Route (MacBook Air) audio output through (Dell) LCD Monitor speakers

Okay so a couple of things are at play here. First of all, DVI doesn't carry audio - so even though the Mac's Thunderbolt port is capable of sending audio, when you convert it to DVI that audio stream gets lost. This can get confusing though, because it is possible to send a HDMI signal over a DVI-D cable, which will carry audio. But that's technically not a DVI stream any more.

  A DVI-D source can output HDMI signals including audio (e.g. ATI 3000->series and NVIDIA GTX 200-series).[9] Some multimedia displays use a DVI >to HDMI adapter to input the HDMI signal with audio. Exact capabilities vary by video card specifications.

Source: Digital Visual Interface article on Wikipedia

The next thing is whether or not that port is an Input or Output. I've got an LG monitor down the end of my desk that has a 3.5mm Jack on the back, but it's an output. Meaning if you plug in a source that supports audio (in its particular case, HDMI) then you can pass that audio out to a set of desktop speakers. But it doesn't have any built in.

If it is indeed an input, you just need a 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable, and connect the headphone output of your MacBook to the speaker input on the monitor.

Something like this would do the trick: 3.5mm Stereo Jack Cable on Amazon

The upshot being, you can't do audio and video over DVI connection alone.


Is there a security concern when adding a user to sudoers?

Since sudo -s makes you root, don't let anyone escalate their privileges with sudo until you've got a solid grasp of why you would let a non-admin user have limited or blanket ability to become an admin or root user.

There's really nor much else you could grant besides the ability to sudo so use that sparingly or come up with a better way to control data (encryption) or not placing it on the computer in question at all if you choose to let untrusted accounts have sudo privileges.


A couple of things to try would be:
Reset the PRAM

Restart your Mac

As soon as you press the power button to turn it back on, hold the
⌘ +  ⌥ + P + R keys until you hear the startup chime twice

Reset the SMC

Shut down your Mac

Remove the battery and unplug the power cable

Hold down the power button for 10 seconds and then let go

Restart your Mac normally

These steps may not resolve your issue, but it's worth a shot. If they do no resolve the issue, it is likely related to the inverter board, which sends power to your display backlight. It's relatively common in this model MacBook.
It shouldn't be to expensive to repair, but I would not recommend doing it yourself. It's taken me hours to do that repair, and that's in an Apple Store with all the right tools, Apple Technician Guides and the proper training.


How can I get Apple Mail to pick the correct From: address?

The box below the Subject line is called the Mail Box.

It is like the Post office name.

It is used to select from which email account you want to send it.

The first box is From, the second is the Account from which to be send.

You can change it here:

When you open new email window you ca also change the settings here:

For the From field, and choose which account to use.


Can I copy the entire scrollback buffer from iTerm2 to the clipboard?

Oh, right, duh. ⌘ + A to select it all, then ⌘ + C.


I have a Wacom CTE-640 and cannot get it to run properly/find a driver for it

I have the same Graphire 4 and MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. The latest official Wacom Driver PenTablet 5.3.3-3 won't install anymore (it thinks that you have an older OS than 10.6).

SOLUTION: I tried all previous drivers until I found the most recent one that works. So the actual latest PenTablet driver that works with MacOS Mojave is the 5.3.0-3 that you can download from here: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/graphire-support

Hope this helps!


Why did Apple decide to lock my account and force me to change the password?

You mentioned that "all devices are asking for password multiple times a day..."

Apple describes the type of message you could possibly receive in their support document If your Apple ID is locked or disabled

  If you or someone else enters your password, security questions, or
  other account information incorrectly too many times, your Apple ID
  automatically locks to protect your security and you can't sign in to
  any Apple services. You can unlock your Apple ID after you verify your
  identity.

If this was a legitimate security concern (which I believe it could very well be), you need to reset (change) your password and even enable two factor authentication.

Now, bear in mind that there are AppleID phishing scams that will tell you that you're account is locked and then provide you a link on which to confirm your account details.  If you clicked on this, you gave away your account info.  Reset it as soon as possible.

Note:  Legitimate firms (banks, Apple, Facebook, etc.) will never send you a link to validate or sign in.  Always go to their site(s) manually.


Commercial application for cataloging & categorizing images?

Often the first step in finding a solution is to put a name to it and in this case it sounds very much like you are after a Digital Asset Management package.

There are many of these available;
 iView Media Pro used to be held as a benchmark and this has had a few transitions of ownership and is now sold as Media Pro 1 by Phase One. Another option could be the Portfolio Suite of products from Extensis.

You might even find that Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom  would fit the bill although these are targeted at photographers shooting in RAW format than being general DAM solutions

There are many more each with their own strengths and you need to review these along with the marketing team to find the best fit for their workflow.


Unable to clear Xcode from Trash. Force clear in Terminal returns permission error?

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

is your friend.

I would think cause of the errors are permissions, perhaps Xcode sets files with permissions exclusive to root (superuser).

What sudo does is run the following command (rm -rf ~/.Trash/*) with root privileges - think of it as "when in doubt with permission denied, sudo". Of course, the permission denied error is not to be ignored as it could be a sign of permissions errors. But, if you know what you are doing, sudo solves your problems. (this sums it up nicely)


You'd need SATA at one end and Apple's own "12+16-pin" PCIe connection, which is different from the M2 industry standard connectors used on SSD blades in other PCs.

You can do your own searching, but I suspect such things are hard to find. You would have more luck with adaptors that connect an Apple SSD blade to a USB port as an external drive, but these can be expensive.


iPhone 5 show iOS old iOS (9.3.5) as available update not the latest iOS (10.0)

The iPhone already downloaded the 9.3.5 update and can't download / install iOS 10 until that is dealt with. Either remove this download from the iPhone, or install the update and later update to iOS 10.

To delete the update:

Go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage.
Tap Delete Update, and tap Delete Update again to confirm.


terminal cannot navigate shares on Big Sur

It doesn't matter what user run the open command, it was mounted for everyone.  The sudo is a red herring.
To navigate to the share use cd /Volumes/share.  You can check the mount point by running the command mount.
Now the contents are visible running the ls command, subject to the permissions of the user running ls.


OS X 10.9 crashes after Xcode 3 installation

Why not just install the latest version of Xcode?

Xcode 3.2 was originally released all the way back in 2009 and since it's a very technical product by nature, it's not really a surprise that it crashes on a OS that was released 5 years later.

If you really, really need v. 3.2, I'd suggest looking into virtualization (Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion are popular choices). You could then install Leopard (10.5) and Xcode 3.2 and compile via the virtual machine.


Will VOX music player change anything in my iTunes library?

From what I see using Vox, it does not create a library of its own, instead it either access the iTunes Library directly for information.

It should be a read-only access, and you have nothing to worry.

You should note that it's not iTunes integration, so it does not work with iTunes Match to provide tracks that aren't downloaded to your Mac yet.

If you have further concerns, I suggest you contact the developers of Vox directly.


Hold the bluetooth pairing button on your bluetooth speakers for about 3-5 seconds (typically until some audible cue is played). Then you should be able to pair it with your MacBook again in bluetooth preferences.


Is Mavericks available to a 13-inch Late 2007 MacBook, despite everything?

You get the following alert box:

"We could not complete your purchase.

OS X Mavericks cannot be installed on this computer."

You then get two options. The first button is Learn More, which takes you to the system requirements page, and the other button simply says Ok.

Nothing gets downloaded.


Tab completion for hosts defined in ~/.ssh/config doesn't work anymore on Yosemite

You can enable bash shell completion by installing bash-completion via brew:

brew install bash-completion

Then add the following to your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi

Source

(Edit: brew tap homebrew/completions is deprecated as of 2018.)


Moving files from bad external harddrive

Finder will always halt on Error.
Have you tried Data Rescue 3? I've had good results using that in the past.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php


Where are the actions stored that the Contacts.app can apply on telephone numbers?

I found the install directory. Apparently it was the action posted here. The action is installed in ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins


Buried deep in the comments are these answers to solve the riddle of the stuttering iTunes playback on Mountain Lion:

  I've just remembered that I have FileVault enabled, and as the crashes / skips happen when the computer is performing file ops, I think turning FV off might help - decryping my hard drive now... – George Pearce Jan 12 at 14:34

  Update: Turning off filevault and decrypting my hard drive appears to have entirely solved the problem. – George Pearce Jan 12 at 19:20


How can i get delivery confirmation for sent sms?

The short answer is you can't; Unless the standards have changed since I retired as a mobile planner 12 years ago.

Some networks do provide confirmation (Vodafone in Australia did). Once a SMS leaves the originating network there is no way of checking on it.


How to circumvent a forgotten encrypted iPhone local backup password?

I knew that you need the backup password to get your contacts, photos, videos, etc. I have the same situation before. You can find a tool to unlock the backup password, or go to Google Search: "iPhone Backup Unlocker"


How to open a new tab in iTerm in the same folder as the one that is open?

Select "Reuse previous session's directory" from the preferences of your profile:

Alternatively click on "Advanced Configuration" then "Edit..." so you can set the working directory separately for new windows, new tabs & new split panes


So basically, it seems that on OSX 10.8 mails are not longer stored in

~/Library/Mail

but in

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/data/Library/Mail/V2

If your mail app restart / restore itself unexpectedly simply copy the folder called "v2" from one location to the other and restart the Mail app.

Everything should be restored.


Use script as custom printer driver to send file to web page

You don't need to create a "driver" as the functionality you need is already available.  From the normal Print (CMD+P) dialog window, in the lower left corner, click on the PDF drop-down menu and choose the Save as PostScript option to save the "print" as a .ps file. (This part may have been your step #1 but I wasn't sure how you were saving the page as .ps)

Using a macro/script utility like Hazel, Keyboard Maestro, Automator, etc., they could be configured to monitor a specific folder where you save the .ps file.  When a new file appears, the macro/script could trigger to send the file to the printer.

