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A Dialog Can Now Be a Native Desktop Window
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I built Gridly: a Mac window manager controlled by title-bar swipes
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47GB of Compressed Memory and No Permission to Kill It: Handing a Monitoring Script Exactly One Root Command
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...
GEMM Benchmarking on Apple M2: AMX, GPU, and Neural Engine
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (260+ words) An M2 MacBook Air packs several compute engines into a single chip: CPU vector units, the AMX matrix... Tagged with performance, benchmarking, ai, applesilicon....
plutil -extract replaced my plist with the key I was reading, and exited 0
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The Remote Job Printed Nothing for 48 Hours. stdout Had No TTY.
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Adobe Acrobat Stylize helps professionals show up and stand out
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (78+ words) Turn dense documents into polished, ready-to-share work, no design skills required. This content was paid for by a brand partner. Unlimited polished proposals, readable reports, and ready-to-edit decks for $19.99 a month. Skip the blank page. Generate a Presentation turns your…...
Kaspersky introduces App Cleaner for macOS, eliminating hidden leftovers that standard deletion leaves behind
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (568+ words) Kaspersky Premium for macOS now includes App Cleaner, a feature designed to address a common challenge for Mac users trying to free up space on their devices: leftover files from uninstalled apps. Caches, preferences, support files and other associated data…...
How to completely uninstall apps on Mac and free up storage
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (929+ words) Deleting an app from your Mac completely isn’t as simple as it sounds. We explain why, and show how App Cleaner in Kaspersky Premium for macOS clears out the leftovers. Every so often you need to tidy up, and that…...