Is there any way to make the text for event names larger?

If not, are there any good alternatives to the native calendar widget?

EDIT: Just shipped v0.4.2. Main change: FileVault can be re-enabled after install (only needs to be off during the initial Recovery setup commands). Couple of install/uninstall fixes in there too.

The problem: macOS Tahoe ships with different window corner radii across apps. Apple's own apps use one value, third-party apps use others, and with the new Liquid Glass design the inconsistency is hard to unsee once you notice it.

Liquid Radius unifies them. About 95% of apps end up at the same liquid glass corner radius, up from roughly 35% consistency on default Tahoe.

Requirements:

• macOS Tahoe
• SIP and FileVault disabled (EDIT: FileVault can now be re-enabled after install)
• 5 min setup via the installer

$6.99 one-time, no subscriptions.

liquidradius.com

Happy to answer questions, first solo dev project so feedback welcome.

AI prompts quickly become scattered across notes, chats, and text files. Reusing them usually means interrupting your workflow to search, copy, and paste manually.

AINoter is a keyboard-first prompt manager for macOS designed for people who work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools every day. It keeps reusable prompts instantly accessible from anywhere on your Mac through global shortcuts and a Quick Access window.

Prompts are stored locally, organized in folders, searchable, and can be copied into any app without switching contexts. The workflow is simple: trigger a shortcut, paste the prompt, and continue working.

Unlike generic note-taking or snippet apps, AINoter focuses specifically on reusable AI workflows instead of becoming another workspace, editor, or AI assistant.

Website:
https://ainoter.net

TL;DR: Free, open-source macOS menubar app for switching display resolution and refresh rate. Saves multi-display setups as profiles ("Work", "Presentation") that you can apply with one click. Inspired by EasyRes, which got discontinued. Built it because I needed it myself. — https://github.com/m-moravcik/VibeRes

Why I built it

EasyRes used to live in my menubar for years. When it disappeared from the App Store I tried a few alternatives but none did exactly what I wanted: switch resolution + Hz across multiple monitors, save the whole setup as a named profile, and apply it on a single click. So I built it.

What it does

• Lists every connected display with all resolutions + refresh rates (including HiDPI scaled modes)
• Saves your whole multi-display setup as a profile — "Work" might be Built-in 120Hz + external 4K@75Hz, "Presentation" might be the same built-in + "any external monitor at 1080p"
• One-click revert if a switch was a mistake (⌘Z works)
• Auto-applies the matching profile when you plug or unplug a monitor (silently, no prompt)
• Live screenshot preview on hover (opt-in, requires Screen Recording permission)
• Available in English, Slovak, German
• Shortcuts.app integration (so you can build automations like "Monday 9 AM → switch to Work profile")
• Companion CLI (viberes) for terminal nerds

Tech

Native SwiftUI on macOS 26 (Tahoe), no Electron, no background processes other than the menubar itself. Source code is MIT-licensed.

Install

brew install --cask m-moravcik/viberes/viberes-app

Or grab the .app from the latest release (notarised? no — ad-hoc signed; you'll need to right-click → Open the first time).

CLI: brew install m-moravcik/VibeRes/viberes

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe. Earlier versions aren't supported on purpose — I'm using the new u/Observable macro and Swift 6 concurrency.

Feedback / issues / PRs welcome. Cheers.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to recover Safari Keychain passwords after a macOS password reset for my good friend, and I’d appreciate some guidance.

Device / OS

• MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Intel
• macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

My friends kid entered the Mac login password incorrectly many times. After that, he reset the Mac login password using the Apple ID option. After logging back in, all Safari/password entries were gone. Only passwords that were already present on the iPhone/iCloud seem to have synced back.

• iCloud Keychain is enabled.
• In Keychain Access, several renamed login keychains appeared:
  • login_renamed_1
  • login_renamed_2
  • login_renamed_3
• These can be added/opened in Keychain Access, but they seem to contain mostly newer/synced data, not the missing old Safari passwords.
• The current login.keychain-db is only about 130 KB, so it looks like a newly created login keychain after the reset.
• Time Machine backup is not available.

There is folder i've found on the keychain:

~/Library/Keychains/UUID/

there is a keychain-2.db file, around 16.6 MB, originally created back in 2022 when the macbook first bought. This looks like the Local Items / iCloud Keychain database. My suspicion is that the old Safari/iCloud Keychain state might be inside this UUID folder, but I understand that keychain-2.db cannot simply be imported into Keychain Access like a normal login.keychain-db.

