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Clipboard Manager For Mac

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Answer : UPDATE I have actually now started using Clippings from the app store. It's $2.99 and worth it. The reasons I decided to stop using PTHPasteboard were that it is a little buggy and I tried to send feedback to the author but never heard anything. Also it is expensive at $25. Wish the author was continuing development and taking requests for a couple of UI/UX fixes, but until then I really like "Clippings" ORIGINAL POST I'm coming from Windows and LOVED the Ditto clipboard manager. It was SO SIMPLE and powerful. Wish I could find the same thing for Mac. I first tried ClipMenu and Jumpcut , and have also tried using Quicksilver 's built in clipboard manager. I have not been too happy with any of them. I also looked at a few articles describing the so called best clipboard manager for mac, like this one. The closest one I could find was Clyppan ($5) until I found this question and tried PTH Pasteboard as Mark had suggested. Here's the...

Chrome Not Saving Passwords On Mac

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Answer : I had the same issue when my IT folks at work nuked my keychain. I uninstalled and installed chrome following the steps here. Go to ~/<username>/Library folder. Delete Google folder from ~/Library/Application Support . Delete below folders from ~/Library/Caches Delete ~/Library/Google folder Make sure you’ve shut down Chrome while performing this action and then either move the folder to the trash or rename it to something like backup. Chrome and then start Chrome up again. This will fresh start your Google Chrome. An important addition to this comprehensive answer. This will only work if you sign out of your Google account in Chrome. I tried this method several times and it wasn't until I signed out of Chrome, then deleted all the cached items and the Google folder in the Library folder that my passwords were restored. Also, another tip (as osx has been updated). To view the Library folder, when in the User folder cl...

Apple - AirPods: Extremely Poor Mic Quality On Mac

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Answer : OP here – I'd just like to add to the answer below, that I've been in contact with Apple Support. Explanation Apple claims that the poor Mono 8kHz quality which affects recording and indeed simultaneously playback on Mac when the AirPod microphones are activated, is because the SCO codec then gets employed over the entire Mac audio system. This is supposedly "expected behaviour" when trying to use the AirPods and other Bluetooth headsets together with a computer, according to Apple. The AAC codec is normally used when just listening to playback on the AirPods. It's just very unfortunate that SCO – low-quality as it may be – upon AirPod microphone activation is not only limited to doing recording, but also displaces AAC and audio playback. Apple Support claims that Apple is looking at this issue, and that improvements might be coming in future firmware updates, but I did not interpret that as a promise to be honest. But for the time being, I'd ...

Apple - Change Click Firmness Of Apple Magic Trackpad 2

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Answer : Not an answer yet , but I came across the same issue earlier this week. I tested it on a variety of Macs (two MBPs and one iMac Pro) running El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra respectively. In all cases the Trackpad settings provided no click pressure options, or Force Click/haptic feedback option. I've got a case open with Apple Engineering and will update this answer when I hear back. Update I've spent the last week troubleshooting this with Apple and we've confirmed this is an issue with how macOS High Sierra interacts with the Magic Trackpad 2. In our testing we found the following: A Magic Trackpad 2 connected to any model MacBook running El Capitan or Sierra will display the Click pressure slider and the two checkboxes relating to Force Click/haptic feedback and Silent clicking A Magic Trackpad 2 connected to any desktop Mac running El Capitan or Sierra will display the Click pressure slider and the two checkboxes relating to Force Click/...

An Application To Easily Pick A Color In Mac OS X And Get The Hex Value

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Answer : OS X comes with DigitalColor Meter: Applications > Utilities > DigitalColor Meter.app It has many options and preferences. command+shift+c will copy the color under the cursor to the clipboard in many different formats. The Mac OS X color picker is extensible. Use Hex Color Picker to add a tab that provides you the configured color in hexadecimal RGB. Just run e.g. TextEdit and press Cmd-Shift-C to open the color picker, or run your standalone program. An even more versatile color picker is Developer Color Picker with many different output formats, one of which is hexadecimal. This is easily done with AppleScript. A complete working example of code is available here.