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Retro-Prime: October 14, 2008
While working on numerous hard drives, I found an iPhone screenshot of 37Prime.com from October 14, 2008. Well, the screenshot was actually taken on October 18, 2008. The page featured the new Unibody Aluminum MacBook Pro.
Blast from the Past: Mozilla Firefox 3 CD for $2.99
I was going through numerous hard drives that I stored and found a lot of photos from 2006 through 2009. One of them was taken on November 14, 2009 at Micro Center in Tustin, California. It’s a photo of Firefox 3 CD, priced at $2.99 (USD). If you were having trouble downloading Mozilla Firefox off …
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Farewell My Friend
It has been more than 6 weeks since I saw my friend, a feral cat who was also the sweetest Calico-Point Siamese Cat. According to the people in the area, they haven’t seen her either for the last 6 weeks. I’m hoping that someone actually took her in. The other scenarios would certainly be breaking …
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Homebrew – brew.sh
/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”
brew -upgrade
yt-dlp
alias for .zprofile (macOS)
alias geta=’yt-dlp -f “bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias getv=’yt-dlp -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias keepav=’yt-dlp -k -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias getl=’yt-dlp -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” –list-formats ‘
For information on how to renew an existing AppleCare plan:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210580
Mac Hardware Diagnostic ToolPress and hold “D” key while booting up.
macOS Software Update, command line:
softwareupdate -ia
softwareupdate -ia –include-config-data
Highlight Stack Items on Hover in Mac OS X Dock
To turn on:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes;killall Dock
To turn off
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean no;killall Dock
Reset macOS Launchpad
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
Enable FileVault via command Line
Run the following command to check the FileVault status:
fdesetup status
If FileVault is off, proceed to enable it.
Use the following command to enable FileVault:
sudo fdesetup enable
You will be prompted to enter the admin password and create a recovery key. Save the recovery key in a safe place.
How to fix the iCloud APLZOD.dll error in Outlook
Slipstick Systems
Microsoft Service Agreement, May 1, 2018
Setup Windows 10/11 without networking:
Open cmd with Shift + F10 and type OOBE\BYPASSNRO
or
Create local account:
start ms-cxh:localonly
Some multi-display fun for Mac: