Category Archives: OS X

Setting Up Tor On macOS

Tor is an Open-Source project created in the 90's by United States Naval Research Laboratory.  Tor give you a level…

By Manny Fernandez

September 18, 2019

My macOS Apps for 2019

In this post, I will go over some of the macOS Apps I use regularly to keep my sanity.  …

By Manny Fernandez

August 28, 2019

Using Hazel In My Daily Workflow

It is no secret that I run macOS. I love the flexibility.  I used to run Linux (Fedora for 4…

By Manny Fernandez

May 24, 2019

iperf for Network Geeks

Throughout my career (over 27 years as of the writing of this post), I have needed to identify where problems…

By Manny Fernandez

April 20, 2019

My Backup Strategy

Anyone that has lost data before vows to never have it happen again. Sadly, some people stop at that and…

By Manny Fernandez

December 17, 2018

Using Symbolic Links to Sync Dropbox and other Cloud Storage Services

As you may know, Dropbox is an awesome solution for syncing files. It CAN serve as a backup as well…

By Manny Fernandez

December 16, 2018

Merging PCAP files from the CLI

With the Fortigate 6Ks, when you do a packet capture from the GUI, it will save multiple PCAP files into…

By Manny Fernandez

December 3, 2018

Removing computer name from my bash prompt

OK, I finally broke down and removed the computer name from my bash prompt. It is truly annoying and useless…

By Manny Fernandez

September 21, 2018

Command Line Password Generator

I run macOS High Sierra. When I need to generate a random password, I use an opensource package named pwgen​.…

By Manny Fernandez

April 2, 2018

Apple Spotlight not allowing typing

OK the other day, I noticed that when I typed ⌘ ␣ (or command space) on my macOS Sierra, the…

By Manny Fernandez

April 26, 2017

QuickHash Multi-Platform Hashing Tool

Hashing files, and more importantly validating the hashes of files you download is very important.  There is a long list…

By Manny Fernandez

October 14, 2016

Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac

While using my rsync option works for me, there are a few things it lacks.  I had recently purchased a…

By Manny Fernandez

October 13, 2016

MailTags in macOS Sierra

To follow up to my previous blog post regarding my workflow, I wanted to share a specific piece of that…

By Manny Fernandez

October 11, 2016

Workflow on macOS

I have been currently running Mac OS X for a year (since this writing).  I have become obsessed with workflows.…

By Manny Fernandez

October 9, 2016

rsync in OS X

Recently, I purchased a 1TB 2.5" SSD drive.  The problem I was having was that I was worrying about the…

By Manny Fernandez

September 28, 2016

Apple Mail on macOS Sierra

Last week I upgraded my Mac OS X El Capitan to macOS Sierra.  Doing so, broke many of my mail…

By Manny Fernandez

September 28, 2016

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