iPhone 8: Home button doesn't move inward when pressed, but iPhone makes a click sound

You need not worry. Since your iPhone is functioning fine, most likely there’s nothing wrong with your iPhone 8.

With the iPhone 7/7 Plus announced in September 2016, Apple introduced a new style of Home button which no longer physically clicks. Similar Home button is built into iPhone 8/8 Plus.

The click that you experience is a form of tactile feedback to let you know that the button press is successfully registered by the iPhone. You need not press it too hard under the assumption that it is damaged and requires a harder press.

You can read more about the new Home button in the Apple support article, How to use the Home button on iPhone 7 and iPhone 8.

  The Home button on your iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus is unlike the Home button on other iOS devices. Instead of moving inward when you press it, the Home button detects the presence and pressure of your finger. When you press the Home button, you feel a slight click.

What you are experiencing is called Haptic Feedback produced by the built-in Taptic Engine. You can read more about the new Home button in iPhone 7/7 Plus/8/8 Plus in the linked articles:

The iPhone 7's new home button isn't a real button

  As well as killing off the headphone jack, Apple has dropped the mechanical home button from the new iPhone 7, replacing it with a static version that's force sensitive. Instead of a button that physically moves, the new home button will use Apple's "taptic engine" to click back at users. Vibrations delivered through the home button will be used as notifications, with unique buzzes for things like text messages and calls.

  The new home button, which uses a "taptic engine" to give you physical feedback when you press it — it's pressure sensitive, too, so it can tell if you really mean to press it or just tap it.

Daring Fireball: The iPhones 7

  The home button on both iPhones 7 no longer physically clicks. Instead, it’s a force touch sensor, and it uses the improved Taptic Engine to provide simulated click feedback.

Note: The linked articles are mostly talking about iPhone 7 as it was with this iPhone that the new Home button was introduced for the first time. As far as the Home button is concerned, the contents are equally applicable to iPhone 8.

Additionally, this style of Home button is exclusive to iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. It hasn't appeared in any of the iPod touch and iPad models so far. The last released models of iPhone have completely phased out the Home button and have instead started incorporating Face ID for authentication.


Solution for Airprint with a router that is not Bonjour compatible

I don't know if it will work, mostly because the product hasn't been released yet but xPrintServer might work. It is a bit pricey for this usage though.


When re-importing music in iTunes, is there a way to set "Replace Existing" as the default and skip the dialog?

If you have enough disk space, maybe you can import the CDs into a new iTunes library, and when it is all done, import again (in one go) from there into the real one?


Adobe Creative Cloud Color Replacement Tool Not There

Try going to Edit > Toolbar and in the dialogue that opens click "Restore Defaults".


It’s almost certain your device is either:

failing and in need of hardware repair
not 4s and actually 4

You can verify the model number or call Apple support to be sure you have a 4s and then see about arranging service if restore attempts fail repeatedly.


Notes 4.0 (El Capitan) strikethrough option removed

Yeah, the option is a bit well hidden, dunno why.
Its called Struck through  instead of strikethrough

To get the text formatting in Notes 4.0

1) Make a text selection for the struck through, right click on it

2) Select Fonts then Styles

3) Use the Style Browser or whatever that is called
to check the Favourite Styles and then select Struck Through from the dropdown list. Tada!

Wow. That was really easy and accessible, right? Why not add
another step since all that makes a lot of sense. I guess, this time
Apple struck through the UX.

Here one close-up of the option. I think one can make a Keyboard
shortcut that will make this more ehh sane to use. Maybe there is
one already.


There's no way you can locate your device without it connecting to the internet. You can go to this link and enable the lost mode. I am not sure if your phone was locked, if it was then there's no way it can have internet unless it is unlocked. If it was not locked and it gets internet access then the lost mode will be enabled and you can get the phones location. Also the phone will be locked after that.

Once you enable Lost Mode, you will also get an option to enable 'Notify me when found', enable that option as well.

If your have not enabled Two-factor authentication for Apple ID and if you have any other apple device then I suggest you enable it by following instructions on this link. Because now there are high chances of someone trying to hack your apple id to use the phone.


Producing music on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air

The MacBook Pro is very Popular because of the Power it has, the stability and of course the Design.

It has more input connections, the MacBook Air has not.
You can look that up on the Apple Supprot Pages, but here are some examples :

MacBook Pro has a Line-In for 3,5mm jacks, where the MacBook Air only has a 3,5mm headphone jack, but no input.

Also The MacBook Pro has a FireWire Connector ( the older ones ) which is great. MacBook Air "only" has a Thunderbolt Connector.

But if you have one Thunderbolt port you can probably plug anything into that because of the flexibility. But it is also very expensive.

I also like the handling of Music Interfaces in mac OS X. It is very easy to extend the system regarding audio-stuff that has USB. Most Macs "just work" with them.

Also you have a large Software Library for Professional Music Production. Including the free GarageBand package. And the Apple "Logic Studio"

Most people like the MacBook Pro because (I think) it is the easiest and most stable to work with on Music and Audio.

If you want to buy a MacBook, I would recommend either a low budget MacBook Pro 13" or 15", or the 13" MacBook Air. It's depending on what exactly you try to produce.

For most Musicians the 15" MacBook Pro is the way to go, because of it's great Power. You don't have to care about that any more.
The SOundCard inside the MacBook is pretty stable to hande a lot of tracks at the same time, but if you want a workstation (with many interfaces and mixers), have a look at existing MacPro setups from the past years (not the new trash-can macPro).

I would also recommend researching on YouTube for "room Tours" or "Setup Tours" of People who produce Music.


What is the opposite of space to scroll up?

Shift-Space

Space goes down a page, and Shift-Space is the opposite, scrolling up one page.


Does iOS's native image editor lose image quality?

Yes, that is the case. When you edit a JPEG photo and save the result as a JPEG image, it will be re-encoded and thus you'll suffer some loss of quality. The only way to avoid that is to save the photo in a lossless format (for example RAW). You cannot do that with the built-in Photos app.

You can find other apps that allow you to save both the original photo and edits in better quality - like for example PureShot and others. Even though the resolution is the same, different apps have different quality settings in regards to how much JPEG compression is applied.

Note that even though the original photo has low compression (and high quality), just editing it in the native Photos apps will save a new JPEG with higher compression and lower quality. For example read this article where they loaded a 5.59 MB photo, applied an edit and saved - and got a 1.49 MB photo out of the native app:

Editing App Comparison

Another factor when comparing editing apps is to ensure that they perform all your edits against the original photo before exporting a new JPEG. If they create a new JPEG for each edit and use that as the source for the next edit, you'll experience the quality degradation multiple times.


Does the iPad Mini have a connectivity kit? (Need to transfer photos)

Yes, ipad mini has connectivity kit, since I have mine when I bought it but the truth is, I haven't been able to use it yet since I bought this last year!

And one more thing about transferring photos, I think it's better to use Dropbox, I guess your photos would not be too much to occupy even the 100GB capacity, which I am now using. I have iphone4s and ipad mini and I just sync everything to Dropbox, it's much easier, no hassle and simply a lot of storage capacity than my phone. :-)


It is not possible to have the phone disable your cellular data use when you reach a certain amount of usage, nor is it possible for it to notify you.

My experience is that most networks offer a service to notify you when you reach or just before you reach the limit, and some offer the option to cut off your data when you reach your limit taking you to a page where you can buy more.

It is unfortunate that this is the way it is, but I wouldn't speculate that Apple presumes everyone has unlimited data, but that data limits are a network issue, and that network providers often provide their own solutions to this, if your network doesn't that is unfortunate, but perhaps a consideration for when you choose your next network provider.


How to check if a Firmware Password is enabled in OS X?

Apple uses their own boot loader, which only boots OS X, so I am not entirely sure what you mean by secure boot.

However, I assume you are asking how you can tell if a Mac has been secured with a firmware password. To find out, simply try to boot the Mac into anything but the normal OS X boot process. Try using an external boot volume, recovery mode, single user mode, verbose mode, target disk mode, resetting the PRAM or any other alternative booting approach. They will all trigger the firmware password window.

Failing to enter the correct password won't do anything. The machine just wont boot. Even if failed, it will probably still boot into your normal OS X install, but I havent tried that.

Please note: The term "firmware password" on Macs can also be referred to as "Open Firmware" or "EFI passwords".


Mac runs as long as plugged in, but unpredictably shuts off otherwise - clock resets

Pretty sure it needs a new battery.

Get coconutBattery (freeware) & test.


Are you trying to remote control the Apple TV? Or are you trying to remote control the MacBook Pro? (both will work!)

There's the Remote app (by Apple, not affiliated) which can control the Apple TV, and there are probably lots of 'VLC Remote' apps if you are trying to control VLC itself.

VLC Remote Free for iOS here
VLC Remote (paid) for iOS here

These work directly with the VLC client and allow for the full control experience - media selection, play, pause, rewind, forward etc.


How do I shrink my Ubuntu partition and reabsorb the freed space into my Mac OS Mojave Partition?

For this question, I created a partition called "Ubuntu" but not really Ubuntu. Just a random partition that's only 3 GB but it should work the same way.

First of all, you will have to go to Disk Utility and choose "Show All Devices"

Then click on the top Disk and click "Partition"

You can then click on the "Ubuntu" piece of the pie chart and change the size from 65 GB to 25 GB or whatever you want it to be.

Click "Apply", wait for the process to finish, then it should be resized! Comment if you have any problems.


Have a look at this method I used for many years on Lion and Mountain Lion: How to stop InternetSharing overwriting /etc/bootpd.plist

Since the culprit is still InternetSharing overwriting a standard
configuration file, the method should work.


How to resize a screenshot image on a Mac so that it is "regular size" when posted on the Internet?

I'm not quite sure what you mean. I tested it with a screenshot (see above) and reduced the resolution to half, uploaded it here, it's still the new resolution that I chose in Preview.

