How can I power my MacBook Pro during trans-Atlantic flights?

You could get one of those external battery packs. Hyper makes them specifically for MBPs. This is the link for rMBP: http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice/2-External-Battery-for-MacBook-iPad-iPhone-USB-100Wh/


Can anyone confirm whether MacRuby framework shipped with Lion?

Macruby is there as a private framework, and you can call it as such using code. For more elaboration, you should ask your question again on Stackoverflow.

http://redwoodapp.posterous.com/macruby-for-the-desktop-six-reasons


Depending on your definition of "conveniently." You could make an encrypted .DMG and store your sensitive docs in the disk image.

Once mounted macOS sees the mounted image as just another volume, the only part requiring a password is when mounting the image.

If you created it as a .sparseimage it should expand as you need it to without having to create a large image that would take into account future usage.


Applescript: automated key press of spacebar/left click at defined intervals

Pretty easy!

To simulate a space bar click use tell application "System Events" to keystroke [key]. Clicking is a bit more difficult. If you want to click at a given point you can use tell application [process] to click at {x-cord,y-cord}. However, if you want to have it just click at whatever point it's at, you'll probably have to use a third party shell application like Cliclick.

Now combine that with the delay [seconds] command and you're good!


Dell External Display suddenly stops working - Puzzling

Your issue is in Macbook's powering.

If you unplug the power adapter and then reinitiate connection to the monitor by either turning the monitor on/off or replugging the Display Port cable, you'll see signal restored.
After that you can plug the Macbook's power adapter back again and it won't turn black for hours or even days (unless you use cheap "Chinese" power adapter -- that can blackout every 30 minutes or so). The only issue remaining is that if you use custom calibrated color profile after such reconnection the color profile resets and you have to open Monitor settings and just open the Color tab to reapply settings -- you probably can make an Automator script for that routine and bind a keyboard shortcut.

I've noticed that monitor can go black when my fridge in the next room turns on, so it's definitely about power. Seems like Macbook passes some bad electricity signals from charger to the Display Port.

"source": my comment to this thread http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/p/19658656/20922700#20922700


Can't enter username in form with Silverlight

Lets assume you use Firefox browser (and have the plug in installed).

If the cookie information is displayed at the bottom of the login page, click on the Close button to hide the cookie information and then click back into the Username box. You should now be able to enter/type your usename.

If the cookie information is not displayed at the bottom of the login page, click on Tools and then Add-ons. This will open a new tab where you can view the Plugins you have installed. Once the new tab has appeared you can close it and then click back into the Username box. You should now be able to enter/type your usename.


Xamarin Android Player runs slowly on MacBook Air 2015

I've got tired of searching and waiting for someone's help and approached Xamarin themselves about this issue. Turns out that this product is no longer supported (see link to the official Xamarin statement) and they advise to use other emulators rather than their (what sounds a bit strange for me at least). So following the advise of Xamarin support service I have downloaded Genymotion Android emulator for personal use (as it is free).

After downloading you might want to tweak certain things for emulator to run a bit faster. Genymotion works on top of VirtualBox (it installs it on the background so no need to install it separately)

Switch from Legacy Paravirtualization Interface to Hyper-V (Settings->System->Acceleration)
Enable 3D Acceleration in Settings->Display->Acceleration
VirtualBox will constanly complain that there is more cores used than there is available on the computer (4, when my MacBook Air has only 2). But, if you change this value to 2 the performance of emulator will be much more slower. No idea why.
Make sure that you have Intel HAXM drivers otherwise don't expect the emulator to work at its full speed.

Everything mentioned here fairly experimental, so any if you have any relevant in this field, please share it.


How can I run a command that requires user input through oh-my-zsh alias?

Aliases are used as a shortcuts - sipmple commands that expand to longer ones.
If you need to pass an argument to it, you would need to create a function.
Maybe try something like:

reminder () { automator -i $1 add_reminder.workflow' }

Here $1 will expand to the first argument that you've passed to the function.
So you'll to do something like:

reminder "Buy potatoes"

P.S: I haven't tried it, since I don't have zsh with me right now, so if it breaks, give me a shout.


Installing MacTeX 2016 will create a new 2016 directory in /usr/local/texlive/ with all of TeX and friends in it. It will also update all symlinks etc. to point to the new versions. So you can run sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/2015 afterwards to remove the old version. This will lead to some broken links in /Library/TeX but I never bothered with cleaning them up and they won't be used anyway.


iCloud photos gone forever or still there?

If you didn't make copies to your library, no; they are not available to you anymore, since she unshared the folder and you no longer have access to them.


You have to hurdles to overcome:

Apple's operating system does not pair with Bluetooth mice. You need to overcome that to use a mouse.
Apple's operating system is designed for multitouch as opposed to a single pointer, each application that you use will need to handle the mouse input and juggle it with other multitouch inputs.

You can review other people's failure to use a mouse with iOS on these questions:

Using mouse from OSX host on iOS device
How do I hover on the iPad?

Basically keyboards and stylus are supported. Mice and trackpads are not currently.


Since the opt in status is no Longer present in the Lion Console app, you can't see whether you are opted in or out.

My system does resume sending non-received reports when the next crash or force quit happens. I would poke and force quit the problem and watch that all the reports get submitted.

It is extra hassle to file it formally at http://bugreport.apple.com - but that way you are assured a human or two touches the report rather than it going into the summary reports.


how do I backup apps stored on the phone?

Go to File -> Devices -> Transfer Purchases from "iPhone". If that doesn't do it, authorize first with Store -> Authorize This Computer... with the same Apple ID you used to purchase those apps, and then try again.


In the Mac App Store go to...

Store → View my account
In the section iTunes in the Cloud click on View hidden Purchases.
Choose which purchases you want to unhide.


Can my iPhone search for Wi-Fi only when in a specific location?

No, there is no way to do this.

Also, wifi is only searched for when you actually go to use your phone. It won't search for wifi networks constantly while the phone is in your pocket. Your iPhone is very good at managing its own battery usage. Checking what SSIDs exist is very battery efficient.

Lastly, you can turn off that annoying prompt that comes up whenever networks are discovered. It'll still automatically connect to wifi networks that you trust, but that dialog will never appear.


I'm not sure you'd be able to build one from scratch using totally new parts, but you may find this iPhone 6 teardown useful.


Mail.app removes text after inline attachment

Under Edit > Attachments, check Always send Windows-friend attachments.

That way, the text beneath the attachment won't be cut off.

Alternatively, you can do that on a per-message basis in the attachment file selector window, like so:


excessive birthday reminder notifications

Check your calendar enable all calendar and see if you have multiple records of birthdate. I had same issue duplication of birthdate in contacts, facebook account & gmail. And also check remiders if it is set for more than once. I think by default it should be one reminder on date.

And finally click on close not snooze :)


Use SOCKS proxy for several IP addresses on OSX Yosemite

I enjoyed your screen shot. I just learned how to say прокси-сервер!

I believe what you'd be doing is asking the proxy redirector to make exceptions to its exceptions. I think this will probably not be possible.

There is a kind of tool which may work better for you.  It is called a URL re-writer or URL re-director.  Instead of setting up a SOCKS proxy, which would be designed to forward every kind of web call, a URL re-writer would watch all the outgoing connection requests and replace just the ones that match to wherever you re-direct them.  This is very good for sending a small number of addresses or domains to another place--like your proxy server or tunnel endpoint.

These URL rewriters come in two flavors: the sort installed in routers—-like squid—-or they can be browser plug-ins. Some routers have this feature built in and call it "transparent web redirecting."

There's a plug-in for Safari called "urlrewrite-safari" that lives at https://github.com/sjmulder/urlrewrite-safari .  There's one for Firefox called "Redirector" which works much the same. I haven't looked to see what's there for Google Chrome.

The only snag is that when you do a web search for "URL rewrite" or "URL redirect" you also end up with a lot of server-side redirection stuff, too.


Limit - not disable - Remember joined Wi-Fi locations

I use profiles to set the default WiFi networks, (with the help of an apple server)
This way, users don't have to add any networks, apart from their home WiFi.

I also have a little python script to re-order the WiFi so that "my" networks are always the top two ones. This scripts runs as a logout script also via a profile.
Script that I use:
https://gist.github.com/pudquick/fcbdd3924ee230592ab4

As far as I know, you can not prevent the Mac from joining "some" networks only,
but perhaps you can with a 3rd party tool.


Related: iOS - App Store Stories

The maximum you can look back for is 7 days. There is a website called Sensor Tower which lets you see up to 365 days but it requires a subscription.

Alternatively, for some stories, you can tap on the Share Story button shown at bottom, copy the link and send it to yourself. However, this approach is highly manual, would have required following it since the day App Store redesign was publicly launched. Also, it is not possible to do so if you want to start out today as the older feed entries can no longer be accessed


OS X (El Capitan) Terminal Fn-Up and Fn-Down stop working as Page Up and Page Down

I had the same problem.
To solve the problem when it appears: Open an ssh connection and close it again. Then it worked for me.


You're looking for a USB-A to USB-C cable.

Example: 3.1 USB-A to USB-C™ Cable (Also Known as USB Type-C™)  from Belkin

It's $29.99 USD, however I'm sure you can use a search engine to find a better deal, e.g.:

Google search - 3.1 USB-A to USB-C cable
Google search - 2.0 USB-A to USB-C cable


Does wifi need to be on for AirDrop, even if using ethernet connection?

Please turn on wifi on the iMac, but no need to connect to any network. Since you are connected via Ethernet your syncing iMac with iCloud will happen without any interruption. Now you will be able to use Airdrop and iCloud syncing simultaneously. Hopes this will help.


Macbook Pro Keyboard Functions Stopped Working on Bootcamp

It sounds like a drivers issue.

Try re-installing the drivers for Windows and reboot. You can download the drivers from here. Please double check that your version of Windows is 7 64-bit or 8.


