You cannot make a FAT32 CD. Windows does not use that format for CD/DVDs.

Normally, when burning a bunch of files, both Mac and Windows use ISO 9660 (Joliet) for CDs and Universal Disk Format (UDF) for DVD media. Format is automatically chosen once media is detected.

Also there is no need to make an image first. You just

select the files in Finder
right click on the selected files
select Burn.


You need a VPN or to change your network. It seems there is a firewall blocking the Apple server.


macOS: Identify tool and keyboard shortcut

It's the new feature in Mojave. You can show Screenshot/Screen Capture menu with ⌘ cmd+⇧ shift+5.


How to turn off the Siri dictation "beep" sound on macOS Catalina?

If you are talking about the sound the system makes when a spoken speech command is recognized, and you are running MacOS Catalina, you can enable or disable that option in System Preferences/ Accessibility/ Voice Control.


List of all installed packages in a defunct Homebrew installation?

According to the Homebrew terminology, we have the following definitions :

Cellar :  All Kegs are installed here
Keg :      The installation prefix of a Formula
Formula:   The package definition
Homebrew installs to the Cellar it then symlinks some of the installation into /usr/local so that other programs can see what's going on.

As said in the comments, to list all packages previously installed on a backup drive you can do :
ls -1 /Volumes/*/usr/local/Cellar

If you want to have a better understanding of Homebrew paths, I recommend the reading of the following article : The Path to Homebrew.


Where does OS X store unsaved TextEdit documents?

For Lion: It is in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Autosave\ Information/, e.g. Unsaved TextEdit Document.rtf.

Note that ~/Library is not visible by default in Finder in Lion, but you can access it by pasting the path in Finder (without the backslash in "Autosave Information"; the formatting above is for cd-ing in Terminal.app), or there is an option to enable the visibility (chflags nohidden ~/Library)

For Snow Leopard (credit goes to @binarybob, his comment is below) it is in ~/Library/Autosave Information also named Unsaved TextEdit Document.rtf


How to force a diff format for TextMate?

TextMate can use either the file extension or the first line of a file to divine what filetype it is.

For my diff bundle (I think it's the original), this is:

firstLineMatch = '(?x)^
        (===\ modified\ file
        |==== \s* // .+ \s - \s .+ \s+ ====
        |Index:\
        |---\ [^%]
        |\*\*\*.*\d{4}\s*$
        |\d+(,\d+)* (a|d|c) \d+(,\d+)* $
        |diff\ --git\
        )
    ';

I don't have mercurial, but it appears as though its diff's first line may look something like diff -r 2278160e78d4 hello.c.  As such, you can add another line to that big OR switch:

        ...
        |diff\ --git\
        |diff\ -r\
        )
    ';

Note that the final character in the line is a space.

As another alternative, it appears as though you may be able to define your alias as alias hgd='hg diff --git|mate' to use the same format as git, which is already recognized by TextMate.


How can I show geolocation of one specific photo on a map in iOS?

In iOS 12 fsb’s answer doesn’t seem to work any more. A different way is via Apple’s Shortcut app. In the gallery you can find a shortcut named “Where was this taken?”. If you add this and let the actions show up in the share sheet. Then you will be taken to the location by:

Select the photo
Press the “share” icon
Select “Shortcuts”
Select “Where was this taken?”
Done, you should now see the map app and the location of your photo


Replace Specific Variables In Selected Text Via Script

This is a job for text item delimiters. If you aren't familiar, a delimiter is a separator, normally between words the separator is a space. With text item delimiters, you can change the normal space to any text value you want. In this case, you would make "{keyword1}" the text item delimiters, then the script will see the original text as only two words, everything before "Keyword1" and everything after is the second word. Then you set text item delimiters to whatever you want to replace the "{keyword1}" with, and cram the two words back into one text item.

I've written some basic code that does what you ask below, with some inline comments. One note, whenever playing with text item delimiters, always finish the script by setting them back to the default. I stored the original text item delimiters in a variable called "tid", then set them back at the end of the script.

--Set the variables
set originalText to "http://www.thedomain.com/ajdkeial.html?keyword1={keyword1}&keyword2={keyword2}"
set key1 to "{keyword1}"
set key2 to "{keyword2}"
set subKey1 to "NewKeyWord"
set subKey2 to "AnotherKeyWord"

--Main Script
set tid to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to key1
set tempList to every text item of originalText
(* the line above returns two item, everything before {keword1} and the second item is everything after {keyword1} *)
set text item delimiters to subKey1
set newText to every item of tempList as text
(* The line above takes the two items from tempList and puts the replacement key word between them *)
--Below, do the same for the second keyword
set text item delimiters to key2
set tempList to every text item of newText
set text item delimiters to subKey2
set newText to every item of tempList as text
set text item delimiters to tid
return newText --> "http://www.thedomain.com/ajdkeial.html?keyword1=NewKeyWord&keyword2=AnotherKeyWord"


Auto-hiding dock completely disappears on menu bar screen

While documenting this problem, I stumbled upon the solution -- after two years of fiddling with this. Note the new placement of the laptop in the arrangement below when compared to that in the original post. I had tried swapping monitors, cables, ports on my MBP dock, the menubar location. Nothing helped. And while I was writing up the original post I thought, I wonder if the laptop being at all under the center monitor makes the OS treat the two as one, vertical viewport when it comes to deciding to raise dock.  Now, I don't know if that's accurate or not, but it got me to try moving the arrangement to have the laptop just around the corner on the side, and voila!  No more strange dock behavior. Now I can freely use the dock on any monitor and it does not get stuck. Now, I just have to undo all the strange muscle memory my mouse arm learned while this was still a problem...
If anyone can speak to my supposition about the "one, vertical viewport", I'd be interested and grateful to know the details.


iPhone8 Showing Pictures On Device Even Though I Removed All Photos

Unless you purged the Recently Deleted, they will stay for 30 days. If you did, reboot the phone. If that doesn't work, make a new backup & restore from it.


Setting custom reminders for birthdays in ios calendar

Settings > Mail, contacts, calendars > Default alert times > birthdays

Apparently there are a few options here. You cannot specifically set a custom time at the time of my writing this, but it is possible to pick "a day before", "2 days before", "1 week before" or on day of event. I don't see a way to select a different time though other than 9 am.


Why is my Wi-Fi process using 3GB of memory?

First thing first - memory is virtual, so Wi-Fi could take 100 GB and you might only have a low grade leak that seems bad, but in practice has no effect whatsoever over a two week period or longer.

Here how I’d evaluate this measurement in context :

What is the overall memory pressure graph like on the machine?
How long after you started did it take to get to that status?

Now that you have some data points and can agree that the numbers mean less without context, here’s how to reclaim that memory.

Once you get the data above, log out (Apple Menu - log out Michael, then log back in). The ports and memory should start very small.

I haven’t seen this cause issues across our production fleet and there is speculation that IPv6 networking or iPhone tethering can cause this higher than expected, but not impacting performance level of allocations. Also, people that tend to have dozens or a score of tabs open in multiple browsers would likely have a lot of memory to track that. Lastly, not logging out regularly would allow this to grow if it’s a leak / usage situation.

Wi-Fi taking up lot of memory

As to the ultimate question of why, you have nailed the ports being the reason for this process. In the Mach kernel architecture, ports are how processes communicate, so every program that needs any network access or to send a communication to another process, needs ports to queue and deliver and secure those network data chunks.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html

The Wi-Fi program is doing its sole function which is to connect your programs in your user space to the system/kernel that then runs the network drivers and does the communication with the hardware layer.

I see nothing shocking here, but here's the low down on using vmmap and heap to pick apart why yours is using less memory when you log in (and almost none if you start no apps at log in) and then when you run your programs that assign work to Wi-Fi - it allocates memory to do that work you asked of the wireless networking system.

Why is my Wi-Fi Process eating >2GB memory


Most likely, the app is just a wrapper for a regular web page.  You'll see everything in that app that you would see if you visited the same contents in any web browser.  Developers do this because it's easy, fast, and they can use 1 website for both Android and Apple.

Nobody can say for sure if you have a virus or not, but I'd be 95% sure it's just a normal browser popup.  I recommend writing the developer and ask about removing it or, if that fails, provide a realistic app review in the App Store.  Devs really do care about their reviews so this could get their attention.


On iOS

You can go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage. You can then select an app that you wish to remove iCloud data for, tap Edit, then delete the data that you no longer need on iCloud.
(Some apps only have a Documents & Data section - this means that it will remove all data from iCloud, without any option of selecting individual files.)

On Mac

You can go to ~/Library/Mobile Documents and delete individual apps/files there.


Sidecar not working with Ipad Pro 2018, Macbook Pro 2016

To use Sidecar wirelessly, place your iPad to the left or right of your Mac. Then click on the AirPlay icon in your menu bar.

If you have an AirPlay icon, you'll see Connect to in its dropdown menu, with the name of your iPad next to it. Click on that, and you're done.

Depending on how your Mac is set up and whether you've ever used AirPlay before, you may not see the icon, though.

If you don't, go to any open Finder window. Press and hold on the green traffic light icon. You'll see a new dropdown menu that includes options to rearrange the window on the screen —or to Move to your iPad. Do that, and Sidecar is working.

Also, having done this, you'll now have the AirPlay icon in your Mac menu bar and from now on can use it to connect and disconnect to this iPad.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380

https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/docs/Sidecar_Tech_Brief_Oct_2019.pdf


Cannot import .ics file events from email to iPhone calendar (iOS10.1.1)

Once imported iOS seems to remember the filename and hides "Add All" to prevent a second import (which would duplicate the events).