Also, depending on the printer model, it is likely the script could send the .ps file directly to the printer using a port/interface designed for a script/stream instead of using the web GUI.  IPP/LPD/socket interfaces are designed for exactly this.  Most likely the web GUI is using a javascript to grab the file from you then pass it into one of these interfaces.

P.S. Notice that in the screenshot, the "Save as PDF" option has a CMD+S shortcut.  I created that by using the Keyboard Preference Pane in System Preferences.  If you want to do the same but for the "Save as PostScript" option... Open the Keyboard Preference, switch to Shortcuts, select App Shortcuts on the left then click the [+] icon below.  Set the shortcut for All Applications, Menu Title of "Save as PostScript...", and the Shortcut as CMD+S.  You can use CMD+S because the normal shortcut for CMD+S (File>Save) is not available when the Print dialog is shown.  Another good shortcut is CMD+P for the same reason.  That way you press CMD+P, wait a second for the dialog to appear, then press CMD+P again.


How can I remove this half-downloaded app from my iPhone?

Reboot.

I had an app stuck in the Loading... state and a reboot of my iPhone cleared it away. I was able to re-download it again without any issues.

To reboot your phone hold down the Power button for 5 seconds. You'll see the power off slider appear. Slide it to turn the phone off. Once off, use the Power button to turn it back on.


Change default action for copying files to external hard disk

You can move a file rather than copying to another volume (network, external drive, etc.) by simply holding the ⌘ Command key down while dragging the file.

If you are on the samve volume (EG you want to copy to another folder) hold down the ⌥ Option key will dragging and that will copy a file from any location to any other location on the same volume.


MacBook Pro: long time to wake from sleep, what could it be?

Updating my own question: it was a software issue after all. Avatron's Air Display server software installs a helper daemon that slows down the waking of my MacBook Pro.

After uninstalling it, the Mac wakes up a lot more quickly.


Contact Apple Support (In USA & Canada its 1-800-MY-APPLE or go to support.apple.com) and let them know that you change your mind. Just make sure ask if you do receive the packaging, did they want you to send it back.


Reviews on the Mac App Store and iOS App Store will never show up right away. Reviews are first reviewed, to avoid spam comments and reviews with offensive material.

Your review will show up once it is reviewed and approved (assuming your review is free of offensive language and is not spam or some other nonsense).

Bear in mind, too, that reviewing an App which you downloaded by redeeming a promo code is not possible. The systems lets you proceed with the review process althought the review will never appear nor the rating taken into account.


The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Windows 10 and Mojave iMac Fusion Drive

This is a very common question. Again, here is the commands you need to enter in a Terminal application window.

The next two commands will remove the unlabeled "Window Recovery" disk1s4 partition and the "Microsoft Basic Data" disk1s3 partition labeled BOOTCAMP

sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk1s4
sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk1s3

The next command return the free space back to the disk1s2 APFS container partition.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1s2 0


Will a 1.8GHz MacBook Air be much faster than a 1.3GHz model?

1.3 GHz seems to be mid-2013 Haswell based machine with Intel HD 5000 graphics, the other one is probably mid-2012 Ivy-bridge one with Intel HD 4000.

Haswell based CPU is about 5-10% faster than Ivy Bridge according to various benchmarks (so, all in all it should be comparable in terms of pure speed, but read further)
Haswell chips make SSD drives run faster
Intel HD 5000 is much better than 4000 (and that will give most significant boost to overall performance IMHO)

So, if all other specs are the same, I'd go for 1.3 Haswell one, the problem is that you never know what you'll get when buying refurbished machine.


Another solution for this is to boot into your recovery partition with CMD+R while your machine is booting. From there you can open the Terminal from Utilities in the menu bar. Then you can copy the file with:

cp /usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat /Volumes/YOUR_DRIVE/usr/share/icu

If your drive has FileVault enabled you may have to unlock that through disk utility first.


Mac Developer Program & free copies of OS X

Since Lion, the developer program issues its beta seeds of the OS using the Mac App Store.  You get a code in the developer portal which is redeemed in the Mac App Store. You can redeem this code on any Apple ID. It does NOT need to be the Apple ID that you  signed up with on the dev portal.  Once the final release is out, the beta seed in your App Store is transformed into the fully released version.

So yes, you do get it. And in fact, you will be unable to purchase it on the Apple ID with which you redeemed the seed.


You need to select which networking the connection is to e share on. This is selecting at least one from the list in the bottom right hand of the preference pane.

e.g. to share your ethernet connection over wifi and firewore


I always compose my mails then save them as draft which lets the processing of links happen. Have you verified you’ve given the software time to process what you type?

This is the simple way described here: Create hyperlink on Mail.app/Notes.app on iOS

Your adding an alternate text needs something more complex and since Mail does not support markdown or other editing like that, you need to compose in another program and then copy/paste/mail if you don’t want to have the full link typed out and then converted.

The Drafts app is my editor of choice for this. The first line of the document becomes the subject when you use the Markdown Mail quick action (tap the icon on the top far right)

This gives you exactly the alternate text and full editing without mail.app needing a more sophisticated editing suite.

  How to markdown an email from Drafts app on iOS

Markdown is awesome


Are my MacBook Pro 2015 (15-inch) fan parameters correct?

Fans, which contain moving parts, will certainly make some audible noise, though it's usually rather quiet and unnoticeable. Normal speeds should range from 1800-2200 depending on your level of usage. Intensive processes see the fan speeds go up to 6200.

For temperatures, idle activity should have temperatures at 40-50 ºC (CPU PECI die) and 30 ºC for air flow proximity.

If your fans get really loud and noisy, it may be a sign that your fans are malfunctioning or there could be some form of obstruction that causes noise when air runs over it. I'd check for dust and clean out any foreign objects found.


to be able to use 3G for internet while connected to wifi?

You have a new option from iOS 9,

Settings -> Cellular -> Scroll to the bottom of the page -> Wifi-Assist

  Automatically use cellular data when WIFI connectivity is poor

You have some articles about that all around the web
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/14/apple-posts-ios-9-wi-fi-assist-guide-in-wake-of-complaints-about-excessive-data-use
http://www.macworld.com/article/2987233/smartphones/how-to-turn-off-ios-9s-wi-fi-assist-to-save-your-data-plan.html


very frequent CPU usage 100% for systemstats

systemstats profiles other processes. The information collected is used, for example, to populate the "Apps Using Significant Energy" section of the battery menu, and the Energy tab in Activity Monitor.
It is actively triggered by clicking on the battery menu, or opening Activity Monitor.
You can find more information on how to disable it in this article.


From the View menu, select Gutter, and click to uncheck all of the selected view options there, i.e. Foldings, Bookmarks, Line Numbers, and Soft Wrap Indicators. Once all of the above are unchecked, the gutter will disappear.


iPhone home screen not showing after erasing network and content settings

If you have not powered off the phone recently, try that. A reboot often works wonders. Also what happens if you swipe right to left, do you get other apps? Are there 2 or more dots centered just above the dock? What I am getting at is it may be that you just have a blank home screen and all your apps have somehow moved to other screens. Swiping might reveal them and allow you to move them back.

Wiping just the network setting should affect nothing else. I've done it many times and never an app out of place.

Hopefully you have backed up your phone recently, you may have to restore from backup.


How to record iPhone/iPad screen in Windows

According to 9to5Mac, iOS 11 includes a dedicated Screen Recorder which can be used without connecting to a Mac.

  Enabling screen recording on iOS 11

  Launch Settings → Control Center → Customize Controls.
  Scroll down in the list and add Screen Recording
  Close Settings

  Swipe-up from the bottom of the display to reveal Control Center
  Tap Screen Recording button to immediately begin recording (or 3D Touch to bring up menu)

Source: 9toMac - How to enable screen recording on iOS 11 without a computer


Other malware removers..

MacScan 3 - [Subscription $50 pa] with free trial. idk whether the free trial will let you actually remove anything it finds. Prime task is to remove bad cookies. I've been using it since v1 & have never 'caught' anything it couldn't kill, though that in itself doesn't prove it will kill everything, only the ones I've seen.

For an actual 'antivirus' - rather than me post a list, it would be better to refer you to AV-TEST, which is the closest thing to an actual authority on the subject, or specifically their most recent Mac report . As of their last report, July 2016, they list 4 products with a 100% hit-rate, yet only two which can do that without leaning on your machine & slowing it down, BitDefender & ESET. Neither of those are are free.

They update the report twice a year, so the main link should remain usable in future, as the specific July 2016 report falls out of date.


Is it possible to change opacity of an application window?

Edit: Dec 2018: It seems that a new replacement for Afloat is out called Deskovery,
  You should enter your email here to join the beta program:
  https://www.neomobili.com/products/deskovery/
  And browse the blog to figure out which beta version you want: https://www.neomobili.com/blog/
  Downloads for all versions of this app are kind of hidden here: https://www.neomobili.com/files/

The previously mentioned Afloat is not working anymore on El Capitan and Sierra since both deprecate applications using code injection techniques.

There seems to be no direct equivalent for this SIMBL using Afloat.

If you now need just a 'mock version', does a mock picture suffice your needs? These needs are a bit underdetermined.

However, you may find a number of possible alternatives available that might offer a somewhat similar functionality:

LayerX
Duplicate-any-windows
Overlay
Overlay2
Uberlayer
GluePrint

These are not tested as to whether they may be combinable.


Changing Sound Outputs w/Applescript (I seem to have misplaced my tab group)

While the other answer does in fact work for me on my system running macOS High Sierra nonetheless, I have to post a KISS principle answer.

Simply add the following code to your existing code:

repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
    delay 0.1
end repeat

So your code will now look like:

tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "output" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    tell table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
        select (row 1 where value of text field 1 is "Andrea Comm USB-SA Headset")
    end tell
end tell

quit application "System Preferences"

There most definitely is a level of sophistication to the other answer; however, I'd imagine it may be a bit difficult to understand for those who are new to AppleScript and why a KISS principle answer is being provided.


