I'll try to answer your inquiries based on my experience.

In iOS, to be able to save an image from the Photo Stream (PS), you need to tap an image and select the Save Image action to make a copy of that image to the Camera Roll.
That may be a bug in iOS/OS X, I'm not sure, but that also happens to me especially with the most recent photos I took. But sometimes, after a couple of minutes, the Photos app on my Macbook Air will be updated. You can connect your iPhone to your Mac and just import those images that you can't see in your Photos app.


How to conference call with FaceTime audio?

It's not possible to have group call with Facetime Audio at this time. Apple used to have this feature in iChat but removed it because it was a poor experience.

There are other third-party apps that have this type of feature and those might fit your needs.

EDIT: Adding additional info from the discussion in comments.
The date of that article was June 2014 and was talking about pre-release iOS 8 (which came out in Sept 2014). Maybe it was available in the beta, I don't know. Like you, the articles I read all came out around the same time and it looks like they're all using the same wording leading me to believe they're all using the same source. I could be wrong but I can't find anything on Apple's product or support pages indicating how to do this.


Can we still set a "highlighting mode" in Preview on the Mac (for PDF documents)?

This behaviour still works for me in Mojave: Preview's Toolbar has a highlight icon. When active (the lighter colour seen in the image below), then you can highlight text in the way you describe.

The behaviour you're seeing may be what happens when the highlight icon is not active (the same shade as the other icons).


Where do you get games for the click wheel iPods?

Open the iTunes store, click the triangle at the end of the App Store tab at the top, and choose iPod Click Wheel Games at the very bottom.


The Apple adapter is bi-directional and power pass through works well. You won’t have any issues other than being restricted to Thunderbolt 2 speeds. (Which should be an obvious limitation)

Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MMEL2AM/A

USB 3.1 to 2.0 works for data and lesser power, so that’s not a full featured as Thunderbolt. Most devices should work fine if they don’t need USB PD.


Best input to connect a monitor to a Macbook Pro

I'd go with DisplayPort, if for no other reason than it's the native connector for your MacBook, and it's more likely that other devices will have DVI or HDMI, so that if you feel the need to use multiple computers with the monitor in the future you have those ports open.

Monoprice is my go-to source for cabling. It has a pretty good selection of DisplayPort (mini and full-size) cables and adapters, very cheaply, including  the mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cables you need.


The eBay mobile site requests Safari not to have passwords saved, and Safari honors it.

eBay is not the only site that behaves like this, PayPal is another prominent example. Many online banking sites (that I know of) prevent autofill too.

On a desktop browser you can get around this limitation with an extension (see for example https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4160095?start=15&tstart=0). I don't think you can force your iPhone to ignore it. You can download eBay's app, though.

The technical explanation is that the username field in the login page sets autocomplete to off and so prevents autofill:

  < input type="text" name="userName" id="v4-0" value="" autocomplete="off">

To see this fragment of HTML I changed my browser's user agent to Safari iOS 5.1 (I use Safari 6 on OS X):

loaded https://signin.mobileweb.ebay.com/login?mfs=ftr, showed the page source and searched for autocomplete.


Unable to resize last partition on external drive

In Disk Utility a 2 TB disk with three partitions (2x500 GB & 1x1 TB) looks like this:

In Terminal and using gpt you will get the following output:

sudo gpt -r show disk3
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   976562504      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   976972144      262144
   977234288   976562504      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953796792      262144
  1954058936  1952044320      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3906103256      262151
  3906365407          32         Sec GPT table
  3906365439           1         Sec GPT header

The partition with the index number 2 is Volume1, index number 3 is Volume2 and finally index number 4 is Volume3. The 262144-block areas of unallocated disk space are standard Apple partitioning policy.

After resizing the second partition to 250 GB Disk Utility shows the following:

and gpt ...

sudo gpt -r show disk3
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   976562504      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   976972144      262144
   977234288   488281248      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1465515536   488543400
  1954058936  1952044320      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3906103256      262151
  3906365407          32         Sec GPT table
  3906365439           1         Sec GPT header

Expanding the fourth partition (Volume3) would require to move its first block (1954058936) to lower block numbers e.g. block 1465777680.

This can't be done with on-board tools like Disk Utility or command line tools like diskutil. 3rd party tools like iPartition or Stellar Partition Manager are capable of doing this though.


Remote control and screenviewing on OS X?

This isn't exactly true. They can see the sites you visit but not what the content is if you're using HTTPS. This means that they can see you're checking your balance but not what your balance is.

This also applies to company network traffic providing they're not doing MITM which they can't do without inserting their own certificate on your computer. I suggest checking the certificates installed on your machine in Keychain Access to see if there's a certificate installed.
You can disable these to disable the relevant services from being accessed through the methods detailed in the information shown by clicking on each service. Disabling these won't prevent against third-party software installed on the machine providing similar functionality.
Any third-party software could provide functionality such as remote access. I'm unfamiliar with this specific software but it may be a good idea to research exactly what specific software installed on your machine can do.
You can re-enable the firewall, however be careful that this does not block any legitimate traffic that may be required by your work network.


Go to System Preferences → Trackpad and make sure Three finger drag is enabled.


How to have the counter of characters when I am writing a texto (SMS)?

Character count setting in iPhone Settings is only for SMS messages.  It doesn't work for apps from other developers.  You would need to contact the developer of Texto to determine how to do character counts.


How to disable line break conversion in Parallels Desktop?

This seems to be a common complaint based on my research but there currently is no setting to disable this behavior.


macOS catalina no longer sends email if job outputs to stdout

This issue was resolved with the macOS 10.15.4 update released in March 2020.

After upgrade to 10.15.4, I started to receive emails from cron jobs I configured. Note, you have to set

MAILFROM and MAILTO environmental variables in cron in order to receive these emails.

Example:

MAILFROM=imac@home.domain.com
MAILTO=myuser@gmail.com

...

* * * * * sample_job


Will a cloned hard drive function exactly as the original?

Yes.  I swap out drives all the time... it's basically transparent on a Mac.  I've even booted my MacBook Pro's drive on my wife's MacBook Pro and vice versa.  It takes a minute longer to boot as it reconfigures itself but once it starts you can't even tell the difference.


Is it safe to provide your raw system profile to software vendors for tech support?

The biggest question is, how much do you trust the vendor? If you have a decent relationship with them and they are honest, there isn't too much to be worried about - however I would definitely not send the serial number or UUID. If someone were to get a hold of it, they could request bogus things for it like a warranty repair, get a replacement, never send in an original, and use a bogus credit card number as collateral (Like a gift card with $5 on it). Then when it comes time, you might need something fixed, and Apple will say no because of that shady stuff in the past.

However if you are uncomfortable with any of this and you do have a good relationship, just ask them what they want specifically so nothing additional gets sent.


How do I go back and forward in Chrome using a Magic Mouse in Lion?

IDK about the Magic Mouse but three finger swiping works on the Magic Trackpad
By default swiping between pages is set to two fingers in Lion. However chrome doesn't currently recognize two finger swiping but it does recognize three finger swiping.
To enable three finger back and forward swiping simply go to the Magic Trackpad preferences and set "Swipe between Pages" to "Swipe left or right with three fingers".
Update
Google has updated Chrome to work with a one finger swipe for the Magic Mouse and a two finger swipe for the Magic Trackpad in Lion.


Catalina Keeps Deleting Documents Symbolic Link

I have found a workaround for this that I got from the Dropbox forum. As for many years, I 've been syncing my Desktop using Dropbox. However, because of the new layer of security in Catalina, it deletes the folder.

Here is a solution that I did it and it is fine for me now.

  After creating the symlink to my Dropbox desktop folder, I locked the
  link file by displaying its info and checking the 'Locked' checkbox.
  That seems to do the trick. I checked that I can still write and save
  to my desktop.

Link: Dropbox Symlinks


New MacBook Pro has a battery cycle count of 2

To me this value looks completely normal. Apple needs to use the battery for quality testing.

  That represents the results of testing during build and Quality Testing.

(Source)

A used MacBook will have well over 2 battery cycles.


If you've erased the drive, you're most of the way there. It really depends on what you want the experience for the buyer to be. I would print out this web page and check mark what you did so the buyer's mind and yours are both at ease:

"What to do before selling or giving away your Mac" -
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

The last step (6 of 6) reads:

  After you reformat your hard drive and reinstall OS X, the computer restarts to a Welcome screen and asks you to choose a country or region. If you want to leave the Mac in an out-of-box state, don't continue with the setup of your system. Instead, press Command-Q to shut down the Mac. When the new owner turns on the Mac, the Setup Assistant will guide them through the setup process.

If your Mac doesn't come with Internet Recovery, you might consider making a USB drive for them to install the version of OS you want to ship. They can always call AppleCare and arrange for replacement media or a download code to redeem the version of OS that shipped with the Mac in question. Most recent hardware works with Internet Recovery and most older hardware has physical install media you can/should ship with the hardware or that could be ordered for nominal cost from Apple.


Aliases aren't interpreted within shell scripts. From bash(1):

Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases
shell option is set using shopt)

So the script still calls the standard readlink which doesn't know about --help.

Instead of setting expand_aliases (which you have to remember to do so on each system and which may lead to unexpected side-effects in other scripts) I would recommend to use functions instead:

function my_readlink() {
    greadlink "$@"
}
my_readlink --help


Can I bulk move local messages and folders to a server?

Informational post.

So … I've been reading up on the IMAP protocol. It seems to me that IMAP doesn't really have a formal concept of subfolders. If you want to name one mailbox "House" and another one "House.Plumbing", that's entirely up to you. It just happens that Mail.app, and probably many other email clients choose to present these folders to you in a hierarchical form.

That also explains why I encountered some higher-level folders that wouldn't accept any messages — if you were to create, e.g. "House.Plumbing" but not "House", Mail.app would show you the un-writable virtual folder "House" with the subfolder "Plumbing". But as far as the IMAP server is concerned, it's just a folder named "House.Plumbing".