Terminal command to move all loose files into a directory with the file name

Command

This command was tested in a bash shell.

for x in *;do if [[ -f $x ]];then mkdir newdir;mv "$x" newdir/.;mv newdir "${x%.*}";fi;done

Explanation

The code shown below is not necessary commands you can execute. Rather, what is shown is an explanation of various parts of the code shown above.

Loop through all file names in current directory.

for x in *;do ... done

Only do regular files. (Skip the directories.)

if [[ -f $x ]];then ... fi;

Make new directory newdir.

mkdir "newdir";

Move file x to new directory newdir.

mv "$x" newdir/.;

Rename newdir to the name of the desired new directory. (Set newdir to file name x after removing the last . and all characters that follow.)

mv newdir "${x%.*}";

Comments

If the desired directory already exists, then the newdir folder (containing the file) will be moved to the desired directory. For example, if the file 123.mp4 and directory 123 both already exist, then file 123.mp4 will end up in 123/newdir. You can test to see if this occurred by entering the command given below.

find . -name newdir

For example, if 123/newdir/123.mp4 existed, then the follow output would appear.

./123/newdir


How do I allow the opening of all applications from a specific website?

This is the only option I'm aware of:

Navigate to 'System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General'
Click the lock on the bottom left of the window and enter an admin password
Click the radio button that says 'Anywhere'
Click the lock in the bottom left of the window again to prevent further changes

You would have to remember to go back and change it though when you're done downloading applications from that specific website/developer. Yes, it's a pain, but you could set a reminder for yourself with a date on it so that your Mac can remind you to change it back at a certain time!


I bought a used iPod touch 5th gen on eBay, but it's connected to their iCloud!

If you have access to the iPod, go to Settings -> iCloud and then press Sign out. I think that should work without having to enter any password. Then you can add your own or do whatever you want.
If you don't have access to your iPod because they're locking it using Find my iPhone, there are either two ways
1. They tell you the password to access the device
2. You force your iPod to enter DFU/Recovery mode so you can restore it using iTunes.
Hope this helps :)


Password protect disk images on Mac from deleting

To keep the .dmg file from being deleted without explicit permission, you need to set the ACL permissions for the file to not be deleted. In Terminal use, e.g.:

sudo chmod +a "everyone deny delete" foobar.dmg

Once set, if you try to rename, delete, or move the .dmg file, e.g. in Finder, you'll have to enter Administrator credentials, or in Terminal use sudo, which requires the same level of credentials too, to do the same.

In Terminal, have a look at the manual page for chmod, e.g., type man chmod and press Enter, or just type chmod and right-click on it selecting, Open man Page.

In general, I'd read then entire man page however, the section titled ACL MANIPULATION OPTIONS is the relevant one to focus on.

To see what ACL permissions are set on a file/folder,  use, e.g.:

$ ls -le foobar.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 me  staff  100020736 Dec  7 09:21 foobar.dmg
0: group:everyone deny delete
$


What is the md5/sha1 checksum for Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS 4.3 SDK final?

I believe that opening a .DMG file automatically verifies it.

Basically, it contains a checksum in the file (or are you worried about malicious packages, rather then just corruption?).

Anyways, when I open a .dmg file, I see the message box with a progress bar say "Verifying" for a while, before it actually mounts.

Asmus added in a comment above:
"you can use hdiutil verify /path/to/image.dmg on the command line to compare an image against its internal checksum."


Long press any app icon to enter "wiggle mode".
Drag the desired folder to the Dock.
Press the Home button to exit "wiggle mode".

Done!


iPhone 5s: texts and calls show numbers instead of names

Put people in your iPhone contacts, when you put people in the Contacts application it is best to put in the full telephone number and the country of the person then the iPhone will use the telephone number formatting of that country.

I live in the Netherlands and I have setup my iPhone as such, when I create a new contact by default (unless I change the country) they are listed as being in the Netherlands. The country code for the Netherlands is +31, the "+" is the convention for country code.

If I type in a mobile phone number (the prefix code for mobiles is '6') say
+31 6 12345678 then the iPhone will format it that way. If I type in a fixed land line number, say +31 40 1234567 then it will put in the spaces to correctly identify the region code '40'. If I put in other people from other countries with other formats for phone numbers, say +1 123 12345678 for something in the US, the iPhone will automatically put in the correct spacing.

And you will see the person's name, not number, for incoming and outgoing calls.


How to get RFID scanner to connect to MacOS

I have a scanner that looks exactly the same and works perfectly on Mac.

Essentially this device works like a USB keyboard, and thus requires no special operating system or driver support.

The device is NOT supposed to show up in The Finder sidebar, contrary to other suggestions here.

To test the device, open Notes, TextEdit or similar app - then scan a tag with the scanner. The number should show up (make sure you can enter numbers with your normal keyboard - i.e. a text input area needs to be in focus).

If it doesn’t work it can be an issue with the port, cable or similar. Check System Report to see if the device is reported as connected on the USB bus.

Update: After you have added the USB information from System Report to your question, it is clear that the hardware you have is a non-standards compliant "China clone" (for example the vendor code is 0xffff), which does seem to be USB HID, but not emulating a keyboard.

In this case, you will need a driver. It seems multiple people have had problems getting this device working on Linux, and someone used a lot of time reverse engineering the Windows program supplied with the device, as the manufacturer is obviously not interested. You can download the Linux software here:

https://github.com/merbanan/rfid_app
https://github.com/Simpleyyt/libfunction_so_usb

It uses libusb so it can probably be compiled and works on a Mac as well. I haven't tried though, as I haven't got the exact device you have.


Have AirDrop auto-accept files from a certain other mac?

TUAW just featured an app called DropCopy yesterday. It has been around for about 4 years and one of the first sentences I read popped out and reminded me of this question.

  For one, DropCopy can auto-accept file transfers. Meaning, your recipient needn't be in front of his/her machine to initiate or accept a transfer. That's handy if you want some files to be waiting at a remote work station upon your arrival.

It's a bit of give-and-take. DropCopy DOES require all the computers to be on the same network. It does not set up a second channel AdHoc network even where supported, but it offers compatibility outside of Lion and lots of additional features.

  The way it works is similar to AirDrop. Just drag-and-drop your file onto the Dropzone and it'll show all the possible destinations. Participating machines must be running DropCopy on the same network. Simple.

Via TUAW's screenshot, DropCopy can also transfer your clipboard contents, send text messages, and also supports multiple computers.

DropCopy is free for the first 3 computers, can be downloaded for free on the Mac App Store, purchased from 10base-t interactive's website, and even has an iOS version.


What are some good resources for learning how to AppleScript with Xcode 4.3.2?

Mac OS X Automation has sample Xcode projects and a few videos for getting started with AppleScript in Xcode. They also have a comprehensive book, AppleScriptObjC Explored, which you can buy from their site. (I can't vouch for it as I haven't read it, but their free resources are excellent.)

You can start here:

http://macosxautomation.com/applescript/develop/index.html


I'm assuming when you say "both Apple IDs", that you mean an Apple ID using your Gmail account, and an Apple ID using your Hotmail account.

It asked you for passwords to both of those Apple IDs because you have purchases or free items licensed under both IDs.


Is it possible to downgrade Boot ROM SW to try and fix unbooting Late 2012 iMac from Single User Mode?

The panic report you posted in your previous question indicates an unrecoverable error in the IOAcceleratorFamily kext while trying to communicate with the NVDAResman kext.  This indicates a problem with the GPU, probably related to the weird firmware update you applied.  I think you're out of luck at this point.  Only Nvidia has software to downgrade a GPU ROM version, as far as I know.


Are there fonts that include musical note characters?

Try installing the Musica font from page. This will install the musical notes you need (free). You can then test it out on this page.
Hope this helps.


The + button only appears if you move your mouse close to the location of the button, or hold down ⌥. Also note that you can have a maximum of 17 desktops, or 16 desktops and Dashboard, then the + button is no longer available.


Does using an app send my IP address and device identification info to the app maker?

This completely depends on the app. There's nothing that by default sends identifying in formation about your system to the App developers, the App would have to have been written in order to have this behavior. Depending on the app, however, it's possible that some might.

You didn't mention if you're on iOS or Mac OS. If you're on Mac OS, and you're concerned, or curious, you should consider installing an outgoing firewall like Little Snitch. What this will do is show an alert message asking for permission every time any app tries to send data to the Internet. You can use the Little Snitch network monitor to identify what data is being sent, to determine if your privacy is being violated. You can also prevent the app from sending data at all.

If you wanted to do the same for iOS you could use software on your router, but this is an advanced topic and beyond the scope of this answer.


A turning gear appears when I run this workflow, why?

Try:

on run {input, parameters}
    set myPassword to "My Password"

    ignoring application responses
        do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" password myPassword with administrator privileges
    end ignoring
end run

OR

on run {input, parameters}
    set myPassword to "My Password"

    ignoring application responses
        do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod &>/dev/null &" password myPassword with administrator privileges
    end ignoring
end run


How can I always allow TouchID to unlock MacBook?

No there isn't - at least not yet.

The Touch ID rules for macOS dictate that each time you boot up or restart, or if you log out, you need to type your password to log back into your user account.

In other words, once you're already logged in, you can use Touch ID when prompted for your password.


How can I play a MIDI file on my MIDI keyboard?

It seems like the wording I'm looking for is "plays MIDI files on an external device".

Most software I found which claimed to "play MIDI files" did so using QuickTime or their own code to make sounds.

I'll quote Tetsujin's helpful definition for 'sequencer' and 'digital audio workstation':

  A "sequencer" is the descriptive name of a piece of software originally designed specifically for the recording/playback of MIDI data [usually through an external device, such as your Clavinova] These days, you would expect that one could also deal with audio recordings, software instrument plugins [soft-synths] etc.