Automatic capitalization when typing terminal commands

Well I found the solution with help from @Allen. I tried restarting my computer in Safe Mode. The problem with capitalization went away. Based on this result it was probably due to something I loaded onto my machine. While I was in Safe Mode I started by looking at the Startup items found in the System Preferences/User and Groups. I hadn't carefully checked the Login Items in quite a while and I found out I had many. Some of these were suspicious in that the kind of item was unknown. I show this in the images below:

I had several that fit that description. Using the minus symbol shown in the bottom left of the window I deleted the suspicious login items and rebooted my computer back to regular user mode. To my joy the auto capitalization was gone. I deduce it must have been connected to one of the login items I removed. Had I removed them one-at-a-time I might have beem able to determine which one was the culpit. As it is I can only narrow it down to the ones I removed. None of these were new additions so I must have changed settings in one of these to suddenly cause my troubles. Due either to old age or the fact that auto capitalization was driving me crazy, I can't recall what changes were made recently. I may go back and try to determine which specific one was causing this but that is left for a future date.


Notification Center stuck in landscape orientation

Something similar happened to me once like this. Try a hard restart by holding both the power and the home buttons until you see the Apple icon appear on the screen. Let me know if that works.


Does iOS (iPad) close your tabs when off when private browsing is enabled?

No. Next time when you open safari again, it will reload those sites again. Basically it just remembers all the tabs which you have opened and loads it the next time.


Has someone set up an HP DeskJet 812C with SnowLeopard or Lion?

They decided to not bother trying to get Gutenprint to work; they bought a new printer.


Can I remove a Family Sharing child by deleting his account?

If you want to maintain the gMail address, you can use that as the Apple ID for the child.

Source.

Removing Kids 13 and Under From Family Sharing

Apple doesn't allow you to remove a child under the age of 13 from your Family Sharing (in the U.S., at least; the age is different in other countries). When you add a child that young to your Family Sharing group, they're there to stay until they turn 13.

If you started Family Sharing and added a child under 13, you can't remove them on your own. You have a few ways you can potentially get out of this situation:

Disband the family

You can disband the entire Family Sharing group and start again. When you create the new group, don't add the child under 13. If you and the child are the only people on your Family Sharing list, you need to transfer them before you can stop Family Sharing.

Transfer the child to another family

When you add a child under 13 to Family Sharing, you can't delete them, but you can transfer them to another Family Sharing group. To do that, the organizer of another Family Sharing group needs to invite the child to join their group. In this case, the child's Family Sharing account won't be deleted, but it won't be your responsibility any longer.

Call Apple

If transferring a child to another Family Sharing group isn't an option, call Apple. While the company doesn't give you a way to remove a child from Family Sharing, it has other tools that can help. Call 1-800-MY-APPLE and talk to someone who can provide support for iCloud.

Note:
When you call Apple, make sure you have all of the relevant information handy. The customer service representative will need the email address for the account of the child you want to remove. You'll also need a device handy so that you can access your own Apple ID. Apple Support will walk you through the process of removing the child, though the official removal can take up to 7 days.


Can iPods (3rd gen) brick completely if left uncharged?

Lithium-ion polymer batteries should not be deep discharged. This is a quote from Lithium-ion Polymer wikipedia page

  During discharge on load, the load has to be removed as soon as the voltage drops below approximately 3.0 V per cell (used in a series combination), or else the battery will subsequently no longer accept a full charge and may experience problems holding voltage under load. This can be achieved, as with other lithium-ion batteries, also harmed by under- and over-voltage, by circuitry that prevents overcharge and deep discharge.

So discharging batteries below some threshold will make it unable to recharge. The best way to store your battery is to keep it charged around 50%.

On the Apple Batteries iPod page, Apple says that you should:

  Use iPod Regularly
  For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month. If you use your iPod infrequently (gasp), you might want to add a reminder to your calendar program

So my conclusion is that your usage pattern could be a probable cause for your battery problem.


Can I use one Apple ID for Apple Music and another for iTunes & App Store?

UPDATE for follow-up question from OP

You can Authorize each other's computers on your Apple Account. There is a limit to doing this as you can only authorize 5 accounts on any one Apple ID.

Then in iTunes on you computers, you can log into one account, download all of the apps associated with that account.

Then log out, and log into the other Apple ID and repeat the download. This gets around the shared drive, but doubles the amount of data you need to store.

When an app updates, you need to be logged into the account that "purchased" it for DRM reasons to update. If it is one of the apps on you account, then you can update on your iPhone through the App Store. Your friend will have to log into your Apple ID an update in iTunes, then sync their iPhone to iTunes.

When an app updates on your friend's account, they can update however they want to, but you will need to go into iTunes, log on to their Apple ID and update that way, then sync your iPhone with iTunes.

As iPhone is pretty boxed in, I don't think it takes to kindly to switching back and forth between Apple ID's. I am not even sure if you can do that without it resetting the iPhone, and I am almost certain there isn't an option to have two Apple ID's logged into one iOS device at the same time.

So once you have done all that, you have probably violated 42 conditions in the TOS. Just don't let Taylor Swift find out.

Prior Answer:

The short answer is yes, but it is a bit of a hassle.

Each person can authorize the other's devices on your Apple ID, though there is a limit of five devices that can be authorized. So if you have computer, iPhone, iPad, IPod, then there isn't much room for your friend's devices. If you live in the same location, you can put the media on a shared drive and bring it into each others iTunes catalog.

Here, the only catch is that the apps will only update for the person who bought the app, so you either need to have their Apple ID and password to log in as them to update on your devices, or with some maintenance on a regular basis, you can manually delete from your catalog and re add the updated app on your iTunes. I did this with my girlfriend long before Apple set up Family Sharing, which leads to...

How much do you trust this friend? You could set up a Family Sharing under iCloud that allows you to share everything, including media from iTunes and the App Store, plus photos, calendars, etc.

The catch is that the person who sets up the account is responsible for all of the purchases on that account. Only one credit card can be set up per family share, so basically if you set it up you pay. It is designed for a head of household situation with a spouse and three kids, so it is a little dicey if you don't trust your friend financially.


Yes, I came with the same problem.
TUI is useless when debugging with gdb and src layout. It's a bug of iterm2 which can't fully support complicate output. Sometimes, TUI crashes too when using vim and multi-windows setting.
Apple likely has left gcc and gdb behind. So my suggestion is switching to clang and lldb. Both work fine so far on Mac command line and they are advanced tools. At the mean time, switching wouldn't cost you much time if you could use gdb well.
Good luck. And by the way, Xcode is a gread tool for your peace of mind.


Mac Pro: Kernel panic during HDD boot and DVD boot

It is probably your video card.  The 2007 MBP's were prone to this.

Here is how you can tell.  Download the Ultimate Boot CD.  Burn it to a DVD or a USB Stick

You will launch Linux with a ton of useful diagnostic tools.  Run everything, but especially the video display diagnostic tool.

Mine was throwing errors and I was able to definitively find the cause of the problem.  I was able to find a guy in Tampa that would upgrade the video card on the Logic Board for about $100.  I did the service and it worked great. MBP still running to this day. Let me know if you are interested and I will post his info.


How to repeat a key in mac while holding down?

There is a terminal command to set the option. Go to terminal and type

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

This actually turns it on. You have to restart your computer for this to take effect.  You turn it off by typing the same line with true instead of false.

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true


Screensharing slow, even over gigabit ethernet

Some (all?) Macs when run without a monitor turn off the video circuitry so they do not waste energy, even though this circuitry is used by screen sharing to dramatically speed up screen stuff.

There might be a way to turn this circuitry back on through software, but I have not foud a reliable way to do so. What works very well is to plug in something into a video port to get the Mac to think it has a monitor connected.

You can build one yourself:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html

Buy one to plug into a HDMI port on some MacMinis:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/an-hdmi-adapter-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html

Buy one to plug into the MiniDisplay Port:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/CBLMDPHEAD/

Instructions for a resistor added directly to the video card:
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=11

I picked up a handful of the HDMI ones a while back, they are very useful.

A similar question/answer is at Force the resolution on a headless mac mini server


View location of a document open in Preview

Cmd-Click on the title gives you the full path. This not only works in Preview but more or less in all applications (including Office).


iPad Pro Microsoft OneNote: How to get more space below?

I am able to use the down arrow for hundreds of repetitions to keep scrolling empty content in my OneDrive backed notebooks. The physical keyboard is faster, and I’ve tested Bluetooth and hardware connected keyboards. Also, two finger zoom (pinch and expand) and tapping lets me add new text boxes anywhere.

I wonder if you don’t have an O365 license and activated the product or there’s some other difference between my setup and yours, but this has never been an issue for me the last 18 months using the iOS OneNote app on iPhone or iPad.

Version 16.36 (20040600)
iPadOS 13.4.1
Enterprise E3 and E4 O365 licenses tested

Lastly, the in app feedback is really good imo - in many ways better than AppleCare and in some ways worse. Have you tried vendor support to be sure there’s not a setting or FAQ/Guide that covers this?


Requirements

GarageBand application for the iPhone (free)

Solution

Download the ringtone file to iCloud. Just click this link and then "Add to iCloud Drive"

Open GarageBand application in your phone, click the import button and look for the ringtone file in the iCloud folder, don't open it, just long press it and then click on the share option.

Select the ringtone option and then click Export in the top right corner. Finally when exported, click the option "Use sound as..." and then "Standard Ringtone". Done!
Now you can delete GarageBand application if you want, it takes a lot of space (1.77 GB).

Notes:

If you want to make any modification to the fade effect you will need to open this folder in a Mac with GarageBand, change the Master Track, and then go to Share > Project to GarageBand for iOS.

You can inspire in that file to make any ringtone increment the volume gradually.


Prevent Mac WIFI from being deleted when I delete from iPhone

This exact issue has also been a thorn in my side, as I frequently do not want my iPhone on the office Wi-Fi network for one reason or another.

