#mac osx

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Protrekkr 2.6.7 - A hybrid of modern day audio software and old-school styles of music tracker

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Legacy TextExpander Icons

From TextExpander for Mac version 5.1.7, which you can still download!

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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - Icon files (2007)

[soapdispensersalesman]

8,000 views! Thanks everyone for listening :U

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23 utilitaires gratuits et indispensables, sur mac, pour 2023

23 utilitaires gratuits et indispensables, sur mac, pour 2023

De petits utilitaires gratuits qui facilitent la vie. macOS contient tout un tas d’astuces et de réglages pour travailler efficacement, mais certaines ne sont pas aussi optimisées qu’elles le devraient. Quelques utilitaires gratuits que j’utilise au quotidien. Parfois moins complexe (mais pas toujours) que des logiciels payants équivalents, leur simplicité fait leur force. Souvent, ils viennent…

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Line 6 POD Go 2.0 firmware update released

Line 6 POD Go 2.0 has just dropped and is an update for the POD Go and POD Go Wireless. It is the fourth significant upgrade since the product’s launch.  Line 6 POD Go 2.0 Both the POD Go and POD Go Wireless boast Line 6’s state-of-the-art HX Modeling technology. This technology guarantees top-notch sound and rapid response, setting a new standard in the industry. Expanded Amps, Speakers, and…

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Unable to send text messages from MacBook

If you mean SMS messages, Text Message Forwarding probably got turned off on your iPhone. On your phone, go to Settings>Messages>Text Message Forwarding and select your Mac.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254850321?sortBy=rank

Not working: Disable on both, shut down, start iPhone, enable, start mac, enable..

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IIRC the Mac versions of Microsoft Office actually function better than the Windows ones. I suspect this is partially because Apple has its own proprietary version of the Office suite that you can download for free if you are running OSX, so Microsoft Office has to work really hard to be able to compete.

I say partially though because the performance of Microsoft Office software on Macs has always been better in my recollection, even before the iWork suite was a thing. Word 2004 on the old-timey rainbow iMacs and battered Macbooks at my elementary school ran smoother, with much quicker saving and less crashes, than Word 2003 on the XP I had at home. Word 2007 was even more laggy, and this was despite my parents buying a custom Vista to ensure that all the hardware was suitable for the then-new OS (bad communication at launch from Microsoft meant that a lot of retailers were selling computers with Vista installed that had no business running anything newer than XP. My parents made sure that our Vista did not have this problem.).

Vista was the last Microsoft computer my family invested in, but from my experiences at libraries and places like that, I've been disappointed in how little has changed. I mean, that's not to say that nothing has changed at all-- Word 2023 doesn't crash like Word 2007 (which makes it much less anxiety-provoking to use!), and Excel has made leaps and strides towards better functionality when it comes to complicated math and data analysis. But across the board, the performance of Microsoft Office is still noticeably worse on Windows than Mac.

I mean, lack of competition is one hell of a drug but the performance gap between Microsoft Office on Windows and on Mac has been around since before Apple started trying to compete with Microsoft Office. Microsoft Windows is consistently the worst OS to run Microsoft products on and it's just so... baffling. If you love Microsoft software (and have a pool full of gold coins to swim in), buy a Mac. The software will work better.

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Catálogo Oficial de Aplicativos Móviles del Estado peruano

Accede a las aplicaciones móviles de las entidades públicas, disponibles en los sistemas operativos iOS, Android y HarmonyOS. ¿Qué necesitas? Alertas y emergencias Notificaciones por eventos de riesgo como sismos y accidentes. Contrataciones públicas Contrataciones de servicios, bienes y obras con el Estado. Educación Becas y créditos educativos. Gobiernos regionales y municipalidades Trámite…

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My new favorite GIF

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Amiberry v5.6.7 - A optimized Amiga emulator, for ARM, ARM64, x86_64 (macOS and Linux) and RISC-V platforms

[sunkissedlouis]

Hi! I don't know if you already have a tutorial but would you mind sharing your gif making process? Thank you!

