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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by samcarter‭

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Q&A Audio book player for macOS 11.5

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) ...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura

The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use sips to convert pdfs to pngs

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Setting zoom level in Safari web apps

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14

I finally found a solution thanks to @bogdanw at https://stackoverflow.com/a/77256214/2777074 The idea is to create a file called UIKit.plist with the content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UT...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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. This won't be visible behind the menu bar and you don't need to be very accurate ...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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