Maybe you can try the following:

Change the resolution in Preview
Close the image
Right click on it, check Get Info, then "More Info", there you should find the current resolution which should be slower than before
If this does not work for you, maybe try a tool like ImageMagick that offers a lot of options for manipulating images.

http://cactuslab.com/imagemagick/


Can I install OSX Safari 5.1 for one user and Safari 5.05 for another user - same CPU?

The person behind Multi-Safari has documented the procedure to create a Safari application with a self-contained WebKit framework here.

Basically it involves duplicating the Safari application, opening the contents and creating a Frameworks folder inside, copying the Framework from /System/Library/Frameworks and then performing some jiggery-pokery to get the application to prefer to use the self-contained framework over the one in the Library folder.

(I decided not to copy his instructions word for word, as his website didn't use Creative Commons.)


OS X right click/context menu via keyboard

The context menu can primarily be opened by a right mouse click (or a control click) only.

However, if you want to right click on a specific area on the screen without using the mouse, you may use Mouse Keys from Universal Access settings in System Preferences. With it, you can control the mouse by using the keyboard number pad. When activated, a right mouse click then can be achieved by Ctrl+5 on a keyboard with a numpad or Fn+Ctrl+i on a laptop. This will allow you to 'right-click' your word.

Go to System Preferences --> Universal Access --> Mouse --> Enable Mouse Keys (ON)

Found on: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11238186/1919382


Why is my script editor coming up with connection invalid after running it for a while?

For a double-click every 5 seconds, until you quit the script, try just

delay 3
tell application "RuneScape" to activate
repeat
    delay 5
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke (key code 83)
        keystroke (key code 83)
    end tell
end repeat


automator and python script utf-8 output

I found myself :

print " * {0} : [{1}]({2})".format(post["n"].encode( "utf-8" ), post["d"].encode( "utf-8" ), post["u"].encode( "utf-8" ))

It was an unicode/utf-8 problem :)


How do I exclude video podcasts from my podcast smart playlist

Adding Kind contains 'audio'should do the trick. At least it's what I'm doing and it works.
Kind contains 'video' will give you the video Podcasts.


It is possible to do, both natively and easily. Mac OS X hints has a hint (also check Lri’s comment) on how to set up keyboard shortcuts from the command line. We can use this to create single-key shortcuts.

You’ll need to know the application’s bundle ID (unless you want to set global shortcuts, naturally). For special keys, @ is ⌘; ~ is ⌥; $ is ⇧; ^ is ctrl. You can also check other values.

I’ll use Tweetbot as an example, setting “New Tweet” to ⌥+N, and “Reply” (on the multi-shortcut example) to R.

For one-shortcut commands, you can use the form:

defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "New Tweet" -string "~n"

For multi-shortcut commands, use the form:

defaults write com.tapbots.TweetbotMac NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
  "New Tweet"="~n";
  "Reply"="r";
}'

For system-wide shortcuts, use -g, instead of a bundle ID.


To show the full URL in what Safari calls the 'Smart Search Field', make sure the following is set in Preferences:

Go to Safari > Preferences (⌘+,)
Select the Advanced tab
Check the box "Smart Search Field: [✓] Show full website address"

Now you can edit the full URL by hand.

EDIT:
Notice how the URL is now displayed with first before the title?  Just the opposite of the OP's screenshot.  Now typing the right arrow ► will go to the end of the URL not the title as the URL is first.  (The URL and the Title are now swapped)


I can see network printers when connected via ethernet, but not through a Time Capsule

Set up your Time Capsule in bridge mode and it won't create a new network segment. That will make all connections to the TC equivalent to plugging them each in to a switch connected by ethernet.


Prevent Bonjour Announcements Over OpenVPN

How about blocking udp traffic on port 5353?


I'm afraid a DMG isn't downloadable.

I think it may be possible by the following steps: (haven't tried it myself yet)

Create a new disk image through Disk Utility at a size large enough to fit a system (about 40G should be good, you can shrink it later)
Mount the disk image
Using the installer downloaded from the App Store, install El Capitan Beta on the mounted disk image
Eject and export the disk image.


No - there is no general way to recover the original location of arbitrary files when you move them out of trash and place them on the desktop.

Gladly, they didn't get erased, but this is exactly the job for which Time Machine was created. Now, you can leverage some knowledge about what goes into All My Files to get things back in a reasonable shape:

Put obvious files in the correct location - Pictures, Documents, Movies, Music all have folders in the user home folder.
Create a new smart folder to search the files for "Where from" to contain http to locate any files downloaded from the internet (and perhaps placing them back in Downloads folder)

Also, since OS X doesn't really care where most user folders or applications are stored, you don't even need to do anything but file these away in a "clean later" folder and apps that need a file will automatically locate the files in their new spot.


Am I asking too much of my MacBooks performance? Will El Capitan help?

For now, try "Reduce transparency" in in System Preferences → Accessibility → Display.

El Capitan brings improvements to System Performance:

  OS X El Capitan improves system performance across your Mac, making
  many of the things you do everyday faster and more responsive. Metal,
  Apple’s groundbreaking graphics technology, accelerates Core Animation
  and Core Graphics to boost system-level rendering by up to 50
  percent,* and efficiency by up to 40 percent,** resulting in faster
  graphics performance for everyday apps. Metal also takes full
  advantage of your CPU and GPU, delivering up to 10 times faster draw
  call performance for a richer, more fluid experience in games and pro
  apps.

Apple announced that Metal support in OS X extends to all Macs built since 2012:

  MacBook 12-inch (Early 2015)
  MacBook Air 11-inch (Mid 2012 and later)
  MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2012 and later)
  MacBook Pro 13-inch (Mid 2012)
  MacBook Pro 13-inch Retina (Late 2012 and later)
  MacBook Pro 15-inch (Mid 2012)
  MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina (Mid 2012 and later)
  Mac mini (late 2012 and later)
  iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2012 and later)
  iMac 27-inch (late 2012 and later)
  iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch (late 2013 and later)
  Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
  Mac Pro (Late 2013)

If reduce transparency doesn't help today, I say wait for El Cap and try again.


Turn off the ability for users to have a password hint

The ability to disable Passwords Hints has been built into macOS
System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Options.  Just make sure "Show Password Hints" is unchecked.

Using Terminal, you can issue the command:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow RetriesUntilHint -int 0

Your security policy
You aren't alone in dealing with employees/users who what to go against the grain so to speak when it comes to security.  The users that you described:  the ones who ignore your security and the ones who actively go against your policies can actually be the biggest threats to data security.
First thing to know is that there is no technology you can implement that will secure a user who ignores your security policy - i.e (don't use personal email accounts when sending sensitive documents) or employees that circumvent them (puts a Post-It note with their password on the screen because it needs to be changed every 90 days).

The very first thing you need to do is define the security policy and why it's being defined.  Describe what data or system (or whatever) you are protecting and the risk it poses if it's compromised (i.e. loss of revenue, litigation, etc.).

The very next thing is to get buy in from management.  Not only should you periodically remind employees, but have an official communication come from management spelling out the policy - don't do this alone!

Thirdly, involve HR (or whoever is ultimately responsible for hiring and firing) to spell out the consequences of not adhering to the policy.

Why is this important?
As an IT manager, I can't tell you the number of times a data breach occurred not because I or the systems I put in place failed, but people who didn't like the policies actively went around them.  Having these operational policies in place squarely puts the burden on the employee and management and not you.  Now, as an IT consultant (I charge for this type of analysis) I can't tell you how many times my business increased because the IT manager took my report, went back to management and said "see, I told you so."
Obviously, I'm speaking in broad terms, but the takeaway from this is to not shoulder security by yourself.  Define your policy, use whatever tech is available (can afford) and get buy in from the whole organization.


There is not a way to modify the system app switcher in this way (or at all, really) on a stock iOS device. Your best bet is to use wrapper apps for as many of these sites as you can.


Is there something special about the .Spotlight directories/data?

Yes you may delete those directories.

These directories house files that are indexes to allow searching your drive with Spotlight. (see the magnifying glass on the menubar of your Mac.)  Deleting those indexes will force spotlight to re-index your drive (which is perfectly natural) and it will make a new index, hopefully something small and tidy.  I've no idea why your index is so large and would hope that the new index will take up MBs rather than GBs.


Try going to System Preferences -> Keyboard and click the "Change Keyboard Type..." button in the lower left corner. This should restart the keyboard type detection.


AppleScript to find files by exact name match from an Automator variable

I don't have Snow Leopard, so I'm limited in what I can test as being viable for your system.  Therefore, please bear in mind that the following solution was devised and tested using the following:
System info: AppleScript version: "2.7", system version: "10.13.5"
With that said, I see now reason that this shouldn't work on El Capitan.  It might work on Snow Leopard, but I'm less sure.
My proposed solution is to replace your Spotlight Automator action with a Run AppleScript action:

The code contained in the Run AppleScript is as follows:
    use framework "Foundation"

    property ca : a reference to current application

    on run {input, parameters}
        set MusicFolder to "/Volumes/Media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/"

        set FileManager to ca's NSFileManager's defaultManager()
        set MusicFiles to (FileManager's subpathsAtPath:MusicFolder)'s ¬
            pathsMatchingExtensions:{"mp3", "m4a"}
        set [filename] to input
        set format to "SELF endswith " & ("/" & filename & ".mp3")'s quoted form & ¬
            " OR SELF endswith " & ("/" & filename & ".m4a")'s quoted form
        set filter to ca's NSPredicate's predicateWithFormat:format

        set matches to {}

        repeat with match in (MusicFiles's filteredArrayUsingPredicate:filter) #'
            set end of matches to POSIX file (MusicFolder & match as text) as alias
        end repeat

        return matches
    end run

This will return tracks with the exact filename supplied by the trackName variable in the workflow.  Therefore, had I set trackName in my test run to "Everywhere I Go" (i.e. without the preceding "04"), the search would have returned an empty result.
Also, bear in mind that you may have some tracks that have identical filenames from different folders/albums.  If there are two files in different folders both called "01 Song.mp3", both files will be returned in the search.


Is it possible to redefine what Keynote interprets as bold and normal for a particular font?

To answer directly to your two questions:

a) No, you can’t redefine what is bold and what is normal as far as I know, Medium and Light are different styles than Regular and Bold and there isn’t a keyboard shortcut to set them (nor a menu item for that) and because of the latter, you can’t set a keyboard shortcut.

b) Because of (a), you can’t really do this.

A (lame) alternative is to use Copy Style cmd+alt+c and paste style cmd+alt+v. But that requires that you find a piece of text that has the same size/font.

Also having the Formatting bar visible makes it easier (albeit with the mouse) to change that: shift+cmd+R.


AppleTV 3 on a LAN network (no internet) with a PPC Mac and iPhone

The iPhone and the AppleTV should work just fine together (with or without internet).   Note that some router models do not work well together with AirPlay so if you encounter transmission problems this should be the first suspect.

Regarding your Mac I believe that the latest iTunes for OS X 10.5 can do AirPlay. If you run an older version of OS X you should consider the most appropriate upgrade path.  It might give a better experience to buy a new mac instead of upgrading to OS X 10.5


Error: -69711 this operation couldn't proceed because the target's boot helper was mounted; you may want to try again

This happens when you've booted to the recovery system on-disk (CmdR) instead of using Internet Recovery (OptionCmdR). Since the local recovery partition is associated with the stack you're trying to resize, and that partition is mounted, diskutil refuses to perform the operation.

(This may only apply to FileVault 2–encrypted volumes, which require a working recovery partition to boot, but I don't have an unencrypted computer to check with.)


Is there a way to configure the behaviour of cmd + tab to not wait until they get released?

Pressing CMD` cycles through windows of the current App immediately.

No need to release the keys to select the window.

Some of the 3rd party apps listed here might get you the same solution for App switching:
https://superuser.com/questions/193922/is-there-any-program-or-way-to-make-mac-os-xs-tab-behave-like-windows-alt-ta


How to turn off iPhone 3G without using power button?

Yeah, I looked at what redsn0w asks you to do, and it needs me to press the power button again during the process of installation. I guess I can't jailbreak my phone =/


How to do speaker correction on a MacBook Pro Retina

Late edit:
Since writing this, Rogue Amoeba have released a simpler & cheaper app specifically to tailor output rather than provide full internal audio routing & recording - SoundSource. You can set up your EQ or whatever as a global or on a per-app basis, making it very flexible.

I wrote this before checking all the proposed apps in the OP; my issue with these kind of things usually is that I tend to avoid the "we can do it all for you" apps, like Boom & Bongiovi; because I always think, "How can you do all that for me? You can't hear my speakers!".
eqMac2 does look like a simpler version of what I'm already doing on the first machine example below... for free. You still need ears, or an analyser, but the investment could become 'merely time' rather than actual cost.

Potentially what you could do if you have access to a smart phone is download a free Spectrum Analyser & find a white noise sample or generator online* then use the EQ to flatten the perceived EQ curve as the phone hears it.
You could do this with Soundflower & a graphic EQ too, or potentially with eqMac2 - for free.
There's a slicker solution than Soundflower, but it's far from free - Audio Hijack - which I use to tame the audio on several machines here, for slightly different purposes.
I get the feeling it won't be what you're looking for, but it's quick enough to throw in here & see if any future Googlers might like it. I do seem to come across as a one-man campaign for this app, but it's just that it's the best I've found for many similar purposes. I have no affiliation whatsoever.
If someone can find a free equivalent, I'm all ears - quite literally ;)
One cool thing, though is you can set timers for it - so to get it to be 'always on' I set it for 23h 59m of every day & let that spare minute be when I'm bound to be asleep.

On one machine, I use it to compensate for cheap external speakers with an odd EQ curve. I simply send all audio through it to flatten the perceived EQ curve.

On the other machine, I use it to compensate for the very high dynamic range whilst watching movies - which are piped through to my powerful 5.1 system, capable of offending the most tolerant neighbour. I use it to simply keep things within a more acceptable range to suit me & my neighbours...

Both these setups just use Apple's built-in AU plugins.
Unfortunately, there is no automatic setting for either of these setups. I do it by ear - but I'm a pro sound engineer & I trust my ears to get it at least close enough to be acceptable to any listener.
*No affiliation, just one I've used before.


How do I prevent my MacBook Pro from dimming the screen on battery power?

Have you tried turning off auto-brightness on your Mac? That could be why it keeps adjusting the brightness by itself after a while (i.e., its ambient sensor thinks your display should be a different brightness and changes accordingly)

Here's a tutorial on how to turn auto-brightness off: https://www.techjunkie.com/disable-auto-brightness-mac/

I hope that helps!


Which Intel "generation" is my Mac's CPU?

You can get the processor generation by running the following command in Terminal:

sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string

If the output contains a dash and a number after your "iX"-Core model, the first digit after the slash is the processor generation. See: Intel® Processor Numbers: Laptop, Desktop, and Mobile Device

Examples:

2nd Generation : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2760QM
5th Generation : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5257U CPU @ 2.70GHz
6th Generation : Intel(R) Core(TM) m3-6Y30
8th Generation : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8350U

If the dash is missing, it's first generation (or a different CPU altogether), e.g.:

1st Generation : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz

Different approach:

sysctl machdep.cpu

Gives you detailed CPU information.

From machdep.cpu.extmodel:

0 for a "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz"
1 for a late 2009 iMac-i5 "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz"
1 for a Mac Pro (Mid 2010) "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3530 @ 2.80GHz"
4 for a 2015 macbook pro (4th generation)
4 for a "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz" (4th generation)

Although it's inconsistent:

4 for a 2016 macbook "Intel(R) Core(TM) m3-6Y30" (6th generation)
5 for a "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz" (6th generation)

From fsb's comment below:

  According to Intel, the generation is the first number after the "-" (in machdep.cpu.brand_string)


How can I set 'fit to screen' as the default behaviour when changing my desktop background (wallpaper)

Go to system preferences, then "desktop & screen saver", then select the image. You should see a dropdown menu that allows you to "fit to screen."


6hr 33 min to charge last 6% of battery - is this normal?

No, it is probably not normal.

You can hold the alt key and click on your battery icon.
Then click Condition: X.

What is your X? You can read some more information based on the window that popped up

By the way, does it really take 6.5 hour to charge to 100%? Cause it could just be some temporary mess-up with the estimation.


Is there any way to stream audio and video files from Windows laptop to iPhone 6 plus at anytime with my own wifi hotspot?

Download FileBrowser App from Apple Store you can get the lite version for free and if you are Jailbroken you can get the full version from Appcake and it will solve your problem

Once you have installed the App connect your PC and phone on the same network. App will scan available devices on the network to connect select your PC and then you can browse the files select the one you want to stream and thats it


If MacbookPro has BIOS emulation, why the need for ELILO for Linux?

The BIOS emulation only kicks in if you use MBR or hybrid GUID + MBR partitioning. By default, Macs only use GUID partitioning. Installing Windows via Boot Camp enables this hybrid partitioning, but you can in principle also do it manually for Linux. The downside is that you then have to maintain two partition tables and make sure to keep them in sync.

It is rumoured that you can still boot Mac OS X from a pure MBR, too. I've never tried this, and even if it does work, I suspect things like firmware updates and FileVault 2 FDE will not work in such a configuration. You'll probably also have problems with multi-booting unless your bootloader supports OSX directly.


Why can I edit PDF Form Data with Preview but not with Acrobat DC?

Without seeing the PDF, it's impossible to give an assessment. However:

The irony of PDFs is that the format was designed to enable standardized documents; but the flexibility of the format means that PDFs can be created in lots of different ways. Sometimes the syntax can be incorrect, or the various elements unsuited to their intended task.

While bugs do exist in Acrobat, Adobe are the creators and custodians of the PDF format, so in the absence of other information, I would assume the PDF document is at fault.

It's also possible that 'rinsing' the PDF through Preview may cause problems, as MacOS's Quartz framework can only write a subset of the PDF language.

In Acrobat, you should be able to Preflight the PDF (Command Shift X) and check that its syntax is correct and that it's suitable for the job required: you can also Fix any problems found.

Acrobat should also let you create new form fields, or at least, write text in the correct position. If you can't do those things, then something is very wrong indeed. Try creating new forms or text in another PDF document.


Mail Preferences Dialog broken since TimeMachine re-installation

Honestly a damaged install of macOS, regardless of the root cause, is often fixed by installing the latest Combo Update from Apple.

Google "Combo Update" and your macOS version and it should point you to a download page at support.apple.com. Quit out of all running apps and run the installer. It will take a while (depending on available disk space & speed) and then ask you to reboot.

If your install is still glitchy you may want to try one of the free OS cleaner programs out there. I use Onyx (there are others). Be sure to download the one designed for your version of the OS.


Found the reason, in the terminals settings under edit there is an option called mark.

Seems this is designed to mark the prompt line, once disabled this behaviour stops.


Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 does not detect startup USB for Mojave

To boot from the USB Installer:

Power-up your Macbook
Hold down the Option key immediately after the chime sound
Choose Install macOS Mojave from the list of entries
Install macOS Mojave


Create a bootable USB with Windows installer for Yosemite?

Here is how to burn a bootable USB stick (taken from the Ubuntu website):

Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight).
Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil e.g., hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/windows.iso
Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file automatically.
Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices.
Insert your flash media.
Run diskutil list again and determine the new device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2).
Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2).
Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./windows.img or ./ubuntu.dmg). Using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster. If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M. If you see the error dd: /dev/diskN: Resource busy, make sure the disk is not in use. Start the 'Disk Utility.app' and unmount (don't eject) the drive.
Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes.
Restart your Mac and press alt/option key while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB stick.


Quit / open an app whenever audio output is changed on mac

Well, many thanks to CJK for the explanations!

After some struggle with Keyboard Maestro (because of how Boom is made, a Boom2device appears in the sound output devices and never really changes, so the trigger from Keyboard Maestro doesn't work...) I tried user3439894's solution and got Eventscripts to work in less than 10 minutes!

The real plus with EventScripts is that you can choose which Bluetooth devices trigger the AppleScript.

Here's my set up:

With some scripts easy as:

Quit Boom:

quit application "Boom 2"

or

Activate Boom:

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    open application file "Boom 2.app" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
end tell

I also made another one that came in my mind to adjust the brightness of the screen after plugging the MBP to the power with brightness.


If you create a business profile it will then create a personal profile as well, both profiles allow you to select a default card!


You can only share it if you bought it from the App Store.  Pre-installed versions are single-copy licenses:

  A. Preinstalled and Single-Copy Apple Software License. Subject to the
  terms and conditions of this License, unless you obtained the Apple
  Software from the Mac App Store or under a volume license, maintenance
  or other written agreement from Apple, you are granted a limited, non-
  exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple
  Software on a single Apple- branded computer at any one time. For
  example, these single-copy license terms apply to you if you obtained
  the Apple Software preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4971852?start=0&tstart=0


iTerm in a mode I'm not familiar with. How do I get it back to normal mode

This looks like what happens when you start typing a command and then hit cmd+;. The options in that mode are  :

iTerm2: Highlights for New Users: Autocomplete
Any text that exists in a tab or its scrollback buffer can be autocompleted in that tab. To use autocomplete, type the beginning of a word and then press cmd-;. An autocomplete window opens showing the top 20 choices for words beginning what you have entered. The list can be filtered by typing a subsequence. The filter can be reset by pressing backspace. If you make a selection and press return, it will be entered for you. If you make a selection and press tab, your autocomplete will be extended with the selection.

To just get "out of this mode" – not making a selection – hit esc.
This then could therefore be for this special case a setting found 'automated' in  Preferences>Profiles>Advanced>Triggers:

If that's the case, then clicking edit should open a sheet-pop-up where you see some entries, one of them providing this now unwanted feature.

In the lower left here is a plus and minus sig box. Select the unwanted trigger and delete it.

Alternatively, you might just create an entirely new profile (first picture with "Default" + "TUSTEP"), click the plus sign  in the lower left, and compare settings with your former "Default"-profile (in case you have some more sophisticated settings).

The files at
~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
~/Library/Application\ Support/iTerm2
might also be worth a look.
If there are external 'input manipulators' installed (text autocompleter, scripters, listeners to events) things get more complicated…


Does Google Maps for iOS work without data access or with low intermittent data access

There is a nice feature on the Google Map app : you can cache the map.

Just zoom on the zone you want to cache, then type Ok maps in the search bar and this part of the map will be cached on the phone !


Recovery HD partition resized (now 300GB)

I found this site http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/30/deleting-the-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-recovery-hd-partition/

Which explains that you erase the Recovery HD with this command "diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk0s4"

And merge it with this command "diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ Lion disk0s3 disk0s4"

Before erasing the Recovery HD

After merging it to my macOS partition, which i used Disk Utility to do that.


AppleScript - How to set variables for an undetermined number of list items?

Variable declaration must be made before run time. The following example AppleScript code, run in Script Editor, is to demonstrate a way of doing it:

set input to {"one", "two", "three"}

set F1 to missing value
set F2 to missing value
set F3 to missing value
set F4 to missing value

try
    if item 1 of input is not missing value then
        set F1 to item 1 of input
        log "F1 is: " & F1
    end if
    if item 2 of input is not missing value then
        set F2 to item 2 of input
        log "F2 is: " & F2
    end if
    if item 3 of input is not missing value then
        set F3 to item 3 of input
        log "F3 is: " & F3
    end if
    if item 4 of input is not missing value then
        set F4 to item 4 of input
        log "F4 is: " & F4
    end if
end try

log "F4 is still: " & F4

The log result is:

(*F1 is: one*)
(*F2 is: two*)
(*F3 is: three*)
(*F4 is still: missing value*)

Obviously the log command is being used to show that the variables were assigned a new value, except the last one because the input list only had three items in it. You'll need to built this out for however many variables could be needed, as you can't add them after execution of the code has started. You mentioned "between 1 and 40 each run" in your OP.

You'd remove the log commands for the real code  within each of the if statement blocks, besides the variable assignments, as appropriate at that point in the execution of the code, if any.

Note that by wrapping the code of the group of if statement blocks, that sets the new value of the variables based on the value of the list item, in a try statement when there are less items in the input list, it doesn't throw an error that would halt execution of the code, and continues with the remaining code.

The value of the variable is initially being assigned missing value, however "" (double-quotes) can be used instead as well. I like to use missing value at times as it can be easier to read the code.

NOTE: The example AppleScript code above it just that, and is coded as is to demonstrate a way of assigning the variables a value from a list. Which is what input is in the context of e.g. on run {input, parameters} of a Run AppleScript action in an Automator workflow. Depending on what the source of the input is and what will be done with it, you may need to add e.g. as string or as text or other coercion as appropriate as/if applicable, in this case after item n of input, e.g. set F1 to item 1 of input as string.


Toggle Mail Classic View in Mountain Lion with

The script didn't focus the Viewing tab. Try this instead:

activate application "Mail"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
    keystroke "," using command down
    tell window 1
        click button "Viewing" of tool bar 1
        click checkbox "Use classic layout" of group 1 of group 1
        click button 1
    end tell
end tell

If it still doesn't work, it might be because of a bug where the shortcuts for Automator services don't always work until you hover the services menu from the menu bar. See this question for other ways to assign shortcuts to scripts.


iPhone, half of the screen broken, cannot perform backup

Connect your iPhone with a Mac(that is trusted by your iPhone) using USB cable.
open iTunes.
Select your iPhone.
Select the Backup method to your iCloud account or This Computer.

It will not ask for any passcode, but if it does, you could enter it using a Bluetooth keyboard.

Note: I am not sure if a not trusted Mac or PC connected it will work.
Also See the attached image.


Try this:

Open System Preferences -> Keyboard
Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
From the left column, choose Mission Control.
In the Pane on the right, you should be able to re-set the keyboard shortcuts for your spaces.


Why Homebrew is connecting to Google analytics and how to disable it?

According to the official documentation : Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics

  Homebrew has begun gathering anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics and reporting these to Google Analytics. You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew.
  Why?

  Homebrew is provided free of charge and run entirely by volunteers in their spare time. As a result, we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew.

You can disable this feature with :

brew analytics off

or by setting

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1


Error 1601 in iTunes when trying to restore a custom firmware

This is what your looking for:

http://www.iphone4jailbreak.org/itunes-restore-error-1601-1604-1600-fix.html

There's also some other possible solutions for the error 1601:

http://www.simonblog.com/2008/09/25/winpwn-error-6-1600-1601-1604/
http://modmyi.com/forums/pwnage/281841-error-1601-help-please.html


iPhone 4 operates only with WiFi connectivity abroad

In short, yes, it should perform normally for you even when you don't have data enabled.

Your iPhone 4 can connect to a Wi-Fi network whenever Wi-Fi is turned on and there is a Wi-Fi network within the range of your device. Wi-Fi connectivity is independent from Cellular connectivity. You can turn Wi-Fi ON or OFF (in Settings.app -> Wifi) and you can also turn Cellular ON or OFF (Settings.app -> General -> Cellular -> Cellular Data) independently.

If you are internationally abroad and you want to keep your device from connecting to a Cellular network, turn off "Data Roaming" in Settings -> General -> Cellular.


FileVault 2 Full-Disk Encryption Alternative with LDAP Support

Nope - there’s no getting around FileVault at the moment and with the T2 chips controlling this, you’ll need Apple to move to get the alternatives you mention off the ground let alone to production.

There are very good pre-log in screen options like the NoMad family and JAMF Connect that allow you to have LDAP/AD users checked at log in time, creating a local user if needed so you don’t have to pre-set up local users on macOS.

You’ll need an MDM to collect your FileVault keys (individual or institutional) if you need to be able to unlock a mac where a user isn’t already FileVault enabled. You’ll also need to keep track of secure tokens on newer OS.

Hit up the mac admin community on slack if you manage macOS professionally - most of the tooling needed is open source and the community blogs to get you up to speed are invaluable.

You’re right this isn’t manageable with tools like Apple Business Manager / DEP / MDM so you’ll need to bring some tools to manage 500+ Macs without a large staff and tons of repetitive work.


Unable to sign out of iCloud; linked to old email that no longer exists

After spending over an hour and a half to Apple UK's support, and eventually getting transferred to a senior advisor from their US-based support, it turns out that I may have uncovered a bug in iCloud that has since been forwarded to the iCloud Development Team.

The old email address had been used as my Apple ID for around 3 years before I changed it. Rather than add an additional one (as I was deleting the old email completely), I change the primary Apple ID; however I neglected to change it for iCloud (I wasn't actually using iCloud for anything, so I didn't think about it). As a consequence, iCloud is still associated with the old Apple ID email, and it wouldn't let me sign out of iCloud unless I signed in with the old Apple ID so I could disable Find my iPad so that I could sign out.

Now, here's the rub: for whatever reason, Apple have no record of the original Apple ID email. None at all. Normally, as @Tetsujin pointed out in his comment, I should be able to sign in to my Apple ID with my old email even though it's no longer associated with my account, because there should still be a record of it on the system. However, because (for whatever reason) it seems to have been completely purged from Apple's records, there is effectively no way for me to actually sign out of iCloud.

