I had a flash drive with important info that I needed to access. Unfortunately, I only had a Mac computer and the flash drive was protected by Windows BitLocker encryption. A quick google pointed me at “M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac”, which looked to be free. Unfortunately, it was not.…
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To perform a clean installation of macOS Sierra (basically, Mac OS X 10.12), I recommend using a bootable USB flash drive containing the macOS Sierra installer. Below are the steps I took to create the bootable USB flash drive and how I used it to install macOS Sierra. Note: The…
Leave a CommentAs a web developer, have you ever asked yourself whether to use a period or a plus sign to concatenate two strings? The former is used by PHP and the latter by Javascript. If you switch between the frontend Javascript and the backend PHP languages often, you’ll find yourself asking…
Leave a CommentI downloaded a HTML5 and Javascript demo. When I attempted to browse to it, I encountered the infamous “XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///” error. The latest Chrome (and other modern browsers) won’t allow cross domain (a.k.a. cross origin) communication, which would occur when a page from one website domain attempts to…
Leave a CommentUpdate: Go to Install macOS Sierra Using Bootable USB Flash Drive if you want to install macOS 10.12 Sierra instead. Update 2: The instructions below will work to manually create a Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan USB installation drive. I needed to upgrade my sister’s 2008 Macbook Pro and…
Leave a CommentUpdate: Go to Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite if you want to install Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite instead. The instructions below will not work for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later versions. I thought it would…
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