macOS Sierra: How do you enable shutdown keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Power)?

Ctrl + Cmd + Opt + Power/Eject still works in macOS Sierra. I just tested it with an upgraded install (El Capitan to Sierra) on an MBP Mid-2014. Please see if another keyboard shortcuts overrides the shutdown command:

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts

After upgrading to macOS Sierra my keyboard shortcut for Spotlight (CMD + Space) was changed to Ctrl + Space. I had to change it manually to restore the functionality.

Edit:
John, please do the following: Backup all PLIST-files starting with com.apple. + pbs.plist + ".GlobalPreferences.plist (in Terminal:

cp -f ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist ~/Desktop
# this will copy the file as a backup to the Desktop

rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
# this will delete the original file

Also backup the folder ~/Library/Caches/. Now delete everything inside this folder. Empty the trash and reboot.


Is there a way to do per-application rules in pfctl/alf?

Have you looked at this post (see comment dated 30 Aug from user mhils)?  Basically, running in mitmproxy in transparent mode can be accomplished with the -T argument.  It appears that this is supposed to provide access to the PID of the source process, but I am not sure that the destination process id is captured.

I am not a user of mitmproxy, so please let me know if this helps.

Cheers,
Byron


Why does my iPhone alarm go off one hour late?

I believe you’re a victim of the iPhone time bug. You don’t specify your iPhone model nor iOS version, but I’m sure you have the above mentioned problem:

  Reports from around the world have exposed a daylights savings flaw in the iOS software, which is causing alarms to go off either an hour late or early, depending on where you live.

Google for more love in the subject.


Can't grant Input Monitoring permission to Wacom drivers on macOS Catalina

Unfortunately this problem affects everyone installing Wacom drivers on macOS Catalina, but at least there is a workaround. (Skip to Workaround at the end of this answer if you don't care about the explanation.)

How it's supposed to work

The way it's supposed to work on macOS Catalina is that you receive a permission prompt (like this one shown below) when you first use an application that needs to use Input Monitoring. But for some reason, the Wacom drivers never cause this dialog to appear.

Why Wacom's instructions don't work

Wacom has at least acknowledged the issue, but as you have discovered their instructions are incomplete! They say to drag WacomTabletDriver and WacomTouchDriver into the Input Monitoring list, but that's impossible on a stock installation of macOS Catalina because the list isn't even shown.

The list will never be shown, and the + button will be missing, until some other application requests Input Monitoring permissions.

Workaround

You'll need to install and activate at least one other application that can use Input Monitoring before you can finish setting up the Wacom drivers. Once you have the Wacom drivers working, you can remove any other applications you don't want to keep using. Here are some options:

CheatSheet is a small free utility program that's easy to install, and it's easy to quit/uninstall afterward.
ColorSnapper2 is another option. It's not free, but the trial version is enough to get the Input Monitoring prompt.
Discord - A popular chat platform.
Klokki.app - I've seen others use this.
BetterTouchTool can create the AEServer entry that is shown in the Wacom instructions.
Karabiner-Elements helps to configure custom key bindings.

Other cases

You're not the only person to be affected. I found a couple other cases here on Ask Different: 1 2 3 4. And on some other sites like Reddit and Apple Communities.


Can't get into my phone after erasing it through iCloud

You can disable Lost Mode on your device by going to icloud.com/#find, selecting the device and clicking Stop Lost Mode.


How can I hide the path bar in the Mac Terminal

This is the tab bar (note the plus icon on the right to open a new tab).
As long as you only have one tab open in a Terminal window, you should be able to hide it by selecting "Hide Tab Bar" from the "View" menu.


Depends on how you plan to play it on the iPhone. Both following ways require iTunes and an iPhone connected to it by cable or wireless.

If you want to copy it to your Media library and play it natively you will need to:

Select your device
Click on Movies tab
Check Sync Movies and check the desired movie from your iTunes library

If you use an app (such as VLC) to play it you will need to:

Select your device
Click on Apps tab
Scroll to File Sharing and select desired app from list
Press on Add.. button and select desire movie from file chooser dialog

Alternately, you can share/stream your movie to your iPhone over wireless connection if you don't want to take it with you.


Identify why macOS prompts me for an admin password

Credit to superuser answer for this.
There are certainly other ways to achieve this, but if you are clever with Python, here is a handy script that will show you pertinent details for currently displayed windows. After running, move the window in question, and the script will give you the specifics (e.g. PID) for that window. From there, you can poke around and see who is bugging you for su.
#!/usr/bin/env python

import Quartz
import time
from Foundation import NSSet, NSMutableSet
def transformWindowData(data):
    list1 = []
    for v in data:
        if not v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowIsOnscreen'):
            continue

        row = (  \
            str(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowOwnerPID') or '?').rjust(7) + \
            ' ' + str(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowNumber') or '?').rjust(5) + \
            '  {' + ('}' if v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowBounds') is None else \
                ( \
                    str(int(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowBounds').valueForKey_('X')))     + ',' + \
                    str(int(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowBounds').valueForKey_('Y')))     + ',' + \
                    str(int(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowBounds').valueForKey_('Width'))) + ',' + \
                    str(int(v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowBounds').valueForKey_('Height'))) \
                ) + '}'  \
                ).ljust(21) + \
            '\t[' + ((v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowOwnerName') or '') + ']:') + \
            ('' if v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowName') is None else (" " + v.valueForKey_('kCGWindowName') )) \
        )
        list1.append(row)

    return list1;

def printBeautifully(dataSet):
    print ('PID'.rjust(7) + ' ' + 'WinID'.rjust(5) + '  ' + 'x,y,w,h'.ljust(21) + ' ' + '\t[Title]:SubTitle')
    print ('-'.rjust(7,'-') + ' ' + '-'.rjust(5,'-') + '  ' + '-'.ljust(21,'-') + ' ' + '\t-------------------------------------------')

    # print textList1
    for v in dataSet:
        print (v);

#grab initial set
wl = Quartz.CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo( Quartz.kCGWindowListOptionAll, Quartz.kCGNullWindowID)
wl = sorted(wl, key=lambda k: k.valueForKey_('kCGWindowOwnerPID'))

#convert into readable format
textList1 = transformWindowData(wl);

#print everything we have on the screen
print ('all windows:')
printBeautifully(textList1)

print ('Move target window')
time.sleep(5)

#grab window data the second time
wl2 = Quartz.CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo(Quartz.kCGWindowListOptionAll, Quartz.kCGNullWindowID)
textList2 = transformWindowData(wl2)

#check the difference
w = NSMutableSet.setWithArray_(textList1)
w.minusSet_(NSSet.setWithArray_(textList2))

#print the difference
printBeautifully(w)

Note: This script is for Python 3.x. I fought with the original script for quite some time (I'm not a Python programmer). I couldn't get it to work (with 2.x) due to a Quartz dependency requiring 3.x.
A couple of prerequisites are:
pip install pyobjc-framework-Quartz
pip install quartz


How can I change my font and coloring in Oh My Zsh to match a theme I want

The shell defines the basic colours, then you specify how the Terminal displays those colours used in Terminal Preferences, under Profiles then the profile you're using.


How do I find out what application is trying to wake my MBP?

Macs will wake up in response to many hardware events. Changing a USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt cable or even plugging in / powering on a connected device will wake Macs that are sleeping. Keyboard presses, clamshell sensor detecting an open of the display lid will also wake up a sleeping Mac. These are pretty well known and obvious, even if you don't realize a pet or power fluctuation can cause a wake event.

Two software items will also wake a sleeping mac and both rely on the power management / system management controller. Both are seen in the Energy Saver preference pane. This is how applications can do the same thing as hardware and wake your mac.

For macs with a battery - the power adapter needs to be connected and powered for much of this to work. The Wake for network access is both the standard WakeOnLan (WOL) as well as Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy. I like the article About Wake on Demand that explains how Apple has extended the concept of WOL and made a service.

If you disable these two items - software can no longer wake your sleeping mac and you can know if it's a hardware event or a software event. The other answers go into how to look at the logs to know which event has made a specific wake up request. Hopefully this helps frame the bigger picture of how your mac can take a cat nap with one eye open.


What are the consequences of sharing my iCloud storage with a family member?

Not 100% sure about the first point, but I would imagine that it would be merged in as long as there is room etc.

For the second point - if she joins your shared storage plan she won't be allowed to continue her own personal 200GB plan. When you join the shared storage you are no longer able to also have your own private plan.

If for some reason you want to cancel the shared plan or she wants to leave it and is using over 5GB of storage(free plan threshold) - she will have 28 days to sign up for a new private plan that covers the amount of data she has stored.

Source: Apple


iPhone Contacts app Cross-References Facebook?

On iOS 9, if you go to the iPhone Settings app > Facebook (that's in the 7th "block" of settings as you scroll down, with social media accounts like Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo—whether you have an account or not), there is a disclaimer:

*Photos and user names are automatically updated for Facebook friends. Choose "Update All Contacts" to temporarily provide Facebook with email addresses and phone numbers from your contacts to update photos and user names for all matching contacts."

There is an "Update All Contacts" button. In addition, you can control there whether Contacts.app has access to your Facebook account (if you have one) on that same settings panel. You can control whether the Facebook app has access to your contacts through Settings > Privacy > Contacts (I think that's the same on iOS 8 and 9).


What is the location accuracy of a wifi only iPad?

There is no GPS in the WiFI-only iPad. The accuracy of Location Services (the part of iOS that determines where you are) is dependent on a number of factors. iOS does account for this, though:

  Applications that can display your location on the screen, including Maps, indicate your current (approximate) location using a blue marker. If your location can’t be determined precisely, a blue circle also appears around the marker. The size of the circle depends on how precisely your location can be determined—the smaller the circle, the greater the precision.

(Source)

To answer your base question, though, no. There's really no way for the iPad to track fine movements (such as within a room, or even within a building) with great degrees of accuracy without the 3G model, which does include a GPS chip.

Location Services on the WiFi model is intended just to find your general location, so apps can tell you what is nearby. It isn't meant to tell you exactly where you are.