Apple have admitted that this never should have happened, and they have passed the details of the case on to the iCloud Development Team... so I may be indirectly responsible for another iOS9 update. Sorry.

In the end, my 'solution' was to abandon the original iPad and set my iPad Mini 4 up as new, manually transferring my apps and settings across, using the old one as a reference.


How to change computer name so terminal displays it in Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

If you use:
sudo scutil --set HostName name-you-want

it will work a bit better. From the scutil(8) man page:

--get pref
    Retrieves the specified preference.  The current value will be
    reported on standard output.

    Supported preferences include:
          ComputerName   The user-friendly name for the system.
          LocalHostName  The local (Bonjour) host name.
          HostName       The name associated with hostname(1) and gethostname(3).

--set pref [newval]
    Updates the specified preference with the new value.  If the new value is not
    specified on the command line then it will be read from standard input.

    Supported preferences include: ComputerName LocalHostName HostName

    The --set option requires super-user access.


High Sierra: "An error has occurred" and app won't finish downloading

I helped someone about three weeks ago with the same issue. What worked for them was resetting the System Management Controller and then starting the download again, but this time with their energy saver settings temporarily changed so that their MBP did not go to sleep at all.

Resetting the SMC

To reset the SMC on your model MBP, follow these steps:

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

Temporarily change your Energy Saver settings

Now ensure your Energy Saver settings (Apple > System Preferences > Energy Saver) mimic the following:

You can change your settings back again after the download works. If it doesn't work, then you'll know it wasn't some sort of power management issue at your end interrupting the download.

Of course, it goes without saying that you should keep your MBP connected to an AC power source (i.e. the Power Adapter) while trying this.


iTunes connect: I can't add new bank account or changing existing?

I stumbled upon the setting by chance.

"Agreement, Tax, And Banking"
stay on the "Agreements" page
click on "Paid Apps"
You will the see a "Bank Accounts" section with an "edit" button to update your bank details

Not very intuitive, I agree that it should be under the "Banking" page and not in a sub page under "Agreements". Hopefully this saves people a call to developer support to locate the path to changing bank accounts.


usbmuxd takes all sockets : no other network connection possible

I had the same problem: As soon as iTunes was started, the count of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT grew until the machine was out of sockets.

This must have been a bug in usbmuxd and seems to be fixed in iTunes 12.1: zero dangling sockets for half an hour on my machine.


It may depend on the camera/phone and OS; but, I don't think the timezone is explicitly stored in the picture's EXIF metadata.

In some metadata, there is a GPS Time (Atomic Clock) which is set to UTC.  So, Photos probably just calculates the offsets of Date and Time (Original) to display the timezone.

You may be able to use exiftool to build a list of those two times for your pictures, and search for outliers which are more (or less) different than the others.

Update from original poster:

I threw together a quick Python script to compare these times, and print the ones that aren't in the expected time zone, or have different values for minutes. You'll need to export the unmodified originals from Photos, since the modified ones don't have this metadata, and then pass their filenames to this script.

Of course, I have no idea if this is anything close to what Photos does to set the time zone. But it correctly identified the photos that I knew of with the wrong time zone, and didn't find any false positives.

#!/usr/bin/python

from subprocess import check_output
import sys, re, os
from dateutil.parser import parse
from datetime import datetime

expected_offset_hours = 8.0  # set to appropriate time zone offset

def get_field(out, name):
    match = re.search("^" + re.escape(name) + "\t(.+?)$", out, re.MULTILINE)
    if match:
        return match.group(1)
    return None

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    if not os.path.exists(arg):
        continue
    out = check_output(["exif", "-m", arg])
    gps_date = get_field(out, "GPS Date")
    gps_time = get_field(out, "GPS Time (Atomic Clock)")
    if gps_date == None or gps_time == None:
        print arg + "\tNo GPS date/time"
        continue
    gps_parsed = datetime.strptime(gps_date + " " + gps_time, '%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S.%f')
    orig_datetime = get_field(out, "Date and Time (Original)")
    if orig_datetime == None:
        continue
    orig_parsed = datetime.strptime(orig_datetime, '%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S')
    offset_secs = (orig_parsed - gps_parsed).total_seconds()
    offset_hours = round(offset_secs / 3600)
    offset_mins = abs(offset_secs - (offset_hours * 3600)) // 60
    if offset_hours != expected_offset_hours or offset_mins > 0:
        #print gps_date + ' ' + gps_time + ' ' + str(gps_parsed)
        #print orig_datetime + ' ' + str(orig_parsed)
        print arg + "\t" + str(offset_hours) + "\t" + str(offset_mins)


Donations and a webstore in an app. Does it attract a 30% cut still? 2021

You totally can get approved as a non-profit and have direct payments via in-app browser and avoid all fees on the transactions.

Approved nonprofits may fundraise directly within their own apps or third-party apps, provided those fundraising campaigns adhere to all App Review Guidelines and offer Apple Pay support.

Also, the small business program offers significant relief for discount to IAP fees if you want to go IAP or the review / approval doesn’t go your way.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/

To reach the equivalent of 30% fee you have to be a whale (tens of millions of dollars in IAP) on the store now, not that you start out at that level.
I would not mix goods and services with charity unless you’re sure of how you’ll represent it to the review board and have assistance from a financial professional and a lawyer on retainer so you have contract advice and are not just doing this on a whim as a sole developer. Having official recognition of your charity will go a long way, but you also need guidance on Apple’s contracts to know what they mean specifically to you in many cases.


How do I identify the latest iPad Pro model?

Apple has only released one 12.9 inch iPad Pro model so far (Wikipedia, EveryMac:iPad Pro 12.9 Wifi, EveryMac:iPad Pro 12.9 Wifi/Cellular), so the current model in fact is the latest.


Does FaceTime work if I purchase my iPhone in Saudi Arabia then move countries?

This blog-post claims, selecting a different country in the settings while setting up your account already does the trick. But since the article is from 2010, it may not apply to iOS8:
http://www.macgasm.net/2010/10/23/facetime-saudi-arabia-workaround/

YouTube video about iOS 8 and Facetime, based on a jailbroken device using Cydia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6QSRN3NUec

It's a shame Apple bends down to those regimes and prunes down key functionality. Clearly shows that iMessage / Facetime encryption works (as long as you trust Apple).

You might want to look into Signal (encrypted audio calls, Instant messaging should be coming in first half of 2015):
https://itunes.apple.com/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669?mt=8

Hope this helps!


You can set up a voice relay. Suggest you consider an Android phone. Apple would never approve such an app.


How can I add more destinations to Alfred's "move to..." results?

The screen you're referring to is Alfred's standard file system browser, which is described in Preferences -> Features -> File Navigation.

A few useful keys for that screen are:

Use / to go to the root of the filesystem
Use ~ to go to your home folder

The complete description can be found in the preference window mentioned above, including a few customizable keys.


What iOS camera apps produce realistic HDRs?

I am not sure if this will stay posted since it requires a recommendation.

I use VividHDR and have dumped my desktop program for this gem.

It uses 5 shots unlike my previous 3 shot and the results are amazing. A user can still make it look unrealistic with tone-mapping settings but other than that I think you should look into.

App features:

Full resolution HDR images.

Universal app

Take 3 or 5 bracketed shots or just leave it to us to decide.
Intelligent algorithms to automatically analyze the scene and get the best exposures to capture details accurately in both highlights and shadows to deliver the best HDR image. You can get 7 stops of additional dynamic range over the regular camera.

Fast processing
vividHDR brackets, shoots and generates your HDR. Snappy fast. All this is done at the full resolution supported by the device and is always ready for the next shot.

Presets and styles
Control the look and style of your HDR image. Choose from a set of presets obtained from advanced tone mapping techniques. You also have the option to change the preset immediately after capture in the auto-preview mode.

Sharp HDR images
You do not need a tripod to capture great HDR images. Intelligent algorithms automatically compensate for camera shake. Advanced ghost removal techniques ensure that you get sharp images even with moving objects and fluttering leaves in your scene.

Lazy HDR
Lazy HDR mode to capture now, style later. Change the presets and edit in non-destructive manner at any point of time for HDRs shot in Lazy HDR mode.

Editing
Fine editing and post-processing controls for final touches to your HDR images. Controls for basic and advanced editing.
Basic editing provides control over Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Temperature and Tint of the image.
Advanced edits such as Details, Highlights and Shadows allow control over the tone mapping process.

Image formats
Save images in JPEG format with good quality level. Additional option to store images lossless in TIFF format (lossless compression) ensure you don’t lose even those minute details.

Gallery
Feature to view your HDR images as a single photo, or a thumbnail view for fast browsing and group deleting. Compare your photos 'before-and-after' HDR. It also provides an option to save HDR images to Camera Roll.

Picture information
Supports EXIF and Geo-tag to save the location information.

Sharing
Share your pictures instantly to Flickr, Facebook and Dropbox, without having to leave the app. You can also E-mail the photo.

Developers site: http://www.ittiam.com/vividhdr/index.html

Flickr samples: https://www.flickr.com/groups/vividhdr/


Macbook Pro gets slow frequently when connected to external monitor via HDMI cable

This looks like you have a faulty cable and I would look into replacing that immediately. The faulty cable is also causing the performance issues as kernel_task with such a high CPU usage means it is thermal throttling hard.
I've always used the Choetech brand for my USB-C to HDMI but PrimeCables will do as well. Make sure you're getting something rated for 4K 60Hz and check the reviews on whatever you intend to buy. As an aside, I'd look into a USB-C to DP adapter instead as this can result in a better experience with certain monitors.


XQuartz El Capitan not setting $DISPLAY for a Vagrant built VM

I had this same issue but realized I never restarted OS X after installing XQuartz. Once I rebooted, XQuartz was correctly detected and X11 forwarding worked.


