Can I boot Linux (any distro?) from USB on a MacBook Air that has no hard drive?

I think it may be possible. I only have 2x iMac's, and I don't really want to pull the HDD out of either of them to test. However, that being said, a Mac system uses EFI rather than BIOS so you would need a Linux distro that has support for EFI.
I am a hardcore Debian user, so this would work with both Debian and Ubuntu.
Some things to decide:

Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit version of Linux?
Does your preferred version of Linux support booting from EFI?
Does the Linux distro you want have LiveCD or LiveDVD versions?

Once you have decided this, fill in the blanks with what you need:

Format a USB to Fat32 with MBR record
Create /efi/boot directory on this drive
Download either the 32-bit EFI or 64-bit EFI file and put it in the /efi/boot directory
Download the LiveCD or LiveDVD version of the Linux OS you want to run
Move the ISO file to the /efi/boot directory and rename it to boot.iso

Reboot your Mac with the USB in and hold down Alt/Option key when booting and you should be presented with a USB drive to select to boot from.


Is there a Java IDE for iPad which can compile and run Java locally?

There are web-based IDEs that support Java like IDE One and CodeBox that should work from an iPad. Obviously there are limitations with both but they might suffice.

This is my immediate thought, because I believe Apple have rules against people creating apps that include their own runtime. Which I'd assume you'd require if you wanted to compile Java code directly on an iOS device.


No sound out of both sides of Beats solo3 wireless when on Bluetooth

SOLVED!
So after 7) above, I poked the wired cable into the jack again (the cable was totally disconnected at the other end this time). The headphones turned themselves off. After I turned them on, they miraculously started working.


Does Macbook Pro have a hardware or software issue? (Constantly Stuck on White Screen)

You've tried replacing all the software and the issue still persists, so it sounds like a hardware issue.

RAM is the easiest hardware to test, so I'd suggest running memtest86+ on your Mac for a while to see if it picks up any problems.


Paralells Desktop changes default Application to play .mp4 files

Have you tried same with Info (Cmd-I). This is better way to change default program. Also I've stopped sharing anything else than folders between Windows & Mac since upgraded to Parallels Desktop 7. It helps much also.


How do I get good quality photos onto an iPod Touch?

You may want to try a re-sync if you recently updated to iOS 4.x

This resolved the issue for a user here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=10844169&postcount=2

  this happened to me when I first upgraded my 3GS from 3.1.3 to 4.0, the moment the upgrade was complete, I unplugged my phone to browse the new features and I quickly noticed all my photos were low res, so I plugged my phone back to computer and hit sync, this time iTunes said "Optimizing Photos". Once that was complete, photos were back to normal.


How to remove Guest option from login screen?

@andyshinn
OK,
I see on your screen shot, that is not Guest user icon, that is Group user!

It says Other (not Guest).

The Guest user shows with one face, the group shows with multiple faces, like your icon.

I see you are at work.
Do you have a group user account set up by your IT people?

Let me clarify that.
Someone or something (a program) has put a login and hidden it from you so you can not delete it.

Well you can now do something since you know about it.
First lets find out who! then decide if you want to delete it.


Password not working on time machine restore after clean install

Boot from the recovery partition (hold cmd+r while the system starts up).  Once you get to the options, there should be a utilities menu.  Open terminal, and you'll be given a command prompt.  Type "resetpassword".  You should be able to figure it out from there!


How to copy video files from OS X to iPad over Wi-Fi?

AirSharing is a swiss army knife of turning any iOS device into a wireless file server. There are many others, but this program has three versions that have stood the test of time.

The "copy when connected" nut will be harder to crack. Unless someone steps up with a ready made solution, you will have to set up SMNP monitoring of your router and trigger a sync when the iPad MAC address is logged as joining the network. You could also poll bonjour locally, but SNMP seems more elegant to me since it will log and push that join without constant monitoring on the mac end.


OSX Mountain Lion - Login hangs after restart

Whatever is was, CMD-R on restart and reinstalling the OS fixed it. :-/


On your iPhone and iPad, Go into Settings → Safari → Block Cookies, and choose an option other than Always Block. Your settings should then save.

You could also enable Cloud Save to sync your settings across your browsers and devices. The option is available through the same hamburger menu under Settings, and is not associated with a username or a personally-identifiable value.


How do I replace an alias by the original file it is linking to?

Smart Folders are a great way to accomplish your desired result of gathering the files.  No matter where the file is on your drive, all can be selected then compressed.

Create a Smart Folder In the Finder, choose File > New Smart Folder, or press options+⌘+N.
To search for files, enter a topic, a phrase, or another parameter in
the search field.
To determine whether the search should include only the names of files
or their entire contents, choose “Name matches” in the menu that
appears below the search field, then click Name, then choose
either Filename or Everything.
To search for additional specific attributes, click the Add button
(+) below the search field, then make choices using the search
attribute pop-up menus that appear.
The menus work in pairs; for example, to search for images, you choose
Kind from the pop-up menu on the left, then choose Images from the
pop-up menu next to it.
Click Save, then specify a name and location for your Smart
Folder.
If you don’t want your Smart Folder to be in the sidebar, deselect Add
To Sidebar.
You can’t use certain characters, including punctuation such as a
colon (:), in folder names. If an error message appears, try using
another name. You can then save the folder for future use.

When you are satisfied that you have the files you need, select them and then compress.


Is it possible to restore an iPhone to a newer version of iOS that is not the latest?

The way I found is:

Download the desired image from https://ipsw.me/
Put the iPhone in recovery mode.
Open iTunes and Option + click (or Shift + click on Windows) on Update.
Locate the image and follow the instructions.


Is there a way to get system-wide Grammarly correction on MacOS?

Currently, there is no such support with Grammarly for macOS.


Disk Utility can't resize Windows NTFS partitions.
You can do advanced container/partitions editing in a GUI with a third party application:

Paragon Hard Disk Manager

It has fully functional 10 day trial period.


Im also getting very slow speeds with my MacBook Pro 2015 SSD. It is most likely something wrong with the app, in the past I got much faster with the same app on a older version with the same Mac.


How to install mod_pagespeed on Apache Server on Mac?

mod_pagespeedis currently not supported. However, you can build it from source. Google is describing here how you can do that.

Instead of using apt-get you can install brew. Brew is a lightweight package manager for OS X and can be obtained at their official homepage.

I'd recommend to install a Linux distro on a VM and then installing mod_pagespeed as this is way easier, plus you get more support probably.


Mac Mini late 2012 second monitor resolution

According to this page on EveryMac.com the resolutions you want to run should be supported.

The problem might be the adaptor.

I would try a PRAM reset (restart while holding down Command-Option-P-R), or possibly an SMC reset, detailed in Apple's Support system.

If these don't work, I'd try a different adaptor.

Good Luck.


How to Backup Apple Mail Gmail database to External Hard drive?

As you are thinking of backing up your Gmail account, there are multiple applications available online (paid) to backup Gmail Account as well as Apple Mail. One I found interesting was: http://www.mailbackupx.com/how-to-scenerios/how-to-backup-apple-mac-mail-mails-on-mac.html

However, you can always set your Time Machine to backup only your mail folders as Apple Mail makes an automatic backup of all the incoming and offline emails as well. You will have to exclude all the other folders and set the Time Machine to Backup this folder only: /Users/username/Library/Mail and /Users/username/Library/Mail Downloads

Also, you can direct the storage location to an external storage in Time Machine only and your backup will happen automatically.


Can I copy files from a PC to an iMac using a USB memory stick?

Absolutely you can copy files from a USB thumb drive to a Mac. They're typically formatted as MS-DOS partitions which a Mac can read and write.


How to disable unlock with Apple ID in Mountain Lion when FileVault is enabled?

I haven't tried this with an Apple ID but in general you can add/remove users from the list using the fdesetup command. For example, to delete the user 'bill':

sudo fdesetup remove -user bill

You can use the following to see which users can unlock the disk:

sudo fdesetup list


How to make Safari use the List view not the Column view

Welcome to Ask Different!
On macOS Big Sur, click the button shown on the screenshot and pick another view.

These are the options shown to me:

Ícones = Icons
Lista = List
Colunas = Columns

Edit: alternatively, when you have the window open, you can use the same shortcuts that are also available on Finder: [command] + [1], [command] + [2], [command] + [3] to pick the respective options, as Tetsujin mentioned.


MagSafe: Where is the charger ID stored?

The charger's serialization and capabilities are determined by the chip in the Magsafe connector.  The Mac also controls the LED, not the charger.

  Understanding the charger's ID code

  You can easily pull up the charger information on a Mac (Go to "About this Mac", "More Info...", "System Report...", "Power"), but much of the information is puzzling. The wattage and serial number make sense, but what about the ID, Revision, and Family? It turns out that these are part of the 1-Wire protocol used by the chip inside the connector.


How to export to $PATH permanently because .bashrc file doesn't exist in $HOME directory

It should be stored in /Users/username/. To append something to your .bashrc file use

echo foo >> ~/.bashrc

Make sure to use >> and not >, as the latter will overwrite the file.

As @fd0 said, you probably want this in your .bash_profile to make sure it loads. I would append to your .bash_profile like this:

echo "export PATH="$HOME/path/added:$PATH"" >> ~/.bash_profile


It is now a more appropriate Pipette icon.

You can see it at the bottom of the picker


Connection Problem with HP Pavilion Monitor and 2015 MacBook Pro Retina

I agree with HP - an incompatible resolution could certainly cause this problem, although it could be something else.

The recommended resolution for the HP Pavilion 22cwa 21.5-inch IPS LED Backlit Monitor you purchased is 1920 x 1080 pixels, so you could certainly play around with your settings in Apple > System Preferences > Displays to see what impact they have.

The other thing you can check are the various settings on the monitor itself by pressing the Menu button to access the On-Screen Display (OSD). One option that I've seen help many users is changing the Input settings on their monitors, such as turning the automatic input setting off and manually selecting the input.

