I just got an "Infection Blocked" alert from Avast when I went to the Macworld site - 8:40 pm eastern timeAug 2nd

Prebid is a program on the server that serves the site, it is used to setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. For more on the project, see https://github.com/prebid/Prebid.js — basically, if there are ads on the site, it’s trying to block them from being interactive.


Sudo askpass not working on macOS Sierra

Remove the line Defaults:ALL askpass=/Users/<username>/pass.txt from the file /etc/sudoers. I don't know the purpose of the line – at least it seems to be malformed compared to other Defaults entries and reading man sudoers.

A proper line may be: Path askpass = /Users/<username>/pass.txt. I can't test this though.


Mountain Lion sometimes hangs when mouse enters Dock – pointer is movable, but the MacBook Air seems otherwise frozen

Not a solution to the problem, but I found that closing the lid and waiting until the computer sleeps (status led pulsing) and opening it works.
At least its better than a forced shutdown right?


How can I script inverting screen colors?

If it's okay to give Terminal.app permanent access to Accessibility:

Open System Preferences
Go to Security & Privacy section
In Privacy tab, click on the lock in bottom left and enter your password to enable editing
Select Accessibility from left side list and then check Terminal checkbox in right side list (if there is no Terminal checkbox here you might run step 5 once and then back to this step)
Open Terminal and run this line (it uses AppleScript):

 osascript -e "tell application \"System Preferences\"" -e "activate" -e "reveal anchor \"Seeing_Display\" of pane id \"com.apple.preference.universalaccess\"" -e "tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"System Preferences\"" -e "click the checkbox \"Invert colors\" of window \"Accessibility\"" -e "end tell" -e "quit" -e "end tell"

repeating previous steps for the future is not needed.

If it's not okay to give direct access:

Open System Preferences
Go to Keyboard section
In Shortcuts tab, Select Accessibility from left side list and then check Invert colors in right side list (Default shortcut is ctrl+alt+cmd+8).
Open Terminal and run this line (it uses AppleScript):

 osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\"" -e "key code 28 using {control down, option down, command down}" -e "end tell"

repeating previous steps for the future is not needed.

You can write those codes in external script files and run with osascript invertColors.scpt


Reset the Launchpad to fix the ordering in macOS Catalina

Try Launchpad Manager. It’s the only tool that I’m aware of that will allow you to edit/control the Launchpad.


Orphaned inodes in SSD in MacBook Pro Early 2011

Orphaned inodes, are common, but they do normally get cleaned, latest after a restart.

  This is not a bug, it's the journaling clearing up a normal situation.
  An "orphaned" inode in this context is one which has been explicitly
  deleted, but which was still open by some process when it was deleted.
  The file vanishes completely from the directory structure, but normal
  Unix semantics require it to remain present on disk until the last
  user of that file closes it. At that point, the inode itself (as
  opposed to the directory entries pointing to it) is deleted, and the
  disk space used by the file is cleaned up.

In you case you use a application that does not release them (even if marked as deleted).

You could close apps to check, or use a terminal

sudo iosnoop

Type Password and wait and observe.

Look for who is still writing to the SSD.


How do I remove a user via single user mode in 10.7?

There are several problems with the script you posted.

Don't remove /Users/Shared - iTunes needs it and will fail on certain store and sharing operations.

dscl on Lion will still whine if you start it (it's looking for the missing plist) - even if you launch /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist as Ingmar Hupp has suggested.

I've never been one to worry about cleaning up the groups since I'm deleting user 501. The system will just add UID 501 back into the Admin and Staff groups the next time the Setup Assistant boots, so I do the following: (assume the short name of the user 501 is test)

⌘+S
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/
rm test.plist
rm -rf /Users/test
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
halt

I do use the official Users & Groups Preference Pane to delete all users except 501 and/or create the test user as 501 as needed since launchd can have jobs stuck if the users you are clearing aren't trivial users set up for simple updates as your case allows.

I would avoid saving a WiFi password or setting up WiFi outside the user account or use ethernet for your updates if you want to be fastidious about leaving as little of your settings behind (especially if the SSID/name isn't generic like Apple Network or has WEP/WPA keys).


In bash, can test -e look for a file with a semi-variable name using *?

From man bash

[[ expression ]]
      Return a status of 0 or 1 depending on the evaluation of the conditional
      expression expression.  Expressions  are composed  of  the primaries
      described below under CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS. Word splitting and pathname
      expansion are not performed on the words between the [[ and ]]; tilde
      expansion, parameter and variable  expansion,  arithmetic expansion, command
      substitution, process substitution, and quote removal are performed.
      Conditional operators such as -f must be unquoted to be recognized as primaries.

Or in short, the pattern is not expanded.

A simple alternative could look like

if [[ $(echo $d/lib*) != "$d/lib*" ]]; then
    mv /etc/launchd.conf $d/launchd.conf
fi

Short explanation on how this works:

echo $d/lib* expands to a list of library files if any are present, this list is not equal to $d/lib* (which doesn't get expanded) so the mv is executed
OTOH if no library files are present, the echo returns the string $d/lib*, the != evaluates to false and the mv is not executed


How to disable notifications for a single mailbox in Mail?

To disable notification for certain Mailboxes you can create Smart Mailboxes for the accounts that you want notifications, and change the settings to enable only them.

Create a Smart Mailbox through the menu Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox including only the Accounts that you want to receive notifications.

Inside Preferences > General change the Dock unread count and New message notifications putting the name of the Smart Mailbox or group of Smart Mailbox created.


After iOS 5 update can't open Photos.app

Symptoms of what happens when you attempt to open the iOS Photos app would be helpful in troubleshooting this issue. If it opens and then immediately closes, it's crashing. If you've tried an actual restore of the OS, the only way that app will continue to crash is if you continue to restore from the backup, which will preserve the problem. Restore the unit, decline restoring from the backup, and test further.


In order to change the size of a partition, the partition can't have any errors.

The easiest way to repair the partition is to reboot while holding Cmd+R, and start the Disk Utility from the menu that is presented after the recovery system has started.

Then select the partition and click the 'Repair Disk' button. After it has finished, it should say that there are no more errors. The partition can now be resized.

NOTE: Unfortunately, because of HFS+ it is possible that Disk Utility may display "Could not be repaired", at which point you would need to reformat the drive and restore from your latest backup. I hope this is not the case!


Is https://bugreport.apple.com/web/ restricted to developers?

Technically, you need a developer account and be signed into it to use that mechanism.

About Apple Bug Reporter
Apple Bug Reporter is a web-based tool that developers can use to
report issues with Apple software and services, request enhancements
to APIs and tools, and track the status of their feedback. To access
Apple Bug Reporter, sign in with the Apple ID associated with your
developer account.

(Emphasis mine)
The general public would use the public facing feedback page https://www.apple.com/feedback


External hard drive won't show up on finder (theres more to this)

You should be able to see your drive in Disk Utility, even though the data may be corrupted, so you may need to wipe the drive in order to make it usable again.


It cannot be installed on the iPad 2. The processor in the iPad is an ARM processor and Windows (up to and including Windows 7) can only run on x86 processors, such as those from Intel and AMD. (There are other reasons that running Windows would be impossible, but this is the most important reason.)


MacPorts issue, "Error: Port aircrack not found" on OS X El Capitan

The name of the port is "aircrack-ng", not "aircrack", and the install command is:

sudo port install aircrack-ng


You should be able to transfer an ongoing call over FaceTime from your iPhone to your MacBook. Let's double-check that you have things set up correctly.

Obviously, you'll need to use the same Apple ID on both devices and, based on your description, I assume you've got this all set. Now make sure you do the following:

On your iPhone, go to Settings
Swipe up and tap on FaceTime
Now check what options you have listed/ticked for where you can be reached by FaceTime.
Make sure the Apple ID / iCloud account you've used on your MacBook for FaceTime is listed and ticked:

If it's not listed, tap on Add an Email... to add it
If it is listed but not ticked, then tap on it to enable it

Exit Settings

This should rectify the issue.

Let me know how you go.


Does buying a new mac also get you Lion on your Apple ID?

No. The copy of Lion you get with a new Mac is only available via the recovery partition on the hard drive and this version of the OS is tied to the hardware.

From this MacWorld article that talks about how the version of iLife you get with a new Mac is a full Mac App Store version you can install on multiple Macs in your house:

  When you reinstall Lion via Lion Recovery, it seems Apple uses information about your Mac's hardware to verify that it has a license for Lion.

Or as this summary of the MacWorld article puts it:

  Unfortunately, as Macworld points out, this trick doesn’t apply to OS X Lion itself — there’s no DVD or thumb drive included with a new Mac, which means the big cat only lives on your new Mac’s recovery partition, which appears to be tied to the hardware itself — meaning you can’t install it on your other Macs without ponying up the $29.99 from the Mac App Store.

Would be nice if you got it for your other Macs for free when you bought a new Mac, but for now it seems like it'll still cost you another $30 to bring all the Macs you own up to the current OS rev.


URL-scheme details for Reminders application

I don't know the details of URL scheme.
However the scheme is x-apple-reminder not reminders
It can launch reminder app at least.

However the host and path rule is not revealed yet.
Reminder widget can open Reminder with specific EKReminder,
So, there must be a scheme definition for it.

The scheme x-apple-reminder is undocumented, So using it should be rejected.


Will ejected internal HDD really stay ejected until I mount it again?

I suggest to test and use:
    Disk Arbitrator.

This is a small application interfacing the MacOS X disk access interface.
This application may be used in forensic investigation, to protect against unwanted connection of external disks, and to manage very straightforwardly any mounting and eject of internal or external disk
(through the Show Disks Window menu entry).

I wouldn't speak in place of the author, but I can ascertain this tool is working on: Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks & Yosemite.

I haven't found any bug in this application, and I would be glad to give the same nul result with many application I have to survive with :(.


