It's not directly possible to say "Hey Siri. Record my weight as X pounds" currently (up to and including iOS 12).

However, there are two ways you can do this(-ish).

Siri Suggestions: if you launch the Health App (manually) and log your weight enough times, it will start showing up as a Siri Suggestion in Search. This will launch the Health App in the Weight section, and you can then log your weight manually.
Shortcuts: you can create a shortcut in the Shortcuts App. Use the Log Health Sample action, and select Body Measurements --> Weight. This will allow you to manually log your weight from a prompt. You can have it triggered by saying "Hey Siri. Record my weight". If you want you can make this more sophisticated with a combination of alerts/prompts and variables. It is not possible to launch a Shortcut and pass it input in the same statement (i.e. "Record my weight as X pounds", but you can launch the shortcut, and then have the shortcut use voice prompts and take voice input from you (note, you will have to convert text input to a number for the Health App). You will very quickly come to realise that Shortcuts is not a programming language, and gets clunky very fast. It's ugly (and fragile!), but it works (except when it doesn't)


There are several RSS readers and some can sync with google Reader

This includes
NetNewsWire

Other clients include
Vienna RSS


Both panic logs indicate the panic happened in the org.openafs.filesystems.afs extension, so that's the logical suspect.  The OpenAFS page for Mac OS X seems to indicate that version 1.6.0 is current, and lists separate installs for different versions of OS X. Your panic logs indicate you have 1.6.0fc7, which is presumably a final candidate, not the actual release.  I'd disable the extension first, then try installing the current Lion version.


Can I hide purchased music from the Music app in iOS 10?

This Apple Support page describes how to hide/unhide purchased music.

  Hide your purchases

  You can hide music, movies, TV shows and apps in iTunes on your Mac or PC. You can hide books in iBooks on a Mac or iTunes for Windows on a PC.

  To hide purchases on an Apple TV, use the iTunes steps.

  You can hide apps in the App Store on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch if you use Family Sharing.

  In iTunes

  Open iTunes.
  If you’re not signed in, sign in with your Apple ID.
  From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen or at the top of the iTunes window, choose Account > Purchased. If you use Family Sharing, choose Account > Family Purchases.

  If you’re using Windows and can’t see the menu bar, learn how to turn it on.
  Depending on what you want to hide, click Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, or Audiobooks at the top of the window, then click All. All of your purchased items appear.
  Scroll to find the item that you want to hide. Hold your pointer over the item and look for the x icon  in the upper-left corner. Click the   icon.

  When prompted to confirm that you want to hide the item, click Hide. The item hides.


How to automatically back up and archive my photo library?

iCloud Photo Library would achieve a very similar end result.

In Photos, click Photos > Preferences, choose the iCloud tab and enable iCloud Photo Library.

If you turn on Optimise Storage, iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your Mac. All of your original photos and videos are stored in iCloud while thumbnails are kept on your Mac. You can download the original photos and videos when you need them.

Note that your photos would no longer be stored in any backup you make, but iCloud Photo Library does keep deleted photos and videos for about a month.


Is there a way to stop receiving iMessages on OS X when the Messages application is closed?

Yes, you can achieve your desired behavior without disabling Messages on your Mac.

If you turn off notifications for Messages from within System Preferences, you will still receive the messages, but will not be notified that they came in.

You can turn notifications off on the following screen.  Simply click on "None", and deselect all the checkboxes, as illustrated below:


How to nest folders in Finder based on columns in a spreadsheet?

Export the Excel as a CSV (assuming there are only the two columns you've shown above, otherwise delete other stuff first), with the separator set to ,
Open Terminal
Run

while IFS=, read FEEDER SERIAL; do
    mv "/path/to/$SERIAL" "/path/to/$FEEDER/"
done < "/path/to/CSV"

(Replace the /path/to parts as needed)

PS: This assumes that the serial numbers are unique.


Wi-Fi Sharing for Development, using the same IP addresses and domain names from /etc/hosts

Have used this for a while... Plex Connect DNS Server from here, you may redirect using the loop back idea. Make sure to change self.ip to the IP of the machine you are running the stuff off of. Change the Host intercept to whatever, and it will redirect to your "site" you run off your laptop for development.

This will run on port 53, so anything else that could disrupt the service should be shut down.

Below are the line numbers to add/remove your domains, the last is the interception of domain, the other two are for blocking unwanted hosts.

 60-66
 333-336
 445

below are the lines to make changes to

        param['IP_self'] = '192.168.178.20'  # server ip here
        param['HostToIntercept'] = 'mydomain.com'

Note: Be sure to add the IP Address of the DNS Server to your test devices individually, also you may need to change the Self_IP located at the bottom of the script to your machine's IP, available by option-clicking the wifi button, or opening System Preferences -> Networking -> (Connection Name) -> Right hand side close to the top of the window.

Sources:  Personal Experience, PlexConnect, MiniDNS


Disabled 'Shake mouse pointer to locate' setting in El Capitan but still get big cursor

That just sounds like a bug to me. Really, like with all beta software, bugs are to be encountered in the OS X El Capitan Public Beta. In fact, that's the point of betas, let certain users find and report bugs so that Apple, or whatever developer, can fix them before the software reaches mainstream adoption. So, unfortunately, all you can really do is report that bug to Apple, using Feedback Assistant. If you really hate it, then you could either wait for the public release of El Capitan in a couple of weeks or downgrade to Yosemite. You could also try installing El Capitan again, but it just like a bug in the beta software to me.


Apple Mail: Only TLS v1.0 supported on macOS 10.11

This seems to be an issue with MacOS El Capitan and lower versions.  Upgrades to Sierra and High Sierra resolve the issue.

However, there needs to be a solution for users on computers which cannot upgrade to Sierra and higher.


How do I insert a tab character in a Google Docs document on iOS?

In the Google Drive app, within a Google document, there are two indentation keys in the top status bar. You'll need to scroll right to get to them. The right one works just like Tab, and the other is for Shift+Tab.


This reference may help.

For sub/superscripts, it says there is a keyboard shortcut for windows:  Control-Alt-Minus/Plus.

(Can't test this myself)


Why does iPhone Maps app sometimes ask to enable Wi-Fi for "accuracy", even though Location Services (GPS) is enabled?

The iPhone uses assisted GPS to improve the accuracy of the location system using GPS and cell towers. Wi-Fi networks are used to help determine the device's location; this is called a hybrid positioning system (XPS).

Prior to iOS 4 iOS tapped into the Skyhook Wireless database of Wi-Fi hotspots and their locations. Apple disclosed in April 2010 that they had switched over to their own proprietary database.

  If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to augment the crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. In addition, if you are traveling (for example, in a car) and Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also periodically send GPS locations and travel speed information in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for building up a crowd-sourced road traffic database. The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple does not personally identify you.

For your security concerns, read this Apple press release.


Why is Photo on MacBook Pro automatically importing my photos from iPhone?

You have turned on iCloud sync of your Photos on both your MacBook and your iPhone. To stop this from happening, you need to turn this off.

On the MacBook, System Preferences > iCloud. Uncheck the box:

On the iPhone, Settings > iCloud:


My advice would be to boot back into OS X. Erase the USB stick and follow the commands given here using Terminal https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201372

This is Apple's method of doing it and I've found it far more reliable than using Disk Maker X or any drag and drop method. For clarity if your USB stick was formatted as Untitled, the command would look like this:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app

Because you started the command with the word 'sudo' you will be asked to enter your user password, go ahead and do this and then wait. It can sometimes take up to an hour for this process to finish.

Next make sure have a backup before you proceed to do anything. Time Machine to a USB hard drive of equal or greater size than your hard disk will be good enough.

Once the above steps are done, restart your machine with the memory stick inserted and turn the machine on while holding the alt(option) key.

Select the Mac OS Installer and follow the instructions. If you're going for just a reinstall over the top of your existing files, simply select re-install Mac OS and let it run.

If you're going for a completely clean install (recommended if you're having issues) make sure you have backup of your system first then proceed to use Disk Utility to format your main hard drive (best practice is to call it Macintosh HD). Then go back to the installer menu and re-install Mac OS to the newly cleaned drive.


Payment declined to update my billing details in iTunes Store

You financial institution most likely rejected the pre-authorisation, you have to contact the Fraud department of your financial institution (not a bank advisor) and ask to authorise the iTunes Store

You can also use another Credit card or even better, use an iTunes Gift Card instead.


System Integrity Protection breaks DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for python scripts

Note: This only works in the Z shell (zsh).

Although I would normally say this is a bad idea, I can't see anything wrong with doing this with env, which is a pretty harmless command. Try copying env into /usr/local/bin and replacing /usr/bin/env python in the shebang with just env python (without the absolute path). Assuming you have /usr/local/bin somewhere near the beginning of your PATH variable on OS X, it'll pick up the relocated one, which will no longer be covered under SIP. That shebang will also work on Linux.


Connect to OSX via AFP over WAN with a Time Capsule on network?

You could forward port 548 to your MBP server to get back the old behavior of allowing afp://**** to connect to your MBP server instead of your Time Capsule.  This would definitely make your Time Capsule AFP server inaccessible from the Internet and might (but I would hope not) make it inaccessible from your LAN.  Try it and see.  Here is one of many web pages describing how to set up port forwarding.

You can pick any public port you want > 1024.  I'll pick 9898 for this example.  Following the instructions on the linked page, in step 4 set up port forwarding like this:

Description: AFP access to MBP
Public UDP Ports: 9898
Public TCP Ports 9898
Private IP Address: the LAN address of your server, e.g. 10.0.1.100
Private UDP Ports: 548
Private TCP Ports: 548

Then you can access your server from the internet using afp://hostname:9898


How can I stream/record my iOS device to MacOS?

