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Line of computers created by Apple, also called Macintosh.

Line of computers created by Apple, also called Macintosh.

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Web Development Environment: How to distribute edited hosts files over bunch of mac machines?

I am doing some research to prepare some web development environment for our small(10ppl and growing) new office. User Case: For each new web project usually we create new alias on an Apache server someproject.companywebsite From my understanding…
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How to exclude Windows desktop from Google Ads

I have a macOS desktop application that I am trying to advertise using a Google Ads Search ad. The application does not work on mobile and it does not work on Windows. After some research, I have made some bid adjustments and have successfully…
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How do you set Mac Safari's favorite icon

Some Site, when added to favorite, will show an icon here like github.com: How do you set the icon here? I've tried this code and it doesn't work:
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How do I make my website retina display friendly?

Recently the retina MacBook Pro was released at WWDC 2012. It has a resolution of 2880 by 1800. This makes websites look really bad if they haven't been optimized for the new high-res display, as noted by Marco Arment. What are some thing I need to…
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Virtual Host under MacOSX not working

I have setup a virtualhost for MacOSX Apache installation. These are my steps: edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf removing comment from: Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf edit /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf,…
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Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?

I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different. As a webmaster, there is this constant concern on having my web…
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Images Clear on Windows but Fuzzy on Mac

So I have a website and it has a carousel on one of the sidebars. On windows, the pictures that flip through are crisp and clear, but I looked at them on a Mac and they're all fuzzy. Does this have to do with the resolution of a Mac v. the…
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Handling request after installing MAMP (no DNS setup yet)

I've just installed MAMP on my mac machine and checked the server is working by looking at localhost. I looked up my IP address by ifconfig. When I use another machine, I still can't get connected to the server. Why is that? I haven't register a…
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I don't have a Mac. Someone tested my website on a Mac and the Google Maps' Javascript is not working. How do I test it?

How do I test if a website works on an old Mac without owning a Mac? Are there emulates. Does Safari work the same on both XP and a Mac? On the PC the website works on ie 7-9, FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. It works on a very old iPhone too but…
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I have one website that seems to be cached indefinitely on my Mac

I have a strange problem that I can't seem to find an answer to. I developed a website for a client on my dev server. I uploaded it to their live server when it was ready. This was 2-3 months ago. Every time I go to the website, it is stuck in…
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Page speed performing poorly specifically on OS X versions of Chrome. What gives?

I'm digging into page speed within my Google Analytics, and saw that I'm having higher than average load times with Chrome, which was unexpected. Digging in further by operating system, the issue seems to be primarily with Chrome on OS X 10.9.…
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Character encoding issue in mysql database when working on a MacBook (OSX 10.10)

I'm attempting to get my web development environment running on my MacBook (OSX 10.10 with MAMP), but I'm stuck on an annoying character encoding issue. When originally developing my site in a Windows environment, I went with ISO-8859-1 encoding and…
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Apache 404 Issue after upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemites

Good afternoon fellow StachExachangers, Background story: I have recently upgraded my macbook pro from Mavericks to Yosemites, everything went well except my local development environment got totally screwed up, specifically my apache 2 environment.…
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Mac Mini Colocation Usage Case

I'm looking at purchasing colocation services for a Mac Mini with A specialist colocation company - but as of yet I have no experience with OSX Server for hosting websites. I'm looking for a less involved way of hosting up to 80 small (1-20 page,…
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MAMP not working as 'localhost' but works with "127.0.0.1"

I just installed MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.2. When it is started, I'm not able to access the server through http://localhost:8888 but when I visit http://127.0.0.1:8888/ and it works fine. Why is it so? and how can I make it work with when I type…
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