One mini displayport on Radeon HD5870 not working after an OS reinstall; why? (Mac Pro)

I've not had your issue exactly, BUT I've found DVI connection to be the most reliable with external monitors and OS X.  AS you said, you intended to try DVI-D next.  I imagine that would get both monitors firing up.

Side note: OS X 10.8 seems to despise 10.5.  I've had a bunch of unrelated madness crop up due to failed mountain lion install and then recovery via  at some point using 10.5 install disc.  Disastrous results.


Transfer Photos from Mac to Android Device

Find the Android phone in Finder, as it shows as just another USB device. Drag photos from iPhoto to the Android device in Finder.


Misuse is dramatically shortening the life of your cables.

Flexing the cable near the plug will eventually break down the cable shielding, causing electrical shorts, with random results.

First, buy a new headset.
Second, either learn to treat it gently, or invest in some Sugru which is great for protecting the point where a cable meets the plug.


Simple answer: no. Apple removed the PPT-like quick format bar when iWork '09 was replaced by the current versions.

Anyway, here are my workarunds/best practices:

Question 1

a) You can keep the "Arrange" tools palette open for quick access to – well – the Arrange tools.

View menu -> Show Arrange Tools

b) Most Arrange menu items /Align, Distribute) don't have keyboard shortcuts by default. But you can set custom menu shortcuts for virtually any menu item function in a Mac application. Please refer to this guide from Apple for more info:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-keyboard-shortcuts-for-apps-mchlp2271/mac

Question 2

Again, you can enable the Arrange Tools palette and have the Format bar switched to the Style tab so you have both toolsets available at the same time.

Personally I try to work as much as possible with custom-defined Shape Styles (I usually delete all the default styles and then create my own)


How do I change the generic folder icon in Yosemite 10.10.4?

I'm using Mac OSX Yosemite latest 10.10.5 and I've definitely sticked to the CandyBar app version 3.3.4 which is totally free from Panic inc.

I've been using CandyBar app since the Leopard days, the app works great until OS X 10.8 and "beyond", but now it is free and unsupported, so for OS X Mavericks / Yosemite etc. it might work with some hiccups. Nevertheless one can change icons for almost everything from system files to folders.


Safari in 10.10.4 completely non-functional after simple preferences change

I wouldn't expect reinstalling the system using the Recovery HD to cause any significant problems. Minor things that come to mind are reinstallation of fonts in /Library/Fonts if they'd been previously removed, and the possibility of needing to reactivate copy-protected software, e.g. reentering the Microsoft Office serial number. But you've no doubt faced these same issues with the previous upgrades.

You could do a trial run without making any changes to your system:

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your boot drive to a new or empty external drive.
Reinstall OS X on the cloned drive.
If things look good, reinstall on the original drive, or clone back.


How can I make spotlight ignore certain file types and directories?

There is a way to exclude folders: add a .no_index extension to the file or folder name.

But my favourite one is adding a .metadata_never_index file to a folder. Use the following command:

$ cd DIRECTORY
$ touch .metadata_never_index


May I delete cache and application support for Xcode? I'm using App cleaner

Cache: Sure. Haven't noticed anything bad. (You can do this yourself, as well – just trash everything in ~/Library/Caches.)
Application Support: Do not do this without knowing what's in there! Apps often use this to store configuration – for example:

Xcode puts color themes and key bindings there.
The Dock puts your spaces configuration there.
GIMP uses it to hold all sorts of things like gradients and palette images.
Steam uses it to store your entire game library. (If it's taking up way too much space, try uninstalling some games.) Not sure if progress is there too, but it seems likely.

Deleting Application Support won't break the app (it'll just create it again the next time it starts), but you might lose configuration and other data, like key bindings for Xcode. You also might want to make sure the app is closed before you take its folders out from under it. (:


Why do my applications keep crashing on Lion 10.7.3?

Yep, your problem sounds just like what a ton of others were having. Re-update using the combo update from the Apple Web site, and that should cure what ails you. Do Not redo your update using your Apple's built-in Software Update.


‘The application "AppDownloadLauncher" is not open anymore’ when attempting to open Xcode

The process AppDownloadLauncher is used to launch apps from the Mac App Store. The error is shown when a problem occurred communicating with this process.

Use Activity Monitor to force quit AppDownloadLauncher, then try relaunching Xcode.
If this doesn't help, log out and back in.


Take a look in your settings: Accessibility -> Voice Over -> Always Speak Notifications.


Siri to lock screen and take screenshot?

Currently Siri can't do these actions.

One possibility is to enable assistiveTouch :

Settings
General
Accessibility
AssistiveTouch

On the assistive touch button :

Device > next > screenshoot.
Device > next > lock screen


How to stop Milanese Loop Apple Watch band from slipping?

I was surprised at just how bad the Milanese Loop band was at staying fastened, and couldn't explain why some people were having problems and others weren't.
Reversing the band solved the problem for me.
The band is reversible, in the sense that the side that is fixed and the side that is looped can be swapped. If you're having trouble with slippage, try swapping the two sides using these instructions

This significantly reduced slippage for me and made the band much more pleasant to use. I almost never think about slippage anymore.
The reason this works (I believe) is because of the way our forearms are constructed. When we rotate our wrist, the ulna on the bottom stays relatively fixed and the radius rotates around it, causing more motion on the top side of our wrist (by our thumbs) than on the bottom. Moving the fixed band to the motion side decreases the tension on the loop, reducing the chance of slippage.


How to set a date-based x-axis in Numbers with incomplete data?

You can make a plot using your x,y values and then change the x-axis to be what you want. maybe your x values only run from 0 to 5 but y-data has x-values from 0-50. Click on your plot and then click on the axis tab in the right sidebar. From here you can select the x-axis and on the panel that appears you can input the min and max x-values you wish to use. See figure below.


Stop autocorrect from autocorrecting a word even if I re-type it after it has been autocorrected

Right click to bring this menu and select Learn Spelling.

Alternatively, you could set up a text replacement in Keyboard Preferences.


Language setting for spell-check in Pages


Will airdropping FCPX to another computer work?

No, copying software licensed to one AppleID does not work on another computer without that AppleID.

Your purchase is subject to Apple's terms and conditions, which may vary by region.


I can't find a setting to disable WINS in Network settings

I didn't find any way through the GUI (on Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan & Sierra).

On the other hand the following receipe is stopping netbiosd.
In a Terminal or an xterm type:
% ps ax | grep [/]netbios
  122   ??  SNs    1:52.41 /usr/sbin/netbiosd
% /usr/bin/sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.netbiosd.plist
Password:
% ps ax | grep [/]netbios
%

The second ps command shouldn't output anything. This is normal and
means that there isn't anymore any netbiosd running.

Another way to check that netbiosd isn't anymore chating continuously on all your network interfaces is to use tcpdump for a full 5 minutes:

% /usr/bin/sudo tcpdump -i en0 host elly.local udp port netbios-ns
[...]
^C
0 packets captured
nnnnnn packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
% /usr/bin/sudo tcpdump -i en1 host elly.local udp port netbios-ns
[...]
^C
0 packets captured
mmmmmm packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
%

These 2 commands should say exactly 0 packets captured otherwise something is leaking.


How can I "Quick Look" (result of pressing Space Bar in Finder) a filename printed by "ls" in iTerm2?

Can't find any relevant documentation anywhere, and this does not seem to work Terminal, but this is possible.

On my machine (macOS Sierra), I can triple-click a filename or folder after calling ls in iTerm2, and the Quick Look window pops up. Very neat!


What does the app name means above music player in Control Center

The wording used is to represent the source of the audio content you are listening to, but it tries to be clever and give you more than just the app name.  Instead of Safari, it will scroll the URL of the page you are viewing.  Instead of Music, it will pull the artist/track name etc, and instead of App Store, it will display the name of the last app you were looking at (presumably you were watching a preview video for an app in the store)


Go to Settings → iTunes & App Store and enable Automatic Downloads: Updates.


Can IFTTT automate or control an iPhone?

IFTTT

IFTTT requires iOS devices that offer integration or an API that can be accessed. General remote access to iOS is not permitted.

The IFTTT iOS app makes the following claim for iOS support:

  Over 500 apps work with IFTTT including Twitter, Telegram, Google Drive, Twitch, Weather Underground, Instagram, Gmail, and devices like Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Nest, Philips Hue, and your iPhone. The IFTTT app also integrates with the Health app, so you can easily track and maintain your habits.

Supporting apps could work with background push notifications and updates to perform actions. This would work over any user permitted data connection.

Search for IFTTT iOS app to find iOS apps claiming support and related recipes, such as:

How to Set Up and Use IFTTT on Your iPhone
9 essential IFTTT recipes for iOS users

Mobile Device Management

Automation of an iOS is limited compared to macOS. The best way to remotely manage settings on an iPhone is via a Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool.


Are there any wireless hard drives work well with Lion or newer Macs?

There are a couple of good options, depending on what you are looking for.

The most obvious option is to use an Apple AirPort WiFi router to provide NAS:

The AirPort extreme supports attaching an external USB drive
TimeCapsule devices combine WiFi and an internal drive.  TimeCapsule is intended to be used for backup with TimeMachine, but you can use all or part of your drive as a mountable volume (just like any NAS solution).  TimeCapsules also have a USB port so you can add an external drive if desired.

Many other vendors sell Mac compatible NAS drives, but the reason I'm partial to Apple's drives is that there were driver compatibility issues when OS/X Lion first came out.  Apple's drive were and are the most compatible (even if they are not the most cost-effective in $/GB).

If you are looking for a portable solution, you may be out of luck.  The portable Wi-Fi drives, which are becoming popular nowadays, are intended as media "servers" for smart phones and tablets; they are read-only over Wi-Fi and require a USB connection to "load" music, movies, etcetera.


Automator Javascript - see console.log output

A simple solution that will work in most cases is to just use JSON.stringify(obj) to see the object as a string in the console.


