What is the benefit of using flash memory in the Macbook Air?

They are pretty much the same. The only thing that differentiate SSD with a flash is the fact is housed in a big case. And the MacBook Air flash memory is attached to specific card inside the MacBook Air.
To save space for starters (there is simply not any space left for a real SSD) and I thought is served better cooling too.


Can I transfer or sync purchased as well as non-purchased songs from my iPhone to my computer?

Things you've purchased off the iTunes Store can be transferred off your iPhone by right clicking on your iPhone in iTunes and choosing 'Transfer Purchases'. You might need to Authorise your computer first by clicking the Store Menu, and then choosing Authorise This Computer.

For your non-iTunes Store content I'd recommend Senuti (read it backwards!) which lets you copy music from your iPhone or iPad back to your mac. Senuti costs $18, but there's a trial version, which can transfer up to 1000 songs.

Neither of these require a jailbreak.


Keep the magsafe in for 2 hours, whether it's on or sleeping.


There is no 'official' way to pull music from any iDevice back to a computer, but there are many unofficial apps that can do it.

The basic idea is that you get the music off the iDevice & into iTunes, from where you can then keep it or re-sync it to your own device.

I know of no way to do this directly from phone to phone, you must have a computer as an intermediary.

Googling "copy music from iPhone to computer" will give you more variants on applications than you would know what to do with - & also I don't know what computer platform you have, so I'm linking to a LifeHacker article explaining how to do it on Windows, Mac & Linux.

How to Copy Music from Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to Your Computer for Free


Is there a great text editor for iPhone and/or iPad with BBEdit-style text filters and PCRE search/replace?

The iOS Text Editor roundup is an interactive table with about 70 current text editors for iPad and/or iPhone. You may click on the features you desire at the top of the table and only the editors that have your selected features will be displayed. The table also lists the cost of each editor. If you don't see the feature you're looking for, download a free editor from your list and give it a try.


Terminal.app equivalent of `xterm -e 'cmd'`

With AppleScript, you can do:

on run argv
    set command to item 1 of argv --you can customize this to be constant
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script (command & "; exit")
    end tell
end run

This will open Terminal and tell it to run a command (Your default settings need to close the window when the shell exits).
To run this, just use osascript filename.scpt "$command_to_run"


Is it possible to echo what your mic records to the speakers?

I would take a look at Rogue Amobea's application LineIn. LineIn is a free app and can be found at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/.

From Rogue Amobea's site:

  LineIn is a simple application for OS X to enable the soft playthru of audio from input devices. In simpler terms, you can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port, just as was once available with OS 9's "Play input through output device" option.


MacOS Mojave: Always indexing, the whole OS is too slow

OK, here's how I solved the issue, I hope this will be useful for anybody with similar issues:
I've done some search and found that I needed somehow to fix the indexing files used by spotlight, there are some sudo commands you can use to delete the old index and start all over again, I didn't follow that, I did the following:

Open System Preferences -> Spotlight
Click on Privacy tab.
Open A finder window, navigate to the top most level, drag and drop the "Macintosh HD" icon to the spotlight excluded items in the privacy tab, that way Spotlight will not perform any indexing for the entire hard disk.
Then click on the "Macintosh HD" item in the list and click the minus sign button to remove it, this way Spotlight will start indexing from scratch and hopefully succeeds.


Will an iPod touch suffice for testing iOS apps?

I wrote an extensive blog post about this topic a while ago: http://wjlafrance.net/?p=188

Basically, an iPod touch is great as long as you don't want to use GPS-based location in your app (you can test general, wifi-based location) and are only interested in iOS 4+ deployment (or iOS 5+ if that's what your iPod is running).


how to disable iCloud for Earthlink mail

IMAP keeps all email centrally. Deleting from any device deletes all copies, unless you archive them on one machine first.

To prevent IMAP from deleting all copies of its synchronised mail structure, you must first move any emails you wish to keep to a local folder on one machine eg.  from Inbox to a local folder inside "On My Mac".

To recover them, you would have to check either Time Machine - which you can do from inside Mail itself, by selecting your inbox, then from the Time Machine menu bar icon, Enter Time Machine - or see if your ISP has any method of recovering deleted mails.


This is possible in a way, but your question might need more detail if the answer is to be useful.

Because Mac OS X is a fully multitasking OS, you can VNC onto it and do all your normal stuff.  iOS though is very app centric, so to do this the other way would require you to run a VNC server type app on your iPad, but you would then be stuck in that app only without the possibility of subsequently running other apps, and not be able to actually use your iPad remotely at an OS level.

So, if you want to see it in order to be able to interact with it, using it normally from afar, the answer is no (although there may be jailbreak tweaks that allow this sort of thing to an extent - can't really comment on that tho).

If, however, I was to take your question literally, you just want to see the iPad screen on your iPad, then bingo, piece of cake if you have an iPad 2/3 - you can use Airplay mirroring to mirror the output of your iPad screen on your Mac using one of a variety of airplay receiving apps on OS X.  See this answer for more details.


Does macOS phone home to Apple's servers before running an app for the first time?

Yes, Catalina and Mojave gatekeeper can and will phone home now as part of a layered defense model against malware and privacy protection system violations.
Everyone expects (or tolerates) this on the first run, but ongoing checks for certificate revocation can and will block apps when any trusted Certificate Authority revokes a signing certificate before their expiration dates. When this happens repeatedly, it can be highly frustrating.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.html
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a

If you (or anyoneelse fails to) sign or notarize installers/packages/apps and don’t staple the notarization, this is how gatekeeper and related checks are supposed to work. We would need to know your gatekeeper settings and more about your app to know if this is in play. Also, when the systems online and locally to check revocations change or fail, this may be challenging to troubleshoot.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_macos_software_before_distribution

Notarization specifically is a Catalina-era feature and not anything to do with specific hardware.

Apple recommends that you notarize all of the software that you’ve distributed, including older releases, and even software that doesn’t meet all of these requirements or that is unsigned. Apple’s notary service uses a variety of methods, including telemetry, to determine which of the above rules to relax for preexisting software.

Stapling the ticket generated by your successful notarization should restore the behavior and performance you expect as Gatekeeper can find the ticket while offline in most cases.


How to rename all images together in OS X Mavericks?

Automator

You can use OS X's Automator.app to quickly rename batches of images. The Actions you want are:

Get Selected Finder Items
Rename Finder Items

Using this approach you can rename files, change the case, or append/remove specific parts of the original file name.

You can create droplet like applications using Automator to make the whole process a single drag-and-drop. Alternatively you can set up a folder action to rename any image dropped into a folder.

To learn more about using Automator, see Apple's Mac Basics: Automator.


TextEdit keeps duplicating my text file and adding a strange extension

If you also get errors like this, it's probably the same issue I had.

The document “temp.txt” could not be opened. You don’t have permission.
To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.

There were messages like this in system.log, so it could be related to Versions or sandboxing:
9/13/12 10:41:55.118 PM TextEdit[357]: NSFileVersion tried to tried to add a new generation and failed. Versioned file URL: file://localhost/Users/lauri/Notes/temp.txt, contents URL: file://localhost/Users/lauri/Notes/temp.txt.sb-de6477ff-BhVNrq, error: Error Domain=GSLibraryErrorDomain Code=1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (GSLibraryErrorDomain error 1.)"
9/13/12 10:41:55.118 PM TextEdit[357]: NSDocument failed to preserve the old version of a document. Here's the error:
Error Domain=GSLibraryErrorDomain Code=1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (GSLibraryErrorDomain error 1.)"
9/13/12 10:41:55.119 PM TextEdit[357]: <Document: 0x7f971d00a510>: An error occurred while attempting to preserve the backup file at file://localhost/Users/lauri/Notes/temp.txt.sb-de6477ff-BhVNrq: Error Domain=GSLibraryErrorDomain Code=1 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (GSLibraryErrorDomain error 1.)"

I ended up replacing TextEdit with TextEditPlus, and I haven't gotten those errors or extra temp files after that. It's based on a version of TextEdit that came with Lion, but it's still mostly identical to the current version.


Are there better in-ear headphones than Apple's?

The best set of earphones might depend upon your preferences, your goals, your budget, and other consideration, so let me focus on giving you some background and explaining how you can educate yourself and make an informed decision.

If what you care about is sound quality, I recommend taking a look at Head-Fi.org and Hydrogenaudio forums.  You can read through dozens and dozens of knowledgeable reviews of headphones there.  This buying guide from Head-Fi provides an excellent buying guide for shopping for headphones.

If you care about sound quality, I do not recommend relying on mainstream sources (e.g., Cnet, random web sites, tech magazines, etc.) for headphone reviews.  They have extremely poor knowledge about this topic and are often a poor judge of sound quality; I'm often disappointed with their reviews.

There are several different categories of headphones: earbuds, full-sized circumaural hadphones (these go around your ear, but do not rest on the ear itself), full-sized supra-aural headphones (these have pads that rest on the ear), and in-ear monitors.  The circumaural and supra-aural headphones can be "open" or "closed".  Each of these varieties has different tradeoffs.

Earbuds are small headphones that fit loosely in your outer ear.  They are portable, cheap, and widely available, but give the worst sound quality.
Circumaural headphones can give excellent sound quality and are comfortable, but they're large and not so portable.
Supra-aural headphones can give very good sound quality.  Opinions vary about their comfort, and they're not so portable.
In-ear monitors go inside your ear canal and form a tight seal.  They are basically like earplugs, with a tiny speaker inserted into them.  They offer excellent sound quality (in my opinion, the very best sound quality).  They offer very good portability.  They're also very good for travel (because they block outside noise).  However, they tend to be expensive, and some people don't like having something stuck in their ear.  Also, they are not so good for walking/running, because a bone-conductance effect causes you to hear a thud every time your foot strikes the ground.

