I want to be able to make a non-active window active via mouse wheel click instead of having to left-click inside the window. Useful when using CAD and switching back and forth between necessary apps. Left-clicking in CAD (BricsCAD in this case) will make the window active but it will also click and selects an entity or creates a selection window immediately, which isn't desirable. So, how can I use a middle click (or similar) to activate a window ..read more

I bought a refurbished iPhone 12 Pro yesterday, from a third party mobile shop. Since the first day, the screen does not recognise touch when I tap “very gently”. For example, when I am tapping any icon (or key) “very gently”, the touch is not recognised. I have to do proper touch always. I used iPhone (iPhone 13 brand new) before in my life during 2023 and I never faced this. The screen was very sensitive to even very tiny/mild touch. What could be the issue with my current refurbished iPhone 12 Pro? (I live in Portugal, the shop is in Portugal as well. iOS version 17.4.1 ..read more

It there a user-friendly way to copy multiple photos from PhotoBooth at once? For some really stupid reason, maybe this is a bug, if you select multiple photos there (e.g., by using Shift-click) and try to copy them (e.g, by pressing Command-C or by selecting menu bar > Edit > Copy) to a different place outside PhotoBooth, only the single photo is copied to the clipboard. I can copy multiple photos at once by opening the ~/Pictures/Photo Booth Library/Pictures folder, but I would prefer a more user-friendly way, that is, without leaving PhotoBooth. Is it possible somehow? upd.: Yes, this ..read more

Here is what I mean. For example, usually you save your Safari downloads to ~/Downloads. But today you have found a useful PDF on the web, and you want to save it to ~/Documents/your_project. You have never saved files from Safari to this folder, and therefore you won't see this folder in "Recent Places" of the Safari's Save As dialog window (see the screenshot). You can press Shift-Command-G to open Finder's Go to Folder pop-up window, but what next? The list of folders in this pop-up window doesn't have to include the ~/Documents/your_project folder. There are two workarounds I'm aware of ..read more

Ever since I "upgraded" to Sonoma, I've had occasional, severe battery drain when my MacBook should be sleeping or hibernating. I'm now running the latest, Sonoma 14.4.1. My battery drains way too far. Here's an example: I ran pmset -g log and discovered this, which suggests Skype prevented sleep for around five hours! Note the battery level on the first and last lines here: 2024-04-24 01:44:23 -0400 Assertions Summary- [System: No Assertions] Using Batt(Charge: 85) 2024-04-24 03:45:26 -0400 Assertions PID 75061(Skype) Created PreventSystemSleep "Preparing upd ..read more

I was checking my disks after the successful installation oclp 1.4.3/Sonoma 1.4.1 on a MBP 14,3 2017 with Touch Bar. Why I have an 1 Not Mounted volume on my main (startup) disk?
 I googled for this situation, I have found the question reported but without answer. Can Someone explain, please? Thanks ..read more

I am currently having issues connecting with my Mac (Sonoma 14.4.1) to certain webpages using the wifi of my institution, and I am completely clueless about why this is happening, because from my understanding this problem is limited to Macs connecting to the wifi. The problem is that some websites (arstechnica.com and news.ycombinator.com are a couple, but I found more) do not load, and I cannot upload images on Notion (and sometimes Slack, but that's slightly more reliable). Things I checked: The web pages are not down. The issue is limited to Macs connected to the wifi. I tested Android ph ..read more

While that might sound like an easy question to answer, unfortunately it's not. I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 15.8.2. The most obvious thing to do is with the screen locked, swipe left and start recording. Only problem: camera app has a bad habit of remembering the last selection and that does not help to quickly start recording. And no, the setting to not remember the last action is ineffective. Unfortunately. Next thing I tried was to voice activate it. But that was too far fetched, the microphone was always on, it was draining the battery and I wasn't even close to achieving what I wanted ..read more

I have two iPads where I am using a particular app. On iPad A, I have updated to a new version of the app and discovered that the app has been modified so strongly that it became unusable. On iPad B, I still have the old version that I am used to, which works perfect for me. Is there some way to copy the app from iPad B to A, so that I have the desired version on both? Thanks for any hints ..read more

After attempting to remove a Kali Linux partition through Disk Utility on macOS High Sierra, I ended up with a drive that had a type of just FFFFFFF-FFFFF. I proceeded to try to fix that through using Internet Recovery, where I entered the following commands into Terminal: gpt -r show disk0 diskutil umountDisk disk0 gpt remove -i 2 disk0 gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 431203056 -t 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0 This removed the partition type from being F, however, I am unsure if that led to the fact that I cannot access the drive's full storage. (I also somehow have 24 partitions ..read more