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Couldn't modify partition map on macOS

Couple weeks ago my brother's MacBook Pro started with some problems and it was damaging external drives like USB and SD cards, the system was corrupting the partition map of these devices and wasn't possible re-format the partition. He asked me if I know I way to recover the devices,

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Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Two weeks ago I was working on a project and deleting unused files from the project, one of the folders that I deleted by mistake was the folder where I was working, that was a day of work and I didn't have a backup, at that moment I started the

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Looking the fastest DNS with Namebench (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare)

I will explain very quickly what is a Domain Name System (DNS) before to start with this tutorial. A DNS is a Networking service that converts IP addresses to domain names, for example, if you enter this IP address in your browser https://172.217.2.78 it redirects to

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How to remove the Guest user from the login on MacOS

If you computer is peresonal and no one else use it, probably you don't need the guest user like me. Personally I dodn't like to see the guest user on my login screen. The easy way to do it is using the System preference, here are the steps you need

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1Password Review

Like other posts, this is about my experience with this application that I use maybe since 3 years ago, and I still use it for a good number of reasons that you will see in this post. This post is not sponsored. 1Password is a password manager and it is

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How to install NVM (Node Version Manager) with Homebrew

Node version manager is a script to manage multiple active node.js versions. And I usually install most applications using homebrew. NOTE: install NVM with Homebrew is not officially supported. So these are the steps to install NVM with Homebrew: 1. Install NVM with Homebrew Install NVM is very easy

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Solving error in ZSH and LOCALES - ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Before to start this problem happened to me on MacOS, but it could happen in other OS like GNU/Linux, and it is a common problem whit Python applications. You can diagnostic the problem using the command locale in the terminal: $ locale LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"

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Working with 7zip on Mac

I am trying to get a good compression and 7z offers more ratio compression than other formats like zip or rar but on slower time. So today I compressed a folder with more than 4,000 files mostly photos and videos just to compare zip with 7z the difference was

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How to search files or directories on Mac using the command locate

The command locate is present in the Unix system, and its functionality is search files or directories in our system, it uses a database so after we update the database the search is very fast. These are the steps to use locate on Mac: Update the database We need to

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How to create a bootable Windows 10 USB on Mac

The last release of Mac OS doesn't have the option to create a bootable USB from Bootcamp like previous versions, and it is a problem because that require uses other tools. I am updating this post today Dec 12, 2018. The reason is that I was only using UNetbootin to

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Installing applications on Mac like Linux with Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager something similar that you can found on Linux distributions. If you see in my previous posts, I used Homebrew to install my applications, and I used it because is easy to use and keeps applications updated. If you don't have Homebrew installed it is easy

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How to install Prezto globally for all users on Mac

Prezto is a set of configurations for your ZSH shell. Prezto is simple and easy to expand to add new functionalities and features. This project did not receive updates for a long time but was retaken thanks to the help of other users on Github. Now I will explain to

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3 ways to take a screenshot without the shadow on Mac

1. Using selection Shift + Control + 4 + Space, now you can drag the cursor and select the specific are that you want to take the screenshot. 2. Using command screencapture in the terminal On OS X we can open the terminal and use the command screencapture to take screenshots the command

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Mac Spotlight and re-index

Spotlight which is a tool to search a lot of things on our computer and the Internet, and I use it frequently to open applications is useful but it has a price (index content require use your computer resources) if you have enabled all the options and by default are

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Install Ubuntu on Odroid XU4 using Mac

Download The first thing you have to do is download the img file, you can download the last Ubuntu version for Odroid on the Odroid Wiki . There are 2 versions one with mate desktop and another minimal installation (the minimal doesn't install a desktop). You also can download the md5sum

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Homebrew Cask problems with a second language

Today I was trying to update my cask homebrew packages but the Firefox cask shows an error, I found that there are other people with the same problem on github: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/28684 But the problem is not only with the Firefox cask as you can

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Docker environment variables on Mac

When we are using Docker with our operation system to the difference of Linux, we have to create a virtual machine using Virtualbox or Vmware and export the environment variables, the command to export the variables is this one: eval "$(docker-machine env default)" The command should be executed every time

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Hackintosh error with Sandbox and Addressbook

Recently I installed OS X on my PC (Hackintosh) reviewing the boot log looking for errors I found a problem with Addressbook, and it happens only on Hackintosh as you can see in these links: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7377376 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7372295 This is the

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Extended attributes (@) on Unix files permissions

If you use the terminal frequently probably you will see the @ attribute in your files; I didn't know what this attribute mean, but I did a research about this attribute that is common to see it on Unix systems like OS X. The command man ls shows a little of

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Remember github password

Insert the Github credentials for every pull or push is a little annoying, that happens when the repository was cloned with HTTPS. On github we found the solution to this problem. Important install Git version 1.7.10 or later because it has the helper. By default the helper store

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Install Emacs on Mac using homebrew

Emacs is one of my favorites editors, but is more simple to install it on other systems like GNU/Linux, here are the step to install Emacs and how to create the Mac OS X client. Install Emacs with homebrew: brew install emacs --srgb --with-cocoa --with-d-bus --with-imagemagick This command is

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Install ZSH on Mac using homebrew

ZSH is my favorite shell; it offers nice features like autocomplete with menus, remote autocomplete, commands correction, etc. Install ZSH is easy using homebrew, the only thing we have to do is use this command in the terminal: brew install zsh Now to make ZSH the default shell we have

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Repair Ext parition with Paragon

fsck is a tool to check the integrity and repair the file system if you have Paragon ExtFS software for Mac OS X the command to do these task is fsck_ufsd_ExtFS. Recently I had a problem that one hard drive was disconnected incorrectly and OS X can't mount

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How to mount NFS share on Mac

To mount NFS in our OS X the first thing we need is know where is the server and where is the directory, to do that we can use the command showmount: showmount -e server-name-or-ip Example: [email protected] ~ % showmount -e merlin.lan Exports list on merlin.lan: /tmp/mnt/HD1