If you want to record videos from your iPhone, you can use the normal QuickTime Player to achieve that.

Just connect your iPhone to your Mac, open QuickTime Player and follow the following steps:

Click on 'File' in the menu
Select 'New Movie Recording'
Click on the small downward-pointing arrow beside the record button

Click on your phone's name under 'Camera'

If you want to record the sound from your iPhone, select your phone's name under 'Microphone' too. Else it will record from your Mac's microphone.


Can I use variable in Numbers cell formula?

I think that the best solution would be to just assign your variable formula to a different cell and refer to that one in your main formula.

Example:

Cell A1:

=5−SUM(C35:I35)

Cell B1:

IF(A1>0,A1,"")

You could then hide the column where the variable is, so you don't have to see it.


Have you tried restarting the dock?
Restarting the computer?

It looks like the icon got corrupted.

My caveat is "When in doubt, cycle power".

If cycling power does not fix it you may try disk utilities>repair disk.

After that you may have to restore iCal from a time machine backup or reinstall iCal.


kernal_task bringing MacBook Pro to a halt - fan problem?

Do you also notice the MacBook getting much hotter on the right side than on the left under load? This would confirm that the right fan is not working, so it wouldn't be just the sensor.

The kernel_task issue is a recently discussed topic and it is often caused by high temperatures. Take a look at this active discussion.

I would replace any broken fans and distribute external hardware that draws power and the power supply evenly between right and left ports.


Hide certain files/folders from "All My Files"

See this this morning on Mac OS X Hints.com:

10.7: Customize All My Files

I agree that in the case of pros, this All my files thing is quite useless because there is way too many files. This is more a consumer-level thing.


Transfering a Bluetooth keyboard & mouse from one iMac to an iMac that has never used Bluetooth

You'll also likely need to turn your keyboard off/back on and make it discoverable.

See:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1809

for a complete walk-through, but to be safe, turn off first mac, off keyboard, then back on while searching on the second Mac (using bluetooth control panel)

Alternately, instead of fully turning off the first Mac, you could just turn off its Bluetooth, which is much faster. But make sure you have a way to turn Bluetooth back on again—if you only have Bluetooth peripherals, this could be problematic.


Where can I find information on sales figure of Apple products?

Apple discloses many of these informations with their quarterly reports. You'll find many sources discussing and analysing these by having a quick search in Google, but you'll also find the original announcements on Apple's website.

Have a look at http://investor.apple.com/

A listing of all press releases with quarterly reports can be found on this page: http://investor.apple.com/results.cfm


How can I use emoji on my Mac as easily as I can on my iPhone?

You can use the Mac Emoji keyboard. All you need to do is press the command + control + spacebar keys and this brings up the following:

Once the Emoji keyboard appears, just click on the emoji you want to insert!

NOTE: - For the emoji to actually insert, your cursor needs to be located within a text document, text field, search field, etc. Basically anywhere you could normally type text.


Is there any app for electronic signature solution?

Preview can sign documents, since v5, currently at v7 -
Sign a PDF document


iOS App Distribution Private to specific organizations on Apple Business Manager

I read online the following, I hope it helps;

Source


Activation Lock Asking for Apple ID That's Never Been Used on this Phone

You will need Proof of Purchase like a printed Invoice showing SN.  You call Apple ask for Senior Advisor who will have you upload Proof and then it takes 48 Business Hours to unlock.  Then put iPhone in DFU mode and restore on iTunes.  Don't be fooled by any of the uTube scams claiming an unlock.  I have one (of 3) that relocked 3 times but there is hope they may have fixed something after they were hacked.  All of my iPhone 6S had AppleCare +.  If you have an Apple Store near go with Proof and see Manager.  They know about the problem but won't talk about it and have exchanged some iPhones for ones with good SN.  It's also happen to a few iPhone 7s.  There is a Macrumors thread 15 pages long of people with the same problem.  Good Luck.


How to download a web site with specific cookies set?

You can use curl in Terminal for this. Besides man curl there is a tutorial available explaining the different usage scenarios. To set/use cookies you can use either

curl -b "sessionID=123456789" www.example.com

to set a cookie value directly, or use the --dump-headers, -c and -b options for more elaborate cases.


iCloud not showing latest Whatsapp backup

I'm in a similar boat, having just bought an iPhone 12 pro, and am trying to swap in a SIM from an iPhone 8.
What I've noticed is that the last backup that the iPhone 12 is recognizing was an automatic backup from last month. I think that maybe the new phones aren't recognizing manually requested backups.
I've changed my automatic backup to daily, and am going to try swapping the SIM card in again once a new auto backup has happened. Will update this post once there's a result to report on.
Someone else in a different thread recommended changing the name of your new phone to match the name of your old one, but that didn't work for me. Might be worth a try though.

Update: Switching the automatic backup to daily seems to have done the trick. I put the sim back in my old phone, changed the auto backup, and deleted Whatsapp on my new phone. After a day, I swapped the SIM back to the new phone and then reinstalled whatsapp. The Backup went as expected.
Hope this works for you!


Magsafe to USB-C converter for charging Macbook Pro 2016

Many marketers will ship and are shipping MagSafe to USB-C Adapter on the market:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-about-a-magsafe-to-usb-c-converter.1877907/

I bought two Magsafe to USB-C Adapter on Aliexpress but neither works.

The powering light on Magsafe-Connector is on and in the apple menu the battery loading symbol is active for a few seconds but the battery is actually not loading. The merchant gave me a refund after i showed him a video of the attempt.

Be sure you understand the return policy if you aren't willing to eat the cost for testing aftermarket chargers.


How can I transfer or link my Clash of Clans account to an Android device, from iOS?

You don't need your Game Center user and password —which in any case is usually your Apple ID and password; you can link devices in-game.
From the Supercell support site, specifically "Transferring your game to another device":

iOS > Android or Vice Versa
First, make sure the game is installed on both devices, keeping them both on-hand. Use the “Link a device” feature in the in-game settings, and then select “Link a device” on both. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the transfer.


Settings> General> Profile.
Select the iOS 9 beta profile and delete it. Reboot your phone and you should get iOS 8.4 software up to date when you check for an update.


Mac Pro won't start from DVD, crashes while trying

Assuming your disc is clean and damage free it looks like your optical drive may be at fault. If your disc does have any obvious defects (check for scratches etc. on the label side, these can cause totally unrecoverable data loss) you know where the fault lies. Has the drive had any sort of regular use or is it a while since you used it?

If you have access to another Mac you will be able to copy the 10.6 DVD onto an 8GB USB stick using Disk Utility's Restore function, which will then boot the Mac - if the optical drive is at fault.


~$ files created when transferring files from MacOS to thumb drive

These files are automatically created by Word (and other programs in the Microsoft Office suite). They are supposed to be automatically deleted when you close the document in Word or Excel, but sometimes that mechanism fail.

These files are not "corrupted" - they're simply not supposed to be able to be opened with Word/Excel. They do not contain the contents of your documents.

The existence of those files do not corrupt your original files. You can simply ignore them.


What application can open the .waveform file that the Voice Memos app creates?

the .waveform file looks to be a vector file to display the audio waveform on a grid.
- jdio -


How can I get rid of duplicate Sent, Draft, and Trash folders in my IMAP accounts?

Set Mail to use your operator’s folders by opening them and selecting Mailbox>Use this mailbox for>[folder function].
Move all messages from old folders to the new ones
Delete the old, now empty folders.


Navigate folder structure in Open/Save File Dialog with keyboard?

System Prefences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Enable "Full Keyboard Access: All Controls", then you can use Tab to move between elements until your file list is highlighted, and use the arrows to select your file, in fact you should immediately be able to type a letter or use the keys as the default focus should be on the file list.


iCloud Photo Library on Macbook Pro, where?

iCloud Photo Library is available starting 2015 on OS X

Until now, you have the chance to

sync between iOS devices running both iOS 8 and have Photo Library activated.
activate Photo stream and see your photos in iPhoto

iCloud Photo Library is still Beta, and will come to the Mac in 2015, and to the icloud.com as well.


How do I connect to a SOCKS Proxy from an iPhone/iPod Touch?

Well I guess, there's no better way to do it.  Darn you Apple, is it so hard to put a SOCKS Proxy setting in the iPhone OS network settings panel?
:-(

Anyway, the best answer so far, and the only one I could find on the Net, is from a document from the SNIPPLR Code 2.0 website entitled How To Connect To A SOCKS Proxy From An Unjailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch.

Below is a cleaned up version of their solution:

  Let's say, perhaps, that you are already forwarding your web traffic through an SSH/SOCKS tunnel at work (for privacy reasons) and you would like to use that same tunnel on your iPhone/iPod Touch. This is actually pretty easy to accomplish.

Make sure the SOCKS tunnel on your work computer allows LAN connections so your iPhone/iPod Touch can connect to it.

ssh -N -g -D 1080 user@domain.com

Create a text file and insert the following code:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
     return "SOCKS 192.168.xx.xx:yyyy";
}

Replace the x's with your IP and the y's with the port you used after the -D in your SSH command
Save the text file as a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) file to a web accessible place with a .pac extension.

If you're reading this chances are you know how to serve a file over HTTP on your work LAN, so I won't delve into that.
Finally, on your iPhone/iPod Touch, go to Settings → Wi-Fi and click the blue arrow to the right of your work network. Scroll to the bottom, click Auto and type in the address to your PAC file (e.g. http://192.168.xx.xx/mysupersecretproxy.pac).

Now you can surf the web securely from your iPhone/iPod touch.


How do I get to my Keynote 6.5 themes folder?

I found the lack of answers on Google surprising, so I had to stumble around until I found it.

Themes are located in:

/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Application Support/User Templates/

If you're not as familiar with the command line, you can open up Terminal and simply run this to get all your themes copied to your Desktop:

cp /Users/$USER/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Application\ Support/User\ Templates/* ~/Desktop

Which says "copy all contents of the current users's Theme folder to that user's desktop."


Mac Mini won't wake after sleep with Mountain Lion

Try resetting the NVRAM / PRAM as noted About NVRAM and PRAM

  Resetting NVRAM / PRAM

  Shut down your Mac.
  Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
  Turn on the computer.
  Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
  Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
  Release the keys.

See if the sleep problem still occurs, if it does try resetting the SMC as noted Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC).

  Resetting the SMC for Mac Pro, Intel-based iMac, Intel-based Mac mini, or Intel-based Xserve

  Shut down the computer.
  Unplug the computer's power cord.
  Wait fifteen seconds.
  Attach the computer's power cord.
  Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.

If the problem still persists and you are running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2, there may be a sleep bug that is effecting the reliability of sleep on a lot of Macs as discussed Problem with waking from sleep with 10.8.2

  My Mac Pro (early 2009 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) won't wake from deep sleep after installing OS X 10.8.2 . I have the default setting set for sleep. The only way to "wake" the machine is to hold the power button down to shut down and then restart. I've reset NVRAM (pram) and tried removing power cable. Nothing helps.

Since your Mac Mini is very new I would also consider contacting Apple Support and see what they offer as a solution and at the least notify them of the issue, I am sure they are working on a fix probably scheduled to be included with the next OS X update.


Can using GfxCardStatus, v2.3 strictly on Integrated only cause damage to a MBP?

It just prevents the computer from switching to other graphics card. There should be nothing to worry about. Although, when I was using it on my 2012, there were some rare scenarios where it didn't "catch it" and it switched anyway, which of course caused the freeze.


How do I stop my text messages and emails from showing on my 5yr old's iPad?

You can logout from iMessage and the Mail app (or don't even log in with your accounts to start with).

To turn messages and email off you can do the following:

iMessage: Settings > Messages > iMessage OFF.
Mail: Settings > Mail, contacts, calendars > the email account > off or delete account.

You can still use your Apple ID on that iPad for the store account.

If you just want to turn of notifications of mail and iMessage you can do that in the notification centre under settings.


2017 iPad Pro reboots every few minutes after ios 12.4.1 update - how to fix

It is likely you will have to put the iPad into Recovery Mode. THat will restore the iPad to it's clean factory state. EG anything on the iPad will be wiped out, so I hope you have a backup.

The iPad pro is a bit of a three finger salute to get it into recovery mode:

Hold the Sleep/Wake button, the volume up or volume down button (at the same time) until you see power-off. Use the power-off slider to turn off your iPad. Then connect your iPad to your computer while holding down the Sleep/Wake button. iTunes will ten prompt you to restore the iPad.

That is assuming there is nothing else wrong with it. If that works, then restore the iPad from your backup once it has been factory restored and you should be good to go.

If that fails let us know, but it may be time to take it to an Apple store or Apple repair shop.


The firsts things you can do :
Reset SMC : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Reset NVRAM : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


You are mixing two things here:

the SIM in your iPhone is tied to whatever contract you have with your carrier. Transfering this SIM to a new phone should be possible without much hassle (you may need to get a new physical SIM card maybe if the Samsung uses a different format than your iPhone). Moving the SIM card to a new phone will not impact the data stored on either the iPhone nor the iPad
Your apps (and photos if you use iCloud) are tied to your Apple ID. If they are already synced between the iPhone and the iPad, they will still be available on your iPad after moving from iPhone to Samsung. The photos (and any other data tied to your Apple ID) will not be available on the Samsung phone though

PS: If you look for ways to sync data between the iPad and the Samsung phone, please search the site for previous questions or ask a new one. It might help to be rather specific about the kind of data you want to sync, solutions for photos may very well differ from syncing contacts or accessing iCloud mail from Android.


There's a utility called DasBoot which allows precisely this:

http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=193

However, I'm not sure whether it is Lion compatible.

If DasBoot doesn't work, there is another, sure fire way of achieving this.

Simply install Lion (or Snow Leopard) onto your USB drive. You should be able to do so with a 16GB, since the minimum disk space requirement for Lion is only 7GB, and it may even work with a 8GB.

Instructions here: http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html

Then you can simply install the things you need. AFAIK this is what the Geniuses in the MacStore do, and probably how I would do it myself.


Easy solution to use a SmartCard with a 15" MacBook Pro?

I'd imagine any USB smart card reader should work. Here's one from the Apple site, assuming your card is similar looking to this - http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2312LL/A


What does ~~MULTILATERAL~~ Mean in an imessages text conversation on iPhone?

'Multilateral' generally means multiple participants. If your threads aren't group messages, it's likely referring to the fact that the conversation may be acting like there are multiple participants because you have multiple points of contact for each other (email address, phone number, etc).

I would try following the steps in this article to resolve your issue. If your previous conversations aren't important enough to keep, I would also suggest purging all threads you have for each other on all of your devices before following the steps in the article provided. This just helps with clarity and cutting down on confusion when you begin receiving new messages.

Also, sometimes it helps to review the information you have added in the 'You can be reached for messages at' section of the 'Accounts' preferences panel within the Messages app. Ideally, you should only have your iPhone's phone number and the email address that is associated with your Apple ID listed under this section.


How to make AppleScript read the items of a variable that are numbers

You could try converting items in the list to the desired class, and ignore the ones that error:

set theNumbers to {}
set theList to {"123", "124", "abc", "125", "efgh", "126"}
repeat with anItem in theList
  try
    if contents of anItem is not "" then set the end of theNumbers to anItem as number
  on error errmess number errnum -- didn't convert
    log errmess
  end try
end repeat
return theNumbers


Unable to deploy Mobile Config for Active Sync on iOS 13.4.1

As I have identified, the issue was that the current iOS versions (13.4.1, iOS 13.4.5BETA) have a bug, where iOS can not use client certificate authentication.

It seems like this was finally fixed in the iOS BETA 13.5 (17F5065a).

With the client certificate authentication working again, the setup worked on the newer iOS version.


After heavy use, my big iPad has charged very slowly. What can I do besides the Genius Bar? Is there a different wall charger I should use?

iPads do need more current than iPhones, they have bigger batteries, and bigger screens. They consume more power because of this. If you aren't using a charger (block) of the same or higher capacity than the one included with your iPad. Considering this is a Pro model we're talking about, it'll probably have to be a higher voltage charger than a regular iPad charging brick. If you ARE using the charger included with your iPad Pro, consider getting it replaced. It may have given out from a power surge, or just worn out from constant use.

Temporarily, however, you can power off your iPad while charging. I've had a similar problem to this with my Samsung Tab A 7.0, and powering it off allows it to charge. It will probably still charge slow, but it won't lose battery life, and will charge significantly faster than with it powered on.


4k Monitor, 2014 Macbook air, and an all around DILEMMA

Thunderbolt 1 is not "forward compatible" with Thunderbolt 3;  Thunderbolt 3 is backward compatible with Thunderbolt 1.  So, you cannot go TB1 >> TB3

That said, TB (1, 2, or 3) is a "multiplexing" of different signals - PCIe, DisplayPort, power, and USB(TB3).  What you need to do is connect the "video" signal from the Thunderbolt Port to your monitor.

So, what you need is a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable to connect to your 27" monitor.  Your monitor should be able to adjust to the lower resolution while maintaining quality.


RAM - Can this configuration support dual channel?

Since Mac-tel with 4 slots support dual channel there is no reason this should not work.

You only have to be careful to have 2 pairs where in each pair the memory modules are the same.


Removing the 'Computers' menu item from the ATV 2 menu

You must be jailbroken to do this.  SSH into the ATV2 and then:

cd /Applications/AppleTV.app/
mkdir Appliances_Disabled
mv Appliances/Computers.frappliance Appliances_Disabled

Reboot.

You can move the Computers.frappliance directory back into /Applications/AppleTV.app/Appliances if you ever want to see it again.


The MacBook released in 2010 has intake and output on the back of the computer. There are no vents on the bottom.


Try OsiriX: http://www.osirix-viewer.com

The viewer is free and I used it myself to inspect x ray images.


You have no way to restore data, all gone


How do fix Safari extensions on Safari 12?

The latest Safari update (12.0, Sept 17, 2018) turns off some and and stops supporting other extensions.

I don't see Pocket on Apple's new list of supported Safari Extensions (https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1377753262). That might be why Pocket now recommends that Mac users just use their Mac app: https://help.getpocket.com/article/1042-using-pocket-for-safari

Pocket may update their extension such that Apple starts supporting it again. Until then, there might be a javascript bookmark(let) for saving items to Pocket (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4550) or a Pocket email address to which you can send items to your account (https://getpocket.com/add/).

Update: Some unsupported extensions work again in Safari 12. E.g.,

The "Zotero Connector" extension for Safari (https://www.zotero.org/download/) now works for me even though—as I write this—it does not show up in Safari's list of supported extensions in the Mac App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1377753262).


Installing OpenConnect, Cisco VPN alternative

Sorry; I forgot to update the web page when I switched to autoconf. I'll fix it.

Run ./configure and then make.

Why didn't you ask this on the mailing list though; I only happened to come across this question by pure chance.

It always confuses me when users ask questions about my software on random web fora instead of sending questions to me or the mailing list I specifically set up for them to use... :)


How do I get Safari to search all tabs from all Safari windows in the Tab Overview, instead of only those in the current window?

This extension: http://nickvdp.com/tablist/ does allow global search and is awesome. It would also be good if it included iCloud tabs.

