4SNS TCBC - Which Mac Pro sensor is that?

I rang Apple in the end, they didn't know either without seeing it. 8-)

Suggested I take it in for a free diagnosis.

Before I did that I tried taking the heatsink sensors connected off and replacing it.

Bingo, all fixed.

So the answer must be that this error is the heatsink sensor.


iPads on Business account need to group message

If you are using the same Apple ID to login to all the iPad, how will you identify who sent which message?

If the identity of sender and recipient are irrelevant, and you just need the message to be synced across all the iPads, an inelegant but simple approach is to send the message to yourself, i.e. the same Apple ID which is logged into iPad.

The downsides will be that the each message will appear twice, once for sender and once for receiver. Also, the message will be marked as read immediately.

The solution discussed above is not elegant and it is recommended that you register each iPad with unique Apple ID, and create an iMessage group conversation with all the recipients added.


When resuming from hibernate, weird garbage on screen

By default, the MacBook actually copies its RAM to disk any time it enters sleep mode (called Safe Sleep).  You'll notice this because when you close the lid on your MacBook, there will be a few seconds before the light on the front starts flashing.  When the battery gets to 0%, all the computer needs to do is power-off, since the RAM state has already been saved.

This makes me wonder if the problem is happening anytime you return from sleep, or only when the battery hits 0%.

I had similar issues on my MacBook, where the laptop wouldn't return properly from sleep mode.  These have gone away for me since disabling hibernate and disabling lid wake.

Many people with SSD disks choose to disable hibernate as the process of Safe Sleep causes a lot of extra writing to the disk (and SSDs have a limited writable lifespan).  Since you've upgraded to 8 GB, the laptop is writing 8 GB to disk each time you close the lid.

Note that disabling hibernate will also let your laptop enter sleep mode instantly when you close the lid (something I really like).  You'll also recover 8 GB from the sleepimage file, which is pretty valuable on a 128 GB drive.

The only concern is that disabling hibernate will be a problem for you if you actually do hit 0% battery frequently.  In this case, it will be as if the laptop had been powered off (crashed).  That's not the end of the world, but you will lose any unsaved documents you may have been working on.  The solution:  don't let your laptop get to 0% battery and shutdown the MacBook when you know it will be off for an extended period of time.

Disabling lid wake prevents the laptop from returning from sleep until you hit any key.  I believe this is what actually solved my display issues, but I'm not sure since I did both.

In any case, here's what I suggest for people with an SSD:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo pmset -a disksleep 0
sudo pmset -a lidwake 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

Confirm the settings with sudo pmset -g.

You can find more tips to optimize your MacBook for your SSD here:  http://sysadmin.flakshack.com/post/9253439680/ssd-tweaks-for-mac-os-x


Yes.

In the Messages menu, there's an option to uninstall the beta. Apple just messes with the App bundle to add support for the iMessage protocol. The underlying app is pretty much the same.

See this AskDifferent Answer and this post which it references for more information.


How to get photos back which weren't saved to my iCloud account?

If the phone was erased as part of the repair, no, there is no way to get them back.


It turns out there was no way to change my SSD to APFS without formating.
I ended up using "carbon copy cloner" cloned my SSD to internal hard drive, then formatted my SSD to APFS, and cloned everything back to SSD. All good now and I was able to upgrade without trouble.


iPhone is being accessed remotely and sending messages

Inform your lawyer immediately. If you don't have a lawyer, get one now. It is essential that what is happening is documented. Law enforcement (your local police, constabulary or gendarmerie) may be able to assist if you are being harassed.

If you can afford to purchase a new iPhone, even a refurbished 5s without all the extra RAM & whatnot, do so. Create new email & iCloud accounts. Use a password manager such as LastPass, any two-factor authentication available and turn off the old phone.

To block your Caller ID information from being displayed temporarily for a specific call: Dial *67. You will need to dial this for each call you want to block. Enter the number you wish to call (including area code).
Tap the Call button. The words "Private," "Anonymous," or some other indicators will appear on the recipient's phone instead of your mobile number.


Problems creating a Live USB for OS X from Linux Fedora 25

thanks to klanomath, i realized that there was a much simpler way to fix this issue. it basically consists of: pressing alt command r in boot, to enter internet recovery. please notice that this will only work in macintosh computers released after 2010-2011. after doing so, the computer will connect to the internet and you will be able to download the stock version of your os from the cloud. after doing so, install it, then boot into the os. if it is like a really old version, you can boot into recovery mode (now installed). and download the latest version. if this procedure doesn't work, you can also download the latest version of macosx, and using createinstallmedia command in installation media, and install the latest version of osx


Tool to objectively test performance various external drives on my Mac via USB & Thunderbolt

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

If you're interested in read and write speeds there is an app called Black Blackmagic Disk Speed Test available on the App Store. This doesn't have a database to compare with others but can give you actual speeds for your internal and external drive.


Read about Gatekeeper here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5290
https://www.apple.com/osx/what-is/security.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper_(OS_X)

I have not seen v14.0 myself,


Simply open Game Center on your iPhone, switch to the games tab and swipe left on the games you want to remove. This will present you with a delete button.


Is there anything similar to TouchDown for iOS?

how about the iOS version of TouchDown? :-)

http://nitrodesk.com/touchdown/ios/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchdown-for-ios/id560596861?mt=8


I would not sync, so no this isn’t right IMO. Use iCloud if you want to sync photos between a Mac and an iPhone is my advice.


PRAM and NVRAM differences and overlap with eachother and UEFI firmware chip

Yes, PRAM is stored on the same NVRAM chip as the firmware variables, but it is managed separately.  It actually shows up as a device in the firmware device tree.

HT1242: What's stored in PRAM

When you reset one, you reset the other.

HT1379: Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM

AFAIK, Apple has never supported direct developer access to PRAM, so it is not documented well (or at all).  The functions readXPRAM and writeXPRAM can be used to access the raw bytes, although these days they are just wrappers around IOKIT functions which access the APL,MacOS75 partition in NVRAM.

The nvram command line program only manipulates the firmware variables stored in NVRAM, and so does not let you access the PRAM partition.


Upgrade to Mavericks from an external HDD

Yes this is entirely possible. Download Mavericks from the Mac App Store and in the install process select your internal disk as the destination for the install.


Generally speaking there's nothing you have to do except launch the application that supports your hardware.

If you add a new network device, it is immediately listed the next time you open the Network preference pane in System Preferences.

If you add a new sound device, is it immediately listed in the Sound preference pane in System Preferences. (You can also Option+Click the volume icon in your menu bar within seconds of plugging your device in and see it in the list.)

You don't need to "add new hardware" to use it. If it is compatible, it generally just shows up.


To diagnose Hardware problems on your mac, you can follow the instructions located at https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202731 it typically takes around 10 minutes to diagnose.


Why does QuickTime's screen recorder make my MacBook Air very slow while recording?

Not exactly a solution, but some observations that might provide a clue:

Issue also seen on my Mac mini (Mid 2011 - 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 + 8 GB DDR3) after upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion
QuickTime no longer saves the recording to ~/Movies/Screen Recording.mov, but instead saves it to some temp location and when done recording, you need to save/export it.
Downgrading quality to medium quality didn't help

[Update 11/17]

Even my new Macbook Pro Retina 15" has this issue.

I happened upon a tutorial that showed someone using VLC to screen capture on a Mac and decided to give it a try. It turns out that functionality was removed from VLC on Lion and Mountain Lion and the reason was provided in this this thread: Mac OS Lion, VLC screen capture does not work:

  Apple completely removed the API to capture the screen and replaced it with something totally different. Until anyone steps up and implements the new one, this feature is not available to Lion users. It remains accessible to Snow Leopard and Leopard users of course.

I'm not sure if this is also what's causing QuickTime on Lion+ to be super slow.

I did find an alternative which is working out really well for me: Voila

Available on the App store for $10 and records w/o performance issues. I was skeptical at first, so I downloaded its trial, and was extremely happy with the performance. $10 is definitely more than free, but depending on how often you need to record your screen, this is well worth the money in my opinion.

It supports both JPEG and H.264 encoding, but only records up to 25fps. For audio, it allows you to select which input and even allows you to use the computer audio (something QuickTime didn't allow and you had to use a separate utility like Soundflower).


What software can add a Windows-like taskbar to the Mac OS?

Philip, believe me, it is much better spending some time to learn (and settle in) with OS X style of work than looking some Windows taskbar solution.

Assuming that you have a new OS X notebook, you probably have multitouch trackpad too, so try the following:

Go to System preferences (via the Apple icon in the menubar)
In the General set the following:

Later you will set direct opposites, (automatic scroll bars, jump on the clicked spot) but for the switchers the above is good for a start.

Next, go to Dock and set like:

The minimize-windows-into-application icon will partially simulate the Windows taskbar, so you will get:

where you can clearly see than the "doc" file is minimized into the app-icon and the untitled is opened.

Third: setup full trackpad gestures - click every checkbox on Trackpad preferences. Take some time to learn 3-finger and 4-finger gestures, especially "swipe 4 finger up/down" and move drag with "3-fingers" (instead of click & drag). This is very not-windows-like, but later will thanks to settle in with this.

After a while you will learn to use it automatically, and will find than you don't need a Taskbar. (Because of "Mission control", "Application windows" and "Show desktop" swipes,)

Four: Setup hot corners in the "System preferences -> Mission Control". Click "Hot corners...". My setup is:

In the "Mission control" uncheck "Show dashboard as space" - left-bottom corner will show to you the Dashboard when needed.

The hot corners will help when you don't want use "swipes". The bottom two corners (around the dock) are for the "applications" (Launch Pad & Dashboard), the upper two corners are for "windows" (Current app-windows and Mission control)

The above is my 2cents - maybe someone will suggest better setup - from my experience the above helps my "switchers friends" greatly.