Finder Tags just show list of tags, not tagged files?

You need to have the tags in the sidebar match the tags on your files.
If you only use files you tagged yourself, on that Mac, then this is rarely an issue. If you have tags from other users, or share across your network with the same colours but different definitions, you need to dig deeper & click "Show all tags" or change which tags show in your favourites.
Tags are in Finder Prefs [prefs for any app can be invoked with  Cmd ⌘   ,  [comma] or from the menu item that shows the App Name, in this case Finder.
If you have inherited files from other users or other machines, these labels may not match what you are expecting. A visit to this pref will "re-think" what all the tags are. You may find the tags are 'similar but not identical'. You need to set visibility by checking the box & also you can drag into your preferred sidebar order.
Here's a [rather awkward] screenshot showing that I have 2 'orange' tags with 2 different names [amongst others]. Files tagged as 'Imminent' are not part of the group tagged as 'Orange'.

If you click "All Tags" then you do get an alphabetical list of all tags in the next column. Clicking any one of those will then show the files tagged in that group.


How do I install a Bluetooth mouse with Boot Camp (Win10)?

Try to update your Bluetooth drivers through Intel's website. They do have drivers that you can download.


Erased disc incorrectly now I have "Apple ssd ap0128J Media" instead of Macintosh HD and broken software

When you choose to Reinstall macOS you should be offered a list of disks for the installation to take place on. This is where you should see "Macintosh HD" which you're seeing in Disk Utility (as a partition). Do you see this option?


You should be able to make the Keyboard Viewer bigger by just click/dragging any of the corners.


QuickLook is not working with mac OS High Sierra 10.13.3

Assuming your .bib file is like my simple example from https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/bibtex/#bib-file I'd say you rather want a general plain text QuickLook-plugin (aka qlgenerator), or a specific .bib one.

There might be others but I don't mind suggesting QLStephen that has been around and working fine for a long time and nicely previewed both my .bib example file and a .strings one i found; not trying to install the QL-plugin you linked; though, to verify how it works, I did download the linked plugin's source and saw its package Contents/Info.plist (showable by context menu click in Finder) having CFBundleDocumentTypes UTI com.apple.xcode.strings-text whereas QLStephen uses an extremely general fallback UTI of public.data to preview anything not picked up by any other plugin.

One could try to just modify the linked .qlgenerator's Contents/Info.plist to include something about .bib extension or UTI but that would require extending the scope to referencing
developer documentation.


Besides Skim, what OSX PDF viewers support SyncTeX?

If you don't mind using macports you can install okular:

port install okular

Consider editing the port file if you want to use kile (KDE's TeX editor) as well, as it depends on texlive and most mac users already have a TeXlive installation through MacTeX:

port edit kde4-kile
#remove the line which contains texlive
port install kde4-kile

After installing okular (and optionally kile) open okular and go to Settings > Configure Okular > Editor and insert the command to start your favorite editor( %f stands for the path, %l for the line). This question on tex.so describes the setup for kile.

Finally click on any part of the PDF while holding shift to use reverse sync.


close all the instances of google chrome except first

To close all windows except the frontmost window, run:

osascript -e 'tell app "Google Chrome" to close (windows 2 thru -1)'

To close all windows except the window opened first, run a script like this in AppleScript Editor:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    if number of windows < 2 then return
    set min to id of window 1
    repeat with w in windows 2 thru -1
        if id of w < min then set min to id of w
    end repeat
    close (windows where id is not min)
end tell

"Instances" are usually called windows in OS X, and windows are not separate instances of a process like the instances opened by open -n.


One hookup docking station / port replicator

There are few docking solutions available for MacBooks:

Belkin Thunderbolt™ Express Dock
Belkin USB 3.0 Universal Docking Station with Dual DVI
Henge Docks' Horizontal Dock *preorder
Zenboxx Zendock *kickstarter
LandingZone

There are probably few more options that were not listed above.

More info on Thunderbolt ports and displays: Frequently asked questions (FAQ)


iPhone not appearing as a device in iTunes, making wireless sync impossible

The iOS 7.1 update has fixed this issue.


Delay in receiving messages in iMessage on iPhone 4S

This issue could be caused by a lot of causes.

To start with, it could be a matter of poor data coverage. If you experience the delays at the same time of the day at the same place, maybe that spot isn't that well covered and you just have bad luck receiving messages over there. So if you are always on the same spot, try a different one.

It could also be a connection error. Do you experience the problems when one particular person sends you messages, or with everyone? And do they experience delays too when you send messages to them?

It could be a malfunctioning 3G. Try to turn off 3G (if you can) and just use GPRS. There have been reports iMessages didn't work out well on 3G, but on GPRS it worked like a charm (it doesn't make any sense to turn off and on 3G just to send iMessages, but at least you'll figure out the cause).

And the last, and probably the most unliky cause, could be an issue at the Apple servers. It happens sometimes, when those things get really busy, they protect themselves and spread the work over time. As I said, it's very unlikely, but it happens.

And to answer your second question; yes indeed. If iMessages fails to send, your iPhone will try to send it as an SMS. You can activate this function at 'General < Messages < Send as SMS'


You are in control. It is your responsibility.
Here are some suggestions you could try:

To help you keeping focus try a 'Stay focussed' app like Forest (which tries to convince you not to use your phone while the app is running).
To create a threshold you can enable restrictions. Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions.
Shutdown your phone. The boot time will keep you from using your phone.
Edit settings in your router, some router can set internet access restrictions for certain devices during specified hours.


How can I prevent my machine from automatically downloading deleted system files?

I stumbled across this yesterday while performing maintenance on my server unit. Give it a shot and let me know the outcome (AFAIK this is only viable on Yosemite).

Open 'System Preferences'
Select the 'App Store' pane
Deselect the checkbox marked 'Install system data files and security updates'

Hopefully, OS X should stop repairing your Extensions folder each time you connect to the internet.

Failing that, perhaps changing permissions for the kext (rather than outright deleting it) will just cause it to fail to load but still be present and therefore not re downloaded.


Once FileVault is done with the encryption, you can "cryptographically" and fairly instantaneously erase the drive by destroying the keys to decrypt.

I wouldn't bother setting up the next encryption. To do that, boot to recovery and do not unlock the disk.

Just repartition the drive.

That wipes the keys that the passphrase would have used to decrypt the drive. It's now cryptographically erased.

At that point, you might install a clean OS and shut down the Mac when the "welcome to Mac" screen prompts you to create an account and set up the Mac.

Shutting down then lets the next person know the Mac works, and you know it's securely erased.


Are you using a Sharp PN-K321 at 60Hz with a Late 2013 Mac Pro?

The StarTech cables work perfectly, all that was required to enable 60Hz was to use the display's onscreen controls to enable MST mode.  Restart the display and voila.

Definitely noticeable improvement in scrolling through large Photoshop and Illustrator files.


Chrome on Mac hands off to Safari on iPhone

Currently it is not possible to open automaticaly another browser than Safari because Apple does not allow to set a custom browser as default on iOS.


How to get read receipt with Outlook for Mac 2011 with more than one mail account?

I think which the solution is emulate to MailTrack.io

i.e. add a invisible image hosted in cloud and to be verify if it was requested. But I don't know if it is posible in Outlook for Mac 2011.


Privacy policy for publishing app on iTunes Connect?

Yes, you can host the privacy policy on a 3rd party website. This StackOverflow answer addresses your query:

  there is no way you can just copy-paste the text, you need to link to a privacy policy on a website for iTunes connect.

  I work on a tool called iubenda that fixes this exact problem for app developers and returns a privacy policy url right after the creation of the privacy policy. You might find it useful: iubenda.com

  Also, I've written more about the exact process of the addition of privacy policies on iOS and the App Store, this could help you out as well. Hope this helps!


In Yosemite, (how) can I save an entire Space/Desktop (or a collection of open programs and windows, like a Space)?

The paid App "Moom" (£7.99 Mac App Store) can save and restore desktop layouts (amongst other window related tricks). I don't think it actually starts applications though, but if they are already running it will arrange them for you. You might be able to combine an automator action to run a bunch of programs and then have Moom arrange them for you?

I have multiple applications open for marking student work (browser, word processor, text snippets, marking app etc.) and use Moom to give me a consistent layout for marking each type of assignment. It works well for this.


Face ID works in the dark thanks to the flood illuminator. This means Face ID is not dependent on external light sources or purely the light emitted from the display.

Flood Illuminator
Invisible infrared light helps identify your face even when it’s dark.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/#face-id


The time spec for "10 minutes from now" is now +10 minutes. For example,

echo 'open ~' | at now +10 minutes

However, the at system is disabled by default in macOS, as mentioned in the at man page:

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
     Note that at is implemented through the launchd(8) daemon periodically
     invoking atrun(8), which is disabled by default.  See atrun(8) for infor-
     mation about enabling atrun.

The atrun man page says that you need to run

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.atrun.plist


How do I change the hotkey combo to lock the screen

I would suggest :

Create a new service with automator with a "Run Shell Script"
Here the script /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
Bind this new service to a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences » Keyboard » pane Keyboard Shortcuts

Edit : This post on SuperUser explains it better than me.


Which Mac models are afflicted with the "repeating keypress" issue?

These models are affected as of 2019-07-16:

MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016)
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, 2017)
MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018)
MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2019)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)

Source: https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks


Can you preview a song in iTunes Match before upgrading your local copy?

If you move all your songs that you are about to delete to a different directory, iTunes should no longer be able to find them, and you should be able to hear the matched version and inspect its encoding. If you regret it, it should just be to move the songs back to where they were.

Haven't tried it myself to test it with one or two songs first!


Update (new) password for iCloud account

As I understand you change the Password of your AppleID - do you think so?

Apple never Share passwords to other devices and never have access to this.
Your AppleID password is synonymous with your iCloud. If you change your AppleID Password this will encrypt your iCloud with your new Password.

To access in your iCloud with your devices:

Log out from iCloud of all your devices
Log in with your new Password.

