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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 07:00:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Creating custom shortcuts with apostrophes</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I'm running OS X localized in French and recently started using custom keyboard shortcuts extensively. But I've come across a few menu items for which I could not create a shortcut. I realized that all these items contained apostrophes. Not the same apostrophe as the one on the keyboard though (’ vs. ' which is a single quote, ascii 39).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I managed to find the right char in a &lt;i&gt;*.strings&lt;/i&gt; file inside the &lt;i&gt;Ressource/French.lproj&lt;/i&gt; folder of the application package (Teminal.app in this case), which I could then copy and paste in &lt;i&gt;System Preferences &amp;raquo; Keyboard &amp;raquo; Shortcuts&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know the solution provided here is not very elegant. Maybe you will figure out something better.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; And if someone does have an alternative solution, please share it in the comments.]
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<title>Using Time Machine on unsupported volumes</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140415132734925</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I wanted to use Time Machine on my exFAT hard drive, but turns out that these volumes aren't supported from Time Machine! There is a very simple way to use Time Machines on unsupported hard drives, as long as you follow these instructions carefully you shouldn't have any issues at all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, connect the unsupported volume (in this case, an exFAT external hard drive.) When it mounts, open the Terminal and type these commands, substituting 'My External HDD Name' for the name of the unsupported volume.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd /Volumes&lt;br /&gt;cd 'My External HDD Name'&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Next, type this code, substituting for your needs:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;hdiutil create -size 320g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -fs &quot;HFS+J&quot; MacBook-Backup.sparsebundle&lt;br /&gt;open MacBook-Backup.sparsebundle&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here, a 320GB sparse bundle named 'MacBook-Backup' is being made and mounted. You can change these values as you see fit. From herein, I'll refer to the sparse bundle name as 'MacBook-Backup'. ...</description>
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<title>Hiding Software Updates</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Since the introduction of Lion the system's Software Opdate mechanism has been integrated into App Store.app and the Software Update Preference Pane has been removed and substituted with &quot;App Store&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you constantly are being reminded to install software updates you don't really want to install, you can right-click (Control+click) the name of the update and hide it, eliminating the reminder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I think this is probably known already to many of you, but if it's not it can be a handy trick. I find the whole App Store method for Software Update a lot less pleasant than the old Snow Leopard mechanism where it was separate, but maybe I'm just old fashioned.]
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<title>Screen Sharing: Drag and Drop copy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>Maybe less of a hint, and more of a &quot;I didn't know you could do that!&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have connected to a remote Mac using Screen Sharing and don't have a mounted disk, then you can still copy between the two Macs via drag and drop.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Basically, you take a file from the local Finder and drag it to a window of the remote Finder. This will automatically initiate a copy. The reverse is also true. A little experimenting shows numerous applications can act as source, but in all cases a Finder window needs to be the final destination.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I've done this for ages using things other than Apple's built-in Screen Sharing program, so I don't know when this became available. Did it come along with AirDrop? The full Remote Desktop program has done this since the beginning.]
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<title>Use the Mountain Lion installer behind a Squid proxy server</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131218021201423</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;p&gt;When re-installing Mountain Lion from the Recovery Partition, the installer needs to check installation eligibility with Apple's servers. If your computer needs to access the Internet through a proxy server for whatever reason, the installer won't pick up on this; it will attempt to make a direct connection, fail, and tell you to contact AppleCare.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As per my earlier hint (&lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120403034830403&quot;&gt;10.7: Get the Lion installer to work behind a proxy server&lt;/a&gt;), you could simply use the &lt;code&gt;networksetup&lt;/code&gt; command in Terminal to get around this. However, as of 10.8 Apple's software download servers appear to require additional checks to verify machine eligibility which - if you're behind a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.squid-cache.org/&quot;&gt;squid proxy server&lt;/a&gt; - may require additional configuration changes to &lt;code&gt;squid&lt;/code&gt; itself in order for it to work. You may therefore need help from your network administrator for that part ...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Avoid a cluttered download folder by using /tmp</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>First thing I do when I get a new system is to redirect downloads from ~/Downloads to /tmp.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The advantage with this adjustment is that in /tmp files older than a week is automatically deleted (and at every restart). Almost all files I download don't need to be stored, for example:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1. Installers. Run the installer (or dmg) from /tmp and then forget about it and it is automatically deleted within a couple of days.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2. PDFs I just want to read (or possibly print) once.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3. Templates, e.g. expense reports and similar (typically .doc or .xls). I download it, fill it in, generate a pdf and e-mail to the appropriate recipient. No need to keep the original template.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4. Torrents. Download the torrent, add it to your torrent client and then there is no need to keep the original torrent file around anymore. Besides, a lot of the files I download using torrents I just &amp;quot;use&amp;quot; them once so they can be also be downloaded to the same folder as the torrent is stored in, that i ...</description>
