Updating software from App Store not available for purchased items.

The solution is to keep 2 separate AppleID accounts:

One for the country you used to live in, with a valid address for that country. Credit Card may be expired as it's not needed for updates.
Another for the country you live in now with your current details.

I've had a long email conversation with Apple re the subject, but they don't allow for purchase transfers between countries. They treat each country's store as a separate entity with no option to transfer purchases between.

Unfortunately this means, that in order to get an update for the apps which are attached to different AppleIDs you have to log out and log back in with different details. This is a bit of an inconvenience, but still cheaper than buying all the apps again.


What are safe or average component temperatures for my MacBook?

There are two sentences in this question that of concern:

  My MacBook has been overheating for over a year now.

and

  Today I have installed Mac Fan Control, and realize that the fan still
  works on my computer, hopefully I can prevent anymore burning (smell)
  from the laptop.

If you are aware that your computer (this is not limited to Apple products) is overheating, it's time to take it in for service.  All modern computers have thermal limits which will shut down the machine if it becomes too hot.  If this is happening on a regular basis, there is something wrong and it needs to be addressed

Further, if you actually smell something burning from your computer this is a physical problem that simply cannot be fixed with an app.  This is like running your car without out oil and then expecting to put some high grade gasoline because it has wear additives that prolong the life of your engine in the hopes that it solves the problem.

To put this another way, you can't "un-toast" toast and get bread.

Once you smell the telltale scent of burnt electronics, you're past the point of no return - it's time to take it in for service.


Nothing is going to look as good as a Retina display. If your display seems like it should be sharper make sure you are running that display at it's native resolution. Scaling the display to non-native resolutions can make even the best monitor look pretty bad.

That said I run my MacBook Pro's retina display at it's maximum resolution of 1900 X 1200 because it still looks sharp to my old eyes, even with scaling on.


How do I make macOS properly blacken my TV screen on standby

The message "HDMI 1 (Clock) No input. Check your cables, etc." is apparently generated by your TV.  The first place I'd look is in the TV's menu system.  See if there's any way to change what is displayed when there is no incoming HDMI signal.

If you can't find anything there, you can look at the Sony website.  Note that there's a firmware update available for you TV as well.  There's a chance you'll be able to control the "no input" message more easily after the update.

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/televisions-projectors-lcd-tvs-android-/kdl-43w755c#manuals

But, what you really want, I think, is to set up the Mac Mini so that it shows a blank image as its screensaver.


Select all the files in the smart folder. Then hold down the Option key and do Get Info. That will open a single window summing the data fromall the files instead of one window per file.


Unexplained increase in downloads on iTunes Connect

Noone here will be able to answer any of those questions.

We do no know which apps you offer on the App Store, and we do not have access to Apple's logs on who's downloading - neither do we know what the downloader's motivation is, nor if they're willing to pay for your app.

The only advice that can be given is "try, and see what happens".


Path into PS1 prompt is broken (\n) on different lines when it is too long

It's a bug related to the old version of bash included in macOS.

To overcome you can

Switch to zsh (see What are the practical differences between Bash and Zsh?)
Install a more recent version of bash via Homebrew and use this as your standard shell (see How to use bash as default shell)


You need the 2.5 Ghz Mac Mini, which indeed also comes with an AMD Radeon HD 6630M instead of the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 on the 2.3Ghz model.

For a list of models that support up to two Thunderbolt displays connected, check this support article over on the Apple website:

Thunderbolt ports and displays: Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

14 - How many Apple Thunderbolt Displays can I use with my Mac in OS X?


External disk drive no longer visible when using Parallels

Take your drive to another computer and Cloud your files.


How to prevent CMD key in Parallels Desktop 9 from switching to Windows 8 start screen?

Ha! Found it!

PD Settings -> Shortcuts -> Virtual Machines -> Windows 8

then map CMD to CTRL:


How often do Background App Refreshes occur in iOS 7?

This depends on several factors and is not generally tied to a fixed time schedule - active usage of the device, push notifications to apps, location based updates and iOS 7's learning ability to optimize based on your usage patterns for apps.
From iOS: Understanding multitasking (bold italic emphasis mine):

Certain tasks or services can continue to run in the background. To lessen the affect on battery life, normal app background refreshing is scheduled for efficient times, such as when your device is connected to Wi-Fi, plugged into a power source, or being actively used.
You can adjust your apps' background activity in Settings > General > Background App Refresh.
When Background App Refresh is on, apps that take advantage of this feature can refresh themselves in the background. For example, an app can check if new content is available and download the updates, or retrieve the updated content in the background when it receives a push notification, so the new content is ready for viewing when you launch the app. Apps can also schedule background refreshing based on your location. iOS learns patterns based on your use of the device and tries to predict when an app should be updated in the background. It also learns when the device is typically inactive, such as during the night, to reduce update frequency when the device not used.

To improve battery life, you could selectively turn off background refresh for certain apps from Settings > General > Background App Refresh.


The best indication that this is okay lies in the fact that iOS betas are generally available to the public, while there is no public beta program for watchOS. So yes, it’s fine to run an iOS beta with a stable release of watchOS.
Apple has no mechanism in place to force you to run a certain version of watchOS with a given version of iOS (other than the minimum version required to install watchOS). They don't force you to update watchOS along with iOS. Barring such guarantees, they cannot make any assumptions as to the version of the operating system you’re running on a separate product.
However, as with any beta software always be prepared for unexpected bugs. For instance the iOS 11 Beta 2 release notes mention the following issues with earlier versions of watchOS:

Known Issues
Pairing an iPhone running a beta of iOS 11 and an Apple Watch running a version of watchOS earlier than 4.0 may fail. (32587160)
Workaround: Attempt to pair the Apple Watch again.
• In the Watch app, changes to Mail > Include Mail are not saved. (32553544)
Resolved Issues
• On an Apple Watch running a version of watchOS earlier than 4.0, location activity now correctly sets the location arrow in the status bar or in Settings. (31496053)
• watchOS email alerts now use the configured settings. (32332614)


As of Xcode 6, you can use the simctl command line tool.  Check out:

xcrun simctl help

If there are any features missing, please file a radar at http://bugreport.apple.com ... this is a supported interface whereas the ios-sim utility was developed by reverse engineering private Xcode frameworks and can easily break between Xcode releases.


Apple Script, Javascript: fill text filed (web form) with data from clipboard

Instead of copying the cell text to the clipboard, save it in a variable and then apply it to the form.

Here's a helpful tutorial that will give you the answer, step by step.

The code would be very similar to yours, using the variable:

tell application "Safari"
        do JavaScript "  document.getElementById('" & IdVar & "').value ='" & theCellValue & "';" in document 1
end tell

To set the variable form Excel use this:

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
        set CellValueX to (value of cell ColX of row RowX)
end tell

And, of course, wrapt it all in a repeat loop.

I hope this helps.


What's a reasonable approach for managing apps, associated with one iTunes account, on several iOS devices?

You can uncheck "Automatically sync new apps" in iTunes. This will avoid the situation where iPhone apps that you don't want to use on your iPad wind up getting synced over. Other than that, the only current solution is to manually check off each app you want on each device.


How to store note only on my Mac in Notes 4?

Choose Notes > "On My Mac" Account

I have just opened Notes on El Capitan to verify this. Please click on Notes in the menu bar, then click on "On My Mac" Account to access the local storage facility. The new group will appear upon clicking this option.


How can I remove my me.com address from Mail?

Go to Mail's Preferences / Accounts / Advanced and deselect the Activate this account checkbox. This should do the trick.


How do I set up 3 monitors to a Mac Mini

Not 100% certain but think you probably need a Thunderbolt PCIx expansion enclosure with 3 or more slots so you can add something like a Blackmagic HDMI display card. There may be less expensive options available but I have been looking into adding more HDMI input ports to my MacPro and this was one of the few options I found.


Why does Airdrop on OS X only work in close proximity?

It uses Bluetooth to look for nearby devices.
You can read more about it on AppleInsider:

It should be understood that AirDrop is a proximity-limited technology, meaning that it will only work when two or more users are near each other. This is illustrated by the requirement that a compatible device, which will be limited to the iPhone 5 or later, fourth-generation iPad, iPad mini, and fifth-generation iPod touch, have both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled.
When AirDrop is activated, it uses Bluetooth to scan for nearby devices that are advertising discoverability. User can elect to be seen by everyone, only by contact, or not at all if the feature is turned off.


I think You should make clean install of El Capitan from USB. You were not scammed, don't worry. I was in the same situation.
It can be done under one condition - You've updated somewhere in the past to the El Capitan and You can see it in Purchased section in AppStore.
That's nothing complicated, first make sure that You have downloaded El Capitan from AppStore. Than You should make bootable El Capitan USB and clean-install it on Your Mac. Follow these steps on this site:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2981585/operating-systems/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-installer-drive.html


Why is my MacBook Pro's fan constantly on at 6000RPM?

This is a guess but I would assume it's referring to the Temperature sensor next to the heat sink exhaust for the right fan.  That would definitely account for your fan running at max... if the sensor is not reporting the temperature, the logic board would likely turn the fan on full blast in order to keep the processor from overheating or even setting the computer aflame.

You might have just forgot to plug the temp sensor in, or left it loose, or it became loose during your board replacement.  Or it could have failed...

Try using a temperature monitoring app like Temperature Monitor and see if it gives you any more info.


What's the maximum necessary size in pixels for a video for iPhone?

The currently biggest iPhone is the iPhone 7 plus. It has a 5.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit widescreen.

In landscape mode it has a 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi.
In portrait mode it has a 1080-by-1920-pixel resolution at 401 ppi.

Which is the equivalent of a full HD movie.