If all of the above fails, there are some troubleshooting steps you can try on your MBP.

Reset the NVRAM

Older Macs had what's called Parameter RAM (PRAM), newer Macs use Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM). To reset this on your particular MBP, follow these steps:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again (i.e. you hear the startup chime a 2nd time).
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

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

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. can you connect to the monitor okay, etc)
Restart your Mac as normal to exit Safe Mode
Test again to see what happens

Once you've booted into Safe Mode, let me know how you went and we'll go from there.


iCloud Keychain in Safari Requires Password

On Mac OS 10.14.4, go to system preferences, select Touch ID. Uncheck using Touch ID for Safari AutoFill.

It will no longer require Touch ID to autofill passwords and reverts back to earlier behavior.


Is there a way to provide a sort order to an mdfind query?

I used the following shell function to provide the sort:

function sort_file()
{
    TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/sortable.XXXXXX` || exit 1
    export MDLS="mdls -raw -name kMDItemAlbum -name kMDItemAudioTrackNumber"
    export TR="tr \"\0\" \"\;\""
    awk '{system( "$MDLS \"" $0 "\" | $TR" ); print "\;"$0; }' $1 > $TMPFILE
    sort -t\; -k 2n -k 1f $TMPFILE | awk -F";" '{ print $3; }' > $1
}

META NOTE: I would have put this in a comment in the above answer, but couldn't get it to format correctly.


How do I clear Google Chrome's DNS cache entirely?

Just clear the "Cached images and files" in step 2 works for my Chrome on Mac Sierra most of the time, sometimes I need add step 3 and 4.


dtruss shows:

2892/0xdc8e:  stat64("/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib\0", 0x7FFF500DA5F0, 0x7FFF500DB500)        = -1 Err#2

which is ENOENT (No such file or directory) and the reason is probably that chroot already happened.  If you are so foolish as to experiment by

sudo mkdir -p /var/empty/usr/lib
sudo cp /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib /var/empty/usr/lib

You will move the crash to the next shlib not under /var/empty/

sshd[3256]: fatal: ssh_sandbox_child: sandbox_init: dlopen (/usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib, 261):
Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib\\n  Referenced from: /usr/lib/libsandbox.1.dylib\\n  Reason: image not found [preauth]

If you persist with this madness

sudo cp /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib /usr/lib/libMatch.1.dylib /var/empty/usr/lib/

sshd will start to work again at least for SSH keys, passwords still don't work.

You can also edit /usr/local/etc/sshd_config changing

UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox

into

UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

But outside of debugging purposes I don't suggest trying any of this.


How to transfer purchases from iPhone into iTunes library

You can do this in the iTunes menu at the top of the screen: File :: Devices :: Transfer purchases

As simple as that.


How to add hyperlinks to local files in Numbers?

If numbers app is not expecting a filesystem link, i.e. it is not coded to except such cases, it will not open the file.
Compare this with Sublime's, VSCode's or Xcode hyperlink feature that you can follow by double clicking or command-clicking. They are programmed to do it.


What's the differences between the iPod Touch calendar and the iPhone calendar?

There is no difference. What makes you think there is?


Push notifications work everywhere but my home network

Your push-port (5223) could've been closed. Try to open it in the router-interface.


Trapped in iPhone 4 and WhatsApp, need help to escape

You could use iTunes to create a backup of your iPhone 4. The backup will contain the data files from WhatsApp. You can use a program such as iPhoneBackupViewer to view/export your WhatsApp messages:

http://www.imactools.com/iphonebackupviewer/

Another more "down to earth" solution would be simply to use another camera phone to take pictures of each of the WhatsApp messages you would like to save.


MacBook has black screen, boots up but just the fan runs

Credit: Apple

  If your Mac won‘t turn on
  Learn what to do if your Mac won't turn on.

  Rule out display issues

  First, rule out the display as the source of the issue. To be sure you're not having a display issue, press your computer's power button. If your Mac has power but doesn't have any video:
  You may hear a startup chime.
  You may hear fan or drive noise.
  You may see a light from the Sleep LED, if your Mac has one.
  Pressing the Caps Lock key on the keyboard causes it to light.
  If any of these things happen and you have an external display, get help with video issues on external displays connected to your Mac. Otherwise, continue with this article.
  Power issues

  If your Mac won't turn on and you have ruled out display issues, try these steps.
  Verify that you have a good connection from your Mac to the wall outlet by confirming the power cord and adapter are securely connected and plugged in. To check if the wall outlet is working, plug in a lamp or other electrical device.
  If the wall outlet is working and you continue to have no power, try another power cord or adapter, if available. If you're using a Mac notebook, learn about troubleshooting MagSafe adapters, and leave the power adapter connected long enough to provide an adequate charge to the battery.
  Disconnect all accessories that are plugged in to your Mac. This includes things like printers, USB hubs, or mobile devices.
  Hold down the power button for ten seconds. Then press the power button again to see if the Mac turns on.
  Reset the SMC.
  If you recently installed memory or a drive in your Mac, make sure it's compatible and installed correctly. If possible, reinstall the original memory or drive to see if the issue persists.
  MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory
  MacBook: How to remove or install memory
  Mac Pro: How to remove or install memory
  Mac mini: How to remove or install memory
  iMac: How to remove or install memory
  If your Mac still won't start up after you've tried each of these steps, visit an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider for further diagnosis. If you plan to visit an Apple Retail Store, make a reservation at the Genius Bar, if available in your country or region. Diagnostic fees may apply for issues not covered under warranty or AppleCare Protection Plan (APP).


Finder Advanced Search - Only within directory

It seems once you've saved a search, you can't change what folder(s) it scopes. I recreated the search from the directory I wanted to include, and that worked.


How do I write an AppleScript which auto reconnects to Wi-Fi?

Here's a simple Appplescript handler I wrote a while back to solve this exact problem. It pings the OpenDNS server (both of them for redundancy) to check if the internet connection is up. It returns true on success, false on failure. Just copy it into your script, and call it like:

set connected to checkInternetConnection

Then you can put whatever you want to do in an if statement like:

if connected then
    -- Do stuff here
end if

The handler:

on checkInternetConnection()
    -- Ping the primary OpenDNS server.
    try
        set pingResult1 to do shell script "ping -c 1 208.67.222.222"
    on error
        set pingResult1 to ""
    end try

    -- Check the results returned and return true or false.
    set p to number of paragraphs in pingResult1
    if p < 5 then
        -- Ping another Open DNS server for redundancy.
        try
            set pingResult2 to do shell script "ping -c 1 208.67.220.2220"
        on error
            set pingResult2 to ""
        end try

        set p to number of paragraphs in pingResult2
        if p < 5 then return false
    else
        return true
    end if
end checkInternetConnection


Can I take a still photo with my built-in webcam?


Try discharging the battery (plug in an iPhone or iPad or whatever and drain the battery by charging it). Then reset the PRAM and SMC. Finally start up in verbose mode (hold V while booting) and try to capture what gets displayed (iPhone or iPad video works well).

After the battery has been effectively dead for a day (it should be dead enough that when you hit the power button it only shows a "plug in charger" pictogram, give it a little charge and there's a good chance your Mac will act properly. If not, the verbose console log will be useful.


Login directly to terminal instead of GUI

If you find >console not working, newer OS have disabled it by default.

A quick command line modification of the preference will re-enable it:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist "DisableConsoleAccess" NO


In Terminal > Preferences, change xterm-256color to xterm-color:


I've no idea of the construction of a Mini, but you could test it empirically.

Remove one drive, see if it will boot.
If yes, look at Disk Utility & see which drive remains.
If no, then you removed the only boot source.


Late 2008 MacBook Pro no longer wakes up on its own

This could be related to the SMC or the PRAM. The System Management Controller controls everything related to power on your Mac. I would reset this first, and then reset the PRAM right after. Let us know if that works. You may have to reset the sleep schedule after resetting the PRAM.


MacBook Pro internal display resolution wrong

This is the correct behavior. The actual resolution of the panel is 2880 x 1800, but macOS scales the UI to simulate 1440 x 900 @ 2x by default.

You can change the scaling factor in Display preferences to "create" more screen space. If you set it to the highest setting, 1920 x 1200, then you'll be able to drag a window from the external to the internal display in the way you're expecting.


There are two all-in-one solutions specialised for web development: Coda from Panic and Espresso from MacRabbit. Both have their pros and cons, just try them out and see which fits better for your needs. Hype is going through the news recently, but is more tool to create interactive and flashy HTML5 sites (as far as I understood it).


This is often caused by iTunes' insistence on only playing songs that are 'checked', even though you can't tell whether they're checked or not except in Songs view.

If you don't need the functionality that checking songs is used for (syncing with other devices, or limiting what appears in smart playlists), you can turn it off by unchecking Preferences > General > Show List Checkboxes. Then iTunes will play any selection you like without stopping.

If you don't want to disable checkboxes, as @Buscar웃 says, the Up Next list is your (somewhat unintuitive) friend.


Xcode displaying false code error messages ('Expected expression' and others)

Even though you can't see any weird characters on the screenshots (or in person) where the error is, there's actually a 'DLE' control code at the end of the line (see image):

I copied the suspect text to another text editor where I discovered the control character.  I do not know how this character got there as I've been typing code and not copy/pasting from the web or other sources.

Deleting the semicolon and everything after it all the way to the new line fixed the problem.  This and other invisible control characters really should be visible when 'view invisibles' are turned on.


Why can't I chmod to make a file executable without sudo?

It turns out there was another exec "chmod" on the path, obscuring my own chmod.

The thing that made this difficult to see was that I'd used the metacharacter "~" in my PATH variable. Only some things will interpret a tilde in the PATH. The which program does not expand the tilde, so which chmod told me that /bin/chmod was the chmod on the path, but bash does expand the tilde, so it tried to run the other chmod (which did nothing.) Meanwhile, sudo does not expand the tilde so it worked, and gave the impression of a permissions problem.

