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Adjust your Mac fan speed with smcFanControl

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smcfancontrolSometimes i’m sure you might think if you can adjust your Mac fan speed so that your Mac can run more cooler! The answer is yes, you can adjust your Mac (Intel) fan speed! smcFanControl is a Mac fan control application that allow you to preset several fan speed profile to meet different situation.

I’m using this fan control app for quite some time, whenever my Mac temperature increase, i’ll increase my fan speed to a higher RPM. Normally i can see a drop in temperature wthin 5 minutes. Unless i’ve few movie application running at the same time, else my Mac can be cool down within 10 min.

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How to restart dock when dock hang in Mac OS X

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macSometimes due to some error, you might encounter your dock hang and no respond in your Mac OS X. I encounter this issue few times and it very irritating while my dock hang. If you dock hang and not responding like mine, you may want to restart your dock thru the following method.

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How to split compressed file into smaller files in Linux / Mac

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mac linux I’ve written a script to compressed some files and upload to my online cloud storage as a backup daily. Due to memory limitation, i’ve to split the large compressed file into smaller files and upload each of them one at a time. While i’m writing the script, i notice to split the compressed file into smaller files, you need to use another command “split” which i covered many years ago but seldom use it. :p

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