Nope it hasn't. I'm still having problems in Logic because of it. I plug in a headphone cable, unplug it, and suddenly the computer doesn't have sound. Try killall /usr/sbin/coreaudiod then relaunch it, I get this:

[...] Error: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "?-8?????-8????PDa????@Da????0??????Ԕ?????<????????c".
Aug 14 01:56:48 Benjamins-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[7392] Error: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "?-8?????-8????PDa????@Da????0??????Ԕ?????????????c".
Aug 14 01:56:48 Benjamins-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[7392] Error: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "??c".
Aug 14 01:56:48 Benjamins-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[7392] Error: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "??c".
2012-08-14 01:56:48.994 coreaudiod[7392:707] Exiting due to uncaught exception in main

Apparently I've got some low level bug in my operating system or coreaudiod just wasn't compiled right.


Flash Player 11.8 install fails with error code 30 listed in console

I completed the installation by running the installer as root from the shell, under its mountpoint at /Volumes. The full path to the installer executable's directory is /Volumes/Adobe Flash Player Installer/Install Adobe Flash Player.app/Contents/MacOS

This thread in Adobe forums describes the underlying problem - the current user can't write to a directory the installer needs. Instead of chmod'ing the folder, I already had root enabled, and went from there successfully.

Update: Commentor is right, root is too risky. Follow the chmod route.


Is it possible to get the native iPod Touch and iPhone apps on the iPad?

Since these apps are packaged as part of the Core iOS image, you will need to jailbreak the iPad OS to allow modification/installation of the apps currently shipped as part of the iPhone / iPod touch such as Calculator, Clock, etc...

The best technical description of /Applications on iOS is from The iPhone Wiki where it calls out the differentiation between iOS images and major release versions. I haven't ever used it, but the jailbreak package "Belfry" purports to do precisely what you ask and might make interesting reading as well in case you change your mind about jailbreaking in the future.


I would just look in the app store for a video playback app that supports VGA output. Lots of them do now.

You don't need to jailbreak your phone.

Here is an app called "StreamToMe" that supports playback of your videos over 3G and Wi-Fi and has VGA output.

StreamToMe: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8#


Location Services shown on menu bar even though all apps are disabled

Looking at the screenshots above, the location icon is most likely showing up because you are allowing System Services to access your location. As long as every app in that list is unchecked, the only services that will use your location will be System Services.


It seems to me that you have an issue with settings stored in NVRAM. To reset your NVRAM to default settings (it's safe to do this), power on the system and simultaneously hold down the Cmd-P-Opt-R keys until you've heard not one, but TWO boot chimes. The second is usually louder. Then let them go.

If that doesn't fix things, then you should get test the hardware. That said, this tends to fix a lot of the slow-boot issues.


Will i benefit from important features of Lion with a trackpad/MacBook?

These answers are going to vary from person to person. Additionally, I have a Magic Mouse, which only supports a subset of the total gestures.

I think the the "Natural" scrolling really make sense on a touch-sensitive controller like the Magic Mouse or the Trackpad.

The two gestures that I've found most useful are:

Move backwards and forwards in Safari. I know this technically existed before Lion, but as I've previously said, the feedback of the animation makes it far more useful.
Two-finger swiping between spaces is wonderfully fluid.

On the contrary the two-finger double tap for Mission Control has been used a handful of times. I'm finding the ctrl + up far more useful, plus ctrl + down gets you to Exposé.

I think there are plenty of things to like about Lion without any gesture support. I can certainly recommend the Magic Mouse, something I would've hesitated to do before Lion.


WiFi issue brand new 16" MBP - self-assigned IP address

I see two possible problems here:

First possibility is that your MAC address after reboot is somehow invalid (i.e. for example set to all zeros). That could make your DHCP server (probably in your home router) reject your request for an IP address).

Check if that is the case by running the following command in the Terminal:

ifconfig en0

Note the line that starts with "ether" - it should have a valid MAC address looking something like f2:23:48:a3:1e:22 or similar.

Second possibility is that the problem is really with your WIFi router / DHCP server and not locally with your laptop. This could happen if your router added the new MacBook Pro's MAC address to a block list or similar.

Check the router's settings and management interface to ensure that the MAC address of your new MacBook Pro is not listed in any black lists - and if you have white listed your old computer, then white list your new computer as well.


Need to install SL on Mavericks external drive

Newer Macs can't run older OSX.

A 2012 iMac will run a Mountain Lion and upward.


Headless Mac mini: Share Screen + FileVault

Other answers here are correct - it is not possible to remotely access a freshly-booted Mac with FileVault enabled without physical access (FileVault operates 1 layer closer to actual software than a 'traditional' BIOS or firmware password).

It is, however, possible to remotely reboot a Mac and force it to allow remote access even with FileVault enabled, provided you issue the correct command:

sudo fdesetup authrestart

Apple calls this 'Authenticated Restart' official semi-documentation is available here, with a more in-depth view from C|Net gives a high-level description of its workings.

Note that if a Mac is not restarted with this command (a regular restart, powerloss, or otherwise), physical access will be needed to access the Mac. The command also (obviously) requires admin privileges to run.


How much space is recommended for a Windows 7 Bootcamp installation besides Snow Leopard?

My Parallels virtual HDD has 12GB. But I using windows only in sometimes.

The space is depend on what you want install into windows. And really need BootCamp? Parallels or VMware or VirtualBox(free) is fine - why you need BootCamp?


Use proxy in iOS to to use Apps outside the U.S

In order to access geoblocked websites you need to have a VPN application enabled to re-route your traffic through a US IP address.

For iOS the best solution I have found is hotspotshield.
It does have a subscription fee for using but it seems to work well so far.

It is also available as an OSX application for the desktop.


MacBook shows circle with line through on boot even on Safe Mode and kernel panics

You know the answer already.

For some reason your booth sector got scrambled.

You could try to the reset EFI to see if it helps.

  An EFI (extensible firmware interface) is a set of instructions stored
  in computer memory that act as an interface between computer
  components and the operating system during startup. If you are having
  startup problems or your computer components do not work properly, you
  may be able to solve the problem by resetting the EFI to its default
  settings.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_8007618_reset-efi-chip.html

Reinstalling the OS with CMD-R will only fix the system files and not your files. It depends if you have the Restore on your hard drive or you need to use the Internet recovery.


Can't login with Google using Internet Accounts

Open Keychain Access.
Make sure "login" is selected in the upper left under "Keychains" and manually delete every entry that is associated with Google (any entry with Google in the name, I deleted). Specifically, the entry "com.apple.account.Google.oauth-token" is the one to delete.
Go back to Internet Accounts and add your Google account.


I need to delete a game app data from iCloud but not my iPad

If the data is backed up on iCloud. You can manage the storage on your Mac.

System Preferences -> iCloud -> Manage Storage -> Select the Backed Up Game -> "Delete Documents and Data"


Dock indication about different application instances

There's a Multi-Touch gesture that can show you all the instances of one app. Swiping downwards with either three or four fingers (configurable in System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures) opens "App Exposé", a handy birds-eye view of all your open windows in the frontmost app. It's not the same as an indicator in the always-present Dock, I know, but I think this can be one of the best options you'll get without 3rd-party software (assuming such software exists).


Load a locale from /usr/local/share/locale in OS X

This worked for me (macos 10.14):

sudo localedef -i /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8 /usr/local/share/locale/en_US.utf8
sudo cp /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE /usr/local/share/locale/en_US.utf8/


You can cycle through open applications by holding the Command key and tapping (but not holding) the Tab key.
As long as Command remains pressed you can use the → or ← keys to cycle through open applications.


Preview: Fullscreen movie turns black after 5s

It turns out this is a known bug with Pathfinder that doesn't interact well (yet) with Quick Look. As a workaround, you can use Quick Look from Finder.


How are command line commands stored in .bash_history?

The history size is controlled by the variables HISTFILESIZE and HISTSIZE (see man bash). The default value is 500.

You must store these parameters in ~/.bash_profile

Example:

export HISTFILESIZE=5000
export HISTSIZE=5000


How to get 4 external monitors to work a macbook pro (late 2013)?

With a Retina (as stated in the tag) you can use both displayports to hook a normal (non Apple) external display. This makes two. If you want more, you can use USB display adapters.

Similar questions have come along quite frequently. Check out: Two Monitors Setup On a MacBook Pro


As an administrator:

sudo su - user_to_be_logged_out
kill -9 -1

That will log out any user by ending all of the user processes. Use care to not issue the kill -9 -1 as root else some work would be expected to be lost as the system would immediately self-destroy all processes.

There are of course one line commands, but I like having a pause to look and make sure I switched to the correct user before issuing a powerful command like kill -9 -1 and I also avoid at all costs having sudo appear before that kill since I don't even want to kill all processes as root.


Weird hotspot password on iPhone after it was replaced by Apple

iOS auto-generates a hotspot password by default, mine is a word followed by four digits, just like yours. I suspect that the hotspot password just isn't backed up, so the new phone created a new default one.

It's not an issue really, just replace it with whatever you want. If you want to keep the old one to avoid re-entering it on your devices, but don't remember it, you should be able to find it by going into Keychain Access (Applications > Utilities) on a Mac that connected previously. Double click on the entry corresponding to the hotspot name, and there should be a checkbox for "Show password".


Command Line FTP Client Confused By Tilde?

What you are seeing is expected behavior.
The tilde (~) is a part of the shell's standard syntax that is synonymous with the user's home directory.

Tilde expansion is the process of converting these abbreviations to
the directory names that they stand for.

When you are in FTP, you are not using your shell (bash, csh, zsh, etc.), rather you are using the FTP client and it has no idea what the tilde means and thusly, it cannot expand it out.
~ and HOME are the same thing.  If you execute the command
$ echo ~ $HOME

You should get your home directory output twice.  (The $ is for variable expansion)
/Users/fweth /Users/fweth

Trivia
The convention of using the tilde (~) derives from the Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal that had a keyboard shortcut for the the users' HOME on the same key as the tilde.


