Apple Hardware – September 2024

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...

Why is MacOS Ignoring Hosts File Entries

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

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

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...

SystemUIServer – Recover RAM

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...