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MacBook Pro 2021: full brightness with "Vivid

The 2021 generation of the MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″ can reach a maximum brightness of 1,600 nits selectively and 1,000 nits over the entire surface - at least for HDR content. In regular use, the brightness is limited to 500 nits. "Vivid" is a small app that enables HDR brightness permanently in other applications as well. Thereby, ...

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DisplayCAL with Apple M1 and external monitor

If you want to calibrate an external monitor on a Mac with Apple M1 (Pro & Max are also affected) using DisplayCAL and a colorimeter like a datacolor Spyder 5, you will soon face the problem that DisplayCAL does not recognize the external display. The solution is simple. DisplayCal uses the Argyll Color Management System, short ArgyllCMS. Included is ...

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Freenet FUNK: LTE without limit in the o2 network?

mobilcom-debitel has published an interesting offer under the brand "Freenet FUNK": for 99 cents a day you get unlimited Internet with LTE speed. There are a few special features. The management from the order is done completely via an app (for Android and iOS). Post- or Video-Ident does not have to be carried out, it is enough the identity card number as well as ...

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Time Machine: Encrypt backup without loss of speed

Those who use MacOS will usually also use the timemachine backup. However, if the backup is to be encrypted, there are a few tricks that can be used to avoid a slow timemachine backup.

An encrypted backup is recommended because modern Macs automatically encrypt the drives using the built-in T2 chip. If the backup were to remain unencrypted, this would pose a security risk if the backup hard disk were to be lost.

Does Apple throttle devices with a low battery?

Currently, there are reports that Apple throttles the CPU clock on devices whose battery is no longer the fittest. This results in a constant runtime, but the device becomes noticeably slower. For some time now, there have been postings that iPhones are getting slower over time, especially with new iOS versions. For this, there now seems to be a ...

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FreeNAS: .AppleDouble / .DS_Store delete

When using a FreeNAS share with macOS, it creates different Finder metadata directories for each regular directory. To keep a backup to external media as lean as possible, this data can be deleted, which is most easily done using a command at the Linux command prompt: find . -name ".Apple*" -type d -prune -exec rm -r {} + So that ...

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Apple: iOS 10.3 released / Update: 10.3.2

Apple has released iOS 10.3 today. The official innovations are quite limited, but users of an iDevice should install the update for security reasons alone. Not included in the update description is the new file system APFS ("Apple File System"), which will eventually be used on all Apple devices. The new file system is supposed to be optimized especially for flash memory ...

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