A loophole that has been working for me lately (your milage may vary) is to forget the network in question from the iPhone, and then rejoin on the Mac. Its probably a bug, but I've found that I get several hours with the iPhone on cellular and my computer still on Wi-Fi this way. The phone does, unfortunately, rejoin the network once iCloud Keychain figures out what is going on and syncs up.

The only permanent solution I have found so far is to disable iCloud Keychain completely on the iPhone. That way, since the iPhone will not share passwords with your other devices, when you forget the Wi-Fi network on the iPhone the Mac will be unaffected.

Since I quite like iCloud Keychain and use it frequently, I find this a less than satisfactory answer. However, it will result in the desired outcome here.


Apple Music: Are recommendations based on local play counts?

Unfortunately the solution provided does not work for all of us. Every day I play music from iCloud Music Library on my iPhone, and every day only the first track I listen to has the play count increased by 1.


Delete Photos from device and using the same device for uploading new photos to Photos afterwards

If you have iCloud Photo Library turned on on your device, it will sync all pictures on that library. You can use "optimize storage" if you need to free space on your device.

If you only want to have your new pictures on your phone and your whole library on iCloud, you need to transfer the pictures to Photos.app manually and then upload to iCloud from there.


How can I forward web traffic from Mac to iPad?

I have a similar situation and resolved it by setting up a VPN client on the iPad so that it connects directly to those addresses.

The built in VPN client in IPSec mode works great with Cisco.
The L2TP works great with most standard commercial VPN solutions (like Meraki)
OpenVPN works with many consumer grade VPNs (like NetGear Orbi)

Doing this allows me to use the iPad directly with remote resources behind my company or home firewall.


2008 iMac Running OS X 10.8.2 Won't Boot

The graphical "noise" makes me think that either the graphics drivers have been corrupted (and by the sounds of it, likely more OS components), or there's a hardware defect.

Does the "noise" appear when the Apple logo is on screen, or just afterwards? If during the Apple logo, it's more likely a hardware problem, since that boot screen isn't based on the OS install. If afterwards, it may just be a problem with your install.
You can try booting off the Recovery Partition by holding down command-R when you boot.

If this goes well, then it's likely a problem with your boot partition being corrupted. The recovery partition includes Disk Utility, which will let you run a basic check of your boot partition, which may or may not be able to fix things.
If this fails, then you either have a hard drive issue, or some other hardware problem, in which case you're almost certainly going to need to consult an Apple Store or Service Provider.

You can also attempt to boot off an external drive as segiddins suggested in the comments.

Sorry I can't be definitive, but it's hard to say for sure without having the machine in front of me. Try some of these and let us know how it goes, and we can help narrow some things down for you.


Google Maps' "Nearby Transit" iOS widget doesn't work

I had the same problem and it fixed itself. In 4-5 days.


Unable to start after having applied all known recovery steps

Your Mac has Internet Recovery, so you can boot to that and reinstall to a USB drive or SD card while leaving your internal SSD intact.

Should that fail, you have a good case to seek hardware repair from Apple or someone else you trust.
Should that work, then you can decide whether to wipe the SSD and reinstall or perhaps use the clean OS to assist in cleaning up or backing up files in preparation for reinstalling on the internal SSD.

If you repeat your fsck in single user mode, it should eventually come up clean or with a permanent error. I would use the Recovery HD to run fsck / Disk Utility since that is less likely to have corruption than your OS (which still runs in a limited mode in single user mode). It's entirely possible you have software corruption that single user mode can't fix or a failing hard drive - but given the work you've done, I'd take a positive step by installing a clean OS on a clean drive before investigating the current OS more.


Photos taking too much space on MacBook Air

The Photos.app imported images/movies are stored in the Photos Library in the Pictures folder, along with other individual pictures, within your Home folder.  You can access the Pictures folder in Finder.


In my experience, iTunes' space meter is fairly unreliable (by which I mean that I've seen it jump by gigabytes with no apparent cause, and occasionally say that my space was over the limit when that's obviously impossible).

On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage to see exactly what's taking up all that space.


Start Contacts on your Mac and export/archive all contacts (as a backup)
Go to System Preferences -> iCloud and disable syncing of contacts (and anything else you don't want to sync to iCloud)
Log in to iCloud.com directly and delete any contacts stored there


Linear and fast mouse speed in OS X Lion. Possible?

A recently released app called SmoothMouse will do exactly what you want, and (in my opinion) works much better than the other alternative mouse drivers.  It's free and available here: http://smoothmouse.com

On top of offering options for both linear and Windows-like acceleration curves, it also removes the 32ms of lag that OSX typically imposes on mouse cursors.  To me, this is just as essential as changing the acceleration.

This thing is really pretty close to the holy grail - great-feeling mouse movement on OSX.


How do I not accidentally eject external drives?

Place a foot in the door.

On each of your disks, create a text file, open it in TextEdit, add some line, and leave the file open unsaved.

I think this trick will prevent ejection.

Test this trick, try to eject the disk and come here tell us the result.

This trick can easily be automated.


No sound MacBook Pro 2016 13" touchbar macOS Sierra 10.12.2


How to have Siri pick from the list s/he just read to me?

"I am looking for an answer other than choosing unique types (eg, setting one of his cell numbers to "pager" instead.)"

then I have no answer ;-)

Change the type & you can just say the type, cell [US] mobile [UK], office, home, etc.

You don't even have to wait for the list, you can just say to Siri, "Call Fred, cell."
 So long as there's only one Fred & one cell number listed for him.

If there are 2 Freds, then "Call Fred Smith"; 2 cells, then differentiate 'work cell' or 'cell 2' etc


Options for repairing iPod Touch with broken glass

There's also the option of taking it to a local unofficial smartphone repair shop, which has the advantage of nobody having to pay for shipping. This is also risky though, since they might use low-quality parts and/or have poorly-trained staff, so it's probably only a decent option if you can find a convenient one with a good reputation.


On Apple's How to Upgrade page it states

  Upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard or Lion. If you're running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) or Lion (10.7) and your Mac supports macOS High Sierra, you will need to upgrade to El Capitan first.

You will have to first upgrade to El Capitan, then to High Sierra. You can follow these instructions to get El Capitan.


Is the thicker USB C cable included with the MacBook Pro charger necessary for its higher current capacity?

To answer my own question, according to Wikipedia, USB C cables can have different carrying capacities:

  All USB-C cables must be able to carry a minimum of 3 A current (at 20 V, 60 W) but can also carry high-power 5 A current (at 20 V, 100 W).[10] All USB-C to USB-C cables must contain e-marker chips programmed to identify the cable and its current capabilities. USB Charging ports should also be clearly marked with capable power wattage.[11]

So while I can't say this with 100% certainty, the cable that comes with the MBP charger probably is a higher capacity cable, but USB-C cables have chips in them to tell the device and charger their carrying capacity.


RCA cable to a TV that has several inputs, but not RCA?

For now, you can plug the composite cable into the component input, plugging the yellow video cable into the green (Y/brightness) input and the audio in normally. This will work as you expect, except the video will be in black and white.

A better solution would be to just get the Apple Component output cable and use that. Unless it's a 4th gen iPod touch, you won't be able to get VGA out and no iPod released to date will output DVI or HDMI. (Though the 5th gen touch should output HDMI since the 2nd gen iPad does now, but that's speculation.)


Siri doesn't appear to be functioning on macOS Sierra

Had the same issue and found out something that solved this for me. Apparently, my notification center process was disabled for some reason, I've enabled it via terminal by typing:

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

After that I disabled and enabled Siri via the settings menu and it seems to be working now.


MacBook Pro Retina 13": change resolution to 1920x1200 pixels

You can use Retina DisplayMenu, QuickRes or SwitchResX.


Go to ~/Library/Containers/ and type du -h command. Now you will be more able to see which folder/file is taking most of the space in the system. My main culprit was Docker.


Wrong letters when I'm typing with Macbook Pro

This unicode combination can be produced when holding down the alt/option key on your Mac's keyboard. If you google this issue, there is a thread from 2013/14 describing a solution to this issue.

Here are the summarised steps to revert they keyboard back to its intended use:

Open system preferences
Select accessibility
Select keyboard
Enable sticky keys
Press option twice quickly to enable sticky and once more to turn it off (option key must be enabled if you previously disabled it in modifier key controls)
Problem solved! - Turn sticky keys off again

I can verify that these steps are still valid for macOS High Sierra but do let me know how you get on.


How do i get full capacity from Fusion drive on vmWare ESXi 6.0 Mac Mini 7,1

The ESXi 6.0.0 update 2 solves this problem. The Fusion disk is recognised as two separate disks (which they in fact are). With that, i now have two datastores, one on the SSD and another one on the HDD.

What i usually do is install the guests on small virtual disks on the SSD datastore and give them a larger chunk on the HDD datastore. I've also successfully used Linux LVM to extend partitions on the SSD to "continue" to the HDD, but that's for another StackExchange question.


is there any difference between part numbers?

The difference is localization. For iPad Air, it only means that you will get translated documentation. So it's OK to get it from another country like the Philippines.

Warranty is worldwide. The software language you will choose on first use, and you can change it later.

The only real difference is for products with keyboards (iMac, MacBook, etc), obviously then it will influence your keyboard layout (QWERTY, AZERTY etc.).


macOS: The cursor in Terminal won’t blink

The default behaviour for macOS Terminal.app cursor is to not blink.

To configure cursor type and blink, in Terminal.app menu bar go to Terminal → Preferences... → Profiles and under Cursor check Blink cursor.


You are basically being punished by having put your project on a slow, slow harddisk.  There is much more network traffic than you think when working with files remotely and on such a slow connection you will really feel it.  Most modern IDE's expect files to be locally available, not on a slow, remote drive.

I would suggest looking into mirroring your work files between your work and home machine as needed.   To my knowledge there are two basic approaches:

File synchronization:  Use "rsync" to move changed files back and forth as needed.  This is good if you need to edit locally, but compile remotely.
Source repository:  Work locally until you have a satisfying result, commit the revised sources locally to the repository, and then update the remote sources from the repository.  This works well if you can work fully locally.

