Tag: Mac

  • How I installed IPython on macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra

    So I installed IPython today. It was a bit of an adventure, so thought I’d document it here, in case it helps anyone else (including my future self, heh): Installed Python 3.6 (the default, 2.7, included with macOS, isn’t new enough).  This puts the “python3” executable on your machine, which you can invoke similarly to…

  • Chrome still opens last session instead of home page

    This is still a problem exhibited in Chrome 55 on the Mac (I know, I know, not the very latest available at this moment, but still, pretty new): “I was prompted (the little up arrow on the wrench icon) to update yesterday (Sept 28 2012), so I did. Now when I open Chrome after shutting…

  • Can’t type into Spotlight? On 10.12?

    This afternoon I found myself without the ability to type into Spotlight on my new iMac running macOS 10.12.3. All other apps received keyboard input just fine. At the time I was using Spotlight to do some basic calculations involving adding two sums of money up. A bit of Googling lead me to this page,…