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Longtime Mac users may recall a handy old shareware application for the Classic Macintosh called Stapler, which essentially helped manage projects by grouping a series of apps and documents into a single document that when opened would then launch all of those documents and their respective programs. Much easier than digging around in your file ... Read More Continue reading...

Apple Intelligence is a set of AI features that Apple is rolling out in beta, and will debut to a larger set of Apple device owners in the fall. Apple Intelligence offers many features from writing and creating text and emails, to taking actions and operating across different apps, to image generation, document and text ... Read More Continue reading...

If you feel like you have spent a significant amount of your time updating system software on your Apple devices lately, you’re in for a treat; another round of system software updates! This time around, Apple has released MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 along with MacOS Ventura 13.6.9 for Macs, complete with bug fixes, just one week ... Read More Continue reading...

MacOS Sequoia beta 5 is now available for users enrolled in the developer beta testing program to download and install onto their Macs. MacOS Sequoia beta 5 carries the build of 24A5309e, and usually a new developer beta build is soon followed by a matching build for public beta testers as well. MacOS Sequoia is ... Read More Continue reading...

You might be aware that VMWare Fusion Pro is now free to download and install, and perhaps you installed it on a Mac to test virtual machines or to play around with, and now you’ve decided you no longer need VMware on the Mac. But VMware Fusion Pro does not come with a dedicated uninstaller, ... Read More Continue reading...

As you might know already, using the latest versions of PowerPoint on Mac offers two handy features that are aimed to prevent data loss; autosaving, and autorecovery. Autosaving does just what it sounds like, and it will automatically save a file that you’re working on even if you don’t manually save it yourself. The next ... Read More Continue reading...

iOS 18 beta 5 and iPadOS 18 beta 5 are now available for testing. The beta 5 updates are currently available to registered developer beta testers. Usually a public beta with the same build will arrive soon after a developer beta is released, which in this case would be versioned as public beta 3. iOS ... Read More Continue reading...

The latest versions of MacOS Sequoia beta include a really nice forest wallpaper and screen saver that is enabled by default, called Sequoia Sunrise. But you don’t have to install the Sequoia beta to have access to the wallpaper, you can grab it right now. Get the MacOS Sequoia Sunrise wallpaper JPG If you *have* ... Read More Continue reading...

Another day, another round of system software updates, such is the life of a modern Apple device user in this particular era of the two thousand and twenty fourth summer on planet Earth, Anno Domini. As the globe rotates to register a new day, you will be excited to learn that iOS 17.6.1 and ipadOS ... Read More Continue reading...

Among Us is a very popular multiplayer game where you work together with other players to identify imposters among them, before the imposter can sabotage them. You might know Among Us as being for iPhone and iPad, but you can play it on your Mac as well, whether that’s a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac ... Read More Continue reading...

Apple has released iOS 18 beta 6 and iPadOS 18 beta 6 to users involved in the developer beta testing programs. Typically the developer beta arrives first and is soon followed by the same build for public beta testers, suggesting iOS 18 public beta 4 will be available soon too. The 5th betas for iOS ... Read More Continue reading...

Apple has issued the 6th beta version of MacOS Sequoia for users enrolled in the developer beta testing program. Usually a matching public beta build arrives soon after, which in this case dev beta 6 would be versioned as public beta 4. MacOS Sequoia brings some nice new features to the Mac, including iPhone Mirroring ... Read More Continue reading...

Apple has released the second beta of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, each with support for Apple Intelligence AI features, on supported devices anyway. The release of these new beta updates is unusual in that they’re concurrent with betas for iOS 18.0, iPadOS 18.0, and MacOS Sequoia 15.0, each of which does ... Read More Continue reading...

The fourth public beta version of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS Sequoia, is now available to beta testers. The 4th public beta builds match the 6th developer beta builds. Beta system software is intended for advanced users and is generally a buggier experience with less than optimal performance, but anyone can install iOS 18 ... Read More Continue reading...