That was a fun question to tackle! Follow the instructions below and paste this code in step 1.8:

set n to 0

tell application "Safari"
    repeat with w in windows
        try
            set n to n + (count tabs of w)
        end try
    end repeat
end tell

tell front window of application "Safari"
    set current tab to tab n
end tell

This will tell Safari to change to the right most tab. Then, to map it to a key shortcut, just follow the steps listed here by Monomeeth which is shown below. The code was adapted from here

In summary you will need to use:

Automator to create a service that runs an Apple Script
System Preferences to assign a keyboard shortcut to the service

Below are the steps involved for each.

1. Create a service using Automator

Launch Automator (usually found within your Applications folder)
Go to File > New
Select Service and click Choose
In the top right hand of the window that appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list
Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application"
In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript" and double-click on it
This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right
Now, replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the script you want (the one I provided above)
Save the service using a meaningful name (e.g. RightMostTab).

Now to the next step.

2. Creating your shortcut

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
Select Services from the sidebar
Find your service (it'll be in the list on the right-hand side)
Add a shortcut by double clicking on the service name
Now go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy
Select Accessibility in the sidebar
Click on the + sign (you may need to unlock the padlock if it's locked)
Add Automator.
Add Finder (to find this you will need to navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app).
Exit your System Preferences.

Let me know how it goes!


External monitor showing greenish shadow

Determining the cause of display issues is generally a basic troubleshooting task, performing substitution on components until the faulty component is determined:

replace cables (you've already done this)
use the monitor on a different computer
use a different monitor on the same computer

In this case, you've used a different monitor on the same machine and found that when using the same cables, the different monitor is not showing the color changes, therefore the monitor has the issue.


How do I ignore ownership on an external hard drive without using Get Info?

The partition that Xcode is installed on must be formatted for OS X. This will require reinstalling Xcode after formatting. Be sure to save any important files from the drive elsewhere.

In Disk Utility, choose the partition and select erase.

Format the partition then reinstall Xcode.

This should resolve the ownership issue.

It appears from your screenshot that the partition cannot be modified.  You mention in your comment that the partition "has all of the external drive memory allocated to it."  Not sure what you mean here, are you using it for other purposes too?  If not, and you don't have another drive to use, in order to use this drive instead of the default installation on your main drive, it seems you have to reformat the drive.


Once it's deleted, it's gone.  You can check your last iCloud backup.  If it was after the recording but before the delete, you might be able to get it back.

There's about a dozen iPhone recovery-type tools on the net.  A little searching will identify who they are and how to get them (I won't list them here because I don't have experience with them).  They claim to be able to recover voice memo's but YMMV.


I backed up to itunes but it didn't transfer to my new iphone

As long as you have the data backed up it should still be available. That being said, it depends on the amount of data you decided to back up. Also make sure to use the same iCloud ID since you might have started to use the iCloud for backups and not you PC.

Both Backup and Restore procedures for iCloud and iTunes is listed on Apple Support website.


What speed does the home network need to be so that Air Play is the same as connected by a cable?

No, you can never guarantee the network connectivity. You could always experience interference from other networks, jammers, etc. which temporarily block signal reception. Similarly with a cable you could have defective cables that aren't working perfectly.

In general you can achieve network speeds with 802.11ac that well exceed the speed of a 100 Mbps cable connection and approaches the speed of a 1000 Mbps cable connection (or even exceeds it in optimal scenarios).

If your question is whether or not AirPlay from a MacBook to an AppleTV can work well over 802.11ac - then the answer is yes. However, you'll have to try yourself with your own network components and surroundings to determine if it works well for you - there's no guarantee. Usually it works without any problems.

You can use Activity Monitor to monitor the actual amount of transferred data. You can also hold down the Alt key while clicking the WiFi icon in the menu bar on your MacBook to see extra statistics, including the current estimated transmission rate.


How to scan a a QR code that is on your screen?

Yes, you can do this without another device:

Take a screen shot of your screen and make sure the QR code is captured properly. Crop to the QR code in the screenshot and save the image file using Preview.
Open this image file in an app like Barcode Scanner and QR Code Reader. (Alternatively, you can upload the QR image file to an online QR code reader).
The app will decode the QR and provide you the data.


My Macbook Air 2010 11in overheats when I close the lid and run an external monitor

Just because the fan starts running faster does not mean that the machine is overheated.

If you really want to, you can open the Air's lid after the external monitor is connected. The Air's screen will stay off but the machine should stay cooler and not have to run the fans at a high speed.

Apple even has a knowledge base article for "clamshell mode".


You can usually just move a window to the bottom of the screen and then resize it by dragging the top edge up.

These commands don't usually resize windows so that they are outside screens:

tell application "SomeApp" to set bounds of window 1 to {0, 0, 9999, 9999}
tell application "SomeApp" to set size of window 1 to {9999, 9999}
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SomeApp" to set size of window 1 to {9999, 9999}


How can I export a QuickTime File with Chapter Markers from iMovie HD?

Looks like you can do it using Metadata Hootenanny.

    It allows you to edit and search the metadata that can be stored in  QuickTime movies (mov files), including chapters. Quicktime files support a large number of metadata options, but the QuickTime Player doesn't provide an easy way of accessing them. Metadata Hootenanny does.

You can read this forum thread for more info.


You have met all requirements except Mac OSX. Airplay requires OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.0 or above).


Do Terminal processes stop if Mac sleeps?

All processes get paused when the system goes to sleep, independent of whether the process is part of macOS, an application or some code you wrote on your own. After the system wakes up again, all processes will continue to run.

PS: Processes which were waiting for network or disk data when going to sleep may run into timeouts though. But that can happen anyway so most processes should be able to handle that anyway.


iMac won’t boot up from internal drive but can boot from external drive, but internal drive can boot other Macs

I'm answering my own question in the unlikely event it helps someone else, although I suspect this odd behaviour could result from a number of possible hardware issues or a sensor error.

I started to suspect something wasn't quite right with the display so I connected the iMac to an external display and for the first time in about five days the computer booted up from the internal hard drive. Oddly enough both the internal screen and external screen worked fine while using the computer.

I then disconnected the external screen and the problem returned - the iMac would not boot from the internal drive. Reconnecting the external screen results in everything working fine. I went through this disconnect/reconnect process five times and the results were repeatable.

While connected to the external screen I was able to import and rebuild the corrupt mailbox with the end result being a 258 Gb reduction in the mailbox size!

As far as I can tell, both the LCD panel and the internal DisplayPort cable are fine, so I'm recommending to my friend that she run it connected to an external display for a while to determine if any other problems present themselves. While I could inspect and reseat internal DisplayPort cable, this is not something I intend to do unless she reports back that the internal display stops working.

I will update this answer if/when I have anything else useful to share.

[Update]

Eventually the iMac stopped booting altogether - only getting part of the way before restarting itself in an endless loop. Also the display would show vertical lines etc, so the owner bought another 27" model and gave me this to use for parts.

After having it in my office for a few months and not needing any of the parts, I decided to disassemble it to see if I could find any obvious fault. Nothing stood out at me so I decided that since I had gone to all this trouble, I may as well remove the GPU (an AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB) and bake it in the oven to try and re-flow the solder and heat the Bumps under the surface-mount chip. (Basically I had decided a while back that the GPU was the most likely culprit).

After doing this and reassembling everything the iMac booted up normally. It was the first time this year it had booted successfully! I've since rebooted it 30+ times, run Apple Hardware Test, and so on. Not sure how long this will last (the baking a GPU in the oven trick is often described as a temporary fix, but Ive heard of GPUs still working normally six months later.

For anyone who is interested, below is a brief summary of what I did:

Disassemble the iMac enough to remove the GPU
Set oven to 205℃ (400℉)
Place a sheet of baking paper on an oven tray and place the GPU (only the GPU itself) on the oven tray
Place it in the oven for 8 minutes
Remove the tray and let it cool
Remove any old heatsink compound from the chips and replace with new compound
Reassemble everything

This process took me approximately 4.5hrs (including various interruptions along the way).

Obviously the steps above do not go into detail, so anyone reading this who feels confident enough to give it a go can post a comment below or in chat and I'd be happy to walk them through the process in greater detail.

Remember though, I've disassembled countless computers over the years, so if you haven't and still want to give this a go, please be patient and allow more time. Also, you will require some tools that you most likely won't have (but can easily purchase online).


Try a verbose boot and see if the text output during the boot sequence provides any clues.


After a recent update to 10.14.4 trackpad stopped working on a Macbook Pro 2017

I’m currently faced with this problem. I’ve tried all the suggestions and one that seemed to fix it for a week or so was turning the unit off and holding CMD + q and then turning the unit on whilst holding it until you get to the login screen.


Why might one USB port be problematic on a MacBook Pro?

It's difficult to tell if you have a hardware issue or this is just how things are designed.

Have you read through this article on how Apple detects the first device that requests higher power and enables that power on some, but not all ports?

Apple Computers and Displays: Powering peripherals through USB

I know you have linked to it, but the 500 mA is subject to measurement errors on the computer side - so plugging in a device can draw more current than the device says it should. Similarly, the measurement side where the Mac determines the actual power draw could be flakey or failing. This sort of thing isn't tested in the system diagnostics. You would need a test set / oscilloscope / engineering lab to really measure these currents with enough resolution to pin down exactly what is happening.

It could be just the order in which the system decides to detect a device attached. Once you have ruled that out and have a repeatable issue - you might need to have the Mac checked for service if it isn't producing power as expected. Now that you know that the order in which devices are plugged can affect things, perhaps this will help narrow down if the enhanced power is correctly available to some (changeable) subset of the ports and hubs made by Apple.

There is no easy answer other than being precise and narrowing down exactly which devices are causing errors and statistically determining/isolating whether it's the devices or the port that is out of spec and needs to be replaced.


Reverse scrolling direction every time i use a different app

You could do this with Karabiner. Among other things, you can use it to reverse your scroll weel. It has some presets for this already, but if there isn't an exact match, you'll have to modify private.xml file to make custom settings.