Can I easily replace keys in the new 2016 MacBook Pro?

I just removed two keys on mine: can't believe there's no good info out there on this yet. The clips are on all four corners of the key, but you should only pry the top edge of the key as the clips on the bottom are designed to slide off toward the bottom, rather than pull straight up. I used a thin piece of plastic (the plastic-only edge of a laminated tag) to pry the top edge. A credit card would probably work but might be a little stiff for the initial pry.

Once you have the top clips off slide the key down until the bottom clips are off as well. It's a nice flat surface underneath, I had no qualms about cleaning with a damp cloth. To replace the key slide the bottom clips on in an upward direction, then press the top clips into place once the key is centered in place.


Sounds like the photos you lost were stored in iCloud and not on your phone, so they disappeared when you turned off iCloud Photo Library.

You can either enable it again, or find them at www.icloud.com (click on the photos app once you login).

This can also be done in the desktop photos app if you have a mac.

From there you can share these photos, maybe you could email them to yourself 1 by 1 and save them to your phone.


In my experience MRO is faster when using data.table and large datasets.

However, in Ubuntu, OS X, etc I found more convenient to use CRAN version and compile everything to avoid crashes, crossed wires, etc.


Why can't I download the latest Boot Camp installer when first configuring Boot Camp?

You should be able to select the option "I have already downloaded..." this will let you continue with the Boot Camp partitions and then install Windows from the disc.

You should install Boot Camp within Windows from your Snow Leopard Install CD and then you can update Boot Camp by downloading the Updates from support.apple.com.

I had this issue with my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro at first.


Bluetooth 4, how do we take advantage of its low energy features?

Low Energy requires both ends to be updated. Apple has a knowledge base article explaining this at:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202880 - iOS and iBeacon requirements

For Mac, open System Information and select the Bluetooth section on the left. If you have the following line towards the top, you are equipped for Low Energy bluetooth:

  Bluetooth Low Energy Supported: Yes

Magic Mouse 2, Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2 all support low energy bluetooth as well.


Is blessing the Ubuntu partition reversible in OS X?

Short Answer: YES, it's reversible, nothing is "permanent" in a hard-drive partition (other than deleting partitions and information of course). Almost always you will be able to undo what you did, although sometimes at the cost of data loss, naturally.

While you are at the terminal type:

man bless

or if you're lazy, you can read it here.

You are interested in this part:

 --legacy                 If --setBoot is given, set the firmware to boot a legacy BIOS-based operating
                          system from the specified disk. The active flag of an MBR-partitioned disk is
                          not modified, which can be done with fdisk(8) . This is only supported on EFI-
                          based systems.

update:
Yes, the bless command has different modes of operation, one is device, which specifies a device (rather than just a folder or a mount point) as the destination for the 'blessing'. Bear in mind that blessing does two things, it can select the active boot (which is more or less what you want to do) and it can also make sure that a mount point/folder/device has all the required files for booting. (Kind of what the old format c: /s did in DOS. The "s" was something like: Copy all system files there so this drive can boot.

With the -setBoot option you're also telling the system to boot from the specified device (must be unmounted as far as I can remember).

The --legacy basically tells bless that the Operating System that is going to boot doesn't support OpenEFI or EFI and expects a BIOS instead.

Bear in mind that you might need to later use fdisk to set the active partition if ubuntu fails to boot.

rEFIt usually does all this for you and is easily removable if you don't want it anymore, so in any case, I suggest you give it a try unless you have a specific reason to avoid it.

You don't need the --verbose but it's ok to have it to see what's going on.

  So in order to undo the upper command, I would do this: sudo bless
  -device /dev/disk0s1 -file -setboot -file because EFI on disk0s1 is EFI-based But will the pressing ALT still work to start my recovery
  stick?

That command will not work, if you specify --file you have to give the path to an EFI-Blessed boot file. Since you're reverting to OS X, you don't need to pass that, because bless will use a default one.

The Option/ALT will always work because it basically tells the EFI in your box: don't boot, just read the drive(s) and tell me which ones are bootable, show me a list and let me select one; this works regardless of your boot drive.

Hope this helps. Bear in mind that I haven't used bless more than a couple of times and was months ago (if not years). I don't remember having problems with it, but then again, I was just probably moving drives or doing something weird. Whenever I installed Linux on an Intel-EFI based Mac, I always used rEFIt.


How to paste from clipboard into a Preview edited PDF file

Can you confirm that the text you are viewing is actual text, rather than an image? For example, I opened a PDF in Preview, drag-selected text, right-clicked to choose Copy. I was then able to paste that text into a text editor.

Now, with respect to editing, click the Show Markup Toolbar at the top-right. From here, you can create a Text object, paste your clipboard text, and then adjust the text size and color.

With respect to limited editing, keep in mind that a PDF is generally a compiled format (i.e., the layout for that PDF was created in another application). This is easy to forget when PDF viewers like Acrobat and Preview provide seemingly easy tools for editing and applying annotations. (I suppose that you could also try editing with Illustrator, though that could potentially get quite messy, depending upon the source of the PDF).

As a rule, it's better to edit a given document in its original application, and then recompile into PDF. However, if you have frequent need to perform touchups to PDF, then the Adobe Acrobat application is recommended.


iTunes starting playlist in different order than view

Begin from Stopped rather than Paused.
Play, then Alt/click the play button to Stop. You'll see the currently-playing track then disappears from the header...

Paused
Stopped

Then Play by double-clicking your chosen first Song, or choose an artist & hit Spacebar. It should then play in the visible order, assuming you don't have shuffle on.

Though you're right... I hadn't ever tried playing by hitting that Play arrow by the Artist name - it always wants to start on Slow Night, So Long.
Both the other methods work, though.

Looks like you're missing Day Old Belgian Blues, btw - great Live EP, chronologically follows Aha Shake


OS X Yosemite always mounts usb-hdd to the new folder

Firstly you should not need any extras to mount NTFS drives.

You do not make it clear what you want to achieve.

I have an old FreeAgent I used for Windows backup. I DON'T want it to automount, so I have the following in etc/fstab see edit detail below

#
# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
#
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
#
UUID=E00F307A-9295-482E-8A79-2FA2C922F3CD none ntfs rw,noauto
⋯
LABEL=Tempy none ntfs rw,noauto

I can use DiskUtility to mount if I want to access these.

If you want to auto mount in a specific directory you can create an entry to do this. If you do create a directory and edit fstab.

NOTE you should use vifs, which requires a knowledge of vi commands, so you should look at man vi to discover the basic commands.

 :q! quits
 :wq saves
  i to insert


As of right now there is no gexiv2 brew formula but I've created and submitted one which will hopefully get accepted soon. You can follow here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/37944

Beyond that there are various dependencies of shotwell that aren't easily available through brew, for example rest and gudev which don't appear to exist anywhere for OS X. I'll have a go at creating formulas for them depending on how the first one goes.


How can I tell when Turbo Boost is active on my MacBook?

Check out the Intel Power Gadget. It provides info about the processor frequency in GHz and Processor Power in W.


Droid base and iPhone cable for charging?

In most cases yes you can.

But if the charger is too weak (less than 1 amps), it will charge your iPhone more slowly than the original charger.


How to configure $PATH (for LaTeX) and run commands in Terminal?

The $PATH provides the shell (command line) a list of directories to look at for executables. So, when you type a command in the command line, the shell (the program running in the terminal) will look in the locations listed in your $ PATH for an executable matching the command. The first one it finds, it runs.

To see the information type echo $PATH on the command line. This should return something along the lines of:

/Users/name/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

To add a new location to your path (i.e. /opt/local/bin )you issue a command such as

PATH=/opt/local/bin:"${PATH}"

This adds /opt/local/bin to your $PATH

*Specifically it adds it first, so this will be the first place the shell will look for a command! This is important because if you have multiple copies of an executable you'll want to know which one is being executed.

BTW, Generally you will add your path command to your .bash_profile file (~/.bash_profile) that way it will set your $PATH as you desire overtime you laugh the  BASH shell (the default on OS X).


Voltage does matter, it must be =<5V.  You can use a simple voltage regulator to keep yourself from going over.  You can also wire the panels so that they don't go over 5 (if each panel does 1.5V, 3 panels get you 4.5V, which will work but be slower.

So the 4 panels will give 6 Volt and the 5 Volt Zener diode will cut off the access 1  volt

Wattage is based on Voltage and Amperage.  The iPad can use up to 2.1 Amps.  Solar panels will always make the same voltage, but the more sunlight the more available amps.  You do not have to do anything to limit the amperage as the iPad will not pull more amperage than it needs.  This is the same way a flashlight works, a battery could dump all of it's power at once, like a capacitor, but the lightbulb doesn't need or want all that, so it draws only small amounts at a time.  This is also why a charged capacitor, which is designed to release current very flash like in a camera's flash, can also power an LED for a relatively longer time.


Does Google Photos Backup keep album structure?

No album structure uploaded. raw upload of the pics.


Google Chrome Helper Using Up Too Much Memory

Every "Helper" is either a tab, a subframe, a core Chrome process or an extension.
You could reduce RAM usage by uninstalling extensions, or just using less tabs.


Spotify output to AirPlay speakers on iPad

D'oh! The AirPlay icon is available in the Spotify client. It is on the Info page rather than the top page.  That's where volume control is, too.


Which version of ZSH is installed in macOS Catalina?

Running the following commands in macOS Catalina 10.15:

sw_vers

  ProductName:  Mac OS X
  ProductVersion:   10.15
  BuildVersion: 19A602

zsh --version

  zsh 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0)


What is a good world time app for Mac OS?

I recommend iStat Menus. It integrates very nicely with the mac menu bar and the Date & Time widget is very customisable and can be made to look identical to the stock Apple menubar app. You have the option to add as many time zones as you like and they are all accessible by clicking the time in the menubar (see screenshot).

iStat Menus 2 used to be free if you can find that version kicking around (needs a kernel extension tweak to work with 10.8 ML); otherwise, version 3 is a (reasonably cheap) paid app.