As far as open vs closed (which only applies to the full-sized circumaural/supra-aural variety):

Open headphones don't try to provide any seal.  This means that if you use them in a room with others, other people may be able to hear some of what you are hearing.  If you're using headphones to avoid bothering others, you might not want open headphones.
Closed headphones provide a bit of a partial seal, so you won't bother others.

Personally, I love in-ear monitors.  I love the Etymotics ER-4P; they are an outstanding quality, a reference in this space.  Shure, Westone, Ultimate Ears, and others also make very high quality in-ear monitors.

If you care about sound quality, you'll be amazed by the difference in sound quality between your Apple stock earbuds and good in-ear monitors (or really, any quality headphone); the difference is enormous.  You'll pay a lot more, but in my opinion, if you can afford it, it's worth it.

If what you care about is that they're cheap, you might want to look at earbuds.  If you're looking for medium-priced open supra-aural headphones, Grado has pretty good value (SR-60 or SR-80).  For full-sized headphones, Sennheiser is a standard, well-respected brand.  But see the buying guide for more specific recommendations.

Since you mentioned you want headphones with a microphone capability, you could look at Etymotic's headset + earphone products, such as the MC3 or HF3; both are advertised as providing support for the iPhone, microphone, and full 3-button remote control.  I'm sure there are many other excellent options from other vendors; I mention the Etymotics ones only because I'm a happy customer of their other products.

I'm afraid I don't have any data on durability.  All I can tell you is that I've had my Etymotics ER-4P headphones for over a decade now (heavily used: I use them daily), with no problems.  You can find price information via the web or at your favorite store.


If an iPhone does not have a SIM card, it will work with WiFi.

However, if the iPhone is locked to a specific carrier, you can only activate it by plugging in a valid SIM card for that carrier. Once activated, the iPhone will be usable without a SIM card.

In the US (I am assuming you are in the US), most iPhones are sold as being locked to a carrier, and unlocked iPhones are rare. Outside the US, unlocked iPhones are more common.


"Pasting" text to Java applet through keyboard emulation

It's a bit hacky, but you can do this with an AppleScript. Open up AppleScript Editor (in Applications/Utilities) and paste in the following script.

set myString to the clipboard

-- Switch to last application
tell application "System Events"
    keystroke tab using (command down)
end tell
delay 0.5

-- Enter the clipboard text
repeat with i from 1 to length of myString
    set theKey to character i of myString

    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke theKey
    end tell

end repeat

Make sure your applet is the previously used application, and the text you want entered is copied to the clipboard, then hit Run.

The script switches to the last application by emulating commandtab (so be sure your applet is the previous application), waits half a second (this avoids entering text before the app switches), then emulates a key press for all the text in the clipboard.

If you want to make it more reliable (if the app switcher doesn't fire properly), you can try replacing the lines from tell application[…] to delay 0.5 with tell application "YourApp" to activate. Replace YourApp with the name of whatever runs your applet (it may be the applet name, or the runtime environment — whatever's in bold text next to the Apple menu).

Let me know if you have any questions or problems.


locationd on iOS iPhone crashing every 3 secs (Location jumps)

locationd is pretty annoying because 92% of tasks on your phone use it, along with the lack of awareness for this problem (barely any search results)
even with location services off, locationd is still being used in apps such as Camera, Photos, Reminders, Alarms, Maps, Weather, Notifications, Dialpad, Messages, and anything else that can use location services

I happened to experience locationd going over 110%, which took up all the memory, forcing apps that use locationd to freeze, resulting in having to restore a backup file, after restoring it says to 'upgrade' but does not actually upgrade, my guess is that locationd became defective after using too much memory and the restoration failed to validate it, thus replacing locationd

What I try to do is keep memory and storage AS LOW AS POSSIBLE, turn off background usage in all applications, and remember to use that app switcher every now and then.


I was experiencing this problem when i had my phone on my desk and I would walk away from it. When I came back I found that the watch would refuse to re-pair with my phone again.

I found a quick way to force the watch to re-pair with my phone:

Flick up on the watch face to get to the "Glances" menu
Tap the airplane button to turn on Airplane mode
Tap the airplane button again to turn off airplane mode
Within a few seconds the watch will re-pair with the phone


How do I make the user's 'library' folder within a Time Machine backup available to 3rd party apps?

As the latest backup is always going to be in the same place, then it's going to be the same path as ~/Library, plus the TM path.

Regular path is ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync
or longhand Volumes/[boot drive]/Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync
so in Time Machine it will be
Volumes/[TM drive]/Backups.backupdb/[mac name]/Latest/[boot drive]/Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync

Your larger problem may be that the folders in there have special permissions rwx------ & you cannot get any further than Library using Go to Folder... from the Go menu.


Where are the installation directories for homebrew?

brew installs binary in separate directories inside /usr/local dir. Then makes symlink inside /usr/local/bin. To get real path to binary type for example this (for tree command):

ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep tree

Output:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 slozo  admin    29 23 lip 15:06 tree -> ../Cellar/tree/1.7.0/bin/tree

So my tree command is located in /usr/local/Cellar/tree/1.7.0/bin/tree


Auto hide all other apps when clicking on an app’s window

Assuming I understand your question correctly, you can do exactly what you want by holding the optioncommand keys down as you click on the window.

Also, if you just want to hide the last app (i.e. not all other apps) you can just hold down the option key while you click on the other window.


You can search for tags in Spotlight using the following syntax:

tag:name

For example, to search for all messages with Stack Exchange that are tagged Red, do:

Stack Exchange tag:Red


I would suggest you reset your Finder by deleting its property file. As you can't delete it via Finder, you'll have to use Terminal for that

Open Terminal
type cd ~/Library/Preferences followed by Enter
type rm com.apple.finder.plist followed by Enter

Then restart your computer.


Because objects are smaller a sharper your eyes are trying to focus on that.

The constant focusing strains your eye muscles, resulting in eye pain and headache.

I would see a optometrist and get a prescription, or just buy a reading glasses at any store, starting a 0.5 strength to see it that helps (they cost around $5)


Can I extract application data from an iOS device?

There is a tool called iPhone Backup Extractor.
It lets you extract app data from an iOS backup, which you create with iTunes.
I posted a detailed tutorial on how to use it on my blog: http://adriansieber.com/how-to-extract-data-from-ios-apps-on-mac-os/


Apps Stuck in Security & Privacy > Accessibility

Within Terminal you can run the following command to see the current entries in your system.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'select * from access'

And then this command to remove an entry you don't want any longer.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'delete from access where client like "%YOURAPPNAMEHERE%"'

So, for example, I ran the following command which removed Automator from the list.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'delete from access where client like "%Automator%"'

And just to give credit where credit is due, I found the solution on Apple's discussion forums here.

Another option to find a list of applications which have requested Accessibility access is the following command. This will give you the list of application which have been allowed and the ones that haven't.

defaults read com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning


You technically can't replace the sound files as they are protected by SIP (well... you could by disabling SIP, but that's another discussion altogether), but you can add sound files to your own personal library.  This is much easier to do.

There's basically two steps to this:

Convert your WAV file to AIFF.
Copy the file to ~/Library/Sounds (Note that this is located in your user directory and not the SIP protected /System/Library directory).

The easiest way to do this is to use FFmpeg1  Just issue the command ffmpeg -i <path><name of file>.wav ~/Library/Sounds/<name of file>.aiff and it will do both steps in one shot.

The nice thing about using FFmpeg is that you don't have to manually open each file in QuickTime as you can do it right from Terminal.  This also means you can write a quick batch file to do all your sounds if you like.

Once you do that, it should show up in Sound Preferences as a "Custom" sound (I created an "Ask Different Sound" specifically for this example).  Be sure to completely close out of System Preferences (if open) before going into "Sound" so that it can load up the new files.

1  FFmpeg is open source, free software that converts almost any audio/video file from one format to another. Simply download the binary and make sure it can be found in your path.  I just copied it to /usr/local/bin so I didn't have to modify my path at all.


How do I return a lost de-activated phone to the owner?

If you want to return the phone to the owner after it has been wiped, then you will need to contact the carrier.  Use a small paperclip to remove the SIM tray and access the nano SIM card.  On one of the sides you should see a printed number which is the ICC-ID.  Enter the number here to determine the carrier if the carrier name is not printed on the card.  Call the carrier's customer support number and explain that you found a wiped phone and all you have is the ICC-ID number and the IMEI/MEID number.  That should be enough for them to pull up the subscriber information if they are willing to do so.  The only other information they might need in order to identify the owner is the IMSI in which case you would have to take the SIM card to a phone repair shop to read the number off of the SIM card.  As for whether the carrier will help, I don't know.

Note, the IMEI/MEID is engraved on the back case, near the bottom of the phone.


I installed Oracle Java JDK 8 but java command line is still reporting it is version 7

I had the same problem on OS X Yosemite 10.9.

The problem was solved by installing the Java SE Development Kit 8.

I had installed the other version that is not a SE development kit and it was just working in web browsers, not for the terminal.


I can think of three possibilities:

One option that will definitely do this is to use Default Folder X1. It's not free, but you can use it for free for 30 days. Depending on the version you download, it's compatible with versions of macOS from Snow Leopard to High Sierra.
Default Folder X does a lot more than just setting the default "Save" location of individual applications.
As for a native macOS solution, I seem to recall a bit of a trick users could do that involves creating a smart folder and then adding it to the Sidebar. The idea was that you then navigated to that folder (via the Sidebar) when you next uploaded a file via Safari. Safari would then remember that location when saving files in future, regardless of where you subsequently uploaded files from. However, this is an old trick from about ten years ago and I couldn't vouch for it's validity now.
One possible workaround for you, assuming you're wanting to use the Downloads folder as the default Save location, is to just remember to use the optioncommandL shortcut when the Save As dialog window pops up. This shortcut takes you straight to the Downloads folder within the dialog box.

1. I have no affiliation whatsoever with Default Folder X.


Maybe because you don’t have any 32-bit apps installed?

I don’t see the arrow as well, but I’m on iOS 11 beta and have no 32-bit apps installed (can’t install it anyway now).

