Today on AppAddict - Pareto Security - Quick and Easy - I recently noticed an app on Setapp that I'd never tried, Pareto Security, so I investigated it. It's a basic application that checks the settings on your Mac and quickly shows you where you aren't following the best recommended practices from security experts. It has links to tutorials for every... - https://appaddict.app/post/pareto-security-quick-and-easy - #Mac #macOS #Apple #AppAddict
Need some help from the blind Mac users here on Mastodon. I’ve searched on AppleVis and also done a general search on google and have sent an email to an Apple group for the blind but haven’t found anything. On my Mac Mini, voiceover will say unread for unread emails but it does not do it on my MacBook Air. They are both running MacOS 15.4.1. Does anyone know how I can get voiceover to identify unread emails on the MacBook Air? Please and thank you. #Blind #Mac #voiceover
For anyone following at home, the activity monitor is currently yellow, showing 14.25 out of 16gb memory currently used, and I'm doing nothing but having FF open, and browsing a bit.
The about:processes page shows the biggest users are PurpleAir, deck.blue (bluesky client) and vmst.io my mastodon server, but FF itself says it's only using 3GB.
I regularly keep about 30 tabs permanently open, I'm thinking this will need to change.
"Schadet Wine auf dem Mac": Open-Source-Tool Whisky stoppt Weiterentwicklung
Whisky macht es einfach, Wine auf macOS zu bringen, um Windows-Games zu zocken. Das schadet der Laufzeitumgebung, fürchtet der Entwickler und hört auf.
Nerdy question for #Firefox #Mac folks - I have a brand new Mac Mini which I just noticed is topping out its memory usage according to Activity Monitor... with "FireFox CP Isolated Web Content"
This never happened on the iMac with the same amount of memory, and same open tabs in FF. It was so bad, that trying to move a disk icon gave me the #SBBOD.
This is not the only one of these processes, and I assume it's from a FF tab, but does anyone else see this behavior? I suppose I'm going to have to delete all my tabs and add them back in one at a time... Thanks for any direction.
Hive mind: any suggestions?
On my Macbook Air, Safari has been behaving weirdly when I plug in my external monitor. Many (but not all?) of the Safari windows get rendered full-window (even though they weren't when I was only on the laptop, nor before I disconnected and reconnected).
I had suspected a bug with BetterSnapTool, which I was using, but I've deleted that and rebooted several times since.
I *think* this may have started happening at the last Mac OS update.
It's not terrible, just really really annoying. So far web searching hasn't yielded any hints. Any thoughts?
Today on AppAddict - SmartBackup - Free, Fast and Foolproof - While I have long used Time Machine as my primary backup for my Macs, it does have some drawbacks. If you go looking for a missing file, it's a hit-and-miss operation to find the last known good copy of a document, image or folder. You basically have to work your... - https://appaddict.app/post/smartbackup-free-fast-and-foolproof - #Mac #macOS #Apple #AppAddict
Every spring there are rumors that Apple is finally going to make iPadOS comparable to macOS.
It's not in their financial interests to do so. They want to compel you to buy both an iPad and a Mac.
It's why the iPad is still missing features taken for granted since the mid 90s.
I use an iPad for handwritten notes and for reading and annotating sheet music with forScore, an incredible app for musicians.
But if iPadOS were as capable as macOS, I would ditch my MacBook.
I want to automate my privat development workflows a bit, e.g. open multiple terminal tabs per project automatically with one command.
I found so far:
- plist / apple script (built-in, secure)
- 3rd party plist editor tools
- #Alfred
- #Raycast
How do you handle security vs. comfort of 3rd party tools (which have full access to your system)? 
#mac #security #webdev #automation
heise+ | Buchstaben-Dekorateur: Art Text für macOS im Test
Art Text verziert Schrift und Logos mit aufwendigen Effekten – auf Wunsch mit KI.
Today on AppAddict - Change the Location of Notifications With PingPlace - One of my favorite tech writers, Justin Pot, who publishes a lot over at Lifehacker, reviewed a new to me app today called PingPlace. If something happens on a Mac, someone is going to figure out a way to tweak it. This free app moves the pop-up location for notifications... - https://appaddict.app/post/change-the-location-of-notifications-with-pingplace - #Mac #macOS #Apple #AppAddict
Every once in a while, you run into a project that makes you scratch your head. MacLynx, an actively developed text-based browser for the classic Mac OS, is one of those.
#technology #apple #mac #macos #retrocomputing
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/15/maclynx-beta-6-back-to-the-powermac/
This is my Motorola StarMax 3000 that I bought back in the 90’s. It’s one of the Mac clones from the short period where Apple had a clone program. It has the Apple designed Tanzania board that the 4400 also used. The 4400 is generally regarded as the least “Mac” Mac, so the StarMax is even less of a Mac I guess. It was my first “Mac”, and I got it pretty cheap when they were getting rid of the old stock.
The StarMax was universally criticized for its obscene noise level, and it is really is very loud, to the point of being unusable.
I’ve worked a little on mine recently.
It has two fans - a 92mm in the PSU and a 60mm in the front, which takes care of the CPU. Yes, really. 60mm.
I have replaced those with Noctuas.
Another noise source, which is perhaps even worse, is the obscenely loud OEM IBM hard drive. I have replaced it with a CF card in the back, also making getting files across easier.
The StarMax has also been fitted with a Sonnet CPU upgrade, which replaces the L2 DIMM and needs an extension to activate.
All in all, this is a delightfully quirky system.
I really, really miss the CSSEdit app from I think it was MacRabbit. Yes, there are browser tools, but they just aren't as good as it was.
There's Espresso, but it's also abandoned, I think.
Any suggestions out there for a *good* Mac-friendly CSS editor?
#Apple To Analyze User Data on Devices To Bolster #AI Technology
The technology works like this: It takes the synthetic data that Apple has created and compares it to a recent sample of user emails within the #iPhone , #iPad and #Mac email app. By using actual #emails to check the fake inputs, Apple can then determine which items within its synthetic dataset are most in line with real-world messages.
#privacy #training #security
Anyone knows if there's an official tool from #microsoft to completely remove Office 2019 from a #mac ?
I mean no containers, no license, no Library file, no nothing.
I'm trying to install office 365 and it keeps insisting I have Office 2019 installed. I found a bash script that deletes a bunch of folders, and Microsoft seems to link to this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/uninstall-office-for-mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3
but... really? Nothing? No "uninstall?
Today on AppAddict - Safari Extensions Worth Paying For and A Couple of Worthy Freebies - One of my current strategies to minimize the ability of tech companies, starting with Google, to use browser fingerprinting to extract information from my browsing habits involves rotating among a half dozen browsers on my Mac. Because I have long used Chromium-based browsers and the extension ecosystem associated with them,... - - #Mac #macOS #Apple #AppAddict https://appaddict.app/post/safari-extensions-worth-paying-for-and-a-couple-of-worthy-freebies