Followed the instructions on this page Building and installing OpenCore | OpenCore Legacy Patcher Used bless command to make patcher startup screen the default. Now when I reboot after the chime I see the OCPL start up picker screen for about 5 seconds and then I switches to a black screen with a white prohibited sign and then a few seconds after computer shuts down. I imagine it is a graphics card issue? Im on a Mac Pro 5,1, with Sapphire metal GPU, which up until yesterday has... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hi all, I just purchased an RX 5700 XT as an upgrade for my 5,1 which was previously running with an RX 580. I removed the post-install patches using OpenCore Patcher before replacing the GPU, but upon boot, it seems to hang every time around the 35% mark and refuses to boot into the OS no matter how long I wait. I am still able to boot into the OS with the 580 back in place however. Judging from the boot sequence, the Mac with the 5700 XT installed seems to be freezing/hanging right... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hello, I am a Korean Mac Pro. I am a 3.1 owner. I am going to buy a Gigabyte r9 280x to upgrade my graphics card. If you have a ROM for Gigabyte r9 280x, can you give it to me? I know how to flash ROM on Windows. I would like to ask for Gigabyte R9 280x ROM Windforce. Source: MacRumors

I recently formatted an external spinner with 4 partitions to clone various drives on my Mac Pro for offsite storage. In retrospect, I would have preferred them to be encrypted (personal paranoia....), if leaving at work. Reading the Apple support docs suggests to erase with Disk Utility as encrypted. All volumes have already been cloned (some took quite a while), so was trying to avoid re-cloning. But then further it says you can select in finder and encrypt.... This disk is in HFS+, so... Read more Source: MacRumors

I use OpenCore an a MacPro 5.1. Did anyone try the new Security update yet and did it work? Thank you for being brave ;) https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/screenshot-2024-08-05-at-23-36-22-jpg.2403244/ Source: MacRumors

I need some help. I am running a really old piece of software for sign writing. Is there any way of running OS Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro 2013 Trash Can? It is designed for Snow Leopard which I had on a pre retina IMac. 2 of these machine have now broken down, so I want to go back to Mac Pro's I have 2 Trash cans running Mojave, so I do not have to go to cloud based Adobe products. Alternatively, I need to get OS Mojave to recognise a Sentinal Hasp Security Dongle that the software needs. The... Read more Source: MacRumors

Just asking, say you want to run a power hungry video card like the radeon 7 or vega and dont want to mod the power supply, and of course we dont have thunderbolt 3 nor wish to use it for a video card. ... does an external pcie box connected via a pci 16 lane card with its own 300w power supply provide a solution ? This one even looks like a cheesegrater, has anyone tried a vega card in one ? and are there any drawbacks or speed humps ... Read more Source: MacRumors

I've been a Big Mac Pro fan for a long time, but never got the Apple Pro Display XDR. I did get the Studio Display, which has been pretty good. Recently I picked up the new ASUS 32 inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitor. While it is a gaming monitor on the surface, it has USB-C display/charging and works perfectly with Macs. Text and color fringing are also much better on this new generation of OLED. The 240 Hz refresh rate, even on a desktop non-gaming environment, is still noticeable and buttery... Read more Source: MacRumors

First off, I want to say that I'm glad to be back here on the forums. Thank you to the admin who reactivated my account. It's been two years since I started my original CMP journey, documented here on the forums of course. I sold that computer shortly after my modifications because I was fed up with the ongoing gaming issues and decided to build a dedicated Windows gaming PC. But here I am, with the CMP itch once again. I recently acquired 2 classic Apple Mac Pro computers, both 5,1 models... Read more Source: MacRumors

Let’s say you remove the stock SSD from a 2019 Mac Pro, but no longer have that same Mac Pro. It will have to be deleted when connected and paired with a different 2019 Mac Pro right? Is there a way to delete the data without a Mac Pro? Source: MacRumors

Hi folks, I've spotted a cheap 7,1: 12 core with 192gb ram, 4tb, Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i for £1.3k. Am I mad to think about buying this for an audio rig running Pro Tools? I was holding off for the M3 Max Studio (hopefully June), with 64gb ram and 2tb new for around £2.8k with educational discount. Pros and cons please? I am guessing Apple might only support Intel for 2/3 years at most? Cheers. Source: MacRumors