Tag: Mac
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Should You Change Safari’s Default Search Engine? Here’s What Each Option Is Really For
Most people stick with Google as their Safari search engine because it’s fast, familiar, and just works. But Safari offers a few alternatives—and each one speaks to different priorities, from privacy to sustainability to emerging AI features. If you’re wondering whether it’s worth switching, here’s a breakdown of what each option is really about and…
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My Personal Backup Plan
We need to talk about backups. I started a previous post about recovering my system, from trying out a Beta Operating System, with the following paraphrased lyric (from Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen)… Do backups. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backup would be it. The long-term benefits of backups have been…
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Maximising Productivity: Apple Macs Workspaces and Stage Manager
Coming from Linux, I have had decades of experience with the productivity boosting tool that are ‘workplaces’. They are spectacular, and I have loved using them since I first discovered them. What are Workspaces? I think of them, and utilise them, as virtual monitors. In each workspace, I will have specific applications living. This allows…
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Reflecting On My 20 year Linux Journey
Now I get what Gnome is trying to emulate. I have been playing with MacOS the last two weeks, and having never used it before I was struck by just how familiar it is. If you can get on with Gnome, you can get on really well with MacOS. The problem with emulation though, is…
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