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How to set preferred Wifi network on Mac

November 16, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

This tutorial provides the steps for making a specified WiFi network as a preferred network on Mac. This is quite useful when you have multiple Wi-Fi networks at your work place or home and you want to set a preferred order.

  • Click the WiFi option on the Menu bar and select Network Preferences from the menu list. You can also access the Network Preferences via System Preferences.

  • In the Network Preferences, click the Advanced option available at the bottom of the screen.
  • Now you can set preferred order by dragging and dropping the network.

    Filed Under: Mac, Tips Tagged With: network, Wifi

    Attribute Unavailable: Estimated section warning before iOS 11.0

    November 12, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    Xcode 13 (iOS 15) displays the following warning message for project having minimum deployment as iOS 10.

    • Attribute Unavailable: Estimated section header height before iOS 11.0
    • Attribute Unavailable: Estimated section footer height before iOS 11.0

    This warning gets displayed for new UITableViewController added to the Storyboard file. You can get rid of the warning messages by adding 0 to Estimate Header and Estimate footer for Sections under Size Inspector

    Filed Under: ios, Swift, Xcode Tagged With: iOS, Xcode Warning

    How to recover Firefox password from Time Machine backup

    November 7, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    Here are steps to recover Firefox passwords from Time Machine backup on Mac.

    1. Open Time Machine and navigate to the backup data from which you want to retrieve the Firefox passwords
    2. Make sure hidden files and folders option is enabled on your Mac.
    3. Navigate to Users -> <UserName> -> Library
    4. Under Library navigate to Application Support followed Firefox folder.
    5. Under Firefox navigate to Profiles and open the folder ending with default-release.
    6. Copy key4.db and logins.json.
    7. Copy the above two files to Profiles folder under Users/<UserName>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/…default-release/Profiles. Before copying make sure to take a backup of existing key4.db and logins.json files.

    Now all your saved usernames and passwords for Firefox will be available on your Mac.

    Filed Under: Firefox, Mac, Tips Tagged With: recover passwords

    Show hidden files and folders on Mac

    November 6, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    Hidden files and folders are by default not shown on your Mac. Here are the different ways you can show hidden files and folders.

    Terminal

    1. Open Terminal and run this script, defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true
    2. Make sure to close all finder windows and relaunch Finder –  killall Finder

    And if you want turn off this option this change true to false, defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles false

    Keyboard Shortcut

    Navigate to the folder you want to see the hidden files and folders and type “Cmd + Shift + .“. And to turn off press the same keyboard combination again.

    Finder

    If you want to see the hidden library folder then follow the given steps.

    1. Open Finder and navigate to Go menu bar
    2. Navigate to Go to Folder and type  ~/Library (Keyboard shortcut in Cmd + Shift + G)

    Filed Under: Mac, Tips Tagged With: Hidden files, Hidden Folders

    How to request a refund for apps in App Store

    November 2, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    Apple provides users with the option to get a refund for app. Here are the steps for submitting a refund request.

    • Launch  reportaproblem.apple.com and login using your Apple ID.
    • In “What can we help you with” drop down select the option as “Request a refund”.

  • In “Tell us more” drop down select the reason why you need a refund.
  • Then select the app for which you need a refund and click on the Submit button.
  • You will receive a email once your request has been processed. Use the “Check status of claim” to find out whether you have request has been approved.
  • Filed Under: App Refund, Apple, Tips

    How to insert horizontal and vertical lines in Google Docs

    August 7, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    This tutorial is about the steps required to insert horizontal line and vertical line in Google Docs.

    Insert horizontal line

    Google Docs users can insert a horizontal line using “Horizontal line” menu option under Insert menu.

    Vertical Line

    Google Docs users can use any of the below methods to enter vertical lines.

    1. Drawing option – Use the Drawing option under Insert menu. Then select Line dropdown option and pick Line option.

    You can also format the line using the different formatting options available as part of the Drawing screen. After completing the formatting, select Save and Apply option to insert the vertical line in Google Docs.

    2. If. you want to add a vertical line before and after a paragraph then you can use the Paragraph Styles menu under Format menu.

    Click the Format menu, select Paragraph Styles followed by Borders and shading option. Then select the Left border and Right border position to insert borders before and after the paragraph

    You can remove the inserted borders or vertical line using the Reset option.

    Filed Under: Google Docs Tagged With: Horizontal line

    Create a gmail group from mail recipients

    July 22, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    In this article, let us see the steps required to create distribution list in gmail for email addresses in To, Cc or Bcc fields.

    Step 1: Open Gmail with recipients for which you want to create a mail group.

    Step 2: Select “Reply all” option so that you can see Cc and Bcc fields as well.

    Step 3: Select the To option to launch the Contacts screen.

    Step 4: In the Select Contacts page, the recipients email addresses in the To fields would have been already selected. Now click the Manage labels option.

    Step 5: Select Create label option and enter a name for your new mailing list and then Save the list.

    In the above example we have created group based on the email addresses in To fields. You can follow the same steps for creating a mail group recipients in cc or bcc fields.

    Filed Under: GMail Tagged With: Distribution list

    Checklist needed when an issue is reported in your mobile app.

    June 22, 2021 By Ravi Shankar

    The major work when a bug is reported in your production app is to identify the steps required to replicate the issue.

    1. Get the app version of the device.
    2. Get the operating system version, device model, user locale. Incase of iOS the number of parameters or less where as in case Android it is more.
    3. If it is visual or display error then try to get a screenshot.
    4. If it is a crash then check Firebase Crashlytics or other crash recording framework that you are using.
    5. Check if the crash or issue happening in previous version of the build. This way you can isolate if it is problem related with the latest build.

    if you would like add any other steps, please use the comments section. Thank you.

    Filed Under: Swift, Tips Tagged With: Issue

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