When you're sending yourself a new set of events, try using a different filename (add a timestamp or something similar).

(the same thing happened to me with a web generated set of events under iOS 9)


How do I delete a large amount of photos from iPhoto that were taken on the same device (not sequential)

Your best bet is to do an advanced search using Spotlight and configure the search parameters accordingly. Spotlight supports device make and model as well as creation date.


How to open Resolution Center for an app version rejection after the app is approved?

Found this floating around on Reddit.  I've also had the same issue and was able to find the Resolution Center from this:

https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/ra/ng/app/[your-app-id]/platform/ios/resolutioncenter

Update it with your AppID.  This ID is for iTC, not the bundle_id from the developer portal.  You can find it in iTC and it will be a series of numbers.

UPDATE

Since iTunes Connect has become App Store Connect, due to redirects, the above URL no longer works. Please use the following:

https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/ra/ng/app/[your-app-id]/platform/ios/resolutioncenter


In Terminal, can I find out the current Finder folder?

The following command will return the path to the frontmost Finder window, if that's what you're looking for:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get the POSIX path of (target of front window as alias)'

Note that this cannot return a POSIX path if the frontmost window has no POSIX path. So if the frontmost Finder window has an ongoing/finished search, is a smart folder or other magical location (like your Mac under devices, which lists all the mounted volumes and the network).

Search/Smart folder/No Finder window returns:

  execution error: Can’t make «class fvtg» of window 1 of application "Finder" into type alias. (-1700)

And trying to execute the command when viewing your Mac:

  execution error: No result was returned from some part of this expression. (-2763)


VLC on iOS: Sharing via WiFi doesn't work anymore?

Had same problem. I power cycled everything. Unplug everything.
Plug in modem and router and let them settle. Then power up computer.
The IP address for Ipad got the same response...BUT....
Chrome kept trying the address and it connected!
I closed chrome and reopened to try again. Same. It did not connect immediately- but within a few minutes (and chrome continuously retrying) it had connected again.
As long as it finally connects - that works for me!


A PDF file on my Desktop shows up with the name and properties of my root drive

In all likelihood this is a bug.

A "real" PDF, or a malicious file (which would probably better hidden or disguised), would not show for "Get Info" things like "Capacity" etc.

If under Finder > Preferences > General the checkbox is set to
"Show these items on the desktop:  harddisks" it just is displaying the correct name for the internal drive: "Macintosh HD" but mixes up somehow the filetype/association.

That means the suspected explanation in the question is exactly backwards:
Somehow the root drive/volume "Macintosh HD" is reported as kind "PDF".

To confirm this scenario, open a Terminal, type file (note the trailing space!) and drag the offending icon onto the Terminal window.

You should now see the following output or something similar:

$ file /
/: directory

If that is the case, the solution is quite simple:

Open again the Finder preferences in the general tab and uncheck the "show hard disks on desktop" option,

and restart the Finder with a method of your choice. That might include a logout, login cycle, or just type in Terminal:

$ killall Finder

Now, even if you you re-tick that checkbox, your hard disk should show up with the proper icon and filetype.

If these steps fail, deleting the Finder preferences, and then the caches might be the next steps.


MacBook Pro SSD - Very High Wear_Leveling_Count Value?

I don't know either how exactly to interpret the RAW_VALUE column (the big number in the final column of the line starting with "173 Wear_Leveling_Count"), but the most significant values in that line are columns VALUE and THRESH.

As long as VALUE stays well above THRESH, your disk should not be approaching its specified end of life yet. I believe the initial value on a fresh disk is 200. When it hits 100 (my value for THRESH), it will have performed as many erase cycles as guaranteed by the manufacturer. After that you're running on borrowed time. On my (relatively lightly used) MacBook Pro, VALUE is 0197, meaning I am perhaps 3% into the life of the drive.

For what it's worth, my RAW_VALUE is 12,891,062,312, a little lower than your value of 12,895,125,514 and about 1/1000 of 12,567,284,681,697 (VALUE: 093) and 13,031,154,781,293 (VALUE: 87) reported in one of the other answers.

For information, the file system seems have written 5.4 TB on my machine so far:

175 Host_Writes_MiB         0x0022   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       5445917

What matters for the actual life of the drive is not the data logically written by the file system but the actual internal write cycles, which can be significantly different. However, if what I have written so far is about 1/30 of its lifetime limit, that would be about 160 TB which sounds about right for a 256 GB drive like mine.


Lower than usual screen resolution on MacBook Pro

Turns out someone has just messed around with my System Preferences.
Going to System Preferences >> Displays >> Display >> Resolution and changing it to Default for display did the trick.


Add additional filetype to a specific "Kind"

The reason this is happening is answered here, https://superuser.com/questions/371892/osx-assign-extension-to-content-kind

Unfortunately, there isn't a really fix for the problem.


Is possible to use a Micro SIM in iPhone 3GS?

You'd need an adapter like this one to make it fit, but it should work.


Cannot erase and do a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion on my MacBookPro

You have to boot off another drive before you can erase your internal hard drive.

Boot off your external USB drive and then you should be able to erase the internal one.


Xmodmap only works for X11 applications, the ones you've listed for sure are not X11 applications. Most likely you don't use any X11 at all.
To remap keys on macOS see the answer on Karabiner quit working in Sierra. How do I map my menu/application key to be Command? instead.
Another app commonly used to remap MacOS keys is Ukelele.


If I copy an application already listed under Purchased to the Applications folder, will it be able to update through the App Store?

Yes - you can side load apps to Mac and as long as it’s on the filesystem (doesn’t even have to be in /Applications or on the boot drive) - the App Store app will see you have that app installed and offer updates when they are available.

There is no installer, receipt or other accounting needed to indicate an app should be managed / updated once it’s copied on to the filesystem intact (with the intact part being key).


USB Mouse Jerky Tracking - Software Issue?

Could you have different mouse drivers on the iMac than the MBP?

Try to install the drivers from Logitech, or remove them completely, see if that makes a difference. You can also install a 3rd party driver like USB Overdrive.


You can change the amount of font smoothing with the following command:

defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int [value]

[value] is a value between 0 and 3 inclusive. Requires log out and log in.

Here's a gif by Lauri showing the difference:


How can I hide the unread counter from Outlook 2011 Dock icon?

Deselecting "Badge app icon" in Notifications Center preferences worked for me (Outlook 2016 for Mac).


Identify whether an icon represents a package or file

Control- or right-clicking a package in Finder will show the context menu item Show Package Contents.


Video Stutter With Multiple Logged-In Users

I experienced a similar problem with a 2012 MacBook Air with two users logged in. Both users logged in, stuttering video via AirPlay, OS X 10.8, 8GB RAM, plenty of room on the SSD. When using an iPad or iPhone on the same wireless network and AirPlay, no stuttering.

Logged out the second account, no stuttering.

I haven't solved any of your other issues, but did confirm the concurrent login problem.


How can I use iCal and the iPhone calendar when I am travelling?

I think you might want to try the "floating" time zone; I believe this will let an event be at a specific hour, regardless of the time zone.

(As for why use time zones at all: We have an office in Zurich, Switzerland, and one in New York, US, and we share some of our calendars; having time zone support means, as an example, that I can see at a glance if somebody's at a meeting in New York (and thus I should maybe call them later).)

PS: Also see Changing the time zone for an event, but note iCal: Floating time zone Calendar events are not supported on iPod touch / iPhone or MobileMe Calendar; iCloud supports "floating" (just tested), not sure about the iPhone...


Is there a way to change the language for Wikipedia searches in iBooks on iOS, without changing the language settings for the device?

Yes there is, although you have to modify the iPad's files, so you either have to jailbreak your iPad, then use an app called iFile (paid with a free trial) or openSSH (free but more complicated - I used iFile), or find some way to modify your files without a jailbreak.

An explanation

iOS apps store data on "property list" files. To localise an app they have a property list file that stores all the stuff in the app that they want to change, and what to change it to. The one we are interested in has a field dealing with the Wikipidea search URL, all we have to do is change that URL to go to the English Wikipidea instead of the Norwegian one.

Steps (note that I am using iFile)

Using your chosen file manager navigate to /var/mobile/Applications
You should see the names of your apps as well as some random characters, if you only see the random characters then click the settings button (bottom left), go to preferences and turn on "App names"
Scroll down until you see the "iBooks" folder
In the iBooks folder, click "iBooks.app"
Scroll down until you see the folder "no.lproj" - this is the Norwegian language folder
Click on the file "Localizable.strings" open it with the property list viewer - this is the main file that deals with localisation
Scroll down to near the bottom until you find the field called "Search_Wikipidea_URL", tap on it
You should see a text box with the URL "http://%2$@.wikipedia.org/wiki/%1$@", change it to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%1$@"
Click "Done", then exit iFile
That's it!

Now to test it go to iBooks. When you search Wikipidia it will show the English version. I tested this on my iPod (yes, I put my iPod into Norwegian!) and it worked, so if you have a problem and want me to post pictures for the steps then just leave a comment!


When "System Report" aka "System Profiler" does not list your USB devices, and Windows running from Boot Camp also does not list your USB devices and no power is supplied by your USB devices it is very likely that this is not a software issue.

Another way to see your connected USB devices with detailed information is to run

system_profiler SPUSBDataType

If the above fails and gives no satisfied output, it is very, very likely some of your internal hardware components are broken or disconnected.