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<title>Applescript to work around a Finder bug in Mavericks</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131230083942896</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Mavericks introduced several bugs into the Finder. One of them is that in List View, the Finder frequently loses track of the column widths, and makes the Name column so wide that the other columns aren't visible unless one scrolls the window horizontally.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The following Applescript resets the column widths to something sensible. It uses a couple kludges to work around some *other* Finder bugs that Mavericks introduced.&lt;pre&gt;-- Reset the width of the Finder's Name column to something sensible. tell application &quot;Finder&quot;	set thisFolder to target of front Finder window	set the current view of front Finder window to list view	-- In previous versions of OS X, the next line would tell the Finder to set the width	-- to exactly 300. In Mavericks, the Finder uses it as a *minimum* width.	set width of column id name column of list view options of Finder window 1 to 300	-- The following kludge is necessary to get the changes to &quot;take&quot;. I got it from 	-- Dr. Drang at www.leanc ...&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
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<title>Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131022123541361</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Since Apple hid the user Library folder in Lion, there have been various methods of displaying, revealing or navigating to it. Apple have introduced a new one in 10.9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There is an option to reveal the user Library in the Finder -&amp;gt; View Options. It only appears when the view options are selected for a window showing the user's home folder.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Sync the current loginwindow text to the FileVault unlock screen</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131112130024335</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>You can use the following command to sync the current loginwindow text to the FDE loginwindow:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sudo touch /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Resources/EFIResourceBuilder.bundle/Contents/Resources&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Open QuickLook previews in other apps</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131105061013260</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>In Mavericks, when you QuickLook files, there's an Open In button at the upper right, which lets you open the previewed document in the default app associated with the file in question.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But what if you want to open the document in a different app? For example, you're previewing a Microsoft Word document, but would prefer to open the file in Preview instead. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Just click and hold on the Open In Microsoft Word button, and a list of other, compatible apps appears. Choose the one you're after, and you're good to go.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Assign apps to launch in specific monitors</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131026011526114</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Mavericks now considers each monitor a &amp;quot;Space&amp;quot;. As a result, apps launch and have their menu bar in whichever monitor they were launched from. However, it's easy to assign apps to each monitor. Here's how:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First, you need to create an additional space in Mission Control. You can add it to either monitor.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Having done that, then when you right-click on an app in the Dock, you will see the option to assign the app to All Desktops, Desktop on Display 1, Desktop on Display 2.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Bring the old Spaces back to Mavericks</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131024130028522</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>If you are a heavy user of Spaces with multiple displays, then you have likely found that the new &amp;quot;full screen improvements&amp;quot; in Mavericks are a giant leap backwards. To get the old behavior back, just go to Mission Control in the System Preferences and uncheck the box labeled &amp;quot;Displays have separate Spaces.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Keeping copies of OS installer</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2013102503384317</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>I like to keep a copy of the OS X installer app on an external drive, so that I can reinstall or create a boot disk without having to download the whole thing again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After doing this, I've discovered a non-standard behaviour which you might want to note.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you decide to redownload the app, it doesn't get saved to the Applications folder as before, but instead REPLACES the copy on your external drive.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This makes it hard to keep archive copies of older OS versions. You'll need to zip them (or rename them?) or store them on a volume that can't be accessed while the app store is downloading.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Mavericks - Adding apps to the Finder Toolbar</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131025093452688</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 06:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Looks like Mavericks 10.9 has changed the behavior for adding application/document shortcuts to the Finder toolbar.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Where before you could simply drag any icon up to the Finder toolbar and hold it there for a second to add it, you now need to first hold down Option+Command and then start dragging the desired icon to the toolbar.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You can still remove the icons the same way as before: holding down Command, dragging the icon away from the toolbar and then releasing.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Mavericks - Change resolution of headless Mac Mini</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131025050251648</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Finally after updating to Mavericks I thought I'd have another crack at changing the resolution of my headless Mac mini without using the VGA adapter hack. It is now much easier, as long as you know the trick to it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First off you need an app to change the screen resolution (scrutil no longer worked for me so I downloaded &lt;a href=&quot; https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/display-menu/id549083868?mt=12&quot;&gt;Display Menu&lt;/a&gt; (free) from the Mac App Store).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After changing the display resolution my VNC/Screen Sharing sessions kept blacking out and I couldn't see anything so I fired up SSH and killed the screen sharing agent (killall ScreensharingAgent) and bam finally my remote screen lit up at my specified resolution (2560x1440). However my Dock was still in the middle of the screen (and killing the Dock seems to reset the resolution), so just right clicking the dock and changing its location made it fix itself up :)
