Which has better sound output -- an iPhone 6s or an iPad Mini Retina (1st generation)

The iPhone 6s will definitely deliver better results.

  While I cannot speak of the iPhone 5's audio performance, there has
  obviously been an improvement between the iPhone 4 to 6 with the
  ability to play 24-bit audio. The iPhone 6's DAC measures very well up
  to the maximum 48kHz samplerate.

In-depth review

To compare it against the iPad mini, just read some user complains about Audio Quality.

Though, the iPhone 6 didn't play High-res sounds. If this changed to the 6s, I cannot tell. This article from mashable suggests to use the external Lightning-to-USB adapter to plug in your own DAC to enhance the audio quality.

What's a fair point to make is, when you connect an external DAC to your iPhone 6s, you will have with no doubt a supreme audio experience. I don't know with which headphones you will plug in, but I am assuming the hardware wouldn't be a downer, more so the MP3 or audio file itself.


What is the current state of syncing Google Tasks and iOS Reminders?

This service is no longer available as of some time in 2016, therefore the link is broken. Original answer preserved below for reference.

This is as close to "native" as I could find: a service which provides Reminders sync, and imports them from Google.

Sign in with a Google account
Add the Tasket account on iOS via Setting > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
You're all set!

http://tasket.mobi/faq


Is there a simple way to convert a Unicode text file to PDF on the command line on macOS?

The following has been tested on Mac OS 10.12.1.

To convert a Unicode text file text.txt to a pdf file text.pdf:

textutil -convert html test.txt
cupsfilter test.html > test.pdf

To specify font:

textutil -font 'Menlo Regular' -fontsize 11 -convert html test.txt
cupsfilter test.html > test.pdf


Bypassing Gatekeeper in macOS Mojave 10.14.5

Applications that have not gone thru Apple's Notarization process can't be run on Catalina and above.  According to Apple's information to developers:

Gatekeeper on macOS helps protect users from downloading and installing malicious software by checking for a Developer ID certificate from apps distributed outside the Mac App Store. Make sure to sign any apps, plug-ins, or installer packages that you distribute to let Gatekeeper know they’re safe to install. And now, you can give users even more confidence in your apps running on macOS Mojave by submitting them to Apple to be notarized.

As of this writing, there hasn't been any published way to go around the Notarization process to run applications.
Update: To address concern about older software not running, Apple has also stated this in their Support doc:

Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run.
Apple recommends that you notarize all of the software that you’ve distributed, including older releases, and even software that doesn’t meet all of these requirements or that is unsigned. Apple’s notary service uses a variety of methods, including telemetry, to determine which of the above rules to relax for preexisting software.

I'm reading that last quote to mean only new software and not existing code.  I think we need more clarification from Apple on what happens to existing applications.


Need to get legacy version of an iOS app

As mentioned in the Compatibility section on the app webpage, the app in question requires iOS 8.0 or later to run. You can only download the legacy version of an iOS app if the app developer continues to support it. And in case they do so, you should be able to download it using the App Store app on your iOS device.

If you are not getting the option to download the app when accessing it via the App Store app on your iOS device, the developer is no longer supporting the version of iOS running on your device. And there would be no way to download the app from anywhere else on the Internet.

In general app developers update their app with a major focus on supporting latest and recent version of iOS while dropping support for older versions.

If you have a serious/justifiable reason to run the app on older version of iOS, you can try contacting the developer via the Developer Website mentioned on the app webpage. (http://www.av380.cn/ in this case)


How to troubleshoot web errors on the Apple developer forum?

Usually things like that are caused by browser extensions or an odd interaction between a specific browser version and the code on the site.

Have you looked over the basic support page for the Developer Forums?

https://developer.apple.com/support/resources/developer-forums.html

It has a "contact us" form if you can't solve this by ensuring an up to date (and unmodified) version of Safari isn't rendering the web site properly for you.


You would have to search online for a Windows keyboard called French (Apple).  I don't know if one exists.  And it would be for your top picture.  Your bottom picture looks non-standard and non-Apple.  All European keyboards should be ISO and have the extra key next to the shift in the bottom row.

You might need to make a custom Windows keyboard with the MKLC app.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339

You should probably really ask in a forum for Windows instead of Mac.


Solved following this guide. You simply have to kill the notification center process.

http://n8henrie.com/2012/08/fix-click-to-tweet-in-mountain-lion-notification-center/


"Free space" partition is unformatable/unerasable/unmergeable from Disk Utiliy

Welcome to the joys of a not quite fully functional Disk Utility in the land of APFS. To be fair, it's difficult in a GUI for the app to figure out exactly what you want to do.

I can't see the container list in the left pane of Disk Utility but I'm assuming that "APPLESSD" is living in an APFS container all of it's own. To reclaim that space you need to "grow" that container to gobble it up.

This page has a fair explanation of the process.

With APFS you are actually better to add a volume to the container rather than partition it. All the volumes in a single container share the space so you don't need to worry about getting the size wrong and adding and deleting volumes is a trivial task. Once your container is back to the right size select it in the left pane and then "Add APFS Volume" in the Edit menu.


Why does a Time Machine backup not complete when destination is a Shared Volume?

This question requires additional troubleshooting to pinpoint the problem. But there is probably a bottleneck somewhere.

There are a few things you don't tell us in your question. How are the different computers connected?

WiFi or Ethernet?
What speed is the link to the eMac 11/54/100/360/1000 Mbps
what are the network devices used to interconnect the devices (hubs, switches, routers...)

Make sure all devices have their own sparse bundles on the hard drives.

You should then try to test the different features used during the time-machine backups.

Test the speed of your hard drives and then during backup monitor the disk usage
monitor the memory and processor usage on your eMac
monitor the connection usage (bandwidth)

During the monitoring process try to add more and more macs until you get the errors.

If you see any of these components saturating during the backup you will pinpoint the bottleneck(s).


