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How to use OBS Studio with Zoom, Hangouts, Teams and more on macOS

A popular tool with streamers and YouTubers is Open Broadcaster Software®️ Studio or OBS for short. It allows you to compose scenes with cameras, desktop sharing, video snippets, images, web pages and more and then stream that video to services like Twitch or Mixer. You can also save recordings locally if you want to upload them to YouTube.

How to use an Xbox 360 controller with OS X El Capitan

Introduction

In order to use an Xbox 360 controller with OS X El Capitan you will need to install a driver for it. This is an update to my article on using an Xbox 360 controller with Yosemite.

Fixing the SSH roaming vulnerability (CVE-2016-0777)

A vulnerability in the OpenSSH client has been discovered which means that if you SSH to a compromised server the server can steal your private key. This affects any operating system with OpenSSH client 5.4 and above, which is pretty much all flavors of linux and OS X.

How to use an Xbox 360 controller with OS X Yosemite

Update: There is a newer version of this article, see How to use an Xbox 360 controller with OS X El Capitan.

How to install OS X Yosemite Developer Preview Beta in Virtualbox

Like me you may be excited about the Developer Preview Beta of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and want to try it out, but you don’t want to deal with a buggy system between now and the general release. If that’s the case you’ll want to install Yosemite as a virtual machine on your Mac. Here’s how I’ve done it on mine using VirtualBox.

How to use text expansion in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Since the upgrade to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 you may have noticed that your text expansion shortcuts from iOS have found their way onto your Mac. Thanks to iCloud all of your text shortcuts are now synchronised between your devices.

How to make screen recordings in OS X Mavericks 10.9

Did you know that you don’t need any additional software to make high quality, watermark free screen recordings in OS X Mavericks 10.9? Well this feature exists and it’s in a slightly unexpected place … QuickTime Player.

Fixing VirtualBox verr_supdrv_component_not_found when selecting bridged networking on OS X 10.9

While installing CentOS in VirtualBox (version 4.2.4) on OS X (version 10.9.1) I came across the following error message when selecting bridged networking

Bootcamp Windows 7 on a 2011 MacBook Pro without a SuperDrive

So recently I swapped out the SuperDrive in my early 2011 MacBook pro for an additional HDD caddy. I then moved my 1TB HDD into the caddy and put a new SSD in the HDD slot. As I was messing around with hard drives I decided to go for a fresh install of OS X and Windows on the SSD.

Fixing "ERROR: Error 35: error:14077458:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO: reason(1112)"

So the other day I came across the following error when using the munki configuration tool for mac.

Sort top command by cpu usage and set to default in OS X

As I come from a linux background but seem to spend more and more of my free time using OS X I keep noticing little differences in the way the command line works on a mac. One difference which as been bugging me recently is that way that the top command orders itself. I’m used to having it ordered by highest processor usage at the top on linux, which I find the most useful as generally when I run top I’m looking to see what is chewing up my cpu. However when you run top in OS X it orders by pid, so the newest processes are at the top.

SSH without a password on OS X with ssh-copy-id

What is ssh-copy-id?

ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine (presumably using a login password, so password authentication should be enabled, unless you’ve done some clever use of multiple identities) It also changes the permissions of the remote user’s home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to remove group writability (which would otherwise prevent you from logging in, if the remote sshd has StrictModes set in its configuration).