For the next Time if you need to change your password this is the right way:

Log out from your iCloud in all your devices
Access your Browser to your AppleID and change the Password.
Log in with your new Password to all your iCloud devices.
I would recommend to activate the Two-factor authentication for Apple ID


Assuming it only happens sometimes and only when you are actively using the computer (key board & Mouse)

Lets find out if it is you doing it.

Check your settings for Display Sleep in:

System preferences> Desktop and Screen saver> Hot Corners!

In here look if you have a setting to put display to sleep.


The worst, but working solution will be to set screen locking to 30 seconds, so that it will go to sleep faster. Looks like apple does it on purpose.


Cannot see iTunes Radio on my device after updating to iOS7

According to zdnet.com (today),

  iTunes Radio is only available to U.S. account holders at launch and is also available in iOS 7.

The article is about iTunes 11.1, but I presume the same goes for iOS 7.

Wikipedia (today) states:

  Currently, iTunes Radio is only available in the US.

TechCrunch (yesterday) has:

  Also remember that iTunes Radio is for U.S. iTunes account holders only for now, with no word on when international users will gain access just yet.


Can my laptop turn itself on after I've shut it down?

At one time, I used to run a couple applications that would inhibit my iMac from going to sleep.  So, if you have something running in the background that stops your mac from sleeping, that would be a candidate.  If it woke up, you may have a backup while plugged in turned on.  That does wake the Mac while it does that trick.

Now as for frying your HD?  Well, who knows.  Fried HDs do happen, and I suppose it could happen while a laptop is shutting down, which would answer both questions.  I did recently replace a HD on an older laptop.


What affects the colour of the Startup Screen?

It's based on the board ID in boot.efi. Depending on the model of computer, a black boot screen will be shown (introduced with Yosemite) instead of the older grey screen.

All these Macs and newer show the black boot screen:

MacBookPro10,1 (Retina, Mid 2012)
MacBookAir6,1 (Mid 2013)
iMac14,1 (Late 2013)
MacPro6,1 (Mid 2012)

Here's boot.efi from macOS 10.13.2 with the board IDs highlighted beside the string "Background Color".

You may be able to use Dark Boot to patch your boot.efi's board ID so the dark boot screen is displayed.


Slate window manager disrupts text manipulation

Simply create a .slate file in your home directory with these contents:

# This is the default .slate file.
# If no ~/.slate file exists this is the file that will be used.

config defaultToCurrentScreen true
config nudgePercentOf screenSize
config resizePercentOf screenSize

# Resize Bindings
#bind right:alt       resize +10% +0
#bind left:alt        resize -10% +0
bind up:alt          resize +0   -10%
bind down:alt        resize +0   +10%
bind right:ctrl;alt  resize -10% +0 bottom-right
bind left:ctrl;alt   resize +10% +0 bottom-right
bind up:ctrl;alt     resize +0   +10% bottom-right
bind down:ctrl;alt   resize +0   -10% bottom-right

# Push Bindings
bind right:ctrl;cmd  push right bar-resize:screenSizeX/3
bind left:ctrl;cmd   push left  bar-resize:screenSizeX/3
bind up:ctrl;cmd     push up    bar-resize:screenSizeY/2
bind down:ctrl;cmd   push down  bar-resize:screenSizeY/2

# Nudge Bindings
bind right:shift;alt nudge +10% +0
bind left:shift;alt  nudge -10% +0
bind up:shift;alt    nudge +0   -10%
bind down:shift;alt  nudge +0   +10%

# Throw Bindings
bind 1:ctrl;alt         throw 0 resize
bind 2:ctrl;alt         throw 1 resize
bind 3:ctrl;alt         throw 2 resize
bind right:ctrl;alt;cmd throw right resize
bind left:ctrl;alt;cmd  throw left  resize
bind up:ctrl;alt;cmd    throw up    resize
bind down:ctrl;alt;cmd  throw down  resize

# Focus Bindings
#bind right:cmd    focus right
#bind left:cmd     focus left
bind up:cmd       focus up
bind down:cmd     focus down
bind up:cmd;alt   focus behind
bind down:cmd;alt focus behind

# Window Hints
bind esc:cmd hint

This is the default Slate file with the bindings you mentioned commented out.


WhatsApp integration on iOS 10 does not work: "You'll need to continue in the app"

Uninstalling and reinstalling WhatsApp helped in my case.


I do not know if I had this problem because I have unlimited data, but my friend did. Notably, she also has a different carrier (Verizon) with limited data and when she noticed the high data usage she contacted Apple. They acknowledged that with some carriers this is a bug in the newest version of the iOS. The fix they had her implement, until the next version of the iOS comes out, was to revert to the prior version. Since the update had completed, she was forced to do this through a full reset. Since the phone came with an earlier iOS version, this is what it reverted back to and the issue was solved. Again, I am only reporting this as an observer and have not fixed/experienced personally, but thought I would offer this in the event it helps.


Google Drive client fails to sync Pages documents

Did you try to uncheck the following.

  Google Drive (drive.google.com), click Option (the gear icon) and
  Upload settings.

  There, uncheck the option Convert uploaded files to Google Docs
  format.


To disable Button Shapes, which may be the reason you are seeing lines under certain text, tap Settings > General > Accessibility, and turn off Button Shapes if it is on.


Use the same external hard drive for two different Time Machine's?

Yes. Setup is easy.

Connect the drive to the first Mac directly (USB or whatever is fastest)
Add the drive in Time Machine Preferences
Use System Preferences, the menu bar or tmutil to make a backup.
Eject the drive from the first Mac once you have a couple backups completed.
Repeat the above steps for the second Mac.

Now when each Mac tries an hourly backup, if the drive is connected, it will update the backups there. (Make a new interval, expire any old intervals needed). If it’s not connected, you don’t get backups, but do get a warning every 2 weeks to reconnect an absent drive. It’s fine for one Mac to back up to multiple drives as well.

Now, you didn't ask for general advice, so take this with a grain of salt.

With two Macs, I often set up a three drive rotation. Rotate the drives once a month with one always off site is a good place to start if you don’t do backup rotations yet. You can safely remove that disk from system preferences so you are not nagged if you get those alerts.
I like naming drives Backup A, Backup B and putting a file on the root with the serial number of the drive, purchase date, warranty (if any) and date entering service in a text file.

So you'd have three drives like if you entered them into service today and the next three days.
Backup A 20200929
Backup B 20200930
Backup C 20201001
Also, last bit of "advice" that wasn't asked for - I put a drive on the shelf as soon as it fills. I don't erase them, just buy another inexpensive drive and then add it to the rotation. They only come off the shelf when I need to rebuild my index of what files are backed up to where with the excellent tool Backup Loupe.

https://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/


Sync text files (.txt) between iPhone and Mac; and edit (in-place), and search them on iPhone

Evernote is the app you are looking for. It comes with native apps for macOS and iOS along with a nice and fully functional Web app. It supports attaching text files, in-place editing, and has an excellent search functionality.

The basic (free) version should suffice for your needs, and comes with free 60 MB of monthly uploads, 25 MB of maximum note size, and sync for 2 devices. The premium plan costs less than $5 a month and boasts of a whole lot of upgrades.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to Evernote, and use the app sparingly, but know that the said features work in a decent manner.


FileVault2 boot volume corrupt after partition deletion

The partition map seems valid and no important small partition has been deleted (maybe one less important EFI or Apple_Boot partition between partition 5 and 6 - the other gaps of unallocated disk space are too small to contain a useful partition e.g. 1648 blocks = ~844 kB).

Partition 2 and 3 of disk0 got the wrong partition type though - the encrypted partition/data shouldn't be lost. Partition 3 has the typical size of a pre-APFS recovery partition (1269536 blocks) and partition 2 probably is the FV2 partition. The proper type of a recovery partition is 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC and the proper type of a CoreStorage partition (the base of FV2) is 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (instead of FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF).

Boot to Internet Recovery Mode or another external boot drive and modify the partition types with gpt.

Boot to Internet Recovery Mode
Get the details:

diskutil list

Below I assume the internal 500 GB SSD has the device identifier disk0

gpt -r show disk0

Remove partition 2 and 3:

diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt remove -i 3 disk0
diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt remove -i 2 disk0

Re-add partition 2 and 3 with proper types:

diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt add -i 3 -b 814312048 -s 1269536 -t 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0
diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 813902408 -t 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0

After adding partition 2 with gpt you will probably be asked to enter a passphrase
If not unlock the FV2 volume with:

diskutil cs list
diskutil cs unlockVolume lvUUID #lvUUID: the UUID of the Logical Volume

Verify disk and volume

diskutil verifyDisk disk0
diskutil list #get the device identifier of the mounted FV volume (probably in the upper tens: disk17 or disk18)
diskutil verifyVolume diskX #with diskX: the device identifier of the mounted FV volume


Is it possible to use SteelSeries keyboards with MacBook Pro?

I have a macbook pro and a SteelSeries m500. It works great. All you have to do is go into System Preferences -> Keyboards and remap the command, control, alt... keys to what you want. Super easy. I also use Better Touch Tool to remap the function keys at the top to what I want: https://folivora.ai/


Use cron to screencapture on Mountain Lion

cron behaves a bit differently than a standard prompt, which is why it's not doing what you're expecting. There are two issues with the command as is:

Because it doesn't parse the PATH environment variable the same was as the shell, cron doesn't know where screencapture is. You need to specify the full path, /usr/sbin/screencapture.
As noted in the crontab(5) man page, cron treats % as a newline character:

  Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input.

So you need to escape each % with a \ to get your desired result.

This crontab entry will give you a screen capture every hour, on the hour:

0 * * * * /usr/sbin/screencapture -Cd -tjpg ~/Desktop/screen-`date +"\%Y\%m\%d-\%H\%M"`.jpg

Cron Error Logging

As an aside, if you're having issues with cron, check your system mail by running the mail command in Terminal. It's not very obvious, but by default cron sends error messages there that can provide a starting point to figuring out what's going wrong.


how to install stunnel on mountain lion?

This can be installed using homebrew:

brew install stunnel


How do I create nested lists in Reminders?

