Add the calendar widget as Medium or Large size. Move the widget to the top and you'll see it when you click on the Date/Time menu bar item.
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macOS 11: All the little things!
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Thanks for the info, but not sure I was clear. I meant the "AirPods connected" banner that pops up when I come near with my pods. I don't know which app is triggering the notification, so that I can turn it off in System Preferences/Notifications.
That's what I see as well. I now use an app called Toothpicks which shows an icon for each bluetooth device in the menu bar, with 1 click to connect. The icon then changes when connected. Might be of use! It's free on the app store:
Toothpicks
Welcome to Toothpicks: an awesome Bluetooth device manager for macOS. With Toothpicks you can add your favorite Bluetooth devices to the menu bar and connect/disconnect them with a single click. Alternatively, define a connect/disconnect hot key for each of your Bluetooth devices. Toothpicks...
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Interesting, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.That's what I see as well. I now use an app called Toothpicks which shows an icon for each bluetooth device in the menu bar, with 1 click to connect. The icon then changes when connected. Might be of use! It's free on the app store:
Toothpicks
Welcome to Toothpicks: an awesome Bluetooth device manager for macOS. With Toothpicks you can add your favorite Bluetooth devices to the menu bar and connect/disconnect them with a single click. Alternatively, define a connect/disconnect hot key for each of your Bluetooth devices. Toothpicks...apps.apple.com
I can vouch for the dots appearing in previous versions. I have a Wii U game controller I use and they show up for it.
My bad, I clicked reply to the wrong post. I was responding to cool11
@srbNYC, to respond to your question, after you connect your Airpods to your mac you can go to Bluetooth preferences and see your Airpods there. Click Options and change the setting for Connect to This Mac from "Automatically" to "When Last Connected to this Mac". I think that will disable the notification.
I do not know whether people already know about this but I think it's worth mentioning:
In some applications, you can drag icons to different parts of the toolbar. This makes the toolbars feel much less cluttered. Here are two examples in Mail and Notes:
In some applications, you can drag icons to different parts of the toolbar. This makes the toolbars feel much less cluttered. Here are two examples in Mail and Notes:
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I like the “recovery” mode thing where boots into MacOS utilities.
There is an option there to reinstall macOS
If I choose this it will reinstall Catalina.
Is there a way to force this to install Big Sur so can have a real fresh install ?
I like the “recovery” mode thing where boots into MacOS utilities.
There is an option there to reinstall macOS
If I choose this it will reinstall Catalina.
Is there a way to force this to install Big Sur so can have a real fresh install ?
After you install Big Sur, the Catalina recovery partition gets overwritten with a Big Sur recovery partition.
The output of 'sysctl machdep.cpu' is very meagre on my M1 machine. Anyone with Big Sur on Intel: do you get lots of info like we used to?
Big Sur is fast, and I mean FAST! And I am not talking about M1 but Intel machines, too. It day and night difference compared to Catalina.
I'm on the 2019 16" MacBook Pro and it dumps a lot of info yes (running
I have an irrational desire to get my hands on an M1.
% sysctl machdep.cpu
machdep.cpu.cores_per_package: 8
machdep.cpu.core_count: 8
machdep.cpu.logical_per_package: 8
machdep.cpu.thread_count: 8
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Apple processor
I really like something about Mail on macOS 11, in the past all account you woul set up would be kinda merged together, at least for the primary folders like Inbox, Sent, Bin, etc. Now they are more separated and you can merge them if you want. This makes it much simpler to deal with really separate mail accounts.
In Catalina you could click the arrow and expand the unified mailboxes (e.g. "> inbox") so that they showed the individual ones for each email account. Or you could create smart folders that select only mails from a particular account. However, as you say, Big Sur does it differently.
Unified mailboxes are now optional (and added as Favourites) but the individual mailboxes still show against every email account. Personally, I don't like that duplication but maybe more people do.
Unified mailboxes are now optional (and added as Favourites) but the individual mailboxes still show against every email account. Personally, I don't like that duplication but maybe more people do.
Woof, consistency is not good.
Same wallpaper, three Spaces, three different menu bar colors.
Same wallpaper, three Spaces, three different menu bar colors.
1st world problem.
Check off "Reduce Transparency" in the Accessibility>Display prefs and your issue goes away completely.
The "Catalina" behavior was actually introduced way earlier. Definitely had that on Mojave, but pretty sure even before that.
I have several internet accounts. Does anyone else find that Contacts sporadically changes their default account setting?
I'll add a contact from, say, Mail and then see that it's the lone entry in an account for which I don't keep addresses. When I look in Preferences, I see the default account has somehow changed to that one. I change it back and quit Contacts. Has happened repeatedly.
I'll add a contact from, say, Mail and then see that it's the lone entry in an account for which I don't keep addresses. When I look in Preferences, I see the default account has somehow changed to that one. I change it back and quit Contacts. Has happened repeatedly.
Why some of microsoft word docx documents, cannot be properly opened by textedit?
I used textedit to open such docs for so many years without any problem.
Since I upgrade to Big Sur, several docx files, display something like 'locked' on the title of the window opened, and inside this window is only blank space.
What has changed in Big Sur?
As I said, I never had any problem in the past.
I used textedit to open such docs for so many years without any problem.
Since I upgrade to Big Sur, several docx files, display something like 'locked' on the title of the window opened, and inside this window is only blank space.
What has changed in Big Sur?
As I said, I never had any problem in the past.