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<title>Dictate without an Internet connection in Mavericks</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Starting with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, your Mac could take dictation. But, just as with the dictation feature on iOS, the OS X incarnation required an Internet connection, couldn't show its progress while you spoke, and could only listen for about 30 seconds at a time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That all changes with a single checkbox in Mavericks (OS X 10.9). Fire up System Preferences and click on the Dictation &amp;amp; Speech pane. There, you'll find a checkbox for Use Enhanced Dictation. The first time you check it, you'll need to wait out a hefty download (between 700 and 800 megabytes), but once you're done, you can dictate a lot more freely.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now, transcription happens on your Mac, not Apple's servers. And you can see the transcription appear as you speak, in real-time. In fact, the cursor remains active too; if you see a mistake, you can click around (without speaking) to make your edits, put the cursor back where it needs to be, and start talking again. Unfortunately, however, Mavericks doesn't of ...</description>
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<title>Snooze Notification Center reminders for varying lengths of time in Mavericks</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>New in Mavericks, Notification Center banners for reminders include a Snooze button. But that button, which removes the reminder and brings it up again ten minutes later, offers more customization than is immediately apparently.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click and hold on the Snooze button to bring up a drop down menu with snooze times ranging from minutes to hours to days to weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
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<title>10.9: Preferences are cached</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>There are many hints here and on the net involving changing user defaults by running defaults write or directly editing the .plist files in Library/Preferences. Until 10.9, restarting the program was enough to apply the new defaults.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since OS X Mavericks, the defaults system is caching the preferences system-wide (i.e. not in the application's process!) to improve performance of the user defaults API. If you use the defaults command, you are fine, since it appears to use the normal user defaults API.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, if you edit a preference .plist file with a text or plist editor (even the one included with the most recent Xcode 5 preview), the cache will not be flushed and even after restarting the program in question, it will retain the old preferences.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The API documentation states that the cache is synchronized with the on-disk plist file contents periodically, but does not indicate how often, let alone how to flush the cache manually.&lt;br /&gt;
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Logging out and back in appe ...</description>
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<title>Use dseditgroup to allow users access to services (ssh, screen sharing, and more)</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System</dc:subject>
<description>Want to add a user to a specific group using the command line? dseditgroup is your friend! Add users, or groups, to a group you create or system groups which control access to services.&lt;br /&gt;
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Make sure to insert your local admin's short name (localadmin) and the user (username) or group (groupname) you're trying to add.&lt;br /&gt;
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Remote Login (SSH)&lt;br /&gt;
User:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a username -t user com.apple.access_ssh&lt;br /&gt;
Group:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a groupname -t group com.apple.access_ssh&lt;br /&gt;
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Screen Sharing&lt;br /&gt;
User:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a username -t user com.apple.access_screensharing&lt;br /&gt;
Group:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a groupname -t group com.apple.access_screensharing&lt;br /&gt;
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Print Administrators&lt;br /&gt;
User:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a username -t user _lpadmin&lt;br /&gt;
Group:  dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a groupname -t ...</description>
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<title>Quickly spot-check your laptop battery's health</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Though it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110430111247798&quot;&gt;come up in a comment&lt;/a&gt; in the past, we've never specifically called out a handy, quick way to check how healthy your Mac laptop's battery really is. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you hold down the Option key &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you click on the battery status icon in the menu bar, an additional entry appears in the menu: Condition. You're hoping to see &quot;Condition: Normal.&quot; (The Condition line won't appear if you hold down Option after you've already clicked on the menu.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The other options besides Normal are Replace Soon, Replace Now, and Service Battery, which reflect progressively more serious battery woes. In each of the two Replace modes, your battery is still functioning normally, though it holds less charge than it used to (or &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; less, in the case of Replace Now). But even in Service Battery mode, which may not impact how long the battery lasts but could indicate other under-the-hood  ...</description>
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