I would love it more if it could be invoked from the keyboard or integrated into Spotlight but it's still incredible. The way it just brings that tab+window directly to the front is beautiful.


Automator - Connect to Server at Startup based on MAC Address

The solution was to add a short shell script in the Automator application to get the IP address based on the MAC address.
ip_address=$(arp -a | grep "YOUR_MAC_ADDRESS" | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1)

url_beginning="afp://"

url_end="/YOUR_USER_NAME"

url="$url_beginning$ip_address$url_end"

echo $url

The code above will get the IP address (example: 10.0.0.5) of the device with the YOUR_MAC_ADDRESS MAC Address (example: 0:10:75:57:13:22). Then it will concatenate the correct URL (example: afp://10.0.0.5/YOUR_USER_NAME) and connect it as shown in the image below.


Custom Finder sidebar icon gets stretched

Turns out that Finder uses 18x18px icons, not 16x16px icons.
If you're designing sidebar icons, you'll need to supply these as well, which is impossible because there is literally no tool that'll pack 18x18 images (or their @2x counterparts) into an icns file.


How do i replace an apple ID on a used iPhone 4?

Important to note that there are two apple IDs that can be linked to phone.   One for App Store purchases and one for ICloud.   Just remove account from iCloud menu and settings and add the account to new phone.  Best to make an Itunes backup of old device before you do that.

If you want to clear phone going to your dad can also Erase all Content and Settings in Reset option of the General Settings menu.  (After backup and checking that everything you need is on new phone)


If you are new to Mac, the first thing is prepare:

Make a Time Machine full backup to a drive over USB locally.
See if the Mac boots to recovery - hold Command + R when it starts

Assuming you have both the above, you can wipe and see what a clean Mac looks like. The internet download of the installer is 5 GB or so and the wipe / install should take less than 30 minutes once the download is done.

At that point you can see if you are missing apps and worst case - restore from the backup as if you didn't wipe in the first place - only using time.

You probably don't need to wipe to analyze the performance, but it could help clean up any oddball installations like third party flash / malware / odd browsers and old software you don't need running. A clean start is great to time the things you care about and then see if the system slows down over time.


How can I update and jailbreak/unlock my iPhone 3Gs from 4.1 to 6.1.3?

The first thing you should note is that Ultrasn0w hasn't been supported for a very long time. You should find yourself a "grey-market" unlock (on eBay or various other sites) or contact the phone's original carrier (probably AT&T).

Once you have your phone factory unlocked, plug your phone into your computer and hold down the Home and Power buttons for about 10 seconds. Let go of the Power button but keep the Home button held down. This places the phone in DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode. iTunes will tell you that your phone needs to be factory reset, and you should go through the normal process. Since iOS 6.1.3 is the latest version available for the 3GS, you don't need to do any tricks here.

From that point, you can jailbreak with whichever tool you like.


Google Chrome would like to control this computer using Accessibility

Many programs use Applescript to automate GUI functions, such as moving and clicking the mouse, but this functionality requires that the accessibility options are enabled.  According to their support documents, LastPass is one such program that requires enabling access for assistive devices.

As a result, I wouldn't worry about the request.  As you suspected, it is probably LastPass, and everything is working normally.

If you want to know more about GUI Applescripting, check this out:

http://www.macosautomation.com/mavericks/guiscripting/index.html


Shortcut to switch between Today and Notifications in Yosemite

Applescript:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
    click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 2
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "NotificationCenter"
    click radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
end tell

Depend on what an user needs, whether it's to switch when the menu is pulled out, or to simply access Today or Notifications on demand, one can modify the above code and bind it/them to keyboard shortcuts.


How can I combine text messages from my old iPhone with my new iPhone?

When you restore the backup from your old phone all content currently on the phone will be erased.  There is no official or user friendly way to merge iOS backup files.  The methods that do exist are very hackie and involve jailbreaking your phone first but none of them are currently compatible with iOS 6.

While there is currently no way for you to merge the two SMS files together you don't have to completely loose the messages that are already on your phone.  You can use a program such as PhoneView or iExplorer to retrieve the SMS files from your new phone before you restore the backup and store them as a text file.  I personaly use PhoneView, but both programs (as well as a slew of others which I'm sure other folks will by happy to point out) work equally well.

As a final note, if merging the the text messages from the two backups is the only way to go for you, there is a method that is not currently compatible with iOS 6 but likely will be at some point in the future.  As I said above, it's hackie and may require a jailbreak but once it's updated to work with iOS 6 will do what you're asking for.  The script is available at https://smsmerge.homedns.org.  I have not used this personally and can't vouch for it's safety, security or effectiveness but it has a pretty long standing history and a decent reputation online.


Why is there a pause before the light comes on/mac starts charging when plugging in?

This is only educated speculation, but I imagine it's related to the amount of switching that has to take place when changing from battery power to being on the mains. The electrical input needs to be registered, the hardware switched from running off battery to a charging state if needed, and time for the kernel to be informed of the state change based on the polling frequency. Then the other power management daemons have to pick up the state change and the OS get the message that the power state has changed. If that polling was taking place at intervals of less than a few seconds, I'd be surprised.


Limitations on running Windows on latest Macbook Pro

You need macOS to download the drivers needed to install Windows 10. Once you have the drivers, you can install Windows 10 with or without macOS. Windows 10 will EFI boot and operate the same as any other new PC. There should be no limitations in terms of virtualization or other functionality in Windows.


How can I recover files from an iPod classic (when using as a hard disk) after reformatting?

If you are comfortable with the command line, try TestDisk

It's fairly intuitive for a command line program.

The basic steps are as follows:

Download from above link.
Extract download.
Navigate to extracted folder in Terminal.
Run ./testdisk
Follow the onscreen instructions.

Note: You may want to read the documentation before you do anything. The documentation links are about halfway down the page I linked previously. The instructions are for NTFS, but I imagine it will be a similar process for HFS.


How can I create a link to an app in the Mac Appstore?

It actually works the same as in the iTunes Store:


How can I determine the battery level of my magic mouse from the command line?

Use ioreg and search for battery using grep

Check the battery level of connected bluetooth headphones from the command line?

Since ioreg is really verbose - here is one command that cuts down to the names of bluetooth devices and all percentage of battery for each.

ioreg -l |egrep "BatteryPercent|Bluetooth Product Name"


You can move those files directly to the Trash.

Select them in Preview
Drag them above the Trash in the Dock
Wait for ~2 seconds
Finder window will appear and you can drop those files.

However you won't be able to empty the Trash without closing the Preview window first (the file is still in use).


Permanently prune backups created by Time Machine

I was able to find this app, but I've never used it, I don't know if it works:
Time Machine Editor

It purports to edit the frequency rules .plist for you.

Otherwise:

These are the rules. If you don't like them, use a different backup solution.


You might check the iMac's monitor calibration settings.

  System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate...

or choose one of the other Display profiles. Which Digital Colour Meter are you using?  It probably must be also calibrated in sync with the above setting...


In iOS, aside from using accessibility's large text features, there are no options to adjust the display of messages in the Messages app.

On OS X, all of Message's display options present new messages vertically – each new message appears below the previous one. There are three settings to choose from and only (the default) one displays them in a left/right format.

To change the way Messages displays messages, you have to 'secondary-click' (AKA control+click or right-click) in the blank space between messages. That brings up a contextual menu with only three options:

Show as Balloons
Show as Boxes
Show as Compact

You can secondary-click in the Messages (main chat) window or in the sample transcript found in Messages > Preferences > Messages.


Will a sata3 SSD work properly on a Mac mini (Mid 2010) with 2.4 GHz CPU?

Yes, you can.

Here are the theoretical bus speeds

SATAI   - 150 MB/sec - 1.5 Gb/sec
SATAII  - 300 MB/sec -  3 Gb/sec
SATAIII - 600 MB/sec -  6 Gb/sec

In theory, a very fast drive could saturate a SATA2 bus, but if it does, it will still send the data, just slower than it's capable of.  If that bothers you, just buy a slower SATA2 SSD drive.

Regardless, you'll be very happy with the performance upgrade over a slower drive.  It's the best upgrade investment you can make.


Any way to make weather widget stick to its place?

The reason the weather widgets jump around is because the icon pictures of the current weather stick out above the widget itself. For example, the clouds or rain images. When the weather changes, the images change, and since they stick out different amounts, they move around to accommodate the change.

This is fixable but results in a tiny bit of chopping-off of the top of the widget image. Worth it in my opinion, you can hardly notice the chop-off.

Edit the file:

/Library/Widgets/Weather.wdgt/Weather.js

On line 359, change:

maxOffset = entry.voffset > maxOffset ? entry.voffset : maxOffset;

To:

maxOffset = 0;

It may be a different line number - 359 is correct for Snow Leopard. You should search the file for the correct one.

You need to redo this when you update OSX.


How do you hide App Store app updates that your version of iOS does not support?

It's a bug that has been present for years. There unfortunately isn't a way to stop getting notification updates, unless you uninstall the app, which you really shouldn't have to do. Lets hope this bug is fixed soon, you can tell them about it here:
apple.com/support/feedback/


How do I access files, copy them on an external hard drive, and see them on it?

I'd recommend using target disk mode to copy the files to a location that's available on your working computer, eg. a properly formatted & mounted external drive.


Does anyone know what this menu bar app is?

The logo is the AirPlay logo, but I have seen it used by a number of programs. It's either the resolution settings for your outbound AirPlay (morriring), or I think (more likely) the window size of incoming AirDisplay connections through AirParrot or AirDisplay or similar AP server apps.


Do you have "Show Preview" or "Hide Preview" in the View menu when Finder is in the foreground? You can turn the Preview off and on with SHIFT + CMD + P.

However, the preview pane only works in column mode.


How to change master of an existing slide in Keynote 6.0?

Ah! A few more minutes of "seeking" - and I found out where Apple moved the functionality.

For all desperate - here the solution:

Make sure you clicked on the slide-overview (on the left), so that the slide gets a yellow border

Then far-away on the right select the "Format" button. Then below it you will see the current master slide for the selected slide. With a small grey triangle on the right. Click this triangle and a pop over will allow you to change the master of the current slide.

Hope this helps someone in the future...


Is it possible to wirelessly connect macbook pro to LG monitor

An AppleTV will let you Airplay to the monitor or any other device with an HDMI input. owlswipe's suggestion of a wireless HDMI transmitter is another option if you don't mind adding additional hardware to the Macbook


How to backup data for Shazam app from iPhone 3GS

I think there is no way to achieve this without jailbreaking the device.

I've just checked the Apple developer tools, but they only allow you to get the content of apps that you developed yourself, not apps downloaded from the AppStore. And even with these you can only backup, but not restore :-(

I'm pretty sure it's possible on a jailbroken phone, but I have no expertise in that field, so I can't tell how.


Can I use an encrypted disk image for my home folder?

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and OS X Lion (10.7)

Open Disk Utility.

File => New => Disk Image from Folder.

Select the directory you want to encrypt (home directory).

Click Image.

Set the Image Format to be Read/Write and the encryption to 128-bit AES.

Choose a password.

Accessing the Encrypted Folder & Contents

Open the encrypted folder image with a double-click, treating it as a normal disk image.
Enter the password used during the initial encryption setup – do not check Remember password.
Access the encrypted folder and the contents as a mounted virtual disk, you can modify, copy, edit, delete, and add to it.
When finished, close the files and eject the virtual image to re-secure the folder and files and require a password for future access.

More Pertinent Information
You will want to store the encrypted disk image somewhere accessible enough, since you will be using a double-click to try to mount the folder image in Finder, and of course you will need the password to access the files.
With a readable and writable encrypted disk image, you can treat it as a normal folder and copy, delete, or move files from the image. Anything brought into the image while mounted will become encrypted automatically under the same protective layer with the same password. When you are finished working with the folder and want it password protected again, simply unmount the disk image. Regaining access again will require the password before it can be mounted and available.
3rd Party Apps/Snow Leopard Compatible

Knox- Create as many encrypted vaults as you want, each with separate passwords. Then schedule automatic backups. You can even reformat USB sticks and external drives as encrypted Knox vaults - moving files between Macs has never been so simple and secure.

Espionage-Unobtrusive and intuitive, Espionage is the most advanced encryption solution for Mac OS X, yet easiest to use. Espionage lets you encrypt individual folders and application data, and interact with them straight from the Finder.


lagging cursor from magic mouse and magic trackpad

Thanks for the hint with the radio interference, that seemed to be a large part of the problem.

In the end I did a lots of thing to get it going (consider it took like 6 hours all in all):

I switched to cable network in that room (almost). WiFi and Bluetooth definitely where interacting negatively. BTW: cable networking feels so much better!
the WiFi base-station was moved away from the Mac mini to the opposite side of the room.
the Magic Trackpad is switched off most of the time. It looks like there is some kind of interference between Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad.
I deinstalled or updated any system preferences app, especially everything that has to do with GUI control.

Why I didn't move to a cable-mouse? I'm used to work with the swipe gesture a lot, and I'm not aware of a cable-mouse that understands Mac gestures.


How do you get music that you have already purchased into the new apple music?

Open iTunes, then (if on mac) click the word iTunes in the menu bar and turn on "iCloud Music Library" this will sync all music and playlists to your iCloud, and will be matched with content found on iTunes.

If on Windows, open iTunes. Then in the File menu, click preferences, and turn on iCloud Music Library.

After this, you will need to open settings on all of your other iOS devices, and turn on iCloud Music Library.

Please note that if you choose to download music from the Apple Music service it is DRMed and will not be editable as your iTunes purchases are.


As Mark mentioned in his comment, "You can make the drive case sensitive but then some apps will not work" and Matteo showing you a list from Disk Utility, let me offer you an alternative to changing the format of the existing physical volume.

I use a sparse bundle (.sparsebundle) formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) to maintain a case sensitive volume that's accessible on my Mac. It could also be a sparse or regular disk image file (.sparseimage/.dmg) vs. the sparse bundle, whichever suits your needs better.

In macOS Sierra's Disk Utility, click File > New Image > Blank Image... then in the settings sheet you can define the properties of the image file.

You can have it mount automatically when you login by adding it to your Login Items (System Preferences > User & Groups > $USER > Login Items).

Note that I use the sparse bundle because I find its easier to compact using hdiutil compact filename.sparsebundle to regain disk space as needed because it uses 8 MiB bands vs. a single file, which works better when the physical disk is getting to full.


Previous Owner's Apple ID Stills tied to App Store after Clean Install

Now that you are on Mountain Lion, you can boot to recovery mode and re-erase the entire Macintosh HD (or whatever name the OS volume has). Perhaps your definition of clean install didn't actually clean the offending apps or you are connecting another hard drives with apps purchases from the previous owner's account. (The app store will offer to update any apps it sees, not just the ones in /Applications)

Here is a long article on recovery, but details at the bottom show explicit steps you would take to prepare an external drive to install Mountain Lion. You will want to perform those steps from Disk Utility when booted in recovery mode.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Note, that if the previous owner had "redeemed" the iLife apps (as described in the article above), those will remain tied to their account so for you to install them, you will need to purchase iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand since they are not part of the Mountain Lion software upgrade you purchased, but after a clean wipe, you won't have those applications and could only see them if you had a copy somewhere other than the wiped drive or signed in to see past purchases for that previous account.


Can no longer email myself a .epub file and open in iBooks? (used to be able to)

This feature hasn't been changed in iOS, so either the mail transport or client isn't faithfully preserving the file or you iOS device has issues and needs to go through troubleshooting.

If you have a second device, you could test setting up your mail account and see if it's a temporary (or permanent) mail issue.

Otherwise, you'll need to work on narrowing down why your device isn't working as expected.


It is likely it is a previous version on your Time Machine drive.

Open system preferences > spotlight > privacy

Drag the Time machine drive into that window so it won't show results from that drive.


All files in Finder show 'Date Modified' with correct days but always the same hour: 19:08

This behaviour can be seem if the date is customised in the System Preferences / Language and Text pane.

To fix this - go to System Preferences, then Languages and Text.
Click 'Formats' tab, then the 'customise' button next to 'Times'.

You should see all the elements of the proposed time formats as having light blue backgrounds.  If you see any text on a plain background this is literal text rather than a placeholder.

On previous screen, the 'Formats' tab. Change 'Region' dropdown at top of page from 'Custom' to an appropriate region for you to give you a sensible set of defaults.

To fix and keep your customised settings, delete the plain text, and then drag and drop from blue placeholders to set your time formats.  Drag the hour placeholder, type a colon and drag the minute placeholder.


I would take extreme care not to enter your current or former Apple-ID passwords anywhere when following any kinds of directions from emails. The email you have received might well be a fake email sent by the people holding your phone, trying to trick you into giving them your Apple-ID password.

In general, they can do very little with a phone that has been activation locked. However if the phone is unlocked, they can find your e-email address and try to scam you into giving them the code.

Depending on their technical abilities, they might also have put the phone on a restricted network, where the commands to erase it cannot reach it, but where it can reach other destinations on the Internet.


Is it possible to retrieve a single application from a Time Machine backup?

Yes, just mount your backup as a disk and copy the files you want out of it.


Solar Mike's guess was correct. I had deleted stuff that was in my iCloud Drive and those "deleted" stuff was still taking up space.

When you delete something on your Mac, it goes to ~/.Trash. However, when you delete something that was on iCloud Drive, that doesn't go to ~/.Trash. It goes to:

/Users/username/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/.Trash

So make sure that you check out the iCloud Drive's trash if there is a big mismatch between the size reported by Finder and by iCloud.


Right-click, create a new text file. How?

I am using XtraFinder plugin for Mac OS's built in Finder. It has most of the features including create new file in finder options.

You'll love it like I do

;)


Yes.  You'll have a real issue with the airport/bluetooth cable as well as the position and length of the LVDS cable.  Besides, you will gain very little as the newest revision of this was 2012 and the improvements are very small compared to the cost of a logic board.


OS X 10.5 upgrade to OS X 10.7 with data saving

You should be able to upgrade without loosing any data, as long as you do not opt to have the HD erased or formatted prior to installing the OS, during the installation process.


Can't detect bootcamp partition on windows installation

I do not have VMware 6 so I can not post a direct answer to your question. I believe the reference link given in your question has left out many steps that need to be taken in order for you to succeed. There is two previous answers posted here at Ask Different where VirtualBox was used to install 64 bit Windows 7 on older Macs. The links are given below.

Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices
No bootable device USB 2.0 MacBook Pro mid 2014

VirtualBox is a free product. Since you are using OS X lion, you would have to install an older version of VirtualBox.


Does the upgrade to OS X Lion include iMovie 11?

No, iMovie is part of the iLife suite of programs, not the OS itself. It's only included bundled with the OS when you buy a new Mac.


Is it worth upgrading to iOS 12 on an iPhone 5s

4 year old iPhone 5s owner. Upgraded to iOS 12. Experiencing noticeable speed improvements (in overall usage) with no noticeable impact on battery performance.

The overall experience is definitely better than running iOS 11.4.1 on the same device. However, note that the battery performance is highly dependent on your usage of the device. In my experience, the battery backup has remained the same compared to iOS 11.4.1.

iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2: It’s actually faster!.

