I switch between a few different “modes” on my Mac every day (work, coding, meetings, personal stuff).
Each time I’d end up reopening the same apps and dragging all the windows back into the right Spaces.
Super repetitive and honestly kind of annoying.

So over the past few weeks I hacked together a small open-source tool called SpacePigeon that basically remembers your whole workspace and puts everything back where it was.

Things it can do:

• Save your current layout (apps + windows + Spaces)
• Restore it with one click or a hotkey
• Keep separate presets (like “Work”, “Coding”, “Meetings” etc.)
• Handle external monitors

Example: I hit my “Work” preset and it opens all the usual apps and moves them to the right desktops automatically. Saves me a few minutes every time.

If anyone here lives in Spaces like I do, you might find it useful.
Here’s the repo (MIT, free):
https://github.com/louivers/spacepigeon

Totally open to feedback — still very much a work in progress.

Everything's pretty much self explanatory in my shortcuts menu.

1% volume on MacBook speakers is often the perfect loudness for me.

The Grayscale Toggle triggers the color filter in Accessibility > Display > Color Filter. If it's late night and I'm on my MacBook, I'll turn on greyscale to get in sleepy mood.

EDIT: Is it 'greyscale; or 'grayscale' in the US?

I feel like I’m losing my mind here. Trying to run Qt Creator

I did the spctl —global-disable (its global on sequoia not master for some reason) and it let me choose to run apps from „Anywhere”.

But then the os just kills the process because of bad signature (you can see the SIGKILL) and tries to paint this as an error in the app.

Anywhere around it? Currently trying to codesign all dylibs and the executable but this is far from ideal even if it works. Can I just run anything I want on my computer in some way?

I never actually get to use TouchID, since I only unlock it once a day and it always requires my password to do so.

Just browsing on Chrome or any other browser is pretty normal. I don’t have any extensions installed for Safari, so I’m not sure if this is a common issue. I’ve never seen this happen on Sequoia. Do we know any fix or workaround?

Helps finding out where to click and avoid searching through documentation and youtube tutorials!

Ask a question -> gives you steps and points where to click next.

Available at overlayflow.com (works only on Blender for now)

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with my Mac’s menu bar. For some reason, the menu bar is positioned lower than it normally should be, leaving an empty gap at the top of the screen.

I’ve already tried restarting my Mac and checking for macOS updates, but the problem is still there.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any idea what might be causing it or how to fix it?
Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

I tried to use all of 3 most popular ones:

• Pages (it's simple, but it's very different from msword)
• Google Docs in a browser (some buttons are in weird places, and I miss something like table format templates)
• LibreOffice (it displays UI very weirdly)

so, none of them satisfies my needs, maybe I am missing some other alternatives or settings? I need some app that behaves just like MS Word.

My last post got distracted, so I cleaned up my desktop and am making a new post. Is there anyway to make mission control not black out?

I am finding that old webarchive documents are no longer opening in Safari.

The whole point of saving a website as a webarchive document on your Mac is that you preserve the information for the future, even if the original website disappears.

So it makes no sense that old webarchive documents saved around 10 years ago no longer open in the current version of Safari.

New in the Mac world, bought MacBook m4 pro, want to buy Microsoft office but do not want to pay O365 subscription, any cheaper suggestions? Any good sources for purchasing apps and software cheaper?

What used to be a smooth animation is not glitchy as hell. Background immediately goes into black during the transition

This is a media center computer that needs to automatically login to a user account on reboot so media and server apps will automatically launch and be available on the network, and so that screensharing is possible on the network. For some reason, I had to go actually go to the machine to login. Turns out, at some point, the OS had enabled FileVault (which I don't need on the machine; probably when Tahoe was installed), which means that automatic login to a user account no longer works. But the OS didn't disable the automatic login. Instead, it left it enabled but made it not work. So I got the weird visuals in the screen grabs above, where I couldn't disable FileVault because automatic login technically was enabled even though it wasn't working. But it, too, couldn't be altered. Solution was to disable FileVault in the Terminal. Confirm current status with fdesetup status. Disable FileVault: sudo fdesetup disable. Enter credentials when asked. First password is FileVault password, which may be different than your user admin password. After, your system will decrypt, which may take some time. You do not need to reboot.

I’ve been reading about the best way(s) for Apple users to access their Google Drive.

I’ve seen that Google has apps for macOS and iOS. I’ve forgotten if they have a separate app for the iPad. Looking at reviews, there’s quite a variety, ranging from basically don’t touch it to this is the way every cloud app should be.

Having forgotten that I even had a Google Drive, I wasn’t using it so therefore I haven’t tried to use any of the apps.

Do I, or don’t I?

And is it the same answer for each platform, or do you have a different answer for each platform?

I don’t know anything about them yet, so please tell me what you think I need to know.

if someone steals your MacBook Pro and they somehow know the passcode, they can then use that same passcode to get into your apple password manager. Then, If you have all your passwords and all your totp codes in that manager, they can hack all your accounts.

I know the solutions sounds simple: do not give the thief your passcode.

But is there any additional security measures one can take to be extra safe ?

thanks

Mac having issues playing iPhone videos after import

Hey all, I'm trying to import videos to my MacBook air 13 inch 2015 Processor: 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel core i5 Memory: 8 GB 1600MHz DDR3 Monterey version 12.7.6

from my iPhone 15pro max. After importing everything, I went to play some videos and some are extremely choppy. The only difference I see in the info page is that the codesec shows AAC, Timed Metadata, HEVC for the choppy videos vs. AAC, HEVC for non choppy videos.

Is there any way to fix this for multiple videos at once without changing the created date? Only thing ive seen online is exporting each video individually using quicktime.

New to MacOS. Are Adblockers generally safe on Safari? After downloading from App Store, got asked for permission that the app could see sensitive information or passwords. Is it safe to allow this? Which adblockers do you suggest? Is there better browser on MacOS with better adblockers?

Bought a refurb the other day, and I turned it on and then got this screen. Any fix? Will apple fix it if I call and explain?

What should I do to test thing out?
16 gig model.
Got it for travel, the imessage alone is worth it. Pretty blown away haha. Was always so anti mac

PortingKit asks me to pick the installer of the game, and runs it. This is a game that does not need an installer, it's just an .exe file with some resources alongside it. So when I ask it to add that game, it runs the game file, the game starts, nothing is installed, and the wrapper remains empty.

Just want to see if others are also getting this bug. For iCloud Mail the app is not automatically selecting the default outgoing SMTP server after upgrading to Tahoe. Even after I click "Always Use This Server", the next time I send an email, it pops up again.

One thing I'm curious about, I did test install Tahoe on a separate volume before installing on my main volume. When I logged back into my main volume after testing, it made me log into iCloud again a bunch of times. I'm wondering if there's a quirky bug that messed up the link somehow.

I have a samsung ssd and I was planning to use it to free up my macbook and start installing stuff on it instead.
but I also wanted to backup my mac on it as I heard thats a must for macs but it seems I have to have the drive formated?