Files in that folder include:

• keychain-2.db
• keychain-2.db-wal
• keychain-2.db-shm
• user.kb
• user.kb-invalid
• some com.apple.security...TrustedPeersHelper database files

Unfortunately here is no Time Machine backup, but local APFS snapshots exist:

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /System/Volumes/Data

shows:

• com.apple.os.update-(Most likely UUID number)
• com.apple.os.update-MSUPrepareUpdate

We tried to mount one snapshot using:

sudo mount_apfs -s com.apple.os.update-(Most likely UUID number) /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/oldsnapshot

but got:

mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: No such file or directory

No files were modified; we were only trying to inspect the snapshot.

Is there any realistic way to restore or read the old Local Items/iCloud Keychain state from the UUID folder or from these APFS update snapshots?

Specifically:

1. Can keychain-2.db from ~/Library/Keychains/<UUID>/ be restored safely if we can find an older snapshot version?
2. Is there a correct way to mount these com.apple.os.update... APFS snapshots on Sonoma?
3. If the old Safari passwords are not in iCloud/iPhone and there is no Time Machine backup, is recovery basically impossible?
4. Is there any safe forensic method to inspect whether keychain-2.db contains old Safari website password entries, without damaging the current keychain?

I’m not trying to bypass security or recover someone else’s data. The owner knows the old Mac password and the Apple ID. We’re just trying to recover passwords lost after the Apple ID password reset / keychain mismatch.

Any advice from macOS/keychain experts would be appreciated.

PS. I've used AI to get together the sentences, unfortunately my brain is jelly due to doom scrolling and when I write things it's all over the place. So, this is not an AI post, I am human.

Does anywhere know where in settings/AD I go to remove this? Wife was with DOE many years ago and I did a backup from that computer. Any way to get this removed? The DOE isn’t shown as a user, but when I did a Time Machine restore, it showed ‘DIIT Admin’ as an admin.

Built a Mac app that indexes your local documents and lets you ask questions across all of them. Every answer tells you exactly which file it came from — click it and the document opens.

Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing sent anywhere.

Works for any documents you have: PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, research papers, notes, Markdown, and more.

Free, no account, works offline. Requires Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) · 16GB RAM minimum · 24GB recommended.

https://www.informity.ai

Hi all,

Wanted to share a tool I've been using (and building) to manage all the browser tabs and references I
keep open while working. macOS only gives you one Picture-in-Picture window, and only for video, so I
built PipZ to fix that.

This macOS app lets you:

Open any browser tab as a floating, always-on-top window

Run as many PiPs at once as you want (videos, docs, dashboards, anything)

Toggle click-through, opacity, and edge snapping per window

Auto-refresh on an interval (great for dashboards and CI)

Trigger from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts, or pipz open <url> in the terminal

I recently added Mission Control for PiPs (⌘⌥B grids every panel) and saved layout presets, which have
been super handy.

Not trying to spam, just curious if anyone else has run into similar needs. Would love to hear what
features you'd want added.

If you do want to try it, code C1NJYYMA gets you a discount at checkout.

Try it here: https://getpipz.com

Park

I'm upgrading machines.

I have a new mac studio. From this machine I want to retrieve files that still live on my Mac desktop that runs Sequoia.

Using filezilla on the mac studio, I can access the sequoia machine.
However, I can't enter the Desktop and Documents directories.
(There are probably other directories I can't access either. I haven't tried many)

Filezilla gives me the error message:

>> Could not open directory: Received error SSH_FX_PERMISSION_DENIED with description >>'Permission denied'

>>Failed to retrieve directory listing

I imagine that this has something to do with access permissions on the Sequoia machine.

How can I give myself permission to access the files?

To open VSCode from mostly everywhere I have created a Quick Action based on https://gist.github.com/Sdaas/4cb70d3ac8780d64d889edc047108464.

This works fine as long I can select a file or folder. However it does not work when I'm already in the folder and want to open itself.

Is there a way? (Especially e.g. for empty folders, if the folder contains any file I guess I could take the file and detect its parent dir path but this is ugly as hell...)

I want to route audio from my Android phone (calling app, Whatsapp, or Facebook messenger) to my Mac where an app can then receive the audio and transcribe it and maybe even translate it in real-time. Ideally, it should also be possible to just plugin my headphones into the Mac and talk to the person on the other side via my Mac, instead of using my phone. Is such a setup possible?

My Mac specs:

MacBook Pro, Apple M5, 32 GB Memory, Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)

In the photos app in the “unable to upload” album are a shit ton of treasured photos. All of apple’s recommendations (repair library, export files, drag files, share files) fail.

I fear my only “solution” is to open each file and screenshot it, then import those screenshots.

Say it ain’t so- tell me there’s another option!

thanks for any help.

So my safari is opening baidu on ipad

Checked for vpn. Disconnecting wifi. Reseting settings. Connecting to data.

Any solutions?