There's samples.xml file, that contains pretty much an exact example of what you are after. It flips the scroll in Safari:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <identifier>remap.samples_flipscrollwheel</identifier>
    <name>Flip Horizontal and Vertical ScrollWheel at Safari</name>
    <only>SAFARI</only>
    <autogen>
      __FlipScrollWheel__
      Option::FLIPSCROLLWHEEL_HORIZONTAL,
      Option::FLIPSCROLLWHEEL_VERTICAL,
    </autogen>
  </item>
</root>

You'll probably want to check out how to make custom settings.
The
scroll wheel flipping is not documented yet, so if you want to find more samples of that, you gotta search the samples.xml for __FlipScrollWheel__
Documentation on how to specify an application


Restore whole system on 10.10 with time machine

Restart, hold down Command + R while booting to get to the restore screen. You can pick your backup from there.
From support site


Both Camtasia Studio and Screenflow are full-featued screencasting solutions. Both allow you to capture, edit, and distribute screencasts. In the US at least, they cost the same (though Camtasia has a $99 "introductory price," I would be surprised if they raise it to the $149 "list price" as long as Screenflow is priced at $99).

Both programs have extensive editing capabilities, and will handle the kind of edit tasks you describe.

One (minor, in my opinion) difference is that Camtasia allows you to capture part of the screen, while Screenflow always captures the whole screen. But it's easy to crop to part of the screen in Screenflow during the post-recording edit.

It boils down to which program's interface and workflow you prefer. Both have free trial versions; I suggest you download both and produce a sample video in each. Then buy the one that feels right for your working style.


Can a SSH session be wrapped to appear as a distinct App?

The only way to run multiple, separate instances of Terminal is by launching them with the command line open -n -a "Terminal" -- understand that this isn't a great way to run things that aren't meant to be run like this. There are shared preferences and plist files being used by these instances so you may run in to trouble.

The reason Fluid works so well is each app is a separate WebKit browser instance, with a unique preference namespace, and without the normal browser window decorations. It's a heavy hack to say the least.

You can script Terminal with AppleScript and then save the AppleScript as an application. This script forces a new instance of Terminal to the foreground and then runs an ssh command in it:

do shell script "open -n -a Terminal"
tell application "Terminal"
   set currentTab to do script ("ssh user@server;")
   # Additional commands can be sent using...
   # delay 6
   # do script ("do something remote") in currentTab
end tell

Enter that in to the AppleScript Editor, customize it as suits your needs, and then select File > Save... and where it says Type: in the Save dialog select Application.

This will create an unsigned .app file you can distribute as an Application to start ssh sessions. If you have a developer certificate and want to code sign the .app so users don't get a warning about running untrusted code use the File > Export... menu option, select Application for the Type and make sure the Code Sign: option in the dialog pointing to a developer certificate instead of Don't Code Sign.

It is preferred to code sign the app if you're going to give the app to other users.

If you run that, you'll get entirely new Terminals started, independent of each other, that you can Cmd-Q quit without quitting the other instances. Replace Terminal in the script with iTerm if you prefer it for your command line work.


How do I clear the application used to open a file, i.e. set it to none

The few files I had this problem with all happened to have their executable bit set, and the application the finder wanted to use was Terminal.  Turning off the executable bit resolved the problem.


The easiest thing is to back up the old iPad to iCloud or your computer using iTunes.

Then restore the old backup onto the new iPad Air (you need to erase all content and settings to get the device clean for the restore).

When the setup asks if you have a backup, load that on the new device.

delete all apps and settings on the old iPad that should not be there.
delete all apps and settings from the new iPad that should not be there.

At that point, you can use the two separately. Look to perhaps turn off automatic downloads. At some point you can wipe the old iPad and let your daughter start buying her own apps or split things with a mix of the old Apple ID and her new Apple ID as well - you can mix purchases unlike iCloud settings.


I have an SSD installed on a mac I do not use, how do I use it on another desktop?

If you're referring to a standard 2.5" form factor SATA SSD drive then it should be able to be used elsewhere, internally on another system or in an external enclosure, supporting the same form factor. As to partitioning/formatting, if the target OS is Windows then I'd partition/format it under Windows.


How to open mime attachments in external apps from iPhone 5S iOS 7 mail, and the best app to use

Forward the message to yourself INCLUDING the attachment.  It works for me.


I use Adium, there is an extension that lets you connect to Lync servers.

Protocol plugin for Office 365/Lync/OCS

works only with:

  A third-party Pidgin/Adium/Miranda/Telepathy plugin for the extended
  version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products:

  Skype for Business
  Microsoft Office 365
  Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)
  Microsoft Lync Server
  Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2)
  Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)

Once you have the Xtra installed, you can add your Lync account as an "Office Communicator" account.


macOS Sierra Missing App Icon in Dock and "Check for Updates..." Fails for Certain Apps

Cause: Gatekeeper Path Randomization introduced by macOS Sierra.

Steps to Fix:

Run command: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Your.app
Drag app back to Dock;
Restart Mac.

Consequence:

App icon stays at Dock after restart
Check for updates works


Update Pages to version 5.2.2 (1877). I don't know when they've added the following functionallity, but with this version you can do your changes manually one time, and then update the bullet list style as follows:

Open the Bullet & Lists drop down pop-up. Notice that there's an update button next to the bullet list style name, which is marked as 'changed from default' by an asterisk:

You can either press the update button, or click on the arrow next to it and select 'Update stlye' from the popup menu (featuring other options like clear, rename or delete):


In OS X 10.10.2 the Finder's Preview function is not working

From: Easy fix for Mac Finder preview thumnails not displaying

Delete all from your home > library > preferences. Delete all: com.apple.finder.plist

Proceed with logout and then login again.

Tried it, it should work!


replacing a toshiba hard drive in a mac mini

Yeah it sounds like maybe you just need to install the OS onto it (I guess "it wouldn't work" isn't really defined, so this is a guess).

If Tetsujin's suggestion doesn't work, and you have the older Mac Mini (I know my Mac Mini had the drive die - and it's from 2005, so internet recovery wasn't available), then put a Mac OS CD in the drive and boot up while holding down
    Command + C
to boot from the CD drive.  Then install the operating system from that.

You might also want to make sure the shop gave you back your old hard drive, since it has all your stuff on it.  Depending on how dead the drive is, you could put it into an External Enclosure and try to get some of the data off it. (Make sure you choose the correct drive connection: IDE (older computers), SATA (newer computers I think?), or other types (mSATA etc.).


Added SSD to mid 2011 27" iMac. How do I keep user accounts on HDD and only use SSD for OS and Apps

Turns out it was just a permissions problem. Since macOS Sierra doesn't give you the ability to fix permissions, I'll just post this here in case anyone else needs it:

To reset permissions from the terminal:

diskutil resetUserPermissions / $(id -u)


Monitor turns off for two seconds after login

This is standard behaviour with the built-in HDMI port of the Mini 2018 - the governing circuitry has a 'security interlock' controlled by the T2 chip, and it gets toggled when the machine moves from the PREBOOT OS (which is where your main login window actually lives) over to the standard install.


External keyboard inserting characters when typing fast

Get hold of Key Codes (freeware) from the App Store, so you can test what the keyboard is actually outputting.

If it's sending garbage, then you'd probably need to speak to the manufacturer.


How do I boot into the EFI firmware shell?

Yup, apparently it is missing and you have to install EDK to get it.


How can I send a set of photos from iPhoto using my gmail address?

When you do this, you should get a dropdown selection box that has your various email addresses in it.  You can choose in there.  If your gmail doesn't show up there, then go to iPhoto in the menu, click Preferences, click Accounts, click the plus, click Email, click Add, click Gmail, and provide the relevant info.


my iPhone keeps losing wifi connection. Why is this?

Download a wifi analyser onto your phone (plenty of good free ones) and check the signal strength your getting on it when scanning for WAP's.

This should help you rule out if its the signal strength, leaving either your netgear or iPhone as the culprit.

See this article as well

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ios-8-problems/2/


Tap the album art. The repeat button is the one furthest to the left (looks like two arrows in an oval). Tap it until it is not coloured


I have found the answer to my question in this post at the macrumors.com forum.

  In the System Information application (Apple menu, hold option key, and the first item changes from "About this Mac" to "System Information"), look under the Installations tab. The exact time and date of the OS X install will be listed there.


I guess you figured this out a year ago now -
but you need a PATA -> SATA power adapter [couple of quid/bucks/shekels from Maplin's/Radio Shack etc] & run it from one of the old superdrive power-supplies you'll find ready & waiting in that bay.


Is there a "Voice Recording" application for IOS which can specify a moment while recording?

Yes there is! CaptureAudio does exactly this. It is a US$3 app for iPhone (also works on iPad, it’s a universal app, no separate purchase).

Just to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, let me state that CaptureAudio is a past-sponsor of a podcast that I do. That being said, their sponsorship slot is over and has nothing to do with me posting this here. It just so happens to be an app that I know which does the exact thing requested.

Usage is very simple, start recording and you get a big button on your iPhone. Tap it, and a marker/bookmark/notation is added to the recording. You can even create different kinds of bookmarks, and each one has different symbols attached to it.

Screenshot from http://captureapps.com/

When you are listening back later on, tapping one of those marker/bookmarks will jump right to the spot where you recorded it. (You can see screenshots of that on the website.)

Actually I think it’s even smart enough to jump back a little before the marker, which is good because you probably didn't realize you need to mark something until after it was said!

The app also backs up to Dropbox, which is nice, but I haven't actually used that feature, I've just done everything on the iPhone.

When listening back to long recordings (over an hour), the app does tend to crash sometimes, but this is only on playback not while recording which would obviously be a deal-breaker. I assume that crash is probably related to the iPhone running out of memory, but IANADeveloper, so that's just a guess.