EDIT after 1.5 years.

Because of commnents I want clarify some things. At time of the question, was not here really usable software what behaves exactly as windows taskbar.

Therefore I tried answer with a setup, what should help switchers as much is possible.

It is not easy to have windows-like taskbar - here are several points:

1.) The taskbar's notification area (commonly referred as systray). In the OS X the top menubar is the place where are placed the notification icons like, date, battery and so on. Moving them to some taskbar like sw is probably not easy.

2.) Taskbar's start-menu. With the above hot-corners setup, the "bottom left" corner is the "Lanuchpad", from where the user can launch any installed application. (Can group applications into categories and/or pages.) It is similar (only similar - not the same) as windows start menu.

3.) Some actions, (what are in the windowsish start menu) in the OS X are in the apple menu, like: shutdown, sleep, logout.

4.) Taskbar's quick-launch area. The whole Dock is like (again, only like - not the same) as the windows-taskbar's quick-launch area, from where you can launch frequently used applications. Similarly as in the taskbar, with the right click on the application icon you can see (and switch) to different instaces of running application or can open recently used files)

Soo, if for someone the above sounds as "opinion", sorry for this, but it is not true. I tried (again, only tried) to suggest a solution (with a setup) what should help switchers. A half year later as i wrote my original answer @Krav added the iTaskbar. Feel free to use it. :)


Profile installation failed: No user identifier found in record

I see it's been a while since the question was raised, but I came across the same recently and fortunately found help on the MacAdmins Slack: the cause is that a GUID attribute is missing from the OpenLDAP user record.

In Apple directory services, the attribute is called GeneratedUID.

The slight difficulty is that the RFC2307 mapping in the LDAP configuration does not map any LDAP attribute onto this one.

The Open Directory mapping does, but it doesn't work with my LDAP user database - probably because it is not structured/designed accordingly, but according to RFC2307.

As a workaround, I created a custom mapping starting with RFC2307, and mapped the LDAP attribute apple-generateduid onto GeneratedUID.

Server-side, I added apple-generateduid to all users. This should be a UUID and I simply copied entryUUID. (My first thought was to map entryUUID directly, but it doesn't work - probably because it's a special attribute and not fetched, or not available for mapping.)

To be able to add the apple-generateduid you will also need to add the object class apple-user.

And if these attributes/object classes are not known to your OpenLDAP, you probably have to import the Apple schema files first.


iOS Over the air installation not working - cannot connect to server

According to this answer, any cookies required for authentication are lost during the install process, so the request to download the app (ipa file) will fail. You could try removing authentication for the link to the app, or maybe leaving the app file in Google Drive and see if that works.


Can the mid-2010 Macbook be used with the Apple Remote?

Starting 2010 it is only the Macbook Pro's that support IR.

The last Macbook that supported IR was the 13" mid 2009, and the last Macbook Air was mid 2009


Why do I have to "renew Touch ID purchases" all the time?

Security, if someone else puts his finger into touch ID, he could purchase everything. Or if someone logs in with his apple id on your phone, you could just buy things without knowing his password.

Touch ID isn't linked to your Apple ID, but to your phone


What's the best way to sell my iPhone 3G in the UK?

The lowest hassle way is probably via one of these "phone recycling" sites.  eg:

Mazuma Mobile (offering £172 or £189.20 in Argos
vouchers currently)
Envirophone (offering £160 currently)
FoneBank (offering £161 currently)

It might not be the best deal on offer, but it's easy.  I sold an old (though much cheaper) handset via Mazuma recently with no problems.


How can use ssh to connect to my university network over VPN

It turns out that I did I was being denied access, so I spoke to IT at school and got access. Thank you everyone for your help.


Since you removed that device from iCloud list of locked devices, just put the device in recovery mode and restore iOS from iTunes over USB. That wipes everything, including the cached old password.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

If that fails, post a follow up with the details of the failure like error message.

You could also go through support if needed to prove if you are the original purchaser of the device.

How can I bypass Activation Lock?


Hundreds of filepaths reference to one genuie file

There happens to be symbolic links which puts your ~\Desktop folder in each Data folder. So if you execute the command shown below, the output will contain many printed lines. Most of these lines will show a path through a Data/Desktop symbolic link. Note, the -L option causes the find command to follow symbolic links.

find  -L  ~  -name  sample.txt  -print

If you execute the command given below, the same output will be produced, minus the lines showing a path through a Data/Desktop symbolic link.

find  ~  -name  sample.txt  -print

The output from the above command should contain at least the following line.

/Users/YourUsername/Desktop/Dev/sample.txt

A symbolic link is just a file containing a character string. Each directory entry for such files contains a flag indicating the file is a symbolic link. The character string stored in a symbolic link file can be printed by executing the readlink command. For example, you could enter the following command, on your computer.

readlink  ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration/Data/Desktop

This would produce the following output.

../../../../Desktop

So when symbolic links are being followered and the file name

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration/Data/Desktop/Dev/sample.txt

is encountered, the Desktop string gets replaced by the string ../../../../Desktop to produce

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration/Data/../../../../Desktop/Dev/sample.txt

which is equivalent to the

~/Desktop/Dev/sample.txt

file name.


How can I confirm macOS received a silent update?

Your question did not specify a macOS version, but in macOS Mojave, background updates such as Gatekeeper or MRT (the Apple malware removal tool) will typically show in System Information.app -> Software -> Installations.

Source: About background updates in macOS Mojave


Maximum number of apps icons & pages in folders & total pages on iPhone from iOS 7 thru till 9.0.2?

An easy way to check this is to install Xcode for free from the App Store and look at each simulator for each device you care to catalog.

I suppose someone could make a reference table or Wikipedia article to document this over time, but I’m not convinced this would be useful for things other than a trivia question.


It's not only possible – it's mandatory!

Apple knew that they can't trust their fingerprint sensor to work 100% of the time, so they won't even allow you to enable Touch ID unless you also set a passcode. Once you've set them up, they're both equally capable of unlocking your phone. You can either "slide to unlock" and enter your passcode or just scan your fingerprint - whatever you prefer!

Edit for your clarification: Sorry for the misunderstanding! No, there's no way (Apple-approved; I'm not sure what jailbroken solutions exist) to have both layers of security at once. Either one can unlock your phone, but there's no way to require both. Like I said, Apple wants to always have a workaround for when the admittedly-fallible Touch ID reads a false negative. They'd never allow Touch ID to be an absolutely necessary component of the only way into your phone.


I think this service check your available  disk space.
If you have less than N% (~5%) of your HDD it will show a notification.

Until macOS Sierra this notification could be silenced by selecting (Don't show this again) but on macOS Sierra you no longer have this option.

I have 2% left on my HDD and I had to manually remove (Activity Monitor -> Quit) this daemon so I don't get this annoying notification.

I have searched for a decent way to stop this notification but I think there is only this solution.

Hope this help.


Can't generate a Reflow project from photoshop CC

In the case of exporting Edge Reflow projects, if you are not able to see a menu option for:

File
Generate
Edge Reflow Project

Please check that you have the folder:

  < install directory > /Adobe Photoshop CC/Plug-ins/Generator/reflow.generate

If you do not have this directory, uninstall and reinstall Edge Reflow.

The Edge Reflow installer should automatically install the plug-in for you.


Try this open source software called "Burn". I have used it. It has many options for DVD burning.


I lost my app source files, but have the app on my iPad

Simple answer is no.

Swift (and objective C) is compiled into machine code and much of the naming is thrown away and optimisation will also alter the control structure.

Experienced reverse engineers can get some form of code back but it is not very readable or useful in most cases.

When you start any coding project the first thing you do is set up source code control so you can take snapshots of code.

Note that the " wiped without my knowledge and with no warning" should be expected on any computer. Hardware can fail let alone errors an people mistakenly or deliberately removing files.


Keyboard Shortcut :: Remove Google Chrome Bookmark

Edit
To reverse and accidental bookmark, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and turn on Full Keyboard Access for "All controls". Now one can use the tab key to highlight the Remove button then hit return to reverse.

Use ⌘+L to highlight the URL thus taking you to the Address bar.
From Chrome Support:
⌘+L Highlights the URL.
Takes a bit of retraining of muscle memory, but this is faster and is less complicated than trying to remap the Bookmark shortcut, which is built in by Google.
NOTE: This works in Safari and several other browsers too.


How to switch between Today and Notifications tabs in Notification Center on macOS Sierra?

I did a little googling and couldn't find a native keyboard shortcut other then to just open Notification Center, to whatever view it was last on, and this has to be User set in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control > Show Notification Center. This of course just open Notification Center to whatever view it was last on.

However if you go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, there is "Full Keyboard Access: In windows and dialogs, press Tab to move keyboard focus between:" and two radio buttons, "Text boxes and lists only" (the default) and "All controls". If you select "All controls", then you might be able to use, e.g. tab, enter, arrow keys to navigate the Notification Center. I'm not able to test that at the moment and why I said "... might be able to use ...".

That leaves an AppleScript workaround to be used in either a third-part app that can use the script assigning a keyboard shortcut or an Automator service that a keyboard shortcut could be assigned to.

The AppleScript code below toggles the state of the two buttons in Notification Center.

try
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "SystemUIServer"
            click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 1
        end tell
        tell application "System Events"
            tell process "Notification Center"
                if value of radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow" is equal to 1 then
                    click radio button "Notifications" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
                else
                    click radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
                end if
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end try

You can also modify the code to just act on just a given button if you want. It should be obvious how to modify it however fell free to ask if you need additional help.


How to change the Organiser for Family Sharing

The only way to change the person who is responsible for the payment method (in other words, change the Organizer) is to turn off Family Sharing and have the new person start it over again.

In the Settings app go to iCloud then tap on Family, then your account in the list at the top, then Stop Sharing. This will disband the family.