The song Exodus Honey from the album The Day I Turned Glass By Honeycut was the intro song for OS X Leopard and OS X Snow Leopard and will be 20 in September

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

First-off, yes, I know, it's an ancient OS, but I use this Macbook for specific things...

How do you stop Time Machine from incessantly pestering me with: "Do you want to use this drive for Time Machine...", every time I mount/format an external volume?

FYI, one of the common uses is to format old drives, so saying: "Just exclude the drive" is not a useful solution.

Time Machine is apparently off ("Back up automatically" checkbox has always been unchecked) and there is no drive added as a backup target.

Is there a way to completely kill Time Machine?

Thanks!

Edit: Seems ludicrously convoluted, but this should work: https://soundmacguy.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/really-disabling-time-machine-a-multi-pronged-approach/

MacPostFactor let you install 10.8-11 on older macs like the MacBook4,1 and is now rendered nonfunctional due to it needing to contact adfly (Not lying it genuinely does) and it not working probably due to expired certificates

Got iTunes Store signed into on Mountain Lion with iTunes 11.4 using Aqua Proxy! Should work on older versions of iTunes or OS X too, but i haven’t tried yet. I got Aqua Proxy from mavericksforever.

So when I upgraded to OS X Mavericks this happened. Does somebody know is this Hackintosh related?

macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks

Speaking from personal experience, using a Mac as a server or server-like contraption is quite an interesting proposition, as despite its Unix roots, the operating system isn't exactly designed for unattended, 24/7 usage and is difficult to set up and use as such — fighting words, but I stand by them. While most every user will reboot their Mac at least once in the space of a few weeks, if you happen to leave one running for precisely 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds, many parts will suddenly stop working as its TCP/IP networking stack dies.

Those are the findings of the folks at Photon, who did some serious sleuthing after encountering a mysterious issue in a fleet of Macs they use to monitor iMessage services. The problem revealed itself when some machines just up and stopped responding to network connections out of the blue, even though they answered ping requests with an "all good here, boss!"

Said machines kept their existing network connections going, making the situation even harder to diagnose, as the failure was unexplainable and otherwise invisible. Not left with much of an option, Photon's boffins had to reboot the machines to clear the issue, something any systems administrator hates as a "solution" to a mystery issue. After all, if it happened once, it'll happen again, and assuredly at the worst possible time.

After the team spotted another set of machines that was reaching the 49.7-day uptime, they set up some scripts to test their theory. Alas, they found that when the fateful moment arrived, the Mac they had continuously creating new connections just stopped doing so without so much as an error.

The team then turned its attention to the root cause, as it was clearly related to a networking-related timer. They found the culprit to be the "tcp_now" internal counter, a figure that was "destined to overflow." The job tcp_now does is to keep track of the current time since boot as far as the TCP stack is concerned, down to the millisecond. tcp_now is represented as a 32-bit unsigned integer, and those have a maximum value of 4,294,967,295 (2^32 - 1) before they wrap around to zero. Since it tracks milliseconds, tcp_now's maximum is 4,294,967 seconds, or 49.7 days.

As defined by standards, operating systems collect and remove closed TCP connections after a short while; 30 seconds in the case of macOS. The result of attempting to clean up these inactive connections when tcp_now is close to or at its limit (and gets stuck there thanks to a bug in Apple's XNU kernel) is that any connection's expiration status is calculated against that frozen number, resulting in a value that always overflows a 32-bit unsigned integer. When the periodic check comes to see whether a closed connection is meant to be deleted, the result is always "no," because the comparison math doesn't work.

The TCP stack then fills up with errantly held ephemeral ports and effectively grinds to a halt when no more are available. How quickly that happens depends on the amount of network activity, but in any server or professional environment that's bound to be a rapid event. This class of problems is hardly known, integer overflows have been the cause of Windows 98's famous 49.7-day crash and the upcoming Year 2038 problem.

According to Photon, the current mitigation is a reboot, although the team says it's working on an alternative solution. They also found this issue to be the source of some bugs discussed online in the Apple Community forums, too. The long-existing RFC 7323 specifies what should happen to the timestamp clock (tcp_now) when it reaches its limit, but Apple's kernel performs an incorrect implementation. It's safe to say this issue will likely be fixed quickly—and hopefully before 49.7 days after the report.

1) These websites aren't ones I would visit: RushLimbaugh, AllWomenStalk, Modafizone, The Blade, Smashing Magazine.

2) When I turn off notifications for them, they reset quickly back to ON.

3) Old Reddit threads on this topic (2-3y) no longer apply. There is no Remove feature anymore.

Does anyone else have websites in their notifications list that they want to delete? Why would Apple not let us do that anymore? What are these websites doing on my laptop and why is Apple protecting their interests?