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Posts by samcarter
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 ...
I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. Is there a way to start the virtual device from the command line instead of going through the gui?
As a workaround, one can use the open source application "stats" (https://github.com/exelban/stats) as a replacement for the mac battery indicator: "stats" also allows various customisations, li...
The default icon of the Tunnelbear Firefox extension looks like this: I would like to hide the "Off" badge so that it looks like this: Following a similar process as in the answer https://pow...
I'm using the note taking app obsidian. In one of my notes I have a mermaid/gantt diagram which looks like this: Source code: ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat %d %b dateFormat...
One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and ...
If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only vis...
Apple removed the hide option for login items in macOS 13 Ventura. Are there any alternative ways to launch an application at login without opening a window?
With pervious versions of macOS, I used sips to convert pdfs into pngs /usr/bin/sips -s format png document.pdf --out document.png In macOS 13.3.1 Ventura, this now gives an error: /Users/<...
Let's assume one has a Quarto document which does not compile because of an error in the latex code, e.g. here a simply typo in a macro name: --- format: pdf --- test\newlin test Quarto...
Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it w...
Instead of trying to build my own touch bar, I'm now using Karabiner Elements to remap the existing keys on the touchbar to the desired behaviour. The following configuration will remap the screen...
If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this: /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+a...
@Canina had the brilliant idea to make my userscript reload the page in case the cookie did not exist previously. Using this idea, my userscript now works like this: Greasemonkey version // ==Us...
If you have access to the source of the image, fix the code instead of messing with the image. This will be much more accurate and result in a higher quality result. You could add the lines via ...
There is actually a little app to change the behaviour of the green button called "Right Zoom": https://blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac.html Caveat: The button will still go into full screen for ...
I'm using Karabiner-Elements to remap some keys. I would like remap backspace to forward delete option + backspace to backward delete To do this I tried to write the following rule ...
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...
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 ...
Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally? If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome...
Based on the post https://droidwin.com/how-to-hide-an-app-at-launch-on-mac-ventura/ an alternative approach could be to use a launch agent. To do this, create a file vienna.LaunchAtLogin.plist (re...
Another possible approach is to create a helper app which opens an app without opening a window. I used platypus to create a simple app which will execute a shell script. The settings used for th...
After a lot of trial and error, I finally found cog which wonderfully satisfies my wish list. There are two other players which came close: https://iina.io/ (needs to keep a window open) ...
I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. After the device has started, I can toggle the right hand sidebar with the shortcut cmd+T. However this only persists for the current se...
First get a list of all the available devices: /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/gmtool admin list This will generate an output like this: State | ADB Serial | ...
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