Duplicate Apps In Mac’s Right Click “Open With” Menu

The ‘Open With’ feature in right-click menu allows us to open a specific file with applications other than the one associated with the document type. Normally it will display all compatible apps to open a specific file but sometimes, it will display more than one selection for the same app in the ‘Open With’ menu. […]

Final Cut Pro can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed

Turns out, without sudo it is even simpler. Checking a files signature is expensive, and checking the signature of a large application that contains very many files is even more expensive. Which is why MacOS is marking files as to-be-checked on download,  and then checking the file once when executing them for the first time. Unmarking the […]

Downgrading from the ASUSWRT 380 version that doesn’t allow you to use old firmware files.

This method works for downgrading from the 380 firmware version that doesn’t allow you to use the form to downgrade, which is really useful. It also works if you fucked up your router and it just keeps booting into rescue. I’ve only done this on my RT-AC68U so IDK about other routers. I’d assume it’d […]

Disable and remove .DS_Store files stored on network locations

So today I was going through my Synology NAS and noticed .DS_Store files all over the place. These are actually files containing extended attributes created by Finder in Mac OS X. But, since they get written out to network locations, they can cause backup and versionining issues. To disable them from being created on network […]