So you can safely upgrade to iOS 11 the moment it's available.


I think you're out of luck. From iFixit, here's the logic board from the original MacBook Air:

And here's the logic board from a 2012 MacBook Air:

Unlike desktops, which typically use standardized parts, laptops use fairly specialized components, and on top of that, Apple tends to iterate its designs fairly aggressively even within models with similar outwards appearance to achieve better cost or performance (e.g. smaller logic boards means more space for the battery). Because of this, most Apple components beyond hard drives and RAM are only interchangeable with those of the exact same generation.


If you have automatic Time Machine backups on:

Try to disable automatic Time Machine backup

Wait 5 minutes,
Then try again

When you're done enable Time Machine again


How to choose on which display Application Switcher shows?

Try moving your Dock to a different screen in System Preferences > Dock > Position on screen. The Application Switcher will open on the same display as the Dock.

You can also quickly move your Dock (and Application Switcher) to another display by hovering your mouse on the very bottom of the desired display for a moment.

The Dock will then rise up and appear on the desired display. (Note: this only seems to work if the Dock's Position on Screen setting is Bottom)


Can a WiFi-only Kindle connect to the internet through an iPhone?

For information about the full article “iOS 4.3 lets iPhone 4 host wifi over 3G”
http://devicegadget.com/apple/ios-4-3-lets-iphone-4-host-wifi-3g/1320/
Thx.. ;)


How to Reset Full-Screen Terminal.app Preferences to Factory Defaults

You have (at least) wo possibilities:

1)
You could click on the zoom button to revert the zoom effect (the green circle in the upper left corner in the image below:

2) You can enter smaller values for the window size under "Preferences":


Cannot type 'c' in Terminal - Restore Terminal to default settings

You can remove the broken inputrc file by opening your terminal and moving it to a different name:

mv ~/.inputrc ~/.input.broken

Then restarting your terminal session should restore it to normal.

In the above  you can copy/paste that in, or just hit tab to complete the first filename. ie. mv ~/.input(tab here) ~/.input.broken


The easy way at the command line is to call software update.
softwareupdate -a -i -r

The command prevents sleep, checks for all updates and then installs them. If the install requires a reboot, that happens immediately as well once the install is done.


How do I stop my MacBook Pro from randomly freezing when trying to go to sleep?

I would try adjusting your procedure. Since as noted the quoted steps provided below in practice are causing you to unintentionally wake the Mac from sleep in step 3, which may also problematically be waking it from sleep before it finishes going to sleep in the first place. So in a sense you were telling your MacBook Air to go to sleep and while your at it wake up from sleep, remove a display and all this other stuff at the same time. That may be the cause of the freezing, the shock of all the external devices getting removed while in sleep or while the mac is going to sleep.

  Move mouse to HotCorner to put monitor to sleep (I do this instead of closing the lid since Lion has lid closing assume the external is
  taking over as primary display)
  Close lid to put computer to sleep
  Disconnect cables (power, display port, usb; maybe ethernet and audio depending on location).

USB activity as noted in Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode is a perfect way to wake your mac from sleep.

I would recommend doing the following instead:

Save your important files and data in open applications in case things go wrong.
Disconnect cables (power, display port, usb; maybe ethernet and audio depending on location).
Wait for you mac to recognize that the external display is disconnected, usually screen fades to blue for a few seconds, before going back to normal view of your Mac. etc.
Close lid to put computer to sleep or choose Apple > Sleep, etc...
Verify the sleep indicator light is slowly pulsing, before placing the MacBook into any case.

So ya try this out and see if it stops the random freezing. If it does not then there may be other hardware / software problems at hand, check your system logs, etc.


This sounds like you need something that will limit the MacBooks to an allowed "white list" of web sites, which you set up.  ("White list" is the opposite of "black list", which is when you set up a list of web sites that are not allowed.)

You might be able to use the built-in OS X Parental Controls system... go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Parental Controls.

Apple has some documentation on Parental Controls here, which includes the picture below: see the "Allow access to only these websites" button.


Does Apache require special settings to run a command?

The problem has been solved. Basically Apache did not have permission to write into the folder. Steps to solve the issue included:

ls -la cgi-bin to check the permissions of my cgi-bin folder.
Give the _www group ownership of cgi-bin and give the group write permissions: chgrp -R _www cgi-bin && chmod g+w cgi-bin.
In addition, I added my User to the group _www so I would not have to authenticate myself every time I added a file in the cgi-bin folder.
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a ikr -t user _www was used to do Step 3 (ikr has to be replaced with the username to be added)


How can I disable the iMessage app temporarily on my iPhone

You cannot actually disable iMessage as an app, as it is integrated within your Messages. iMessage was introduced by Apple as an alternative texting feature between Apple devices (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) over WiFi rather than through your carrier which would require a texting (SMS/MMS) plan.

You can however disable iMessages in your settings -> Messages -> toggle off iMessage.

However this would just cause messages to come in via SMS instead of iMessage, unless the sender can only send an iMessage (such as a Mac, iPod or iPad without carrier), in which case the sender won't be able to send to you at all.

My recommendation is turn of the phone, turn on airport, set a lock password, fingerprint, or hide your phone better. :)


How to disable PDF editing in Preview app?

According to me, the best way to resolve this, is to go to System Preferences -> General.
Make sure "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" is selected.

This will prevent accidental changes in PDF files, as well as other files when opened by other apps.


Mobile-Safari stopped asking me to update passwords

Go to Settings→Safari→'Passwords and AutoFill' and enable 'Name and Passwords'.


Dictionaries.app only has Wikipedia on High Sierra

Had same problem as jakethedog, only Wikipedia showing! Looked through potential blocking of outgoing calls by Little Snitch. When I removed blocking of nsurlsessiond I got all this other dictionaries also.

Answer to Allan below: Well this is relevant only if you use software Little Snitch for privacy purposes to block outgoing calls from different software https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Sometimes one blocks outgoing calls with unexpected consequences. In my case I blocked Apple process nsurlsession from "calling home" since it is not entirely clear what info this process transmits to Apple. Apparently it also blocked discovery of these dictionaries. Little Snitch users will understand, for others it is not really relevant.


Mac Mini - Installing Windows 7 from external CD/DVD drive - hangs before installation with black screen

this link identifies an black screen issue when installing Windows 7 on some iMac's, it may be relevant even though you have a Mac Mini

this link is the Apple FAQs for Installing Windows 7 in Bootcamp, there are some good resources there for the main issues most users meet.

this link is the Apple Install Guide for Windows 7 which I think you have already been following, but I'm linking it here for other people if required.


What I do in a similar case (iPhone5s <--> Linux):

on the phone, download the free version of FE File Explorer app
open FE, create a folder in Local > On My iPhone
connect the phone to the computer using usb
copy files from the computer to the folder in FE on the phone
in FE, click an audio file to play

(3) works out of the box on Ubuntu MATE 18.04. On an older Ubuntu version, I have to use wifi and samba for file transfer.


No, I don't think you can because AirPods are online only while them are connected to your iPhone, so inconvenient


Is it safe to to upgrade OS X 10.7 to 10.8 on a productive system?

Most of the time the OS X upgrade routines work quite reliably and in this case there shouldn't be any deal-breakers like Rosetta back in the days. However, it is impossible to tell for sure. What I usually do, is to clone my system to either a second partition in the internal drive or to an external (USB) drive (using a tool like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner).

After booting the clone (press alt in the boot screen) you can safely upgrade this partition to a newer version of OS X and play with it for a while. Once you are sure everything works, you can either copy it back to your main partition or upgrade that one too.

Nevertheless, I recommend to have another (e.g. TimeMachine) backup available, in case anything goes wrong.


Ok, I entered Recovery/transformation commands and selected load MBR and build fresh GPT from it. After that I chose write table to disk and exit.
Operation completed successfully.


Is it possible to send push notifications to the iPhone Simulator?

Push notifications don't work in the simulator.  You have to use a physical iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Good luck,

Mark


Your Mac is too old to support Internet Recovery. So it seems like you have three options:

A) You can dig the InstallESD.dmg out of the El Capitan installer app (see below), and burn that to a DVD, then boot off that DVD to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS.

or

B) Get another older Mac that is running 10.7 thru 10.11. Boot yours with the T button held down, into Target Disk mode. Plug it in to the other Mac via Firewire. You can erase the drive from the other Mac, and then install El Capitan from there. Run the installer on the other Mac, and when you get to the screen where you choose the disk, just choose the disk of your Mac mini. Only Macs running 10.11 or older will let you run the 10.11 installer.

or

C) If you can'd do either of these, you could do a bit of a hybrid of the two. If you have access to another Mac that is newer, and you have a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, you can still boot the mini into Target Disk mode. Then from the newer Mac, erase the hard drive. Then partition the drive into one small 10 GB partition, and one bigger partition. Get the El Capitan installer, extract the InstallerESD.dmg image out of it, and 'Restore' it using Disk Utility, to the 10 GB partition. You can then reboot the mini off of that partition, and install the OS on the bigger partition. Once that is done and you're running off the new OS, you can go into Disk Utility and delete the smaller partition.

Option 3 is a bit more complicated but it should work.
If you don't have access to ANY other Macs, or any install DVDs, then you might be out of luck until you can get access.

To get the InstallerESD.dmg disk image out of the El Capitan installer:
- Right click on the Install OS X El Capitan.app and choose "Show Package Contents"
- From there, navigate to Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
- Just drag that disk image to your desktop and work with it from there.


Theming Mail.app to look like iPad's Mail.app or Thunderbird

The Mail.app program in Snow Leopard is not easily themable.

There are 3rd party applications that can change various theme elements (eg http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/graphics-how-to/an-introduction-to-changing-os-x-themes/) but it is unlikely that even these will get the exact look you are after.

And most of them will change the entire look and feel of the operating system, not just selected applications.


I managed to install it by first upgrading it to Mojave then able to download and install the Catalina.