Why was my drive not converted to APFS while installing macOS High Sierra public beta

According to various threads I’ve read, there are a number of factors that may prevent you from converting to APFS:

Third-party SSDs are not supported.
Rotational hard drives and fusion drives were supported in Developer Preview 1, but support was removed in Developer Preview 2 (Public Beta 1) due to catastrophic failures.
FileVault may need to be disabled before the conversion is allowed.
External drives may need to be unmounted.


Difference between "allow notifications" toggle and dragging to "do not include"

Putting an app Do Not Include will not include notifications from that app in the Notification Center. If you do not disable the other notifications then you will still receive the notifications on the lock screen and if you are using the device, but the notifications won't remain in Notification Center. Conversely, if you disable the notifications then the app is automatically moved to Do Not Include as the app will never appear in the Notification Center if there are no notifications.


Identifying an accounts username upon login

CurrentUser="$(env | grep LOGNAME | awk -F = '{print $2}')" and $USER used in a script launched by a launch agent in /Library/LaunchAgents both contain the username of the user logging in.

CurrentUser="$(users)" contains all users. So the first user will be revealed but logging in with a second user at the same time  (e.g. fast user switching) will break the script.


Are there any options to control organization for the new photo app?

There are three types of organizations in iPhone now in iOS 7.

According to Years, months and dates and it is not a replication of iPhoto as well.

and when you can make an album of what ever pic's you wanted, you can see them in albums tab.


Can't update apps on iPhone 5S. Keeps prompting for password

Connect your iDevice to a computer, then remove the apps causing problems. Reinstall them then and all should be well.


How to pinpoint cause of disk I/O errors

I've had my MacBook Pro repaired. They changed the SATA cable, and everything is working again.


OS X terminal "open" command and keeping focus on the command line

Use the -g flag.

From the man page:

  -g  Do not bring the application to the foreground.

Example: To open the folder at your current path, behind the current Terminal window:

open . -g

As a side note, it is often better to manually peruse the documentation for new commands, as the verbiage may be different from what you expect:

  i.e. "Do not bring the application to the foreground." vs. "Maintain terminal window focus."


Will my 2014 Mac Mini boot an SSD that already has Linux on it?

There is no way to know in advance if you can boot the operating system on this SDD. The the only way to know for sure would be to try booting. The Mac Startup Manger is employed to either manually or automatically determine what code needs to be loaded in to RAM memory and executed in order to boot the computer. This Startup Manager does not recognize all the possible valid boot configurations and therefore may ignore the Grub and/or Ubuntu startup files stored on the SSD. One way to avoid this problem would be to first boot the a rEFInd USB flash drive image file. A link to download this file can be found at the Getting rEFInd from Sourceforge website. If rEFInd is necessary to boot Ubuntu, then you can either modify the name and location of the startup files on the SSD to avoid using rEFInd or install rEFInd on to the SSD.


>console login - changing the screen size

When I log in, the entire width of the screen is used so I'm not sure how to answer that part of the question. But as far as enabling text coloring in vim, add this line to your .bash_profile:

export TERM="xterm-256color"

Terminal does that automatically for you, but you have to do it yourself in this mode.

Edit - screen width in vim

To set the screen width in vim, add this line to your .vimrc file:

set columns=XXX

Where "XXX" is the number of columns you want.


There are multiple apps which allow you to track application usage.

Timing App Paid
Usage Free
Time Sink Paid

I am not affiliated with any of these products in any way.


You can provide multiple -type options with -o, such as -type d -o -type f in a single command.

find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type d -o -name "*" -type f | while read file

-o matches all parameters, so the -name is provided twice in the above command.


How to Fix Disk Utility Getting Stuck on "Verifying storage system"

So I tried running disk verification with the volume unmounted and verification occurred without getting stuck as before.

You can unmount a volume from Disk Utility (don't eject it), but if it's your system volume then you'll need to boot into the recovery partition (hold Command + R during start-up) as the volume won't unmount otherwise.

I still can't determine why verification is getting stuck for the volume while it's mounted, or why Disk Utility isn't unmounting the volume automatically, but all tests are returning success so at least the file-system appears to be okay.


Open new terminal window in current space, regardless of other open terminals in other spaces

You can create a new service using automator (from the applications folder). At the top of the automator window, enter: Service receives 'no input' in 'any application'. Then, in the workflow, add 'Run applescript'. Make the applescript contain the following:

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "Terminal"
        do script ""
        activate
    end tell

    return input
end run

(You can add any command you like into the do script line between the " " (e.g. something useful to run when terminal first opens like uptime if you like, or just leave it blank).

Save the service as 'Open Terminal' or whatever name you like. It should now appear in your services menu.

Then if you want to add a keyboard shortcut, you just need to go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select services in the left hand menu, and find your new service (its probably near the bottom). Just click in the space to the right of your service name, and assign it whatever keyboard shortcut you like, and hey presto! it should all work


Why doesn't Messages recognize my contacts?

Go to Settings > Phone

Check that My Number is has been updated to your new number.

At times when changing SIM cards, the number does not update in this area.  This will cause issues like you have experienced.  I recently changed carriers (in the USA from AT&T to T-Mobile) and experienced a similar problem after swapping the SIM card in an unlocked iPhone.

See Apple Support for more information regarding swapping SIM cards.


Diagnosing a MacBook that decided to stop powering. (A1342)

The symptoms are not good. The first thing to check on MagSafe issues is to replace that sub assembly since it’s cheap and easy. If you are not able to source that part, you could disconnect the battery and the display to see if you can get the mac to boot as a minimal system (or at least the MagSafe light to work).

Hopefully you don’t need a new logic board, but by disconnecting things that aren’t critical, you should be able to build up a working system assuming each part works.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

For any Mac that’s not vintage, Consider a flat rate repair at Apple for situations like this. Assuming the internals aren’t mangled badly, they can and will test each part and repair all (including reasonable number of missing screws) for the paid flat rate cost.

