Transferring contacts from iCloud to Android

You can use the app SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts to accomplish that. The app will just add another standard sync account in Android under System settings > Accounts & sync where you can login with your Apple ID:

After you've setup the new account all your iCloud contacts will be synced down to the Android device and appear in the People app. Moreover, it's a full two-way sync so you can edit your iCloud contacts from your Android phone and the changes will get pushed to iCloud and your iDevices immediately.


How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X?

You do NOT need to install a third party app.

Both Google Chrome and Firefox support this functionality. (ok, technically these are third party apps, but lets assume you are not using safari.)

Chrome:

Open gmail in chrome.
In the address bar next to the "bookmark star" you should see a grey diamond. Click on the diamond
Select "use gmail".

If you do not see the gray diamond, follow the instructions below.

If you made a mistake and selected "No" and you really wanted to select "Use Gmail"

With Chrome open, copy and paste this into your address bar at the top: chrome://settings/handlers
Under the Ignored protocol handlers section, Click on X to the right to delete.
Close and open Gmail.
Answer the question correctly this time. :)

Source:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/hnRteY7bHfE

Alternative way, if you need to do this programmatically.

Firefox:

See @Am1rr3zA answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer.

Safari:

See @fpotter's answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer.


Can't see logical Windows NTFS partition in OS X

Mac OS X does not natively support RW access to NTFS partitions.

You'll need a combination of MacFUSE:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

and Amit Singh's NTFS RW driver:

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/


VPN Tracker 6 won't work on Mac OS X Yosemite

As read here, Yosemite won't load kernel extensions that aren't signed by an authorized kext (kernel extension) developer (at this stage, the protectionism of Apple no longer astonishes me).

The workaround is to turn your OS X into a kernel extension developer mode by adding this to the nvram parameters:

sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"

After rebooting, VPN Tracker 6 launched and connected trouble-free.

@Equinux and their greedy licensing policy: I am so very glad that you did not get my €€€. Your message "VPN Tracker 6 is out–of-date" with either Quit or Upgrade to version 8 shows how much your company is run by dinosaurs still stuck in the 90s of Microsoft of sorts.


How can I change the default text color in Apple Mail 8.2?

Click on the A in the right upper corner inside the new mail message you wish to compose.
That will bring up the text mark-up option, including colors.
So far I haven't seen an option in Yosemite to set this as default.


Try using Cmd-0 to bring up the more detailed Activity Window within mail. I've often been able to track down mail problems by looking in there.


I can't because a .CDA (CD Audio) file is a Windows file, created as a shortcut to a file located on a CD.

The file doesn't contain any Audio data.

I had to rip the CD on my Windows machine, then copy the ripped (located in the Music folder) files onto my Mac.


How do I add data to the maps app introduced in iOS 6?

The previous answer works if Yelp is available in your country. Here's an alternative for the rest of us:

How to add a location or business to iOS 6 Maps

If an important location is missing in iOS 6 Maps you can use this process to suggest it.

Launch Maps from the Home screen.
Tap the page curl at the bottom right.
Tap the text that says Report a Problem above the Print button,
middle right.
Tap location is missing.
Tap Next.
Drag the purple pin to the right location on the map.
Enter the location information.
Tap Send.
Add any comments, if asked.

Apple will receive your suggested location, and if it meets their criteria, add it to the data base.


View MAC addresses of local bluetooth devices I have never connected to

I've been spoiled by the Apple Developer tools, so I haven't needed to use any command line tools.

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?=bluetooth

In the additional tools download for your Xcode version (get Xcode from the App Store even if you have a developer account). The link above probably requires a paid account, but might work for free developers.

Bluetooth explorer and PacketLogger are two tools suited for your task. The former would be the best tool for scanning Bluetooth radio and deconstructing the advertised devices that are in range.

It's got a ton of other tricks and tools like dashboards, RSSI sweepers, throughout testers, but if you need professional level first party tools, I'd recommend this.


Emacs GUI won't start when launched from the Terminal

The installation command should end with the option --with-cocoa:

brew install emacs --with-cocoa

But first execute

brew uninstall emacs

or else Homebrew will refuse to reinstall Emacs.

As an alternative to brew install emacs --with-cocoa, Homebrew recommends running

brew cask install emacs

(you get this recommendation in the end of the brew install emacs --with-cocoa run). However, I've found that this doesn't work, and ends with the following error message:

  Error: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Emacs.app'.

Acknowledgements

This answer is essentially copied from here.

Update as of July 23 2019: The --with-cocoa option is not supported any longer. Follow these steps.

brew uninstall emacs
rm -rf /Applications/Emacs.app/z
brew cask install emacs


Unable to restore the lot space to Container disk0s2

You can get the offset and size of the remaining partitions on disk0 by entering the commands given below.

  Note: The identifiers may change if you restart the Mac.

diskutil info disk0s1 | grep -e Offset -e "Disk Size"
diskutil info disk0s3 | grep -e Offset -e "Disk Size"

When Free Space Occurs After the APFS Partition

If there is sufficient free space after disk0s3, then you can reclaim this space, back to the container partition, by entering the command given below.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s3 0

When Free Space Occurs Before the APFS Partition

The macOS operating system offers no commands that can reclaim, back to disk0s3, any free space that resides before the container partition. There are third party (both free and pay) tools that can move partitions, although some can not handle the APFS format. Also, these types of tools take a long time to execute. You should backup your important data before attempting a move.

  It is my opinion that once you have backed up your data, you would be better off wiping the drive and reloading.


iPhone 5s not registering steps data in iOS 8 Health app

See Edit note at bottom.  My answer does need work, but I don't know the correct answer yet.

You need additional accessories to collect that data.

From the IOS8 for iPhone manual Page 122:

  Data sources: Enter your own data, Collect data from a device, Collect data from an app.

Also on Apple's "Health" marketing page note it says:

  The Health app in iOS 8 lets you see the data that your health and fitness apps collect in one place. You can also store your important health data in Medical ID for easy retrieval in an emergency.

Nowhere in any of the documentation does it indicate that Apple has figured out a way to collect this data with the phones sensors regardless of where the user is keeping/carrying the phone (i.e. shirt pocket, pants pocket, in an arm band carrier...etc).

Apple also sells the accessories in the apple store.

EDIT to add:  Now I'm confused too!! today My iPhone 6 has data collected, and I don't know how from the research I've done for this answer. The interface seems incredibly buggy, I am seeing both NO DATA and graphs populated with data and I can't see apparent methods to make either happen intentionally.  Drilling down to the "All Data" display and waiting a long time does seem to return data points that the phone has collected.

Additional Info Edit: NO DATA seems to appear while data is being sorted, that's my feeling anyway, I can't seem to figure out what makes sorting short or long however.

I've googled and searched apple additionally and can find no apparent documentation other than what I've already linked and quoted.


How do I correctly use applescript 2.3 script library "use" rather than "tell"

I have just discovered that you need to add explicitly use scripting additions to have the display dialog command recognised properly.
Once you start using use then apparently other libraries, otherwise normally available by default, have to be explicitly included by their own use statements.

So add

use scripting additions

to the client of the library (my first file above) and it will compile and run as intended.


iPhone text messages are delivered to my work iPad!

You need to change the iMessage setting on your iPad. Follow these steps:

Go to Settings > Messages
Tap on the Send & Receive
The next window will list all the accounts and/or numbers you can be reached on with the iPad
Uncheck the iPhone mobile phone number listed
Make any other necessary changes
Exit your settings

Hope this helps!


GPU disable on boot was successful for months – but cannot execute sh /force-iGPU-boot.sh anymore from Single User Mode

I would suggest disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection) by rebooting your laptop into Recovery Mode by holding down Cmd+R while booting, and then opening the Terminal and running the following command:
csrutil disable

Now close the Terminal window and reboot into single-user mode, and try your commands again.


Delete book from iBooks Mac when I delete it from iOS

Unfortunately that's not possible. iCloud will auto-download books to Mac-any book you buy on your iPod will pop up on your Mac, and vice-versa. But no, you can't auto-delete books on Mac every time you do so on iPod.

However, you can hide your iCloud-stored titles from appearing on the iBooks shelf.

Select the "All Books" drop-down.

Swipe the "Hide iCloud Books" thing.

You'll end up with this. The shelf's empty because I haven't downloaded any book yet. Redo steps 1 and 2 to make it reappear.

On the Mac, go to iBooks' settings to do the same.


How can I change default settings for HP Laserjet Pro 100 Color MFP 175?

What happens if you set the default settings from the browser going to the address http://localhost:631?

For example, I go to http://localhost:631/printers/Canon_MX310_series and from there clicking on administration I can choose: Set Default Options. Those set there usually get respected.


Using a single user account between two mac OS installations on same machine

I accidentally set this is up and it runs perfectly. I have mountain lion to run old things I still need and Sierra on a separate partition. They both have full administrator access to each other under my user ID.

The way it happened was I installed Sierra and then copied the data from my mountain lion installation. From the new Sierra I had full access to the mountain lion partition including system folders and vice versa. I can even run some apps like VLC and Office from the other OS’s apps folder.

Now I want to reinstall Sierra but when I copy the data from the old Sierra partition it no longer recognises the two user IDs as the same me and I can’t access the other OS from either.

I would love to know the logic governing what makes two IDs recognisable as the same user so as to find a way to reinstall Sierra with its current state AND retain access between the two OSs.


Can I route add automatically when a network interface is added?

Sidekick will do this for you: http://oomphalot.com/sidekick/


Can I make my Mac OS X Terminal color items according to syntax, like the Ubuntu terminal?

My terminal colors

how to do it
download theme
from here: http://media.tannern.com/tanner.terminal
import into Terminal
After installing SIMBL and the correct terminalcolors you can import my terminal theme from the Terminal Preferences window.

other tweaks
Adding this to the file ~/.profile will make ls color it's output by default.
# Make ls use colors
export CLICOLOR=1
alias ls='ls -Fa'

Adding this will define colors as variables to make a prompt easier to edit.
# define colors
C_DEFAULT="\[\033[m\]"
C_WHITE="\[\033[1m\]"
C_BLACK="\[\033[30m\]"
C_RED="\[\033[31m\]"
C_GREEN="\[\033[32m\]"
C_YELLOW="\[\033[33m\]"
C_BLUE="\[\033[34m\]"
C_PURPLE="\[\033[35m\]"
C_CYAN="\[\033[36m\]"
C_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[37m\]"
C_DARKGRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
C_LIGHTRED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
C_LIGHTGREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
C_LIGHTYELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]"
C_LIGHTBLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
C_LIGHTPURPLE="\[\033[1;35m\]"
C_LIGHTCYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
C_BG_BLACK="\[\033[40m\]"
C_BG_RED="\[\033[41m\]"
C_BG_GREEN="\[\033[42m\]"
C_BG_YELLOW="\[\033[43m\]"
C_BG_BLUE="\[\033[44m\]"
C_BG_PURPLE="\[\033[45m\]"
C_BG_CYAN="\[\033[46m\]"
C_BG_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[47m\]"

Adding this will give you a multi-line colored prompt.
# set your prompt
export PS1="\n$C_LIGHTGREEN\u$C_DARKGRAY@$C_BLUE\h $C_DARKGRAY: $C_LIGHTYELLOW\w\n$C_DARKGRAY\$$C_DEFAULT "

For a list of escape sequences to use in prompts check this article


"You need to restart your computer" freeze while waking up

No, this is not a common issue and should not occur under normal circumstances. It's an indication that something unexpected (and unrecoverable) happened. That screen is the final net for catching a problem before your computer is completely locked.
If you just got new RAM, I'd try removing it an using the computer for a few days. If the problem persists, there might be a hardware problem and since the computer is new, you can take it to an App Store.
If you have "external" peripherals (drives, Audio interfaces, etc.) try working without them for a while.

Last but not least, act now that the box is new, don't let it "wait" because it didn't happen again in two weeks. If the above happened more than once in a short time frame on a new machine, there's something wrong. That's been my experience.


Can't add PDFs to iPad Air without losing ones already there

You don't say how you are trying to sync the PDFs or if you are using Mavericks, so I can't tell if this is helpful or not, but I have been using iBooks to sync PDFs across multiple devices with no problems.

Have a look here

Sync and save PDFs

To add PDFs to your iTunes library on your computer, drag and drop the PDF into your iTunes Book library. If you're using OS X Mavericks or later, drag and drop your PDFs into your iBooks library using iBooks for Mac.


I'm afraid not. You can keep running old versions of apps, but you can not download them. For example, Check the Weather was recently updated to require iOS 6. If you have an iOS 5 device you can no longer purchase it on the device, but I can keep running the version I have as long as I don't delete it.

I understand and share your frustration.


Please, go to read tweets in Twitter under #texwriter. You can find a lot of this type of questions. Anyway I recommend TexWriter. You may find my writing useful here where I mention my favourite apps and how I write LaTex in iPad -- confessing: I like to use Git instead of SVN, I use DropBox and my laptop for commiting -- I don't know yet any better way for this.

TeXWriter: Tex -app with builtin compiler

  It is the best app currently in the market although buggy but getting better. I have tested all of them and Texpad and Tex Touch are more slow/buggy -- and without the builtin compiler. TexWriter is the only app with the compiler builtin -- and you can find a growing community around it in Twitter and some here -- we want to make it better!

Use Git instead of SVN

  Most cool things appear in Git such as Git-Annex here. Instead of DropBox, this may be a promising candidate. I haven't tested it but it claimns to be some sort of replacement. For now on, you may want to use Git inside DropBox before getting Git-annex -working.


For a Macbook Pro, what are some recommend power plan settings for Windows 7 via Bootcamp

Yes, as has been found through testing, Windows 7 gets lower battery life than OS X, for light usage, because OS X has more fine-grained and integrated power management, in a nutshell. There's not much you can do about it in Windows, except for the usual tricks - put down your backlight brightness, disable inessential wireless services like bluetooth or wifi, and allow the system to sleep the display when not in use.

It seems your particular model (MBP 2011) doesn't allow the integrated Intel graphics to work under Windows - this is going to have a huge impact on battery life. Hopefully Apple fix this, follow the issue on their discussion forums.

Hybrid sleep is primarily a desktop feature, according to Microsoft. Read more at Microsoft's sleep and hibernation FAQ.


Using caps lock indicator for other purpose

It looks like Karabiner + Seil can get you that.

The starting point: is the “Change CapsLock Key” on this page: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/list.html.en.


Another work around would be to add a contact, called for exemple Wedding Me and My Wife and add a birthday to it. So it will show like a birthday in the calendar but you'll not it's an anniversary.


You have to purchase Snow Leopard ($20 USD) and, then, upgrade to Mavericks at no cost, according to Apple's website: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

IDK if Apple has a discount program for students.


you connect your iPhone to iTunes and Sync :)
Start iTunes, connect iPhone via USB cable to USB on your computer, when your phone (after few confirmations on phone) appears in iTunes click on it. Then on the right side select Music, check Sync music and choose what you want to sync.


Safe to delete old "Macintosh HD - Data" partition?

It’s important to be certain that you’re deleting the correct data volume since they’re named identically:

In Terminal run the following command: diskutil apfs listVolumeGroups.
Find the volume group that contains both a System and a Data disk. That’s the one you’re going to keep.
The remaining volume group, which only has a Data disk, will be erased. Verify its name (“Macintosh HD - Data”). Note its device node (it will look like disk8s9 except the 8 and 9 will be different). Be sure to be VERY careful about writing this node down exactly.
Run the following: sudo diskutil apfs deleteVolume diskXsY, replacing the X and Y with the actual device node from Step 3. Again, be very careful with your typing here.


Need help w/ SSH port-forwarding on Airport Extreme

SSH and HTTPS are different things. You can connect using
ssh -p 2200 [external IP address]

as a synopsis of in manual page for ssh explains:

SYNOPSIS
ssh [...] [-p port] [...] [user@]hostname [command]


Disable shape detection in Preview's annotation tools

It's currently not possible to disable the shape detection used by default in the markup tools.

If your drawing is recognized as a standard shape, it’s replaced by that shape; to use your drawing instead, choose it from the palette that’s shown.

Source: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20218
You can provide feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html


Soundflower used to be the thing for that kind of task, but it's fallen by the wayside a bit over the past few years.
It was originally by Cycling 74, but then Rogue Amoeba took over the hosting. They never did anything further with it & eventually it was open sourced & a couple of newer versions were produced.
The latest I'm aware of is a signed v2.0 beta at https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases though I've not tried it myself since the older 1.6.x versions started to fail on Mavericks.

Your fully-flexible & El Capitan-compliant alternative is, as you discovered, Audio Hijack - which is extremely good at what it does, but is pricey for a one-trick pony.

See https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/203009/85275 for some configuration examples.


Mountain Lion does not show up under Purchased for ML pre-installed machine

If Mountain Lion is pre-installed on your Mac, you won't normally get a redemption code to purchase the "upgrade" but that serial number will be checked if you have to do a bare install, and the installer will download because the Mac deserves to get Mountain Lion internet recovery install on a bare drive.

Basically, the license is tied with the hardware, not the Apple ID. However, some Macs purchased during the window surrounding the release can often take advantage of the Up To Date program which according to the web page is intended for Machines that shipped with Lion and not Mountain Lion.

The upgrade lets you install the software on all of your personal Macs whereas the machine license generally lets you just install it on the Mac that shipped with the OS.


Can I create a backup of a specific partition and restore it later?

You can use every HDD for time machine except the system HDD, but if you partition ate your system HDD you can use the new time machine for Time Machine.
Remember: don0t format all your HDD when formatting, you will format even your backup!


Upgrade to Yosemite failed - MBR and GPT don't match?

This post explains the procedure. Now is probably a good time to make a backup. Then proceed at your own risk...

Get gdisk
In Terminal: sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
Press v to verify your MBR
Press r and then o to list the MBR partition table
Press m and then p to display the GPT partition table information
Compare the numbers for partition 4 from the MBR and GPT tables. The start numbers should match, but the end numbers will probably be off.
Press d to delete the GPT partition 4 (Bootcamp). "Note: this does not delete the actual partition from disk. It only deletes gdisk's in-memory representation of the GPT."
Press n to create a new partition 4 (Bootcamp) using the start and end sector values from the MBR partition 4
Change the name of the new partition 4 to BOOTCAMP
Press v to verify
If no errors occurred: press w to write the new partition table
If errors occurred: press q and try again
Reboot

The important part is step 7 where you sync your GPT and MBR. Note that some of the commands (e.g. disk0, partition 4) may be different in your case. Please adapt them accordingly.


Create keyboard shortcuts for menu bar items that don't have shortcuts?

The easiest way to create a shortcut is to open Automator and record the action that you want and save it as a service. Then go to that service in service preferences and establish your preferred keyboard shortcut.


How to stop messages appearing on phone but still on laptop

In case you do not want to see notifications for iMessage, go to Settings > Notification Center and move Messages app to Not in notification center. Also disable Banners or Alerts for it, and set it to None.

Now Messages will not be showing on iPhone, but you will have a notification sound and unread number showing as Badge app icon.
In case you dont want to be disturbed by a sound, temporary disable sound also.

PS. This will not showup normal SMS messages also, but you will get sound notification and badge.

Very fast temporary solution, is to enable Do not disturb mode on iPhone.
Settings > Do not disturb.
This will allow calls (if you set so), but disable all notifications until swithed off again.