The only workaround I've found is to use accessibility zoom; old man style.

The problem persists in Yosemite 10.10.3 with the new Emoji picker.


Apple unfortunately removed that option some time ago, same time as app management was removed from iTunes.

[Kept brief under advisement from a mod ;)


It is pointless to solve your problem. If you succeed in creating the USB Windows installer, you probably will not be able to boot from the installer on your Mac. You are suppose to use the optical (DVD) drive.

There are alternative methods to install Windows 7 on your Mac. For example, see the question: Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices.


How to resolve iPhone 7 running iOS 13.1.2 not supported by Xcode 10.1?

You need to have Xcode 11 installed for this to work. Xcode 10.x won't recognize iOS 13.

Try logging out and in of App Store app on your Mac. If it doesn't work you try restarting your Mac. If that fails too, attempt a reinstall of Xcode from the App Store.


Mail can't connect to... non-existing account

After trying all sorts of things with Keychain and other devices I finally figured out what is causing this. The offending 'account' was in the SMTP list. You can find this by going to 'Preferences' in the Mail app, select the 'Accounts' tab, click on the dropdown for 'Outgoing Mail Server' and there you can 'Edit SMTP Server list'.


Do I need to disable iCloud Storage Plan to change iTunes store?

Well, I contacted Apple Support, and they told me this:

  If you have an iCloud Storage subscription, you need to downgrade your
  active storage subscription to its original before you change your
  country or region.

So I did.

However, I am not sure if it was really necessary (because there was no red label about this in country settings like it was with Apple Music), but I didn't want to sacrifice one more month of waiting for that experiment. This is why I don't mark this answer as an accepted solution for the original question.


Image Capture takes a long time to import and convert photos and videos from iPhone to MacBook

iPhone settings -> Photos -> Transfer to Mac or PC -> Switch from "Automatic" to "Keep Originals"

There's also a "Keep Originals" option in the OSX Image Capture app, I'm not sure how the two options interact with each other. From my brief testing, if the box is ticked in either place then imports will be super-fast and you'll get the original .heic images instead of the converted .jpeg ones.


Is there an App compatible with the "Transfer on LAN" cross-platform program?

Not sure about your question directly as I don't know that app. But look into Bit Torrent sync. It creates a Dropbox-like folder that exists only in your LAN, no syncing with outside servers.


Is it possible to ditch OS X and install BSD on my 3rd Gen Macbook Pro

Of course it's possible: Your Mac is just a generic Intel machine (albeit one running EFI instead of a traditional BIOS unless you set up BootCamp). Grab your favorite BSD install CD, stick it in the drive, and have fun.1
1 - Because Apple is deprecating the optical disk you may have to make a USB install stick, or plug in an external CD/DVD drive.

Most of the hardware should work "out of the box", but you'll probably need to do some tuning. The FreeBSD folks have a somewhat outdated Wiki page with information on getting FeeBSD running on a MacBook, either under BootCamp or as the only OS on the machine.

I do have to object to calling OS X "Nothing more than a watered-down version of BSD" though. First off, it's Mach under the hood (the kernel) - they just borrowed the userland utilities from FreeBSD, and they've diverged pretty far since OS X 10.0.0 ; Second it's goal isn't to be a Unix development platform - it's a workstation.

Personally I find doing (unix) development on a Mac painful, and I wouldn't recommend it for serious, down in the muck unix programming, but as a workstation it's quite adequate (and you're not going to get a GUI like that from any of the open-source *nix systems without spending a pretty substantial amount of time working on it).
The amount of work required to get a useful desktop/workstation with any of the open-source *nix systems is substantial compared to running OS X. If you need a BSD (or Linux, Windows, etc.) environment any of the desktop virtualization programs can be used to run it on your Mac, while retaining OS X as the primary operating system.

You should also bear in mind that despite what some of us consider questionable design choices (I want to bludgeon the people who came up with the lousy disk I/O scheduling in OS X) Apple builds OS X to run on their hardware. It's about as optimized as you can get, and much like the Star Trek franchise, Even-Numbered OS X releases (10.2, 10.4, 10.6, 10.8) are pretty good.

So bottom line?

Yes, you can do it. No, I wouldn't personally recommend it.
There aren't enough benefits, and you lose a lot of functionality (or have to spend your time making things work, rather than being productive).


Is there any way to change the snooze time for alarms on the iPhone?

A primitive work around would be to set two alarms, both with no snooze. Alarm 2 can be set X minutes after Alarm 1.


OS X wants me to reset my password randomly

I found the answer here: Skip Reset Password for OS X

  OS X Yosemite has a troublesome password reset screen you can access by turning your computer off and back on from the login screen. However, once you do this, there is no way out. The "Reset Password" boot wizard offers no exit without reseting your password. If you restart your Mac, you will end up right back in the wizard.

The solution is a PRAM reset: Command-Option-P-R during bootup.


Pages 08 doesn't draw border around paragraphs correctly?

OK, this is a bit kludgy, but it seems to be working (but I'd love to see a better answer!):

Instead of applying a border to a paragraph, make each paragraph its own text box and apply a border to the entire text box using the Graphic Inspector and setting Stroke to Line.


Unable to create a new playlist in iPhone

It the same for me, but you can create your playlist on iTunes and then sync it to your iPhone.

Alternatively you can create the playlist directly on your iPhone. Just open Music, go to the tab Playlists and select Add Playlist....


What is the cheapest way to get windows running on a Mac

If you just need one program, you could try running it using Wine. This is a compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows software on *nix systems, which includes Mac OS X. Here is a tutorial to help you get started.

Note that not every Windows programs will run using Wine - you might need to experiment first. Or head over to the Wine Application Database for user reviews on how well your program is supported.

Alternatively, you could use one of the many virtualization options out there. Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion are excellent but paid options, while VirtualBox is free (and it works great too). However, you'd need a Windows license to legally run Windows in this way.


Where are the install logs for macOS bootable external installer

The macOS install log is always on the target drive in /var/log/install.log.


How to make Safari open all PDFs in-browser?

As pointed out, the first three examples are direct links to the PDF files in question while the other two are controlled by a server script in the background.

There is nothing what you can do about it on your side since the server fully controls the distribution of documents in the two last example links you provided.


Get back some colors in Finder's sidebar

You aren't alone in wanting the color back.  Unfortunately, it looks as if the Finder code actually shifts the hue from the fully-colored icon resources that are included (see the Go menu in Finder, which has the colored versions).

According to a commenter on this MacThemes Forum thread, the developer documentation actually details how to shift the hue in the same way that Finder does; with the associated speculation that we'll see grey icons in every app that has a sidebar in the future.

Looks to me as if you can bite the bullet and use ColorfulSidebar (with SIMBL) or live with the grey.


Is it possible for two users to mount the same Shared disk on Time Capsule? (On one Mac.)

I just tried the same thing, without any problems... Do you use user accounts to authenticate the users on the time capsule ? If yes, you should probably configure it to use the airport network. With this, both users will connect with the same "account", and should be able to use the same share concurrently (that works for me)

Here is a screen cap of the setting (sorry, it's in french) :


Display all current OS & 3rd party keyboard bindings

I did not find a solution that could show the info I needed.

I ended up just deleting all the screenshot apps on my Mac until the keyboard conflict went away. Turns out it was an app called "Annotate", but that isn't really relevant.

Unfortunately I didn't find any solution for showing all currently mapped keyboard shortcuts on the Mac across ALL apps.


Why does Spotlight pick the DVD Player app when I enter the math equation 5*3?

The first thing I would do is remove the Spotlight local store on your boot volume :-

sudo mdutil -E /

Do the above at a Terminal Prompt.

You might also try adding the entire volume to the "Privacy" pane in System Preferences→Spotlight.


Disable notifications during a call on iPhone 5 iOS 8.3

This is not possible (at least on a non-jailbroken phone).

You can use Do Not Disturb, but you have to set it ahead of time so that it applies even while the phone is unlocked, and then toggle it on at the start of the call, and toggle it off at the end.


Simply put, no. The APC/Apple software is designed for shutdown only. I'd been looking for a similar solution for years when I managed a few XServes, but my institution opted to provide massive battery backups and a gas-powered emergency generator when we moved to a double rack of Windows servers a few years ago.

This device 3Gstore Remote Power IP Switch - 1 Outlet looks like it might work. I am going to get one of my very own for a security web-cam I just installed at home.

Disclaimer: Not professionally or materially connected with 3Gstore.


I can receive but not send any iOS Invitation (Shared Albums / Reminders / Calendar events etc)

You need at least one account added on your device to be able to invite. You can add it on Settings > Accounts > Add Account.
If you have a provider specific app you may be able to use it to invite other users to calendar events without the previous step.
Shared albums should not need an account though, just the email or phone address associated to the Apple ID of your invitee, depending on the way you chose to send the invitation.


Does the Mac "Do Not Disturb" function affect Skype calls?

Skype has a "Do Not Disturb" function.  If you click on the lower right hand corner of your avatar, you can select your status.

When you select "Do Not Disturb" you will not receive any notifications from Skype.


Is there an iPhone 4 car kit for charging, music, and hands-free calls?

If you already happy with your connection and the only main problem is the Not Charging part, I would strongly suggest that you contact the creators of your connector and ask for an upgrade as it is a simple power problem as the new iPhone 4 needs different Amps to charge correctly.

If you want a new connection, I know Dension is very good on this and integrates well with several brands of vehicles so you can use your radio to also see music details.


Downgrading from "Java for OS X Lion Update 1"

I don't know where to find original version of Java for Mac OS Lion.

At least you can download Java Developer Package for Mac OS X 10.7 with your AppleID or try Java Developer Package for Mac OS X 10.7 Update 1 package to be sure if this bug is here.

Tutorials how to downgrade your Java you can find here and here.


localizedTitle in my iOS app with In-App Purchases

I've found solution at devforums.apple.com

  https://devforums.apple.com/message/966757#966757

Basically it appeared that each product language had status rejected (while product had status waiting for review). Adding new language to each product solves problem.