(This isn't to say that the IMAP server itself won't store the folders in a hierarchical way, but the standard doesn't say either way, AFAIK.)


com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent still trying to be loaded

It turns out that Dashlane was still in my .Trash; deleting it from .Trash solved the problem. I don't understand why; perhaps someone else does; but it seems worth recording here.


What are the services Apple's Firewall considers essential?

Essential services are those in the Core Services layer. When that option is checked, only the incoming connections to the below services will be allowed:

From https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/CoreServicesLayer/CoreServicesLayer.html

  The technologies in the Core Services layer are called core services because they provide essential services to apps but have no direct bearing on the app’s user interface.

Some of the notable core services are

accounts & Social media integration
identity service
time machine
keychain services
notifications
iCloud storage
cloudkit
file coordination
bundles and packages
internalization/localization
bonjour
security services
address book

And from http://www.macworld.com/article/1131116/firewall.html#configure

  The second option, “Allow only essential services,” will block anything except a few default services that support networking, such as Bonjour. Only use this option if you want to block everything; this will prevent any file sharing, remote access, or other services activated elsewhere on your Mac.

You can switch your firewall settings and run nettop in Terminal to monitor the network activity of each process that is running.


"Couldn’t create temporary file." error when erasing free space on external disk

My first thought would be that it is a permissions error of some kind…

Either

the Drive is formatted as NTFS or ExtFS etc
The System doesn't have write permissions to the device itself

For the first, the simplest, if not cheapest solution would be something like Paragon NTFS or ExtFS or Tuxera NTFS

If it is a pure permissions/ownership issue, then for a removable drive the simplest fix would be to set it to 'Ignore Ownership' from the Get Info window. This should be sufficient to allow the system to write to the drive in order to securely erase.


iCloud has sucked up all my laptop's files - can you transfer files directly from iCloud to Google Drive?

I have to agree with the comments:
1.) Get an external drive
2.) Offload or delete what you can on your mac.
3.) download some stuff you need, copy it to a local harddrive (out of iCloud), delete it in iCloud, then upload to Google Drive.
4.) Repeat 3.) until done.
iCloud can take a long time to sync up completely, so be patient.
Here is what Apple has to say: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996


Specifying $MANPATH after installing coreutils doesn't affect the man page displayed

OK, so after researching about $MANPATH with regards to Linux\UNIX, I came across the idea of adding export MANPATH right after defining it in ~/.bash_profile. This solves the problem as required, i.e. giving me access to man pages for coreutils, and only then to their BSD versions, if no GNU version exists.


Assuming that the diskimage contains a package or packages, you would list the packages on the mounted filesystem and then use /usr/sbin/installer


How to clean up duplicates in iTunes library?

Apple doesn't have anything natively to select duplicate files so, unfortunately, you'll have to resort to a paid solution like Dupin or you could try Randy's Träume's script.

I haven't used either so I can't vouch for how well they work, but forums I found relating to this problem point to Dupin frequently so that might be your best bet if you don't mind spending a little coin.


How do I speed up a USB external hard drive?

There's not much you can do to "optimize" your transfer rate. OS X should be maxing out your USB connection as it is.

If that's not fast enough you might want to look at a USB 3 drive (if you're not already using one) or a Firewire drive which will give you better throughput. FireWire enclosures are a bit more expensive but they're worth it if you need higher throughput (for say, video rendering, etc).


If I understand you correctly, what you are looking for is a video capture device.

The way it works is video that is sent out from another source like a game console, DVD player, or even another computer it captured by this device and encoded to video.

One that a client of mine has used and seemed to like very much is this one by [Elgato][2]

Now, if you are looking to buy a Mac (I am assuming iMac because of the built in display) and using it as a target screen, it is important to know that while it is possible on some iMacs, it's not possible on all and only possible with other Mac hardware.  See Apple Support for full details.

If having an external display for other devices is a high priority, don't get an iMac - get a Mac Mini instead and get a high quality monitor with multiple inputs.


I'm looking for an iphone alarm app with both programmable days and gradual alarm sound

There are two apps that I've investigated:

Sleep Cycle
Rise

Sleep Cycle has an alarm that gets louder, whilst also waking you during a "window" of the most opportune time, so you feel brighter and fresher.

Both have a setting for weekends and days of the week so you can set the alarm for whatever days you want.

I recommend both. At the moment I'm using Rise, but you have to pay for it.


Unable to remove phantom iTunes storage under the new mac storage management tool

Be patient. It takes some time for the Mac to rebuild the index that determines the (exact) size of each section.

Keep a mobile Mac connected to a power source if you want to accelerate the process.

You could also rebuild the spotlight cache, but it's barely worth it just to update the view.


How to launch pdf viewer from the terminal

You can just use open <filename.pdf> and your OS will use the default program to view PDFs. With open -a Preview.app <filename.pdf> your PDF is opened using Preview, even if your default PDF reader is something different.


Could not unlock file inside Application contents

Assuming you're an admin you can add write permission to the group using the chmod command:

sudo chmod g+w /path/to/info.plist

Update:  Turns out they were launching the application directly from the disk image, which was likely mounted as read-only. Copying it to the local disk lets you make changes like this.


Figured that the option Accept dropped items in the UI gives selected file array to the script which can be accessed using $1


Can I connect two 27 inch (Thunderbolt-2) mac monitors to a 13" 2016 Macbook Pro with touch bar?

That model of Mac will take two 4K or one 5K display. And since those monitors are 2560 x 1440 (nowhere near 4K) then yes it should work just fine


Is it possible to get an app for internal employees in the AppStore?

First, it is not possible for an organisation to get an internal app into Apple's App Store.

Most large organisations manage both corporate and BYOD devices using a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system.

My organisation uses AirWatch but others include JAMF, Microsoft InTune, SimpleMDM and Meraki.

An MDM can either deliver the app automatically or provide some form of self-service for internal apps.

All of the MDMs listed above have an associated cost. There are some open source MDMs available but at the moment they all seem more focussed on Mac management than iOS.


Why is a WD 4TB hard drive refusing to be used as an internal boot disk in an iMac 27" 2011

The problem of undetected GUID partition tables arises when disks with 512B aligned partition tables are mounted to 4k-only enclosures (or 512B disks partitioned in 4k-only enclosures with a 4k aligned partition table are attached internally).

The 512B GUID partition table looks like this in blocks (in parenthesis the "respective" start Byte/size in Byte):

                0     (0)     1   (512)   PMBR
                1   (512)     1   (512)   Pri GPT header
                2  (1024)    32 (16384)   Pri GPT table
               34             6
               40 (20480)   ...           Start of first partition 4k aligned

The 4k GUID partition table looks like this in 4k blocks:

               0     (0)      1  (4096)   PMBR
               1  (4096)      1  (4096)   Pri GPT header
               2  (8192)      4 (16384)   Pri GPT table
               6 (24576)    ...           Start of first partition

Either GPT table can hold up to 128 partition entries.

The GPT standard requires that the primary GPT header must be located at block 1.

A 512B disk partitioned in a 4k-only enclosure won't have the primary GPT header starting at Byte 512 but at Byte 4096. The GPT of this disk attached internally won't be detected properly because the primary header is expected at Byte 512.

Only the PMBR seems to be valid and the "Partition Map Scheme" is therefore detected as "Master Boot Record".

The opposite is also true: the GPT of a 512B disk partitioned internally (with the primary header starting at Byte 512) won't be detected in the 4k-only enclosure because there the primary header is expected at Byte 4096.


If all sound from your machine is distorted there may be a hardware problem with your Mac's speakers.

To test, I would reinstall Lion from your recovery partition and see if it is the same. If you still have problems with the sound you should take your Mac to an Apple Authorised Service Provider.


Mouse sensitivity is set to zero on game startup

I've managed to solve this problem on my own.

Warsow has a built-in "hack" to disable Mac OS X mouse accelleration, which is on by default. This is redundant to using my "Automatic Kill Mouse Accell" script on startup and causes this problem.

solution:

Open Finder and navigate to your user folder /Library/Application Support/Warsow-1.0/basewsw/ and open the config.cfg file. Search for
seta in_disablemacosxmouseaccel "1" and replace it with
seta in_disablemacosxmouseaccel "0".

source: http://www.warsow.net/forum/thread/t/216237#post-216237


my iPhone 6, 16gb is almost full because of the "other" space, how can I get rid of it?

First of all, you should know exactly what is the "Other". Because there are just too many things that require physical storage in iPhone. That's why Apple chose to lump a lot of things into the "Other" category. If there is many "other" storage on your iPhone 6, it's seems like your phone is filled with cached files and data. That can include:

Documents & Data
Safari browsing data
Mail data
iTunes data, including files that have been streamed (which can be BIG).

Deleting data, and then restoring is a good way, but you should back up first. or it will cause data lost. So it will take a little risk. Have you updated the application on your iPhone or upgraded iOS system to the newest version available? Some similar problems have been resolved using this way. If above ways still not work, you can choose some professional tools. You can try iMyfone Umate. It claims that this tool can optimize storage space and reduce the storage space occupied by apps to free up iPhone space. Maybe it's useful.


Use iCloud Photos. It's really nice having a single shared iCloud Photos Library between your Mac and iOS devices.

Once you're using iCloud Photos, any favorites / edits / deletes that you make on your iPad will be synced to your Mac.

  I don't want to pay for space that I already have at home

You're paying for it, but consider Apple's iCloud as another offsite backup, of which you can never have enough. Consider the cost of the subscription similar to the cost of another backup HDD at home. And it's a better backup for the photos stored on your iOS devices.

  I want to know for sure that all my masters are in my possession

There is a Download Originals to this Mac setting in Photos for the Mac that allows you to keep all original photos on the Mac (as opposed to downloading them on demand from the Cloud / optimizing storage).

Using this setting should keep your current Mac / backup setup roughly the same. Local backups of your computer will continue to back up ALL of your photos.

The originals will still be stored and backed up on your Mac.


Is it possible to block specific websites and only those sites on iOS?

Yes, this is possible with the use of restrictions. Follow these steps:

Go to Settings
Tap on General
Tap on Restrictions
Tap on Enable Restrictions
Enter a restriction passcode
Swipe up until you see the Allowed Content section
Tap on Websites at bottom of the list
Tap on Limit Adult Content
This provides access to the Never Allow list
Tap on the Add a Website... option located under Never Allow
Add the four websites you want to block
Exit Restrictions / Settings

Now these four websites will be blocked even though they may not be Adult content.


Safari will not "Remember Me" on Facebook

add site to cookies/cache approved list in browser settings


Autodesk's Maya has a Mac version.

I can't say I've used it, but it's quite popular.


How to cope with MagSafe “withdrawal”?

One should take pause when consider doing anything that Apple doesn't. @Allen's comment points out that the (relatively small) stub of an aftermarket magnetic connector sticking out is an opportunity to put stress on the internal connector when the laptop is stored or bouncing around in a backpack.
For users like me though, I have to weigh that against the benefits of having a safe disconnection if the cable is tripped on or otherwise pulled.
A medium ground might be to consider using an aftermarket magnetic connector but taking care to either remove it and stow it somewhere or just slide the laptop into the backpack with the USB side facing up.
But that also means taking care if putting the laptop into a case or sleeve.
The other option is to (try to remember to) take it out every tine. Some adapters have little plastic tools to pull it straight out and a case to stow it, and some vendors sell two tips for every one cable, allowing you to stow one at home and the other elsewhere, or to lose one forever.
It seems that there is no perfect workaround to avoid experiencing MagSafe “withdrawal”.


Removing spotlight icon from menu bar persistently

This works at least up to 10.9.2.

To disable:

sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle.bak
killall SystemUIServer

To re-enable:

sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle.bak /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle
killall SystemUIServer


Swipe between Spaces/full-screen apps: Uniform gestures for Multi-Touch Trackpad and Magic Mouse

I figured out how to do it with BetterTouchTool. In BetterTouchTool the action is called "move right/left a space.

I set up an action for both 2 finger swipe left, and 2 finger swipe right on the trackpad and left the magic mouse with the standard 2 finger swipe.


No sound from headphones under ubuntu 13.10

The solution was found by adding a row of options snd-hda-intel model=imac27_122 to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf as explained here.


Mac App Store shows pending update for update that was done

Here is what we found. And it's not a completely satisfactory answer, I'm afraid. We had installed some software called PowerBroker, to give individual users the ability to do tasks they would normally need admin permissions to do. (This would allow limited tasks, such as updating Acrobat or their printers, etc.)

This user, being a developer, was testing this out. We had actually uninstalled PowerBroker, but something was left behind that continued to cause problems.

We actually "fixed" this by installing PowerBroker 1.3.1. Even after we had removed it earlier, and even though it was not doing privilege elevation, this installation fixed the issue. We did a deep into the OS, and none of the logs were specific about this. Very frustrating. We do have cases open with PowerBroker about this as well.


Sounds like it's screwing up your PATH, so the shell can't find any of the usual commands.  In this case, you can still use the commands by specifying their entire path (e.g. /bin/ls instead of just `ls), or just reset your PATH manually:

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin

(Note that that's based on the error you gave; there may be some directories missing.)

If .bash_profile is the only thing messed up, it's probably easiest to just disable it:

/bin/mv .bash_profile bash_profile_disabled
/bin/mv .bashrc bashrc_disabled

... and then open a new (clean) Terminal window, and then look through the file to see if you can undo the damage before renaming it back.


As I referred to in the comment:

Right/(Control)-Click on iOS device in sidebar of iTunes.
Select Transfer Purchases

This copies over everything you purchased using the iTMS, App store, and iBooks.

For all content you put on the device that you purchased/received elsewhere, the process is a bit more complicated. Here are some suggestions:

Right/(Control)-Click on iOS device in sidebar of iTunes and select Backup. These at least gives you a place you can quickly fall back on.
If the computer in-question is a Mac, I can't recommend Podworks enough.
If Windows... well I haven't tried any, but found this thread on SuperUser.

Hope this is enough to get you going. Best of luck!


Unable to format USB disk (Error: -69877: Couldn't open device)

Try formatting in another computer just in case, but the chances are a write error has triggered the firmware write protect, in an attempt to safeguard your existing data.
This, to all intents & purposes, irreversible.


How could my iPod Touch 4th Generation automatically update its clock when moving between time zones and not connecting to any Wi-Fi networks?

I get the pop up message that Bluetooth can improve location acuracy or something like that; maybe you turned on Bluetooth somewhere in that time frame.

Also, referncing the fact that Google maps, and Tetsujin's comments below, Google maps seems to use something that acts like GPS, to tell me where I am while I have wifi turned off. So maybe a you connected using wifi of some sort to a satellite or something else to help your device locate its self.

Really interesting situation.


How do I get music onto my new laptop and the itunes i just downloaded?

The easiest way is to enable home sharing on both machines, then from your new laptop, select all the music and choose import. There are more elaborate ways if you want playlists, ratings, play counts, etc. to transfer. This explanation from Apple support has more information.


Will one USB-C port be able to deliver power, data transfer and power two monitors on a Macbook Pro?

Based on this post:
Can I connect three monitors and provide power to my MacBook Pro with a single cable?
Thunderbolt doesn't chain video. So you need to use 2 ports in order to display to two external monitors.
You can see the example setup here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-87j7bmgc


download Mavericks at app store, can i install?

No it won't delete your personal files or programs you have installed on Lion. The installer will upgrade your Lion installation to Mavericks and will keep your existing programs by default.

However, it is always a good idea to create a backup before upgrading your system. Just in case somethings happens during the installation or in case some of your software is not compatible with Mavericks. The backup will allow you to revert backup to Lion. I suggest you use TimeMachine with an external hard-drive to create a backup of your entire system before upgrading it.

Macworld has also written a great guide about what you need to know before upgrading to Mavericks.


iPod touch stopped playing the Pandora app with the following error: "Cannot Connect to Pandora"

I found the solution! The solution was to set the Date to the correct Date. It was set to 1969 for some reason:-/

Settings->General->Date&Time


There is one new wallpaper included in iOS 10, shown below. iOS 9.1 included new wallpapers so it's possible that 10.1 will as well.


A strategy to try when the freeze is actually happening is holding ⌘ Cmd and ⌥ Opt, then hitting ⎋ Escape.

If your keyboard input is still working, this should bring up the force-quit dialog (which can be navigated using the arrow keys and Enter).  This may allow you to close problematic applications without a hard shutdown using the ⌽ Power button.


Improvement to 'grep -h "BSD process name" /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/* | sort | uniq -c'

Looking through the reports in my own .../DiagnosticReports directory, I see lots of entries that don't have a "BSD process name" section.  In fact, I don't have that line in any of the files in DiagnosticReports.

I think you need to grep on a different term, perhaps "^Process:"

grep -h "^Process:" /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/* | sort | uniq -c


How do I download an iOS App (IPA) file to my Mac after iTunes 12.7 update?

This isn’t exactly what you want, but just to add this option too...

If you use the "Apple Configurator 2" app, you can still download and update apps from multiple Apple IDs - as you also could with iTunes.

Connect the device with USB
Sign in under Account:

Choose Update in the menu:

A more detailed description can be found here: http://krypted.com/apple-configurator/upgrade-devices-and-apps-using-apple-configurator-2/

The Apps are downloaded to:

~/Library/Group\ Containers/K36BKF7T3D.group.com.apple.configurator/Library/Caches/Assets/TemporaryItems/MobileApps/


How do I send someone a normal text if they also use iMessage?


Any idea what happened to /Library/Receipts in Mac OS X Lion?

first, /var/db on unix is the location for stuff like that.
second, it's much easier to type as it is in lower case.

so, not so unreasonable decision by apple's engineers.


Yes,
There is one such unlabeled keyboard available that I have found: the Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate. It is an external keyboard and not a cover, but I think it's what you're looking for.


Is there a way to disable web page auto refresh in Safari?

Sadly (it happens to me too), most of these pages use either a Meta

<meta http-equiv=”refresh”>

or some form of Javascript to accomplish the reload every XX seconds.

For the former case, Firefox (not Safari) had an option to disable it (Tools >> Options >> Advanced >> General >> Accessibility ->  Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page).

However that option not always works, specially with newer sites; also that is a Firefox option only, which apparently you already knew about.

In the latter case (Javascript) there isn’t much we can do. As far as I understand, no CSS trick can prevent that (which would be the only tool we could have at the moment). I’m sure that at some clever (and bored) coder will create an extension that captures that and tries to prevent it.

In the meantime, you (and the rest of us) are out of luck while using Safari.

The ideal would be those sites to implement an AJAX form of communication that informs the user that there’s new content. All in all, it’s a series of hacks over a static protocol that maintains no “session” by design.


Why on Apple TV 4K, using Siri with "Move forward by 2 minutes" moved the movie back to near the beginning?

Report the spoken phrase, expected outcome, actual outcome, and what Siri transcribed on screen, using Apple’s feedback form.

Siri has a lot of quirks like that where the outcome doesn’t match what you could reasonably expect. This comes down to Siri’s natural language processing simply needing refining.

I use Siri heavily on Apple Watch, and I used to encounter similar issues, but they got fixed within days or weeks after I reported them.

One example would be: “At 9 a.m., remind me to do X.” Occasionally, Siri understands, “Add 9 a.m., remind me to do X.” Yet for the longest time she would go ahead and create a reminder with no due date, even though she clearly understood the time part of my request. A few days after I reported this issue, Siri started correctly tacking on a due date even when she understands “add” instead of “at.”