Unfortunately there is no support for nested lists in Reminders.
I would recommend Todoist if you're looking for nested lists, it does a great job and integrates into OS X and iOS well. There are plenty of other aps that do this too like wunderlist and trello


Do I have to replace both Airport base station and modem?

As you mention Demon I am going to assume you are in the UK and therefore more likely looking at an ADSL connection, not Cable or other types etc.

Almost any ADSL Modem Router from Belkin/DLINK/Netgear etc will do the trick nicely, they should all be compatible with your Mac.

However, there are a few scenarios where continuing to use a (new) Airport Extreme could be of benefit depending on your usage and requirements.  First, the new Airports (to be fair, I believe others are starting to offer this also) will allow you to run up to 3 seperate wireless networks from a single device.  This may seem overkill, but for my set it's quite useful:

1) I run a Wireless N network operating at 5Ghz for all the stuff in the house that supports it, iMac, Macbook, iPad and Apple TV (I think) - this is faster and suffers less interference than...
2) A Wireless G network operating at 2.4Ghz for everything else that doesn't understand Wireless N and/or 5Ghz (PLaystation, Wii, Phones, PSP, work laptop, etc etc)
3) A "guest" network that has no WEp/WPA security, but is ringfenced from the other 2 to allow things my my sons Nintendo DS to connect easily (as it only supports WEP, which is next to useless) as well as let freinds use it when they visit.

To make the actual internet connection you can get a standalone ADSL modem, but they are quite rare, you would likely have to order online to get one, they won't stock them in PC World etc.  I actually use a full Dlink ADSL Modem Router which I turn off the wireless, and put into "bridge mode" to allow the Airport to control the connection.

Having the external "point of access" to be the Airport instead of a different Modem Router allows things like Back to My Mac to work far more easily without having to play around with port forwarding etc, which is another reason why I do it, also if your internet connection goes down for any reason and you need to reboot it etc, then it does not affect any of your local LAN traffic, i.e. Apple TV streaming, iTunes Homeshare, etc.


Alternative for `fail2ban` on my server running OS X 10.6.8

You can use fail2web, but, as this is only a frontend to fail2ban, is not easier to use than modifying fail2ban's text files.


Syncing my iPhone 4 deleted all my music

No, it's too late. You can't recover music from iPhone...


There is no way to disable opening the apps instead of going to Safari, aside from deleting the app itself.


How can I get my Macbook Air 2013 (September 2013) to connect to wi-fi?

Something is wrong here!

It is correct there are always software updates, but it is not possible that your Airport (WiFi) does not work at all (unless it is broken) and no software will fix that, so you need to send your computer back.

Make sure it is turned on in your system preference - Network- WiFi ON!

Now to the software updates:

Even if you bought it tomorrow does not means it has the latest software updates.

Since you do not have a WiFi Internet connection you can not get the software updates via Internet.

You could bring it back to Apple and they will fix it.

Alternatively, get a piece of Ethernet cable and connect to the router.

Since it is a MBA that does not has a Ethernet plug, you will need a Thunderbolt to Ethernet plug.

Then Click on the Apple (top left) and on the software update.


It worked http://www.ekushey.org/?page/osx_fonts.

Full discussion is here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/33855238?ac_cid=op123456#33855238


Safari Bookmarks not syncing via iCloud issue

You need to reset your Safari Bookmark. See this:

How can I reset the Safari bookmarks in iCloud?

Simplified steps:

 Turn off iCloud Safari sync on all devices
 Backup current bookmarks on Mac
 Delete bookmarks on all devices
 Turn on Safari syncing on Mac
 Restore bookmark backup file to ~/Library/Safari folder
 Turn on bookmark syncing on all iOS devices

The original author of these suggestions noted the following: "Once I turned syncing back on each device remained blank for quite some time. I’m not sure why but I was able to prod the system along by adding a fake bookmark on another device. This seemed to kick everything into gear and I was able to delete that fake bookmark on different device – which eventually deleted it across all devices."


Disconnecting an iPhone from Exchange while preserving data

You can't; Exchange is an all-or-nothing deal. The only way to keep the data would be to export it to another service (e.g., MobileMe, Yahoo, Gmail, whichever works), break the connection, and then reimport the data into your regular contacts.


Safari: kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 1 on local (HTML) files

I was having the same issue with my homepage which is stored locally on my mac. Putting the HTML files in the Applications folder seemed to solve the problem.

I know it's not the best solution but at least I don't get an error anymore when opening a new tab.


Why does Google Chrome require a Force Quit when Restarting OS X

What Extensions do you have installed in Google Chrome?
Check for updates for Google Chrome - By going to Help > About Google Chrome, and the application will automatically check for updates.

If none of the above work, remove Google Chrome and re-install it (check or any saved passwords etc., before removing Google Chrome).


How to add a new locale to macOS Catalina

I don't know if your issue was identical to mine, but this worked for me at least.
I also noticed that my system tried to set nb_no.UTF-8 (and failed) instead of no.NO.

vim ~/.config/fish/config.fish
set -x LC_ALL no_NO.UTF-8


File -> Export and set the Kind to Original

This will yield an exact copy of the photo you imported.


Why does Back Up Now work from Time Machine Preferences but not from the status bar?

I think I may have found a workaround with the tmutil command line tool. If I say tmutil startbackup I get this The backup disk is not available error message, however if I add the destination it seems to work.

First I determined the destination of my backups:

xavier@imac-xavier:~$ tmutil destinationinfo
====================================================
Name          : WD_Backup
Kind          : Network
URL           : afp://wd_backup@DeviceName.local/WD_Backup
Mount Point   : /Volumes/WD_Backup
ID            : 11326F32-D5BA-4FE8-83FB-E9CBD8F6FF2D

I then used this ID to launch the backups with:

tmutil startbackup -d 11326F32-D5BA-4FE8-83FB-E9CBD8F6FF2D

I added it to my crontab so it runs hourly:

xavier@imac-xavier:~$ crontab -e
42 * * * * startbackup -d 11326F32-D5BA-4FE8-83FB-E9CBD8F6FF2D


Why is Windows 7 giving me a software counterfeiting error?

I was able to get my Macbook Pro to run the same licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on both Bootcamp and Parallels 5 by activating it on both.  I was having trouble running and activating it on my Parallels VM which ran the Bootcamp install.  So what I did was change the MAC address of eth0 to match the one from Bootcamp.

Once I changed that, I called Microsoft and activated via their automated system, which generated a set of numbers/code for me.


After more research and other similar questions on Stack Exchange, I have come to the solution I was originally looking for.

This website provides some instructions, but more importantly direct links to the .pkg files for El Capitan on the osxapps.itunes.apple.com domain. You can then use the checksums from this git repo to verify the installers if you still feel something is fishy.

I also spent about an hour on webchat with Apple support trying to get El Cap added to my purchase history for my Apple ID, so I could just download it from the App Store, to no avail. Their official recommendation was to find it on a third party site. Couldn't believe it. They also noted that going into an Apple Store / Genius Bar may yield results with getting it installed (or any Apple Authorized store), at which point backup media could be created if it ever needed to be reinstalled.


What is the latest operating system that my 2006 MacBook Pro will support?

MacTracker says this version MacBookPro2,2 can have Mac OS X 10.7.5 as maximum OS.

As 10.7.5 needs at least 2GB memory and you have 3GB, I think you would have no problem upgrading to 10.7.5.


Rule 1 of troubleshooting, "Isolate and identify."

Remove anything you can to still have a bootable computer. That includes RAM, PCI cards, drives, memory risers. Then swap out the memory with the RAM you removed. Unplug everything, even your keyboard and mouse, leave only the monitor connected. And if you have another monitor you can use temporarily...


Does icloud storage get freed up automatically after 30 days?

Welcome to Ask Different.

iCloud doesn't get cleared after 30 days, or ever (unless done manually). As for saving photos to your mac, that can be done manually from icloud.com. You can also access them from the Photos app on your mac by enabling iCloud Photos Library from System Preferences.


Other World Computing announced a product to do this at CES 2015: Transwarp.

From their press release:

  Utilizing any SSD as a removable, flexible cache, Transwarp magically
  brings the incredible performance of solid state drives to any
  high-capacity hard drive. Transwarp [...] is slated for release later
  this year.

  Key Features:

  Combines any SSD and HDD into an intelligent, fast volume
  Achieve the incredible speed benefits of SSDs with the capacity of traditional hard disks
  Quick and easy set-up
  Maintains all data on the HDD
  Compatible with any filesystem supported by OS X


How does the Summarize Service in OS X work?

I have done some testing with the summarize service.

As far I can tell the summarize service looks for key words (repeat)

Then it simply removes the duplicates or triplicates pending on your setting in the summarize service.

It looks like the summarize also removes all that do not have the key words in it.

This sentence has summarize service in it.

This sentence does not.

  Result after:

  I have done some testing with the summarize service.

  As far I can tell the summarize service looks for key words (repeat)

  Then it simply removes the duplicates or triplicates pending on your
  setting in the summarize service.

  It looks like the summarize also removes all that do not have the key
  words in it.

  This sentence has summarize service in it.

Of course it is bit more complex than my test as a 12 Years old answer explains it: Summarize uses a combination of text pattern matching, grammar parsing and heuristics to eliminate redundant and extraneous text.


How can FileVault encryption process be stopped/disabled?

Unfortunately it is not possible to stop FileVault encryption midway.

Your only options are to let it continue, or to erase/format your drive and restore from backup.

The encryption process takes place in the background allowing you to use your computer while encrypting. Usually it should not make your computer extremely slow, so it might be worth investigating if you have something else running that is making your computer extremely slow. Take a look at Activity Monitor to see what the cause might be.


Try entering DFU mode and restore it from there.

To enter DFU mode:

Step 1. Connect iDevice with your computer.

Step 2. Start iTunes.

Step 3. Press power- and home-button of your iPhone and hold it down

Step 4. Maybe the “Turn-off” slider will appear – continue holding down both buttons!

Step 5. The iPad will turn off.

Step 6. When the display turns black for four seconds, release the power-button. Don’t release the home-button!

