Black Screen on 13" Macbook Pro 2019/Catalina. Resetting NVRAM/PRAM, SMC does not work

It sounds like you were able to restart, however I have experienced a similar black screen, which is some kind of hardware bug on the Macbook Pro. The screen will go black, but the computer is still running. Sometimes the screen will come back on its own; sometimes I can Command-Tab through programs and quit (I can see that I'm switching via the Touch bar); and sometimes I must restart. Over time, I have discovered that Google Chrome is the culprit, but exactly what is happening remains a mystery.

My thought in your case is that perhaps the processes that are causing this issue are resuming through restart. But obviously you'd see the Apple in this case, and it sounds like you're not seeing anything at all.

So maybe your graphics card has failed.


What exactly do I get when I purchase an older version of Mac OS X?

In the past you could buy USB physical media for Lion but the item you linked to is a redemption code delivered by email. You then have the ability to associate that purchase with one Apple ID of your choosing so you can download and install.

Apple offers pre-sales support if you need more questions about this (or any product) and the end user license allows you to run Lion redeemed from the store on all of the machines you own and control but likely no virtualization or time-sharing allowed. Full details are online if you want to read through things before ordering or calling pre-sales support.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/


Are you mean this thing:http://www.amazon.co.uk/iPad-camera-connection-USB-Adapter-reader/dp/B004R4NLJC.  It only support iPad, not include iPhone, and I searched for iPhone SD card reader, there is no result.


Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store its configuration

If you want to share a configuration you can select the target under My Desktops and either right-click and select Export or from the Microsoft Remote Desktop File menu select Export.

The file that contains the information shown in the Microsoft Remote Desktop window, sans any passwords which are stored in your Keychain, is located at:

/Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.mac/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist


I'm not getting notifications from only one contact

Exact same thing has happened to me - I've tried everything, and my most frequented contact will not notify, and all imessage texts come in as if they've already been opened.

In most cases - this is a result of "Hide Alerts" turned off for that contact.


No search results in the Contacts app on IOS 9

I figured this out. Somehow, I had two different contact cards marked as "my" card: one named "Ed Cottrell" and one named "Edward Cottrell." I have no idea how both of them got marked as "my" card; I don't even know where the second one came from. On my phone, only one of them showed up. In the Contacts app on my Macbook, both of them appeared. Anyway, this gave me an idea that this might be the source of the problem.

I took the following steps:

Delete one of "my" cards on the Macbook.
Exit the Contacts app on my iPhone (fully, as in double-pressing the home button and dragging the app upward).
Relaunch the Contacts app on my iPhone.

At this point, the "Groups" label appeared in the upper left corner of the Contacts app. I had been seeing a circular "reload" arrow, but no "Groups" label.

Tap on the "Groups" label.
Uncheck all groups.
Tap "Done."
Tap on the "Groups" label.
Check all groups.
Tap "Done."

And now, my contacts search works again. This was a pain, but at least it's fixed.


iPhone 7 battery discharges very fast after using Waze and charging 3 hours from the car

If the USB Car charger doesn't have the MFi (made for iPhone) logo then it is probably a cheap charger with minimal over-voltage protection circuits inside, even if it says Philips on the outside. This can cause damage to the charge circuit on your phone's logic board and ultimately your battery.

Waze really sucks the juice out of a battery and having that charger on for 3-4 hours straight may have damaged your phone. Try running your phone inside and charging with an Apple original wall cube to see if that makes a difference. If not, then you will need to have that phone looked at by either Apple or an independent micro-soldering repair shop.


How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application?

You can do the following to make it a little bit harder to quit Adium by accident. I think this should solve your problem.

Start by opening System Preferences > Keyboard.

Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the pillbox above.
Make sure you have Application Shortcuts selected in the left bar.
Click the + button to add a new shortcut.

Select Adium from the Application dropdown.
Type "Quit" in the menu title field.
Put your cursor in the Keyboard Shortcut field and type Command-Option-Q
Click Add

And you're done. You can close your System Preferences because the Quit command in Adium has been remapped to a less-likely-to-be-accidentally-typed shortcut.


Can a custom label be applied to a contact field using partial text from the field value?

Applescript to Create Contacts:

    set phoneDad to "Dad Mobile" --Use your own custom variables imported from CSV
-- would need to parse CSV

    tell application "Contacts"

        set thePerson to make new person with properties ¬
            {first name:"John", last name:"Doe", organization:"ABC Apps"} ¬

        -- see the "Contacts" AppleScript dictionary
        -- for other attributes than may be added

        make new email at end of emails of thePerson with properties ¬
            {label:"Work", value:"john@example.com"}
        make new phone at end of phones of thePerson with properties ¬
            {label:phoneDad, value:"555.555.1212"} --Use a variable to replace hardcoded number
        make new url at end of urls of thePerson with properties ¬
            {label:"Work", value:"http://www.example.com/"}
        save

    end tell

You can set custom variables based on your CSV parsing.

This should point you in the right direction.  So, in answer to your question, with Applescript you can add custom fields.  Just use a similar syntax to the above code.  You just need to parse your CSV files accordingly.  I don't know what 3rd party app you use, but this is routinely done directly from database apps such as Filemaker.

Further reading: vCard Wikipedia

  vCard 3.0

  BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Gump;Forrest;;Mr. FN:Forrest Gump ORG:Bubba
  Gump Shrimp Co. TITLE:Shrimp Man
  PHOTO;VALUE=URL;TYPE=GIF:http://www.example.com/dir_photos/my_photo.gif
  TEL;TYPE=WORK,VOICE:(111) 555-1212 TEL;TYPE=HOME,VOICE:(404) 555-1212
  ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;100 Waters Edge;Baytown;LA;30314;United States of
  America LABEL;TYPE=WORK:100 Waters Edge\nBaytown\, LA 30314\nUnited
  States of Ameri  ca ADR;TYPE=HOME:;;42 Plantation
  St.;Baytown;LA;30314;United States of America LABEL;TYPE=HOME:42
  Plantation St.\nBaytown\, LA 30314\nUnited States of Ame  rica
  EMAIL;TYPE=PREF,INTERNET:forrestgump@example.com
  REV:2008-04-24T19:52:43Z END:VCARD


Are you thinking of being a freelancer / indie developer? Or working for somebody else?  Without that in mind the answer varies from 'it could cost you money' to 'whatever the going rate is'.

Reasoning: if you intend to publish your own apps on the App Store then you will need a developer certificate from Apple, which has a cost to it. For the money however you get access to some excellent tools for developing and publishing apps in a high market place.

Now what you can earn very much depends on your strategy. For example if you sell your app for $0.99 then after apple takes their cut you will need to have a lot of downloads to make a living from it.  That being said a couple of downloads at that price will cover your expenses.

If you offer your apps for download for free then you will need another way to generate money. You could include adverts (not a good idea to my mind) or structure your app to include in app purchases. And then we are back to how many people want the extra functions/content.

There are a myriad of choices so I'd suggest "going to Bing and googling for it"

Good luck. From experience I'd have to say it's a well worth the effort experience.


Change Apple Analytics download format from CSV to PDF

Readdle has a nice PDF converter that you can use in the meantime to convert it on your iPhone from csv to pdf.

https://readdle.com/products/pdfconverter


Prevent menu bar from dropping down while in fullscreen

There is no way to disable Menu Bar display when the mouse pointer is hovered towards the top while running an app full screen.

To alleviate the issue, you may consider switching between the tabs using a keyboard shortcut. Command + { and Command + } works with most of the apps.


Can you boot an internal HDD with OS X as an external drive on another Macbook?

To boot from your HDD:

Get the hardware:

Get a SATA to USB adapter.

Remove the HDD from your 2011 MacBook.
Connect it the 2010 MacBook using the SATA adapter.
Power up the 2011 MacBook and hold the Option key until you see the boot menu appears.
Select your HDD (you will see its name) and boot from it.

To only access your data:

You can use Target Disk Mode (TDM):

Connect both MacBooks using the Firewire 800 ports.
Make sure the 2010 MacBook is running.
Power on your 2011 MacBook and press CMD+T to start it in TDM.
Your 2011 MacBook's HDD will appear in the 2010 MacBook's Finder

You should absolutely try to boot your 2011 MacBook's HDD using the TDM method.


iPhone 4S unable to connect to TP-LINK 5 GHz Wi-Fi Router

the iPhone 4S doesn't have the 5GHz band, only the 2.4GHz
The first iPhone to support 5GHz was the iPhone 5.

I can't find an official Apple link that clearly states it, but Everymac covers all Apple models comprehensively -
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/specs/apple-iphone-4s-specs.html


Mac App Store Debug - Save page source to disk

It's saved in /private/tmp as pageSource.html


How can you replace macOS's bouncing dock icon animation?

With regard to the ‘endlessly repeating’, you don't need to activate the app or otherwise deal with the issue being notified to you with the bounce.

Instead, move your mouse over the bouncing icon in the Dock. This will mute the app and stop the bouncing.


How do I change the resolution for the external monitor to 2048x1152 HiDPI?

The Dell P2421DC is a 24" 2560 x 1440 display. You can set your display to use 2048 x 1152 HiDPI, which will use the full pixel range, but scale objects up, making them appear larger. Whether text will be clearer will have to be seen. You'll also be taxing your graphics processing by scaling to a 1.25 factor, rather than whole number pixels.
Hold down ALT when you click on the 'Scaling' radio button in System Preferences > Displays to produce more options.
Your monitor has has pixel density of 122 pixels per inch. A Mac Retina display typically has a density of 218 ppi. You're never going to get close to a Retina display clarity with that hardware.
Earlier MacOS versions did have better smoothing for lower-density displays, but this has been removed, for reasons that only Apple knows about.


On Yosemite, that Workgroup Manager app doesn't work, neither did modifying the plist.

This worked for me, in a terminal:

defaults write com.google.Chrome AutoSelectCertificateForUrls -array

defaults write com.google.Chrome AutoSelectCertificateForUrls -array-add -string '{"pattern":"https://[*.]my.domain:8090","filter":{"ISSUER":{"CN":"example.com"}}}'


Simiply select  Bullet & Numbering style to be Tiered Numbers and it should work fine in iWork '09.