Can I permanently disallow OS upgrades on an iOS device?

I've just checked the Apple Configurator, and there is an option to completely disable the ability to upgrade iOS.


How can I reassign the copy/paste keyboard shortcuts?

This worked great for me to serve just the cut/paste/copy features I use so often


How do I get photo albums to sync via iCloud?

iCloud only synchronizes photos in your 'Camera Roll' through Photo Stream.
iCloud doesn't synchronize photo albums.

It is possible to synchronize photo albums in iPhoto with your iOS device, but for that you need to sync your iOS device with iTunes on your Mac.

Connect your iOS device with your Mac > click on your device in the left column in iTunes > click the 'Photo' tab > there you can select which photo albums you want to sync with your iOS device.


What functionality do 'marks' offer in the El Capitan Terminal?

Marks in the Terminal

The new Terminal marks (available starting with OS X 10.11 - El Capitan) are similar to Bookmarks, which are also available in the Terminal, allowing you to mark window positions and then giving you the option of going back at a later point.

Marks (or Bookmarks) don't refer to your command history, but to the scroll buffer used in the Terminal window/tab.

Marking a Line

By default, every time you press Enter in the Terminal window, the line is marked, which is displayed using an opening bracket at the beginning of the line and a closing one at the very end. This default behavior can be turned off using the Edit > Marks > Automatically Mark Prompt Lines menu entry. When this is disabled, you can still manually execute and mark a command using Cmd+Enter (or with the Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt and Send Return menu entry).

If you have automatic marking enabled and want to run a command without marking it as a prompt, you can do this using Cmd+Shift+Enter (or with the Edit > Marks > Send Return Without Marking menu entry).

Disabling Marks

Automatic marking of lines can be disabled using the Edit > Marks > Automatically Mark Prompt Lines menu entry.

From the command line, the same can be achieved using

defaults write com.apple.Terminal AutoMarkPromptLines -bool NO

Hiding Marks

If you want to use the mark functionality, but don't want to see the brackets at the beginning and end of the line, you hide them using the View > Hide Marks menu entry. This will keep the below functionality intact, but will no longer show the brackets.

Jumping between Marks

Once a line has been marked, you can quickly jump to the previous mark using Cmd+Up or to the next one using Cmd+Down. Similar options are provided for Bookmarks, and for selecting to the next/previous mark:

Manually Marking a Line

In addition to the automatic marking, you can also manually add marks by selecting a line in the terminal output using the mouse, and then selecting the Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt menu entry (or Cmd+U).

Use Cases

The Marks functionality is useful if some of your executed commands produce lots of output, and you quickly want to scroll to the position where you entered the command. Pressing Cmd+Up will take you there. Pressing it repeatedly will take you further up, while pressing Cmd+Down will take you back down again. The target location is conveniently highlighted as you jump/scroll around.

Selecting Content

The same marks functionality can be used for selecting Terminal output. Pressing Cmd+Shift+Up will select the content up to the previous mark, while Cmd+Shift+Down will select down to the next mark. This is useful when wanting to copy log output or other content from the Terminal.

This functionality is also available from the Edit > Navigate menu while pressing the Shift key:

Summary

Having used this for a couple of days now, I find it incredibly useful. Scrolling up through hundreds of lines of output to find the beginning of the command's output has suddenly become a lot easier.

I wonder why this new feature isn't mentioned more prominently - I haven't seen it in any of the El Capitan walkthroughs. The Terminal help currently does not provide any details on this feature either.


Burn the videos to DVD, so they can be played in a regular DVD player. Also hand over all data files on a USB drive.


How can I switch to an open tab in Safari using osascript?

It's System Events that handles the keystrokes.

In normal AppleScript the code would look like:

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    delay 0.5
    tell application "System Events"
        key code 19 using command down
    end tell
end tell

As an osascript command line, it would be:

osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to activate' -e 'delay 0.5' -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 19 using command down'

The osascript command line from above shown below as multiple lines for clarity:

osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to activate' \
          -e 'delay 0.5' \
          -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 19 using command down'

Notes: Before telling System Events to keystroke, the target of the keystroke must have focus. So first, Safari must be made the frontmost window with activate. You must then allow a moment for it to have focus before the keypress and that is done with delay 0.5 and the value of delay may need to be adjusted in seconds and or decimal fractions thereof. So once Safari is the frontmost window, then System Events can issue the keystrokes.

This of course assumes Safari is already open with at least one window having two tabs!

The keystroke used herein with Safari is a Safari 9 (El Capitan) keyboard shortcut as shown in: Safari 9 (El Capitan): Safari keyboard and other shortcuts

  Select one of your first nine tabs      Command-1 to Command-9


Binding modifier key to mouse button 4 using KeyRemap4MacBook

I have no idea how much difference there is between KeyRemap4MacBook and Karabiner (minus Karabiner Elements), so I can't guarantee that this will work on older versions. KeyRemap4MacBook got a name change to "Karabiner" in 2014 I believe, so some of the documentation may not apply to it anymore.

I only have access to mac with Sierra, so I couldn't test it in any version.

Follow the instructions on how to add custom settings

Get back to this after you've completed step 3.

Ignore step 4 and replace the contents of private.xml with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>

  <item>
    <name>Mouse Button 4 to Shift</name>
    <identifier>MouseBtn4ToShift</identifier>
    <autogen>
      __KeyToKey__
        PointingButton::BUTTON4,
        KeyCode::SHIFT_L
    </autogen>
  </item>

</root>

Continue the instructions on how to add custom settings at step 5.

  If you're not 100% sure that it's actually button number 4 that you're pressing, you can use the EventViewer to check.

Just incase someone is interested:

Filter: Specify application
Filter: Specify device


How to run a root/admin shell in Terminal?

One easy way is to su to the admin user than use sudo -s to become root shell.

su - shortname_for_admin
sudo -s

This also is covered well in the linked questions:

Run sudo From Non-Admin Account
How do I run terminal in sudo mode?


Will downloading LaTeX slow down my MacBook Air considerably?

Adding application software will have no effect on the performance of your computer unless 1) the software is running or 2) it installs persistent background processes that consume resources. LaTeX does not do #2, so you need not worry that this will affect your computer in any negative way.


How can I export an MS Outlook .pst file to Apple Mail?

Do it via an IMAP server, which you can install on the Mac. I used dovecot, created an account on it, added that account to Outlook and just moved it all over. Then in Mail, I created the same account, and copied everything over.

I prefer this method because it completely preserves all the properties of each message, including attachments. Exporting and importing through another method (including Thunderbird) doesn't preserve everything properly.


iPhone app to show me my locations database

I'm afraid that, without a jailbreak, you won't find any apps that do this for you using your 'locations database' (the "tracking" you're talking about). There are two main reasons:

1: According to Apple, the file is protected. Besides, apps don't get access to system files anyway.

2: Such an app would probably scare some people, and Apple would never allow it on the App store.

Maybe we'll see some apps for jailbroken phones, but I wouldn't expect anything to come to the standard App Store.


(I would add this as a comment, not an answer, but the system won't let me comment.)

I installed Security update 2016-003 on my iMac running OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) on Dec 13. Since then I have had two kernel panics, one on trying to wake the computer and one today on startup.

The panic on startup occurred with the Apple logo and progress bar still on screen. There was a single line of text at upper left of the screen announcing the panic. No panic report in logs for that one.

Apple diagnostic test says there are no hardware problems, so I strongly suspect the security update is causing these panics.

Update Dec 21: In my case the kernel panics stopped occurring after I updated Little Snitch from 3.6.4 to 3.7.1. Compatibility with Sierra was added at v3.7.0. Perhaps that also provides compatibility with the El Capitan security update 2016-003. Or perhaps it was just the Little Snitch reinstall process that fixed things.


Powering a graphics card in a Mac Pro 2008

Please see this thread
“

The Mac Pro has a special low-profile connector on the motherboard, so you need a cable like this or this_. Make sure the cable you get specifically says it is for the Mac Pro, there are many different choices and not all cables will work.

”


Transfer Mac Mail POP3 Email account to new MAC

Apple's Migration Assistant will transfer all settings and files from your old Mac to your new one, including all email accounts, regardless of type, IMAP, POP, Exchange, etc.


Finder Window when Uploading or Opening Files Missing Items

When finder is the current app, hit  command  and  ,  at the same time. Click the Sidebar tab. You can then select the things you want to show up in window. If they are already selected, try un-selecting them and re-selecting them.

Edit: As @NetherLinks mentioned, a few good answers are over at "File Open" dialog is missing sidebar items. Try them if mine doesn't work.


PostgreSQL causing slow shutdowns with OS X Server in Mavericks

The com.apple.DeviceManagement.postgres line makes me think that this could be related to Profile Manager services. Does it show Profile Manager running in Server.app? If you're not utilizing this service, disabling it may help to stop the shutdown delays.

Alternately, if you need to keep these services running, it may be worth looking at some log files somewhere (/var/log/system.log or /var/log/devicemgr/*?) to see if the profile manager service (or any others) are complaining.


Download all files in a directory (without index): file names in increasing numbers

curl can do this automatically for you (see the beginning of man curl for more details about this):

curl -O https://c.m.com/r*/p*/R*/5*/5*/2*/O*/images/page[0000-9999].svgz

PS: This assumes you will expand r*/p*/R*/5*/5*/2*/O*/ before running curl,


Has anyone tried to use a VGA monitor to the latest mac mini?

Why use DVI-D as an interface? Your machine already has an HDMI and Thunderbolt port, and Apple recommends using a VGA adapter on the Thunderbolt port for that. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4806?viewlocale=en_GB .


Mac OS X Java megazoomer: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Anything in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins has been installed after SIMBL which is is a way of injecting code into a Cocoa app using an Input Manager. SIMBL is a third party add in, the link to megazoomer from the SIMBL page gives a Not found so I would assue it is not maintained.

I would guess the actual error is that megaxoomer does not have a 64 bit Intel version.

