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When I opened Activity Monitor, I saw an interesting 'Aperitif' suffix to the usual Google Chrome Helper.

Mac apps/games that are only available as Intel binaries and no native Apple Silicon support are a ticking time bomb as Rosetta is going to be deprecated.

Little Snitch is an application firewall for macOS and I find it useful to audit outgoing network connections from my computer.

I encountered a weird problem that clicking a "Buy with Google Pay" button flashes a Processing dialog and immediately closes/fails.

Sometimes when you launch a Steam game, there will be a User Account Control prompt from Windows asking about Steam Client Service.

There are various solutions suggesting program.exe > output.txt or program.exe > output.txt 2>&1 to view stdout/stderr, but this doesn't seem to work for me.

Virtual machines in Parallels Desktop may open in native macOS tabs, I personally don't like this as it shifts the desktop resolution when the tab bar appears.

macOS Sequoia 15.0 seems to have random network connectivity issues causing various apps to randomly disconnect.

For some bizarre reason, downloading certain Steam games on macOS to an external disk can hang UVFSService with 100% CPU and cause system instability when any app tries to interact with the same external disk.

I was building a new webapp and realize that somehow that there is a _dd_s cookie being injected.

Software Update screen offering macOS Monterey Beta Host machine is macOS 11.4 and the latest and tested software versions as of the time of writing: Parallels Desktop version 16.5.0 (49183) VMware Fusion version 12.1.2 (17964953) Parallels and VMware don…

Safari 14 now supports WebExtensions, in addition to Safari App Extensions and after killing off Legacy Safari Extensions (.safariextz) The official guides provided by Apple (a bit buried): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_w…

The developer beta of macOS Big Sur is now available for download and experimentation.

For Windows games, the most straightforward approach is to check the properties of the game EXE, however, this doesn't give the actual Unity build version.

Note: This is no longer applicable starting from macOS Big Sur as softwareupdate --ignore has been removed :( Starting from macOS Mojave, Apple moved the system update functionality from the App Store to the Settings app, but they ‘forgot’ to implement the