hiiii anon!

thank you for sending this in :) it's my first time getting a tutorial request hehe i tried to explain each step i do as best as i can.

i'll put the gif making process and tutorial under the cut bc it's image + text heavy

before starting, i'd just like to share what i use in creating gifs:

i'm on mac (i used to do them on windows... the ps steps are the same if you're using one)

i'm currently using photoshop 2022

i use 9xbuddy or video downloadhelper extension on firefox mainly for downloading videos

best quality to download for hq gifs is ideally 1080p and above. (although you can get away with 720p for smaller gif sizes)

i use mplayer-osx extended to get the screencaps/frames for my gifs (if i'm not doing the import option in photoshop)

for this tutorial, i'm using the latam highlights video from louis' ig reels to make today's gif. on to the tutorial / process!

please click the screenshots i've included below and zoom in on the texts on them to see them clearly (apologies for the quality!)

IMPORT YOUR FRAMES. once you've downloaded your video, open photoshop and click FILE > IMPORT > VIDEO FRAMES TO LAYERS

SELECT THE PART YOU WANT TO GIF. the shorter, the better because you want to keep it crisp and keep the file under 10mb when you save it after all the layers. here are the settings i use:

toggle the smaller arrows under the bar to select the parts you want to gif. once you have your frames loaded, it should show you a timeline table at the bottom and their corresponding layers on the right side. (if you can't see the timeline, go to WINDOW > click TIMELINE)

3. DELETE EXTRA LAYERS, CROP PARTS YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON, AND RESIZE.

after cropping the parts of the gifs, resize them according to the tumblr sizing to prevent your gifs from looking blurry once you upload them. you can use this size guide for your reference :) the gif's height can be any size as far as i know. go to IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE > INPUT THE SIZE. for this gif, we'll do 540 x 540

4. CHANGE GIF SPEED and CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT

once you've selected all frames

set the delay to 0.07. this is usually the natural, normal speed for gifs on here. it depends on the number of frames you have but i usually do .07 or .05 (sometimes .08 haha)

with all your timeline frames still selected, then select all the layers on the right side. go to SELECT > ALL LAYERS

then convert them to smart object so we can edit all the layers all at once. go to LAYER > SMART OBJECTS > CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT

5. SHARPEN (one of my fave parts!)

this is the basic one that most users use:

STEP 1: go to FILTER > SHARPEN > SMART SHARPEN

radius usually goes from 0.3-0.4

STEP 2: Repeat STEP 1, but this time change the settings to:

you can stop here but i like my gifs crispier and to have more texture! i use the sharpening settings from this tutorial or these sharpening action packs from user brainwasheds. i highly recommend these! i mix and match the settings when i'm not happy with how they look on my gifs. but for this gif we'll use the sharpening settings from this tutorial.

in addition to the settings from that tutorial, i also added FILTER > OTHER > HIGH PASS at 3.4 radius, then set the opacity to 60-80

then lastly add FILTER > ADD NOISE > NOISE at gaussian setting with 1.5 amount, then set opacity to 20-30

6. BRIGHTENING, COLORING, BALANCING, ADDING TEXTURE

now for the fun part!

STEP 1: BRIGHTEN UP THE GIF this is my go-to way to increase the brightness. go to LAYER > NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER > BRIGHTNESS / CONTRAST then change its blending mode from NORMAL to SCREEN

you now have a very bright, highly saturated gif but we'll fix that lol

STEP 2: ADD CONTRAST BY FIXING THE BLACKS AND WHITES add a new adjustment layer > LEVELS

i usually play around with these. middle and black arrows add shadows and contrast while the white arrows add highlights/brightness to the gifs.

these are my settings! these are not definite bc it varies depending on what you're working on, so adjust them accordingly. next, add another adjustment layer > CURVES

i usually zoom in to locate the darkest / black area using the black dropper. then once that's done, do the same and locate the brightest/white area. this adds further contrast to your gif that wasn't done in the previous step.