  A DAW is a 'digital audio workstation'... fancy name for a 'sequencer' ;-)

The specific software I found to play MIDI files on my external device was Aria Maestosa. This is a MIDI editor/sequencer which is GPL licensed. Starting with version 1.4, it  "Support[s] sending midi output to external devices".  The current newest version of Aria Maestosa, 1.4.10, requires Mac OS X 10.7 or above. I fell back to Aria Maestosa 1.4.9 for Mac OS X 10.6, dated 2013-10-27.

I ran Aria Maestosa, selected my MIDI interface via the "Output" menu, imported a MIDI file, then pressed the "play" buttons. The music came from my Clavinova, not from the computer. Achievement unlocked!


Does the Mountain Lion installer receive updates?

Yes the installer is updated with 10.8.x releases as they come out. You will need to update the installer app through the App Store as you would for any other app. ( Source: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review).

  Like any other application purchased from the Mac App Store, these OS
  installers are updated in-place as part of the normal Mac App Store
  update process when new versions are released. It's as if your Mac OS
  X 10.6.0 installation disc gradually morphed into a 10.6.1 installer,
  then a 10.6.2 installer, and so on.

Example given is 10.6, but the reviewer is talking about 10.8.


What is the difference between "activate" and "launch"?

From the Commands Reference section of the AppleScript Language Guide:

  activate Brings an application to the front, launching it if
  necessary.

  launch Launches an application, if it is not already running, but
  does not send it a run command.

  If an application is already running, sending it a launch command has
  no effect. That allows you to open an application without performing
  its usual startup procedures, such as opening a new window or, in the
  case of a script application, running its script. For example, you can
  use the launch command when you don’t want an application to open and
  close visibly. This is less useful in AppleScript 2.0, which launches
  applications as hidden by default (even with the run command).


What's the point of the 60W Apple MagSafe replacement charger?

Most switching power supplies are most efficient when operating at 50% capacity. And they're definitely pretty inefficient at less than 20% capacity.

Since the MacBook draws less power than a MacBook Pro, I would suspect that an 85w power supply would work just fine, but the larger power supply for the MBP probably would draw more power from the wall socket than is necessary when connected to a MB because it is operating in a suboptimal capacity range.

Here's an example: Take for example the 45w power supply for the MacBook Air. Sure you could hook up the 85w power supply, but since the MBA might only draw 20 watts, the power supply is operating at less than 25% capacity. At this capacity, the power supply may only be 60% efficient (an educated guess), that means the power supply has to draw 33 watts of AC power just to supply the laptop with 20 watts of DC power.

Long story, short: It's a power conversion efficiency thing. I'd say buy the one that is designed for your laptop so that you save energy.


What's a good Windows RDP client for Mac?

Use RDC (Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2)
This free download runs natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs

Use One Mac, unlimited Windows.


Does Yosemite Beta update itself to the final version?

No - in general, the builds that are GM Candidates are marked as final and you need to go install the correct update intentionally. Sometimes a 10.x.1 update arrives in time for you to jump on that automatic update, but you should follow the specific directions bases on how you obtained the beta for how to get back on release updates. The steps differ for different programs.


If you give your iPhone + Passcode to someone, what harmful things could they do to your data/privacy/security?

I hope the information in the answer is used keeping ethical intent in mind, and there's no intention to misuse the information.

  What harmful things can they do?

Playing devil here, I would do the following:

Change fingerprint/face data for use with Touch ID/Face ID. I'd remove existing fingerprints/faces and add mine. (This action could go somewhat undetected in case wherein you have multiple fingers registered. I could remove just one finger and register one of mine. This would however be caught when accessing 1st party app such as App Store, where you are asked for your Apple ID password, as discussed in point #3 below).
Change the passcode itself. (This could go undetected initially, until you chance upon entering the passcode, say for example after a restart).
If I change the Touch ID/Face ID data, I'll obviously be able to lock and unlock the iPhone freely without restrictions using either Touch ID/Face ID or Passcode.

Having entered my own Touch ID/Face ID data will give me access to host of settings. I'd also be granted access to the whole host of 3rd party apps that were protected by Touch ID/Face ID, such as WhatsApp, Dropbox etc. (Although 1st party apps such as App Store will require you to enter your Apple ID password before enabling new fingerprint/face data). Some 3rd-party apps such as 1Password are well guarded as they will ask to authenticate via the account password before enabling newly registered fingerprint/face data.

I'd be able to send unintended messages using commonly used chat apps such as Messages/WhatsApp to contacts. I'd also delete the conversation to remove the traces.
Wipe data off iCloud. This will lead to irreversibly losing critical data synced to and stored on iCloud such as contacts, emails, photos, notes, documents etc.
Remove data stored and synced on iCloud by 3rd-party apps.
Uninstall apps freely which will likely cause you to lose locally stored/non-backed up data.
Remove other devices linked to your Apple ID via iCloud settings.
Change privacy settings by enabling/disabling specific apps access to location/contact data etc.
Simply access/copy-off private data such as contacts, notes, photos without changing anything as discussed above and thus, you never noticing it.
Copy data off your iPhone from apps that support File Sharing. Once simply needs to unlock iPhone, connect to a computer with iTunes installed and trust both on computer and the iPhone.
I'd be able to link a brand new device to your Apple ID using iOS Quick Start. If your email client app if set up on the iPhone with your Apple ID email, I'd delete the email alert that you receive when a new device is linked to your Apple ID.
Delete the call log from Phone app.
Leave app reviews and ratings on the App Store. This may be hard to notice easily.
Enable/tweak Family Sharing and invite myself your family. I can then access paid apps and music on my device. After doing the deed, I can also remove myself from Family Sharing or disable it, and remove the traces.

I would obviously not be able to access/change settings which require Apple ID password. This includes turning off Find My iPhone and logging out/resetting the iPhone.

  What trace would be around to identify those actions?

From the user standpoint, there could be minimum to no traces to identify the actions. There's no on device mechanism to access device access logs.

Assume that the user never attempt to unlock the iPhone or apps using Touch ID/Face ID and always use the Passcode. They could still access and copy off data such as photos, contacts via unidentifiable medium such as AirDrop.

It appears that Face ID is slightly better at protecting you here compared to Touch ID, as it currently allows only one face to be registered at a time.


Is it possible to let Picasa use a removable device as the Application Support folder using symbolic links?

Whilst I have no experience with Picasa, I have symlinked many other apps' Application Support folders to other destinations including network drives too without any problems. I ensure the drive is connected with a script before allowing the app to open, but I'm not sure if that's necessary. Generally speaking, it'll work fine.

┌── ln(1) link, ln -- make links
│   ┌── Create a symbolic link.
│   │                                      ┌── the path to the new folder
│   │                                    ┌─┴────────────────┐
ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/App /Volumes/MyDrive/App
      └────────────┬───────────────────┘
                   └── the path to the original file/folder
                       can use . or ~ or other relative paths

Edited from my canonical linking answer at How can I create a symbolic link in Terminal?


imac 21.5 Core i3 mid 2010 - how many SATA ports available?

That model does not support SSD and HDD in addition to the optical

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i3-3.06-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2010-specs.html

The 27” from 2010 does, however. It just needs a mounting bracket and the SSD. It’s SATA 3 Gbps bus and this link has lots of upgrade referrals:

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.8-27-inch-aluminum-mid-2010-specs.html

You’d want to get a hybrid SSD/HDD drive if you needed size and space on the 21” unfortunately.

Your mac would need to move the Optical external and put the SSD in place of the optical slot if you chose to retain a full size HDD.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+Dual+Drive/8643


Safari for OS X displaying wrong favicon

You aren't actually looking at the favicon, but rather the Touch Icon. You can find your Touch Icons in ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons Cache/ and then look in the Images/ folder to find the actual image files.

Your choice here is you can replace the offending image with the one you want and restart Safari to have it load that, or just trash the whole Touch Icons Cache folder entirely.


is it safe to key in your password in an iphone?

No matter if you're on encrypted WiFi, unencrypted WiFi, 3G, etc. if the site's title has a lock next to it, you can be sure that your password cannot be captured by anyone snooping the traffic. The lock means that you and the website are using a secure, encrypted connection.

Keep in mind however, that if after you log into the site and the lock no longer appears, you're vulnerable to anyone running a copy of Firefox with Firesheep installed. They won't get your password but will essentially be able to be logged in as you.

For sites that do not keep a secure connection (a lock in the title bar) after logging in you should avoid using them on unencrypted WiFi. As far as I know, Gmail uses a secure connection all of the time.

When you enter your password for App Store purchases, even though there isn't any real indication, your phone is establishing a secure connection between it and Apple. It's very safe.


Syncing applications from iPhone to iTunes with multiple iTunes Store accounts

Likely this means you are not signed in and authorized with the secondary account you purchased the applications with, generally iTunes will report something on the lines of "You are not authorized to playback this content" blah blah I am going to erase all the stuff you are not authorized to play.

The fix is to go to the Store menu in iTunes and choose authorize computer, and enter in the secondary credentials, then you should be able to sync purchased apps from multiple account holders using the transfer purchases option, if nothing else.

Apple has some decent articles on the process:
About iTunes Store authorization and deauthorization
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer


How to set a screen resolution other than what is displayed in the scaled list?

You can install John Ford's screenresolution utility via brew install screenresolution. Alternatively you can download and compile the source here.
Once the utility is installed you can see all available resolutions via screenresolution list. Assuming the appropriate resolution is listed you can set your display with something like screenresolution set 1280x720x32.


\Trace/BPT trap: 5 when using open from terminal

there.  I had this problem and so I cleared out some old launchd plists, some of which dated back to Leopard (I restore via Time Machine when I get a new Mac.)  So far, that seems to have worked.  If you check out "man launchd" and scroll to the bottom, there's a list of folders where such files may be found.  Leave anything by Apple, and clear out the questionable ones.  I no longer have any Adobe software on my Mac, ditto for MS Office, and I'm trying ClamAV instead of Avast, so I cleared out all the Adobe, Microsoft, and Avast plists.  Haven't even rebooted yet and suddenly I can use "open" reliably again.


