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Activity for samcarter
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Audio book player for macOS 11.5 I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using `ecoute`, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: - resume the current playlist/book from the timestamp when I last closed the application - can be controlled ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283766 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5 Thanks a lot at @Quasímodo for pushing me in the right direction. The problem turned out to be an extended attribute set for this folder. To see if there are extended attributes, one can use ``` xattr Music ``` In my case, this gave `com.apple.FinderInfo`, so I removed it with ``` ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283747 |
(Funnily enough other folders like `Movies` carry the same attribute and there it is not a problem, but it works now, so not going to complain :) ) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283747 |
Bingo! The problem was an extended attribute which I could remove with `xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo Music` Thanks a lot for the hint! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283747 |
@Moshi Oh, sorry! That was a typo. Fixed it in the question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283747 |
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| Edit | Post #283747 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5 One of the folders in my home folder, `Music`, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out greyed out folder in Finder and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidden files. I tried to unhide the folder using ``` chflags nohid... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283687 |
and please let us know which version of dark reader you are using. There have been a couple of bugs with the scrollbar in chrome, e.g. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/1343 , but it looks as if they have been fixed in the current version (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283687 |
... does the problem only occur if you have the dark mode switched on or also during light mode?
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283687 |
What are you using as setting for the scroll bar https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/eDf2VQiXisVenzSVoAYj94Jk (the menu can be found under `see all option` -> `colors`)
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| Edit | Post #283666 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables? If your goal is to only disconnect certain apps, you can use tools like - https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (free and open source) - TCPBlock (free, for older MacOS) to block the network access of the particular app instead of disconnecting your whole computer. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283660 |
To avoid getting stuck next week, you could try to permanently disconnect the app, e.g. via https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283645 |
Just to see if maybe others workarounds are viable: does the app work if you are not connected to the internet? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282977 |
Many computers don't have separate sockets for audio input/output and use the same one for both. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283352 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar (Caution: This method will not only influence the menu bar, but also the appearance of the dock etc.) A bit more drastic way is to switch off the transparency via `System Preferences`->`Accessibility`->`Display`->`Reduce transparency` Screen shot of the system preference tab This will result... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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| Edit | Post #283351 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar As a hack, you can open your background image e.g. in preview and add some lighter area at the top of the image. Sceenshot of mac preview app with added lighter rectnagle on top of the background image This won't be visible behind the menu bar and you don't need to be very accurate with the si... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283350 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar In macOS 11 the font colour of the menu bar automatically adapts to the darkness of the background image. On a light background it will show the text in black and on a dark background it will show white text. This is a bit annoying if you - have multiple displays with different background ima... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282697 |
Disadvantage: without a good alt text, the images are not accessible for visually impaired users and also search engines can't access their content. Also users can't use their browser search or copy the content of the images. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282137 |
I don't have a video that big to test, but maybe try https://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter1/ -- I have good experience with this for simple tasks like cutting a video in two pieces or joining two videos on a much weaker system (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281975 |
Thanks for digging out the documentation! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281921 |
Typical case of rubber duck debugging: this bothered me for years, but as soon as I finally post a questions I find the answer :) (more) |
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A: Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo After a bit of experimentation, I think the `\` in my search term is the problem. This acts as a shortcut for the "I'm feeling ducky" option. Workarounds: - remove `\` from the search term - place the search term in quotation marks, e.g. `"\namedef"` (more) |
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Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if the web address looks reasonable. One example of such an automatic redirect is if I search for `\namede... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281755 |
If you have access to the pdf of the books, you could try `pdfinfo <filename>.pdf` This can give an indication of the tool used to create the pdf (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |