Create an automator service calling a bash script and passing arguments

First, change the Shell pop-up from /usr/bin/perl to /bin/bash. That's what's causing the error -- it's trying to run the script with perl, and it's not in valid perl syntax.

Second, the script itself needs some work. $@ expands to all arguments (in this case, the paths of all selected files), but your script expects just one item. If you don't want it to fail if multiple items are selected, you should either just have it operate on the first, or make it loop over all of the items. looping is usually what you want, and in fact when you add that action to your Automator service it should auto-fill a template for looping over the items. Next, you need to put double-quotes around all references to file paths (and variable references in general) or it'll be hopelessly confused by file/folder names with spaces. Next, the path(s) it's going to receive will include the full filename, including ".md", so adding another ".md" will make it fail. To get the output filename, you may want to remove the ".md" before adding ",tex".

Here's my quick stab at a script:

for f in "$@"
do
    if [[ "$f" = *.md ]]; then
        /path/to/pandoc -s --template=generic.latex "$f" "${f%.md}.tex"
    fi
done

You'll need to fill in the full path to the pandoc executable, in place of "/path/to/pandoc" in the script. You can probably fund this by running the command which pandoc in your regular shell.

I made it skip anything other than ".md" files; you might want to change that part. If so, you might need to generalize the "${f%.md}.tex" part -- that removes a ".md" extension before adding ".tex", but if the input file has some different extension it'll just tack on ".tex" in addition to whatever's there. Warning: don't use "${f%.*}.tex" because in some cases that'll remove part of the directory name the file's in!

Oh, and for actual use as a Finder service, you need to remove the "Get Selected Finder Items" action -- that's good for testing in Automator, but you need to remove it or it'll add whatever's selected in the Finder to what it's supposed to run on (probably meaning it runs twice on everything).


Google maps is not working on my IPhone 5S the last 2 days when on LTE

I have not met with this problem before, but i suggest that you can uninstall Google maps and download it again


External Monitors Flicker when plugged into my Mac

More than likely, you need an active USB-C to HDMI adapter

The 2018 MacBook Pro has four (4) Thunderbolt 3 ports that utilize a USB Type C connector (this is where the confusion comes in).  Since it's Thunderbolt 3, it's actually  several signals in one port:

PCIe
DisplayPort
USB 3.1 Gen 2
Power Delivery

So, when you get one of those "USB-C to HDMI cables" you're actually getting a passive DisplayPort adapter and not an active adapter.  Basically, it comes down to the fact that DisplayPort and HDMI are very different signals - most notably, the clock sync signal isn't present.  So, to get a good reliable signal, you can do the following:

USB-C (DisplayPort) to DisplayPort - This is the best option because there's no conversion
USB-C (DisplayPort) Active HDMI Adapter.  If you must convert the signal, use an active adapter that actually re-creates the HDMI signaling.


Why is my phone not making space after I delete multiple long videos?

iOS is keeping you safe by saving all deleted videos and photos in a special album called Recently Deleted. The media files in there gets deleted after 30 days.

In order to free up the "imaginary space" that you think you got after deleting, empty out this album and you should see an increase of free space.


Setting up / Troubleshooting Continuity-Camera

No, you want bluetooth and WiFi for best discovery and cross device functionality and response from continuity and handoff features. Ideally there is no interference as well once your radios are working again. External Bluetooth works great for continuity when I have a machine that’s difficult or costly to repair.
Just be sure you buy a device that you can get good support if they don’t use Apple drivers effectively or return the product if it fails to work.

Continuity and Handoff Bluetooth Setup


Calls and messages won't come through when screen is locked iPhone SE

Since you didn't mention whether you checked it or not: Go to Settings → Notifications → Phone.

Enable Lock Screen, Enable banners, Notification Centre, badges, Show previews when unlocked (or acc to your preference) etc.


Issue with Macbook Pro HDMI to Denon AV receiver?

Is that the MBP with only USB-C ports? How do you connect your MBP to Denon? via some kind of USB-C to HDMI converter?

I've personally tried many different kinds of converters and have been disappointed by them. Pretty sure that's the root of your problem though. Be sure that the adapter you use does NOT support DHCP 2.2


From GitHubs description:

Many people file bugs here about their Dell TB16 dock.
The USB, Thunderbolt 3, and audio out ports should regain
functionality after installing Thunderbolt 3 Unblocker.
However, video output does not work. Unfortunately, this is out of
scope for this project.

It clearly states that video output (e.g. HDMI) is not supported by this project.
They further clarify:

For whatever reason, an update to macOS High Sierra broke support for the displays attached to the TB16.

and also mention to upgrade the firmware of the dock:

You could try performing a firmware upgrade on the TB16, which has been reported to restore video (HDMI output). However, the firmware upgrade must be performed from Windows.

There is also a Thread about this issue on Apples own forums, suggesting to try this GitHub project, yet it is older and untested on newer hardware/software (i.e. make backups of your system and know how to revert these changes!).
You could try to reset SMC, NVRAM/PRAM and boot into safe mode.
You could try a clean install, but it looks like this specific Dell dock is finicky with Apple hardware.


Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable vs HDMI to HDMI

Using your Thunderbolt/MDP connector just to convert HDMI will work, but will consume your Thunderbolt port. As DisplayPort is not compatible with HDMI, the cable will actually contain electronics to convert the DP signal to HDMI. While this does not downgrade the quality, it is another thing that can break, consumes power and costs more than a HDMI cable.

You should use the HDMI port to connect your display.


macOS Sierra Administrator Account Missing

This happens all the time. Upgrades don't intentionally delete any user data, but when you have corruption, upgrade time is when major changes cause you to rewrite data on disk and loss is checked or noticed.

You can restore from a backup or make a backup of what is now on the disk and then try an erase install. If you are missing something as large as a user account, who knows what else is missing and unstable. Best to wipe and start cleanly after making a backup.

Also, I wouldn't try to fix anything - trying to make a new admin account could lose you even more data. Shut down that Mac and see about your options for making a backup to another computer or at least get a quote from someone that has the skills to help you back up your Mac.

The first skill to master if you want to try this is booting to target disk mode:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462

In your case, target disk works when your OS isn't able to give you admin rights. You can skip that if you have a good backup and just erase install your Mac.


Why won't my late 2014 Mac mini output 4k video?

Just out of interest what is your screen refresh rate?
needs to be low 30hz

Your problem could be related to the Iris graphics chip, just read a few
posts mentioning it could be the Iris causing the problems.

What version of Yosemite are you running?


Internet Accounts spontaneously forgets passwords and I can't reauthorize them

I came here looking for answers to exactly the same issue. In my case, both LinkedIn and Facebook started prompting me for passwords on my MacBook, but (oddly enough) not on my iMac.

I've since removed the login keychain items for both, and was able to re-authenticate to Facebook once (which created three login keychain items), only to be prompted again.

No such luck with LinkedIn, though. I get an error message with an un-clickable URL (with a long UUID).

I suspect that either Apple has some sort of subtle date bug or that both services broke their APIs somehow (GDPR might explain the near simultaneity).


Macbook Pro won't start after restart (red charger icon)

It is unlikely that the installation of Flash did anything to your power system, it is likely just a coincidence.

How long have you left the charger plugged in to the Mac? I would give it an hour, minimum, overnight is best.

Failing that try resetting the SMC:

...Press Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the built-in keyboard, then press the power button at the same time. Hold these keys and the power button for 10 seconds.

That is from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295 Their article on resetting the SMC.

If that doesn't work it is possible your battery is dead, time to take it into an Apple store or other Mac repair shop.


Get scancodes of Italian layout keyboard

The nicest tool for examining keyboard events including the scan codes is Karabiner-EventViewer which is part of Karabiner-Elements.

It will show you the scan codes as they occur.


Basically, you need to reset the iCloud settings. There are different ways to do so.

Try to close the iCloud control panel and then quit all Apple and iCloud processes by using the task manager. If you reopen the iCloud control panel, chances are good your photos will start syncing.
Otherwise try to uncheck en re-check the PhotoStream option in your control panel (don't forget to hit the 'Apply' button).
A last solutions is to uninstall and re-install the iCloud control panel, which will reset the iCloud settings as well.


Where are the Mac OS X alert sound files located?

Any files located in the following locations will available to choose as alert sounds:

/System/Library/Sounds/
/Library/Sounds/
/Users/< username >/Library/Sounds/

(Note: By default the latter 2 folders may not exist, but if created and populated with files, you'll be able to choose them in the Sounds preference pane).


iCloud Mail has stopped working on all devices including web interface

There were iCloud Mail issues today and you were probably in the group that was affected.

When issues with any Apple service occur, the first place you should check is Apple's System Status page.

From the screenshot below, you can see they've resolved two issues affecting users with Mail.

You can try again and see if your problem is resolved.


How can I get "Automatically fill free space with songs" to reserve more space than a half gig

Unfortunately no, the automatic filling takes place during sync, and only gets changed in size if you add/remove things that will also take place during sync.

If you want to limit it while also preserving some of that randomness, try creating a Smart Playlist that will select songs at random, and then tweak the "Limit to" feature until you have enough space free. It limits to number of tracks not size, so it won't be exact, but it will allow you to (roughly) tailor your size.

Edit: Actually I made a mistake, it is possible to limit to a GB amount

Create a Smart Playlist
Under "Match the following rule:", select something broad like "Media Kind", "is", "Music"
Tick the checkbox next to "Limit to"
Select "items" and change it to "GB" and enter your desired GB amount


Where can I find the old version of the Mint app for iOS 4?

Unfortunately, This is not possible due to current App Store limitations unless someone else with a jail broken iPhone that you trust has a copy of it that you can grab. One problem with dealing with the Apple App Store is that older versions are forever lost due to Apple's App Store polices. We should be giving concerned feedback to Apple to address this issue too, not just the app developers. So it looks like your best option if you need to have the Mint app, is to read up on the latest jailbreak, and insure your jailbreak path, then update your iPhone to the latest iOS, and then re-jailbreak it. The good news is that there is a untethered jailbreak for both iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1 for the iPhone 4 as referenced in my comment above.


