Like everyone else i trust you run your MacBook, PC or whatever you’re using in the most secure way possible, right đ ? One of many aspects are to make sure the local firewall is active and in MacOs that’s controlled via System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall. Via Firewall Options you have …
Tag Archive: MacBook
Find Last Times Your MacBook Was Rebooted
So lately i have had some problems with my MacBook which has caused it to be either automatically restarted or in a state where i have had to manually restart it via Restart option or just pressing the power button. While doing some investigation i had to list when the MacBook was restarted to see …
Use Your Apple Watch To Auto Unlock Your MacBook
I’m quite new to Apple Watch, having a version 4 with cellular which I’m really happy about. Recently I came across this nice feature where you use your Watch to auto unlock your MacBook. Yes auto unlock and not auto login first time after power on, restart, and logoff. Before you configure auto unlock make …
VMware Fusion Keyboard & Mouse Not Working
After upgrading my MacBook to latest macOS (Mojave version 10.14) i encountered a problem with my VMware Fusion (version 10.1.3) VMs. Was about to write a small problem but it’s really a big problem since both the keayboard and mouse stopped working:) I couldn’t do anything within my VMs apart from e.g. sending Ctrl-Alt-Del via …
Heads Up! Set root password or disable root user in macOS High Sierra
Yesterday, 2017-11-28, I saw some pretty bad news around security in macOS High Sierra also known as Mac OS version 10.13.1 where you can access the computer with root user privileges WITHOUT a password. As you might know I have been running MacBook for a long time but this must be one of the worst …
Send F Key to VMware Fusion Via MacBook Keyboard
So I figure I’ll finally write this down. Since i start using a MacBook back in 2010 i also switched from VMware Workstation to VMware Fusion. What I’m constantly forgetting since I’m not using it that much is how to press F keys in Fusion based VMs. I can say that 90% of the cases when I …
OS X Remove Previous Recipients From Mail App
One thing that has been on my todo list for quite some time is to clean up wrong suggested email addresses from my MacBook OS X El Capitan (it’s the same for Sierra) Mail application. The reason is that one of my regular email contacts changed email address and the old one keeps being the …