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Add a blank space to the Dock

December 10, 2018April 5, 2017 by Mr.W

Did you know that you can customize the Dock in OS X through terminal? With the following defaults write you can add a blank space to the Dock. This is a better way to organize applications.

Time Machine: Setup a size limit for backup volumes

December 10, 2018March 20, 2017 by Mr.W

Time Machine will standard use all the available disk space on an external drive or a external server volume. Did you know you can setup a limit how much disk space Time Machine may use. Use the following defaults write Terminal command:

Toggle Safari DNS Prefetching

December 10, 2018March 13, 2017 by Mr.R

To improve performance Safari will attempt to prefetch DNS information. In some circumstances this can result in slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found errors.

If you are experiencing those problems, apply this tweak to disable DNS prefetching.

Disable Gatekeeper on your Mac

December 10, 2018March 7, 2017 by Mr.W

Gatekeeper protect your Mac to prevent installations of any unauthorized apps on your Mac. This prevents malware from being installed on your Mac. Using System Preferences, you can disable Gatekeeper using the ‘Security’ option. Yet Gatekeeper will be automatically enabled after 30 days, using the following command you can disable Gatekeeper forever.

Make OS X screenshots without window shadows

October 17, 2019February 16, 2017 by Mr.W

When you take a screenshot on Mac there’s always a shadow around the screenshot by default. Disable the shadow from the screenshot with this Terminal command. Be aware, this command only works on a Mac with macOS High Sierra or newer. Click here for the command for macOS Mojave or newer.

10 terminal commands to speed up macOS Sierra on your Mac

December 9, 2016December 8, 2016 by Mr.W

Most improvements in macOS Sierra are not immediately visible to the ordinary macOS user. Especially under the hood many improvements have been made in the area of performance and safety. Some users experience a slow Mac after installing MacOS sierra

With the following 10 Terminal Commands you can speed up macOS Sierra. The commands disable various delays and animations from that standard built by Apple. These are nice, but not necessary for the Mac

Make Pixelmator faster by eliminating bug fix

May 11, 2016 by Mr.W

The latest version of Pixelmator includes some improvements for stability issues with Pixelmator on certain 2011 Macs that have Intel HD 3000 graphics cards and OS X 10.11 El Capitan preinstalled.

Thanks to the fix, the app works again on these Macs. Unfortunately there is bad news for all other users, the bugfix made the photo editing application slower. Good news, you can disable the bugfix using the following Terminal command.