At this point, your wife can go to the same location (Settings > iCloud > Family) to start Family Sharing again with her account as the Organizer. This will then use her selected payment method for any charges made by the Family members.

Your daughter's account will have to be re-invited to the family. Your wife can also invite your account and once you accept, mark you as a Parent so that purchase requests from your daughter will go to both you and your wife.


MBA doesn't see SSD. How do I recover my files?

More than likely the files ARE recoverable but the difficulty & cost to do so could either be a little or a lot.  My first step would be to start a case with Apple, either by calling AppleCare (1-800-APL-CARE), visiting an Apple Retail Store’s Genius Bar (be sure to make an appointment beforehand) or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP).  This link can help you find an Apple Store or AASP in your area.

With the age of your Mac and the issue you describe it might be tied to the MacBook Air SSD REP that Apple announced a few months ago.  Once they evaluate the issue, which will likely be fairly quick since it's possibly a known issue, they can provide you with info on repairing the Mac and recovering the data.  Apple’s policies prevent their staff from assisting (aside from recommendations) with data recovery but AASPs may be able to provide onsite data recovery or more budget friendly recommendations.

The only other thing you might attempt on your own before seeking data recovery from a specialist is to try and browse your Mac from another Mac.  You can do this by using Target Disk Mode, which is triggered by holding T while powering on your MacBook Air. Once it’s in Target Disk Mode you can connect it to another Mac using a Firewire (with Thunderbolt adapter for your Mac) or Thunderbolt cable.  A functioning drive would then show up in the secondary Mac’s OS as an external hard drive.

Beyond that your best bet is consulting your local AASP and/or AppleStore for data recovery recommendations.


Changing MacOS's IP Address While Booted Off Another Drive

Network configuration information is stored in

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

To change the manual IP address assignment, change the string value at

NetworkServices:GUID:IPv4:Addresses:0

To find the right GUID, see the UserDefinedName value for each service.

If ConfigMethod is set to DCHP, the Addresses array is ignored. See the screenshot below for an example of DCHP configuration (Wi-Fi) vs manual (LAN).


Macbook Pro (late 2016) suddenly stopped detecting my external monitor after a 3h hibernation

This was resolved by buying a new cable. This cable was a USB-C to HDMI.


There are many Apple TV apps for streaming services (e.g. PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, etc.) that will replicate the functionality of a traditional cable subscription.  Your best bet would be to try doing a search in the App store to see which ones are available and what their capabilities are.


revoke forbiddance to send Apple events to System Events

Check setting under: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy

If you find nothing there, then in Terminal, read the man page for: tccutil

man tccutil

You can use the following command to reset all permissions you've set on AppleEvents:

tccutil reset AppleEvents

Note that after doing so, you'll have to respond to all previous queries that may come forward again.

 Note: A few years back there was a project IIRC on GitHub that allowed reading the privacy database and targeting specific occurrences of a set permission, but I think changes in macOS Mojave crippled it. It might be worth doing a bit of googling if you'er looking to target just a specific occurrence of an app permission that is not available in the GUI.


I ended up deleting the entire Photos Library to create a new one. Luckily, all my photos were stored on iCloud and the recognized faces were still associated with the photos after syncing. I have no idea what the cause of the problem was, though.


Downloading and uploading files through Safari iOS

Actually the iOS does have a filesystem, and each app gets access to a sandboxed portion of the file system.

The iOS "system" itself has several programs that do access the filesystem directly, but mobile safari acts more like a restricted app purchased from iTunes than say springboard or the app store app itself.

Uploads are basically impossible in iOS. Mobile Safari doesn't read from the address book (which most sandboxed apps can and will do by default). It also doesn't use the photo picker to upload pictures or video.

Downloads are possible, but often require a helper app to store and use the download. Safari handles mp3, streams, and other media itself and lets you listen or watch the "download". You can't save it in the way a computer allows, but the web server thinks a download happened and safari actually downloads the file to it's cache (where it stays until the cache fills and it ages out and gets deleted). All other file types are handled as the iOS uses UTI file detectors to see which apps installed can handle a potential download. (The developer document I linked to has several paragraphs readable by anyone, but it dives into developer minutia very quickly so feel free to bail on that link before the simple idea behind UTI gets confused)

If safari detects another app has registered for a download, you will see an "open in apptastic" to indicate that mobile safari will download that file but hand it off to another app to store in that app's sandbox.

Safari uses a system API call to have the iOS do the writing across sandboxes.

Since you asked about a zip file, all you need on your iPad is to find an app that tells iOS it can handle zip files, and as long as the sourceforge servers send enough data for mobile safari to detect a zip file, you can download it over to your app. The reverse trip is harder, your ZIP app can't really push a file to safari for upload. Your app has to be programmed to log into sourceforge directly and call the upload API itself. (which technically will probably use the mobile safari code / webkit to do a http upload - but that all happens behind the scenes, not in what we see and control as mobile safari with the blue compass icon)


What you have run into is a fairly common problem with any computer. Once they reach a certain age there stops being updates.

The problem is likely not just Apple. Consider that this Mac was released in 2006, going on thirteen years ago. I do PC/Windows support for a living and we have 5 year old computers with no driver updates available.

It is possible that if you find the make and model of the various components in your iMac (video, sound, network, bluetooth, WiFi, etc.) via Windows Device manager you may find some updates for drivers.

For example if you find that your iMac has a Broadcom L5105 (I made this number up for illustration purposes) chipset, then you would search for Windows 7 drivers for that particular chipset.

But I am betting that you are unlikely to find many (if any) driver updates for 13 year old hardware. Heck Windows 7 itself is end of life in just over a year and Microsoft won't provide any more updates to Windows itself after that.


Homebrew: Rollback from Python 3.7 to Python 3.6.5.x?

If you still have the previous versions available, you can just use

brew switch python 3.6.5_1


Do I need to run out and purchase a new MacBook Pro to upgrade to Xcode 11?

Xcode 11 requires a Mac running macOS Mojave 10.14.4 or later.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_11_release_notes

The download from the Mac App Store is 7.6 GB.

  with only 11 GB left on my hard drive

I would suggest having more free space before trying to download and unpack the app.

App Store: Not enough disk space to install Xcode
Can't update Xcode even with 19gb free space
Xcode free space requirement


How does an iPhone stream HD content to an Apple TV over AirPlay?

The video is not sent pixel by pixel, but is encoded with a suitable video compression algorithm specifically designed to use much less bandwith while still being able to reproduce the original video faithfully to the human eye.

Without having investigated a suitable guess would be that the h264 encoding is used.


One way I know of, which would be tedious to use for all of your photos unfortunately, is to email a photo from the camera roll. When you hit Send on the email, you're offered choices of sending a compressed photo (Small, Medium, or Large), or the original size. Each of the choices lists what the resulting image file size would be, and this includes the original size.


How much free space does fsck need to rebuild the catalog file?

To rebuild the catalog you need continuous space. Obviously, you do not have enough.


macOS Catalina Downloading information to target volume failed ERROR

It is recommended to not make such a large leap in operating system versions, skipping more than two macOS releases is inherently dangerous.  I sincerely doubt it receives the same kind of testing that an incremental upgrade would receive. Ideally, it would be recommended to backup your data and perform a clean installation of Catalina if you can create a bootable macOS flash drive possibly with another Mac.
However you can try upgrading to an intermediate version such as Sierra or High Sierra then upgrade that to Catalina.  A great deal has changed and the big one is the change from JHFS+ filesystem to the new APFS filesystem.
If your disk is encrypted you need to turn off FileVault or you are going to be at far greater risk of a major problem.
Here are the Apple Support pages where you can download various versions of macOS using special links. The downloads are hidden from the App Store via search or are distributed from backend CDN Apple storage. For High Sierra+ the downloads will be made from the App Store but older releases will come from a CDN (Content Distribution Network).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 - Sierra
This will download an InstallOS.pkg that creates the /Applications/Install macOS Sierra installer which needs to be run manually after the InstallOS.pkg.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969 - High Sierra
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190 - Mojave
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475 - Catalina
Instructions on how to make a bootable installation for everything but Sierra
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
El Capitan can be rather difficult to get working, your mileage may vary. I've found it to be far easier to go with Sierra or High Sierra.


Find & Recover correct iTunes ratings etc. & Library from Time Machine

http://macs.about.com/od/itunes/tp/Restore-Your-Itunes-Music-Library-By-Copying-The-Music-From-Your-Ipod.htm

I know this isn't the answer you are looking for, but maybe it will help.


Is it possible to use my own mp3s and Apple/iCloud Music Library simultaneously?

I've just discovered a Mac app, WALTR 2, that I've used to successfully (and very easily) copy some mp3s to my iPhone over Wi-Fi, and they now appear in my iTunes library as local files, with all the correct metadata and album art. iCloud Music still enabled the whole time.

(I am in no way affiliated with WALTR 2, just was having the same problem as you and wanted to recommend an app that works for me.)


FWIW I had huge problems running 10.13.2 thru 10.13.4. I'm on an Apple RAID that's HFS+ formatted. But apparently Apple suddenly dropped support for all RAID, even their own. Very annoying. Fusion is not a raid but it's kind of raid-like in many ways, I can see how that could cause the same problem I've been dealing with. The update runs through the whole process, everything seems to work, then it reboots and is still on the old OS.

But here's how I finally had to upgrade my system: I had to clone my boot drive (the striped RAID) to a USB drive. Boot off that USB drive, and run all system software updates. They worked fine off a single, normal drive. Then I cloned back to my RAID volume. And obnoxious solution for sure, but it worked in my case, it may work for you.


Minimum virtual memory (swapfile) size setting

… set the minimum swapfile size …

dynamic_pager(8) Mac OS X Manual Page
With Terminal, a one-off command to convert a property list to a format that will be easily editable:
sudo plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Then if you're happy to edit with nano:
sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Use option -S to set a size in bytes, then save that property list and either:

simply, safely, restart the Mac; or
unload then load the daemon – but that may be risky (and I suspect that only a restart of the Mac will reap the potential benefits).