Please report back what worked well for you.

(Incidentially this is why Remote Desktop for Windows is such a good thing.  It uses the bandwidth very, very well making Windows usable even over a very slow connection, and allows for a much larger display than on the remote host)


What words trigger the screen effects in iMessage?

Happy Birthday: Balloons
Congratulations: Confetti
Happy New Years: Fireworks
Happy Chinese New Years: Celebration
Pew pew: Light/Laser Show

Also if you hold down the send button you can access a set of effects you can add to your message like a (Slam/Loud/Gentle/Invisible Ink). Now if you hold down the send button, not only do you get those set of effects, but the effects above with the SHORT list of trigger words are accessible at the top of the screen.


iOS kindle app - where is the anotations file?

iDevices don't allow direct access to the data files like other tablets which is why you can't see the 'my annotations' file.

However, the iOS version of Kindle app has a nice feature to backup your highlights and annotations to your amazon.com account.  You can enable it by clicking on the Settings (Gear) icon in the lower right corner, select Other, and turn on "Annotations Backup".

Next go to http://kindle.amazon.com and log in with your Amazon account.  Click on the Your Highlights link at the top and you will be presented with a list of all your highlights/annotations for all your books.


Messages restarts to login screen after a few seconds

What i can recommend for you is to download “iMessage debug” Its a terminal Applcation,just unzip it and double click it to run in the terminal. You will have to goto system preferences and click on the security and privacy icon and allow it to run because it will blocked because of the “unidentified developer crap” But anyhow just run that and see if that fixes your problem. If there was a known good imessage configuration on the said Mac at one point then this app will be able to restore that configuration automatically. Your ethernet in your Hardware config will have to read as “en0” and “built in”. And your nvram must be working as well. In terminal you would type the command “sudo -s” enter your password and then “sudo nvram -p” hit enter. “sudo nvram -c” now type “sudo nvram mymac=1234” where 1234 can be whatever you want to put there and then just hit enter. Then reboot and then go back to terminal and just type “sudo nvram -p” and it should bring up some data on the screen along with whatever you named the 1234 above and that way you will know if your nvram is working. If it doesnt show the 1234 rename then its not working and that would be the problem. Anyway hope this helps


Finder wastes /leaves dead vertical space between details and preview panels

There should be two ways to reclaim 'dead space':

drag column width (works only on separator between 'Name' and column next to it; 'Name' column width 'consumes' dead space width)

drag Finder window size (right side) smaller (size reduction starts at expense of 'dead space')

In both cases in order to work pointer must turn into "arrow left and right" (↔)


Upon trying to login to an Active Directory, I am alerted with a window saying the account has expired. How can I enable it?

You would need to use an app that connects to AD (ldap app of some sort) or remote into your domain controller using screen sharing or PowerShell to unlock the account.

Even a tool  Apple Enterprise Connect or Nomad (https://nomad.menu) where the tool calls to the Active Directory only serves to change an existing account password and doesn’t have hooks to unlock a different account when you log in as a domain administrator account.


How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?

There is usually no correlation between a stuck process of top and a non-responding application:

stuck means that the process is currently un-interruptible which usually is the case if the process is waiting for a disk or network data block to be read (or similar low-level stuff). Technically speaking the process is executing in kernel space (aka Unix kernel) and can not be interrupted (so even a kill -9 wouldn't have any impact). Usually these stuck states only last milliseconds (as you can see in top as well because the number of stuck processes changes with every display cycle).
non-responding applications can be too busy to reply to any event OS X throws at them.

I see one situation where a stuck process corresponds to a non-responding application: A process can be stuck for a very long time, perhaps stuck endlessly, without any possibility to kill it. This usually is the result of some programming error, e.g. improper disconnection from a networked device then the kernel keeps trying to read from it. In cases like this even a forced termination will not remove the process.


why does itunes "optimize" my photos every time i sync

I not sure why it does it every time, but the 'optimising' is basically shrinking their dimensions to the iPod screen size, thus saving space on the iPod.

I would therefore assume that it does it every time as it doesn't save the 'optimised' ones in order to save space on the computer.


Macbook keeps ejecting OSX install disks

Often this happens when the disc needs cleaning. Soft cotton cloth, warm water, a little dishwashing liquid ... gently, gently ... rinse ... dry softly with aforementioned cloth, not in circular fashion but from center of disc towards outer edge, turning disc as you go.


iMac turned itself on after power was cut

On the iMac, there's a setting under System Preferences > Energy Saver called Start up automatically after a power failure, which I'm guessing will be selected on your system, and hence would explain your computer's spontaneous rebooting.

If you don't wish this to happen in the event of a power failure, or the next time you turn off the power by accident, then uncheck that particular option.

Note: Screenshot taken on macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra)

As Tetsujin very helpfully points out in the comments below, there is also a button in the bottom right of the Energy Saver preferences pane labelled "Schedule...", which allows the user to regulate when the computer starts up, wakes up, or goes to sleep.  It would be wise to double check your settings there too.


Google Photos Backup creates large Pictures/GPBackup folder

If you click the "Google Photos Backup" icon in your menu bar (looks like a gray pinwheel), you should see the "Preferences" option.  Clicking this will open the preferences window.  There you should see a checkbox for "Also copy photos/videos from external media to" (See image below).  Uncheck this box and you shouldn't have the extra backups anymore.


How to restore external hard drive from Time Machine backup the right way?

I found an answer over at superuser.com: https://superuser.com/a/1148703
But it seems there were some changes in MacOS so it did not work. But with this as a starting point I found a solution:

Format the new drive (Or in my case the corrupted drive) with Disk Utility. Give it the same name as the old one. In my example "Daten"
Go to the System Preferences - Time Machine and uncheck "Back Up Automatically"
Go to the System Preferences - Security & Privacy. Unlock to make changes. Click on "Full Disk Access" and add Terminal.app from the Applications/Utilities Folder.
Open Terminal.
Put in sudo tmutil associatedisk -a. Then first drag your new Volume to the Terminal and after that drag the folder link Latest to the Terminal. You will find this folder link on your Time Machine Volume -> Backups.backupsdb -> Your Computer Name.
The result should look like this: sudo tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/Daten /Volumes/YourBackupVolume/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Computer\ Name/Latest At the end of the line you need to add /Daten or whatever your failed HD was named.
If the final result looks like this: sudo tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/Daten /Volumes/YourBackupVolume/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Computer\ Name/Latest/Daten press Enter, enter your password and press Enter again.
Open the new volume in Finder. Start Time Machine. Restore all the files.
Undo step 3.
Undo step 2.

After that, Time Machine will see your new volume as the old one and will only backup the new files.

The reason why this is necessary is that Time Machine recognises the volumes not by their name but by their UUID, which is a long unique number that changes with every formatting. The associatedisk command tells Time Machine the new UUID of the volume.


How do I remove the "Open With"context menu items caused by VMware Fusion?

In VMWare Fusion:

go to Virtual Machine->Settings,
select Default Applications,
Uncheck Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications
Repeat this for all virtual machines
Reboot your Mac

Now the Open With options for apps in your virtual machines should be gone. Personally as I don't like my VMs to creep into the guest OS I keep all checkboxes here unchecked.


Mac Mini mouse icon stutters and sometimes unresponsive

I can imagine two possibilities.

Someone cleaned the trackpad with a detergent that created a charge on the surface of the trackpad, which is disrupting the capacitive touch mechanism.
If the trackpad is connected via Bluetooth, you have a microwave source near you that is disrupting the signal e.g. a leaky microwave oven in a break room.


Change the functionality of the function and control keys on macOS Sierra

Karabiner is being rewritten from scratch to support Sierra in the form of Karabiner-Elements. You should still be able to accomplish it with this "light" version.


It turns out that this is actually a “feature.” There’s an option in System Preferences → Accessibility → Zoom → Options…:

Unchecking that should remove the rectangle.


How to install a second Win10 on a Macbook Pro 2019 with Catalina and Windows 10 already installed?

Steps to a Create USB Windows 10 Installer

Use the Boot Camp Assistant application to download the Windows Support Software.
Download the latest Windows 10 iso file.
Use to Disk Utility application to erase a 16 GB or larger USB flash drive. Use the setting shown below.

Use the Finder application to mount the Windows 10 iso file.
Use the Finder application to copy all the files from the mounted Windows 10 iso file to the USB flash drive.
Use the Finder application to copy the downloaded Windows Support Software to the USB flash drive.

Below is the results from a Windows 10 (1909) download and the Window Support Software for a 2018 mac mini.

Procedure to Install a Second Windows 10 Operating System

  The first Windows 10 installation should not be encrypted through the use of Bitlocker.

Boot from the USB Windows installation flash drive. Proceed until you reach the same screen as shown in the image below. Click on Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).

The next screen should be similar to the one shown below. At this point, press the shift+F10 key combination to open a Command Prompt window.

The next image shows an opened Command Prompt window.

You need to shrink the Windows partition to make room for the second Windows installation. This can be down by entering the following commands in the Command Prompt window. In this case, commands will shrink the Windows partition (number 3) by 70000 MB (which is 70 GB). You may wish to use a different value.

diskpart
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 3
shrink desired=70000
exit
exit

Below is an example output from entering the above commands.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.418]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

X:\Sources>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MINWINPC

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System             315 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Unknown            722 GB   316 MB
  Partition 3    Primary            277 GB   722 GB

DISKPART> select partition 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> shrink desired=70000

DiskPart successfully shrunk the volume by:   68 GB

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

X:\Sources>exit

After the Command Prompt window closes, you will need to click on the Refresh button. The result should be similar to the image shown below.

  Your earlier question indicated your desire to have the two Windows installation not share the same boot files. To accomplish this, each installation will need an unique EFI partition for the boot files. Unfortunately, the Windows installation will not proceed correctly, if the second EFI partition is created at this point. So instead, the space will be reserved for the second EFI partition by creating an unformatted primary partition. My answer posted in the earlier question showns how and when to convert this primary partition to a EFI partition.

