This one drove me crazy for a few weeks, and the solution was tough to find, so I’m posting it here. I would be working on my laptop and my screen would suddenly black out and the computer would randomly go to sleep as I was typing. I’d have to hit a key to wake […]
TL;DR: I edit scripts in TamperMonkey (GreaseMonkey replacement) and have the changes automatically update a master GitHub repo by backing TamperMonkey up to Dropbox, then having an OS X Folder Action perform the GitHub update. Here’s a pretty arcane trick that hopefully will be of use to some other person, somewhere, someday. In my GitHub repo I have shared a […]
Summary: The Terminal command “sudo spctl –master-disable” can restore the option to open apps from anywhere without Sierra giving you a warning. The General tab in the “Security & Privacy” System Preference used to show you three settings for where it would allow you to open applications from without complaining: just the Apps Store, just […]
Often in recent versions of OS X, new Finder windows open with the Name column, the first column on the left, much too wide, pushing the other columns past the right edge of the window. I found a solution that seems to fix this. 1.) Open a new finder window 2.) If All the columns […]