That's a single size for all files, and any use of option -S will cause dynamic_pager to not use variable sized paging files:

we can not simply set a minimum – alone – amongst that set of variables.

… I want default allocate minimum 4GB …

Based on my tests with Mountain Lion, you might find that dynamic_pager will quietly fail to begin with a file that is so large.
Proceed with caution – pay attention to the actual size of swapfile0 and if it is zero bytes, then beware of inexplicable reductions to free space on the volume where the files are expected.

… at releasing will never release under 4GB size. …

Consider dynamic_pager option -L

If there are more than low-water-trigger bytes free in the external paging files, the kernel will coalese in-use pages and signal dynamic_pager to discard an external paging file. Low-water-trigger must be greater than high-water-trigger + filesize.


How to unlock iPhone 4 if original carrier doesn't provide the service?

As far as I know, you can't unlock with Apple after you've purchased an iPhone.

In the US, the laws regarding cellphone unlocking haven't changed, but a Library of Congress exemption to the law has recently not ben renewed so you might only legally unlock if your carrier allows.


Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript?

An alternative method is to use Safari's built-in "Reopen All Windows from Last Session" feature:

tell application "Safari"
    quit
end tell

delay 2 -- Wait for Safari to close

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        click menu item "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" of menu "History" of menu bar 1
    end tell
end tell


SSH connection hangs out at SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT recieved

From the log trace and from your screenshot one can see that ssh-agent is not running.  That is what is causing your ssh session to hang and not respond.

There might be multiple reasons for your ssh-agent not running, including misconfiguration or conflict between different versions of ssh binaries installed (Apple original one, macports or brew installed).  The best and easier, unless you're sure what you're doing and you have a reason to do it, is to stick with Apple's original.

Try to revert to a backup installation or re-install OSX properly.

This other question on ServerFault (and my answer) may help you further.


Connecting second screen via Thunderbolt and HDMI

There is a product that should be able to fix this issue for you:  Stay

From their website:

  Stay can store a set of windows for every combination of displays that
  you use with your computer. Stay can also be configured to
  automatically restore windows as displays are connected and
  disconnected.


"iTunes Sync: X items could not be synced. See iTunes for more information."

I haven't got a solution to this yet, but I get the same error (342 items though). The reason appears to be that the iPhone contains 342 hidden voice memos, not appearing within the voice memo app, but viewable (and playable while the iPhone is connected through USB) in the iPhone Device list in iTunes (click the triangle left to the device, see the voice memo playlist).

I will backup and restore to factory setting now. But I'm fearing that the voice memos will be back there when I restore the backup. But then again, I might be lucky.. :)

UPDATE; It did in fact work, I did get rid of the hidden voice memos and the "could not sync" message! Great.

Thoughts on how the hidden memos got there in the first place; I did mess around with the location of the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes, moved it in under a playlist folder, back and forth a couple of times, synced between, in addition to choosing to sync voice memos and not. It was all me testing how the (not intuitive) Voice Memos syncing works. Not sure if this produced the problems though.. but date stamps etc support the thoughts..


I just probed this with dtrace. The PID of the program in question is sent a SIGTERM (i.e., signal 15) from loginwindow.

I also tried this with a stopped process (sent SIGSTOP), so that the process showed as "Not Responding" in the Force Quit dialog and got the same result, loginwindow sends a SIGTERM.

If you want to try yourself, run the following in Terminal:

sudo /usr/sbin/dtrace -n 'proc:::signal-send /pid/ { printf("%s -%d %d",execname,args[2],args[1]->pr_pid); }'

You'll then see the name of the process sending the signal, the signal number and the PID the signal is sent to.


Device name in network has a number in parenthesis and it is incrementing

This does not mess up iCloud devices, the device is getting the name from the router and reporting it. As soon as you rename the device or fix the network to assign a different name, iCloud will reflect the current names quickly.

It definitely is made worse by YazFi, because since I uninstalled it from my router, all my devices have kept their names. I'm going to ask its developer also. This can happen on any network, however with bonjour sleep proxy and dns/dhcp not cleaning old records at the same rate as iOS devices reconnect after sleep.
YazFi's developer had asked people to reply to a thread in SmallNetBuilders forum regarding any issues. Several others created accounts there, but looks new users need to gain a few points to be able to post on the forums (similar to how new users can’t comment here without reputation or make edits without approval).
Getting enough momentum posting on SNB forums to link to this question might help others see it.
Editors note: this answer came from edits to the question so I moved it to the answer. I encourage others to put up a better answer or edit this as needed.


How to prevent iPhone from auto-connecting to unknown Wi-Fi?

iPhone will only auto-join networks that are set to be joined automatically — it won't connect to any random network. SSIDs can be set to auto-join by being manually connected to in Settings → Wi-Fi in the past (the default is auto-join and you can tap the ⓘ to disable auto-join) or because of a profile installed on the device potentially by your carrier or workplace (accessed through Settings → General → Profiles).

You also might need to clean out the check mark to remember networks if you sync settings over iCloud. When one device remembers a network - it will sync to all devices and computers.


My Mac only boots to internet recovery and doesnt install MacOs

i managed to get it back up, i downloaded mac os lion 10.7.5 and i used transmac software to make a bootable USB drive with lion 10.7.5.dmg inside from my Windows 10 machine.
Steps (on windows 10):
1- get MacOS Lion (in my case) 10.7.5 (not older, because if its older you wont be abble to update it to Sierra)
2- get transmac trial software (15 day trial)
3- open transmac as administrator
4- plug in USB drive (8GB or more)
5- on transmac locate the USB drive, click right mouse button and click "format disk for mac"
6-click "yes"
7-when it finishes formatting, click right mouse button again on the USB drive and click "restore with disk image"
8- search and select the Macos Lion.dmg file
9- click "yes" and wait until it finishes (it may take a while)

when i booted from the mac with the USB drive (push the power button on the mac and righ after push "cmd") it gave me another error and refused to install... after a lot of searching i found that reseting NVRAM may help, so it did (turn on the mac holding option (alt)+cmd+P+R), and after the long install process i was on MacOS Lion, and from there i updated to Sierra, and after that High Sierra.

Thanks to all for trying to help me and i hope my experience can help someone in the future.

Sorry for my english


Flickering on certain sites with Intel HD 3000

I have the same issue with a 17" MacBook Pro (Late 2011). I can only solve it by switching from the Intel HD 3000 card to the AMD Radeon one by using the gfxCardStatus tool.


OS X Wi-Fi turning on and off, slows mac down while doing so

It happens—for reasons unknown—that the associated configuration files are corrupt. You find them inside of this directory:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

A good indication of some of these files being corrupt is the configd process hogging the cpu. You can check it in Activity Monitor—making sure that “all processes” are displayed, not just “your processes” (you find this option in the View menu).

You can have the system regenerate the important configuration files that probably make your system go wild by walking through the following steps:

Open /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration in the Finder.
Make a copy of the following four files by dragging them onto your desktop:
  preferences.plist
  NetworkInterfaces.plist
  com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
  com.apple.network.identification.plist

Using the Finder (and being logged on as an admin user), delete these four files from the SystemConfiguration directory.
Empty the trash and reboot your Mac.

By peeking into the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directory you will notice all four files you deleted in the steps above have been regenerated.


Why is my hostname set to a random number (228) in the bash prompt on OS X?

From the list of prompt strings (see PROMPTING in man bash):

\h     the hostname up to the first `.'

Usually, this gives a nice short hostname but in your case leads to the slightly confusing 228.


On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct?

Settings ➙ General ➙ Keyboard:

Turn off Auto-Correction

Make sure Check Spelling (at the bottom of that same screen) is on

Your iDevice will no longer automatically correct misspelled words, but it will highlight them for you. As far as I know this is the only way to have spell-checking on without the Auto-Correct feature.


Is there any way to tell my iPhone to use a different mic than my AirPods?

Only in Live Listen mode (an Accessibility feature under Settings : Control Center).

But in general, no.  iOS devices switch both audio routes (in and out) to the last connected audio output device.  AirPods in your case.


Comma separated list to Columns / Mac Numbers

Rename the file extension to .csv then open the file with Numbers.


iTunes "smart" playlists - unable to limit filter to any other existing playlists

Actually, I received helpful answer from an Apple forum, I have posted it also to the original article
How to create iTunes smart playlist of playlists


port selfupdate fails after upgrading to next OS X version

After upgrading to Lion one needs to reinstall macports as noted here:

Migrating a MacPorts install to a new major OS version or CPU architecture
An installation of MacPorts and the ports installed by it are only designed to work on a single OS release and a single CPU architecture. If you upgrade to a new OS version (e.g. from Leopard to Snow Leopard) or migrate to a new machine with a different type of CPU (e.g. PowerPC to Intel), you may get lucky and have your ports keep working, but in general, things will break. If you are only upgrading Xcode (e.g. 4.1 to 4.2 on Lion) but not the major OS version or CPU architecture, you do not need to reinstall ports as described below.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration


PDF viewer that makes reference checking easy

This is not a split screen solution, but an easy keyboard shortcut to switch between end and current view.

Preview

In Preview you can jump back and forward in your "viewing history" with cmd+[ and cmd+]. After switching to the references at the end with end (or fn+→), you can jump back at the exact same view you were before with cmd+[.

Also remember the page number that is seen in Title bar of Preview and use alt + cmd + G to navigate.

Acrobat Reader

In Acrobat you can do the same and navigate through the page history with cmd+← and cmd+→.


Why is wc -c printing spaces before the number?

This is by design. You can see how wc pads “tabs” by removing the -c so it drops the first number in alignment with where the others would be.