Disable ⌘+SHIFT+F keyboard shortcut for fullscren

BetterTouchTool. Create a custom shortcut with CMD+SHIFT+F under Golbal, and leave the Assigned Action to blank. BTT will override the built-in action.


Mac Mail "Not Responding" with Gmail IMAP account

Do you have a Google "App password" set up?  If not, you need one.  This thread has a lot of information about how to do that: How to setup Gmail SMTP server for OSX Mail with 2-step-verification and App-specific password?

If that is not the problem, it may be that the Yosemite upgrade broke it.  I posted a detailed list on the apple forum of steps I took to fix a similar problem.  Although I am not using two-step verification, some of these steps might help you, because there seems to be some significant issues with Yosemite upgrades "breaking" Mac Mail.  I didn't use detailed instructions regarding navigating to all the settings; if you need assistance with that, reply here, and I'll elaborate: https://discussions.apple.com/message/28551720?tstart=0#28551720


mac pc setup using two external monitors

So it turns out that the only solution is to use mirroring display. The signal is still sent but GPU is not overworking. MacBook doesn't heat up as with regular using two displays.


Enabling Wireless Before Logon for Active Directory

note: this will get the laptop online before login, so all users are online using the same credentials--there could be a way to enable wifi so that users can get online themselves before logging in (Apple bring that back!!)

since newer MacOS dropped the plus in 802.11x pill (and we want it as a computer profile, not user profile), I used "Apple Configurator 2" app, File menu > New Profile, then configured my Certificates (I first went into my Keychain Access app, searched for "pitt.edu", my school domain, then click and dragged that cert out to my desktop to make a copy easy to find), opened aformentioned .cer, then configured Wi-Fi, noting that I had to click the Trust pill and check the box for the aformentioned cert, closed and saved (note: you may not need a cert, so you might skip that stuff)

then I right-click and open with TextEdit that new xml file, and inside the first <dict></dict> section, added (like right after where ssid mentioned):

   <key>SetupModes</key>
   <array>
      <string>Loginwindow</string>
      <string>System</string>
   </array>

then in terminal, run (be sure to be root or sudo, otherwise, it will just be a user profile add):

   sudo profiles install -type startup -path thefileyoujustcreated.mobileconfig -forced
   sudo shutdown -r now


Apple has a support document describing the license:

The GarageBand software license agreement says:
"GarageBand Software. You may use the Apple and third party audio loop content (Audio Content), contained in or otherwise included with the Apple Software, on a royalty-free basis, to create your own original music compositions or audio projects. You may broadcast and/or distribute your own music compositions or audio projects that were created using the Audio Content, however, individual audio loops may not be commercially or otherwise distributed on a standalone basis, nor may they be repackaged in whole or in part as audio samples, sound effects or music beds."
So don't worry, you can make commercial music with GarageBand, you just can't distribute the loops as loops.


iTunes audio cuts out at random times when listening to music

I was having this problem with some VBR MP3s I ripped a decade ago with LAME 3.92.  The problem went away when I converted them to fixed rate MP3s in iTunes (File > Convert)

iTunes 12.4.1.6, Mac OS X 10.11.5


That other answer isn't good because you should not shut down your computer, and it is very unlikely that malware has anything to do with not being able to shut down an application. Do this

Type sudo killall Google\ Chrome on the Terminal.
If this does not work, do this:

pgrep -x "Google Chrome"

You will see a number, then type kill -9 numberhere where numberhere  is the number that the pgrep command returned.

And to instatly delete the app, no matter if it is open or not, do:

sudo rm -rf /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app

Then type your password.

The reason you get a permission denied error is because you need root access do to this, just use sudo on the terminal for this.


Cannot set VLC as default through Get Info

Choose a file in your Finder, left click on :

Choose VLC app and check the 'always open with' box


You're probably fine, but it depends and since it's taking up no space, no good reason to delete it yet. It's simply a database file put there by something (again, probably not OS X.) You should attempt to narrow down what application is using the file (see this post) and then either keep it or delete it as appropriate.


Installed application does not show in Applications folder

With any running application that shows in the Dock, you can press the command key and click the application's Dock Tile to have a Finder window open at its installed location, highlighting the app.

If you have Finder's Path Bar showing, (at the bottom of the Finder window), then you can see its path in relation to the volume it's installed on, which it typically the Macintosh HD in the /Applications folder.

Without Finder's Path Bar showing you can right-click (control click) on the folder name at the top center of the Finder window to show its path.


Keyboard shortcut to unhide or unminimize a window in OS X

A very quick keyboard method to un-minimize a specific window or un-minimize all of an app's minimized windows is this:

Command ⌘+Tab ⇥ to the app with minimized windows, but don't release the Command ⌘ key.

While still holding Command ⌘ down, tap Down ↓ or 1 (easy 1-handed access) to enter App Exposé. Once in App Exposé, all keys can be released.

To un-minimize all windows, select any window with arrow keys, then press Option ⌥+Return ↩.

To un-minimize a specific window, navigate to the window you want with the arrow keys, then press Return ↩.


In Terminal, select View -> Hide Tab Bar or type ⇧⌘T. That setting is sticky and is used for every new window you launch.


How to determine public temp directory on OS X to be write-accessible by www server?

I would write to /tmp (which is equivalent to writing to /private/tmp ) since it's writable by all users and not just administrative users. It's there for compatibility and for bonus points, your script can clean up files or cut them if they grow too large.

I don't have an authoritative reference to why /private was called that, but it's always been open to writing and isn't restricted like $TMPDIR is from non-admin users.

The real question is what user are you running apache - a member of the ADMIN group or just a normal non-admin user?

Apple documents this in the Secure Coding Guide with the admonition that writing files to publicly readable locations is inherently insecure and that it's better to place files in more protected locations that aren't readable by all users. See the Race Conditions and Secure File Operations section and this link on creating secure temporary files. By using the mkstemp POSIX call you ensure a unique file is created and can control access with umask.

Oddly (to me), mktemp when run by a non-admin user can still make a temp file in $TMPDIR so it's clearly using escalated privileges to hand off that more "secure" file to non-admin users. Pretty cool.


Shouldn't iPad2 have the "frosted blur" effect with iOS7?

According to AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com/show/7343/the-ios-7-review), the blur effect requires at least iPhone 4S or iPad 4.

  On the iPhone side, the iPhone 4 lacks the cool blur effect in a number of places (notification center and control center are the most obvious), and iPad 3 does as well.


iMessage often fails to send SMS on non-iOS device

This could be down to people previously using an iPhone and having their number registered with iMessage, and then moving to a non-iOS device. In this case, your phone is still trying to send the message over the iMessage platform even though the recipient can't receive it. They can check and de-register here.


Is there an iPhone application that can play music from arbitrary shoutcast server?

TuneIn Radio will let you add custom URLs (including ShoutCast server URLs) to your bookmarks list and stream from them. It will also keep your playlists in sync across multiple devices, record streams for, find local streams using your current location and more. You but it the app store. And when you're at your Mac, you can use their browser-based desktop app to keep listening and access your bookmarks.

To add a ShoutCast server as a custom URL use:

ipaddress:port/stream/x/

Where:

ipaddress is the IP or host name of the machine hosting the ShoutCast server
port is the port where ShoutCast is broadcasting on the server
stream is the name of the stream from ShoutCast
x is the number of the stream

Once you add the custom stream to your bookmarks it should be available from any TuneIn Radio application or their web app.


Apple maps view route duration without traffic

There's no way to schedule a drive or to view routes without traffic at the moment in Apple Maps.
The Traffic button just displays the traffic on the map, it doesn't affect the routes.

The only thing you can do is use another app (like GMaps or Waze) and send feedback to Apple (Report an issue > Other Issue).


What option should I give the sudo command to have the password asked through a graphical interface?

OS X doesn't have an entirely clean way to do this, but there are a few ways to fake it.  First, AppleScript has a good way to do sudo-ish things based on a graphical authentication, and you can use that:

osascript -e "do shell script \"stufftorunasroot\" with administrator privileges"

You can also use that mechanism to set the sudo timestamp, and then use the regular sudo (within the 5-minute timeout window) to do things:

osascript -e "do shell script \"mkdir -p /var/db/sudo/$USER; touch /var/db/sudo/$USER\" with administrator privileges" && \
    sudo stufftorunasroot

Finally, you can use AppleScript to prompt for a password, then pass that to sudo:

pw="$(osascript -e 'Tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Password:" default answer "" with hidden answer' -e 'text returned of result' 2>/dev/null)" && /
    echo "$pw" | sudo -S stufftorunasroot


Accessing macOS Recovery Mode without Internet access?

The Recovery Partition on the system disk corresponds to the version of the macOS installed and should be loaded when holding CmdR at boot (not CmdS). However, if there is no recovery partition on the disk it will automatically revert to Internet Recovery which means downloading the boot image from Apple servers. Mac will also do that if there is a version mismatch from Recovery and macOS version installed. Remember that you should be able to use option key at boot which invokes Startup Manager which lets you select the available boot volumes, including the Recovery partition (without downloading from the Internet).

Nonetheless, according to HT204904 there are actually several key combinations for Recovery:

CommandR - Install the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac, without upgrading to a later version.

OptionCommandR - Upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac

ShiftOptionCommandR - Install the macOS that came with your Mac, or the version closest to it that is still available.


iphone rings through speaker with earphones connected

This is normal, provided your ringer switch is set to ring.

Setting the ringer switch to silent will prevent the ringer from sounding from your phone's internal speakers, but not through external Bluetooth or wired speakers/headphones.


Samsung SyncMaster 2443 not filling out screen

In the mean time i've experienced the problem on multiple monitors. I finally committed to reinstalling my OS from scratch and that solved the problem for me. The problem is somewhere in the OS, but I didn't have any luck finding it.


Cannot add a photo to an album in Camera Roll

Asked and answered. The iOS 5 Photo app allows you add photos from the camera roll to the albums you create on the device, but not to albums created on the Mac using iPhoto or Aperture.

When those photos are downloaded to the computer (manually or by Photostream) you can remove them from the device, which removes them from the device-created album, and add them to the appropriate album in iPhoto. They'll be added to the iPhoto album on the device the next time the device is synced with iTunes.