In-fact, all iOS device released in the year 2013 and later (iPhone 5s, iPod touch 6th generation, iPad Air, iPad mini 2) are eligible to run iOS 12, and, as per Apple, will see noticeable speed improvements due to under the hood performance improvements made in iOS 12.


Why does the YouTube app know what I have watched on youtube.com in Safari

Your YouTube history is affiliated with your Google account. This is the same affiliation that allows you to keep track of your liked videos and any playlists you may make and channels you subscribe to. Any browsers/apps which are logged into your Google account will have the same information about your view history.


I found a good workaround in emacs (beta) forum:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3911/access-menu-bar-using-keyboard-on-mac-os-x

(define-key global-map (kbd "C-<f2>")
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)
    (x-popup-menu (list '(0 0) (selected-frame))
                  (mouse-menu-bar-map))))


How to prevent internet access to specific clients

You could possibly alter the DHCP reservation for the device(s) you wish to prevent internet access in such a way to make the DNS pointer point to something invalid, 127.0.0.1

Not sure if it's what you're after but it could be worth looking into. If I had OS X server myself, I'd write you up an applescript snippet to do the switching quickly and automagically.


How to resolve network issue or DNS to access web page on Snow Leopard Server?

This would most commonly be a problem with MTU sizes. Try setting yours to something a bit smaller (1450 or so), you can do this under the Hardware tab in Network preferences.


Upgrading to new iPad, how can I get old settings and apps directly to new iPad?

If you have iOS 5 or 6 installed on your iPad, you can use the iCloud Backup functionality to transfer all your settings and apps, without the need for another computer. When you set up your new iPad, it will ask whether you want to set it up as a new iPad, or restore from an iTunes or iCloud backup.

Restoring from an iCloud backup will restore nearly everything, with the exception of any saved Wi-Fi or other passwords, which you'll have to re-enter. Alternately, doing a backup and restore from iTunes on a Mac or PC will restore passwords if you encrypt the backup.

Apple's support site has more details in this article: iOS: Transferring information from your current iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device.


Time Machine sparsebundle corrupted on disconnect

Sadly this is why the Airport Extreme isn't supported for time machine. It doesn't have the smarts to repair the filesystem or handle a disconnect as reliably.  This isn't an issue with time capsules or a server than can clean up when the backup gets interrupted.

You will have to nurse your setup as described, but the lifespan of sparse bundles on airport as USB disk are limited.

Perhaps a firmware update or change to Mac OS X will make things better, but for now it's something to watch.


Macbook Air ignores our strong cable signal and tries to connect to other sources

Have you tried System Prefs > Network > WiFi
Switch off 'Ask to join new networks', then in the Advanced... section below, you can drag networks into your preferred order & delete ones you no longer wish the machine to remember [this will tie in with 'Ask to join...' & shouldn't bother you again].


Close the app, double-click the home button to bring up the currently running apps, and hold down on the App Store until they bounce. Then kill it.

Then you can go back into it.

I've had a bunch of issues like this with the App Store app. sometimes I don't get the update button for apps, or no keyboard, etc. Restarting the app afresh sorts it out.

A total phone restart should also work.


Is it possible to connect iTunes playlists to folders?

Yes, but you don't do it within iTunes. If you want the song files you drop into a particular folder to automatically be added to an iTunes playlist, you use Automator to create a folder action like this one:

You start Automator, and create a Folder Action. You select the folder you want as the source of files.
Then, the action is "Import Files into iTunes" at which point you select the playlist to which you want the songs added. Then you save the Folder Action.


Configure an Airport to connect to internet via a wireless hotspot?

Here's how I would do it:

I would use any old router to bridge from the hotspot into your house, making sure that the bridge is in optimal distance of the Provider Hotspot.

Once I have that configured and I know I have connectivity to the internet, I would hardwire the Airport Extreme into the bridge to have the home networking functionality, as set up through Airport Utility.


Minimum Image Object Size in macOS Pages 7.1?

OK - fixed it... If you select an image from the Media browser, you HAVE to select 'Other' to select your image otherwise the image you end up with WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE RESIZED BELOW A MINIMAL THRESHOLD... how nuts is that???


Open and re-save your services in Automator.

This will update them to work with Yosemite, and also warn you of any incompatibilities with the actions you're using in the services.

As a side note, this definitely should be something you're notified about when trying to run an old service, but at least you don't need to re-create new duplicate services.


How can I make my Mac accept a user password of less then 4 characters?

I found this not so easy solution on web, that works quickly instead of necessity to do it by Server application from apple.

In Terminal:

pwpolicy getaccountpolicies > temp.xml
nano temp.xml

Now remove text prior to first <xml tag and replace

<string>policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{4,}+'</string>

to

<string>policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{1,}+'</string>

then save file (Ctrl-O), exit (Ctrl-X) and run

sudo pwpolicy setaccountpolicies temp.xml

to install the updated policy.


How do I undo "export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile"

You certainly don't need to reinstall - just remove the offending last line of the file and restart terminal to see the effects.

If you don't know how to edit the file from terminal, you can open the file in your system's default plain text editor:

/usr/bin/open ~/.bash_profile

Just delete the last line and save the file. (The >> tacks the output of the echo on to the end of the file)  At that point, quit terminal, reopen terminal and test brew doctor again.

Apple has an overview of editors you can use in terminal if you want to edit files more regularly.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4850

For beginners, the nano editor is perhaps the easiest since it has visible help for basic commands. You can get some more guided help on nano from the web by opening the URL in your preferred browser (or having terminal do that for you open http://www.nano-editor.org/).


Mountain Lion seems to have dropped support for iOS Simulator 4.3. More on this if you check the official developer forums: http://devforums.apple.com

FYI, I'm  also seeing the exact same issues as yours: beach ball and loud fans. I had to kill a process called SimulatorBridge to stop the fan from spinning.


If the fsck modified the filesystem, it may have corrected damage to the file system by deleting a file needed to boot.

If you can get professional troubleshooting assistance, I would do that since without a backup, you'd hate to make the problem worse.

Trying to fix a filesystem or writing new files to it will over-write space that could have files that you need to recover, so you'll want to shut down the computer and make a decision:

Are you willing to proceed without trying to recover the files you need?
Is it better to get a quote for data-recovery and learn more about the problem than it is to try to fix this now.

Good luck - I hate to be in this situation (either as the one giving advice or the one needing advice), but it's a problem that many have overcome, so you'll just need to figure out what's most important to you and be sure you understand what the consequences of doing a step might be. In your case, fsck isn't a good tool to run if you have precious data since it is designed to save a filesystem by making it sane after errors creep in. It's not designed to save individual files that have not been backed up.


Error 4013 is a disconnect or repair / service / timing issue.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201444

The steps there are pretty short to do for the things you can control so it might be as simple as an update to iTunes or a force restart of the phone.


rsync -R (--relative) is like cp --parents. So rsync -rR a/b c copies to c/a/b instead of c/b.

Or just install the GNU cp with brew install coreutils or sudo port install coreutils and use gcp -r --parents a/b c.


Is it possible to change the default window size of a .txt file in TextEdit?

Instead of changing the default windows size, unless you want to make it permanent and you can just change it in TextEdit > Preferences... then, you can use the following example AppleScript code to open the document in TextEdit and set its size and position on the screen.

First, open the target file, resize and position it on the screen where you want it and the use the following AppleScript code to get the bounds of the document window to use going forward.

tell application "TextEdit" to get bounds of front window

It will return a list, e.g.: {0, 22, 900, 600}, to use with the set bounds ... command.

set targetFile to POSIX path of (path to documents folder) & "Filename.txt"

tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    open targetFile
    set bounds of front window to {0, 22, 900, 600}
end tell

Note: The reason I'm suggesting the above method is because while one can technically change the default size of the document window programmatically nonetheless since TextEdit doesn't support a position property it makes sense to use the bounds property as the first two list items in the bounds property  are its position.

However, if you really want to change the default size prior to opening the target document regardless of it position, here is the information surrounding the default window size. Under TextEdit > Preferences... > New Document > Window Size the default Width is 90 characters and the default Height is 30 lines. With these defaults there are no keys in the com.apple.TextEdit.plist file for this however the corresponding keys are WidthInChars and HeightInChars, which support an integer value.

You'd need to test for the existence of these keys and capture their values so as to have something to reset to after opening the target document. If they are the true defaults, the keys will not exist and you can temporarily set a integer value for these keys, open the target document and then delete the keys. The target document window will open with the new values at the default location of TextEdit's choice, not yours. If you want it in a different location you'd need to use set bounds ..., which defeats programmatically temporarily changing the defaults or the existing setting if not the default values.

Example code using the defaults command:

defaults read $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist WidthInChars
defaults read $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist HeightInChars

defaults write $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist WidthInChars -int 120
defaults write $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist HeightInChars -int 50

defaults delete $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist WidthInChars
defaults delete $HOME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist HeightInChars

These can be used in a do shell script command using set variableName to do shell script "defaults read ..." and then write the logic flow based on what's returned.

If you really want to go this route and need help with the coding, let me know.

Also note that testing surrounding this was done under macOS 10.12 and may be different in previous major OS version releases.


My Mac's hostname keeps adding a "-2" to the end

This is a known bug with the discoveryd process on 10.10 Yosemite. Recent rumors is that it will be replaced by its predecessor, mDNSresponder, come 10.10.4 to help alleviate network issues. Although the actual cause is unknown, it has been said that it is related (at least in part) to improper name resolution in DNS when the computer wakes from sleep. It sees itself as a duplicate on the network, and as such it appends the suffix to the title.