You can gobble up the white space if you need with another pipe, but you should plan on this if you’re scripting things on macOS and don’t drop a different wc command down. The options are endless

echo "test" | wc -c | xargs
echo "test" | wc -c | tr -d ' '
echo "test" | wc -c | sed 's/ //g'
echo $(echo "test" | wc -c)


How can I download photos from Photo Stream onto a new iPad?

Photostream isn't really a synchronise mechanism, it's a push mechanism.

When you take a new photo on any iCloud enabled device with Photostream turned on, it will inform whatever gubbins sits in the cloud which then accepts an upload of that photo, and pushes it out to other devices which are also registered.

As such it can never cater for pictures that were taken before the device was registered to use the service.  It has no way of performing the checking to see if you already have the photo, or options to perform what would effectively be 2 way sync at all, it has precisely no knowledge of your previous photos, and will merely start throwing down photos that are new after being registered to receive the updates.

So, in short, you can't.  To give you an analogy, it's like iMessages.  When you register a new device to receive messages, it picks up from that point onwards, and doesn't catch up on your previous history of messages.


How can I increase text size in single-user mode?

This is going to be your experience with Single User mode until Apple rewrites the underlying code to allow it to understand what retina is.

Photo courtesy of Bev Sykes


Restored from iOS 7 BETA to iOS 6.1.3 and can't activate phone

The activation servers were overwhelmed presumably by the volume of activity on launch day. Now activation fails for a different reason - Apple is no longer signing iOS 6 software during the restore process.

Where can I find information about past versions of iOS and code-signing windows?

Once you get your OS activated either through iTunes or over the air, you will be able to load your backup as you had planned.

Apple would surely make it easier on a segment of its customer base if the service status page were kept updated thusly….


Does PhotoStream send pictures encrypted over the Internet?

Yes, everything sent to or from iCloud is encrypted with SSL:

iCloud Security
iCloud secures your content by encrypting it when sent over the Internet, storing it in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication.
Encrypting content that is sent over the Internet
The following content is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) when sent over the Internet to or from iCloud:

Photos in your Photo Stream
Documents in the Cloud
Backup data for your iOS device

...


Verification failed An unknown error occured on sign in

After removing macbook from list of iCloud devices I run this command in terminal and it resolved the issue:
sudo -v ; killall -9 accountsd com.apple.iCloudHelper ; defaults delete MobileMeAccounts ; mkdir ~/Library/Accounts/Backup ; mv ~/Library/Accounts/*.sqlite* ~/Library/Accounts/Backup/ ; killall -9 accountsd com.apple.iCloudHelper ; sudo reboot


Use Caps Lock to switch to and from languages on Sierra

To switch keyboard layout with caps-lock key you need to
remap caps-lock to F18 with command (in Terminal.app):

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000006D}]}'

Then, go to System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts/Input Sources, use key 'caps lock' to switch input source.

No additional software is required on mac os Sierra.

To keep this working after you logout do the following:
create file ~/bin/caps2f18.sh with the following content:

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000006D}]}' > /dev/null 2>&1

Make it executable:

chmod +x ~/bin/caps2f18.sh

Create file ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.loginscript.plist with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Label</key>
   <string>com.user.loginscript</string>
   <key>ProgramArguments</key>
   <array>
        <string>zsh</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>~/bin/caps2f18.sh</string>
   </array>
   <key>RunAtLoad</key>
   <true/>
   <key>ThrottleInterval</key>
   <integer>86400</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Execute

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.loginscript.plist

logout login, or execute launchctl start com.user.loginscript


Cannot restore iTunes backup - not enough space!

You could back the device up to iCloud or another Mac if you suspect the current backup isn’t good. If you’re willing to forego that extra safety, net then the first thing is to erase all content and settings to see how much space is free.

Try the restore again and then optionally restore the device.  I’ve seen this happen on rare occasion - especially on iOS devices with the smaller flags storage if they’ve been updated over the air a few times. It also could be a sign the storage on the device has started to fail. When SSD fail, they just mark blocks as bad and you get less free space than normal.

You could also make an iCloud backup, omitting some of the apps you don’t need to back up so that the payload is less size. Tap through the settings app and iCloud and manage storage and the device in question. Then turn off the largest items you don’t need (not shown below the content is the apps in CHOOSE DATA TO BACKUP)

Just turn off some and make a second backup in case you need a smaller iCloud backup to restore as a last resort.


I'd suggest that you go down the 3rd party App Store route.  We use Nukona (part of Symantec) here at work.

With one account you can manage all your clients, have multiple apps and limit apps to groups (clients), and if you expand your development past iOS, then it also supports BB and Android.


The starred folder is used for flagged e-mails. If you don't want this folder to show up in the mail.app you have to change the preferences directly in the Gmail web interface.

Go to preferences and choose the label tab. There you can uncheck show in IMAP. After the next synchronization, the folder should be gone.


There is no native Find my iPhone OS X app.

You mention that you have downloaded the app using iTunes, in which case you have downloaded the iOS app. The app will show in iTunes and will only be available on iOS devices.

To access Find my iPhone on OS X, you need to go to iCloud.com.


Git clone error after OS X Mountain Lion update

This error is caused by not having git installed. Your previous installation was probably lost in the update (don't worry, your repos will still be intact).

You can download git from its official page, here.

If you're a member of an Apple developer program you can also install git by installing the Xcode command line tools, found in the Downloads tab of Xcode's preferences.


If you send a group message on your iPhone, anyone else who uses iMessage will respond to the entire group, but that is not the case in your situation.

If one or more recipients is using standard SMS (on an Android, etc.), their response will be a standard SMS message back to you.

You can not prevent getting single messages as replies as long the group is not on same system.

In your case you can create a group in your contacts, then use it to reply to all (from the single message you got).

Here are more details from Apple how to.

  You can send a message to two or more people at a time using SMS, MMS,
  and iMessage. You can send messages to multiple people with group
  messaging and have any responses delivered to everyone in the group.


Which iPhone 5s sold in the US is better to use in spain? Specially for LTE use

Short answer: Get the A1457 model.

You can see the different models and their verified compatibilities here. According to the site, iPhone 5s model A1457 has the support for the LTE bands which are used in most of Europe, while A1453 and A1533 have support for the most common LTE bands in the US. I don't know if the A1457 model is sold that much in the US since it supports only two US-based carriers, but if you can find it, it willl work.


Is there a way to make the iPadOS scrollbar permanently visible across apps?


Connecting 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro to Dell U2715H?

Do NOT use the HDMI video output!

Please buy a Mini DisplayPort cable connect your MacBook and U2715H.


What's a good program for syncing files between computers?

If you can use command-line tools, try rsync.

For the label part, see Rsync filter: "OS X label".


How to auto-run disk repair on OS X after each system crash?

I don't know if OS X already performs some extra checks after hard shutdowns or kernel panics. The verbose startup output looked the same after a normal restart, a hard restart, and a kernel panic:

The OS X volume is verified when starting up in safe mode:

Do you mean repairing the drive, repairing the main OS X volume, or running fsck? http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417 recommends first starting up in safe mode (which includes repairing the OS X volume), or if that doesn't work, repairing the drive or OS X volume from Disk Utility on the recovery partition. It says that you don't normally need to run fsck with journaled HFS+ volumes.

From the diskutil man page:

repairDisk device
           Repair the partition map layout of a whole disk intended for
           booting or data use on a Macintosh.  The repairs further
           include, but are not limited to, the repair or creation of
           an EFI System Partition, the integrity of any Core Storage
           Physical Volume partitions, and the provisioning of space
           for boot loaders.  Ownership of the affected disk is
           required; it must be a whole disk and must have a partition
           map.

[...]

repairVolume device
           Repair the file system data structures of a volume.  The
           appropriate fsck program is executed and the volume is left
           mounted or unmounted at it was before the command.  Owner-
           ship of the affected disk is required.

You could try saving this as ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/repairdisk.plist, but I don't know how to run it only after unclean reboots (or why it would be needed).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>repairdisk</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>bash</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>yes | diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk0</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

See diskutil list or df -h for the identifier of the drive.

diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk0 showed a warning like Repairing the partition map might erase disk0s1, proceed? (y/N), where disk0s1 is the EFI partition. But it seemed to do the same operations as repairing the drive from Disk Utility. repairVolume can't be used with the OS X volume after you have started up from it.


Getting an error after every iPhone sync that some items could not be found

As stated above, try disabling podcast sync, then syncing the phone without the podcasts and re-enabling podcasts sync again.


Are there any “sugars” for Espresso which add brace/bracket highlighting to JavaScript editing?

As far as I can see, there is not. Developing such a Sugar might not be possible from my (very limited) understanding of the Espresso plugin documentation – JavaScript text Actions look like the best match, but the API does not seem to offer the kind of access needed for automatic highlighting. Note I haven’t delved into the ObjectiveC plugin docs (because there are none – the headers included with Espresso are the docs, and my understanding of ObjectiveC and Cocoa is slim, to say the least).


How can I create a smart playlist in iTunes that updates weekly?

First off, live updating is immediate rather than "timed".  Other than that though, there are a couple things you can do to get close to what I think you are trying to do but it can't be exact.  It will require multiple smart playlists for set up and a "playing" playlist that references the others, and it won't be perfect.

Because the updating is immediate, the "playing" playlist will change after a song is played.  This isn't as bad as it sounds, what you want to accomplish is getting the song to come up again until you "love" it - and let it hang around for a little while.

(All playlists below should live update.)

Playlist1: love = none songs.

Playlist2: Playlist1 AND not played in the last week AND plays < 15 AND limit to 4, random

Playlist3: 21 most recently played

Note that Playlist3 looks mutually exclusive from Playlist2 because if you played a song in the last week it can't be in Playlist2.  You could put most of the Playlist2 criteria in Playlist1, but the main thing is that Playlist2 should be a subset of Playlist1.

