With macOS Cataline some nice new safe feature appeared. Apple always try to defend users from malicious softwares. Unfortunately this can cause several “safe” apps and tools won’t work any more. If the message appears “cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified” you have allow somehow to run that app. In general you […]
Category: Mac
Quickly check BitCode support of a library
I wrote already about nm which is a great tool to analyze the binaries. This can be used to quickly check whether a binary supports BitCode or not. Just open a terminal where your binary stored and use this command: nm -a -U -A -m <filename> | grep -i bitcode
If TextEdit makes your files wrong
From Mavericks theMAC OS X embedded default text editor tool, the TextEdit uses autocorrection by default so replaces your correct characters to funny ones. This is getting more funny when you open and edit a JSON file for example. And you won’t realize what went wrong a quite long time 🙂 So, just switch it off: Apple symbol […]
Reset external display settings on mac
Using external display is a great thing. I prefer to use my big external screen rotated by 90º: quite useful for long docs. The problem comes along when you remove the cable while the mac is sleeping: sometimes the system remembers that the screen is rotated but this no more synced with the monitor. It […]
Enabling AirDrop – if it doesn’t work
Have you ever experienced that the AirDrop doesn’t work while it definitely should work? Two computers cannot see each other? Ok, first check some cases – on both machines: You have a Mac OS X Lion OS installed wifi is turned on both machines has to have an opened Finder window and the AirDrop should […]