When there are no problems with your other IO devices (e.g. firewire) it might be an internal cable that came lose, else I would suggest your south bridge is broken.

If you still think the power is the problem, try to use a powered-USB hub that will provide the juice needed for your peripherals. Or you can try to plug-in a low power consuming device like a USB mouse.


Would formatting my iMac fix my failing drive?

The 2013 iMac was offered with 1TB hard drive, Fusion drive, or SSD. The first two of these use mechanical spinning platter hard drives, which are expected to have a limited life before failing.

After six years, it's likely that the drive is failing, and so Erasing or repartitioning it won't help. Replacing the drive is possible, but "moderately difficult".


Upgrade from Fusion Drive to SSD without breaking fusion first

In your Container disk3 you have two volumes Macintosh SSD which is a read only volume of about 10GB and Macintosh SSD - Data containing your user files and other writable parts of the filesystem (logs, your installed applications etc).  There are also some other small volumes not shown for recovery, booting etc that you can see with diskutil list

These volumes are all part of the OS install in Catalina - see this Apple document About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina.

While you could try to roll your own fusion drive you'd be adding complexity for no benefit and if either drive failed you'd lose both - see how to prepare two SSDs after upgrade (merge to fusion drive or not, terminal commands)

What you could do is install macOS to the SD0128F disk and use the new SSD as data storage either by manually saving your data there or by moving your whole user folder.  The volumes called Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data would remain on the SD0128F physical disk.


How can I install the latest Google Chrome on Mac OS X Mavericks?

Try going to https://www.google.com/chrome/ in Safari on Mavericks and it should offer you to download the latest available update for Mavericks.

However, Chrome will still report itself as outdated, because they have dropped support for Mavericks, and running Chrome risks security issues, etc.


How do I save the Numbers document I'm working on?

You can save it anywhere you want.  Just do Command-S or go to File --> Save and it will bring up a dialog box.  You can use the default location or any other folder/location you want.

You can even save it to your iCloud account from the same dialog.  See the image below.


Is it possible to save to my disk from the photos app?

The other way, which takes a (very) few more steps, is to click on the photo you want to save to your disk. Then, in Photos, go to File > Export, and choose to export the edited photo (shift - command - E), or the original unmodified file. You will then be presented with some options as in the picture below, and when you click "Export," you can even choose where to save the picture. Works great.


What if the wifi server has "Security Recommendation" next to it and it will not connect to internet?

The 'security recommendation' will display whenever your iPhone sees an unsecured wireless network (meaning you don't need a password to join).  It has nothing to do with your ability to connect to the internet.  That message is just to let you know that anything sent over that wifi connection will be visible/unencrypted.

If the owner of that wifi connection, let's say a school, for example, doesn't allow that connection to access the internet, then you won't be able to access the internet.  It's as simple as that and there's no workaround or shortcut to allow you access.

If the connection does allow internet access and you still can't get on the internet, there could be a problem with your iPhone or with that connection.


Lion iCal calendar event shows up as grey rather than colour of calendar it belongs to

If someone has sent you an invite and you have responded "Maybe", the Event will show up as described.


PF (Packet Filter which command line interface of is pfctl) can't do this, because it's not application but port/interface based. You may block port 80/443 for a web browser (like Safari) but this will also block Mail fetching an web-based embedded picture in an email.

Your best bet is to use a host-based application firewall like Little Snitch. The app allows a fine-grained control of outgoing traffic. You may even allow a browser to connect to text based (low traffic) websites while blocking all other sites.

You can even set up several profiles for low- or high-bandwidth locations.


What does the keyboard shortcut ⌥⇞ mean?

⌥ - Is the Option key, also called Alt.

⇞ - It's called Upwards Arrow with Double Stroke, and usually represents page up. If your keyboard lacks that specific key, doing Fn+↑ does the trick.


Applescript just to 'Report Now' Spamcop

If you have a Spamcop account, you can use this perl script to submit pending reports:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $spamcop_url = 'http://www.spamcop.net';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get( $spamcop_url );

$mech->submit_form(
        form_number => 1,
        fields      => {
            username    => 'ENTER YOUR SPAMCOP USER NAME HERE',
            password    => 'ENTER YOUR SPAMCOP PASSWORD HERE',
        }
    ) ."\n";

my $stop = 0;
while(not $stop) {

    $mech->follow_link( text => 'Report Now' ) ."\n";

    my $form = $mech->form_name( 'sendreport' );
    if ($form) {
        print "Send Report form found: ".$mech->value('reports')."\n";
        $mech->click_button( 'value' => 'Send Spam Report(s) Now' ) ."\n";
    } else {
        print "No report form button found.\n";
        $stop = 1;
    }
}

I wrote this script and talk about it at Automating SpamCop.


The message is self explanatory. The iPhone needs to be taken to a cool and dry place. Erase all content did worse I think. It should have been left turned off for a while in a cool and ventilated place.

  Use iOS devices where the ambient temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201678

  To resume use of your device as quickly as possible, turn it off, move it to a cooler environment, and allow it to cool down.

If turn off isn't an option, I would reduce all operations, airplane mode on, low power mode on, closing all apps etc.


How to fix black screen when trying to control a remote Lion machine with Apple Remote Desktop that is inactive at its Login Window?


How do I disable the drop shadow from text on the Desktop?

I don't think it exists as a setting. You could go around the problem by using a black or dark background.


Does the Mac Pro 2008 display memory speeds accurately in System Information?

Verified that there was only PC2 - 5300 RAM installed, which is 667MHZ. So there was not any 800MHZ ram installed, so I can verify that 667MHZ was in fact accurate in this situation.


Unable to include external media drive in time machine backup

Best guess is the drive is the wrong format.
Time Machine won't back up NTFS, FAT or ExFAT.
APFS should work, but 'safest' is HFS+ [MacOS Extended, Journaled] using GUID, not MBR. These options are available in Disk Utility.
You will not be able to change the format "live," you will need to copy this data elsewhere, then erase the drive & then copy back to it afterwards.


This disk does not have enough space to restore your system

I found the answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29397749/this-disk-does-not-have-enough-space-to-restore-timemachine

  For updating a date backup file size:

  Use Disk Inventory X for finding the size of the backup date folder
  "/Volumes/Drive/Backups.backupdb/xxx\ MacBook\
  Pro/2014-11-19-174311/Machintosh HD"

  Open Terminal go to the folder of the backup date folder "cd
  "/Volumes/Drive/Backups.backupdb/xxx\ MacBook\ Pro/2014-11-19-174311/"

  Enter the cmd "xattr -l Macintosh\ HD/"

  It will show a bytes value like this "2123231232" next to
  "com.apple.backupd.VolumeBytesUsed"

  Use Google Convertor GB to Bytes for convert the GB value to bytes and
  vice versa.

  Check the value shows in terminal and disk inventory x same.

  If different, use the convertor with disk inventory x value and get
  bytes value.

  Use cmd "xattr -w com.apple.backupd.VolumeBytesUsed 219637221376
  [Machintosh HD folder].

  Again use the cmd "xattr -l Macintosh\ HD/" for the value is updated.

  That is it.. Now your are ready to go..


My 2,5 year old Macbook Pro wakes from sleep every other hour after installing Mavericks

Possibly you have a "Wake for network access" on in Power Saver preferences. This is a feature that works if you use "Find My Mac" feature with iCloud. Check that.


What could cause this sporadic cursor problem?

Seems I had damp fingers when using the trackpad. Caused the sporadic issues for about 3 days. Then it all went away.


Does laptop in clamshell mode go to sleep when unplugged?

Testing this just now on my personal rMBP, it does not go to sleep immediately. It appears to trigger the sleep at the normal "power adapter sleep" time.a


How to use `login` command to take a screenshot of another user's desktop?

The desktop is managed by the WindowServer daemon.

The communication with WindowServer is guarded so that only root and the current console user can access WindowServer.

Because you're using sudo, you have root privileges to be able to communicate with WindowServer.

In addition to this the current namespace is used to determine, which desktop is "your desktop". A session namespace is created for each currently logged in user.

When you use the login command, you're asked to enter your password. This is actually handled by the PAM subsystem. As part of the standard PAM setup on macOS, you're transferred to the correct (your own) session namespace, when logging on with the right password.

Therefore when you use "login" and enter a password, you get a screenshot of that user's desktop because you're in the right namespace.

However, when you use "login -f" you're bypassing PAM. Therefore the PAM modules are never executed, and you stay in the same name space you were before.

Therefore when using "login -f" to take the screenshot, you're actually getting a screenshot of the currently logged in user - and not the "abc" user you want.

You can read more about this in technical note TN2083:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2083/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10003794-CH1-SUBSECTION14


You need install the older Java SE 6 runtime environment can open the muCommander

Install the current version of muCommander.


What is "iTunes Device Support Upgrade"?

The iTunes Device Support Update addressed a rare issue that could cause problems with updating and/or restoring devices through iTunes on macOS. This update was not required for Windows versions of iTunes.

This update was recommended for any macOS users who use iTunes to update or restore their iOS devices. It ensures that these updates/restores work properly.

[UPDATE]

Below is a screenshot taken from the Mac App Store app running within El Capitan showing the iTunes Device Support Update and its description:


Default 'Authentication Required' dialog username

You're likely seeing the actual 'account name', or 'short name' on the dialogs you're referring to, which differs from the 'full name' you recently changed. In order for things to match up correctly you'll need to take these steps, carefully.

Before following these steps, you may wish to back up your important data.

Enable the root user.
Log in as root.
Navigate to the /Users folder.
Select the Home folder with the short name you want to change, and rename it just like you would rename any folder. Keep in mind that the shortname must be all lowercase, with no spaces, and only contain letters.
Use the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier) in System Preferences to create a new user with the Account name or Short Name that you used in the previous step.
Click OK when "A folder in the Users folder already has the name 'account name'. Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" appears. Note: This will correct the ownership of all files in the Home folder, and avoid permissions issues with the contents.
Choose Log Out from the Apple menu.
Log in as the newly created user. You should be able to access all of your original files (on the desktop, in Documents, and in the other folders of this Home).
After verifying that your data is as expected, you can delete the original user account via the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier).
Disable the root user.

More detailed information: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428


Can I tell iPhoto to store photos in one directory within the library?

No. iPhoto does not allow you to dictate the internal storage scheme. However, the export function does have an option to export the original file, so you can avoid the re sampling and/or format conversion if that is enough to stick with what you have. Additionally, Aperture and iPhoto can use the same storage, so you could get aperture and do the following;

convert the storage of any photos you want to folders and then save the library.
continue to use iPhoto for convenient tasks and iPhoto will work with the aperture store locations.
do all imports in aperture when you want the originals stored in specific folders.

You can use Lightroom, PhotoMechanic or Aperture which all allow whatever folder based storage of photos you prefer.


It's not absolutely required, but I'd say it's strongly recommended.  The type of volume corruption it reported isn't as serious as most other types, but my recommendation is the same: don't mess around, fix it now.


Trigger refresh/update smart playlists in iTunes using Applescript?

Update Smart Playlist entry only resides in contextual menu; applescript cannot access that. There are two work-arounds I can think of: 1. BTT: hover over the playlist and invoke a combo right-click -> u -> return. Or:

tell application "System Events" to tell application process "iTunes"
    set frontmost to true
    repeat 2 times
        tell menu item "Edit Smart Playlist" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 to perform action "AXPress"
        tell checkbox "Live updating" of window 1 to perform action "AXPress"
        tell button "OK" of window 1 to perform action "AXPress"
    end repeat
end tell


macbook air early 2008 (original) 13inch: 45 W magsafe charger

Technically, any Magsafe 1 charger will work. With that said, due to the unique shape of the original MacBook Air, it won't rest flat unless you use the charger that can with it. So you actually don't want any of the chargers shown on that page, you want one like this. Notice the different angle on the charger head. With that said, since Apple doesn't sell official ones any more, be very careful to make sure that you get an authentic one: knock-offs can actually destroy your computer.

To my knowledge, there's no Magsafe 2 to Magsafe 1 adapter (someone else showed a Magsafe 1 to Magsafe 2 adapter which will do nothing for you.) Even if there was, there's no good reason to get one unless you already have Magsafe 1 chargers and then buy a new MacBook with Magsafe 2.


How I retrive a lost password without changing or resetting it

Passwords on iOS are stored in a keychain, like in your MacBook. Here are sevaral possibilies, but honestly, I've never tried any.

Retrieve the keychain from the iPhone backup - when you backing up your iPhone, the keychain is backed up too. This backup is encrypted, so you will need unlock it. Instructions on how to do this can be found elsewhere on the Internet.
Both phones are already jailbroken - the easier way, if you know unix, ssh and command line, but probably this is not your case, and you would void the phone's warranty.

So, it is not an easy task to get access to your girlfriend's Facebook account. ;) /joke/


How to alias/redefine rm command in Mac terminal to do rm -v

If your shell is sh, ksh, zsh, or bash then add

 alias rm='rm -v'

to the appropriate shell start up file.

If your shell is csh or tcsh then add

alias rm rm -v

to the appropriate shell start up file.


Microsoft Onenote iPhone app is not syncing

I have run into occasional sync issues and the two things that have worked for me is either changing the password on the live.com account via the web interface or removing OneNote from the IOS device and reinstalling it.


I'll assume that all 408 are in the same folder and it have extension. Something like this:

Folder
|- File1.ext
|- File2.ext
|- File3.ext
|- File4.ext

And you want the following result:

Folder
|- File1 *"This is a folder"*
   |- File1.ext *"This is the file"*
|- File2
   |- File2.ext
|- File3
   |- File3.ext

|- File4

   |- File4.ext

If that's the case you can do it with the terminal with the following command (execute it inside the folder where the files are stored. It will fail creating the folder for the files without extension):

for FILE in *; do FOLDER=$(echo $FILE | sed 's/\.[A-Za-z0-9]*$//'); mkdir "$FOLDER"; mv "$FILE" "$FOLDER" ; done


How to correctly remove drivers of external USB wireless network adaptor?

I see from your comments to the posted answer of your other question (How to remove wireless network utility icon from the menu bar?) you have a TL-WN822N V3 and both the Utility package and the Driver package come with an Uninstall.command to run to remove what's installed.

That would be the proper way to uninstall it.


Here is an example in AppleScript that will count the number of cells in a range that has the background color of red.

Note that the target Numbers document was open and in the background of Script Editor.

When the script was run, it displayed the following dialog box.

--  # User definded variables.

set theRange to "A1:L10"

--  # The background color of the range’s cells. Expressed as a list of RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
--  #  values, from 0 to 65535. For example, the color red is: {65535, 0, 0}

set R to 65535
set G to 0
set B to 0

--  # Other variables.

set thisColor to ""
set theRGBValue to {}
set theCount to 0

tell application "Numbers"
    tell document 1
        tell sheet 1
            tell table 1
                tell range theRange
                    repeat with i from 1 to (cell count)
                        set thisColor to background color of cell i as string
                        if thisColor is not "" then
                            set theRGBValue to (background color of cell i)
                            if item 1 of theRGBValue is equal to R and item 2 of theRGBValue is equal to G and item 3 of theRGBValue is equal to B then
                                set theCount to theCount + 1
                            end if
                        end if
                    end repeat
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

display dialog "The cell count with the color {" & R & ", " & G & ", " & B & "} is: " & theCount buttons {"OK"} default button 1

Note: This was tested on an old version of Numbers (09 ver 2.3) and may need to be adjusted for newer versions.

If you do not know what the RGB value of a given cell is, to plug into the script above, then to get the RGB value of the background color of a given cell, e.g. F5, use:

tell application "Numbers"
    get background color of cell 1 of range "F5:F5" of table 1 of sheet 1 of document 1
end tell

Just an FYI, I coded the main example further above in the long form and it could be condensed down to the following for the tell application "Numbers" block:

tell application "Numbers"
    tell range theRange of table 1 of sheet 1 of document 1
        repeat with i from 1 to (cell count)
            if (background color of cell i as string) is not "" then
                set theRGBValue to (background color of cell i)
                if item 1 of theRGBValue is equal to R and item 2 of theRGBValue is equal to G and item 3 of theRGBValue is equal to B then
                    set theCount to theCount + 1
                end if
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell


How can I start a new text on my iphone message app?

I'm assuming you mean just starting a new message thread...Choose the icon in the upper right corner. It has what looks like a pencil drawing on paper. If you are referring to starting a new thread with a person with whom you already have a thread, you cannot have two active threads with the same person.


Setting locale via launch daemon - downside to this approach?

I can't see any reason why it would cause a problem, but if it did you could always remove it and things would go back to normal. Then, you could use the app specific changes listed further down in the linked answer (which is what I'd use anyway).


The iPad 2's HDMI adapter works as mirror for the iPad but only as video out for the iPhone 4. Also it's only in 720p for the iPhone.

the onscreen keyboard being displayed but my best guess is yes unless your using a bluetooth keyboard.

Hope that helps.

  EDIT : it does indeed display the keyboard. When using as a mirror it will only fill the aspect ratio of the iPad but when watching a movie it will fill the screen.


Where I can find My Lists in the recent Foursquare v8 app?

I've asked the support and I've received the following answer:

  Currently you can save to your to-do list on the Foursquare app.
  Saving to other lists should be coming soon. Your lists are available
  if you visit Foursquare and navigate to Profile > Saved Places. See
  you existing lists by tapping on "See all of your saved lists."

  To add to your list, simply go to a listing on Foursquare and hit
  “Save." To remove, simple tap "Save" again. Keep in mind lists are
  viewable to the public.

  To learn more about lists and how you can use them on Foursquare check
  out this article:
  https://support.foursquare.com/hc/en-us/articles/201104950-Lists


The source of th songs is likely that they sync from iTunes on a PC or Mac.

Apple released a 'Songs of Innocence deleter' about a week after the album was released...

  Remove iTunes gift album "Songs of Innocence" from your iTunes music library and purchases

  Learn how to remove the iTunes gift album "Songs of Innocence" from your iTunes music library and purchases.

  Follow these instructions to remove U2’s "Songs of Innocence” from your iTunes music library and iTunes purchases. Once the album has been removed from your account, it will no longer be available for you to redownload as a previous purchase. If you later decide you want the album, you will need to get it again. The album is free to everyone until October 13, 2014, and will be available for purchase after that date.

  To remove this album:

  Go to https://itunes.com/soi-remove.
  Click Remove Album to confirm you'd like to remove the album from your account.
  Sign in with the Apple ID and password you use to buy from the iTunes Store.
  You'll see a confirmation message that the album has been removed from your account.

  If you downloaded the songs to iTunes on your Mac or PC or to the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you'll need to delete them manually.


After Successful Bootcamp Installation of Windows, Mac OS X is unaccessable

I Opened up Windows in Advanced Startup Options, pressed boot from another drive, then pressed Cmd + Alt + R and was able to boot into Internet Recovery. Then I pressed continue to Mac OS and I was finally able to boot into Mac OS.


What is the difference between pmset and systemsetup sleep options?

In this case, systemsetup is a high level wrapper that is analogous to the System Preferences UI. Both call the lower level power API which are the internals about how the system actually stores these values for the hardware to use and implement. pmset is a lower level tool that reads the API/hardware values directly, so I would generally trust that over the higher level tools like Energy Saver or system setup

If you are right and there is a discrepancy, you might have to file a bug report with Apple to figure out if it's really a bug or just that the information is being mixed up before it is presented to you.

You can go directly to the source file as it's stored at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and perhaps it can break the tie between which of these three tools is telling you the correct information?

In all my computers, the numbers match up, so perhaps the systemsleep values are incorrect for your hardware or OS build?


Why does Time Machine back up way too much data and how can I slim this down?

Yes, it is the whole virtual disk which gets saved, there is no binary diff.


MacMini 2018 is slow to wake after sleep

The problem was on MM's hdmi port, i switched to usb-c > DP and no more issues. Though it takes like 5 seconds to show up the picture, but it's acceptable, it's not 60 seconds.

I have no idea if Apple gonna fix this soon. But i have no purpose to use HDMI at all.


How does CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock support two displays from one USB-C port?

The clue is in the name: Thunderbolt and USB are two different things, even though they both use the same plug and socket.

USB C offers some of the capabilities - video signal, power transmission, data; but Thunderbolt provides a greater range of data travelling down the same cable.

The Thunderbolt Dock has 2 HDMI ports, which can provide two separate video outputs. The USB hub has one HDMI port.


Two custom keyboard layouts, both ALMOST working in different ways

There is now a new version of Programmer Dvorak that works with key combinations like ⌃A.

  ◊  Option modifier is currently non-functional. Also, you cannot replace a default Roman layout with this one. Control keys should now be functional.

Option worked everywhere I tested, so non-functional could just mean that states under option don't output non-ASCII characters. If you want to disable all default input sources, you can edit the HIToolBox plist.

In previous versions you could have added a keymap where all keys output a control character like &#0000;. See Control not working in iTerm 2 when using Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout.


How do I stop OS X from treating a SuperDuper image on an external drive as part of my current installation?

Most people I know that keep bootable backups do one of two things:

Do these backups far less often and use Time Machine to keep the most up to date backup.
Script mounting and ejecting the drive as part of the copy process.

The first option works well for a monthly rotation (and just before major updates like an OS update or upgrade) since the bootable image is more about getting running rapidly than needing to have a perfect mirror of everything when your actual data is backed up elsewhere.

The second option I have seen for people that really despise Time Machine since you will get all sorts of unwanted confusion having two (or more) OS mounted at the same time with Spotlight, App Store Updates and worse mixing up which file should be opened or updated.

Assuming you have already told SuperDuper to not make a fresh copy and instead perform a smart update, you might be in the same boat as these:

Why do apps which are not installed run from an external bootable drive?
How do I make Spotlight stop indexing my Backup drive?
Stop Spotlight from indexing a drive that is regularly unplugged and reattached

The last topic about indexing may also help you if you script the mounting and unmounting as spotlight may want to reindex the drive each time depending on precisely how you have SuperDuper set up.


automatically set alarm clock on iPhone if calendar event

There is a app on iTunes that might do just what you want.

Calarm: Calendar Alarm Clock
By squishLogic

For $1 it is worth trying.

This app will automatically wake you up every day before your first calendar event and alert you about events during the day.

•

Alarms for all calendar events, including all-day and birthdays
• Ability to cancel specific alarms
• Ability to mute specific alarms
• Ability to change alert time for specific alarms
• Quick alarms - great for naps
• Send Quick alarms as a reminder to a friend
• No need to customize events
• No need to open the calendar app
• Select which calendars make alarms
• Adjustable wake up time
• Separate time interval for daytime events
• Reads calendar app, so no internet connection is needed
• Snooze any event
• 5-15 minute adjustable snooze interval
• Shows event on the lock screen with time until event and location
• Confirmation tab listing all scheduled alarms for the week
• View that shows events for a given day
• Control alarms for busy or free events
• 20 different alarm sounds
• Set up behaviors to better customize to your needs
• 12/24 hour clock
• Control event behavior from notes
• See alarm location, time, end time, and calendar
• Alarms can be defaulted to on, off, or muted
• Alarms can be set to sound until you dismiss them


sudo defaults write com.apple.MultitouchSupport ForceAutoOrientation YES did the trick for me on 10.9.5 (required a reboot). I haven't tried defaults write com.apple.trackpad.orientation TrackpadOrientationMode 1. Possibly the two methods are interacting strangely with each other?


Slow Keys at log-in screen means I can't access laptop!

If you did a clean install, that would suggest a hardware issue. It's possible you've got a corrupt install media, too. This can happen if you've created a USB flash drive installer and the USB drive you have doesn't like the block size you've specified (or the default) when using the dd command.

Don't forget to reset the PRAM, as well as the SMC. Apple's instructions:

Shut down your Mac.
Find Command (⌘), Option, P, and R on your keyboard.
Turn on your Mac.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you
hear the startup sound.
Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup
sound for a second time.
Release the keys.


What is VPN on demand, and how do I get it to work with iOS?

EDIT: This answer is outdated. Here are some newer links that may help you if you are trying to set up VPN On Demand:

https://support.apple.com/apple-configurator
https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/vpn-overview-mdm2d2adb35d/1/web/1
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/vpn
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/personal_vpn/vpn_on_demand_rules

Yes, it does involve authentication by certificate. From this article from Apple:

  iOS supports VPN On Demand for networks that use certificated-based authentication. You specify which domains require a VPN connection by using a configuration profile.

The VPN connection is made whenever the device tries to connect to certain domains. Specific apps don't need to do anything; as soon as they try to access such a server the VPN connection is initiated.

Visit this support page for information about how to use the Configuration Utility to create a configuration profile that sets up VPN On Demand.


Macbook white thingy below keyboard button is broken

They are sometimes called scissor clips. I have bought them from thebookyard.com, which is a Mac parts seller based in the UK. Apple is known to replace them for free as a walk up service at the Genius Bar and you of course can order official repair parts from a variety of sources.

Be aware that different keys on the same keyboard can have minute differences in the layout and size of these supporting clips even when the key cap size is identical.


iMovie is not uploading videos to YouTube

I don't have much experience with iMovie, but I would suggest exporting your video, then uploading it to YouTube. In the past I have used inbuilt uploading mechanics and they don't tend to be the most reliable of things.


It is likely that accidentally the lock screen keyboard shortcut, i.e. Control + Command + q is getting invoked.

It could be either you pressing the key sequence unknowingly or, one or two of the keys from the combination is stuck and pressing the third key by chance is invoking the sequence.

To resolve this issue, shut down your MacBook Pro, and repeatedly tap on each of the keys in succession and try to unstuck them. They turn on the MacBook Pro, resume your work and see if the problem goes away.


How do I disable hiding of the mouse pointer while typing text?

This is the default global behavior and can't be changed through a system preference. (I can't find any third-party utilities to change this either.)

Apple's reasoning is probably that users (but not all users) don't want the mouse pointer to obscure the text while typing. A developer might work around this by using NSCursor with setHiddenUntilMouseMoves:NO or unhide, etc., but this would be considered bad form due to creating an inconsistent user experience compared to other apps.


The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why?

Make sure you have an APN + Username & password set under Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. The bottom option "Internet Tethering" has to be filled in to enable Personal Hotspot.

Apple KB article - iOS: About cellular data network settings (viewing or editing the APN)


If I leave my webcam (bultin Macbook) always on, may I reduce its life?

I've worked with hardware for too many years.  My guess is that your camera life will not be significantly affected.  The camera is small with no moving parts, and fairly mature technology.

If you are leaving the computer unattended, and it is facing towards the sun (maybe sunrise or sunset?) you might want to take steps to make sure direct sunlight will not reach it.


iPad Safari missing bookmarks, favourites and reading list

Check your Restrictions.

If that doesn't work, back up your iPad and use iBackupBot to delete the Safari folder in app data.

after you delete Safari folder, Reset All Content And Settings(wipe)then activate and restore your iPad.

or just type safari in settings and clear history and website data,
after that, you can sync you data from iCloud.


Does a Magic Mouse let me use all the multitouch features of Lion?

NO
The Magic Mouse can open Mission Control with a double tap on the mouse's surface, but it does not provide a gesture to open Launchpad, a Lion only feature. However Launchpad can be launched with a Magic Trackpad with a four finger pinch.


Download videos to your iPad:

Make sure your device is connected to Wi-Fi or your mobile network.
Open the Google Play Movies & TV app Play Movies .
Tap Menu  Library.
Next to the movie or TV episode, you’d like to download, touch the download icon .

Note: To remove or stop a download in progress, tap the download icon again.

Source: Google Support


First of all, please check your disk for any errors. Please run Repair Disk in Disk Utility (on your Macintosh HD). If the errors are bad, probably you need to restart your Mac and then hold CMD+R until logo appears, then you should re-run Disk Utility.

You can also try some 3rd party software for recovering the files for iWork like Stellar Phoenix Macintosh.

If this doesn't work, please open Console to check the logs or do it manually from the Terminal:

$ tail -f /var/log/system.log

and run Pages/Numbers again.

This should point you to the specific error which you can look for.

If you don't have any errors and your disk is clean, then you can try to Reinstall it via App Store:

Here's how to reinstall an application from the Mac App Store:

Open the App Store application. (It's on the Dock, or in the Applications folder.)
Hold down the Option key and click Purchases.
An Install button appears next to the missing application.
Click Install.

The "missing" application won't be missing for much longer. It's now downloading to your computer! When the download is finished, you'll be able to find the application in Launchpad and the Applications folder.

Source:
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/412

Another method you can try is the suggestion from this thread:

Open App Store, go to Purchases page, re-download thee apps. You will first need to drag the iWork folder to the Trash.

If you still can't download it from App Store, you can try from re-download it from torrent (you should have a proper licence).
But if you'll download the older version and it still doesn't work (which will show some missing frameworks, file images, etc.), then you'll have to do the upgrade first via App Store.

If none of above will work, try to remove cache and setting files from your Home Folder:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWork.*
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.*
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork.*
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.iWork.*
~/Library/Application Support/iWork

You can list them by the following command:

find ~/Library -iname \*iwork\*

Advanced troubleshooting

If none of above will work, then you can try to debug wtf is going on by:

First run in Terminal dtruss command to listen for e.g. Pages execution:

sudo dtruss -fn Pages

Run e.g. Pages

Dtruss should show you some debugging stuff.
If there is too much going on, you can log it to the file by:

sudo dtruss -fn Pages 2>&1 | tee dtruss.log

To filter only file operations, you can try:

sudo dtruss -f -t lstat64 -n Pages

or the easiest way by running OSX pre-defined dtrace script:

sudo filebyproc.d | grep -i iWork

This would give you some idea what files could be wrong/missing during the start.


How do I debug Airport Extreme (5th gen) + iPhone 5 wifi performance problems?

To understand signal vs noise, and how to interpret those numbers, see very useful guide, Airport Optimal Base Station Placement.


Trying to pass images to shell command using automator

I found a following solution that works for me:

for f in "$@"; do
  sips -z 750 1334 "$f"
done


How do I prevent my iPhone from wrongly auto-correcting a specific word?

Go into the keyboard settings and add a shortcut for the corrected spelling of the word.  I had to do this with my daughter's name, as every time I spelled it, it would come out in capitals.  You can just use a part of the word and it can auto spell the word for you, or you can spell it with a different capitalization and save the corrected version the other way.

If you need to use the first part of the word it may not work.  Don't really know, but it worked for me ;-)


What does errAEWrongNumberArgs error mean running AppleScript?

With a script that long, you have two options to cure an error:

Use a debugger to step through the code and find out which of the 40 lines contains the error and inspect the value of the errors and the syntax for the command that’s being run or throws the error
Use the concept of minimum complete verifiable example - where you will remove the code logical part by logical part until you have the smallest amount of code that produces the errors. In this case, removing (or commenting out) all of the delays, all inner loops and have only a couple of lines of code to debug.

For debugger, the Apple tool is barely OK - so I would run and not walk to something like https://latenightsw.com/ Script Debugger which has a fully featured trial and then a free tier of functionality that will suit your needs perfectly.


Mac Pro 5.1 running very slow after fresh install

After quite a bit of troubleshooting, I replaced the HDD with a new one. Works like a charm.


Wi-Fi fails to connect after OS X 10.10.2 Update

Downgrade driver back to version 7.0 from current 7.1 version. Follow the instructions here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6802848


Three finger drag not working in Safari 10

Make sure to update to the latest version of BetterTouchTool. Everything >= 1.86 should be compatible with Sierra.


iOS apps are allowed to monitor for specific Bluetooth LE(Low Energy)/4.0 device services in the background.  But not regular (non-LE/4.x) Bluetooth devices.

However, iOS apps are not allowed to start a cellular phone call without specific user interaction (for obvious security reasons).


Deleted iTunes matched songs still taking up space

I realized this was a bit of user error. I did not click the remove from computer option, so the files remained in my music folder.


I need help "quitting mail" on my Apple computer

Do you know about "Force Quit"? In any app, if you hold down the keys Command-Option-Escape, a window comes up with running apps where you can choose which one to Force Quit.

Post another question here if you need help with Mail.


Yosemite One User Hangs After Login, Other Works

You have just duplicated the first part of the "why is my Mac crashing?" troubleshooting steps.

If it works fine under one user and the other user, not so much then the problem is not with the O/S it is something specific to the user.

Steps to fix this include booting into Safe Mode (hold Shift while booting) and logging into that account. Take the contents of that users Library/Preferences folder and put it in another folder on the desktop. and reboot normally. If that fixes it one of the many preference files was corrupt. If not...

Then there may be something installed in that user's account that is doing something bad. Go into System Preferences -> Users and remove the startup items for that user and reboot.

There are a lot of things that this could be. And it is a matter of finding what is unique to one user account that is crashing. It's a lot of fiddly, annoying investigations. It might be easier to just create a new user account, move only the necessary stuff to the new user profile and delete the old one.


Parental Controls allows you to limit the applications that the user can use.

This knowledge base article from Apple shows how to set up parental controls on a per user basis.

This article goes into the specifics of limiting apps that the user can use.

The basics are:

Restrict other apps a user can open

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Parental Controls.
Click the lock if it’s not unlocked, and enter an administrator name and password.
Select a user in the list of users, and then click Apps.
Select Limit Applications.
In the Allowed Apps list, select any category whose apps you want to view, and then click the disclosure triangle to list the apps in the category. To search for an app, enter its name in the search field.
Select the checkbox for each app you want to let the user open.


Are you using a Cisco VPN client?

Check out this answer on superuser.com


How to script brightness turning down and up?

Provided the necessary accessibility privileges are granted that permits UI scripting, this script programmatically adjusts the brightness of your screen by way of System Preferences:

tell application "System Preferences"
    set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"
    reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of current pane
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell ¬
    process "System Preferences" to tell ¬
    window 1 to tell ¬
    tab groups to tell ¬
    groups to tell ¬
    sliders to set its value to 0.5 -- 0.0 to 1.0

quit application "System Preferences"

You can set that value you see to any decimal value between 0.0 (minimum brightness, display off) and 1.0 (maximum brightness).


Can Chrome v.21 be used without freezing my Mac?

Remove chrome completely and reinstall. You can use appdelete or appzapper or something like that to make sure you get rid of everything associated with the app.


Preventing Spotlight from Indexing Files & Folders?

Create a file named .metadata_never_index inside a folder.
Rename folders or files so that they end with .noindex.
If you only want to hide files from the GUI, move them to a system folder like ~/Library/.
Move the files to a folder that starts with a period like ~/.fontconfig/. It doesn't remove them from mdfind queries like mdfind 'kMDItemFSName=*' -onlyin ~/.fontconfig/ though.

Related questions:

Exclude files from "central metadata store"
How to add folder to Spotlight "do not index"?
How can I hide the privacy tab from Spotlight.prefpane?


How do I delete one of my custom templates in Numbers - OS 10.10.1

Rename or delete a custom template
After you install a template, it appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.

In the template chooser, Control-click the template name, then choose Rename or Delete.

If you’re renaming, type a new name, then press Return.

You can’t rearrange templates; they always appear in the order in which they were added.


Unable to disconnect from iPhone Personal Hotspot

I solved my problem following bmike's instructions: I rebooted my computer!


To open any file from the command line with the default application, just type open followed by the filename/path.

Example:

open ~/Desktop/filename.mp4

Edit: as per Johnny Drama's comment below, if you want to be able to open files in a certain application, put -a followed by the application's name in quotes between open and the file.

Example:

open -a "QuickTime Player" ~/Desktop/filename.mp4

If you need further information about the open command, type man open.


How to install tofrodos in Yosemite via Homebrew?

The tofrodos package doesn't have a tofrodos command line tool. It provides two command line tools: fromdos and todos. You can see them in the package directory after Homebrew installs the package locally:

IanCsiMac:~ |ruby-2.1.2|
> ls /usr/local/Cellar/tofrodos/1.7.13
COPYING              INSTALL_RECEIPT.json bin                  readme.txt           share

IanCsiMac:~ |ruby-2.1.2|
> ls /usr/local/Cellar/tofrodos/1.7.13/bin
fromdos todos

IanCsiMac:~ |ruby-2.1.2|
> which fromdos
/usr/local/bin/fromdos

IanCsiMac:~ |ruby-2.1.2|
> which todos
/usr/local/bin/todos

You need to look for fromdos and todos in your PATH, not tofrodos -- there is no tofrodos command. Similarly, the man pages are for those commands, not tofrodos.


Does the mail app in iPhones still use POP for Gmail? Or is it updated to use IMAP?

If you pick the Gmail option when setting up your account, it will use IMAP. However, if you set it up as descibed here, it uses ActiveSync. Doing it this way gives you push notification as well as contact and calendar sync.


How to be able to edit files under "Application Support" without saving as a dupe

I'd start by adding saveas back to your dropdowns.

See:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/save-as-mac-3680485/

The deletion of saveas... is ridiculous.  You then should be able to save the file with a different name.

Robert


best free software to make/open rar files

The Unarchiver will open them and almost any other compression format.


Sips: resize image's smallest side, not largest side

Apparently using ImageMagick yields more favorable results when compared to sips, so using ImageMagick instead might be better. The command to do so is:
convert image.jpg -resize '2000x2000^>' image-resized.jpg

The 2000x2000^ resizes the image so that its shortest side is at least 2000 pixels. So, for example:
6000x4000 → 3000x2000
4000x6000 → 2000x3000

The > character prevents it from acting upon images that would be upscaled, and as a result:
600x400 → 600x400
8000x1500 → 8000x1500


Cannot add an Exchange account to Outlook 2016 on OS X El Capitan

I believe that Outlook 2016 will not connect to anything earlier than an Exchange 2010 server and it sounds like that is likely an Exchange 2007 (or earlier) server.