Unless you want the extra functions of megazoomer I would delete all the SIMBL plugins ie delete /Library/Application Support/SIMBL and unsinstall SIMBL as per SIMBL docs.

  You can run the SIMBL Uninstaller app included with the installer.

Basically unless you know exactly what you are running SIMBL for I would uninstall it.


Is there a way to stream live video from an iPad to an Apple TV?

I haven't tried it yet but according to these articles Ustream will enable you to do it:

Ustream Launches iPad-Optimized iOS App, Adds Apple AirPlay Support
UStream for iPad


“Your system has run out of application memory”, but memory pressure is not even at 50%?

Note that memory pressure does not have a one-to-one relationship with the percent of memory used. Here's a previous thread explaining how pressure is measured.

Your system appears to have used all physical RAM you have (13.6 GB actively used, 2.3 GB of cached ram). Thus, when you open new applications or attempt to load a new webpage, some of the data in physical RAM is swapped to disk. If your disk is full, and it can't swap any more RAM, then this "Out of Memory" error could occur.

I'm somewhat confident this is a software issue, not hardware. As you mentioned, you don't regularly reboot your Mac. Rebooting essentially resets RAM, freeing up significant amounts of space. Taking a quick glance at the process list, there seem to be a lot of "status-bar" apps that reside in the background (like Telegram). Having so many applications open over the course of 10 days probably means a significant amount of information is being cached in RAM, which is why you have so high memory usage.

Fix this by closing stuff you aren't using, or reboot every time this happens. Alternatively, switch to a different browser (if you can/are willing) since Chrome has a litany of nice but memory-intensive features such as preloading search results.

If you're interested in finding what is really causing the memory usage, this very thorough thread has instructions.

Finally, the reason you never had this issue on Yosemite may have been that you simply didn't open as many apps, restarted more often, or had more disk space for swap.

TL;DR: Restart regularly, and close unused apps. Maybe switch browsers.


How do I identify which preference panes are 32-bit and which aren't

System Information (About this Mac - System Report) shows which are 32 and which are 64 bit. No 32-bit Preference Panes exist in my screenshot, however, as this is High Sierra.


Disable opening tabs in iTerm2 on when the application starts?

Close All windows and Tabs except only one(or arrange windows and tab you want), and then

Goto "Windows"->"Save windows Arrangement"
"Preferences"->"Arrangements" set this as default
"Preferences"->"General" and check open default window arrangement.

PS: iTerm restore all session when you disable the "Close windows when quit app" in System preferences


You can use Imagemagick, available on Homebrew.

convert /path/to/in.png \
  -trim \
  +repage \
  -bordercolor White \
  -border 100x100 \
  /path/to/out.png

The image is trimmed using -trim operation which removes the border from the image.

  This option removes any edges that are exactly the same color as the corner pixels. Use -fuzz to make -trim remove edges that are nearly the same color as the corner pixels.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php
A +repage is performed on the virtual canvas to ‘flatten’ the crop.
The -border is added, in White.


The /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin (the JRE) is the one that launches the executable jar though 'JarLauncher.app' - and it is the one installed from Oracle - and it is the last installed JDK.

So if you say you have JDK 9 from Oracle, as the only one from Oracle, then it will be JavaAppletPlugin.plugin of JDK 9 that should be used right now - which doesn't work together with JDK 8 (out of the box).

One thing you could try is to install all your JDKs from Oracle, and then one by one save the JavaAppletPlugin.plugin of each version you want to use in a folder of choice, from where you then copy/override the current plugin in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ - maybe create a small Terminal script, containing setting JAVA_HOME and copy/override of plugin - you will then execute this script just before you want to test your executable jar.

EDIT:

I think after some thinking, that you first need to do some clean up.

This means delete /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin and all JDKs under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/.

Then download all needed JDKs from Oracle, and install them one by one - lowest version first, and remember to backup the installed /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin after each install to a folder of choice.

I have saved my plugins with the names:

JavaAppletPlugin-7.0.80.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin-8.0.162.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin-9.0.4.plugin

You should also be able to open the java control panel for each installed JDK - but only for the one you currently has installed.

Now you can create a script which updates the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin - below is a quick script I did where it install the JRE 7_80 plugin (replace <PATH_TO_BACKUP_OF_PLUGINS> with you path) - which also is the java control panel, so you should be able to open it from Settings.

#!/bin/sh

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin"
sudo cp -rf "<PATH_TO_BACKUP_OF_PLUGINS>/JavaAppletPlugin-7.0.80.plugin" "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin"

If you want one script for each plugin, or you'll create one script which takes a version input, is up to you.

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin and JAVA_HOME need to follow each other, maybe you already has a way for switching JAVA_HOME today.

The way I usually set my JAVA_HOME is like below, where I have added some functions to my .bash_profile

jdk7() {
   export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v '1.7.*'`
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
}

jdk8() {
   export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v '1.8.*'`
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
}

jdk9() {
   export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v '9.*'`
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
}


echo color coding stopped working in mountain lion

The problem was that the escape code \e has been removed in mountain lion's version of echo.
Change \e to \033 and it will work.


Mid-2012 Macbook Pro, Dual Harddrives - Catalina Update Slowing Down, Always Beachballing

You ran EntreCheck, but did you take any of the recommended actions based on what it found?
There's a lot to unpack here, but let's tackle it from a bird's eye perspective...
Beach balling
Beach-balling is the colloquial term to describe the spinning, multi-color icon when the system "hangs."  This due to the system having to wait to execute the next command meaning that there isn't enough resources available for what's required.  From EntreCheck
System Load: 2.77 (1 min ago) 2.19 (5 min ago) 1.66 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.64 MB/s
File system: 36.33 seconds
Write speed: 500 MB/s
Read speed: 519 MB/s

This means that your CPU is oversubscribed and is  taking too long to get data when it's requested.  Your main bottleneck here is your file system and (IMHO) this is due to your hard drive setup (see below).  However, with respect to system load and beach balling, if the system cannot get data quickly, the CPU has to wait, the longer the CPU has to wait, then subsequent tasks have to wait as well.
Drives:
disk0 - TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 1.00 TB (Mechanical - 5400 RPM)
Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA

disk1 - Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB 250.06 GB (Solid State - TRIM: No)
Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA

You have your system on the faster SSD connected to the faster (SATA III) interface whereas your user data is on the slower HDD connected to the slower (SATA II) interface.  From this setup, you are literally making your CPU wait when user data must be accessed.
32 Bit Apps
Catalina doesn't support 32 bit apps so the fact that you're currently running 32 bit apps under Catalina says that you did an in-place upgrade of macOS.  In general, I'm not a fan of in place upgrades of any OS especially macOS.  Apple often makes (often radical) changes to things from one OS to another.  I have found that starting with a clean slate is usually the best course of action.  If you had issues prior to the upgrade, you will still have issues after the upgrade except they're possibly made worse by the differences in how things are done.
I suggest doing a clean install of Catalina or Mojave if you can't live without those 32 bit Apps.
Drive Layout
This is a confusing layout at best.  I think you wanted to segment your user data to the 1TB hard drive and leave the SSD for the system.  The problem with this is temporary files - that's usually stored on the system drive.  So, even in an ideal setup, you're still going to have that crossover where there seems to be duplicates on both drives.  The other issue, discussed earlier, is the disparity in transfer speeds; specifically the interfaces for each.  The primary is SATA III (6 Gbps) where as the secondary is SATA II (3Gpbs) - literally half the other.
Your best bet here is to avoid this complex setup and just go with a single drive setup.  A simple 1TB SSD can be had for less than $100 USD makes this a simple and easy fix.  Connecting it to the SATA III interface will ensure it gets the highest throughput.  Then use the slower drive on the slower interface as your "self contained" Time Machine backup drive.
The next option here would be to create a Fusion Drive out of the two installed drives.  While it's not as fast performance wise as a pure SSD, you will definitely see better performance because it will manage what data resides on the spinning hard drive and what resides on the SSD.  You will also have greater capacity - 1.25TB - with greater flexibility to make use of.
A third option is to get the 1TB SSD and use the existing 250GB SSD in a core storage volume and then use the 1TB HDD for backup.  You will just need an inexpensive USB to SATA adapter/enclosure.  This will give you a nice option for backups.
Time Machine
From EntreCheck:
Major Issues:
  Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention.
  No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.

There's no point in running EntreCheck and not following it's recommendations.  You've got a well bodged setup and nary a lifeboat in sight!  From unsupported and unsigned apps (per EntreCheck) an overly convoluted drive setup I'm surprised that a backup isn't enabled on a nearly decade old machine!  Even if everything was perfect in it's setup, it could still fail due to old age!
My recommendation is to get a Time Machine backup going immediately!  There are so many issues that get asked about here on Ask Different that can easily be fixed with a restoration from a  Time Machine backup.
While this is last on my list, it's actually the most important action you can take at this time.  Before attempting any fixes, you should tackle this first.


Can't find proper keyboard layout for AZERTY MacBook Air keyboard

thanks for your help, well, I used an app called UKELELE, it helped me creating a new layout from an existing one, and in my case I chose Spanish as my reference , so I've just changed Q, W, A and Z to match an azerty spinach keyboard , and at the end thanks for all your help guys I appreciate it


I don't know if this Data recovery for iTunes is what you are looking for but you could give it a try! You could also try Dr.Fone


Why does the application in focus hang for several seconds when a drive spins up?

I know exactly what you mean
Mine does it with my external HD

It drives me nuts.
I've replaced my HD in my MBP with a SSD.
I've been thinking about replacing the SuperDrive with a hard drive tray and putting the original drive in it, but if my computer is going to hang to spin up the HHD it isn't worth it.

I guess I just have to buy one, install it, and see what happens.
I'll let you know Tuesday when the caddy tray arrives if it is an OS-HD issue, or a OS-USB issue


I actually managed to find a fix for the issue I was having.

Under Facetime settings on my iPhone, Facetime was turned on, but it wasn't activated.

