UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
OS X (originally Mac OS X) is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems (OS) developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is designed to run on Macintosh computers, having been pre-installed on all Macs since 2002.
Here is a simple solution to create a single PDF by combining multiple files from various file types.
Assumption: I Assume you have 10 PNG files you want to combine into a single PDF file.
Note: It doesn’t matter if those ten files have different height & width dimensions.
Here is how to do this:
Step 01:
Locate & Open Preview in the Applications folder on your Macintosh
Step 02:
Select Preview. Now go to File > Open.
Step 03:
Select & Open all desired files in Preview
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As per Wikipedia:
Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on the macOS.
Day-to-day functions supported by Disk Utility are:
Now, we will learn how to partition disks,
Important Note:
Precaution: Before proceeding, backup all your computer data using Time Machine on a hard drive other than the one you are currently partitioning.
Here is how to Partition a disk
Step 01:
Connect the External Disk to your Mac using a USB / FireWire cable to partition it
Step 02:
Locate ‘Disk Utility App in Applications > Utilities
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Here is how to transfer backups from a current backup drive to a new high-capacity backup drive
Step 01: First, check the format of your new backup drive
Step 02: Set permissions on your new backup drive
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If you are like mine, use safe macOS default settings to allow the system to run & open apps only from third-party Identified App Developers.
You may face a problem with something like this. Your Mac’s Security & Privacy preferences will not allow you to open the app from an unidentified macOS App Developer.
If you navigate to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General tab, you will see something like this:
So, how will you open that particular app blocked by the Security & Privacy Settings?
Solution 01:
You can change the settings available in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General tab under Allow apps downloaded to Anywhere
Important Note:
This solution may not be the safest for the health of your operating system security & privacy settings.
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Background:
Xcode is a one-stop development app for OSX and iOS devices, including all Macintosh Desktops, laptops, iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch.
Note: I Assume you are on OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 or the Latest Operating System & Xcode 6 or later installed.
With the release of Xcode 6 and later, while developing and running your iOS app in iOS Simulator on your Mac, you may encounter a bug like this: ‘Unable to boot iOS Simulator’ with a blank screen.
Here is how to fix it
Solution 01:
Select iOS Simulator, then go to top Menubar > iOS Simulator > Reset Content and Settings > Reset (On command prompt, press reset)
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As Wikipedia explains:
HTTP persistent connection, also called HTTP keep-alive or HTTP connection reuse, involves using a single TCP connection to send and receive multiple HTTP requests/responses instead of opening a new connection for every request/response pair. The newer SPDY protocol uses the same idea and extends it to allow multiple concurrent requests/responses to be multiplexed over a single connection.
Note: I assume you have adequate knowledge of handling your server and server settings and are well-versed in your field.
You can put the following code in your .htaceess file, which is in the root of your server’s html folder.
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There are times when the OSX Finder starts acting weirdly, won’t obey your command, click, or tap, and you want to reset your Macintosh’s OSX Finder to its default setting to make it work as before, just like when you started your Mac for the first time.
If you are using the latest Mac OSX or even OSX operating system, here is how to do it
Delete Finder preferences using Finder
Step 01:
Navigate to the Preferences folder in your username’s home library folder.
Open up the Finder window. Your User Name Home folder > Library > Preferences
OR there is another way if your ‘Library’ folder is hidden by default
Option-click on the ‘Go’ menu in the menu bar at the top of your screen. You will see the ‘Library’ folder link. Click or tap on it to open up your ‘Library’ folder.
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I was wondering, after a long day of work with lots of browsing & navigating to ‘Finder’ files & folders, sizing resizing Finder windows continuously for almost last year & two,
How do we reset the finder window size for all files and folders to OSX’s default size?
Yes, you can do it with just one click & small code
Tip: First, back up your files using the Time Machine & then unmount your Time Machine Hard Drive to keep it safe from code execution. Just in case something goes wrong.
Here is the procedure how to do it:
First Step:
Open the ‘Terminal’ App from your Application’s Utility folder.
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Nowadays, every other person we meet on the street has a smartphone, tablet, or phablet, and we all have laptops in our bags and desktop computers at home and in the office.
So, data security between devices is a big issue now.
Let’s see: For Apple Products users in the Apple iOS and OSX ecosystem, everyone has an iMac or Mac Pro, iPhone or iPod touch, and iPad. So, using modern technologies like iCloud is the primary key to handling data between these devices.
So, I will note down a few points that will help you manage your Apple ID to secure your devices and data, such as contacts, iWork Data files, Keychain passwords and access, iCloud Data, Photos, Notes, Safari Bookmarks, and even features like Back to my Mac, Find my Mac, and WiFi iOS over-the-air backups.
The problem is when you have flat multiple lines of code & you want all of the code indent in one click of a button without going through every word or line by pressing the button ‘Tab’.
So I put down few notes containing tutorial to how to indent multiple line of code within one click or one second, Here is how.
Method 01:
Select the code you want to Indent
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