Take screenshot and copy its file path to clipboard

You can assign a shortcut to a script like this:

f=~/Desktop/$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).png
screencapture -i $f
osascript -e 'set the clipboard to POSIX file "'$f'"'

One way to do that is to create a service in Automator:

Then give the service a keyboard shortcut from System Preferences.

If you just want to copy the path as text, replace the last line with printf %s $f | pbcopy.


Is there a way to make Siri listen properly?

As far as I'm aware there is no way to get around this if you want to continue to use Siri from the lock screen or by holding the home button.

Your only solution at the minute is either to make sure you say everything without pausing or enable and use the dictation feature on the keyboard - It listens indefinitely until you tap on 'done' so you will be able to pause to think without getting cut off.


Mac freezes on startup with vertical striped bands

That screen indicates a likely graphics card or video RAM (GPU/VRAM) failure and not a software failure. These parts are one with the logic board, so it could also be the CPU. In any event, as long as you seek Apple for repair and the mac is less than 5 years old, it might be as little as $350 to fix if it needs a repair.

You will want to back things up and see what your convenient repair options are by browsing http://locate.apple.com

If you can't get help soon or economically, edit in your Mac model year and software level (Lion, etc...)
 and we can start with some troubleshooting steps.


Extensis makes the Universal Type Server for this purpose. I have no experience with it.

The Universal Type Server "Lite" version, designed for up to 10 users, costs US $1395.


Macbook Pro left (primary) click not working

It was my Magic Mouse. I turned it off and the problem was resolved. I had my mouse in a box with some other things that must have accidentally shifted and was pressing on the button. Once I found it and turned the mouse off, everything was fine.


Battery on white MacBook shuts off abruptly after 30% charge is left

I had the exact same problem (twice!) and had my battery replaced under warranty - I seem to recall there was a battery replacement program for this issue (don't quote me) but even if there was I suppose that would have finished now.

I'd say you might have a chance if you called and explained the issue or went into an Apple store depending on what kind of person you run in to.

There was also a firmware update that was meant to help solve this issue, but it didn't help me and I suppose you'd have gotten that through software update long ago.

Long story short: It's not that the battery isn't holding enough charge, and not that it's had too many cycles - evidently they just had an issue with their battery production, and your machine has taken this long to be affected by it. Hopefully you get someone nice from Apple, but otherwise a trip to eBay or somewhere else on the internet should be able to get you a new battery for relatively cheap.

Good luck, hope it works out for you.


If your printer doesnt specifically support AirPlay try an app called Printopia.

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/


Did the recent Safari 5.1 upgrade break my Vienna display styles?

Short answer:  Yes.

Due to complications with Sparkle updates, according to this thread, the 'check for updates' process did not find the latest version.  Webkit2 has some additional security considerations, apparently.  Upgrading to 2.5.1.2502 is the solution.


If you do not want to encrypt the whole home directory but only a few files/directories you could use something like Hider. It's paid though.


Unable to add another email in iMessage or login with a different iCloud account on iOS 11

To use another iCloud account, please go to

Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and tap 'Apple ID: >your Apple ID<' > Sign Out.

You also need to sign out of iCloud in Settings > iCloud in order to use another Apple ID for messages/iMessage.

Now you can sign in with another Apple ID.

To add another email address you be reached with using iMessage, manage your Apple ID in a browser and add another email address there.


How can I see all apps in 'Essentials' in Mac and iTunes app stores?

After a bit of research (in the stores themselves, using Google, and in the Apple Developer Program resources), I'm rather sure no list of these is available from Apple themselves or from any third party.

I found the best ways to find the apps tagged as "Essentials," is to look in these places:

Both the Mac App Store and the iTunes App Store have a link on their front page called "New to the (Mac) App Store?" Most apps listed there, which are not games, have the "Essentials" badge. It's not the way to find them all though, as e.g. the WolframAlpha app you mentioned is not listed on that page in the iTunes Store. There are also some apps which don't have the badge, e.g. Shazam is tagged as "Editors' Choice," but not "Essentials" in the Mac App Store.
The iTunes App Store also has a link "App Collections." Although the page this link leads to is titled "Essentials App Collections," quite a number of the apps listed in the collections don't have the "Essentials" badge. On the other hand, you can find a lot of "Essentials" this way.

My impression is the difference between the "Essentials" tag and e.g. "Editors' Choice" is not very well defined, and just picked by a specific Apple store editor. And I noticed some of those apps may be only essential to a very specific crowd. E.g. the djay 2 app, also tagged "Essentials," is most definitely the best and most popular DJ app for the iPad out there, but it's only essential to a select group.

In the end, although there is no definitive list, going though the various collections made by Apple editors, will lead you to a lot of "Essential" apps.


What happens to shared photos when i delete them locally?

Removing photos from your Camera Roll will not remove them from Shared Albums. It will, however, remove them from iCloud Photo Library, both in iCloud itself and all of your devices.

If you have iCloud Photo Library turned on and the Optimize Phone Storage setting enabled, there's no way to further reduce the amount of storage taken by photos in your camera roll other than simply deleting them (again, subject to the caveat in the first paragraph).

Deleting photos using Photos.app should not affect their storage in the Google Photos cloud. (Deleting them with Google Photos will cause them to be removed from the Google Photos cloud.)


How to delete Time Machine Backups that were moved into Recycle Bin Trash?

If the drive is getting close to be being full, TM will free the space automatically.

You can empty the Trash (delete the files) much faster with Terminal command

rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

However, you will probably corrupt your entire backup by deleting specific TM snapshots (folders with datetime in the name). Learn how TM is actually storing the data on the drive (hint: symlinks).


You shouldn't need to disable bluetooth on any recent Apple product - their antennas and drivers are very well engineered, and if you can demonstrate a slow down, you could get it repaired (most likely under warranty) since that's not normal. It is good troubleshooting - especially if your router is on 2.4 GHz.

First off, there may not be a problem. If you hold down the option key when you select the Wireless icon in the menu bar - take note of the transmit rate, MCS and other data.

What PHY mode is your radio?
What band is your router?
What MCS is being employed between the Mac and the base station?

Secondly, you can run the tests with the Wi-Fi Diagnostic that sits in /System/Library/CoreServices to check on the logs, check signal to noise ratio and much more.

If you are regularly transferring large amounts of data, you might need the higher MCS data rates - but it's rare to find a modern router (AirPort, Cisco/Linksys, etc…) that doesn't work very well with Macs. Usually it's an interference issue with spectrum and not that the hardware isn't properly matched. It's hard to tell without doing the work several days in a row to collect network conditions and graphs - but hopefully this helps you decide if/when to get a new router if that's the solution you choose.


Unable to update safari due to "Spotlight is using the SafariQuickLookPreview extension"

This seems to work for me.

Go to Activity and search for 'safari':

Pick the entry 'SafariQuickLookPreview (Spotlight)' entry and kill it.

Then use the 'Try Again' button in the 'Software Update' pane in System Preferences.


Terminal App: What comes after connection?

secure shell, ssh, is a command line based method of talking to another computer. By default, there is no graphical interface associated with ssh.

Speed

The speed of your upload is probably limited by your Internet connection. The protocol used to transfer the files will make a difference but it may not be significant.

Domestic quality Internet connections tend to have much slower upload speeds than download speeds. This is particularly true for ADSL based connections. VDSL, cable, and fibre connections offer faster upload speeds.

Try running a speed test on your Internet connection. What values do you see? Is the upload number much lower than the download?

If you are transfering thousands of small files, an alternative protocol is probably worth trying. If you are transferring tens or low hundreds of larger files, ftp will likely go as fast as any other method.

Command Line - rsync

From your question, it sounds like you have ssh access to your server. This is great. If you are comfortable with the command line, you can use a tool like remote sync, rsync, to perform the file transfer. See Fastest and safest way to copy massive data from one external drive to another for more about this approach. With rsync you will end up issuing a command something like:

rsync -rv --progress '~/Pictures/My Photos/' user@sftp.server.com:~/Pictures/

Alternative command line tools to rsync include scp.

Graphical Interface - CyberDuck

Alternatively, consider using a tool like CyberDuck to connect to and securely transfer files to your server. Try using the same server address as with ftp but instead use sftp; note the addition of an s. This stands for secure. sftp will give you a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) connection over a secure connection, much like ssh.


How to use find to list all files except those under .git?

The accepted answer is not correct but with a comment it starts you off.

To get no html files

find . -type f   ! -name '*.html'

-name loks at the file part of the path for the whole path you need --wholename so

find . -type f  ! -wholename '*/.git/*' ! -name '*.html'

So only get files (-type) ignore the .git directory - note you need to enter the directory delimiters and the . or else you remove files like .gitconfig which are valid ones

OK this looks at all file -prune might look at less but the speed probably does not matter it is better as in all code to get an understandable working thing first


Assuming the tables are named Original and Pivot,
the cells in Pivot are filled using this formula:

=SUMIFS(Original::$C, Original::$A, "="& $A2, Original::$B, "="& B$1)

i.e. sum values in Original::$C if

corresponding value in Original::$A = value in first column of Pivot
corresponding value in Original::$B = value in first row of Pivot

The 'all' values are just simple sums of those rows or columns.


Can I change the default size of a new table in macOS Pages?

You have a number of options available to you, such as creating a template, using AppleScript or Automator to create applications, scripts, or services, and so on.

Below is a sample script I've created based on the details in your question:

tell application "Pages"
set myDoc to make new document
tell page 1 of myDoc to set myTable to make new table with properties {column count:5, row count:2}
tell cell range of myTable
    set width of columns to 80
    set text wrap to true
    set alignment to left

end tell
end tell

Assuming you're not familiar with how to use this, below is one way you could use the above script:

Create a service using Automator

Launch Automator (usually found within your Applications folder)
Go to File > New
Select Service and click the Choose button (Note: If the 'Service' option is not available, select Quick Action instead)
In the top right hand of the window that appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list
Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application"
In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript" and double-click on it
This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right
Now, replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the the sample script above
Save the service using a meaningful name (e.g. Create Pages Table).