It also comes with a wealth of other activity monitors that can be placed on the menu bar which integrate equally nicely: both visually and functionally.


What software is available to customize the functionality of the Apple Remote?

The free BetterTouchTool can do this:

You can set up complex actions to be triggered by any of the buttons being either pressed or held.


Selecting text while jumping with cursor in iTerm2

You can setup key shortcuts for this functionality in iTerm2.

  In Prefs > Profiles > Keys you can assign keys to move the beginning or end of the selection by a single character, word, or line. No such keys are bound by default.

To make a shortcut for the precise text selection you are referring to you would assign the shortcuts to the following actions,

⇧ ⌥ → = Move end of selection forward, Move by word

⇧ ⌘ → = Move end of selection forward, Move by line

Source: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html


Why the app is not on the App Store but it's on iTunes?

More or less, yes. It means that the app is not tailored for the iPad, so you'll get the same user interface on the iPad as you would get on an iPhone.

You usually have the option of "zooming" it in and out, but even then it will not be as great as an app that is customized to take advantage of the iPad's screen size.


why ping registry-1.docker.io returns Request timeout for icmp_seq even when I can nslookup or dig?

The inability to ping the name does not in any way indicate a problem with your setup or anything else.
Using dig and nslookup allows you to look up the IP-addresses linked with the name registry-1.docker.io. This works fine for you and you get a list of IP-addresses.
Now when you ping the name - only one of the IP-addresses will be chosen to be pinged. If the system behind that IP-address has chosen not to respond to pings, you'll get the "Request timeout" message you're seeing.
It is perfectly valid for server operators to choose that they do not want to reply to pings. It does not indicate that the server is down, that the network is flawed, or anything of the kind.
The ImagePullBackOff message you're seeing can be caused by multiple things. I would advise using the kubectl describe command to get an idea of what happened.
It could be for example that you have specified an image that actually do not exist, or that you have specified a private image without giving the proper credentials.


How can I set a user-specific environment variable that includes a space character?

export ENV_VAR="/Applications/Android Studio.app" should set the variable properly, but it's likely the program/script that uses the variable doesn't quote it properly. If if you can figure out what's using the variable, it might be possible to fix the script/program.

My first guess would be that the environment variable is used by a shell script that does something like:

somecommand $ENV_VAR/subdir/filename

The problem occurs because the shell will expand the variable, then perform word splitting -- that is, it will split /Applications/Android Studio.app/subdir/filename into two arguments: /Applications/Android and Studio.app/subdir/filename. Note that embedding escapes or quotes in the variable value doesn't do anything useful, because the shell processes quotes and escapes before performing variable substitutions. Thus, if you used export ENV_VAR="/Applications/Android\ Studio.app", it would be split into /Applications/Android\ and Studio.app/subdir/filename; if you used export ENV_VAR="'/Applications/Android Studio.app'" it would be split into '/Applications/Android and Studio.app/subdir/filename'.

The solution is to put double-quotes around the variable reference, like this:

somecommand "$ENV_VAR/subdir/filename"

which tells the shell not to perform word splitting after substitution, removing the problem.

Note that it's also possible that it's something other than a shell script, or a shell script that's doing something more complicated like using the variable to construct another variable, and possibly depending on word splitting when that variable is used.  Fixing this sort of usage can get messy.


Will this RAM work for me? (Late 2009 iMac)

You can find out the memory summary by going to:

 > About This Mac > More Info > Memory

Screenshot example

You can also go to Technical Specifications, click "Browse by Product", and enter the serial number of your Mac to see the specs.

It's always a good idea to read the return policy from the vendors, in case the RAM that you bought was not compatible with your computer.


At the moment this isn't likely to be fixable, unless you're fairly comfortable with OS X development and want to rewrite parts of the underlying GUI library.

According to this bug report on Python.org, it's an issue with the TkInter GUI library, which IDLE apparently makes use of. TkInter in turn is based on Tk, which is a cross-platform GUI toolkit, which means it almost certainly doesn't use the standard OS X text renderer, which is the only way to get "free" Retina text.

As an alternative, perhaps look at ways to make the default python shell or IPython running in Terminal more useful to you?


iphone 6 ios 8 siri only working with external mic!

do you have any tweaks or something that works with bluetooth, and or the mic?

to rule out jailbreak, turn off your phone and turn it back on while holding the volume up button, this disables all the jailbreak tweaks... like a safe mode, if siri works fine, then you know it has something to do with your JB if not? then it has something to do with your OS


How to run latest tvOS SDK on macOS 10.13?

This is obviously not supported and I don't know what wackiness may result from it, (some weird stuff happened when I did it myself) but this is where you find and put the SDK's for specific platforms in an Xcode version.

On the new Xcode (the one with the SDK that supports your device/OS/etc.) you can find the SDK bundle itself in

Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs

Then extract (copy) the tvOS version you want to work with, as well as the simulators if you want to, and put them in the same path in the version Xcode that you currently run. Restart to see if they show up as targets.

As I mentioned, this isn't supported at all, and you might face more than trivial issues, but it's a starting point.


MacDeveloper.net

From their About page:

  MacDeveloper helps companies and individual software developers alike improve the quality of their products by providing a platform to have their applications properly tested from a well informed, and energetic Beta Pool.


When you don't get to a blue screen in the boot process, you can assume an OS reinstall should fix it. Your fsck results reinforce that as next step.

I would boot to Internet recovery and download the OS installer of choice if your Mac supports that.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22136

When that is done, next is

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21900

That article has the reinstall steps linked at the bottom.


I managed to get the slower RAM to work by resetting the PRAM/NVRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Works like a charm now.


Can two iOS developer accounts use the same paid bank account

Things may have changed since I set up my developer accounts, but based on my experience from years ago, yes this is fine. Payment is taken through the Apple Store, so you can just provide the same payment information when purchasing both programmes.


What's the correct way to back up all Photos from the Photos app?

The Photos app in macOS Sierra is able to do a comparison between what is in the cloud, and what is stored in the local library on your Mac. (Likely through some means of signature/hash function).

To provide some insight with actual numbers - My Photos library is approximately 53GB, and only required about ~1.5GB worth of bandwidth to validate/sync the library after migrating the library to a different Mac with a fresh install of macOS Sierra (1.5GB includes any photos that it also needed to sync since the last my library was active).

With that being said, you can be confident that your bandwidth limitation, or capacity, should not have to handle the full file size. However, be mindful that if there are other cloud services (iCloud Drive) they too can utilize bandwidth.


I'm suffering from the excessive CPU use from kernel_task

If you can I would recommend setting up Time Machine on your system. If/once you have a backup of your files then my suggestion would be to use Onyx http://www.titanium.free.fr/ for your OS to clear out some caches, logs, and day to day junk that piles up.

Getting rid of logs, caches, and Spotlight indexes can help your system repair itself.

Once Onyx has run its course and the system has rebooted wait for spotlight to rebuild and see if kernel task still is eating up your CPU. If it does then I would recommend reinstalling the OS. (That's why I like making sure you have a backup of your files before hand)


How to download OpenGL versions later than 2.1 on MacBook Pro Sierra?

The Mac's native OpenGL version will depend on its age; but Apple stopped supporting native OpenGL years ago & many games can only use legacy OGL, which is 2.1.
Unless the game developers themselves support Apple's native OGL, then 2.1 is all you can have, Running a Windows game through an interpreter is unlikely to be able to do that.


Is it safe to install and use app from ”untrusted developer“?

Generally speaking, no, it is not safe as the pop-up states. As you don't know where the app comes from and it has not been checked by Apple's reviewers.

You'd need to install the app developers' certificate to install this app. That certificate could be misused to extract data/control phone/misuse information. Companies often use their own certificates via mobile device management to do such things. Like wiping a stolen phone or blocking the user after leaving the company.

Further Explained

The warning is generated to protect users to install apps from untrusted (not validated, unknown) developers. This mostly occurs on apps being downloaded outside of given app-stores.

In this case (I don't know the app) you really want to lookup the developers site and references.

Maybe it's an open source project. Open Source projects produce this warning but in many cases this warning can be ignored as the project has been reviewed by a bunch of users stating it is safe to install. Still: Caution!.

A search shows a company with the same name is already in the iOS App Store. Though, I don't know whether it's the same company. And there seems to be a reason why the app is not listed in the app store.


I would say: No.

My experience of using a Fusion Drive in a 2012 Mini for several years is that the shared performance benefit lessens as the drive fills up.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly: a Fusion Drive has two points of failure, and a nine-year-old hard drive is increasingly likely to fail, at which point you will have only your backup. ;-)

Your best course of action is to use the 256Gb SSD as your System disk and farm out user data 'overspill' to a faster external drive.


Many ports have a +nox11 variant, which you can add as a default variant in the variants.conf file that's pointed to in your macports.conf file.  However, in my experience, there are some X11-dependent ports that don't have the +nox11 variant. I believe I've also seen situations in which non-X11-dependet port A depends on port B, and port B is so deeply X11-dependent that it wouldn't even make sense for it to have a +nox11 variant. Overall, in my experience, it's practically impossible to keep Xorg from getting installed. :-(


Finally, I seem to have solved this!

@BernardWei kind of lead me in the right general direction by suggesting I download the drivers from Apple again. Well, "download" is putting it strongly. I naturally went here to get them (which is wrong): https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp

The downloads I was seeing on the Apple support site are Bootcamp v5.x versions. Which, according to a help article I stumbled across, aren't for Win 10, but are for earlier Windows versions (7 and the likes), which probably explains my issues when trying to use it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I decided to give downloading the support software via the Bootcamp Assistant in macOS another go. I originally got the idea from here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204923

Previous attempts had seen the software not download and give a rather ambiguous error. Turns out that I had skipped over the bit about it needing to be in a FAT32 format. I was trying to save the data onto an external harddrive which I'm guessing isn't (I haven't got it plugged in to check right now). I then tried using the only USB drive I had, which only had 1GB of space, and the Bootcamp Assistant then failed for a lack of space reason, understandably. Having family to blag a larger USB drive from is useful if you come into this situation.

Here's the steps I took, once I had a large enough FAT32 USB drive.

Boot into macOS
Open up the Bootcamp Assistant.
Go into the actions menu and select Download Windows Support Software.
Select your ready-to-go USB drive as the destination and start the download.
You may be prompted for a password. Double check what it's asking and enter it if you're comfortable.
Go and get a hot drink, this will take a little while.
Once done, reboot into Windows.
Navigate to your USB drive. Go to WindowsSupport/Bootcamp/Setup.exe and run that.
Pick repair.
Find something to do for a few minutes while the drivers on your machine are repaired. You may, like me, see multiple balloons pop up telling you that Windows is getting each one of your Bluetooth devices ready, and then again when they're done. You may also see a console Window running a disk partitioning tool. Don't worry, I think it just sets the default start up disk. I could be wrong, but nothing seems a miss yet.
Once done, you'll be prompted to restart. Do so. Your computer may try to boot to macOS, so use the options key to choose Windows as normal.
When your Windows machine restarts, your Bluetooth devices should behave themselves as expected.

Voila!

It's been a long time getting here, but I'm hopeful my mouse shinanigans are over for the time being. I'll reopen this question if my mouse stops connecting again as before. But for now, this is resolved!

EDIT: 1 day later, mouse isn't connecting again, and requires a restart into macOS to get it going. Which is back where we were at the beginning. That's fine, at least I know after a couple of restarts I'll have a fully working mouse again.

Another side effect of doing this was that my external harddrive that normally runs as the D drive got de-lettered, as it were. I did a small amount of panicking before coming acoss this guide which helped me discover that all my previous data wasn't gone, but just needed re-assigning a drive letter from diskmgmt.msc: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/external-drive-not-recognized-this-is-how-to-fix-it-in-windows/


Using custom hardware keyboard layout on iOS

Creating a hardware keyboard layout for iOS require you to assemble a .uchr file for the layout. This format is documented in the Unicode Utilities reference for the Carbon API. Such files could at one time be created with the klcompiler tool in the Font Tool Suite (!), except that it created big-endian output (probably from the PowerPC time) and iOS required little-endian output (more typical of the ARM processor), and this tool has since been retired from the Apple Download Centre, since it was 32-bits only (and there are only 64-bit versions of macOS remaining).

To install such a layout, it should be put in the /System/Library/KeyboardLayouts directory, which is not writable by the mobile user, but only by root. In addition, it is undocumented how new layouts are registered with the system - iOS does not scan this directory for new files as macOS does. A hack around this was to overwrite one of the existing layouts, e.g. USBKeyboardLayouts.bundle/uchrs/Colemak.uchr, and then select this one to activate it, but this would of course violate the checksum integrity of that layout.


According to this article at Apple.com it should be possible to hook up an external display to an iOS device.

The only question that remains is if hooking up a couple of adapters in series will actually work. If no one here knows from experience, I would buy the adapters from a store with a good return policy and have at it.


Macbook Pro Mid-2014 trackpad not working

I would remove the battery and rely on the power adapter. You can try resetting your SMC, this fixes a lot of hardware and power related issues.

◦   Shutdown the MacBook/Pro and remove the battery
◦   Disconnect the power adapter, hold the Power Key for 10 seconds
◦   Release the power key and reconnect your battery and power adapter
◦   Turn your Mac on
◦   Let boot as usual


where to type the password for printing over internet and can not install the driver on 10.10

I can't replicate this window on my end so I can't say for sure... But.. I would imagine it's under the "Advanced" button next to your printer's IP address.

Konica Minolta printers call this feature "Account tracking", where you enter a password that is designated to you/your department so that they can track usage.  I would click the Advanced button and look for a password field or mention of Account Track.

If that doesn't work, and assuming you have the proper drivers loaded, I would try clicking the "Printer..." button in the bottom left of the dialogue.  This should open a standard OS X print dialogue (rather than the Adobe one in your screenshot) that should have an option in the dropdown menu for Security.  Under that option you should have an Account Track field.  Again, all of this is assuming you have the proper Konica driver installed.  The below example doesn't have the field I'm referring to but if it did, this is where it would appear.


The Description field attached to an image is not designed to be visible in your presentation. Instead, the purpose of the Description field is to provide additional information that can be read by assistive software. This allows users of any such software to access your presentation in a meaningful way.

Assistive software is primarily used by people who face challenges (e.g. visual impairment, learning difficulties, etc) so that they're able to access content that would otherwise not be available to them. For example, a description you enter for an image in Keynote can be read out aloud using VoiceOver so that a user with visual impairment is aware of it and understands it.

A text box is totally separate to an image and would need to be added individually. Depending on what you wanted to achieve, you could use a text box, comments or notes. If all you wanted, however, was a caption at the bottom of images then a text box is probably your best bet.


How to make afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local a fully qualified DNS name or IP address instead?

Number one, something might be wrong with your VPN, because everything should work as if you were physically in the office. You might want to check that.

Number two, I assume the remote machines use the wrong IP address when connecting to the servers. And if they are actually successful with some of the tricks you mentioned, you might have a few security issues (maybe caused by someone opening up too much of the network). But I don't fully understand the setup, so take that with a grain of salt.

Number three, I suggest considering a web server with all the necessary protections and storing the files there. Lots of such 'cloud' solutions are available, some for free, also with your own cloud servers, to keep the data local. With some technical knowledge, one can set it up with normal server software, too.

There are three main advantages: Access is possible without VPN access - much safer for some use cases. You can see and control what each person is doing on the server. And you can prepare to make the documents open online, which allows you to keep full control of them - no versions downloaded and then the laptop gets stolen...


You can do it with AppleScript (assuming you're on a Mac). Here's some scrappy code I've knocked together. Open up AppleScript editor, paste this in and run.

set dialog_reply to display dialog "Enter artist name:" default answer "Boards Of Canada"

if text returned of dialog_reply is not "" then
    set plays_list to {}
    set times_list to {}
    set artist_name to text returned of dialog_reply
    tell application "iTunes"
        try
            tell source 1
                tell library playlist 1
                    tell (every track whose artist is artist_name)
                        set plays_list to played count
                        set times_list to time
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        on error
            display alert "Couldn't find anything by " & artist_name as warning
        end try
    end tell

    if length of plays_list is greater than 0 then
        set total_time_minutes to 0
        set total_time_seconds to 0
        repeat with i from 1 to (length of times_list)
            set this_time to (item i of times_list)
            set text item delimiters to ":"
            set time_elements to every text item of this_time
            set this_minutes to item 1 of time_elements
            set this_seconds to item 2 of time_elements
            if item i of plays_list is greater than 0 then
                set total_time_minutes to total_time_minutes + (this_minutes)
                set total_time_seconds to total_time_seconds + (this_seconds)
            end if
        end repeat

        set total_time_minutes to total_time_minutes + (total_time_seconds div 60)
        set total_time_seconds to (total_time_seconds mod 60)

        if total_time_minutes is greater than 0 or total_time_seconds is greater than 0 then
            if length of (total_time_seconds as string) is less than 2 then set total_time_seconds to "0" & total_time_seconds as string
            display alert "You've played " & artist_name & " for " & total_time_minutes & "m " & total_time_seconds & "s." as informational
        else
            display alert "Looks like you haven't played anything by " & artist_name & " yet?" as warning
        end if

    end if
end if


Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition (OS X) and Dropbox

It is because of the sandbox. If you will look in your console you will see errors like: ...kernel[0]: Sandbox: Baldur's Gate...deny file-write-data .../Dropbox/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition/Baldur.ini

looking into how to allow this; I suspect that a hard link (instead of symbolic) would work. Best be sure you understand what that means before doing it.

Another way to do it would be to symlink the entire sandbox container for BGEE instead of linking a subpath. instead of a symbolic link for ~/Library/Containers/com.beamdog.baldursgateenhancededition/Data/Documents/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition make one for `~/Library/Containers/com.beamdog.baldursgateenhancededition

I haven't tested this with BG:EE, but I've done it with other sandboxes and it works.


How can I get my Mac to automatically connect to a given network whenever it becomes available?

It sounds like you may have the phone-hotspot network prioritized over your home wireless network. You can change this in System Preferences -> Network pane -> Wi-Fi service -> Advanced button -> Wi-Fi tab -> Preferred Networks list. Just click and drag to put your home network above the phone hotspot, and when it sees both it'll automatically choose the home network.

Note that this will not trigger a change whenever the home network comes into range, so it's not quite what you asked for. But it will re-scan and re-choose whenever it wakes from sleep, so if you put it to sleep on your way home (i.e. close the lid), it'll re-scan and choose the home network when you wake it back up.


A power surge isn't going to erase a drive.  Destroy it maybe, but erase the main partition while leaving the Recovery partition intact is virtually impossible.

If it was a power surge, the internal power supply would have been fried.  If that didn't fry the computer the greater than 18V DC along the power rails would surely have fried (at a minimum) the SMC (which operates on 5V and 3V DC).

What has happened is the user erased the drive in an attempt to bypass restrictions. I've seen my share of students who ask how to bypass restrictions both here and at many clients.  Here's just a short list of questions that fall into that genre:

How do you download games on a school iPad?
Why does McAfee Endpoint Protection keep auto installing?
What is a organizational device considered to be? (This one is pretty benign but I have my suspicions...)
Amazon FireTV without WiFi, MacBook Pro Internet sharing
What websites can I use to get games in my schools IPad?

The only resolution you can take (and what I still do) is the following:

tell them "That's odd.  I wonder how that could have happened..."
proceed to put it in queue for repair
tell them that since they didn't have a backup per organization acceptable use policy (or similar) that their data is gone and the responsibility is theirs (you already indicated that)
document in writing with an email to the student

There will always be someone who wants to get around the system only to smack face-first into a brick wall.


How long does it take to get confirmation?

It depends. It can take a few hours for a personal enrollment to several days for a company enrollment. If you want your company name (rather than your personal name) to show up on your apps, you'll need to take the extra time to confirm.

I also suspect that during times of peak enrollment (say after an announcement like at WWDC) that the confirmation takes longer simply due to the number of people applying to play with the beta.


Mac App Store thinks I don't have any apps installed

You'll want to focus on problems with either Spotlight finding the apps or perhaps an overall disk structure failure.

Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - HT2409
Spotlight indexes wrong HD
Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks - HT1782

Unless you are going in and systematically modifying each app's receipt, the App Store should find apps using spotlight and correctly reflect the status assuming both the disk doesn't need repair and the spotlight index is current.


I think you are encountering the same issue as Time in GMT or Missing Time Zones in systemsetup. I posted a solution there. In my case, I didn't even have the visual representation of the timezone on the map.


What is causing Photoshop to always stay on top?

It's not a complete fix, but I have found that if I click on Chrome in the dock instead of switching via the keyboard, then it does let Chrome be on top.


How to Generate a Globe / Sphere of Icons / Images

Core Animation is the part of OS X that "simplifies" programming animation. It's not a stand-alone program. Not to get too technical, it uses the OS's underlying Quartz APIs for drawing objects onscreen. Quartz Compositor is a stand-alone program that allows for building objects and animations.

What is your final intent of the sphere graphic? Do you need just a static "3D" image for a keynote presentation? Will you require a spinning globe? Do you require light rays and interactions as it spins?

Any good graphic designer or programmer (Apple included!) will make their craft look simple. The 35 major steps in the Photoshop tutorial are a testimony to my statement! The more advanced the need, from web to print to video to HD, the more complex the project.

Here are my recommendations of places to start, depending upon your output needs:

web: Use Photoshop to create your flat artwork then wrap it around a basic 3D object. 72dpi final is all you need. JPG if you don't need transparency, PNG if you do need to preserve transparency.
print: I'd also use Photoshop as with web, but final artwork needs to be 200dpi to 300dpi. Same output file formats based upon transparency needs.
video (static): Photoshop as above.
video (animated): at this point you're taking a big leap in complexity. Unless you have an understanding of a 3D modeling program, seek out someone who does. Check with your local college's graphic arts or film department.

I wish you luck with your project. If you end up biting off more than you can chew, take a step back and try breaking the task down into simpler steps and trying again.


Time Machine on Time Capsule backup verification never seems to complete

Since the verification process is akin to running fsck the filesystem check utility, this is the thing that will repair the backup or pronounce it dead.

If it fails too many times, you will then be left with a read-only Time Machine directory that you could clone somewhere else, restore the files you care, or wipe and start over.

Sadly, you are seeing all the progress that is normally available without running the tmdiagnose tool to collect detailed status and log when you ask Apple or a technician to help with time machine problems.

In most cases, I would say pick a time you can afford to be without backups (a day, a long weekend, a week) and set the Mac to not sleep and let it chug and see if it finishes. At the end of the period, you can decide to clone off the data to an attached USB drive just in case you need to retrieve something or just wipe the disk and start over.

Have you rebooted your Mac and run a filesystem check (or safe boot) to make sure your Mac doesn't have any directory damage?


Remotely control a Mac's keyboard from another Mac, without network

The usual way to solve this is using a KVM-over-IP switch (Keyboard-Video-Mouse). This is a general solution that works with almost any type of computer - PC, Mac, whatever.

KVM switches comes in many forms and price ranges from many brands such as for example Raritan, Avocent, Aten, etc. Most have for example 12 or 24 RJ45 connectors where you plugin a normal network cable. You connect an adapter to the far end of the cable. The adapter will provide for example USB and DVI, PS/2 and VGA or similar connectors that you plugin to the computer you want to remotely control.

Cheaper KVMs also exist that uses USB or proprietary cabling, provides fewer ports, etc.

You can then from your desktop PC at any location connect to the KVM switch over the network and control keyboard/mouse and see what's on the remote computer's display. Some KVM switches also allow you to create a virtual DVD-drive or floppy-drive over USB that allows you to remotely install operating systems, etc.

You mention co-location centers and they normally use KVM switches for this purpose. However, modern servers usually have built-in management controller using a seperate processor on the mainboard with its own network interface (or piggy-backing on an existing interface). This management controller usually gives you a web interface (or IPMI interface) for remotely controlling the server including video and mouse/keyboard. Usually they also let you power on/off the server and sometimes also providing virtual DVD or floppy drives.

Here's links to different KVM-over-IP products:

Cheaper range:

1-port Lantronix Spider KVM (299.99$ on newegg)

8-port Avocent DSR1021 (389$ on newegg)

1-port Raritan KX II-101 (373$)

32-port Raritan DKX3-232 (3.895$)

16-port Aten CS1716I (661$)


Can't seem to sync albums that weren't purchased from the itunes store to my IPhone 5c

In iTunes on your computer, you will need to select what music you want to sync. When the phone is plugged into iTunes and the phone is selected in the sidebar (you may need to select the menu item "View" -> "Show Sidebar"), one of the options beside the "Summary" of the phone is for "Music" where you can set exactly which playlists, artists, albums, and genres get synced. I find it convenient to have at least one playlist called something like "for-my-iphone" that I can conveniently add any individual tracks that I want synced to the phone, in addition to any of the other possible selection methods.

Incidentally, on the "Summary" page, it is probably worthwhile selecting the "convert higher bitrate songs to 128 kbps" in order to save a lot of room on your iDevice. With most headphones and listening environments it is almost impossible to notice the different sound quality. Checking this box might make the first sync a lot longer if the system needs to do a bunch of music conversion, but subsequent syncs will not be noticeably slower in my experience.


Get dictionary definition of words in spotlight in Catalina?

It seems like the default dictionary changed during the upgrade to Catalina. I had to go into the Dictionary app settings and select New Oxford American Dictionary (for American English).


In order to set the TX Power you need an older version of the Airport utility which is available here.

Navigate to your base station > Manual Setup > AirPort > Wireless > Wireless Network Options. Once there, choose a transmit power that’s lower than 100% (you can choose between 10%, 25%, 50%, and 100%).

Remember to Update your configuration when you’re done.


First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume

The obvious cause is the filesystem or physical media can not make changes so make it reliable. Also, there are many different filesystem types and drives, so be sure your tool supports your OS and Hardware if you don’t try them for free first.
Do you have a backup? If not, do that immediately. You may need recovery software for this if the mechanism is failing. Disconnect the drive immediately if this is the case and buy a new drive that’s larger (or as large) as the drive so you can copy off the files before any more attempts to “fix” it. Sometimes the fix is deleting lost files or corrupt files to make the “filesystem” balance again.

https://www.prosofteng.com/mac-data-recovery I use Data Rescue, but other options exist.

If you want a third party tool to try and fix this, I use Disk Warrior first, then perhaps Drive Genius if I don’t want to just send it to the professionals.

https://www.alsoft.com/
https://www.prosofteng.com/drive-genius-mac-protection-software

If you don’t need to back up the data, just erase the drive entirely. That is free and Apple tools will test if the drive is functioning as part of the erase operation.


Yes, the Magic Mouse 1 works with standard Bluetooth 4.0.

Bluetooth is generally backwards compatible so that older devices keep working with new Bluetooth hosts (either built-in to computers or in dongle form), although newer devices generally are not guaranteed to work with older Bluetooth hosts.

The Magic Mouse 1 requires your Mac to be running at least Mac OS X 10.5.81, which you would already be running if your mouse is working before adding the dongle. Any 2011 Mac is capable of running 10.5.8 or later, so you will face no problems there.


Automating .ics import from Mail to iCal

There is an option in Mail.app that you can set to automatically 'Add invitations to iCal'.


Photos app single library with Sierra and High Sierra

No - you'll need to restore the photo library and associated files back to a time before the migration / upgrade happened. The database schema and many other items like face recognition databases are one way forward upgrades.

If you don't have a backup, you would need to install High Sierra on an external drive - open the Photos library and then try syncing it back to iCloud (unlikely to work, but maybe try on a small library first) or export all of the photos to the filesystem and then walk away from the library.

When you go back to Sierra you'd need to make a new library and then import the photos from the filesystem. This would be a lot of work and you might have more problems with things like memories / albums / edits than the reversion to Sierra cures.


What's making this sound on my Mac? (DeliveryCompleted.aiff)

Turns out it was Adium's way of telling me a new contact had signed on. I disabled the sound in Adium's preference and it's gone away.


How do I change a device name from the iCloud web site?

You change the name on each device in: Settings > General > About > Name.

Just rename it and you're done!


Time Capsule - Home made - OpenWrt router with usb disk acting as airport wireless device

HFS+ will get you nowhere since Linux cannot write it reliably. I don't know how to configure your OpenWRT hardware exactly but here is my solution used on both x86 Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi (I think the latter is close enough to an router - at least a smartphone)

You need some packages to make AFP and mDNS/DNS-SD work:

apt-get install avahi-daemon netatalk

Now configure your netatalk to share the volume on your Linux box. The filesystem does not make any difference, I used ext4 as it is close enough to modern HFS+ systems. (On my RPi, the only way to access files on it is to use either SSH or AFP, I uninstalled Samba)
At this point, you can hack your mac to force it to use your Linux box as Time Capsule, or you can find a real Time Capsule (or OS X Server) and replicate all its extra DNS-SD records using Avahi.


"disk full" error -- quota disagrees with system information

I would run Verify Disk in the Disk First Aid tab in Disk Utility (Usually kept in Applications > Utilities). If there are any problems you will have to repair your disk which will require restarting while holding down the option key and booting from your recovery partition, or if you have an older computer, from the system install disk.


I need to stop an iMac update that is already downloaded and ready to install

The installer is usually in Applications. "Install macOS Sierra.app". Delete that, empty the trash (or direct-delete in Terminal).

  I am testing software on an El Capitan system

Get a virtual machine like Fusion or Parallels. Set up a new install of the OS and make a snapshot. Whatever happens next can be restored to the initial state in 30 seconds by restoring the snapshot.

VMs are also capable of running the next version. I run El Capitan right now and have VMs from 10.5 to Sierra. And with enough memory it's possible to have them all open at once.


It's not possible to open folder with one click in default "Icons" view in Finder. However switching to "Columns" view (cmd-3) will allow you to open folder with one click.

Also it could be faster to just use hotkeys instead of trackpad/mouse. Use arrows to navigate inside "Icons" view, cmd-down to open selected folder and enter to rename selected file or folder. When no file or folder is selected, you could just type in file/folder name and Finder will select closest match for you.


You need to check your subscriptions or recent purchases for an outstanding charge made to your account.

Check your subscriptions on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch- https://support.apple.com/en-ph/HT202039

Check all of your recent downloads by visiting:
http://reportaproblem.apple.com and signing in.

If both subscriptions and recent purchases arent showing a charge then you should contact AppleCare via 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask to speak to iTunes. You should expect a 15-25 minute wait since iTunes is always busy. If you can call in the morning between 8am-11am, not too many people call Apple that early.


Set the WorkingDirectory to user's home in launchd?

launchd doesn't know about shell mechansims like ~ or $HOME. Instead you can use one of the following

Specify the full path in the plist
Add cd $HOME at the beginning of the executedscript


After installing Windows 7, my MacMini won't boot Lion anymore

So a guy in MacRumors ask me why I didn't install the Boot Camp drivers in Windows yet - I don't know, nobody mention this before (or I really miss this part). The package is more than just drivers, will install a control panel similar to OS X and will change the boot either - just what I was looking for. After install it, I could finally boot from Lion just by selecting in the list of the control panel.

Unfortunately, I cannot copy-paste the link for the Apple page about those drivers because the site will auto switch to pt-br... I think you will find it easily by searching support.apple.com with google. You got to look for instructions about installing old versions of Windows in old Macs, there is an article about this. Just a warning: each system/Windows require a specific package and version (4 ou 5). Pick the right one and you will be happy.

If you got the link in english, please share with us.


I went through this just last week.  Time Machine backups have ACL permissions set.  There are a few ways to see these.  The first is ls -e.  This is from my TimeMachine .bash_profile

ls -le .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--@ 5 gregcain  staff  6508 Mar 21 13:57 .bash_profile
 0: group:everyone deny write,delete,append,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

and this is for my normal one

ls -le .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 gregcain  staff  6748 Mar 29 13:08 .bash_profile

If you want to modify these settings, you'll need chmod:

chmod -N .bash_profile


This is the new behaviour in Yosemite and it can't easily be changed. The menu bar format now doesn't read your custom format and instead displays a barely customizable format instead. The only available options for it can be found in System Preferences -> Date & Time -> Clock.

One thing you could do is use a third party utility like Day-O, which is free and does exactly what you seek -> http://shauninman.com/archive/2011/10/20/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock https://shauninman.com/archive/2016/10/20/day_o_2_mac_menu_bar_clock.

If you want things more natively, you could try editing the corresponding plist file directly (com.apple.menuextra.clock). I haven't however had much luck with it.

Open Terminal and type the following:

Reading the current settings:

defaults read com.apple.menuextra.clock

Setting them:

defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" 'EEE hh:mm a'

Or 24 hours format with the (day of the) month and seconds:

defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" 'EEE d MMM HH:mm:ss'

Then refresh the menu bar using:

killall -KILL SystemUIServer

Using w you should be able to add week number, but I haven't had any luck with that and it keeps resetting the week number.


What is disabling internet sharing on my macbook?

One possibility why you are unable to enable internet sharing is your school may have used  a Profile Manager (http://help.apple.com/profilemanager/mac/2.1/#apd0E2214C6-50F0-48C9-A482-74CEA1D77A9F) to apply settings and preferences to your Mac. The benefit is settings (such as WiFi network access, software licenses, etc) present in your Mac allows you to use your Mac in school without having to remember to the settings. Disadvantage is you may have to ask your school for help in enabling internet sharing. Whether the school agrees will depend on its policy for accessing school resources even though the Mac is yours (as you stated, bought by you).


How can I print this PDF and fill an A4 page?

It is not really a glitch.

The accuracy of print preview depends on 2 factors.

One is the Printer it self.

Try changing printer type or select high print resolution (1200 DPi or more).

The second factor is the application showing the print preview.

If you for example use the Adobe Reader it shows much better print preview then Preview.app it self.

Example:


Access iOS command line on computer without network

Answer:

If you put your phone in tethering mode, you can hook it up to the computer via USB and SSH to the IP address of your phone's tether or hotspot interface. You could also do it over WiFi or BlueTooth.  The IP address of the phone shows up as your laptop's tethered connection's gateway.

Commentary:

"Keep my security while still being jailbroken."

Yeah.. um, no.  You defeated security mechanisms on it to add customization.  It's a trade-off. If you're that concerned about potential security risks, you shouldn't have jailbroken the phone.

There is no way to get to the phone's console except from the phone itself without using SSH.

SSH  ("Secure SHell") is plenty secure between your laptop and iPhone, especially with WPA on WiFi, if you're not going through any untrusted network devices.

SSH over USB tethering is your most secure option.  You'll want to turn the phone and laptop radios off if you really don't want the SSH server on the phone exposed to the world when it's enabled.


How do I unhide columns in Numbers using AppleScript?

I figured it out. As user3439894 said, there was a conflict between the shortcuts for underlining and unhiding columns. I changed it to ⌃+U.

I needed to activate the window before shortcuts could be used on it.

tell application "Numbers"
    activate
    open POSIX file "/path/to/file"
    tell document "file"
        set active sheet to sheet "sheet"
        tell table "table" of sheet "sheet"
            set selection range to range "A1"
            tell application "System Events" to keystroke "u" using command down
        end tell
    end tell
end tell


No longer able to copy file link in Dropbox after upgrading Mac to Yosemite

Make sure that you are using a 2.10.4x build of Dropbox. The current latest stable version is 2.10.45 and can be found at

https://forums.dropbox.com

Dropbox's Finder integration in Yosemite is very different because there is now an official way to have Dropbox integrate with Finder, rather than Dropbox having to inject its code into Finder.

(See the “Finder Sync Extensions” section of OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The John Siracusa Review for more details.)


I actually figured it out myself. I basically created a transparent PNG of the iMac screen with the display itself transparent, then I placed the website screenshot into keynote and sent to back. Now Magic move works great.


AirPlay is supported, extending or mirroring your Mac's desktop over AirPlay is not supported. As far as I know, the only way to stream from the menu bar is to stream system audio by Option-clicking the sound/volume icon. i think video streaming is still per-app if you can't do AirPlay desktop mirroring/extending.


How to find a cause of a Kernel Panic message, or BSoD?

The kernel panic text is added to the log after you restart the computer, assuming that you did not reset PRAM (the kernel panic text is stored in PRAM until you restart). In Mac OS X v10.6, the logs are located in in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. In Mac OS X v10.5, the logs are located in /Library/Logs/PanicReporter (source)

If you cannot find these files, or they contain no information on the kernel panic, then there is likely something wrong with the hardware of the computer.  Running a system diagnostic or visiting the genius bar is probably your next step.

If you are really interested in attempting to resolve the issue yourself, you might find this guide to resolving OS X kernel panics helpful.


Macbook Air 1.1GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 vs MacBook Pro Core i5 2.4GHz 13" Retina (Late 2013)

Your MacBook Pro has a dual core i5-4258U CPU, which currently has average scores of 645/1,401 (single-core/multi-core) in Geekbench 5. There aren't yet enough scores of the latest (early 2020) MacBook Air but one early benchmark returned scores of 1,047/2,658.

This suggests that the MacBook Air should be almost twice as fast as your current MacBook Pro, which seems reasonable as the former has a seven generations-later quad core CPU. One thing to be aware of - due to the size of the MacBook Air it may not be able to sustain that level of performance for extended periods as the CPU may be throttled so that it doesn't exceed temperature thresholds. A MacBook Pro won't throttle the CPU as much as the chassis is slightly larger and it has improved cooling (even with any possible throttling the Air will be faster than your current MacBook Pro).


I erased an APFS Volume containing a second OSX installation (trying out Mojave) but my Mac keeps trying to boot into it

You can change the default to boot High Sierra by either of the following:

Select High Sierra from the Startup Disk pain of the System Preferences application.
Hold down the control key when selecting High Sierra from the Startup Manager.

You still have Mojave code in your APFS container. In your case, do the opposite of the answer you linked to.

  BTW: You can also elect to not delete this code. The code will not interfere with the operation of the Mac and occupies very little space.

IN OTHER WORDS:

  Note: Below I have assumed APFS Volume "Preboot" is disk2s2 and APFS Volume "My Recovery" is disk2s3.

You can use Disk Utility under High Sierra to remove the APFS volume containing Mojave. However, removing Mojave also requires steps where commands are issued in a Terminal application window. Below are the remain steps needed to remove Mojave.