Step 7. iTunes will show you after 5 to 10 seconds that your iPad has entered the DFU mode.

Step 8. Restore Your phone

Hope this helps


My terminal path in macOS SIerra is messed up

The system's standard path (configured in /etc/paths) is /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin. If you want to add an additional path like /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin to your user's PATH permanently you have to include the old $PATH in the export PATH line - either at the end or at the beginning - in your .bash_profile file:

export PATH="new_path:$PATH"
export PATH="$PATH:new_path"

Additionally your PATH contains some unwanted characters like ’ or ? and doesn't have a closing quote ".

Open Terminal and enter:

/usr/bin/nano ~/.bash_profile

Change the line

export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:’/usr/local/bin:??...

to

export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:$PATH"

If the file contains another line with export PATH="..." squeeze the required parts into the above line.

Save the mod with ctrlO and quit nano with ctrlX

Quit and relaunch Terminal and enter echo $PATH which should reveal at least:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


MacBook Air slow after waking from sleep

Starting in Safe mode should eliminate 3d party applications causing that.

Resetting the SMC should resolve remaining issues with Battery, power ect.

Running Apple Hardware test (twice) to verify no issues there (since the logic board was replaced). Look for RAM issues.

Finally a Console log could tell you who is doing what.


How to make Finder remember its window size and column sizes?

The simplest answer to 'how' rather than 'why' is:

Opt[alt] drag a column sizer. That size becomes the new default, after you relaunch Finder. Only works for column view, not coverflow.

Other options, though each is temporary

Double click a column sizer to set that column to show full content width.
Right-click a column sizer for more options.

To relaunch Finder, hold Opt and right-click Finder in the dock. Relaunch will be in the context menu.


It's at the bottom of the public iOS 8 page where it states the 10 models of hardware to be supported:

iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s
iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air
iPad Mini and iPad Mini with Retina display
iPod Touch (5th Generation)


How much space do I need to make a bootable Catalina volume on my Mojave Mac?

The installer takes 8.1 GB of space in your Mojave /Applications folder when it downloads the installer to your Mac.

In the case where you install to a brand new / empty volume, you will end up with two APFS container volumes - one for the read only system files and another for the user data.

APFS Volume Catalina - Data         3.7 GB     disk1s5
APFS Volume Catalina                10.8 GB    disk1s6

Doing the math, that's 14 GB of space for a totally empty installation, no third party apps, no user data migrated, no iCloud and just an admin account home folder.

Add an additional 8.1 GB of space for the installer and you're able to start testing with as little as 25 GB of free space on Mojave.

If you're interested in how this split works in practice - I recommend this article highly.

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/08/macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout/


Disabling SIP with 'csrutil disable' solved the problem for me, although that doesn't reflect well on Apple or MacOS.


At what resolution will an iPhone only app run at on an iPad Pro?

375x667pts or 4.7" (iPhone 6 screen)

When running and iPhone only app in the iPad Pro simulator in Xcode 7.1 (publicly available in the App Store) the screen point resolution is reported as 375x667 or a 4.7" screen. This also equates to an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 6+ in display zoom mode. See PaintCode's guide for more details on display zoom mode.

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/ultimate-guide-to-iphone-resolutions


Thank you for motivating me to actually share the Automator service I made for this!
https://jonathanalland.com/quick-actions.html
Install the Open In Zoom service, then highlight a Zoom URL, right click, and select "Open in Zoom". This has only been tested on OS X 10.9, but I see no reason it shouldn't work on modern macOS as well.
I created this by looking at the zoommtg:// protocol format, and then doing some find/replace magic in shell and Applescript. (I ideally should have used just one, but doing it in two steps was a tad easier, because shell is more powerful but I'm more comfortable in Applescript.)


Cross button on iPhone app icon doesn't appear when trying to uninstall

Screen Time settings were preventing the app from being uninstalled from my iPhone. The setting can be found by going to Settings app → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → iTunes & App Store Purchases → Deleting Apps. The setting was set to Don't Allow.

As soon as the setting was changed to Allow (default value), I was able to uninstall apps normally and the ⓧ button appeared on the app icons when I tap and hold my finger.

When uninstalling an iPhone app, it doesn't matter if it was installed using the currently logged in Apple ID or using an Apple ID that has since been removed from the iPhone.


iPhone 2G has "NO SERVICE" after restore from possibly corrupt backup

Given that you have already tried to set the phone in Recovery Mode and DFU to no avail, there isn't much else you can do on a device with only two buttons and a USB port :)

As already suggested, your best bet is to take it to an Apple Store for inspection. Your phone is not Jailbroken or hacked in any way, so AT&T should either replace it or have it fixed.

My best bet is that during the restore, the baseband got corrupted and now the phone cannot be properly recognized by iTunes.

The Before Disclaimer: I'm sure that since you're a loyal AT&T customer you may want to have them fix your phone, but that'd be in a perfect world.

Disclaimer #1: The following procedure may be "illegal" or "not approved" in certain areas, countries, etc. and it may be against your Terms of Services, morale, etc.

Disclaimer #2: Although I recently did these exact steps in my old iPhone 2G, I live in Europe and you know how we Europeans like to drink tea and laugh at certain things of the American culture and behavior, therefore I do not suggest you do this if you are unsure.

Disclaimer #3: I've seen phones get bricked (A.k.a rendered useless) after using these steps. I can confirm that I did this myself two weeks ago, downloading the exact same files that I've liked here and it worked like a "charm", but "your mileage may vary".

As with any other "gray" procedure, use at your own Risk.

Enough chit-chat…

If -after contacting Apple- you find yourself in a "you don't have warranty we're sorry, you need to pay for a new phone" situation, then you can try to save the phone by using a Jailbreak method.

My old iPhone 2G crashed two weeks ago and I had to do exactly this. These are the steps I performed:

For an iPhone 2G, your "best" and only option is to use the old pwnagetool 3.1.5 (latest for that model), which you can download from the "official" Website (Torrent file). It's an app called Pwnagetool. Do not download from other sources, you never know.

You will also need an old baseband, more specifically 3.9, which you can download from here. It's a file called bl39.bin. Do not unzip the .BIN, just leave it like that.

Save all that in a Folder somewhere.

You will also need the official latest iOS for your 2G phone. Which is -as you already know- iOS 3.1.3

You already have that file in your drive if you have been using it before. It should be located in:

~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates/

The file name should be something like:

iPhone1,1_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw

Copy that file to the folder where you downloaded the above files.

Now that you have all in place, you're ready to destroy your iPhone forever… so go ahead and launch the Pwnagetool.

Ignore the "you don't have iTunes 8.0" error (because you probably have the super latest 10.x iTunes):

It works nevertheless, so click ok.

At this point, if you have LittleSnitch it will warn you that the App is trying to connect to a place. It's the autoupdater (which doesn't update anyway), you can go ahead and Deny connections, no harm done.

And now you're ready to start. Disconnect you phone, you don't need it yet.

The application provides two methods, as you can see in the toolbar: Simple mode, and Expert mode.

I suggest you try Simple first and then, if it works, you can redo the whole thing with expert and tweak it.

Please note that if it works, by default, the Simple mode (and you have to use Expert to change it) will replace the "Apple" logo by a PineApple, like the one seen in this screenshot:

I won't go into the full detail of the process because it's rather simple, but I will tell you what this tool does and what it doesn't.

Pwnagetool will take the official "ipsw" and modify it to "jailbreak" it. This also allows you to perform a carrier unlock (which -in turn- may fix your carrier problem, which is the idea of all this). It will basically take the official file, modify it, and create a new one with a similar name and the suffix: CustomRestore:

iPhone1,1_3.1.3_7E18_Custom_Restore.ipsw

After you have this, then you have to proceed to "restore your iPhone" the "normal way". The app explains what to do, but the important step is that when you go to iTunes to click the "restore", you press the  ⌥ opt  and then click the button. This allows you to browse for the ipsw file, instead of iTunes picking the default one.

As you have correctly guessed, you have to find the one named Custom_Restore, which will proceed to jailbreak/unlock your phone, maybe fixing it.

It will take a while, the phone will restart, the phone will restart and the phone will restart. Kinda like that. At some point an app (BootNeuter) will appear and will ask you a few questions. Then it will restart again and I think again.

At some point (if you're patient) iTunes should recognize your phone and ask you if you want to "restore" a backup.

That's your decision at this point, because you mentioned that the backup is what caused the trouble. I'd try a fresh restore and then proceed to manually re-sync.

If, after all this, you phone works, congratulations. If you want to try the expert mode, go ahead, you can always save the ipsw you used in the first place and re-use it to restore the phone at any time. Go ahead, try expert and see the different options (like not replacing the pineapple and restore images, not installing Cydia, etc.).

In any case, you can -after all this- try to restore your phone using the original ipsw from Apple (which you used as a base anyway). That should be AT&T happy.

Sorry for the long post and I wish you good luck with it. I have an iPhone 3GS and a 2G and I love the 2G form factor way way more than any other iPhone.

FINAL COMMENT

As I've repeatedly said in the post, this procedure can permanently damage your phone. I don't know how, because I did it in a dozen of iPhones 2G here when the iPhone was originally launched and no phone ever failed on me, but if you google around, there are stories.

The only reason why I posted all this method is because your phone is old and if AT&T or Apple refuses to fix it, you can (and should) try to save it. My iPhone 2G has better battery life than my 3GS (albeit at a speed cost) and works fantastically. It was a gift from a friend who lives in the USA that came to Europe two months after the iPhone 2G launch and brought it in the original box for me.


Does the iPad 2 location services work without WiFi?

Location services are based on GPS, you don't need Internet connection.

Note that wifi-only iPads don't have GPS.


Well, the problem is that Grapher assuming that the x in f(x)=x^2 means the x coordinate.

To fix this problem, you should change the x to some other variable (say z).

I know, Grapher is weird sometimes.


What is my MacBook's firmware password after using setregproptool?