Find lost photos that show in screen saver

Photos in the screen saver come from the source that is selected in System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver. This means that your missing photos will be in whatever source has been selected there.


Typing the control+\ (backslash) on Apple keyboard

As a user of the Danish Apple keyboard, I face similar issues. Most of the time I — unfortunately — have to remap keyboard shortcuts through System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
I researched a bit and wasn't able to find the native way to do this combo on a Scandinavian keyboard.

However, you might be able to create a service through Automator that presses the keyboard combination for you:

Open Automator
Create a new document and select Service as type
Set Service receives selected to no input
Drag out a Run AppleScript action from the left pane
Replace (* Your script goes here *) with tell application "System Events" to keystroke "\\" using {control down}
Save and call the service whatever you deem appropriate

Then try running it at a time when you need to press Ctrl+\ (For Terminal: Terminal > Services > Name of Your Service).

I'm not currently able to test this but it might be worth a try.


How to create bootable flash drive from macOS High Sierra combo update

No, you cannot create a macOS USB Installer from the Combo Update, you need the full Install macOS High Sierra.app to do that.

Have a look at: How to create a bootable installer for macOS

If you cannot get it to download properly on your system using your connection, then you'll have to try from a different location and connection or have a friend download it, or go to an Apple Store.


If you installed the bootcamp driver to your win7 all necessary drivers are already installed but I´ve figured out that you have to reboot your windows if you connect the adapter to your mac. So the best solution is that you first connect the adapter to your mac and after that you should start/boot up your mac to windows.


Yes, an application can have undocumented AppleScript functions. These functions will be declared in the application's Scripting Definition File (SDEF) file but marked as hidden.

Typically the ability to hide AppleScript functionality is used to hide supported, but now legacy, AppleScripts commands and to hide incomplete commands.


Final Solution:

Remove the Terminal saved state, located in:

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Terminal.savedState/*

Then, make that folder read-only so that it can't be written to.

You can use the clear command to clear your terminal window from within a script.  As noted on this other thread, the following commands in sequence will clear the current buffer, then the scroll back buffer:

clear && printf '\e[3J'

  Please note:
  (The clear command looks up the appropriate sequence for clearing the screen for the current terminal, but the “erase scroll-back” escape sequence is custom and must be hard-coded. If you put this in a shell script that you don’t know for certain will only ever be run with Terminal, you should check that $TERM_APPLICATION is Apple_Terminal before sending it.)

Alternative 1

Turn off Terminal.app's window restore functionality:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

Alternative 2

You can also store sensitive information in the Secure Notes section within the Keychain Access utility.


Apple Configurator's Whitelist Option (only allow specific apps) preventing making calls

Please try adding "com.apple.InCallService" identifier as white listed.


Saving Terminal Color/Opacity Preferences

Clicking once (and only once) on the "color and effects" icon and adjusting the opacity should properly save any adjustments. Double-clicking may have caused the issue.


You can show the Touch Bar on your screen using Xcode by choosing Window → Show Touch Bar or shift-cmd-8.


Boot Camp 5 drivers not installing on Windows 8 (iMac)

They don't support it because they want you to use their software


How to Backup from OS X to a Windows Home Server

You might find that Carbon Copy Cloner will do what you want. It certainly allows you to create a task to copy a given set of folders to any destination you can mount. It's not expensive ($40 US) and offers a trial version so you can check it out before ponying up the dollars.

I'm assuming you have figured out how to mount your Windows Home Server via SMB.


How to minimise the risk of using a MacBook Pro 2015 recalled due to battery faults

Minimizing the risk is simple. Don’t charge the battery.

Does’t matter if you are sleeping or shut down, the discharge doesn’t trigger a problem. The charging does. So just don’t use the Mac once it needs a charge.

In case you're worried about the time to fix - here is a crowd-sourced list of times to repair:

Battery Recall Turnaround by Apple*:

From            | to Depot     | Turnaround  | Notes
London, UK      | Prague, CZ   | 2-3 weeks   | Estimate by Apple, 31 Aug 19
Minneapolis, MN | Memphis, TN  | 2 days      | Apple quoted 2 weeks

*feel free to update.

As for repair times, it would be good to specify where you will be shipping the MacBook and where the repair parts might be stocked. Just because the US might have ample stock, other countries might need the whole 2 weeks to ship and perform the repairs.

The rest of the timing is for US based repairs: I would say two weeks is much longer than we’re seeing in the US. We sent two last week for work and the box with the fixed Mac was delivered three days after the box was shipped. (So it was our of our hands for two days only.) Some repairs have taken us a week, but that’s the exception of the 25 or so we’ve sent in already.

Also, you will almost certainly see the case swell before any charge causes a fire in most cases so look for that as well.

As for putting out a LiPo battery fire, CO2 is a less good choice than water or sand. The battery has so much energy and generates it’s own oxygen so smothering it for a short time and cooling it a little with CO2 might not be effective. Of course use it if you have it, but go get a bucket of something or a shovel to lift and move the MacBook to a safer place where the fire won’t spread (concrete floor, outside, etc...)


iPadOS 14.2 - Unable to find Apple Pencil double tap settings

Just turn on Bluetooth. I mean fully, not that power saving thing..
If you are in the Settings app maybe you have to restart Settings (close from the recent apps also).
This should work.


How do I change the default track in iTunes?

iTunes starts playing what is currently selected. For me for instance the playlist selected was "Most recently added", so when I hit the play button on the keyboard, the first song from this list starts to play.

The only way I know of to solve your problem is to enable random play in iTunes.
This is easily done by clicking the snaked arrow button next to the cover image in the top view. If it's highlighted blue, random play is on.
Quitting iTunes and hitting the play button again will play a random song from the library.

Drawback: Whenever you changed that (because you don't want to have random play but want to listen to an album) you have to remind yourself to enable it again before closing it.

AFAIK there's no preference setting for that.


MacBook Pro - Can't get to recovery mode

That's the screen for a firmware password. An Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider can remove it for you assuming the machine is newer than 2011 and you can prove ownership.

Other than that, there are a few low probability solutions you can try yourself:

Internet Recovery Mode by holding Option-Command-R or Shift-Option-Command-R at startup.
Boot from an external hard drive.
Create a bootable macOS USB flash drive (instructions here).


Disk Utility First Aid has no progress bar?

It was indeed stuck. We ended up force quitting the process.

It appears from other testing that the drive is operating at a much reduce top speed. Hopefully it is not failing. But this process was definitely stuck.


How do add new proofing languages to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac?

It is impossible, but a good place to ask might be the forums run by MS for its products:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword


How to force Mac OS X ML not to auto connect to Wi-Fi

Go to the network preferences, select "Wi-Fi", and click "Advanced..." (you may have to click the lock in the bottom left first).  Then, in the "Preferred Networks" list, delete any that you don't want.

The passwords are saved separately, in the keychain.  I have verified that removing an SSID from the list in the network preferences doesn't remove it from the keychain, so you can delete them without worrying. (this is unlike the case with iOS, where forgetting a network also forgets the password)

You may also want to uncheck "Remember networks this computer has joined" to prevent them from being re-added when you join them again.   Again, this is separate from the "Save password in keychain" that saves the password in the keychain when you enter it.


Is there anything faster than Veency for iPhone?

I've tried Veency on both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and that looks to be the fastest possible speed to get out of it. Unless someone rewrites Veency or writes another VNC server, it looks doubtful that speed would get any better.

I've relegated myself to either looking at the iPhone's screen while typing, or pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone.

Edit: If you don't mind looking at the iPhone's screen, you could try iSynergyClient, the Synergy+ client for iPhone. Right now it only has mouse support, keyboard support is still in development.


Sounds like oil from your hands to be honest


Which photos to be transferred after backup in a new apple device?

Signing in to a new device with your iCloud account will give you access to your Photo Stream. Setting up a new device with your iCloud account and selecting to restore from an iCloud Backup will restore the Camera Roll as well.


How can iOS 11’s screen recording not record the control center screen?

EDIT: As of the GM release, a 3 second timer has been implemented allowing time to dismiss Control Center.   The end of the clip may still require editing, however.

Disclaimer: As of this posting, iOS 11 is in Public Beta and may change before final release.

As of writing, it does not appear that a 'timer' can be set to indicate when to start the recording.

The recording does indeed start when the button on the control center is tapped.  This can be edited out of the final recording by trimming the video.

Go to the video in the Photos app.
Use the yellow handles (indicated by the <> symbols) to trim the beginning and end of the video as desired.


How do I trigger caps lock without caps lock key available?

Revert the key mapping Caps Lock -> Ctrl. Install Karabiner. Depending on your handedness remap alt_L (or opt_L) to ctrl and use alt_R (or opt_R) as your common alt key.

Remapping in the Karabiner context using the first example below means:
if you enable the radio button for "Option_L to Control_L" the left Option key will act as the left (and only on most portable Macs) Control key if hit and lose its original Option key function. The right Option key won't lose its function and still works as a normal Option key.

or remap cmd_R to ctrl:

If you don't like the remapping of alt/cmd/ctrl/R/L there are plenty of other possible remappings to emulate the CapsLock key. Just enter CapsLock in the search field and choose your preferred remapping:

You may even define your own key mappings (e.g shiftaltcmdC to enable CapsLock and shiftaltcmdR to release it again. These shortcuts mustn't be in use by the system or apps)

(The screenshots are taken running Lion. Since Karabiner doesn't run in Lion I'm using its predecessor KeyRemap4MacBook. The predefined modifications should be the same)


I want to add a 5TB HD (NTFS) to my time capsule and have access to it from both my Mac and my PC's

Here is a link to Apple's instructions on how to mount the drives on both sides if they don't seem to show up. How to mount a Time Capsule HD

The only disk formats that the Time Capsules support are HFS (Macs default), FAT16, and FAT32. Supported HD for Time Capsule. Since you have a large HD you cannot use FAT16 as it is made for smaller HD's (<2GB).

If you would like to use Apple's Default (HFS) you will have to install software on the PC in order to write to the drive. Paragon-software has the tools needed to use HFS on windows computers

If you use FAT32 both your windows and Mac will be able to read/write from the HD.


