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There’s a bug in El Capitan when trying to install SASS. A quick workaround exists, however.
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There’s a bug in El Capitan when trying to install SASS. A quick workaround exists, however.
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Everybody makes mistakes. At last, Google has given us the ability to undo sent emails in Gmail.
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Public key encryption is also known as asymmetric because it requires two different keys – a public key and a private key. Encryption requires the public key, and decryption requires the private key.
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Public key encryption is also known as asymmetric because it requires two different keys – a public key and a private key. Encryption requires the public key, and decryption requires the private key.
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If you do not own a router plane or a powered router, its quite simple to make a router using a chisel. You’ll need a drill and a bit that’s just slightly smaller than the chisel you’d like to use.
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If you do not own a router plane or a powered router, its quite simple to make a router using a chisel. You’ll need a drill and a bit that’s just slightly smaller than the chisel you’d like to use.
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“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” – Francis of Assisi
The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
We needed a new dinner table. I wanted to learn about woodworking. This table was built using mostly hand tools and as much traditional joinery as I could figure out.
5/4 decking looks great and is very cost effective. This guide will take you through laying and securing your 5/4 decking.
It can be tricky to cut a mortise without the help of machines but using this method, I find I end up with mortises as clean or cleaner than what I could get with a drill.
This bookcase was inspired by the Ikea bookcase system called Ivar. It was heavily modified (and slightly over engineered). I will take you through my process and hopefully you’ll learn something!
The dado (or housing joint as its called in the UK) is a dead simple joint used for many things. This guide will take you through making the dado joint completely by hand.
If you do not own a router plane or a powered router, its quite simple to make a router using a chisel. You’ll need a drill and a bit that’s just slightly smaller than the chisel you’d like to use.
When you are laying your decking and you come up to a post, notching around it is the ideal solution. This guide will show you how to do that step by step.
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“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” – Francis of Assisi
The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
We needed a new dinner table. I wanted to learn about woodworking. This table was built using mostly hand tools and as much traditional joinery as I could figure out.
5/4 decking looks great and is very cost effective. This guide will take you through laying and securing your 5/4 decking.
It can be tricky to cut a mortise without the help of machines but using this method, I find I end up with mortises as clean or cleaner than what I could get with a drill.
This bookcase was inspired by the Ikea bookcase system called Ivar. It was heavily modified (and slightly over engineered). I will take you through my process and hopefully you’ll learn something!
The dado (or housing joint as its called in the UK) is a dead simple joint used for many things. This guide will take you through making the dado joint completely by hand.
If you do not own a router plane or a powered router, its quite simple to make a router using a chisel. You’ll need a drill and a bit that’s just slightly smaller than the chisel you’d like to use.
When you are laying your decking and you come up to a post, notching around it is the ideal solution. This guide will show you how to do that step by step.
Learn how to make the perfect dovetail joint every time!
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
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The pizza peel that comes with the Uuni is a workable first pizza peel, but after a few pizzas, I really wanted a handle. I decided to add a handle using a simple 1″ dowel rod. Here’s how I did it!
Get the easiest and safest wood finish with homemade Danish Oil.
I recently received a copy of Paul Sellers’ book on hand tools. In it, he describes the mallet he designed and gives some tips on reproducing it.
Why put your plant on the ground like some sort of animal when you can spend hours making a wooden plant stand?
What’s cooler than a mirror that shows you handy information before starting your day? Adding voice controls so that you can update your calendar, play Spotify playlists, and so much more.
I built a walking cane for my grandfather from some scrap walnut. I love using hand tools so I stuck to that for the whole project.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
This table lives outside next to a hot tub. I used cedar because it lives at a cabin in Tennessee that already has a bunch of outdoor cedar.
Adding decorative feet to your cabinets can give them a ton of character and is super quick and easy to accomplish.
We needed a new dinner table. I wanted to learn about woodworking. This table was built using mostly hand tools and as much traditional joinery as I could figure out.
5/4 decking looks great and is very cost effective. This guide will take you through laying and securing your 5/4 decking.