How to upgrade to 10.13.3 with fusion drive on apfs

Apparently, you just have to threaten your mac here on askdifferent. Then, it will just install the 10.13.3 update overnight.

:P


Should We Still Install Matched Pairs of RAM?

No - even in the core 2 days, it was almost always faster to have more RAM that wasn’t matched compared to less RAM that was matched. I believe the penalty was 3% range - so you could test it in a benchmark, but real world - more RAM wins.

The only way matched ram would matter was in a perfect tie. Say two chips of 4 compared to four chips of 2. Always go with more RAM when you have capacity unless you are on a power budget - mobile devices on battery have to power all RAM and if you provision too much, you waste battery.

These days, the memory controllers are so good, I don’t think you can even benchmark differences due to a mix of memory sizes or locations.


iPad 4 cannot connect to internet using iMac wireless

If you haven't already follow the instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3853

And this thread discusses a variety of configuration problems that some people have had http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1192376


You can always submit feedback to apple.com/feedback, you don't need a dev account.


Empty output when using some shell commands via AppleScript's "do shell script"

console.log within osascript outputs to stderr (standard error), not stdout (standard out). Redirect stderr to stdout for the output to be captured to a variable using 2>&1.
set theResult to do shell script "osascript -l JavaScript 2>&1 << EOF
console.log('everything');
EOF"


Which version of Oracle is suitable for Mac OS X Lion?

No Oracle DB is certified for Lion. In fact no Oracle DB is certified for Snow Leopard either. So don't expect official Oracle's support on this.

For unofficial ways to do it, see this SuperUser question: OS X Lion and installing Oracle 10G


How can I create a keyboard shortcut for LaunchPad on OS X Lion (10.7)?

You can also set a shortcut of your choosing by adjusting Lion's built-in keyboard preferences. If you go to System Preferences --> Keyboard, one of the settings menus on the left side bar is for Launchpad & Dock.

Make sure the check box next to 'Show Launchpad' is selected, then double click to the right under the listed shortcut to turn dock hiding on/off. You'll see a data entry box selected, and you can then enter whatever shortcut you'd like.


iMac slow and unresponsive after Mavericks

My recommendation would be install mavericks again. I upgraded both my Mac's and had problems with sluggish performance and app's not responding.


IPad app to annotate PDF without showing a toolbar

Just found an app that somewhat does this after looking for quite a while: PDF Reader & Annotator by Xodo. It allows using the Apple Pencil as “ink” when the toolbar is hidden.


Lion Server wireless filesharing for iPad, what are the file type limitations?

There doesn't appear to be any file-type limitation. WebDAV file sharing is enabled in the new Server.app under the File Sharing Service. Click the share you want, and then check "Share with iOS Devices (WebDAV)."

There isn't anything specific about file types, and Server.app seems to treat WebDAV as just another file-sharing protocol.


Without jailbreak what you ask isn't possible. Third party Apps from the App Store can't access the SMS service.

With a jailbreak there seems to be apps on the Cydia Store that have this function. Like Future SMS.


Time machine back up - how can I access my documents when my Mac has died?

Connect the Time Machine disk to another Mac, then you can browse the backups by clicking on the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, holding ⌥ and clicking Browse Other Backup Disks….

Alternatively, you can look for files just using Finder. Open the Time Machine disk in Finder, then open the folder at this path, replacing ‘computername’ with the name of your computer.

Backups.backupdb/computername/Latest


Is there any way of limiting the space devoted to log files?

Since we are talking about the result of application crashes, if such files keep on building up, I would pursue the reason of why this happens in the first place.  Once fixed, just dump the files manually and move on.

On a stable system, the folder ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter should be empty.  Having almost 2 GB of crash dumps means that there is (or was) something wrong.

As you probably know, log files and crash dumps can be used to diagnose issues on your computer in order to repair said issues.  Blindly removing them, will get you some disk space back, but the original issue will still be there and you will not be happy on the long run.

Due to the reason mentioned above (second paragraph of this answer), there is no automated task to limit the space for those files.  You could, if you are into scripting or Automator (or both), write a script or Automator Folder Action workflow (or a combination of both) and watch that folder's size and when reaching a threshold removing the oldest entries.


Disable display of passwords on an iPhone?

You can't, at least not in any iOS version that has been released by Apple.

I understand this isn't the answer you were looking for.


Where is the preferences file for the Adobe Application Manager Update Notifier menubar app?

If Adobe behaved itself it'd have an option in the Login Items under Apple > System Preferences > Accounts. But it's worth keeping that in mind for other apps you may want to prevent from logging in.

As for disabling Adobe Application Manager, you actually need to create a com.adobe.AdobeUpdater.Admin.plist file in your user's Library Preferences folder. The easiest way to do this is using the Terminal.

Follow these steps:

Launch Terminal app (usually found in your Utilities folder within the Applications folder)
Once it opens, copy and paste the following command:

defaults write com.adobe.AdobeUpdater.Admin Disable.Update -bool yes
Press return

Now the plist file should be created and Adobe Update Manager should no longer launch when you login.


Open the Settings app.
Tap on General.
Tap on International.
Tap on Keyboard.
Tap on Add New Keyboard.
Tap on Emoji.

To switch to it on the keyboard, tap the globe icon between 123 and the microphone icon.

I'd say that's easier than downloading a third-party anything on Android.  Plus it was included already 2 years ago with iOS 5.


Just turned on icloud for phone, but moved contacts from Outlook on local machine

Open the Settings app of your iPhone, and scroll down to iCloud. There, switch off the slider at "Contacts". After a warning message, the contacts will be deleted from your cloud and are stored only locally on your device again. You can then start to sync your contacts with outlook again, probably by using iTunes.


Can I extend Alfred with a command-line program to clean up the desktop?

You have to use clean up window of desktop instead of clean up the desktop.

tell application "Finder" to clean up window of desktop by name


Monitor Console.app for a string and notify when found

I would not use Console.app.  Instead use Terminal.app with the following command:

tail -f /var/log/system.log | grep "string you are looking for"

then leave that window open and you will see all matching entries in that window as you work.

Also know that when the system.log file is rotated (due to size/time) tail will stop.  you will need to restart the command.


There are two solutions I can visualize for this scenario:

Saving the file to a remote computer
Having a live stream broadcast so a remote computer can receive the audio

Saving the file
This is probably the easiest method.  Allow the stream to finish recording then copy it to a predetermined location on the network.  This script should fit the bill:
#!/bin/bash
#
ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":1" -t 10 audiocapture.mp3
scp audiocapture.mp3 user@host:/foo/bar/audiocapture.mp3

exit 0

The script doesn't do any error checking of any kind but, will record from the microphone, then when finished it will copy it via SCP (secure copy) to a remote computer.    To make this work, you need to set up SSH Keys to facilitate a non-interactive login.
Stream in real time
The other method, is to broadcast the audio via TCP via a point-to-point connection. Using the same input from the previous answer, we just change the output to a network stream:
$ ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":1" -t 10 -f mpegts "tcp://remote_host_or_IP_:port"

Where....

-f is the transport format; in this case mpegts (MPEG Transport Stream)
tcp://remote_host_or_IP_:port is the URI value of the remote computer's hostname/IP address and port number it will be listening on.

Set remote computer to "listen"
Using ffplay the remote computer can be set to receive the stream (I used Windows 10 for this part, but will work in macOS/Windows/BSD/Linux)
Issue the command
ffplay -i tcp://local_host_or_IP_addr:port?listen -hide_banner

Where....

-i defines the input stream
local_host_or_IP_addr:port is the IP address or hostname  and the TCP port of the computer that's listening (not the computer that's streaming).
?listen is required to put it into "listen mode" otherwise it will time out if the stream is not there.

Below is an example done in Windows 10 receiving the stream from a macOS host's microphone.  The IP address of the Windows 10 machine is 10.0.0.123 and I am broadcasting on port 1234.
C:\Users\allan\Desktop\ffmpeg>ffplay -i tcp://10.0.0.123:1234?listen -hide_banner

    nan    :  0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0

Once it begins to receive the broadcast, the values above will change and a player "visualization"  window will open up.
Input #0, mpegts, from 'tcp://10.0.0.123:1234?listen':B f=0/0
384 kb/s    nan    :  0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
  Program 1   0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
    Metadata: 0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
Service01    nan    :  0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0       0B f=0/0
FFmpeg    nan    :  0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0   sq=    0B f=0/0
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Audio: mp2 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 384 kb/s
  11.35 M-A:  0.000 fd=   0 aq=    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0

It will continue to "listen" until the process is killed.


Doing so would require being able to access your iMac from remote places, thus configuring either a DMZ host, or port forwarding on your router. Either way it will be a headache.

Also if you're on a residential connection note that the public IP address can and will change. I recommend a dynamic DNS server for that.

Assuming you can get that all setup it's as simple as setting up VPN on your iDevice.


How do I get this Mac G5 up and running ? (boot to OS)

Software - You need to get an old OS X install CD, boot from it, and install. Depends a little on the specific Mac you have, but you can check sites like eBay. You can find more info on sites like: https://lowendmac.com/
To open the CD tray - hold the left mouse button on boot - it should pop open for you.
Shoehorning RAM into a slot doesn't sound healthy. If it came with a stick of RAM, take out your new RAM and leave what was there in it, and try booting. Putting in an unknown stick, at least till the box is up and running is going to be another potential headache.


Does Apple provide notifications if device is hacked

No, any scary popup about viruses on any computer can safely be ignored. An actual message from an actual virus scanner (which doesn’t exist on iOS anyway) will be more measured.


Powerline fonts in vim & OS X 10.9 Mavericks

I have no idea why but the mappings in Parser.vim don't exist in the glyph table anymore for 10.9 (maybe the Unicode 6.3 support?). In the powerline docs it specifies that the glyph table starts at 0xE0A0 however in Parser.vim they're using 0x2B60 instead. On 10.8 it works because, in the case of 0x2B60 and 0xE0A0, the branch glyph simple exists in both locations.

You can try it by typing into a 10.8 terminal:

echo -n '\uE0A0'
echo -n '\u2B60'

Anyways, because 0x2B60 and the others do not exist anymore you just have to update autoload/Pl/Parser.vim to look something like this:

        \ 'fancy': {
            \   'dividers': [ [0xe0b0], [0xe0b1], [0xe0b2], [0xe0b3] ]
            \ , 'symbols' : {
                    \   'BRANCH': [0xe0a0]
                    \ , 'RO'    : [0xe0a4]
                    \ , 'FT'    : [0xe0a2, 0xe0a3]
                    \ , 'LINE'  : [0xe0a1]

Also, you'll probably have to run :PowerlineClearCache for it to take effect.


Macbook Pro can only boot into EFI, how can I transfer files to my Macbook Air?

Your question is unclear, perhaps the terminology you are using is not accurate. Like calling "Recovery Mode" "EFI" which it most certainly is not.

If all you need from the MacBook Pro is the data off the drive, you can remove the SSD or HD from the unit, put it in a USB enclosure and get you data and apps off it that way, possibly even using the Migration Assistant app which will work on an external drive that used to be internal.

Ifixit.com is a good source for take-apart instructions for most current and many older Macs, if you need help dissembling...


Have you tried installing the latest JDK instead? You mentioned Eclipse and I am pretty sure Eclipse uses the JDK for a lot of things.

You can find the JDK here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html


Most of these settings are stored in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. The "Show fast user switching menu" setting is stored at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist (for each user account on the system).

The Network Account Server settings are stored in your Directory Services database. You can utilize the dscl command to look at various settings dealing with your Network Account Server. I recommend using man dscl to look at the details of this function, but as an example I can use the following command to see the Active Directory domain I'm bound to at work:

dscl localhost -ls /Active\ Directory

For Open Directory you would use:

dscl localhost -ls /LDAPv3

Additional Note from OP: .plist files are coded in binary. To read them in Terminal you will want to make a copy of the file that you can tinker with, and convert that copy into XML format. Use the cp command to create your copy and plutil -convert xm11 examplefile.plist to convert to readable XML.


My Mac died and I can't access iPhoto on my external hard drive

Background

iPhoto and external storage

It's true that with a normally running operating system on a Mac, an iPhoto library can be stored on an external drive.

Normal running of iPhoto will involve file system writes to the iPhoto library and elsewhere.

Time Machine and the file system

When Time Machine backs up to an HFS Plus file system, most of the files that are associated with its backups database are saved in a way that prevents further edition; that prevents deletion – prevention until it becomes necessary for a point in time in the backup to be thinned.

iPhoto and Time Machine backup databases

Because edition and writes are prevented, iPhoto will be unable to launch and work with any iPhoto library that's within a backup database …

Best use of the backup drive when one of two Macs has failed

Essentially, as soon as possible, you should restore your iPhoto library – and whatever else you will need:

from the backup drive
to a separate drive

The destination drive can be internal or external.

Side note: do not aim to restore from the backup drive to a different area of the same drive; you would continue to have a single point of failure, which is horribly risky.

If the only failure of the failed Mac was its internal disk drive

Consider replacing that failed internal drive. Then use Time Machine to restore data to the replacement drive.

(What model is the failed Mac, how much memory does it have, and so on? Edit your question to include relevant details – thanks.)

If the internal disk drive of the failed Mac is a good drive, and if that Mac is beyond economical repair

Take the good internal drive. Consider arranging for it to be placed in an enclosure that will be suitable for use with your good Mac laptop. So you'll have an additional external drive for use with whatever computer you want.

(What model is that good Mac laptop, how much memory does it have, and so on?)

Cost comparison

It's likely that a suitable external drive enclosure will be more economical than a drive.

Initial cost should be not the only factor in your decision … adding background information (specifications etc.) to your question should help people to make recommendations in answers.


Randomly got the "Get a tour of your new Macbook Air" on a 6 year old Macbook Pro

I've seen this happen before, though not in identical circumstances.
Something has raised a flag, which you need to clear.
Clear it by taking the tour, even if you cancel out of it halfway through.
Flag gone.


Questions on Mac OS X from a web developer who is new to Mac

The first sounds like Wireshark, which you can install from Fink, MacPorts, or Homebrew.

The second, you don't need to run the built-in Apache at all.  System Preferences > Internet & Wireless > Sharing, uncheck "Web Sharing".

The only real font control in OSX is System Preferences > Personal > Appearance, where you can control whether font smoothing is done at all and at what size OSX stops trying to smooth small fonts.  Some people don't handle smoothing well, so turning it off can be useful.  (Smoothing is done by borrowing and halftoning neighboring pixels, so the fonts really are fuzzy.  Some people find it easier to read, some harder.)


URL is a property of a document or a property of a tab in a window, so use this:

if URL of document 1 is "www.google.com" then

or this:

if URL of current tab of window 1 is "www.google.com" then

Update, example of how to use the exists command:

tell application "Safari"
    set b to exists URL of document 1 -- this put false or true into the variable
    if b and URL of document 1 is "www.google.com" then
        -- do something
    end if
end tell


It depends.
The rules are not always crystal clear, so it really depends on what "somewhere" ends up being in practice. It very much matters what that URL is during review but also if users complain to Apple that you are steering commerce to sites against their will, you might run into issues.
I would say - follow the money. If this is a sustained effort to monetize an app, you would likely run afoul of several of the items in Apple's published "Living Document" for app review guidelines:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Specifically:

Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the App, such as a "buy" button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected
Apps offering subscriptions must do so using IAP

There will be more restrictions on links if your app is sold into a Kids rating or category. As long as the links enhance the user experience, are not intended (or could possibly be construed) as bypassing subscription and revenue functions that could be accomplished with IAP, you should be clear with general links if they are not the sole purpose of your app.


iPhone will not connect to corporate WPA2/Enterprise network

Solution:

Create a new RADIUS server for 802.1X wireless of wired connection standard configuration.

Used the same exact settings as the previous connection request policies and network policies.  Deleted the old ones.


Secondary (right) click doesn't work after disconnecting mouse

It seams like you have some kind of incapability between your mouse and computer.

Try with enabling right clicking on both your trackpad (if you have one built in) and your mouse from Mac OS Settings.
Also, if you have the possibility try with an another mouse and see if it work.

Try googling your mouse model and Mac OS problems or something like that.


Why is iCloud not syncing my calendars on my iOS devices?

Your iOS device may be saving new calendar events to a local calendar instead of the iCloud calendar. This is particularly confusing if that local calendar has the same name as the calendar you want to use in iCloud. To change the default calendar for saving events on an iOS device, navigate to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Calendar and select your preferred  calendar under your iCloud account:


Triple Boot 2010 Macbook Pro with Dual Drive

Save yourself a lot of pain (and time) by using virtual machines. VMware Fusion is $50 and lets you run multiple Mac OS, multiple Windows OS, linux, DOS etc. all at the same time.

I do web development, so I need to use Internet Exploder in 4 different versions. I can't do that on one boot, but I can have 3 instances of windows open at once. My job would take a LOT longer if I had to multi-boot my machine.


Yes, it will wipe out everything, install new OS and restore from backup (if you choose to do so). So, make sure you back up before upgrading.


Push text files between my phone and my laptop using native OS/apps, not third party installs?

AirDrop:

With AirDrop, you can wirelessly send documents, photos, videos,
websites, map locations, and more to a nearby Mac, iPhone, iPad, or
iPod touch.

You should be able to “share” the text file and select your iPhone under AirDrop.

Another option is to Copy and paste between devices:

With Universal Clipboard, you can copy text, images, photos, and
videos on one Apple device and then paste the content on another Apple
device. For example, you can copy a recipe from your Mac and paste it
into a note on your nearby iPhone.


Your question is a great excuse to update and expand my previous answer on interpreting these diagnostic logs.

The partial charge field is a simple binary field. A zero means you didn't plug in your phone and these logs document how much usage you got out of a full charge. A one value means that you did plug your phone in after the last full charge and that the readings document more than one full charge - perhaps the phone was working for weeks and kept getting plugged in before finally running out of power.

The log only gets written when the device literally shuts itself off after all of the power warnings.

Voltage documents the voltage of the battery when the device shuts itself off. There usually is still some charge left to power the display briefly and show you that you need to plug it in. Eventually the voltage will decay so low that nothing will run until plugged in again.

Capacity Documents what the power management chip thinks should be left in the battery at the point the log is written. I've never seen a device where this isn't zero.

Here's one of the logs I've collected on my iPhone six:

Hardware Model: N61AP
Awake Time: 07:48:22 (28101)
Standby Time: 11:30:25 (41425)
Partial Charge: 0
Capacity: 0
Voltage: 3409 mV


Easy way is installing via Homebrew. Just need to type the following:

$ brew install svn

These are the options:

$ brew info svn
subversion: stable 1.8.13, devel 1.9.0-rc2
Version control system designed to be a better CVS
https://subversion.apache.org/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/subversion.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔, scons ✘
Required: sqlite ✔, openssl ✔
Optional: gpg-agent ✘
==> Options
--universal
    Build a universal binary
--with-gpg-agent
    Build with support for GPG Agent
--with-java
    Build Java bindings
--with-perl
    Build Perl bindings
--with-python
    Build with python support
--with-ruby
    Build Ruby bindings
--devel
    Install development version 1.9.0-rc2
==> Caveats
svntools have been installed to:
  /usr/local/opt/subversion/libexec

If you need to install homebrew, just use this sentence:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"


It looks like your machine thinks the keyboard is of the ISO type instead of the ANSI type.  ISO keyboards have tilde/backtick on an extra key next to the Z.  See if this note can help:


Highlight parts of a 2D Line Chart in Numbers

Ah! Nevermind! I managed a workaround. Since I found no solution online I'll answer myself here in case it helps anyone.

Under Chart's Background & Border Style, select "Advanced Gradient Fill" as shown in Image 1

Then change the Gradient angle to 180˚. If you hover just below the  Gradient Slider, you should see a + symbol. Use that to add more stops.

In the example below, I have 8 stops. (4 for each highlight zone). Each highlight zone would need 4 stops (in this order):

White (Chart Background Color), Red (Highlight Color), Red (Highlight Color), and White (Chart Background Color).

They are almost overlapping in pairs, and hence you can't see all 8 here. (Shown in Image 2)

The end result is shown in Image 3.

Sidenote: Had to club all 3 images into 1 image since you need at least 10 rep to post more than 2 links. (sigh!)


Can't activate iMessage or FaceTime on any device

First, make sure iMessage is turned on:  To check if iMessage is turned on for your device, go to Settings > Messages > iMessage.

Then, are you sure your WIFI or cellular connection is strong enough. It does involve your carrier if you're trying to message without WIFI.  Also, I've had issues if I'm not logged with my Apple ID, although I haven't seen that it's actually required.

I see below that you have tried rebooting.  Perhaps we should have asked which device are you trying this on?  I assumed an Apple iPhone, but are you talking about your desktop or laptop computer?  I was also going to suggest totally turning the iPhone off; maybe after also shutting down iCloud and trying to start over from totally off.  My next step would be to do this on both devices you are trying to iMessage between.  Obviously you are not trying to iMessage yourself, but getting it working between your desktop and your smartphone would be a good test environment.


How to emulate mouse right-click in Microsoft Remote Desktop?

Actually I use RDP from a Mac all the time to Windows servers. The right-click can be simulated with a two finger tap on a track pad. The same behaviour works from a magic mouse and magic track pad.


How to change Security Policy for a non-app program (ssh)?

Check .ssh/id_rsa and make sure you still have these lines on top and bottom:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

They are crucial to the functionality of the SSH PubKeyAuth setup. Looking at the output from your debug, it appears that SSH is complaining about not knowing what type of key it is, which is defined by the first line. Likewise, after considering this, I removed the first line from my own private key, and SSH suddenly started bugging me to enter my passphrase for the key.

If this solution doesn't work, I'm afraid your only option will most likely be to re-generate your key pair.


How to prevent screen lock when MacBook AC adapter is unplugged?

Just in case you weren't aware of these options, or haven't already tried this, you could change the Battery settings under Energy Saver.

Your question doesn't specify what version of macOS you're using, but here are some generic steps:

Go to System Preferences > Energy Saver
Select the Battery tab
Set Computer Sleep to Never
Set Display Sleep to Never
Set Graphics to Higher Performance
Make sure Slightly dim the display when using this power source is unchecked
Make sure Automatically reduce brightness before display goes to sleep is unchecked
Exit System Preferences

Let us know how you go.


Moving an icon on the dock triggers "Keep in Dock", any way to prevent this?

Why not move it first and then change the setting?
At one time, I needed to keep my dock updated with something that changed frequently.  I just used a corn job to periodically replace the dock’s plait with a saved copy.  That would presumably only help with things that stay in the dock, though.


What cool things can you do if you hack EFI

Yes, you can install a shell. You can also setup a firmware password, though you generally use utilities that run under Mac OS X to set it up (Apple include's Firmware Password Utility on the install DVD, but does not actually lay it down on the system partition).

EFI is probably less interesting from an hobbyist perspective than OpenFirmware was. Even if you install an EFI shell, you only have access to a limited scripting environment (basically akin to bash), unlike OpenFirmware where you could actually write substantial things directly in Forth (up to and including writing boot drivers directly at the console without a separate OS and toolchain).

In order to do anything serious with EFI you need to build a cross compile toolchain to compile to native code or EBC, and once you do that you might as well just compile a standalone binary and make it look like a boot vector and just have the firmware boot your code like an OS.


iOS app store submission - including a screenshot that isn't a screenshot of the app

There's always a risk of rejection of an App store submission for not strictly following the guidelines.  Best to check what other popular apps display (some have variations that are not exactly screen shots, but photoshopped artwork similar to such) to see what they get away with.  But realize that Apple's previous approval of these apps does not set any precedent for continuing to do so.

You could try putting a help screen in your app, and display a smaller image of the SMS messages window within your own help screen.  They you really would be submitting a real screenshot of just your app.


I wrote an extensive post on MacBook Air wifi issues:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/70605/34078

It's not exactly your symptoms, but a good start.

Take a look at the wifi equipment you are trying to attach to. If you can't still get a connection after reading my previous post, take the MBA back to the Apple store and see if you can connect there. If you connect, the issue probably sits with your wifi router. If you cannot connect, it's the laptop.


What are these programs? Who installed them? How to remove them?

While I can't answer where the applications came from or who installed them, you can easily locate an application by holding the command key and clicking on its icon. This will open finder and highlight the application for you.


Old songs not showing up on my new iPhone.

I don't believe purchased music is automatically downloaded to a new device, since you might not want all of your music on all of your devices. On your new phone, just go to iTunes Store → More → Purchased → Music and you can re-download everything there.


Can I switch off disk while disk encryption is going on

If you're using the Lion's built-in encryption, the answer is yes. You can just work with the disk as usual, and the encryption happens in the background, even if you restart the Mac.
In Terminal.app, you can check the encryption status with

diskutil cs list


iPhone Music app is displaying a disabled podcast episode

I had this problem with my musics. Try removing ONE single ipod episode (any episode is good) and sync the iPhone.

It should now sync everything but that one episode. You can put it back and sync it again and you're good to go.


What does it take to get FaceBook to stop pushing notifications to my iPhone?

If there is something FaceBook is good at, it's in bothering it's users :)
So make sure you've unchecked those items:

Make sure you've switched the Notification Center-slider to off and the Alert Style to none in such a way FaceBook is listed in the Not In Notification Center.

And if you go to Settings < FaceBook, make sure you're Push Notifications are all switched off.


Migrating from Time Machine without Migration Assistant

You can drag documents, but you have to reinstall your applications, setting up again mail accounts, etc.


Disk disappears while trying to upgrade to Mojave, error ppm002

Error PPM002 points to a memory (RAM) issue. See Apple Diagnostics: Reference codes for more info.

Edit #1: I'll expand a bit - I had a 2014-era iMac in for repair early last year because it wouldn't update to High Sierra from a seemingly working Sierra, and in the end it turned out to be faulty memory. Whether this was due to a specific way that macOS accessed the RAM during an install, I don't know. What I do know is that it was faulty RAM and replacing it solved the problem. There was a PPM error, though I don't recall the exact number.

Your MacBook Pro (assuming Mid 2017 model) has soldered RAM, which means if it is faulty, then it's going to involve an Apple repair or replacement. Unfortunately it's not possible to just pop the RAM out and replace it.

Some things to try:

run Apple Hardware Test to do a full check of your RAM. Any Apple authorised technician will run this as part of their tests, so it's useful to get something concrete.
use another Mac to make a bootable High Sierra (not Mojave) USB stick, take a full backup of the drive using Disk Utility. The bootable installer (which doesn't actually require you install anything to the hard drive) is more lightweight on RAM use, so you have a good chance of getting your data backed up. If you're using Time Machine and it's up-to-date, disconnect that for now so you know you have a relatively safe backup if your MacBook does need to be repaired/replaced.


AppleScript Help: Wait for Safari Page to load

There are a few methods you could use to check whether the page has finished loading.  Here are a selection that I've had good results with during testing:

Document name

Monitor for the existence of the Safari document that has the same name as the title of the webpage, which (I believe) only gets assigned after the page has finished loading, up until which point it retains the name it had previously, or "Untitled" if it's a newly created document:

tell application "Safari"
    make new document with properties {URL:"https://csbsju.instructure.com"}

    repeat until the document named ("Central Authentication Service " & ¬
        "| College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University") exists
    end repeat

    log "Finished loading"
end tell

The Login button

Monitor for the existence of the "Login" button, given that you can't do what you need to do until that particular HTML element has been created:

tell application "Safari"
    make new document with properties {URL:"https://csbsju.instructure.com"}

    tell front document to repeat until (do JavaScript ¬
        "document.getElementById('btnLogin').id") as text is not ""
    end repeat

    log "Finished loading"
end tell

Safari's Reload button

Monitor particular properties of Safari's Reload button, which changes according to whether a page is loading or has loaded:

Note: This was written and tested under macOS High Sierra; however, for macOS Mojave one minor edit is required. Change UI element 1 to ¬ to UI element 2 to ¬ in the code directly below.

tell application "Safari" to ¬
    make new document with properties {URL:"https://csbsju.instructure.com"}

tell ¬
    application "System Events" to tell ¬
    process "Safari" to tell ¬
    window 1 to tell ¬
    toolbar 1 to tell ¬
    groups to tell ¬
    UI element 1 to ¬
    set reload_button to a reference to ¬
        (first button whose name is "Reload this page")

using terms from application "System Events"
    repeat until the accessibility description ¬
        of the reload_button ¬
        contains "Reload this page"
    end repeat
end using terms from

log "Finished loading"

Page content

Monitor for specific text to appear within the page content.  In this case, I've chosen to monitor for all of it, but you can choose smaller elements instead.  Items that appear towards the end of the page are most suitable:

tell application "Safari"
    make new document with properties {URL:"https://csbsju.instructure.com"}

    ignoring white space
        tell front document to repeat until its text contains ¬
            "Central Authentication Service Network Username: " & ¬
            "Password: Warn me before logging me into other sites. " & ¬
            "Copyright © 2017 - All Rights Reserved College of Saint " & ¬
            "Benedict and Saint John's University"
        end repeat
    end ignoring

    log "Finished loading"
end tell

Username & Password fields

Since these fields are getting filled out automatically by Safari's password manager—which only happens when the page has fully loaded—you can monitor the text content of the Username and Password fields:

tell application "Safari"
    make new document with properties {URL:"https://csbsju.instructure.com"}

    tell front document to repeat
        set a to (do JavaScript "document.getElementById('username').value") as text
        set b to (do JavaScript "document.getElementById('password').value") as text

        if length of (a & b) ≠ 0 then exit repeat
    end repeat

    log "Finished loading"
end tell


Install Windows 7 on external drive and boot it from a Mac

It is possible, but it's not straight forward. This detailed step by step guide (which I did) contains all you need to know to install and run Windows 7 or 8 from an external drive (USB3 or thunderbolt): http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html

To sum up, this guide will help you:

Get the Windows installation pack from a DVD or ISO file
Partition and format your external drive to make it bootable
Deploy Windows on your external drive
Boot on your external drive
Install Windows
Download and install the bootcamp drivers (without even using the bootcamp assistant)


Unable to symlink /Users in OS X El Capitan

System Integrity Protection doesn't prevent you creating sym links in / because the root of the file system is not protected!

But the root of the OS X file system already contains an invisible volume/mount point home created by /etc/auto_master (and /etc/auto_home). Your intension to create an equally named sym link there conflicts with this and is therefore forbidden.

Network users who login to the local machine will have their home directories mounted in /home according to the details in /etc/auto_home.


Is there a GUI front-end to Apache for Mac OS X (Lion)?

There's no built-in GUI, but there are third party ones. One that I know of for managing virtual hosts is called VirtualHostX: http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/


"Add To Wish List" in the Mac App Store?

There is no default mac app store wish list, all though, there are some 3 party applications and websites that allow you do track apps prices and add them to a wishlist. One of them is: http://www.appshopper.com/.


Hibernation on Mac m1 just released yesterday. Just update your mac to MacOS Big Sur 11.3 to enable hibernation.
You can see the change log here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211896


Is there a definitive reference or introspection capability for Applescript?

Most apps that can be scripted with AppleScript will have a dictionary you can open with AppleScript Editor (File > Open Dictionary). The app's dictionary will then list details for each of the commands and classes that can be used with it in an AppleScript script.

Creating an AppleScript dictionary is up to the app's developer, so you may occasionally come across apps with poorly documented, incomplete or outdated dictionaries, but it's still usually a good place to start.


Use Applescript/Automator to select a window highlighted in the Finder

Well you can ask Finder for its windows. The order returned is topmost to bottommost.

If you have a specific window you want, and know its name then just ask it to activate...

tell application "Finder"
    set w to (name of every window)
    set i to (id of every window)

    tell window named "Desktop" to activate

    get front window
end tell

And the results...

tell application "Finder"
    get name of every window
        --> {"Desktop", "Development", "Downloads"}
    get id of every window
        --> {16267, 16290, 16265}
    activate window "Desktop"
        --> Finder window id 16267
    get window 1
        --> Finder window id 16267
end tell

Hope that helped...


Is it possible to add inline links (rather than bare URLs) to a message using Apple Mail?

Yes you can. Simply select the text , right-click, select Link, Add Link and add the URL.


How can I upgrade my 10.7.5 mac to a newer version when it can't even read the disk image InstallMacOSX?

Your Mac is not compatible.

The Mac Pro 1,1 was released in 2006.  Yosemite requires the Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) or later.  Unfortunately, you are at the latest version of OS X that your Mac will support.  See EveryMac.com for full details:

  This system can run the last version of OS X 10.7 "Lion" if upgraded to at least 2 GB of RAM. However, although it has a 64-bit processor, it has a 32-bit EFI and cannot boot in 64-bit mode. It also does not support "OpenCL" running the default video card or the other build-to-order video cards that were offered via custom configuration. Please also note that OS X Lion is not capable of running Mac OS X apps originally written for the PowerPC processor as it does not support the "Rosetta" environment.


I developed AirPhotoViewer.

It lets you view photos from your PC on an iPad or iPhone over wifi without syncing them on the device.


What I would do is go directly to the Youtube app (I am testing this with my old 3GS so this should work) and drag to the left to access all of the different menus, then click on the little up arrow next to my channel (assuming you are already logged in on the app) and then you just click on the video you want to upload instead of using the photos app and 'sharing' to Youtube. You could also try logging in to Youtube on a computer as on there it should give you the option to create a new Youtube account with your Gmail assuming that the cause of the problem is that your gmail is not tied to any Youtube. Assuming it let you create a new Youtube associated with your Gmail you should just be able to go back to the app on your iPhone and try again.


Can't connect to App Store on iPhone 6s when on Wi-Fi

This is nothing to do with Apple and Apple do not have any problem with you using Wi-Fi for connecting to the App Store. Your DNS was likely provided by your ISP, which seems to have been having trouble routing the Apple domains. By changing the DNS to Google's DNS which can perform the routing correctly, the problem is resolved. I suggest you contact whoever provided your previous DNS.


How do I show the icons of Windows executable on OS X?

This issue is resolved by updating to MacOS 10.12


Why I don't see all launchctl daemons/agents with "sudo launchctl list"?

Your launchctl command only shows 'system' deameon/agents.  That won't include your homebrew daemons.  By experimenting, I discovered these two ways of running launchctl which will do what you want. For simpliciy I have not added your grep command.

To show system daemons/agents:

> sudo launchctl list

To show user daemons/agents:

> launchctl list

I like to use LaunchControl by soma-zone which allows me to control/change the agents and daemons as well as displaying them in 5 distinct lists:

User Agents
Global Agents
Global Daemons
System Agents
System Daemons


The fastest way to get a quick read would be to take it into any of the retail stores. You could check with 4 or 5 floor models and something like that is pretty easy to feel by setting a few phones down on the table and getting two or three people to compare them.

It's likely something small is stuck inside the switch area (like a grain of sand or smaller) or the spring got physically depressed more than it should.

You might get it swapped if the feel of the button is different or at least get it seen at the bar and have the genius write it up so there is a history of it not feeling perfect on the service record. (just in case you want to call in for a repair later over the phone)


How do I keep from activating facetime while on a call

Modern touchscreen phones have a proximity sensor, that emits IR light and measures the bounce back from nearby objects (if any). It's meant to detect your phone's proximity to your face. Perhaps you have a malfunctioning proximity sensor that's never detecting your face.

Does your screen go black when you cover the top (from the top of the display and up) with a finger?


Can MacBook Air (2020) be charged from airplane USB?

I read somewhere that the new MacBook Air computers (the ones with USB-C) can be charged slowly from any USB source using a USB-C to USB-A adapter.

Yes.  This is correct.  The Type C ports on your Mac conform to the USB-PD (Power Delivery Spec) meaning it will negotiate for the maximum charge.
The default charge that comes from a USB-PD device starts out at 5V - this, coincidentally is the same voltage that legacy USB chargers output.  If it can negotiate up (to a max of 20V) it will do so.  Otherwise, it will simply draw the maximum which is no more than 12W (5V at 2.4A)
So, if you use a 5W charger (airplane, car, etc.), it will take forever to charge that MacBook (you'll drain battery if you attempt to use it while charging), but it will charge.  It will go faster if it's a 12W or 15W port, but still be quite slow.  As for the power draw, it will draw what it can - if the airplane only supplies 5W; that's all you'll get.
Your best bet is to get a proper USB-C travel charger and hopefully the airplane will have the 12V sockets (car cigarette lighter port) rather than USB ports.
As for the cables you need, if it's a USB-A port, just the USB-C to A adapter you already referenced and a USB-C cable which you should already have.


Error correction disabled. Will iTunes report errors it encounters?

I've never known it to report errors, unless the read fails totally.

On any reasonably modern machine, error correction takes so little extra effort that it's not worth switching off.
All it does is compares a checksum on the CD itself with one it calculates on the fly. If they match, job done & on to the next track.  If they don't match, then it will try again.


How to open new Finder window in current space quickly?

Just click on the blank desktop space to activate the Finder  and then CMD+n

-EDIT.

Or

Save this Applescript code as an Applescript Application.
Drag it to you dock next to your finder iCon and click it when you want a new finder window.

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    make new Finder window
end tell


Is it possible to shut down an Ipod nano 6th generation?

According to Apple Support:

  If the iPod nano is paused, and you
  press the Sleep/Wake button to turn
  off the screen, the following behavior
  will take place:

  For 36 hours after pressing the Sleep/Wake button and turning off the
  screen, iPod nano is in Standby, and
  will quickly wake up when you press
  the Sleep/Wake button again.
  After 36 hours in Standby with no activity, iPod nano will shut down
  automatically. Pressing the Sleep/Wake
  button after iPod nano is shut down
  will turn on iPod nano, and boot to
  the main Home screen.
  (Your iPod nano is considered paused if there is no music or FM radio playback, or an active pedometer session.)

Additional Information

A fully charged iPod nano provides up to 24 hours of music playback time.


Why does my MobileMe email account have a Junk mailbox?

Log into the MobileMe website and disable Junk mail filtering in the Mail preferences.

Edit:

Well, at least there used to be an option to disable Junk mail filtering. It seems that Apple permanently enabled junk mail filtering without the option to disable it about a year ago.

See here: http://www.appleinfocus.com/2010/07/cant-turn-off-mobileme-junk-mail-filtering/

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


Stop outlook blocking me when I use a VPN?

How can I stop this from happening?