I had to turn off Facetime, switch it back on again and then activate it from another device.

It now works.


Can I search for applications compiled against X11/Xorg for MacPorts?

https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=x11 seems like a good place to start :-)


What could cause swapping when there is no memory spike?

See here for a basic, decent overview: https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/osx/understanding-memory-pressure-in-os-x-mavericks/.

My guess is that something is hitting a bug, maybe doing something like getting into a memory allocation loop or something until that process crashes and gracefully reboots, freeing up that memory. I would check for Chrome updates.

The reason I suspect Chrome is two-fold: one is that I have personally experienced Chrome's resource usage going off the charts, and also because in your screenshot, the 'Force Quit' dialog shows Chrome as being paused - I initially just assumed that was because it was 'the' offender, and that lined up nicely with the theory I already had about Chrome - but in retrospect it could have been not because it was 'the' offender per-se, but the next biggest user of system resources after the kernel itself.


Yosemite - Can't add text note at arbitrary position in Preview?

My formal answer to the question: Don't use Preview.app for anything beyond viewing simple PDF documents. In particular don't use Preview.app when you intend to save the document.

The obvious (and better) choice is Adobe Reader XI, which does at least not destroy a document when saving it.


Tool to Consolidate Data on Multiple Hard Drives and List Differences Between Filesets

To close out this question, I didn't really find anything out there already.

I ended up writing a python script that read all the files on the drive and saved an MD5 hash of each one in a database.

Then I created another script that would read the contents of the drive to compare and lookup the MD5 in the database to see if the file already existed. It's not perfect, but it worked.


Where is a "Save As" button in Excel on my MAC Pro to save as a New File Name?

File menu > Save As... or  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   S

If you specifically want a button in the button bar, then View > Toolbars > Customise Toolbars & Menus > Commands, then Find it in the File section & drag to where you want it in the toolbar. [Note, Save as doesn't have an icon, so it will appear there in words.]


Can't install any app, App Store asks for money

Not really clear what you mean with "I have to confirm for pay money" when downloading free apps.

If you download free apps and haven't attached a payment method with your Apple ID yet, Apple asks you to do so. Nothing about asking for money. You can still tell Apple to use "None" as a payment method instead of declining the process altogether. As soon as you've done that you should be able to download free apps without getting bugged again.

Also: did you just create the Apple ID or is it an existing one? Please refer to the support article outlining how to use the App Store without a payment method:

Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method


Updating the Wi-Fi/Ethernet toggle script for Mavericks & new MBP

Have a look to a different script for the same purpose, but with a slightly different approach. It uses the same SystemConfiguration trigger, thus. The problem on Mavericks seem rather to be respawning the original script over and over by launchd. I'm successfully running it on Mavericks 10.9.3. The Script can be found here: http://www.computernetworkbasics.com/2012/12/automatically-turn-off-wireless-in-osx-including-mountain-lion/


Is there a way to run one application in Full Screen mode on one display and still be able to view and access applications on a second display?

The built in full screen (Lion) dominates both screens - and I've not been able to find any setting which lets me use the other one for anything else.

The fix I use for this is Divvy - which enables me to maximise on each screen - but this isn't quite full screen and doesn't provide entirely the same experience. It is, however, a good compromise.


Is there a tool to detect log files that have been written to

The console viewer app has bounce notifications in the preferences for that app.

You'll want to open a window with each log you are watching, but this app should cover most use cases of log file watching. Since Console retains window settings when you quit the App, you should only need to open the files once (or worst case, make a folder with aliases to each log you want and open them all from Finder to get a head start on the logs you like to watch). I'll also plug the Divvy tool for managing many windows. Watch the video on their site - it's very powerful if you want to set regions for windows rapidly.


How to get Fake.app to return 2 types of OSX notification?

The Wait for Condition action will allow you to check the page's title. Add the action to your workflow at the bottom, and chose the "Title Equals" option; then you can but the variable ${Title} into that action.


/private/tmp vs /private/var/tmp vs TMPDIR

TMPDIR as defined in OSX is only accessible by yourself which reduces the risk of somebody else accessing your temp files created by programs using mktemp() to create temporary files.

The difference between /tmp and /var/tmp is more subtle and goes back a long way in the Unix world, the discussion concerning the differences and uses are probably going on since the first Unix system was deployed with both (see Google for long list of links). /tmp resides on the root filesystem so it it accessible as soon as the system starts (even if no other disk is mounted yet) but may be rather small. The /var filesystem usually is in another partition and much bigger. I've also encountered systems where /tmp was just a ramdisk or a symlink to /var/tmp. It's not that way on OSX though.

/tmp is cleared out regularly on OSX (see /etc/defaults/periodic.conf), /var/tmp very rarely (if at all).


How can one get last wakeup from screen saver time on Mac OS

Your two filters to type in the Console log would be:

For screen saver activate: screenshot

For screen saver end: DidWake

Open the Console in the Utility folder and while having selected "all messages" type the above in the filter/search window.


How to check which files have been copied to the main hard drive and which ones have not been copied?

From my experience I may recommend Path Finder app (http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/).

It has very powerful Commands -> Folder Sync command that does exactly what you are asking for: shows synced files and those you may need to copy left or right. They are highlighted with different color.
App has free trial period (fully functional) and then asks for some money, but it's totally worth the price.

Red arrows just show some random directories. You can select your own, including those on different volumes. And you can compare file content is required.


What percentage of Mac users have OSX Lion or higher?

According to Chitika, in North America, 55% of Macs on the Internet are running Lion or later. Source: Gotta Be Mobile


With no concrete details or info whether you’ve gone through troubleshooting and can reproduce this after a reboot, here are some triage steps.

Check the voiceover guide to you know which key shortcuts can start the speech: https://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.12/#/vo2755
Restart the Mac and go through the basic steps once you are logged in to a new test account - https://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/
Once you’re sure voiceover is working in the new test account log out to the home screen and retest.


Audio device list screwed up in El Capitan, audio interface not appearing in list

So, for the sake of documenting this:
I suspected that the Orion32 driver might be causing the trouble. Looking at system.log, every time I connected the Control Hub, the Orion driver logged some error messages. I deleted the driver and restarted the machine, which seems to have solved the problem.


How can I make iMovie delete videos from my iPhone after importing them?

I don't think you can, but you can delete them using Image Capture!

Image Capture lives in your Applications folder and can show the contents of a camera (or your iPhone's camera roll) as a list, and you can manipulate it directly, including deleting some or all of it. I'd just pull up Image Capture after your import, and then sort by kind to isolate the movies, and delete the items you just imported.


Try opening Terminal, type killall Dock and press return. Dock controls the desktop background in Lion.

If it's still grey after that, try rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop then killall Dock


How can I make the power button on my MacBook run a custom script?

KeyRemap4MacBook can apparently remap the power button for some Macs, but it didn't work with my iMac.

<autogen>__ConsumerToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::POWER, KeyCode::F19</autogen>

If you just want to assign a shortcut to a script, see this question.


You have to contact iTunes Connect, they'll have it already in their system that your app took the name first, but as you've tried to recreate it with the same name the system is assuming the other is valid (but with errors) and bouncing you. There's a support email address for them, they'll either be able to pull the old one and let you take the spot, or advise you on what you need to do.


I just solved it on my side, are you running Google Drive? If so, turn it off and the problem goes away. I did so on my machine and it was back to normal, the moment I started Google Drive, the Finder Windows flashed again.

You can see more people with same issue on the Apple Discussion forums


“Warning: SUID file has been modified and will not be repaired” after repairing disk permissions

It's simply telling you that the file has been modified, and because it's been modified Disk Utility can't fix the permissions on it.
ARDAgent.app is the Apple Remote Desktop agent, and the file shown in the path above is the binary file contained within the app package. It's normal for the file to be shown as an error here. Simply ignore it.
Apple KB article TS1448 details which error messages you can ignore in Disk Utility.
The error that you provided is shown in the list, so it can be safely ignored.

Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.


The OS X upgrade couldn't be started because the disk is damaged and can't be repaired

Apple has two simple articles listing the exact steps needed to fully erase your startup disk and get a clean OS installed from the Mac App Store:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21973
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

The first (PH21973) is shorter and to the point and the second has many helpful pictures, explanations and links to other resources. You should expect about 10 minutes to print out and read through the instructions, 10 minutes to do the wipe and an hour or so to download and reinstall the OS. If you have a very slow internet connection or Apple's servers are slammed due to it being the day of a major iOS or OS release, you might need 4 hours or more to complete the OS X download.

Also - some apps like iLife and iWork are not included in OS X even though they came with your Mac initially. Be sure you back them up or verify they show up as purchased apps if you don't want to have to buy them again. AppleCare can help if you can't find your purchases or need a backup.


Iphone 3G internet disconnects frequently

Some phones do not re-login to the celluar network once disconnected. That's why a restart helps.

However, try "Reset Network Settings" on the iphone.


Almost 450 MB consumed on empty external hard drive

My inclination is that your situation is both normal and expected.

I have a 500 GB UDB HDD with almost the same Bytes capacity as yours and the folders you list are generated on all HFS+ filesystems to allow several items to work. Additionally, my SSD that I have connected over USB also was recently wiped and had 71 files, 312.8 MB of space used on a totally unused partition and after erasing it, the files and space used went to 39 and 312.5 MB respectively:

Mac:~ me$ cd /Volumes/SSD
Mac:SSD me$ sudo du -sm .Spotlight-V100/ .Trashes/ .fseventsd/
1   .Spotlight-V100/
0   .Trashes/
1   .fseventsd/

You should expect your .Trashes folder to be empty and little actual space used for the other two folders. They hold filesystem metadata and databases used for Spotlight as well as Time Machine and other tools that track filesystem events. As you can see, I have 2 MB or so of allocation but 312.4 MB of space is not usable due to block allocation sizes, filesystem reserved space and other overhead.