Now you should be able to run the service from any application by going to the Services list within any Application menu (e.g. Pages > Services, Finder > Services, etc) and select the service you just created.

NOTES:

The set width, set text wrap and set alignment lines within the script are not required. I have included these so you know how to customise these table characteristics if you need to.
I have assumed from your question that your two by five table referred to five columns by two rows. However, you can safely change the column count and row count values in the script to suit your requirements.


Copy & Paste is not working in my Kali Linux Virtual Machine

It takes me 2 weeks to stuck in this annoying stage.
If someone else, also face this issue run these in your Kali
apt-get update
apt install -y --reinstall open-vm-tools-desktop fuse
reboot

These 3 commands work for me.
Result


How to diff Photos Library backup against original (to check for corruption)

One note of caution, dragging photos to the desktop does a lossy export and you’ll lose all sorts of metadata and photo quality if you bypass the export functionality.

That being said, there is a tool that lets you merge / duplicate / check that two different libraries have the same or different photos (as well as the super useful deduplication features for which I pay gladly alone for this software).

https://fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/

There is a demo version you can try - so if there’s not another method, you can do far worse than starting with this app. It’s fast, reliable, updated and supported by the author and been around for quite many years.


How do I save iBooks pdfs to an external hard drive?

I'm not going to post the church boy answer, but if you jailbreak your device, you will have full access to the file system.

There is probably a legitimate way to do this without jailbreaking, but having jailbroken devices myself, I would simply enable SSH (the root password is alpine, which you should change immediately) and either rsync or scp the files to your external hard drive volume (which in my case is mounted on a Mac Mini (also running sshd).  The hard drive will be mounted in /Volumes.

I forget the exact path to your Camera Roll, but the main directory you are looking for containing the photos and videos is DCIM.

If your external drive is a Windows computer, then there are also tools in Cydia that make file sharing with Windows a breeze.  Or if you're like me and have to run Cygwin with sshd on all of your Windows boxes, the same rules as above would apply, but the path to the external drive would be /cygdrive/[drive letter].

If you are on a Mac and enable SSH to your iPad, just do the following in Terminal on your Mac (if it is a Mac):

cd /Volumes/[external drive]/[folder to store images]
scp root@[iPad IP address]:/path/to/DCIM/* .

It would be a good idea to use screen for this job so that it doesn't fail from a broken pipe in case you have a lot of images.  If you want to go that route, you could do something like this screen -LS image.copy which would put you in a new shell session.  Then run the commands above, and detach from the session with Ctrl+A-D.  This lets the process run in the background.  If you want to come back later and check the progress, run screen -x image.copy.

If you are going to do something like this, you should make sure that you are hooked up to power and don't have auto-lock set, or else it will end your session prematurely.

This may be a horrible answer, but I always default to command line, because it never fails me.


Whilst I am unaware of any easy to use software dedicated to stitching smaller images together (I'm sure there are some tool available on GitHub to do this); it is possible to do what you require simply using the stock Preview app, following the steps below:

Firstly, ensure your A3 images are saved as images rather than PDFs. Then, open the first A3 image in Preview.
Select all (⌘ + A), then copy (⌘ + C)
Select "Tools" From the menu bar, then select "Adjust Size..."

Firstly, click the small padlock icon to make sure the size adjustments are not locked. Now, assuming you are using landscape images, enter : Width = 9933 Height = 7016 PIXELS (ISO A1 paper size). If you are using portrait; simply swap the values.

This will instantly stretch the first image to A1 size. Now paste in the original first image (⌘ + V) and position it to the top left hand corner, ensuring to use the arrow keys for fine adjustments.
Now, open the second image in a new Preview window, select all (⌘ + A), then copy (⌘ + C) and and paste it into the new image we are creating (⌘ + V) and move it to one of the corners, ensuring to use the arrow keys for fine adjustments.
Repeat the step above for the remaining two pictures until you are satisfied with the positioning.
Finally, save as a new image.

Hopefully, you should now have an A1 sized image made up of your 4 component A3 images. Of course, Preview is in no way regarded as a professional image editing application and has only very limited functionality. Therefore, if you are willing to invest some money (or already have), Adobe Photoshop makes virtually the same process a whole lot easier. Alternatively, you could use the GIMP package for a more dedicated and less costly image editor


After diving into the Adaptive Firewall once more I got the impression that the whole system is flawed and the documentation is a mess.

The command .../hb_summary apparently doesn't work at all because it seems to rely on the file /private/var/db/af/blockedHosts getting populated
by ipfw which isn't activated in 10.9 (and wouldn't work with the 400.AdaptiveFirewall anchor). pf doesn't use the file blockedHosts at all.

The best you can do is the following:

Enable the Adaptive Firewall service

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/serverctl enable service=com.apple.afctl

Populate the whitelist with

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -c

Define max bad auth attempts (e.g. 3) and ban time (e.g. 60 minutes)

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -T 3
sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -H 60

This will modify the file /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/emond.d/rules/AdaptiveFirewall.plist.

Check the mod with:

sudo grep -m 2 -A 4 hostBlockThreshold /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/private/etc/emond.d/rules/AdaptiveFirewall.plist

Relaunch emond: sudo killall emond
Add known bad hosts for a long time:

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -a 104.16.35.178 -t 1000000

(Please be aware of the y2038 problem).
This will modify the file /private/var/db/af/blacklist. Hosts added here usually don't survive a reboot.
Start af with sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -f
To get blocked hosts enter:

sudo pfctl -a com.apple/400.AdaptiveFirewall -t blockedHosts -T show -vvv

To get pf's state enter sudo pfctl -s all.

This is tested with hostile ssh and openssl s_client -connect imapserver_ip:993 login attempts.

After a reboot the .../afctl -f command will start pf and af but in at least one of two cases it doesn't block hostile login attempts though it's announced in the log file.

Improvements:

After modifying the keys debugLevel and logEvents in the file /etc/emond.d/emond.plist,:

    ...
    <key>debugLevel</key>
    <integer>3</integer>
    ...
    <key>logEvents</key>
    <true/>
    ...

creating the file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.afctl_boot.plist with the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.afctl_boot</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl</string>
        <string>-f</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

and loading it with:

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.afctl_boot.plist

it seems to work more reliably. The Adaptive Firewall will be loaded at boot time. No further afctl launch command is required!


When FileVault (System Preferences/ Security & Privacy/ FileVault) is open to activate the mac you need to enter an administrator password or the recovery key (or Apple ID for reset). The password screen appears when you want to open either a non administrator, guest, or administrator user.
The username-password UI appears when opening the mac, to get rid of it turn off FileVault from System Preferences/ Security & Privacy/ FileVault.

FileVault secures the data on your disk by encrypting its content
automatically.


imovie. Adding a static image without the gentle zooming effect

In the Adjust toolbar, click Crop, then Fit.


iPhone suddenly drains battery quickly, but only sometimes

You should be able to scroll down farther on that screen with battery level and activity and see specifically which applications are using energy.  Never seen the "not available message" however...


MacBook Pro 2014 not booting after El Capitan 10.11 update

Yes - you have many options to back up a Mac that won't start.

you can start the Mac in Target Disk mode and connect it to another Mac to do the backup.
you can bring a USB drive and use internet recovery to install a working OS on to the new drive. Boot to that and then perform the backup.
you can get help at https//locate.apple.com
you can even try reinstalling the OS on top of your current OS. That might fail and might make things worse if the problem is a hardware issue (failing hardware) so I've listed this last.

Which you choose depends on your expertise, amount of time you care to invest, speed of your network and whether you can isolate why the Mac isn't starting. Knowing that might allow a more surgical repair instead of starting over. I'd say get a backup and then decide how to fix things as a follow on step.


There a few ways to do that.

Follow instructions on this website.

Create free custom ringtones using your favorite songs

Important: the length of the ring tone can not be more than 40 seconds, so select the part of the song you prefer.


No, all current Macs have fans. At low load, most Mac fans are very quiet though.


Change Mac OS X Wireless Card Country Code

802.11d is the protocol that wireless access points use to broadcast (among other things) the regulatory domain (i.e. country codes) in which it is supposed to be operating. It seems that there may be no clear rule for what to do when various equipment is broadcasting conflicting regulatory domain information.

The ideal solution would be to disable/replace/reconfigure the equipment that is broadcasting the incorrect information.

I found an (oldish) Apple Discussions thread that indicates that indicates that a Mac’s AirPort hardware will use the first country code it hears after powering on or waking from sleep. Later postings in the thread (on the second page) indicate that it is sufficient to just power off/on the AirPort hardware itself and not the whole system. A couple of people reported success using a script to repeatedly turn the AirPort interface off and on (using networksetup) until it happened to acquire the desired state (as reported by system_profiler).

Based on TA25972, it seems that older equipment (presumably models that do not listen for 802.11d information) may not even be able to switch “country codes”.


Can't assign some apps to a desktop .. what's wrong?

It seems like a bug in Mountain Lion. Removing the app from dock and adding it again usually resolves the problem for me.


Connect to Ubuntu machine on local network using Screen Sharing, screen doesn't update

Have you tried opening the Screen Sharing app (/System/Library/CoreServices/) and typing in the vnc:// address to the Ubuntu machine?

You can also try changing the Screen Sharing prefs. With the Screen Sharing app open, go to Screen Sharing -> Preferences and changing settings to the ones that say faster?

Hope this helps.


iPhoto is a separate application from Photos (though if you had iPhoto on your dock, the 10.10.3 upgrade replaced its icon with Photos). You can still run it by using Spotlight or going to your Applications folder.

When you do run it, it may ask if you actually meant to open it, or if you meant to open Photos - choose the option to continue opening iPhoto. Your iPhoto library is still there and has not been removed. Keep in mind any changes made to your iPhoto library will not be reflected in Photos, so if you decide later that you do want to use Photos, you will need to create a new library in Photos to convert your iPhoto library at that time.


