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Whether you’re taking PDF’s down to the local copy shop to print, or creating a quick playlist of music files to play in your car on your next road trip. No one would argue with the usefulness of USB drives. They are super useful for quickly and easily sharing and moving files between devices. But as most of us know, this can lead to the annoying appearance of junk files when using our drives between devices running different operating systems. Clearing these hidden files can at times spare youo from frustration and give you peace of mind that your’e only sharing what you intend to be sharing.

As of May 2023, roughly 94% of all traffic through Google’s servers is now encrypted. That’s a great win for internet privacy, unfortunately your browsing history can still be compromised via your DNS requests.

~94% of internet traffic is now encrypted!

What is DNS?

DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System. In the simplest terms, it is like a contact list for website domains.

It’s not super obvious, but macOS actually has 3 Library folders:

• /Library
• System/Library
• Users/<YOUR USERNAME>/Library or ~/Library

The last Library is know as the user library, and is where your user customizations will be stored. For instance application data and preferences, and also data and preferences unique to your user account. Your Safari browser cookies and cache is a great example of this. Normally you don’t really want to dig around in the user library (or any of the Libraries really), but sometimes there is good reason. For example, you want to completely uninstall an app, and also want to remove all preferences and data for that app. The User Library is likely where you will find all those things. I’ll quickly outline 4 simple methods to show the User Library.

So you’ve built your great new super awesome macOS or iOS app. Your app has gone viral, and sales are going great! What’s next? Well, the obvious smart choice is localization.

What is Localization?

Localization involves translating your app, and making changes to the way dates and currencies are displayed, and possibly even changing your UI/UX to better support different cultures. This article will focus on how exactly you go about translating your app strings into another language. I’ll go through the process for a super simple app.

Hiding (and un-hiding) files on macOS is relatively easy. While it is not a recommended method for hiding sensitive documents, it can be a great privacy technique to quickly hide files and folders from casual snooping. Let’s walk through the process of quickly hiding a file.