How to invert colors of a picture on Mac?

Open the image in Preview.app (macOS built in default image viewer).
Choose Tools → Adjust Colour ⌥⌘C.
Swap the left-most and right-most points on the graph.


createinstallmedia: cannot execute binary file

Redownloaded the installer. And everything works fine.

p.s. I'm in China at the moment. Look like package loss is a real problem here.


It’s going to be hard to offer blanket advice since if your hardware has failed, your backup is suspect, no amount of correct process will help. This would be a data recovery project which is very different than trying to recover from a lost password, admin database corruption.

Reinstalling the current OS from recovery should fix the machine enough to follow this guide to reset the password. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211672
If you know your backup is good, erase the Mac and then migrate back. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/erase-and-reinstall-macos-mh27903/mac

If you ask a follow on question making notes which parts of the password reset process you chose and what step was the last you could complete, we might be able to offer a process change in case you missed a step or there’s an undocumented fix, but there are a ton of steps in the reset process, hard to guess where your case diverged from the expected path...


Compress the contents of the folder then rename the .zip to .jar


Unfortunately watchOS 3.x can't connect to a Wi-Fi secured by WPA2-Enterprise.

I have experienced the same behavior in the past with watchOS 2.x as well.

This assumes:

Your university's Wi-Fi is part of eduroam or uses a smiliar Wi-Fi login using your credentials (user name + password)
Your university's Wi-Fi thus uses the WPA2-Enterprise security protocol
You can connect to the Wi-Fi just fine with iOS devices like your iPhone
You use an Apple Watch running watchOS 3.x

With iOS you can enter your credentials. They will get saved and can be transferred to watchOS. The certificate, however, cannot be provided from iOS to watchOS.

Let Apple Know

Contact Apple and let them know. Apple cares about user's feedback. Use Apple's feedback form for Apple Watch.

Updated answer

divB has pointed out that the network uses a MAC address filter instead of the WPA2-Enterprise security protocol

Please make sure to provide your Apple Watch's MAC address to your university as well as your iPhone's MAC address.

You can find it on your iPhone:

Watch.app > General > About > Wi-Fi Address


Western Digital Passport Drive Shows up on Old 2009 MacBook Pro, but not my new one

Are both MacBooks running the same version of Mavericks? WD had a fiasco with their applications, kernel extensions, etc. being incompatible with Mavericks, which led to massive customer data loss. You might need to update the drive's firmware and erase every trace of WD SmartWare, etc. on the drive and possibly even on the new MacBook, as their crapware can self-install in some instances.


Lion and Boot Camp Windows 7 cannot agree on a system time. What did I do wrong?

The OSes interpret the system's clock data differently - this has been an issue as long as Boot Camp has been available.

You might want to add a crontab to use ntpdate to update (-u) from your preferred NTP server, such as time.apple.com.


Go to the Phone app and tap on the Recents tab.  You'll see incoming and outgoing calls there.  The outgoing calls have a little phone handset icon with an arrow going up.  When you click on the information icon, the 'i' inside the circle, you'll see details of the call.  It will also say 'incoming' or 'outgoing'.


I don’t recommend moving drives or even loading a bootable copy. I do recommend a clean OS install and then running migration assistant. That tool has custom code to handle all sorts of useful functions like driver incompatibilities, disabling incompatible software and you just get a fresh clean install with your data and accounts on top.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350 (Migration KB)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462 (Target Disk Mode KB)

Use target disk for the migration Even if you have a solid back up. You could also migrate from your back up.

If you decide to just move the data directly, target mode helps there too.
Place the old Mac into target disk mode and connect with FireWire/Thunderbolt to the new Mac and the new Mac can boot from the old Mac so you can be sure all the drivers and data are good.

note, USB-C target disk is available on very recent machines as well, but FW/TB is more ubiquitous

Always boot and test before you remove any drive and same with moving the SSD. you'll need to get the iFixit or another tear down for the exact models and validate that the form factor and connectors are compatible. Then you will know that physically it should work, data wise it will work so if you put the drive in and it doesn't work, you don't have to guess - you'll know everything was fine except the connections.

Good luck - feel free to ask a follow on question if you can't find the repair manuals for each Mac. There is probably a general question here showing how to take a serial number or the About this Mac to get the exact model number and marketing year.

For me - the colloquially named 2015 MacBook or "MacBook One" is precisely:

MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
MacBook8,1


AirPlay to Apple TV not displaying at full 1080 resolution?

Hold down Option and click the Scaled button. Like magic, a whole bunch of new resolutions appear:

I found this here: How To Set Custom Resolutions For External Displays In Mac OS X
I have no idea why these resolutions don't appear initially... especially in my situation where 1080 is the native resolution.


How to stop my machine asking for multiple passwords when I log in?

If you change your account's password using your Mac OS X Install disc (or if your network-based account password is changed due to a network admin forcing a password change), your default keychain password (which uses the same initial password as your user account) does not change.

Support Apple helps:

If you want your default keychain to be unlocked automatically when you log in, synchronize your Keychain Access and account login passwords by doing this:

Open Keychain Access (you can get to it by choosing Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder).
From the Edit menu, choose Change Password for Keychain "login."
Type the former password of the account that you are currently logged in to, then click OK.
If you entered the correct password, a new window appears; enter the original password again in the Current Password field.
In the New Password field, type the password that matches your current account password.
Re-enter the newer password in the Verify field, then click OK.

If you don't remember your original (former) account password

If you don't remember your original password, you'll need to delete the keychain. Deleting a keychain also deletes all the password data saved in that keychain.

In Keychain Access.app, choose Preferences from the Keychain Access menu.
If available, click the Reset My Default Keychain button. This will remove the login keychain and create a new one with the password provided.
If Reset My Default Keychain is not available, choose Keychain List from the Edit menu.
Delete the "login" keychain.

The next time you log in to the account, you can save your current password in a keychain.

If the above fails or doesn't fit:

Open Keychain Access.app
Select the "login" keychain from the keychains list
Click the lock at the top to lock the "login" keychain
Click the lock again to unlock the login
After entering your "login" keychain password you should be presented with a dialog
Clicking the reset button will re-sync your "login" keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.

Info: Discussions Apple

If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do is the following:

Quit all running Applications
In Finder Select Go > Go to folder (⇧⌘G)
In the window that appears, type the following: ~/Library/Keychains/
Click OK.
Look for a folder with a random name similar to this "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8". Note: Each folder has a unique number.
Move this folder to the Trash.
Immediately choose Apple Menu () > Restart… to restart your Mac.

Info: Support Apple


How do you get a program to load earlier when you log in to Mac OS X?

The only way I can think of is to add the Logitech Control Center app in the list of app which launched at startup.

Preferences < Accounts < Login Items

But considering the fact it takes your Mac about a minute to load this app, I'm guessing the app is already in the list.

The fact that you have to wait a minute or so means your Mac is still booting (and loading all the software). I can't think of a way to increase this speed beside adding a faster drive or adding more RAM. But that's quite radical (and expensive) just to make your boot process a tiny bit faster.

An other thing you can do to speed up the boot process is to limit the apps your Mac has to open automatically (so it will get to the Logitech Control Center faster) and to clear your desktop (so you Mac don't have to waste time and RAM by loading all these icons and shortcuts).
This and more tips, are listed in this (rather old) article.


By deleting a special file you can re-run Setup Assistant to create a new admin user.
Removing .AppleSetupDone to re-run Setup Assistant:
To remove this file, you have to boot to single user mode by pressing ⌘S while booting. After a few moments, you'll see the Mac boot to the command line.
Check the file system and mount your main volume in read/write mode
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

With the filesystem mounted and accessible, it's time to remove the file so OS X will re-run Setup Assistant:
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

Reboot your Mac with
reboot

If El Capitan is installed you may have to disable SIP before you can remove the file.
After rebooting the Setup Assistant will create a new local admin user without iCloud integration and setup your system. Choose a user name not used previously.
Now open System Preferences -> Users & Group, enter the "Advanced Options" of the admin account and restore the previously working settings of the first admin user.
Log-out of the new admin account and log-in as old admin user and check if it is working. Open System Preferences -> Users & Group and remove the new admin user.


Photos and iCloud cannot see photos on iCloud safe to delete?

If you enable iCloud Photo Library on your Mac, and your photos are on the Photos app, you can set it up to save originals on the cloud and automatically save space by keeping a lower resolution copy on your Mac.
To do this, go to Preferences > iCloud, then select "Optimize".

This will also allow you to view your entire collection on iCloud.com if you wish.

Note that you have no saying on when the app starts "saving space" on your behalf, and that if you delete a photo on your Mac it will be deleted on iCloud too; it is more a synchronization service than a storage on the cloud service, with the advantage of the space optimization.

Also, there is no Mac iCloud backup service to my knowledge; you can only backup to Time Machine —or some other backup service of your preference, of course. You may have some of your documents synchronized to iCloud but if you delete them locally they will also be deleted there.
Time Machine erases old backups when it runs out of space, so it won't work as a long term storage solution either, unless you have lots of space available —so it does not need to delete your old backups in order to make space for the new ones.


Apple Macbook Mid 2010 Ram Upgrade & Equipment & Windows Compatibility

Your Macbook 2010 will be fine if you buy 2x8gb of 1066mHz DDR3. You will dual boot without issues. Correct ram speed is important, see my answer to a similar question here about possible issues with faster ram.

You will need Philips #00 screw to upgrade your memory. There is also a great guide at iFixit.


Alternative for ADmitmac to access dfs shares?

The Samba version that powers all that functionality for Unix/Linux/OS X, supports Distributed FS “out of the box”; if I am not mistaken ADmitmac only provides a layer that handles configuration and automation of those tasks for you and adds a few services that might require a “server”. I have no experience with admitmac whatsoever so take this with a grain of salt.

With that said, OS X can join Active Directory networks created by either Samba servers or Windows 2003-2008. For more information check the Apple Business solutions, you might get away with what you need without having to use ADmitmac.

If your problem is that you have to type cmd+k every time you want to connect to a dfs share, you could always -once connected- drag that share to the right side of the dock, where it will create a direct access to the share. Next time you click on that, if the share is not connected, it will try to do that. This works for any type of connection (at least Windows Shares work too and I recall using nfs). That way you don’t have to type the name when you need the share.

Alternatively, you can “add” it to Favorites (I’m sure you’ve already seen this window):

Finally, here are a couple more resources you might want to check:

Apple’s free Seminar for Integrating OSX into Active Directory
MCS + dslocal
Using Managed Preferences in the DSLocal domain


Turn off the built-in monitor on MBP El Capitan with clamshell open

You can also just mirror the display of the MacBook screen to the external one and then turn off the brightness of the Macbook screen (so it turns fully black).
Then you can keep the lid open of your MacBook AND use the TrackPad.

System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement > Select "Mirror Displays".


You should take a look at Function Flip. It can selectively toggle function keys between being regular function keys or the special hardware keys, including the media keys (F7, F8, and F9). Essentially, it does the same thing as "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" setting (System Preferences > Keyboard), except only to individual function keys instead of all of them.


iCloud Storage - No photos or videos but still shows as full

Go into the iCloud Photo Library submenu (from screenshot above) and select "Disable and Delete" to turn off iCloud Photo Library. Delete everything in your Photos app - don't forget to check shared photos and all albums. Then re-enable iCloud Photo Library.

iMessages also takes up space - clear out/delete old messages (the attachment images may be counted toward your photo allotment). May help, may not, but worth a shot.


How to know if the MacBook Pro is having dual core or Quad core?

What do dual or quad core mean

Dual meaning 2 and quad meaning 4. This indicates the number of physical cores present in the processor.

  how do I know which one I have in the Mac

Go to Apple Menu (top right corner on your Mac) → About This Mac and click on the System Report... button. In the window that is presented, click on the Hardware item at the top in the left column. On the right, you can see the processor type and the number of cores present in it.


Enable a CRL endpoint for my CA in Keychain Access

Unfortunately, Keychain Access (Certificate Assistant) does not have the ability to include a CRL Distribution Point inside of a certificate's extensions section in certificates that it generates. You'll likely notice that your current CA does not have a CRL distribution point specified (even if you've enabled CRL signing as an allowed usage of that certificate during creation.)

It just works!

Interestingly enough, when setup as an Open Directory master, OS X Server automatically creates a self-signed certificate authority along with an Intermediate CA - both of which possess a CRL distribution point (with a format similar to: http://server.example.com:1640/rfc2585/Example.crl.) These certificates are not generated by Certificate Authority, but by xscertd-helper, which is forked by slapconfig during Open Directory setup and configuration. If your machine were already running Open Directory, you could use slapconfig (mainly xscertd-helper) to:

Create a self-signed certificate authority
Sign an intermediate authority cert (both containing CRL distribution points on the OD server "server.example.com")
Store both certificates in the System keychain and LDAP "Certificate Authorities" container
Create and update CRLs at /var/db/crls automatically
Respond to SCEP requests on port 1640 (xscertd)

From the slapconfig man page, the command that you can use to recreate the CA setup used by Open Directory (note: this is part of the OD setup process and is unnecessary in most situations) is:

-createrootcertauthority <Certificate Authority Name> <Certificate Authority Admin Email> <Certificate Authority Organization Name>
Create a CA on the OD master.

Unfortunately, slapconfig will check to confirm that the machine is an OD master before allowing this setup to commence. Although you can trick it into performing a few steps by setting false flags in plist files (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.openldap.plist), the software eventually makes LDAP queries to the local node, and fails to find the node responding (or fails to find the certificationAuthority object class).

There is a utility named xscertadmin that can be used (by humans!) to add items to the CRL distribution list. However, that software is (again) reliant on your computer being an OD master (and running xscertd). From what I can see, Apple is storing several pieces of data in the System Keychain (identity preferences for the OD CA and IA certs, the passphrase used to secure each private keys, as well as the certificates themselves) as well as in the LDAP database (CRL, CA certs). It appears that this utility is really only meant to read and write certificate and CRL data to/from the local LDAP node and System Keychain.

The downside to the OD setup is that it doesn't seem to be providing CRL distribution points inside of any of the certificates that are created by the Intermediate CA (i.e., the OD server's machine certificate; a code signing certificate for use with Profile Manager), which doesn't seem to be of much use.

Cranking it by hand

Of course, this doesn't rule out using openssl on the command line to manage your certificates. Certificate management can also be somewhat automated using openssl configuration files. However, you will still be required to keep track of certificates that you have issued and those that have been revoked.

You can export your current CA's certs and keys out of Keychain Access, and (given it was created with the usage ability to sign CRLs) can use it for management of your certificate signing. Unfortunately, this will not give you the ability to use the user-friendly Certificate Assistant interface.

Although it is also likely possible to mimic the setup that Apple is using (storing CA keys inside of the Keychain), when signing certificates with OpenSSL, the workarounds that would have to be performed in getting the keys out so that openssl can sign would be a bit of work, and may minimize the return.


MacBook Air reduces free space from 7GB to 1GB in after a few houres

Several things can use that much memory - before you reboot get a picture of a few things in terminal by pasting these commands and saving the results.

du -m /var/vm/*
vm_stat

You could also look at activity monitor and see how much memory on the left and how much swap is being used:

Then, you can see how much RAM you have, how much space will be needed for the sleep image or if some other process is using space. Also, check in the System Information - About This Mac window (the tool lives in /Applications/Utilities - choose Command I and then storage) to be sure you don't also have backups being stored locally.

If you don't need them, you can turn off Time Machine and then turn it back on or use sudo tmutil disablelocal if you like terminal commands and know the risks of sudo and trusting someone on the internet giving advice.


Use "startosinstall" to install macOS Catalina on External Drive

The Apple tool targets the current booted OS as far as I've been able to accomplish. Using asr is still valid, but can take some time to get the arguments correct. I think the tool you want for scripting installers is Mac Deploy Stick. You can use it without the hardware, but the hardware is quite amazing and a real time saver based on how many operations you need to handle.

https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/mac-deploy-stick/

This Sabrent gear also has served us well with push button cloning. There are many like it but this brand works for me. You can go bigger as well, based on how much time you save.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/

You might experiment with running the installer once and then when the system boots to the external drive, instead of running the assistant, shut down the system and try cloning the drive.


How to disable Finder triangle reveal animation in 10.7 Lion

I've been looking for this solution for quite some time.  What this is is an NSOutlineView.  The expanding and collapsing of an NSOutlineView now always animates the roll down and roll up of the content and makes you wait for it to finish before you can actually see and use the content.  It's infuriatingly irritating that we can not turn this unwanted "feature" off so that it functions as before.

According to a developer at Apple, there is no way to do this and I was encouraged to file a request since this is an annoying addition to the OS that you can not turn of that was not present in previous system releases.

I've reported the bug/usability regression to Apple.  It's bug# 14442959.


Macbook Pro Early 2015 13" Retina suddenly dead, no response

Do you know if the computer is booting? When you click the home button do you hear the start tone. If you think you had the volume muted, you can do a pram reset which will reset the volume settings, etc..If it boots, to figure out if it’s the physical screen or the system, try plugging the computer in an external monitor or a TV to the HDMI port.


Problem with empty spaces when executing shell commands in AppleScript

Try:

set pathwithSpaces to "/Users/John/Desktop/This is a test.docx"
do shell script "rm -r " & quoted form of pathwithSpaces


How can I track application bandwidth usage?

Use Activity Monitor

Just open Activity Monitor (Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor) and navigate to the Network tab. You'll be able to see which apps are sending/receiving data and how much per app/process.


Determine if hard disk was ever disconnected from MacBook

You can't.

There's no tamper evident devices in the Mac computers.  Once you turn off your Mac, there's no logging facility to detect anything by the virtue of it being off.

To draw a parallel comparison, how would you know that someone removed and reattached the transmission in your car after you parked it?

PCs, on the other hand have been using intrusion switches for many years (mostly in the enterprise), but this is just something that Apple hasn't implemented.

You have three options for detecting/preventing tampering with your MacBook:

Take it with you.  This is the most reliable option; people can't tamper with what they have no access to.
Turn on FileVault to protect your data.  It's close to impossible to decrypt a drive that's been encrypted and this option will cover you if you lose it if you've "taken it with you."
Use video to see who's (if there is one) the culprit.  Get a wireless camera to watch/record the area where your MacBook resides (I've used Arlo in my office to see who comes in and rifles through my desk)

Any/all of these will help protect you against malicious users.


What's in the "Other" category on my iPad?

The stuff in the Other category is typically documents that have been deleted on the iPad, and also documents that are in use by various apps (for example, PDF documents that are in use by GoodReader, or docs from the iWork programs). Sometimes these documents are available via the Apps tab in iTunes, other times not; it depends on the program. For example, Documents to Go and GoodReader can manage their own documents outside of iTunes using Dropbox.

Deleted documents should be cleared out when you sync with iTunes. Sometimes, due to a known iTunes bug, the Other category won't shrink as expected.

There's more at these Apple Discussions threads:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12908823&#12908823
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2715603


Does having to turn on an iPhone by holding power and home indicate the device is dying?

If it's a one-off occurrence, it doesn't mean much and you can probably ignore it.

If it's a regular problem, it may indicate something more serious, either software or hardware. You can try restoring the device in iTunes to see if it is a software problem, or take it to an Apple Store.


Eject on menu bar shows "No Drives" even though an external drive is connected

I was looking for something similar and came across this article How to Quickly Unmount External Drives From the macOS Menu Bar for an app called Semulov.