Since this is vintage, your best bet is sourcing some cheap donor machines in hopes of getting enough spare parts to validate which item has failed here.


How to obtain glyphs from the "Apple Symbols" font in Lion?

Snow Leopard's CharacterPalette.app still works on 10.7:

Those "iOS symbols" shown in the screenshot above are glyph variants that are specific to Apple Symbols. For example the turned arrow icon is a variant of Ꮿ. There doesn't seem to be any way to show them in 10.7's Character Viewer.

You could also use Font Book to save a PDF file for all characters in a font:


Missing folders after OS X El Capitan upgrade

'All My Files" is just a Smart folder (& frankly, imho, a useless one ;-)

Your files should be right where you left them in the hierarchy - right click one & 'Show in Enclosing Folder' to see where it really is.

The default behaviour is that new Finder windows show "All My Files" But you can easily change this to open anywhere you like.
Go to Finder, press  Cmd ⌘   ,  (or Finder menu > Preferences… )
Select General & then choose your preferred initial location from the drop menu


iPad 3 app won't transfer an app to new iPad Air 2

On the iPad or iPhone - go to Settings, scroll down to iTunes & App Store, select and scroll down to Automatic Downloads to have every purchase (even free) downloaded to every device.


macbook doesn't recognize internal HDD, only when connected via USB

It's probably the flex cable that connects the hard drive to the logic board. Some of the cables inexplicably went bad in 13" MacBook Pros--happened in my 2009 model. A new cable for my model was $9-$11 for the part at an Apple Store, and I got the tech to waive the labor charge since the part was so cheap. Looks like the cable for the 2011 models is $50 on ifixit (http://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody-Model-A1278-Early-2011-Late-2011-Hard-Drive-Cable/IF163-026). Not a difficult repair at all if you're already out of warranty and would rather do it yourself, but use a nylon probe tool (black stick, can also be purchased from ifixit or elsewhere) to disconnect the battery from the logic board first and then carefully remove the cable connector from the logic board--don't want to break the logic board side.

As far as overheating goes, the system will shut itself off or put itself to sleep if it gets above a safe operating temperature. If fans are running all the time, it could be something software related (runaway process, web video, CPU/graphically intensive app). If the fan and outtake vents are blocked with dust, could also be a lack of airflow. You can use compressed air (only hold the can upright) to blast out the dust when the bottom cover is off. Or if you take it to an Apple Store just ask the tech to clean up the dust.


How do I delete a new Admin account and its data without knowing the old admin password?

First, create a new Admin user account as your account allows to make it.
Login with the new admin account.
Delete your original account and select the "Delete home folder" option.

Easy way to delete your account with settings, not so easy to delete the new second account but your friend can do that with their admin account (hopefully)


After restoring my iPhone from iCloud, my photos are all low resolution. How can I fix this?

According to this site it is a limitation of iCloud. You can, however, download the full-resolution images from iCloud to your computer. So you haven't lost the high-res versions, you just have to pull them over through local syncing and not iCloud.


Can I use Apple's San Francisco font (and other fonts) in my own text editor?

No.
As you mention, you can do it technically, but the license I reviewed appears to not grant anyone a license to use this work in personal projects. Some good people agree with me as well. As a developer, you will want to get good legal advice on licensing - what we think on this internet site isn’t likely to be prudent legal advice. Even if I was a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer.
Read your legal agreement carefully. If you wish to license the typeface, you could ask Apple for (or your business manager to acquire) that license or how much they would charge for such a personal use license.


Updated answer for those who still prefer to watch in Safari

In the iOS Shortcuts app you can find a shortcut that will change the speed of any video it finds on the web page you're on when you run it. You run it from the share sheet in Safari.

Activate it in the Shortcuts app in Gallery → Javascript Shortcuts → Change video speed.

Visit a Youtube video in Safari and use the share sheet to run the newly added shortcut. It will ask you what speed to play the video at.

Original answer

On the video's mobile Youtube page, tap the menu button at the top left (or right). Scroll to the bottom and switch
to Desktop view.*

Change the speed controls just like you would on your computer.
Play the video by tapping it and it will use the new speed settings.

*If you're in YouTube desktop mode but still don't see the gear icon then tap Safari's action/share button and request desktop version from there as well. The request desktop icon looks like a monitor/iMac.

(I recently learned that you can also tap and hold Safari's refresh button to request the desktop version of a page)

If you lock the screen Safari will pause playback, but it can be resumed either from the lock screen or your headset to allow audio only.


Restoring a Boot Camp image with Windows 7 and making it bootable?

Why don't you make a new Bootcamp partition, download CCC for windows and let it do its job?


If your Mac originally came with OS X Mavericks installed and you do not have a separate USB Installer for OS X Mavericks or never downloaded a complete OS X Mavericks Installer from the App Store, from which you can create a USB OS X Mavericks Installer, then you'd have to wipe the HDD/SSD  so the Recovery HD was not there and then start the Mac using OS X Internet Recovery (Command-R). Without the aforementioned USB Installer then OS X Internet Recovery is the only way to get what originally shipped on your Mac back.

Note: If in the past you had downloaded the full Installer for OS X Mavericks from the App Store but no longer have it you can still download it again from the App Store under Purchased and then create a USB Installer from it.

Be sure you are properly backed up before proceeding to reinstall, by whatever means.


A modal occupies the entire Mail app when composing a new mail

This is a feature of using Mail.app in Full Screen Mode.

To disable this behaviour, use Mail.app in non-Full Screen Mode. You can do this with the menu item: View > Exit Full Screen.


Mac Encrypted USB drive giving different capacity

You could look to folders that you can zip into a compressed folder. This should give you additional space on disk4, so long as you erase the files that have been added to the compressed zip file. You can either use Compress Files in Finder or zip in Terminal.

