The Safari Developer Tools for the macOS browser can be enabled and displayed in Safari > Preferences > Advanced > “Show Develop menu in menu bar” for Safari version 12 and earlier. Then from the Safari “Develop” menu select “Show Web Inspector” or use the keyboard shortcut Option+Command+i When opened the Safari developer tools pops …
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Flush DNS cache locally in macOS Mojave, Sierra, OSX, Linux and Windows
When URLs are just not resolving the way you want, to time to clear or flush the DNS nameserver local cache – enter the relevant command in the Terminal/command line for the operating system you are on. How to flush the local DNS cache macOS Mojave 10.14.0 sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;say DNS cache has been flushed or …
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Reset Forgotten Admin Password on macOS Mojave and macOS Sierra
The passwords for all accounts on macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS Sierra, OSX 10.11 El Capitan, OSX 10.10 Yosemite, OSX 10.9 Mavericks and OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion including admin and standard user accounts can be reset and changed when booted from the Recovery Partition on macOS. Boot into Recovery Partition Reboot into the Recovery Drive by choosing the ‘Apple‘ …
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Install and Configure wget on macOS and fix SSL GNUTLS error
macOS Mojave, Sierra, and earlier versions come with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact, ‘curl‘ can probably get you by just fine, check man curl at the command line to see its usage. Otherwise, let’s look at getting ‘wget‘… …
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Install Apache, MySQL, PHP on macOS Mojave 10.14
Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on macOS Mojave 10.14 With Apples’ new macOS Mojave 10.14 available for download, here is how to get the AMP stack up and running on the new macOS. This tutorial will go through the process of getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as the ‘AMP’ stack) and phpMyAdmin running on the new mac OS Mojave. This tutorial …
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Installing node.js on macOS Mojave, macOS Sierra and earlier OSX
node.js allows you to run javascript in the Terminal as appose to a regular browser which makes for a modern workflow in web development, with both node.js installed and a package manager called npm (Node Package Manager) also installed, which can manage other packages that work with node.js, one of the main ones being gulp.js for a web development workflow. To …
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Restart, Start, Stop MySQL from the Command Line macOS, OSX, Linux
To restart, start or stop MySQL server from the command line, type the following at the shell prompt… On Linux start/stop/restart from the command line: /etc/init.d/mysqld start /etc/init.d/mysqld stop /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Some Linux flavors offer the service command too service mysqld start service mysqld stop service mysqld restart or service mysql start service mysql stop …
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Minimum System Requirements for macOS Mojave 10.14 – Is yours good enough?
Find out if your system meets the requirements of the new macOS Mojave 10.4. Apple have released a developer beta of their upcoming operating system named macOS Mojave, which will be macOS 10.14. The name MoJave continues on with their California landmarks with the name after a scenic CA region, it should be publicly available between September to November. …
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