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    Is there any reason to wait until August for a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro?

    I am currently looking to upgrade my mid-2013 11” MacBook Air to either one of the higher end MacBook Airs or lower end MacBook Pros. Is there any chance of a refresh/price cut on either model before August? Is there a possibility that the education promo could be changed at some point? I was...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Not Booting

    *URGENTLY NEED HELP ON MY MAC PRO 5, 1* Hello, I bought a 5, 1 quad core 2.8ghz mid 2010 mac pro the other day from a guy on craigslist, but didn’t test it before taking it off his hands because he assured me it was working and had tested it in the morning. When I got home and booted it up, I...
  3. Chaitanya Goli

    How to Change The , Mac OS Extended ( external hard drive ) To NTFS format . WITHOUT LOSING THE DATA

    I have a hard drive with lot of important information in it . And i want to change the format from Mac OS Extended ( journaled ) to NTFS Without losing the data . and the datta is of 4tb . Can anyone help ??
  4. Vivek Valmiki

    Resolved In recovery Mode with a broken screen

    Hi everyone so I have a a MacBook pro 2015 15” with a broken screen and have been using an external to display to mirror. I opened my Mac in recovery mode to do some disk utility work and I’m unable to see recovery mode as it’s on the main screen and not on the external display. I’m also unable...
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    How to drag a window to another monitor easily

    I am new mac use and miss windows short cut to move windows between monitors with keyboard shortcuts. SummaryDrag a window to another monitor: Currently I have to do following: 1. "Exit full screen" 2. Drag window to different monitor using mouse. 3. "Enter to full screen" Is there any way do...
  6. Juicy Box

    Samsung X5 Speeds on TB1 Macs

    I recently purchased a 500GB Samsung X5 external TB3 drive that I intend on installing a larger NVMe and using it as my primary boot drive on my Late 2012 iMac. It is currently getting averages of 807MBps Write and 880MBps Read speeds with the original NVMe. While it is far from slow, and much...
  7. njhaveri

    Mimestream, a native Gmail client for macOS – now in free public beta

    Hi everyone ? I'm Neil, the developer of Mimestream, a lightweight native Gmail client for macOS. Mimestream is now in public beta, and looking for more beta testers! If you're interested, visit https://mimestream.com, enter your email address to request access, and you'll instantly get a...
  8. christiann

    Where can I get a free iMac, iBook, Mac Mini, eMac, any PowerPc Apple Computer?

    Hi all, Ive been looking for an iMac, or an iBook, Mac Mini, any PowerPc Apple Computer for free and no luck. I’ve contacted eWaste places.. tried Facebook, Craigslist, Letgo, Offerup, Freecycle, and now I am frustrated from looking OVER a year. I am in the Southern California area, where can I...
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    Old Mac game

    Hi. I'm looking for an old 2D Mac game my brother and I used to play. There were 2 players on the screen at one time, where each player was a circle with a cannon. The circle traveled in a direction on a predetermined track, and the only movement you could do was to reverse direction. You...
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    Macbook air 2017 display turning on and off on using built in mouse and keyboard

    My macbook air was working fine until recently I used a Thunderbolt cable to mirror my Mac on my tv. From then on my Macbook's display started turning off then randomly on using the built in keyboard or trackpad and gets backs on by pressing any key. it only happens when i use my built in...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 2010 Sleep Issue

    Hello all, I am new here. I just recently acquired a used 2010 Mac Pro in seemingly excellent condition. The system has been upgraded by the previous owner from a quad core to a 6 core. Specs: 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 16GB 1066MHz DDR3 (4x4GB) ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB Samsung 840 EVO...
  12. yellow8

    SubShifter 2 - Sync / Shift your subtitles

    SubShifter 2 Meet SubShifter 2.0, an incredibly simple app to shift or sync your subtitles files in seconds. SHIFT: Select your file, select the shift period, hit the "Shift" button, save the results. Done. SYNC (new V2): Select your file, select two subtitles, enter their correct timings, hit...
  13. Hamza Belmellouki

    I can't save a screen recording using QuickTime

    Issue Description: While I was trying to screen record a long video(1-2 hours) an issue emerged: After hitting QuickTime stop button on my menu bar, the screen record couldn't be saved. Meaning, no screen record is prompted so I can save it. The thing is when I screen record a short video(0-10...
  14. MacMiniUpgrader

    are you satisfied with your MM2018/2020 ? drop configs and lets talk !

    i love my mini, i started with 8gn ram and an rx 580 and its made my work flow easy, finally got around to upgrading and maxing the system specs out
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    How can I install Mac OS on my Lenovo laptop?

    Can anyone help me with this or suggest a way to do it? Thanks in Advance :)
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    Battery drain with replaced SSD (OWC, Transcend, Adapter)

    I have got a 2017 MBA with only 128GB of SSD-Capacity. The Plan is to upgrade the ssd. what should I choose? - OWC Aura Pro X2 -Transcend Jetdrive 850/855 or -a adapter Solution m2-SSD I did read some Reviews on all of them. I found some Problems as extremly high battery drain and high...
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    Pro 2017 Doesn’t Open (Charge or Battery Prob)

    Hey y’all hope u guys doing okay in these hard times. Well, like a month ago i woke up and went to the studio and push the power button but macbook pro 2017 didn’t open or anything. First i thought it got wet because there was a little sprite on my working desk. Tried all of those drying...
  18. Alex Gurr

    SVG Splash - a beautifully simple SVG painting application.

    Website Feature Requests/Issues SVG Splash is a beautifully simple SVG painting application for coloring SVGs. No account required or settings to configure. Open and get started immediately. Key features: - Beautiful, simple interface - Fill and/or stroke color modes - Advanced color...
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    Time Machine ignoring second external harddrive, 'exclude these items' doesnt help

    Hi all, I've used Time Machine to back up my internal and an external harddrive in one go for several years. I now want to add a new external harddrive (so one external 4TB HD is used to time-machine-backup my 1tb internal and 2 1tb externals). The two externals are called 'Samsung_T1' and...
  20. The Clark

    Post Your Desktop: May 2020