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  Enable mouse scrolling with Apple wireless mouse on Windows PC

Today I was trying to use my Apple wireless mouse on my Windows PC, after pairing the mouse using Bluetooth, it worked fine until I noticed that I couldn't scroll browser pages properly. Tried many ways but all failed. Did some investigation online and found a workable solution. This post will share my experience.To enable mouse scrolling, there is a driver needed to be installed. First to go to Brigadier which is a Windows- and OS X-compatible Python script that fetches, from Apple's or your software update server, the Boot Camp ESD ("Electronic Software Distribution") for a specifi...

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  Install and use GSpace to install apps from Google Play on Huawei Harmony OS

Huawei has released its own branded mobile OS Harmony OS sometime back and some Huawei device models now support installing or upgrading to use Harmony OS. Since this OS is Huawei's own OS and it doesn't come with Google Play by default which most of the current Android apps are hosted on. In this case, how can someone install the apps from Google Play on Huawei Harmony OS or use GMS services like Google Play, Google Maps?The solution provided by Huawei is to install GSpace which is an APP container where it can be thought as a virtual gallery store where apps from Google Play can be installed...

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  How to enable developer mode on Huawei

As a developer, there might be some need to fake locations when developing and testing mobile apps for different countries. Lots of the times some fake GPS apps will be used and they will ask to enable mock location access on the device before allowing you to fake GPS. To achieve this, we first need to have developer mode enabled.In this post, we will show how the developer mode can be enabled and disabled on Huawei devices.Go to Settings, find About phone and open it. You should be able to see an entry called Build number. Tap on that 5 - 7 times.You will see either one of below depends on yo...

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  Guide to Clearing Storage Space on a Macbook

Macbooks are pretty notorious when it comes to what storage space you have available. Those few gigabytes that you have will disappear in no time if you are not careful.The whole issue becomes even more problematic for people who are not that familiar with Macbooks or have switched from another computer. And if you do not pay attention, it will not take too long before you have next to no storage space on the hard drive.Leaving only a few gigabytes of free space will significantly reduce the overall performance. Therefore, you need to create a proper maintenance strategy, and here are some ide...

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  Fix issue docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH on Mac

Sometimes you may encounter below issue while running docker-compose on MacOS.Traceback (most recent call last): File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module> File "compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main File "compose/cli/main.py", line 127, in perform_command File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1085, in up File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1081, in up File "compose/project.py", line 527, in up File "compose/service.py", line 354, in ensure_image_exists File "compose/service.py", line 1222, in pull File "compose/progress_stream.py", line 102, in get_digest_from_pull File "compose/serv...

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  Why Apple Mac switches its CPU? The war between Intel and ARM

About three months ago, the new iPad Pro was released and it supports touch pad and mouse. It conveys a clear message to users that they want people to treat iPad Pro as a laptop. As we know, iPad and iPhone are both using iOS, if iOS can run on laptop,  it means MacOS and iOS can merge and become a unified OS. And if Mac and iPhone can share the same OS, it means the same app can run in all places.It is becoming clearer and clearer that Apple is planning to do this exact thing. Later at the WWDC on 22 June, Apple may announce that it will switch its CPU from Intel's x86 to ARM on it...

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  Huawei phone with HarmonyOS installed is becoming real

In past few days, there is a photo of a Huawei phone with HarmonyOS installed appearing on the web. This is an engineering testing phone circulating inside Huawei according to the source. This is the first time that a real phone with Huawei's own operating system HarmonyOS installed is being seen on the web. This indicates that it will not be that far for general public to be able to access the new Huawei self developed OS.From the photo, there are a few indications:This phone sample should be a Huawei P40 Pro with rounded cornersHuawei is also exploring the under-screen camera. There are...

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  Install Google services on Huawei MatePad

Since the trade war between China and US, lots of services are not allowed to be used on Huawei devices as a series of procedures enforced by US government to restrict China. These services include the Google Play services which are used for downloading Android apps on Android devices. This has brought big trouble to Huawei users as they are not able to download apps available for all other Android devices. Fortunately, there are ways for people to get Google services installed on Huawei devices with some more steps after getting a new Huawei device. In this post, we will show how to inst...

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