Where are iOS 5 Camera Roll folders stored when synced with Windows?

The sync image location would be the same as the one you have selected as your Sync folder via iTunes Photo sync. I have also found a less complicated - drag/drop method for a two-way iPhone photo transfer between your device and the PC. It is less of a hassle since you can manage your iPhone photos, add and move them around and sync them to your PC directly from your computer.


Unfortunate that the original owner could not be found.
Apple has deliberately designed the device to be linked to an individual. Without that individual's involvement, the security will not be bypassed by Apple without a court order.
Consider returning the phone to Apple for parts recycling:

Recycling an Apple product should be as easy as using one.
The Apple Renew program lets you recycle your device online. We’ll make sure it’s recycled responsibly or given a chance to be used again.


17" mid-2009 MBP, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: can it take 16GB RAM?

If you mean either the 'SD' or the 'Mid 2009' then no, it can take 8GB only.

EveryMac is a fabulous resource for that type of info, including in some cases, whether a machine can actually take more RAM than the Apple official original spec claims.


How to look at iPad's photo folder on a Mac?

You should be able to use the OS X tool called Image Capture. It is much more lightweight than iPhoto and is for downloading images and videos from digital cameras, which the iPad technically is as well.


cdto (to open a terminal) does not work in Mavericks

Please download the latest version at :
https://github.com/jbtule/cdto/releases

Note: on Marvericks, you need to hold down the Command Key to drag the cdto.app into the toolbar.


An option would be to purchase the Mac OS X Snow Leopard for $20 USD. Once you have installed Snow Leopard and upgraded to 10.6.8, then you can download and install El Capitan.

BTW, the icon labeled Windows indicates the Mac Startup Manager is detected the installation of a legacy BIOS booting operating on your Mac. This does not mean the operating system was Windows.

According to everyman.com a 2009 MacBook was shipped with OS X 10.5.6, OS X 10.5.7 or OS X 10.6.1 preinstalled. You did not provide enough information to determine which 2009 MacBook model your have. Apple does not provide enough information to determine which version of Snow Leopard you would be buying. One can assume this would be OS X 10.6.x, but what x is I do not know. You would have to ask to Apple. I assume you are buying a DVD and that your DVD drive works. The idea was to install Snow Leopard from the DVD, then download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. Next, you can download and install El Capitan from the Apps Store. This would avoid using a USB port.

To get the Mac to recognize the DVD, you would need to hold down the option key at startup until the Startup Manager appears. Select the DVD icon to boot from the Snow Leopard DVD.


Only Belgian and French Apple layouts are AZERTY.  If you have either the French or Belgian input source active, they will give you @# above Tab.  But <> will be next to the left shift before W.  Your picture indicates this latter key is missing, so it is not a proper French/Belgian keyboard, but some kind of mishmash, with keys from an ISO keyboard grafted onto an ANSI keyboard.

The only keyboard with <> near Delete is Turkish, which is different everywhere else, and also has the extra key,

To get output to match your keys you will need a custom layout made with Ukelele or Karabiner.

Here is one I made with Ukelele which may work.  You put the French Mod.keylayout file in Library/Keyboard Layouts and then go to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and use the plus and add buttons to activate (it will be in the Others category).


Macbook Pro Connecting to External Monitor

From what I can see of your other monitor, it looks like you're in mirroring mode. Go to System Preferences > Displays > toggle "Mirror Displays", or press CmdF1 (maybe CmdFnF1).


Python only requires the file contents to be read.

Recall that Python is an interpreted language and just processes the contents of that file, rather than executing it; python is the executable here!
Therefore, calling the interpreter with the file as input/argument does not require other than read permissions (e.g.,python example.py).


Keychain: Beachball When Visualizing Password

It is a problem with MagicPrefs and el capitan:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/29270520#29270520

Disabling MagicPrefs does the trick.

As always after an hour trying and googling I found the answer 5min after a post ;-)


Keyboard shortcut to open folder with Sublime Text

Open System Preferences

Select Keyboard, then the Shortcuts tab

In the left pane, click on Services

In the right pane, scroll to Files and Folders

Select Open in Sublime Text (or Add to Sublime Text) and click add shortcut

Select a shortcut.


In case anyone else gets infected by this, here's what I ultimately discovered:

The virus had installed a local web proxy, and a background service that was constantly monitoring the system's proxy settings and "restoring" them to point to itself. I discovered this when I noticed that Safari was throwing SSL warnings for everything, and that YouTube was returning empty responses and proxy errors trying to watch videos.

The proxy also appears to have been preventing Chrome's sync from working, and preventing me from activating several anti-virus programs that require online activation.

I was able to find it using lsof to see what was listening on the port that kept setting itself up as the local proxy. It had installed a mono application using the Titanium web proxy NuGet package, into /usr/local/srcsrv.

Once I killed that, the behavior of the web browser returned to normal except for the "New Tab" page in Google still pointing to G-Search.pro. I haven't yet tried to delete and reinstall Chrome a second time, but I did add several domains to /etc/hosts to prevent them from phoning home.


Keep Finder location when switching between list view and icon view

You are at the same location, namely your root: "Mac1 Sys". You only expanded the folder contents, you did not move into that folder.

It is annoying to others as well ;)
I solve this by cmdmouse-dbl click on the folder and move to icon view (cmd1)

In my opinion Finder is old and needs some updating...


My Xcode build requires cURL 8.0.0 or later (which doesn't exist)

Try reinstalling curl package, e.g.

brew update
brew reinstall curl libcurl

This should fix the broken dependencies.

If this won't help, then try to comment out or remove any DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH references from the startup shell scripts (e.g. ~/.bash_profile).


Is there a way to download a Skype broadcast on Mac?

Sure - there are all sorts of tools to download video when you have a URL.

One that's super easy for me and should be for anyone that has spent a little time learning the bash shell / command - line in the Terminal.app is

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Rather than downloading that alone, I would recommend you start with Homebrew package manager:

https://brew.sh

If you are going to struggle with the command line - this makes it easier to know you've got a good setup, then install the youtube-dl tool (and it's works to download far more then just YouTube, but that's the origin / elephant in the room place where people want to get videos these days).

brew install youtube-dl

Then just copy / paste the URL to see about the Skype download. If you prefer an app you can click, I'd start with the VLC player and open the network location to see how it sees the Skype video.

https://www.videolan.org


How to switch the primary iCloud account on my iPhone 4?

Open the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section and find the iCloud
account.
Select it.
Press "Delete Account".
Select "Delete".
Select "Add Account…"
Select "iCloud".
Log in.

This works on iPad; I assume it's the same for all other current iOS devices.


Keeping Lion-style synchronized desktop switching with multi-monitor on Mavericks

In System Preferences > Mission Control, toggle off the "Displays have separate Spaces" setting. That'll switch the behavior back to Mountain Lion's.


Archived Messages Reappear in the Mail App Inbox

This could be an issue with your iPhone settings.

Go to settings > mail, contact, calendar > Gmail

Here you will see you gmail account, select it.
On the following view, there is an option for advanced settings.

Here you can change to with folder archived mails should be placed.

Please let me know if this solved your problem.


How to create third partition on a Mac with Mavericks and Bootcamp?

Wait, before you do that, you can do this in an easier fashion.

Just shrink the Mac partition via Disk Utility and format the new free space as FAT32.


Can I use a security key such as YubiKey to sign into Google on Safari?

First, I assume you are using YubiKey 4 with U2F support.

Safari does not support U2F natively, but if you have Safari 10, you can add the plugin Safari-FIDO-U2F available from blahgeek on GitHub.

The author confirms that the plugin works with some of the websites (with some hacking required to show up to the server as Chrome):

  Github Account Two-factor authentication
  Dropbox Account Security
  Fastmail

but also warns it does not work with Google Account (although it does with Google's demo site).

So for now the answer is you cannot use U2F to login to Google, but it might change in future.


If your mac shipped with Lion, you should be able to run the hardware test by simply holding D when your computer boots.

If your mac did not ship with lion, you will need the original install disks to boot into the hardware test mode.

Reference


Are these harmful files that were scanned on my Mac safe to delete?

Yes, you should remove these files.
VSearch is adware for OS X. You can find more information about VSearch here:

Removing VSearch or OSX/Vsearch threat from your Mac — support.norton.com

Whilst these files are in system locations such as /System, they are not part of OS X. The adware simply places files in those locations to obfuscate the actions of the adware.


Is it possible to use iphone as an usb or bluetooth webcam on imac?

This is a youtube tutorial to build the apps ♂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-BBHiyLS1k


How much use can you get from an Apple Watch if you don't have (or plan to get) an iPhone?

It's hard to say, considering we don't have access to any material on it other than the website and the keynote. It's likely you've already reviewed all public material on the device.

To quote the bottom of the WATCH page, emphasis added:

  Features are subject to change and may not be available in all regions or all languages. Requires iPhone 5 or later.

I bet the watch can't even be activated without an iPhone. Due to power requirements of Wifi, I doubt the device will carry an 802.11 radio, preferring to get it's data through the phone.

(This answer is entirely speculation and may be invalidated as we learn more about the device.)


How can I make 3 external displays function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)?

The 15" and 13" MacBook Pros are vastly different machines. The 15" has a dedicated video card that may help support that many displays. The 13" uses Intel's embedded video hardware, and it likely does not (at least not in OS X). As the user states in that post, it seems technically possible to run 3 in Linux, but it appears restricted in OS X.

That said, you could always find a USB-based video adapter and use it to run and additional display. It would function independently of the internal hardware.


Install Mac OS X Tiger alongside Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Lion 10.7 was the first consumer Mac OS to be licensed for virtualisation [OS X Server 10.5 was actually the very first]

No Mac can boot natively on an OS from before it was manufactured, as the drivers to support that hardware weren't yet invented.

There is a distant chance you may be able to get Parallels [list is for current version, not compatible with Snow Leo anyway] to virtualise Tiger [even though it is against the EULA], but I would be doubtful.
VirtualBox supports Leo & Snow Leo Server, not Tiger.