STEP 3: COLORING (my fave part!!!) add a new adjustment layer > SELECTIVE COLOR this is the part where i like to neutralize the skin color when it gets too yellow or red, make the colors pop, and sometimes change them too. louis' skin was looking too red heavy, so i wanted to reduce that! i start with balancing out the skin color with REDS & YELLOWS.

these are my settings for this gif! adjust them and observe the changes it makes on the person's skin. if you know color theory, it's helpful to see how it affects the colors on your gifs. putting the arrows more on the left side, adds more 'cool' tones, whilst putting the arrows to the right side, adds more 'warm' tones.

i like to deepen the blacks on my gifs further so, go to selective color's BLACKS and on the black scale, add more to the right! for this one, i added +10

add a new SELECTIVE COLOR adjustment layer. for this one, we'll make the surrounding colors pop more!

for these settings, i made the leaves more vivid while the teal(?) wall, i adjusted them made it more blue.

next, add a new adjustment layer > COLOR BALANCE this is where you can make further adjustments on the overall colors of your gif. you can also change the color tone of your gifs here if you want to make it more 'cool' tone or 'warm' tone looking.

earlier's color theory applies here as well!

6.5. OPTIONAL STEP: ADD TEXTURE/OVERLAYS after the last step, you can save your gif as is but again, i like adding textures to my gifs so we'll add one. i use the textures/overlays that i got from here :)

i like to use film, grainy textures! add the texture you want on top of all the layers.

then change the blending mode to LIGHTEN or SCREEN. adjust the opacity to 20-40%. for this gif i used screen with 40%.

7. EXPORT AND SAVE YOUR GIF time to save your gif! click FILE > EXPORT > SAVE FOR WEB

this is my default setting for my gifs. i also tick the interlaced option sometimes.

here's the finished gif:

there you go anon! :) if you have any more questions, just lmk or you can directly dm me off-anon if you want.

i also get inspo, guides, and other tutorials over at @usergif

[ms-demeanor]

I use Win 10 for work and it's fine I guess. With them ending support for it in 2025, is it worth upgrading to 11 now? They seem to be trying to be more Mac-like and I don't use Macs for a reason.

Hmmmmmm. Okay so every computer I get with a Windows OS has a pro OS, so I don't have to deal with some of the intrusive and annoying features that home OS users do (ads built into the OS being the main one) and even still I go in and kill things like location tracking and cortana as soon as I install a new OS.

All that being said, 11 is a little nosier and a little more intrusive than 10 and has some aesthetic differences but both 11 and 10 are remarkably similar to 7. On a functional level it is very dissimilar to OSX, though on a visual level there are some things that are a bit more mac-like (the centered start bar is easily changed and i think that's the primary thing people were talking about)

One of the main visual differences that I've seen users complain about is that menus now show pictograms instead of words for things like copy/paste, etc. in the file explorer:

And I do in fact hate this and as far as I know there's no fix for it.

But if you're someone who goes through your computer and shuts down intrusive stuff and removes unnecessary programs anyway, there's not a ton of difference between windows 10 and 11.

Here's basically what you want to do to make 11 more private; it's not at all dissimilar to what you want to do to make 10 more private.

So, all of that being said: if you can set up the privacy protections that you want in Windows 11 (and I think you can) and the visual differences in the OS won't make it totally unusable for you (that has been a stumbling block for some people but at least keyboard commands still work) then I think there's no reason to delay updating to Windows 11.

(sometimes people will scream about stability issues and crashes but that all got ironed out within a couple of months of wide release; the same thing happened with Windows 10 - pushing an OS out to hundreds of millions of users reveals more problems than seeing what happens when it's used by hundreds of thousands of early adopters but even given some hiccups in the early days there have been no particularly notable issues with stability and functionality; the people who yell that Windows 11 is going to crash your computer and eat all your data and set your house on fire *may* pop up on this post and they are exactly as incorrect about it now as they were about Windows 10 crashing your computer and eating all your data and setting your house on fire in 2016.)

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Mac OSX-Tan Wallpaper