PlaylistA: (any songs from) Playlist3 + Playlist2, limit to 24 least recently played.  This is the playlist you actually play - play it in sequence of arrival rather than any other sequence.  I chose the sizes of Playlist2 and Playlist3 for the sake of repetition which I will explain later.

Playlist3 + Playlist2 = 25 songs, but you are limiting it to 24.  Because it is 24 least recently played, as soon as SongA is finished playing it will drop off PlaylistA - if it was a song from Playlist2 it will jump into Playlist3, the least recently played song from Playlist3 will vanish from the list, and Song$ will be added to Playlist2 AND SongZ will be added to the end of PlaylistA.  After SongB on PlaylistA finishes playing, it will drop off PlaylistA - if it was on Playlist3 already it will move to the end of it and either SongA or Song$ will be added to the end of PlaylistA, depending on the randomization engine.

Once a song drops off Playlist3, it can only return to Playlist2 in a week or more IF you didn't "love" it AND it hasn't played 15 times.  The songs dropping off Playlist2 and Playlist3 happen immediately, not every week. You might want to experiment to see how long it takes for a song to fall off Playlist3 - the randomization engine may make some songs stick around for a a long time before it gets victimized while a song from Playlist2 may only rotate through Playlist3 a couple times before it falls off Playlist3.  I guessed that a proportion of 4:21 would keep a song rotating for about a week - at an average of 4 minutes per song you will get a "new" unloved song every 20 minutes or so until you've exhausted Playlist1 or Playlist2.  So you'll "lose" a song from Playlist3 every 90 minutes or so - if my math is right (and it probably isn't) a song may rotate about 10 times through before it falls off Playlist3. If you "love" a song that is in Playlist2, it will drop immediately and NOT go to playlist3 since you didn't let it finish playing so you might need to be cognizant of what you are "loving".


Wifi not working in windows if thunderbolt display is connected

I have this exact same problem but in MacOS X Mountain Lion.  The minute I unplug the thunderbolt/minidisplayport, the wifi starts working again.

I found a weird solution on the internet from another Macbook Air owner witht eh same problem as us: access your router and change the channel to 1, or 2, or any other number that works.  For some reason, plugging in the cable disrupts the wifi signal entering the Macbook.

This seems to be a common problem and this seems to be the only solution that works, as many users have tried with different cables and different OS.  Hopefully Apple will provide a firmware update to fix this for good as not always can we access the router (like at my work).  However, as of today (I updated my OS to 10.8.4), this problem has not been fixed properly.

Good luck!!


Any need to connect iOS device to iTunes?

Yes you are. With iOS 7 Apple really has worked hard to make sure that iDevices were an option for people with no other "regular" computer. You can redownload from Apple and back up pictures to iCloud but be aware that you might want to have the ability to get the pictures off a different way (such as a upgraded Dropbox account with 100 GBs) but otherwise keeping things in e-mails and using applications with online storage you should be totally fine.


First, try to boot it off a different drive. It is possible (unlikely) that this is severe data corruption on the drive. You can use another Mac in target disk mode, or you can use internet recovery, or you can use a bootable external drive if you have one.

If you boot another drive and still have the graphic distortions then it is certainly a logic board issue. If it functions normally (this is not likely) then you just need a new hard drive, or maybe just a wipe and reinstall. It's unlikely but worth a shot.


Easy Solution
For a free GUI solution, you could use EasyFind. To search inside applications, you just need to check "Package Contents" in the sidebar.

For a quicker search, you can limit the search to just the Applications folder by using the menu under the search field (on the far right).

Command Line - Find
In Terminal, you can use the find command:

find /Applications/foo.app -type f -name "bar"

Replace foo.app with the name of your app, and replace "bar" with the name of the file you want to search for.

If you want to search all apps in /Applications, leave out the /foo.app part of the command.

If you want to include folders, remove -type f, if you want to search only for folders, change -type f to -type d. You can also use the * wildcard in your filename to get partially matching results.


How to correctly download WWDC videos from iTunes U?

I had the same problem and setting iTunes to run in 32-bit mode fixed it for me. There might be an issue with the video encoding on some of the older WWDC videos like the "Working with Core Data" video that can be found at the Apple developer video site under iOS.

To set iTunes to run in 32-bit mode:

Quit iTunes.
Open your applications folder and control-click or right-click on the iTunes icon.
Select "Get Info".
Click the checkbox next to "Open in 32-bit mode".
Open iTunes again and you should be able to download the videos to your collection.

When you are done with your videos, you can always reverse these steps to set iTunes back to 64-bit mode.


The Apple ID you entered couldn't be found or your password was incorrect. Please try again. | In-App Purchase

Contact the developer, if no solution ask for a refund via https://reportaproblem.apple.com/


A website to upload my ios app that anyone can download

Sorry, no...
The only (legitimate) way to do this is via the Apple App Store.
There may be a way to do this for jailbroken devices but that would be off-topic (I believe) for AskDifferent.


Cannot update anything in macOS App Store (currently running High Sierra, 10.13.1)

Muhammed,
I've seen the first part of that behavior before with updates, and while not exactly intuitive, it is normal. macOS is typically downloading and installing in the background, and the update screen won't respond until that is done.

However, you said you left it running for days.  That doesn't sound so normal.  I'm going to presume you have some sort of high-speed Internet connection (at least 10Mb/sec), and if that's the case, it's probably not your Internet connection.

However, If you want to see the progress of the download (if there's one going at all), look at the "LaunchPad" icon on your Dock.  It will display progress bar below it when something is downloading and installing.

If there really is nothing happening, try logging out of the App Store and back in.  To do this:

Open the App Store
Click on the Store menu
Click "Sign Out"
On the Store menu again, click "Sign In..." and sign back in

That will probably do it for you, but give it a try and see.


Can I have different Apple IDs on my iPhone 4S?

Each place you mention is separate so you can use a unique Apple ID in each. Other than the App Store / Music Store where you can only enroll 10 devices in a 90 day period), you can use one account on many, many devices.

In addition, the iCloud account that is entered into iCloud does control Photo Stream, Documents and Backup for the entire device.

Your additional iCloud accounts can be entered into Mail, Contacts, Calendars to have additional:

Mail
Contacts
Calendars
Reminders
Bookmarks
Notes
Find My iPhone


Is there a way to capture part of a screen in full screen mode?

Just use commandshift4 as usual. It just won't display its color overlay for the selection frame. The crosshair cursor should still show up and the screenshot should still be of the selected area.


Does Apple recover tax paid to government on sales on apps?

Apple handles the sales of your app. Technically Apple is the seller, so they collect the taxes. That is why Apple gets 30% of every sold app.

The 70% you get from an app sale are royalties. You only need to add it to your Income Tax.


How can I identify the cause of this SSL error in Safari 6?

Safari 6.1.6 supports only TLS 1.0 (which is increasingly being turned off by servers concerned about the BEAST attack), and there's no error message apart from that generic "SSL error has occurred" in the Console.  You'd need a newer version of macOS to carry on using Safari on those sites.  If upgrading the OS is not an option (for example if you still need the older version of Xcode) then you could try Firefox 45.9.0 ESR, which uses TLS 1.2 (confirmed with www.HowsMySSL.com); that version of Firefox passed its end-of-life in mid-2017 (and more recent versions require a newer OS), but at least it's an improvement over Safari 6.1.6.  However I'd be more comfortable installing a modern OS alongside the Lion / Mountain Lion, or at least using VirtualBox to run a modern version of GNU/Linux inside it, and using an up-to-date browser from there.


Where do I get the correct Boot Camp Support Software for my machine?

If you follow the links given in this tutorial, you will find the drivers for your Mac can be downloaded from the Apple website Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033. If you are installing 64 bit Windows 7, 8 or 10, then you can follow the instructions given as the accepted answer to the question Using Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033 to install 64 bit Windows 7 or 8.


How secure are the different router modes in a time capsule

It depends on what is between the airport & the outside world.

I'm assuming, as it's recommending bridge mode, that you have an ISP-supplied modem/router too, in which case that's what you should do; let the router handle NAT & DHCP & put the Airport in Bridge mode.

Having double NAT is 'not a good thing' & can cause loss in transmission.

Only one device on a network - the one nearest the outside world - should be doing NAT [Network Address Translation]. This is what enables you to have multiple devices in the building, all of which can communicate with the outside world seamlessly, whilst only having one IP address at the router. The router handles which machine each message should be talking to.

DHCP is what handles the offering of in-house IP addresses, to enable NAT to do its job, & also to ensure it knows which device has which IP address & that no two devices have the same address. It is dynamic, meaning you are never 100% certain to get the same address each time; but has a 'memory' of who was who & therefore tends towards giving the same device the same address each time.

Having more than one DHCP server on a network means devices may be randomly assigned an address by either server - confusion reigns.

To specifically answer your question, security is not an issue - nor is security actually handled by either of those services - but effective networking needs one of each service... & only one... done by the router nearest to the outside world.


Mid 2007 20" iMac — Faint vertical lines on display, is this a serious problem?

I wouldn’t be concerned you could use the Mac for a week and then note for yourself if the situation is stable or if you want to start saving money to get it repaired.  We have machines like that that we use for timeclocks of people punching in/out - they’ve  been stable for years with graphics glitches similar to that.

Keep toying around and figuring out how you can make the best use of this regift it would be my advice. I wouldn’t spend any money repairing it.  Save your budget so you could buy a new display if you actually need one.  Get one that would work with both the Mac and a low-cost computer like a raspberry pi.


Is it possible to use custom fonts in Mobile Safari?

No, you cannot install fonts on any iOS device without jail breaking or by creating an app.

But Safari can itself display fonts placed on a server with appropriate html code in the page.


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist would be the first one to try.