Upload photos to specified photo album, on iPad

Unfortunately, no.  The iPad (as of 3.2.1) does not support the manipulation of photo albums by code running on an iPad through any approved mechanism.


Is it possible restart Mac from 2nd monitor only without mouse?

You can set a key command to it, same as any menu item, though you're flying blind. If any app wants you to confirm save/discard you may not see it.

Whilst I'm aware this is really an XY Problem I've answered the Y ;)


Mail in Mountain Lion does not search mail server

I had problems with search and deleting the Spotlight index and reindexing helped.

In a Terminal:

sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /

This will trigger a reindexing, which can take a few hours.


Can't Control Volume on Lockscreen with Volume Buttons on iPhone

★ [Settings > Sounds > Ringer and Alerts > Change with Buttons = ON]

Tapping the home button twice should bring up the audio player/volume slider on the lock screen. While it's visible try the buttons on the side — depending on whether or not you see the volume slider move on the screen should tell you if your buttons are not actually working.

This is straight from the iOS 5 user guide:

When iPhone is locked, nothing happens if you touch the screen. iPhone can still receive calls, text messages, and other updates. You can also:

Listen to music
Adjust the volume using the buttons on the side of iPhone (or on the
iPhone earphones) while you’re on a phone call or listening to music.

Use the center button on iPhone earphones to answer or end a call, or to control audio playback.

iPhone User Guide For iOS 5.0 Software (PDF)


Why am I getting no sound from my Amazon WorkSpace?

Amazon WorkSpaces client uses a Teradici Virtual Audio Driver which is initialized with the system Sound settings when the connection is first opened. Whatever Sound device was selected in System Preferences when the connection was established will continue to be the sound device for as long as the session was open.

In my case, I had to disconnect the WorkSpaces client, change the system Sound settings to use my bluetooth headset, then reconnect to WorkSpaces to get my sound working on the bluetooth headset.


The officially supported way is to use Family Sharing. You create a child Apple ID using your account, and you will maintain parental control over the child account, including App Store, iTunes and Apple Books purchases. It will have access to all your apps and music, and you will have the opportunity to approve any purchases your grandchild makes.

Create an Apple ID for your child

  Use the steps below to create an Apple ID for your child, then add
  them to your family group. After you add your child to your family
  group, they will have their own Apple ID that they can use on any
  Apple device. Your email address is the rescue email address for your
  child’s account, and you can use it with the security questions you
  provided to reset a forgotten password.

  If the child already has a Game Center account, but not an Apple ID,
  you don't need to create a new account for them. Just search for their
  nickname instead.

Go to Settings > [your name] > Family Sharing > Add Family Member >
Create a Child Account > Next. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier,
go to Settings > iCloud > Family.
Enter your child's birthday and tap Next. Be sure to enter the
correct date.
Review the Parent Privacy Disclosure and tap Agree.
Enter the requested information for your payment method and tap
Next. If you don't have a payment method on file, you need to add
one.
Enter your child's name, tap Next, then create their Apple ID
(username@icloud.com) and tap Next. Tap Create.
Follow the onscreen instructions to set a password, choose security
questions, and set up your child's account. Choose passwords and
security questions that you can both remember.
Turn on Ask to Buy to approve all iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store
purchases initiated by your child. You will be responsible for all
charges to your account. Tap Next.
Review the Terms and Conditions. Tap Agree.

Source: Family Sharing and Apple ID for your child

Now you should be free to set up the iPhone 6 with the new child Apple ID. Either:

reset the device Settings > General >  Reset > Erase All Content and Settings then sign back in with the new ID; or
sign out of iCloud, iTunes and App Store, FaceTime, iMessage etc. then sign back in with the new ID.


How do I get iPhoto to recognize an older Canon PowerShot A40?

Try changing the communication setting on your camera. I had this problem after updating and changed the general>communication>PTP. Mine was set to PC connection previously - worked!


How can I reliably backup an external drive to another external drive?

Another possible option: use rsync and a launchd job to execute it when the disk is mounted. I believe Time Machine uses a similar approach to running on disk mount. For the hourly execution, you can use cron. The discreet notification can be done in a number of ways (for instance sending a mail or the Growl extension which allows notifications to be sent from the command line). killall rsync should stop the backup safely if you need to pack up and go. Also rsync is also entirely capable of networked syncing.

It will take a bit of work to set up, but the advantages are:

it's versatile (see man rsync, they pretty much thought of everything)
it's discreet
it doesn't cost anything
rsync is quick

You may find this helpful for launchd jobs involving disk mounting.

Edit: I should add that the --partial option to rsync will mean that the backup is resumed after killall rsync.

Edit 2: You can use a Control Plane context instead of launchd if you prefer.


How can I erase hard disk if SuperDrive is broken (OS 10.6.8)?

You should try to create a bootable USB stick with some kind of recovery LiveCD (Ubuntu, BackTrack, ...)

I recommend using Ubuntu because it is the easiest to create.

There is a little tutorial on Ubuntu's website: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
(If you Have trouble be sure to ask a question on AskUbuntu)

After you have a recovery usb wipe the disk using your favorite tool. I found a nice tutorial on 'How to geek', but it's a bit outdated.
(Tip: download wipe from the software center, not from synaptic)


BBEdit asks for Apple ID password on every launch

Try the following steps to resolve the issue:

Uninstall the Mac App Store version. (Start Launchpad, press and hold Option key, and click on the ⨂ button shown at the top left of the BBEdit app icon.)
Download and re-install BBEdit from official website.
Install AppCleaner app.
Uninstall the version of BBEdit installed in step #2 using AppCleaner.
Restart your Mac.
Now, reinstall BBEdit from the Mac App Store.

Now you should be able to get rid of the issue.


Will I be able to re-download Mountain Lion by using my redemption code in the future?

Once you have purchased something in the App Store, you can always download it again without paying (This is the same on the Mac App Store and iOS). You will see it in your 'purchases' tab in the Mac App Store.

So once you use your redemption code, you have 'purchased' it, and can install it whenever you need it.


How do I disable the Notes App on ipads?

You cannot disable the Notes app in iOS devices, either with Restrictions or with Apple Configurator. There is no way I know of to delete or hide any of the pre-installed Apple apps, either.

You can lock each iPad to a single app using guided access, described here.

Your best mechanism for preventing this behavior is through social engineering: a clearly written Acceptable Use Policy signed off by by parent & student; and trips to the principal's office, with penalties for infractions.


How to stop Safari from unzipping files after download

In the menu bar, go Safari -> Preferences. In the "General" tab, uncheck "Open 'safe' files after downloading". This will stop Safari from automatically unzipping the files.


How can I handle ClarisWorks documents on Lion?

I recently recovered some ClarisWorks 3.0 documents using a 68k emulator. I wrote up my experiences here: http://www.danvk.org/wp/2012-05-21/reading-clarisworks-3-documents-in-mac-os-x/

Emulation may not be the most direct way to do this, but it's certainly the most fun!


Time Machine stuck on "Preparing backup" whenever returning from Boot Camp to OS X

Okay so I figured this out a while ago, but I'll post it here too. The problem was I was using MacDrive, which allows me to read and write to Mac partitions while in Windows (using Boot Camp).

MacDrive sometimes modified files on the Mac partitions even if I didn't open them; I think it sometimes perform optimization actions to speed up the reading of Mac partitions.

This means that when I return to Mac OS X, Time Machine notices that a Mac partition was changed while outside of OS X, so it reindexes everything to be sure it doesn't miss anything.


Assuming your hardware is somewhat similar to mine:

networksetup -setairportpower en1 on
networksetup -setairportpower en1 off

You can run networksetup -listallhardwareports to find the device (en1) of your Wi-Fi in case it's different.

To toggle put something like the following lines into a script or shell function:

[[ "$(networksetup -getairportpower en1)" == *On ]] && v=off || v=on
networksetup -setairportpower en1 $v


Setting Global Volume / Track Keyboard Shortcut with Non-Apple Keyboard

You can use BetterTouchTool to set Your custom keyboard shortcuts and many more. It's free! Here's an example:


Confusion regarding Mac Pro graphic cards

Which version of macOS runs on your MacPro? I believe 10.11 is the last version that the cMP3,1 supports... Anyways, if you plan on using the Mojave Patcher I would recommend getting a GTX680. If you really can't live without a bootscreen I would recommend looking at flashing tutorials for NVIDIA GPUs. There are a few on YouTube (esp. GTX680) and macrumors is also a good source. You could also buy a flashed card from MacVidCards, but they are a bit pricey..

I don't miss the EFI Screen on my MacPro 5.1 with an unflashed RX580.

Good Luck!


This service is part of iCloud Music Library, which is a feature of both MUSIC and iTunes Match. It uploads songs that did not match against the iTunes music collection, and does not count towards your iCloud storage allowance.

iCloud Music Library as a whole is a broader service that encompasses the following:

Purchased tracks (previously called iTunes in the Cloud)
Tracks matched or uploaded with iTunes Match
Tracks matched or uploaded with Apple Music
Streaming tracks that you’ve added to My Music, if you have an Apple Music subscription

When the “music locker” functionality launched originally with iTunes Match, the limit was 25,000 songs. However starting in December 2015, this has been increased to 100,000 songs.

Note that some songs may be ineligible to be either Matched or Uploaded. This includes:

Songs with a bitrate of 96 kbps or lower
Some songs encoded in 24-bit
Songs larger than 200 MB
DRM-protected songs, and songs your computer is otherwise not authorized to play
Digital booklets and other non-song items in your iTunes Music Library
Music videos that weren’t purchased on the same iTunes account

Regarding the first two, you can re-encode them in 16-bit, 128 kbps, and you might get a 256 kbps Matched version out of the deal.


Does Time Machine do file level backup and restores?

Time Machine works with individual files and folders. You can set up Time Machine exclusions in System Preferences → Time Machine → Options. Any files or folders in this list won't be backed up and won't be restored.


How to solve the "The message could not be sent because it has unresolved recipients." in Outlook for MacOs?

