Mac Pro 2020 upgradability - DDR5, ARM, Neural Engine?

The short answer is no, the Mac Pro isn’t upgradeable to any if those technologies.

DDR5 RAM, is a low power, but double bandwidth compared to DDR4.  Its a standard that hasn’t been released yet, and must be supported by the CPU.  in order to support this, you would need to redesign the logic board to accept the new requirements and since it’s a non-finalized standard, nobody has adopted the tech yet.
ARM vs Intel.  This is two completely different CPU architectures.  To use an automotive analogy, this is like asking if your car with a big block V8 can use an electric motor from a Tesla.  Unless you remove all the drive train and what supports it so you can put in this new tech, it’s not upgradeable.  The same holds true for Intel to ARM; you’d have to replace the logic board (at minimum) to support it and that’s not “an upgrade”
Apple Neural Engine is a technology that comes on their ARM SoC (System on Chip), it’s not application software that you can just install and suddenly have.  This is their CPU, and to support it, you’d need a whole new architecture.  See the previous point.

However, I think you said it best in your question:

  They are all technologies that could potentially be available for Mac products within a year or two.

They are potentially available which means the standards by which they inter-operate with other technologies haven’t been finalized and thusly, not implemented.


Delete "Recently Deleted" album on iOS 8?

If your device is jailbroken, you can install NoRecentlyDeleted, which does exactly what you would expect, making all photos be deleted immediately.


From the  Finder of original keychain file, press Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder and enter the path:

~/Library/Keychains/
Copy the ser “login.keychain” file to the new Mac, do this with AirDrop, Ethernet, USB or any external devices.
On the new Mac, press Command+Spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Keychain Access” then hit return, this launches the Keychain manager app
Pull down the “File” menu and select “Add Keychain” and browse to the keychain file you copied to the new Mac, selecting Add to import the stored keychain data to the new Mac

Hope this helps :)


How to prevent iPad from keeping pushing iOS 11 to me?

Update:
iOS/iPadOS 13.6 has introduced the ability for users to turn off automatic download of updates. To configure automatic download or installation of iOS/iPadOS updates on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings app → General → Software Update → Customize Automatic Updates and toggle the switches as desired.
The linked Apple Support document discusses the same:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204204

Customize Automatic Updates

With iOS 13.6, or iPadOS, you can choose not to download software updates automatically. Go to Settings > General > Software Update > Customize Automatic Updates, then turn off Download iOS updates.

Old answer which applies to iOS/iPadOS versions earlier than 13.6 is as follows:
Apple strongly advises to keep your iOS devices up-to-date by installing the latest supported public release of iOS on your devices.
While Apple takes every measure to get the iOS devices to the newly released software, you can choose to opt out of upgrading. There is no straightforward way for you to turn-off iOS software upgrade all together, following are a few tricks you can employ to keep yourself from upgrading:

Delete the update and avoid Wi-Fi connection: First delete the already downloaded iOS update by going to Settings app → General → Storage & iCloud Storage → Manage Storage. Select the Software Update item, tap on Delete Update and confirm that you want to delete the update.
Now disconnect your device from Wi-Fi. Software update can be downloaded and installed only over a Wi-Fi connection. If you can make do with a regular data/LTE connection, you can avoid Wi-Fi and you will not be nagged by a downloaded update.

Block the Apple software update domain(s) on your router: If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi connection at your home or office and have the admin access to the router, you can blacklist the Apple Software domains. Use it with caution as this will block the domains for others who are connected to the access point as well and they will not be able to check for or install the update. Prevent access to the following domains:
 appldnld.apple.com
 mesu.apple.com


You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk?

The first thing I'd try is resetting the NVRAM:

Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P,
and R.  Turn on your Mac.
Press and hold the ⌘+Option+P+R keys immediately after you
hear the startup sound.
Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup
sound for a second time.
Release the keys.

...and see if that solves your problem. If it doesn't, I'd start worrying about a hardware fault.


Safari uses the form's fields name to detect if they can be autocompleted.  Unfortunately, some sites use names that are not recognized by the browser, which in that case does not fill them.

This is not a safari issue, but more a website issue, and I think there is no workaround on the iPhone.

But there may be a workaround : I use 1password on both my mac and iPhone, and it is more "tolerant" than Safari for detecting fields.

The advantage is that, when I sync my iPhone app with the one on the mac, I can then use the iPhone app to autologin within Safari mobile. But it is a workaround, as I must save the form's content on the mac before being able to use it on the phone, and the detection is still not perfect.


unable to move files from external usb disk

This might be a silly question but are you sure that the drive is mounted read-write.

From memory, if you type in "mount" in a Terminal it should tell you if the drive is mounted read-only as one of the properties in brackets after the drive. Or you could right-click the drive in the Finder and choose Get Info from the context menu and check "Sharing & Permissions" at the bottom of the Info window. I think it'll tell you there if the drive is mounted read-only.


How do I boot from a Windows USB with a Mac?

Boot Camp has to emulate a BIOS system, as Windows requires this to run.  Apple uses something called the bless tool in order to instruct EFI (which Macs are based on) to activate this BIOS system.

However, if I recall correctly, emulation of BIOS is not supported on Mac for any device that is not attached via a SATA connection (ie. internal drive, DVD drive).  So, I believe that you cannot boot from your USB key.

If you want, you could install an alternative bootloader on your Mac that would allow you to do this.  See this post for more info.


What methods can be used to find hidden options in OSX softwares?

It involves a lot of trial and a lot of error, but you can be helped along in the process by running the strings command against the binary for application, directing the results to a file, and then reading that output looking for hyphenated or InnerCapitalizedWords that might suggest a  candidate for a hidden preference.

Rob Griffeths wrote an article at MacWorld that gives some helpful suggestions for finding hidden preferences.


That symbol indicates the "song" is an online stream rather than a file downloaded to your computer. This happens if you add a URL to your library rather than downloading the file and adding that.

So you must have been streaming the song each time you played it and now the stream has been turned off. You obviously need to find and download an actual copy of the song file to be able to play it again.


macOS 10.12.6 Sierra keychain has stopped saving passwords, how to repair?

Warning: macOS no longer supports Keychain repair, instead it just creates a new default Keychain, which will result in a loss of all saved passwords.

Quit all open applications that might be using Keychain including Sequel.
To try to repair the Keychain use Finder to go to /Applications/Utilities.

You can also CommandShiftU from Finder to open that folder directly.

Launch Keychain Access.
Then go to the menu bar and select Keychain Access > Preferences.
Click "Reset My Default Keychain"

Follow any instructions beyond this and retest those applications.


Change of IP / Configure AirPort Extreme

The WAN (the outside of your router) connection in the router (your AirPort) should be set to static if your ISP provide the information about IP, gateway, subnet-mask and DNS. Some ISP assign static IP remotely so you don't have and can continue using DHCP. It's all about what they tell you to do.

Your local computers should not need to change anything as the router translate all traffic from them to be displayed online as your static IP.

When it comes to the different numbers and where they are suppose to go it should be clear in the information from the ISP.


Running Aperture under Rosetta will be a painful experience.  It will not be swift.
Note also that working with different versions of aperture on a common library is a good way to get corruption.  Apple doesn't recommend running aperture on non-local disks either.  I've tried it, and while pictures are present, seaches return far too few results.

If you bought Aperture through the App Store, you should be able to unlist your stolen mac at the store, and install it on your newer mac for no charge.  If the current old mac book won't run the current aperture version, then I think that there are older versions on the Mac web site.

Finally, once you authorize the new laptop on the app store, you can just share the apps folder from your iMac, and drag and drop the Aperture.app folder from the older iMac to your laptop.


How to press Alt Gr in Parallels Desktop?

According to this article on macosxhints you can press ctrl-alt to get AltGr.
Sometimes that doesn't work, so you'll have to remap your keys under windows, which is described in the linked to article.

There's also this article on Parallels' forums which suggests you do this:

  Stop any running VMs, close all instances of Parallels Desktop for Mac.
  Launch “Macintosh HD” - “Applications” – “Utilities” – “Terminal”.
  Type the following commands in Terminal (without quotes), please mind that the system might ask you for the Administrator password after each command – type it and hit Enter:
  “sudo touch /Library/Parallels/.keyboard_config”
  “sudo chmod 666 /Library/Parallels/.keyboard_config”
  “sudo echo "numenterisaltgr" > /Library/Parallels/.keyboard_config”
  Close the Terminal.
  Launch Parallels Desktop for Mac and check Right Enter key behavior in VM – everything should work as you’ve set.


What does (MM) mean in the iPad model lineup?

I do not have a direct link or citation on/about Apple to prove my conclusion. But the most logical answer I could gather by reading several sites is that MM would stand for "Multi-mode", signifying that the iPad supports not just CDMA and GSM, but also multiple LTE implementations. The term "multimode" or "multi-mode" is used to designate chips/devices that support multiple, disparate communication technologies (a device with WiFi and Bluetooth can be called multimode too, but we're talking only about cellular here. Plus, all of Apple's iDevices have had WiFi and Bluetooth in all models).

Only the GSM + CDMA + LTE models that support multiple carriers have the "MM" tag.
Example: The 4th generation iPad and the iPad mini have models that support CDMA/GSM/LTE on Verizon and Sprint. So they're marked as "Cellular (MM)" to give them a more substantial (and carrier neutral) name.
The GSM + CDMA + LTE models in older generations that support only Verizon have a "VZ" tag instead of the "MM" tag.
Example: The 3rd generation iPad, the first iPad to come with support for both CDMA and GSM on a single device, has a CDMA/GSM/LTE Verizon model, but it does not support Sprint. So it's marked as "Cellular (VZ)" to signify that it's tied to Verizon (and cannot work with another CDMA carrier like Sprint).

In Apple's current terminology:
"Cellular" implies GSM+LTE
"Cellular (MM)" implies GSM+CDMA+LTE (across CDMA carriers)

Note that there is no "CDMA only" version of the iPad after the iPad 2, unlike "GSM only" versions that have been and continue to be available.

You can come to similar conclusions by comparing the cellular support across iPad models/generations and how they relate to the chipsets used, the carriers supported, and their technology implementations.

Here are some links related to the iPad specs across generations and multi-mode (as it applies to cellular technology) that would help understand my conclusion better.

Technical specifications for iPads of different generations (pay attention to the technologies/carriers supported):
1. iPad (4th Generation) - Technical Specifications
2. iPad mini - Technical Specifications
2. iPad (3rd Generation) - Technical Specifications
3. iPad 2 - Technical Specifications

Links related to multi-mode (read them completely or search for "mode" to go to multimode related snippets on these pages):
1. Multi-band and multi-mode phones, Multi-mode and multi-band mobile phones
2. Cell phone bands and modes
3. Qualcomm Fifth Generation Gobi Platform
4. A rare look inside an LTE cell site
5. Sprint - multimodal hardware rollout
6. Intel previews multimode LTE chips


If you want to totally control your Mac with your voice, I should strongly recommend to use dragon dictate 3 for mac from Nuance. But you need to know some Applescript to implement some user command.
You should also buy Plantronics microphone for quality based recognition.
Regards
Claude


The 12-inch MacBook doesn't have an Ethernet port. It is normal for it to not give you an option for something that it doesn't have.

If you can't use WiFi, you will need a USB-C to Ethernet adaptor, as noted by Apple.


Ok, just in case this comes up again, maybe I'll find my own answer :-)

The problem is that modern versions of OS X apply new permissions seemingly at random when problems are encountered. In this case, the OS added a third permission to everything below the home folder, and the permission was "everyone (custom)". Opening it, I found it disallowed writes by me to my own folder.

Suggestions for others; pick a file at random, maybe in your documents, and Get Info. Look at permissions - the first line should be "me", and is likely broken otherwise. Also check the enclosing folder for same.


How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder?

To my best knowledge, you cannot selectively display dot files in Finder. However, if you just need a way to easily open them via Finder, you could create a symlink to the file in its directory, omitting the dot in the name, i.e.:

open Terminal, cd into your folder;
ln -s $PWD/.htaccess $PWD/htaccess.

You can then open the file by double-clicking the newly created link, select an editor in the link’s context menu etc. However, if you want to copy, up- or download your .htaccess file, you are stuck with Terminal, full display of all dot files, or temporarily renaming the file (to _htaccess, say).


App Store reports updates but no updates are available

Why not why can't they update it seems like this is a scam so that apple can get more money what do you think


My RAM was bad ("three beeps" bad) until shuffled

I couldn't possibly venture a guess as to "why" except to chalk it up to Murphy...

However Mac O/S is very picky when it comes to RAM. It is my guess that Apple updated some of the code in the O/S that checks for issues with RAM and it noticed a problem.

That it now works with the RAM effectively swapped is even more puzzling. It is possible that there is an issue with something in the RAM slot itself, either physical or "electro-mechanical."

If the RAM is within warranty I would contact the folks you bought it from and swap it out on the chance that there is a strange issue with the RAM itself.

Sorry, no real definitive answer. It could be just a random occurrence and if you swap the RAM again it could work fine. Or the Earth could veer out of it's orbit and go crashing into the sun... Sometimes troubleshooting hardware and software issues leads you down a road that makes no sense, but if your "fix" works then leave it be and hope for the best.

Any any time I hope for the best, I make sure I have a recent backup...


Cannot partition my Disk: Free space in disk utility much smaller than actual free space

is it an apfs vol?
did u try to partition the volume without a specified format?
please post more info !!
off the top of my head i can think of a couple of things, mainly

diskutil eraseVolume /dev/diskXY (where X= the disk and 1 the volume within that disk) "Free Space" "%noformat%" <desired amount, %, or if you've already created a separate volume use the R option or 100% in order to erase the entire volume>

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 1 GPT "Free Space" "%noformat%" "100%"
or format it as a FAT32 part and use that for linux(its been a while since i've done this myself; but i can find u some resources if u'd like...)

    check the man pages, man diskutil

    also what mac are u using?(make model and what not ... it might be handier to install refit/refind and use that as boot manager before installing ubuntu so that your mac will always boot up into a
     custom bootloader with a choice of operating systems).

    if none of these are viable options or you'd rather not mess with the bootloader, why not just install vmware fusion, virtualbox and use ubuntu as a virtual machine (depending on what you'll be using it for, not too much resources need to be allocated; i'd start off with 2cpu and around 2048-4096mb of ram[this, of course, is dependent on what you're initial resources are...if u're running an old dual core processor and only have 4G of ddr3 ram, then the initial option with refind/dedicated partition might be the way to go.])

    What will u be using ubuntu for?

    Have you created a liveusb and booted into ubuntu already ?! Are you familiar with linux?!


Imac turn off the screen: where is the eject button to use in the shortcut?

At the back of the screen. It's the same as the power button. There may be a setting to make this work.


How switch to the India store for whatsapp update? I do not want to change my number. i just want to update whatsapp?

If you originally downloaded WhatsApp from the Indian store, all you need to do is log into your Indian Apple ID account when prompted (after choosing to update WhatsApp).

Once you log in, the App Store will prompt you that the ID only works with the Indian App Store and will then switch over to that store and you can do the update. It will then stay logged into that account until the next time you change it by logging into another account.

The store you download the app from has absolutely no bearing on the number etc associated with your WhatsApp account.


Add password to keychain from command line without showing them

I went ahead and wrote a small command line app to do it for you programmatically, here it is, finally pipe-able console password entry :)

Other options:

If you run security add-generic-password ... -w then it will prompt you for your password, you can type it in there, that doesn't leak anything.

There are a few hacks to feed the secure prompt, but just using it is OK too (or use the GUI).

In my case (attempting to feed kinit) it can integrate with the keychain, though still a manual initial entry, built-in.


Sorry to say that looks an awful lot like a hardware error.

It could be a bad video card, issues with the screen itself or the connection between the two (cables, connectors, etc.).

If you boot into recovery mode is the issue still present? That would rule out an issue with your OS if it is still there.

My advice, seek the help of a qualified Apple tech. Either at an Apple store or a good 3rd-party Apple certified repair center.


Enabling iCloud does not remove everything on the MacBook, and then transfer over the iCloud synced files to the MacBook. That's not how it works, so you don't have to be afraid of that.
If you want to ensure that files are always stored on your Mac, and not only in iCloud, then you want to ensure that the "Optimise Mac Storage" setting is not enabled. Open System Preferences > Apple ID and ensure that there's no checkmark besides "Optimise Mac Storage".
If you do have a checkmark there, files stored in the iCloud Drive could potentially be removed from your Mac in case available disk space runs low. They will be refetched from iCloud when needed.
Similarly for photos and videos synced to iCloud using the Photos app, you'll want to ensure "Optimise Mac Storage" is turned off. Open up Photos.app and open Preferences from the menu. In the iCloud tab, you'll want to ensure that "Optimise Mac Storage" is not selected - instead you'll want to choose "Download Originals to this Mac". This ensures that every photo and video store in iCloud is also stored on your Mac.


Is there an iPhone application same like MS Office Suite?

Not exactly MS Office but Apple has just released Numbers (SpreadSheet), Pages (Word Processor) and Keynote (Presentations) for iPhone.

Each of them is priced $9.99


Does Acrobat Pro XI support Retina display?

just installed it: Nope, no retina support yet.


Does Apple Remote Desktop send framebuffer data or rendering commands?

VNC like. It has several compression schemes, but things like the startfield animation drive it to high bandwidth and very low quality.

This is one area where Windows just kills Mac. I couldn't believe how much more responsive rendering commands were when using RDP. Even windows XP is so much faster for remote access. I can work all day remotely with decent fast ethernet and a fast TS server. Not so on Remote Desktop unless all the stars are "aligned" and off screen so to speak.


Go to System Preferences > Keyboard and check the Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar:

This will alow you to use the keyboard viewer:

In the Keyboard System preference, click the Input Sources tab to choose alternate languages:

Click the Plus sign at the bottom:

Choose your desired languag(es):


Custom "mouse" gestures for Trackpad on Macbook Pro and Magic mouse

Not so sure about the Magic Mouse, but for the trackpad there are a number of options.

jitouch looks very customisable, but costs.

BetterTouchTool works with the Magic Mouse. It gives you a PrefPane that lets you assign loads of gestures with loads of actions, including opening Apps. I'm sure it has capability to close windows as well.

Hope this helps!


My dashboard widgets are “inactive” since Lion upgrade

I ended up deleting all com.apple.*dashboard* files in $HOME/Library, and then rebooting. That did the trick.


What are the hours in which Apple reviews apps?

There are no fixed hours for Apple's app review process. Besides notice given for closure over holiday periods (shown if relevant in iTC), Apple does not talk about the times it reviews apps.


Which font is shown in the Visual Studio 2015 OS X sample code?

That's probably the font Monaco !

It was used by Xcode and Terminal prior to Snow Leopard as the was the default monospaced font.


In OS X Mail, what's the difference in checking new e-mail between "Automatically" and "Every X minutes"?

Unfortunately Apple Support is a little vague on "Check for new messages" in Mail (El Capitan): General preferences.

  When Mail gets new messages from the mail server. By default, the option is set to Automatically (Mail varies how often it gets messages, based on whether your Mac is plugged into an electrical outlet).

  An IMAP account may get messages more frequently if the mail server supports the IDLE command; make sure the option to use it is selected in the account’s Advanced pane in Mail preferences.

  If you set the option to Manually, click the Get Mail button  in the Mail toolbar to check for messages. (Whenever you click an IMAP or Exchange mailbox, it syncs with the server, and shows new messages.)

It's not at all specific about "(Mail varies how often it gets messages, based on whether your Mac is plugged into an electrical outlet)" and how often it is between the two states.

At least with an IMAP account the "Use IDLE command if the server supports it" from Mail (El Capitan): Advanced accounts preferences says:

  The mail server pushes messages to your Inbox. When this option is not selected, Mail checks for new messages based on the setting in the General pane in Mail preferences.

  This option is available only for IMAP accounts.

So the difference is when set to Automatically it will vary on different factors while when setting it to "Every x minutes" you know it's going to check however often "x" is.


All it took was a single search query >_>

I've used LaptopKey.com's service before. It's pretty much what is says on the tin.


Asinine message preventing me from installing Xcode on 10.9.4

App Store has a track record (with me at-least) of throwing, and I quote you, asinine messages at it's users. The only workaround that I know of is to download Xcode from the Apple Developer Center.


I'm not sure why it assumes that files will automatically get imported into iTunes. When I tested just now, the file downloads, but I certainly have to take action beyond that to get it into iTunes.

To import the files into iTunes, go to File > Add to Library (Command-O), then browse to the folder where you downloaded the Audible file. Select the file(s) and click Open. They will be imported into iTunes and at that point you will find them in the Audiobooks section.


Copy home directory from one Mac to another both running macOS Catalina

Migration Assistant was designed by Apple to do just that.  A direct copy may have problems because some of the things in ~/Library depend on MAC address, and some may change due to differences in hardware or O.S. version.
With 1.3 TB, speed cannot be expected.
You’ll have to have nothing else running (not even Time Machine or Spotlight indexing) to avoid error -42.  According to http://www.macwizard.com/errors.html, that means “too many files open.”  If no other apps are running, then report to Apple that Migration Assistant has a bug.  Actually two of them—it should not open too many files, and if it does get that error, it should close some and keep going instead of quitting.


Sync iCloud TV show purchases between AppleTV and iTunes

Go to the iTunes store homepage and click "Purchased" in the Quick Links section. This will bring you to a list of all content that is available for redownload for your account.


Can I install Win 10 (GPT formatted USB installer) on MacBook Pro without using BootCamp?

Of course you can!

  Before continuing, make sure that you have a backup!!! I am not responsible for any damage caused by this guide. You have been warned.

Skip to step 4 if you only want Windows and no macOS.

Step 1: Open Disk Utility by simply typing Disk Utility inside Spotlight.

Step 2: Select your disk from the list at the left, but NOT the containers, and press Partition located at the top. If it asks you whether you want to partition or add a new APFS volume, select Partition.

Step 3: A pie of your disk should have appeared now. From here, select your macOS partition and click + (plus) button. There is a new partition now. Arrange it's size either from the properties, or by dragging it from the borders. This is going to be your Windows 10 partition. Give it at least 40GBs of space. Name the new partition (not macOS partition) with a name that you will remember, such as BOOTCAMP, but make sure it is all in capital letters. Lastly set it's type as MS-DOS (FAT) and press Apply. You'll be warned that you are resizing your boot partition, just press OK.

You need a USB formatted as FAT32 with at least 8 GBs of free space to continue... Skip to step 5 if you already have an installation media.

Step 4: Download and install unetbootin from here. Then run it and select Disk Image option on the screen. Select ISO option from the dropdown menu next to Disk Image text if it is not already selected. Then press the button with three dots (...) and select your Windows ISO image (assuming you already have one). Lastly, select your USB from the dropdown menu next to Drive text and press OK. This will burn the ISO image to the USB.

Step 4.1: To learn what your USB is called, open up a Terminal from Spotlight and type:

diskutil list

This will show you all of the drives connected to your computer. Your USB is something like /dev/disk1s1 or /dev/disk1s2 (but definitely not /dev/disk0). You can understand which one is your USB by searching for your USB's label.

Step 5: Now open up the Bootcamp assistant for the last time. Once it's opened, select Action > Download Windows Helper Software. This will download Bootcamp helper. Select the target as your desktop and continue.

Step 6: Once your bootcamp software is downloaded and unetbootin is done, copy the contents of the WindowsSupport folder to your USB's root directory.

Step 7: It's time to begin the installation! Reboot your MacBook and when it's powering on, press and hold Alt (option) key on your keyboard. Once boot manager appears, select the EFI Boot or Windows option. This will start the installer. Give it a few minutes and once the button to begin the installation appears, press it. Wait for it to start. Once it starts, select Custom installation option. This part is important!!! A list of volumes should have appeared now.

Step 7.1, For Dualboot: Select the partition you created earlier for Windows and click Format. When it's done, re-select the Windows partition and press Install. Now just relax and wait for it to finish.

Step 7.1, Remove OS X and install Windows: This will destroy any data on your other volumes! Delete all of your partitions one by one. Once there is only free space left, create a new partition and install Windows on there.

Step 7.2: Wait for the installation to finish.

Step 7.3: Once the computer restarts, hold the alt key and select Windows or EFI Boot option with a hard drive icon.

Step 8: Once you fully setup Windows, select your USB from Windows Explorer and go to WindowsSupport folder. In that folder, run the setup program. Install it like a normal program and you are done!


Remotely accessing Time Machine folder structure using Back To My Mac

Connect and mount the Time Machine volume in Finder.
Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar.
Hold ⌥ and choose Browse Other Backup Disks….
Select your mounted Time Machine backup volume to browse its contents.


There is no publicly available data on the actual iTunes App Store download counts (except for occasional special events such as the 25 billionth app download contest, and a few individual developer reports).  The exact app download numbers are considered confidential information between Apple and each developer (perhaps because an individual's earnings could be so deduced).  Each developer has access only to the counts for their own apps.

That said, a few developers do report some of their download numbers; and there are various estimations of the download distribution curve based on this evidence: for instance this blog post, and this academic paper, both from 2011, which may or may not be accurate.  (Disclosure, the blog post is mine.)

As for part #4 of your question, the "on average" answer may not be relavant, as the app download distribution may be so skewed that almost no app has a download count that is anywhere close to the mean average, but mostly a lot more or a lot less.  For instance, whatever the big mean average number is, there are some reports that most apps get downloaded less than once per day.


When I search the help system, I never get any response

I would download the demo of TinkerTool System and run the “Repair Help Viewer” routine.

http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerToolSys4.html

Menu ▹ User – then the Repair panel – then Repair “Help Viewer”

See the online documentation:

http://www.bresink.com/osx/300644207/Docs-en/pgs/0220-User.html

Search for the literal text:

Repair “Help Viewer”

-ccs


All Siri Shortcuts result in "Sorry, there was a problem with the app."

I have read that there is a known bug in the Shortcuts app relating to that and it is solved in version 2.1.1

You country try restart your phone and/or rentinstalling the shortcuts app. Bear in mind all your current shortcuts will be lost.

Alternatively you can wait till Apple pushes a fix out for it.


One of the simplest methods of preventing the use of Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on a drive is to create a Fusion Container on the drive and install macOS into this container. Normal, a Fusion Container is composed of a partition on a SSD and another partition on a HDD. Here, I intend for the Fusion Container to have both partitions on a single drive.
The Boot Camp Assistant requires very specific partitioning arrangements to exist before allowing Windows to be installed. The configuration I propose would not meet the requirements. Also, a user would not be able to change the partitioning from macOS to meets the requirements.


I think the real solution is to create a non-admin account which can be accessed via ssh (presumably the account you want to use via physical access will have sudo privileges). The ssh account should not really have anything or be able to do anything other than let a user log in. You can then sufrom that user to the actual account you want to use, which will give you an additional layer of security and better logging regarding who is accessing the system (or trying to)


Can I use an iPhone with no service for iOS development?

You should be able to use an iPhone with no service for development purposes.

There seemed to be a problem with this in the past due to the activation screen showing up, but there was a workaround even back then. I don't think Apple wants to force you into a $70 contract just for development purposes. One of the workarounds mentioned was to develop on an iPod Touch (if you don't need GPS functionality), but the others specifically mention how to bypass the activation screen on an iPhone.


We have a general question on the site asking for similar details:

Where can I get highly technical documentation of Macintosh hardware?

If you need better information than what is available for free on the internet, you can pay for access to Apple's internal Global Service Exchange web site that has extraordinarily detailed information on the entire line of Apple products.


Is reassigning or disabling short-key possible?

Yes you can.

Open System Preferences, Keyboard. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab at the top. In the left pane, select Application Shortcuts. In the right pane, select Finder.app. Click the + at the bottom of this pane. For Menu Title, type the exact wording / spelling of the menu item in question: in this case Hide Finder. For Keyboard Shortcut, pick another keystroke combination to hide the finder (I use function key F1). Voila. Now go to Finder and look at the Finder menu; beside Hide Finder should be F1 (or whatever you chose).


CPU throttled to 0.8GHz due to "GPU LIMIT PROCHOT"

I'm posting this three years late, but I still wanted to offer my experience, perhaps to people still scratching their heads because of this issue.

What I've experienced is not entirely identical to the OP's case, namely the machine of concern is a MacBook instead of an iMac. However, the symptoms were highly similar: the system was not under much load, sensors read normal temperatures, yet the CPU throttles down to 0.8 GHz, slowing everything to a crawl. Resetting SMC and NVRAM does nothing, hardware test reveals nothing. I searched all over the internet for possible reasons but I wasn't able solve the problem.

The solution, at least for my case, was ridiculously simple. One day I decided to pop the back cover of my MacBook Pro open, and after a solid round of dust cleaning, the issue magically disappeared. So perhaps, try doing a routine cleaning, it might help. I'm not guaranteeing anything, but I do hope this might save a small portion of people some time.


Can I Upgrade My Mid 2009 15 Inch Macbook Pro past it's maximum memory limit to 16gb?

According EveryMac.com no Macbook Pro models build before 2010 had an actual maximum RAM of 16 GB. If your Macbook Pro is a 2009 year model, then your maximum actual RAM should be 8 GB.


MacBook Pro locked with Find My Mac and won't let me boot

Boot into internet recovery. Hold down option + command + R at the chime.

Use Disk Utility to repair the volume and then reboot your machine normally. You should be able to unlock it now.


Over what protocol am I currently connected to a given server?

Basically, on Mac OS X Leopard and higher, any connection discovered in the sidebar that connects via SMB will have the beige CRT with the Windows BSOD.

Any AFP connection will appear differently.


Menu bar missing on second screen after El Capitan update 10.11.5

You only get a menu bar on anything other than your primary monitor if you have
System Prefs > Mission Control > Displays have separate Spaces checked.

It's not a setting to idly switch on & off if you have a very specific setup because it can seriously mess up your workflow... I did it once before to test a feature for SE, took me days to get my 12 spaces back together :(


iPhone 4 regularly using its 3G connection too much

I find that an Edge connection is much NOISIER in terms of what electronics pick up than 3g is. BTW, a low or intermittently low signal condition is liable to eat battery. When the phone tries to regain signal, it steps the antenna up to higher power. If it's doing that over and over, it can be costly to battery levels.


Use ntfs-3g:

Install Homebrew
Install fuxe4x and ntfs-3g

brew install fuse4x && brew install ntfs-3g

Replace (with backup) the mount_ntfs:

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig
sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs

Get info on fuxe4x-kext

brew info fuse4x-kext

You should be given two lines based on your version that you need to run. Run these lines in Terminal.
Eject and remount the disk.


Dual boot macOS Catalina 10.15 beta and macOS Mojave 10.14

Your existing installation won't be blindly updated. The macOS 10.15 Catalina beta installer will launch as soon as it is downloaded.

You can create a bootable USB installer by plugging in a USB flash drive and running the following in Terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ 10.15\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/DRIVE

where DRIVE in the name of your external USB drive

You can choose to install macOS Catalina on an external drive, if you don't wish to interfere with your current installation.


AppleScript: Wait for Safari page to fully load

1. AppleScript source property

You could try using Safari's source property, which is "" until the HTML code gets loaded into it (which can only be done once the page is loaded).  Note, however, that this doesn't necessarily imply that the page has been rendered:

tell application "Safari"
     .
     .
    repeat while document 1's source = ""
        delay 0.5
    end repeat
     .
     .
end tell

The source property is reset to "" even between page loads/reloads.

2. Reload button UI element

If you want to know that a page is loaded and rendered on screen, then a reliable method is to determine whether the button in the URL bar is a "reload" button (page loaded and rendered), or a "cancel" button (page still loading/rendering):

tell application "System Events" to repeat until exists (buttons of ¬
    UI elements of groups of toolbar 1 of window 1 of ¬
    process "Safari" whose name = "Reload this page")

    delay 0.5
end repeat

3. JavaScript readyState property

If you have Allow JavaScript from Apple Events ticked in the Develop menu, then you can access the readyState property of the document:

tell application "Safari"
     .
     .
    tell document 1 to repeat
        do JavaScript "document.readyState"
        if the result = "complete" then exit repeat
        delay 0.5
    end repeat
     .
     .
end tell

The document.readyState JavaScript property returns one of five values:

uninitialized: Has not started loading yet
loading: Is loading
loaded: Has been loaded
interactive: Has loaded enough and the user can interact with it
complete: Fully loaded


Password incorrect and Internet Recovery Mode -3001f Error

Resolved!

Managed to boot into single user mode and edit the password through the command line (both brilliant and a terrifying security issue).


I would not recommend using any other model or spec with your macbook, you could try ebay, but for service parts that you can trust you could also buy from www.welovemacs.com, who I can recommend.

Hope this is helpful.


Simply press and hold the image thumbnail and tap "Save".

A copy will be saved to your camera roll.


What was the name of the typeface used on the Mac OS 9/OS X Cheeta/Jaguar packaging?

The font being used is Apple Garamond. This was used by Apple as one of its corporate fonts since the Mac was first launched in 1984 up until the early 2000s.

For more information on this and other typefaces used by Apple, refer to Typography of Apple Inc.


Need Reminder Application to notify every X minutes during the day

Take a look at Due. It has a Mac version as well, and I've not seen a more powerful timer app.


Can I add 100 Phone Numbers to a Single Contact?

As far as I am aware there is no reference to wildcard characters in vcard.

If Mac OS or iOS supported such feature it would not be supported by other devices.

But you can add the 100 phone numbers by hand. I would recommend exporting the contact as a vcd file then add all the numbers by hand. Copy paste will be faster than writing them one by one in the Contacts app:

TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601301
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601302
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601303
...
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601399

And import it back.


iTunes: making it remember the last song and position

You can use the Relaunch application: before close iTunes take a snapshot from iTunes with Relaunch and next time, load this snapshot (or set it to auto-load).

Relaunch saves you time by taking Snapshots of which applications you are using, and starts them back up for you. Think of it as a launcher on steroids that lets you switch between work contexts with one click.

You can take a snapshot before restarting your system, and after that double-click on the snapshot you created. Then it restores all your files and applications you had open.


I would suggest the following:

1) backup your data - but you already did that didn't you..

2) Wipe and partition the drive from scratch and install macOS and windows from the start

Hopefully you will have a clean fresh install for both.


Any chance to survive after "Apple Developer Program membership will be terminated" message?

Only Apple can answer your queries.

  Is there still a chance for canceling the termination of my membership? How long does it usually take to terminate a membership?

There's no documented rules for this, and it's totally upto the concerned team(s) at Apple to take calls. As far as one can understand, it is taken up on a case by case basis.

To get answers to any of your queries, it's best to contact Apple Developer Support:

Support - Apple Developer
Worldwide Telephone Support - Apple Developer


There are apps which let you manage the contacts (on device, icloud, etc) directly on the phone.  I've used the one linked below to do just that.  (Create a contact, and remember to copy it to the other side).  In the Contacts app, contacts which are in both the device (which is synced to the non-icloud computer) and icloud are shown as "unified info" when the data matches up, and at the bottom of the contact is a link to both cards.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-merge-duplicate-contacts/id519076307?mt=8


NAT port forwarding from host to client in VMWare Fusion 5?

Okay, I found out where it's located - /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf

So, open it up (VMWare shouldn't be running while you do this):

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf

Go down in the file, there should be a section like:

[incomingtcp]

# Use these with care - anyone can enter into your VM through these...
# The format and example are as follows:
#<external port number> = <VM's IP address>:<VM's port number>
#35 = 172.16.126.128:22

Uncomment that last line, and edit as appropriate.

Couple of notes:

These instructions are for TCP port forwarding, there's a corresponding [incomingudp] section for UDP
If for some reason this section doesn't already exist, just add it


Where is the system wide PATH shell variable set in OS X?

On a shell level, the PATH variable is set in /etc/profile by calling /usr/libexec/path_helper. To add your own paths, you can add files with a path in it to /etc/paths.d/:

pse@Fourecks:~$ ll /etc/paths.d
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13 Jul 22 07:02 50-X11
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  12 Aug 13 14:12 TeX
pse@Fourecks:~$ cat /etc/paths.d/TeX
/Library/TeX/texbin

That's the safer way than editing /etc/profile, /etc/paths or any other system-provided file which may get overwritten with the next OSX upgrade.


Does my sound card support hardware volume control?

The system_profiler data type corresponding to audio device information is SPAudioDataType, so you can run:

system_profiler SPAudioDataType

But this won't yield much information about hardware volume control capability of your sound card.

A better way of checking for more specific hardware information is to use ioreg command. In order to check whether your sound card supports hardware volume control run the following and then check whether your sound card appears in the results:

ioreg -trc IOAudioLevelControl

My Cambridge Audio USB DAC that doesn't have support hardware volume control does not appear on this list, while my other DACs and sound cards do appear on it.

If you are using an external USB device, you can also run the following to make sure your device is recognized as an audio device:

ioreg -trc AppleUSBAudioEngine

If your device supports hardware volume control, you will see one or more IOAudioLevelControl entries under your audio device's entry.

But apart from all the command line mumbo jumbo you can as well check the OSX's volume control when using your sound card to see if it is disabled!


You can directly access the sync settings by opening Finder, then selecting the mobile device.

Additionally, the Books sync page is in iTunes/Music under sync settings.


How to create a keyboard shortcut for Preview `Move To…`

If you don't apply it to "Preview" but to "All Applications" in "System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts" any unused shortcut will work:

and the resulting Preview menu:


Paparazzi isn't a good app. I used it and it didn't work or was very slow to load.

I use a lot Layers Shot and W3Capture, they save the multiple pages or sites and also capture ones whole pages. Layers save as PDF, PNG, TIFF or PSD file. W3Capture, as PDF (separated pages) and PNG (one whole page). I also used a lot Web Slices (free), a sites sncreenshot app.

Go to the Mac App Store, search the apps and follow the apps:
(I can't pots more than two hyperlinks)
1) Layers Shot
2) Web Slices

Out of Mac App Store, W3Capture's link: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/wcapture/

More apps that I didn't test yet:
Lightshot Screenshot (it's in Mac App Store and it is free)

I hope this answer help you. Good luck with these apps!


My USB Devices seemingly disconnect at random intervals

Are there any USB hubs connected or the devices connected directly to the mac?  If there is a hub, consider disconnecting it and seeing if it helps.  If not, does the problem go away if you remove one of the devices? I have seen some weird issues with a device intermittently shorting out.


Is it possible to code a “reply” to Facebook Messages in Notification Centre in Maverick OS X?

No. As of 10.9.1, Apple has not added the ability to do so, and unfortunately, you're going to need to wait on Apple to do this natively.

I can, however, suggest an app that you can try. It's called Chat Heads and it works really well. It's available in the Mac App Store for free.

Here's the link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/chat-heads/id670724330?mt=12


Application to record each individual action in contact list

Bento from Filemaker is an easy-to-use database application that leverages and integrates with Core Data—the storage bins for Address Book and Calendar. You could roll your own solution or use/modify an existing Personal Journal template.


What sort of styling is gone wrong when converting to PDF? And which version of iWork and Mac are you running atm?

From experience (under 10.6) I can only say never to have had problems with converting to PDF or printing as PDF. If your iWork is messed up, you may want to consider reinstalling. (Use CleanApp for that) or install a newer version (do you have iWork '09? have you fully updated it?).


Boot MacBook Pro into non OS X operating system from external harddisk

The problem is that “other machines” (namely PC computers) use BIOS and Macintosh computers use EFI. Rather than boring you with the details, let’s just say that in order for your “EFI” to find your Ubuntu partition, you have to perform some magic.

The instructions for doing that are everywhere, (for example: here). I believe that you need to install rEFIt in order to have an “EFI” compatible bootloader.

TL;DR version: A Mac won’t boot directly into another operating system’s boot (GRUB/LILO/WINLOADER/ETC), you need an “EFI” compatible loader (enter rEFIt).

I hope this points you into the right direction.


iPhone & iPad almost instantly forgetting networks

There are issues with iOS6 and some Netgear products.

This is taken from http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21865 which is directly linked to the products page on the Netgear site.

  There have been widespread reports of wireless connection and speed
  problems with devices using Apple's newly-released iOS 6 connecting to
  NETGEAR products. The problems that you are experiencing may be due to
  a recent upgrade of the Apple iOS 6.  While the nature and extent of
  the iOS 6 and Wi-Fi connectivity issues are unknown, NETGEAR will do
  our best to continue to monitor the updates from Apple and continue to
  work with our customers to ensure that we can help provide support and
  work-arounds (when possible) to get your devices connect properly.

There are several other pages and forums linked from there, I don't have enough time (or a way to test) which of these actually fixes the issue.

If you find one of these resolves your problem, please post the solution back here for others.


Can I browse the Safari history of my Ipad on my mac?

No, this is currently not possible. Your browsing history is not shared over iCloud and can't be viewed on your Mac.


How to tell whether a purchase used an iTunes gift card or my credit card?

If you have a credit card assigned to your account as well as a gift card, purchases will use the gift card first as a rule. Only when the gift card is consumed or can not cover the entire cost of the purchase will money be deducted from your credit card.


How can I specify a smaller block size for a Ramdisk?

Executive summary: I don't believe this is possible, at least not for volumes formatted as HFS+.

My current understanding is that HFS+ chooses its file system block size (separate from the physical device block size) according to a fixed default allocation block size that cannot be manually overruled.

Discussions in other forums spanning from 2002 to 2011 ( CompGroups, MacRumors among others) suggest using newfs_hfs(8), which has a -b <blocksize> option, to manually set the block size when creating a new file system.

I tried using newfs_hfs  on various kinds of partitions, on both .dmg diskimages and on physical SATA hard drives (through SATA<->USB interface) and with various file systems (HFS+, FAT16, FAT32.)  When I ran newfs_hfs with different -b sizes (512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192,) indeed it reported success in creating the filesystems with the specified block sizes. I could mount & read/write these volumes normally.

But when I examine the test volumes with diskutil info <diskname> (where <diskname> is disk1, disk4, or whatever your disk is), I always see:

Total Size:               104.9 MB (104857600 Bytes) (exactly 204800 512-Byte-Blocks)
Volume Free Space:        102.4 MB (102385664 Bytes) (exactly 199972 512-Byte-Blocks)
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

Noting that the end of the newfs_hfs(8) man page includes this tidbit:

HISTORY
The newfs_hfs command appeared in Mac OS X Server 1.0 .  As of Mac OS X
10.6, this utility no longer generates HFS standard file systems.

It would appear that OS X 10.8 (and probably 10.7, and perhaps earlier versions) overrides whatever block size newfs_hfs claims to create, in favor of default sizes imposed by a higher authority. (??)

One article I came across suggested using OS X's software-RAID utility to create a RAID mirror. Software RAID allows one to specify a RAID stripe size, but as this is generally geared towards improving throughput for large files rather than tiny ones, I believe the minimum RAID stripe size is 4KB - not useful for your purposes.


Can I increase the resolution of a 13-inch MacBook Pro?

Sorry, no. The resolution of the display panel itself is only 1280x800, so there is no way to display more without physically replacing the panel.


What is this card and what's its purpose?

Got it!
It's a Photoshop accelerator card.
Google books came up with this announcement from Computerworld magazine.
Screenshot from there -


How do I configure a global hotkey for iTerm 2?

You're in the wrong preferences. That's the Appearance settings, available with ⌘I or the Appearance tab in the app Preferences (⌘,). You should be in iTerm → Preferences (⌘,) to access the app preferences, then select Keys in the toolbar at the top.

Specifically:


Why does the system always show 200 MB occupied by Photo, but my iPhone has zero photos?

Try this.
1. Go to Settings > General > Date & Time

Untoggle "Set Automatically"
Manually set the date a year or two in the past
Open "Photos"
Select "Albums"
If, like me, you had already cleared out everything from the Camera Roll and "Recently Deleted" folder, you'll smile to see that your "Recently Deleted" folder now has thousands of images back. Those are your phantom photos
Open it, "Select" and start deleting
Return to "Date & Time" and fix your clock
Now, go back into Settings > General > Usage > Storage > Manage Storage. You'll notice your Photo & Camera is empty if you deleted everything


How to remove chrome app icons from launchpad?

Open Finder, select Go/Go to Folder... (⇧⌘G), paste in:

~/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized

Delete the apps from there.

(Note that ~ means your user folder, not the regular Applications folder which is at /Applications without ~.)

Finally, empty the trash to remove from launchpad.

If you use Chrome Canary: it will have its own additional folder in ~/Applications.


Run backup script at any time every weekend (using launchd?)

Set your computer to power on or wake from sleep on a specific day and time (Energy Saver preferences), then run your script though launchd or cron within that time frame.


Mavericks to include better window management solution?

Using Mavericks Mac OS X 10.9.1 here with 2 external monitors and the laptop display on a MBP late 2011. One is connected via the thunderbolt port and the 2nd one via a USB external adapter/card. Mavericks does not remember window position and sizing after unplugging my MBP from the two monitors and re-plugging it. Still have to use Stay.


Why does the pitch of my MacBook Pro changes when i plug something off the headphone jack?

Try opening the Audio MIDI Setup app

and adjusting the Format of the External Headphones or the MacBook Pro Speakers so they're the same sample rate (48,000 Hz in this screenshot).

Mine were not the same.


Macbook Pro hangs when booting into Boot Camp Windows 7

If you get a copy of Paragon NTFS for Mac you can do a disk repair for NTFS volumes. The software has a 10 day trial and a license is about $20. NTFS for Mac also serves as a driver for full access to NTFS volumes which is superior to the limited Read only access of NTFS volumes built into Macs. If you are a regular user of both Mac and Windows its worth the investment.

Once installed the program is accessible from System Preferences. For the problem described above you need to first unmount the volumes "System Reserve" and "BootCamp". Then remount the volumes and run verify on each volume.


What is the maximum number of spaces on Sierra?

Officially, 16 is the limit. A workaround to create more (which may be fixed later) is to enable ‘Displays have separate Spaces’ in Mission Control preference pane, then create spaces on an external display and disconnect the display, which moves the Spaces to the primary display.


Only the iPhone 5C has any theme support, in that they contain custom wallpaper to match the colour of the device which is selected as a default when first using the device.  This themeing does not extend into apps, and is simply a pre-chosen wallpaper.  It has no relevance for any other phone model, or iPad.


Rsync 3.1.2 and High Sierra sparse bundle problem

Driving today, I realized I had not reset the ACL for that folder; part of my upgrade maintenance ended up involving some group assignment repairs, and I had not changed that group, nor promulgated the new group, so an unassigned unique identifier was listed as the ACL. Rsync does not like this.

Once I assigned workgroup back to this folder, and promulgated the ACL, rsync 3.1.2 handled the job correctly.


Delete the entire passcode policy:

    <dict>
        <key>PayloadDescription</key>
        <string>Configures security-related items.</string>
        <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
        <string>Passcode Policy</string>
        <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
        <string>uk.ac.cardiff.insrv.eduroam.iphone3.7.passcodepolicy</string>
        <key>PayloadOrganization</key>
        <string>Cardiff University</string>
        <key>PayloadType</key>
        <string>com.apple.mobiledevice.passwordpolicy</string>
        <key>PayloadUUID</key>
        <string>215E70FE-858E-48A8-9F34-7BD7BEE495C4</string>
        <key>PayloadVersion</key>
        <integer>1</integer>
        <key>allowSimple</key>
        <true/>
        <key>forcePIN</key>
        <true/>
        <key>maxGracePeriod</key>
        <integer>5</integer>
        <key>maxInactivity</key>
        <integer>5</integer>
        <key>minLength</key>
        <integer>4</integer>
        <key>pinHistory</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>


Why isn't Alt-Tab working for switching windows of the same app?

Try Command + ` (backtick). That is the default.


Export photos with timestamp in filename

Whilst this isn't the solution you were asking for, an equivalent outcome could be achieved if you were willing to employ a bit of AppleScript.  AppleScript could be used to automate the exporting process from Photos and then rename the files that are created in Finder.  But, honestly, I would suggest the exporting be done just as you're doing it now—from within the application—and then use AppleScript to collectively rename/move them afterwards.

    tell application "System Events"
        set ExportPath to POSIX file "/path/to/exported/photos" as alias
        set ExportedPhotos to every file in ExportPath
    end tell

    repeat with PhotoFile in ExportedPhotos
        tell application "System Events" to set Filename to name of PhotoFile
            --> e.g. "Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria, October 19, 2017.jpg"

        set [file_extension, theYear, theDay, theMonth] to reverse of words of Filename
            --> {"jpg", "2017", "19", "October", "Bavaria", "Munich", "Nymphenburg", "Schloßpark"}

        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
        set PhotoDate to date ({theDay, theMonth, theYear, "12:00:00 AM"} as text)
            --> date "Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 12:00:00"

        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
        set {theYear, theMonth, theDay} to {year of PhotoDate as text, ¬
            text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (month of PhotoDate) * 1), ¬
            text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & day of PhotoDate)}
            --> {"2017", "10", "19"}

        set isoDate to result as text
            --> "2017-10-19"

        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", " & month of PhotoDate
        first text item of Filename
            --> "Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria"

        set Filename to [isoDate, " - ", result, ".", file_extension] as text
            --> "2017-10-19 - Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria.jpg"

        tell application "System Events" to set the name of PhotoFile to Filename
    end repeat

You could also choose to format the date portion of the filename using the bash function date called from AppleScript with a do shell script command, which does reduce the number of lines of code overall.

    do shell script "date -j -f '%B %d, %Y' 'October 19, 2017' '+%F'"
        --> "2017-10-19"

I've pasted this shorter version of the script below for completeness.

It's worth saying that this code only works if the exported filenames are of a consistent pattern in line with the example you provided.  Specifically, the exported filename needs to end in a date that occupies the last three words of the filename; and any text before it needs to have a comma and a space separating it from the date portion.  Of course, the code can be adjusted accordingly if a different naming pattern is chosen, but it's best to choose one and stick with it.

If you need to create a directory hierarchy based on dates, this extra portion of script will create nested folders %Year/%Month/%Day/ and move the photo into the appropriate directory:

    -- Continuing the script above from the following line
    -- (the "[to]" is now omitted to create a "tell" block)
    tell application "System Events" [to]
        set the name of PhotoFile to Filename

        set NestedFolders to [ExportPath, theYear, theMonth, theDay]

        repeat until number of NestedFolders is 1
            set [This, NestedFolders] to [item 1, rest] of NestedFolders
            set Child to first item of NestedFolders

            if not (exists folder Child of This) then
                set first item of NestedFolders to ¬
                    (make new folder at folder (POSIX path of This) with properties {name:Child})
            else
                set first item of NestedFolders to folder Child of This
            end if
        end repeat

        move (alias Filename in ExportPath) to POSIX path of (first item of NestedFolders)
    end tell

Now all of your exported photos will be renamed as per your guideline above, and organised in date-based directory hierarchies.  Again, this extra portion of code could have been achieved using some do shell script commands (bash actually has a ready-made function for creating nested folders easily).

As a final thought, if you wanted to automate the whole process, you could adapt this script to a folder action, and attach it to the folder into which your photos are exported.  This means that, whenever Finder detects new photos added to the folder, it will automatically run the folder action script for you.  Therefore, as soon as the photos are exported, they will immediately get renamed and moved accordingly.

Here's the first part of the script again, this time using a shell command to reformat the date portion of the filename:

    tell application "Finder"
        set PhotoFile to file "Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria, October 19, 2017.png" in desktop as alias
        set Filename to name of PhotoFile
            --> e.g. "Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria, October 19, 2017.jpg"
        set Extension to name extension of PhotoFile
    end tell

    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {", ", "." & Extension}
    text items -3 thru -2 of Filename as text
        --> "October 19, 2017"

    do shell script "date -j -f '%B %d, %Y' " & quoted form of result & " '+%F'"
    set isoDate to result
        --> "2017-10-19"

    text items 1 thru -4 of Filename as text
        --> "Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria"

    set Filename to [isoDate, " - ", result, ".", Extension] as text
        --> "2017-10-19 - Schloßpark Nymphenburg - Munich, Bavaria.jpg"

    tell application "Finder" to set the name of PhotoFile to Filename

As you can see, it's quite a bit shorter in terms of the number of lines of code, though I couldn't honestly tell you which will be faster or more robust.


How to get rid of my spamming notification?

Removing DivX and DivXUpdate

If you'd like to remove the DivX app along with its DivXUpdate, you need to uninstall the software.

Uninstaller

Uninstaller you can find in /Applications/DivX folder and run Uninstall DivX for Mac.app.

Manual Removal

If above folder and uninstaller doesn't exist, just remove:

/Library/Application Support/DivX/DivXUpdate.app

To remove the associated launchd services, check first which one are registered by this Terminal command:

launchctl list | grep divx

Then disable or remove them. The following two commands will remove the jobs:

launchctl remove com.divx.update.agent
launchctl remove com.divx.dms.agent

After you may consider removing these service files from /Library/LaunchAgents (called divx).

sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.update.agent.plist # For Update
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.dms.agent.plist # For DivXMediaServer

Killing notification popup

Then kill the annoying update app, type this command in Terminal:

killall DivXUpdate


Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable?

Dropbox
Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed Dropbox on.


RAW images taken in iOS 13 not visible in Image Capture or Lightroom on macOS?

Looks like this was a bug that's since been resolved between either the macOS and/or iOS updates in recent months, I just checked now and can't replicate this behaviour anymore.


How to sort rows in Numbers without affecting the formula?

I think there is no easy solution to this within Numbers. You should either copy your table to another sheet as values (formula results) whenever you need to sort it or recreate your formulas using, for example, the vlookup() function (also check the hlookup() and other reference functions in Numbers in case necessary) if you need to sort in-place. In the 2nd solution, instead of getting 1133,34 by a direct reference to its cell, you would get it (and any other numbers not at the same row in the formula yielding 1038,94) through a separate "vlookup" each. In addition, all "vlookup"s should be created sort-proof specifically against column-based sorts.

By column-based sort-proofing, I mean the cell references within "vlookup"s should directly refer only to the cells in the same row or the whole table. Then, assuming the formulas in the column where 1133,34 is calculated are parallel, you can use the same formula for all the cells in the same column by copy & pasting it.

Below is an example formula if you wish to take the 2nd option. It simply adds two values from the "some variable" column. The first value is from the current row and the second from two days earlier. Pls note the exact use of absolute cell references in the formula (the $ signs, necessary so that the same formula can be used in other cells in the same column by copy & paste) and how the date for two days earlier is referenced to in the vlookup in the formula.

Here is a copy of the same formula in text in case you have trouble recreating it and wish to copy & paste from here:

= B5+VLOOKUP($A5−2,$A$2:$C$5,2,0)

And here is how the table and the same formula looks like when the table is sorted based on the date:


google chrome get's a "Do you really want to start" prompt, but it's installed

Try executing from the Terminal the following command:

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/

(it might ask you for your password, that's ok)

This basically clears the quarantine flag in the metadata for the file (this is not a flag in the file itself so it doesn't get carried away when you move or copy the file to another machine)


How to migrate WhatsApp messages data from Android to iPhone?

From WhatsApp's FAQ, please note the emphasized note in the middle:

Changing your phone
Different types of phone
If you're moving from one type of phone to another, such as from an iPhone to an Android, and preserving your number, you'll keep your account info. This information is tied to the phone number. Simply download WhatsApp on the new phone and verify your number.
Note: You can't migrate your messages across different types of phone.
If you're moving from one type of phone to another and not preserving your number, simply download WhatsApp on the new phone and verify the new phone number.
Important: Remember to delete your old account. However, if you didn't delete your account and no longer have access to your old phone, don't worry. If the new owner of your old number activates WhatsApp on a new phone after 45 days, all of your account information tied to that phone number will be completely deleted.


AppleScript updating photo dates, with off-by-one hour bug

It seems that the problem is that Photos doesn't edit all EXIF date tags when the script above runs, and Google Photos looks at tags that Photos doesn't change. Photos doesn't seem to have any other options for editing dates so I had to dig deeper. As @CJK described in comments, EXIF dates are a bit of a mess so it's necessary to edit the EXIF directly.

I ended up exporting the album from Photos and writing a custom shell script to change the dates. I used @CJK's suggestion of exiftool. The script follows. If you don't understand it, don't use it, because it has no error checking.

#!/bin/bash

# First export photos from Photos.app to a directory.
# - Export as "sequential". Use a prefix with no spaces.
# - Filenames should look like "Photo - 13.jpg"

TARGET_DIR="Your directory here"
# Count files. The sed on the end is because wc has pesky whitespace that causes trouble setting TIMESTAMP.
PHOTO_COUNT=`ls "$TARGET_DIR" | wc -l | sed 's/ //g'`

# Starting timestamp is slightly in the past, based on the number of photos.
let TIMESTAMP=`date +"%s"`-$PHOTO_COUNT

# Set IFS so that the loop will work properly with filenames that contain spaces.
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

# Sort files numerically by the number in the filename
for FILE in `ls "$TARGET_DIR" | sort -n -k 3`
do
    # Move the timestamp by one second for every photo
    let TIMESTAMP=$TIMESTAMP+1
    # Get various date and time strings for EXIF.
    DATE_TIME_STRING=`date -r $TIMESTAMP +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
    DATE_STRING=`date -r $TIMESTAMP +"%Y-%m-%d"`
    TIME_STRING=`date -r $TIMESTAMP +"%H:%M:%S"`

    # Set a bunch of date and time values in the photo's EXIF. It might be necessary to add more depending on the photos but these do the job for now.
    EXIFTOOL_CMD="/usr/local/bin/exiftool -overwrite_original -DateCreated=\"$DATE_STRING\" -FileCreateDate=\"$DATE_TIME_STRING\" -TimeCreated=\"$TIME_STRING\" -DateTimeOriginal=\"$DATE_TIME_STRING\" -CreateDate=\"$DATE_TIME_STRING\" -ModifyDate=\"$DATE_TIME_STRING\" -DigitalCreationDate=\"$DATE_STRING\" -DigitalCreationTime=\"$TIME_STRING\" \"$TARGET_DIR/$FILE\""
    eval $EXIFTOOL_CMD
done

A few notes:

exiftool has an AllDates option, but changing it doesn't actually change all dates.
I'm setting dates and times for numerous date/time related tags, but I found those by trial and error. They work for the photos I'm working with but may not be complete.

I tried using Image Events with AppleScript but it would only read the dates, not change them. Or so it seemed-- if someone knows different then I'd love to see a script that worked.


MacBook Pro fans are loud after partitioning disk for Boot Camp use

Is it safe? Yes.

The 2017 MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2 x Thunderbolt 3 ports) is more than capable of running the latest 64-bit versions of Windows 10 installed with Boot Camp.

Unfortunately it's difficult for anyone here to speculate on what the Engineer meant, except to say that it seems something has been lost in how they've explained it to you.

However, since Boot Camp is provided by Apple and Boot Camp Assistant software is included with macOS, you know it's safe to use.

As for your description of the loud sound the fans are making, it's not clear from your question whether your fans are always loud or only when you're trying to do certain things. However, the first thing I'd try is resetting the System Management Controller (SMC).

How to reset the SMC on your particular MacBook Pro

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

After your MBP reboots, test to see if the fans are still making the same sound.


How to sync Home Videos on TV app from macOS Catalina 10.15 to iPhone?

In the absence of iTunes app in macOS Catalina, you can sync content to your iPhone using the Finder app.

The iOS device sync and backup functionality that used to be available within iTunes app in earlier versions of macOS are now available via Finder app.

For instructions, refer to this Apple support document:

Use the Finder to sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with your computer


Audio out of sync after exporting from iMovie

I think I have a solution to your problem. I too was seeing this in iMovie and it turns out that if your audio track was sampled at 44.1 KHz, the export will likely mess up the audio sync. Fixing is quick and easy. Just take your audio track and resample it at 48 KHz. You can do this in a free tool like VLC. Then, bring in the new audio file, export your iMovie and it will work correctly.


How do I report fraud or App Store rule violations outside of a refund context?

Fraud should be easy - engage a lawyer and/or your local small claims court. If the fraud is contract based, monetary remedy Is likely from small claims court in your jurisdiction at little expense to you in time or legal fees.

For wanting to police Apple and/or developers on what you find to be in violation of Apple policies but not actual laws, I stand by my answer to the question you linked.

Unless you have a developer relation and another developer is infringing on your work, you (the consumer) can only really ask Apple for a refund or just delete the app and send them general feedback when the report site has an explicit 90 time limit documented.

If you feel you have an exceptionally serious issue, why not engage store support chat to validate how Apple would want to hear about the specifics?

https://support.apple.com/contact


I have created an album from iCloud now I want to download it onto a memory stick, how?

You can do this a few ways.

You can select all the pictures in the album and go to File > Export and export the individual pictures with the options it offers you.

You can select the Album and go to File > Create > Slideshow. Select the options you want then click Export at the top right.

If you want a duplicate of what is displayed in the web page, Adobe Acrobat can create a PDF of that web page. But it requires the paid version. There are likely other programs that can do the same.

Once these files have been created it is simple to then copy them to external media.


How to specify DNS server with USB hotspot?

The answer seems to be

sudo networksetup -setdnsservers "iPhone USB"  address  address  …

For more details, see How can I quickly change DNS server


Mac stuck in restart cycle after failed macOS Catalina update

I was facing the same issue and was on the verge of reformatting my macbook.

Here's what fixed the issue for me. I'm not sure if step one was necessary, but since I did this en route to fixing the loop of death, I'll list it here for you to consider.

Try to reinstall Mojave (this won't wipe your disk) - I wanted to return my macbook to as original a condition as possible, and I figured attempting to install Mojave was the best way to do it. Since I couldn't boot from "Macintosh HD" anymore (I was just getting a white circle with a bar across it), I rebooted my macbook and pressed Cmd + r. This helped me boot into recovery mode. Once there, I clicked on "Reinstall macOS". Don't worry, you won't lose your data doing this as it merely overwrites the OS, it doesn't overwrite your files. Once you do so, and assuming you're connected to Wifi, your macbook will start downloading Mojave and eventually attempt to install it. After an agonizing 30-40 minutes, it'll give you the same error - "not enough free space to install the OS".
Try restoring from Time Machine Backups (you might actually have one) - I cannot emphasize how strongly I believed I didn't have one of these backups, but unbeknownst to me, it did exist on my drive. Even if you're convinced you don't have one, it doesn't hurt to give this a shot. Reboot and go into recovery mode again (press cmd + r during reboot). This time when the options pull up, choose "Restore from Time Machine Backup". Now, as I mentioned before, I thought I hadn't got this turned on, but I guess it was turned on by default by the OS. Your macbook will prompt you to pick a disk where the time machines are stored, and I picked "Macintosh HD". When I clicked this option, I saw about 5 backups populate from today itself. I picked one of them that felt fairly far away from the moment I had began installing this OS. For example, if I started my installation at 4pm, I decided to pick up the recovery from 2pm (even though there was a backup available from 4 pm).

It took all of 5 minutes for the backup to be restored. And all my files were intact, even though I had explicitly moved out/deleted about 30G of files while trying to debug the installation issue.

Godspeed.


Podcast artwork shows in Apple Podcasts and iTunes but not on iPhone

One solution is to embed the artwork into each audio file. Command-line solutions include lame and ffmpeg, for example:
lame --ti /path/to/file.jpg audio.mp3
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -i cover.jpg -map_metadata 0 -map 0 -map 1 output.mp3

See more at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84915/add-album-art-cover-to-mp3-ogg-file-from-command-line-in-batch-mode
You can also download dedicated software for this purpose, though I did not try it.
Either way, if you handle the low-level of podcast distribution, remember to update the length attribute to reflect the now larger file, or else the duration may be computed from the file size and display the wrong number.


Apple Music splash screen won't go away!

This happens when the Music app cannot connect to the internet on its first startup.

Make sure the Music app can access the internet (connect to a WiFi or enable mobile data usage for the Music app in the settings). A button to skip the message will appear. Once you skip it the message won't appear a second time (at least not until you update again).


Finder doesn't have a cut  Cmd ⌘   X   behaviour for files, only for file names.

It uses Edit menu > Copy
or  Cmd ⌘   C

then Edit menu holding  Alt ⌥  > Move Item Here
or  Cmd ⌘   Alt ⌥   V  instead.

... or Drag holding  Cmd ⌘  between volumes


Is it okay to use non-OEM USB-C cable and/or adapter for Macbook Pro?

A USB-C cable is a USB-C cable.  There's nothing special about it with the exception of quality (which you already mentioned.)

As far as adapters go, there are "genuine" adapters which are actually OEM'ed by a 3rd party company with Apple's blessing and then there are the myriad of knock-offs you can find on Amazon and eBay.

If you are using the USB-C charger/port to charge your device, technically speaking, any cable/adapter will do.  That said, when you purchase said cable/adapter, look for quality products, not the cheapest you can find.

What to look for...

A USB-IF compliance. This means it was tested to meet a certain set of standards.
USB certified Charger Logo.  This means that the charger is USB-IF compliant.

Does this mean that the no-name or off-brand products are bad?  No.  It means that the manufacturer has taken the time and cost to certify their products to a certain level of quality and performance.  (IMO) Saving a few dollars on a cable/charger is simply not worth it when attaching it to a $1000+ Mac that I use for daily work.


Phones are only blocked on this level for two causes that I'm aware of:

The phone was stolen and the owner reported it stolen
The phone was subsidized, and the owner stopped paying for it

A stolen phone block will generally never be released, though it depends on the carrier. Some carriers may when presented with a police report or other similar paperwork indicating that the property was recovered, or a payment of the outstanding balance on the device.

There is no way to unblock it yourself. Blocking basically means that the cellphone network looks for the IMEI of your phone, and if it sees it, refuses to service it. Since IMEIs are generally burned into the phone at a very low level, they are usually not changeable.

I'd inquire with Vodafone and get more information as to why they blocked the device. If it's stolen, you want to get rid of it, preferably back to its original owner.

If its a billing issue, you may be able to pay the amount due to get service restored.


Open Settings and go to Store. From there, choose Sign Out if you're already signed in and then sign back in again. If you were not signed in, sign in now. Now check the App Store. If necessary, restart the device.


I have a 4 TB WD drive connected to my iMac running High Sierra (now Catalina) and it works fine. There is a 3rd party app named Mountain that will mount troublesome volumes (or it has for me). If you download from the developer site you get a free trial period. Should be worth a try.


MacBook 12'' 2017 cpu speed: 1.4 GHz but Intel says it's 1.3 GHz

The key phrase that you alluded to was

  "...shows the base frequency as 1.3GHz"

(emphasis mine).

From the Intel Ark spec sheet link you provided

  Processor Base Frequency

  Processor Base Frequency describes the rate at which the processor's
  transistors open and close. The processor base frequency is the
  operating point where TDP is defined. Frequency is measured in
  gigahertz (GHz), or billion cycles per second.

(TDP is Thermal Design Power - or the wattage it dissipates with all cores running at normal operating frequency - the "baseline" if you will)

A little bit further in the Specs you will find the following values:

Configurable TDP-up Frequency           1.60 GHz
Configurable TDP-up                     7W
Configurable TDP-down Frequency         600 MHz
Configurable TDP-down                   3.5 W

What this is telling us is that the CPU can be configured up or down by tweaking the speed and TDP values.  It can go up to 1.6 GHz (1.4GHz is within this limit) or down to 600 MHz.  More speed, more heat, more power consumption; less speed, less heat, less power consumption.  It's up to the integrator to decide what makes most sense for them.

Apple made the decision to tweak it to 1.4 GHz.


Can I Search The Passwords Stored in my Keychain?

In the absence of any better suggestions ;)...

Unlock Safari > Preferences > Passwords.
Then select all entries (select one first, to bring the right area into focus, then select all entries by pressing the cmd+A keyboard keys), which will make all passwords visible (usually displayed as dots.  Earlier versions of Safari need the "Show passwords for selected websites" box ticked).
Now click on the "Password" tab, to sort them alphabetically.  Look for your password.

As bonus, all sites with the same password will also be displayed underneath each other.


Full, encrypted, point-in-time Mac OS X (including data) backup and restore employing Drobo as backup-storage device?

I run OS X server and use Time Machine to store things in an encrypted manner. I use a Promise R2 box for the actual storage instead of Drobo, and have not needed to use the AppleCare that I pay so that I get three years of Apple engineering support in case Time Machine acts up for me.

It just hasn't been an issue across the handful of clients that I've set up with similar setups. I used to lose a few backups a year when we were backing up to Time Capsule - but since using OS X server.app to handle the Time Machine - things are much better in a reliability standpoint.

Hopefully someone will have a good answer for Drobo since you have had bad experiences with Time Machine, but I wanted to chime in with what has worked well for the last 3 years. Of the 50 machines backing up over Time Machine, we're not seeing problems with Apple's encrypted backup solution.


Attempted to install Catalina in Target Disk Mode.... bricked my mac?

What many people fail to take into account when they install a new version of macOS on a Mac, is that the process does not simply involve copying files to the Mac's internal hard drive, but also a firmware upgrade to make the firmware/EFI support booting from the new OS. This is why you get the message you get: if you boot a Mac in target mode and attempt to install a new version of macOS onto it, the Mac you install into would not boot (if you had managed), because it would never have had the firmware necessary to boot installed.

For instance, when installing High Sierra on a Mac, the firmware necessary for the boot loader to recognise and boot from an APFS volume and disk structure must be installed, since HS was the first version of macOS to be able to boot from an AFPS volume. Similarly, when installing Catalina, the firmware necessary for the boot loader to parse the new two-volume read-only / read-write setup must be installed on the Mac that will boot the installed OS

So in short, the only viable way to be able to install (some versions of) macOS on a Mac, is to actually boot that Mac one way or another and install the version of macOS from the it, from the Mac that will run what you install.

In your case, if the only problem is a broken display, a viable solution is to boot the Mac with an external keyboard, mouse and display plugged in, while connected to a power adapter, since that should put the Mac in clamshell mode and fully operational. If you have already wiped the internal disk, put the working Mac into target mode and boot the broken Mac from the OS installed on the working Mac, plugged in via thunderbolt or Firwire (depending on connectivity options).


Time Machine and Volume backup issue after Sierra update

The solution for my problem was simply waiting for some hours in order to obtain the backup.

To repair my usb drive I ran fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disks2.


Will FaceTime perform better with IPv6 enabled?

It could be a case of the two parts of the conversation not being able to make a direct connection to each other because of NAT, CGN or similar, and therefore falling back to an intermediary proxy server. That will introduce latency, and could potentially cause lower perceived quality.

Enabling IPv6 could solve that - if it’s not encumbered by the same problems by your ISP or equipment. IPv6 is usually much better in this respect though.

You could also try to make sure that hole punching is possible on your IPv4 setup.


Is there a way to get a new MacBook Pro (Max OSX Lion) with the Aqua style on it?

There is no "official" way of changing it, though OSX is customizable with 3rd party apps. I researched around a bit and found out though that most of these apps won't work with Lion. Perhaps as time passes by Lion updates for these apps will be released, and perhaps you will be able to make Lion look however you want.

Here is a page with some themes for both Mac OS and iOS. They provide a theme for Lion, the only one I could find.

Nevertheless, I should clarify:

Aqua is still there. The term "Aqua" refers to the whole UI of Mac OS X, including that of Lion. Over the years it has changed, and it happened again in Lion. I too thought the Leopard-style aqua was better, but trust me, you will like the Lion Aqua.

Scrollbars hide automatically and they are meant to be discrete: having the blue scrollbars back would just defeat the purpose. Just the same, Lion tries to streamline elements such as tab views and progress bars that were perhaps to "obtrusive" to the eye, or called to much attention.

Im typing this from a machine with Lion, and can tell you you will love the new UI whenever you get your mac. Just give it a try! :) Designers at Apple did a great job to my opinion.

Hope it helps!


macOS High Sierra 10.13 is the last supported release of macOS for Mid 2010 Intel Mac Mini.

macOS High Sierra - Technical Specifications

You will need another Mac running macOS to create a USB bootable installer for. Instructions to create a bootable USB media can be found here:

How to create a bootable installer for macOS


Dual TIme Machine backups; "Delete all backups of a file" applies to only one drive? (Bug?)

I don't know if it has any caveats or risks, but you can also use bypass to delete files on backups:

sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Helpers/bypass rm -rf /Volumes/*/Backups.backupdb/*/*/*/Users/$USER/Documents/folder


Could be a number of things.  A few that come to mind:

If you're using Directory Services (e.g. Open Directory/Active Directory), the device could be authenticating using Single Sign-On (SSO).  This would most likely be if you setup Server.app or if it is a device from your work/office.

Potentially, you could be connecting as Guest.

To authenticate as a different user:  afp://<username>@server_address


AppleUSBCDC weirdness after strange incident

I don't think you have anything to be worried about.

The AppleUSBCDC mentioned in the error message is related to "communication devices". This is usually a USB<>Ethernet adapter. Do you have such a device plugged in?

Try unplugging it and rebooting your system - I guess that will make the error messages disappear.


Muting system volume upon logout using launch agent

In Terminal, execute the following command to disable the chime completely until reenabled:

sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80

If this setting is not retained, try:

sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%01

sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%00

or

sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume="  "

To reenable the chime:

sudo nvram -d SystemAudioVolume

Info gleaned from:

https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-silence-the-startup-chime-on-a-mac--cms-21212

https://www.howtogeek.com/260693/how-to-disable-the-boot-sound-or-startup-chime-on-a-mac/


iPhone4: Keep playing songs after song selected from Search iPhone screen ends?

I believe it has to do with the way you last accessed your iPod. If you open your iPod and  select songs and then select a song to play, the next time you search for a song, it will continue to play through all of your songs. If the last time you accessed the iPod by going to a particular album or playlist, it will only play the songs located in the same album or playlist as the song you searched for.

Its a little confusing but I could try to explain it better if you need me to.


How can I add a WiFi network ahead of time?

You can only "pre-define" WiFi access using Apple Configurator.
Create a profile, configure the WiFi payload with SSID/password and "Auto Join" enabled.
Then install the profile to the device. It should now connect automatically to an access point with the given credentials.
https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.3/#/cadbf9e6ff


You can open up your Time Capsule from the Finder. In the left hand panel it ought to be under the Shared section.

Connect to it and you'll find a sparse bundle file for each computer you're backing up.

Those can then be copied off to another location, eg. another hand drive either attached to the Time Capsule, or attached to your computer.

If you want to automate this you can write a script to automatically mount the TimeCapsule then copy of the files using something like Unison. That's how I have it setup.

To mount it:

mount_afp afp://$USER@$CAP_IP/$CAP_NAME "/Volumes/$MOUNT_NAME"

To sync to another location with Unison:

unison -batch -logfile /PATH/TO/LOGFILE -perms 0 "DESTINATION" "SOURCE"

Unison is available in HomeBrew, mount_afp is built in.


Are TB3 cables in any way different than USB-C cables?

The "lightning" does not indicate that it can transmit power - it is actually the Thunderbolt logo indicating that it is a Thunderbolt cable.

All Thunderbolt 3 cables have USB-C connectors. Note that this is just the connector itself - it doesn't mean that the rest of the cable is the same.

Ordinary Thunderbolt 3 cables (i.e. cobber-based) also work as USB-C cables. In this manner they are compatible. You can buy optical Thunderbolt 3 cables (eg. if you want a 50 meter cable) - these are normally not usable as a USB-C cable.

On the other hand any USB-C cable is not Thunderbolt 3 compatible. It might be (as ordinary Thunderbolt 3 cables also work as USB-C cables). In general they are not.

The differences are mainly the design and quality of the cable, and to which standard they have been tested before leaving the factory. For example Thunderbolt 3-cables are generally specced to allow much higher amounts of power delivery than USB-C cables.


When you run the command sysctl hw.cpufrequency you are getting a constant that was given to the OS at startup.    If you want to get the CPU frequency "on-the-fly" you will need to poll the CPU.  That's what the Intel Power Gadget is doing.

As for why you are not seeing a performance increase with your specific application, it could be from any number of factors including whether or not the application is optimized to work on this particular architecture.

Disclaimer:  Personally, I don't know much about ray tracing software, but from the little bit that I did read up on. I don't see why the calculations for the creation of the trace wouldn't be done on the GPU and not offloaded from the CPU.  This makes me wonder if this is not what's happening here

My suggestion here is to use something that is consistent across all platforms like Geekbench

Finally, Intel has this disclaimer about the Turbo Boost technology...

and...

So, as you stated it appears that your CPU is "boosting" but as to why it's not getting up to the full 3.5 could depend on any/all of these factors that Intel noted.


First find the transaction on your bank account transactions summary. Then contact Apple and ask them to reference which Apple ID made that transaction.

They may not give you the full email, but maybe the first/last few characters may give you a hint.

Best of luck!


Database app, accessible from Mac, iPad and Web

Short answer, grab FileMaker Pro. The iPad app integrates nicely with the desktop, and it runs on both Windows and Mac.

Additionally, since you are comfortable with HTML, CSS, and VBA, you might want to try NSB/AppStudio, which can use PhoneGap to generate a native iOS or Android app. We've created several apps to be deployed in the field for such things as product catalogs, quality checklists, etc. and it works pretty well.


I do know that Safari 8 requires a new extension for 1Password - you need version 5 (which was a free upgrade for folks using v4 if I remember correctly


iPhone 4S video showing as 568 x 320 pixels resolution

The issue relates to the fact that the video is being sent by email and the iPhone will compress the video for this purpose. It is not related to an email server capacity for attachments.

Reference here:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/transferring-videos-from-iphone-4s-to-computer

In order for video to be transferred at full resolution, the iPhone needs to be connected to a computer via USB. This will allow transfer of the entire file, for example using iPhoto.

When transferring a video file by email, a progress bar indicating compression is seen at the moment of transmittal, which measn the file is being compressed in resolution although it remains at full resolution within the phone until it is deleted.

In addition it is recommended to unlock the phone (if using a passcode) before connecting, to have access to this read/write functionality.


Time Capsule: "There was a problem connecting to the server"

I experience issues like this from time to time. Although running a later version of MacOS (10.13), most of the steps should be similar.

What I normally do is:

Use AirPort Utility to check if the firmware on the AirPort device is
current, then restart (even if the firmware is up-to-date.
Run Disk Utility on the Time Capsule backup volume (whether external
or integrated in Time Machine)
Restart the main computer, holding
down the CMD + R keys to start up in recovery mode, then run Disk
Utility on all storage volumes that are backed up with Time
Machine.
Disconnect the Time Capsule volume, then reconnect. Hold
down the Option key, then under Time Machine in the menu bar, run
Verify Backups.

Situations like this can be frustrating, and it may take some time to do this, but I find it usually helps. For some other tips, Apple has some suggestions here.