I have bought many macOS apps. I have regretted buying lifetime versions of many apps which I don’t use now. Like istats menu, recento,apple notes exporter pro which I never regretted buying and I am still using.

What’s the best app your have bought for your Mac?

I switched to Mac OS for work about 3 months or so ago and I have been extremely pleased with it. Definitely my favorite OS to work on and I've just discovered this Stationery pad feature, which when enabled, allows you to create a reusable template that will force you to save the file as a different name, eliminating the need for using Save As.

I run a business selling stuff online and everything I sell goes on an order form that the customer has to sign. Sometimes I accidentally save the master file when I mean to use Save As, which means that the next time I go to use the master file, I have to sit there and backspace, which is quite annoying.

Recently I switched to using PDF Expert instead of Preview for editing PDFs and I realized that every time I would try to Save As, it would overwrite the master file anyway (that was annoying to deal with), but I've realized this function exists within Mac OS and immediately set 3 different files I use often (2 order forms and my quote template) to be stationery pads.

Fun fact: stationary and stationery are different words, stationary means staying in place, stationery typically refers to office supplies like envelopes and paper. Apple chose "stationery" because it's supposed to be like tearing off a fresh piece of paper from a paper pad.

Edit - Not sure how many of you guys use Word, but this doesn't work for Word files, you need to use the Word template file format which is .dotx instead of .docx.

To Achieve This:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLInlinePreviewMinimumSupportedSize -int 512

killall Finder

To Undo This:

defaults delete com.apple.finder QLInlinePreviewMinimumSupportedSize

killall Finder

Over the past week or so, YouTube has been working really poorly in Safari for me. Videos take forever to load, and sometimes I get an error saying I’m offline. I have to click “Retry” to get the video to load.

This only happens in Safari. If I open YouTube in Chrome, everything works normally.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this a recent Safari issue, or could Google be deliberately making YouTube work worse in other browsers to push people toward Chrome?

It's my daily driver and my control plane for all my projects (and I have a LOT)... all on 8GB of RAM - give me a good reason to upgrade? Thanks.

Are there any plans of rolling update for this cert issue on older macosx versions?

This might just be because of the way i setup my aerospace or borders. But I feel like this is essentially because of some inherent bug or something.

Whenever I have a Chrome update or MacOS update pending, and if i have multiple windows opened. ALL the videos get choppy while playing and they stop (while audio still plays ahead) whenever i move the cursor. This happens on youtube on chrome, youtube on safari, vlc, quickplay/preview. On youtube, the frames drop a lot even at 720p.

I say graphics performance because when i have multiple pdfs open in preview or chrome, the performance drops. Its not even that much, I have about 5-10max few pages pdf opened. I guessed this should be okay for 24GB of RAM but apparently not.

The choppy video behaviour once started, persists even if the only thing i have open on laptop is a youtube video. This is only solved by restarting. But this has happened multiple times now.

Am I missing something? has anybody else seen this issue?

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (2009).

The 3D Dock, Aqua interface, classic Finder, and that iconic space wallpaper.

No Liquid Glass, no endless redesigns. Just an OS that felt polished and had its own personality.

It's crazy how something from 17 years ago can still look this good.

Was Snow Leopard genuinely peak Mac OS X, or are we all just blinded by nostalgia?

I’m just trying to add a shortcut and get some guidance on it. Anyone else?

MacBook M1 Pro 16" 32GB and the new Siri Ai has done nothing but slow down regular tasks that would've been quicker without trying to use it. I actually really dig the idea of local ai on Macs so that we use data centers less, so I am really hoping this gets fixed asap. Its so frustrating!

Hi, I have a logitech mouse connected via the wifi receiver that came with the mouse, it works fine but from time to time it drops the usb receiver completely and only a full reboot brings it back.

Has anyone had the same?

I dont have logi options btw

I have got this notification bug on MacOS 27.0.1 when my cursor is where the notification is supposed to be, then when a notification comes it freezes there and I can't remove it. The only solution that I got to is restarting the device, is there any other way to unfreeze it or remove it?

(My Mac is an Air M4 and this bug happens all the time but I only got it on golden gate)

That's it. Tired of "New Message Sound."

I remember the app switcher appearing on the display where the Dock is, but recently I noticed that it now appears on the display with the active app in the foreground. Is that right?

I actually prefer the old behavior because it feels more consistent.

I need urgent help and reassurance form IT experts. Long story short the school has taken my laptop for an audit for fuck knows why, suspicious acitivity. I HAD a lot of fake id templates stored in a folder along with customers made ones and ofcourse before giving I WIPED out everything. It’s a MACBOOK M2 2022 running macOS ahora 26.5.2.

When I say everything I mean everything. I went to recent cmd+a delete and basically did that for every folder, documents, desktop and etc. nothing was backed on one drive or iCloud only a USB stick which was at home. I also made sure to wipe out my chrome search history fully ALL TIME and everything cookies, cache and all before signing out of that Google account leaving only my school use one with YouTube and all that stuff.