Next, highlight the Drive 0 Unallocated Space, then click on the New button. Enter 315 for Size and then click on the Apply button. The result should be similar to the image shown below. Here, a new unformatted primary partition (number 4) was created for future use as an EFI partition.

Again, highlight the Drive 0 Unallocated Space, then click on the New button. Without changing the Size, click on the Apply button. When the popup shown below appears, click on the OK button.

The image below shows a 16 MB Microsoft Reserved partition (number 5) was create along with a new primary partition (number 6).

With the new primary partition (number 6) highlighted, click on the Next button. When the popup shown below appears, click on the OK button. The Windows installation should proceed. This new primary partition will be automatically NTFS formatted before being using as the location for the second Windows installation.


Where is data from Software Update server located?

The standard directory in Yosemite/Mavericks where the update packages are stored in folders and sub-folders is here:

"/Library/Server/Software Update/Data/html/content/downloads/"

The DocRoot may be customized though.

Entering the following in Terminal to get a previously customized DocRoot should work:

 /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'print :updatesDocRoot' "/Library/Server/Software Update/Config/swupd.plist"


Manually enter "Where From" text for screenshot Metadata?

Along with the information window, a dialog can be put up to get the whereFrom text, with a little AppleScriptObjC (since a shell script has been posted in another answer) to add it.  Extending the Automator folder action in my answer to your previous topic, the replacement Run AppleScript action would look something like:

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

property useBinary : missing value

on run {input, parameters}
    repeat with anItem in input
        tell application "Finder"
            activate
            open information window of anItem
        end tell

        set response to (display dialog "Enter text to add to whereFroms:" default answer "" buttons {"Enter", "Skip"} default button 2)
        if button returned of response is "Enter" then
            addWhereFrom(text returned of response, anItem)
        end if
    end repeat

    return input
end run

to addWhereFrom(newItem, filePath) -- add to existing whereFroms, trimming duplicates
    set whereFroms to readWhereFroms(filePath)
    set end of whereFroms to (newItem as text)
    set whereFroms to (current application's NSOrderedSet's orderedSetWithArray:whereFroms)'s allObjects()
    writeWhereFroms(whereFroms, filePath)
end addWhereFrom

to readWhereFroms(filePath) -- get a list of whereFroms from the extended attribute
    set filePath to quoted form of POSIX path of filePath
    set attribute to missing value
    set useBinary to missing value -- keep track of which it is
    try -- get existing attribute as property list
        set attribute to (do shell script "xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms " & filePath & "  | xxd -r -p | plutil -convert xml1 -o - -") -- convert from binary
        set useBinary to true
    on error -- oops, not a binary plist, so try XML
        try -- skip error if no attribute
            set attribute to (do shell script "xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms " & filePath)
            set useBinary to false
        end try
    end try
    if attribute is in {missing value, ""} then return {}
    # deserialize the list from the property list string
    set theData to (current application's NSString's stringWithString:attribute)'s dataUsingEncoding:(current application's NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    return (current application's NSPropertyListSerialization's propertyListWithData:theData options:(current application's NSPropertyListMutableContainersAndLeaves) format:(missing value) |error|:(missing value)) as list
end readWhereFroms

to writeWhereFroms(theList, filePath) -- set the extended attribute to a list of whereFroms
    set filePath to quoted form of POSIX path of filePath
    # serialize the list into a property list string
    set theData to (current application's NSPropertyListSerialization's dataWithPropertyList:theList format:(current application's NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0) options:0 |error|:(missing value))
    set plist to (current application's NSString's alloc's initWithData:theData encoding:(current application's NSUTF8StringEncoding)) as text
    if useBinary is false then -- set XML plist
        do shell script "xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms " & quoted form of plist & space & filePath
    else -- convert and set binary plist
        set bplist to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of plist & " | plutil -convert binary1 -o - - | xxd -p"
        do shell script "xattr -w -x com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms " & bplist & space & filePath
    end if
end writeWhereFroms

To use the above script by itself, just remove {input, parameters} from the run handler declaration, and replace the input variable or set it to your own list of file items, for example from a choose file dialog.


You'd have to read the GPS manual & see if it has any form of mac connectivity/drivers, otherwise you'd need to buy a GPS dongle - this is just the first one I found, no doubt there are many others - http://www.amazon.com/GlobalSat-ND-100S-USB-GPS-Dongle/dp/B003WNHGAO


Change Apple ID for a user when the e-mail cannot be confirmed

I spent some time with Apple Support on this but we only succeeded in bricking my system so that I couldn't create any kind of accounts (so existing accounts for Google, etc. were lost and not replaceable)!

The Apple support script suggests you delete the accounts from ~/Library/Accounts and elsewhere before running defaults delete MobileMeAccounts. Now, the acccounts in ~/LibraryAccounts are in an SQLite database which is readable and editable with the sqlite3 program so changes are always possible and removing the files should be considered a last resort. I was also required to reinstall MacOS and reset the permissions for my home directory, takes a while as it's 200 GB. I also tried reinstalling from Time Machine (takes forevever) and failed here. Fortunately, I'd also created a backup with Carbon Copy, which is both faster and more useful.

Relevant, at least for me, because I couldn't sign out from the account I can use but can't confirm, is the MobileMe stuff, which is what Apple called accounts before it introduced iCloud.

However, again deleting anything without creating a backup is asking for trouble. Fortunately, profile information can be exported and imported so you can make a backup and even make changes. To make a backup defaults export MobileMeAccounts - > accounts.plist. This will create an XML file which you can edit in a suitable editor or with XCode. You can then make changes such as removing a broken account and then import it using defaults import MobileMeAccounts accounts.plist. If you then restart the machine or logout and log back in, you should be able to create associate the account with a different Apple ID. This worked for me

This still doesn't solve the underlying problem as to why Apple will not accept certain Apple ID accounts as valid accounts and, apparently, it will also not let you merge them. But they can be added as additional accounts so that purchases from the App Store, etc. should still be usable.


Using TextMate, is there a hotkey to move the cursor out of the quotations?

Currently using:
TextMate version 2.0-alpha.9547

Was trying to define it myself when I found out it is already defined as:

Ctrl + f


Find all illegal Windows characters in a folder and subfolder

I found a bash one-liner that finds each file and folder with invalid characters in the name and renames the file/folder, changing each invalid character to a dash:

find . -name "*[<>:\\|?*]*" -exec bash -c 'x="{}"; y=$(sed "s/[<>:\\|?*]\+/-/g" <<< "$x") && mv -n "$x" "$y" ' \;

It is possible that a file has an illegal name that would be corrected to the exact same legal name as another illegally named file (Example: two files named "fle"). The one-liner above will not change the name of the second (or further) illegally named file that would be corrected to the same name as the first. This means that you may still have some illegally named files after the one-liner runs. After you run this one-liner, run

find . -name "*[<>:\\|?*]*"

again to identify any illegally named files that still exist. One way to deal with this situation is to change the dash in the sed substitution to another character, e.g. underscore, and run the one-liner again.


Restart download Mac OS X (macOS) Sierra, Developer Preview version

If you have already successfully redeemed your code:

Go to the Purchased Tab of the Mac App Store.
Click the Download button on the 10.12 Developer Preview listing.

It is the same process as re-downloading anything from the Mac App Store.


Not able to open a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) SSD disk in Boot Camp

Disk 1 looks like a typical, bootable OS X drive with an EFI-partition (200 MiB), a main OS X volume and a Recovery HD partition (620 MiB).
I can't say it for sure, but I'd assume your external SSD (disk1 in the Disk Management screenshot) contains a CoreStorage Logical Volume Group on the second partition (112.20 GiB).
To check if the second partition of your external disk contains a CoreStorage LVG boot to an OS X volume and enter diskutil list or diskutil cs list. If you detect the volume type Apple_CoreStorage next to the second partition of your external drive after entering the first command or a CoreStorage Logical Volume Group or a Logical Volume with the size of ~120 GB after entering the second command, your external disk contains a CoreStorage volume.
A Paragon knowledge base article states that Paragon HFS+ isn't compatible with CoreStorage:

...
[HFS+ for Windows]
If you are running HFS+ for Windows in a Bootcamp configuration, you won’t be able to see Mac OS X partition due to Core Storage restrictions. If you can disable Core Storage as described above, this will give you access to Mac OS X system drive from Bootcamp.

To enable r/w support you have to revert the CoreStorage LVG to a normal HFS+ volume.
To revert a CoreStorage volume boot to a Recovery HD or the OS X volume on your internal disk. Enter diskutil cs list and copy the Logical Volume UUID. Then enter: diskutil cs revert LVUUID. Some CoreStorage LVs aren't revertible. If you have enabled FileVault on the external main volume you have to use a passphrase: diskutil cs revert LVUUID -passphrase [passphrase].


How to approve a lot of executables with unrecognized developers?

You could ad-hoc code sign the applications using a shell script or another tool like Automator. The approximate command for each application is:
codesign --force -s - </path/to/application>

Please see the linked question for what this does and how the command is constructed.


Notepad++ alternative with the ability to search in folder

Atom is another great editor that has the features you are looking for, with the added benefit of being free and open source.

A good comparison of Atom and Sublime Text 3 can be found here


Reply from same address as mail was sent to in Mail.app

Apple Mail can only send replies from mail enabled accounts that you have set up in your system. I.e., you may have iCloud account set up in your system, but if you have mail option unchecked in System Preferences -> Internet Accounts -> iCloud, you won't be able to send any mail (including replies) from that iCloud account.
One possible workaround is to use 'Reply To' field which you can enable by pressing Alt+Command+R or from Main Menu -> View -> Reply-To Address Field. This will enable your recipients press reply button and send their reply to the address which you will enter into mentioned field.
Hope this helps.


