Mac apps/games that are only available as Intel binaries and no native Apple Silicon support are a ticking time bomb as Rosetta is going to be deprecated. The first developer beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate is released today, and I tried it out on a test machine to
Little Snitch is an application firewall for macOS and I find it useful to audit outgoing network connections from my computer. The Alert mode prompts can be a bit annoying when setting up a new app, but this is usually one-time and not a hassle on day-to-day use. However, one
I encountered a weird problem that clicking a "Buy with Google Pay" button flashes a Processing dialog and immediately closes/fails. Stranger that Safari was working fine, while Chrome remains broken for me for several weeks. 0:00 /0:03 1× Opening the browser console reveals a hint:
Sometimes when you launch a Steam game, there will be a User Account Control prompt from Windows asking about Steam Client Service. This is to install any prerequisites such as Visual C++ or DirectX (why are these not preinstalled on Windows 11 already) However, I am constantly getting UAC prompts
There are various solutions suggesting program.exe > output.txt or program.exe > output.txt 2>&1 to view stdout/stderr, but this doesn't seem to work for me. What worked for me is to use Git Bash or Cygwin Terminal to execute the EXE
Virtual machines in Parallels Desktop may open in native macOS tabs, I personally don't like this as it shifts the desktop resolution when the tab bar appears. This behavior can be disabled with this Terminal command: defaults write com.parallels.desktop.console AppleWindowTabbingMode manual
macOS Sequoia 15.0 seems to have random network connectivity issues causing various apps to randomly disconnect. Some people advise disabling network extensions (the only one I had is Little Snitch), completely turning off the system firewall (System Settings > Network > Firewall) fixes the issue on my 2019 Intel
For some bizarre reason, downloading certain Steam games on macOS to an external disk can hang UVFSService with 100% CPU and cause system instability when any app tries to interact with the same external disk. When the hang happens, the only way to fix the issue is to kill UVFSService
I was building a new webapp and realize that somehow that there is a _dd_s cookie being injected. Then I realize that this cookie is still injected on blank websites such as https://example.com and feared that it might be Chrome extension malware... plus the cookie isn'
Host machine is macOS 11.4 and the latest and tested software versions as of the time of writing: * Parallels Desktop version 16.5.0 (49183) * VMware Fusion version 12.1.2 (17964953) Parallels and VMware don't know how to handle the new Install macOS 12 Beta.app,
Safari 14 now supports WebExtensions, in addition to Safari App Extensions and after killing off Legacy Safari Extensions (.safariextz) The official guides provided by Apple (a bit buried): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions A couple of notes: * Safari's WebExtensions implementation isn't feature-parity
The developer beta of macOS Big Sur is now available for download and experimentation. Installing Mac betas inside a virtual machine doesn't provide the full experience, but it's still useful to get a first look and try out app compatibility. Host machine is macOS 10.15.