How can I trigger an Applecript or Automator app when a specific bluetooth device comes into range?

This is a sort of tricky thing to do if you don't want to use 3rd party software. However, with some bash and plist scripting we can get it to work!

First, in your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder create the following .plist file (in this case I have named it com.my.bluetoothdetector.plist; if you change the name, make sure to change line 4 in the file as well):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.my.bluetoothdetector</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/sh</string>
        <string>/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/script.sh</string>
    </array>
        <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

The above file will call whatever script is located at /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/script.sh when there is a change in the Bluetooth environment. You can of course change the location of the file called from the Desktop to wherever you want (ensuring that it is a full path).

Now, we will make a bash script, which, when triggered by our com.my.bluetoothdetector.plist file, will check whether your device is connected. In this case, we will save this file to /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/script.sh:

#!/bin/bash

connectedyesorno="$(system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType | awk '/BLUETOOTHDEVICENAME/{f=1}/Connected:/ && f{print $2; exit}')"

if [ "$connectedyesorno" == "Yes" ]
then
  open /Applications/YOURAPPNAME.app
elif [ "$connectedyesorno" == "No" ]
then
  echo "Not connected..."
else
  echo "ERROR"
fi

Here, substitute BLUETOOTHDEVICENAME for the name of your device and the /Applications/YOURAPPNAME.app part of the open /Applications/YOURAPPNAME.app command for the location of the Automator/AppleScript app you want to run. You could also replace this line entirely to run any shell script you want when the device is connected which may negate the need for you to have a separate AppleScript/Automator app to be called.

Finally, use the command:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.my.bluetoothdetector.plist

This will start up the process which will check for the change in the Bluetooth environment and then call the script.bash when this is detected.

Now, hopefully, when you connect the Bluetooth device to your computer, after just a few seconds, your AppleScript/Automator file should run!

  I have an Applescript that connects a bluetooth speaker to my Mac...

Previously connected bluetooth devices should connect automatically to a Mac when they become available. If this isn't the case for you, maybe there is some sort of problem to do with your bluetooth settings. Have a look at this article if the problem persists.

P.S. In the future, if you want to delete this, run the following commands:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.my.bluetoothdetector.plist
rm -r ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.my.bluetoothdetector.plist
rm -r ~/Desktop/script.sh


How did Siri know where this plane was going?

Actually this is nothing new and isn’t all that creepy (although I suppose that depends on what you consider to be creepy).

Siri has been closely integrated with the WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine for many years now.

To determine where a plane flying overhead is going, Siri only needs to send a request along the lines of flights seen from current geoIP location to WolframAlpha. WolframAlpha then returns the details to Siri, such as where the flight is going, the flight number, type of plane, altitude, etc.

For this to work you must already have Settings > Privacy > Location Services switched on - so if you have any concerns about revealing your location then you should check these settings and which apps you're sharing your location with.

If you're interested in learning more about WolframAlpha, you can refer to Wikipedia’s WolframAlpha entry. This provides a great overview, including the fact that other devices (such as some Android devices) also use it.

In summary: Apple isn't spying on you. All that is happening is your iPhone is sending its geolocation to WolframAlpha which in turn is using data provided to it from another third party to return the flight information back to Siri. This is nothing new and some Android devices can also do the same thing.


You do not say which 2003 model of Mac you have but 2003 Macs do not have Intel processors and your version of macOS (normally referred to as Snow Leopard) is old and likely unsupported by most current applications both for the OS version and the PowerPC chip in your Mac.

macOS does have a built-in VPN (I believe with Snow Leopard as well...). PPTP is fairly common (especially if it is a Cisco or Cisco-compatible VPN) and you might be able to configure it to work with your VPN service, but I would not count on it, especially if it is a commercial VPN service, as they often use their own APP to connect to their VPN service.

You are possibly out of luck, unless someone here knows specifically one that works with your configuration.

If you indicate what you are trying to accomplish or even which ones you wanted to try that might help us help you.


Coda's preference plist file is stored here:

~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist

There's also ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.LSSharedFileList.plist. I'm not sure what this does exactly, but it doesn't appear to store preferences.


You didn't actually specify the model of your Mac Mini, but by going off the data from here, I think you have the mid 2011 model (Mac Mini 5,1).

If that is correct, then Apple's technical specifications on this model confirm that the Mac Mini uses 1,333 MHz DDR3, up to 8 GB (4 GB x 2).

HOWEVER, that memory that you linked to is "DESKTOP" MEMORY, a DIMM (dual in-line memory module). The Mac Mini uses "laptop" memory, SODIMMs (small outline dual in-line memory module).


Owner and Group owner of files in my home

This is normal, to some extent. It really depends on what you have in your home directory. My home directory contains root user files from applications that require system-wide privileges for updating, such as Adobe Air and Parallels Desktop. Under normal circumstances there's no need to change groups or owners of these files.

If you're worried about the groups and users of OSX's own files in your home dir, run Disk Utility and repair permissions. This will fix the groups/users of OSX's own files, including the ones in your home dir.


Can I use an iPod nano 8g as a flash drive for windows, and still use it to play the music I paste in that drive?

No.
Apple does not want you to manage your own music.
Apple specifically engineered their products to prevent you from easily dragging and dropping files for quick portable usage.
Reasoning behind this is to encourages more sales from iTunes by forcing users to only use iTunes to manage music.
To quote Apple,

When you use your iPod as a hard disk, you can't see the media iTunes
copies to your iPod in the Finder or My Computer. This is normal.
Using the Finder or My Computer, you can't copy these media files from
your iPod back to iTunes or to any other computer. The synchronization
between your iPod and your computer is one way: from iTunes to iPod.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201567
A warning: Keep your backups handy because once your music is in the iPod it's difficult or impossible to get back


How to enable Flash Player plugin for Safari in macOS Catalina?

I'd start by uninstalling Flash completely - very few web sites use it any more. If you don't have it you will see a clear indication if it's required.

Get the uninstaller from Adobe - Uninstall Flash Player | Mac OS

Warning: Do not fall for any pop up telling you Flash is needed or out of date - they're scams, malware. If Flash is legitimately needed for a video, the placeholder for the video will say that Flash is required; usually quite simply, "plugin missing" or similar, possibly with a 'jigsaw puzzle piece' icon.
It will not offer to go get it for you.

If you ascertain Flash is actually required, make sure to fetch it directly from Adobe, don't click through any links you cannot see clearly.
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Then to make sure it's enabled in Safari, go to Preferences > Websites. Scroll down the list on the left until you find Adobe Flash; select, then to the right, decide whether you want behaviour on, off or ask by default & for any specific sites.

Full instructions at Adobe: Enable for Safari

Note that Flash is very nearly end-of-life & most browsers are going to start actively blocking it over the next year. If you're not certain whether you currently still need it, work without it.


dual screen resolution setting is reset after logout, reboot or sleep

Try setting your resolution to the desired level, then simply logging out and logging back in. Does the issue persist?

Have you tested in Safe Boot? Please do, it'll tell us a lot.


OS 10.10 not connecting through proxy specified by its Internet name

The alphabetic xxxx-y.zzzz.com is a hostname, not an ip address, and hostnames almost always resolve to an ip address. You should try doing an nslookup in Terminal.app to confirm whether or not you've got the right information in your hosts file.

$ nslookup xxxx-y.zzzz.com

Non-authoritative answer:
xxxx-y.zzzz.com canonical name = p9p.geo.asbs.yahoodns.net.
Name:    p9p.geo.asbs.yahoodns.net
Address: 98.139.134.174

Then in /etc/hosts confirm you've got:

98.139.134.174   xxxx-y.zzzz.com

something tells me xxxx-y.zzzz.com is not your real hostname, but you get the idea.


The only workaround I found is to use macports to build the latest version of slapd, that works just fine...


How to show programs installed with brew in Launchpad?

If the installed package has a .app, you can add a symlink to it inside your ~/Applications folder.

Launchpad will pick it up from there.

However, most packages installed by homebrew aren't what OS X calls "Applications", so you might not be able to do it out of the box.

An alternative would be to create an Automator workflow that runs a shell script, and save that workflow as an app.


Press Shift ⇧+Space ␣ while on the row you want to move (row 1 in your example in the comments above). This should highlight all of the row.
Press Command ⌘+x to cut the highlighted row.
Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, go to the row you want to insert the cut row before (row 4 if we continue the example).
Press Control ⌃++.


Prevent iOS Users from updating iOS Version Using Apple Configurator


Change output format of "top" command in Mac OS for memory usage?

A bit verbose, but the following awk snippet does this

$ echo 'PhysMem: 5490M used (2569M wired), 11G unused.' \
  | awk 'BEGIN {S["G"]=1024; S["M"]=1}
         /PhysMem:/ {U=substr($2, 1, length($2)-1) * S[substr($2, length($2))];
                     N=substr($6, 1, length($6)-1) * S[substr($6, length($6))];
                     printf("%.2fG / %.2fG\n", U/1024, (N+U) / 1024)}'

5.36G / 16.36G


How to use multiple pasteboards in OS X?

PTHPasteboard and OS X 10.10+

The PTH web site suggests PTHPasteboard Pro does not work on OS X 10.10 or later:

  PTHPasteboard is not currently available for sale, due to incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.10.

Thus it is probable there is no way to copy into additional pasteboards PTHPasteboard creates on OS X 10.11.

Alternatives

Alternatives listed on PTHPasteboard Pro's MacUpdate page include:

ClipMenu
Clipboard Evolved

Regrettably, the alternatives above do not mention OS X 10.11 support. Comments on MacUpdate suggest they may still work on the latest OS X.


Scrivener 2 does import LaTeX files as RTF (see dialog box below).

I imported a sample LaTeX file into a Scrivener project, and the result was test-latex.scriv. See below.


Has it been ever possible to implant a monitoring device or software in a Macbook that cannot be detected by antivirus?