Looks like some destination e-mail address is wrong formmated (like: missing domain, or just some name without full e-mail address)

I would check all the destination recipient address and validate them for syntax. It the case for checking syntax name@domain.com (formatting syntax).

This is not because non-existing final destination mail, is just technically wrong formatted e-mail syntax addresses

Those messages seems to be on the outbox to be sent, stucked there because of that

Check Outlook outbox for queued messages to fix that.


Is a clean Mac upgraded to Mavericks as good as one with it pre-installed?

You could do a clean install youself after formatting the disk.
You will end up with exact the same result after doing this.

Why the format, you ask?
You won't have any Mountain Lion files on your system.

Returning to the place you bought it from is as easy, you say?
Returning the device to the store does not make any difference except spending (more) time and probably pay gas for the car.

If you let them do the update, they will just click the icon in the AppStore resulting in the same result as doing it yourself. (This does not count for an official Apple Retail Store, but it does (at least in my country) for the premium resellers)

Official Apple Retail Store
If you have an official Apple Store, it comes as free service to get the OS X re-installed.

The only difference that would really help you out is getting a newer replacement from the store, with Mavericks pre-installed. I doubt they will replace it as the device isn't broken and cannot be returned for RMA.


Undo move files from the "all my files" to the trash folder

Do I risk to delete these files?

You're fine as long as you don't empty the Trash.

  How can I undo this?

Command ⌘-Z will undo the last action in Finder. So if you just deleted them you can use this shortcut to undelete them all.

Otherwise:

Click on the Trash icon in your Dock to open the Trash view in Finder
For each file in the Trash, right click on the file and select Put Back from the menu (unfortunately you can't issue the "put back" instruction to multiple files at once, see this answer for a way to do it in groups of files that might work or this one if you're comfortable running some AppleScript)


Can't Delete/Move folder/files on external HDD

You need to install 3rd-party software for this, by default OS X just support reading NTFS not writing.

download and install NTFS-3G and MacFUSES.


Can I simultaneously record video from a MacBook webcam and the iPhone screen?

You can open a second instance of QuickTime using
$ open -n -a QuickTime\ Player
#       │  └ Specifies the argument is an application to open rather than file.
#       └ Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.

Each instance can start a New Movie Recording with different inputs.
You can then use iMovie to combine the two videos, using Picture in Picture:
Create a picture-in-picture effect in iMovie on Mac


I know you said you already tried restarting, but here are some specific steps, in a specific order, for you to try.

Try turning off dictation.
Quit TextEdit.
Restart your computer.
Then turning dictation back on.

Let us know if that helped.


I can't send email to groups now that I have added iCloud to Outlook; groups aren't found anymore

You might be facing the synchronization problem:

Microsoft chose not to support CalDav and CardDav in Outlook for Mac, unfortunately these are the services required by iCloud.

Although MS did add these to Outlook for Windows they did not add them to Outlook for Mac.

In short you can't subscribe (not sync) to iCloud from Outlook for Mac (although you can if you use Outlook for Windows)

Use Outlook, or use iCloud, not both.


Thunderbird can use maildir. https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Basics/Maildir-in-Thunderbird/ta-p/32138. Create a new account in thunderbird. Quit thunderbird. cd to the newly created maildir. rm -rf and then symlink to your existing maildir you used with mutt. Reopen thunderbird.


Is 128kbps too low-quality a file size for the iPhone 5?

Qualification: I'm a professional sound engineer.

Opinion: By the time you're listening on the move, in the car etc, it's not going to make any difference.

Fact: You can keep your high bit-rate files on the computer & re-encode them on the fly when you sync your iTunes playlists to the phone.
Best of both worlds.

Connect your phone to iTunes, click its icon at the top [not in the sidebar]

Select Summary from the sidebar on the left & scroll the main area to the bottom > Options
Select 'Convert higher bit rate songs to... 128kbps AAC'

The first sync after this will be slower, as it does the conversions. After that, you'll not notice the difference.


SearchBarn / GlobalSearch Malware removal?

To find and delete the malware, check the running process list in Activity Monitor (or ps aux from the command line). In my case, there were several process running under root named "GlobalSearch", and variants thereof.

By taking the process id (also known as pid. e.g. value 305) and executing lsof -p 305 I could see which files on the file system were being accessed.

This pointed me to a python script which was located in /var/root/.GlobalSearch - a hidden folder under the root user.

sudo rm -rf /var/root/.GlobalSearch deletes the hidden folder and all of it's contents.

At this point, the processes disappeared from Activity Monitor, however Safari (and other system apps) were unable to access the internet.

I then found that this malware had setup a socks proxy in order to send all web traffic to the python script. Open System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxies and uncheck the Socks Proxy checkbox.

I believe the attack vector was a fake Adobe Flash updater which tricked the user into typing in their admin password after downloading the installer.

EDIT: I also ran EtreCheck which found several files that I missed. If you have having this problem, get and run EtreCheck.

I removed the following:

/Library/Application Support/com.GlobalQuestSearchDaemon/
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/com.GlobalQuestSearch/


iTunes track notifications for Mountain Lion

As best as I've been able to tell, this feature has been removed.

There are two alternatives to the Lion-provided notification mechanism that provide a few more features and customizability.

If you have Growl installed, you can use GrowlTunes to provide Growl notifications on track and playback changes.

The official Last.fm Scrobbler app provides notifications via Growl as well, the bonus being that it's worth using if you also scrobble your playback history to Last.fm. If you don't you probably want to stick with GrowlTunes.

Growl is a generic notification system with a large amount of customizability, like the ability to customize the alert style. Growl has existed for OS X for as long as I can remember, years and years pre-dating even Tiger, iOS, and the Notification Center as well.


Phone numbers different color on iOS wordpress

Have a look at phone-numbers-changing-to-unwanted-gray-color-on-iphone-and-ipad post.

It is possible that you have the same issue where you link color is what is determining the iOS color and you may need to setup a Browser Specific CSS plugin according to the post

Update: 9th Nov 2014

I found another post update-banning-blue-links-on-ios-devices which effected a change for  a test phone link on my wordpress site.

Although the numbers where a light blue because they are being data detected.

This solution may or may not help you figure your issue.

In the post they offer various ways of achieving a change with various results.

Their favourite is the option 5.

Which is surrounding the number in a custom span class.

Declare you css classes as normal in your head:

.appleLinksWhite a {color: #ffffff !important; text-decoration: underline;}
.appleLinksBlack a {color: #000000 !important; text-decoration: none;}
.appleLinksRed a {color: #FF0000 !important; text-decoration: none;}

and the surround the number in the chosen class

contact: 0205 992 9921


I had the same issue but after signing out of imessage on my ipad and disabling imessage on my ipad, when i reenabled imessage on my ipad, the option to use my phone number appeared.


How to reset or rebuild application search database in ios?

You need to make sure the app is included in Siri's search index.

To do that on iOS 12, go to Settings -> Siri & Search.

Scroll down to find the app.  Turn on the switch.  Wait a few min then try searching for the app again.


Can apps access my camera without telling me?

This question over on StackExchange lead me to Apple's iOS Developer Guide, specifically, the background section. This lists the activities apps are aloud to run in the background, camera access is not one of them.

This would also be a terrible condition for battery life and so it is not surprising that it is not supported. While this doesn't guarantee that none of your apps will try to get access to your camera, you can rest assured that if anyone tried to, Apple would reject their app.

This also ensures that there's no API for background camera access, so unless someone has figured out a way to hack non-jail broken iOS at a very low level, we can all sleep safely with only the watchful eye of Siri upon us.

Edit:
Per my discussion with timothymh below, I realized you may have been asking about if you are still using a given app, having take a picture without switching to a new app. With more interesting reading from Apple's Developer Guide, we find that the camera API won't hand you data until a picture is taken or a video completed. Because the camera isn't handled by a daemon, it would be very difficult to be constantly polling the camera for input, even if you found a way past the API to get data without user input. Note I'm not an Apple developer, but from an official standpoint, it appears what you're talking about shouldn't be possible.


Is that possible to change PPTP VPN password on mac?

No.

To my knowledge, the native VPN client on Mac OS X does not have functionality for changing your password. There is some code in directory authentication that can do this, but in order to change a password used for VPN, you'll likely have to log into a web-based password utility that's bound to the directory the VPN is authenticating to.

Additionally, those ehow instructions are quite vague. It looks a little like the system is authenticating to a VPN at login, much like how OS X can authenticate to a directory service at login. Perhaps it is possible to connect to a VPN prior to login on Windows? On Mac, on the native client, this is not possible: VPN sessions happen AFTER a user has logged in.

Now, if your VPN is authenticating to a Directory Service used for login, it may be possible to change this password inside loginwindow (as changing your account password).


How to recover apple id without having apple id and email that associated with that apple id

You can’t typically brute force a missing email through https://forgot.apple.com website for several reasons. If I understand your question correctly, to rephrase the situation, you have the pin code to get to your voicemail but you forgot the telephone number. It may not make sense to start dialing every number possible and keep trying your pin code on each unless you have some idea what “number” you chose.
Unless you used that email and saved receipts, wrote things down, used that ID for other services, you’re out of luck. There is no reverse lookup possible to show all the emails that used a specific password.
I’m not sure why you would even want back an ID you didn’t use, but maybe there’s more backstory or a different problem you’re solving but didn’t include in the body of your question.


Can I move Windows 7 to a larger partition with 'dd' instead of WinClone?

While you could technically use dd to image a smaller partition onto a larger partition and it still show using the space of the smaller partition you'll not be able to resize the NTFS partition using Disk Utility.  Also the GPT and PMBR will not be synced and that will need to be resolved. Windows 7 will also need to be reactivated.

That said, using Winclone (at least Standard version) would be a much better option as it will handle what's necessary that Disk Utility can't, except for reactivating Windows, which is totally a Microsoft issue in resolution.


I am only seeing 1:50 of estimated run time on a new MacBook Pro battery. Problems?

What are you doing when you are testing?  The "up to 7 hours" is for basic web surfing with little computation going on. If you're pushing the system hard, it's inevitable that estimated battery life will show as lower.