It might be simpler, if not cheaper, to get an old Mac that would run Tiger natively.


You can restore contacts with a Time Machine Backup.
You may be able to restore from iCloud, using your iCloud account, if it had not been deleted there -- though, by the sound of the question, this seems to be how they were deleted in the first place.

Edit: I agree that a more complete answer may be desired, however one cannot ascertain what the OP knows about restoring a file from Time Machine, not to mention different OS X versions may store files in different places.  That said, I would think a simple search would find results -- I much rather encourage self-exploration than laziness.

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_restore_os_xs_address_book_data_from_a_time_machine_backup
The following is copied word-for-word from this link, so be sure to click to link to contribute to MacObserver's ad revenue:

Yes, there is a way to restore Address Book content from a Time Machine backup. However, it’s important to note that Address Book data is used by many applications throughout OS X, so before we begin, make sure to quit all open applications to make sure we minimize the possibility of introducing problems.

Location of Address Book Data
Next, to be on the safe side, make a backup of your existing Address Book library. That information is located in [home]/Library/Application Support/Address Book.
Now, hop over to your Time Machine drive in Finder and navigate to the same location under “Latest” in the Time Machine backups folder. Copy the entire contents of the Address Book folder from the backup and overwrite the contents of this folder on your system drive.
Once the copy is complete, relaunch Address Book and you should see your contacts listed, current as of the date of your last backup.
Note that in this case, the listener had performed a clean installation of OS X and her Time Machine backup was no longer linked to her system. If you have a current backup that’s still linked to the OS, simply navigate to the Address Book folder on your system drive, launch Time Machine, and restore the files from within the Time Machine interface.


Two possibly related issues with Mission Control in MacOS Sierra 10.12.3

This sounds like it is a MacOS issue. My 1st recommendation would normally be to update MacOS but I would recommend that you backup your Mac and then reinstall MacOS.


Repair the permissions has allowed to solve the problem. The backup partition is now booting without any problem.


According to Apple, there are three types of MagSafe adapters:

"T" Style
"L" Style
MagSafe 2

The "T" and "L" style are the original MagSafe (or MagSafe 1, if you will) and are compatible with each other.

As for identifying the adapter to your specific model, Apple also provides an excellent support document:  Find the right power adapter and cord for your Mac notebook

As for the MagSafe being dead, according to articles written just today about a patent filed by Apple, they may be bringing it back as an adapter (MagSafe to USB-C)


Preventing Resume after Hang/Crash OS X 10.7.3

As described in Why does my computer auto-restart after freezing (Lion 10.7.3), even when disabled? the issue is that the computer was not actually crashing. Only the login process was crashing. It seems that in this situation all of the running programs try to continue including restarting if required.


How do I download a Facebook messenger audio file?

UPDATE: The mobile website solution pointed out by others doesn't seem to work anymore. If you can get it to work, please update this answer again. For now, fallback to one of the methods described below.

UPDATE: As pointed out by others, you can open Facebooks' Official Mobile Messager Webpage and download directly from the interface:

Go to https://m.facebook.com/messages/
Find the audio file you want to download
Click on the dropdown menu on the right of the audio file
Press Download

These generic methods should work for most browsers. You just have to watch out for the fact that different browsers will use slightly different names for the same tools. I will outline the general solution bellow and indicating the exact tool names for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. (Feel free to edit this answer to add the names for other browsers!)
Method 1 (Network)

Go to the chat window that contains the audio file you want to download, using the Facebook's Messenger Official Website.

Open the browser's Web Inspector

All Browsers the keyboard shortcut opt+cmd+I,
Safari: Develop -> Show Web Inspector,
Chrome: View -> Developer -> Developer Tools,
Firefox: Tools -> Web Developer -> Toggle Tools;

Go back to the chat and press the "Play" button of the file you want to download.

Find the Network tab in the Web Inspector and you will notice that an audioclip-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxx.aac file has been loaded.

Double click on the file and it should automatically download to your default downloads folder (e.g. ~/Downloads). Alternatively, you should be able to right-click on the file and choose the "Download" option.

Method 2 (Resources)

Same as Method 1.

Same as Method 1.

Same as Method 1.

Find the Resources (see details bellow) tab in the Web Inspector and find the audioclip-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxx.aac file

Safari:

Tab: Resources
Section: All Resources
Folder: Other

Chrome:

Tab name: Application
Section: Frames
Folder name: Media

Firefox:

Please add here

Same as Method 1.


How to check Apple ID store balance without iTunes or iPhone?

You can call apple support provide your Apple ID and once the advisor verifies your identity  they can find out for you


Keychain won't reveal forgotten password; how to fix?

I used

security dump-keychain -d login.keychain

which showed me passwords in plaintext.  But where I expected a password for Skype was what looked like a UUID.

I deleted Skype from the keychain, got a reset password link from Skype, launched it and logged in with the new password.

dumped the keychain again.  There are TWO Skype entries.  The first has over 800 characters where the password should be, with a UUID in the middle.  Lots of octal escapes, none of which are the ASCII values of the new password.

The second has a hexadecimal string of about eighty digits, then in quotes, about 60 characters, most of which are octal escapes.

Speculation: the hexadecimal is a decryption or encryption key, the quoted string when converted to bytes and decrypted is the password, and that is a format keychain can't handle and/or Skype is encrypting to prevent people from looking up a password in keychain.


Enable disk mode, then in terminal

$ cd /Volumes

then:

$ ls

and then cd into the directory that's your iPod.
From there, you can use ls and cd to browse your iPod from Terminal.


What accessories are needed to connect my iphone 5 with iPad Mini?

A wireless recommendation would be to use iCloud to sync the photos between the devices. Just go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and turn on Photo Stream. After this, all new photos will be synced to the cloud and back to all devices that use the same iCloud account.

You could also install Dropbox and sync the photos from there. Or use Flicr.


renamed folder becomes a file with an extension

Folders can have a suffix too. If your OS X System knowns the file extension, it will change the icon (after renaming) and link it to the App that can handle that extension (and is set as default App to open those file types).

The folder then becomes a package or container, where you cannot easily look inside by browsing in finder. But you can right-click on it and choose "Show Package Contents" to see what is inside.

Sometimes the (folder-) file extension is hidden by System Default (as for iPhoto Library containers).


macOS Terminal.app can't split with Command + D

I've reported this as an issue on Apple Communities and also reported it as a bug to Apple Support. Until it is fixed, there seems to be no workaround.


What external hardware allows a fingerprint to login/unlock a Mac?

I think this Mac OS Forge project might be your best bet – SmartCard Services.

My research leads me to believe Apple stopped putting 'official' efforts (documentation, etc.) after OS X 10.6.


Can someone install a keylogger on a non-Jailbroken iPhone?

Yes, but only with the Apple ID & password.
This makes it really a parental tool on a child's account rather than a general threat to regular users.
There's a list here of some of the better-known loggers, but most are jailbreak only, the others need AppleID details.
https://janetcpatterson.medium.com/top-10-best-keyloggers-for-ios-771d85b2d330


Is it possible to add iCloud Reminders to iCal calendars?

No. With iCloud and its supporting operating systems (iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2), Apple has split the calendar stores on its online CalDAV servers to be either event-only, or task-only. Reminders sync to task-only calendars. See this Apple Support article for some details.


Numeric keypad keys in vi insert letters instead of numbers

I solved the problem on my own, but I'd like to know WHY my solution works.
I deselected the option the red arrow indicates in the following picture

This is italian, but the english version of the same window is here

But I don't recall enabling this but there it is.


Two different Containers after factory reset? Macintosh HD & Macintosh HD Data?

For a Mac with a single internal drive, starting from scratch usually means erasing all partitions from the drive and creating a new GUID Partition Map with a hidden FAT32 formatted EFI partition and either a legacy Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted partition or a APFS container partition containing a single APFS formatted volume. The erase operation is usually performed by using the Disk Utility, but also can be performed by using the diskutil command.

Apparently, you either did not perform an any erase or erased a volume instead of the drive.

Once the drive is erased, a macOS can be installed. If required, any selected Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted partition will be automatically converted to APFS.
To show the drives in the Disk Utility window, select View>Show All Devices from the Disk Utility menu bar or press the key combination ⌘+2. Also from High Sierra, Mojave and  Catalina, you can select Show All Devices from the pulldown menu shown below.

For Big Sur, the pulldown menu appears as shown below.

When erasing, you should get a popup asking for name, format and scheme. Below is an example from Big Sur. For scheme, you should always choose GUID Partition Map.


Disable Notification for specific Account in Messages

There isn't a way to accomplish this at the moment.


Which temperature element is causing MacBook to stop?

No. Apple doesn’t publish firmware code and you’d have to reverse engineer several components including the on die cpu sensors, the discrete sensors, probably sensors on storage and possibly dozens of sensors within the battery cells.

Since the MacBook have no blowers, on a practical level, you can prop it up on a stand and ensure airflow is good and optionally ensure cool air surrounds the device to reduce internal temperatures. The whole case is a heat sink and radiator, so you can dramatically cool it with an elevated stand and/or cool airflow.

If you have any coverings or cases on your Mac - absolutely remove them since a thin gap of air between the metal and plastic is a great insulator just like a blanket would be.

Outside in the sun or even with shade, you can have several additional problems:

sunlight on the black screen will overheat it dramatically and light on the rest of the case is less than ideal.
getting cool air will be hard or impossible


How to use latex2rtf without root installation

Thanks to Mark for the solution, which was pretty basic, indeed:

Open your .bash_profile file in Home directory (you can use terminal to open it, or tick "Show Hidden Items" in Finder on OS X 10.9.4). Add following to it:

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/.../latex2rtf/bin

Where the part after ":" specifies the location of latex2rtf file. In this case "..." is the home directory.

Save the file and exit. Run following in terminal:

source $HOME/.bash_profile

latex2rtf command should work now in terminal. The code is from here.