UPDATE

While this does not address rsync directly, this is another option that you may consider.

If this is solely a backup, and you are not actively using the data on disk4, i.e. it would only be used to restore lost data, or recover incremental data, then I would say try CrashPlan by Code42. The software is free and you do not need to buy their premium cloud backup services to use the local backup functionality. The only thing is that without the premium plan, I do not think that they unlock the ability to set the backup schedule for local backup. They do however give you a thirty-day free trial for the premium service, so you can determine how important having control over the backup schedule is.

It works very well, and is very light on resource utilization, so you won't know it is there. I in fact view it as a flaw in the software, as they are only addressing a single core of multicore processors, which can extend initial back up times. You have control over how much you allow CrashPlan to use your systems resources.

The benefit is that it significantly compresses the data to the backup drive, depending obviously on the data you are backing up. While you cannot use the information directly from Finder, the GUI lets you see the file structure and you can easily restore a single file or the entire disk.


I am unable to boot my mac in El Capitan and Single User mode

Yes. Single user mode is the most basic thing your OS can do. If that fails, you either have a major hardware problem or the OS needs to be reinstalled.

Most people make a backup and then attempt a reinstall. If you can't reinstall the OS, that pins the problem on the hardware pretty squarely. If it works, you can safely assume the software just needed to be reinstalled.


Anyone with experience in hacking the codesigning on OS X?

Before OS X 10.10, you can run sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app to re-sign the app with an ad-hoc signature.

In order to re-sign it in 10.10, you need to additionally specify the --deep command to re-sign bootcamp:

sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app --deep

  '--deep' When signing a bundle, specifies that nested code content such as helpers, frameworks, and plug-ins, should be recursively signed
               in turn. Beware that all signing options you specify will apply, in turn, to such nested content.
               When verifying a bundle, specifies that any nested code content will be recursively verified as to its full content. By default,
               verification of nested content is limited to a shallow investigation that may not detect changes to the nested code.
               When displaying a signature, specifies that a list of directly nested code should be written to the display output. This lists only
               code directly nested within the subject; anything nested indirectly will require recursive application of the codesign command.


2017 MacBook Air - MacOS Sierra reinstall fails

It sounds like you also deleted the recovery partition. Using a High Sierra installer on a USB stick is your best way forward. Ideally you'd do this on a Mac, but you can go to this page here, and just move the .app to a FAT-formatted, bootable, USB drive and your Mac will recognize it.


With FileVault: Yosemite starts with default desktop background

Ok, it just occurred to me that the answer is obvious: OS X cannot access my Wallpapers folder which is on the second drive, before I have entered the password for using the drive, which obviously happens after the desktop is rendered. Solution: Move the wallpaper to the boot drive.


How do I get my system preferences to show up?

close system preferences
go to your home directory and then Library then PreferencePanes. (remove ~/Library/PreferencePanes/*) remove anything in there (to you
desktop in case you want to sort through them later)
launch system preferences and see if it acts better.

if not, then go to /Library then PreferencePanes and remove anything there.  (remove /Library/PreferencePanes/*)

if it's a wonky pref pane, this should fix it, with only the system ones remaining.


Hmmm probably not the way you want it. You don't mention what are you trying to print (Word? Pages? TextEdit?), If you use Pages, for example,  you could create a template that inserts a page break in the 1st page (at the beginning), so your real 1st page would be the 2nd page. Then use that template as your "blank document".

I know, simple solution but works ;)

UPDATE Since you need to usually add a blank page to a PDF, you can use preview for that. Position yourself in the first page and do an:

Edit -> Insert Blank Page


What's the difference between `/private/var/db/receiptss/` and `/var/db/receipts/`?

The files are not duplicates, but, linked.

At the top level of the hard drive, /var is linked to /private/var; and, /tmp to /private/tmp

So, /var/anydirectory would also show up as /private/var/anydirectory.  Deleting one will also delete the other.


Resize display in display arrangement / actual size instead of resolution

Short answer, no.

'Full HD' is actually tiny compared to the resolution of a retina screen -  1920x1080 vs 2880x1800

The Displays control panel really has no idea how big the screen is, only what resolutions it is capable of.
The relationship it displays is a direct result of that - & your mouse will jump according to how you set the images of the screens against each other.
The most logical method is to align the tops of the screens in the control panel, so you at least have one matching point of reference.

I have 2 identical monitors, so it's not so easy to illustrate - but you want this...

rather than this...

The screen images will snap to 'sensible' locations, but you are actually free to position them any way you like, simply by dragging one of them relative to the other.


How to merge back the encrypted folder back to main drive

You've created a disk image, which is basically just a file. You haven't partitioned your Macintosh disk, as can be seen if you select Macintosh in Disk Utility.

To remove the disk image, unmount the disk image using the Eject button next to Disk Image, then delete the file using Finder. This will reclaim the space on your Macintosh drive in the same way deleting any other file will.


Macbook Pro (Early 2011) running hot with OS X Lion

Because you have a base unit, your machine has an integrated GPU. So just looking at CPU cycles can be a red herring.

You can test this behaviour by turning on Cover Flow in iTunes and scrolling through your entire library for a minute or two. Since it is quite GPU intensive, after some time, your fans will ramp up to bring your chips temperature down. Bt if you consult your CPU usage, it will be quite minimal.

It could be the case (very likely) that Lion is working as intended. Lion introduced much more animations and graphically intensive processes, such as swipe animations when navigating websites using the trackpad, pop-up animations on dialogue boxes, swipe animations when sending mail, etc. Even moving or re-organizing icons in Finder now has an animation attached to it

You are certainly free to take into an Apple Store and talk to a Genius about your concerns, but I'm fairly certain they will test the unit and report that it is very much within "spec."