Yes. It is possible, including through Mobile Device Management (MDM) applications which are generally legitimate, and through more nefarious means as well. Since it's such a broad topic, addressing the many ways that someone could do this would be too open-ended. Think of how a school is able to track a computer it has issued to a student, in terms of location, screen-watching, and the sort.

To guarantee, at least from the software side, that this is not happening, you'd want to perform an Erase and Install. In terms of any sort of hardware implementation, that is such an unlikely scenario that I'd count it out.

If you want to check for MDM, most often they will install a Profile onto your computer. This can be seen in System Preferences -> Profiles (fourth row down). It will only appear if a profile is installed.


Judging from the symptoms I highly suspect it's an issue with the battery. I recently had my late 2013 Macbook Retina serviced because it experienced exactly the same issue: Immediate shutdown when the battery was drained to 60%. It would instantly turn back on if connected to power. My battery was 5 years old and had about 240 cycles. The apple engineer told me that the battery needs to be replaced because it was so old and coulndn't hold a charge.

What does the System Information (Click on Apple Logo while holding down option to access it) report about your battery?

Can you check what coconut battery reports about the remaining actual charge? It would be really interesting to see what the actual fully charged capacity of your battery is and the designed capacity. If it's less than 80% of the designed capacity when the battery is fully charged then I would recommend replacing the battery regardless of its cycle count.


The desktop site is an entirely different site in many cases than the corresponding mobile website (not including responsive websites, of course).

Because of this, "requesting" a desktop site requires loading a different set of dependencies/resources and a different version of the site you're currently on (this is particularly evident on Stack Exchange sites, but it applies elsewhere as well).

Because of this, the page must reload to re-layout the page and load these new resources, and it would not be possible to do it otherwise, as in these cases it is more than a matter of page scaling.


I have a Dual G5 Power Mac I can only start in safe mode

Based on what you have described, it appears that there is an issue occurring with a kernel extension, driver, or something along those lines.  This is what is causing your machine to kernel panic when attempting to boot up normally. Safe mode is disabling the problematic "thing" and that is why you machine boots fine in safe mode. For more information on whats is going on when you boot in safe mode see Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?, this may be valuable in diagnosing a cause of the kernel panic on start-up.

So some next steps for you to take:

First thing is figure out what is causing the kernel panic. Boot into safe mode and then open the Console program. Located at /Applications/Utilities/Console

When in the Console application look for the logs noted as PanicReporter, if we are lucky there should be one for each time you tried to boot the machine with a failed boot up. According to Mac OS X: How to log a kernel panic, kernel panic logs for Leopard are stored in /Library/Logs/PanicReporter, so check for logs at that path in console.

If you find logs do a quick read thru of of the first 20 or so lines and see if you recognize the name for a piece of hardware /software or something, feel free to post what you find as well to help in solving the problem.

Once you have figured out what driver/s or extension/s is causing the problem the next step is to determine if it is a driver that you installed. If it is then look up how to remove and additionally re-install it or update it if it is something you need.

If its a driver for something else built into the computer it could be indicating a hard ware failure for some kind of device, eg network card, etc. Or it could be just a corrupted software driver, and you may need to backup your date and re install the Mac OS.


Troubleshooting IKEv2 on 10.11 El Capitan

Now that I've found the error string, it looks like this is actually missing from the release. Perhaps it wasn't ready to ship.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/18197

http://www.openradar.appspot.com/22735440


Sleep mode problems with external Monitor

Can you open console after that and search for "wake"?
There should be something like "kernel: Wake reason: "
I think it may give a hint.

PS sorry, don't have enough rep to post it as comment


Once you've reset the SMC once - that's out of the picture. Let's assume your situation is different than all the rest - My MacBook Air won't charge - and it's not the adapter or the pins or something you can fix and identify without turning a screw or opening the Mac.

Now you have to figure if the adapter is bad - you didn't explicitly say that, but it's probably not since you would report that the system is dead and won't power on ever again if you can't get some adapter to put charge back in the battery when the machine is off and sitting overnight.

At this point, you still need a hardware repair.

A repair shop might be able to tell if the battery needs replacing but since you did that - you either have a totally unlikely circumstance that the old battery failed in a non-common way and the new battery happens to have the same non-common failure mode. The new battery should show clean in system information even if it won't charge due to other issues. The real key is if the new battery shows "check battery" status you would want to return that part if you're sure you didn't do the repair wrong (you'll risk being charged for the shipping and not get your money back if the part is good) but it's far more likely the fault is with the charging circuitry and power handling circuitry. Also, you probably needed a new battery too so that's out of the way now.

The likely cause is you need a new MagSafe power in board for the Air or a new logic board. Sorry to deliver the news, but the alternative to this diagnosis is that the cables or the new battery were bad and it will be costly to figure that out as well.


How to restore MacOS Desktop Workspaces, Mouse, and Keyboard (etc.) settings?

I would suggest you open a finder window of your ~/Library/Preferences, click on "Date Modified", open System Preferences, make any change in relevant settings (mouse, workspace ...), watch and note down, which files get to the top of your file list.

These should be the ones that you should replace with the ones from a Time Machine backup, I'd presume ...


iTunes Match questions regarding songs marked as "Uploaded"

I have over 5000 tracks which have been uploaded, whenever I add new music, Match is updated, and it determines whether to upload it or match it.

I was interested in this also, so I created a smart playlist for the kind set to MPEG audio and within the playlist I display the iTunes Match columns.

Recently I checked this list, and instead of all of them displaying Uploaded, a couple of hundred had changed to Matched, so I deleted them locally and re-downloaded the matched version.

So in answer to your question, yes, they are sometimes updated, and there's nothing you need to do other than occasionally update match by adding new music, or manually from the menu, and then check your smart playlist.


Nope and I quite sure that something like this cannot be changed by an app, even if there was a toggle in the Settings.

Maybe there are solution provided the iPhone is jailbroken.

For the record, let me mention that the existence of such a toggle seems to depend on the carrier one use.

Reason for saying that is because I used to have the 3G toggle, but it disappeared after I applied a "carrier update" that showed up. Maybe in order to have the 4G toggle appearing? I don't know.

To avoid confusion, carrier updates have nothing to do with iOS updates


How to restore default fonts on Mavericks?

You can also copy the font from the recovery partition:

diskutil mount Recovery\ HD;hdiutil mount /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg;sudo cp /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Library/Fonts/Base/LucidaGrande.ttc /System/Library/Fonts


How do I set "Show in finder" to reveal location rather than open files (in default program)?

here’s a fix:

Open the Terminal App and type/cut & paste the following:

$ sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd

Hit return, enter your password, and you should be all set.


I just want to say that, after a frustrating hour, I went out and bought some beer and milk. When I came back, the phone seemed to work, though occasionally I still get the logo/status bar screen.
Maybe now I can re-download the software with iTunes, perhaps it was corrupted before. Anyway, it seems that the solution is to go out and buy refreshments :-) or, al least, leave it alone for an hour or so.


My iMac will not allow me to log onto my desktop

I agree with bmike that since we don't know what the nefarious people have done to you, it's next to impossible to diagnose the problem here.

However, I am going on the premise that you can turn on your computer but you just cannot log in - meaning enter your username/password - as you described.

To reset your OS X password without installation media you need to start up in single user mode via the terminal and create a new Admin account:

Reboot/turn on your comptuer
Hold Command + S while turning on until after you hear the chime.
When you get a text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):

mount -uw /

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

shutdown -h now

After restarting your iMac you should have a new Admin account. When you login as the new Admin you just delete old one, reset your other accounts (if any) and you should be good to go.

Once you get to this step, I highly...and I mean highly like this is a moral imperative...recommend that you change all the passwords for the services that you have stored in your Keychain.

Let us know how you make out.


It would be realizable with a -> Service. Such Automator Services are quite fast...but too slow for a smooth typing flow. However, there are third-party hotkey managers that are suitable for this.

Butler: not updated for a long time, but very powerful and fast (and
free)
BetterTouchTool: quick and easy to use
Alfred: might be too slow
and many more...

With Butler you can execute text directly (!), with the others you might need an AppleScript. Open the Script-Editor to get the IDs for the umlauts:

id of "Ü"

The necessary Applescript for "Ü" would then look like this:

tell application "System Events" to keystroke (string id 220)

Assign e.g. shift-F19 (because of capitalization)


Change space of other non-active display via keyboard

There is another question here on Ask Different that answer this question:  Keyboard shorcut to switch focus between multiple displays on OS X 10.9.5 + (mavericks, el capitan, sierra)

Here's the quick summary:

There are some utilities (window managers) that allow you to assign a keyboard shortcut to the focus of a specific monitor.  They are as follows (links provided):

Catchmouse (No longer available so it's a moot point here)
Divvy - $13
SizeUp - $13
Slate - Open Source, Free.  Functional, but there's a lot of manual configuration to be done here and not as easy as the paid software.


Solved

When browsing which picture to add to a mail (Gmail in browser, for example), there is a "photos" button down to the left

Clicking that, will show all the photos


if i get a new phone but same phone number, will i get the sent but undelivered messages people have sent me?

As long as it hasn't been 30 days since you lost your phone, you will receive all pending messages. But if it has been more then 30 days, you will not receive those messages, as WhatsApp deletes them from their servers.

From WhatsApp's FAQ:

  ...undelivered messages are deleted from our servers after 30 days.

On a side note, if it has been over two months since you lost the phone, then it's as if you're a new user on WhatsApp, and you will be removed from all of your WhatsApp groups.


2012 MacBook Pro OS X El Capitan wont boot into windows 8.1 after a HD partition change

Try this:

sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
p
setpid 4
07
flag 4
p
write
y

This is assuming that your Boot Camp partition is still active, just not bootable. Reboot, and hold the option key as usual, and see if the bootable partition is available. This will likely fix your issue.

Just in case it doesn't, this article outlines some steps you can try.


What is an SSD drive's negotiated link speed?

