Category: Apple

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Shortcut to Delete Apple Messages

Apple did away with the shortcut to delete messages. You can create a custom shortcut for messages. You still will need to confirm each delete.

System Preferences
Keyboard
App Shortcuts
Plus Icon
Choose Messages
Menu Option - "Delete Conversation..." assigned to Command+D

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T-Mobile Prepaid Options

Refer: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-7261

How to add for a Pay As You Go (Prepaid) plan

To purchase a pass on your Pay As You Go plan, call T-Mobile customer service by dialing 611 from your T-Mobile phone, or call 1-877-746-0909. You can get a 1-day pass or a 1-week (7-day) pass. Automated account help and customer service representatives are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For the hearing impaired, TTY service is available by calling 1-877-296-1018, 7 days a week, from 3 a.m.-10 p.m. PT.

 

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Macbook Show/Hide Hidden Files

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder.  At the prompt enter or paste the following command line then press RETURN.

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
$ killall Finder

To turn off the display of invisible files and folders enter or paste the following command line and press RETURN.

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
$ killall Finder

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How to close save dialog with keyboard

Mac seems a bit backwards where you cannot close a dialog by default with the keyboard.  You need to go into settings, keyboard, shortcuts.

In the "Full keyboard access" section, choose the radio "All Controls"

After this, you can close without saving by using the space bar, use escape to cancel or enter to save with a prompt.

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OS X: How to Change Default Application to Open File Type

If you click on a file and the wrong app opens it, you can change the default application to open that file or file type. These are the steps to both change the default app to open one specific file or to change the default app to open all files of one file type.

Change Default App for One File:

1. Ctrl-click on the file you want to open
2. Click Open with
3. Select Other
4. Select the applcation you want to open the file
5. Select Always Open With
6. Click Open button

Now that one file will always open with the application you picked.

If you want to change the default app that opens all the files of one particular file type, you can do that too.

Change Default App for All Files of a File Type:

1. Ctrl-click on the file
2. Click Get Info
3. Under Open With pick the app that you want to become the default
4. Click the Change All button
5. Confirm your decision

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Adding shortcuts with Forklift

From: BinaryNights Support [mailto:support@binarynights.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: Go, Connect

Hi Maurice,

1. Go to ‘Favorites > Show Favorites’ (or press Esc) 2. Click on the plus button at the bottom 3. Select the protocol and fill in the fields then click on Save 4. Connect to the server from sidebar (or from Favorites)

kind regards,
Bam

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Macbook Pro, Access Top Menu

Use [Ctrl]+[F2] - Access to top menu bar starting at the Apple icon and use the arrow keys to navigate.

Use [Ctrl]+[F8] - Access to the top right menu and use the arrow keys to navigate

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Homebrew for Mac

Installing on M1 Silicone

Install Home Brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After installation, ensure Homebrew is in your PATH by adding the following to your ~/.zshrc (for Zsh, the default shell on macOS). Instead of the following, please follow the prompts from the terminal int includes instructions too.

echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Install Midnight Commander itself

brew install mc

Verify Installation

mc --version

Launch Midnight Commander

mc

Press F10 to exit or [Ctrl]+[o] to toggle back and forth and then enter exit from terminal to close it.

Older Notes

The missing package manager for OS X
http://brew.sh/

From your Mac

$ brew help

If you just want the package names for all formulas:
$ brew search

The following command will list the info snippets for all existing Homebrew formulae:
$ brew info --all

You can also start a server to browse the formulae locally at http://localhost:4567:
$ brew server

Or browse the local Git repository—thanks to Mk12 for that:
$ ls $(brew --prefix)/Library/Formula

Online - Other than that, you can just browse the following website:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula

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