Xcode 6 currently requires an active iOS or Mac Developer Program membership, available from developer.apple.com/programs, as Xcode 6 and Swift is not publicly available yet.  Once Xcode 6 is out of beta / prerelease anyone should be able to download it from the MAS, but that is speculation based on past experience and not something Apple has announced.


awk/sed output from system_profiler on 10.6.8

Use this sed instead:

|sed '$!N;s/\n/ /'

system_profiler SPMemoryDataType | awk '/Type/ {print $2} /Speed/ {print $2}'|sed '$!N;s/\n/ /'

output:

DDR3 1066
DDR3 1066
DDR3 1066
Empty Empty


Is there a way to add keyboard shortcuts to preference panes?

You can create an Automator based service that opens the specific preference pane.

You can find the preference pane bundles in the Library/PreferencePanes set of folders:

/System/Library/PreferencePanes
/Library/PreferencePanes
~/Library/PreferencePanes

Preference panes are special bundles that when opened from the Finder, will launch System Preferences.app and automatically switch to their settings.

Create an Automator Service
Drag the desired preference pane onto the Automator workflow
Add the Open Finder Items action…
…and select System Preferences.app in the action
Add a Watch Me Do action to record any clicks and interactions with the panel

To assign this workflow as a keyboard shortcut, see this Tuts+ tutorial, How to Launch Any App with a Keyboard Shortcut.


Root access is gone on Lion Server 10.7.1 after update from 10.7

You shouldn't have to re-enable root after an upgrade, but perhaps there is a bug.

Have you tried performing the "little dance" Apple asks us to do for enabling root now that the update is over?

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528


Hardware differences between iPad, iPhone, iPod models within a single family

While I can't find you documentation describing the exact hardware differences of each carrier's iPhones and iPads, it is to my knowledge that all Apple devices are relatively the same across the board, save cellular hardware.

However, Apple is known to source different components from different manufacturers, but there is nothing I can find to determine whether or not a certain carrier set of iDevices uses different hardware universally compared to another carrier.

An example of this was Apple's controversial sourcing of LG and Samsung displays for the first MacBook Pros with Retina Displays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdhIA8-UIRQ

Wrapping it up, Apple may use components from different suppliers that may be marginally different in some aspect, but there's no evidence to suggest that one carrier has a different hardware set compared to another, excluding cellular hardware.

And with Apple's philosophy of delivering a consistent and delightful user experience no matter what type of Apple device their using leads me to believe that the differences in those components are negligible (though there was anger regarding the aforementioned rMBP display snafu).


How I put OSX on a disk with badblocks, while avoiding them?

don't tell me to buy an HDD

Buy a new HDD.

Here's why.

First, a bit of history.

ALL disk drives have bad sectors. Way back in the 1980s drives were simple mechanical devices that came with a bad sector list. Today, the bad sectors are mapped in the drive's firmware. The drive has slightly more storage than advertized and the controller just replaces a bad sector with a spare one. As more sectors read as bad they are also replaced. End result is a drive that appears perfect to the end user.

Your drive has exposed bad sectors, which means the controller has run out of spare sectors to use. This is a serious problem that will not get better. If the cause of the bad sectors was a head crash, the now-damaged head will be slowly scratching up the rest of the drive.

So, your choices are:

get a new drive now, enjoy years of trouble-free service.
don't get a new drive now, have several months of bad performance, data loss, and general unreliability. Get new drive when the current one fails completely.

Laptop-size drives that fit a Mac Mini are available on Amazon for $75 (1Tb Western Digital Black 7200rpm) down to $20 (120Gb chinese whitelabel). Or an SSD for about twice as much per gigabyte.

Depending on your Mini's series replacement difficulty ranges from "tedious" to "challenging". The original ones require 2 big putty knives in addition to the normal screwdrivers, the newer (short, wide, all-aluminium) need a special tool.


There is currently no jailbreak available for any build of iOS 11 on any hardware.


You need to download GrowlMail, however every time MacOS X is updated the version of GrowlMail becomes outdated and won't run (under Snow Leopard, at least).

I think that the current version of GrowlMail doesn't work with Mac OS X 10.6.7 at present. Details of why it keeps breaking are here. It is annoying but seems unavoidable.


Download Mojave on a non-Mojave suitable computer

Tetsujin is correct in that using your recovery partition to do a clean install on your Mojave-supported Mac Mini is ideal.  You can then download Mojave from the App Store as usual.

If that is not a viable solution for you:

After reading through the extent of the information given to you in your previous question, would recommend you use dosdude1's Mojave Beta installer tool.  Create your USB installer, install on the Mac Mini's new SSD, and then immediately upgrade to the full version of Mojave

Alternatively, if you're feeling brave, you can follow the instructions here to obtain a copy of the Mojave or High Sierra installers via the download links.

It will take a little bit of work, but you can get it done!


I had this happen on my Calendar.  Go into the app switcher and close out the apps that you are having problems with, and then reopen them and try again.  If that doesn't work then try closing the apps and then rebooting your phone.  Hope it's a simple fix.

Let me know if it works.


Can't restore iPhone 6S to latest iPhone 5 backup

I'm going to assume your iPhone 5 is running the latest beta, which is iOS 9.1. This is newer version than iOS 9.0.1--the latest non-beta release, and the version your iPhone 6s is running, according to your screenshot.

A backup can only be restored onto a phone running the same, or a newer, version of iOS.

So, if my initial assumption is correct, you'd need to pick one of these options:

Restore from your July 10th backup--it's clear you'd prefer
not to do this.
Downgrade your iPhone 5 to iOS 9.0.1, and then create a new backup which
should then be restorable. (Is this even possible? Perhaps by restoring
your iPhone 5 from it's July 10th backup... which is no better than
above.)
Wait until iOS 9.1 is officially released, and then restore from this
backup after you have upgraded your iPhone 6s to that new version (who
wants to wait that long?).
Upgrade your shiny new iPhone 6s to the current 9.1 beta release and
then restore from the current, missing, backup, which will hopefully
become available as the iOS version numbers will now be compatible.