Works as advertised.


iPhone 4 (and 4s) won't take a screen shot. What should I do?

Numerous people have reported the problem above and, unfortunately, this is being caused because you are instructed to "release both the power and home buttons at the same time."

Releasing two buttons at the same time, at computer processing speeds is impossible, so this could be problematic for some of us.  However, I have discovered that if you follow the mechanism outlined below, you will be able to always take a screenshot.

Press and hold the power button.
Tap the home button.
Release the power button.

Your screen will flash, and your image will be saved to your camera role.  This is effectively the same operation as you are instructed to do on every HOWTO page on the internet.

However, if you were releasing the power button a little faster than the home key, you were preventing the operation from taking place.

UPDATE

After reading stuffe's comment on Ryokuchasan's answer, I decided to test out a few different way's of pushing these buttons and seeing if I could take a screenshot.

It turns out,  The following operations all produced a screenshot, in addition to my instructions above.

Option #2

Press and hold the home button.
Press and hold the power button.
Release the home button.  (Image is saved)
Release the power button.

Option #3

Press and hold the power button.
Press and hold the home button.
Release the power button.  (Image is saved)
Release the home button.

It was the fourth, and final means of attempting this that has failed.  See below.

Press and hold the home button.
Tap and release the power button. (iOS locks the device)
Release the home button.

This may be a bug, or intentional.  I think what is going on is that myself, and numerous others have been 'tapping' the power button, while holding the home.  I know this answer is a bit overkill but I think it's worth documenting the full observation of this issue for reference.

UPDATE #2

Great news!  Since iOS 7's recent release, I recalled this problem.  After loading the OS, I attempted the fourth method, outlined above, that wouldn't work.  In this case, iOS took the screenshot and did not lock my device.  Apparently this was a bug and it has been fixed.


Go to their contact info and there should be a mark next to number which sent the most recent text.


How can I achieve higher quality results from my bargain based 4K monitor?

Here is some information:

Apple lists the 2013 MacBook Pro with Intel Iris Technology as being able to run a 4K display at 4096-by-2160 resolution and 24 Hz as well as 3840-by-2160 displays at 30 Hz over its HDMI port.

The latter is the resolution of the Seiki and conveniently as high as it goes at 4K – HDMI 1.4 is limited at these rates.

Some manufacturers say that they will update their HDMI 1.4 to 2.0 which can do higher frame rates, but Seiki has made no such promise.


A charge cycle is defined as 1 full discharge and 1 full recharge.   It is defined in the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, Subsection 38.3:

  Cycle means  one  sequence  of  fully  charging  and  fully
  discharging  a  rechargeable cell or battery.

This means that if you only discharge your battery 20% and recharge it, you would have do to it 5 times to be a full cycle.  A 50% drain and recharge would have to happen twice to be considered a cycle.  And so on.

So in reference to your question, unless your battery fully drained, you didn't go through a cycle.


Does an iPhone require the users password after being reset via the "search my iPhone" utility?

It is a feature called activation lock
Click for more info
I would suggest changing your Apple ID password to something simple then after about 5 minutes change it back


Is it possible to upgrade the SSD in a 2011 model Macbook Pro?

To your questions:

Is it possible to upgrade the SSD at all? I have heard rumours that they are soldered in after 2010, and are not replaceable.

Yes, it should be possible, others have done it. This video (How to Upgrade/Replace the Hard Drive in the 2011 15" MacBook Pro) shows the procedure (just for information, I understand you don't want to void your AppleCare warranty): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5opqLFOvh3M.
My city and country (Tallinn, Estonia) has no official Apple stores that I know of, but does have Apple-authorised resellers. Are they the appropriate place to get this done?

Yes, I'd definitely go to an Apple authorized reseller. I could find Premium resellers in Tallinn (see https://locate.apple.com/ee/et/sales/?pt=all&lat=59.43696079999999&lon=24.75357459999998):

IM ARVUTID IDEAL TALLINN
NARVA MNT. STREET 7, PK 34
TALLINN EE-10117

IM ARVUTID SOLARIS
ESTONIA PST. 9
TALLINN 10143

IDEAL KRISTIINE
KRISTIINE 45
TALLINN 10615

You can select another country/language from https://locate.apple.com/country (though I used the trick explained here http://forums.ilounge.com/lounge/224663-where-can-i-buy-apple-products-sweden-finland.html).


Apple now says you have to have iPhone turned on to get iMessages on all devices?

so it happened again with the bank agin this am - phone turned off, no verification iMessage received on the iPad or computer even though at about the exact same time I received some iMessage/texts from others....  I decided to call the bank this time and not apple.  The banks response seems reasonable------

the message they send are what the guy called, short code carrier messages and bc the associated number, my cell, was turned off the message is not received and therefore cannot be synced through iMessage to other devices. Makes more sense than what apple told me.


How can I prevent external monitors from slowing my Macbook?

Is the laptop getting enough power?  This model of MacBook Pro has two graphics chips and will shutdown one of them if it sees a need to conserve power.  That could explain the video lag.  Are you using the original power supply?  Is there some device plugged in that could be drawing significant power from the laptop?


As far I know RAID, it's a way to store data across multiple disks (HDD) acting like one.

There are multiple standard levels of them as explained on this Wiki (might be geeky as you say).

Based on that knowledge I would say the services works with redundancy in order to run smoothly. As you say yourself: Continuous Integration (as in, without interruption)

Please check source below:

  UDP port 2012 uses the Datagram Protocol [red. that's what UDP means], a communications protocol
  for the Internet network layer, transport layer, and session layer.
  This protocol when used over PORT 2012 makes possible the transmission
  of a datagram message from one computer to an application running in
  another computer. Like TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP is
  used with IP (the Internet Protocol) but unlike TCP on Port 2012, UDP
  Port 2012 is connectionless and does not guarantee reliable
  communication; it’s up to the application that received the message on
  Port 2012 to process any errors and verify correct delivery.
  source


How do I re-enable Notification Center in Yosemite or El Capitan post-upgrade?

This in Terminal will show Notification Center again:

launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter

You will have to restart your Mac afterwards.

Reported to work in El Capitan (10.11.1) as well.


Different pricing of apps regarding regions in country

You can use the promo codes

  You can request up to 100 promo codes for every version of your app. To request promo codes for an app version, the version’s status must be Ready for Sale or Pending Developer Release.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/ProvidingPromoCodes.html

You can send gift

  Learn how to send iTunes Gifts in the iTunes Store, iBooks Store1, and App Store. In the iTunes Store, you can gift a dollar amount or books, audiobooks, music, movies, TV shows, or apps from your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, or PC. Use these steps to send a gift from the iTunes Store.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201783

Or you can use the Entreprise Distribution and make the price by your own for every client.

http://mobiledan.net/2012/03/02/5-options-for-distributing-ios-apps-to-a-limited-audience-legally/


What is the maximum time for delivering app binary to app-store?

You have nearly 6 months(180 days) time to upload the binary.

As per Apple developer documentation,

  150 Day Warning. You will receive an email when you have had an app created for 150 days but have not yet delivered a binary,
  reminding you that you have 30 more days to deliver your binary or
  your app will be deleted from iTunes Connect. You will be given an
  exact date of your deadline in this email.

  173 Day Warning. You will receive an email when you have had an app created for 173 days but have not yet delivered a binary,
  reminding you that you have 7 more days to deliver your binary or your
  app will be deleted from iTunes Connect. You will be given an exact
  date of your deadline in this email.

  180 Day Deletion Confirmation. You will receive an email confirming that your app has been deleted from iTunes Connect, if you
  have not delivered a binary before your 180-day deadline.


As far as I know, this is not possible through normal means. And by that I mean I doubt you could change this without hacking the OS.

I know you can add spaces:

Adjust width of spacer between Mac OS dock icons

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="small-spacer-tile";}' && killall Dock

or

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'

Those are the only space customizations I am aware of.

I know this is not the answer you were hoping for but I believe it to be the correct answer.


Mid 2014 Macbook Pro randomly stops responding (keyboard and trackpad won't do anything)

This will probably sound strange, but I had a short of similar issue on my MacBook Pro.

It turned out I was somehow accidentally managing to trigger the "Swipe between full-screen apps" gesture just a tiny almost imperceptible bit. It took me ages to figure this out. But while it is partially through a swipe nothing else seems to register on the keyboard or trackpad.

If this is the problem you can just do a little horizontal three or four (depending on how you have it set) finger wiggle to reset it, or turn the swipe off in System Preferences.


Cloud download icon gray and cannot re-download purchased app

It might not be available at the moment in either your Store or anywhere at all.

You had downloaded it in the past, so it has the cloud and arrow but due to some reasons, the app is not on the App Store, thus the greyed out icon.


I just got off the phone with support and now it's fixed. This is what we did:

System Preferences - > Internet Accounts
Select the iCloud account.
Uncheck "Calendars"
Open a Finder Window.
Go to the ~/Library folder. (He had me click on the Go menu and press the Option key in order to display the Library and then go to it from there.)
Copy ~/Library/Calendars onto the desktop, then delete the on the one in the ~/Library folder.
Restart.
System Preferences - > Internet Accounts
Select the iCloud account.
Check "Calendars"
Open the Calendars app. Wait for all the calendars and events to reload from the cloud.

That's it. Test by trying to make or edit events. If all is well, delete the back-up.


Are there any non-Apple multi-touch trackpads on the market?

Yes. Bamboo tablets made by Wacom are an option: they allow multi-touch and stylus input on a pretty large surface, but are more expensive than a magic trackpad: the cheapest I believe costs $75 USD. Wacom is a company that builds touch devices for graphic designers and consumers. Perhaps you want to give a look to their website:

http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Bamboo/BambooTablets.aspx

In case though, you want to use the Magic Trackpad, Windows drivers for Apple devices are downloadable in the form of Bootcamp Updates from the Apple Support page. Alhtough the trackpad is supposed to be Mac-only, after a bit of googleing I found a couple tutorials explaining how to use it with Windows.