Open the Disk Utility application.
Get the file system UUID of the High Sierra volume . Right click the icon for the High Sierra volume in the Disk Utility application and select Get Info. Here, I will assume the file system UUID is 2E0E6320-5D0A-4181-B465-ABFF2CBBFC27.
Boot to macOS Recovery.
Open a Terminal application window.
Enter the command below to disable System Integrity Protect (SIP) on next restart.

sudo  csrutil  disable

Boot back to High Sierra.
Open a Terminal application Window.
Determine the UUID of the deleted APFS Mojave volume. Start by entering the commands given below.

diskutil  mount  disk2s2
cd  /Volumes/Preboot
ls

The UUID of the deleted APFS Mojave volume should be the same as the name of the directory (folder) that is not the UUID for the High Sierra volume (2E0E6320-5D0A-4181-B465-ABFF2CBBFC27). Here, I will assume this is 832D1AE3-C9F2-454F-BE45-64E1ECBA38AA.
Enter the commands below to remove Mojave from APFS Volume Preboot.

rm  -Rf  832D1AE3-C9F2-454F-BE45-64E1ECBA38AA
cd  ~
diskutil  unmount  disk2s2

Enter the commands below to remove Mojave from APFS Volume My Recovery.

diskutil  mount  disk2s3
cd  "/Volumes/My Recovery"
rm  -Rf  832D1AE3-C9F2-454F-BE45-64E1ECBA38AA
cd  ~
diskutil  unmount  disk2s3

Reset the SIP settings, by entering the command given below.

sudo  csrutil  clear

Restart the Mac


What is the technical reason why OS X can't write to NTFS devices?

OS X can write to NTFS volumes.  However, it's a hidden switch, and it's not supported.  Use it at your own risk.

OS-level support for a file system is a major technical investment.  It's not just about knowing the rules.  There are fundamental differences between HFS+ and NTFS, such as characters supported in the name and maximum file size.  When writing an OS, not to mention applications, it's very easy to make assumptions in your code that rely on the expected file system.

Reading a file from a different file system is significantly easier than writing a file to a different file system.  In only reading a file, there is very little chance of data loss.  In writing a file, it is imperative that the act of writing the file does not lose data (either in the file that you are writing, or other files on the disk).

Supporting another file system means that there is a massive expense to the OS development and test teams.  If you take a look at this comparison of file systems, you can see many places where these two file systems differ.  Without official support for NTFS, the safest assumption is that it hasn't been sufficiently tested and might not support all of the features of NTFS.


How to disable sound when switching Firefox tabs with ⌘1-⌘9

That’s certainly not a Firefox sound, at least not one that I’ve heard in the past.

Do you have any Extension? Try disabling them all for the sake of testing.
Any other application running that could be using the same shortcut? (Safari uses that to access the quick bookmarks where ⌘1 corresponds to the 1st on the left (next to Top Sites) and so on. However, the lack of bookmark, doesn’t produce a sound on my system. I even have “Play User Interface sound effect” checked in Sound Preferences pane.

My bet is that you have something else running and that is causing the “bonk”.


How to listen to iMac G3 audio files with no extension on a recent device?

https://recording.org/threads/optimizing-imac-for-audio-recording.10348/ Is it Digital Performer ? Also, make a backup of all audio files and perform experiments on a new copy.

  Raw files can have a wide range of file extensions, common ones being .raw, .pcm, or .sam. They can also have no extension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_audio_format

So you can rename one of the files to add the extensions like

  .raw files can really contain anything, the extension really provides no clue.

  .sam files are by far the most common raw file one can encounter, these are 8-bit signed PCM. They were employed extensively along with EA IFF 8SVX files as samples in Amiga tracker software.

  .pcm files might provide a clue that the file contains linear PCM, as opposed to encodings such as the various types of delta and companding encodings and compressed streams, this could still be any bit depth and ordering.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160525083851/http://www.fmtz.com/misc/raw-audio-file-formats

Other than that, use some audio software like Audacity which  supports importing raw formats.

  The two most common uncompressed file types you will encounter are WAV and AIFF.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/importing_audio.html


Is it possible to access a FileVault 2 encrypted volume from Boot Camp?

And the correct answer is: No.

Encryption only affects the OS X volume. Booting into Boot Camp, the necessary password prompt to allow decryption is bypassed entirely. The volume becomes an opaque blob to anything but a running OS X system.


Where is my Skype profile picture stored on OS X?

Took me a while to find this, but here's the profile picture directory in Mountain Lion:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ImageKit.RecentPictureService/Data/Library/Images/Recent\ Pictures/


iPad 2 company installed monitoring malware

Apple allows end users to remove any MDM profiles that could be seen as Malware if you didn't agree to enroll the device in the first place.

Apple ensures pretty well that a company cannot push these settings to any device except ones they strictly own.
If you enroll a BYOD iPad into their MDM - you are prompted to agree to enroll the device and you can inspect what sort of data collection and control you are yielding to the company.
At any time, you can remove the restrictions/monitoring - but you will then lose the Apps that are provisioned from the company, company data that is stored in company apps as well as loss of email accounts. This removal is surgical - only the items that "belong" to the company get deleted - all content remains unless it came in after the profile and under the profile's control.
If you don't trust the surgical remove option - power off the device and restore it from iTunes.

I wouldn't call any of this malware since it was designed in by Apple and intended to be used in the way it is used. Hopefully you weren't surprised by what you agreed to when you enrolled the device or handed it over to IT. If you received it from IT - you may have missed all the prompts.

Best of luck - and you'll know to carefully inspect all profiles going forward so you've comfortable with the control you cede to anyone else running a MDM.


How can I convert a font from Font Book to .ttf?

Font Book is an application, not a font format. Some fonts that appear in Font Book are True Type fonts. For those that are not, the question is about converting that specific format.

To find the file for a particular font, select it in Font Book, control-click it, and select "Show in Finder". You can then see what the format is on the file.


Expand Finder column width with keyboard shortcut

The answer to this thread pretty much points out the problem with keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcut (or permanent setting) for fitting column width to longest filename in OS X?


Double check they have iMessage activated in their Settings. Sometimes changing SIM card when travelling can remove a number you have been using for iMessage before, or people don't reconfirm it afterwards.


Can OS X services be split up across multiple OS X Servers at different locations?

I know Software Update service cannot be replicated. You can however, run multiple Software Update servers. You just have to point the client to which Software Update server you want to use.


How to reduce photos in iPhoto while keeping metadata?

Short Answer, Automator:

Long Answer: iPhoto cannot create a smart album based upon File Size, so you'll have to either group them by other means or manually create an Album with the offending photos (the big ones). Automator, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of finding iPhoto images by size (and by Rating stars).

The first thing you have to decide is: Do I want to scale my images down? Do I want to make them JPG instead of whatever format they have? Do I want to do both for maximum effect? That is, you have to decide what's the best optimization for your photos that has a balance between quality/size.

Each of those have consequences:  if you don't save a copy of the original photo, and the resulting quality is not something you like, there's no turn back (unless you have a TimeMachine or similar backup of course).

In any case, Launch Automator, create a new "Workflow" and add the following actions:

NOTE: I've removed the "Make copy" actions that Automator asks you to place by default when an operation will "affect" files, but leave those to "experiment" so you don't alter
your original images, at least until you're satisfied with the results.

I suggest you try with a small set of images before going Coo-Coo with the whole Library. As in create a small album with some of the "big" images and try from there. You don't want to wreck your iPhoto library…

This should preserve all the metadata and original photo, while making a Batch adjustment.

If you have programs like Pixelmator or Acorn, you will have more automator stuff there. The more the merrier.


The standard "complete" themes like CambridgeUS and others, which are listed in the beameruserguide, should have been installed together with the beamer package and can be use as described in the manual:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

outer themes are just a subset of the whole beamer theming approach (e.g. infolines).

With regard to installing other custom themes: simply put them into a sub-folder of your local texmf tree under ~/Library/texmf/.


Well, If you don't have a backup of iOS 9.3, you might not be able to get your data back. Haven't tried it, but if you downgrade, and then set it up as a new device, and then restored your data from iCloud, you might get your data back. Don't take my word for it.

Also, you will need to have access to a computer running iTunes. You cannot go back to iOS 9 without it.

To downgrade to a fresh install of iOS 9.3 there are a couple of steps, and you need a good internet connection, a computer with iTunes, your device, and a cable to connect the device.

Head over to ipsw.me (On a Computer) and download the latest iOS 9.3.x ipsw
still being signed by apple (It is in green) for your device. As of July 8, iOS 9.3.2 is being signed by apple for all supported devices.
Connect your iDevice to your computer running iTunes, and make a full backup just incase. (Worst case scenario, you'll have to go back to iOS 10 if you don't get your data back from iCloud). The download is 1-2 GB, and it might take a while depending on your internet speed.
Go to the Summary Page of iTunes (Should automatically show up when you connect your device and open iTunes).
Alt+Click the "Restore" button (On a Mac, option+click), and select the ipsw file you downloaded earlier.
After a while, it will have restored your device, and you should be back on a clean copy of iOS 9.3.x.
Try restoring your data from a backup on iCloud, or try from the full backup you made earlier on iTunes. It will restore your data, however, I have no clue if it will take you back to iOS 10. (Again, worst case scenario, you will have to stay on iOS 10, and you won't lose your data since you have 2 working backups on iCloud and iTunes)

Remember, don't try out beta software, especially not the first beta. If you do not know what you're getting yourself into, or if you do want to try out beta software, do it on a different device or make sure you have a working backup before you jump ship.


The problem are the spaces in the path. You have to add it in quotes ->  “/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool”


How do I paste or type without moving the insertion point? (10.8.x)

I have never seen such behavior on an OS level. This is likely because such behavior is normally needed for a very specialized task like programming or spreadsheeting, which would be better handled by individual applications.

You might be able to rig something up in Automator that could duplicate this behavior, but I suspect you probably want a different solution.

You can easily do what you need using Sublime Text's multiple select feature, without having the exact behavior that you describe.

In general, if your scripts are starting to get very repetitive, it's probably a better idea to figure out how to easily automate it, rather continue down the path of manual repetition.