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    MacBook Pro Late 2013 Coating Display

    Hello Everyone! I have a MacBook Pro Late 2013 purchased in March 2014. My MacBook has the coating issue all over around the black part including the display part (monitor display) making it extremely bothering if not impossible using graphics programs. I visited a local Apple Store and they...
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    video converter

    Hello friends and fellow Mac users, Question for anyone to help. I have a MacBook Pro and know my way around the computer but need some guidance. I bought a certification review course from 2 different websites. One is a just a video and the other is powered by adobe captivate. I am not trying...
  3. Sovon Halder

    Transmission Color Change

    Does anybody know how to change the light blue color of the progress bar to something else ?
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    Tips for a smooth migration to Windows Server?

    I have a client who has a handful (6) of Mac Pro machines running mostly Adobe CC and have been connected to a Mac server (Mac Mini running Sierra and Mac Server app) for a number of years. Lately, nothing but issues with users losing access to their own files and not being able to open each...
  5. Krystian Kozerawski

    Negative for Mac – a simple PDF reader for night owls

    The history of its creation is linked to my own attempts to learn Swift. For more than two years, I had been learning Swift primarily from textbooks by Paul Hudson (Hacking with Swift), Simon Ng (Appcoda) and those published by RayWenderlich. Most of them – especially Hudson’s textbooks – are...
  6. Pyriphlegethon

    Running default in Target Mode

    Would there be a performance hit to running a 2017 iMac from my MBP set in target disk mode? I prefer only having to keep apps and their settings, preferences, updates, plugins, etc maintained on a single machine, in this case the MBP. I'm hoping to use my MBP as my primary machine and then plug...
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    3 months iCloud storage free after upgrading to 50gb?

    When did Apple start providing 3 months free iCloud storage for upgrading to a paid tier? I spoke to apple support via web chat and they had no idea what is happening. Even the email says that there is 3 months free. I have tried googling it and nothing comes up. Can anyone help me? Thanks
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    2009 MacPro won't wake from sleep.

    Hello, A little about my MacPro set up: 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 with a flash upgrade to 5,1. running High Sierra with about 32GB RAM. My boot drive is an SSD. I recently noticed my MacPro will not wake from sleep after installing an MSI RX 570 Graphics card. The card works great up until the point of...
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    What Mac OS X should I use for an older iMac?

    I just got an older iMac desktop computer from a family member. They had completely wiped off the computer’s hard drive so I need to download a new Mac OS on it. I have been wanting to download High Sierra on it because I have heard good things from my friends about it but I am not sure if it...
  10. Jane8798

    Issues copying MacHD to external drive

    So my Mac will not start since I installed the latest sierra update- it only shows the loading start-up screen for HOURS. It won’t start in safe mode or cmd v mode either. I’ve managed to get it in recovery mode and reinstalled sierra and it’s still the same, I’ve also used first aid on disk...
  11. jagooch

    Why I don't like Day One Cloud Sync

    This is why we should have the option to use our own cloudy syncing services - icloud is up, dropbox has never failed me, but Day One decided ( in 2016, if I remember correctly ) to take those options away from paid users.
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    Photo organising/syncing with Mac and iOS

    Hey everyone, I was looking into how to finally organise the pictures on my phone, and since i got a mac i thought it would be great to just sync it to the photos app and do all the album arranging etc on it rather than on the phone. (there's like years of photos and images videos etc on the...
  13. bobval

    Reduce white point on mac

    Hi, "...Reducing the white point reduces the maximum values of a pixel. So if a pixel could have a range of 0-255 for each of the three colors, where 255 on all three produces white, then reducing it might make the maximum 230." it is from -...
  14. mpainesyd

    HomePod Homepod - audio sync when using Airplay

    Numerous threads in several topics refer to problems with using Airplay to send audio to the Homepod - in particular the problem of the audio being out of sync with the video. This thread tries to consolidate this information - please add your experiences to it. Hopefully Airplay2 will address...
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    Game Over for Elite Dangerous on the Mac

    A little bit of bad news for any Mac orientated space simulated fans, as Frontier announce the end of the Mac client of E: D. Ah well, at least Bootcamp is still an option.
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    From Capitan to Snow Leopard

    Hello. Ok. So I bought an iMac inbetween 2010-2012. I never updated the version because I only bought it to work with Pro Tools. A couple of days ago I for some reason updated to El Capitan, but Pro Tools 8 does not work with El Capitan. Is there anyway to 'go back' to Snow Leopard? That's...
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    2015 iMac shuts off on start up, keyboard wont connect in time

    Hello, I've had this issue for a very long time, it started when the max started doing the shut down at start up thing, we were moving at that time so I just boxed it up and didn't check back on it for a long time since I built another comp, recently I've had more worked piled and am in need...
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    Switching CPU tray from Mac Pro 2010 to Mac Pro 2012

    I just bought a Mac Pro 2010 12 core. The CPU tray looks like this: I was wondering if i could put it into my Mac Pro 2012 which is a 6 core. I am a video editor and i figured it would give me more RAM and make it run faster for editing. Am i able to do this? What problems would it cause?
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    Mac Cant Install Yosemite: basesystembinaries.pkg error

    My laptop had hard drives issues so i wiped it through the CMD + R interface. After that I started to install OS. The OS Successfully downloaded and restarted the laptop then started to install it but would always stop and get the error Cannot install basesystembinaries.pkg.
  20. Poki

    Best Bluetooth gaming mouse for Mac?

    Hey you mouse experts out there, I'm looking for the best Bluetooth gaming mouse out there which works with macOS without problems. I tried the Razer Atheris, but after two weeks with their support, it seems that this mouse does indeed not work properly with macOS using Bluetooth. Which...