It can be tricky to cut a mortise without the help of machines but using this method, I find I end up with mortises as clean or cleaner than what I could get with a drill.
This bookcase was inspired by the Ikea bookcase system called Ivar. It was heavily modified (and slightly over engineered). I will take you through my process and hopefully you’ll learn something!
The dado (or housing joint as its called in the UK) is a dead simple joint used for many things. This guide will take you through making the dado joint completely by hand.
If you do not own a router plane or a powered router, its quite simple to make a router using a chisel. You’ll need a drill and a bit that’s just slightly smaller than the chisel you’d like to use.
When you are laying your decking and you come up to a post, notching around it is the ideal solution. This guide will show you how to do that step by step.
Learn how to make the perfect dovetail joint every time!
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I was looking for a healthier way to drink iced coffee and had the idea of using protein powder as a way to add flavor and, of course, protein.
It’s so hot here in the summer and all I want to drink is iced coffee! Here’s the simplest way I’ve figured out how to make one of my favorite drinks- an iced mocha- at home.
The darkness of a roast greatly affects its flavor profile. I’m going to tell you a bit of the why and hopefully teach you some things you didn’t know.
The aluminum moka pot can become oxidized over time and need a deep cleaning. For normal cleaning, soap and water is fine, but you’ll want to get a little more aggressive when it gets more nasty.
The Moka pot is an incredible piece of engineering. Invented in 1933 in Italy, the Moka pot brought espresso (or something that very closely resembles espresso) to anyone with a stove.
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Put the calculator away, we’re having Pi for coffee.
By default, the Nespresso Inissia dispenses only a small amount of coffee.
I was looking for a healthier way to drink iced coffee and had the idea of using protein powder as a way to add flavor and, of course, protein.
It’s so hot here in the summer and all I want to drink is iced coffee! Here’s the simplest way I’ve figured out how to make one of my favorite drinks- an iced mocha- at home.
The darkness of a roast greatly affects its flavor profile. I’m going to tell you a bit of the why and hopefully teach you some things you didn’t know.
The aluminum moka pot can become oxidized over time and need a deep cleaning. For normal cleaning, soap and water is fine, but you’ll want to get a little more aggressive when it gets more nasty.
The Moka pot is an incredible piece of engineering. Invented in 1933 in Italy, the Moka pot brought espresso (or something that very closely resembles espresso) to anyone with a stove.
The french press is one of the easiest ways to make great coffee. Anybody can master it, so let’s show you how!
The easiest way to make great cold brew coffee is in the french press. Follow this simple guide to get started.
The Chemex is a glass container, manual pour over style coffeemaker invented by Peter J. Schlumbohm, Ph.D., in 1941.
I’ve found that a lot of people are starting to use the aeropress upside down. This leads to fewer leaks during the brewing process and makes you look like a mad scientist the whole time.
Premium coffee can be ruined without proper brewing techniques. Here’s how to make a great cup of French Press coffee.
If you’re looking to cool down this summer while also maintaining a steady drip of caffeine in your system, cold brew coffee is ideal.
Making a pour over is one of the simplest, cheapest ways to get an excellent cup of coffee. It takes a little practice to get it just right, but it is absolutely worth it.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
In this guide, we’re going to use AppleScript and a tool called osascript to display macOS notifications.
If you’re used to CTRL being the bottom left key, this guide will help you.
“I wish my MacOS apps could tap me on the shoulder until I answer.” – No one ever
The Touch Bar is a neat addition to the MacBook Pro. For me, however, it’s kind of annoying and I just want my normal Control Strip back rather than application-specific options.
Tired of Zoom’s security issues? Get rid of it.
Every time I go to empty my Mac’s trash, I have to click yet another dialog box to confirm. I find this a tad annoying, but thankfully this is an option we can control.
Give us back that pop!
If you need to keep your work secure, it’s important to keep your computer locked whenever it’s unattended.
The obvious way to lock your computer is to log out, but logging in and out is excessive and time consuming.