Since OLDPASSWORD and CONFIRMPASSWORD are both unset, the command your script executed was:

/Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Utilities/Firmware\ Password\ Utility.app/Contents/Resources/setregproptool -m command -p -o

I don't know for certain (and I'm not about to test it), but I'd expect that this has taken "-o" as an argument to the "-p" option, and hence set the firmware password to "-o".

BTW, in addition to removing the spaces after the "=" in assignments, you should also double-quote all references to variables, like this:

/Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Utilities/Firmware\ Password\ Utility.app/Contents/Resources/setregproptool -m command -p "$CONFIRMPASSWORD" -o "$OLDPASSWORD"

This will prevent the shell from doing weird things with variables that contain spaces and/or wildcards, or are blank (like OLDPASSWORD in your script).


Notes.app: Notes from iCloud show title but bodies are blank!

Welcome to my world.

I had same problem and ended up killing the Notes in iCould.

Before that I moved my precious notes to "on my mac" at least the ones that were still there.

No more iCloud stealing my notes.


Why did syncing with iTunes delete one of my photos folders?

Suggestion 1 :
I think you would be a new user to the iPod/iPhone/OS X/iTunes family.
If your afraid or don't understand what is happening during synchronization using iTunes, I suggest you to use a utility called iPhoneExplorer.

Just Explorer the iPhone/iPod/iPad like a file system. You would get your images under Root/User/Media/DCIM/ directory. images are grouped in directories like 100APPLE, 101APPLE and so on. Just explore and copy it.

Suggestion 2:
Synchronization - means A single machine and an iPod synchronization. Not multiple machines and an iPod. If you synchronizes from other machine it will erase all of your old data. According to me, you had the problem just because you might have synchronized from other machines iTunes.


My MacBook Pro screen cracked and can't connect to external display

Here is a slightly crazy idea to "give you eyes" on the Mac with the dead display. If you have easy access to a second Mac and the right cable to connect the two (e.g., Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt, USB-C to Thunderbolt, USB-C to USB-C, etc.), you could:

Connect the two Macs with said cable
Put your damaged MacBook Pro into Target Disk Mode by holding down its "T" key while you turn it on
Turn on the second Mac while holding down its Option key so you get to choose which partition to boot from
Choose the system volume of the broken MacBook Pro

This basically lets you use the intact second Mac to boot into the system that is installed on the MacBook Pro with the damaged screen. If there are indeed any software or hard drive issues with that first Mac that prevented you from logging in, you are now able to see and potentially address them.

For more details on Target Disk Mode, see this guide.


How should I configure VirtualBox to be able to connect to the internet from the guest OS

Try this:

Be sure that you have installed the latest version of Guest Additions to the VM
Turn off the VM
Under the network adapter configuration choose bridged mode
Then click in advanced and change the adapter type to Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM). -Be sure to enable the checkbox "Cable Connected"

Worked for me, hope it helps


Is there any way to look at and modify the Application Layer Firewall via the command line?

Never mind. That link I posted was an older version of OSX. This article had the right version and it works for me!

Thanks!


iOS: open text file with not text extension

Being able to do that with iEditor - the only program to open any file as text.


Unable to create Guest Account after enabling FileVault

If you hover over the disabled option, a tooltip appears explaining that the guest account can't be activated with FileVault turned on:

This is because the new FileVault uses full-disk encryption that's decrypted by the login password of one of the users. As the guest account, by its nature, does not have a password, that would leave your computer completely unprotected. You can still create an account for guest purposes as a regular account though.

it has been noted that this hover tip may take some time to display and can be difficult to trigger for some people, but regardless of whether or not you can see the tooltip the answer to the question is the same


Why games claimed to be compatible with 3rd Gen iPod won't run on my 3rd Gen iPod 8GB?

They never actually made an 8GB iPod Touch 3rd Generation. What they did was lower the price of the 8GB iPod Touch from 229 to 199 and sold it along side the actual 3rd Generation 32GB and 64GB iPod Touches of that year.

Technically what you hold in your hand is an iPod Touch 2nd Generation. You're not the first person to notice these kinds of things, especially since there was a lot of confusion at Apple and 3rd Party Retailers when it came to selling this device.

A lot of people around the internet have the same issue when it comes to software and when it comes to what Generation it actually is.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2777426?start=0&tstart=0

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110111210334AAlplU9

http://www.ifans.com/forums/threads/2g-or-3g-which-do-i-have.251593/

Sorry that it won't work and for all the confusion.  I hope that this information helps you out.


Repairing broken file associations on the Mac

Folx does a fair bit of damage on a simple delete uninstall.

Instead, re-download folx and run the uninstaller app.

See: http://wiki.eltima.com/user-guides/downloader-macos/uninstall.html


I am not awre of anything built-in to macOS that would do this, however there is a utility that will do this.
Though I have never used it myself it has been around for a long time and often comes up in MacInTouch discussions as a great utility: SwitchResX.


I'm have been using the AirPods Pro with Mojave, so it is definitely possible to use them together.

I didn't need to manually pair the AirPods Pro to the MacBook Pro running Mojave. It paired them with my iPhone, and it automatically synced to the MacBook Pro.

Squeezing the stem of the AirPods to enable/disable ANC, play/pause, forwards/backwards in tracks all works without problems.

There's no setting for ANC in Mojave, but I can control volume up/down like with the regular AirPods.

Switching between devices seem to work the same as with the AirPods. I.e. I can be listening to Spotify on my iPhone, and then on my Mojave Mac click the speaker icon in the status bar and select the AirPods - and I will be hearing sound from the Mac instead of the iPhone.

Mojave also supports displaying charge status of the AirPods Pro in that menu - similar to the AirPods.

As far as I know, Audio Sharing is an iOS-only feature - so that wouldn't be available with either Mojave or Catalina.


Can a 2011 MacBook Pro handle the new macOS updates?

From a performance perspective, should I just leave it there?

No.  For two reasons:

You are running a 7 year old OS that is no longer updated since about October 2014.
4GB RAM is rather inadequate considering today's use cases.

  Or will
  I get any kind of benefits from upgrading to the latest (or a later)
  macOS?

The benefits will be numerous.  The most obvious would be increased application compatibility (i.e. Office 2016 and Phoshop CC just to name two) and increased security with System Integrity Protection (SIP).

Your performance is mostly determined by hardware and you've already taken steps to increase speed with the addition of an SSD.  Increasing your RAM will have an immediate effect by reducing/eliminating the need for swap space.  While you SSD is amazingly fast compared to the HDD it replaced, it's still not as fast as system memory.

You may find this answer relevant:  My Mac is getting really slow, what should I do?

Personally, I have upgraded 2009, 2010 and 2011 MacBook Pros by maxing out the memory and upgrading to at least El Capitan all with excellent results.  There are no loss of performance with the upgrades.


Copying Time Machine backup, destination takes more than original size, are hardlinks being expanded?

If you are using an entire drive for time machine backup, I would suggest using Carbon Copy Cloner latest version with block-to-block copy. I have seen people use Disk Utility for this but I haven't got this to work.
As noted in this answer CCC does not work for TM backups now (since BigSur?) see CCC site


Best practices to move macOS Mail.app storage to an external drive?

Photos

however the library is too large, and constantly growing, so that is not an option.

I don't understand the reasoning behind this. I assume you have more storage on your external drive than your internal drive. It's the perfect thing to move.  New photos should be added to the external drive. Here is what apple is saying on the subject.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517

Mail

I'd pick ln command so macOS above the Unix layer will not know that you moved the folders.

SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder.

encryption

Is up to you.  It's harder to recover data that's encrypted.  Your data is less protected.  You have to evaluate what your data is worth out in the wild.  I never take my computer outside my house, so it's as safe as all my other stuff. I have an off site backup too.

backup

Do not forget to backup all you external data.


Error with Android usb. Working Macintosh HD not repairable. Alternatives to backup?

Just me! Apparently choosing a password not as soon as possible assigned me another user (former user127893, now user128454) but still same username and almost similar avatar (a quarter or the former with a more visible Triforce :D )

BTW recently I tried to run a Disk permissions check and repair. After that I repeat the Verify Disk and the error message changed (if I remember well it wasn't like this) incorrect number of thread record.

Hope if I retry a repair this time I'll have some luck.

P.S.:I'm a bit surprised of this did't get much attention and I'm gonna search mmore about Buscar웃SD suggestion. I wonder if I need to apply Cunningham's Law (the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer)


Is there anyway to connect to IRC server via Message app?

No the Messages app won't work as an IRC client. You have to use another app. Here you can find a list of good apps supporting IRC.


How to set a Calendar alert for AFTER completion of an event?

Just enter an alert at a customized time (which is equal to end of the event).

This works for iCal 5 (Mac OS X 10.7):

and also for iCal 7 (Mac OS X 10.9). It looks a bit different though:


How to Highlight Text in Yellow in Pages 5.0

⇧ Shift-⌘ Cmd-H is the new shortcut (or Insert > Highlight from the menu).


Getting process currently open in full screen mode

Found something that works. Not sure if it's the best approach.

#!/usr/bin/osascript

tell application "iTerm2"
  set fp to name of current window
end tell

tell application "Safari"
  <snip>
end tell

tell application "iTerm2"
  activate
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm2"
    click menu item fp of menu of menu bar item "Window" of menu bar 0
end tell


Skype is showing the wrong last messages

I use Skype for Mac (as I presume you do), and I've had to troubleshoot contact status issues. In my notes are the following comments with respect to keeping a "detailed log:"

Type in any chat line:
/setupkey *Lib/LogLevel 4
Then quit and restart Skype.
Then type in chat line:
/resynccontacts

Other commands:

/resynclivecontacts

So you probably don't need the detailed session log, but try the resync commands.

For a more advanced method, here is another procedure from my notes:

Quit Skype completely
Access https://m.hotmail.com in any browser
You should see a "403" error page
Restart Skype and verify the contacts are loading

Does that help? I'm sorry that I can't elaborate on the commands and techniques, since these were methods that I found without supporting explanation.