If this is the case than you are outta luck until that mail server is upgraded to Exchange 2010, 2013 or 2016. Either that or downgrade to the previous version of Office for the mac.


Yes it could easily easily be a bad connection on the ram chip or just bad connection of the RAM stick with connector on the motherboard. Try to clean RAM connectors with a gum eraser first.

To test memory under load you may also use Memtest86+ CD if your MBP is Core 2 Duo one or Apple Hardware Test from included CD if yours is "Core i" one.


iOS: How to change text size in app or otherwise read covered part?

Is there any other way to see the entire displayed number? Some kind of zoom? Hack? Anything?

If the text is selectable, you can try by long pressing to see if there's a view that reveals the entire number. Depending on the app implementation, you may also end up getting the Cut, Copy options using which you can copy the number, paste it elsewhere and read the value.

It's most likely a bug in the app which is preventing it from either honouring system wide dynamic font size or simply not handling the display correctly.

You should consider reporting it as a bug to the developer of the software, quoting your experience so far with the support team.

Possibly the QA team has either skipped or not exhaustively tested it on a 4" screen sized iPhone, as most current users generally use larger screen sized iPhones.

If it's feasible for you (i.e. if you have a spare iPhone handy), consider running (and logging in if required) the app on an iPhone with larger screen. You'll likely be able to read the value.

If you do not have a second iPhone, but happen to have an iPad, it could work too. You can run the app on any iPad in iPhone compatibility mode (simply install the app normally). iPhone compatibility mode runs the app on an iPad simulating 4.7" iPhone screen size (iPhone 6/6s/7/8).


cupsfilter: Unable to determine MIME type of ““??”.**

Quotes: “ versus "

You are using 'typographers' quotes instead of 'regular' quotes.
Try this line:

for file in *.html; do /usr/sbin/cupsfilter "$file" > "$file".pdf; done

note the difference in quotation


Fix "Permission Denied" when copying files

You can't use filesystem commands (cp, mv, ls, etc.) on devices (/dev/*).

If you want to copy everything, bit-for-bit, from volume to volume, you'll need an app like Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner.


I think this is a bug in Mac OS X and has something to do with the way the keyboard shortcuts for Spaces are processed. Try this:

Make sure Spaces is turned on in the System Preferences with the standard 4 spaces layout, and standard key combination for switching to a space.
Open a folder in the Finder.
Press and hold CTRL, and press any of the number keys. If you press 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0 first you will get a beep. Same if you press one of those keys again (still holding CTRL). If you then press 1, 2, 3 or 4, you will switch to that space number; or just stay in that space if you were already in it. If you then press any of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0 again, it won't beep anymore.

If you simply turn off Spaces, the above won't happen and whatever order you press the keys in, they will continue to beep. If you change the number of spaces to only two, then 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 will give you a beep until you've pressed either 1 or 2. I don't know of an application in which those keys have a non-Spaces functionality and would do something useful other than beep, so I haven't been able to try what happens in such an application. In any case, I don't think you need to worry there's something wrong with your keyboard or the way you've configured the keyboard bindings; it seems to be a bug in Mac OS X.

Edit: Try the above in a new folder in which you've created folders named "1", "2" and so on. I find the Finder's behavior in this case somewhat strange: if you press CTRL-8, it will beep yet also switch the selection to the folder named "8". But again, pressing 5 through 9 will neither beep, nor change the selected folder once you've pressed any of 1 through 4.


Programmer new to Apple - How to efficiently switch between files in XCode?

Xcode does support tabs. You can add a new one by pressing Command ⌘+T, or go to View > Show Tab Bar to keep the bar open always so you can press the + button there. With multiple tabs, you can use Command ⌘+{ and Command ⌘+} to cycle through them.

As mentioned by bassplayer7 in the comments, you can also use multiple windows and cycle through them with Command ⌘+`(backtick) or Command ⌘+~(tilde).

Additionally, you can have multiple documents open in one window using Assistant editors. Either use Navigate > Open in Assistant Editor, or click the icon which looks like a shirt and bow tie in your toolbar to bring the editor up. Then, you can use the little + in the upper-right corner of the editor to add more.

The Navigate menu has several other useful options too, such as going through an editor's history, various counterparts to a file (headers, implementations, interfaces, ...), and switching focus between various portions of the window.

As for the navigator, use groups to combine related files for easier access. Use File > New > Group or File > New > Group From Selection to add a group and rearrange things however you want. You can completely remove the original groups created in the original project if you want, since they are just for navigation and have no affect on the actual project.


Is the iPad 2 any better at handling large PDFs than the original iPad was?

The iPad 2 is most likely to be faster than the original iPad as it has the newer A5 processor, which is dual-core and faster than it's predecessor, the A4. The iPad 2 also has 512MB RAM, which is 2 times more than the original iPad. This means that the rendering of the images will be faster, and more parts of the PDF can be stored in memory for a longer period of time, ensuring a smooth read.

This article also shows the difference between the speed of the PDF rendering and other factors in a 3rd-party app, but clearly shows that the iPad 2 is definitely faster.


Add Home Folder Hard Drive to Favorites and Desktop

I've solved it myself. I just tried to drag Storage into Favorites now and it works for some reason!

I'm thinking that it's because I (a few days ago) wrote found a command that was meant to remove nobrowse. (I don't recall exactly where I found it or exactly what it was, so I can't paste it here. Sorry).

After running the command, Storage suddenly appeared on my Desktop, even though (as it can also be see in the question) OS X didn't mention anything about the drive having the flag nobrowse. Either way, after Storage appeared on the Desktop, I still couldn't make it show up under Favorites. Until now. I hadn't tried to reboot earlier, so that might be why it suddenly works.

Thanks to everyone trying to help in the comments above.


How to disable Energy Saver mode when switching to battery to stop background windows hiding?

The problem appears to be Parallels Toolbox. To turn it off, you have to go into the settings for Parallels Toolbox, which is in the upper-right of the main window for it, then uncheck Energy Saver. There are about 2 other areas with energy saver options, but they just turn it on/leave it on.

Hitting Cancel on one of the other screens tricked me into thinking it was off, so ensure to follow instructions above.


Error Message Says FileZilla Will Damage My Computer

I recommend binning the app in this case. Get a new copy or different tool.
The FileZilla downloads and updates now contain PUP - potentially unwanted program (or PUS if software makes more sense than program). The line between malware, adware and privacy stealing information is blurred and when a package has these modifications you will sometimes be prompted with a warning. Even when the owner of a tool decides to monetize their tool, Apple is generally flagging that change with a signing error so people know a common tool isn’t what it was in the past.
This warning can be as simple as the application is modified and what was signed isn’t what is running anymore.
Many people have repackaged this app, so be sure you do the work to get a clean copy or perhaps delete it and redownload. I love Mountain Duck and cyberduck for this if you find the zilla hassle too great to get it reinstalled.

https://medium.com/web-design-web-developer-magazine/how-to-safely-download-and-cleanly-install-filezilla-ftp-software-with-no-additional-junk-10b27a2d270d
https://cyberduck.io/
https://mountainduck.io/


Most, but not all, Mac virus protection is there to stop Windows viruses being spread further.

That doesn't mean Macs are immune - there are viruses/trojans/malware targeted specifically at Mac users.

Shlayer is a recent example, but not the ony one - check the table on the linked page.

There are also fly-by attacks & social engineering/phishing attacks that you always need to be aware of. Shlayer's attack vector is usually a simple "Your Flash Player is out of date! Click to update." Click to download, click to install & you just invited it in.

After comments…
There is no single authority on which antivirus is best, but there are sites which test [for a fee] various competitors in this field. If you just Google it yourself, you will get a thousand hits pretending to be advice, but actually just sock-puppets selling their own 'solution' with no authority but their own.

The only authority I know to be 'trusted' is AV-TEST who keep tables of current antivirus products by OS, for business & home users. The most current Mac page is always at https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-macos/.


Trying to copy archive from one network share to another while ignoring the tilde character

The filename 28910B~1.SIT looks like an MS-DOS abbreviated file name that has more than the 8.3 characters (long file names).

It's important to note that from Windows 2000, both the long name and the shortened 8.3 name were retained (the file had both names)

  ...when an application saves a file on a computer running Windows
  2000, both the 8.3 file name and long file name are retained.

For example, 28910 BP Umba Show.SIT is automatically abbreviated to 28910B~1.SIT and duplicates are incremented (28910B~2.SIT, 28910B~3.SIT, 28910B~4.SIT, etc.)  You can read more about this naming convention on Microsoft Tech Network

There's a good chance it's a dupe of one of your files, but the only way to know for certain is to open both and verify.

From the comment:

  Either way, I need some magic that will copy the archive and ignore
  the tilde.

It can't ignore the tilde - it's there and it must be dealt with;  as far as macOS is concerned, the two files have identical names (because they do).

To copy both files but not overwrite the one already in the destination folder, you can to a quick test in your command to see if the file already exists in a for/do loop:

for file in /source/directory; do $time=date +%s; if [[ -f /target/directory/$file ]]; then cp $file ${file}-${time}; else cp $file /target/directory/$file; fi; done

This command will parse through your source directory, check if the file exists in the target directory, if it does it will copy the file over appending the current time in seconds (to ensure no multiple dupes); if no dupe exists, it just copies the file over.