Is there any way to get iPhone app notification to Mac computer?

There's currently no native way to do this, but there are a couple of ways to do this with 3rd party apps:
Notifyr ($4).  This will allow you to recieve push notifications from any app on your iOS device with your Mac.  There are some base system requirements, so thee the web page for full details.
ForwardNotifier (Free).  This requires you to jailbreak your phone but you will be able to get your push notification on macOS, Windows, and Linux.


iPhone 6 - Phone call keypad not recognized

As an update, I have not had this happen since upgrading my phone to iOS 10, so I can only assume that it was a bug with previous versions of the operating system.

Aside from that, I have not found a "solution".


MiniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter not working

It could be the adapter?

I bought mine at Monoprice for $6.82!

Notice it says with Audio support in the title.

  Mini DisplayPort to HDMI® Adapter w/ Audio Support Product Number:
  5311

and it works purfectly on my MBA with the Sharp TV.

It is not worth for $4, but if you must, look in your about this mac, or your System Utility display if it shows the monitor/tv you just connected.


Why can't I use the full resolution of my UltraSharp U2713HM with my macbook pro retina?

get a Mini DisplayPort / Thunderbolt to DisplayPort Cable $17.99 or less, thats what i did works fine, although photoshop still displays non retina so have to scale to 50% which is a pain.


Software is corrupt that worked only months ago?

Apple's OSX Mavericks 10.9.5 update changed some app signing rules.  I'm not sure if that's exactly what's happening with JD-GUI, but it seems plausible.

To bypass the Gatekeeper check that's popping up the error, launch the app directly from a Terminal prompt:

$ /Applications/JD-GUI.app/Contents/MacOS/jd-gui &


Can Internet sharing be configured to be a bridge/switch rather than a separate NAT/router?

I saw this link, but instructions are outdated and does not work on El Capitan
http://www.notadiscussion.com/2014/01/how-to-make-real-network-bridge-with.html

Trying to find a solution myself for El Capitan


Command works when run from alias but not when typed?

Always use a different name for your alias. For example (one of mine):

alias ipex='curl -s http://ipecho.net/plain'

Or, in your case:

alias s4='sshfs 10.xxx.xx.4:/Users/username/code mountpoint'
alias s8='sshfs 10.xxx.xx.8:/Users/username/code mountpoint'

and so on.

You may use more complex aliases, or even personal functions used inside aliases, for example when you need to pass a parameter inside the command, not at the end (as to provide a changing IP address to your alias), but it is probably a bit too much depending on your question.

Anyway, this is one of mine, again:

# Delete an existing alias, but only if it exists in order to avoid an error:
dont_alias() {
    alias $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 && unalias $1
    return $?
} # dont_alias

Then I use dont_alias as an alias, for example:

dont_alias s4 # Will unalias the existing s4
dont_alias s7 # Will do nothing

The only difference with aliases is that functions do not appear in the list of (existing) aliases.

I have a few more complex samples (that I use daily), if some people are interested. Please feel free to ask for — I do my best to come here every few days :^)


Okay, let me walk you through it step-by-step. The first thing we'll need to do is sync. Then we will backup, and then put the new OS on.

Syncing

Take your iPhone and plug it into your computer (using the charging cable that came with it)(it should have a USB, and iPhone connector)
If iTunes does not automatically pop-up on your computer screen within 1 minute of pluging in, click the icon for iTunes on your computer.
In iTunes, your iPhone should pop-up after a few minutes. Make sure that you are syncing all that you will want when the whole process is over. Go to the different tabs on top to make sure that you are syncing apps, notes, calendars, etc... Once you know that you are syncing all that you want, you must look for the sync button (it should be located at the bottom-right of iTunes within your device "Summary" page). Click it.
To be extra careful, once the sync is over, you should click sync again (this will ensure that you have successfully synced your iPhone).

Backing Up

Now you will want to Backup your iPhone to make sure that you won't lose any of your note, calendars, and so on. To do this, click the "Summary" tab in iTunes which will display a picture of an iPhone. After this, scroll down to the "Backups" section of this page, and finally, click "Back Up Now".
Once this is done, you should probably do it again to ensure that your information has been successfully backed up. Just follow the same steps above.
Finally, move on to the step shown below.

Upgrading iOS

Now, in the same "Summary" page, scroll down to the "Version" section of the page. In here (IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL STEPS ABOVE), click "Check For Update". In the window that appears, click "Download and Update".
Confirm all of the following prompts that appear (Terms and Conditions, and so on...), and let it do its thing.
Have a cup of Hot Chocolate and wait for the download to finish. Once this has occurred, confirm any other prompts that appear (if they do).
Watch a little TV while you wait for the OS to update into your iPhone.
Once it is done doing this, it will restore the information into your phone and do a sync automatically in order to put in your apps and everything.
Once you get any indication that it was finished (MAKE SURE THAT IT IS FINISHED)(IT USUALLY TAKES ABOUT A DAY FOR THE WHOLE PROCESS TO FINISH), unplug your phone and enjoy.
Take a break! Go to bed, have a cup of tea, whatever! You now feel wiped out, and wish you never had asked...Don't worry about it, you now have the latest iOS.


Where does MplayerX keep its playback history?

MPlayerX saves playback positions in plist file ~/Library/Application Support/MPlayerX/bookmarks.plist


How do you cancel an automatic connection to a once joined wi-fi network on 10.7.4?

Go to System Preferences > Network.
Select your Airport/WiFi connection on the left.
Click on the "Advanced..." button in the lower right of panel.
You should see a list of "Preferred Networks." Select the one you want to "forget" and click the minus "–" button below.
You can also un-check "Remember networks this computer has joined" – that will cause the computer to – you guessed it – NOT remember networks it has joined! :-)


Where does Windows store my imported photos from my iPhone?

The default location for Windows photo imports is the Pictures folder in your user account, but can be changed (and you can see where it is set) in the import settings by choosing ‘More options’ at the bottom-left of the import window.

How to change photo import settings in Windows 8


New TimeMachine backup on the same drive

If you're asking about multiple backup of the same Mac on another backup volume, then no, that's not possible as the Time Machine will backup the same Mac and effectively overwrite the most recent backup.

If on the other hand you're asking about backing up multiple (different) Macs on the same backup volume, that's possible. I back up 5 Macs onto my NAS regularly.


There is no way to remove the bettery without losing the warranty for your Macbook. Simply unplug the battery charger should do the trick.

If you want further information on how to maintain battery life, Apple is providing a useful page.


Yes is the simple answer with either.

I am on my iPad at the mo. But you can use unix command curl to download the webpage to and pipe it to the unix command textutil which can output it to a webarchive file.

If I get a chance I will post an example.

Here is a small example (quick ) of what I was thinking. Written in Applescript running do shell script commands.

  property agent : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3"

property outPutFormat : "rtf"
property saveDIR : "/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/"
property fileName : "test2"

set theData to do shell script "curl " & " -A" & space & quoted form of agent & space & "http://weather.yahoo.com/france/auvergne/france-29332634/" as string

do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theData & "|textutil -format html -convert" & space & outPutFormat & space & "-stdin -output " & space & saveDIR & fileName & "." & outPutFormat

Although this works. I am not very happy with the results. This is due to curl and textutil only processing the html code but not resources.

So am working on something else that will save a webArchive in a much better way. 90% there but will take a little longer for me to write


Will time machine backup my whole Adobe CS apps?

First of all you should not use applications you don't have licenses for.

Yes, time machine backs up all data. If you chose to reinstall the same OS X version on the same computer everything should be the same.

Please keep in mind, though, that adobe's creative suite (CS1) does not work on newer versions of OA X/macOS.


Apple Mail and IMAP - Removing local attachments only

On 10.14.5 Mojave.

I just went to

/Users/<username>/Library/Mail

And removed directory named V6. This cleared out 16.62GB of memory on my SSD. This would only remove the local e-mails. I don't guarantee it wouldn't break the Mail app (not like if I cared... personally, for me it was a mistake to start using it in the first place).

In the Mail app I changed settings to stop downloading attachments by default but it was too late as there was no way of automatically clearing out already downloaded attachments and I didn't feel like removing them manually one by one using the menu.

Before

After


Can you change the time when iCloud Backup takes place?

You can't change the time, but leaving an iPhone plugged in overnight will cause the iCloud Backup to start between 2:00 am and 4:00 am. iCloud Backup does not happen overnight if not connected to a Wi-Fi network, so free cellular data is a moot point.


How do you force OS X to re-detect displays?

Go into System Preferences->Displays and when there (doesn't matter which tab) press the 'Option/ALT' key and you'll see 'Detect Displays' where the 'Gather Windows' button is (on 10.13.x) or simply in the lower right on 10.14.x (as this page doesn't have a 'Gather Windows' button.)


Doing a quick search of the Epson site, it looks like only two models still have Fax (that's usually that few multifunction printers still include.
I found this model:  WorkForce Pro WF-3733 All-in-One Printer
There is also a WF-3730 ... I'm not sure what the difference is between the 3733 and the 3730.
I have an (old) Epson Artisan 837 which has all those features, but while that printer is no longer produced, Epson has been updating the drivers for it ... I was still able to get the driver for Catalina.
These days I'm not so much a fan of Inkjets (with except of some professional photo printers that use pigment based inks) and prefer color lasers (which have really come down in price).  But this bias because I'm tired of inkjet printheads drying up and wasting a lot of ink trying to clear the head.  If the printer is used frequently enough, it's not really an issue.


Javaws unable to locate JRE on 10.9 Mavericks

I had the same problem. Updating my java version from java.com  did it for me.


What is the difference between "all unplayed" and "all new" podcasts?

If you have three podcasts as follows:

A - downloaded, synced and played
B - downloaded, synced and not played
C - newly downloaded, never synced, and not played

When choosing "all unplayed", podcasts B & C will by synced. A will be removed from the iDevice

When choosing "all new", only C will be synced.  A & B will be removed from the iDevice


OS X. Should I quit apps or close windows (red cross button behavior)?