While there are some "fixes" YMMV - It's probably best to just keep renaming it the way you do, and then wait for the next release of OSX to come out and fix it so you don't sacrifice any functionality like Wake on LAN.

Source


As Fake Name pointed out, Total Finder comes with a kernel extension to redirect .DS_Store files which effectively prevents those pesky files from being created in your directories and without losing the function. What he/she didn't point out is that the kernel extension can be downloaded without Total Finder from github. You have to build it and drop it in your /System/Library/Extensions directory. Then you should restart your computer. It appears to be working for me so far.

Update: This is now a separate project from TotalFinder called Asepsis. There is now a lot more documentation on how it works and the installation process. The GitHub repo is now located here.


iTunes doesn't open, no error messages or anything, not even when executed through terminal

"1 minute left" is the sign for "I'm doing your user stuff right now, I have no clue when it will finish, 'cos that depends on how much stuff you've got" … but if you've force-quit it, you broke it & will have to start over.

There is similar confusion at OS updates, the "doing your user stuff" part apparently cannot be predicted anywhere near as well as the initial processing/update, so you get a "1 minute" that can take hours. Patience is a virtue; in fact patience should be directly proportional to the time since your last solid backup.

I'd clear the saved state for starters & see how that goes …
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.iTunes.savedState


Why are inline images not visible in Mail on macOS Sierra?

Did you enable Load remote content in messages in Mail Preferences > Viewing ?

Automatically detect and maintain account settings isn't related to your question.


The arrow is your current location, except that it also represents your current location and orientation in navigation mode.

Google Maps automatically switches between the blue dot that represents your current location to an arrow in a circle when you are using the app for navigation, as you can see in the following screenshots (surroundings obscured for general privacy):

Regular (non-navigation) mode, with blue dot representing current location

Navigation mode, with arrow representing current location

As you can see, these are the defaults and I doubt they can be changed. You might just want to ensure that you aren't currently navigating anywhere (exit by tapping the 'X' at the bottom left corner) and your current location indicator should return to its usual blue dot self.


Can I perform inverse trig functions in Spotlight?

asin(x), acos(x), and atan(x) work for me. Spotlight gives the results in radians and will not show any calculator results if you go out of the domains for these functions.

Edit: If you want the results in degrees instead of radians, use asind(x), acosd(x), and atand(x).


ssh-add every time I want to use SSH to login to my remote server

I know it does not answer your question directly, but have you tried using a config file to map you keys to servers?

in .ssh create a file called config
In the file put your server entries and map the key

Host server1
HostName  10.10.10.1
User myUser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

then you can just run ssh server1


Mirroring iOS device app layouts, find apps more easily when switching devices

Sorry, there is no way to do this apart from restoring from a back up and clonning a device, but that is not ever an option.

The only way to do it is to manually move apps around from screen to screen, and like you mentioned the easiest way is in iTunes.


Do application leftovers have any impact on performance?

Application preferences and caches will not have any impact on system performance, but if there are leftover startup daemons running, etc., there could absolutely be a performance penalty. There is no way to know for certain how much of an impact there could be. The best advice I can offer is to always check the application developer's uninstall guidelines. Some applications utilize uninstaller applications to ensure all the application support files are removed.


WiFi connection is weak after replacing the battery

While replacing the battery, the guy cleaned the laptop from dust. Then, he has removed and connected the WiFi cable to clean below it.

I don't see why it would be necessary to remove the WiFi antennae cables to "clean below it."  The nozzle (looks like a thin red drinking straw; below left) on those air dusters are thin enough to get into the smallest crevices of your computer.  However, if your tech is a "pro," he should be using a proper air compressor with the right tool - technically called a a blow gun (below right).

Could the issue be that the cable is not connected properly?

Odds are, you've correctly identified the problem.
Resetting the SMC would have no effect as it's related to power and cooling of your Mac.  Things like your location, the date and DHCP have no bearing on signal strength - it's actually the opposite.  If your signal strength is too low, any/all of those services could fail.

What to do next....
Return the laptop to the person who serviced it.  Make sure you document the issue in email to him straight away as well.
If it's a simple mistake of not reconnecting the antennae (there can be 3 - one for Bluetooth and 2 for WiFi) then it will only take a moment to reconnect them.  However, if the antenna cable(s) and/or connector(s) are damaged, the antenna(e) will have to be replaced which means disassembling the display as the cables are routed behind the LCD panel (it's a difficult and risky job).
I don't recommend you opening your MacBook and attempting the repair.  If the tech damaged something, you want to ensure that he "owns" the problem and not give him an "out" where he can say that because you opened it, you might have caused the damage.
From your Update
That butt splice connections on the antennae is incorrect. Those are coaxial wires, not single conductor strands. There are two conductors - a single inner conductor and a conducting shield separated by a dielectric insulating material which is all "covered" by a protective outer jacket.  Your WiFi will never work correctly with that "fix".
If you look at the connectors themselves, you'll see they're not unlike the coax cables that provide you cable TV or the antenna on your WiFi router.  There's an inner socket surrounded by plastic and the outer conductive "shell."

The bottom line is that repair is unacceptable and not going to work.  If replacing the display is what he has to do then that’s what has to be done. It’s an expensive lesson for him to learn, but so goes it when he decided to charge money for service he didn’t have the necessary skills to provide (my consumer protection side coming out).
Personally, I would let him know of the issue, follow that up with an email for documentation, then take to a qualified person to replace the display and present him with the bill.  Tell him nicely, at first, that he should replace it.  However, it could get messy.  I can't advise you what to do legally, but if I personally encountered resistance to make right what someone else botched, there would be legal action being taken.  I've personally taken people to small claims court over issues like this and prevailed.  Documentation is key.


DHCP Server stopped responding after switching TB to Ethernet Adapter

Probably your DHCP Server uses the wrong network interface to propagate the leases after building the bond:

Open Server.app and connect to your server
Click in the left pane on Advanced -> DHCP
Open the DHCP network in question by double-clicking on it or highlight it and click on the pencil at the bottom
Check the 'Network Interface'. Probably you still have an old network interface (Presumably Ethernet 0 or 1) chosen there. Change it to Bond0 (or whatever the human readable name is)
Hit the OK button and quit Server.app


Definitely try a hard reset! I had the same issue with my iPhone - it worked fine - music was playing, the Mute Button would vibrate when I switched it to mute - but it had the slightly annoying fail that the screen was just black. A hard reset did the trick!


5.1 surround sound via optical out without receiver

If you want to have 5.1/7.1 (multichannel) audio, you can do it via the optical out (mini-toslink), the HDMI or the Mini-Display Port.

On the receiver side, you must have a decoder, able to decode the stream (PCM for 2 channels and DD/AC3/DTS and their variants) and convert it to analogue signal.

I had the same dilemma when I got my ATV2, I wanted something to be able to utilize my optical SPDIF, and to be able to decode Surround sound. After doing some research, there were several solutions:

Optical->RCA analogue convertors. Stereo only, like GefenTV. This doesn't do multichannel.
A small size 5.1 Decoder - you can read the HD Audio Rush review here.
A Logitech Z-5500.
Full-blown 5.1/7.1 amplifier.

Personally I decided to go with the amplifier and bought a Pioneer 7.1 receiver.


Strange Macbook 13 Retina MagSafe port problem

Apple MagSafe cables have one central shielded cable & one braided outer cable. You are simply breaking & creating a connection when you touch the broken braided cable - the order anomaly is the MagSafe/MacBook logic/sensor only allowing a particular state to operate.

It is possible to crack open a MagSafe and solder a 3rd party cable (but it will probably have 2 shielded internal cores and no braiding). Search YouTube for video (and note the risk of electrical shock even after several days of the MagSafe not being used). You will need the correct replacement part, long nose pliers to forcibly crack open the white  MagSafe shell, soldering iron, desoldering pump, locktite adhesive & activator, steady hands & patience.

Alternatively pop into an Apple shop when they are least busy (in the UK 10am the shops are empty), borrow a MagSafe & do an SMC reset. If that doesn't work, an Apple diagnostic test is required (power/logic board) - store staff may run one out of goodwill (hence go when they're not busy)


.dev is a regular top level domain name which became available to the general public on March 1, 2019. It's not recommended to use it locally for development purposes!

Depending on your development environment a required local name resolution is usually done either by adding (managing) hosts to (with) the /etc/hosts file or with a local nameserver like macOS Server's DNS server or tools like dnsmasq.

One common setup for local domains in e.g dnsmasq is a local resolution with the /etc/resolver/ method (example: Valet (Laravel): DNS address can not be found). By adding a file with the name of the tld (e.g. dev) containing the IP of a name server (e.g. nameserver 127.0.0.1) and setting up an appropriate configuration in the dnsmasq config file, the local DNS server will be authorative for this tld. All requests to resolve *.dev domains will be directed to this name server.

Other regular domains in the Internet with the same tld (e.g shopify.dev) won't be accesible then.

You can determine the various DNS resolvers in your system with the command scutil --dns.

A result like

...
resolver #8
  domain   : dev
  nameserver[0] : 127.0.0.1
  flags    : Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00030002 (Reachable,Local Address,Directly Reachable Address)
...

is an obvious indication that the regular tld dev is directed to a local DNS server.

If you don't use the .dev domain anymore locally you can simply remove the file /etc/resolver/dev (and modifying the dnsmasq.conf file is recommended).

If you still rely on some .dev* tld move over to .develop or .development (and /etc/resolver/develop or /etc/resolver/development respectively).


I had a similar problem where my Mac Mini Late 2011 was giving me vibrations when I run my fingers over the aluminum part of the body - also known as "humming current". This type of current is very feeble and does not result in any shock to the body or cause any harm to the hardware components. But it is annoying. I zero-ed in on the faulty grounding of the electrical outlet. I had to run an extra grounding wire to discharge extra / spiked voltage from my power outlet into the fan loop made of iron in my ceiling. After that the problem is solved.