Natively Installed Ubuntu On iMac - Switch Back Or To Windows

If you wish to go back to Mac OS permanently, you might be able to restore from the OS X recovery partition if that is still present; hold Command-R while starting up to try and enter Recovery mode. See the short instructions from Apple, or this MacWorld article for a longer description. Please note that some of these options may delete your Ubuntu installation and any files in that OS.

If you departed from your linked tutorial and completely wiped the hard disk to install Ubuntu, the Internet Recovery mode--also described in both links above--may still work. (In fact, the Mac might have been showing you that WiFi connections screen because it's attempting to get to the internet for that purpose.)

If you want to preserve your dual-boot setup, try repairing the EFI bootloader by reinstalling rEFInd from inside Ubuntu. The process should be very similar to the instructions in your tutorial for installing rEFInd within OS X, as rEFInd's install script is stated to run within either.


Anyway to tell iCloud Drive in Sierra to stop downloading things?

Okay, if you call this script using:

find "$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs" -exec cloudevict {} \;

it in theory will delete the local copies of everything, which seems to work more or less, however as soon as it is done, iCloud Drive will attempt to fill your hard drive once again, and there still seems to be absolutely no way to stop it.


View reviews and ratings in App Store Connect

App Store Connect (responsive redesign, June 2020)

Open Apps and select the app.
Choose App Store from the top.
Select Ratings and Reviews from the sidebar.


There is an app PDFElement6, a free trial version is available that will do what you want. The trail version is limited to only a five page PDF.


It isn't possible to simulate the iPhone contents from the backup. The possible resort is to restore the backup on the device after resolving the issue or get another iPhone to restore onto.


You can try using the Live Listen feature on iOS.

With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becomes a remote
microphone that sends sound to your Made for iPhone hearing aid. Live
Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy room or hear
someone speaking across the room.

Tap Settings > General > Accessibility > MFi Hearing Devices.
Tap your hearing aid under Devices.
Tap Start Live Listen.
Place the device in front of the person you want to hear.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203990


How to maintain focus on app window with AppleScript

Try sending the Activate command outside the System Event tell, that would be the standard method.

tell application "Canon MX510 series" to activate
my testAppRunning()
tell application "System Events"
    key code 20 using command down
end tell

on testAppRunning()
    set test to 0
    repeat while test = 0
        log test
        tell application "System Events" to set test to count (every process whose name is "Canon MX510 series")
        delay 2
        --/*we do this even if active because it doesn't naturally come to front*/
        try
            tell application "Canon MX510 series" to activate
        end try
        if (test > 0) then exit repeat
    end repeat
end testAppRunning


Installation of Office 365 on 2008 Macbook with OS -X 10.6 failed

You needed to quit Safari "⌘+Q", "X-ing" out of safari only closes the window, not the program.


Unable to recover disk space Mac OS X EI Capitan

If backup is available then remove the recovery HD, resize the main volume to fill the remaining available space (since it appears the recovery HD is what is in the way of resizing) and then recreate the recovery HD with whatever you're comfortable with (suggestion https://github.com/MagerValp/Create-Recovery-Partition-Installer )


How to Remote into my Mac Mini Server from Outside my Network?

Port forwarding examples:

When you set port-forwarding on your router, you pick a port number (or range of ports) and a single local IP address, ie. port 5900 and Ip address 192.168.0.2. So any internet traffic coming in on port 5900 gets sent directly to the computer on the IP address 192.168.0.2.

Answered above, you've specified one of the IP addresses in the port forwarding. It will be the IP address you specified in the DHCP address reservations.
It's only as secure as your password. I'm sure that the password is encrypted before transmission back to your Macs.

You need to set up port forwarding in your Router.

Depending on your Router's make/model, the setup may vary, but the basics are the same regardless.

I would choose a port way north of 1 or 2.

Both computers will be listening on port 5900, so you'd set something up like:

85.85.85.85:15000 --> 192.168.0.99:5900

and

85.85.85.85:16000 --> 192.168.0.100:5900


Using The Terminal Command to Shutdown, Restart and Sleep My Mac?

The command you are after is shutdown.
This  informs all users that the machine is going to be shutdown and tells all apps to close files etc.
The command takes a parameter -h, -r or -s to shut down, restart or sleep the Mac.
The command has to be run as root so you need to use sudo.
e.g. to reboot the machine immediately
sudo shutdown -r now

e.g. to shutdown the machine in 60 minutes
sudo shutdown -h +60

From comments there are two things to be addressed
How shutdown works is by sending a sigterm to all processes which should then deal with that e.g. save open files etc. If they don't exit then they will get sent a SIGKILL which forces them to die with no chance to respond. The signals are not sent via the normal key message queue so Apps have to deal with this separately to the code that gets called from quit on the menu. A good app should call common code from both.
This other answer shows how to shutdown as if you hit the menu options. But note that apps can cancel this shutdown


Toggle the View > Organize by Conversation menu item.


How to prevent table moving to the next page in Pages?

A table in Pages inherits its page break settings from the line on which it is located. (You can imagine the table is a huge character on a line).

To change the behavior of that line place the cursor at the end of the line above the table and press arrow right, moving the cursor to the table row. (Sometimes you'll see a blinking cursor along the left side of the table).

Now, choose Text formatting and click "More" and set up your paginations and breaks to your liking.

This way you can change the behavior of each table to break across lines or not as you see fit, and you don't have to change the behavior of all other text to do it...


You can set 'Do Not Disturb' mode for specific times, & allow phone calls from chosen people, or from anyone who calls twice in quick succession, but I know of no way to do that for email.


Which Wireless-N Routers are compatible with Apple products?

The simple answer is buy an Airport Extreme

Otherwise use the internet and read reviews.  Virtually any draft-N or official N spec routers will 'work'.  As with anything, the only way to be absolutely sure is to try them out.


How do I play selected albums in iTunes 11

Select your albums as usual.
Clear the Up Next queue (using button at top right of queue)
Right-click on one of your selected albums, and choose 'Add to Up Next' from the popup Menu.
That'll add all the songs from all the albums you've selected.
Click the play button.

If you check the up next queue, you see all the songs from all the albums you selected.

Songs are grouped by albums though. I'm not seeing a way to get the songs in the queue shuffled


Unable to Locate or update LocateDB Mac OS El Capitain, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave!

After quite a bit of tinkering and waiting to delete my question prior to posting an uneducated question, I found an old OSXDaily article that suggests another way to update the Locate DB. The command suggested is: sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb And searching for that command rather than the com.apple.locate.plist setup in launchd, I found this lovely article about changing the database update frequency. I however, took a somewhat different approach to updating the database, simply by adding a line to my daily crontab:

env EDITOR=nano sudo crontab -e

0 12 * * * sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb.

ctrl+x y [ENTER]

Thanks, I hope this helps someone going through the same annoying crap.


Why does USB audio out mute after about 1 minute?

I have problems with the Alesis M1Active 520USB speakers. After an undetermined amount of time they just stop working. Switching to internal speakers works fine. A reboot fixes it...but that's painful. The easier solution I've found is this:

Change your sound source (option clicking the sound icon is the quickest method) to Internal Speakers.
Unplug the speakers
Open a terminal and run this command, which restarts the Core Audio Daemon: sudo killall coreaudiod
Plug the speakers back in

Maybe it will help you too.


iBooks Store: How do I know what format is used?

Books from the iBooks Store are always in the .ibooks or .epub format. It is never PDF.

Books from the iBooks Store can be DRM-protected, but they don't have to be. It is up to the publisher of the book to decide.

To check for DRM you can select the book and choose "Get Info" from the Files menu. If this shows "Purchased book" it is non-DRM, if it shows "Protected book" it is DRM-protected.


If you somehow did uninstall the Calendar app from your phone like my father did, an easy way to get it back is to have someone text you a date, like "December 1st". This will automatically be converted to a link, which you can tap, which will then open a prompt with a message asking if you'd like to re-install Calendar.


How do I locate the contact data for the Address Book on Snow Leopard?

The data is stored in several places. It's best to just export the data to the desktop if you want it in one file.

The complicated answer is in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook as well as in various cache files if you have enabled LDAP/open directory integration or other sync options to get contacts into and out of your address book.


Can't get rid of twitter from iOS7 lock screen

You will have to disable notifications for the specific client that you are using by going to Settings → Notification Center and tapping on your Twitter client, then disabling Show on Lock Screen.

If you are using the official Twitter app, you can change notification settings by opening the app and going to Me → Settings button → Settings → Notifications.


Can I safely charge&use my macbook with the adaptor below?

In general it is safe to attach standards compliant USB Type-C products to the MacBook.

If the multi-adapter offers power delivery (i.e. charging) and is standards compliant, it should be perfectly safe to use. According to the documentation it should offer charging at up to 65W which is plenty for the MacBook.

I have however not tested this specific adapter with the MacBook.


Use HomePod as a microphone for a audio recording?

Unfortunately no. There exist no official way of recording audio from the HomePod into for example Voice Memo or other "generic" apps.

You could use a call recording service or voice mail system to record audio from the HomePod by dialing into that system. It would be impractical and the quality wouldn't be great, so it is probably not a realistic option for you.


MacBook Pro (15" mid-2010) crashes upon waking up from sleep sometimes

Had a similar situation with a mid-2010 MBP. Sent it to Apple who diagnosed it as a bad logic board, and replaced it.

Suggest you bring it to an Apple Store or an Apple Authorized Service Center. Good luck.


Unexplainable large number of cycles of MacBook Battery

I disagree with the previous answer. The Apple battery is designed to be discharged infrequently, for instance around once a week - this is how to get optimal life out of it (see here) - you can safely operate it on charge for about a week before needing a discharge. Provided you exercise the battery occasionally, it'll be fine.

Also, the battery does not cycle when it is on charge - Matt Love is incorrect. A cycle is defined as the battery dropping below 50% and returning above it - which doesn't happen when running from a charger. Approximately one cycle a week will give you optimal longevity before replacement. My battery is a little over two years old, and on 1-3 cycles a week I still get 80-85% of the original battery life out of it.

Letting it die down as often as possible will not improve longevity - this is a common misconception but in the case of Lithium Ion batteries, more cycles = less life.