How can I limit iTerm2 text selection to a single tmux pane?

I had the same question and it was hard to google answer.
Choosing Edit > Selection Respects Soft Boundaries works fine.


What is the focal length of the iPhone 7's camera when accounting for video cropping?

On the iPhone 6, I have found the video crop with stabilization activated to be 1.1x tighter than a still photo with stabilizer deactivated. The field of view goes from 63.9° to 58.1°, diagonally. The effective focal length changes from 4.2mm (29.3mm on full frame DSLR) to 4.6mm (32.3mm on full frame DSLR).

If you overlay a still image from the video footage and align it to a photo from the same position, you can see this crop in action.


Is there anyway you can track the call history to someone who keeps on cancelling your calls?

Yes:

Open the Phone app and tap Recents.
Tap the "i" icon next to the desired number.
A list of calls will appear with information about them.

If the call was outbound and displays no duration, it would be reasonable to assume that they didn't answer.


Modifier Keys not working for swapping Option/Command on external USB Keyboard

Karabiner Elements to the rescue:

This actually works!


How do I run a terminal command for different values

medbot is right that you should really do this as a shell script but since it's hard to do dialog boxes like in Applescript here's the answer:

display dialog "how many leafs?" default answer ""

set i to the text returned of result as integer
repeat while i > 0
    tell application "Terminal"
        do script "cd /Users/xxx/zTree; wine explorer /desktop=" & i & ",640x480 zleaf.exe /language english /name lab" & i
    end tell
set i to i - 1
end repeat


How to interpret the USB info in my MacBook Pro's System Report?

Knowing what make and model of Mac you have would be very helpful in deciding what you have exactly as the specifications page on that model at apple.com would have the info you seek.

But a little interpretation of your screenshot will show that you have two USB busses. One has your FaceTime camera (the camera built into iMacs and MacBooks) and one with the keyboard and IR receiver (that is built into MacBooks).

Note that there is nothing under the USB 3.0 bus, which likely means there is nothing plugged into either of your USB ports (amiright?). So plug a USB 3 device into one of these ports and bring this report up again. Then try it in the other port. If they show up under the USB 3 bus then both ports are USB 3.

Or you could just google your Mac's make and model and follow the link to Apple's support site with the specifications of your Mac.


How to edit iOS system file on my iPad over SSH?

You can install nano or vi from Saurik's repo.


How do I add a new route to the PATH variable?

well first off you only really need it in  ~/.bash_profile if you have one.

Second opening a new terminal session without quitting terminal app will not source the  ~/.bash_profile file.

You can just type "source  ~/.bash_profile" in the terminal and it should pick up your new settings.

Or quit terminal.app and restart it.


Time Machine: error occurred while enabling ownership on the backup disk

I removed the backup from Time Machine and added it back. It continued the backup successfully after that. Looks like yet another brittleness in Time Machine.


I'm from the Flipd team and just wanted to chime in here. The MDM used to activate the Full Lock in order to hide your apps is completely safe. Not only does Apple thoroughly vet apps like ours that use MDM, the call we make via MDM is only to hide your third-party apps and then to push them back onto your device over the internet at a scheduled time. This feature is similar to Apple's Restrictions mode, but on a schedule.

The only error you might run into is if you have a weak or no internet connection; at which point your apps may not appear as scheduled. This is easily resolved by uninstalling the MDM and your apps will return immediately.

I hope this helps!


iWeb Alternatives

DreamWeaver -> http://www.adobe.com/in/products/dreamweaver.html
Flux 4 -> http://www.theescapers.com/
Web Acapella -> http://www.webacappella.com/
Sand Vox -> http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/from-iweb-to-sandvox.html


Disk Utility won't erase my USB flash drive ("Couldn't open device")

Open Terminal, and type

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8000.1 GB disk4
1: 0xEF 12.3 MB disk4s2

It cannot display the USB.  To erase the USB completely, run:

$ diskutil eraseDisk free EMPTY /dev/disk4
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.1 GB disk4
1: EFI EFI 12.3 MB disk4s1


From Apple KB Article HT5369:

  If the detect displays option is not available, hold down the ⌥ alt/option key while you are in the Display pane.

It should morph the "Gather Windows" button into the "Detect Displays" button.

Stupid change, isn't it?


Source:
4K content can only be streamed and not downloaded.
Per Apple:

When you buy or rent a movie from the iTunes Store, it automatically plays in the highest-quality format available for the device on which you're watching it.  You can download a local copy of an HD movie to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC, and you might be able to download HDR and Dolby Vision versions to your iOS devices, but you can't download a 4K version.
To see if a movie can play in 4K on a compatible device, look for 4K icon on the product page. By default, all videos that you can buy or rent in the iTunes Store are available to play back in HD3.
Movies in the iTunes Store might also be available in HDR10 HDR icon or Dolby Vision Dolby Vision icon. Content automatically plays in the HDR format that is compatible with your device.

Could it be possible that the movie is available in 4K but the device you were using to browse iTunes wasn't able to display 4K?  If that was the case, I don't think iTunes would show you the 4K version.


Settings → Safari → disable Show Favorites Bar.


What happens to an iOS app when a provisioning profile expires?

The Stack Overflow question "What happens when provision profile expires?" might be related this one.

The app will fail to launch due to the expired profile. The profile expires on its own, so I'd expect that the app does not "call home".

The same should be true when restoring from a backup.


Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set?

Disk Utility will only support RAID 1 and 0 using software raid.

If you have the RAID Card for the Mac Pro, you can configure RAID 5.  I've never actually used or configured one of these in the wild so I can't give you exact specifics on using it.


How to stop macbook from playing youtube videos at login screen?

Option A: Simply hit the speaker icon (Mute key) on login.

Using the Apple Keyboard

Using a MacBoook with Touch Bar

Option B: Global setting to turn off websites that automatically play media.

Open Safari > Preferences > Websites > When visiting other websites > Stop Media with Sound


How do I use zsh to pipe results from one command to another (while in a loop)?

Do not parse/interpret the output of ls,  too many things can go wrong. A simple way to accomplish your goal would be
for f in *.vital; do
    echo -n "$f: "
    jq '.author' "$f"
done

which might still fail if there are directories matching the pattern for instance. You can overcome this by using
for f in *.vital; do
    [[ -f "$f" ]] || continue
    echo -n "$f: "
    jq '.author' "$f"
done

You can also go the full way and run
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.vital' \
     -exec sh -c 'echo -n "$1"; jq ".author" "$1"' _ {} \;

(see http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind#Complex_actions for how this works)


Is there a way to re-enable "old-style" quit in Chrome?

This is a problem with Chrome, not MacOS. It's being done by the Chrome software. In the top menu, under Chrome, there's an option "Warn Before Quitting." Unchecking that turns the feature off.


10.8 Notification Center occasionally freezes system

From Apple Support Communities Thread:

  Restart your computer and hold down cmd + R to boot into recovery mode.
  From the menu bar, select Utilities -> Terminal
  Type in "resetpassword" without the quotes.
  In the window that pops up, there will be a button in the lower right corner labeled "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs".  Click on that.  It will take a moment to complete.
  When it finishes, simply restart the computer from the Apple menu at the top right.  Your computer will restart normally.


Based on the comments at MacUpdate for Lingo, the product appears to have been removed the Mac App Store and is no longer being maintained.

The domain associated with Lingo IRC, http://lingoirc.com, is now a holding page.


Set EFI to boot Windows via (U)EFI one time

I finally can boot to Bootcamp EFI partition with the help of this answer.

In order to boot to Bootcamp EFI partition, you have to bless the EFI partition of the disk that you install Bootcamp, too. So it goes something like this: bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -setBoot -nextonly.


Using Apple's Screen Sharing, can I redirect gestures and keys for controlling Spaces to the shared machine?

Not truly a fix, but a possible workaround.

This picture has the remote key assignments to the left, & mine to the right.

By avoiding the same keys for Mission Control itself, I can get to the remote machine's 'screen list' by using  Ctrl ⌃   ↑  at least & click on the one I require.

It's not neat, but it does function.


Why do iPhone App Store ratings and reviews seem to get processed so slowly?

Ratings appear very quickly, and do not appear to require approval (can't imagine that they would). The reality is that almost no one rates the apps they download, and since "rate on delete" was eliminated with iOS 4, even fewer ratings will appear. (The removal of "rate on delete," where the OS asked you to immediately rate an app when you deleted it, is generally a good thing, since someone deleting it is much more likely to dislike an app than someone keeping it, which resulted in significantly skewed ratings).

Reviews sometimes appear very quickly -- within minutes of submission -- and sometimes take up to a day to appear. Last year there were some significant abuses of the review system that became public, including mass reviews submitted by marketing companies (through individual accounts set up for that purpose), so it's likely that Apple changed their policies at that point. From what I can tell, if an account has a long history of ratings across multiple developers, reviews can appear very quickly, but there seems to be a delay for new accounts or those with few reviews, which may well be approved by humans.

However, as Phillip wrote, the actual process is entirely unknown, and Apple intentionally keeps it that way.

Personally, its never taken more than a few hours before my reviews appeared, and it's usually within minutes.

Edited to add

Just wrote another review and noticed that below the entry area it says,

  If a review is deemed inappropriate, it will not be posted to the App Store.

which implies potential review, and after the review is entered it says,

  Your review has been successfully submitted. Please note that it may be reviewed and will not appear in the store immediately.

The "it may be reviewed" at least partially supports my "depends on your account" theory.