Estimated battery life is essentially (battery level remaining / current power usage). As usage goes up, estimated life goes down.  That's standard for all laptops, by the way.  Of course, all manufacturers quote the highest life value, but then most laptops don't spend much of their time being pushed hard.


Why do X11 applications start but their windows stay invisible?

It might be a bit of a workaround, but you could try installing XQuartz, a newer version of X11. It bypasses X11 rather than replacing it, so you should be able to uninstall it again if you want Apple's X11 back.


Open location of a photo in Finder from Photos.app

OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 - Photos Version 1.0 - Looks like Apple removed the option to show the photo in Finder.

Not the most direct method, but try  this:

Go to Photos Menu -> Preferences -> General
Click the "Show in Finder" button in the dialog box.  In Finder you'll see a "Photos Library" highlighted
Right-click and select "Show Package Contents", this will show a directory listing
Select and open the folder named "Masters"
Browse by Year-Month-Date of when the photos or videos were created

I hope Apple restores the more direct "Locate in Finder" for the photo itself.


Script or workflow to modify find and replace text in clipboard

Try:

set myText to the clipboard as «class utf8»
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, ":"}
set myText to text items of myText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set the clipboard to myText as text
set text item delimiters to TID
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down


Appplescript & iCal

Open Applescript and enter the following code:

tell application "Finder"
  delete folder "folder" of home
end tell

Replacing folder with the folder you want to delete, and save the file.

If the folder you want to delete is outside home directory, (for example the folder /Users) then replace the delete line with:

delete folder "Users" of startup disk

Then open iCal and create a new recurring event at the time you want and as an alarm choose Run Script and select the applescript you created.

Cron

Open Terminal.app and enter:

crontab -e

There to the file opened, add the following line

0    4       *       *       *       rm -rf /Users/USER/folder

replacing /Users/USER/folder with the full path of your folder and save the file.

Launchd

Create a new text document, and paste the following code:

rm -rf /Path/to/Folder

Let's call it script.sh

Based on this article, create another new text document and paste the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>Recurring Folder Deletion</string>
  <key>UserName</key>
  <string>nuc</string>
  <key>Program</key>
  <string>/path/to/script.sh</string>
  <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
  <dict>
    <key>Minute</key>
    <integer>0</integer>
    <key>Hour</key>
    <integer>4</integer>
  </dict>
  <key>Debug</key>
  <false/>
  <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Replace nuc with your account username, and /path/to/script.sh with the full path of the script we created on first step.

Save the file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ as my_rfd.plist.

Finally, launch Terminal.app and type:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/my_rfd.plist


How to password protect apps without Jailbreaking iiphone

No, at the moment it's simply not possible within the constraints Apple places on apps. Without jailbreaking, the only way an app could be password protected is if the app developer builds it in. To do otherwise would require modifying the functionality of the parts of the system responsible for launching apps (Springboard), which Apple's rules don't allow, and I suspect that won't change in the foreseeable future, if ever.


Any app or script to track per process usage?

You could also use a shell command like this:

while :;do ps -p 1234 -o %cpu=;sleep 1;done

Replace 1234 with the pid of the process.

You can use gnuplot to create a graph for the data:

gnuplot<<<'set term png;set output "/tmp/plot.png";plot "/tmp/data" with boxes'
qlmanage -p /tmp/plot.png


macOS Terminal autocompletion suggestion

You can use the zsh shell with the zsh-autosuggestions plugin.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions


How do I add cover art to an .aiff on OSX from the commandline

Under OS X, I've used Kid3 to add cover art to AIFF files, from both the GUI and CLI with the latter in both direct and interactive modes. The CLI version is not for the faint of heart and you must read the documentation  The Kid3 Handbook (English version) to use the CLI, especially the CLI examples section as it shows something that's not shown elsewhere in the documentation or output of the internal help file of kid3-cli.

Which is the use of single quotes around the commands being used, e.g.:

kid3-cli -c 'select "/path/to/filename.aiff"' -c 'set picture:"/path/to/coverart.jpg" "Picture Description"' -c 'save'

Note that the example above is basic syntax for just setting cover art and /path/to/ can be omitted if everything is in the working directory and "Picture Description" can be "" if no description is wanted, but it has to be supplied one way or the other in this use case.

The kid3-cli executable is within the kid3.app application bundle, e.g. /Applications/kid3.app/Contents/MacOS/kid3-cli and to make it easier to use, you might want to set an alias for it in your bash profile file or set a symlink for it to a location that is within the PATH variable.

Example for your bash profile file:

alias kid3-cli='/Applications/kid3.app/Contents/MacOS/kid3-cli'

Example to create a symlink from Terminal:

sudo ln -s /Applications/kid3.app/Contents/MacOS/kid3-cli /usr/local/bin/kid3-cli

Then from the command line you could use: kid3-cli ...


What's the NB30 or MM-TD in an iPhone description in GSX?

The iPhone 6S exists in basically two versions:

Models A1687 and A1688 has support for LTE bands 1-5, 7-8, 12-13, 17-20 and 25-29

Models A1633 and A1634 has support for LTE bands 1-5, 7-8, 12-13, 17-20 and 26-30.

The extra band 30 is a special AT&T band. The iPhone supporting that band were sold by certain dealers in the US.

The NB30 on your iPhone description just means that you iPhone does not support LTE band 30.


It appears that the GnuPlot package delivers an older version of libfreetype.6.dylib than is installed on Lion (or SnowLeopard, in my case).

otool -L /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib:
    /tmp/gnuplot-i386/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 13.0.0, current version 13.2.0)

Yet my error is that GnuPlot is trying to load "/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib" and not the library contained in the GnuPlot package. That library is the right version:

otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib:
    /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 14.0.0, current version 14.2.0)

This is as far as I have gotten. I did note that the library aliases in the GnuPlot package all point to the libraries delivered with GnuPlot (4/15/2011 in my case), so my next trick will be to create a new alias for libfreetype.6.dylib pointing to the one in /usr/X11/lib and see if I get a new error.

Maybe the answer is to build GnuPlot on our Macs?


Unfortunately, there is no built in way to do this with iOS 6 (or lower).

There are other ways to control music playback that may function as a work around for you.

If the device is unlocked, double tap the home button and swipe the row of apps from left to right. This will display Play/Pause controls. Swipe one more time - on an iPhone or iPod Touch - for volume control.
If the device is locked, double tap the home button. This will display music controls.


Can't run postfix on Mountain Lion due to missing system_user_maps.db

I figured it out. You need to not only touch /etc/postfix/system_user_maps but also run sudo postmap /etc/postfix/system_user_maps to create /etc/postfix/system_user_maps.db. Then postfix will start up.


Every application's file open/save dialogue asks for "Keystroke Receiving" permission

I'm not sure why every application would want this. I have heard that apps using JavaFX trigger this permission, even though they don't explicitly want or need it.

It's therefore possible that it is an unintended effect rather than an actual case of apps needing or wanting to monitor the keyboard input.

Probably best to deny and then allow if problems occur with the specific apps involved.


After 10.9 upgrade, settings keep getting deleted

So I found that after looking at the extended attributes that somehow this particularly problematic system had issues where there were a number of user immutable files.  After resetting the extended attributes things started to become a bit more sane.

For example, I found a handy command line option on the Apple forums:

find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl \) 2> /dev/null | wc -l

(Drop off the final | wc -l to see actual files with issues.)

I then went through resetting things judiciously and selectively executing these where appropriate (also found on the Apple forum, but modified from original form):

sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR..
sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~
sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~
chmod -R -N ~ # Or specific paths

For example, I found that even after executing these and rerunning the find command sans the postfixed line count that there were still a number of corrupt permissions and had to selectively run chmod -R -N on those paths again.  Odd that it didn't take care of them the first time, but ultimately I ended up with a 0 count of permission afflicted files.

For good measure I took the advise of rebooting into the recovery partition and running Terminal -> resetpassword and subsequently reset the folder permissions for the homes, but I don't think that that was necessary as the permissions seemed to checkout prior to that for the folder and children.


Fatal error after brew update interrupted

Solved. The problem was running $ brew update && brew upgrade together.

It was causing some kind of Git formula conflict.

I ran $ brew update and then $ brew upgrade, formulae were updated and all is good.

Am now able to run both together again.


Profile Manager on Lion and the Workgroup group

AFAICS local accounts on the server belong to it


Missing text editing keyboard shortcut like windows while coding

Here are some builtin shortcuts:

Home (beginning of the line)  - ⌘ cmd+← left arrow or ⌃ CTRL+A
End (end of the line) - ⌘ cmd+→ right arrow or ⌃ CTRL+E
Select to the beginnig - ⇧ Shift+⌘ cmd+← left arrow or ⇧ Shift+⌃ CTRL+A
Selet to end - ⇧ Shift+⌘ cmd+→ right arrow or ⇧ Shift+⌃ CTRL+E
Cut Text - ⌘ cmd+X
Copy Text - ⌘ cmd+C
Paste Text - ⌘ cmd+V

Note: You can also Kill ⌘ cmd+⌫ backspace (cut) and Yank ⌃ CTRL+Y (paste) text.

Here's the list on Apple Website


Assuming you’re not willing to give up your active terminal session, try to bootstrap your settings like this:

export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; source ~/.bash_profile

The part that says export PATH=… is there to bootstrap an environment for ~/.bash_profile, which might itself rely on one or more of the paths given.


If the app itself was lost, you can always re-download it from the App Store. For installing on a second computer, I'd make a flash drive version of the install. You can follow this guide for creating the flash drive install from this guide.


Is there a "Apple Music App" for Windows10 OR is only the iTunes app available?

The Apple Music app is only available for Macs at this time as your own research has indicated.  I don't think any user here can reasonably speak to any plans Apple has on Apple Music integration for Windows.  If they are an employee, they will be bound by nondisclosure; if they are not an employee, it will only be rumor at this point.  Your best answer for this kind of question will come from Apple's product support team.


Is it possible to restore a backup from a single disk on RAID1?

I believe it can be done but you lose the recovery partition and depending on your IT skills and willingness to start from scratch if the O/S gets hosed it might be a viable opportunity.