In this case:
The Toshiba TS256C is operating at its fastest factory designed speed.
Basically, you bought an Apple computer with an SATA III (6Gbps) interface and an SATA II (3Gbps) Hard Drive, and an SATA I (1.5Gbps) optical drive. If you were to buy a different model of SSD or ODD that is SATA III rated for speed you could take advantage of the 6 Gbps speeds on either interface.

Apple has been known by the spec tracking community to do this for various models since around the time they introduced SSD's. It's a silly thing to do for a company that only officially supports a couple of after market internal hardware upgrades, basically limited to Crucial branded memory, AFAIK. Why they cripple their machines this way is probably a business decision: it's cheaper and most consumers won't ever know/figure it out/be able to tell.


Is there a user font for San Francisco in El Capitan?

They are System fonts & not available (or indeed licensed) for documents that you make or App use in general.
As mentioned in comments, even the developer version of the fonts is only licensed for interface mockups & no other purpose.

The previous system font, Helvetica Neue, on the other hand, was released as both a System & User font.

There are various opinions online about how to make the San Fransisco fonts available to the user, but seem to depend on unpacking the individual ttfs, changing the 'system font' attribute, then repacking them again - something I'll leave to someone else, regardless of the licensing or legal position of doing that.


Activating Apple Music also turns on iCloud Music Library, that is why your music was pushed to the cloud.

If you didn't erase your local music, I can't find any mention of iTunes iCloud Library having that function (I'm thinking of iPhoto iCloud Library and it's space optimisation function).

You are not required to be connected to internet to listen to your local library.

There have been reports of music libraries, playlists, albums, artwork and other being corrupted.

To recover your playlists, you can use a previous iTunes Library file:

Disable iCloud Music Library on iTunes Preferences > General.
Quit iTunes.
Locate your iTunes folder.
Inside you will find a folder called "Previous iTunes Libraries" with backups of your iTunes Library file, with an appended date that reflects the date of the backup ("iTunes Library 2015-07-15.itl", for instance);
copy the most recent file before the problem occurred to the
containing folder ("iTunes").
Rename the current iTunes Library file ("iTunes Library.itl") file to "iTunes Library(corrupt).itl" or something to that effect.
Rename the backup you copied to the iTunes folder to "iTunes Library.itl"
Restart iTunes.

If you have problems with your itl file, you can recover most of the iTunes Library from the xml version; there is a guide here.


Can not send email after iOS 8.0.2 update

Try to reset network settings.
If that does not work then try deleting your mail account from device, then add it back & restart device.


iOS beta app got leaked, can I get in trouble with Apple?

If it is your app, you should probably notify Apple. If you are testing for someone else, notify the developer and Apple. It really isn't your fault. To your second question ("Can Apple see the the app got installed on more than the usual 100 devices), I'd say no. Because jailbroken users use methods such as iFunBox or vShare/AppCake, Apple has no way of keeping track of how many times the app was downloaded unless they used the Apple way. Finally, I'd try to find out how your/the app was leaked.


Transferring money on n Apple account from one iPhone to another

There was a comment below your question but I wanted to make sure it was clear. If you sign into your new iPhone with the same apple ID you will be able to use whatever money you have loaded into your account. You will also be able to access any previous purchases made with that same apple ID. Purchases including but not limited to, music, movies, tv shows and apps.


Wikis on OS X Server - How do I include or embed content from one wiki page on another?

Ok. To anyone running up the same wall I did... I switched to an OpenSource Ruby on Rails app called WAGN http://wagn.org

It does this exact thing and much more.


Nsurl error domain (1012) subscribing MDM Server

The problem is solved. The problem was caused by the certificates.
I really needed signed certificates for "mdmserver.domainname.be" (Server > Certificates).

But keep in mind, it has to be with a CSR created by the os server, it's not enough to create a CSR with a CSR generator (like directadmin, ..). Thats because you can't add your own private key/csr, the server has its own.

More information about the certificates install: https://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-mac-osx-mavericks.htm
SSL Installation Diagnostics Tool: https://www.digicert.com/help/


Open iTunes on your Mac or PC.
Click iTunes Store.
Click Sign In.
Enter your Apple ID and password.
Click your Apple ID and select Account Info from the drop-down menu.
Next to Purchase History, click See All.

It might take a moment for your Purchase History to appear.

To see the details for a purchase, click the arrow to the left of the order date. Your most recent purchases are first.

You'll see the date, time, and web order number in the top-right corner. If you don't recognize a purchase, see if it's one of these types of charges.

Source


I have two suggestions. My first is to try creating a folder called .Trashes elsewhere and moving it such that it would overwrite the original folder; it's possible that this would leapfrog the problem (I used a similar method to fix a problem I was having a few months ago).

Alternatively, if the external drive is FAT32, have you tried booting a Linux distro from a USB drive and using that? Alternatively you could plug the external drive into a Windows machine (Boot Camp/VirtualBox?) and see whether that can delete the offending folder.


Can I download a list of all apps I've PAID apple for?

Ok.  It can be done, but the way that I've discovered isn't easy.

I did try to get the info by intercepting iOS app store traffic but the data I got wasn't very clear.  Instead I intercepted traffic from an older version of iTunes that still has app store functionality in it.

Once you've fired up your fiddler (requires some setup to decode HTTPS traffic) or whatever intercepting proxy you're going to use, open the older version of iTunes you installed and navigate through the menu Account -> Purchased and then click Apps in the upper right-hand corner.

In your proxy monitor look for a request that starts with:

https://client-api.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStorePlatform.woa/wa/lookup?id=

There may be more than one of these requests, so make sure you grab the responses for all of them.  The response is issued in JSON format.  Luckily that JSON contains the data you're looking for...

Filtering JSON is beyond the scope of my answer right now.  It's getting late.  You might have an easier time using grep on some formatted JSON?  I'll see if I can give you the rest tomorrow.


How do I make ⌘← and ⌘→ work for home/end combo for Terminal?

As convenient as it would be, Terminal can't easily provide the functionality you ask for.

The reason is that programs that run inside Terminal have different rules for moving the cursor to the beginning/end of the line, for example:

bash (and other shells) use CtrlA and CtrlE
vi uses 0 and $/Shift4

Other programs may use other keys. There isn't a universal key combination for positioning the cursor at the beginning/end of the line.

Of course, Terminal could maintain a list of key combinations for a number of common programs, check what's running and send the correct keys for you, or it could provide a menu item like Move Cursor To Beginning Of Line Inside Shell ⌘← and then send CtrlA behind the scenes. But I guess Apple engineers thought that if you venture in CLI territory you know its idiosyncrasies.

As a side note, Terminal provides Option← and Option→ which behaves in bash as you would expect and moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous/next word. That's because these key combinations are mapped to Escb and Escb (see man bash, section "Commands for Moving" for more information). In vi, for example, only the latter (kind of) works (at the end of this answer I'll show how to configure vi to work with Option← and Option→).

But thanks to Automator, AppleScript and bash aliases you can get ⌘← and ⌘→ to work with bash (and possibly other shells) and vi.

The first step is to map ⌘← and ⌘→ to CtrlA and CtrlE. In a second step, I'll show you how to configure vi to honor CtrlA and CtrlE (which, as a result, will make vi compatible with ⌘← and ⌘→).

Map ⌘← and ⌘→ to CtrlA and CtrlE

In Terminal, go to Preferences...>Settings>[your active profile]>Keyboard:

Press +, select "Cursor Left", "Control-Shift" as modifier and action "Send Text:". Then press CtrlA (\001 will appear in the text field) and confirm with OK:

(In a previous version of this answer I used "Shift" as a modifier. I've noticed that this setting conflicts with ⌘shift←, which shows the previous Terminal tab, if you don't let go of ⌘ immediately. Using "Control-Shift" fixes that.)
Now add a key combination for "Cursor Right", but  press CtrlE (\005 will appear in the text field). Confirm with OK.
Open Automator (for example, hit ⌘space to bring up Spotlight and type Automator), select File>New and choose Service:

Drag Run AppleScript to the right pane:

Type the following script:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "Terminal"
            key code 123 using {shift down, control down}
        end tell
    end tell
end run

and save as Move Cursor to Beginning of Line:

Repeat steps 4. to 6. with this script:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "Terminal"
            key code 124 using {shift down, control down}
        end tell
    end tell
end run

and save as Move Cursor to End of Line:

This is what Terminal>Services looks like now:

Configure vi to honor CtrlA and CtrlE

Open .bashrc with your favorite editor and add this line:

alias vi='vim -c "map <C-A> 0" -c "map <C-E> $" -c "map <Esc>b B" -c "map <Esc>f E"'

The first two map commands tell vim to interpret ControlE and ControlA as $ and 0, which move the cursor to the beginning or end of line, respectively.

The last two map commands tell vim to move the cursor one word at a time as you would expect when pressing option← and Option→.

Caveats

You will notice that there is a short delay between the moment you press ⌘← or ⌘→ and the moment the cursor actually moves.

Bear in mind that it will only work for programs that honor CtrlA/CtrlE, so you may still want to learn the specific key combinations of each program you use in Terminal.

(Tested on macOS Sierra 10.12.4)


Builtin terminal app seems to be eating some character sequences on clipboard paste

This was due to the ~/.inputrc  . I had the following keystroke in there:
"jj": vi-movement-mode

The base36 encoded dns name from aws happened to contain jj.  I have commented out the jj from my ~/.inputrc to resolve


Do you have this setting enabled?

If you don't, you can still use fn-control-F2 to move focus to the menu bar.


How to upgrade from iOS 4 to iOS 6 without losing app data

Make a backup and then restore the backup once the update has finished.

A step by step guide is available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4972, which states the following:

To update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from iOS 4 to iOS 5 or later, you must erase and restore your device first, before completing the update.

As part of the update and restore process, iTunes will (in order):

Back up key elements of your device, such as settings, Contacts,
Calendars, Notes, and your Camera Roll. iTunes will not, however,
back up media content from your iOS device, such as music, apps,
books, movies, and TV shows.
Update your device to the latest version of iOS software.
Restore your device from your most recent backup.
Restart your device.
Sync back media content from your iTunes Library to your device.