Resolution: when adding subdirectories of your home directory to your PATH, use $HOME instead of ~.


macOS Sierra SSH Active Directory login not working

Your question is hard to answer because it would need more details, AD and OS X configuration details as well as Group Policy settings.

In a new Active Directory environment with some joined OS X clients and an OS X server, the set up works as expected.

After creating a global security group SSH-OSXUsers and adding some arbitrary AD users one has to add this network group in macOS' Sharing PrefPane > Remote Login > Only these users > + > Network Groups > SSH-OSXUsers (or in the respective settings in Server.app).

To connect to this server I recommend to use ssh user@hostname or ssh user@fqdn. With a proper PTR record for the OS X server in the reverse DNS tree, it should also work with the IP.

Connecting with a user of the SSH-OSXUsers group who never logged on to the server host, you will get the error Could not chdir to home directory /Users/domainsshuser: No such file or directory because the user's home folder is missing, but you can execute commands.

If you connect with a managed network account or a mobile account user with a home folder on the server host you won't see this message.

One step to get a more detailed ssh error message may be changing the standard error path from /dev/null to /tmp/ssh.stderr in the launch daemon after disabling SIP.


Dark spot appearing on the Screen , MacBook Pro 13

It seems to be a dead backlight LED.

If your computer is still under AppleCare I would suggest to bring it to an Apple Store or to an Apple Premium Reseller.


Mount a previously internal and encrypted HDD as an external drive

You seem to be under the impression that the hard drive is the Fusion Drive - that is not the case. The Fusion Drive is a "virtual drive" consisting of both the hard drive as well as the internal SSD that was factory installed in your iMac.

You cannot remove just the hard drive from the iMac and expect to be able to mount it externally on other computers and copy files off it. You will need the data from the internal SSD to be able to do that. The easiest way to do this is to mount it in the same iMac that it came from.

If you during reinstallation of macOS cleared the internal SSD of the iMac, you have effectively wiped your data - and you won't be able to mount the external hard drive. You will need to do data recovery on the drive to be able to get anything out.

If you haven't cleared the internal SSD, it should be possible to mount the Fusion Drive again. It is however usually very cumbersome to do so if you have altered the disk configuration by adding another internal SSD. If you use any of the standard tools for fusing the Fusion Drive (like "diskutil resetFusion" on Mojave), you'll not only loose your data - but it will probably just error out stating that you have a non-standard disk configuration.

I would advise simply removing the new SSD from the iMac, putting back the hard drive. Cross your fingers and hope everything boots up - and then copy off any data you want to save. Then you install the new SSD again.


iOS 8 Safari in Iphone, appending to autocompleted url

Backspace will return you to the point you were last typing.

Tap/hold will turn the autocomplete into 'real' text you can then edit - but you can't fill from halfway down the potential URL, it becomes a new full text string that you need to work with, as though you'd already typed it all.

So, for instance, typing app will turn into apple.com Tap/hold will 'freeze' that allowing you to then complete apple.com by typing /knowledgebase but if you wanted apple.net you would first have to delete the com before continuing.


How to set to open folder with enter in finder?

Any person new to Apple and Mac would find lot of things un-intuitive or just forced on the user, w/o any options to change it.
Or it might be that just many of us had their first experiences on Win/Linux systems.

But just found this plugin to finder XtraFinder which among lot of other options allows you to ENTER/RETURN to open a file.

Feeling a lot relieved now! Hope it helps.


Launchd/Launchctl - pre and post scripting

No, there is no such functionality in launchd (as far as I am aware, and I consider myself pretty familiar with launchd).
The best site that I know of for launchd info is https://www.launchd.info which is maintained by the developer of LaunchControl which is my favorite, and I would argue also the best, tool for managing launchd on the Mac, although I do have to admit that Lingon is also excellent.
If I wanted to do something like that with launchd I would end up making a shell script of some kind to run the command before, then run the daemon, then run the commands after. Not nearly as satisfying, of course.


Aperture : unreadable JPEG on Mountain Lion

Well, the cause looks like it's this. Not sure how to fix it....

2012-10-22 8:50:27.959 AM quicklookd[63701]: ImageIO: JPEG Corrupt JPEG data: 400 extraneous bytes before marker 0xf3


How to change X11/Xquartz colour setting to 256 colors Using Bash Script?

The command to change Color: From Display, as shown in X11 Preferences of XQuartz, to  Color: 256 Colors, from the command line in Terminal is:

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 depth -int 8

Note: XQuartz should be closed when making this change or the ones below, from the command line or from within a bash script.

To reset it to the default, Color: From Display, use the following:

defaults delete org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 depth

Or:

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 depth -int -1

Note: By default the depth key doesn't exist however, when reset from the GUI to the default, the setting is -1, although either is acceptable to set the default back to Color: From Display.


absolute path to directory accessed by right click 'Show Package Contents'

Any .app is just a folder so if an application is in

 /Applications/Safari.app

the Contents directory is

/Applications/Safari.app/Contents

You can also get the path by Cmd-clicking on the folder name at the top of the Finder window.


How to stop kernel_task from constantly using over 400% CPU?

As noted by Apple here:

  Activity Monitor may show that a process named kernel_task is using a large percentage of your CPU, and during this time you may notice a lot of fan activity. This process helps manage temperature by making the CPU less available to processes that are using the CPU intensely. In other words, kernel_task responds to conditions that cause your CPU to become too hot. When the temperature decreases, kernel_task automatically reduces its activity.

This would imply that kernel_task’s CPU usage will decrease once the process causing the CPU to overheat is stopped. Unfortunately, it was impossible to tell in Activity Monitor exactly what started the Python process owned by _devicemgr to begin with. Thankfully, someone else in this thread already did the detective work.

The steps I used to solve the problem:

Moved Server.app to the Trash.
Clicked OK in the Server app removal detected. dialog box:
The Python process owned by _devicemgr finally stopped, and kernel_task’s CPU usage dropped dramatically to far more normal levels (3 – 10 %)… making my Mac finally usable again!

Optionally, Server.app can be moved out of the Trash and back into the Applications folder. I attempted this and reopened it. After starting back up and setting up services, it gave a curious error related to DeviceManager (which is quite interesting considering the CPU was being trashed for the past few weeks thanks to a process running under _devicemgr in the first place):

More details in Console.app:

In any case, clicking on Continue and ignoring the error doesn’t seem to have any negative repercussions (yet) and CPU usage hasn’t seemed to spike yet either, so I’d say problem solved!


Grapher: Edit or enter data points directly in the graph with the mouse?

I don't think you can do that but you can put your points in a file and then input the file. I find it much easier to input data using an editor that the boxes on Grapher. Give you file a name that ends in .txt and then you can go to import and after clicking on that the frame that appears has an import button. When clicking on import it opens a Finder window for you to select the file you want.


How can I create a zip archive for Windows and Linux users?

zip -r -x .DS_Store directory.zip directory

zip removes extended attributes and ACLs by default

find directory -name .DS_Store -delete; ditto -ck --norsrc directory directory.zip

--norsrc implies --noextattr and --noacl; --noextattr would require --norsrc
-c is compress, -k uses PKZip (zip) instead of CPIO

COPYFILE_DISABLE= tar --exclude .DS_Store -czf directory.tgz directory

Setting COPYFILE_DISABLE tells tar to remove extended attributes and ACLs instead of creating ._ files

The files that start with ._ are AppleDouble files (not resource forks), and they are used to store extended attributes and ACLs.

Extended attributes are used to store the quarantine status of files, the source URLs of files downloaded from the Internet, information about aliases (aliases stop working if extended attributes are removed), Spotlight comments, the encoding of files saved with TextEdit, and so on.

You can list extended attributes and ACLs with ls -l@e. You can remove extended attributes and ACLs recursively with xattr -cr .; chmod -NR .


Is getting a Mac Pro to run Windows useful in any way

There is very little difference between running Windows 10 on a PC and a Mac. The Boot Camp Assistant that comes with macOS is just a utility that simplifies the installing Windows in dual boot arrangement.

The Boot Camp Assistant also allows the user to download the drivers needed to install Windows as the only operating system on the Mac. However, Apple offers no other assistance in doing so.

There has been issues in the past were Apple has released a new Mac before the Windows drivers (Windows Support Software) was available. So you probably want to ask about running Windows before purchasing the latest Mac models.

So the answer to your questions:

Question 1: Yes, but you need macOS to first download the Windows Support Software.

Question 2: Yes, the Windows Support Software provides all the drivers need to run all the hardware included on a Mac.

Question 3: Most likely there are other PC manufacturers that provide the same hardware at a lower cost. A lot of what you pay for when purchasing a Apple goes to support macOS. Apple provides little or no support for Windows. (Other than providing the Windows Support Software and the Boot Camp Assistant.)


Search for the App in the iTunes store (OS X or iOS as appropriate) and then look for the stars to rate and then write a detailed review. You should be asked to sign in to your Apple ID and you must have purchased the app to write a review. If you received a gift or promotional copy, you might not be able to write a review in some cases.

The Write a Review text is below the ScreenShots section so you may need to scroll the content up to see the link to submit a review.


Logitech mouse and keyboard don't wake up my macbook pro 13" (2020)

I have to use the USB receiver for my Logitech devices to reliably wake my Mac. I'm not sure if I have a lot of 2.4 GHz interference or it just doesn't signal like Apple's devices. The Apple devices reliably work for me, third party devices, I love to connect them via USB to make them as reliable as Apple branded Bluetooth.


Difference between enabling Time Machine's "Encrypt Backups" option, and encrypting from Disk Utility?

Aha! The answer comes when you try to deselect the "Encrypt backups" option:

So it appears they are one and the same.


Why Safari is consuming so much battery?

I had this same problem for the first after updating my iPhone 6s to iOS 11. I wasn't using Safari as I use Chrome but it would consume up to 50% of my battery and I was having to charge more frequently then before.