You can use sudo ls -laR to get a complete listing of all the files on your disk. Also, the OS will recreate these files if you ever delete them, so your choice is to use HFS+ and let these exist / grow as needed or choose a filesystem that doesn't pre-allocate this space on that drive.


Time Capsule stuck on makingbackup disk available

It had happened to me in the past and I fixed it by rebooting the Time Capsule.


You can use ScriptSaver.

Set the AppleScript to a script containing the following:

do shell script "/usr/sbin/screencapture /path/to/folder/screensaver.png"

/path/to/folder must exist and be empty, or at least contain no other images
Set the screen saver to display after the AppleScript to Classic.
In System Preferences, set the folder for the Classic screensaver to the /path/to/folder.


No route to host, unless someone is logged in

Probably FileVault2 is enabled on the remote Mac.

After a clean reboot and before entering the FileVault/user password the disk won't be available and subsequently the common network won't be enabled.
After unlocking the disk locally you should be able to discover your Mac and ssh to it.
If the Guest account is enabled in the FileVault mode your Mac might be pinged depending on the network setup (DHCP), but since it is a special 'Safari window only mode' you shouldn't be able to ssh to it.

To reboot a FileVault-enabled Mac remotely enter sudo fdesetup authrestart. This allows you to restart a FileVault-enabled system without requiring an unlock during the next startup. Check this Apple support page for more information.

If FileVault2 isn't enabled i would expect that the sleep and Wake-on-LAN settings aren't properly set.


Unfortunately, running a permissions fix on the hard drive with Disk Utility will not check or fix the permissions of user accounts, and instead will only tackle faults with system file and application access.

You need to repair your home folder (user) since the other user works.

Reset Home Folder permissions and ACLs Error

Follow the instructions here.

or more clear here


Can't get commands inside .bash_profile startup script to run

Does your .bash_profile have DOS-style line endings? Strange error messages like that often are "corrupted" by a \r character.


What's the difference between device file and its raw version?

On OS X, the r means raw device (same as on other UNIX) and on OS X the raw file is a character based I/O and the normal diskX... is a block special device.

Both of these entry points allow a program to access a bare stream of information on the drive without interacting with the filesystem (file names, paths, etc..) and the character device bypasses any buffers (that both speed up access and slow it down depending if you are making large or small operations).

Wiki has a nice article on these general concepts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file


MacOS Catalina Verifying app at bootstrap

I also met the similar problem. I contacted Apple technical support and got the reply that I should try Reset NVRAM or PRAM or RESET SMC. But It does not work at all.

Finally I erased the disk, reinstalled macOS Catalina and then recovered important data from Time Machine and other backups. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


Accessing Java Applets on website in iPhone 4S


Upgrading to OS X Mavericks (10.9) via Screen Sharing

I did this with absolutely no problems.

If you have Screen Sharing turned on in the Mac Mini then connect to it from another Mac (I used a MacBook Air) and save the password into the keychain on the 2nd Mac. You don't need ARD, normal screen sharing will do the job.

Now run the 10.9 installer. At the reboot you will lose your connection but just reconnect and you can watch parts of the install process. Then right at the end there is a final reboot and the Mac Mini is ready for you to reconnect again and go to work.

It's painless though I do admit to making sure I also had ssh set up and running before I did it "just in case".


How can I run Flash applications on iOS?

On a non jailbroken iDevice, your best options are either the SkyFire browser or the iSwifter app. SkyFire works only for video and iSwifter does work for some Flash content, but neither is a perfect solution, in my opinion. (iSwifter tends to have some funny browser behavior when it comes to touch input.)

Alternatively, you can install "Frash" on to a jailbroken iDevice. I've had varied success with this, however. Some flash apps work fine, most work to some degree, and then some don't work at all. There's no real guarantee what will or won't work with it (just as there isn't a guarantee of what will or won't work with iSwifter or SkyFire).


Can Find My Mac locate laptops that have been wiped?

If you use the Find My application to remote wipe your Mac you will no longer be able to track it.

  All content and settings will be erased when this Mac connects to the Internet.  An erased Mac cannot be located or tracked any longer.

For further details see the Apple Support document If your Mac is lost or stolen.

Bottom line...if your Mac is wiped, whether remote or done locally, it will no longer be tracked.  Most likely it’s been sold for parts if the security cannot be bypassed.


Can't create an outlet by drag and drop ,Xcode 6

Not sure if you've managed to solve this issue already, but I just had a eureka moment myself. The problem with dragging-and-dropping was that I have re-assigned the left and right click on my trackpad, which ultimately led me to my solution (albeit in Xcode 7).

To create an outlet, try to Control + Right-Click (or whatever your Mac's right click is set as - you should be able to find this in the System Preferences).


Apple covers accepting the apps that come bundled (like iMovie):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203658

It depends on checking that someone else has "accepted" the apps and calling support if no one has accepted them and you don't want to lose them.


iPhone 3 Upgrading and other similar issues

No one has responded, and with the information you've given, it is difficult to know exactly. But I would guess that while jailbroken, the device was also unlocked, and when you restored factory settings, you lost the unlock, and now the iPhone is once again locked and expecting an AT&T SIM. If you can acquire an AT&T SIM, and it works, then this will be confirmed.

However, this is a rather common issue with a very simple solution, and perhaps my hypothesis is wrong.

Sorry it took so long for a suggested solution!

And Happy New Year!


Airport Express can't handle multiple devices

This is normal, especially with older routers like the AirPort.  TCP is a “greedy” protocol, it will take all that it can when it can, so if you have a node (computer on the network) consuming lots of bandwidth other nodes experienced high latency and low throughput.
You may or may not remember, but places with free WiFi would often have horrible connectivity when the “business” crowd showed up with their VPN clients.  Basically, they would hog the bandwidth whether they were transferring lots of data or not.  Many places blocked VPN traffic because if this.
You need a new, modern router
The way you fixed this was you configured QoS (quality of service) for individual clients and protocols.  More advanced routers would  allow “packet shaping” where the router would limit the amount of bandwidth per node and/or protocol.
Modern routers take care of a lot of this for you automatically. Many can allow you to prioritize  traffic.  For instance! http/https takes highest priority, but email takes lowest. More advanced routers (I use pfSense) allow much more granular control to limit bandwidth by node and by protocol/application.  A regular retail, consumer grade router should be enough for your needs.


cmd-tab behavior on Mavericks with multiple displays

I believe this coincides with the Dock's location.  Just tested it on my MacBook Air, connected to a non-Apple external display, and whenever I moved the Dock from screen to screen the Application Switcher would follow.

You can summon the Dock on your big display by dragging the cursor to the bottom of it's display, essentially dragging down at the bottom.  After a second the Dock should pop up.  Once the Dock is on the desired display press commandtab to summon the Application Switcher.


Over-promiscuous bluetooth on Macbook Pro

I've had my Macbook Pro automatically connect to devices when they power up, but I've never seen a Bluetooth device automatically pair when it's not in the Bluetooth devices list.

I've never used Bluetooth headphones before, but it sounds like there's some sort of special case happening for audio devices, or at least this particular audio device. is "Prompt for all incoming audio requests" ticked in the Advanced options? It sounds like unticked would imply that audio devices would pair automatically.


Clone hard drive from 2017 Macbook Pro to 2012 iMac

In the past I have often booted my main operating system from different Macs, while my MacBook was in repair. Sometimes you may have to redo some of the settings, such as Network preferences. Also, restoring the recovery partition (see also below) can be annoying.

First you need to figure out if your iMac is compatible with the version of MacOS you are using. In case you use Mojave, compatible iMacs are: "iMac introduced in late 2012 or later" according to Apple's support page. In case your iMac is such a model, you should be fine.

I suggest you simply try it by cloning your macOS to an external USB SDD or HDD and boot from it.

Clone the drive. I really like SuperDuper! which can be used for free. Alternatively, Carbon Copy Cloner (commercial) is also nice, because it can also clone and restore your hidden recovery partition. The recovery partition is not necessary for booting.
Connect the USB drive to your iMac.
Press the alt button before the startup sound.
Select the USB drive.

Please make sure your USB drive is formatted with the GUID Partition Map, as this is required for booting external drives.


Does anyone know of a Thunderbolt 2 (not type C or thunderbolt 3) to usb 3 micro b cable?

Thunderbolt is a wholly different connection protocol from USB--it's more like external PCI-Express--so any such cable would need a USB controller built-in. It's almost certainly possible to miniaturize this into a single cable, but I doubt the demand ever existed for a commercial part to make sense; additionally, performance would still be limited by USB's capabilities. Your best bet is probably a Thunderbolt "hub", for instance this USB and eSATA model, or a larger dock such as this one.


According to the Apple Support Site:

  The SE requires iTunes 12.3.3 and in order to get it you will have to
  update OS X to El Capitan. This is how Apple designed it for better or
  worse, sorry.

Your iTunes IS in fact the latest version on THAT OS but not the latest overall.


How to have Chrome cover everything except the dock when double clicked?

Hold the Option key at the same time you click on the Maximize button on Chrome.  This will maximize the window while leaving visible the menu bar and dock.  This will also work on any other window on a Mac.

If this doesn't maximize the window on the first try, drag the window to where you want it (like you're doing now with the left and right sides) and then close the browser.  Next time you open it, it should fully maximize.


How do I disable inline PDFs in Safari 5.1?

I don't know of any way to disable inline PDF viewing, but option-clicking on a link will force a download instead. Not exactly what you asked for, though...

What's interesting is that some PDFs actually get downloaded instead of previewed, so that could be a starting point for a hack: http://www.jbc.org/content/279/1/686.long (click on the link 'Full Text PDF').


How can I automatically disable WiFi when I connect to an Ethernet network?

If you have somehow modified the default service ordering, you can set it again in the network tab using the gear.

This makes the Wi-Fi inactive for internet routing whenever you connect the cable. What you ask is scriptable if you know some programming, but there isn't a simple trigger to actually turn the Wi-Fi radio off at the user level of the OS.