Mac OS X Notes moved to Exchange disappear

I was able recover all the files i lost. Lucky enough.
You can follow following steps to achieve it.
Following used:
1. mac_apt
2. DB browser for sqlite

Using mac_apt, i connected to database command below on terminal
./mac_apt_singleplugin.app/Contents/MacOS/mac_apt_singleplugin -i ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite -o ~/Desktop/Note/mactool/ NOTES
This will create a Notes.csv in our output folder provided. It will have all the notes present.
Open the CSV, You will see your note text in the column 'Data'. For me, the 'Data' didn't had complete text present, but was partial. To get entire note file i filtered on the 'Folder' (as i lost one specific folder data) and got 'ID' column.
I connected to NoteStore.sqlite database using DB browser for sqlite
Open the NoteStore.sqlite in SQLite Browser and
run query as
SELECT * from ZICNOTEDATA  where ZNOTE='ID';
Click on each ZDATA entry and on the right side click 'Export'
Save the blob as whatever_filename.gz
Unzip the file using your preferred tool (i have used gunzip on Mac OS X)
You will get your plaintext at the beginning of the file ( there is more than just plain text ).


APFS/High Sierra - `tmutil deletelocalsnapshots` not deleting snapshots

I think the least-recent time machine snapshots was corrupted - potentially from some system crashes caused by APFS bugs.

I tried running DIsk Utility's first aid, but that froze my computer for over 3 hours (maybe it ran out of space to work with?) - I ended up having to force-restart.

I solved the problem by running first aid booted from an external hard drive install of High Sierra. It removed some old snapshots. I then was able to boot from my normal drive and run tmutil deletelocalsnapshots... which successfully deleted the snapshots and freed up space


Is there any way to set network preferences per Wi-Fi connection?

The locationchanger commandline tool allows changing the macOS Network Location setting according to Wi-Fi SSIDs.

Basically, after installing, you create Location settings in the Network preferences with the same name as the Wi-Fi SSIDs you connect to. The tool then changes the network location setting according to the connected Wi-Fi network SSID.
If no matched name is found, it falls back to the "Automatic" network location setting.

See https://github.com/eprev/locationchanger for download and usage instructions.

It even supports advanced features like running scripts when a specific Wi-Fi network is connected. Please see here for more info on that: https://ruimarinho.github.io/post/automating-network-location-switching-on-macos/


Can I build a VM and use the image on a MacBook?

I would suggest the Profile Management option that is included in OS X Server.

It has all of the described above features and it is really easy to operate with.

Take a look at https://www.apple.com/ca/osx/server/ it's $22.99 CAD.


Big Sur Safari issues with playback speed

I can confirm this issue.
As a workaround, until this bug is fixed, use Firefox for YouTube and Netflix.


Internet Sharing from WiFi to Ethernet doesn't work in Mountain Lion

This is indeed quite broken in Mountain Lion. Once you've fixed up the default route as you describe in the question, you're still left with the problem that Mountain Lion is giving its bridge interface address to clients as both the router address (which is correct) and as the DNS server address (which isn't).

Verify that this is the problem by entering an HTTP server IP address into the address bar on a client web browser when connected through your Mac after you fix default routes, and it should load up fine.

My solution to this problem is to fix up the route as you describe -- which could be automated, of course -- and to keep BIND (aka /usr/sbin/named) running in the background on my Mac in a forward-only configuration, forwarding all queries to Google's public DNS servers. This doesn't fix the underlying brokenness in Mountain Lion, but it makes things start working for the clients.

A couple useful resources:

http://www.macshadows.com/kb/index.php?title=How_To:_Enable_BIND_-_Mac_OS_X%27s_Built-in_DNS_Server (how to fire up BIND on OS X)

http://gleamynode.net/articles/2267/ (how to configure BIND for forward-only operation -- of course you will not want to make BIND only listen on 127.0.0.1)

It would be far preferable for Apple to make this feature of their OS work as advertised, but in the meantime I've found this is a viable workaround.


Is there a meaningful performance index to compare various MBP generations?

Well for benchmarking you can download GeekBench or check out the benchmark scores for Macs.

My story: I still have my i5-2.5Ghz Macbook MD313 (2011) and I upgraded to 2x 240gb 560mbps SSD in RAID 1 which get speeds up to 800mbps. Then I upgraded my RAM to 16gb. It only has 512mb integrated HD3000 GPU and this 2011 machine outruns my 2013 i5-3.2Ghz 27" iMac with 8gb RAM and without SSD.

My advice:

Get a 15" non-retina (around 2012-2014) that has at least a 1gb dedicated GPU (2gb would be awesome), eg. the AMD/nVidia series and not integrated Intel ones.
For having 10+ apps open at a time, I highly suggest you upgrade
your memory to 16gb, anything above late 2011 can handle 16gb RAM.
Make sure it can support SATA3 and get a SATA3 SSD with speeds around 550mbps read AND write. (upgrade is easy)

The GPU will help with your Adobe suite (enable 'Use Graphics Processor' in Preferences). The RAM will help with 10+ apps open and leave most stuff in memory for faster opening etc without clearing memory that often. This will also help with Adobe suite as you can set how much memory it should use, the more the merrier, right? And the SSD will obviously help with opening/closing applications and read/write to and from files faster.

Upgrading older devices with latest products helps me out financially significantly!


How to clear selection in OS X Terminal?

You need to learn the keyboard commands for the editor you are using; in this case, vim.

To delete, press Esc for "Command Mode" then....

x -  for a character
dw  - for the current word
dd  - for the current line
5dd -  for five lines

Terminal isn't a GUI environment so mouse interaction is minimal.  See Vim Help Files for full documentation on how to use Vim.

(I personally prefer nano as it's much more user friendly and included with macOS)


Is there any way to remove an app icon (especially stickies) on mac's application switcher (cmd+tab menu)?

You could try this app. (It's paid though) GhostTile


Apple's Podcasts app lets you slow down playback speed only to 50%. To slow down the playback speed, tap the indicated button to cycle between 1x, 1.5x, 2x and .5x speed.

There are various 3rd party Podcasts app for iOS which lets you slow down the playback speed with much fine grained values. One such app is Podbean Podcast App & Player. It lets you slow down the playback speed with granularity of 10%.


How do I stop Safari from occasionally downloading "mlingos9.html"?

It's a problem with a specific web page — this one.

It specifies the content type application/octet-stream in the HTTP response headers, which is usually used for files meant to be downloaded — and that's what your web browser does. HTML web pages usually use text/html or similar HTTP headers, never application/octet-stream.

If you were browsing web sites with similar topics that might link to this web page, and you clicked a link, or the web page was included in another web page using a frame/iframe, that's the cause for the downloads.


In Disk Utility each drive is represented by one line with indented lines underneath them for each partition (or volume) on that drive.

From the screenshots you provided, you are using a drive constellation Apple calls a Fusion drive. It consists of an SSD and a regular hard drive logically bundled together.

Disk Utility detects the logical volume group of that constellation, which is named "Macintosh HD" and by default there is a partition underneath it with the same name.

For some reasons, this is not the case for you and I also see that the partition buttons are greyed out. So, my suggestion is to intentionally break the Fusion constellation apart and have Disk Utility fix it thereafter. Here is how:

Close Disk Utility
Open Terminal (menu "Utilities")
Type in diskutil coreStorage list and look for the UUID (you will need it in the next step)
Type in diskutil coreStorage delete lvgUUID|lvgName where lvgUUID|lvgName is the UUID you found before
Quit Terminal after the command finished
Open Disk Utility and follow the on-screen instructions to fix the "damaged" disk

After that, you will be able to install OS X again.


How can I use an app after installing it via `brew pull`?

You pull is, which means the repo is copied to your computer but you need to execute :

brew install truecrypt

to really install it.


MSFT Word window won't resize in office 2011

Make sure no panes are open in the sidebar (Contents, Reviewing, Advanced Search).


How to move to another full screen window of the same app

Just going into the main Mission control window will solve this, it will give a nice summary like view of all your open (fullscreen) windows. Another way to switch between fullscreen windows is selecting the "Window" menu item or the Safari icon in your dock and choosing the right window from there.

Edit

If you want to use a keyboard shortcut to accomplish this you can use an application that binds a keyboard shortcut to an Apple script, like FastScripts. The next step is placing the script in your /Library/Scripts folder and adding a shortcut to the script in the FastScripts preferences.

I'm not really good with Apple scripts, but this is a sort of working script that I made:

tell application "Safari"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "Venster"
                tell menu "Venster"
                    click menu item 14
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

The big problem with this script is this:
The line click menu item 14 will make the first window that you see when you click on the "Window" menu item active, and changing it to click menu item 15 will make the second window active. However, obviously, this isn't included in my code, and I don't have the time to work on it today, so you can either ask someone else how to do this or wait until tomorrow.


Non-smooth scrolling pdf with trackpad in Preview with 10.8

Try duplicating the pdf, and then testing to see if the same behavior occurs on the duplicate. For whatever reason, in some cases, the copy scrolls smoother than the original did.

This is only a workaround, but if it works, it'll address the problem if you have a doc you need to do a lot of work in.


Used a chemical on my MacBook screen. Now what?

You may have damaged the coating on your MacBook Air Screen.  Chemicals "strip" the protective coating that's applied to the glass.  It's like if you peeled some of the tint on your car window; you can't wipe it back on.

Monster includes a PDF "manual" which is available on their website's support page.

  If the product to be cleaned stipulates "soap and water" cleaning only or
  recommends that no cleaners be used on your product, do not use this
  cleaner as a cleaning method.

As, as pointed out in the comments, Apple says to dampen a soft cloth with water only.

  To clean the screen on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air,
  first shut down the computer and unplug the power adapter. Dampen a
  soft, lint-free cloth with water only, then use it to clean the
  computer's screen.

Bottom Line

You probably damaged the protective coating.  You may be able to "polish" the streak out by completely removing the protective layer, but this is just conjecture at this point.


Multiple display setup mac, ignore separation between displays

That's not really what you wanted, but have you tried this arrangement?


On OS X you can assign your own keyboard shortcuts very easily.

