The popular menu bar app Caffeine, which keeps your Mac from entering sleep, does not work by default under macOS Mojave (10.14). The original developer has not released a fix. If you’ve had the situation where you were not actively using your computer, but did not want it to sleep, you may have been frustrated. …
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Useful Terminal Hacks for OS X
Current as of Yosemite. (Based on user comments on GitHub, probably works fine for El Capitan too.) Use at your own risk. Source: https://gist.github.com/brandonb927/3195465 Expanding the save panel by default defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true Save to disk, rather than iCloud, by default? defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false Disabling press-and-hold for special keys in favor of key repeat defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false Disable the warning when changing a file extension defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false Allowing text selection in Quick Look/Preview in Finder by default defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true
Converting Mac PostScript Type 1 Suitcase Fonts
At my workplace we ran into some problems where a couple fonts were not syncing properly via Dropbox. After a little digging, I found the problem: The fonts were old Mac “suitcase” fonts in PostScript Type 1 format. The suitcase font format stores some of its font data as a file system resource, instead as …
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Comcast Xfinity and Passive FTP
Over a number of months, I experienced a strange problem with one of my hosted websites: I could not log in via FTP. To be more specific, I could connect, but at the point where the directory information is transmitted back to the FTP client, the software would hang. For the impatient, here is the …
Comcast Xfinity and Forceful Upsells
I had been a mostly happy Comcast Xfinity user for more than six months. Despite occasional flakiness, the router seems to work reliably and the download speeds are good. A couple months ago my wife and I were trying to fix some issues with our home security system, which apparently needed a phone line. So we added Xfinity’s …