Two other easy options to find where an iTunes file is downloaded:

(1.) Locate the file in your libary, right-click it, select "Get Info" and go to the "File" tab to see the full path.

(2.) Locate the file in your libary, right-click it, select "Show in Finder" if, for example, you want to play the media in a different application.


How to restart/delete game data on iPhone 6 IOS 11?

You cannot restart clash of clans even if you delete the app, the only way to restart it is to both delete the app and also log out of gamecenter and sign into gamecenter with a different Apple ID.


There is a nice set of procedures to follow:

Can't log out of someone else's find my iphone without their icloud password

If you can go to the settings app and erase all content and settings, you don't need to mess with Activation Lock or contacting Apple or the employee. If not, then you can start with the linked question for a playbook to solve your dilemma.

Here are the options to bypass Activation Lock:

How can I bypass Activation Lock?

In your case, your Apple Sadler rep or service organization will need to verify that it is a company owned device unless you have an MDM that uses device enrollment program (Apple DEP).


How to make ''sudo launchctl limit' change permanent?

You can create a launch daemon to run that command on every startup. Create /Library/LaunchDaemons/private.maxfiles.plist with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>private.maxfiles</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>launchctl</string>
            <string>limit</string>
            <string>maxfiles</string>
            <string>10240</string>
            <string>10240</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>


Missing HDD space after diskutil command

Your free space is before the container, not after it. In order to expand it, you need free physical space after the container. You could try using a live CD (such as GNU Parted) to physically relocate the blocks of the APFS container to start at 409640, but this is perilous and should not be done without a backup.


How can I extract the *.icns from the Get Info dialog?

You can mark it in the Get Info dialog, go Edit → Copy, switch to Preview, and select File → New from clipboard.


OS X 10.7.4 Wi-Fi 802.11d network interface country code switching

Not that I am aware of (Believe me I've looked). I had this issue too (See my blog post here: http://jeff-with-a-g.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/5ghz-wifi-on-your-mac-got-you-down.html).

In the end I had to choose a channel that worked in all of the regulatory domains that my neighbours' wireless access points were broadcasting. That may be a bit trickier in Europe given the smaller number of channels available.

This doesn't seem to affect Macs running Snow Leopard so I guess it's an issue with Lion. Maybe Mountain Lion will provide a fix.


No don't update the Apple supplied ruby as that could affect existing ruby scripts and will get overridden in a System Upgrade.

To install ruby see the Download Ruby page from the ruby language website (the main page of which you should have bookmarked)

The two ways that you should consider are

Download the RVM. Then edit your .bash_profile to put the bin path
of the install at the front of your PATH.
Use a package manager (e.g. Macports, Fink, Homebrew) and put their
path at the front of your PATH ( I would use this only if you have C   libraries that you need as well)


Problem installing IguanaTex on Mac (can't find `.dylib` file)

According to the readme you are referring to, all the required files are on https://github.com/ray851107/IguanaTexMac/releases.


give another user permissions on folder, but not on parent folders

I would put that folder into the Shared Folder as that way there is no possibility of them getting into other folders.
You can always keep a backup of that same folder in your home directory.


Time Machine stopped working after upgrading to Yosemite

I had the same problem.  At the Apple troubleshooting site, it stated that the initial backup after an upgrade will take a long time.  I hit "Back Up Now" before bed, and when I got up in the morning, it had completed the Back Up.  After the initial Back Up, it works just fine now!


That link you have is not correct.

Use this link for your app

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/net-ma-que-mjmobairu/id666206963?mt=8

or from the source: http://sega-mj.com/


Is a 16GB iPhone supposed to only have 11GBs available?

You can check on Apple's storage capacity guide here, but in short may be caused by two factors:

The system reserves a portion of your storage for itself, system files, system partitions, buffer, metadata, etc. Regarding this, I am not entirely sure how much capacity this stuff uses, but you cannot delete it; iOS needs it to run.
When they say that the phone includes a 16GB flash drive, they mean 16000000000 bytes (decimal system), which is about 14,89 GB in binary system (1024*1024*1024=1GB). As the guide says:

  The way decimal and binary numeral systems measure a GB is what causes a 32 GB storage device to appear as approximately 28 GB when detailed by its operating system, even though the storage device still has 32 billion bytes (not 28 billion bytes), as reported.


How to make a custom keyboard layout be recognized as Latin so I can remove the US default layout?

I solved this by setting the keyboard id to 1.


How can I move an iTunes library from one computer to another?

Yes, simply coping your entirely iTunes folder to an other computer will do the trick. This assumes all of your media is consolidated within the iTunes Media and iTunes Music folders. iTunes will assist in copying music to the folder and organizing a library if you would like to ensure all the media is portable when it comes time to transfer.

Do not forget to reauthorize the old computer if you are not going to use it regularly in case it crashes and one of your 5 slots is taken up. You can reset things after a lost computer, but it is somewhat time restricted to prevent abuse of that feature.


How to get iTerm to properly send the CTRL-. sequence?

You can view Emacs' key bindings by typing C-h, b. If you then search the help text for C-. you'll find this mapping:

M-[ 2 7 ; 5 ; 4 6 ~ C-.

The ESC [ … ~ sequence is used to send arbitrary key combinations numerically, primarily for combinations that don't map to a specific character. Since Control-Period doesn't map to a character that can be sent to a terminal, map it to the character sequence ESC [ 2 7 ; 5 ; 4 6 ~ (without the spaces).

The second parameter in the escape sequence is a number representing the modifier keys and the third parameter is the base character. The modifier-key values are described at the end of the PC-Style Function Keys section of the XTerm Control Sequences documentation.


Your DVD drive is probably done.
It's usual so what you can do is

use external DVD drive or
find a friend with a Mac and restore you DVD to 8GB+ flash drive (partitioned as GUID) through Disk Utility or
buy the latest Mac OS X (check if your Mini support it though) and restore it to USB flash drive.
You can also install Mac OS X on your HDD while put it in external box and using another mac.

Use option key to boot from flash drive.


Can VLC output video through HDMI adapter to TV on first gen iPad?

According to Apple's documentation, the AV Adapter for iOS supports mirroring only on the iPad 2. On the iPad and iPhone, video out has to be supported by the app itself, whether Apple designed it (YouTube) or a third party app (Netflix, Hulu).

Because VLC for iOS hasn't been updated in quite a while (indeed its no longer available on the App Store for legal reasons), I wouldn't be surprised that the VLC app just does not support video out, although I don't know for sure if that's the case.

There is recourse if you jailbreak, DisplayOut, which enables mirroring on VGA, HDMI, component, or composite outputs for the original iPad, iPhone, and fourth gen iPod Touch. If you are able to install this you would then be able to output VLC on your iPad via the HDMI adapter.


60Hz.

Apple DTS has not changed any of their answers about 60Hz refresh rates with respect to any device model, and no one has reported any higher rate.

Update: In 2017, Apple introduced new iPad Pro devices capable of higher display refresh rates than 60 Hz.


How do I find the Microsoft Word normal user template?

~/Library is an usually invisible folder in your user folder.

You may access the folder by entering "~/Library" after choosing Go -> Got to Folder… in the menubar while Finder is the front app.

Alternatively you may open your user folder and change the view options by choosing View -> Show View Options… and enable "Show Library Folder".

Now navigate to ../Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates and change the normal.dotm as you need.


How can I disable Universal Clipboard on macOS and iOS?

Disabling Handoff is currently the only way to disable Universal Clipboard.

Mac: Go to System Preferences > General > uncheck Allow Handoff
iPhone: Go to Settings > General > Handoff > uncheck Handoff

Just so you know, Handoff uses a secure communication channel to transfer information between devices signed into the same Apple ID.

Data does not travel to Apple's servers or even over the internet. Devices advertise availability to each other via Bluetooth and data is transmitted over Wi-Fi, but only on the local network.


Apple TV: Connect to multiple Home Sharings

It is not currently possible to set up Home Sharing with multiple Apple IDs on an Apple TV. As far as I can tell there is no way to share an iTunes library with Apple TV without setting up Home Sharing.


Recover iPad Safari bookmarks overwritten by iCloud

The only way is to restore from a useful backup, if you have one.

If you sync the iPad to iTunes and use Time Machine regularly, you would likely have the appropriate backup to restore from. In that case:

Restore the iPad backup set from Time Machine from a date before you overwrote the bookmarks. The location of the backup is ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ (you can get to it by pressing Cmd+Shift+G in the Finder and entering this path).
Connect the iPad, run iTunes and restore from the backup.

If you use iCloud Backup, then you can restore from iCloud and choose which date's backup you'd like to restore from. You can check if you're using iCloud Backup by opening the Settings app on the iPad, then going to the iCloud submenu and looking at the status right below "Storage & Backup", where it would say "iCloud Backup is off." (or "iCloud Backup is on.", as the case may be).

In any case, keep in mind that restoring from a backup means you lose all application data changes after the date of the backup.

Also see Restoring from a previous iCloud backup.


MacOS: How to turn off Option key printing special characters in VS Code, IntelliJ etc

Most code editors like IntelliJ, VSCode etc have many shortcuts using the 'option' key in mac. For me, using the option key would cause a special character to be printed instead of performing the shortcut.

How to fix this:

Go to system preferences > keyboard.

My Keyboard was set to 'ABC - extended'. Which had special characters turning up on pressing the 'option' key. I Changed the keyboard to 'ABC' , ie, one without the extension part.

Problem solved.

Why? Coz the 'ABC' keyboard doesnt have the special characters in them :)


How to tell Mac Mail that a sender isn't spam?

Lets assume your email provider is gmail.

If that person is marked as Junk Mail in gmail, it will be forwarded as such to your Apple Mail.

To fix it go to your gmail (web site) and fix it there.


Unremovable partition after trying to install ubuntu

If you are using El Capitan (OS X 10.11), then the document you are referencing will not work as expected.