Just go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts

Here you can add new shortcut for any application like this:


OS X 10.8, unsigned application: reset open confirmation

You can add it using xattr from a command prompt, for example to indicate it was downloaded by Safari and have it quarantined as such, just do;

xattr -w com.apple.quarantine "0000;4b3a40d0;Safari;|com.apple.Safari" <path to file>;


Create a bootable installer for High Sierra under macOS Catalina

You are right - this seems to work only if the executing mac does support running the target OS. A download of 10.13.6 succeeds on MacMini7,1 and in a VM but fails on a MacMini8,1. Given that, it is likely you also get hardware specific builds if these are available for a given OS.

The installinstallmacos.py script lists all available options and does show Unsupported Board ID or Unsupported macOS version in cases that are not supported but it is able to download the installers from supposably the same source as the softwareupdate tool.

So either run softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer on compatible hardware, in a VM or use installinstallmacos.py.


How do I gain permission to generate ssh keys on my Mac?

sounds like you don't have eXecute permission on your .ssh folder: try running ls -ld ~/.ssh and verify that the permissions are drwx------, and that the directory is owned by you. If the permissions differ, run chmod -R u+rwX,go-rwx ~/.ssh; if you're not the owner, run chown -R <your account name> ~/.ssh (find out your account name by running whoami).

If either the chmod or chown commands fail due to permission errors, run them again but prefic them with sudo.


Why does extracting a large file with MacZip cause Mac OS 9 to hang?

In modern MacOS, the multi-tasking is controlled by the OS itself. It 'deals' out CPU cycles to the running processes.
Classic MacOS 9 used 'Cooperative multitasking', in which applications took turns on the CPU, and released control when they finished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_multitasking
'Good' applications would provide code to ensure that they didn't hold on more than they needed.


How do I figure out if my iPhone is iCloud locked?

If you have a SIM card you should definitely install it and try again.

However, considering your message is about the activation server being unreachable, I would also recommend checking Apple's System Status page. Once there, check in particular for the colour of the circle next to iOS Device Activation (usually listed in the 2nd column). If the circle isn't green, try activating your iPhone again later.

In terms of your concern/question about determining if it is iCloud locked, you will know this if you're being prompted to sign in with an Apple ID in order to activate it. If you are, then it has an activation lock.

For more information you can read Find My iPhone Activation Lock.

Finally, for general support on activation issues you can refer to: If you can‘t activate your iPhone.


Thunderbolt and DisplayPort are not compatible. They only share one port. Thunderbolt uses active transmission (there's a chip in the cable), DisplayPort uses a simple copper cable. You should be fine with using a DisplayPort cable.


iPhone 3GS doesn't react on remote control (headphones) from iPhone 4S

I had this issue with my iPhone 4.  Turns out some debris got in the headphone jack.  As the 3GS is an older device, the contacts may be dirty.

Try taking a cotton swab with most of the cotton removed and dipping it in rubbing alcohol. While it's off, clean the sides of the headphone port on the 3GS.

Let it sit for five minutes and turn it on.  See if that helps.

Another thing you can do is quickly and forcefully insert and remove the headphones in question to (hopefully) clear anything blocking the contacts.

Personally, I'd try the first option first.


Button labels missing from security confirmation for installer

This could be a problem with the font cache on your Mac. You can reset the font cache on Mountain Lion with the following steps.

Open Terminal and run this command: sudo atsutil databases -remove
Reboot immediately


Firefox on macOS: Use native fullscreen on videos

This is now supported in modern builds of Firefox (appears to be implemented since version 70). However, it is not enabled by default. Go into about:config and set full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen to true.


When I try to move the folder, the copying process begins

Hold the  Cmd ⌘  key as you drag.
This will reverse the default behaviour of 'move to same drive, copy to another'


Android phone not even charging on a Mac Mini (Yosemite)

I have zero experience with Android, that said it may be that a driver or such (sync software for Mac?) might be needed for the Mac to 'recognize' the phone


MacBook Pro: 2017 Unable to connect to Dell U2713HM with USB-C to DisplayPort cable

Upgrade to High Sierra (Version 10.13, build 17A405) allows the monitor to display again.

The picture quality is blurry. It is as if I am using the HDMI input.

It turns out there was issue with the Alogic cable.

At the end I purchased a new set of cables (Konix) and the problem is resolved.


You can reset OS X's icon cache with the following commands. Just copy and paste each into a Terminal window and then reboot your Mac.

 sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
 sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;
 sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store

Source: Clearing the Icon Services cache in Yosemite


Does a MacBook Pro need a power adapter to work in the Bahamas?

According to these guys, anything that works in the US should work in the Bahamas.

  Voltage: 110-120 Volts (Same as U.S./Canada, most other areas are
  220-240 Volts)

  Primary Socket Types: North American Non-Grounded , North American
  Grounded


There's some things that still aren't that easy to do on an iPhone/iPad and require the use of a Mac (or PC, however steps are harder) to accomplish.
Two parts to your question - first off going into Contacts--> Groups is simply a way to turn on and off certain groups of contacts so you are only seeing the groups you want to see. In your situation you would want to have the checkmarks ON next to all the Groups, otherwise you will see the behavior you are describing (accidentally hiding exchange contacts).
Next, in order to get the Exchange contacts migrated over to iCloud the easiest method is to get ahold of a Mac and follow these steps:

(Optional) If this is not your computer, or it's shared with others, consider creating a fresh user account for your Wife in order to do this task so it doesn't mix up content with other people. To do so Click Apple menu in upper left and go to System Preferences. Then click Users & Groups. Click the lock symbol in the bottom left and unlock the window pane with the computer's password. Then click the + sign in the bottom left and create a new user account for your wife to use for this task. Sign out of the account and into her account -- skip through the setup assistant the best you can, but do sign into her iCloud account.
Go to System Preferences, then click on Internet Accounts.
Add an exchange account and sign in with your wife's info. Then enable the info you are hoping to transfer - in this case just the Contacts.
If you didn't do it in the setup assistant, add your wife's iCloud account and make sure to enable Contacts.
Open the Contacts application on the dock and look to see if both her iCloud contacts and her Exchange contacts show up ok.
If they do, click on the Exchange section where it says "All Exchange". Select all (Command, A on the keyboard) or edit menu, select all. Then drag them onto the iCloud section and be patient as it copies over.

Once you've copied over the Exchange contacts to iCloud, you can then go back to the iPhone and enable the contacts for both Exchange and iCloud in the Settings--> Passwords & Accounts section. Or if you're running iOS 14 or newer it would be in Settings--> Contacts, then click Accounts near the top and make sure Contacts is enabled on both Exchange and iCloud.
(Optional) Last tip that helps a lot - in the same Contacts settings page as mentioned above, you can look for the option "Default Account". Once you find it set her default account for contacts to iCloud. Doing that will help her out a lot in the future as new contacts will go on her iCloud.
I love Exchange but have never felt comfortable putting my personal contacts onto a workplace email account that I could lose access to on a moments notice - hence my recommendation for her to set the default contacts to iCloud.

Regarding setup if you don't have a Mac, you can use a newer browser like Chrome/Firefox/Edge, and sign into iCloud.
Select the Contacts section and in the bottom left is a cog that will give you the option to "Import Vcard".
Next is the convoluted process of exporting the contacts as a multiple contacts vCard which basically involves exporting the contacts as a CSV file out of Outlook, then using Gmail's import process, then exporting them back out as a Vcard for Apple products.
Here's reference for those steps: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/803
Afterwards you would get that long sought after group Vcard you created with the steps mentioned above and upload it into iCloud.
Lastly jump back up to my steps mentioned after 6. and you'll be all set from there.


Unable to install profiles to Apple TV 4th gen

I found something with similar issues on this thread:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/21638

  Process > Perform all Mac updates > reboot   then open the apple
  configurator again > select store at the top > sign in with apple id.

While it applies to deploying Apps to iPads, the Apple TV runs iOS so the solution may be the same.


How do I create and lock a single photo album in ios10?

You can't lock the photos, but you can hide them.
Hiding photos is a simple enough process. Start by opening up photos and selecting all the photos you wish to hide.
Now, click the share button and scroll through the bottom section looking for an item labeled 'Hide'.
Now, the only place that the photos are accessible is in Photos > Albums > Hidden. There's not even a preview so the photos stay extra hidden.

Unfortunately, there's no native (as you requested) way to lock these photos with a PIN, but now the only way to see them is to find the Hidden album.
All photos in the Hidden album are not shown in Moments, Collections, and Years. Until iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Hidden items will still appear in auto-generated albums, like selfies, screenshots, etc.


Disable the do not disturb banner on iOS 13 notification centre

There is no way.

When you swipe right on most notifications, there are the three options Manage, View, and Clear/Clear All. Manage is the one we are worried about, as it can permanently stop notifications.

Swiping right on the Do Not Disturb notification, though, only reveals two options, View and Clear. This shows there is no way to permanently disable it.


I lost 2.3 GB after unjailbreak my iPhone 4s

Whether you're JailBroken or not, and regardless of if you've ever been, you'll never actually see the full 16GB on your iPhone. Part of that 0.31GB of "Other" that iTunes reports are the remnants of the JailBreak. Restore iOS again, and then "Set up as a new phone" when going through the activation process. You'll never gain back that 2.3GB, because that's what iOS is using to store the operating system. To be more detailed, the 13.62GB of capacity is only the capacity of the User's partition on /var/mobile/. The other 2.3GB is given to / (the System partition).


Network service inactive/Unable to add Wi-Fi network on mac pro

The + sign on the bottom left of the dialog is the button you want to press.

Or switch your location back to automatic if it isn't already.


How can I get the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro volume control to work?

The workaround I found so far is to use Soundflower as an intermediate filter between PC output and the X-Fi. This allows to control volume from Mac OSX at the price of some sound processing. I cannot comment yet on sound quality but on first auditions it seems to sound better than setting the volume to 1/100 in Songbird (my FLAC player).


The disk lost its GUID partition table and the EFI volume was partly overwritten. The disk was mounted in an enclosure which doesn't properly report a logical block size of 512 bytes. Instead 4096 bytes are used. The disk itself has a physical block size of 4096 bytes.

