Safari not respecting File download location preference?

When Safari ignores your preferred File download location setting, terminating the com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker process can resolve the issue. ...

Oct 29, 2025 · 1 min

Fix 'Sidecar device timed out' error

When Sidecar fails with a “device timed out” error, terminating the SidecarRelay process on your iPad typically resolves the issue, which saves you rebooting your iPad. Note ...

Oct 11, 2025 · 1 min

Transferring Preview app signatures in Lion

Lion introduced a great new feature that allows you to capture your signature via an attached camera and store it in an encrypted form for later use. Therein lies the problem; you must have an attached camera. I have a Mac Pro, and wanted to use the signatures I captured on my Macbook Pro. Following these steps, you can transfer the encrypted signatures over. On your machine endowed with the power of sight: ...

Aug 3, 2011 · 2 min

Eval Expression service for OS X

Eval Expression is a Mac OS X service to evaluate the selected text of any text field as a Ruby expression. My instinct was to choose Perl, however Ruby offers binary in addition to decimal, hex and octal numerical literals. The service becomes infinitely more useful if you assign it a global shortcut in Keyboard preferences. In my case I assigned a combination that seemed obvious, ⌘= It came about as I was working on some layout in Xcode 4 / Interface Builder, and needed to adjust the Y position of a view by a specific number of units. I’m lazy, and figured the computer should do the work, so I typed 768-35 and tabbed out. Unlike Acorn and Opacity, which evaluates the expression in numerical entries automatically, Xcode simply complained. Not happy, I created this service and it works like a charm. Some examples: ...

Apr 9, 2011 · 2 min