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A blog of interesting things for which the Internet has little, or no, help.

In macOS Mojave Apple introduced a new Security and Privacy feature that protects the System Preferences of Apple distributed Apps from being accessed by 3rd party Apps. This change has resulted in some pretty important Apps not being able to do their jobs.  For example I use NetShred X to […]

macOS Full Disk Access

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Update: Apple replied to my bug report that this issue is fixed in the latest version of Safari though you may still want to use this workaround to be compatible with older version of Safari. Recently I was working on a web App that required some date comparisons in Javascript.  […]

Safari and Javascript Date format

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I recently needed to extract a 30 second video clip, and remove the audio, from a 2 hour mkv video. If you are on macOS,  you need to get a copy of ffmpeg, the steps are: Download the statically linked pre-compiled binary as a dmg from this page: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/The links […]

Extract video clip using ffmpeg

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