After trying some known but actually unsuccessful methods (e.g. Disk Warrior or answers here at stackexchange: HFS+ invalid number of allocation blocks to recover the disk, we formatted an equally sized disk, dded the EFI volume to a temporary file and recovered the partition table (including the main volume) by using the same standard values we got by formatting the empty disk.

The EFI of the previously partitioned (empty) disk was saved to a file with:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
dd if=/dev/disk2s1 of=/Users/user/Desktop/disk2s1.raw

Repairing the corrupted disk:

The partly "repaired" but corrupted GUID partition table originally looked like this

sudo gpt -r show disk2
    start        size  index  contents
        0           1         PMBR
        1           1         Pri GPT header
        2           4         Pri GPT table
        6          34
       40      409600    1    GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640   243781000
244190640           4         Sec GPT table
244190644           1         Sec GPT header

After removing the EFI partition with:

sudo gpt remove -i 1 /dev/disk2

and rewriting the GUID partition table with

sudo gpt destroy /dev/disk2
sudo gpt create /dev/disk2

the EFI volume and the main volumes were added with:

sudo gpt add -b 6 -i 1 -s 76800 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/Users/user/Desktop/disk2s1.raw of=/dev/disk2s1
sudo gpt add -b 76806 -i 2 -s 244081066 -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk2

The disk and the main volume were verified:

diskutil verifyDisk /dev/disk2
diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk2s2

Finally the disk looks like this:

sudo gpt -r show disk2
    start        size  index  contents
        0           1         PMBR
        1           1         Pri GPT header
        2           4         Pri GPT table
        6       76800      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    76806   244081066      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
244157872       32768
244190640           4         Sec  GPT  table
244190644           1         Sec  GPT header

All data was recovered.


Automatically executing actions according to the current location

You probably want Control Plane:

  ControlPlane allows you to build configuration profiles, contexts in ControlPlane lingo, for your Mac based on where you are or what you are doing.  ControlPlane determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences.  Evidence sources can include your current location, visible WiFi networks, attached USB devices, running applications and more.  You can even write your own evidence sources using shell scripts!


iTunes Match is stuck on the last song in step 2 of the initial process

in iTunes, select your Library -> Music and then right click on the Column Headings and choose iCloud Status. Sort by this new column and the file causing the problem should have a 'Waiting' Status which you can then remove.


Excel Formula using substitute function to replace quotation marks

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(34),"%22C")

& is for concatenation, but you're not concatenating, so it should be omitted.
CHAR(34), not 32, is the double quote character.


How do the audio controls work on "The Daily"?

The part starting at about 3:30 of this YouTube video might help.


Safari on iOS 9.2.1 / 9.3 won't open links

Update to iOS 9.3.1 or later to fix this specific issue.

Details of iOS 9 updates are posted at https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1842

If you want to try to fix this before Apple patches the bug, here are some steps to try:

https://bencollier.net/2016/03/how-to-fix-ios-9-3s-broken-safari-links/
https://infinitediaries.net/how-to-fix-ios-9-x-safarimail-link-bug/

The latter is a bit longer and more humorous and has some nice photos to look at while you do the prescribed dance. The former link is shorter and more to the point.

Both require the device to be put in AirPlane mode and connected to a computer to resolve the data corruption caused by some apps and iOS not handling the app configurations in a robust manner.

There's a lot of evidence that Safari is in fact having a lot of trouble for some people. I haven't seen a device with issues, but if I did I would do two things to help narrow down the possibilities:

Verify your personal backup situation. Run a manual iCloud backup and make sure it finishes. Run a manual iTunes backup if you do that as well.
Connect the iPhone to iTunes and run a sync - be careful to read and cancel any sync if iTunes warns you that the sync may erase any data or content. The sync is to gather logs from iOS so you can look them over on the computer - but it's not worth losing music files if a sync will erase that.
Keep a log of when you run into issues - you'll want to note the time, the app in question (if you aren't using Mobile Safari to browse links)
Keep track of which apps you uninstall/install while sleuthing is ingoing.

Now - I would recommend anyone contact AppleCare if they can - sooner rather than later as Apple's paid support will a) know how to use these logs and get them to engineering b) know if/when a fix is out c) allocate resources to nail this down based on support costs and volume.

I believe someone has isolated one third party app that is causing Safari on iOS 9.3 to behave badly:

@stroughtonsmith > Reproducible: installing http://Booking.com ’s app will break link handling across iOS. Uninstalling it will fix it
@stroughtonsmith > The fun part, however: it won’t be fixed immediately after uninstalling. There’s a timeout before it’ll fix itself

If you have that specific app, you might consider deleting it and then waiting a bit (10 to 15 minutes) to see if this resoles your issue. If this is in fact the case, my suspicion is that Apple can work with developers to fix this or release a patch.

If not - you might need to keep track of and troubleshoot the following items:

watch the system log on iOS when Safari is crashing or mis-behaving with cfgutil syslog and Apple Configurator 2's automation tools.
Safari content blockers
Whether some or all web sites are problematic
Safari settings (it's not looking like javascript is failing - but that could conceivably cause an issue like this combined with other settings and internet access)
How you connect to the internet (public WiFi, work WiFi, cellular and which carrier, VPN to a data center or specific other network)
It would take time, but you could easily make a backup and then erase all content and settings to verify that the issue is one or more third party apps. Depending on how full your iOS device is - a restore overnight or over lunch isn't a bad solution to knowing what precisely is the cause.


How Do I Upgrade VirtualBox from the Command Line

How to upgrade VirtualBox via the Command Line in macOS - 5 steps!

This is a quick guide on how to upgrade (install) VirtualBox from the command line.   It will involve mounting a .dmg, installing a .pkg, and finally upgrading (installing) the Extension Pack.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you have already downloaded the required files found on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and have sudo privileges.

You also need the names or UUIDS of the running VMs. You can get that by using the VBoxManage list runningvms command.  Remember if you use the VM name and it has spaces, you must encapsulate it in quotes.  Example: VBoxManage showvminfo "My VM"

1.  Shutdown all running VMs and VirtualBox Application

Shutting down VMs is as simple as logging in and powering down the VM.  However, since this is "Terminal only" solution, we need to look at the savestate function in VBoxManage.

VBoxManage controlvm <vmname|UUID> savestate

Issue that command for each VM by name or UUID and it will automatically save the "position" of the running VM and then close it.  This is equivalent to selecting the Close item in Machine Menu of the VirtualBox GUI.

Note:  This is not like "pulling the plug"  This will save the machine state so that when you power back on, it will pick up right where it left off.

Next, we need to make sure the VirtualBox GUI (management console) isn't running.  To kill the VirtualBox GUI, just issue the command:

killall VirtualBox

2.  Mount the VirtualBox Installation .dmg1

hdiutil attach ~/Downloads/VirtualBox-Version.dmg

You will see several "Checksumming" messages and when finished, you will see the disks and mount point that the image was attached to similar to below (these device identifiers and names will differ from yours):

/dev/disk5              GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk5s1            Apple_HFS                       /Volumes/VirtualBox

The important piece is /Volumes/VirtualBox.  This is where the installer will be located.

3. Install the .pkg2

Next, we're going to run the installer to install the .pkg file. Located on the volume we just mounted.

sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.pkg -target /

If you get the following message, go back to step 1

installer: Error - The installer has detected running virtual machines. Please shut down all running VirtualBox machines and then restart the installation

If all goes well, you should see the following message:

installer: Package name is Oracle VM VirtualBox
installer: Upgrading at base path /
installer: The upgrade was successful.

You can verify that the new version was installed by issuing the command:

VBoxManage --version

4. Install the Extension Pack

To upgrade the Extension Pack, you need to remove the old one and install the new one.  You can use the VirtualBoxManage extpack uninstall [--force] { name } and VBoxManage extpack install {tarball} commands, but luckily, Oracle provided us with a --replace option to do it in one step:

sudo VBoxManage extpack install --replace ~/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-version.vbox-extpack

There will be some license terms, simply enter "Y" to accept.  If successful, you will see the following message:

Successfully installed "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack".

5. Restart your VMs and Eject Your Volume

Success!  You're all done.  Restart your VMs as needed

VBoxManage startvm <vmname|UUID> [--type headless|GUI|seperate]

Most of my VMs are headless boxes so I issue the command with the --type headless option

VBoxManage startvm "FreeBSD" --type headless

Don't forget to eject the installation media volume.  You won't want unsuspecting users coming in and finding attached volumes!

hdiutil eject /Volumes/VirtualBox

References and further reading

1Is there a command to install a dmg

2Installing .pkg with terminal ?

VBManage Reference Manual


Display of downloaded files with the Dock icon

The view mode of your downloads folder on the dock probably changed. Secondary-click (right-click / ctrl-click) the icon, then under the "Display contents as" section, click "Fan". Also, on top of the list, be sure that "Date added" is checked under "Sort by".


How to drop files from Desktop to Finder windows in a sane way?

There are multiple ways to achieve it.

Using hot corners

Slide Your mouse to the hot corner to show Desktop
Drag Your file (do not drop)
Slide once again to hot corner
Drop the file to the app

Using keyboard shortcuts

Show Desktop with ⌃ CTRL+↓ Down arrow
Drag the file (You may need to click on Desktop first to activate Finder)
Then ⌘ CMD+⇥ TAB to previous app and drop it

Using the trackpad

Show Desktop with gesture (spread four fingers on trackpad)
Drag the file
Slide on top of the app icon on Dock
Slide on top of the window You want
Drop the file


I’ve found quitting and reopening Mail to be the quickest reliable fix.  It’s been a known issue for years, persisting through several major Mail upgrades.

I eventually got tired of hearing myself cuss at it and wrote a Service which quits and returns to the rules prefs window with a keyboard shortcut.


Macbook pro sometimes left clicks are not registered

This happened to me as well, and I just realized that the problem might be because I swapped the hdd drive with other macbook and the when I installed osx the hdd it was in a different macbook, so probably after a reinstall would work.


My internal "Machintosh HD" is not detected by my MacBook Air

Try and format the disk by using Disk Utility built into the installer (Utility > Disk Utility) then try and reinstall.

