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All the ways you can manually or automatically empty the Trash on Mac

Trash open on MacBook

When you delete a file on your Mac, it's moved to the Trash. And just like Recycle Bin on Windows PC needs to be emptied from time to time, so does the Trash.

On Mac, you can empty all of your Trash or just certain items from it. Plus, you can have the Trash emptied automatically, so you don’t have to worry about doing it yourself.

If you’re new to Mac, here is how to empty the Trash.

How to make your Mac automatically restart after a crash or power outage

MacBook Screen with Terminal Command

Do you need your Mac to keep running, no matter what? You might want to make sure that if your computer crashes or there’s a brief power outage in your area and you aren’t near your Mac, it restarts on its own.

With a simple Terminal command or flip of a switch in System Settings, you can make your Mac automatically restart after a crash or power failure, and this tutorial shows you how to do that.

6 simple ways to open Terminal on Mac

Terminal Command Window

Terminal is a handy tool for giving your Mac commands, although many may be intimidated by it. After all, it's not as easy as just typing in a sentence and your Mac responding. We have some articles listed below that can help you with common commands if you're interested in learning to use Terminal or if you just want to enter a command or two. Either way, before you can use it, you have to open it, right?

There are various methods for launching it. Here are six simple ways to open Terminal on Mac.

How to install the Sileo package manager on the unc0ver jailbreak

If you haven’t already heard, those rocking Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak for iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 3 can now install the Sileo package manager alongside Cydia on their pwned handset.

The choice to install the Sileo package manager on your unc0ver jailbreak is entirely up to you, but if you’d like to move forward with the install, then you’ll find all the steps you need to follow to do so in this tutorial.

MTerminal officially updated with support for iOS 11 and the unc0ver jailbreak

The ever-so-popular Mobile Terminal (MTerminal) app for jailbroken devices was updated on Tuesday with official support for iOS 11, a move that’s certain to excite jailbreak power users. The latest version of the app is now 1.4-6.

MTerminal is fundamentally an on-device command-line interface (CLI) that lets jailbreakers run powerful commands, and if you’re a veteran jailbreaker, then the interface shown above should look nostalgically familiar.

Security researcher Richard Zhu demos iOS 11.4 jailbreak

Renowned security researcher Ian Beer recently outed yet another tfp0 exploit, this time for iOS 11.3.1. But while certain jailbreak developers are hard at work on a public jailbreak tool that utilizes said exploit, others seem to be moving ahead and devising jailbreaks for newer versions of iOS.

A video shared in a Tweet by Richard Zhu this week appears to demonstrate a functional jailbreak on an iOS 11.4 device.

How to research Terminal commands using manual pages

If you're like me, you'll often be messing around in Terminal and find you can't remember (or don't know) the correct syntax and options for a command you're trying to issue.

You could look it up online and search through all the slightly different answers for different Unix-based systems, or you could use macOS' built in manual pages to get your answer. This guide will show you how.

How to make SSH persistent on the liberTV jailbreak for Apple TV 4

If you've been tinkering around with your Apple TV 4 jailbroken on tvOS 10 with liberTV, you may have noticed that its built-in SSH client, Dropbear, has a tendency to be purged every so often, requiring it be re-spawned and set up again. This is due to the developer's (admirable) desire to retain all jailbreak-related files in temporary folders on the filesystem, reducing the risk of bricking your device while fiddling with it to near-zero. If you are confident enough to move a few files out of their temporary folder however, you can easily get your SSH client up and running persistently, avoiding those tedious reconfigurations which otherwise occur.

How to SSH into your jailbroken Apple TV 4 or 4K and change your root password

With several Apple TV jailbreaks in use by our readership, it's important to remember that with them comes both the power and risk of running SSH connections to your device.

Once jailbroken, you may want to tinker around with the device, grab your apticket off of it, copy files to and from it, or investigate the filesystem. To do this you'll need to connect to it from another device via SSH. In this guide we'll take you through how to do just that, as well as how to protect yourself by changing the default passwords.

How to fix: This is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

Open app dialog box on Mac

One of the security features in macOS is a prompt that appears when opening a program for the first time: This is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

While this can be helpful to the average Joe, preventing him from opening programs he may have downloaded accidentally (such as malware), power users may wish to circumnavigate the prompt. If you already practice good housekeeping with what you download and open, this dialog can be a time waster. There are various ways to deal with it, and this guide will talk you through their pros and cons.