This is expected behavior.
Microsoft (Outlook.com) uses location data (if available) as part of their security to validate authorization access; t's more than just your IP.
You can view all of your activity from Microsoft at the site:
https://account.live.com/activity

Using a VPN with Outlook.com
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) takes your traffic (all or some, depending on the policy set at the VPN server) and sends it through their network.  If you go to https://account.live.com/activity while connected to VPN, you will see that your IP address has changed (very significantly).  You are no longer "located" at your home, but now wherever your work's network gateway is located.
As such, (Microsoft) Outlook.com will detect this change and based on their security policies temporarily lock your access since it "appears" you went from one location to the next with the same cached credentials.
Turn on Two Factor Authentication
If you use two factor authentication (Microsoft Authenticator App), you can mitigate this somewhat.  Outlook.com will detect the change in location and ask you to authenticate (iPhone version shown):

Prior to locking your account, it should ask you to approve or reject the new sign in.
Your other option is to close Mail (or log out of Outlook.com), connect to the VPN and then reopen.  You will need to do this for each time there is a network change so there is a bona fide  log in as opposed to an authorization request based on stale cached credentials.


Messages are saved in the User ~Library/Messages folder on your computer, messages from any device. Attachments too. This makes for a very nice backup and reference that can, in addition, be easily read with QuickLook.


Tap/hold a message, wait for the pop-up.
Tap More.
That Marks a single message.
Continue to tap more messages to Mark them, or hit the Trash can or Share icon, as desired.


Hard drive (HDD) access has become very slow at times

Before even looking at anything else...
Two antivirus apps on one machine is not good; they fight each other.
Avast is also known to be cripplingly slow, with Sophos not faring much better.

AV-TEST is the closest to an actual 'authority' on the subject. Have a look at their recommendations.

I would lose both those antivirus solutions, then test again temporarily without any AV.


How to make a Mac harddrive partition non bootable

To check whether a disk drive is bootable, open Terminal (in Applications>Utilities) and type (replace /Volumes/SSD with the folder your disk drive is mounted at):

bless --info /Volumes/SSD/

If the output looks similar to this:

finderinfo[0]:      0 => No Blessed System Folder
finderinfo[1]:      0 => No Blessed System File
finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]:      0 => No alternate OS blessed file/folder
finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]:      0 => No OS 9 + X blessed X folder
64-bit VSDB volume id:  0x844F837C9317318A

your computer won't be able to boot from the drive.

For comparison, this is what the output of a bootable disk drive would look like:

bless --info /

finderinfo[0]:     62 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 327769 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]:      0 => No alternate OS blessed file/folder
finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]:     62 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id:  0xD9A24BFA7A5E7EDC

The command bless includes option --unbless to unset volume bootability (from man bless):

  --unbless directory  Use the HFS+ volume mounted at directory and unset any persistent blessed files/directories in the HFS+ Volume
                                Header.

So if you find out in the output above that your drive is bootable, "unbless" it:

sudo bless --unbless /Volumes/SDD/


MacBook Air: Playing 1080p vs 720p videos

Your MacBook Air supports the following resolutions at 16:10 aspect ratio:

1440 x 900 (native)
1280 x 800
1152 x 720
1024 x 640

It also supports the following at 4:3 aspect ratio:

1024 x 768
800 x 600

Since 1080p is technically a resolution of 1920 x 1080 your MacBook Air isn't going to display a 1080p movie at its best on its built in display. However, your MacBook Air does support an external resolution of up to 2560 x 1600 pixels, so you'd be able to take advantage of 1080p in that scenario.

Finally, whether you download 1080p or 720p movies also gets down to personal preference. Most people I know with true HD TVs still only download 720p versions because the difference to them (especially while watching most movies) is negligible. Basically, do you notice the extra pixels during a high speed chase in an action movie or not? Many people don't, some people do.

In summary, if you're downloading movies only to watch on your MacBook Air via it's built in display, there's no real advantage to downloading the 1080p version.


Can I download Mac OS X for a used MacBook Pro?

It depends.

If it's running Mac OS X 10.5.8 "Leopard" or earlier, then you must buy a Snow Leopard Install DVD from Apple (or barrow it from a fiend). You could also buy Lion , but it's the same price, $20 USD. Though, Snow Leopard comes through the mail and Lion is sent as a verification code through email.

If it's running Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" to Mac OS X 10.6.7 "Snow Leopard", then you will need to do an Apple Software Update, to update it to 10.6.8. Click the Apple logo in the top left of the desktop, then select Software Update.

If it's running OS X 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard", then you will have to update it through the Mac App Store. OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" runs amazingly on my 2009 MacBook Pro, so I'd strongly recommend updating to Yosemite (for free) no matter what you do, don't let anyone tell you it doesn't run well on older hardware, it's fine.

If it's currently running OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later, then yes. Just boot into Recovery Mode by holding the Option key down at startup. Two images of hard drives will appear, use the arrow keys to select Recovery, press the Enter key to make your selection. Once in Recovery, select Disk Utility and select the hard drive. Then select Erase from the bar and select Erase in the bottom right. After its erased, go back to the main window in Recovery and select Reinstall OS X, then just follow the onscreen instructions. Make sure to update to Yosemite using the Mac App Store afterwards.


I had exactly the same problem. I started Apache without DocumentRoot(s). It did the trick.

sudo apachectl -T


How does iOS Photos app know to group burst photos?

All the photos that are taken in a burst sequence share a "BurstUUID" in their EXIF data. This is how applications know they are related.

For example I just took a burst of images, installed exiftool and ran exiftool -BurstUUID *.JPG against the directory with the burst images. This is the output.

======== IMG_0076.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0077.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0078.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0079.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0080.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0081.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0082.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0083.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0084.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0085.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
======== IMG_0086.JPG
Burst UUID                      : 65A7DF0A-1F09-4600-917B-9572A16AD016
   11 image files read

For another application on Windows (or any other platform) to recognise and show these images as a group it will need to be rewritten to recognise this new EXIF tag.


You can try and disable pam authentication under your ssh server and see if that helps


The answer may be in the code of some applications.

What applications support Path Finder?
The vast majority of applications support Path Finder with absolutely no compatibility >problems, but some applications go one step further and had special integration built >in.
A small list of examples include:
A-Dock
Quicksilver
Butler
Name Mangler
DragThing
Default Folder X
LaunchBar
Change Desktop
Some applications do require Apple's Finder to work properly as they are hard-wired >this way. If you would like to see compatibility added for one of your favorite apps, >visit our forum and let us know!

Their forum is located at http://www.cocoatech.com/forum/. See if you can find any applications that you use that are listed there that have issues. Finder is such an integral part of the operating system that replacing it requires applications not to call Finder or for Path Finder to intercept those calls I assume.


WhatsApp voice call overrides iPhone's "do not disturb"

This is intended behaviour. Do Not Disturb only enables Apple's features like phone and messages. It does not affect third-party applications.
From this Apple Discussion:

It has nothing to do with Apple's software. Do not disturb only affects Apple's core iOS features - the telephone app, the messaging app and iOS notifications service.  It does not interact with or affect third party apps.

If you want Whatsapp to implement the feature you need to contact them:

If you want WhatsApp to implement something similar, then you need to suggest it to the WhatsApp developers.  Or, close WhatsApp at night, and disable it in background app refresh in settings.

To provide a similar setting on Whatsapp you can close it at the desired time and turn on background app refresh which will prevent it from updating and receiving messages.
To turn off background app refresh
Go to Settings -> General -> Background app refresh and turn of Whatsapp.
To completely turn all apps of from refreshing click at the top where it says background app refresh and click off.


Download offline web page and view on iPad

I would start with Safari's reading list feature:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TI39

It is built into the OS but doesn't integrate well with the Chrome app as you asked. You also might need to do some code changes to have all the features you desire work in offline mode, but since web apps were the first iOS app Apple created, there is lots of documentation at https://developer.apple.com/Safari

The iOS version of Opera has a save for offline option.


How to set system keyboard shortcuts via command line?

Figured it out. You have to add the application you want to modify keys for to com.apple.universalaccess.
defaults write com.apple.universalaccess com.apple.custommenu.apps -array-add "com.googlecode.iterm2"

or if all keyboard equivalents are set via one file, you can also write the full list at once
defaults write com.apple.universalaccess com.apple.custommenu.apps -array "com.googlecode.iterm2" "com.apple.Safari" "com.google.Chrome"

The other thing that was tricky was, that my iterm2 prefs file is symlinked and therefore doesn't appear in the list of domains nor is read with the defaults tool. The keyboard however works, since it's listed in the prefs file already.


I had Homebrew installed already, so these four steps were enough:

brew install openssl
brew install git
mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git.old
Add [http] sslVersion = tlsv1.2 to $HOME/.gitconfig

Note that you need to install new openssl before building new git, otherwise it will link against the old system version of openssl.


Why are many songs just not played in iTunes in Apple Music? How to force them to be played?

Apple Discussion has a similar question.

They suggest that you change your DNS. Try using the Google Public DNS.

I would also suggest you to restart your router once.


Is that possible to make `cp -R /dir/ .` be the same as `cp -R /dir .`?

If you use homebrew, you can install the coreutils package, which provides GNU cp (gcp), which behaves the way you are familiar with. Then, you could set

alias cp=/path/to/homebrew/gcp

in your profile to prefer that version.


Moving object inside MacBook: is it a big problem?

If the object is metal, it has the potential to short circuit something and possibly cause an expensive repair, especially if it shorts the system board. Even if the object is not metal, if it can get in the fan it may have potential to damage it.

I would immediately shutdown the computer and take it to an Apple Store or qualified repair center if you cannot investigate yourself.


Is it possible to sync music and podcasts between an iPhone and Mac, but exclude Apps?

The point is that they can be restored much quicker from your Mac to an iOS device than downloading them again. This may (of course) depend on the number of apps you have on your iOS device and which sizes they are. (Many games and navigation apps are way over 1GB each.)
To prevent app syncing you would just uncheck this box in iTunes while you have selected your iOS device in the sidebar and chosen the Apps category as shown in this screenshot.