I am very worried as they had it for 3 hours(they said they’d give it back end of day) but kept it for the whole day today and probably get it tmr, saying it’s taking longer than expected.

There are obviously device management stuff on it which I attached images of. Yes making them on a controlled skl laptop was dumb but also very convient LOL.

I don’t know much about IT, from research I’ve done I should be alright I think, they can view deleted file names but obviously it doesn’t matter what something is named I can name it “gay porn” and my friend that does IT in Uni said I should be alright.

Just looking on some fredbakc and reassurance if possible and HONEST answers so I can get it somewhat of my head. Previously I had also tried bypassing and downloading Linux which did alert and say “administrator will be notified”

It's a WIP but will share more soon..
https://x.com/TechSnow7/status/2113147968631246964
Something you're interested in ?

Recently my Mac storage was almost maxed out, with a system data reading at over 200gb. Searching through all posts here and on forums I couldn’t find a solution that worked.
Finally I found this fix. Photos app created a file called mediaanalysisd that sometimes can have a fault and grow abnormally large. Deleting it does change any data in photos and the photos app will rebuild the file at a much smaller size.
If you have this issue please try this procedure.

~/Library/Containers/ com.apple.mediaanalysisd
mediaanalysisd is macOS's generated photo/video analysis index used for faces, objects, memories, and visual search. 164 GB is abnormal, and this data can be rebuilt without deleting her Photos library.
Do this:
1. Quit Photos.
2. In Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder.
3. Paste:
~/Library/Containers/
4. Find com.apple.mediaanalysisd.
5. Move that one folder to Trash.
6. Empty Trash.
7. Restart the Mac.
If Finder says the folder is in use, run:
killall mediaanalysisd
Then immediately move the folder to Trash again.

No Windows, o driver da Epson tem isso (captura de tela): Impressão duplex manual (encadernação pela borda longa). Ele imprime um lado, me pede para virar a pilha e imprime o outro. Pronto.

No meu MacBook, a opção não existe, mesmo com o driver oficial da Epson. A solução alternativa de páginas pares/ímpares funciona, mas eu continuo bagunçando a ordem.

Existe alguma maneira de obter a mesma impressão duplex manual no macOS? Driver, aplicativo, predefinição, qualquer coisa?

I’m behind ColorApple, a small Mac utility from Archetipi Digitali.

Problem: I wanted the classic six-colour Apple back in the menu bar. ColorApple adds that detail while keeping the Apple menu clickable. It doesn’t modify macOS system files, and quitting the app restores the original appearance.

Comparison: Logoer is another option for changing the Apple logo’s style, and it supports older macOS versions. ColorApple focuses on the classic rainbow look, with automatic alignment checks when switching apps and controls for enabling the effect and launching at login.

Pricing: $0, all features included. No subscription.

It requires macOS 14 or later and comes as a signed, notarized universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel.

To display the effect, it needs Screen Recording permission to measure the small Apple-menu area. Calibration images are processed locally, never saved or uploaded.

Intel and external-monitor reconnection testing is still incomplete, so feedback from those setups would be particularly useful.

Details and download:
https://apps.archetipi-digitali.it/colorapple/

I have used the monitor a few hours ago and now my macbook is suddenly not detecting it.
here's what's happenign:

I keep monitor off, plug in the monitor hdmi to my mac, mac detects the display.
when I turn it on, the options dissappear

Hey, I recently acquired a 13’ Mid-2014 MacBook Pro from my sister, who apparently tried to upgrade it using OPCLP in the past. The result is that for some reason reason this 13 inch laptop thinks it’s a 15 inch and has resolution to match, and no matter how many times I’ve deleted and reinstalled its operating system I’ve had no luck. I’m pretty sure that the system image was altered in some way.

And of course, the only other example I’ve found of this happened was 13 years ago, and that got resolved via apple Warrenty.
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5039778?sortBy=rank

I’d appreciate any help you can offer. It’s not a super big deal, but it does bug me, and I’d like to fix it if I can.

I’m having problems with my MacBook Air since I updated it from version 10.0 to 12.7.6. I’ve uninstalled numbers as I don’t use it tried to reinstall it onto my MacBook, but it’s saying I need 26 update to download, my laptop won’t update any more. Is there anyway to use pages on a 12.7.6 version? Is there a way to download my Pages and keynote work somewhere else? Should I try to download another application? And what application should I download and is there a one that will allow me to transfer my pages and keynotes to the new application?

Thank you !

When I drag a tab and open it in its own new window there’s this black bar on the left which doesn’t go away. Never happened until updating to 27 🤦‍♂️

Restarted laptop and safari and still happens. Anyone know a fix ?

I feel like I am losing my mind...didn't there use to be a way to swipe on the touch pad to show all windows of all programs at once? I am on 15.7.7 and I cannot get it to work.