This should work since 'Macintosh HD' is only a volume and not the actual SSD. I used this method to fix the b-node tree error or whatever it is where I couldn't write to it.

This worked


How to force Startup Manager menu to appear at every boot?

I'm not sure this is possible by default without holding down the ⌥ key at startup. You can make the Boot Camp partition always boot by selecting it in System Preferences → Startup Disk, but it sounds like this isn't what you want.

However, if you're not adverse to installing additional software, I think rEFIt may do what you need. The section on Getting into the rEFIt menu says:

  If you have installed rEFIt on your Mac OS X volume, it will be loaded
  automatically when the Mac starts up.

You should then be able to select whichever OS you want to boot from there.


What is the equivalent of the 'gsettings' command on OS X?

The most approaching command line interface on MacOS X is the command defaults. All the settings are hierarchically structured inside domains, which are separated by dots (as in Ubuntu settings).

To get all the domains containing settings (the equivalent of gsettings list-schemas), enter:

defaults domains

and for a human readable version, enter:

defaults domains | sed -E 's/, /\
/g' | sort


How to create an OSX Application to wrap a call to a shell script?

I can see a couple of things wrong there.

Firstly you have opened a workflow and not an Application.

You should choose Application when you make your selection for the type of Automator file.

And the code you have will not work as you expect, since you have not changed directory. (cd).

In the code as you have it, all it is doing is getting the path as an alias and storing it in the variable  current_path and in a format unsuitable for the unix commands.

But you do not use it.

So the current directory will most likely be your home folder

At this stage there is no telling what it is trying to launch.

If I run it as you have it I get.

Which makes sense since I do not have Java installed. But if I did I would not expect it to find the right file.

The Applescript need to look like this.

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Finder"
        set current_path to container of (path to me) as alias
    end tell

    do shell script "cd " & quoted form of (POSIX path of current_path) & " ;ls | open -fe"

    return input
end run

In my example

do shell script "cd " & quoted form of (POSIX path of current_path) & " ;/bin/ls | /usr/bin/open -fe"

I cd to the POSIX path of the alias in the  variable  current_path

i.e from "alias "Macintosh HD:Applications:""   to  "/Applications/"

The quoted form of  escapes the path using quotes.

I have used the /bin/ls command and pipe it to the open in TextEdit stdin as a demonstration here so that you can test to see if you are getting to the area you expect.

You would use something like;

do shell script "cd " & quoted form of (POSIX path of current_path) & " ;\"java -jar app.jar\""

update:

A another way is just use pure Applescript.

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Finder"
        set current_path to container of (path to me)

        set theFile to (current_path) as alias

        open file "java -jar app.jar" of theFile
    end tell

end run


iPhone Heating/Slow/Quick battery drain after repair

Nothing at all in your description contravenes the Apple diagnosis of swapping the battery. Part of battery service is that they can inspect for other damage and re-quote you if you need something other than a battery.

You didn’t mention if your device was stable enough to run the battery diagnosis from Apple Support. If that ran, I’d be even more sure they know what they are talking about and the chance they’re wrong grows less.

Your symptom of battery charge level varying more than 10% in any 300 second period is very clearly a faulty circuit or faulty battery. There really aren’t other options. The diagnostic will show full charge capacity, so you can calculate the max current draw divided by the capacity if you’re skeptical Apple’s diagnosis makes sense.

Let’s talk about water instead of charge for a moment. If my math is correct a FINA competition pool is 2,500 m^3 so let’s assume your battery has exactly that much mAH. Figure the size of the pipe to drain the pool when it’s new. Now a few years later, it can’t go from 80% full to 20% full in 5 minutes. If you measure that sudden drop in water level, the pool either has a massive leak or your measuring device is massively off. There’s no other option that’s reasonable.

The circuitry defines the measurement in iPhone battery, the hardware defines the max charge and max draw. The battery either works as expected or has faulty chemistry / circuitry and behaves out of bounds. That’s the main reason why a battery that’s not used up gets asked to be swapped and also why the diagnostics can point to the correct next step.


Question about Macbook Hard-driver replacement

Yes.

For only a few dollars you can buy a Sata/usb external hard drive enclosure. Remove your old hard drive and put it into the enclosure. Boot your computer up using the external drive by holding down option when starting up and selecting your drive. Then download Carbon Copy Cloner (free). Using that you can clone over all your data to the new drive which you install in your computer. If you cannot boot, like that. Re-install 10.8 to the new drive in the data enclosure, then copy over all your data using Carbon Copy Cloner. If you want to backup your sync data and iTunes library, your iDevice backups are stored in your local library folder. "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/" The iTunes library is stored in ~/Music/iTunes


How to download youtube videos in Safari?

There are a few extensions that will add a nice download button to the Youtube video page, and give you the option to download in various resolutions.

Youtube Video Downloader
Fastesttube
YouTubeDownloader

You can also try ClickToPlugin, which does a lot more than just offer a download link, but it does that, and it's one of my favourite extensions. Makes watching web video much nicer.


I'm not sure how confident you're going to be using Terminal commands as a brand new user, so I wouldn't recommend doing anything that can permanently, no questions asked, delete data from your hard drive.

It would be far safer to delete files to the Trash using the standard Finder command
 Cmd ⌘   Backspace ←  .

Then when you are happy you really didn't need the files, again from the Finder
 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧    Backspace ←    will empty the trash.

That in itself wouldn't securely erase, preventing all recovery efforts; but from a standard user perspective, they would be gone & the hard disk space freed up to be used again.


Can I create symbolic links in OS X which also work in Windows/Linux and vice versa?

sync application may be the good choice sometime, I recommend you
BitTorrent Sync, is An Application to keep designated folder content same on  more devices. Changes should be propagated to all the device that keep the folder synchronized.


iOS app for toggling bluetooth when iPhone is plugged into dock

Not without Jailbraking. App-Store restrictions prevent any application developers from changing hardware settings. You can always suggest a feature to Apple by visiting http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


running emacs on a terminal: problem with meta-key

I had this problems some time ago. Turns out your Terminal app is configured to not use option as meta key. I'm running Mavericks and this is the default setting.

All you have to do is open your Terminal app, click on the Terminal > Preferences > Settings > *Whatever profile you use* > Keyboard, mark the option "Use option as meta key"


The video is for iTunes 10 or before, I assume you are using iTunes 11 now. After plugging in your iPad click on the "Devices" button at top right (next to "iTunes Store") and then on Apps (about in the middle) to get to the same screen again.


...and, I'm answering my own question.  Apparently (this comes as a surprise) the entire iLife '11 DVD is available as an ISO from archive.org (https://archive.org/details/iLife_Install_DVD_Version_11_2Z691-6677-A_Apple_2010).  I'm not sure whether that's legal or not -- I would expect archive.org to be careful about clearing copyright before hosting uploaded disk images, but maybe not.  If this is considered software piracy then please feel free to delete this answer.


Printer Pro won't solve the problem because

  Printer Pro is the application that lets you wirelessly print from the iPhone. It can print directly to many Wi-Fi printers and to any printer attached to your Mac or PC via helper application installed on your computer.

If you search for "HP print" in the App Store, there are quite a lot of hits. HP All-in-One Printer Remote looks kind of helpful (but I can't test it myself).


The safest way to ensure removal of live malware is to (re)boot from external media and to then re-install the OS and all your apps and executables.


The disk which you don't boot on will show as an external drive to your current OS HD. You'll have full read/write accesss, Spotlight will start indexing it.

To prevent Spotlight from indexing your second drive, open a Terminal window and type:
    sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/2NDDRIVENAME

and replace "2NDDRIVENAME" by the name of the disk you want to exclude. Beware if you have a space in the drive name, you may need to use the "\" escape character:

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/MacHD

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD


Cannot overwrite a file on an SMB network share After upgrading to OSX 10.10

Try connecting to the drive with CIFS:\ instead of SMB:\. I have had the same issue and when trying it with the CIFS protocol it worked.


Safari 7.0.5 on 10.9.4 fails to check code-signing

I don't think this is dangerous. I don't think you need to worry about it.

The affected files are just pairs of strings and the translated version for a particular language. The InfoPlist.strings file contains the file descriptions that appear in the Finder (and other places I assume) for the Document Types that Safari supports, for example "HTML document" and "CSS style sheet". The ServicesMenu.strings contains a similar short list of the Services provided by Safari, for example "Add to Reading List". The two files that are being flagged as modified are a bit boring as they are providing English translations for strings that are already in English. If you check the same files in another language folder within the Safari bundle, like for example French the concept is clearer.

<key>Web internet location</key>
<string>Adresse Internet du Web</string>
<key>Web site URL</key>
<string>Adresse URL du site web</string>
<key>Web site location</key>
<string>Adresse du site web</string>
<key>Windows icon image</key>
<string>Fenêtres icône image</string>

Within the thread discussing 1Password it doesn't appear that the modification was caused by 1Password. In fact it was initially suspected to be the reverse, the discussion in that thread was about whether the modifications were causing a problem with 1Password because someone was having trouble running it. In the end it turned out that the problem with 1Password was caused by Sophos. The modified Safari files had nothing to do with it.

For what it's worth I get the same errors when I run codesign against Safari on both my Macs. I tried reinstalling the latest OS X update (which includes Safari 7.0.5) but that made no difference. Even tried repairing permissions (which funnily enough did make one correction to a file in the Safari bundle) but unfortunately didn't resolve this issue.

Unless you have a problem running Safari or running extensions within Safari, I wouldn't worry about this.


Macbook Pro Mid 2012 Black Screen and No Picture On External Monitor. GPU problem?

Bad news, your GPU is shot.

Good news- you might be eligible for a free repair by Apple.


MacBook Pro 13" (late 2011) gets extremely hot during normal usage

There's nothing significant that could cause your Late 2011 MBP to swell in that area. In fact, that area has a fan mounted there, which makes it quite unlikely that something could get hot enough to cause frame damage.

My speculation:

If you've had swelling in the past then your frame is probably still bent from the swelling of the first battery. The initial heat and pressure could have caused the logic board to press against an opposite end. Furthermore, the heat damage could have created soft areas of aluminum that are slowly being modified by the heating and cooling caused by charging.

