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Remote Control another Mac on your network

You need to go to the Mac you want to access and under System Preferences->Sharing activate the following: On all this options you can limit the users that can have access. On the File Sharing option, you can determine what folders can be accessed in the network and by whom. On Remote Management you will […]

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Dev Mac

Change macOS terminal shell to Bash 5

Since macOS Catalina that zsh is the default shell. From what I could understand this was caused by a change in Bash license to GPL after version 3. So, since version 3 of Bash is pretty old they changed the default to zsh. Since Homebrew is not yet fully Apple Silicon compatible using Homebrew was […]

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Dev Mac Tech

MAMP Pro – Oops, something is badly wrong!

Out of the blue, MAMP Pro started presenting me with an alert when I tried opening the app: Oops, something is badly wrong!Either you did not provide the necessary admin credentials or the MAMP PRO package could not be initialized correctly. You can either restart the application and try again or re-install the software. I […]

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Intel Mac Tech

Mac Mini 2018 graphics Intel UHD 630 and 4K Monitor

The Mac Mini 2018 comes with Intel UHD 630 graphics without a possibility to upgrade unless you use an external eGPU. I was a bit worried about how it would perform with a 4K monitor scaled at 2560×1440. I use 27 inches 4K monitors and they need to be scaled to 2560×1440 as MacOS default […]

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Mac Monitors Tech

Cheaper high resolution external ISP Monitor for Mac (retina like)

For a long time that I wanted to have a “retina” screen on my desktop but as I work from multiple locations (and needed to buy more than one monitor) I wanted a solution that was not expensive and where I could plug and play from a Macbook or Mac Mini. I knew I needed […]