Here is a blogpost I found, and a webpage with instructions:

http://www.mannis-world.de/blog/?p=15

http://www.labnol.org/software/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows/14158/

About using multitouch with any other laptop: I don't think this is possible, for it requires hardware features not present on most laptops.

Hope it helps!


FINALLY figured it out.  I had installed Pow (http://pow.cx). It runs this script: http://get.pow.cx. The script installs some firewall rules. Even though I had disabled pow, the firewall rules were still in place. Running the pow uninstall script fixed it.


If you are in the internet recovery mode, make sure you are connected directly to your internet router via an ethernet cable.

What you could do is hold the following key combinations first.
Shift-Option-Command-R, this will bring you to install the MacOS on your Mac HD.

But you could first refresh NVRAM before resetting your system:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


Automate iOS build installation on devices

Create a plist like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>items</key>
  <array>
    <dict>
      <key>assets</key>
      <array>
        <dict>
          <key>kind</key>
          <string>software-package</string>
          <key>url</key>
          <string>https://example.com/path/to/file.ipa</string>
        </dict>
      </array>
      <key>metadata</key>
      <dict>
        <key>bundle-identifier</key>
        <string>com.mybundle</string>
        <key>bundle-version</key>
        <string>1.0.0</string>
        <key>kind</key>
        <string>software</string>
        <key>subtitle</key>
        <string>My App</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>My App</string>
      </dict>
    </dict>
  </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Make a link to open this plist with itms-services, then click the link on an iOS device:

itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://example.com/path/to/manifest.plist


FaceTime on macOS cannot connect to camera, but all other apps can

People upgrading to iOS 13.4 or macOS Catalina 10.15.4 have found that their devices can no longer connect to older iOS devices running iOS 9.3.6 or earlier or Macs running OS X El Capitan or earlier. Some say the problem also occurs when trying to call people using versions of iOS 10. And others have found this problem when using a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.4 for older versions of iOS and OS X versions.
With this problem, Facetime gets stuck in a "connection" for both incoming and outgoing calls.
To fix these issues, upgrade to iOS and iPadOS 13.4.1 or higher. For Macs running macOS Catalina, update macOS to the latest version of macOS (Apple has released an additional update for macOS Catalina 10.15.4.)
Apple says the problem has been fixed in these versions and above.


How do I disable Chrome's two-finger back/forward navigation?

I know its over a year later, but I had the same question, and then figured out the answer myself.

Open terminal and type:

defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

Then restart Chrome.

Now you can have it enabled system wide, and just disabled for chrome. By the way, this works for any app, just replace com.google.Chrome with the bundle identifier of the target app.

If your interested in how it works, the AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls is the global setting, that can be overwritten for any specified app.

Hope this helps someone in the future.


Restoring iPhone Backup from External Hard Drive

To restore iPhone Backup from a Hard Drive you can just copy and paste the backup folder from the Hard Drive to the iTunes Backup folder on your Computer.

On both Windows and macOS, iOS backups are stored in a MobileSync folder.
On macOS, iTunes will store backups in /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. (macOS 10.15 creates backups using Finder rather than iTunes, but these backups are stored in the same place.)
Under Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10 iTunes will store backups in \Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup.
The Microsoft Store version of iTunes stores its backups in \Users\[USERNAME]\Apple\MobileSync\Backup.
Under Windows XP, iTunes will store backups in \Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup".

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/where-does-itunes-store-backups/
In Windows you can just open Run and type %AppData%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup (Won't work if installed from Windows 10 Store)
Or else you can do the easier way that is Hold Shift when pressing the Restore button in the Summary section of the iPhone


How to stream from mac to a DLNA Renderer?

There are two free options you can try:

ffmpeg
VLC

VLC offers a more friendly GUI interface though (IMO) it's much more limited.  ffmpeg is much more powerful, but it requires you to be command line savvy.

Personally, I prefer ffmpg.  They have a tutorial on how to stream point-to-point, which is what you are looking to do

  Point to point streaming

  If you want to stream "from one computer to another", you could start
  up a server on one, and then stream from FFmpeg to that server, then
  have the client connect to that server (server could either be on
  client or server side computers). Or you could do a point to point
  type stream, like:

ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec libmp3lame -ar 11025 --f rtp rtp://host:port

  where host is the receiving IP. Then receive the stream using VLC or
  ffmpeg from that port (since rtp uses UDP, the receiver can start up
  any time).

  or

ffmpeg -i INPUT -f mpegts udp://host:port


itunes - mp4 files randomly divided between "Movies" and "Home Videos" in library

If you like using the Terminal, download and compile mp4v2, then run a command like:

mp4tags -i "movie" <filename>

Make a backup first, but I use this all time, works great.


On new iPhone, when I call people no one can hear me but I can hear them

Assuming everything is actually OK with your phone then I had same problem.

I read on another post it is an issue with Apple's attempt at noise cancelation when making calls when background noise is present.  It was suggested to disable noise cancellation by enabling hearing aid mode (under General-->Assesibilty).  They only down side is it makes you enable bluetooth and amplifies your handset volume a bit.  I tested it with several people and they all noted how much better they could hear and understand me.


Will App preview video for iPhone 5 be the first item on iPhone 6(+) app store

I now have an iPhone 6 and can verify that with the current version of iOS (8.1), the user will see the app preview video as the first element.


How to configure a Trackpad to connect automatically to two different Macs?

Unless your device can handle multiple connections, the answer is no.

Whether it's a Bluetooth track pad or one with a receiver (like Logitech unifying receiver), you can only have as many connections as the "memory" in the device will allow.  Most mice/keyboards/track pads are 1:1 devices.


iCloud won't let me back up, even with full 5.0 GB available

You're supposed to go
Settings -> iCloud -> Backup -> Turn it on


How can I prevent an exFAT volume from mounting on OS X?

As a test, I formatted and external USB drive as exFAT (wrongly shown as ExFAT in Disk Utility) and then ascertained its UUID. Then ejected and unplugged the disk.

I then added the following to my /etc/fstab file:

UUID=402894E4-03EE-3CF7-80D2-A4EC74048C2F none exfat rw,noauto

Note: Use the UUID assigned to the exFAT partition on your device.

These methods also work:

LABEL=VolumeName none exfat rw,noauto

If the volume name has space characters, then in place of any space put: \040

LABEL=Volume\040Name none exfat rw,noauto

When I plugged the USB drive back in it did not mount, as expected, and was available in Disk Utility to mount when wanted.

This should also work with an exFAT partition on an internal disk as well.


Why does my iOS device beep and vibrate even after turning off "sounds" in every app?

It turns out that there is one app that does not have a "Sounds" setting, but still produces sounds and vibrations: Calendar. It's easy to overlook the all-important setting "Calendar Alerts." Tap that, tap vibrate, scroll all the way to the bottom, and set vibration to "None." That should solve it.

Here's your problem right here:

Just turn vibration off:

That's right!


How do I add an audio book to my iPhone?

I think your issue is your file type, audiobooks are usually MP3 files. MP3 files can only be used for audio, whereas MP4 files can store audio, video, still images, subtitles, and text. In technical terms, MP3 is an “audio coding” format while MP4 is a “digital multimedia container” format.

After changing file format, try importing into iTunes again and syncing the files to your iPhone via USB.


Dark mode of MacOS not working for Chrome

Chrome doesn't change the content of web pages to dark mode, but it can be made to.

It's experimental, so at your peril...

Put chrome://flags into the address bar and hit enter. Search for "Dark Mode", enable it, and relaunch Chrome.


I am using iphone 6 and my battery Max capacity is 1118 mAH and design capacity is 1751?

Your battery is worn out

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion batteries loose the ability to hold charge as they age. The biggest indicator of how old a battery is is not just the age but the charge cycle count, which is the number of time the battery is charged to 100% and discharged again back to 0. Note that this doesn't have to happen all in one charge but is cumulative.

Apple has some good information on it here.

645 charge cycles is a lot. The current estimate of the lifespan of an iPhone battery is  300 - 400 charge cycles There is nothing you can really do to fix this except use the iPhone in such a way to maximise the remaining life of the battery. More information can be found here.


Steps to resolve the crash:

Turn off enhanced dictation under the dictation system preference pane
Turn off dictation
Delete en_US.SpeechRecognition/ in /System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages/
Turn on dictation and enhanced dictation, the recognizer is downloaded again
Kill the speechsynthesisd and speechrecognitiond processes if dictation popup shows loading indefinitely


Strange… maybe trying to rebuild your services menu (and then restarting) will help? See the top answer here:

https://superuser.com/questions/43700/snow-leopard-services-menu-says-its-building


If you type ls -l in terminal you get the permission for your file

drwxr-xr-x   7 ---  staff   238 Apr 14  2010 images
-rw-r--r--   1 ---  staff  2628 Aug 26  2009 index.html
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 ---  staff   374 Feb 28  2010 simplemvc

You can use table below to convert rwxr-xr-x to number and vice versa:

And get more detail here.


Files moved partially and the rest gone!

Before you transfer any more files or make any changes to either hard drive, run Disk Utility and repair the two disks.

Hopefully, that will recover your lost files. If not you could try a commercial product like DiskWarrior, Drive Genius, or Data Rescue.

Unless you do a destructive delete, files are never actually deleted and as long as you don't save anything else to the disks the files are still there and have not been overwritten. As a last resort a data recovery service could possibly resurrect your files.