The solution was to disable iCloud syncing for Safari:
Settings → Apple ID → iCloud and turn off Safari.

My phone is now behaving 'normally'.


Safari 4.1.3 is the last version of Safari for Mac OS X Tiger, so you're out of luck on that end. Furthermore, Chrome and Firefox (in their current versions) do not support Tiger either.

You can try looking for Mac OS X Leopard, since Safari 5.1.10 (the last version of Safari for Leopard) is available for download, but that's as far as your computer will possibly be able to go, since the latest version requires, at minimum, OS X Mountain Lion, which requires an Intel processor.

This Apple Discussions page suggests you could also try TenFourFox.

If you don't like any of these options, you'll have to purchase a new Mac.


iPhone 5c Digitizer or logic board damage

If your phone rings when called, that tells you a couple things that the phone is able to do:

The phone is able to turn on.
The phone is able to process the received call (and I'm guessing all of iOS's pretty effects with loading it as well).
The phone is able to process events from all of the phone's physical buttons (the Lock button, Volume Up/Down, and the Home button).

However, as it seems, the phone isn't able to send touch events to the UI, meaning the digitizer is broken.

Screw in the loose screw, replace the screen/digitizer unit, and reboot. All will be well. :)


Dilemma about replacing the battery in my 17" MacBook Pro mid-2010

I would have buy the battery on iFixit which provide a great service and a lot of good (OEM) products and change the battery by myself or a friend. (It's not so hard, as long as you can use a screwdriver and follow a tutorial!)


Calls are received as a normal call on your phone and then it uses wifi to tell other devices on the same network that a phone call is incoming. If accepted on other devices, the phone is used as a proxy. Voice data is transferred from the device to the iPhone over wifi and then to the cellular network and vice versa. If your phone dies the call will drop. If your phone goes out of wifi, I think the call will be transferred to your iPhone.

This is different from Wi-Fi calling which doesn't require your iPhone on the same network.


In iphone 5s location of movies is not showing which is received from airdrop

Photos and videos that are shared with Air Drop are saved to iPhoto's.  Movies are shared to the Albums section.


How to change the keymap of a Bluetooth keyboard of iPad?


How do I regain all unallocated disk space to add it to macOS after removing bootcamp partition?

OK, I managed to solve the problem and hence answer my own question.  BTW, I'm not a fan of the Disk Utility GUI version included with OS X El Capitan - too easy to commit to things without some cautionary dialogues IMO.  That being said, I was able to reformat and reclaim the missing ex-bootcamp partition by simply using Disk Utility to reduce -- yes reduce -- the size of the OS X partition slightly ~ 5GB in this case.  After waiting about 5 minutes for the changes to be completed, here is the output:


Keynote files are basically zip archives, so you can see the contents of the presentation/archive using the unzip command. As a shortcut instead of unzipping the presentation, you can list the archive contents. Using this command will list all the embedded files in order of size:

unzip -l MyPresentation.key | sort -n

Since you mentioned a "template" you might check the Master Slides, which can become bloated, but won't show up in your list of regular slides. You can see them by popping up on the slide navigator icon and choose Edit Master Slides:

Additionally, you might look into letting Keynote optimize the file for you. You can do this by selecting File > Advanced > Reduce File Size


How to increase keyboard key repeat rate on OS X?

You can also change the preference keys by running the following in Terminal:
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10 # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms)
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms)

The changes aren't applied until you log out and back in. KeyRepeat can't be set between 2 (30 ms) and 1 (15 ms) though.
I also use KeyRemap4MacBook. I've set the repeat rates to 40 ms and the initial repeat rates to 150 ms.


How to Install .NET Framework 4 on Windows 7 Bootcamp

Well, I figured it out. I left out in my question that I was using VMware to access my bootcamp partition, where it didn't work. When I rebooted into "pure" bootcamped windows 7 the install went perfectly.


AlphaSSL intermediate CA certificate revoked

Certificates can be unexpired but still revoked, as shown in your screenshot.

Specifically the issue here seems to be a problem with GlobalSign; a configuration problem caused some browsers to believe that intermediate certificates (such as those issued by AlphaSSL) were revoked when in fact they were not.

As of five days ago, the issue was to work itself out in about four days, as cached responses for intermediate verification expired. Obviously it's not quite there yet. In your case, you can safely check the box to Always trust "AlphaSSL CA - 256SHA - G2", and click Continue.


Does Xcode 4 run "stable" on OS X 10.7 DP?

If you're thinking about using Xcode 4 and Lion as a "stable" coding environment, don't do it now. Lion has a lot of bugs already "enjoyable" and quite possibly a lot more to be found in the following weeks. You'll have to reinstall your OS/Xcode quite often when new releases become available.

It's nice to try things ("new" AppKit stuff) and investigate if certain things work in Lion or how will they react to new tech like "Versions", Full screen, apps being resizable from any corner, etc. All these new things will require new code and current devs will certainly want to add these capabilities. That's what this is all about.

Other OS X betas in the past were certainly stable (especially after a couple of releases) but I can't recall a "first" one being barely usable beyond experimentation.

Launchbar is buggy as hell at the moment.


iPad from AT&T or Verizon for Bell Network in Canada

It does seem to be a difficult choice, but the bottom line is that if you are typically in a 4G area, then you can get either iPad. It only matters when you are in an area without 4G coverage - then you have to choose either GSM (Rogers/AT&T) or CDMA/EVDO (Bell/Telus/Verizon). Since you're looking at Bell, go with the Verizon model. At minimum, you'll get 4G with the Bell SIM card, and if you can get the setup and configuration right, you might be able to get 3G in Canada, although that seems tricky.

Apple has typically sold the GSM model in Canada, however Bell Canada does use EVDO for 2G and 3G connections, so the Verizon iPad 3rd generation might be more suitable for your particular use.

Note that everyone in Canada is moving to LTE, and both models support LTE as well as the various radio frequency bands needed for any given common LTE network.

For comparison, check out the technical specifications listed for the iPad 2 on Apple's Canadian store:

http://store.apple.com/ca/browse/home/shop_iPad/family/iPad/select_iPad2

Versus the technical specifications listed for the iPad 3rd generation shown on Apple's US store:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iPad/family/iPad/select_iPad

Canada iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G model: UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

AT&T iPad 3rd gen Wi-Fi + 4G for AT&T model: 4G LTE (700, 2100 MHz)1 ; UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Verizon iPad 3rd gen Wi-Fi + 4G for Verizon model: 4G LTE (700 MHz)1 ; CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz); UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Some online reports have suggested that the LTE (4G) SIM cards from AT&T work on their Verizon iPads, which indicates that it's likely that on 4G networks it doesn't matter which iPad you buy - it only matters when you have to fall back to 3G or 2G away from population centers. Since Bell Mobility in Canada uses CDMA/EVDO for their 3G coverage then you'll likely have better coverage if you purchase the Verizon model in the US - but it's not a guarantee that you'll even be able to connect it since it's not SIM card based, as GSM is. You'll need to provide the IMEI to Bell Mobility, and hope that it's not locked to Verizon in the cellular chipset.

I believe you'd have better luck choosing a GSM provider (Rogers) in Canada and using the AT&T model, switching the SIM card as necessary between the US and Canada.

You might find the following useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_mobile_phone_companies

It indicates that of the three providers Apple supports (Bell, Rogers, and Telus) only Rogers has GSM 3G coverage - which is interesting because that means that Bell and Telus customers don't get coverage outside their LTE areas.


Apple Music "Content not authorized" error

In Settings > Music, is the "iCloud Music Library" toggled on? I would start with checking that first.
If it's already the case, I would recommend signing out and back in with your Apple ID in Settings > iTunes & App Stores.

I'm subscribed to Apple Music, and had a similar issue recently after changing phones. Something wrong with DRM I assume, so authenticating again should be enough to solve it.


How could I set apple icon image (xxx.icns) to file or folder?

Right click the file and click "Get Info" (or press Cmd+I on the file). Drag the desired icon onto the current icon and it will replace the existing one.


How can I add support for .flac files in SoX?

Keeping it simple.

Removing it using brew like so :

brew remove sox

Then installing it again with specific options, like so, did the trick for me:

brew install sox --with-lame --with-flac --with-libvorbis

You may want to remove the --with-lame option if you won't be using MP3s, or the --with-libvorbis if you won't be using OGG.

I hope this helps someone.


Shut down system without superuser permission

Using pmset or any system tools to perform shutdown requires sudo.

You can ask macOS to shut down from the user's account by telling System Events using AppleScript. You can run AppleScript from the command line by using osascript.

osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to shut down'

This will fail if another user is logged in since this always requires authentication, matching what occurs if the user chooses Shut Down from the Apple menu.

For commands to perform other power-related actions, see

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


Customize delimiter character with Excel CSV save-as

If you're willing to move away from Excel, you could try using OpenOffice or LibreOffice to create .csv files. They're both free, they both have most of the functionality included in Excel, and they both allow tabulated data to be saved as a .csv file using any character as a data separator or text delimiter (including the pipe, of course).


Cell formula based on finding an index on another sheet

So match() will do this.
MATCH() has three arguments:
Search_for : the sku you want to check from col N sheet 1
Search_where : column B on sheet 2
type of match : need 0 for exact match
Not built an example as your data is in images.


I'm getting the exact same thing on my iMac. Only solution is to hold the power button and do a hard reset. I've tried Onyx, resetting the SMC and system reinstall. Using Onyx doesn't help so the frustrating solution is to live with hard powering off.

I agree - Onyx and tools that try to "clear all the caches" are only a last ditch effort if you have a good backup and are willing to erase and reinstall the OS.