Format the External Hard Drive from Hell

I managed to get the drive to respond and unmount by killing the process fsck_hfs


How can I restore files when my account isn't granted access?

I was able to access the local snapshots in "/.MobileBackups/Computer/" via a command line. Unfortunately, I disabled automatic Time Machine backups, not knowing that this would delete all local snapshots.

The files from the external Time Machine backup had an ACL that disallowed all write access to the database directories and files (revealed with ls -le). Removing the ACL with chmod -RN $dir granted access (no more permission errors when MySQLd runs).


Is there software that allows me to use my Macbook Pro as a second monitor for iMac?

I personally use AirDisplay for this purpose, as it is the only application that I have found that enables the secondary screen to be able to display video or other high frame rate objects at a reasonable speed.

I have also experimented highly with Screen Recycler as well as just strait VNC which is included with the OS, however my issue with those has been with tearing of visual elements when dragging windows as well as the inability to show videos, keynotes, websites or even scroll word documents and have the second display appear fluid.


Which of the GNU coreutils applications are included in the MacPorts coreutils package?

su has moved from coreutils to the utils-linux project since v8.18,
since it's more aligned with the linux specific routines in PAM etc.
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=928dd737

For more portable and light weight switching of user credentials,
one can use gchroot --user=... /

I've amended wikipedia appropriately


Auto-Refresh Page for Google Chrome on iPad

Chrome for iPad doesn't have extensions, but you can accomplish what you're looking for (in Chrome or Safari) using a bookmarklet.

I tested Evan Culver's and it works beautifully:

javascript: timeout=prompt("Set timeout [s]"); current=location.href; if(timeout>0) setTimeout('reload()',1000*timeout); else location.replace(current); function reload(){ setTimeout('reload()',1000*timeout); fr4me='<frameset cols=\'*\'>\n<frame src=\''+current+'\'/>'; fr4me+='</frameset>'; with(document){write(fr4me);void(close())};}

How to install it on Chrome:

On your iPad, copy the above line of in its entirety (starting with javascriptand ending with the final })
In Chrome, create a new bookmark (of any page) by tapping the star icon in the location bar. Next, immediately tap the Edit button in the note that will appear at the bottom of the screen, which will let you edit the new bookmark and turn it into a bookmarklet.
Set the name of the bookmark to "Auto Refresh"
Delete the whole URL and paste the code above in its place. Tap Done to finish creating your bookmarklet.

To use it:

Visit a page you want to refresh
Tap the location bar and type "Auto Refresh". Select the bookmarklet from the drop down options
Choose your refresh interval (in seconds)

Note: this particular bookmarklet doesn't have an option to stop auto-refresh; to do that, just reload the page manually.


Macbook early 2009: does it has a maximum SD memory allowed

There is an excellent Support Article on Apple's website that addresses this:  About the SD and SDXC card slot

Does the SD slot work with cards that exceed 32 GB?
Yes. However, most media manufactures preformat the media using common
block-and-cluster sizes that do not approach the theoretical limits of
a given file system. Most SD cards use the FAT32 file format.
Preformatted FAT32 SD media is commonly available up to a capacity of
32 GB. Media that exceeds 32GB usually uses the exFAT file system.
Some smaller capacity cards use the FAT16 file format. Preformatted
FAT16 media is generally available up to a capacity of 2 GB. To
determine which file system you are using with Mac OS X v10.6.5 or
later, insert the media into the SD card slot, go to the Apple menu,
select About this Mac..., click on More info..., click on Card Reader
in the hardware section, and locate the File System field.

Which SD card formats work in the SD card slot?
Cards that conform to the SD 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x standards should work.
The SD card slot can use cards that are Standard SD (Secure Digital) 4
MB to 2 GB, SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) 4 GB to 32 GB, and
SDXC  (Secure Digital Extended Capacity) 4G B to 2 TB. MMC can also be
used in this slot. MiniSD, MicroSD, and higher density formats like
MiniSDHC and MicroSDHC can also work with the use of "passive"
adapters that conform to the width and thickness specifications listed
above.

(Emphasis mine)
To format your SD card, you should use Disk Utility either using the GUI or via Terminal.
Using Terminal:
diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ DiskName GPT /dev/diskN
Where...

HFS+ = type of filesystem
DiskName = Name you want to give the SD card (i.e. "Stuff", "My Photos")
GPT = partition type
diskN = disk identifier (i.e disk4, disk7, etc.)

For more details, see man diskutil


Can anyone recommend good third party iOS email clients (especially regarding signature support)?

Sparrow is now available for the iPhone, and it supports IMAP.

The app description does not mention exchange, and it specifically says that there's no POP support, but being that it's such a popular mail client, I figured it's worth mentioning.

Disclaimer: I've never used it either on the Mac or on iOS


You could delete a song in the iTunes app on your device just by swyping from right to left over the song name. There will be an option to delete the song.


How can I set up DNS for Bonjour and AirPrint to advertise printers across subnets

I have solved this problem by allowing a selected group of the guests to be on the same LAN as the printers; however blocking them significantly with firewalls so that only the printers and a few other machines needed, can be reached from that specific wi-fi network.

If you see that I have provided this answer to my own question;  I'd still love to hear how to configure DNS for Bonjour in the current versions of OSX and Server, and otherwise forward Airprint or other protocols as examples.


Click check buttons via keyboard or script

In Brazil we call this a "gambiarra", meaning an unconventional, unprofessional, improvised, sometimes lazy, workaround, temporary or definitive, for any given problem:

1st step - positioning the window to guarantee it will be always in the same spot:

on run
    tell application "Final Cut Pro"
            activate
    end tell
    tell application "System Events"
        set position of window "Delete Tracks" of process "Final Cut Pro" to {1150, 550}
    end tell
end run

2 - Use a Pyton shell script to click the exact point:

on run
    set x to 1200
    set y to 673

    do shell script "
/usr/bin/python <<END
import sys
import time
from Quartz.CoreGraphics import *
def mouseEvent(type, posx, posy):
          theEvent = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, type, (posx,posy), kCGMouseButtonLeft)
          CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, theEvent)
def mousemove(posx,posy):
          mouseEvent(kCGEventMouseMoved, posx,posy);
def mouseclick(posx,posy):
          mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDown, posx,posy);
          mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseUp, posx,posy);
ourEvent = CGEventCreate(None);
currentpos=CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent);             # Save current mouse position
mouseclick(" & x & "," & y & ");
mousemove(int(currentpos.x),int(currentpos.y));      # Restore mouse position
END"

end run

And voila, problem solved:


No horizontal scroll in Safari. Bug, or pref?

It's an issue with AdGuard, specifically the Web Annoyances Ultralist.
Reported to the developers in https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/82833
with a dev response

Ok, better disable this filter. It can break something in Safari, also our filters compiler has one issue AdguardTeam/SafariConverterLib#21
After release which will contain the fix for problem above, you can try that filter again.

I have that filter disabled for now & will test again after the next release.


Suddenly some folders are unreachable from my external hard drive

This piece of software recovered all my lost files!

Data Rescue 3 External Drive Recovery
By PROSOFT Engineering, Inc.


System Info says my Documents folder is 170GB when Finder says it's only 8GB!

Documents in the System Information pane doesn't mean files in the Documents directory.

It means files that are not other, already defined media types - ie. not photos, books, movies, etc. This would normally encompass the sort of files you'd put in your Documents folder, but they don't have to be kept in there to be part of that total.

If you actually click into Documents on that System Info screen, and then hit the File Browser button up top you'll be able to see what directories are using up the space.

Personally, I do see it's finding a large (40Gb) amount of space used in Library, which is often where things like Google cache data. Apple also caches a lot in Library.


How to solve error 4SNS/1/40000000:VDOR-18.507?

It is definitely either a sensor error and/or hardware problem that is triggering the sensor.

In a situation such as this you really need to take it to an Apple Store or authorised service repairer. If you have a Genius Bar near you, make an appointment there as they won't charge you for just a diagnosis.

Reset the SMC

Here are the steps for resetting the SMC on your particular MacBook Pro. This may help in terms of your fans and the Heat.

Shut down your computer
Keep the MagSafe adapter (power cable) plugged in.
Press at the same time shiftoptioncontrol
(on the left side of the keyboard) and the power button
Let go
Turn your computer back on with the power button.


When in single user mode you must enter the command at the begininng to make it writeable.

/sbin/mount -uw /

Then move the /var folder back to /private

mv /Path/To/var /private/


I can't get my iPod touch to show up in iTunes what am I doing wrong?

After looking at Apple's forums, I discovered that others who had a similar problem had not recently updated their iTunes. So, after doing a bit of poking around I discovered my iTunes hadn't been updated in quite sometime!

I accessed the administrator account on my computer, clicked on the "Start" button (the button in the lower left corner in XP and 7), there I found an Apple software update button, clicked on that and it brought iTunes up to date. I disconnected my iPod and then reconnected. This time using iTunes version 11.2.2.3. Now everything is connected and is working just fine (although iTunes now looks much different and requires some getting used to!)!


Open website without actually opening it in browser from terminal

You can use curl

curl https://www.google.co.uk/

and if you don't want the output

curl --silent https://www.google.co.uk/ > /dev/null


Does the "powermetrics" command line tool come pre installed on mac?

It is present on macOS, (my MBA is running Catalina,) but you need to run it as root using sudo:
Last login: Wed Nov  4 07:52:42 on console
[tech-computer:~] admin% powermetrics
powermetrics must be invoked as the superuser
[tech-computer:~] admin% sudo powermetrics
Password:
Machine model: MacBookAir8,1
SMC version: Unknown
EFI version: 1037.4.0
OS version: 19H2
Boot arguments: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev
Boot time: Wed Nov  4 07:52:07 2020
.
.
.


Why is Google Chrome trying to run netbiosd attempting to connect to 192.168.2.255?