Homebrew is a macOS package manager built on ruby and git. Homebrew will help you easily install and manage a variety packages and applications.
Stop summoning Siri by accident.
By default, MacOS and OSX will offer to share your Chrome tabs between your Mac and iOS devices via iCloud sharing.
This guide will show you how to install SSHFS on various operating systems.
Apple really, really wants you to download apps from the App Store so they’ve made it difficult to download applications from unidentified developers.
Boot Camp is a great feature of mcOS, but it won’t help you install Linux. To do that we’re going to use a tool called rEFInd.
Want to minimize an application by double-clicking its title bar? Here’s how to do it.
I’m going to walk through the steps of making a bootable USB flash drive on MacOS or Mac OS X. I’m planning to dual boot Ubuntu and OS X, so I’ll begin by creating the bootable USB.
A noise gate is software (or hardware) that filters out any sound under a certain decibel level.
As someone who uses OS X dashboard widgets often, I was dismayed to find out that Apple has hidden it by default. Thankfully, it’s easy to reenable the dashboard in El Capitan. Here’s how to do it.
By default, the cursor in MacOS and OS X gets really big when you shake the mouse or when you move it too quickly.
Easily backup, restore, or clone your SD card!
Rather than printing, signing, and scanning a document, you can actually save time and sign the document right in Preview.
This guide will teach you how to remove the annoying Adobe Updater bar from the menu bar in MacOS and OS X.
Part of being a web developer is testing things that will inevitably break in insane and unexpected ways in Internet Explorer.
I enjoy Apple’s notification center, but sometimes I get way too many notifications. This can be distracting, not to mention it takes up screen real estate for quite a while.
There are a few different methods for deleting an application based on how you installed it.
Uninstalling unused applications is good practice for a number of reasons. First, it allows you to free up valuable space on your hard drive.
On OS X, some apps can be deleted using an uninstaller that came with the application.
This guide will teach you how to quickly delete an application from your Mac that was downloaded from the Mac App Store. This method uses Launchpad.
Many applications use multiple windows, and there is a handy keyboard shortcut to help you switch quickly between them.
This guide will show you how to auto-hide your dock using a keyboard shortcut – without having to open up System Preferences.
This guide will teach you how to set up a proxy server on macOS using SquidMan. What’s a proxy server?
As a big fan of Sublime Text, I was excited to find out that somebody made a port of the Monokai theme for macOS and OSX’s Terminal.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
This guide was written for OS X 10.9. For an updated version of this guide click here. There are plenty of reasons you will want to encrypt files on your personal computer.
This short guide will teach you how to take a screenshot on your Mac. These instructions are the same whether you have OS X or macOS.
This short guide shows you how to disable the additional Mac menubars/toolbars and docks that were added in OS X Mavericks.
This shortcut takes your cursor directly to the searchbox after opening Mail.app. This works in all current versions of OSX.
If you backed up your Mac using Time Machine and would only like to recover specific files, don’t worry. I needed to do this recently when I cloned my hard drive onto my new solid state drive.
By default, CTRL-TAB and SHIFT-CTRL-TAB don’t operate in the same way that Google Chrome tab cycling does. For example, when you press CTRL-TAB it doesn’t always cycle to the next open document.
You can set up your Apple computer so that when you double-click the menu bar it minimizes the application. This is a huge time saver and is OS X does not do this by default.
There’s no obvious way to view chat transcripts for conversations you’ve had with users who are now offline. Here’s how to do it.
This guide will show you how to run a Python script in the Mac Terminal (command line) in either Mac OS X or MacOS.
This short guide will show you how to enable php.ini on Mac OS X 10.8.X.
This guide explains how to securely empty your Mac’s trash can. This function overwrites the old data on your hard drive with a bunch of 0s, making it harder to recover.
This guide will show you how to add spacers to your Mac dock. Spacers are a great way to help you organize the apps that you keep in your dock.
If you have several fonts to install, why install each one manually? You can batch install a bunch of fonts at once.