Terminal Error: pointer being freed was not allocated *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug - Unable to Repair Permissions

I had the same problem with my dev machine. After several hours of trying anything other than a reinstall I finally realized that was the only choice. It should have been the FIRST choice. SO EASY!

Back up the critical data (just in case)
Enter the recovery mode by pressing cmd+r at start up
Choose "Reinstall Mac OS X"

That's it. When my computer restarted I was prompted for my Apple ID credentials and then my user loaded like normal, with a working Terminal, even. I didn't need to reinstall / restore anything. The whole process (including the user folder backup) took about 45 min.

Final step, remove all of the sketchy utilities installed trying to fix this without a reinstall.


How to uninstall "Installations" under System Report?

In those cases i use a little app called AppCleaner.

The just drag the app in question in to it and it will find all associated files to that program and ask you if you want to delete them.

If you do not have the original app any more, you could use Terminal and find the files and delete them.

type mdfind TechSmith and see what comes up


Keyboard Maestro: How to write to /etc/hosts file

Have Keyboard Maestro run an AppleScript, which runs a shell script, which changes your hosts file:

do shell script "cp ~/hosts.tmp /etc/hosts" with administrator privileges

Simple! :)

The "with administrator privileges" part will cause it to prompt you for the sudo password.


Any stock means of inserting a period by pressing the spacebar twice?

Try this:

Go to System Preferences / Language & Text / Text
Add a new rule where "  " (double space) is replaced with ". " (period space).
Make sure you've got Symbol and Text Substitution enabled, and this new rule checked, too.

It appears not to work everywhere, though.


Link iPhones contact list to GMail app instead of native mail app?

Nope, you can not change the default Mail Client. However, you can make Google the default directory for your contacts. With iOS7 just login with your Gmail account in Settings -> Mail, Calendar, Contacts. After this scroll down and search for the column "Contacts" there you should the default account to your gmail account. If you can’t find the last one, you probably have only one account with contact sync capabilities.


What is the Home Folder under /Library/Java for?

No you didn't mess anything up.  My Java 7 is in the same location as yours.  The Home symlink will not mess you up.

BTW you can add this to your .bash_profile to set your java home environment variable

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.7 2>/dev/null`


Can a 2nd Generation iPod Touch be upgraded past 2.2.1?

Yes, it can. My 2nd gen touch is running 4.2.1 just fine and dandy. (It appears that, like the iPhone 3G, they won't get 4.3, though.)

I'd recommend to download the 4.2.1 update from Apple directly and option-restore the update to your device.


fsck -fy hangs on Checking catalog file + issues booting (MacBook)

When you can't get a clean run of fsck (which you might need to let run for a handful of hours) - then it's time to make a decision:

back up what you can/need to and erase the volume
seek other software options to attempt repair

In my expereice, if you don't have lots of IO errors (-B option for fsck_hfs) then the erase will restore full function and you can reinstall the OS and restore from backup. I've also not had much luck forcing fsck_hfs to rebuild parts when the plain /sbin/fsck -fy fails - but you could get lucky there with an unusual corruption pattern on this drive.

The second option doesn't have great promise. Disk Warrior seems to be one of the decent utilities to try when fsck won't work - but unless you have lots of specific corruption issues - the time you spend wiping and reinstalling usually doesn't outweigh the cost of that software. It also may or may not work. If Disk Warrior also fails to repair or rebuild the catalog, you're back to the decision point - wipe or escalate to even more expensive / specialized support like opening an engineering ticket with Apple or someone that's able to dump the filesystem structure more deeply for analysis.


Will never letting my display go to sleep shorten its life?

Realistically most Mavericks-capable systems with built-in displays, other than the early aluminum iMacs and Santa Rosa Core 2 MacBooks, have LED back-lighting which isn't going to noticeably dim with age or be affected by on/off cycling.

If you're driving a CRT/plasma/CCFL-LCD monitor then you have option of increasing the lifespan of the display phosphor coatings (the back-light in the case of CCFL-LCD panels), but this comes at the cost of increased stress on the driving electronics of being regularly cycled on and off.


Apple recovery partition possibly creating problems in Ubuntu

OS X creates the recovery partition as an alternate boot solution for ease of reinstallation and troubleshooting.

It is not needed for normal operation, and as someone that's familiar with boot technology and options, the simplest option would be to simply delete the partition entirely and patch the partition table if needed.

Here is a stock layout:

Mac:~ me$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

You could merge partitions disk0s3 into the partition that precedes it (in this case) to effectively erase and then delete the Apple_Boot partition listed as Recovery HD. In this case, you would need to be booted to some other drive than disk0 to have both disk0s2 and disk0s3 unmountable (which would make them disk1 or higher in all likelihood).

 diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s2 disk0s3

Should that not work, you might have to image Macintosh HD to another drive as an img file (or straight partition to partition) and then repartition hdisk0 to have just one partition and restore.

As to the deeper question, my guess is that the "hiding" of the partition isn't compatible with other non Apple tools and is confusing the issue - hence the advice to just remove it and count on alternate options to restore your system or boot externally in stead of the recovery HD.


Why does my dock keep moving back to my other monitor?

You can summon the Dock on a different display by moving the cursor to the bottom of the desired display, and then continuing moving down. It may be possible that this is occurring when you inadvertently perform that action.

I answered a similar question: cmd-tab behavior on Mavericks with multiple displays.


Get exclamation point alert icon when opening most pictures in iPhoto

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.

Surefire fix: Restore from backup. Otherwise...

Option 1

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.

If that fails:

Option 2

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)

This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.


Exclude some SSIDs from iCloud syncing or no iCloud sync on some SSID

With a non-jailbroken iOS this is not possible for Wi-Fi connections.

For jailbroken devices there are some firewalls available to block apps even on Wi-Fi.


windows like (context menu) unzipper in mac?

Unarchiving is built into OS X. All you have to do to unarchive a file is to open it. You can do that by double clicking, pressing cmd+o (between i and p), or by right-clicking and choosing Open.

So, just right-click on the file and select Open to unarchive. Ta-da, no extra software required.


Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF no backup

I fixit this problem following this guide

OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'

Thx all!


Repairing Mac OS X Leopard without Time Machine

Reinstalling the entire Mac OS X is the guaranteed way to ensure all system components are correctly installed.

Sometimes you can get away with running a Combo Updater (the 10.5.8 in your case), it can repair a slightly damaged (or corrupted) installation.

If you are unsure of why things are missing or damaged, better to reinstall or at least run a Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. System files should be protected from deleting and you don't know if other protections are missing or changed.


Perhaps you need to download drivers for the mouse - I've found that personally, my RAT 7 works atrociously on OS X without the drivers and software for it.

It'd help to know what brand and model mouse you have, however generic it may be.


Keyboard shortcut to delete row in Numbers

By default, no, there's no shortcut.

You can create one yourself though:

Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts.
Click the + button to add a new shortcut.
Set the Application to Numbers.app, and the Menu Title to Delete Row.

Set your keyboard shortcut and press Add.


One user can't open anything after Yosemite upgrade

There is likely a corrupt preferences or other file in the user's ~/Library folder. Honestly your best bet is to create another users folder for that person, copy their files over and set up Mail, Messages, Safari and the like from scratch.

Once you have a working profile you can slowly migrate other things from the old to the new user folder (old Mail folders, Safari bookmarks, etc.) till you have enough restored for everything to work as necessary.

At that point you can delete the old user.


Go to Line keyboard shortcut in Python editor IDLE?

IDLE > Preferences (cmd+,) > Keys > goto-line > Get New Keys for Selection


I'm running CS5 on Yosemite right now, (Photoshop is running right now, in fact,) and have had CS5 run on OS Xs all the way back to Snow Leopard or earlier:


Whatsapp backup issue on iCloud with iOS 12.2

Go to WhatsApp - Settings - Chats - Backup, and see how much space Whatsapp is trying to upload (you can choose to not include videos to reduce most of the size)

Now, there are 2 Whatsapp backup switches to handle, they are both on by default, hence, by default, WhatsApp is an odd and inconvenient outlier since (compared to iCloud Photo library) it literally duplicates the space required if both switches are on, let me explain:

1st switch: iPhone Settings app > Tap your name in the top > iCloud > scroll down to see the switch (this switch creates a live backup that allows for an independent backup, meaning you don't need to restore your whole iphone to restore this backup, you can delete Whatsapp Only and said backup will be detected when you reinstall Whatsapp). You get to pick your frequency

2nd switch: iPhone Settings app > Tap your name in the top > iCloud > Manage Storage > click "Backcup" green icon row > Click your device > here you have a list of your TOTAL apps, each might save a tiny bit of settings info for each app (not the app itself), this is a packaged backup that also saves your downloaded app list (no matter if you switch off every app). So, Here you see WhatsApp too (2nd switch) <- if on, Whatsapp backup will take 2x space of your total iCloud space. As I understand, this backup can only be accessed if you restore the whole iPhone (whole package see).

Post-context: for years, I've turned off the 2nd switch with no problems. But ever since iOS 13, background activity is a mess for Whatsapp, and even though I have more than enough space, auto-daily Whatsapp backup is not happening. I now have the question if I can invert the switches, and still be able to access WhatsApp backup by only deleting and reinstalling the whatsapp app, not the whole iPhone. This question arises since the packaged backup (2nd switch) for the rest of the apps (including WhatsApp) works flawlessly, daily, perfectly fine.

TIP:: It doesn't matter if you have iCloud Photo library on on both sections, Apple is smart about this and only backcups once (only takes space one time), that's why I say WhatsApp is an inconvenient-odd outlier when it comes to both switches management.

With all this, maybe your backup is stuck since you have a 2.5Gb Whatsapp backup to be uploaded, which (if both switches on) requires 5Gb of free space. <- but in my case, not even having the double free space does the trick, auto-backup is not happening.


Folder /label highlighting in Mavericks 10.9

I would recommend to use an application called Folders Factory for that.

You can download it from the Mac App Store and it only costs $2.99, so it will not break your budget, but it has some very fancy features you might like.