Auto renew Apple Developer Program with different card

If your asking about having another credit card associated to your Apple Developer Program, aside from what you have defined on the Apple ID, the answer is NO.

But if your asking about replacing the default credit card information for your Apple Developer Program, you can do the following:

Login to your Apple Developer Account.
Click the Membership menu.
Scroll down to Settings section.
Click on Edit default debit/credit card.

and you will be directed to the Apple ID website.
Go to the Payment and Shipping. and click on Edit.
Set your desired credit card information.
The Save button will be enabled then click it to save the changes.

Apple will now charge the new credit card upon the auto-renewal process on the Apple Developer Program renewal date.


MAC MAIL won’t open. asking about permissions

I've seen this once before and was able to fix it by deleting the index rather than changing the perms.  I didn't (and still don't) really understand what I did to get into the situation, nor what it did by deleting the files, but I got away with it.

Disclaimer: I use mac mail as an IMAP client so blowing away files willy-nilly isn't overly dangerous for me. If you delete each message from the mail server as you download it and the only copy of your mail is on your client, your mileage may vary, at the very least, take a copy of anything important.

On Mavericks, the indices are located in your home directory under Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index


I want to run an applescript whenever a certain person signs onto my Messages buddy list

There is a buddy became available event, that passes in a buddy object. You can use one of the attributes on this object to see 'who' it is (handle, name or full name, for instance).

You can attach an arbitrary script to an event, in the way described at bynkii.com


Can I send an iMessage to a iPad user from my iPhone?

How does an iPhone send iMessages to iPad:

Make sure iMessage is set "on" on both devices
On your iPhone, go to Contacts and find your friend's name to check whether or not you have his email address. If not, you need to add his email address.
On the iPad, go to settings>>messages>>recieve at>>add email. Put your friend's email address from step 2. It will say "verify".
Your friend need to verify by checking his email. There'll be an email from Apple. Open the email and he'll be asked to click on the verify link. Click on it and he'll be directed to Apple's homepage. Just follow the instructions there.
Once your friend has verified his email address, the word "verify" in step 3 disappears. Now you can iMessage him.
On your iPhone, go to contacts and choose your friend's name. Click on "send message" and choose the email address that was just verified. You're now directed to the message screen.
In the "To" field, you 'll see that the email adress is missing "@". Ignore it.
Make sure that the send button is blue. Now just type your message and send.

Hope this works!


Google Backup and Sync super slow and 100% CPU usage for days

I thought it would be more efficient to leave it on but I noticed that the number of files synced was increasing more slowly as time went on. Possibly due to an inefficiency as the back app was continuously scanning unsynced files. After a few days it was managing just 1000 files a day. When I restarted it would manage 500+ in the first half an hour.

Rather than constantly restarting the app here is an Apple Script which helped speed things up. It restarts Google Backup and Sync every half an hours which really helped.

Open the apple Script Editor. Copy the text into the script editor and hit “Run"

repeat
    log "About to start Google backup and sync"
    tell application "Backup and Sync" to activate
    log "Starting for 30 minutes..."
    delay 1800
    log "About to quit Google backup and sync"
    tell application "Backup and Sync" to quit
    log "Application Closed"
    delay 60
end repeat


Factory Reset MacBook but it is in Japanese

The OS Controls language. You will need to boot a different OS to that machine and run through the set up assistant to choose a different language for the new OS or you need someone to make you a new user account on that machine to change the OS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

The only thing that can foil this plan is if there's a firmware password on the Mac. That would prevent you from Internet booting to recovery or bringing another external  OS to the Mac


Where can I find previous alerts or warnings?

Many alerts are shown in Notification Center, available by pulling down from the top of the display.

You can configure which notifications are stored in Notification Center in Settings → Notifications.

For more information about notifications, see

Use Notifications on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch


Disable Trackpad and Keyboard Temporarily

For the trackpad, there’s a setting for this on 10.7 and later.

System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > “Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present”

As for the keyboard: I haven’t tested this solution for disabling the built-in keyboard and wouldn’t recommend doing it either. Apparently you can unload a kernel extension to disable it completely.


How to share files or folders across different user accounts on Mountain Lion?

You can do it by the following method.

Copy all your files you want to share to "Computer Name/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared".

Now all of your users on the same Mac would be able to read the contents of that folder.


Macbook pro mid 2012: Can I install win 8.1 UEFI or will I have driver issues?

Any MacBook Pro with model identifier of MacBookPro10 or less does not have an UEFI. MacBook Pro (15 and 13 inch, Mid 2012) computers have model identifiers MacBookPro9,1 and MacBookPro9,3, respectively. The MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) has model identifier MacBookPro10,1. I assume your model does not have a Retina display, therefore I assume you should install using a BIOS/MBR booting.

I hear UEFI offers faster booting. I also hear this requires a single boot configuration. Well, you will being dual booting with OS X, so you can't take advantage of this feature anyway.

Another advantage to UEFI booting is access to a larger number of partitions. UEFI booting uses the GUID partitioning table (GPT). This has default limit of 128 partitions. BIOS booting requires Windows to use the MBR partitioning table. This limits Window access to only 4 partitions in  the GPT. On Mac computers, generally 3 partitions are used by OS X, leaving a single partition for Windows. There are ways around this single partition limit, but this requires abandoning the use of the Boot Camp Assistant.


Why does Enterprise Connect exit immediately?

Using the command line in the Terminal app and running the application from there with an option attempting to show a list of options I was able to mount the share.  It persisted after pressing Ctrl+C.

$ /Applications/Enterprise\ Connect.app/Contents/MacOS/Enterprise\ Connect --help
2019-02-17 12:14:34.871 Enterprise Connect[38321:1060864] mounting shares is done


How many backups are kept in iCloud and for how long?

How Many/how long would appear to be a bit vague - possibly until you run out of space, but you can choose which backup to restore to from the ones on offer…

From How to restore an iCloud backup that’s older than the most recent one

  First, check out this article on how to restore an iCloud backup to an iPad (too much to précis here) —and yes, the process is the same on the iPhone or iPod Touch as it is on an iPad.
  When you reach step six, your iPhone will ask you to choose an iCloud backup to restore—either the most recent one, or an earlier backup. Each of your older iCloud backups will be stamped with dates and times, so pick a backup that’s dated just before the time you accidentally deleted that one contact from your address book. (Note: If you have multiple iPads and iPhones synced to the same iCloud account, make sure to pick the right backup for your particular device.)
  Once you tap the blue “Restore” button, the iCloud backup restoration process will begin—and remember, it could take several hours, depending on how many apps, photos, music, and other media you had loaded on your iPhone. For more details, be sure to read this entire iCloud backup how-to. same link as above


Is it possible to make Modbook-style tablets from MacBook Pros ...?

You may want to look at this neowin.net forum post. A poster provides a detailed guide to converting an older plastic macbook into a working tablet.

Unfortunately, applying his approach to a newer unibody MacBook or MacBook Pro would be difficult since much of the structural rigidity of those notebooks lies in the keyboard plate. Cutting away that metal to fit your touch screen or pen tablet would leave only the relatively flimsy outer shell to support the notebook. Axiotron addressed this problem in their proposed (and now probably dead) Modbook Pro by building their own housing for the MacBook internals.


Unfortunately, one cannot assign ⌘↩ in:

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services

However, one can assign ⌘↩ in FastScripts.

Note that I am not affiliated with the developer of FastScripts, just a satisfied user of the product.


The property list you are referring to is com.apple.dock.plist. Try using com.apple.dock as the domain.


It's a bit of a strange question to ask if you aren't experiencing any problems.

Yes, that's how you install Xcode when downloading from the developer centre.  However unless you need to run a beta version you're probably better off installing Xcode from the App Store, where you can benefit from update notifications and delta upgrades.


What should my home folder permissions look like?

My home folder's permissions look like this (drwxr-xr-x+):

However, folders inside my home folder (like Desktop) look like this (drwx------+):

Ultimately, the best permissions for your home folder are likely the defaults. As long as everything inside your folder is restricted, you'll be okay. Apple also doesn't recommend changing the permissions for your home folder. If you really want to, though, you can try it out and just use the following Terminal command to reset the permissions:

diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`


Is the new 'replaced' client running on the same level of OS as your other clients?

I ran into the same error message when trying to restore a backup, and only got past it when I first upgraded the OS on the new hard drive to the same level as the prior hard drive was running when the most recent back up was made.  That is, I skipped restoring files to the computer until I completed initializing the new drive, then upgraded the OS, and finally went back and restored applications and documents.


How can I view or clear 'other' storage on iPhone 6s?

Most of the time you can fix issues like this by backing up your iOS device to your computer.

So backup, then erase all settings and data (Settings > General > Reset) and then restore the backup you just made.

Annoying but easy enough and it usually works quite well.


Yes. You can put the VM in an encrypted sparse bundle. This way, the virtual machine can only be run if the image is mounted, and that requires a password.

Open Disk Utility (found in /Applications/Utilities/).
Select File → New → Disk Image from Folder… or press ⌘ cmd+⇧ shift+N.
Select the folder that contains your virtual machine and press Image.
Choose sparsebundle as the Image Format, and choose the level of encryption you require.

Choose a password to encrypt the image. Make sure to uncheck the Remember password in my Keychain box if you believe that they could access your Keychain.
Click OK. Disk Utility will create a sparse bundle to hold the VM.

The sparse bundle should auto-mount (and request for your password if you didn't store it in your Keychain) when you try to perform any action that would require access to your VM.


Does OS X scale the resolution of my screen?

You can use an app like Display Menu, available for free in the App Store, to set the Display to its highest resolution, as well as other available resolutions.

Note that there is a paid Pro version too, for $1.99 USD, which offers AppleScript Support, Retina Resolutions which displays all resolutions with a mouse click and Bookmarks for Quick Access.