Tilda becomes ± with bluetooth keyboard Keychron K2 in OSX

It sounds like your machine may think the keyboard is ISO instead of ANSI.  Some possible fixes for this problem can be found here.


You can't make items appear twice on what is essentially the same desktop, but you can view the contents of your desktop as a folder.

The simplest method using default settings is to open a new folder in Finder,  Cmd ⌘   N  , then Desktop should be one of the Favourites on the Sidebar.


File sharing between OSX Lion (10.7) and OSX Tiger (10.4)

You can't open the Drop Box - just like a physical drop box. You can put files in it, but you can't open it or see what's there.

If you want to browse files on the Tiger machines, click "Connect as" and type in the username and password of an account on the Tiger machine.


iPhone 4S' home button isn't working properly

I don't know about the dust, but you could enable AssistiveTouch, which will place a round button on the screen, which gives you access to all the home button features, and more like volume, gestures, etc. To switch it on go to Settigngs -> General -> Accessibility Scroll down to AssistiveTouch and turn it on.


About graphics card do I need one or not

You can check the hardware requirements of the games you want to play in the App Store. This will give you a good idea on what exactly you'll need.


Launch App on connected Device without Apple Developer Program

You will need:

a Mac running Xcode 7 (which is currently in beta and not finished yet)
an iOS device running iOS 9 (which is also in beta and not released yet) or iOS 8
an Apple ID to sign into both Xcode and the iOS device - this will generate the provisioning profiles needed for your code to run on your devices.

To get prepared for this, download the beta version of Xcode and follow one of the iOS session videos that show how to run one of the Apple-provided sample projects. You will then build and run that to your connected device as a target.

Eventually, the latest Xcode from the Mac App Store will have these features for anyone to use released versions of the tools on released iOS versions.


How to fix freezing mplayer on Mac for music play?

Your browser may be at fault for consuming excessive system resources. Try switching to Safari and don’t run Chrome or Firefox at all for a while and see if the glitches persist or go away.
UPDATE:
Since you’ve confirmed that your browser is at fault, here are a few routes we can take.

Obvious first step: Make sure you’re on the most recent build of Firefox and mplayer in case there have been bug fixes or performance enhancements made. You can also try updating to a more recent macOS for similar reasons. (Big Sur is not recommended, though.)
We can try to do a deep dive and start doing DTrace profiling of Firefox and mplayer, possibly uncovering bugs in one or the other (or in other parts of the OS).
You could try switching to a different music player (e.g., try the default Music.app for a bit and see if it’s better-behaved) in case there’s a specific resource contention between browser and mplayer.
Depending on how much free RAM you have and how big your music library is, you could copy (a part of) your library to a RAM disk and stream from there. This would help if the bottleneck is I/O.


Try a Virtual Machine (VM).
1) You own a Windows license: Try VirtualBox (with ExpansionPack). It's free, but you might need a MB Pro because you have to assign at least one CPU-core to the VM.
2) You don't have a Windows license: Try Parallels. Then you can run Windows software from the OSX desktop without having windows installed. Maybe the better alternative but it costs 50$. With Parallels a MB Air should do the job.


Deleted user still appears on system startup screen

I had the same issue and solved it thusly:

Open Terminal.

sudo fdesetup list

This will list usernames and uuids of the users FileVault knows about (warning: I'm unclear on the exact specifics of privileges granted by this file).

sudo fdesetup remove -uuid [bad UUID]

This will remove the erroneous user from the list.  For some reason I had to reboot the computer twice to see the desired behavior (i.e. the only person asked to log in on system start is me), but it works fine now.

If for some reason you need to figure out users' UUIDs (the usernames should be in that file, though my deleted user had (null) for a username),

dsmemberutil getuuid -U [username]

will give you their UUIDs.


printing an email attachment on apple computer in pdf preview help

In the preview there is a button called Actual size.

That will show you the actual size, and it might be very large pending the file.

In the Preview print menu, you can check the Scale to Fit, and it will fit to your paper size section above.


Do I have to / is it possible to update to iOS 8.0 if I preinstalled device with a 8.0 beta?

Yes, It will be possible to update to the iOS 8 public when Apple releases to the public. The update could be done via iTunes or OTA.


Is there any way to run a PowerPC video game (Call Of Duty United Offensive) on Mavericks?

No,there really is not an easy way to run PPC apps on Mac anymore. Your OS X Rosetta disk will definitely  fail to install on Mavericks. Apple stripped support for Rosetta following the release of OS X Lion (10.7) and have never put it back.

However, you still have a few (harder) options.

Install Snow Leopard in a virtual machine. Here's a guide.
Pull out your old PowerPC Mac, if you still have it.
Install Snow Leopard in a external hard drive or internal partition and use Rosetta.

When Apple first published Rosetta, they said it was best for low computational apps like Word. In addition, Apple stated that games and high computational apps like CAD software or video editors/compositors would have issues running through Rosetta. COD will probably not run well through Rosetta.

If all else fails, people still sell their old PPC's on eBay.


Just supply all of the URLs you want to open as arguments to a single open command:

open https://www.youtube.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The open command has been written to handle this.

The reason it doesn't work with && is that in shell syntax, && is a delimiter between different commands, not between arguments to the same command. So it was trying to run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page as a separate command, which doesn't work.

More specifically, && runs the second command only if the first command succeeds. There are a number of command delimiters you can use with different meanings:

cmd1 ; cmd2    # Runs cmd1 and then cmd2 (just as though they were on different lines)
cmd1 & cmd2    # Runs cmd1 and cmd2 simultaneously, with cmd1 in the background
cmd1 | cmd2    # Runs cmd1 and cmd2 simultaneously, with cmd1's output piped to cmd2's input
cmd1 && cmd2    # Runs cmd1, and then if it succeeds runs cmd2
cmd1 || cmd2    # Runs cmd1, and then if it fails runs cmd2


Mac Powerpoint 2011 "play" presentation w/out full screen?

Just figured it out: use "Set Up Show" on the ribbon (or in the Slide Show menu), which has an option for "Browse by an individual (window)"

Hope that helps someone else :)


Why is Push notifications required for GPS to work?

As far as I know, they are not related. If I turn off push, either on my jailbroken iphone or my girl's unjailbroken one, GPS and maps keep on working just fine.

edit: Reading little bit more on pushfix I'll try to explain what became clear to me.

Push and Maps or GPS are still unrelated.

Jailbreaking is a legal procedure to make your iPhone free from "apple locks". That's where the name came from.

With that, a jailbroken iPhone can do things apple doesn't allow, but without a proper tool installed "jailbreaking" does nothing.

pushfix is a tool to fix a problem on the push notifications brought by activating the iphone without an authorized SIM (a.k.a. Hacktivated iPhone). pushfix was further improved to fix other problems, probably brought by the same Hacktivation, such as Wifi and GPS.

I highly recommend you do a lot more research and get familiarized with the terms and issues related to iPhone (yes, that's a lot of reading and quite complicated) or just get an Android! ;)

Here are some good starting points (other than the link already provided):

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+jailbreaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jailbreak+iphone

And some good sources:

http://thebigboss.org/jailbreak-now
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ (very technical and complicated)


What app is featured in Apple's Chase ad?

I read on a different site that it's Argus: Argus - Calorie Counter & Activity Tracker for Heart Healthy Diet & Living by Azumio Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/KlOnL.i


According to Apple, error 1 means:

  These errors mean that your device or computer may have a hardware issue that's preventing the update or restore from completing.

I would suggest you try:

Other usb ports
Not using a usb hub, plug directly to your machine
Different computer
Different (preferably original) usb cable
Use TinyUmbrella and its "exit recovery" option (you probably need to put your device in DFU mode first)

Also make sure you use the latest version of iTunes

Finally, if everything else fails, then it could be an actual hardware issue according to reports from other users :/


Apple has documentation for this in Mountain Lion.

  If your computer contains support for the hardware sample rate converter, the Hardware Rate Converter pop-up menu is available in the Input menu. When you choose Automatic from the pop-up menu, the hardware sample rate converter is turned on if the audio samples coming in are PCM and formatted according to the international standard IEC 60958-3. The hardware sample rate converter is turned off if the input stream is encoded. You can also choose Enable or Disable from the menu to keep the hardware sample rate converter turned on or off.

So this would only be useful if you have something like a S/PDIF input and wanted the audio converted to a different digital rate.  I don't have any specs on it, but I would expect the hardware rate converter to have very low latency compared to software rate conversion.


Quit Safari app automatically after closing tabs

You can force quit safari easily by holding down the Control key and then clicking on the icon on your Dock. Once the sub menu comes up, click on Quit.


Do multiple AirPort Expresses keep iTunes audio synchronized?

According to Wikipedia:

  The AirTunes part of the AirPlay protocol stack uses UDP for streaming
  audio and is based on the RTSP network control protocol.[12] The
  streams are encrypted with AES, requiring the receiver to have access
  to the appropriate private key to decrypt the streams.[13] The AirPort
  Express' streaming media capabilities use Apple's Remote Audio Output
  Protocol (RAOP), a proprietary variant of RTSP/RTP. Using
  WDS-bridging,[14] the AirPort Express can allow AirPlay functionality
  (as well as Internet access, file and print sharing, etc.) across a
  larger distance in a mixed environment of wired and up to 10 wireless
  clients.

See the page here.

Notice the part where it says that UDP is used for streaming audio.
UDP does no error correction.  When using TCP (most of the time), when I send a packet from A to B, I send it, I get confirmation, then I send the next packet.  When I get confirmation, part of that confirmation is an error check code.  If it doesn't match with the error check code that I generated when I first sent the packet, I know the data has been malformed in some way before reaching B, and therefore I send it again.

If I have to send that packet a bunch of times before it is successfully read on the other side, that would "sound like" something unexpected.  Lag is a bit different -- lag happens when there's a delay of some sort, or the line is saturated and it actually takes (some arbitrary amount of) time for the signal to get there.  That could happen under either model.

The difference is, with UDP, if packets get lost or corrupt, it doesn't matter.  iTunes will send whatever data is required to represent the song now.  And now, and now.  If you miss it or it gets malformed, oh well.  It will keep sending only what is pertinent now.

Long story short:  you should be fine.  Any glitches will probably be short and sweet.  And, out of sync?  Probably not discernible to any human.


What can change so the app store fails on a network where purchases used to work fine?

You should be able to filter your firewall logs down to requests originating from your computer/your phone's local IP address, and look it it's outgoing requests.

I'm pretty sure all that app download traffic takes place over bog standard HTTPS, 443/tcp.

Ensure all apps have stopped running, open App Store, move over to the Updates category, wait for all traffic (app image requests and the like) to die down, then tap update. The next series of requests should fail, and you should have the reason relevant to your own configuration.


adjust battery-warning-level of magic mouse

This thread has some scripts that can help you.

It seems that you wrap the results of this shell snippet in a nice AppleScript:

ioreg -c BNBMouseDevice | grep BatteryPercent


How do I assess how "normal" my battery is?

Yes, you are going about this the right way to determine your battery's remaining capacity and life.

When a battery reaches over 1000 charge cycles, it is considered "consumed", aka it's lived out the expected life cycle and any degradation in capacity is totally expected. This is never covered by warranty. A consumed battery may still hold some charge, and in some cases a lot of charge, though that is rare.

A battery would be deemed "failed" and OS X would report it if it holds less than 80% of its factory full charge capacity. If this would happen within the first year, then it would be covered by warranty. This is the way OS X and diagnostics determine the health of the battery when the complaint/concern is poor battery life.

The battery Can also unexpectedly fail if the thermal sensor in the battery goes bad. But this is something that's impossible to preventively pick up with software.


How to keep a process running on the terminal after locking/logging out?

I believe that this has something to do with power savings settings. There is slider for "Turn display off after:" and by default "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" option is not selected.

Maybe caffeinate can help (prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility). 'man caffeinate' for more information.


Do LAN transfers use both Ethernet and WiFi by default?

No.  The default action is to use the one with the highest priority.  This is usually done by the order of the interfaces that you specify in Network Preferences.  Following that, the next order of priority is network latency.

  If not, is there a way to enable transfers to use both?

What you are referring to is called link aggregation or bonding.  Your Mac is definitely capable of doing this, however, you must connect to a switch (usually a "smart switch") that also has this capability.  So, unless your switch has this ability, you can't do it.

Also, you can't bond WiFi and Ethernet; link aggregation is for bonding Ethernet links.


This works! http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Download.html

You can disable any key you want on any device.


How can I use less disk space on system storage?

Are you on macOS Sierra? Use  -> About This Mac -> Storage -> Manage...

I'm almost completely certain a few of those options influence the system cache among other bloats which should help you.


How can I tell if a MacOS App is notarized or sandboxed?

I'm not sure if this helps but if you open System Information and in the side bar, go down to Software > Applications, you should see all the applications installed on your Mac. Clicking on any app will show you their certificates, version, and where you obtained these applications (i.e. from Mac App Store, Apple, identified developer or unknown).

To access System Information you can open it from a Spotlight Search, or click on the About this Mac in the Apple Menubar, and click on System Report.

Hope this helps.


How do I sync up my iPhone with my Google Calendar?

You should really use Google Sync for iPhone to have all the benefits of Calendars (and even Mail if you need it).


Caps Lock button's green light not working after Mojave update

I would suggest your reset your NVRAM, following the procedure from Apple.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


Why does my iPhone sometimes start rendering from a third of the way down the screen?

It's the "so I can reach it with my thumbs" option, called Reachability

Double-tap the Home button to enable.
Tap the screen to disable.

The double-tap is not a double-press. You don't engage the switch in the button, just tap it lightly.


All iPhones and iPods with the Lightning connector use USB 2.0. From Wikipedia:

  The Lightning connector … provides an interface to USB 2.0 (for data and charging)

Also, if you look the USB end of a Lightning cable, it doesn't have the additional pins for USB 3.0.

There is actually no point to having USB 3.0, since the flash memory in iPods and iPhones is not fast enough to benefit from its speed.


I don't believe there is any such thing as "uploading" to iTunes on the Mac. Rather, you import/add your own video files to your library or purchase them from the iTunes store.

Any movie or tv show purchased from the iTunes store should automatically be in your Mac iTunes library and also be able play on your iPad after you sync it there.

You can import pretty much any movie file of your own to your Mac iTunes library. From there, you can use iTunes to sync it to your iPad; however, your iPad can only play a few specific movie formats (scroll down to TV and Video). If your movies aren't in that format, you won't be able to play them on the iPad whether you sync them or not.

Once your iPad is connected to your Mac, you have options in iTunes on the Mac to auto-sync certain playlists of videos or all videos to your iPad. You can also use it manually, and simply drag/drop the desired video files from your Mac iTunes library onto your iPad library when it is connected to iTunes.


Appstore, turn off password for free apps download?

No, there’s no way to do that on a clean iOS install.

However, if you don’t mind jailbreaking your iOS device, you can use PasswordPilot to auto-enter your App Store password.


Iphone 5s Activation no Sim card installed?

You need a SIM card to activate an iPhone.


Do the Apple AirPods have audio delay due to bluetooth?

There is zero concern for music and videos since the system compensates for audio delay. Same for many games since as long as the visual and audio tracks start at the same time (buffering enough content for each to start and then hoping the new content delivery / creation can keep the buffer from emptying).

Now, technically speaking, the laws of physics and the limited processing power of the CPU/chips that encode/decode the audio ensures there is a delay - but it's not on the order of a second. Subjectively, this isn’t a problem for me until I use airplay / WiFi and even then it’s nit horrible but the lag is noticeable. But I also can’t argue if someone else has a subjectively different experience and the lag isn’t acceptable to them.

The codec and stream of the bluetooth chips means that the sound needs to be buffered, encoded, transmitted, decoded and then sent through the amplifier.

There have been some nice attempts to scientifically measure this - http://stephencoyle.net/airpods/

The raw data says the measured latency of wired headphones is around 85 ms and AirPods are around 256 ms. My personal impression is the AirPods are more in the range of 120 ms delay and almost equivalent to wired earphones. Also, I'm fairly certain that Apple corrects for video playback if you use the API since I've never ever gotten the feeling that videos lag when switching from AirPods to EarPods and back on Apple devices and Apple audio devices.

Same sort of synchronization is being done for the HomePod setup where millisecond sync and offset is going to be used to synchronize and phase the sounds for multiple bluetooth playback speakers spread around a room, but that's a far easier task where you can buffer all the sounds and then play a delayed and perfectly synchronous to the phase of the sound waves - as opposed to having a low latency audio interface.

You'll want custom hardware for that like the Universal Audio Arrow line of monitor hardware if you are performing live or making millisecond measurements.

https://www.uaudio.com/audio-interfaces/arrow.html

The only case where I've seen lag as a legitimate problem is musicians with split second timing needs or scientific measurement apps. I've also heard of AirPods and iPhones needing a restore if they get stuck or some process is running amok and otherwise slowing down the processing of audio.


How can I restore the persistent data for Mac's native Stickies app?

Search for Stickies from the uppermost directory of your Mac (by navigating to Finder - Go - Computer or entering ⇧+⌘+C as a keyboard shortcut from Finder) and choose the directory Stickies at the bottom of the list from the screenshot.

In this directory there are rtfd files, from which you can view possibly all the contents that had been in the Stickies notes even though they have now disappeared when the Stickies App is opened. You can simply double-click them and typically they are opened in Rich Text Format by TextEdit App.


Does Thunderbolt support a net topology like FireWire?

Since Thunderbolt is based on PCI Express, it appears that it is possible to connect to multiple hosts using the PCI express standard. However there may be additional software or hardware  required to do such bridging of multiple hosts sharing multiple devices, whether this is true on Thunderbolt or not is not clear.

Things to look into are Non-transparent Bridging of PCI Express and subsequently Non-transparent Bridging of Thunderbolt.

PCI Express and therefore Thunderbolt are both peer to peer interfaces just like FireWire so thats a plus. However PCI express appears to have some host specific needs according to PCI Express Peer-to-Peer Interconnect from GE.

  Its low latency, high bandwidth, widespread support and costeffective silicon have made PCI Express ubiquitous. It can however, be used for more than merely communicating between a host and a peripheral: it has many advantages as a peerto-peer communications technology. Enabling this, however, demands an understanding of how PCI Express works. This paper outlines the complexities that need to be understood and overcome – and describes a GE software product that delivers a solution that masks those complexities from developers.

As of now the only thing that Apple has defined for connecting two Macs via Thunderbolt is Target Disk mode running over it.


I have found a fix, but I'm not sure what it did to correct the naming issue. While I was researching it I came across the method of connecting to a server by making a bookmark in a browser address bar. In the address bar I typed:
afp://user:password@IPaddressonLAN/iMac%20HD
with the proper username and password for my account on the iMac, the IP address for theIMac, and a %20 in place of the space in the disk's name, iMac HD. Then I selected it and dragged it to the desktop and double-clicking it mounts the desired disk with its new name. And best of all, now if I click on the iMac in the sidebar of a Finder window, it shows the disk as being called iMac HD instead of the old name.
I don't know what this has updated or where, but I'm not complaining if it works! It must have changed something on the iMac, not on my MBA. I say this because I checked with the computer that has never been connected to the iMac - when I posted my question I noted it also showed the old disk name (having never been connected to it at all under that name), and now it shows the new name for the disk. Something has been updated on the iMac itself has to be the explanation.


When I download a free app in appstore it says “amd action:authenticate:sm”

You can try adjusting your iPhone clock to your current location.
Go to Settings > General > Date & Time on iOS and set your time appropriately -either manually or automatically by switching the "Set Automatically" slider to on.


"Use Selection for Find" and "Use Selection for Replace" are right there in the Search menu.


Check on the address book if your father's contact has myself: me assigned.

If it does, remove it and assign it in your contact.


Macbook Pro 2015 waking from sleep every few seconds

I had a similar issue with my 2015 Macbook pro 13. Even if I had turned off tcpkeepalive and power nap, the system was waking up from sleep. In one of my tests I realized that if I close the lid and enter sleep while the charger was plugged in, the system wakes up from sleep, because "Power Adapter" settings are left effective. Eventually, I had to turn off "Wake for Wi-Fi network access" and powernap for both Battery and the Power Adapter modes.

Just to test if this is the issue, can you try to first unplug the laptop from charge, and then close the lid to enter sleep, and see what happens?


Should services be turned off prior to performing updates?

Most likely an upgrade like that will behave like Java updates do in macs. It will replace the software in the background and won't start using the new software until you restart the program.

In terms of best practices, I would say go ahead and update it with services still running and as soon as it's done, restart the machine to give it a fresh run.


Quit Xcode
Open a Finder window showing your Xcode program
Open a command line prompt (terminal.app is fine)
Type xcode-select --switch
Drag the Xcode program icon you want to be default into the command line window and release the icon
Press enter

The select tool lets you have multiple versions of the tools and switch back and forth or even request an install from Apple of the tools without having Xcode.app installed. If this process fails, your Xcode preferences are corrupted, so you’d uninstall the app or make a new user profile to validate whether the app preferences or user preferences need to be trashed or fixed.


what can an adult do with Family Sharing?

The scenario you describe is what Family Sharing is designed to avoid.

Each person should have their own iCloud account, then each person's data is exclusive to them, but apps/books/music/calendars can, at the parents' discretion, be allowed to be used on the children's devices.
That's just the apps, not the data on those apps.


How to unlock an iPhone 3GS with 05.16.05?

Ran into this by accident, but if you are still having issues there is now an iOS 5 jailbreak out - although tethered, it will do what you want.


How do I play my music library on a Chromecast TV?

Casting to a Chromecast generally does not involve your device streaming to the Chromecast - you need to run some sort of server to stream from a local computer (or the Chrome extension that mirrors a computer screen to the Chromecast.)

When you use apps on iOS to cast, it just tells the Chromecast where on the internet to stream from - and the internet service must support Chromecast.

So what you want to do with your music app can’t be done. Depending on where you keep your music there may be some solutions. For example, if you have a computer with your music on it, you could install Plex as a server, and the Plex app on your iOS device.


What is Department of Defense Root CA 2 doing on my Mac?

It's one of the trusted certificate authorities for at least OS X Mavericks (10.9) through OS X El Capitan (10.11), so under those OS versions it'll be in the System Roots keychain. It was apparently removed in macOS Sierra (10.12); I don't know why. Apple publishes the lists of trusted CAs; see Support Document HT202858: "Lists of available trusted root certificates in macOS" for links to the full lists.


OmniGraffle is very popular. A quick Google search just now also came up with yEd which I found interesting (and it is cross platform).

I don't know your definition for "prettiness" but back in the days when I used Visio I was surprised how much visual effect you could achieve with simple vector graphic tools and a bit of fine tuning. If the built-in tools are not sufficient you can always switch to a pure bred vector graphics program and add a few eye candies.


Airport Extreme died, looking for replacement with Time Capsule compatibility

There are Airport Extremes available on Amazon and Ebay.


GPS Exif from iPhone photo upload in Safari?

This is a privacy feature. iOS will always strip EXIF from uploaded photos.

  It is correct that [iOS] strips exif data. This is also not a bug on [iOS] but actually a feature.

Image upload from iphone strips exif data - Stack Overflow

To access photo metadata, one needs to access the photo using an app installed on the device. To interact with Safari, this app can provide an app extension made available in Safari's share menu: Extending your App with Safari App Extensions - WWDC 2016.


Is there a firmware upgrade for the Macbook6,1 from MB61.00C8.B00 to B02?

My 6,1 B02 has 8G RAM and works fine.  It also runs in 64 bit mode, which I enabled some time ago with the help of a simple hack (can't remember all the details, just google macbook, 64-bit, boot.efi, boot64.efi).

You could try to manually upgrade your firmware with the fw-upgrade of the macbook pro 5,5.  It has been done successfully by several people:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/774089/comments/110

BTW: By doing this, you will probably also fix the MCP79 bug that makes MCP79 negotiate SATA1 with newer SATA3 drives (instead of SATA2).

System Profiler:

Note, that with 8G RAM, hibernation ("safe sleep"?) will make WindowServer crash if you're still running 10.6 (Snow Leopard).


Bind Volume controls to non-Apple keyboard without 3rd party software on macOS Sierra

Karabiner has options that let you use the Function keys (with or without ‘fn’) on external non-Apple keyboards just like the special function keys on Apple keyboards. This means pressing F11 and F12 (‘fn’ depends on your options shown in the screenshot) to decrease and increase volume. The HUD shows as usual, and F10 works for mute too.

I am yet to see Karabiner fail to function due to an OS update, even day-one beta OS updates seem no trouble for these ‘standard’ features of the app (there's more customisable functionality which may have problems from OS updates but are fixed swiftly).


All consumer file recovery software I've seen and evaluated do exactly what you say. They troll each and every block of the drive and make up stories and file names in the presumption that each block was a file that's now deleted.

Someone has to spend tons of time pouring over each and every file to make sense of them or start looking for metadata (social security numbers, passwords, ascii strings / hex values) and then report how much progress is made finding needles in the haystack.

Normally if you send in drives from a JBOD type RAID to a recovery service - they offer free quotes and can speak much more intelligently about your prospects and if this is a $500 recovery or a $5000 recovery effort.

In your specific case, if the LaCie drive comes RAID 0 by default, there's nothing on the macOS side that made the decision where to store the data - it's all embedded in the firmware shipped by LaCie so your first stop would be to ask them for technical assistance or documentation to see if you can rebuild how they stored the data.

Your diskutil list shows clearly that the drives now aren't seen as a RAID so your diagnosis is correct and you'll want to get software that supports LaCie RAID recovery or hopefully find someone that reverse engineered and documents how to do this. I haven't ever seen such a thing and usually pay if the business need is more than just walking away from the data that wasn't backed up in a way it can be restored easily (or at all).


Operating an iPad with broken touch screen

Not really. There is no other way to control an iPad than by its touch screen. There are limited keyboard controls, but nothing that can replace touch functions.

(If you could get to accessibility settings, you could enable switch control, but you would need to use the touch screen first.)


Where are system environment variables set in Mountain Lion?

I asked this question on the Apple Developer Forums as well and got back this, official response.

  Change the Info.plist of the .app itself to contain an "LSEnvironment"
  dictionary with the environment variables you want.
  ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer supported.


What is the equivalent of ipconfig/displaydns (and flushdns) in OS X?

As @PrasseethaKR and @kjagiello point out, on High Siera mDNSResponer has moved from syslog to log function. In addition, your DNS lookups are now considered private and will show as such in both Console and log stream.

To view your DNS lookups in real time on High Sierra open an Terminal and run:

sudo log config --mode "private_data:on"
log stream --predicate 'process == "mDNSResponder"' --info

To go back to using private just run the following command.

sudo log config --mode "private_data:off"

AFAIK you cannot view the contents of old private messages, only messages logged with private_data:on can appear. To view your entire history use the show command  Because it can return a large amount of data I also use --last to limit the data, e.g. the last 2 hours would be...

log show --last 2h --predicate 'process == "mDNSResponder"' --info

Cheers!


Assign command up (⌘↑) to go to parent folder in iTerm

Applescript syntax for iterm:
https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html#documentation-scripting.html
How to call your applescript with a keyboard shortcut:
How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript I wrote?


2011 13inch MBP - Can I use 2 external displays - one with MINI DVI and one with Thunderbolt?

Duplicate question, see: Can I have multiple monitors on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011)?

Any 2011 MacBook Pro model will support Thunderbolt. You can daisy-chain 2 Thunderbolt displays. You can also connect one mini DisplayPort monitor to the end of a Thunderbolt chain and connect your Mac to your Thunderbolt Display.
A non-Thunderbolt solution if you don't have a Thunderbolt Mac: a DisplayLink-style USB to DVI display adapter.


how to return to lock screen after switching user

If you restart the device, your user accounts will appear with usernames. Simply select her user account and sign in with password.
If all of the user account do not appear after restarting, hold the power button down for 30 seconds. Then power back up like normal.


Headphone jack broke and got stuck in headphone socket MacBook Pro

Depending on the breakage, you may not be able to control the software if the "jack detection" sensor is intermittent. It will over rule whatever software setting you have made and send output to the headphone jack each time it senses an insertion.

Often taking this to Apple at a genius bar is no cost if they can dislodge the broken piece with experience (and same for reputable repair shops). Also, you might only pay labor if the jack isn't broken. Usually there is more damage since why would a protected piece break off inside a perfectly functioning receptacle, but it's possible you broke the jack mostly or entirely before inserting it.

Give a shot at setting the sound in the System Preferences, but most of the times this happens, you'll need to get a repair if you can't use software to switch the output once and have it stick.


Can I prevent Facebook from running in the background?

In the iOS device:
you can go to settings > general > Background App Refresh and try to disable Facebook

In Facebook:
to disable Location in Facebook settings > account Settings > location > location chose Never

hope with does 2 options I can give you the answer you want


There is no way of bypassing the system. If you have a second hard drive, you can back up data to the second drive (to save disk space), install the fonts, enable them and then DELETE them (in font book), and then restore your files from the external drive.

Not very convenient, but works.


Can I increase the level from my USB microphone?

You may use volume booster software like
Boom
Or
In iTunes Library select media with low volume and press cmd+i . Go to Options and make Volume Adjustments.
Or
VLC allow you to increase volume to 200% by simply scrolling all the way up.


What does the spinning circle next to the network indicators on iOS mean?

The spinning circle icon is simply a means of indicating that some network activity is taking place, i.e. loading new data in Facebook or Tumblr. It could even be background data access like updating apps from the store or if you have background refresh enabled for some or all apps.

It has nothing to do with which network is being used — for that, check the cellular/Wi-Fi indicator. If the Wi-Fi icon is there, then it's the Wi-Fi network being used.

It's also worth noting that apps can turn on and off the indicator at will, so it's not a 100% reliable indicator that data is actually being transferred. If coded poorly, an app could activate the indicator, but neglect to deactivate it in certain circumstances.


When will SIP shutdown the computer to prevent overheating?

System Integrity Protection has nothing to do with controlling what happens if the CPU breaches it thermal limit.

  System Integrity Protection is a security technology in OS X El Capitan and later that's designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac. System Integrity protection restricts the root user account and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the Mac operating system.

All the CPU's used in the Early 2015 MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5 or Core i7 (5257U, 5287U, 5557U) have a 105℃ TJUNCTION* rating.

* Junction Temperature is the maximum temperature allowed at the processor die.

While 100℃ is high and getting close to the limit, it hasn't breached the limit yet.


Convert dynamic content to static in Numbers

Select and copy the source cells, then hit ⇧⌘V, which is the default shortcut for the Edit » Paste Formula Results menu command.

(I assume that by dynamic value, you are referring to the the result of the calculation of an entire formula and not to the individual cell references you are using as part of the formula’s expression. Feel free to update and clarify your question if you disagree.)

If you want the static results to persist in your original cells as well, just hit ⌘C ⇧⌘V to paste the results in place.


I uninstalled Dropbox but still have .dropbox listed when I do ls -a. Why?

Removing Dropbox doesn't delete its preferences/cache/etc, which is stored in ~/.dropbox. You can delete this yourself.


Uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) from macOS Catalina when uninstaller is 32-bit

Fully removing Creative Cloud

Basically, you need to look for files in the following folders:

 /Library/Application Support/Adobe
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe
 /Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/Preferences

However, removing CC without breaking other Adobe apps is kinda challenge...

The conservative way

If CC annoys you but you have the space for it (a couple of MB) and you are not willing risking to destroy your Adobe environment. I would recommend to simply disable it from being loaded at boot. To do so:

sudo lauchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

To be sure it is done, redoing the command above should return:

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist: Could not find specified service


Rebinding "switch to next window" keyboard shortcut

I just found it. It's under:

System Preferences > Keyboard
Click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab
Keyboard & Text Input > Move Focus to next Window


How to install recent clang++ with Homebrew?

As of 2018, the Homebrew Versions repository ('tap') is out of service.

The stock Homebrew llvm package still doesn't include clang/clang++, by default. Thus, it isn't part of the prebuilt ('bottled') package.

One can build it via:

brew install --with-toolchain llvm

And then use it via e.g.:

$ PATH="/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH" \
    LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib' \
    cmake ...

But this --with-toolchain induced build takes a very long time and is thus unsuitable in a continuous integration (CI) environment.

However, the clang that comes with recent XCode  (which is available in CI environments like Travis-CI, Version 9 is the default, 10 available, too) isn't that outdated anymore as it used to be (Apple uses an fantasy version scheme for clang that doesn't match upstream clang version numbers but cmake detects e.g. for AppleClang 9.1.0.9020039 the version 4.0.1). Thus, it is sufficient to build C++11/C++14 software with common dependencies like Boost (e.g. version 1.67).

2016 State of the Art

The llvm package in Homebrew doesn't include clang++, by default. When installing it, you have to add --with-clang to the command line (e.g. brew install --with-clang llvm). The extra --with-clang yields a full package compile because there is only one prebuild ('bottled') llvm package available (without clang++). In addition to that: the llvm package is relatively old - currently it has llvm 3.6 - where 3.7 was released 6 months ago.

Thus, to get a bottled clang++ 3.7 you have to install the llvm package from Homebrew Versions:

$ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew install llvm37

It is then available under:

/usr/local/bin/clang++-3.7

The formula also notes:

To link to libc++, something like the following is required:
  CXX="clang++-3.7 -stdlib=libc++"
  CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -nostdinc++ -I/usr/local/opt/llvm37/lib/llvm-3.7/include/c++/v1"
  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/opt/llvm37/lib/llvm-3.7/lib"


Is my iPhone 6s Touch ID scanner faulty? When should I be prompted for my passcode?

Most likely your Touch ID fingerprint scanner is perfectly fine.

There are certain rules that iOS uses that govern when your iPhone will prompt you for your passcode, and one of these relates to an 8hr period during which Touch ID has not been used. That alone would explain the scenario in your question (i.e. some nights you’re getting 8+ hrs of sleep, and other nights you’re not).

All of the Touch ID rules can be found in Apple’s iOS Security Guide. In summary though, the rules governing when a passcode is required instead of your fingerprint, are as follows:

The passcode has not been used to unlock the device in the last six days
Your fingerprint has not been used to unlock the device in the last eight hours 1
You have just powered up (or rebooted) your device
Your device has not been unlocked for more than 48 hours
You’ve unsuccessfully tried to use your fingerprint on five consecutive attempts
Whenever you add a fingerprint to your Touch ID settings
Your device has received a remote lock command

Regarding that last point, this refers to iCloud’s Lost Mode function. For more info you can read iCloud: Use Lost Mode.

Finally, if you’re still concerned about a possibly faulty Touch ID sensor, you can refer back to the above list as a reference point to determine if you’ve been asked for your passcode under different circumstances. If so, you can use that as a starting point if you seek help from Apple.

1 This is most likely the cause in your situation most of the time.


Horizontal scroll speed problem in kdiff3

So for me I have a Magic Mouse, and side scrolling doesn't work. Because of how much I scroll around (for better or for worse) I always display the scroll bars in my windows. In kdiff3, I have a bar on the very bottom of the window that is horizontal, and if I use my mouse to click and drag, then it will scroll left and right for me much quicker than one pixel at a time. I still wish side scrolling worked, but for now, this works well.


Move Microsoft Office 2008 to new hard drive

Since you say it's a legitimate copy (I'm assuming retail—if this is volume licensing, that's a whole other kettle of fish), one path that's open to you is contacting Microsoft.

They are equipped to deal with lost product keys, and in most cases can help you retrieve it. Worst case, they can sell you a new one at a steep discount.

See: How to locate your product key or obtain a new product key for Office for Mac.

(And for the future, you might want to stash your product keys and serial numbers away for safekeeping. 1Password has a category just for this. If you don't use 1Password, Keychain Access's "Secure Note" functionality can be put to good use.)


Is there an inverse command to open in the Terminal?

Use AppleScript via osascript

 osascript -e 'quit app "Preview"'


Is running an app directly after opening .dmg file without installation safer than installing it?

Open the .dmg file (basically mount it), double click the app to launch it directly.
Drag it to somewhere else (user space folder) other than the default Applications folder which requires root permission.
Drag it to the default Applications to install it.

I am wondering if I choose Option 1, can I say it's much safer way than the Option 3?

None of these methods provide additional protection. If the application intends to do harm, nothing in the options above will stop the harm being done.
If you do not trust an application, the source, or the developers, do not run the application.
If you must run an untrusted application, consider a constrained runtime environment such as a virtual machine. You mention performance rules out the use of a virtual machine; this is a security trade off.
If a virtual machine is not possible, create a separate non-administrator user account and only run the application using that account. This will provide some additional protection but your machine is still at risk.


You can try to connect without UI

Manually connect to WiFi

Turn On

networksetup -setairportpower en0 on

Find

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport scan

Connect

networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 WIFI_SSID_I_WANT_TO_JOIN WIFI_PASSWORD

If it works it is not the hardware. In that case the Console report would be helpful to find out who is turning your airport off. That is indicated by the fact that rebooting fixes it, so you have a app messing up your Airport.


Automator: remove last 9 characters in filename

The following AppleScript should do the job. It removes only an underscore followed by eight digits, e.g. _2020012, at the end of a filename without changing the extension. I don't know how familiar you are with using AppleScripts but you should be okay if you carefully follow the directions below. Sorry that I can't make its creation simpler but, once created, it is simple to use.

on run {input, parameters}

    repeat with thisFile in input
        tell application "Finder"
            set {theName, theExtension} to {name, name extension} of thisFile
            if theExtension is not in {missing value, ""} then
                set theExtension to "." & theExtension
                set theName to text 1 thru -((count theExtension) + 1) of theName -- the name part
                set theName to do shell script "/usr/bin/sed -E 's/_[0-9]{8}$//' <<< " & theName's quoted form -- strip consecutive trailing numbers
                set name of thisFile to theName & theExtension
            end if
        end tell
    end repeat

end run

To place this code on your Mac, select File->New->Service inside Automator and then double click on "Run AppleScript" among the "Library" options. Select the "files or folders" option in the "Service receives selected" menu at the top of the newly opened window. Paste the code inside the window and save it through File->Save inside Automator. Make sure you select all of the code above before copying it from here as a few lines of the code run quite a bit to the right outside the highlighted window here.

You can give this AppleScript a name such as "Remove_Number" while saving it inside Automator. The first attached picture shows how things should look like in Automator after the code is pasted and saved. You can quit Automator after the code is saved (but it does not actually matter).

When completed, you should be able to change the names of any number of files you might select through Finder. After selecting the files to be changed in Finder, right click on the selected files and you should see an option with the name you have given the AppleScript towards the bottom of the right-click menu. (The 2nd attached picture shows how things look like in Finder at this stage.) Any selected file with an underscore followed by eight digits at the end of its name should have that underscore and the digits removed immediately after you select the AppleScript from the right-click menu.


Try updating to the latest iOS/watchOS version.

A new update (11.2.6/4.2.3) just came out and it might fix whatever is causing your issue.


Prevent iOS podcast syncing of position and played status

Such bugs with Apple Podcasts have been known for a while. The best solution (like you mentioned) is probably to get another Apple ID. With the new family feature, you can share purchases and Apple Music subscriptions across Apple IDs. If this idea still doesn't appeal to you, try a third-party podcast program, like this one: http://vemedio.com/products/instacast


In iOS or macOS Contacts App, I would like to duplicate a contact. What is the easyest way to do this?

VCF files are just text files, so you can edit them in every text editor.

Right-click on VCF file
Select "Open with" and then "Textedit.app"
Change whatever field you want to change (N and FN are typical fields to change if you want to change the name)
Use "Save as" to save with a new file name

PS: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#Properties for details about the different fields. Not all of them may be supported by Contacts though.


Apple ID working for iPhone but not for iPad

One Apple ID can be used with multiple devices and if you are hitting a limit that too many devices are using it for a specific use (say playing purchased music on too many devices - no slots are left to authorize), you should get an error message.

The likely culprit is a network or other device specific error, but you may have to troubleshoot this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895

Most of the authorization issues can be solved starting with the above guide and general troubleshooting might be to check that you can browse the iTunes store and ask the networking staff to make sure things aren't being blocked or take the device to another public internet to be sure it's not a problem with the network and not the device.


Is it possible to use Gmail properly via Outlook 2015 for Mac?

Interestingly enough, I was just searching for a good mail app, and found that there is a new Gmail desktop app coming out in the next week. I'm going to try it, because I'm not quite satisfied with the other mail apps, and I like google's formatting. To manage multiple email accounts, you may consider having your other emails forwarded to your gmail account. That's what I've been doing. It's a temp fix for what you're looking for, but may help. I hope so.

Log in to your other email that you'd like to forward and follow similar instructions.


How to retrieve windows that have moved 'off-screen'

Chealion answered this on SuperUser.

I won't copy and paste his answer here, as he got the credit not me.

But basically, what you could do is (quoted from Chealion's answer) :

  A second method of arranging the Windows so you can see them (if for some reason they're staying off screen) is to change to the
  application that owns the window in question, hold the Option key down
  and choose "Arrange in Front" from the Window menu. It will then
  arrange all the windows of that application in a cascade from the top
  left of the screen.


How do I fix a blurry arrow in an alias icon?

Solved! I was able to solve this problem by going to "Show View Options" (Right Click on Desktop Space) and adjusting the icon size. You can set it back to the size you had it originally but somehow making an adjustment refreshes the screen and the arrows come back sharp and clear.

Before I discovered this I tried making icons different resolution sizes thinking the arrow was trying to "match" pixel resolution - but that apparently isn't the case. I would have used the "change icon file name" but somehow I wasn't able to get "system" approval even though I'm the admin.


How to sync multiple calendars (Exchange/Google) on a Mac?

Spanning Sync ($25/year) should do this. However, when I tried to use it I kept getting a crash (version 3.2/443).

BusySync ($39.99) should also do this [edit: I just got a note from BusySync support saying that this does not work for Exchange].

  You may now add and edit events, in iCal or Google, on any of the calendars you published or subscribed to, and the events will sync in both directions between iCal and Google.

However, when I set up my Exchange calendar to publish to Google, and modified the calendar inside the Google Calendar interface, the new modifications get clobbered the next time BusySync syncs. It does at least successfully publish the events on Google Calendar, though.


The encryption of an external drive in 10.7.5 does not seem to work. "Conversion Status: NoConversion"

I believe you need a Recovery HD on that volume to let FileVault 2 do it's business. Here's the article on how to FileVault 2.

OS X: About FileVault 2

I believe the section where it says FileVault 2 requires OS X Lion or Mountain Lion and Recovery HD installed on your startup drive is not technically correct, since the keys to decrypt an external drive would only be stored on the internal drive of the Mac doing the encryption.

I know this isn't true since I've had encrypted external drives that I've taken to several Mac and had all of them read it. You could start by letting Time Machine encrypt the external drive since that's the canonical GUI manner to get FileVault 2 on an external drive.

You can do everything in terminal though. Here is your recipe - bookmark this guy's web site - Rich is an asset to the community for documenting how to wrangle encryption and many other things.

Encrypting 10.7 non-boot volumes without erasing them

Here is what a functioning external without FileVault 2 looks like to me (warning - this is all on Mountain Lion).

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS HEAP                    10.0 GB    disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            300.0 GB   disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data EXCHANGE                189.6 GB   disk2s4

So, you can convert things thusly:

Air:~ me$ diskutil cs convert /Volumes/HEAP -passphrase
New passphrase for converted volume:
Confirm new passphrase:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk2s2 HEAP
Resizing disk to fit Core Storage headers
[ | 0%..10%.............................................. ]

After a short delay, the progress will end and you will get this notice:

Air:~ me$ diskutil cs convert /Volumes/HEAP -passphrase
New passphrase for converted volume:
Confirm new passphrase:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk2s2 HEAP
Resizing disk to fit Core Storage headers
Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group
Attempting to unmount disk2s2
Switching disk2s2 to Core Storage
Waiting for Logical Volume to appear
Mounting Logical Volume
Core Storage LVG UUID: 4FA72C96-80B5-4794-B6C9-D5E94B3194C8
Core Storage PV UUID: A60F4F77-18F7-4972-9A37-4873390BE326
Core Storage LV UUID: 02A09627-7955-4671-84F7-BD26FE1D9B93
Core Storage disk: disk3
Finished CoreStorage operation on disk2s2 HEAP
Encryption in progress; use `diskutil coreStorage list` for status

Setting aside whether Lion has the same output (since it likely will not end the command until the encryption is done) - here is the end result of what the diskutil list command shows once the external has been encrypted:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage HEAP                    10.0 GB    disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s6
   4:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            300.0 GB   disk2s3
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data EXCHANGE                189.6 GB   disk2s4

It appears that disk2s6 gets shaved off the 10.0 GB disk2s2 and serves to hold the keys for [en|de]crypting HEAP.


There is no way to adjust the pressure sensitivity unfortunately. However, there are several pressure sensitive styluses (styli? I've never had to pluralise stylus before) on  the market or at least in development.

Check out the Jot-Touch.

The Pressure Pen and Ten One's Blue Tiger are still in development.

Wacom's Bamboo Pen isn't pressure sensitive, but it does improve pressure sensitivity.


How to take backup of a partition from another partition

I can think of several ways of making a back of your El Capitan partition, provided the El Capitan partition still mounts when you're booting up from Yosemite partition then you could use Time Machine to select the El Capitan Partition in System Pref/Time Machine.

Or copy the entire contents of the El Capitan partition onto an external hard drive when you boot from Yosemite.


HD accidentally reformatted to MBR, how to get back to GUID?

As your Partition starts on sector 1, there is no space for a GUID partition table, which requires 2 sectors between the MBR (sector 0) and the start of the first partition as a minimum. You could try to move the partition with a specialist tool (the tools that come with OSX only let you change the size of a partition, not the starting position).

However, as you're OK with re-installing the OS, I suggest you make sure everything is backed up via Time Machine, then boot from the OSX installation stick. Open up Disk Utility before starting the installation, select the whole drive and open the "partition" tab. Repartition it from scratch by selecting "1 partition" (or however many you want) from the "partition layout" dropdown. Before you apply the changes, click the "Options..." button and choose the GUID Partition Table scheme. Then apply the changes (obviously, this wipes the disk) and restore OSX to the newly created system partition. This will create the GPT, protective MBR and EFI System partition.


Cannot add more people to a group chat in iMessage

You cannot add people to a group message if one or more of the people does not have an iPhone.  You also cannot add people to an already existing iMessage group chat if they do not have an iPhone.
In this case, one of the people that was in the group chat doesn't have an iPhone. (You can tell because it doesn't have a FaceTime option next to the call and message button.)


I have lost magic mouse2 & keyboard Thanks

once the mouse and keyboard are close to your computer and turned on, go to the System Preferences and click on either the mouse or keyboard options. Both of these panels have a buttom in bottom right which says Setup Bluetooth Mouse or Keyboard. The panes are shown below.

And for the keyboard.

Use these to setup your bluetooth devices.


How can I backup/restore an app (not just it's data) in iOS 10?

Do an iCloud backup. iCloud backups are snapshots of the phone as it is. So you'll keep the old update and its data with an iCloud backup.

Do 1 right now and the other after the update.

After your testing, then you can over write that latest backup if need be based on your choice.


How to run an automator app which launches an X11 app via shell script multiple times

I figured it out.  I just need to direct the output to /dev/null:

/sw/bin/xemacs "$@" &> /dev/null &

Easy peasy.  The output was getting grabbed by the shell script.  As soo as you redirect both standard out and standard error to /dev/null (i.e. oblivion), the rest of the workflow stops waiting and ends.


Is it possible to replace the GPU in this 2006 iMac?

It is not possible to upgrade the GPU on the iMac you described because it is integrated into the Main Logic board (pictured in your post).

In theory it might be possible to buy the GPU from another iMac Logic Board that is higher specification, however you'll likely have to buy it with the Logic Board from that computer and so would just be swapping the logic boards.

Short answer: No

EDIT: Confirmation that it is upgradable but the only options are those that were available when the product was released: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2268642


Can you add a specific link to IOS homescreen?

Short answer: yes!

I faced the same issue and basically tricked my iPad, you simply turn on airplane mode, you don't hit the redirect, you store the "server not found" page on the home screen and you are done :-)

Hope you can now resolve your 4 year old question.


One way to determine what an installer package is going to install (or installed) and where, is to look at the installer package with Pacifist as it will give you the hierarchal folder layout of files installed outside the application bundle as well.

This can be used to aide in a manual uninstall as necessary if AppCleaner does not do a complete job of uninstalling.


OS X attempting to connect to non-existent server

You may be able to hunt down the problem by creating a second admin user.

If the problem vanishes logging in as the second (admin) user, it's probably related to an item/setting in the realm of the first user.

If the problem persists it's probably related to a system-wide setting/start-up item (e.g. a launch daemon/agent).

In the first case you can disable several items (e.g. user related Login Items/StartupItems/LaunchAgents) and check if the problem persists.

A second source of error may be an (old) self-referential link of a local share to the local folder of a cloud storage, file synchronization or personal cloud service (e.g. in Dropbox, iCloud or even some Adobe Online service).

In the second case check the folders /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons or /Library/StartupItems for suspicious plists/files.


If you have already made your boot stick try moving the .iso out of any folders into the main part of the drive. sometimes it can't find it. Also make sure you have a legitimate .iso that can also cause problems to if parts of the file are missing etc.


How to save PDFs in Safari at specific locations?

Are you viewing the PDF using Safari's default PDF reader and using Command+S keyboard shortcut within Safari? Or are you pressing the Open with Preview option in the control box (as in the Apple support article you linked), which loads it in Preview, where you can then save wherever you want?
If you are pressing the Save on your Mac option within Safari's PDF reader, then by default it saves to the ~/Downloads folder, unless you have chosen to change the Downloads folder to a designated file path/folder yourself? You can change this within Safari's General preferences tab, but remember any other file you download will also download to this designated download folder. This might be useful if you're bulk downloading PDFs all at once to the same folder.
The alternative is, when you are viewing a PDF within Safari, you can select File>Export as a PDF from the menubar which should then prompt you with a save dialog box.
Another alternative is, before clicking on a PDF link on a website/search result, you can right click and select Download Linked File As which will then prompt you with a save dialog box. It's a bit tricky to know if the link is a PDF but if the URL ends with .pdf then typically it will load using the PDF reader within Safari and download as a proper PDF. In Google Search results there's also a little symbol indicating it's a PDF (highlighted in my image below).

Finally you can use other PDF readers with their own Safari PDF reader plugin which may prompt you with the save dialog box when you press download, but I am not sure about this. From memory, I believe Adobe Acrobat did do this several years ago, but overall I found the experience using Adobe Acrobat PDF reader within Safari a bit slow and clunky, so I reverted back to Safari's default PDF reader.
Let me know if this helps!


Thunderbolt ports allow connectivity to Mini DisplayPort. Since your converter just plugs in and then an HDMI cable (of any length that you supply) is then plugged into your converter and into a display, it should work just fine provided there is no damage to either the HDMI cable or the converter itself. If the Mac isn't recognizing the display, check the HDMI cable or the display first. Try to test the converter on another Mac with Thunderbolt before you deem it dead but Thunderbolt does indeed work with Mini DisplayPort.


Yep it'll be compatible, your HDD is a SATA II.

But because of the SATA2 limitation (~300MB/s) you won't be able to use your SSD at full speed.


Multi-colored lines only on screen when booting 17" iMac Core Duo 1.83Ghz

Probably a hardware issue either with the GPU or something between the GPU and the screen (screen itself, cable, etc.) dying. I know you reseated the screen and cable, but if said components are failing/have failed that won't be enough.

If you have an external monitor, try plugging it in and see if it works. If so, run Apple Hardware Test and see what it reports back. If you GPU is indeed dying, chances are this won't work. To my knowledge the GPU is attached permanently to the logic board, so you can't replace it.


How to use Finder's "Open With Application"?

No, you're not. The Open with Application will do exactly as expected, open whatever file you've chosen with the selected Application. For your weird behaviour, perhaps you double clicked it, or it just bugged somehow and didn't catch the new application as the one it should be open with.


Connecting ipad to other computers, for importing selected music

This, apparently, was caused by a faulty USB cable.


"Clean up by name" isn't sorting my files in alphabetical order

Selecting Clean Up By Name sorts things by alphanumeric order1.

Using your example, you're actually mistaken in saying that the items aren't listed in some sort of increasing numerical order. The order you provided is:

 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 1.25, 1.56, and 2.0.

However, the 4th and 5th values above can be interpreted as one point twenty-five and one point fifty-six. So, 25 is larger than 6, and 56 is larger than 25, and so on.

By way of comparison, MS Windows does the same thing.

So, why does this happen?

Well, just like databases and spreadsheets, most operating systems use strings to store data, in this case filenames.  Normally this works pretty well, but in examples like yours it is counterintuitive and that's why many people end up using naming conventions that add zeros to a filename (for example, instead of 1.5 it'd be 1.50 instead).

Recently I had to set up a workflow for an organisation that was going to produce an animation every Wednesday for the next three years. They wanted their files to be called NewsImage1, NewsImage2, etc. I had to explain to them it needed to be NewsImage001, NewsImage002 and so on so that by the time they were finished the animations would still be listed in order from NewsImage001 to NewsImage156. (If it were up to me the filenames would have used a dating scheme such as NewsImage201701 and so on, but alas it wasn't my call).

This sorting is also known to cause problems in certain industries, but as far as I know the only workaround in macOS is to add the zeroes to filenames as I've described above. In Windows you used to be able to manually edit a registry key, but I'm not sure that's still possible.

For what it's worth, I've always thought it should be an option in System Preferences somewhere, but I suspect it's not provided for compatibility purposes.

1 By Alphanumeric I mean it's a combination of alphabetic (Latin) characters and numeric (Arabic) digits that also takes into account symbols (e.g. punctuation marks, mathematical signs, etc). So, ordering works on the basis of symbols/special characters first, followed by numerals in order, followed by letters in order. I do not recall the order of sorting for the special characters, but for numerals anything after a decimal point is a whole number as opposed to a fraction. By this I mean that 1.1 is lower than 1.2, however 1.15 is higher than 1.2 because the '15' in 1.15 is seen as fifteen and the '2' in 1.2 is seen as two (not as twenty).


Is it possible to localize the Mac Welcome Assistant Language to be non English?

Ok, I found the solution.
it looks like there was some problem with preinstalled system.
I just pass through whole assistant in english. And after choosing desired language, the system still was launched still in English. So I ser the desired language in System Preferences, and removed English language.
Then I launched again with Command-R, and reinstalled system.
Now „Welcome assistant” on the begining has language to choose and imidiately changes it to desired language. Perfect.
By the way, sorry for my English ;)


Jailbroken iPhone 5s stuck in boot loop and can't be seen by iTunes

You can enter DFU mode during a bootloop:

Connect the device to the computer and open iTunes. It won't be detected—that's fine.
Hold down the power and home buttons together.
The display will turn off, then an Apple logo is shown. Keep holding until the display turns off for a second time.
As soon as the display turns off the second time, keep holding home but release the power button.
The display will remain blank and iTunes will prompt you to restore the device. Now release the home button.


All of my files in home directory have 0620 file permission

You must set the permissions of the folder the files are in as well.


Currently no. There are known issues with the graphics drivers and glitches in the software as a result. You can get SL to install, but the performance and stability are lacklustre at best. And Apple is unlikely to add driver support for SL in future revisions of that operating system.

Additionally, you cannot manually add drivers for core components to OS X. You may be able to modify kernel extensions, but not at the level required to get the old OS operational. You may be able to port the graphics driver from Lion, but that is certainly a long-shot.

You can follow a discussion over the the Apple Forums for additional information, where it has been reported that the new Air installs a special build of Lion that carries with it a unique graphics driver. One user claims they got SL installed, but it does not recognize the internal display. That's a pretty big show-stopper, unless you want your new Air to be a desktop.


I have the same issue on my iPad, and if you search the store, it seems to be hidden. If I search the store on my Mac in iTunes, it shows up though.

The direct link to it is http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-connect-mobile/id376771144?mt=8

It also is a universal app, so it has an interface designed for the iPad.

Clicking this link on my iPad though still doesn't take me to the actual app. I think this may be a bug in the App Store. I can see it in iTunes on my computer and add it to my iPad that way.

After syncing it to my iPad through my computer, it launches fine, will connect, and looks good. The copyright on the app is 2010 though, so it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while (for example, no retina graphics on iPad). I did have a few times it threw an error saying it couldn't connect. I also don't have any apps in thee right now to test.


Cannot go back to MacOSX after using BootCamp to start Windows 7

Try something for me, if it doesn't work, ask someone else.
Restart the computer.  Right after you hit the restart button, press and hold the option key until it either boots into one of your operating systems or pops up a screen in which you can switch between the two.  That's how I had to switch between windows and MacOSX on my mac.


Remotely access a friend's files over internet (natively + not screen sharing)

I would highly recommend the Team Viewer app.

Have been using it for years now to help some people over in Europe.

https://www.teamviewer.us/

It is free for personal uses...

Of course both sides have to install it


How to view network traffic in and out of a machine?

Yeah, Wireshark or HTTP Scoop.

With Wireshark you just need to configure the StartupItem 'ChmodBPF' which is included in the download, for it to work.


For Junk Mail, you can create a Rule. From the menu bar item “Mail”, select > Preferences > Rules > Add Rule. Make a rule with the following conditions:

For Trash, you can simply bypass Mail’s Trash and rely on the server settings of the email account. To do so, from the “Mail” menu bar item (again) > Preferences > Accounts > [select account] > Mailbox Behaviors > uncheck “Move Deleted Messages To the Trash Mailbox”