Category: Command Line

  • How to Open Google Chrome from Terminal on Mac

    How to Open Google Chrome from Terminal on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Open Google Chrome from Terminal on Mac Command line users may encounter situations where they’d like to open the Google Chrome web browser directly from the Terminal on the Mac. Opening GUI applications from the command line is easy on MacOS, and the command syntax to do…

  • How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura

    How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura Wondering how you can allow apps to be downloaded and opened from anywhere on MacOS Ventura? You may have noticed the ability to select “Allow applications downloaded from anywhere” has been removed by default in…

  • How to Schedule Boot / Turn On, Shutdown, Wake / Sleep on MacOS Ventura

    How to Schedule Boot / Turn On, Shutdown, Wake / Sleep on MacOS Ventura

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Schedule Boot / Turn On, Shutdown, Wake / Sleep on MacOS Ventura Scheduling a Mac to boot, sleep, and shutdown, have been longstanding features in the Energy preference panel on Mac OS since the beginning of the operating system, so if you updated to macOS Ventura and…

  • How to Rename & Move Files with Spaces in Name at Command Line

    How to Rename & Move Files with Spaces in Name at Command Line

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Rename & Move Files with Spaces in Name at Command Line If you’re new to the Mac command line you may have come across a situation where you’re trying to interact with a file that has spaces in the name, for example “This File.txt” but as you…

  • Hosts File Not Working on Mac? Try This Fix

    Hosts File Not Working on Mac? Try This Fix

    Go to OSX Daily to read Hosts File Not Working on Mac? Try This Fix Some Mac users have discovered that the hosts file in MacOS does not appear to work, or changes to the /etc/hosts file on the Mac are seemingly ignored. Given that the hosts file is used to map IP addresses to…

  • How to Download iCloud Photos via the Command Line

    How to Download iCloud Photos via the Command Line

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Download iCloud Photos via the Command Line Ever wanted to download all photos from iCloud Photos using the command line? Thanks to the third party icloud_photos_downloader tool, you can do just that. Called icloudpd for short, it works to access and download photos directly from iCloud using…

  • How to Clear Icon Cache on Mac

    How to Clear Icon Cache on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Clear Icon Cache on Mac Occasionally, Mac users may notice that icons in the Finder of MacOS or the Dock of MacOS either display as generic icons, or the icons do not align with what they should (for example, seeing a generic document icon instead of a…

  • How to Get the Older Style MacOS Alert Dialog Back

    How to Get the Older Style MacOS Alert Dialog Back

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Get the Older Style MacOS Alert Dialog Back MacOS Monterey and MacOS Big Sur introduced a new style to the MacOS alert dialog boxes, which look more like something you’d see in iOS than MacOS. In the new design style for MacOS alert dialog windows, everything is…