Here is the parts breakdown for curiosity sake.


A first-generation iPad only supports iOS 5. That means it only runs apps that still support iOS 5, which are few and far between.

To download these apps, head to the App Store (the blue icon on the iPad's home screen), and you'll be able to download apps. Either they'll download or give you an error that they're not supported, in which case you can't download them.


iPhoto.app has been replaced with the Photos.app in OS X 10.10.3 is not supported in Yosemite. Should've done my research before asking, my bad.

I bought my 2011 MacBook Pro new in Dec 2015, though, preloaded with Yosemite.

Any ideas why iPhoto would be on this computer (along with Photos) in the first place?


How do I do Time Machine backups for multiple computers?

You question is a bit unclear. How do you back them up to the NAS currently?

Time Machine can backup to network drives On supported NAS machines so you need to check with your NAS vendor for the particulars. The other option would be to have one of your Macs host all the Time Machine backups.


I used to have a similar issue back in Yosemite. Here is how I fixed it:

System Preferences -> Security or Security & Privacy. -> Firewall Tab -> Click the Lock and enter your password -> Toggle Firewall on and off -> Restart your computer


Is there a way to create a notification in the Notification Center with a clickable link?

What you ask isn't possible with bare AppleScript.

There are 2 possibilites I'm aware off :

Using Terminal Notifier : A CLI binary which will allow you to create notifications
Using Notification scripting : A .app which can be called with AppleScript to create notifications.


The reason why I'm getting really high readings is because I'm using a third-party SSD which doesn't have Apple's thermal detectors included.


Can iBeacon range/region monitoring trigger "dynamic"/data-based notification?

Yes, beacons with their proximity detection capabilities can directly push content in the form of notifications to the lock screen, thus allowing consumers to interact with apps without having to open one.

You can use features like cards, rules, webhooks for creating such notifications.

With Cards (Cards are small pieces of content - text, photo, video or audio - that are
to be shown based on the campaign rules), you can edit the kind of content you would want on the screen as a notification.
Rules allow you to define a set of conditions that must be satisfied in the proximity of a beacon, for actions to be performed inside the app.
Webhooks are "user defined HTTP, URI callbacks". They are usually triggered by some event and when that event occurs, the source app makes an http request to the uri configured for the webhook.

Probably the dynamic variable you are referring to here is the RSSI value of the beacon frequency which increases when you reach a beacon. Couple that with UUID-Major-Minor and you can do custom data based notifications.

You can also use various SDKs that have already incorporated these features, through something called camp-on's on a beacon and cannot only do local notifications but also call webhooks among other things, as a reference on Github.
If you are interested in learning more about how to go about building a beacon-enabled app right from scratch,  join the Online iBeacon App Development Course: Build a Beacon-enabled iOS App. It will help gain insights on location-based services and also understand terminologies like beacon ranging, background monitoring and much more.


Network topology: Internet connected on a leaf node?

I don't see any issue with this as long as both the Extreme and the second Express are run in Bridge mode extending the current network provided from the first Express. Whether that is possible will depend on what kind of signal each receives.


If only we've searched before buying we would find this drive has this problems. It seems it lies either in firmware of enclosure or in firmware of a disk used inside. I didn't find FW updates for it on Samsung support site (but they have a habit to hide such stuff).

Probably, you may upgrade FW for the disk used inside enclosure and it could help but no guarantee.

If you can get your money back just do it because it seems this product is faulty (it probably behaves the same under Windows (you may try it if you could)).

If you can't get your money back or exchange it try this solution from MacOSXHints.


How to Use Terminal for "Little Snitch" Functionality without Little Snitch

To permanently block outgoing traffic to specific domains you should create a new anchor file and add it to pf.conf.

Create an anchor file org.user.block.out in /private/etc/pf.anchors

sudo touch /private/etc/pf.anchors/org.user.block.out

with the following content and a trailing empty line

mybadhosts = "{ www.domain.com, domain.com, www.domain2.com, domain2.com }"
mybadports = "{ 443, 80 }"

block drop out proto tcp from any to $mybadhosts port $mybadports

The additional domain names in mybadhosts are just an example how to add additional domains. The same goes for port 80 in mybadports.

A simple but less flexible solution is:

block drop out proto tcp from any to domain.com port 443

Modify the file /private/etc/pf.conf but keep a trailing empty line

original file:

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"

to

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "org.user.block.out"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"
load anchor "org.user.block.out" from "/etc/pf.anchors/org.user.block.out"

Parse and test your anchor file to make sure there are no errors:

sudo pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.anchors/org.user.block.out

Now modify /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist from

<array>
    <string>pfctl</string>
    <string>-f</string>
    <string>/etc/pf.conf</string>
</array>

to

<array>
    <string>pfctl</string>
    <string>-e</string>
    <string>-f</string>
    <string>/etc/pf.conf</string>
</array>

You have to disable System Integrity Protection to accomplish this. After editing the file reenable SIP. After rebooting your Mac pf will be enabled (that's the -e option).

Alternatively you may create your own launch daemon similar to the answer here: Using Server 5.0.15 to share internet WITHOUT internet sharing.

After a system update or upgrade some of the original files above may have been replaced and you have to reapply all changes.


What happens to MY music if I join a new Family Sharing account

Family Sharing allows all members to access Apps, Books, Tunes etc purchased by all members [though not the 'data content' of any App, so for instance each member's level on Angry Birds, or whatever would not cross-pollinate]. It will also add a shared calendar for which usage is optional.

It doesn't share anything else. It also doesn't delete anything, only adds.

If your iTunes Library contains CD rips or music not purchased directly via your iTunes account, that would not be available to other family members, you would have to copy it to their Mac/PC/iTunes manually.


How do I I prevent passwords from being saved to the keychain?

I have managed to find an SVN-specific answer.

It seems that the SVN client itself uses whatever password caching functionality is available on the underlying platform, but this can be controlled with a configuration file.

Specifically, configuration files for SVN can be found on a Mac or *nix box in the "invisible" directory ~/.subversion (i.e., ".subversion" within your home directory). In the current release, to unconditionally suppress all password caching, go to %/.subversion, and edit the "servers" file in the editor of your choice. Find the [global] section, and within it, the commented-out line,

# store-passwords = no

Remove the pound-sign and the leading space (if you leave the leading space in, the svn client will fail -- I learned this the hard way). The line should now read

store-passwords = no

And that will unconditionally suppress password caching in the Eclipse client.


How can I config my Mac to don't scape characters when I copy and paste some text on the console?

If you are asking about pasting into windows of the Terminal application (which is not the same as Console application; neither of which are the same as the actual “console”), then you can uncheck the Escape non-ASCII input option in the “settings set” that you are using.

With Terminal active, open the preferences: Press ⌘ + , or select the Terminal > Preferences… menu item.

Click the Settings icon in the tool bar of the preferences window.
From the list on the left side of the preferences window,
select the “settings set” that you want to modify.

The settings set of the previously active Terminal window will be initially selected.
Click the Advanced tab.
Uncheck the Escape non-ASCII input checkbox.


Disk Utility: Incorrect number of file hard links

I took the laptop to Apple service centre. They ran few diagnosis and it turns out the hard disk was fine. One of those test results said that the hard disk is corrupted, and it needs to be formatted and repartitioned. So they formatted the HDD and reinstalled the OS. That seems to have fixed it.


What are the type and creator options in SetFile?

Type and creator are four characters each of metadata which can be applied to a file to indicate the file type and the application or system which could create or consume the file.
You can get the type/creator from a file using /usr/bin/GetFileInfo /path/to/file:
$ GetFileInfo ~/Downloads/video.mov
file: "/Users/g/Downloads/video.mov"
type: "\0\0\0\0"
creator: "\0\0\0\0"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 12/14/2020 11:16:08
modified: 12/14/2020 11:16:08

More about the historical use of these fields in Mac OS are described on Fiddling with Type/Creator Codes and File Extensions - O’Reilly, such as HTML files having type TEXT and creator MSIE for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Nowadays in macOS these fields are likely empty on files you encounter.


Internet sharing from Macbook to iPad Pro via usb cable (Tethered caching) not working on Catalia 10.15.6

I just realized that the iPad was not showing in the Finder. I rebooted the iPad, now it shows in the finder and the connection started working.
I suppose then that it is/was a problem with the connection between the two devices, rather then the tethering itself. I will monitor the behaviour in the next days.


Is it possible for iPhone's MAC or other network specifications to change through update to IOS 14?

Yes, iOS 14 introduces a new type of MAC address randomization named "Private WiFi Addresses". This means that iOS selects a new, random MAC address for each WiFi network you connect to. Note that only the first time you connect a new address will be chosen - it stays the same for that network the following times you connect.
You can disable this behavior from the Settings app on the phone. Choose WiFi and then press the (i) button for the network in question. Ensure that "Private Address" is not enabled.


How can I re-build Mail.app's search index?

Here's what I've used in the past to rebuild the search index:

sudo mdutil -E /

The -E option "will cause each local store for the volumes indicated to be erased. The stores will be rebuilt if appropriate."

While I don't use Mail.app, I noticed similar behavior with Outlook 2011 -- which also uses Spotlight for search.


How to delete a file from Time Machine backups in Big Sur?

The history deletion and erasure tools are removed from Time Machine graphical interface on Big Sur.
If I had an HFS+ formatted drive and I needed to try and excise data surgically, I would find a Mac with an OS from before the deletion tools were removed. For APFS destinations, I’m not aware of any easy workaround.
At work, we typically take a drive out of rotation if it has problematic files and archive it under physical security until we erase it. Adding a new clean destination then erasing the old drive is how we are recycling or reclaiming drives now.


Lost iPhone not connected to Find My iPhone!

Unless you explicitly turned Find My iPhone off, it was on. Try this anyway: go to iCloud.com/find and sign into your iCloud account using your Apple ID. Click Find my iPhone. Choose Locate an iOS device. If it is turned on, and the phone is still online, it will show you on a map. If it does not, then either you did turn off Find my iPhone or it is offline. If either of those is the case, it's time to visit the Apple Store and buy a new iPhone.