When you take screenshots of applications in MacOS and OSX, the system automatically adds a dropshadow.
This guide shows you how to show hidden system files (e.g. .htaccess) in Finder by default.
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I hooked up my external monitor today and found that its desktop background had been replacement by a grey image.
As a web designer, I often find myself with a dozen or two Finder windows open after getting lost in a haze of code.
Your Mac has a “feature” that will put time machine backups on your local disk if your primary Time Machine drive isn’t available.
TotalFinder is a great alternative to Mac OS X’s default Finder application. It adds a number of features such as window tabbing.
While we were building howchoo we realized that our Macs wouldn’t recognize the word. This led us to search for a way to add the term “howchoo” to our Macs’ dictionaries. Here’s how you do it.
You may want to create a new iTunes library folder for many different reasons.
The default empty trash function in OS X isn’t very secure.
Transmit is my FTP/SFTP client of choice. By default, Transmit hides hidden/invisible/system files.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
In this guide, we’re going to use AppleScript and a tool called osascript to display macOS notifications.
If you’re used to CTRL being the bottom left key, this guide will help you.
“I wish my MacOS apps could tap me on the shoulder until I answer.” – No one ever
The Touch Bar is a neat addition to the MacBook Pro. For me, however, it’s kind of annoying and I just want my normal Control Strip back rather than application-specific options.
Tired of Zoom’s security issues? Get rid of it.
Every time I go to empty my Mac’s trash, I have to click yet another dialog box to confirm. I find this a tad annoying, but thankfully this is an option we can control.
Give us back that pop!
If you need to keep your work secure, it’s important to keep your computer locked whenever it’s unattended.
The obvious way to lock your computer is to log out, but logging in and out is excessive and time consuming.
Homebrew is a macOS package manager built on ruby and git. Homebrew will help you easily install and manage a variety packages and applications.
Stop summoning Siri by accident.
By default, MacOS and OSX will offer to share your Chrome tabs between your Mac and iOS devices via iCloud sharing.
This guide will show you how to install SSHFS on various operating systems.
Apple really, really wants you to download apps from the App Store so they’ve made it difficult to download applications from unidentified developers.
Boot Camp is a great feature of mcOS, but it won’t help you install Linux. To do that we’re going to use a tool called rEFInd.
Want to minimize an application by double-clicking its title bar? Here’s how to do it.
I’m going to walk through the steps of making a bootable USB flash drive on MacOS or Mac OS X. I’m planning to dual boot Ubuntu and OS X, so I’ll begin by creating the bootable USB.
A noise gate is software (or hardware) that filters out any sound under a certain decibel level.
As someone who uses OS X dashboard widgets often, I was dismayed to find out that Apple has hidden it by default. Thankfully, it’s easy to reenable the dashboard in El Capitan. Here’s how to do it.
By default, the cursor in MacOS and OS X gets really big when you shake the mouse or when you move it too quickly.
Easily backup, restore, or clone your SD card!
Rather than printing, signing, and scanning a document, you can actually save time and sign the document right in Preview.
This guide will teach you how to remove the annoying Adobe Updater bar from the menu bar in MacOS and OS X.
Part of being a web developer is testing things that will inevitably break in insane and unexpected ways in Internet Explorer.
I enjoy Apple’s notification center, but sometimes I get way too many notifications. This can be distracting, not to mention it takes up screen real estate for quite a while.
There are a few different methods for deleting an application based on how you installed it.
Uninstalling unused applications is good practice for a number of reasons. First, it allows you to free up valuable space on your hard drive.
On OS X, some apps can be deleted using an uninstaller that came with the application.
This guide will teach you how to quickly delete an application from your Mac that was downloaded from the Mac App Store. This method uses Launchpad.
Many applications use multiple windows, and there is a handy keyboard shortcut to help you switch quickly between them.
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This guide will teach you how to set up a proxy server on macOS using SquidMan. What’s a proxy server?