SMC doesn't cause freezes - it causes power transition issues like sleep / wake / blowers)
PRAM saves the volume and boot options - again, not really going to help once the system is running

Now you should do the harder fixes since they take time.

verify that a brand new user account is also freezing and hanging if you just use Chrome or the one app that freezes on your main account without all your settings and other programs.
If the freezing happens in the new account or you can't isolate the freeze, then back up one last time and erase the Mac. reinstall the OS and verify the freeze is gone. Once you're sure the freeze is gone, erase and reinstall - letting Migration Assistant bring back your apps / settings / data.

It's super rare for the freeze to come back after that, but it can happen and then you have to do the hardest of all - pin it to a specific app or a specific set of data you need to remove from the Mac.


Actually my problem was that Blackboard on OSx uses Chalkboard while on iOS use Chalkboard SE.

So I had to change all the fonts form Chalkboard to Chalkboard SE.


Some photos in iPhoto showing as grey triangle with exclamation mark

Try repairing the library. Hold ⌘⌥ and open iPhoto, then choose Repair Database.

If that doesn't fix it, hold ⌘⌥ and open iPhoto again, and select Rebuild Database.


You can't install iOS 7 (or even iOS 6) on an iPad 1.

Source: http://www.apple.com/ios/features/

The last version of iOS capable of being installed on an iPad 1 is iOS 5.1.1 and since this is the version that you are currently on there are no updates available.


Can I keep the BOOTCAMP Partition on "secondary" drive when upgrading to SSD?

Yes it shouldn't be a problem. Using the option key during booting should show all available installations to boot.


How do I add hundreds of ebooks to ibooks collection?

You might not be happy with the current functionality of iTunes, but here's how to works. The folder structure from iBooks in iOS doesn't get reflected in iTunes, so you can't control which category new books will arrive in on the device.

You can have a folder of epub files and drag them into iTunes, but they go where iTunes puts them, not a folder of your choosing. This allows bulk injection of hundreds or thousands of books into management for syncing.

The computer version of iTunes will then make a copy of those files in it's Media folder and sync them to all iOS devices the next time they sync (assuming you have the sync rules to sync all Books to each device).

Now, the good news is that if you go ahead and file a book in a category on your iOS device other than Books, that information does sync back to iTunes and the next sync will re-organize things on other devices so you file once, and then sync each device to get them all in sync.

Furthermore, if you have a new iOS device (or erase an existing device) and push all books to that device. The folder status from the last device sync goes to that empty iBooks on iOS.

If and when Apple adds a control to iTunes, you may be able to order books on iTunes just like you can order App icons in iTunes and then sync the device to see the results.


Restore Photos/Videos Back to iPhone Camera Roll

I finally resolved this by using iTunes Sync to add photos to an album in iPhone. It is only slightly different as my photos went back to a separate album, not Camera Roll but that’s okay. I noticed that the location name was restored and since it syncs Videos too, I’m sure slow-mo videos would work the way they should.

Also, latest Quicktime player on Mac plays slow-mo videos just like the iPhone.


Keep download window open in Safari 5.1 under OS X Lion

One minor workaround is to have the Downloads folder in your Dock, set to Stack. That way, at the very least, you can see the status of the most recent download without needing to open/manage a separate window by just glancing at the Dock. It's not the same obviously, but it's something.


Enter passcode without touch screen [iTunes]

No your not able to do this.. You always need to prompt the password on your phone via touch.

Or.. you can try to connect with a wireless bluetooth keyboard, but still you will need to touch the screen to do this.


How to install an OSX application from source

Well...you could just download the compiled version. Then unzip it and move it to your applications folder.

But if you want to compile it yourself, that's fine, too. Once you built in in XCode, the built product will be in the Development folder (or the Deployment folder, depending on which build configuration you chose). Be sure to build the correct target. To build the Platyups.app, you want the Platypus target.

Once you built the app, you can run it from right there. Or move it to your applications folder.


MacBook Pro case that ventilates and protects against dust

Here is a possible solution for you.

Normally you would not need additional (forced) ventilation since MacBook does that as long it gets fresh air access.

  Product Highlights

Protects from Dust & Scratches
Access to Ports & Sensors
Two-Piece Snap-On Design
Ventilated Opening Minimizes Heat
Scratch-Resistant Hard-Shell


Do I need to keep Calendar app open in order to be notified about calendar events

Yes it does. If you set System Preference > Notifications > Calendar to Allow Notifications you should get a notification if you set the alert style to Banners or Alerts even if the app has been quit:


You can do that directly form Xcode preferences:

Open Xcode
Menu Xcode > Preferences
Go to the tab Download
Go to the sub-tab Documentation
Select the documentation you want to re-install
Click the - icon below the documentations list for moving it to the trash.
Click install on the desired documentation

Maybe you can skip the step 6 if Xcode shows that the documentation is not installed.


Those look like they're Steam games. Try downloading the steam client for macos (Some games can be run without it, but most require the client)


WhatsApp and PingChat are the major games in town.  I've also heard a bit about Cnectd

Nothing has really sold me yet, as I'm looking for proper delivery and read notification a la BBM.

Now if someone could figure out how to cross the impossible chasm to somehow connect into the BBM network, it would be a game changer.


Virtual Box error "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Hadoop" on MacOS Big Sur M1 chip

VirtualBox does not run on an ARM chip such as the M1.
There's a long discussion on it here - https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98742
Parallels have a functional beta & VMWare say there's one 'on the way' but as far as I know the only one that claims to be fully functional is UTM, which I haven't tried myself.
There's a setup guide on OWC's blog - UTM: Run Virtual Machines On Your Apple Silicon M1 Mac


Hardware issue on iMac, flashing question mark

If you see a folder with a question mark appear instead of the Apple logo, it means your Mac couldn't find a local or network-based startup disk. This can happen if the disk selected in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences isn't available. Wait a few seconds to see if your Mac is able to locate the startup disk you specified.

If you still see a question mark after waiting a few seconds, use Startup Manager to start up your Mac, then select your startup disk from System Preferences.

If a question mark appears after you install a software update, select your startup disk again using macOS Recovery (Power off Mac, then power it on while holding Command+R until you see the Apple logo).

Reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204156


The only solution I've discovered seems to be using fn+ctrl+F7 to toggle dialog navigation on/off. It might reset after restarting the computer, but it seems to enable navigation in all applications.


How do I stop the "Are you sure you want to open it?" dialog box from displaying when I open an app?

If you need to do this manually on a file (or files) you can run the following command to remove the Quarantine flag:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /PATH/TO/FILE(S)

So in your case since the quarantine flag is not being removed you will want to run the command with sudo as the primary cause for the flag not being removed after hitting "Open" is because you don't have permissions to do so.


Firewall denies sshd-keygen-wrapper despite configuration

I was having the same problem and this is how I fixed it --

Delete sshd-keygen-wrapper from firewall list
Click + to add it back
In the Open dialog press Cmd-Shift-G and specify /usr/libexec
select sshd-keygen-wrapper

Explicitly adding it in this way worked for me.  Good luck!

After step 4. you have to reboot. Or just restart the firewall by disabling and enabling the firewall in the system settings. Without the restart the new configuration will not be activated.


How do I save terminal output to a file?

Just add right sided arrow after your command:

someCommand > someFile.txt

Or if you want to append data(will create file if it doesn't exist):

someCommand >> someFile.txt


Does the Twitter app for OS X support URL minifying?

It's the expected behavior. Links are shortened after sending a tweet and only count as 20 characters when composing a tweet.

Twitter has shortened all links automatically with t.co since 2011. Many clients display t.co links with the target URLs, but you'll still be taken to a t.co URL first when opening a link. See Twitter Help Center | FAQs about Twitter's Link Service (http://t.co).


Can I specify the file name of an iOS Safari image upload?

No, you can't do this unless the website allows it. The uploaded file will use the name of the file that you uploaded, and on iOS this is always image.jpg.

You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this at the following page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html


touch -t normally only changes the modification and access times. It only changes the creation time if the target time is before the original creation time.

touch -t 199912312359 file.txt
touch -t $(date -jf %FT%T 1999-12-31T23:59:59 +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) file.txt

SetFile -d always changes the creation time.

SetFile -d '12/31/1999 23:59:59' file.txt
SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m test.txt)" file.txt

SetFile is part of the command line tools package which can be downloaded from developer.apple.com/downloads or from Xcode's preferences.


I think the main difference between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s that stops iOS 14 supporting the iPhone 6 is probably the fact that the iPhone 6 has 1GB of system RAM (not storage), and the iPhone 6s has 2GB of system RAM.
There is not a lot that could be done to make an OS designed to run in at least 2GB of RAM, work on a system with only 1GB of RAM.
Even if you were able to persuade iOS 14 to install on an iPhone 6, it would run like a dog, if it would run at all.


Are there any benefits to deleting unused Mac OS X kernel extensions?

Actually, any difference in boot up time would be negligible - OS X doesn't boot /mach_kernel — it boots the kernel cache (/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache), which already has the kexts you are using. This gets rebuilt if /System/Library/Extensions gets modified (or if you touch(1) it deliberately).

In terms of the filesystem space, as of Snow Leopard, everything is compressed. Meaning you're not really wasting too much space, either.

There is a downside, however — if you delete kexts, even with kext wizard, or whichever utility, there is a remote chance that some kext will be loaded on demand (e.g. via IOKit probing, on some USB device, for example). In this case, a kext might not be found - and you lose a driver.

In short, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Leave /System/Library/Extensions intact.


Can print graphics, but no text to Canon printer

In the end, I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer driver software, which fixed the problem.


iPhone 5 screen does not activate after a phone call

Sadly - you might need to take it back. The proximity sensor is a small part and if it doesn't sense that your head/ear/face has moved away from the receiver slot - the screen will not light up again.

You can save yourself a trip by backing it up (yet again) and restoring it in iTunes  - but it seems you have already ruled that out.

One thing I have seen in practice is that some people's ears have openings large enough for the proximity sensor to sense the space when the phone is pressed next to their ear as actually being away from an object.