Netbios searches for local services like shared files and printers. What device is at 192.168.2.255 and did you enable chrome to try to print or open files?

This could be harmless or it could be code running that you don’t want to.

The process is a helper, Apple installed it, it’s running code that google likely was told by you to run.


You could also try this:

Open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities
Run command: rm -rfv ~/.Trash/*

This should delete all files in the trash and show you what it's doing as it goes.


Can I use Apple Pay in the US with an Australian AMEX?

Short answer: No, you can't.

Long answer: Apple Pay is, officially, US-only right now. However, it is possible to use Apple Pay in Australia:

  To show the Apple Pay settings, simply open the Settings app on your iPhone (or iPad mini 3 or iPad Air 2), tap on General, Tap on Language & Region, and tap on ‘Region’. Change it to the United States.

However, there is a big caveat:

  While you can go through the setup process, your card must be issued by a participating bank before it can be used with Apple Pay. If you try to add a card from a bank that isn’t yet supported (i.e a card from, or issued in Australia), you’ll simply receive an error.

The Apple support article Apple Pay participating issuers lists the currently-supported banks.

So, while you could use it in Australia with a US-issued card, the reverse is not possible.


Was my AT&T-approved iPhone 4 unlock successful?

No, you do not have to enter any sort of unlock code for any iPhone unlock event.

iTunes contacts the registration database when a phone is restored to determine the lock status and set the appropriate carrier settings file if needed.

So, in your case one of two things has happened.

The database that Apple / iTunes consult hasn't been updated for your IMEI.
You missed the unlock message and your phone is actually ready to be unlocked.

The unlock happens when you restore your device - either as an over the air (OTA) activation or tethered to iTunes.

The carrier should be able to query the live database to see if your IMEI is unlocked or you could try getting another cheap SIM (or borrowing a friend's SIM) and just testing the phone yourself. If you restore the phone twice after it gets unlocks, you will not see this message - but you should get it when it's first unlocked.


How to put music on someone else's device without erasing their data?

You can transfer files to her computer via an external hard drive, from there she can import them into her iTunes, then onto her iPad. She should really back it up though.


Accidently installed Catalina I did not have a time machine back up and want to go back to High Sierra 10.13

Manually copy the files over from Time Machine.

Just because you can’t restore doesn’t mean you can’t browse and copy.  Understand, that you’re not going to restore applications and settings, but you’ll be able to bring over your data with no problem.

In fact, I’m doing this exact process with my new install of Catalina rather doing a restoration or using Migration Assistant.


Image Capture on mac won't delete photos/videos off iPhone

Your iPhone has strict Privacy and Security measures in place. You should try deleting/modifying photos via an Apple App. If that doesn't work, then it probably won't work on any app. Your iPhone's SSD is probably mounted as Read Only.


Disk Utility "First Aid" says "Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting" after clean install

I created a bootable external HD running 10.11.6 and I can boot from it. I also erased my internal and reinstalled 10.11.6 on my internal SSD. I booted to the external after selecting it as Startup Disk in Sys Prefs, and ran Disk Utility on the internal. Afterward, I no longer get the message "Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting." Phenomenon of Mac momentarily "going into neutral" described above also appears resolved (based on 30 minutes of use, anyway). Soon I will boot to external and rerun Disk Util to recheck for errors on internal. But so far, seems good.


What is preventing an OTA update to iOS 6 on an iPod touch 4th gen?

To avoid rendering your device unusable due to a bad upgrade file, iOS does some verification of the download before installing (likely some type of checksum to ensure the download wasn't corrupted and it's for the right device, etc.). Given that your install process fails during the verification process, it's likely that you either got a bad download (possible, although it should try to re-download if that's the case), or the authentication and verification servers that the installer needs to check against are having some problems (not unlikely, given the load they've had since iOS 6 came out).

Best advice is to just wait it out and try later. However if you're impatient, you can directly download the update to your computer and update via iTunes (although if the servers are experiencing issues, it might affect this method as well).

Steps for a direct update

Go to this page and download the proper file for your device.
With your device connected in iTunes, open the device page, hold down option (shift on Windows) and click the Update button.
An Open File dialog should appear. Browse to the .ipsw file you downloaded in step 1 and open it.
Your software update should begin normally.


Organizing skype downloads in subfolders with contact names

So I made a script and saved it as a folder action:

for f in "$@"
do
    userFolder=~/Downloads/Skype/`xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms "$f" | sed -e 's/0D//g' -e 's/.*\(5F 10\)...//' -e 's/00.*//'| xxd -r -p | sed -e 's@ (.*@@g'`
    mkdir -p "$userFolder"
    mv "$f" "$userFolder"
done

What it does:

gets where from field from file. In binary
deletes some binary-plist prefix
delete nulls at the end
creates string from binary with xxd
Gets the name of the contact from string.
creates a folder for that contact
moves file there.

If you have more elegant solution, I would be glad to see them :)
P.S. if you didn't know about where from filed you can find it in get info for some finder items.

To categorize existing downloads you can also add service.


Hide ONLY .app file extensions but show the rest

The "Show all filename extensions" option overrides the "Hide extension" option in Get Info. This means that there are a few possible solutions one could try to find in order to hide ".app" extensions while showing the rest:

Find a way to exclude certain extensions from "Show all filename extensions".
Find a way to hide extensions, other than the "Hide extension" option, that it is not affected by the "Show all filename extensions" option.
Find a way to override the "Hide extension" option, other than the "Show all filename extensions" option, that can be configured to include or exclude items based on their extensions, or perhaps even by their location (e.g. exclude the Applications folder).

To the best of my knowledge, none of these are possible, but I would be happy to be proven wrong about that.

Possible Workaround

The easiest workaround I can think of is to leave "Show all filename extensions" unchecked and to manually set other files to explicitly show their extensions, which can be done very easily with Automator and the SetFile command.

You can set this up as either a service or an application. In both cases, it can be used on both files and folders, and will also process the contents of subfolders.

To set this up in Automator, add a "Run Shell Script" action, set "Pass input" to "as arguments" and set the script to this:

(Note: You have to install Xcode to get the SetFile command.)

for f in "$@"
do
    find "$f" -name "*.*" -exec SetFile -a e {} \;
done

If you set this up as a service, be sure to change "Service receives selected" to "files or folders".

You could also look into using this as a folder action. As files are added to a folder, the script will automatically set their extensions to be shown. For example, it could be useful to attach such a folder action to Downloads, Documents and the Desktop, or any other folder which frequently receives files with "Hide extension" checked.

Hopefully, setting this up as a service would make it so trivial to use that you wouldn't even need to worry about batch-processing an entire volume (which could take awhile). Rather, you could simply use it as needed whenever you come across files or folders of files with hidden extensions.


How can i reduce the file size of my images in Pages on my iPad?

Best is to reduce the photos before they are added to Pages.

For printing they do not have to be more than 300 dpi.

For viewing on the screen about 75 - 100 dpi.

Pages doesn't do the job as you found out.

You can do it in Preview > tools > Adjust size (on a Mac)

If do not ant to leave the iPad then you can use one of the many external apps to do it.

Simple Resize (Free)

or Image Resizer+ ($0.99)

Additional Info:

The Resolution has the biggest impact on the file size, not so the size of the image.


Taken from the answer the OP added to the question:

When a directory or a file is duplicated, the (access) rights of the original file are usually not copied and the new file is owned by the copying user. However, if a Mac is used by several users or if network drives are involved, it can make sense not to make a file accessible to everyone.  To do this, right-click on a file, press OptShift and select "Duplicate exactly". This ensures that owner and access rights are copied as well.


How can I manage multiple Photos libraries on my iPhone (iOS)

It is not possible to have multiple libraries with the stock Photos app on iOS.

However, you could use the stock Photos app to hold all the photos that you want stored on iCloud, and a seperate, third-party photo app to hold the rest. The third-party app could be something like Google Photos, Flickr or Amazon Photos.


Alfred takes longer to show results, database disk image is malformed

So, pressing the reset knowledge button in the preferences seems to have fixed it.

If you get similar errors, you could also try removing ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/knowledge.alfdb or other database files. If you're using a sandboxed version bought from the App Store, they are in ~/Library/Containers/com.alfredapp.Alfred/Data/.


They're stored in ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist. You should quit the application before restoring a copy of the plist.


Why does traceroute from the command line work, but traceroute via Network Utility not work?

Network Utility is using ICMP rather than the default UDP protocol used by traceroute. You can use the -I flag to get the same behaviour on the command line:

traceroute -I 173.194.33.116

I don't know of any way to force Network Utility to use UDP.

One explanation for this could be that your firewall/router is configured to block ICMP packets.


What is the oldest version of Mac OS that can be used on retina displays?

The limitiation isn't so much the display as the hardware overall. You can't install OS versions older than the hardware because older versions don't bring all the required drivers etc. for various components.

Your iMac (late 2014) came with OSX 10.10 pre-installed, so this is as far as you can go back.


A process called sdmd is using huge amounts of resources...!?

This may affect OS X El-Capitan or later installations running Server.app with active file sharing. sdmd is a service which produces indices and previews for iOS devices. In the process it parses everything in the share, which, depending on how large that shared folder is and where it's located, can take quite some time and resources.

I've seen this causing an issue with a relatively slow external RAID array, which another process was trying to write to; sdmd was causing so much I/O on the drive that the process couldn't write data fast enough, causing data to pile up in its memory, which saturated RAM, caused lots of swapping, and eventually caused OS X to suspend the process outright to keep the system from keeling over. Nice chain reaction...

To get rid of sdmd, disable iOS Access (next to AFP, SMB etc.) in the details of each individual shared folder in Server.app (or at least in the folders where it causes a problem).

Tip of the hat to https://osxbytes.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/server-app-5-0-4-sdmd-and-ios/ for this solution.


Is it normal for iPhone to take longer than 8 hours to erase contents and settings?