Note that I have not done this with Mavericks or Time Machine.

You need to boot from an O/S install disk. you can make one out of an 8GB flash drive with the Mavericks installer app and a number of freely available tools. Once you have booted from the O/S installer flash drive, bring up disk utility and wipe the drives of all partitions. Delete them. Then under the RAID tab make a RAID out of those two disks and partition as you want. Probably just best to stick with one partition unless you have a specific need for more than one.

Once that is done you can install the o/s on the RAID and restore your apps/files/settings from the external disk.

Note that I restored with a disk image using Carbon Copy Cloner from within disk utility, worked great but on an earlier O/S. So feedback from other folks would be good before committing to this procedure.


The manpage describes the ability to generate ECC keys because the version of OpenSSH 5.9p1 (the version that comes with Mountain Lion) can potentially support ECC. However, the actual build of OpenSSH that came bundled with Mountain Lion appears to lack ECC support1. The manpages are not modified when ECC support is not included in the compiled binaries.

If you want or need ECC support, you could use MacPorts (or probably Homebrew) to install a build of OpenSSH that does support ECC. You might run into some incompatibilities though:

the bundled ssh-agent (started automatically by launchd) will not be able to handle any ECC keys (you would have to start your own instance of the “custom”-built agent, or type your password each time you use an ECC key with the “custom”-built ssh), and
the “custom”-built tools will not have Apple’s patched-in Keychain integration.

1 OpenSSH’s configure script does some checks to make sure that the available OpenSSL library is new enough and includes various bits of ECC functionality; the bundled version of OpenSSL seems to satisfy these requirements. I am not sure why the bundled version of OpenSSH was built without ECC support.


Drop ship a preconfigured iPad to elderly in-laws?

To answer my own question - the answer is no, the SSID/MAC address of the base station is not paired up. Thank you all for the advise, the plan worked. Shipper at 100% power and received at 20%, auto-connected to WiFi for us to call and do the rest!
You can, however use mobile device management to automate add a large menu of options on both iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/profile-specific_payload_keys

Wifi SSID is one that’s very common, but instead of your relatives needing to know how to enter WiFi, they need to be shown how to install a profile or remove one if things change.


Transferring Files Between Two Separate (not connected to the same network) Computers?

The classic way of copying files between two *NIX boxes (Mac, BSD or some Linux) is via the scp command.

This method requires knowledge of the public IP address of the target device, or an IP address within the same VPN. A tool which can help accessing computers over the internet is a Dynamic DNS service, like No-IP or DynDNS. No-IP offers a free service which is more than adequate for your purposes (used it myself). This gives your machine a publicly accessible hostname.

Once you've established the target device's IP, you need to fire up your Terminal, and call the scp command. For the sake of simplicity we'll assume that the target IP is 8.8.8.8, and that you've already set up SSH keys.

Your scp command should look something like this:

>> scp /source/file/here remoteuser@8.8.8.8:/target/file/here

or when using a hostname:

>> scp /source/file/here remoteuser@hostname.net:/target/file/here

If you check scp man pages, it tells you that the first parameter (the source file) should also be defined with a user and a machine. When using a local file, the necessary details are added for you, so you only have to provide the file path.

Here is a link to the scp man page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/scp

And here's a link to a tutorial: https://kb.iu.edu/d/agye

Bonus: if you need to sync a larger number of files more often, maybe something like BitTorrent Sync could be of interest to you. I haven't really tried it myself with larger files tho.


What format are Animoji messages once copied out of Messages.app?

They are indeed a video file, of resolution 640×480, at 60 fps.

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/908342119269625856


You're using Apple's RAID which means you need a device which just hosts the discs and then your new laptop will see them and use the existing RAID structure. This rules out NAS.

AS these are existing RAID arrays you can't simple merge them together to create a single new RAID. At least, you can't while keeping the data on them.

Essentially, in one device you just need a 6+ array of the disks to be presented as individual drives to the new machine, which will then pull them together into the RAID.

You could also use any number of single, double, quad enclosures too, but, I'm assuming you want a single device.

A device like this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=4274&Nav=|c:4269|&Sort=3&Recs=10 would do it in one.

Put the drives in, connect to your new laptop and start using RAID.

If you've happy to lose a drive, the Drobo's are pretty neat. Not the fastest, but very usable, and generally easier than normal RAID. It's the easier, most it-just-works storage solution.

If you want to get geeky, then ZFS is the best solution: https://openzfsonosx.org However, it's still essentially beta (despite being very stable), and it's not an officially support Apple filesystem. It'll give you a nice range of options to use your disks with. Again - this requires a rebuild, unless you were really cunning and broke the RAIDs up, kept the data on one half, at least the mirrored one, started a new ZFS and then copied the data over and created two mirrored vdevs in a pool together. You'd need a spare 2Gb drive in the meantime.


Exporting SMS messages from iPhone into plain text files

This worked well for me on Windows: https://www.copytrans.net/support/how-to-convert-iphone-sms-to-plain-text/

But because I use a Mac from day to day I use this, however it does require you to backup the device before you can extract the texts: https://www.imactools.com/tutorial/extract-sms-messages-from-iphone-backup


Forgetting a bluetooth device should just mean that it no longer automatically connects. Just do whatever you did to connect the first time if you want to reconnect. There are probably instructions that came with your bluetooth speaker.


If you don't mind sacrificing the Genre tag, you could tag "real" Movies with Genre="Movie", and your home movies with Genre="Home Movie", and then browse by Genre on the ATV.


How to return to camera when looking at Albums?

You are correct. This is because it is switching from the Camera app to the Photos app. People have been a little annoyed with this for a long time, but I suppose the separation is logical.

To get back to the camera you can either:

Double tap the home button and swipe from right to left and then tap the camera app, or
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and tap the camera icon in the Control Center.


Removing the last 10 characters of a file name while preserving the extension

You are asking two different questions here. One is "How do I remove the last 10 characters of a file name" while the other is going from [RF] Happy Hour 1 [jdhf2345].mp4 → Happy Hour 1.mp4.

I'm not really sure which one to answer here so I guess I'll answer the first one??

"How do I remove the last 10 characters of a file name"

set myFiles to choose file with multiple selections allowed
repeat with myFile in myFiles
    tell application "System Events"
        set myName to the characters 1 thru ((offset of "." in (name of myFile as text)) - 1) of (name of myFile as text)
        tell application "Finder"
            set myExtention to name extension of (myFile as alias)
            set myNewName to characters 1 thru (((length of myName) - 10) as number) of (myName as text)
            set name of file (myFile as text) to (myNewName & "." & myExtention as text)
        end tell
    end tell
end repeat


Having same information on several devices

If you are looking to sync data within the Apps, that will vary from app to app.  Look for iCloud support there.

If you are looking to have the same deployed content on each, look into iPad Configurator, which supports mirrored configurations.


No. iOS/iPad is only able to act as a USB host with the Camera Connection Kit (Apple Store). Even then, it only works to import/export pictures and videos between the iPad and camera.


Are all iPhone4 apps available for iPhone 5 also?

All for previous iPhone and iPod touch devices will run, but won't necessarily be optimized for the larger screen. If that's the case, the app will run at the previous (3.5" size) with a black bar above and below the app's content.


Looking for Text Editor with File Browser for logs

Use Atom: https://atom.io

  File system browser

  Easily browse and open a single file, a whole project, or multiple
  projects in one window.

With log files it looks like this:


I have learned today that dtrace isn't really supported any more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17853312

I'm leaving this out in case someone runs into this.


It is still there and it looks like this

Under the History Tab - Show Top Sites

in my Safari 6.0.5


How to save passwords for ssh in iterm2?

iTerm2 has an excellent password manager.

Go to the Help Menu and start typing "password manager"

It will bring up an an animation showing you where the menu item is located. iTerm2 has one of the best help menus/system in the business.


Transfer files to iPad via USB from Android

This is currently not possible using a lightning/USB port.

Apple does provide an alternative though.

See the corresponding support article: Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch


Allow Wallet access on lock screen "only" when the device is unlocked

On your iPhone running iOS 11:

Go to Setting app → Touch ID & Passcode.
Scroll down to Allow Access When Locked section.
Turn off the switch against Wallet.

This will disable Wallet access when the device is locked.


Unable to upgrade/update iPad 2 from iOS 5.1.1 (to iOS to 9.3)

Welp, I resolved this problem, or rather, iTunes decided to resolve this problem for me after some hesitation; it finally prompted me to update the device (after telling me it wasn't supported -_-). So if you're in my boat and exhausted all of those "turn it off and back on"-esque options, hopefully fidgeting with iTunes grants you the opportunity to update.


Bluetooth keyboards ARE available with the keys that you need.  For example Apple makes this one:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184S/B/apple-wireless-keyboard

but I am sure there are others.

You have to also set the layout in iOS.  Tap on Finnish in the list of active keyboards and go to the Hardware part of the menu that appears and choose "finnish".

If for some reason you are only able to use a hardware keyboard with the US layout printed on the keys, then (after setting the Hardware layout in iOS to Finnnish) you should get ö from the ; button and ä from the ' button.

It's not possible for users to add new keyboard layouts to iOS yet.

Another solution might be to try using settings/general/keyboard/add new shortcut to make shortcuts you find convenient for the extra characters.


I recently did this very thing. I backed up my OS and files to an external drive (not a thumb drive), installed the new drive with new OS, and restored the Time Machine backup to the new drive. The whole process took a couple of hours. The best online video for doing this operation IMO is here: http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/mac_mini2011_hd/
Replacing the hard drive will not void your AppleCare warranty. OWC addresses this issue on their blog: http://blog.macsales.com/18244-owc-diys-wont-void-your-macs-warranty

NOTE: I have done the restore process in #1 using both Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. Each is different, but relatively simple.


Do I have an SSD and a hard drive on my MacBook Pro?

If you consider SSDs being hard drives then you have an SSD and a hard drive on your MBP. It's still only one device with ~500 GB disk space.

The main partition of your SSD is encrypted with FileVault2. While enabling FV2 the main partition is transformed to CoreStorage which is an LVM - an additional layer between physical disk and file system. The resulting Logical Volume is shown as an additional disk in Disk Utility/diskutil info.