As for your question. The command below will remove the Linux Swap partition.

sudo diskutil erasevolume "Free Space" "" /dev/disk0s3

The next command expands your Macintosh HD volume to contain the free space.

sudo diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 R

  Note: I am not sure if the prefix sudo is necessary. (But, it will do no harm if you include the sudo)


Get a list of application binary types - Intel or Universal

Basically I just want a list of application names and the application type (Intel or Universal).

Testing as both an Admin and Standard account, under macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 on a MacBook Pro with an Intel CPU, and I believe it should also work on an Apple M1.
Apple menu > About This Mac > System Report > Applications > Kind
Or in Terminal:
system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType


Quickly save Screenshot in MacOS Mojave with keyboard Shortcut

Didn't realise that keyboard shortcut was asked. Jump right to the last para.

You can look at the screenshot in the bottom right corner of the screen. If you think that the SS was taken fine, you can swipe right on it with two fingers(like in Safari) and it will be saved at that moment.

You can edit it(or maybe not) by clicking on it and then done and share etc will be there.

You can also drag and drop it if supported by places you want to use the SS at so immediately.

The question you linked didn't mention "remember selection" in options of cmd+shift+5. So if you uncheck it and the said shortcut, instant saving!


History of downloaded iBookstore samples?

I was able to recover the list of all books in iBooks, including sample chapters, with the following steps:

Select a tool to parse iPhone/iPad backups on your hard drive. Google for "iphone backup extractor", there are various.
Select a recent iPhone/iPad backup from the list presented by your extractor software.
Select iBooks as the app you wish to extract.
Search for a file called iBooks_v10252011_2152.sqlite, or something like that.
Use a SQLite viewer (such as Base on the Mac) to view the ZBKBOOKINFO table.
Look for the ZBOOKTITLE field - this should contain a list of all your books, including sample chapters, from the time of the backup!
If you want to get fancy, try sorting on the ZSAMPLECONTENT field.


How to Disable USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 while keeping USB 1.0/1.1 on Mac Mini?

All Intel-based USB host controllers use hardware-based DMA engine to execute linked list of TD (transaction descriptors) from main memory. This is/was true for all three of them, UHCI, EHCI, and latest xHCI. More, in recent Intel platforms the UHCI (which did handle full-speed and low-speed) is now abandoned.

In intermediate USB architectures (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, series 7 chipsets) the only remaining controllers were EHCI and xHCI, which is still an eclectic mix. Funny, it looks like the FS/LS modes are handled via xHCI (USB3) controller if the EHCI controller determines that the attached device is LS or FS, and mark port ownership to "companion controller".

In recent USB architectures there is only one, xHCI type of controllers, which handles all modes (SS, HS, FS, and LS) uniformly via the same DMA access method.

So this is highly unlikely that you can avoid using xHCI USB 3.0 controller if you still want your USB keyboard and mouse.

You can try to use a regular HS hub to connect your keyboard and mouse. In this case the traffic will be controlled via EHCI HS controller (if this is C216 chipset), and xHCI can be disabled, if EHCI makes you feel more secure.


I've installed a new version of Safari and now it refuses to open and doesn't allow me to downgrade

Please consider marking this question as complete if my answer above helped you.

You might want to read this great post here: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57916/…


Is backup mandatory for upgrade to iOS 6 in iPhone 4S?

If everythings runs smoothly (as is usually the case) you won't lose anything, nothing will get deleted.

But even the best engineered update process can fail. So it is best practice to back up an iPhone on a regular basis and specially before updating (like with any other device/computer, for that matter). Why? Because sometimes things go wrong. And a backup is like an insurance policy on your data.

Luckily Apple makes it easy: iTunes always backs up your iPhone before updating. If you prefer an over-the-air update, you can back up you iPhone to iCloud.

(I prefer backing up to iCloud, a friend of mine overwrote the iTunes backup after a failed update and lost all data.)


Terminator (Ubuntu) like app for OS X Yosemite

Use iTerm2. Can do most things that Terminator does.


Yes and no. Because of the host-slave relationship USB is built around this requires specific hardware, namely an active cable with electronics. They're cheap enough though, you can get them on Amazon or similar for ~$10 and up.

Just search for "usb bridge cable".


Can I download iTunes U courses to USB flash drive?

I personally haven't seen an easy setting which will let you choose a destination while the course is being downloaded.

You still have two options:

In iTunes go to Preferences and then select Advanced tab on top. There is an option to change the iTunes Media folder location. You can connect a USB drive and temporarily select that drive for downloads.

I would recommend backing up your iTunes library before you try it out.
Also, don't forget to change it back.

If you have enough space on your hard drive you can wait until the download completes and then copy the downloaded files to any location you want.

iTunes downloads are stored in the following directory usually. (unless one has selected some other location)

  ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media

There are separate folders under this for downloaded Mobile Applications (.ipa) and iTunes U content also.


launchd is not passing arguments to my PHP script

If you edit a .plist you need to run launchctl unload ... and launchctl load ..., otherwise the system will keep using the previous (cached) version.


Changing the default size of iTerm2 when it opens

The easiest way to have iTerm2 open with a specific size, position and number of windows is:

Get it all set up the way you'd like to see it when it opens. Have all your iTerm2 windows sized and place where you like them.
From the top menu select Window -> Save Window Arrangement and give it a name
Go to the Preferences and under the Arrangements section find the named arrangement, select it and press the Set Default button

Go to the General page and select Open default window arrangement

Now, when you start iTerm2, it'll use your saved arrangement to place, size and create the number of windows you saved. You can adjust the settings any time by placing things as you like them and re-saving the default arrangement.


I replaced the cable, and everything is now back to normal. So, as I suspected, the cable was the culprit.

Instructions on how to replace the SATA cable is easily found online

(search for things like replace hard drive cable macbook).

The only tricky part was to connect the sleep LED to the cable, but if you just check how the old cable is connected you'll be fine.


How can I get the music I've put onto my iPhone from CDs onto my new MacBook if theres no CD drive?

You are looking for iTunes Match.  It's a $24.99 a year add-on that will allow you to d/l from iTunes anything you ripped to your iTunes library.  I don't think it works tho from just music already on the phone, it has to be ripped to your library using iTunes.

https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/


How can I increase command line memory_limit for PHP with MAMP PRO?

Instead of guessing which php.ini you need to alter, run this command to locate the file:

php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep 'php.ini'

Even though I use MAMP PRO, by default my command-line PHP commands are not executed using their copy of PHP. In my case it says the file is found at /etc/php.ini

Once you have located the file, follow the instructions on all of the other answers to bump the memory_limit setting:

memory_limit = 256M


Linked MBP to my account even after erase

First things first, the reason your MacBook Pro is still linked to your Apple ID is because you need to sign out of iCloud on that device. Reformatting the hard drive is not enough.
The What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac page on Apple's website provides a good summary of what users should do.
As for the screen in your screenshot, it's not letting you change the "email address" because it's actually prompting you to enter the password for the Apple ID (in this case, the Apple ID being the same as your old email address). The fact that it's an old email address is irrelevant, as it's still an Apple ID attached to you.
All you need to do is enter the password for that Apple ID to access iCloud etc.
If the Apple ID you used with that MacBook Pro was in fact another Apple ID, then you'll need to log into that iCloud account instead.
NOTE: Assuming your MacBook Pro has a fresh installation of macOS, you could just go into System Preferences to log out of iCloud etc. and that should disassociate that Mac from your Apple ID.


If I buy an iPhone app will I have to re-purchase the app if I get a new iPhone?

No, you will not be charged. You can re-download them in iTunes or directly on the phone. You'll have to hit the "buy" button, but after it starts downloading, you should see a message saying you already bought it once. The alert box includes a button to go ahead and re-download the app, which you will then not be charged for.


Try the Finder keyboard shortcut Option-Command-M. Other very handy shortcuts are available on this article at the Apple Support site. Hope this helps.


How do I remove the iCloud symbol when trying to download an app?

Tap the cloud to download. The iCloud symbol just means you can download the app from your purchase history.


Can we view or edit HostName value via macOS desktop UI?

There's no place in the GUI to change it, because it's typically set by an external source.
Your hostname is determined by the following (in order):

name supplied by DHCP/BOOTP server
name returned by a reverse DNS lookup
the localhost name (what was used to set LocalHostName value)
name acutal name localhost

Most routers now have the ability to "register" the DHCP lease in the DNS resolver cache.  So, what's happening is this...
At some point, your Mac didn't exist as a DHCP mapping or DNS entry on your router.  When it connected, it sent a request which included it's preferred hostname along with a request for an address.  That preferred hostname defaulted to your LocalHostName as the first two conditions would have returned nothing.  When you got the address, it "registered" that hostname with an IP.
Now, you want to change the name, but it keeps coming back to the original host - this is because the router now "knows" your machine has having that name and will overwrite it per DNS (which takes priority).
TL;DR
That name is coming from your DHCP Server and/or DNS chache.  If you want to clear that out and set a new one, you'll have to do it at the router.


How to change the 9AM default for all-day Calendar events

This question is for previous macOS version.

The time can be changed in macOS 10.14.3 Mojave:


iBooks has moved to the iBooks app - you should have seen this splash screen the first time you opened the Books tab...

BTW, the current iTunes is 11.4

You sync the same way as before, from iTunes...


Applescript to open all files in a folder and convert to PDF with Preview

It needs to be "Export as PDF…" not "Export as PDF...",  note that the first example has an actual ellipsis, not like in your code, the second example, three dots after PDF.

Also, as an example in Preview under macOS 10.12.5 Sierra that I tested this under, you can also use:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Preview"
    click menu item 14 of of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
end tell

Note: Obviously under different versions of OS X/macOS "Export as PDF…" may be a different menu item number or that command may not exist in that form.

To address the comment, I'd use the following instead of what you currently have:

tell application "System Events"
    click menu item "Export as PDF…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1 of application process "Preview"
    delay 0.2
    click button "Save" of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process "Preview"
end tell

Leaving out keystroke return from the code.

Note: The value of the delay command may need to be adjusted for your system.


Does high-availability VM for Mac OS X exist?

Yes, high-availability for macOS definitely exists.
As on Windows, you cannot just push some magical button and have any computer with whatever generic software suddenly run in a HA system, being it active/passive or active/active.
The way to setup a HA system depends on the services you want the system to offer. Is it a highly available network storage system you require? - is it a highly available build server? is it a highly available rendering system?
In some cases it is not optimal to use virtual machines at all, but rather use software running bare-metal to implement the highly available services.
In other cases, you can use VMs to have an easier way to implement for example an active/passive fail-over style high availability. This usually comes with some draw backs, but they are the same here as in an Windows environment.
One of the simplest setups here is to have the virtual machine disk itself be stored on a storage system shared by a pair of Mac Minis (or more). The storage system itself needs to be highly available as well. You would then replicate the configuration of the virtual machine between the two Mac Minis, implement a heart beat system and have the passive computer automatically take over when the heart beat stops. Typically this is a type of STONITH, which can be implemented in multiple ways.
A well known industry implementation of such a simple system is the VMware vSphere HA system, where you basically run ESXi on the Mac Minis and use vSphere with vSphere HA to do monitoring and automatic failover. The shared storage system can be implemented in many different ways (although most have drawbacks).


Is there any better solution to protecting tabs from being lost?

This answer isn't meant to be flippant or disparaging in any way.  The purpose here is to present a critical evaluation exercise to evaluate the scenario from a wider perspective.

Closed windows and tabs should be effortlessly retrievable, in my opinion. Is there any clear solution to this? Is there a browser extension, perhaps?

Emphasis mine.
There's no problem to solve
There's no solution because there's no problem to be solved.  As far as a browser extension goes, I'm assuming you searched but couldn't find one.  Let's examine why....
As you state, it's your opinion that closed windows and tabs should be "effortlessly retrievable." I'm sure there are many people who agree with you.  However, there are many who believe the opposite, that a closed window should be closed and the data irretrievable (i.e. for privacy and security reasons).  So, given that there are two entirely conflicting positions, where does the developer land?
Exactly where it is now.
Existing functionality
Why?  Because there are existing remedies to dealing with accidentally closed windows:

There is the "trick" that allows you to see some of the recently closed tabs
Your browsing history is available

Nothing is without limitations
As you state, "it's not sufficient."  Unfortunately, no application on your iPad (or any device for that matter) is without a constraint.  You mentioned "500 windows," if Apple were to "solve" this tomorrow, you'd have someone complaining that it's not 600.  "Going through your history isn't much of a solution because you have so much to scour through" is not a failure or shortcoming of the app.

Solution: Structure your workflow in line with the tool

...it didn’t record the closed tabs of my entire closed window...

Why would it?  It already tracks your browsing history.  This expectation is outside the functionality of every other app and how they manage windows.  If they record or remember anything, it's usually the file or workspace you recently had open, but that's what history is.
If you have that many windows open (and I'm assuming they're all important), it's up to you to record what you deem necessary to remember.  I too, have many windows open however, when something is important, I take an active step to ensure that the window I'm on somehow gets recorded for posterity; and Apple gives you a way to do this: the Share function.

There are so many destinations you can send your page to:

Contact as a message or email,
AirDrop it to another device
Copy the link
Add a bookmark
add to your reading list
print it
Send it to Notes, OneNote, Evernote, etc.  I use OneNote extensively and if there's a tab I want to keep it get's sent to OneNote.

This requires you to make a small change in your workflow - if you see something important, make a note of it.  You won't have to scour history, you eliminate the imposed limitations of Safari and it will be flexible enough that you decide what should be retained and what shouldn't.
The bottom line is not to be too quick to perceive a fault or failure of an application because it doesn't meet a standard you've defined for yourself.  Many times, the "solution to the problem" is actually there, but we need to take a step back to see it.  Sometimes it requires modifying our workflow rather than the software.


Why can't Siri show me pictures of my mom?

Unfortunately it takes queries literally for now.

Currently Photos.app in iOS 10.0.1 does not support connections (my mom, my wife, my brother, etc.). Or, to frame it in another way, Siri does not even try to detect connections when asking for photos.

The same happens when you start a web search like "Search the web for (…)". Even if you include "my dad" in this command, Siri will not replace it with your dad's name.

You can (and should) send a feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback


Incorrectly labelled albums in Apple Music

Pulling down the comment above, since it satisfactorily answered my question, and it seems this question will not be receiving more activity anytime soon.

  It's possible that the problem is not with Apple's database - it may be in the catalog/meta data that the music publisher supplied. It's not unusual to see this on CDs. I'd suggest: Don't Worry Be Happy – Seamus Mar 2 '19 at 5:08


Short answer, yes, long answer, it's going to be a lot more trouble than it's worth. You'll have to constantly swap between them to get downloads/updates etc.

Each app/book/tune etc, even the iOS itself belongs to the account that purchased it.

If you really must have 2 IDs on one phone, the best solution is probably to set up Family Sharing & join both IDs to the same 'family'.


My Mac keeps adding double spaces randomly when I type

I had a client with this exact same problem late last year, turns out it was a faulty keyboard and not software related. I would recommend you check your purchase date, see how the warranty looks in your territory and take it back to Apple for advice and repair/replacement.

It's a known problem with some (but not all) 2018 MacBook Pros:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9isi10/mbp2018_spacebar_double_space_is_this_a_common/
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/macbook-pro-air-keyboard-problems


100C (212F) is the thermal limit for the intel processor in your machine. The computer will shut itself down to prevent damage if necessary. This means a sustained and significant increase above that threshold. Not a spike. The temperatures you report are within normal operating temperatures based on the usage. Tips, moving forward:

Keep your Firmware up to date.
Make sure the back vents are not covered or obstructed in any way. This ensures proper ventilation.
Don’t manually adjust the fan settings, or the like, using applications like “iStat Menus." The firmware in your machine is very good (better than you, or I, or any human being) at keeping the machine cool and dissipating the heat produced from CPU/GPU intensive processes.

Bottom Line: This is completely normal behavior and nothing to worry about.


Add all songs from Top Charts to a playlist

This would be a neat feature, but there is no way to do this.

And, to be honest, I think it'd be tricky to implement without also providing the user a number of options they need to select.

The problem is that songs in the top charts are constantly changing, so the user would need a way of choosing how this is managed?

For example, let's say it's a Top 50 chart:

Once the songs are downloaded, do they remain downloaded when they are no longer in the Top 50?
Should the playlist auto update when the Top 50 changes?
If not, how long should the playlist exist before it does check the Top 50 again?
What about the ordering of songs? Should they remain in Chart order? If so, should the playlist reflect the current order at any given point of time?

The list goes on...

However, the idea does have merit. I suggest you send Apple feedback about this. I know they're focusing quite strongly on Apple Music etc and something like this is certainly worthy of consideration. I'd make sure your feedback covers the fact that you've considered some of the issues of implementing this and, if possible, suggest how you'd deal with those.


I use Adobe Bridge, which comes with lots of Adobe apps (list, starting at $250).
It does all you want, and a lot of other stuff too.

Some of my favorite features, other than those that you mentioned:

Full-screen previews
Powerful batch renaming
Cache export
Configurability / flexibility
Speed

Another option is Adobe Lightroom ($250). It combines a Bridge-like manager with a reasonably-powerful editor.

I realize that Bridge and Lightroom certainly aren't free, but Bridge really is my favorite image manager.
If you want something that's free, the built-in iPhoto app is a good option, although it's far less powerful. It's got some nice features like face recognition and location-based sorting.


I am not sure if it is only with the most recent model, but apparently by default it is set to go into deep sleep after a few hours, and this turns the power light off entirely.

This thread on AVForums provides a command that should disable deep sleep, if that is what you want.

pmset -g
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0

After entering this it will prompt you for your password.


How can I install iOS 7 on my 4th gen iPod touch?

No, iOS 7 is not compatible with the 4th generation iPod touch.


How do I export contact photos from iCloud?

When exporting vCard from iCloud Web app, the image data is not included in the card. Contact profile picture in such cases can be extracted using the included Web Developer Tools in your Web browser. The procedure is almost similar for all modern Web browsers, I'll use Safari as an example here.

Developer Tools are not enabled by default in Safari. To enable them open Safari preferences by going to Menu bar → Safari → Preferences.. or use the keyboard shortcut Command + ,. Now go to Advanced tab and check Show Develop menu in menu bar.

Now open Contacts section in iCloud Web app and select the desired contact. Once you have selected the contact, right click on the profile picture and select Inspect Element from the context menu. This is generally the last item in the menu.

Clicking on the Inspect Element item will open the Web Inspector, a tool generally used for Web design and development.

As you can see, the Web inspector has opened with a node pre-selected (basically an HTML image tag) corresponding to the profile picture selected. Within the tag, you'll be able to see an item similar to:

href="https://p12-contacts.icloud.com:..."

which is a hyperlink. Simply click on the link. It will display the original image assigned to the contact under the Resources tab in Web Inspector.

Voila! you have the contact profile picture. Simply drag the image to Finder to save it.


How to connect to Microsoft Windows machine using host name only via Microsoft Remote Desktop

Your best bet is to set up a static DHCP lease in your router and specify the host name.

Since you are using a home network, I am going under the assumption you are using a consumer grade "router" to connect to the Internet.  It's also your DHCP server, your DNS server (repeater), and your WiFi access point.

Somewhere in your router's setup, there is an option for static DHCP leases.  What you do is take the MAC address of your Windows machine, pick an IP address (I like to go outside the pool) and make an entry for a lease.  You can enter a hostname here as well.

The static lease means your device still get's its IP via DHCP, but the DHCP server will always hand out the same IP when requested.  Once you do that, it will cache the DNS host name.  So, from any computer on your home network, you will be able to connect to it.


How to stop skype from automatically starting?

Alternate Method (for Snow Leopard and possibly * Lion):

Open System Preferences
Select "Accounts"
Select your user account
Select "Login Items" at the top
Remove "Skype"

Ta-da!


How to setup a specific application to open all files with unknown extension

I don't think that's possible. OS's usually needs register how to handle each file first.

But it's not all lost: here is a situation that Automator can handle easily.

Here I'll show you, how to create a item menu in the right click context menu, that you can easily select to open your file, better than Open With option.

Steps:

Create a new Service with Automator.

Set files or folders in the first field and Finder.app in the second.

Add an action called ‘Open Finder Items’ and select your application.

For last, save it and name it as you wish.

Now, if you need open a file with unknown extension, just right click and select your newly created service.

‘Define application for files’ action does not work for file extension, is just for a particular file.


OS X Mavericks - Have to pull mouse down on full-screen app to see dock

This seems to be the new gesture in Mavericks.  It used to be that you had to pull the mouse/trackpad down twice in quick succession.  Now you just have to hold the mouse/trackpad down at the bottom of the screen.  I had not figured this one out before reading your post, so thank you.  I have found nothing about this anywhere else. Apparently, this gesture cannot be changed.


Another ID was used to download a game and now I want to do an in-app purchase with my ID

This has already been answered and unfortunately you'll have to delete and reinstall, but you can backup the settings first and most likely maintain your game state:

How can I make in-app purchases with a different Apple ID than the app was purchased with?


How do I sync Outlook 2011 and Google Calendar?

I don't believe this feature is available yet (ever?).  You may be able to get this going by having Outlook sync with your iCal, and have iCal sync with your Google cal.  Even that though, (Outlook sync with iCal) isn't available yet, and probably the biggest gripe Mac users have with Outlook ATM.  I wouldn't be too surprised if there's a 3rd party plugin or piece of software that will do that for you by now.  Honestly though, I think you're out of luck.


How can I avoid that my wife’s iPad sounds an alarm every time I add an event to a shared calendar in iCal?

This can be done in the Notifications settings.

How to adjust notifications for iOS Calendar

On the iPad:

Go to Settings
Select Notifications
Select Calendar
Select Shared Calendar Changes
Select Sounds
Select None

One can also adjust several other types of notifications as well or even completely disable notifications for the Calendar app.

Another setting to look at is Do Not Disturb
This can be set manually or on a schedule.

From the settings:

  When Do Not Disturb is enabled, a moon icon will appear in the status bar and incoming FaceTime calls and alerts will be silenced.


Why does Flashlight for Spotlight does not work on El Capitan?

Flashlight for Spotlight works by injecting its own code into the Spotlight process. This is how it manages to "intercept" your interaction with Spotlight in order to enhance it.

El Capitan comes with "System Integrity Protection" (SIP) enabled by default. Amongst other things, SIP protects system processes, such as the Spotlight process, from code injection from other processes. Another example is that you can cannot attach a debugger to a system process when SIP is enabled. Therefore Flashlight for Spotlight cannot, in a factory default install, inject its code into Spotlight - and thus it doesn't work.

You can relatively easy disable SIP by booting to Recovery Mode and running csrutil disable and rebooting. It can be enabled again by running csrutil enable in Receovery mode. again.

If you disable SIP you can use Flashlight for Spotlight on El Capitan, but will miss out on the protection you get from having SIP enabled.


Can Lion detect 1920x1200 screen resolution?

The current 17" MacBook Pro which ships with Lion also has a native resolution of 1920 x 1200:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-17inch.html

My guess is Making a new user or booting into safe mode will help you sort out whether something got munged in your user account in the Lion install.


iphone 6 iOS 8 : Is my multitasking broken or am I doing something wrong?

Double click the home button. Double tapping without clicking will do as you have observed.

Be sure to depress the home button twice.

The behavior of the double tap is to allow for easy reach of the top of the interface when using one hand.


Newest version of HomeBrew, versions no longer supported

brew tap homebrew/versions

then:

brew install homebrew/versions/grails23

brew search grails will show you all the available ones to install.


Allow system to sleep even with audio stream running

You can use a third party tool like Power Manager to make your Mac sleep after a period of inactivity.

Unlike OS X's Energy Saver, Power Manager can put your unused Mac to sleep even when an application or process has requested otherwise.

Disclaimer: I wrote Power Manager and can answer comments about how it works.


You can use brctl like brctl log --wait. When it stops showing messages it's synced.

There seems to be a lot of options and little information. This blog post might be helpful


How can I make Logitech a 4K PRO MAGNETIC WEBCAM work with a mid-2011 Mac mini?

Thanks to Steve Chambers and bmike.
Logitech did respond after a little while, and advised that I return the webcam. I returned it to the Apple shop, which reimbursed me.


Using automator and AppleScript to move a file to a different folder and subfolder based on name and content of a file

Thanks to @Solar Mike, I've tried line by line and found how to do it.
My code :

on run {input, parameters}
    set theFile to input as text
    set yearName to ((characters 34 thru -1 of theFile) as string) --trim first 35
    set yearName to ((characters 1 thru -22 of yearName) as string) --trim last 23
    set monthName to ((characters 39 thru -1 of theFile) as string)
    set monthName to ((characters 1 thru -19 of monthName) as string)
    set destinationFolder to ("Macboot :Travail en cours:Google Drive:Company:Comptabilité:" & yearName & ":" & monthName & ":Compte Transferwise 1:Relevé PDF + fichier CSV:" as text)
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        move theFile to destinationFolder -- use "copy source_file to folder (target_folder as alias)" to copy the files
    end tell
    set result to {yearName, monthName, theFile, destinationFolder}
    return result
end run

The problem from my early attempt was just with "copy" copying the name, not the file. But as I need it to be moved, now it's good.


Blue means the contact is using the Message app on an Apple device (either desktop or mobile). Green means the contact is only available via traditional cellular SMS messaging protocol (i.e. not using an Apple device).


Doing a clean install of Mavericks and installing iWorks 09 and the new iWorks for OS 10.9x

Or if it feels safer:
1)  make a clone or Time Machine backup of your current OS before upgrade. 2) Once you have the clean install working effectively, make a copy of your previous OS clone (call it Clone2)
3) Mount Clone 2, delete all applications except iWork 09 (and any others you want to port).
4) Open Migration assistant and check 'Applications' only. Commit.

MA will now copy iWork O9 and its preferences / key to the new OS without affecting anything else.

Caveat(s):
- This may overwrite iWork preferences for a later version - but generally not on Apple as they are named differently. For example, I have 4 versions of Apple iMovie on one of my Macs for old projects.
- Bear in mind that porting an older programme over does not ensure that it will run well on the new OS. Make sure that the two are compatible first (forum search). There may be a soft hack to resolve an issue in some cases. For example, I like to run an older version of 'Text Edit' (with zoom control) from 10.6 under 10.8+ although I have to use a command line control to turn off its auto-save feature as this is now done through the OS. Without this it has a constant nag message 'you do not have permission to save this file'.


Load clash of clans village asking me to update - state of village

No. I do that all the time. I have a TH 3 village and a TH 8 village. When switching from my TH 8 to TH 3, it gives me the message. I later switch back to my TH 8 and it is perfectly fine. From here (http://www.reddit.com/r/ClashOfClans/comments/1n51uh/is_it_possible_to_have_2_villages_on_one_device/) it says (quoted from Chief LPFX):

  Each time you switch you will get a Game Center Alert asking you if you want to discard this village and load the other one. You may need to type "CONFIRM" to continue. Don't worry, the other village is not deleted.

So, you can switch between them. The CONFIRM message is just to make sure you didn't mean to accidentally switch.


Xcode 5, 6 and 7 documentation itself is located within:

~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets

You can delete the files and when you re-launch Xcode, it will offer to re-download the current docs if you have automatic updates set.

Before deleting actual documentation, make sure your downloads folder for the images that contain the installers and the documentation are cleaned out:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads

If you do decide to delete the documentation itself you will no longer have access to it through Xcode — so be careful not to delete the Core DocSets, or any others that you might need access to regularly as you don't fail over gracefully to the web documentation.

The documentation that is available for download through XCode is not simply a mirror of what Apple shows online. The docs available online amount to about 1/2 of what is actually available from the more comprehensive downloaded versions. Online documentation can also be updated to a newer build of Xcode, so downloading a copy ensures you have the correct documentation for your version of Xcode.


How long does it take to decrypt a hard drive with FileVault?

It depends.

There's several factors that go into decrypting a drive:

The CPU - how quickly it can "crunch" the numbers to encrypt/decrypt
Whether or not your have a T2 chip
Drive size - bigger means more things to process
Type of drive - SSDs are fairly quick whereas mechanical drives are much, much slower.
How it's connected - USB 2.0 (480Mb/s) versus USB 3.0 (5Gb/s) versus SATA II (3Gb/s) versus SATA III (6Gb/s).  All these different speeds factor in how quickly the decryption process goes.

When I had to do DoD wipes of mechanical drives, many of them were only 250GB, it could take up to 48 hours and it was just a "3 pass of writing zeros".

  So I left my iMac on sleep mode overnight,

When you put your Mac to sleep, it stops the processes.  Don't put it to sleep while decrypting.


Relogin in apple services after Apple ID password is changed

It's not necessary but it's a good practice.  Some services will not work because they can no longer log-in.

The services you use for iCloud, iTunes, etc, will be trying to log-in using an old password.  That will fail and it will prompt you for your password.  This will keep happening until you enter the correct password.

If you want to bypass all those notifications you can log-out and then log-in again with your updated credentials.


I am unable to to project my screen from a Windows laptop to iMac using HDMI to Thunderbolt 2

I am unable to project my screen from a windows laptop to iMac using HDMI to Thunderbolt 2

This is impossible.

First off, there's no such thing as HDMI to Thunderbolt (1, 2 or 3).  Thunderbolt is a multiplexing of several signals:

DisplayPort
PCIe Bus
USB
Power (Thunderbolt 3 only)

HDMI is a video signal and there's no way to convert a video signal to to anything but a video signal.