Again, it's often best to lie the phone flat on the table and call some sort of automated help system and use a pencil eraser or your finger to test how and where your particular sensor is sensitive. Once you've spent a handful of minutes discovering how narrow the beam is and exactly how many mm the range is to engage and disengage the sensor, can you take it in for service and know the unit you have is working according to specifications.


sudo find -x / -iname *.app

or

sudo find / -iname *.app 2>/dev/null

The first solution prevents find from descending into directories that have a device number different that that of the file from which the decent began. This prevents the errors from occurring, but limits the search to a single device.

The second solution does not stop the error messages from being generated. Instead, the message are just discarded so you do not see them. This solution discards not only the error messages you describe, but rather all error messages.


How should I configure AppleTV in a shared space/living room?

Require password to buy - this keeps you in control of spending money
Don't sing in to iCloud for Photos - you can AirPlay photos from another device when you wish to show your photos.
There is no interface for reading keychain contents from the Apple TV - so unless you are worried about sophisticated hackers reverse engineering and decrypting keychains - your threat model would be one to not worry about keychain syncing for WiFi credentials.

If you're worried about game center - then you might have to not allow the device to run when you're not present. I don't think there's any control there if you leave that signed in.


The Mac App Store won't let me update iMovie and iPhoto because it says i bought them under a different account

Contact Apple billing support and/or the place you purchased the Mac to see if they can assist with resolving the server side issue. The OS updates are tied to the serial number, but the iLife apps go through a redeem process where the hardware identifier and your Apple ID get bond together, and the Apple servers apparently think a different account is set up for those apps on your Mac.

I'm assuming you have no idea and don't recognize the other Apple ID and it wasn't just a case of you accidentally redeeming the applications. I'm also assuming you can sign into the account you intended to redeem these apps. At worst, Apple or the seller should be able to gift you the apps to the correct account so you can get updates going forward if you (or someone else trying to be helpful) has made a mistake.

Here is what a Mac should look like before you have "accepted" the iLife apps by opening the App Store App and signing in and choosing Purchases (command-4) from the menu bar.


My icloud photos won't upload onto my new macbook air 2018

You can try this found here:

  If your Photos library won't open, or if Photos behaves unexpectedly,
  the Photos library repair tool might resolve the issues.

  Follow these steps to use the Photos library repair tool:

  Hold down the Option and Command keys while you open Photos on your
  Mac. In the dialog that appears, click Repair to start the repair
  process. You might be asked to type in your user account password to
  authorize the library repair.

  The repair tool analyzes the the library's database and repairs any
  inconsistencies it detects. Depending on the size of your library,
  this might take some time. When the process is completed, Photos opens
  the library.


A quick method is to use Marc Liyanage's PHP installer.

Open Terminal.app and run

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6


Monitor which website my applications are trying to connect to

Little Snitch

Whilst it's mainly a firewall, it alerts you when an app connects to a certain domain, and lets you allow/block the connection.

Alternatively, you can allow all connections and just monitor them.

Rubbernet

Rubbernet is also a good alternative, providing the additional feature of remote monitoring of Macs on a network.


Universal method to record calls via Bluetooth in OS X 10.6?

Returning to this question several years later, it's still a pretty sad state of affairs. The only reliable answer is some sort of hardware solution.

In practice, this is what I ended up buying:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Olympus-TP-8-Telephone-Pick-Microphone/dp/B007OXMHDE/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1400147804&sr=8-11&keywords=voice+recorder+microphone

It works really well; you connect the jack to a voice recorder and put the earbud in your ear, which has a microphone and sits between your ear and the phone's speaker. The quality isn't bad (albeit not broadcast quality) and the ability to use an external voice recorder means I'm not having to deal with moving files off my phone or expend extra battery power on a recording app.

That said, this looks really interesting (Though I'm unsure whether you just connect it to your phone and use normally, or whether you connect some sort of hands-free headset to the other side):

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/05/12/15-quirky-gadgets-accessories-buy-today-2/2/

Considering the question is ultimately about finding a cheap or free software-based recording solution, I'll leave it open in case anyone comes up with something workable.


Can I get iPhoto's albums to work like folders instead of labels?

No - iPhoto is a database and it handles all storage of original photos as well as the edited version of the photo. Albums are pointers to photos that exist in events. You can think of events as somewhat inflexible folders since there is a one to one correspondence between photos and events, but not photos and albums.

You might have a look at PhotoMechanic which stores all photos in the filesystem and you can leverage familiarity with that idiom to not be surprised by a photo appearing in an album but be stored elsewhere.

Since iPhoto doesn't really duplicate photos when you place a photo in one album or another, it's not clear if there is a worry about duplicates or a an actual workflow issue that will systematically create duplicates of your photos.

You will have to make a call on how much time to spend learning a new program versus becoming comfortable with how iPhoto works - but most people can quickly learn to avoid actions that preclude having iPhoto duplicate photos without you being aware of the duplication.


How to remove available resolutions from a monitor?

I have not used this application, but apparently you can do that (and much more) in SwitchResX, available here: http://www.madrau.com/indexSRX4.html

On this page it says that "SwitchResX can also block unused resolutions": http://www.madrau.com/functions/custom/custom.html, and since the software allows to create display settings for individual applications (described here: http://www.madrau.com/functions/app/app.html), maybe you can even disable certain resolutions in that game and other relevant apps only.

SwitchResX is shareware and costs 14 USD. You can try it for free for 10 days.

If you want to disable available resolutions manually, edit this file

/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/IOGraphicsProperties.plist

In there is a section that looks something like this:

    <key>gtf-resolutions</key>
<array>
    <integer>640</integer>
    <integer>800</integer>
    <integer>1024</integer>
    <integer>1280</integer>
    <integer>50332928</integer>
    <integer>67110144</integer>
    <integer>1344</integer>
    <integer>1400</integer>
    <integer>1600</integer>
    <integer>1920</integer>
    <integer>100665344</integer>
    <integer>2304</integer>
</array>

These are all widths, the height is calculated by the system. You cannot delete the maximum resolution, it is not listed in this file but comes from the monitor itself.

Add or delete resolutions from that section.

I have not tried this myself, and you are doing it at your own risk.

Note: To edit this file, you must either be logged in as root, edit it using sudo in the Terminal and a terminal-based editor such as vi, or use an editor that unlocks the file for you such as TextWrangler. Or, and this might be the best way, copy the file to the Desktop, edit it, and then drag and drop it back to the correct location holding down the Option key (you will be asked for your Admin password).

It might be a good idea to create a backup of the original file before you make any changes.


Hard drive in external enclosure won't mount

I do a quick test before doing anything drastic. The app Mountain has a free trial. I'd load it and see if that will mount your drive. I had problems in the past with external drives not mounting. Mountain has been able to mount them.

Mountain is not a free app but they do offer a free trial. No subscriptions required.

Mountain is a menubar app. When you click on Mountain it should show you a list of all volumes connected to your mac. From there you can click on the Mount/Dismount button.


Change Safari search suggestions language on iPhone

Welcome to the Non-World Wide Web !

In the good old days, search engines respected the principles of the World Wide Web. Then they started to alter their outputs according to guessed language and guessed location.

Your problem comes from the search engine used by Safari : Google or Bing or another one.

You may try these possible solutions :

Go to the Web site of the search engine, and look into its prefs.
Write to the search engine’s editor. And be patient.
Switch Safari to another search engine.
Use a proxy to disguise your location. I don’t recommend this workaround, it is dirty, we shouldn’t have to do this.


How to start to recovery mode in a Mac OS X VM in Parallels?

I've found a way:

Enable Select boot device at startup in the virtual machine

After the startup of the VM press any key to enter the boot device menu

Select Boot Maintenance Manager

Select Boot from file

Search your recovery volume (usually it's the 2nd one listed)

Select com.apple.recovery.boot

Select boot efi

Recovery mode:

In Yosemite the mouse acts flaky though and i can't hoover the mouse over the menubar (e.g. to start /Utilities/Terminal) - it immediately jumps to the framing window. Menu navigation with CtrlF2 to circumvent this malfunction doesn't work.

In Mavericks everything seems to work bug-free.

**Addendum: You may access the menubar with your pointer after enabling FileVault 2 on the VM's system drive. **


15 minutes and then it will turn off by itself.


How to activate iPhone12 and import original phone data?

I hope it helps. Here are all the options.
Use Quick Start to transfer data to a new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210216
Use iTunes or the Finder to transfer data from your previous iOS device to your new iPhone.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210218
Restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch from a iCloud backup
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977


what shell would you recommend using on mac?

I use fish. It has a lot of functions which make using the terminal quicker and more efficient.

auto suggestions
scripting
command completion
color


Internet sharing through WiFi disconnects

The first step is to know why the connection is failing, so you might need to look in the console log for messages that speak to en1 / link down / AirPort and such. I don't see a good troubleshooting article from Apple to start things out, but feel free to comment here or edit the answer yourself as we narrow down the when and then finally the why.


Restore Mac from Time Machine Backup via Terminal

You likely do not want to attempt this from Terminal but if you did you would want to use tmutil restore ... Read the manual page - for what that involves. The issue will be you will have to specify via the command line where in the time capsule snapshot the restoration will be sourced from.

For more likely success you probably should re-boot using the Recovery HD or some other graphical user interface mechanism intended for this kind of restore from disaster scenario that will guide you in finding the right snapshot as described in the Time Machine FAQ


Close Terminal using 'exit' when only one window is present, close window otherwise

Nice hack!

If you want to cover the edge case where there are multiple people logged in to the Mac and running Terminal then I suggest you change the if test to if [ $(ps | wc -l) -eq 3 ]; which would mean your user had only one process running, the bash shell you want to exit and quit Terminal.

Personally, I use iTerm2 which has a preference (under "General") for "Quit when all windows are closed" so the app takes care of it. If you have got this far with bash I highly recommend iTerm2.

