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Is there a keyboard shortcut for 3 fingers slide?

I really like having applications in full screen mode and switch between them using the 3 finger swipe feature. But can I have a shortcut for it? Maybe like command + -> , something like this?
Koray Tugay
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Excessive CPU usage from sysmond

Does anyone know what the sysmond application does on OS X? Lately it has been taking about 25-30% cpu constantly for no apparent reason. Things I've tried so far: Reboot SMC reset PRAM reset Starting up in safe mode (sysmond also sucks up…
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How to report App Store rule violations?

Is there a link or somewhere to report App Store rule violations? Specifically, when an app is using push notifications to send you advertisements/promotions, despite this being explicitly against Apple's rules. The closest thing I've found is a…
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What does the secure keyboard entry menu item in Terminal app do?

What does this option in Terminal do? It seems to have no effect on anything.
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What hidden features have you found in iOS 6?

This is the required hidden gems questions for iOS 6. Here are the rules: One feature per answer Also include how you use the feature or why it is useful Must be an under-documented feature. No "flag pole" features like VIP's in Mail.
Steve Moser
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Emptying trash of the USB drive

I have a USB drive plugged into my Mac. What I found was .Trashes was not emptied when the emptying trash (right click the Trash icon and run "Empty Trash") for the USB drive What might be wrong? Is there any other way to empty trash the USB drive?
prosseek
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What's the services/running processes manager in Mac OS X?

I installed MySQL but I am unable to see if it is running or has stopped. How do I see what are the currently running services corresponding to the "Services" interface in Windows?
rsman
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"say" in different language?

Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too)
Peter Štibraný
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How can I easily add a batch of files to the HandBrake queue?

How do I add multiple files into the queue at once in HandBrake? I heard that multiple files can be added to the queue by selecting the folder. But when I select the folder as source, only the first file is added, rather than all the files. Am I…
Harry
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Compress PDF with adjustable ratio

One can use Preview to compress a PDF. However Preview on Mac OS X 10.7 does a too hard compression for my taste. There is only one compression setting. Are there alternative tools that allows you to adjust the compression ratio?
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Opening 'BaseSystem.dmg'?

I just had a window pop up telling me it was Opening BaseSystem.dmg, and then disappearing in ~1 second. All I can find is a reddit thread with preciously few answer. Anybody with more intel? I was doing a backup (with Time Machine, an USB…
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How to make Web Apps appear as First-Class Mac Desktop Citizens

I keep ending up with a myriad of open tabs in Chrome. It is a pain to switch between them compared to switching between regular Mac apps. So I would like to be able to: pin them to the taskbar identify them using their favicon (taskbar /…
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AppleCare engineer says Macs need weekly reboots b/c "kernel expires". What's that mean?

I'm running MacOS Sierra on a mid-2014 MacBook Pro. About once/week, Safari’s CPU usage becomes very high, and it becomes very laggy. In the last instance I had just six windows open, none of which were playing videos, but Safari’s CPU usage was…
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What does Purgeable mean in Storage under About This Mac section?

I updated to macOS Sierra (16A319) and was checking my storage where I saw this extra division greyed out saying Purgeable. What is the significance/meaning of Purgeable?
Ankit Jain
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Can't increase Mac OSX bash shell history length

I set ~/.bash_profile some time ago to have more than 500 lines length but seems system can't catch this. Do you know why? > nano -w ~/.bash_profile export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced HISTFILESIZE=10000000 > history | wc -l …
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