Unanswered Questions
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How is the Y value for the Memory Pressure graph in Activity Monitor calculated?
How is vm.memory_pressure's value bounded / calculated on OS X 10.10.2 - Yosemite?
I've researched several answers to this question and am trying a few things on the command line to get exact values ...
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macOS Sierra Finder doesn't automatically authorize network-mapped folders on login
After updating to macOS Sierra, the OS no longer seems to automatically authorize network-mapped folders on system login. I have mapped NAS drives to connect to on startup, using System Preferences > ...
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Unable to communicate with secure web proxy on iOS 8
I am attempting to connect to a web proxy server using the Charles proxy application installed on Windows.
I have two iPhones - a 5 running iOS 8.0.2 and a 4 running iOS 7.1.2.
I have used both of ...
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OS X Mountain Lion - Kernel Panic and Restart after Sleep
I have a mid-2009 15" MacMook Pro, with 10.8.2 installed. Periodically, after sleeping my machine, I open it and hit a kernel panic. The logs fail at the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient kext, and I ...
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Why does my mouse cursor stick as the default arrow instead of a text selector?
I use NetBeans, and when I activate other applications or windows then return to NetBeans, the cursor no longer changes to the text selection cursor, but instead it remains as the default mouse icon. ...
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Can Notification Center be made black/dark in macOS Sierra beta?
How do you get Notification Center to be dark/black in macOS Sierra beta? I had it that way in OS X El Capitan but cannot find how to do it in new beta.
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Adjust delay for activating Full Screen Mode toolbar
Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite?
I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -...
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Yosemite Mail.app is playing sounds for non-inbox mail
I have some filters set up in Gmail, for things like mailing lists. Messages skip the inbox, get tagged, and go straight to archive. This was not a problem in Mavericks, but now I'm getting the "new ...
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Alert time discrepancies when synchronizing calendars between iOS 6 and OS X 10.8
Mac running OS X 10.8.2 and iPhone running iOS 6. There is an issue synchronizing the alert times of events created on Calendar. Both devices are set so that the default alert times are 30 min before ...
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Selecting text while jumping with cursor in iTerm2
I would like to know if it is possible to get text-editor-like functionality for selecting text in iTerm2. For example, in Sublime Text 3, I can do the following:
⇧ ⌥ → = Select ...
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What is 'symptomsd" and why is it at times using 60% of my iMac's CPU?
There is a system process on my iMac running El Capitan called "symptomsd" that has been consistently bouncing back and forth between about 20% to 60% of the CPU resource on my iMac.
It is running ...
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Mac 10.11 (El Capitan) - Repeating system.log error: airportd[57]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
After a clean install (wiped HD before USB install) of 10.11 (El Capitan), I noticed the following error in /var/log/system.log:
Oct 21 09:06:35 computer airportd[57]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed ...
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Change delay for auto-hide on menu bar
In 10.11 is there a way to change the delay for showing the menu bar when auto-hide is enabled? I know for the dock you could use terminal and defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
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Avoid Unwanted/Blank Text Annotations in Preview.app
When opening a PDF in Yosemite's Preview.app, I can select text using the Text Selection tool from the Markup Toolbar. However, if I don't click directly on the text, a blank text box will appear. ...
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Dictionary lookup wider and taller (pop-up dictionary lookup styling) in OS X
It's possible to change the font and the font-size for 3-finger lookup popup. You just need to edit css file for dictionaries you use, e.g.:
sudo vim /Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ ...