By the way, your method breaks in iTerm2 as it only shows one log in with who no matter the number of windows you have open. My solution can sometimes fail to recognise only one window if you close them quickly in iTerm2 as it takes a couple of seconds for the app to shut down the window server instance.

If you have both Terminal and iTerm running then it breaks everything I could think of as well but you'd only be doing that if you were a constant iTerm2 user answering a question at AskDifferent about Terminal. :)


Launching the Notes app subsequently launches the Calendar App as well

You should check to see if there is a webcal URL in a note somewhere in Notes.app.

If there is, Notes will open Calendar.app and ask you to subscribe. If you don't actually want to subscribe to this calendar, just delete the webcal URL in the note (or delete the note entirely) and Calendar should not open again.


Using Kindle v1.17.0, Kindle content is stored in the location set under Kindle menu > Preferences > General tab > Content Folder. (The default appears to be ~/Documents/My Kindle Content.)

If you are using Kindle for Mac from the Mac App Store, it has not been updated in nearly a year, and you should switch to the version downloaded directly from Amazon.

You can download or update Kindle for Mac by getting it directly from this Amazon site: https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/mac/download. (Note that clicking that link will initiate the download.)


Bulk removing Wifi networks from an iOS device

You can completely reset network settings under Settings > General > Reset.


Mountain Lion on Unibody late-2008 Macbook?

Your system specs are above the minimum requirements, so you should be fine. Lion and Mountain Lion do require more than the 2 GB RAM than Snow Leopard needs to run smoothly, in my experience. You've already got 4 GB, so that should be okay for all but the most busy systems with many large apps running simultaneously.


How to lock a Mac lock screen without using keystrokes in the script?

I’d like to go to the lock screen on my computer without using the keyboard. Any command line script will do.

I’m not sure what you mean by “Without using the keyboard” if you are willing to accept a script… which would have to be triggered using the keyboard.
If there is something specific / unusual / unique about your setup, it would be good to explain what that is.
In the meantime, if you are willing to accept a shell script, try this:
"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession" -suspend

All one line


How to tie thunderbolt and power together for Macbook retina docking in Thunderbolt display?

After a little searching I found a few options

The Macbook Pro Dock Cable from Prototype Asia.. This looks like a very cheap clipping option. However, the company or individual selling it seems pretty small-scale.
ZenDock is a simple docking solution that makes a single left side plug for power and other thuderbolt ports. At time of posting (July 2014), it is only available on pre-order.
LandingZone 2.0 Pro provides a docking and security solution that allows for one-click entry of power and thunderbolt.


No X button on App Store downloaded apps icons in Launchpad "jiggle mode"

You don't have to use Launchpad to remove applications. Just deleting the application bundle is still a supported way to remove or uninstall an application. If you also want to remove settings or cache files, delete the directory in ~/Library/Containers/. App Store applications are not allowed to install kernel extensions or preference panes, and any executables for helper processes are inside the application bundle and not in an Application Support directory.

When you remove an application from Launchpad, it is "uninstalled" by using uninstalld from Uninstall.framework, but in practice that only removes some support files (like ~/Library/Containers/*/Data/Library/Caches/) addition to the application bundle. Other support files like preferences files or sometimes even sqlite files for user data are not removed. See this question.


Find all incomplete songs in iTunes library

To detect incompleteness iTunes would need something to compare the track to. Unfortunately this is not available therefore you really are out of luck here and have to download each song individually once you find it by listening.


Connecting 3 monitors to macbook pro 2018 via thunderbolt 3

For anyone trying to do this using a dock that has multiple display outputs, the MacBook Pro 2018 only has two thunderbolt busses, but 4 ports (2 ports per bus), as a result, if you try to connect three external monitors, you will need to use different sides of the device.

If you try to connect all three monitors into two ports on one side, it won't work.


Well, since the question is “Anyone with the same problem”: yes, it seems at least another StackExchange user has the same problem in “Can anyone explain this clipboard behaviour?”.


Changing placeholder texts in Pages using AppleScript

set … to every … sets the variable to a list. That means thistext is a list, so you can't perform operations meant for the items in the to the list itself. You need a loop:

repeat with thistext in (every text item whose object text contains "Footnotes")
    …
end repeat

The full script is:

tell application "Pages"
    activate
    tell document "test"
        tell current page
            repeat with thistext in (every text item whose object text contains "Footnotes")
                tell thistext
                    tell its object text
                        set every word to mytext
                    end tell
                end tell
            end repeat
        end tell
    end tell
end tell


How to stop Mountain Lion to stop shutting down and closing all my applications?

When you say it "logs your account off" do you mean that you have to enter your password?

My guess is that someone has set Security & Privacy settings to require a login password after sleep or screen saver begins. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, and then click General to see.


Is it possible to join the Apple Developer Program with a Visa Prepaid card?

Visa Pre-Paid is a credit card. It will honored providing they can charge those $99 successfully to it. They don't really care if it's pre-paid, secured or non-secured. If they can charge it, they'll gladly accept it, like any other business would. The money is real either way.


Disable DNS assignment with Airport Extreme IPv6 tunnel

That's a sneaky one - I'm sure you looked into the Airport Utility configuration.
Tried to assign a static IPv6 to it? Fiddle with IPv6 DNS& share setting.

I don't know if there is a way to turn off the RA - since they are supposed to "maintain" network quality, and this is a connect&forget device so maybe that's a default and it's fixed. I dont know a way to send ipv6 nd ra suppress all to it :-)

If you assign a static IPv6 to a rr, it still uses the info from the RA's in the ICMPv6 (type 134) that comes along to get the default gateway and/or the mac+link local from the first hop. See what happens when you fill static IPv6 where possible.


Possible to make desktop icons bigger than max?

Go to Macintosh in the Finder. Once there be sure to display contents in icon view. Now while in Finder go to the View Menu and near the bottom select "Show view options". This brings up the panel shown below.

Move the top slider to the right for larger icons.  You may have to move the grid slider to increase spacing as well. You can experiment with these two sliders to get the default view you want.


Connect your iPhone 5c with your PC/Mac and open iTunes
  Restore the 5c to factory settings (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414)
  Go to your Apple Support Profile and de-register it.

That should be it.

In addition, you can delete old iPhone Backups from the iCloud:

  Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage.
  Tap the name of an iOS device whose backup you don’t need, then tap Delete Backup.


In order to get it working, I installed all my updates one at a time (instead of all at once since I was having a problem with updates installation).


Ok this is how I sorted the issue out.

So apparently this is a system feature.

I installed a application called Steermouse found here.

The application has a option to disable this feature.


Youtube audio has echo in Safari on macOS

It's an old bug in Safari, and it is still present. If it really annoys you, the only suggestion I can come up with is to use Chrome as an alternative.

Link to reddit discussion


dd to ISO from disc drive makes unmountable / unburnable image?

With CDs and DVDs on Mac OS X, the /dev/diskN entry seems to be the raw disc contents (i.e. it includes things like media error correction data).  For imaging, you want /dev/diskNs0 (or sometimes /dev/diskNs1 etc, especially on a multisession disc).  If the disc has a partition table, the mountable volumes will actually be e.g. /dev/diskNs1s2.

BTW, you can also create iso-style images from the GUI with Disk Utility: select the session from Disk Utility's sidebar (note: the session will be the item directly under the disc drive in the sidebar; if the disc has a partition table, there volume will be listed separately under that, and it's not what you want), then go to the menu and select File > New > Image from .  Then, select CD/DVD Master for the image format.  It'l name the image with a .cdr extension, but the format is the same as a typical .iso image.


Where does the upgrade to macOS Catalina move root "/" directory files?

This took me a long time to figure out, but any file that was formerly at, e.g., /my-cool-directory was moved to /Users/Shared/Relocated Items/Security/my-cool-directory.

I ended up moving the directories by running this command from the terminal:

cd "/Users/Shared/Relocated Items/Security"
sudo mv my-cool-directory ~/
# enter your system password when it asks you

After doing that, my file is then located in my home directory, e.g. ~/my-cool-directory

After a subsequent Mac OS X update, the files may be in /Users/Shared/Previously Relocated Items.


Why would dsenableroot NOT work on a 10.7.5 OSX Server?

Try: sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/root PASSWORD. Else: a bit-flip hit your disk and corrupted your Directory Services "database" exactly there where the root user's data usually resides. Check this with the usual tools like dscl or even copying the root.plist:

sudo cat /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/root.plist >  ~/Desktop/root.plist

The default root.plist with root disabled looks like this:

The root.plist with root enabled (redacted all hashes etc.):


Do larger desktop photos use more resources?

They do, but there is a more theoretical difference between a 3MB photo and a 1MB photo as desktop background. The number of icons may be relevant and an animated background by a third party application may slow down your mac, too.


How to seamlessly sync contacts and calendars across devices?

Yes, the best way to sync cross platform is via google.

By far the easiest most care free way to sync all contacts, calendars, email etc is to have all Apple devices, this is how Apple meant for this service to be used.

Google has done a good job of making this service available to people working on multiple platforms.


macOS Mojave disable all 4 rounded window corners either with defaults, or software, or programatically

I figured it out, I used ThemeEngine to edit the appropriate theme in SystemAppearance.bundle.
I made a repo with the changes here: https://github.com/tsujp/custom-macos-gui
I know StackExchange hate linking answers so here is a summary for my case:

Using ThemeEngine edit the files in DarkAquaAppearance.car
The files you need to edit are WindowFrame_WindowShapeEdges
Change the masks to squares.
Change the base to completely transparent.
Reboot or otherwise restart the Dock, Finder, SystemUIServer, etc.


Cannot add permissions to a file share in File Sharing Preferences

The hard drive I installed the fresh copy of OS X 10.9.4 completely died last week. I suspect that this hard drive failure was unrelated to the issues, but when I re-installed OS X again and went to add the share drives, everything worked as normal.

I suspect that this is an obscure bug, but if you come across this issue, a reinstall may fix it, as this worked for me.


AirDrop uses Bluetooth to create a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network between the devices.

