I…
Mark Tomlin
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Unnamed faces in my oven

Iphoto is putting a high number of unnamed faces in pictures of food in my oven. It's not happening in other pictures, at least I can't see another pattern. Why is this happening and how can I avoid this?
Bram Luyten
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Quotes problem in Mavericks (or TextEdit)

TextEdit in Mavericks changes the standard double quotes "Hello" to using curly, non-ascii quotation marks “Hello”. It does this even when you edit plain text documents. Is there a way to prevent this new behavior in Mavericks?
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How can I tell if my Mac is keeping the clock updated properly?

I would like to know what the default settings for OS X are in terms of keeping the clock adjusted when I enable automatic time sync in the Date & Time preference. I do know that the venerable ntpd daemon on Mavericks (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) is…
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What's the quickest way to get a graphic on the clipboard saved to disk?

I have a graphic on the clipboard on OS X. What's the quickest way to get it onto disk as a png or jpg?
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Mac OSX microphone input volume level auto-adjusts - can it be disabled?

I've found this issue and various discussions online about this, but no obvious "just do this", so I'm wandering over here from ServerFault to ask this. Is there a way to disable or hard-set the input level on a mic? In the Sound preferences on the…
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How to pixelate / blur part of an image in Mac Preview?

I have a screenshot of a web UI and I wish to blur the parts that are not relevant to the point being demonstrated, is there a way to blur / pixelate part of an image using Mac Preview? Note: the top ranking google result offers a highly substandard…
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