As a big fan of Sublime Text, I was excited to find out that somebody made a port of the Monokai theme for macOS and OSX’s Terminal.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
This guide was written for OS X 10.9. For an updated version of this guide click here. There are plenty of reasons you will want to encrypt files on your personal computer.
This short guide will teach you how to take a screenshot on your Mac. These instructions are the same whether you have OS X or macOS.
This short guide shows you how to disable the additional Mac menubars/toolbars and docks that were added in OS X Mavericks.
This shortcut takes your cursor directly to the searchbox after opening Mail.app. This works in all current versions of OSX.
If you backed up your Mac using Time Machine and would only like to recover specific files, don’t worry. I needed to do this recently when I cloned my hard drive onto my new solid state drive.
By default, CTRL-TAB and SHIFT-CTRL-TAB don’t operate in the same way that Google Chrome tab cycling does. For example, when you press CTRL-TAB it doesn’t always cycle to the next open document.
You can set up your Apple computer so that when you double-click the menu bar it minimizes the application. This is a huge time saver and is OS X does not do this by default.
There’s no obvious way to view chat transcripts for conversations you’ve had with users who are now offline. Here’s how to do it.
This guide will show you how to run a Python script in the Mac Terminal (command line) in either Mac OS X or MacOS.
This short guide will show you how to enable php.ini on Mac OS X 10.8.X.
This guide explains how to securely empty your Mac’s trash can. This function overwrites the old data on your hard drive with a bunch of 0s, making it harder to recover.
This guide will show you how to add spacers to your Mac dock. Spacers are a great way to help you organize the apps that you keep in your dock.
If you have several fonts to install, why install each one manually? You can batch install a bunch of fonts at once.
When you take screenshots of applications in MacOS and OSX, the system automatically adds a dropshadow.
This guide shows you how to show hidden system files (e.g. .htaccess) in Finder by default.
Most Apple users don’t know that the Mac keeps a record of every file that you’ve ever downloaded. Here’s how to view the record, delete it, and disable the feature entirely.
I hooked up my external monitor today and found that its desktop background had been replacement by a grey image.
As a web designer, I often find myself with a dozen or two Finder windows open after getting lost in a haze of code.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
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Now when you airdrop photos from your phone, you can easily convert them to JPGs.
When you absolutely have to have that perfect font for your Mac project!
Before you lose years converting those PNG files to JPGs.
Trouble with Wi-Fi? Don’t forget to try this.
Force your Mac to use the Ethernet/wired connection when it’s connected.
Strange Mac issue? One of these will probably fix it.
Choose a browser and stick with it.
In this guide, we’re going to use AppleScript and a tool called osascript to display macOS notifications.
If you’re used to CTRL being the bottom left key, this guide will help you.
“I wish my MacOS apps could tap me on the shoulder until I answer.” – No one ever
The Touch Bar is a neat addition to the MacBook Pro. For me, however, it’s kind of annoying and I just want my normal Control Strip back rather than application-specific options.
Tired of Zoom’s security issues? Get rid of it.
Every time I go to empty my Mac’s trash, I have to click yet another dialog box to confirm. I find this a tad annoying, but thankfully this is an option we can control.
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If you need to keep your work secure, it’s important to keep your computer locked whenever it’s unattended.
The obvious way to lock your computer is to log out, but logging in and out is excessive and time consuming.
Homebrew is a macOS package manager built on ruby and git. Homebrew will help you easily install and manage a variety packages and applications.
Stop summoning Siri by accident.
By default, MacOS and OSX will offer to share your Chrome tabs between your Mac and iOS devices via iCloud sharing.
This guide will show you how to install SSHFS on various operating systems.
Apple really, really wants you to download apps from the App Store so they’ve made it difficult to download applications from unidentified developers.
Boot Camp is a great feature of mcOS, but it won’t help you install Linux. To do that we’re going to use a tool called rEFInd.
Want to minimize an application by double-clicking its title bar? Here’s how to do it.
I’m going to walk through the steps of making a bootable USB flash drive on MacOS or Mac OS X. I’m planning to dual boot Ubuntu and OS X, so I’ll begin by creating the bootable USB.