Try again. This should not take more than a second. Everything on your iPhone is encrypted with a randomly-chosen encryption key, and all that's needed to "erase content and settings" is to discard that key. For security reasons, wiping the phone is designed to be nearly instantaneous so a thief has no time to intervene.

You might have better luck if you turn the phone off and on again before trying again. By "off" I don't mean screen sleep. Hold the power button down for several seconds until a "Swipe to turn off" slider appears.


./ is part of the path to a directory/file.

If used as part of a parameter to a command

rm image.png and rm ./image.png are exactly the same and identify a file in the current directory
rm *./image.png is a pattern which looks for files named image.png in all subdirectories of the current directory which end with a dot

The key use for ./ usually is to call a script/executable in the current directory. When you execute a command without specifiying it's directory (e.g. cp instead of /bin/cp), the shell searches for this in all directories listed in the $PATH variable. The current directory is usually not part of that variable (for security reasons) so you can use ./command-name to tell the shell to look for the command in the current directory.


Smaller Album artwork in iTunes 12.5.1.21?

I don't think there is anyway you can make them smaller.  The Grid view, in Album View, I think is inoperable to size change.  For me, I like larger album covers so I deleted the microphones in Artist view (and Artist view itself) and use List in the Album View.  Of course, I can expand to about 14" x 14".  The only smaller album coverwork are the microphones but they seem to be controlled by the iTunes Store box sets, so many people have missing artwork---and lots of microphones.  That's why I eliminated them.


Is it possible to route traffic from the outside to a virtualbox VM on the inside of a macOS Mojave?

You have to set up NAT port forwarding rules then access your services by using the IP address of your Mac much like you would if it were a host behind a traditional firewall/router.

You can do this via the VirtualBox GUI in the Port Forwarding rules setup in the Network Settings preference pane for the individual VM.  In the example below, I show how you can set port forwarding for SSH on port 2222 of your host to port 22 of your guest (using the IPs from your question).

Alternatively, you can do this via the CLI using VBoxManage modifyvm.  So using the same example as above:

$ VBoxManage modifyvm "VM NAME" --natpf1 "SSH,tcp,192.168.2.86,2222,192.168.97.1,22"


External (Thunderbolt 2) drive keeps changing to read-only randomly

I assume you've already done this, but I would check my connectors.  Additionally, the one drive may not be getting as much power and/or can be beginning to fail.  If you have a way to test it externally on another device, I think we would learn a lot more about the cause.
I hope this provides some helpful ideas/thoughts.  Keep us posted!


Orange smudge/splotch near edge of screen on MacBook Pro

That is not normal in that it wouldn’t be made that way, but it’s normal since it’s understandable how it could happen. That is a cosmetic issue with the LCD panel. Without a physical inspection or examining the panel, my best guess is the layers are compressed physically. No need to repair it until you can’t or won’t abide by the color shift or the area just stops working.

Get a quote for how much it would cost to fix it, then consider:

putting that cash in a jar and deciding if you’d rather save it for your next computer or an iPad or a brand new external display.

That way the money is there to unlock something you want in the future as a post to a nagging doubt that your current machine has a flaw in it. If Apple wants to cover it under warranty, r dilemma is solved so definitely get a quote for repair.

As to the coming and going, If you carry your Mac in the book bag or it could be getting otherwise squeezed, that would explain why the color moves around in the dissipates as the glass and plastic layers reset themselves.  Like a thin film of oil or soap on water, you are seeing a rainbow of diffraction and refraction as the light and LCD interact with each other.


Weird line wrapping in terminal with a colored prompt

Encase your colors in brackets [] so they count as non-printable characters.

export PS1="\[\033[0;35m\]\u\[\033[00m\] on \[\033[0;36m\]\h\[\033[00m\] in \[\033[0;33m\]\w\[\033[00m\] \$ "

Unfortunately, this results in well-known line wrapping issues that is plagued by bash.

There is good news everyone, the light at the end of the tunnel is tput.

echo $(tput setaf 6) This is cyan

Set all your variables first, then use it within the script.

mg=$(tput setaf 5);cy=$(tput setaf 6);yl=$(tput setaf 3);rs=$(tput sgr0); echo $mg $USER $cy $HOSTNAME $yl $PWD $rs

You can find an example script in my github dotfiles repo


Lion won't give out DHCP addresses with Internet Sharing

I finally figured it out.

You said your Firewall is off. You should double-check. This will definitely cause Internet Sharing to not work. System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall.
In the "Sharing" panel, change your Computer Name to something simple. Instead of "Elliot's MacBook Pro", use "MBP".

Turn off Internet Sharing (if it's on). Make sure you have set "Share your connection from:" to "Ethernet", and "To computers using:" to "Wi-Fi". Change the "Wi-Fi Options..." and save.

If that didn't work: Turn off Wi-Fi on your Lion Mac. Make sure you have internet access from Ethernet, and that it works (test a site in a browser).
For your Wi-Fi connection, set "Configure IPv4" to "Using DHCP". In the "DNS" tab, delete any existing entries.

Hope this helps!


How can I add > 200Mb/2h tracks to iPhone with iCloud Music Library enabled?

It’s still not possible so I’ve worked around the problem by removing the long tracks from my music library and managing them with Evermusic instead. Seems to be working well so far.


Incorrect keyboard mapping on OS X guest in vmware fusion

Go into the VM’s settings (⌘+E), and enter Keyboard & Mouse. You will see various profiles. Select one to use (or leave the one that’s already selected), press the small cog at the bottom of the window, and pick Edit Profile…. Go into the Key Mappings tab where you’ll be able to map keys into other keys. While this won’t correct the keyboard layout on the system, it will at least make so that the correct keys are passed when you’re using it.


Shortcut/app to capture only the content of a window in a screenshot?

I'm not sure how convenient this would be for your workflow...

Switch to fullscreen.
From the View menu, uncheck "Always show toolbar in full screen"
Use  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   4  then tap the spacebar & click in the window
This will [as always] take a snap of the entire window - but in this case it will leave out the toolbar entirely.
Scrollbars will hide or show depending on your setting in System Prefs > General


Your wireless device appears to be in promiscuous mode.  Maybe you are doing a packet dump or sniffing packets?  If so, no worries.  If not, I would investigate this further, as it sometimes yet not always indicates a compromised system being used as a stepping stone in further network penetration.

First, a quick and dirty network device refresh can be effectuated by creating a new location in the System Preferences, under the network portion.  Look at the top, and under location, click edit locations.  Then click the plus button, and give the new location a name.
Then please select your home network, and re-enter the password.

Your problem might have been resolved.  If not, then please go back to the terminal and provide the output of these:

     ifconfig -a -v

     pfctl -v -si

     pfctl -v -sr

     ipconfig getpacket en1

     netstat -nvia -I en1

     netstat -nr

Hope that this helps.

F.


There's 3 ways.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.captive.control Active -boolean false
Just delete (or rename) /System/Library/CoreServices/Captive Network Assistant.app
Add an entry in /etc/hosts containing 127.0.0.1 captive.apple.com


My MBP's touch bar turns off every time I close the lid

Assuming I understand your question correctly, your MBP is working fine except after it's been in sleep mode. That is, after waking it from sleep, both the Touch ID and Touch Bar no longer work.

The first thing I'd try is resetting both the NVRAM and SMC (in that order). Before following the steps below, ensure you have no external hardware connected and that you're using the built-in keyboard.

Reset the NVRAM

Reset the NVRAM on your MBP as follows:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then immediately press the commandoptionPR keys.
Keep these keys pressed down for at least 20 seconds!
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

Note 1: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc).

Reset the SMC

To reset the SMC on your MBP, I'd follow these steps:

Shut down your Mac
Unplug the power cable from your Mac
For 10 seconds, press and hold at the same time the shiftcontroloption keys (on the left side of the built-in keyboard) and the power button
After 10 seconds let go of all keys and the power button
Plug in the power cable
Turn your Mac back on with the power button.

After resetting both the NVRAM and SMC, use your computer to determine if the issue still persists. Let me know how you go.


Where can one find the meid of an iOS Device? (in particular an iPad)

Settings app > General > About

The various ID used for cellular networking and services are listed immediately above the Modem Firmware field.


I can't find 'Add all tracks' in the add to playlist section in iOS 7

After contacting a local Apple Store, I was informed that, the feature "Add all tracks" used in the playlist has been removed, and now you have to manually add each song or use iTunes to make the Playlist !!


Printing to a Local Printer While Using VPN

This largely depends upon the settings that your network administrator has set up for your VPN connection.

It is possible for them to require that all traffic travel through the VPN tunnel, at which point, no, you will not be able to connect to a networked printer in your home.

It is also possible for them to allow traffic that is not bound for your organization, to be transmitted outside the VPN tunnel, at which point you should be able to access your network print and other network resources in your home.

I would check with your network administrator on this...  he/she will be best able to help you out.


What does Apple's new App Store requirement mean

Minimum SDK ≠ minimum OS version.
You will have to compile your app with the SDK ≥ 12.1, but your Deployment Target can be lower than that. Apple wants to "force" you to prepare the UI for iPhone XS Max.
Here's more info about the SDK and Deployment Target on StackOverflow.
Simple explanation from Big Nerd Ranch:

SDK stands for “Software Development Kit,” which is the set of libraries and headers for a particular OS version. This is the version of Apple’s APIs that you compile and link against. The SDK describes the set of API available to you. Linking against the iOS 9 SDK means you can use any API that comes with iOS 9. You won’t be able to directly use stuff introduced in iOS 10. Modern Xcodes are tightly coupled to the SDKs for the latest OS versions, so if you upgrade your Xcode, you will be linking against a newer version of the SDK.
The other version number is the Deployment Target. This declares the oldest OS version your app will support. How far back you decide to support is a business decision based on how much work you are willing to do for customers on older versions of the OS.


If I delete 1 Apple ID (email address) will the same email addy become available to use again?