I've used the regular version for over 3 years now on my 15" Mid 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display and it's done all I've needed without upgrading to the Pro version. That said, you might find the additional Pro features worth the $1.99 USD.


Connect EOS 600d to Mac Book Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)

Digital cameras are usually not mounted as storage devices. To transfer the photos from the camera, use the Image Capture.app which is under Applications.

Once you connect your camera, it'll show up there.

In the bottom left, see the triangle button. Here you can select whether Image Capture should open automatically once you connect the camera.


Can I use the Bedtime alarm on iOS without using it as a morning alarm?

It doesn't seem like there's a way to do this natively. This is probably because the Bedtime feature is a supercharged alarm -- one which tracks your sleep (although it's not as advanced as Sleep Cycle) and shows you the bedtime notifications. Being able to remove the alarm notification completely would void this core functionality.

However, you could use some other app other than the Clock app for the reminder functionality.

You could simply use the Reminders app, which allows you to set daily recurring reminders. You could even set it to give you a "bedtime reminder" every weekday with a custom repeat option. The advantage of this is that it's completely native. From the notification, you can snooze the reminder by an hour (unfortunately the 15 minute snooze option was removed in iOS 10). A big advantage is that it will stay on the screen even if you unlock your phone, until you mark it as complete. This does not seem to be the case with the clock app's reminder. However, this can be a disadvantage as well, if you want it to dismiss automatically.

Another option would be to use an app such as Due, $4.99. It allows you to set a recurring reminder, but also allows you to snooze it from the lock screen. I haven't personally tried it, but it might allow you to customize the snooze duration. However, I wouldn't use the repeating reminder option, as it seems to have become broken due to iOS 10's new notification API.


Change the Apache user in httpd.conf on MAMP?

AFAIK MAMP is not intended to run Apache/MySQL as www/mysql. However MAMP Pro allows you to run Apache and MySQL either as your user or as www/mysql. This can be done by selecting the respective users in Preferences -> General.

MAMP Pro contains the free MAMP and a free 14-day trial of MAMP Pro.


Bluetooth and WiFi interfering with one another since Yosemite

Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11/b/g/n (WIFI) use almost the same frequency bands:

Bluetooth: 2.402 - 2.480 GHz (79 channels)
WIFI 2.4 GHz (IEEE 802.11/b/g/n): 2.4 – 2.4835 GHz (11, 13 or 14 channels depending on the country)

Usually Bluetooth uses frequency hopping and changes the possible 79 x 1 MHz bands 1600 times a second to avoid disturbances while WIFI uses fixed channels.

Obviously something went wrong developing the latest Bluetooth- or WIFI-drivers.

The only workaround until Apple gets their drivers fixed is using dual band wireless access points. Those devices use two different frequency bands:
2.4 – 2.4835 GHz and 5.18 - 5.825 GHz (with some gaps).
Connecting to WIFI 5 GHz (IEEE 802.11a/h/n) will not interfere with Bluetooth.

Almost all Macs sold since 2006 support 802.11 a/b/g/n.

Apple's answer: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference

BTW: Not only typical RF-based devices (like wireless phones, etc) but also bad-shielded USB3-devices and cables interfere with WIFI (2.4 GHz) and Bluetooth.


Make terminal command use both CPU cores

Depending on the number of PDFs you have to process and the nature of the tasks, you may consider installing GNU parallel in brew.

GNU parallel allows you to execute several jobs concurrently. Example:

parallel ::: yes > /dev/null yes > /dev/null

An example script (containing small errors e.g. line 13 should start with find instead of ind!) how to use parallel and ghostscript can be found here: Quick shell script for parallel OCR on PDFs using ghostscript and tesseract

Please also check the extensive man pages of parallel.


Photo stream is your cloud backup, whereas Camera Roll is directly on your device. So, in short, delete the photo stream. You can completely disable the cloud backup in your settings so it won't keep reappearing.


Ok the cover itself was somehow the issue. After trying out a magnet which was working, a friend came over who also has a cover for the iPad. It's working with his cover. My cover is also not working on his iPad.


make new Finder windows open at current folder

Enable show path in the view menu (not sure about the menu names but it should appear at the bottom of the finder window) then cmd + double click the folder you want to open, in this case, the last folder is your current folder.

I made an image but can't post it :\

Edit: Image example


iPod Touch 1st generation upgradeability

Unfortunately, you can't.

The latest iOS that the original iPod touch can run is 3.1.3 released February 2010
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_iOS


While Screensaver is on, login window keeps appearing. How can I prevent this?

I have the same problem, and it turns out it is being caused by Firefox. This seems unlikely, so I'll lay out the facts below.

At first, I assumed it was mplayer, VLC, or QuickTime player, all of which will disable the screensaver while they are doing their magic. Especially the first, which is installed via Homebrew and isn't properly written for OSX. However, much playing with these indicated they're not the problem.

Later, I guessed it was my attached bluetooth devices. So I've performed two experiments:

I turned on my screensaver then powered off both the keyboard and trackpad, which are the only two input devices attached to bluetooth, yet the problem persists.
I plugged in a USB mouse/keyboard then turned bluetooth off entirely from the OSX menu bar item. The problem persist even with bluetooth turned off entirely.

After some time, I guessed it was a USB device. I have several USB items plugged in, including several hard drives, a vape pen, and Android device. Unplugging these made no difference.

Finally, after the problem had been going on for several days, Firefox needed a security update and a restart. After restarting it, the screensaver/display sleep worked properly.

Now, whenever I have the problem, if I quit Firefox, the problem goes away. If I restart Firefox, sometimes the problem goes away, but sometimes it persists.

I have NO IDEA why Firefox would be triggering this, and if it weren't for the above facts, I wouldn't really believe it myself. If anyone else has this problem and uses Firefox, please try to corroborate?


Upgraded to Lion with an application in Snow Leopard called LaunchPad

Create a Time Machine backup of your current system, reinstall Lion, restore everything but applications from backup, then restore the other applications manually from Time Machine.

If you're feeling adventurous, and have good current backups, you could launch Terminal and enter the following exactly as shown:

sudo rm -rf /Applications/LaunchPad.app

Enter your password and the application should be removed.

Now you shouldn't have LaunchPad.app anymore. You could try to get LaunchPad from a friend, by installing a 10.7.2 combo updater, or by reinstalling Lion.


Any way to get Time Machine to backup to Amazon Simple Storage Solution?

Dolly Drive is newly-announced software that lets you do TimeMachine backups to "cloud storage". Their docs say the space is their own cloud-based storage space, not S3, so that might be sticking point. But other than that it's pretty much in line with what you're after.

In addition to doing the TimeMachine -> cloud bridge, they also help you duplicate your data to a local drive so you can do fast restores without having to wait for delivery of an cloud -> hard drive dump of your data.

Looks promising. I'm lukewarm on the pricing.


You need to open both your cars bluetooth settings (there should be something like "pair new device") and your iPod's bluetooth settings.
That way the devices can get paired. This only needs to be done the first time. From then on, the connection should work automatically.


Where can I find the schematics/CAD model for MacBook Pro's components?

Apple isn't known for making their computer parts user replaceable or making their parts public, because of this I would think it would be highly unlikely Apple would publish CAD files/designs of parts. Here are some possibilities I can think of for finding a CAD file.

Find a patent.
I'm not sure if Apple patented the chassis, but if they did you might be able to find the patent. If you're able to find it you could take the dimensions of it and turn it into a CAD file using a software like Blender, Fusion 360 or any other CAD application.
Contact a third party part manufacturer.
There are multiple third parties that manufacture Apple computer parts. One example of those companies is iFixIt. They provide some parts, kits, and guides for replacing certain computer parts. I took the time to find the parts you need. The bottom chassis is made up of two different parts. The first part is the upper case assembly, the second is the lower case assembly. If you contact them and explain your situation to them, they might provide you with CAD files, this isn't the most likely though.
Using a ruler and CAD software.
You've said you couldn't find any CAD files online so I won't mention that. That leaves one solution. Making your own CAD file, and just so you know, it's probably as complicated and time-consuming as it sounds. It's one thing just to make the part so it looks similar, but it's another thing to make it so it fits.

Good look finding/making the CAD file so you can make this part. I will look for a patent and make an update if I can find one.

P.S. Just so you know the part in the older macs is made out of plastic/rubber and not acrylic.


Is it possible to center align text in the Speech Bubble annotation in Preview.app?

There doesn't appear to be a way to do that (other then manually centering it yourself with the space bar).


My iPhone charger emits a little very high pitch noise when my iPhone is charged... is it normal?

Have you ever wondered why the chargers are so small now days? Depending on your age, would remember that in old days the chargers were big and very heavy. It was the heaviest thing to carry around with your Laptop. Now days there are comparatively small an d light weight.

The new technology use high frequency transformers (15kHz range). That would be the Ultrasound range. If the circuit is not correct you would hear that sound.

Here is a sample how it sounds at 10kHz range.

Normally you should not hear the 15kHz, so in your chase the charger is creating lower (10kHz) harmonics, because it is not working properly.

Warning: If you have a dog make sure it does not go crazy.


Restore a DMG (maybe an OSX InstallESD.dmg or any other application) to the disk/drive via Disk Util. This will overwrite it (deleting all data). Then you can partition again how you like.

I have encountered this several times myself with USB pen drives as well as SSDs inside a MacBook Air. Formatting and Erasing brought up the exact same errors you describe. DD didn't work out, Resizing the partition gave me an error about corruption on the disk. First Aid/Scanning & Repairing the volume didn't yield any results, the tool completed with the message that there wasn't anything to repair.

Only the Restoring of a random DMG to the drives made it manageable again.

Hope this helps!


Resolution problem on external display with Thunderbolt->HDMI adapter

It is the OS update; it includes system protection protocol so Apple is limiting your options of choosing the refresh rate in order to prevent system failure. Instead of fixing the bugs they just take away possibilities.