Each device creates a firewall around the connection and files are sent encrypted, which actually makes it safer than transferring via email. AirDrop will automatically detect nearby supported devices, and the devices only need to be close enough to establish a good Wi-Fi connection, making it possible to share files across several rooms.


What are some interesting uses for an iPod touch 1G with broken wifi?

Maybe Linux on the iPhone, or since your question asked for "interesting" and not for "useful", Windows 95 on iPhone:

  Give a guy an iPhone, a jailbreak, and
  an open-source, cross-platform x86
  emulator, and it's just a matter of
  time before hilarity ensues.


How to reset Mac App Store (to factory defaults)?

You can delete appstore cache files : ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore
This may not solve the entire issue you should look in your /private/var/folders and delete the com.apple.appstore forlder for me it's in /private/var/folders/08/366wf94902jf_hy69t1d_92r0000gn/C/com.apple.appstore It's gonna be different for you .


How to set default Finder window size for *all* situations?

I search a lot in com.apple.finder.plist file (under the folder ~/Library/Preferences) to found the answer but I can't.
I think the best option to do what you want is to create an AppleScript and use it as a service with automator.

I know that is not what you want, but it's a solution to change window's size for the active window with a shortcut.

We will use the Applescript below (more about this Applescript here)

on run
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        set bounds of front window to {0, 100, 490, 248}
    end tell
end run

How to create the Service with Automator

Open Automator and Select Service

Search for AppleScript and double click on Run AppleScript
In Service Receives set to no input in any application
Copy the Script below and paste it in Automator

Don't forget to save your service (cmd+s)

Assign a shortcut for your service

Go to System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts
From the left sidebar select Services
Find your service and add a shortcut (e.x. cmd+shift+w)

Now open your folder, press cmd+shift+w and the window's bounds will be change to {0, 100, 490, 248}

More Informations about BoundsProperty, to create your own here

Update:

Here's the AppleScript to choose your own width and height for the window without changing the destination from the side of the screen. Just change myWindowWidth and myWindowHeight. Also I have some other variables in comment to understand the code. Please reply if you have any question!

on run
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        --we take the bounds properties of the front window
        set windowAreaDimensions to bounds of the front window
        set x1 to item 1 of windowAreaDimensions
        set y1 to item 2 of windowAreaDimensions
        set x2 to item 3 of windowAreaDimensions
        set y2 to item 4 of windowAreaDimensions

        set destToLeft to x1
        set destToTop to y1
        --set destToRight to x2
        --set destToBottom to y2
        --set previousWindowWidth to destToRight - destToLeft
        --set peviousWindowHeight to destToBottom - destToTop

        set myWindowWidth to 730
        set myWindowHeight to 521
        set sameWidth to destToLeft + myWindowWidth
        set sameHeight to destToTop + myWindowHeight

        --The following line script return the bounds of the front window
        --get the bounds of the front window

        --The following line set our bounds for the front window
        set bounds of front window to {destToLeft, destToTop, sameWidth, sameHeight}
    end tell
end run


Which iOS and Lion third-party apps support "Documents in the Cloud"?

I use SigleText (website | App Store link | MAS link) to share notes between my iPhone and my Mac; it uses iCloud storage.
As far as I know, iTunes Movie Trailer app and Doodle Jump app use iCloud storage to sync your settings between iOS devices.
Worth to mention: Instacast. The last version sync your podcasts (played status, favorites, resume playing location) thanks to iCloud. The developer said is going to launch an iPad version, so this feature should be very handy in the future.


How to disable shift + quotation mark vowel diaeresis (äëöïÿ)

What you describe is standard behavior for the "US International PC" input source.  It is intended for Windows users who are familiar with it from that system.  4 keys (` ' " ^) become dead keys for making accented characters used in common European languages.

The fix is to go to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and remove this item and instead use input sources named "US" or "ABC" or "British".

The hardware keyboard called "English International" is the ISO version of Apple's English keyboard. It is used mainly in Europe and has an extra key next to the Z and a differently-shaped return key compared to the ANSI version sold in the US.  It does not require any special input source, all of them work for both ISO and ANSI hardware versions.


Internet connection no longer reliable after installing Mountain Lion

I tried all the tips imaginable.
The only solution was to set the channel on the wireless router on channel 11.
It seems to me, the Mountain Lion has a problem when the channel the router is in automatic, then every time the channel is changed, the connection of the Wi-Fi card of MacBook drops.


How to sort/group notifications in iOS 10 Notification Center

I'm sorry if it doesn't answer your question. This is the first thing that I noticed as soon as I installed the new iOS 10 on my iPhone 6. I had words with the Apple support and they told me that it is no longer possible to group notifications by app with the new iOS 10. I’ve also submitted the feedback to Apple regarding this issue here: http://www.apple.com/feedback


New phone registration into old apple ID data

Reading your question I doubt you have any backup, the data will be gone and you cannot recover it.

Texting a voice-file is a pretty weird option IMO, as once it will be sent by the provider it won't be sent again to any device. (You don't receive all your text-messages again on a different phone, do you?)


MacBook Pro 2018 no haptic feedback OS Catalina

For my 2015 MBP, this happened immediately after upgrading to Catalina.

My MBP was no longer under warranty so going to apple wasn't an option.

What worked for me was:

"It just started working again a few days later"

Most of the advice I found elsewhere, and tried, was:

pram reset
power off and leave it off for a while
check for battery swelling

my battery was swollen a year ago, when it was under warranty, and
Apple replaced a lot of things

send it in under warranty


One approach would be to write an applescript to load Outlook and then execute the script.

Copy the following to a new script using Script Editor in Applications/Utilities

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

on run
    tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
        activate

        -- now tell Outlook to do other stuff
    end tell

    -- if you have another script already written that you want to run, then
    set theScript to ("path:to:script.scpt") as alias
    run script theScript

    -- or if your script takes arguments like the this:
    --on MsgBox(Msg)
    --  display dialog Msg
    --end
    set theScript to load script file ("path:to:script.scpt")
    tell theScript
        MsgBox("Hello World!")
    end tell
end run

You can save the applescript as a applet (Save As -> select "Application" for type), rename it to Outlook 2016 and change its icon to match the Outlook 2016 icon and leave it on your dock in place of Outlook itself.
The downside is that, when Outlook is running, you'll have both the Outlook dock item and the applet on your dock, but that's a small price to pay.

Another approach is to make a silent program that checks to see if Outlook is running or not.

When the running status of Outlook changes from false to true, it will run a script.
This involves making an applescript applet that will run at startup, stay open all the time, and be hidden from the dock.
It will consume very little resources, but it's still a price to have it running all the time.

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
--  Need to save with "Stay Open" option

property CheckTimeSeconds : 60 --   controls the number of seconds between each check to see fi Outlook is running

property WasRunning
property IsRunning

on run
    set WasRunning to false
    set IsRunning to false
    return
end run

on idle
    set IsRunning to appisrunning("Microsoft Outlook")

    if IsRunning and not WasRunning then -- Outlook has been opened in the last CheckTimeSeconds seconds.
        --run script here
    end if

    set WasRunning to IsRunning

    return CheckTimeSeconds
end idle

on appisrunning(appName)
    tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appisrunning

Save as an application with the "Stay open after run handler" option selected
Set the program to have no dock icon
Load the program at login for your user (drag your application into the list at System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items)

If you want to close this program, you'll have to do so manually from Activity Monitor.


hardlinks: does "original" mean anything?

As far as I know: No, there's no way of telling which is the "original" with hard links.
When rdfind merges multiple files into a single file with multiple hard links, it needs some way to decide which set of timestamps and access rights to keep. Hence the heuristics for deciding which file is the original.


Is it safe to delete dSYM files on Mac OS X?

Yes, you can delete these debug symbol files safely. These files provide human readable names for code within the framework or application.

Removing the dSYM files will not affect the framework or associated application's ability to run.

Purpose of a dSYM

Should the calling application or framework crash, the dSYM file is used to provide more readable insight into where the crash occurred in the code.

Apple's Technical Note 2151 shows how dSYM files are used – the same approach applies to iOS and Mac OS X.

dSYM for Developers

Ideally, the developer keeps a copy of the dSYM files and does not distribute these files with their application or frameworks.

When crashes occur, the customer sees a technically obtuse crash report which they can report. The developer can then combine their local dSYM files with the crash report and produce a more readable crash report that should help track down the problem.


How to delete a specific line of a paragraph in AppleScript, while retaining the original format of the text?

Example:

set varText to "
This is sentence 1.
This is sentence 2.
This is sentence 3.
This is sentence 4."

set varText to do shell script "sed -e '1d;3d' <<< " & quoted form of varText

Returns:

"This is sentence 1.
This is sentence 3.
This is sentence 4."

Update: As a result of a discovery mentioned in the Edit: of How to delete a specific line of a “return”-based paragraph in AppleScript?, let me make the following statement:

NOTE: Unfortunately what's returned in this case has carriage return (x0D) characters instead of the expected new line (x0A) characters and in my opinion is a bug!

It's a bug because: The do shell script "sed ..." command when run in Terminal with that varText returns with \n (x0A) not \r (x0D) as it's supposed to. Even the compiled do shell script "sed ..." command in Script Editor still has \n (x0A) not \r (x0D) however why it's being returned with \r (x0D) intend of the expected \n (x0A) is a mystery to me at the moment and I'm going to consider this an AppleScript bug since it not mirroring the expected behavior of the same when run in Terminal.

So, to account for the bug in the results of the do shell script "sed ..." command, this is how I'd handle it. After the do shell script "sed ..." command use the following lines of code:

set newLine to "\n"
set varText to paragraphs of varText
set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to newLine
set varText to varText as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTID

Now what's returned contains new line (x0A) characters as it should have to begin with if there wasn't this bug, not carriage return (x0D) characters.

Note: When compiled, the set newLine to "\n" line of code will show as below:

set newLine to "
"