A common partition layout looks like this:

disk0 (500.1 GB) → disk0s1 (209.7 MB) EFI
                 ↘ disk0s2 (499.4 GB) Macintosh HD
                 ↘ disk0s3 (650.0 MB) Recovery HD

disk0s2 (Macintosh HD) is mounted to root (/)

After converting the disk to CoreStorage, disk0s2 is converted to a Physical Volume which sets up a Logical Volume Group. The existing file system on disk0s2 is shrunk a bit, converted to a Logical Volume and encrypted:

disk0 (500.1 GB) → disk0s1 (209.7 MB) EFI
                 ↘ disk0s2 (499.4 GB) LVG/PV → disk1    (499.05 GB) LV/Macintosh HD
                                             ↘ metadata (~370 MB)
                 ↘ disk0s3 (650.0 MB) Recovery HD

Now disk1 (~disk0s2) is mounted to root (/).

So disk1 is almost congruent to disk0s2 (except some 100 MB at the end of disk0s2 which is used for metadata and isn't encrypted).

CoreStorage is not limited to encrypt volumes as FileVault2 "container". Every regular volume can be converted to a CS LVG/PV/LV. Apple uses it to create Fusion Drives and SSDs are usually partitioned/formatted as CoreStorage volumes.


Missing Safari settings option "Safari opens with"

That option has been removed from recent versions of Safari.

I'm not aware of which exact build removed it, but I can confirm it is gone and should be gone on all clean installs of Safari on top of OS X 10.8.3 and later. After running all available updates as of May 1 - you should have Safari version 6.0.4 (8536.29.13) and no Safari opens with preference.

Unless you have a defaults write… terminal command to re-enable that setting as a hidden-features, spending time troubleshooting this would be inadvisable since the control you are looking for is gone for now.


Calendar.app and Reminders.app are distincts apps. They do not share their data even when stored on the cloud.

So no, Calendar won't show you reminders.


My mom can't send me iMessages and she has iPhone4 and I know iMessage works on my iPhone 5

I'm with you, this pisses me off. This small explanation may help:

iMessages on an iPhone has two ways of sending a text.

iMessage

  This is the blue colored bubbles. It requires data to be turned on to
  send and receive messages. It goes through apple servers. This can be
  sent between macs, iPads, iPods, and iPhones.

SMS

  This is the green colored bubbles. It does not require data and it
  goes through cell towers from your carrier. This can only be sent to
  phones, including android phones, those old Nokia phones, and anything
  that can receive text messages. It does not send to a mac, iPod, and iPad without cellular

On an iPhone you can have both enabled, or just SMS. You cannot disable SMS.


Why is arp -a showing so many incomplete addresses?

It's not an issue.

It just means that there is some node on your network that's sending traffic to a non-existant IP address.


Under System Preferences → Users & Groups → Guest User after you have allowed Guest user login by checking Allow guests to log in to this computer, you'll get an option to Enable parental controls.

Clicking on Open Parental Controls... button will present the setting for the configurations you are looking for. You can limit Guest user access to select apps, allow access to only a select websites and set other restrictions.


How to update iPhone via iTunes without getting rid of apps that I purchased?

Make sure you have all your apps already loaded within your iTunes library. Then you can safely upgrade your iPhone via iTunes. At the end of the upgrade process iTunes will sync with your iPhone and will put back all your apps to your device.


iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Way to type multiple capital letters without having to press SHIFT before each letter?

Tap the Settings app. and click on the General *menu* > the Keyboard. Then turn "Enable Caps Lock" on.

Now just double-tap the shift key to enable caps lock once using the keyboard.

you can see with image tutorial here.


It sounds like a hardware failure, however if you have the ability create a boot drive for yourself and try starting up off the fresh volume to test the microphone, that would be ideal.

If you don't have a boot drive ready yet, you can try creating a test user account to try the microphone under.

Check the drive using disk utility, just in case as well.

I have a faulty microphone on an iPad that acts the exact same way -- physical taps and bumps will be picked up but nothing standard. I suspect the microphone unit fell out of place, something shorted out, or something physical damaged it.


The GUI is located in the Apple ID > iCloud >  Options -> Look Me Up By Email window.

Mine is blank:

So why is mine blank and your filled? Because Apps that use iCloud can offer this service to other iCloud users so that they can find you.

As discussed here and here and here and here, one way to remove the app is to delete it.  It may be that some apps give you the ability to turn it on or off, but it's really an app thing.

EDIT:

If the MarginNote application is not installed and you are still seeing this GUI, try this:

Open Terminal.
Type: find $HOME -name '*MarginNote*' -ls
Post the output.

If that doesn't work, then try this:

Install on a new machine (or in a VM), just so we know everything is clean.
Log in but do not add your Apple ID.  You should not see anything in the "look me up by email" GUI.
Log into iCloud but disable every service. If you see things in the GUI, then it's somewhere in your iCloud count that you can't reach.
Sync just the iCloud drive. If it appears, then there is a file in your iCloud drive that has this information. Go into Terminal and list all of the files with the "find $HOME -name 'MarginNote'


How do I make multiple screen recordings with the exact same portion of the screen

UPDATE: Answer by @Andre LaBranche is better, go read that

Save this script as caperture.swift:
#!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift
import Foundation

// Start QuickTime Player using AppleScript
func startQT() {
    var scriptToPerform: NSAppleScript?
    let asCommand = "tell application \"QuickTime Player\" \n" +
            " activate \n" +
            " new screen recording \n" +
            " delay 1 \n" +
            " tell application \"System Events\" to key code 49 \n" +
            " delay 1\n" +
            " end tell"

    scriptToPerform = NSAppleScript(source:asCommand)
    var possibleError: NSDictionary?

    if let script = scriptToPerform {
        script.executeAndReturnError(&possibleError)
        if let error = possibleError {
            print("ERROR: \(error)")
        }
    }
}

// Click and drag the mouse as defined by the supplied commandline arguments
func dragMouse() {
    let args = UserDefaults.standard

    let x = CGFloat(args.integer(forKey: "x"))
    let y = CGFloat(args.integer(forKey: "y"))
    let w = CGFloat(args.integer(forKey: "w"))
    let h = CGFloat(args.integer(forKey: "h"))

    let p0 = NSPointToCGPoint(NSMakePoint(x, y))
    let p1 = NSPointToCGPoint(NSMakePoint(x + w, y + h))

    let mouseDown = CGEvent(mouseEventSource: nil, mouseType: CGEventType.leftMouseDown, mouseCursorPosition: p0, mouseButton: CGMouseButton.left)!
    let mouseDrag = CGEvent(mouseEventSource: nil, mouseType: CGEventType.leftMouseDragged, mouseCursorPosition: p1, mouseButton: CGMouseButton.left)!
    let mouseUp = CGEvent(mouseEventSource: nil, mouseType: CGEventType.leftMouseUp, mouseCursorPosition: p1, mouseButton: CGMouseButton.left)!

    let kDelayUSec : useconds_t = 500_000

    mouseDown.post(tap: CGEventTapLocation.cghidEventTap)
    usleep(kDelayUSec)
    mouseDrag.post(tap: CGEventTapLocation.cghidEventTap)
    usleep(kDelayUSec)
    mouseUp.post(tap: CGEventTapLocation.cghidEventTap)
}

if (CommandLine.arguments.count != 9) {
    print("usage:")
    print("    ./caperture.swift -x 100 -y 100 -w 400 -h 300")
} else {
    startQT()
    dragMouse()
}

Once the caperture.swift file is saved. You will need to make sure that it can be executed.
In Terminal.app run the command:
chmod +x caperture.swift

Then you execute it with:
./caperture.swift -x 100 -y 100 -w 400 -h 300

This will start up QuickTime player ready to start recording like this:

It relies on AppleScript and swift so you'll also need xcode installed.
This was really useful for me so I've put it up on github as caperture in case anyone wants to improve it.


How do I stop Launchpad from changing app/folder order?

You're not the first one to have this problem, and I'm afraid the answer is that it's a bug that has been reported to Apple.


Cannot delete windows partition from mac

First of all, try both repair disk (if grayed, then verify), and repair disk permissions. If you are still unable, boot to single-user mode (Command +S  on boot) and type in the following.

/sbin/fsck -fy

Press enter, then type reboot.

If it still does not work, then do the following, but be sure to backup:

Hold Command +R  on boot to start Recovery mode, select disk utility and do it from there. If it is grayed out, select the partition scheme to 1 (or 2 if you need Untitled)

Warning: There have been reports that setting the partition scheme to 1 or 2 can erase all your data. Be sure to backup before attempting to do this.


Is there a way to write with FTP using the Finder

Finder only has read access to FTP so you need to use a client, but Transmit provides Finder integration so you can connect to FTP read/write using Finder with Transmit. You need to use the Finder integration.

Add the server to Transmit GUI as if you were connecting just using the GUI.
You can choose Mount as Disk to connect using Finder.

To connect more easily in the future, show Transmit Disk in menu bar, which allows you to connect to servers in that list without Transmit running just using Finder.

With the server mounted, you can work with files and folders as you would any local disk.


iCloud running out of space, but it's not

Open System Preferences and inspect your iCloud Storage there. What you are looking at in Finder is only the size of your iCloud Drive files.
After opening System Preferences, select "Apple ID" in the top row, or "iCloud" in the bottom row if you are running an older version of macOS. On this screen, you will see a meter indicating your storage usage. Hover over different segments to see information about them, and click "Manage" to see more detail.


David Anderson's comment is on target, some Macs do not support Windows 10. Annoying but true. So we gotta know what Mac you have.

As an aside you can download the bootcamp.app and then right (or control) click on it and "Show Package Contents." There will be a .zip file in there somewhere (possibly an .exe, sorry it's been a while...) with all the drivers in it that you can then copy to the Windows partition and install. But that working will depend on if that package has the drivers for your specific make and model of Mac.

Also some people have had luck going into device manager in Windows and finding the make and model of the "missing" hardware and installing "generic" versions of those drivers directly from the manufacturers website. EG A video card from NVidia you would get off the NVidia website, not Apple's.