A noise gate is software (or hardware) that filters out any sound under a certain decibel level.
As someone who uses OS X dashboard widgets often, I was dismayed to find out that Apple has hidden it by default. Thankfully, it’s easy to reenable the dashboard in El Capitan. Here’s how to do it.
By default, the cursor in MacOS and OS X gets really big when you shake the mouse or when you move it too quickly.
Easily backup, restore, or clone your SD card!
Rather than printing, signing, and scanning a document, you can actually save time and sign the document right in Preview.
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I enjoy Apple’s notification center, but sometimes I get way too many notifications. This can be distracting, not to mention it takes up screen real estate for quite a while.
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On OS X, some apps can be deleted using an uninstaller that came with the application.
This guide will teach you how to quickly delete an application from your Mac that was downloaded from the Mac App Store. This method uses Launchpad.
Many applications use multiple windows, and there is a handy keyboard shortcut to help you switch quickly between them.
This guide will show you how to auto-hide your dock using a keyboard shortcut – without having to open up System Preferences.
This guide will teach you how to set up a proxy server on macOS using SquidMan. What’s a proxy server?
As a big fan of Sublime Text, I was excited to find out that somebody made a port of the Monokai theme for macOS and OSX’s Terminal.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
Flushing your dns is a very useful troubleshooting step and is necessary for some network changes to take effect.
This guide was written for OS X 10.9. For an updated version of this guide click here. There are plenty of reasons you will want to encrypt files on your personal computer.
This short guide will teach you how to take a screenshot on your Mac. These instructions are the same whether you have OS X or macOS.
This short guide shows you how to disable the additional Mac menubars/toolbars and docks that were added in OS X Mavericks.
This shortcut takes your cursor directly to the searchbox after opening Mail.app. This works in all current versions of OSX.
If you backed up your Mac using Time Machine and would only like to recover specific files, don’t worry. I needed to do this recently when I cloned my hard drive onto my new solid state drive.
By default, CTRL-TAB and SHIFT-CTRL-TAB don’t operate in the same way that Google Chrome tab cycling does. For example, when you press CTRL-TAB it doesn’t always cycle to the next open document.
You can set up your Apple computer so that when you double-click the menu bar it minimizes the application. This is a huge time saver and is OS X does not do this by default.
There’s no obvious way to view chat transcripts for conversations you’ve had with users who are now offline. Here’s how to do it.
This guide will show you how to run a Python script in the Mac Terminal (command line) in either Mac OS X or MacOS.
This short guide will show you how to enable php.ini on Mac OS X 10.8.X.
This guide explains how to securely empty your Mac’s trash can. This function overwrites the old data on your hard drive with a bunch of 0s, making it harder to recover.
This guide will show you how to add spacers to your Mac dock. Spacers are a great way to help you organize the apps that you keep in your dock.
If you have several fonts to install, why install each one manually? You can batch install a bunch of fonts at once.
When you take screenshots of applications in MacOS and OSX, the system automatically adds a dropshadow.
This guide shows you how to show hidden system files (e.g. .htaccess) in Finder by default.
Most Apple users don’t know that the Mac keeps a record of every file that you’ve ever downloaded. Here’s how to view the record, delete it, and disable the feature entirely.
I hooked up my external monitor today and found that its desktop background had been replacement by a grey image.
As a web designer, I often find myself with a dozen or two Finder windows open after getting lost in a haze of code.
Your Mac has a “feature” that will put time machine backups on your local disk if your primary Time Machine drive isn’t available.
TotalFinder is a great alternative to Mac OS X’s default Finder application. It adds a number of features such as window tabbing.
While we were building howchoo we realized that our Macs wouldn’t recognize the word. This led us to search for a way to add the term “howchoo” to our Macs’ dictionaries. Here’s how you do it.
You may want to create a new iTunes library folder for many different reasons.
The default empty trash function in OS X isn’t very secure.
Transmit is my FTP/SFTP client of choice. By default, Transmit hides hidden/invisible/system files.
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