For the lyrics part, I would recommend Get Lyrical. It can actively tag songs, tag specific songs, or tag a playlist. It gets all of its lyrics from Lyrics Wiki. This is a great little application and I highly recommend it. It has a simple, clean interface that is really easy to use:


Mac Pro with Thunderbolt Display 30 meters away

Copper-based Thunderbolt cables are limited to max length of 3 meters. Corning sells optical Thunderbolt cables you will need for the distance you specify here. You can get 10m lengths at Amazon for US$299. They come in 30m and 60m lengths for US$659 and US$1299, respectively. I haven't had the need for these lengths yet, but I did the research a few weeks ago for a project which didn't get off the ground.


Chrome is very slow due to "Resolving host in proxy script..."

I was experiencing this issue while using a corporate VPN from Chrome on a Mac. I resolved it by:

Getting the full hostname from running the command hostname
Opening up /etc/hosts in an editor, with write permissions, e.g. sudo vi /etc/hosts
Adding the name of the machine to localhost, e.g.

127.0.0.1   localhost Eamons-MacBook-Pro.local

Saving /etc/hosts

Caveat: It is possible that /etc/hosts may be updated by the system during reboots and upgrades, and changes could be lost.


There can be two reasons: software or hardware.

Software

This is most likely caused by the CPU being overloaded, so the kernel is throttled. That means only number of samples that are processed for a specific period to avoid overheating to prevent the crash.

To confirm that, run the following command in Terminal:

sudo fs_usage | grep -v 0.00

which should show something like:

THROTTLED  0.015030   kernel_task
...
THROTTLED  0.019601   coreduetd
THROTTLED  0.031014   kernel_task
...
THROTTLED  0.014947   kernel_task

which means your kernel being throttled which may result in such unexpected behaviour (see also: Why kernel may be throttled?).

I had this problem when my system was eating t letter (for all the apps) and CPU sensors (in iStat) were over 90˚

To solve the problem, check the above command fs_usage and kill unnecessary processes. If it's web browser with too many tabs and a lot of ads and JS scripts in the background, close unnecessary tabs.

There is also a chance that it's caused by I/O throughput (disk access) and your storage (e.g. SSD) may be reaching its lifespan.

Hardware

If keystrokes are eaten consistently (like the same letter over and over again), this could be physical keyboard issue.

Before blame the hardware, you should try to:

Reset NVRAM.
Reset the System Management Controller (SMC).

If that won't work, you should arrange appointment at a Genius Bar.

For temporary workaround, see: How to deal with non-working key on the keyboard?


Restoring Time Machine backup do a different user folder location

Simply mount your time machine backups volume then navigate to /Backups.backupdb//Latest.  Under there is your latest backup.  You can then copy and paste the files manually wherever you want them.


Show attachments as icon by default in Mail OS X El Capitan

I just pasted the following into terminal and it works correctly for me. All attachments appear immediately as icons in El Capitan Mail:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

It appears to be exactly the same as you entered it above. Before entering the command, I closed Mail and relaunched it after the command had been accepted in terminal. Don't know what to say other than it worked for me. Hope this helps someone!


Is there an OS X equivalent to iOS's Remote App?

iTunes Remote Control is probably the easiest, but is no longer updated, and I've heard reports of some issues with it under Snow Leopard. YMMV.

Edit: One other major option would be to control iTunes from your browser. A variety of commercial and free solutions exist to do this. This is one of the more popular DIY guides on the subject. Playerpal and PatioTunes are two examples of commercial variants on the idea. N.B., I've used neither, and can't speak to the quality of either app. Feel free to google around for more options on this front.


In countries where the Emergency Services can be called without a SIM card, what caller ID is shown to them when called from an iPhone?

No - when you don’t have service, they can’t call you back.
Yes - you can call out and the only location data will be which cell tower data is provided to EMS / Emergency Services - not the GPS or location of the device doing the calling.

In more details:

A SIM doesn't determine if you can connect to a cell tower, the phone's antenna determines it.  The SIM only has your phone number and carrier info so you can make emergency calls without it.  In the case you've mentioned, the call will go thru but the phone number and location will not be sent. 1

So in this context, whether you have a SIM inserted or not is irrelevant.  Calls to emergency centers are treated the same with or without a SIM.

Emergency calls are routed to a Public Safety Access Point (PSAP) for all carriers. Location data is sent with accuracy between 50 and 150 meters depending on if it's using cell tower triangulation or mobile-based location (GPS chip). 2


How do I add a Send to Myself link in the Share menu of iOS?

Assuming it works on suggestions and you changed nothing in email configurations, best shot is to take the pain of using the longer route. Send some emails to yourself and it should be back.

Also consider using reading list in Safari.

For shortcuts in iOS, see https://support.apple.com/HT208309


Mounting a remote SCP or SFTP share on Mac

Seems https://mountainduck.io is where it's at:

  Mountain Duck lets you mount server and cloud storage as a local disk in the Finder.app on Mac and the File Explorer on Windows. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume.

If you find other alternatives, add them at https://alternativeto.net/software/mountain-duck/


"Hey Siri" suddenly stopped working on MacOS Mojave

The problem was fixed after upgrading to macOS Catalina version 10.15 (19A602).


How can I update my jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iOS 6.1?

Your best bet is to use iTunes to update it:
(WARNING: this will factory reset your phone. You will need to ensure all your data is appropriately backed up - you'll also have to re-jailbreak afterwards.)

Put the phone in recovery mode and plug it into the computer.

Next, open iTunes. It will tell you it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode and give you the option to update and restore it. Do this. (It will download about 700 MB of data and then factory reset the phone.)

Boot your phone up and it will be running iOS 6.1.6! You'll need to re-jailbreak.
An iOS 6.1.{3+} jailbreak needs a tool called p0sixspwn to be untethered - be sure not to forget that! (I won't go into detail here, but there is plenty of info online about this extremely simple step.)

Enjoy!


The hollow location indicator is used to show that one or multiple applications have active geofences. For example, you can use Reminders.app to remind you of something “when you get home”. To detect when you are near your home location it has to check your location every now and then to compare it to your home. This will usually happen when you unlock your phone (indicator goes solid for a moment), when your GSM chip hands over to a different cell and when you associate with a wifi network (WPS). This icon is shown so you know that location services are activated at irregular intervals which may affect your battery life.

The solid indicator means it is actively locating your device. You will notice, after opening the Maps.app, for example, that the indicator turns solid and remains solid. This is because Maps.app wants your exact location constantly. For a few other examples, when you start Siri, this indicator will also appear, as well Local Weather, or the Camera app (if geo-tagging has been left on).


After hard shutdown, Audacity won't start

On Mac, this was really annoying.

Based on this link, do the following:

Go to /Users/Myname/Library/Application Support/audacity (replace Myname with yours of course)
Open file audacity.cfg in text editor
Under section [Directories], find TempDir, which may look like this: /Users/Myname/Library/Application Support/audacity/SessionData
Go to that folder, and delete file audacity-lock-Myname


Why does my computer freeze when I unplug my headphones?

I faced a similar problem. I had a bluetooth headset and a wired one. Whenever I disconnected my wired one, sometimes the mac tried to connect to the bluetooth headset, and when it was switched off/out of range, the system would hang for sometime.

could be something similar. Can you give the list of speakers/headphones configured on your mac and their order (a screenshot would be convinient)


How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?

While in the Finder, go to the "Finder" menu and select "Preferences".
From the "General" tab, place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will make your hard drive visible on the Desktop.
From the "Sidebar" tab under "Devices" again place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will put your hard drive in the sidebar of any finder window, and should also add it to "Open", "Save", and "Save As..." dialog sheets (as well as others)

If you are an administrator on the computer you should have no trouble adding files and folders to the root directory (/)


So my Yosemite install is slow - what to do?

Troubleshooting a slow mac is fairly easy, but sometimes tedious.

You will want to and quit all apps.

You might even go to the Users & Groups preference and remove all applications that start when you log in to your Mac.

Turn off WiFi and then shut down the Mac so you can start isolating it. Remove all peripherals except the keyboard, display and power cord. Power on and then log in and let it run for 5 minutes and then take a snapshot of the Activity Monitor. Look and see what CPU usage is and if the background tasks are taking any CPU time.

If so, dig deeper - open terminal and run "sudo sysdiagnose"

If not, go ahead and connect your peripherals one at a time.

Check the CPU/Activity Monitor and watch both the Memory Pressure graph and the CPU. If you want, you can also look at energy, but that's better for half hour snapshots for me.

At this point, you should know the OS is fine and all of your peripherals and hard drives are not causing the slowness.

Now go ahead and start the apps you choose to run when it's slow. Again, you are still disconnected from any network - just checking the OS and the CPU.

When that's fine, you can conclude that the data coming in from the network was causing a load the OS wasn't handling.

If you can narrow things down, get a sysdiagnose from a clean start and again when it is "slow" and post a second question with details of what your initial troubleshooting has shown.


Who makes the Wifi component on the Macbook Pros?

From the SystemProfiler -> Network -> Airport

Card Type:  AirPort Extreme  (0x14E4, 0x8D)
Firmware Version:   Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.42.4)

Vendor ID 0x14E4 is for Broadcom http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=767


iPhone "disabled" when trying to enter recovery mode

Looks like the way to resolve this is:

Tap volume up
Tap volume down
Hold side button
When the "slide to power off" screen appears, let go of the side button.
Slide to power off the phone completely.
Once the phone is shut off, make sure it's plugged into iTunes.
Hold the side button to power on and continue holding it until the recovery screen shows up.

Therefore, the key is to shut it down completely instead of using the restart method as Apple recommends.


What does a red check mark on the OS X login screen indicate?

This happened to me. I believe this only happens when your computer is asleep and the battery dies completely and you plug it in before you snap it out of the sleep. It is supposed to let you know that that account is the one that you are still logged in on. I still can't explain why you have to log in twice. Strange huh I'm not 100% sure though.


Why are my FaceBook events not showing up in iOS Calendar?

I had this same issue. iPad (and Macs) showed the events, but iPhone did not. I finally went to Settings > Facebook and clicked on my account name, then cleared password and re-entered. After it verified, the events showed up in Calendar app.