AirDrop works outside of whatever WiFi networks are around and doesn't need a base station. It is like a mesh network where all the devices just talk between each other. If nothing else is "sharing" the road  - you get the full speed. The further away you are or the more interference, the slower it gets. AirDrop will work by passing the data from Mac to Mac so it will get the file there (although slower) if it has to jump once or twice along the way.

That being said, for two close machines, the transfer speed should be the max wireless speed between your two machines. Hard drives are almost always faster reading and writing than WiFi speeds, so the radio link is generally the slowest.

However, all of that is just theoretical. You can check your actual speed by opening Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor

Click the Network tab on the bottom and you should see stats about how fast the data is being sent and received. Detach from WiFi base stations to let AirDrop get all the hardware if you want the fastest transfers - leave it on if you need internet while dropping that large file.


Volume Randomly Goes to Maximum with Bluetooth Headset

Please provide more details and possibly screenshots. Is the Ringer on maximum loudness or the 'Volume' on maximum loudness? It would make sense if the headphones respond differently to the 'call' feature than to media, just like the iPhone itself does.

I don't know, it's just a guess based on the little information that you provided.

Please indicate which of these you are mentioning, if not both.


Alt-. and vertical bar (pipe) on terminal

esc+. inserts the last argument by default.

iTerm can change just the other option key to meta:

Or if you change to the US layout, it doesn't have any ASCII characters under option.

For example \e7\e. normally inserts the seventh argument of the previous command, so there isn't really any way to get both.


Why did changing from gmail to inbox.com delete contacts from an iPhone4s? Can I retrieve the contacts?

Try checking here - https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#contacts

If you contacts still exists, you can export them and then import them to where ever you like.


Quicktime Screen Recording doesn't work in Lion

Finally figured it out - apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.


I can't turn on iPhone Hotspot with my home WiFi turned on. Why?

Try turning off your home WiFi. A kind of interference, maybe?


Outlook works best with a restricted version of HTML for the signature, so if you can't use the webmail signature generator and copy / paste that into your Mac Outlook - look for a third party tool to assist.

One that works well is this utility from the App Store. It fixes the problem with Outlook breaking HTML signature. Costs about USD 3 though but for me it's worth it.

HTML Email Signature for Outlook - Daniel Caspi


Technical reason why Safari 9 doesn't support modern sites

Safari 9.1 was released in 2016, over 3 years ago, and doesn’t support a lot of popular web technologies that have since been developed.

Polyfills exist for some technologies, with Safari 9 barely making the list for some polyfills, but many developers don’t expect to support a browser lacking ES20151 support (you can’t even declare a variable with let in Safari 9).

caniuse.com provides a detailed feature-based comparison of web browsers, including Safari 9 vs Safari 12.1. Given the added screenshot with your error message, the JavaScript being executed cannot find ‘fetch’ which is likely a reference to the Fetch API, a crucial API for obtaining resources from elsewhere. The Fetch API is first supported in Safari 10.1.

If the web developer hasn’t included a polyfill for Safari 9, it may be possible to inject the polyfill yourself for individual web technology features, but this situation will only get worse. I understand the potential need to run older software, but such use should be limited to a virtual machine, ensuring the host OS is secure as well as running a secure web browser capable of understanding the technologies present on your favourite sites.

1 ES2015 (or ECMAScript 2015) is a scripting-language specification created to standardise JavaScript for use by multiple browsers, applications, and devices. This standard is updated each year in June and we're now up to the ECMAScript 2019 standard. For more information, refer to JavaScript Versions. This page provides a summary of ECMAScript editions and scrolling down you can see a breakdown of browser support.


Where are Messages now stored when you enable iCloud sync?

You scroll above the top of the message history. A spinning wheel will show while messages are downloaded from iCloud. You can repeat this to show more messages. There is not a separate view for Messages in iCloud — it's integrated with the Messages app here.


Suggestions:

Run Mac in recovery mode (keep holding ⌘ cmd + R on startup), then try to Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions using Disk Utility.
As suggested in Mountain Lion Screen Freeze thread, try OnyX software which allows and to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, etc.
Run dmesg and check /var/log/system.log for more detailed errors.
Run Console app to check crash logs including backtraces if any.
Run newproc.d or iofile.d dtrace scripts to find anything suspicious (e.g. sudo newproc.d)

Related:
Apple.SE: Mountain Lion Screen Freeze
Apple Discussions: Mountain Lion Screen Freeze (over 177 replies)


Can automator run when Macbook lid is closed?

No, the Automator workflow will not run when your MacBook's lid is closed.

This is because your Mac is asleep and not actively running user applications and processes. You can prevent your Mac from sleeping when the lid is closed. Be aware that this is not recommended by Apple.


Cannot install Hamachi on macOS Sierra 10.12

You need to go to root Library => Extensions and remove the old Hamns.kext then re install Hamachi. Seems to work for about a month then needs a re install.


Apple 27" Thunderbolt/Cinema Display DPI

Your calculation is solid. Everywhere I've seen it 109 PPI (which is probably what you intend with DPI) is what people report for the Thunderbolt Cinema Display:

Retina display Macs, iPads, and HiDPI: Doing the Math (updated)

The TUAW article has this nice picture to catalog various pixels per inch densities:

The linked article above even has a Google-hosted spreadsheet with details on the data behind the table.


MacBook Pro crash after sleeping for a long time

Occasional kernel panics are more nanannoyance than something to be fixed.

How serious are occasional kernel panics?

However, if you can make them happen, there is a process to resolve them:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553


Making apple account without credit card

You haven't tried everything.

Chose none in payment information section.

Source: Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method


Safari having trouble accessing my keychain

Always Allow should add the application to the item's 'always allow' list. If it doesn't, you can try adding the application yourself.

Open the keychain in Keychain Access.
Find and open the 'Internet password' item for GitHub.
In the Access Control tab, click the + and add Safari to the list.


Is It Possible To Still Upgrade To OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?

Yes, Apple sells older OS as redeemable downloads from the web store.

Apple sells OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes, alongside OS X Lion, for £14 each on the UK store.

The US store link is below and it appears the part number is the same no matter which store you select:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion


Issue installing GCC using homebrew (scipy package dependency)

It's caused by your new OS X Yosemite, try the following command to install gcc on Yosemite

    brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denji/homebrew/gcc/Library/Formula/gcc.rb


Can I get the game center application back on my MacBook Air

Try reinstalling OS X from the Recovery Partition. Turn off your computer, hold down Command and R while you turn it on again, and then go through the Reinstall OS X process. Apple Support has an article about it here.


What causes LG screen colors to change when I install a Mac OS update?

I've the same issue.. Working on a 15 inch macbook (2018) and just update to macOS Catalina 10.15.4. Macbook itself working fine but my LG 27UK850 monitor isn't showing matching colours anymore.. Tried a restart of my macbook but that didn't help. Monitor to factory settings isn't fixing anything as well.. Macbook colour repair shows me that I've around 30 bad colour profiles. Don't know if this is what has to be fixed but i can't repair it unfortunately..

If your color changes as the sun comes up and down, check for Night Shift.

I've found how to fix it.

Go to System Preferences
Go to Displays
Turn off 'High Dynamic Range' This fixed it for me. Hopefully for you as well =)

If this doesn’t fix it, consider performing a full calibration for both machines and check other settings relating to color.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/calibrate-your-display-mchlp1109/mac
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-your-displays-color-profile-mchlf3ddc60d/mac
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/if-your-display-doesnt-look-right-mchlp2906/mac


How to remove old bootcamp partition in terminal

To convert a container to free space requires two commands. For example, disk0s3 is a APFS container. To convert to free space, you would need to enter the following commands.

sudo diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk0s3
sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s3

Free space can be added to a container, if the free space reside immediately after the container. In your case, if you converted disk0s3 to free space, then you probably would be able add this free space to disk0s2, by entering the command given below.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0


Strange background color on external drive folder names

Means that you and every body have permissions to write over directories. On your mac drive only you have perms to write inside.

Note that you folder on mac drive have perms drwxr-xr-x, and your external hd have drwxrwxrwx.

How to Set File Permissions in Mac OS X


Boot Camp drivers don't always load (for Windows 7)?

Whatever you do in OSX is completely unrelated in how W7/8 behaves. Unless one of the apps you are using is VMware Fusion (dont know if Parallels can do this too) to access the bootcamp partition as a VM.

I would highly reccommend reinstalling the WindowsSupport files created from the Bootcamp Assistant to see if that fixes the problem.


Those are the page-up ⇞ and page-down ⇟ keys (on keyboards without them, use fn-Cursor up/down). For a list of other common key symbols, see this answer.


What software can rip high quality audio from a DVD? (losslessly if possible)

MPEG Streamclip can do this. It has options to extract the audio track under the File->Demux menu. You may need apples MPEG2 QT components.


Is MacBook Pro warming during gaming normal?

Yes. That's normal. As for "okay" -- it depends. The heat is coming from the extra graphic activity and CPU activity you're asking your machine to perform when playing the games. The MBPro is vented at the back, along the hinge between the screen and the keyboard, you want to make sure that area is free of obstructions and the hot air can leave escape unimpeded. Long-term exposure to high operating temperatures can certainly be detrimental to the components in your machine. But for the most part, if your machine's venting is unobstructed, it should be able to cool itself adequately.


Automator script runs without error but does nothing?

I think you want "Pass input: as arguments" (drop-down menu to the right of your "Run Shell Script" component) and then the following script

for f in "$@"
do
    /usr/local/bin/python3 /Volumes/Scripts/script.py "$f"
done