How are these Chinese spam iCloud Calendar/Reminders invitations sent to me?

It's simply that anyone can send an email to you. If spam rules don't block it, Apple software (with default settings) processes the invitation before you can take any action.

To prevent this automatic processing, try this.

Log in to iCloud on the web, open your calendar and go to ⚙ > Preferences (in the lower left corner). Under Advanced tab you’ll find an option to receive calendar invitations by e-mail instead of directly to your calendar.


The Windows key is the command key by default. Unless you have a fancy programmable keyboard and have changed things, try holding the alt key which boots to the boot chooser just to be sure the keyboard and USB are functioning.

If you had a newer Mac, then you can try again with recovery or internet recovery:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
What keyboards can reliably be used to start up recovery or diagnostics mode on a Mac mini?

In your case the 2009 iMac needs bootable media so you probably need to bring another Mac and target disk mode or create a bootable installer. The PC keyboard will work now that you know Windows key is Command and Alt is Option, but you’ll need bootable media to continue.


Check the /etc/hosts file by putting this command in Terminal:

cat /etc/hosts | open -f

Be aware this only lets you read the file, you can't edit it this way. Assuming the file is not lengthy, post the output here.


Why are Mac requirements for games so much higher than Windows?

The problem is you are looking at a game, Medieval II: Total War, that was released for Windows in November 2006 (last patch released in 2007 as far as I can tell) and for OS X in January 2016. The Windows version runs on 2000/XP (Windows 2000 was originally released in 1999), whereas the minimum for Mac is OS X 10.10.5, which came out a bit under two years ago. In other words, the game was ported to Mac very recently and therefore requires a modern computer to run it. I am not sure why the disk storage requirement is so much higher; I suspect it's either a typo or the assets in the Mac version have been significantly enhanced.

If you compare Total War: Rome 2, another game in the same series but one that was only released a year apart on the two OSes, you will see system requirements that are much more similar. In fact, the Mac version actually requires less hard drive space. It does require more RAM, but I would guess that's more to do with the underlying OS than anything else.

I looked at some of the games in my Steam library to further confirm that system requirements are not inherently higher for games on Mac. SOMA actually has identical requirements for the two OSes. Marvel Heroes 2016 is very similar for both. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition has slightly higher requirements for Mac than Windows, especially in RAM, but again it runs on much older Windows OSes (XP) than OS X (10.8 minimum). Team Fortress 2 has nearly identical requirements.

Ultimately it comes down to several things: release time frame (again, comparing a game that came out in 2006 with a port that came out in 2016 is not going to yield similar results); the skill set of the developers involved (a studio who may not be as familiar with Mac may not be able to optimize a game as well as one who is, e.g. Aspyr); whether the game is wrapped in an emulation layer (such as Cider or Wine, which some large publishers do as an alternative to having a company like Aspyr port the game to a native Mac version); and ultimately, how much the publisher cares about the quality of the game and spends time (and of course money) optimizing the game for the target platform.


Okay I solved my problem. It seems like the upgrade of apache had disabled mod_ssl. To debug apache2 config files in osx, run apachectl without any parameters:

Jeroens-MBP: jeroen$ sudo apachectl
AH00526: Syntax error on line 10 of /private/etc/apache2/other/mobilize.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLProxyEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration


Is there really no way to force Time Machine to do a second, independent backup?

Every backup is a full backup. Your destination has hard links to each file so that if you copy any snapshot to another volume or folder - you have a copy of every file. If you delete a file from one time interval - the other intervals lose no data. As implemented, there is no reason to store duplicate bits on e destination if a hard link suffices to fully document each file being backed up.


Apple TV 3 and network time problem (after Update to 5.1!?)

My TP-Link router had problems with AppleTV. The iPad didn't see Airplay. I resolved it by following this Apple KB page on iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points.


Bootcamp Windows 7 installed but no wifi capability or USB drive?

Tuxera is an app that makes NTFS filesystems fully readable & writable. There is a 15-Day trial for it. So you can download Windows Support, and just put it into for example your C:\Users\User\Desktop instead of putting it on a USB.

If you cannot find the BOOTCAMP partition on your Desktop. Press Command+Alt+G and type /Volumes/ and there search for your Windows partition. And then you just drag & drop the Windows Support file to your Windows Desktop.


How does Time Machine encrypt backups to network disk?

Neither the remote disk nor the remote volume is encrypted by Time Machine. Instead a special "sparse bundle (disk image)" ("backupbundle" for Catalina) is created on the network drive. In fact it's no uniform disk image file like a dmg but a special folder containing sub-folders and config/log files.

The content of the source volume(s) is saved as AES-128-encrypted band (or chunk) files in the bands folder.

The password is merged into a special file named token in the backupbundle.

The remote disk or volume could be encrypted independently though. This depends on the (TM-)server config.


Can I delete pictures on my old iPhone through my new one using the same iCloud?

If both devices have the same iCloud credentials and iCloud Photo Library is on in both of them, deletions are synced between devices.
The same principle applies to My Photo Stream.

You can even delete the images on iCloud, no need for a second iPhone.

You can download them from iCloud or copy them to a computer from the second device before deleting them.

If you are worried that someone may see them at all, go to the "Recently deleted" album and delete them from there as well.

The iPhone you want images to be remotely deleted on must connect to internet for this changes to occur.


Equivalent of disabling services in Windows to lessen CPU/RAM usage for OS X?

OS X doesn't come with a bunch of unneeded services loaded in the background taking up resources. Most OSes are not as bloated as Windows. There really isn't anything to disable, unless you enabled something that you no longer need. OS X is pretty conservative with what it enables by default, and it often will enable things automatically as needed, and keep them disabled when not.


Does reseting iOS device revert to earlier version of OS

In my experience, iTunes just gives you a fresh install of the latest OS. It has to use the same OS that is installed on your device because while reverting back to the old changes - it can not physically look up the information for the iOS that originally came with your device. When you update your device, your iPhone saves over the old iOS settings so there is no way it can revert back to those changes.


Editing iMac settings from an external Mac

This sounds like either a graphics card failure or a logic board failure: I would recommend getting the data off that drive ASAP and look at getting that machine diagnosed and repaired.


You can easily try this yourself by running the following in Terminal

mkdir ~/t
cd ~/t
dd if=/dev/random of=test bs=1024 count=16
for i in {1..10000}; do cp test test.$i; done

to create a folder containing 10'000 files with 16kB each (replace the 16 in the third line with another number for differently sized files).


Is it possible to change the gray color scheme of Lion?

You can make a subtle change away from gray shifting towards blue with theOS preferences. Go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences...

Then click on General in the upper left

And then select Blue under appearance


After I turned off the VPN, the button link is working.
Maybe Apple block Opera VPN(maybe any other VPN too).


Does the iPhone support TRIM for flash memory?

Since I'm just a generic curious who can do some research on the web, I'll make here some assumptions so we can be on the same grounds:

TRIM is an SSD technology and, as such, can mean too many  different things.
iPhone uses MLC NAND memory, which is indeed a SSD.
We, people, (such as dhy8386 and maybe even Mr. Brian Klug) love to talk big about things we don't know deep enough. To know more, trust less.
Apple mostly does not disclose anything technically meaningful about their technology. And it does use many proprietary technologies nobody else does.
Even today, the iPhone will work way more flawlessly under deep stress (filled memory, many applications, etc) than any Android or Windows Phone. (yes, I've used them all and I currently own a S3)

If you follow every link above deep enough, you may realize it's just not that simple. Even Android's TRIM support probably isn't the same TRIM as a notebook uses on its SSD.

So, it doesn't matter if it supports TRIM or not. The whole point of going with an iPhone is trusting Apple and letting them do the hardcore tech work. And the whole point of jailbreaking is being able to do things Apple can't allow for any reason, such as unblocking carriers. Anything else on JB is doing it wrong (specially now we have android, even for iPhone) - and I'm saying that from my heavy experience using jailbreak from iPhone 3 to 4.

Now, to address your main and unannounced question, best thing you can do to test if your hardware is malfunctioning is to backup your iPhone and reset to factory. Then fill it up with music or pictures, since you suspect a full disk is causing the malfunctioning, and avoid installing  applications at all. You probably won't see any problem and, if you do, just send it to warranty. You can also send it to warranty directly, but you risk of it coming back and just losing few days there.


Dock Icons behaving like they'd be locked, but they are not?


iTunes movies HD Rental advertised as 5.1 surround, but only plays in stereo

This is a long-term issue for Windows 10.  I've seen problems with all 5.1 sound going back 18 months.  Most posts I've seen say to try this:

Go to your Windows Sounds settings
Under Playback, select Speakers and go to their Properties
Under Enhancements, deselect the Disable all enhancements checkbox
Activate the Enable Speaker Fill checkbox and click Ok

If that doesn't work, try this:

Go to the sound settings
Select your device
Properties => Advanced tab then select 24bit, 96000Hz from the dropdown


Mac Mini screen glitch followed by fan noise then reboot

It is likely that the macOS upgrade you did recently is coincidental.

The symptoms you describe lead me to think that the issue is strictly hardware and will need examination from a tech conversant with troubleshooting Mac hardware.

It could be a 'graphics card' issue but as the graphics card is integrated on the system board and not a separate item that is separately replaceable (though there are some independent techs who do such work) it is more appropriately referred to as a system board failure.

So, time to take it in for service. A local Apple Store, Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple tech of your choice.


Re-mapping tilde ~ to escape with hidutil, hex code is wrong on technical note?

So i thought I tried 35, but i guess i missed it.

The `~ key is 35.

So just to be clear this [technical note] Has everything correct however i was confused by the non-Us keyboard vs graveaccent/Tilde names.

~  key is 35

\| key is 31 and 32 (for us keyboards)


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