How to purchase a gift certificate in iTunes store?

In many countries, you can easily do this from iTunes when signed in to a valid account with a credit card entered. I've never gifted to an account foreign to the US, so these steps are only proofed for the US store.

On a computer:

open iTunes and connect the computer to the internet.
from the Store menu - select Home (Command-Shift-H on OS X)
scroll down a bit on the right hand side and click "Send iTunes Gifts"
fill out the gift form to email a gift

You can also send gifts from iOS iTunes Store:

open the App
tap any of the icons at the bottom (except Genius, Purchased or Downloads)
swipe the content up to see the bottom of the page
tap on Send Gift at the bottom right
fill out the gift form to email a gift

Fill out the form or at the bottom of the page is a link to a FAQ on gifting. It has links to the web store for gifting if you wish to check out in a web browser or from a computer without iTunes installed. Here is that link for the US store (but looking at it, it might be fragile and change from time to time):

http://store.apple.com/us/personalize/itunes?aid=AOS-US-iTunestile-GC&product=ITUNES_GIFT_CARDS-101703

As you have discovered, the web store only sends physical gift cards for iTunes and physical gift cards for the Apple Stores (retail, online) and not certificates that can be emailed. Only iTunes will email certificates directly to your chosen recipients.


What is causing slow Wi-Fi speeds on my Airport Extreme?

1. Wireless interference
The most common cause of what you describe here is a common wireless
interference problem.
This probability is pretty high if your network loss of performance
was closely related with the move of wirelessly connected
computer or of pieces of furniture made of metal or glass (these cause
many radiofrequency reflections).
If you want to check this cause of your problem, download
iStumbler. Let it run for 10 minutes at the time when you have network problems. Then sort your neighbours network
by decreasing signal level. If your channel is the same one as one of your strongers neighbours, then change it for a channel which isn’t among their channels.
I have investigated very complex wireless interference problems since more
than 10 years with this exceptionnal quality software.
2. Use of the wrong network interface
The second most popular culprit for this kind of problem is the use
of the wrong network interface due to the infamous Automatic network
configuration.
To check pretty quickly if you are in this case, the easy method
is to make a new Network location (which in fact is not a location,
but a configuration) where the unique active interface will be
your wireless one (No BlueTooth, no Ethernet…). Make all the other
interfaces inactives (Make Service Inactive in the little dropdown menu).
The worst case I saw was a MacBook connected through the wireless network
but the one coming from the iPhone which was left configured as a hotspot.
I let you imagine the nightmare connection since the iPhone was fully
used… because the network on the MacBook was bad. In fact this was a 3G
phone connection overloaded…and shared.
3. Uninvited wireless scroungers
In urban environment, the third most popular culprit for your kind of
trouble is someone who either unwillingly or willingly connected to your
wireless network.
This is a potential problem if your wireless network is open, is using
one of the fake security functions named WEP or WPA, is using a weak
password like 123456 or password on WPA2.
To detect this, use first iStumbler once more.
And if you want to go further, check directly on your Extreme Base Station
who is connected on it. There is no better and clearer way to see these
scroungers.
Don't change your password at random as long as you didn't start a correct analysis. This won't help to understand a problem you might have
to face repeatedly as long as you don't see it and kill it. For example, if you are using a fake security function, a neighbour who was able to get your password in 6 seconds, will do the same with any password.


Logs are available via Xcode, however they are overwritten pretty quickly in order to prevent from consuming large amounts of memory on the device.  Usually you can only get a few days worth of logs at most.  That means that the logs you are seeking have certainly already been deleted from the device.  These are the same diagnostic logs that are available at the Genius bar.  They are useful for troubleshooting current issues, but they are not usefully for determining how long you have had a problem.


Unless your models are Early for the years, they should be supported.

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-requirements

Apple requires you to have 10.6.8 or newer running since that's where the Mac App Store runs. If you have access to any Mac running 10.6.8 or newer, you could sign in to the App Store and download the 10.11 installer. It has a script to make a bootable USB installer - one shot command:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

If you run into issues, this thread has several other methods to work through fixing your installer.

How do I make a bootable USB flash drive a Mac?

If you're not seeing the USB drive or network boot, perhaps resetting the NVRAM might help with that.


How to remove a partition that fails to remove.

A pretty decent method to remove a partition is using a saw:

In the above example the repairman forgot to dismantle the disk properly and all partitions were lost.

Smaller saws like a precision mechanical saw reduce the risk of cutting away your precious OS X partitions.

So to delete the partition you have to remove the hard disk from your Mac and disassemble it to expose the platters. Usually the disk color indicates the position and the type of the partitions:

In the example above the Ubuntu partition is the orange one, the Ubuntu swap partition is in lighter orange and just to illustrate an additional Windows volume (which I added before): it's the lighter blue one. The silver white part of the disk are the main OS X partition and the Recovery HD. To remove the Ubuntu partitions simply cut off both orange segments.

Other known color codes are:

Mixed orange/blue: Solaris
Red: Redhat
Light Green: Linux Mint
Colorful: older Windows versions

After removing the Ubuntu partitions the disk will be slightly unbalanced. Visit your local tire repair shop to get it rebalanced similar to a car wheel.

If your internal disk is an SSD the approach is similar. The dyeing of the Flash-memory chips indicates the partition type. You don't need a precision saw though - a temperature-controlled soldering iron will be sufficient. To remove the Ubuntu partitions unsolder the orange chips. A rebalancing is not necessary because usually there are no rotating items in the SSD.


I deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist which seemed to help momentarily, but the the problem began again. in that time, I noticed an app called "DeskShade" that was running, and said wtf is that? So I did sudo rm -rf DeskShade.app/  I rebooted, and my desktop is back. It's been good for about 30 minutes, hopefully removing this app is the solution.


AirPods abruptly go silent while listening to music from iPhone

This is typical of an interference between Bluetooth and other electromagnetic waves (Wi-Fi in an office or appartment environment, remote commands in every environment, wireless phones in every environment, microwave oven leaking in an office or appartment environment…).

One of the only thing you could do if at all possible is to suggest all Wi-Fi administrators around you (at least the ones who might understand) to switch on 5GHz band channels (36, 40, 44…) so as to reduce these interferences. Their networks will work better too.

This problem will increase regularly with the increase of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi use everywhere. This problem will stay hard to identify and to aknowledge since the channels used by Bluetooth are changing regularly (purposefully to avoid this interference problem ).

You can limit this problem by stopping Wi-Fi within your own environnment. And moreover, to make everyone laugh, you might surround you with a light metal wire mesh the kind used to make garden fences  (avoid the aluminium screen because it's an urban legend).

Another note on the funny side, these network drop is a free nice detector that you are in an overcrowded electromagnetic waves environment.


If your Macs are part of the OS X Server's OD, then you can use Workgroup Manager to assign printers to either Groups of users or Groups of Machines.

If you want to manage the drivers and the detailed printer settings, this link might help.


MacBook Pro screen dimming problems after EFI 2.3 update

This is what I did and it worked for me:

  1.Shut down the computer.

  2.Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if >its not already connected.

  3.On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.

  4.Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.

  5.Press the power button to turn on the computer.

  Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.


How wifi/bluetooth speaker can get audio data?

This page on the Bluetooth specification website very quickly descends into technobabble, but the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile is how audio is distributed, or sent, from a Bluetooth audio transmitter (such as iPhone or iPod) to a Bluetooth audio receiver (such as headphones or a stand-alone speaker).

I am not sure how technical of an answer you are looking for, but the page linked above goes into much more detail.


How many writes do I have on my 250GB SSD hard drive on my Macbook Pro High Sierra

You cannot in general track how many writes exactly have been performed on the drive. You would have had to keep track of that statistics yourself somehow.

Similarly you cannot in general say how many writes are left, as there's no "guarantee" that a drive will fail at a certain point. Nor is there a guarantee that a drive won't fail up until a certain point.

The best way to get an approximation of what you want is to look at the SMART attributes on the drive. You can do that with the program "smartctl" from "smartmontools". If you have homebrew installed, you can install smartmontools with this command:

brew install smartmontools

Then afterwards run it like this:

smartctl -a disk0

(replace disk0 with the actual physical disk you want to examine - you can find the device names in Disk Utility)

In the output from smartctl, you'll want to look at the so called "Wear Leveling Count". The raw value at the right tells you how many erase/program cycles each block on the SSD in average has undergone. The erase/program cycles are what wears out the drive eventually.

In addition, the number in the column "value" will tell you in basically how large a part that number of erase/program cycles is compared to the expected number of cycles that you drive can sustain. Basically this number starts at 100% for a new drive, and counts down to 0% where you would expect the drive to start failing. As mentioned before, drives can and will fail before that point - and they might not fail at that point. However, it is one of the better indicators you have of drive health.


Can I use the Lightning to Micro USB Adapter and connect a keyboard?

No, the Lightning to Micro USB adapter will only allow you to use micro USB cables to charge and synch your device.


Correct battery voltage for new MacBook Pro battery

Batteries are the one thing in a laptop you shouldn't mess with -- I'm fairly sure they're the only component in your computer that is in a constantly controlled risk of overheating, catching fire or quite literally exploding. When they are not made to the utmost standards of quality, you could be, again quite literally, putting your life at risk. I'm not saying this is the case with you, and fortunately not with me, but if I were unable to afford a new manufacturer-supplied battery to replace a dying one in my laptop, I would rather sell it and buy a cheaper laptop whose battery I could afford.

I agree Apple's markup on batteries -- and quite generally most of the accessories they sell -- is excessive, but batteries and chargers (due to the risk of electric shock) are two things I would never buy from anyone but Apple. If you search around you will find teardowns of original Apple chargers and cheap Chinese knockoffs, and even if you have zero knowledge of electronics, you can tell the Apple chargers are much higher quality than the Chinese knockoffs. This is quite hard to tell with batteries, but do you believe for a moment the lowest bidder won't cut costs exactly as they do with chargers?

And just to stay on topic, yes the battery is quite important. 7.3 V sounds like a two cell Li-ion configuration while 10.95 V would be a three cell Li-ion battery. Using a two-cell battery in place of a three-cell battery or vice-versa is a sure-fire recipe for disaster -- even if the electronics could take the different voltage, over-charging a two cell battery with enough voltage for a three cell battery would immediately damage it. In case of a high quality battery, only the protection circuit would be damaged, but in case of a low-quality knockoff with no protection circuits, the battery would be immediately and irreversibly damaged, with a symptom of either swelling, fire or an explosion.


Where are scanner drivers located, and what (file) form do they take?

Scanner drivers are located in /Library/Image Capture/Devices/ as Tetsujin so helpfully points out.

These scanner drivers are App bundles, but quite a bit different than regular applications. An executable binary is inside Contents/MacOS, along with the obligatory plists, Resources, etc. Even so, they're typically quite a bit more barren than an actual Application bundle.

If Tetsujin wants to include an answer here, please upvote his rather than mine since mine is basically just repeating information that I got from him.


Can a 2012 Macbook Pro run a 4k display?

According to Everymac that machine can only run an external screen up to 2560x1600.


Why do I have a ~ file in the root of my drive?

This seems to be an attempt to write something to the ~ directory, but instead has been written to the file /~. This file isn't required by OS X, but if an app is still using it then deleting it could break things. Make a backup if you delete it.