One of Mac's most confusing features is the red close button, which you think would shut down an application but often doesn't. When you press X button in the window - you actually close the windows related to the app, but it does not quit. Here's more information from Apple's support pages:

Close windows
When you close an app’s window, the window closes, but the app remains open. If you want to quit an app, click the app’s name in the menu bar, then choose Quit [App]. For more information, see Quit apps.

If you want to quit the app (release the memory, reduce CPU usage, etc) then there are several ways to do this:

Using keyboard shortcut: ⌘ cmd+Q.
Using contextual menu (or application's menu): Go to the Dock at the bottom of the screen and find the icon for the app, then right click (or ctrl+click) to bring up the contextual menu. At the bottom of this list is the Quit option.
Using Activity Monitor: Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor.
For unresponsive apps: Force Quit (⌘ cmd+⌥ alt+esc)

You may also want to overload the default behaviour, and to make it like in Windows OS, but you need to use separate utilities (like RedQuits). There are a bunch of those utilities that close applications when you click the the red close button.
In overall, to answer your question about how it hits system efficiency, memory and battery: OS X handles it properly and does as much as possible to optimize efficiency, unless the Application itself is written poorly. OS X internally has a lot of optimisations like App Nap which help to keep background apps' effect on system resources to a minimum:

You don’t have to quit apps once you’re done working in them — OS X allows you to work with several apps open at once. Features such as Compressed Memory and App Nap keep your Mac running fast, and save power when many apps are open.


iOS 5 OTA sync went over 3G instead of wifi

Did the iCloud sync over 3G last night? (My iPhone and Mac were both on my home wifi network that did not break during the night)

No. iTunes can only sync over Wi-Fi. Any automated backup to iCloud can only be done via Wi-Fi as well. However you can initiate a backup via 3G but not a sync since iTunes can't "see" the device if it's not on the same network, and in most cases you will receive a warning that it will use your data plan.

  I was playing with the iMessage feature and I sent an email to one of my other (non-AppleID) email IDs from it, just to check. The email came thru with the email ID being my_phone_number@mms.att.net and this was when I got that 90% email from AT&T.

Highly unlikely. Messages sent via iMessage, unless they contain huge images, are even smaller then most emails. The system also sends it as one single message and is not considered email actually.

  What caused my 3G plan to be over used? The MMS or iCloud?

If you manually started a sync with iCloud then that would be the case, however, your iPhone will always use the Wi-Fi first, and it is something I specifically tested during beta, if the iPhone can't find a Wi-Fi connection to automatically sync or backup it won't initiate the processes at all.

If you sent a massive message with images via iMessage, probably, but iMessage is not considered email, and it is sent via the Apple servers.

I would suggest you look at other areas of your phone, or most probably and app that is abusing your bandwidth. One thing it could possibly be is automatic iTunes Store downloads where you have an option to turn on Mobile Data for downloads. You can find this under Settings -> Store.


How do I uninstall an iOS app completely?

Did the app know your account name when you installed it initially? Also, which game is it?

It is true that when you delete an app, it is completely removed from your device, and all settings are deleted. It is possible however that it still can identify your device and associate it with information its storing on its own servers.


I actually think the idea of a single, unified, development environment like what you're after is somewhat antithetical to OS X design principles. One of the great things I've found, since switching to OS X for development work about a year ago, is that many OS X application developers share my own personal philosophy when it comes to software: do less, but do it really, really well.

As such, my current development environment on OS X is less unified than it was on Windows or Linux, but far, far more stable, robust, and ultimately: productive.

For coding I use TextMate. It seems almost trivially simple at first and then you discover bundles and it's built-in command line filtering and it takes off. It will handle the highlighting tasks you requested. It has projects, and while they seem kind of loose at first, you'll grow to appreciate it. Trust me. And it does handle code completion, tag closing, tag matching -- the sort of stuff you'd expect -- it's just not obvious, but it's there in Bundles and waiting for you to customize it.

Update: I've moved off TextMate and on to Sublime Text 2. The regular updates and the Python-based extensions were a major draw. It's been a year now and no regrets with that switch.

I use Kaleidoscope for diffs. It's just an a beautiful diff tool.

My git tool is Tower and my Subversion tool is Versions. Both awesome.

For permanent, remote drive access via ssh I use MacFUSE to connect to the remote location and mount it as a drive on my Mac. This is a superior option to built-in ssh or ftp support in the IDE because all the programs on my Mac can now work with files on that share.

I also use CyberDuck for it's awesome cost and excellent Amazon S3 support. I could even get away with just CyberDuck, no MacFUSE, if I had to. But I don't. :)

Update: I've switched to ForkLift 2 as my primary means to interact with remote file systems. It's got a nicer UI than CyberDuck and a few less "quirks" to it. I'll still occasionally open up CyberDuck when I need to deliver a signed URL to an S3 object.

Finally: iTerm 2. A terminal app befitting OS X. It really is quite a fantastic terminal. Bookmarks make it easy to get to my AWS machines quickly. The UI is clean. And tabs.

All of those things replace the clunky IDE (Komodo Pro) I use to use on Linux and Windows (and never really liked, just tolerated). And I don't even know that they're not all "unified" in one cluttered, modal window. No sir.

For reference, I write a lot Python, some HTML, JavaScript, Perl, and Java. And the occasional bit of C and C++.

Update: There's more Go in my day to day coding now. My toolset integrated that relatively young language without so much as a hiccup.


Can't Remove Downloaded Music From Ipod Touch

You could delete the duplicate playlist from the iPod, but the actually music files shouldn't be duplicated anyway. Nevertheless, if you would like to delete all stored music (not including what's in the cloud), you can (on your iPod) navigate to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage (For Device Storage, not iCloud) > Music > Edit and tap delete next to "All Songs".


Change update frequency of App Store in Mountain Lion?

Launch Terminal, found in /Applications/Utilities/ and enter the following command:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate ScheduleFrequency 3

Set the number at the end to the number in days between checking for available software updates, the example uses 3 days


Install old app version on iPad 1st generation iOS 5.1.1 (Windows 10, year 2018 question)

As the text in the graphic says, you need to open the App Store on the iPad itself, not through iTunes on your PC.


Try using the --legacy flag:

sudo bless --device /dev/disk3s1 --legacy --setboot --nextonly reboot

(not sure why you're using the && operator; try the command without it)

I encountered a similar issue a while back; the --legacy flag apparently was needed due to the EFI compatibility at the time. Apple's man page reads:

--legacy     If --setBoot is given, set the firmware to boot a legacy BIOS-based
             operating system from the specified disk. The active flag of an
             MBR-partitioned disk is not modified, which can be done with fdisk(8).
             This is only supported on EFI-based systems.

In VMWare ESX you will need to have EFI selected in the boot manager. It's possible that creating a boot.efi file could help solve your issue as well.

-> bless (OS X Man Pages)


How to sync iPhone Voice Memos to the Mac via USB without using iCloud?

If you do have any voice memos stored on your computer whether from backing it up the old way in iTunes or via iCloud, you can go and hunt for the files inside your computer. However, Apple does not recommend messing with them directly. However, if you do want to find them and be able to, for example, drag and drop them onto a hard drive, you need to search for: "com.apple.voicememos" in Finder. These files are kept hidden in a Libary under your user name. To see them you need to clip Command+Shift+.
Good luck...!


Macbook Pro 15" mid 2012, external display @ 2560 x 1600 on 4K screen via DisplayPort?

Well looks like I found the answer to my problem.
All I had to do was press the Option button when selecting "Scaled" from the Displays setting; this allowed me to select 3840 x 2160 (30Hz) and 2560 x 1440 (60Hz)

Well, to be more precise, the 2560x1440 resolution is not 60Hz but for a weird reason it shows 59Hz in System Information. Does anyone know how come?


If by Could this be a battery problem? you want to know whether it's where the battery is located inside the phone, then the answer is yes.

In an iPhone 6 the battery is located at left-centre of the device (i.e. if you're facing it with the home button at the bottom). I should mention that the top of the battery is roughly in line with the bottom of the mute switch, so it is quite possible that the battery could be the problem. However, it's impossible for us to say since we can't physically inspect it.

You really need to get it checked out, but make sure you make a full backup first!


I was getting the same error. In my case it turned out to be a conflict with "Back to My Mac"—specifically within my Airport Extreme. Once I removed my iCloud user account from the Airport Extreme, OS X Server's VPN started responding.

If there are any Airport Extreme/Express devices on your network, definitely remove any iCloud/MobileMe accounts using Airport Utility.

You may also have Back to My Mac turned on in System Preferences—and it's conceivable that could cause a problem as well...

I recommend (at least temporarily) checking that no user accounts have Back to My Mac enabled in the iCloud pane of System Preferences; I would verify this on every user account on every Mac on your network.

Good luck!


Can I start an application as another user without actually switching users?

From the command line you have to find the Unix executable and run it using sudo like so:

$ sudo -u Bob /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox

… or the same with su: (however this also needs you to set up a password for root - which I do not recommend)

$ su Bob
$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox

(…or the above in one line:)

$ su Bob -c /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox

In the past, the easiest way for PPC Macs was to use Pseudo, but it has been long discontinued. This is to drop the application icon on Pseudo's icon or window.


It doesn't have to do with your Number, it's a known Bug which happens to all iPhone Android switchers.

It has to do with the way Apple has made its iMessage service.

Thanks to an ongoing issue with the way Apple built its iMessage platform, users who switch away from an iPhone to an Android phone or any other cell phone are faced with a huge problem: once they bail on the iPhone, they often can’t receive text messages from contacts who are still using iPhones. This is because Apple’s system still sees them as iMessage users, and it tries to deliver messages sent using Apple’s Messages app as iMessages. To make matters even worse, the iPhone users who send those messages see their status as “delivered” even though they are not being received.

source http://bgr.com/2014/05/19/fix-imessage-iphone-bug-android-sms/.

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