Apple Hardware – September 2024
The Apple event this year didn't feature many notable changes to hardware, with more of a focus on Apple Intelligence. Despite that, here are all the things Apple announced on the hardware front.iPhone 16 & Plus The iPhone 16 received several hardware upgrades, a...
Control Time Machine Effortlessly with TimeMachineEditor
Time Machine is an amazing built-in backup utility in macOS that allows users to easily restore their backups. However, the default settings of Time Machine might not always align with users' preferences or requirements. However his is where TimeMachineEditor comes to...
Why is MacOS Ignoring Hosts File Entries
While helping a co-worker I found what appeared to be the most bizarre behavior on their mac. They had set an entry in their hosts file which pointed a domain at a VPN'd internal network address. Normally this would allow the user to bypass the normal DNS lookups and...
All Emojis for Facebook and other uses
I looked at so many facebook posts and adds that have had some great use of emojis. And although facebook has finally added most of the emojis to their editors, there are still some places that you cannot get the emoji options. So to make that process easier use this...
How To Add Dark Mode for Slack Desktop on Mac
Why is there no Dark Mode For Slack Desktop on Mac There is some dispute as to why it has taken Slack so long to add this option. Since the beginning you could add a dark side bar theme, but your messages remain black text on white background. Forum posts indicated...
Easily Create Typeform Like Forms in WordPress
The WPForms Wordpress Plugin WPForms is an amazing form builder plugin. Here at MacNative we recommend it and feel that it is the best form builder available for wordpress. There are lots of other options out there, but WPForms seems to offer the best mixture of...
Permanently add my ssh key to the keychain in OSX Mojave
I have been using ssh keys for all my ssh authentication for years, but for some reason after upgrading to OSX Mojave I found that my key based authentication would no longer work. So I used the following command to add my ssh key to the keychain and things were...
Mac OSX Apps – My Top 10 Favorite I Use Everyday
Mac OSX Apps are a part of my daily life as they are for all Mac users. But not all Mac OSX Apps are equal, some perform better, some are more useful than others, and some are just downright amazing. In this post I hope to share the Mac OSX Apps that I have found to...
Rearranging Spaces – Keep Mission Control Under Control
If you are like me then when you set something up, like the "Spaces" on your Mac, then you want them to be setup the same way when you go to use them the next time. But in Mac OS X Lion (and presumably Mountain Lion) apple had a seemingly brilliant idea, have Mission...
SystemUIServer – Recover RAM
I love my Mac. it adds greatly to my productivity and abilities. But as with any system there are always little things that we each need to tweak and change to allow our systems to run optimally. For me one of those things is the SystemUIServer. I like to run apps...