Secondly,  the requirement to use Target Display Mode (assuming you have a supported iMac) is that it must originate from a  DisplayPort or Thunderbolt port.  It can't originate from HDMI.

Finally, the late 2012 iMac will only support a Thunderbolt connection; DisplayPort is unsupported. So, unless you have a Thunderbolt port on your laptop (your Dell L502X does not), you can't do this.


Connect and disconnect the headset, until the microphone volume is fine. My best guess is that the Macbook "decides" what's the microphone's sensitivity when you connect it, and then it stays constant at the hardware level.


What keyboard shortcuts exist for Notes app is OS X?

The app I use for this is CheatSheet  since some shortcuts come from the system (screen shot, etc..), some come from third party apps, and some are from the app itself.

I count 51 keys active in Notes on my Mac, so I'm not going to list them all. Yours are probably different than mine, since I have third party apps that have services with default keys enabled.

The movement request is best served by Mouse Keys - which came from X11 days and has been chosen/implemented as Apple's accessibility solution for using a number pad instead of the mouse/trackpad for you to navigate to the search field.

https://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/
http://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/


Large external HD array for a Mac mini with RAID to run the Mac mini as a NAS

I have a 2012 Mac mini with a i7 CPU c. 2.5ghz....is there a way I could attach a large external drive array with RAID via USB 3 and run the Mac mini in Server mode to accomplish what i want to do without buying a Synology NAS ?

A "large" enclosure?  No.  The biggest USB 3 Direct Attached Storage device I've seen was a 5 bay unit made by Drobo (I won't have those anywhere near my data centers because of their reliability issues).  Can you expand them?  Sure, by purchasing another enclosure.  As long as you have free USB 3 ports, you can add another unit.

Promise makes the Pegasus 3 Thunderbolt RAID enclosures that can hold up to 8 drives but they're horribly expensive.

So, (IMO) DAS really isn't a cost effective solution in the long run which, ultimately means the Mac mini isn't a great file server to begin with.  Additionally, macOS also lacks critical support for things like iSCSI making it a poor choice for a storage server.

I would go with the NAS as it's much more cost effective, feature rich, and flexible.  To the contrary, running macOS (an OS more oriented to the desktop rather than a server) just adds way too many layers of complexity to your storage equation.


Can I use a different AppleID on my Apple Watch?

Apple has a setup guide for precisely this: Set up an Apple Watch for a family member
Since watchOS 7, you can set up Apple Watch for a family member using a new/separate Apple ID joined to the same Family Sharing group as your primary Apple ID. Choose ‘Set Up for a Family Member’ when prompted in the Watch app to begin the setup process.


Why does my iTerm2 launch with an X in it's path?

You have shell integration installed and the last command executed failed:

Example:

DoesNotExist cmd does not exist, thus an error 127:

  Command status

  The mark on a command line will turn red if a command fails. You can right click the mark to view its return code.

Re: https://iterm2.com/shell_integration.html


Since upgrading to Yosemite, why is the screensaver unresponsive for a few random seconds after it starts?

It likely was screensaver's fault: I was using "Word of the day", it hasn't happened any more since I've switched to "Classic".


Why am I having to pay again to listen to songs I already paid for at the ITunes store?

Do redownload past purchase for free you have to follow this :  https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT201272 other option would probably charge you for multiple reasons


Does iPhone 5 have a low battery warning tone?

No it doesn't have but you can install "Battery Alert" app and it will enable it.


To remove the sim card, insert the sim remover tool (that came in the box, shown below) or any other thing object such as a straightened paper clip, hair clip, etc. into the small hole on the top of the device to extract the sim card tray.


Is it possible to create a Wi-Fi hotspot from iPhone that's not ad-hoc?

In iOS 4.3 there will be Personal Hotspot integrated in firmware. Just wait


Can I manually put an external hard disk to sleep?

Not an exact answer to your question, but when using Terminal.app there is an option to even further reduce hard disk sleep time from 10 minutes to 1 minute, with this command:

$ sudo pmset -a disksleep 1


Multiple “Disk Not Ejected Properly” messages shown after waking from sleep

I started killing processes with "Notification" in their name, and when I hit the one called "NotificationCenter" the smoke finally cleared:

killall NotificationCenter


Separate payment configuration for Apple Music and iCloud Storage

You can't have a separate payment method setup for Apple Music and iCloud storage.

There is a single unified payment method configuration for consuming all the services made available by Apple for an Apple ID.

You can request your company to add funds to your PayPal account or ask them to add funds to your Apple ID.


How to remove highlighting from emails in Mail?

Looks like you can do it by adding a new Rule [I haven't tested it, because I don't want to actually reset my own colours…]

Try setting Any condition > Every Message > Set Colour…

Note: the 'Other colour seems to depend on your current Colour choice in the Colours floater - Format > Show Colours…

You can do it manually, select one message, pick a colour - but it seems very hit & miss, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.


App updates from a different country's iOS App Store?

Yes and no. Let me explain:

You will be able to update the app, but only by logging into the same U.S. Apple ID you used to download the app. You cannot download updates any other way.
Since the app in question is not available in the Turkish App Store, you're also not going to get notified via the App Store of any available updates (i.e. unless you are logged in with the U.S. Apple ID you used to download the app).
However, depending on the app itself, you may get a notification from the developer via the app when an update is available, in which case you know to log in with the U.S. Apple ID you used to download the app in order to install the update.
In the event that the app becomes available in the Turkish App Store at a later date, you will actually start to get notifications via the App Store app when updates are available. However, you would still need to log into the U.S. Apple ID you used to download the app in order to install the update. (NOTE: If this were to happen, you could then delete the app entirely and then redownload it using your Turkish Apple ID in order to manage future updates without the need of the U.S. Apple ID.)


MBA 2008 Model - Mac OS X 10.6.8 is sluggish and I want to revert back to factory settings (OS) but don't want to loose my Office for mac 2008, how?

Snow Leopard is known to be better optimized than Leopard so I'm not sure it would be that great. The main bottleneck in the original Air is the slow as hell hard drive if yours doesn't have an SSD.

Regardless, you should backup your apps and data to an external drive (USB 2.0) and then reinstall the original OS (which if I remember well came in a thumb USB drive with the Air) and then restore your data and apps from the external drive.


Does App transfer between developers necessitate a re-purchase by end users?

There's no 100% certainty here, but let me explain that because it's not as bad as it first sounds.

Assuming your Apple ID has previously purchased the app (either free or paid), then it doesn't matter if the app is installed on any of your current devices. The purchase is in that Apple ID's purchase history and it still has access to both redownload the app and to future updates.

However, the reason this isn't 100% certain is because the developer may choose to no longer offer the app for sale and/or offer the availability of older versions to users who are not on the latest version of iOS. Let me explain with the following scenario.

Scenario

Let's say you purchased app XYZ on an iPhone 6s with iOS 9 installed. You continued to update XYZ from version 1 up to and including version 3. You then purchase an iPhone X (with iOS 11) and decide to start from scratch in terms of what apps you install and you don't install XYZ. In the meantime, the developer of XYZ transfers the app to another developer. This new developer continues to maintain and update the app which is now at version 5.

Apple then releases iOS 13 and the new developer updates XYZ to version 6. However, upon doing so, they decide to edit the list of last compatible app versions so that moving forward only versions 5 and 6 are available for download. However, because you're still on iOS 11, when you try to install the app it isn't available.

Of course, in the above scenario, you could just update to iOS 12 (or iOS 13) and the app will then be available.

Additionally, as alluded to earlier, the developer may choose to remove the app from sale in which case you also will be unable to install it again.

NOTE:- The original/existing developer of an app can also remove it from sale or edit the last compatible app versions list, in which case the end result would be the same.


Script to automatically make a new bookmark folder in Skim for each PDF and store every bookmark created in it's respective folder?

Apparently Skim has a nice Wiki, which covers much, including Wiki: AppleScript and has quite a few scripts available.  One of which is called: Synchronize Folder Bookmark

Also read the section on the Script Menu.

Synchronize Skim Folder Bookmark.scpt

(*
Folder Action script to keep a Skim folder bookmark synchronized with the contents of a folder.
• Save this in ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts
• Select the folder in Finder
• Choose Services > Folder Actions Setup… from the main or contextual menu
• Select this script
*)

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving addedItems
    my synchronizeFolderBookmark(theFolder as alias)
end adding folder items to

on removing folder items from theFolder after losing removedItems
    my synchronizeFolderBookmark(theFolder as alias)
end removing folder items from

on run
    my synchronizeFolderBookmark((choose folder) as alias)
end run

on synchronizeFolderBookmark(theFolder)

    set theName to displayed name of (get info for theFolder)

    tell application "Skim"

        set wasRunning to running

        if (bookmark theName exists) and (type of bookmark theName is folder bookmark) then
            make new bookmark with data theFolder at bookmark theName
        else
            make new bookmark with data theFolder
        end if

        if not wasRunning then quit

    end tell

end synchronizeFolderBookmark


How iPad can run terminal as linux system?

Without jailbreaking you can't really. iOS is designed not to allow executables to be created or even files to be moved between apps. Also there is no terminal.

If you want to build apps for iOS you generally use code on a mac.

However there are some apps that allow programming on the iPad but all run inside the app. Examples of this include Swift Playgrounds from Apple and various interpreters for Python, Javascript and Lua. (I have not provided links as I have not used them and my quick search found low rated or old apps) there are also interpreters that you can build on the Mac and install like Pharo ( a version of smalltalk).


After pressing Command+J, be sure the box is checked under show columns for the parameter you would like to sort by.  Then, in the Finder window, just clicking on the title of the column that you would like to sort by (in your case Date Created) will toggle through the different ways to sort by that parameter.

EDIT: This, unfortunately, only works on List View.


Remember network share user name but not password

How are you connecting? If it's something that lets you enter (& memorize) an explicit URL (e.g. in the Finder's Connect to Server dialog), you can enter the URL in the form "https://username@server". If the URL processing does its job right (the Finder's does), it'll use that as the default username when it asks for authentication.