The short answer is "Yes".

If you go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and log in the "Jim" AppleID. You should start by adding the "Ivan" address to the "Jim"  AppleID then make it the primary email address. Confirm that it works for logging in. Now delete the "Jim" address from the now "Ivan" AppleID.

Repeat the above for the "Bob" AppleID with the now freely available "Jim" email address.


iOS 9 iMessage notifications show sender's number, not name

On cause of numbers showing up instead of names is if there is a cached phone-number-only contact that needs to be removed.


Your black screen, power light on steady, no chime: indicates the

POST / BootROM failure!

  BootROM

  When you turn on the power to a Mac, it activates the BootROM
  firmware. BootROM, which is part of the computer’s hardware, has two
  primary responsibilities:

  It initializes system hardware and it selects an operating system to
  run.

  Two BootROM components carry out these functions:

  Power-On Self Test (POST) initializes some hardware interfaces and
  verifies that sufficient memory is available and in a good state.

  Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) does basic hardware
  initialization and selects which operating system to use.

I would suggest you update your EFI from here:


How can I get iTunes on my new MacBook to acknowledge an existing Podcasts directory?

This can happen with any file type, not just Podcasts, and I've suffered from this a few times when I move my iTunes library about, especially with TV Shows.

The only solution I found was to move the episodes out of the iTunes Media folder, then use the Add to Library in iTunes to add them back in. This forces them to be added to the .itl even if there's already a malformed entry for that file.


Can I use SIPS to reduce the size of PNG files by reducing the number of palette colors?

As far as I know, bitsPerSample is a read-only property and you cannot modify it through sips. You can use ImageMagick instead. Consult https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11613105/uncommon-png-file-ios-display for more info. Hope this helps. Recently encounter a similar thing.


How do I burn my iTunes purchased TV shows onto a playable DVD?

You probably won't like this answer, but as far as I know, there is no legal way to burn those episodes onto a DVD in a way that is playable in your DVD player. The problem is that the iTunes episodes are encrypted with Apple's FairPlay DRM and DVD players do not know how to decrypt them. In order to make the videos playable in a DVD player, you would need to circumvent the DRM and this is illegal in many countries.

As an alternative, you could buy an AppleTV and hook it up to your television. At $99, it is a relatively inexpensive investment, and it would allow you to stream your iTunes shows to your TV while keeping your laptop and iPad free for your own use.


I would try to repair your Photos library. Make sure you have a backup, then…

Quit Photos.
Hold ⌥ alt/option⌘ cmd and open Photos.
Click Repair.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21366


Stop Chrome from being a resource hog on Mac

Every page, every tab, needs its own helper task.

The only way to prevent it using resources is to limit the number of pages you have open at any given time.


macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg doesn't exist on my system

Please consider using Homebrew to install rbenv instead of using system Ruby. Then configure it to your liking and get the gems you need. Please see this Homebrew, Ruby, and Gems article for details.

To install Homebrew, if you have not yet, or if you had trouble with it, please follow this Install homebrew on MacOS Mojave  article or find a similar for your version of MACOS. The important thing is to agree to Command Line Tools License Agreement that may popup (or stay hidden?) in the middle of the install, and may prevent you from finishing the install.


It sounds like you have a calendar appointment provided by a subscribed calendar. Either hide or remove the calendar to remove the appointment.


Some time ago I used the "Elmedia Player" for playing old flash movies I had on my disk. Don't know how it works nowadays, but they have a free version to try.

http://mac.eltima.com/media-player.html


Sending push notification to iPhone via AppleScript

I think a combination of Growl (OS X notifier) and Prowl (an iPhone app that forwards Push Notifcations from Growl) with your AppleScript interacting with Growl directly would be the way to go for this.


Reinstalling my Windows machine and wanting to preserve iTunes backups

Depending on the iOS version of your devices, I suggest backing up to iCloud instead. If you have iOS 5 installed, find iCloud in Settings, select storage and backup, and backup all of your devices.

If you do not have enough room for all of your devices under iCloud or if they don't have iOS 5, you can follow this guide to back them up.


Keynote Mac, delete cropped image to reduce file size without losing image resolution quality

I find that exporting as jpeg keeps sufficient quality and reduces the size markedly.
I usually crop using the screen editor / grab (cmnd shift 4) then open in preview and export as jpeg.


Is it possible to retrieve deleted text messages from an iPhone 4?

I would try the Decipher TextMessage desktop software. The program has a recovery feature that enables you to recover deleted or lost text messages.


Why doesn't my MacBook recognize my USB keyboard when it wakes from sleep?

I sometimes have this problem with my built-in keyboard (and trackpad).  It seems to be related to static electricity build-up (in me).  In dry environments prone to static generation (e.g., carpeted offices, fabric-covered chairs, etc.), I always try to ground myself on something (say, a filing cabinet or a metal wall) after I sit down but before I touch the mac.  If I forget and I zap the keyboard when I start to type, there's a very good chance that the keyboard and trackpad will be unresponsive. Based on my recovery action, I'm guessing that the macbook's internal USB controller has sensed the transient voltage spike as an over-current condition and has shut down (suspended) the offending devices on the associated port.

To recover the keyboard and trackpad, I either plug in an external keyboard (or vnc in via an ssh tunnel) and run the USB Prober app (part of the Developers tools, under /Developer/Applications/Utilities).  Inside Prober with the Bus Probe tab selected, I then check Probe suspended devices and hit the Refresh button; my built-in keyboard and trackpad immediately start working again. My assumption is that the probe causes the suspended devices to re-negotiate their bus membership --which, if I remember the USB protocol, means that they are essentially new devices and not subject to the previous suspension -- and lets things go back to normal.

This doesn't happen often enough for me to automate the recovery, but I'm guessing there are associated system events/messages that could be used to drive an applescript-controlled probe.


Alternative ways to update apps via App Store

I assume ou are using Xcode, and thus have it installed:
Look in the Appstore Purchased tab. If Xcode is in there: move Xcode from the Utilities folder to the Trash, do not empty the trash. Then on the Appstore Purchased tab click install Xcode, this will install the latest Xcode. When all ok empty the trash.


Thunderbird stopped working with iCloud email

Starting June 15, 2017, Apple requires two-factor authentication on all iCloud accounts that access their accounts non-natively. Apple’s third-party email client setup instructions have since been updated accordingly.

Native iCloud access is limited to System Preferences on macOS, the Settings app on iOS, and iCloud for Windows. All other apps, including Thunderbird and Outlook, require an app-specific password.

To enable two-factor authentication:

On an iOS device open Settings → Password & Security and tap Turn On Two-Factor Authentication.
On your Mac open  → System Preferences → iCloud → Account Details → Security and click Turn On Two-Factor Authentication….

Then, login at https://id.apple.com/ and under Security → App-Specific Passwords, click Generate Password…. Enter that password into Thunderbird.

This was done to keep third-party apps from getting access to your iCloud password, thus reducing the likelihood of iCloud account breaches.


Greyed out songs when trying to add from iTunes to iPhone?

Try playing the greyed out songs directly on your iPhone. If you cannot do that, do the following.

Ensure that the greyed out songs are indeed playable within your iTunes library (not within the iPhone section of your iTunes library)
Connect your iPhone to your iTunes, navigate to your iPhone section > music, select all greyed out songs and delete them.
Make sure that the "Sync music" and "Entire music library" options are ticked under the "Music" tab and sync your iphone once again with iTunes.

This should resolve the issue.


iOS mount point in macOS - Is there any way to access the iOS files in macOS directly?

In the past I was able to use iOS devices as USB drives.

You appear to be mistaken. This has never been possible without third-party software and/or jailbreaking.

It was possible to use older iPods in "disk mode" as storage devices. However, this feature was never available for the iPod Touch, nor for any version of the iPhone.

Some iOS applications support file transfer, and can have files transferred to them using iTunes. However, this feature is limited to specific file types, and does not appear as a USB storage device.


How to quickly screenshot all apps in all screens & folders?

This is a bit of a stretch but might work.

I have heard that if you plug your iPhone into your Mac and start Quicktime Player there is an option (possibly under the file menu) to capture what is appearing on the screen of the phone.

If that does (still?) work then doing that would allow you to go through the whole iPhone's UI as fast as you like recording everything as you go in one Quicktime movie that you can save on your Mac and pause as needed as a reference to how it was set up before.

Note I haven't tried this myself but it sounds like it should work...


MBP connects to WiFi but not to internet

After talking in a chat with the OP. I suggested the following solution, which in the end solved the issue.

Follow these instructions to reinstall macOS:

  Start up from macOS Recovery

  macOS Recovery installs different versions of macOS depending on the key combination you use while starting up. Turn on or restart your
  Mac, then immediately hold down one of these combinations:

  2.Release the keys when you see the Apple logo or a spinning globe.

  Install macOS

  Choose Reinstall macOS (or Reinstall OS X) from the utilities window.
  Click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions. You'll be asked to select your disk. If you don't see it, click Show All Disks.
  Click Install. Your Mac restarts after installation is complete.


How to copy iTunes music from iTunes library to another, using my own music - not purchased

You can:

Send your partner the music files online (such as email)
Burn the files to a CD and transfer it to the other computer
Copy it to a thumb-drive and transfer it to the other computer

iTunes should automatically open the music files. If it does not, (I'm assuming your PC is a Windows PC) right click the file, select 'Choose default program', and then choose iTunes in the list. After opening the file in iTunes, it should automatically add it to your partner's iTunes library.


How to work around the issue that I can't access some iStore apps of a different country?

You can make an separate AppleID for the other country.  You can load things from multiple AppleID accounts onto your phone at the same time, but it can be a bit of a pain as it will leave you in the account you were last in and you may inadvertently get new items into a different account than you intended.  Updating can be a pain, as it will require you to switch back and forth.

But, you will be able to get the apps (or other items) that are only available in the other country.