Using an applitcation like iBackupBot found here:http://www.icopybot.com/itunes-backup-manager.htm

You can plug in your iphone 3gs and make a backup, it will back up all contacts Like so:

Now you go ahead and plug in your new iphone 6 and click the restore button.

Give it a minute or two, depending on your computer and you should have all your contacts on your brand new iPhone 6!

Hope you enjoy the iPhone 6, I know I am!


how to use automator make this workflow?

I have found two services to be much easier to automate for uploading videos.

Posterous - this site takes uploads as emails and also has an API, but email is the way to go for simplicity.
Vimeo - Vimeo has several API that are well documented and allow uploads through the API so this might be a better choice if you are more into programming than scripting/light automation.

I would go with posterous since you can set it up to autopost to just about any other social site and only have to script the generation of an email per attachment. It can automatically push your videos when they arrive to YouTube, Vimeo, FaceBook, Flickr and many, many other sites.

Lastly, don't forget that iPhoto works well with Automator and AppleScript and has upload to YouTube functionality built in. It should be doable to automate import the folder into an album/event and automate the clicks to publish to YouTube - but not nearly as easy as using Posterous.


From Apple's "How iTunes Store purchases are billed":

  How are Family Sharing purchases billed? When you initiate a new purchase, it will be billed directly to the family organizer's
  account, unless you have gift or store credit. First, your store
  credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder
  will bill to the family organizer. iTunes Store credit on your account
  isn't shared with other family members. So if the family organizer has
  a $50 credit on their account and another family member initiates a
  purchase, it won't deduct from the organizer's iTunes Store credit,
  but will bill the organizer's credit or debit card. The family
  organizer will get the receipts for any of their family member's
  purchases.

More important legal verbiage about the iTunes Store at this link.


Apple's BootCamp drivers do not have the driver or other software support needed to mount a volume using FileVault 2's encryption (otherwise known as CoreStorage encryption.)

To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to unlock and mount a CoreStorage encrypted volume on any OS except by using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.7.x.


Word 2011: No new paragraph / line break possible in text box?

Before you begin, make a copy of the document somewhere.  Don't try this on the original in case you run into additional problems.

Can you select the text before and after this text box? EG if you drag to highlight in the paragraph before the text box and you continue to drag (even if you have to go to the bottom of the document) down the document does it highlight?

If so cut that part of the document and paste it into textpad, then save it as a plain text file (use TXT; do not use RTF, RTFD, or DOC/DOCX) and quit out of Textpad.

Save the document, open it back up and open the text file in Textpad. Paste all the text from the textpad document back where it came from and re-apply your formatting.

Sometimes, the document itself is damaged.  This trick might help.  Open the document and turn on invisibles (the backwards P in the toolbar). Now click in the document and select all. Scroll down to the bottom of the document, and while you are holding the shift key click just to the left of the very last paragraph mark. So the entire document is selected except the last paragraph mark. Copy what you just selected, open a new Word document, and paste. See if you can edit that text box in the new document.

And if none of this works at least you have an unchanged version of the document to continue to hammer on.


iPhone 6s suddenly said Activation Error

This is happening to my phone when I get out of range of my cell service. It is really frustrating because I can't take pictures or anything when this happens. But, I have found that if I know that I will be going somewhere where I won't have a signal I put my phone on airplane mode and then it doesn't happen.


Green button fill screen (as opposed to fullscreen) and coloured folders like 10.8 in El Capitan

No
Yes. Press the option key when pressing the green button.


Scapy on Mavericks via Homebrew "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'intf'"

I seem to have fixed this issue for myself, I think it's due to a corrupt/buggy "egg" file. I cannot guarantee this will work for you, but I've had this problem for the last 2 months, word for word. And now, I can at least get into scapy.

First of all, I found my Python install's paths, with this command:

python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

In my case, the first few paths were various .egg files. Try removing the pydnet egg, which in my case is called PyDNET-0.92-py2.7.egg. I haven't really tested it too much at this point, but scapy boots, at least. So we know where the problem must be.


How can I eject a Time Machine drive quickly?

There is a 3rd party app named Mountain that gives you control over all your connected volumes. It's not free, selling for $7 but they have a free trial period so you can test drive it. Mountain creates a menu item that user can use to mount, unmount, eject or load volumes. I can't guarantee it is faster than your method but I use it to mount or unmount stubborn drives.


Turns out that Time Machine was being blocked by Active Directory policy configuration after all.


Wireless download slow on Bootcamp (Upload is fine)

It appears to be working with a different router now (I was reluctant to test this as my backup router is ISP provided) but I will revisit this if problems persist.


Uninstalling all instances of apache, php and mysql

Just delete or move the apps from the app folder s long as they don't have their own un-installer. If that doesn't work, back up your mac, reinstall the OSX, and copy the data you want from your back up file.


I think it has to do with Bonjour (mDNSResponder). Check out this page.

Run the following command in a Terminal:

ps aux | grep mDNS

This should tell you whether or not /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder is running. If it is not, run the following command to launch it:

sudo /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder


Your question doesn't full specify what you're wanting or what you've already tried, so I'm assuming you want to do this directly from your iPhone (as opposed to doing it while your iPhone is connected to a Mac/PC).

I'm also assuming you're just wanting to free up space and you've already backed up your photos. If so, you can follow these steps:

Open the Photos app on your iPhone
Tap on the Albums icon down the bottom
Tap on the Camera Roll album at top left
Tap on Select at top right (the word Select will change to Cancel)
Tap on the status bar at top of the screen (this will take you to the oldest photos in your Camera Roll
Now tap on the first photo (at top left) without taking your finger off the screen and while keeping your finger down gently swipe across the screen and then swipe down continuously - this will select all photos up to the point at which you take your finger off the screen
Tap on the Trash can icon at bottom right to delete all selected photos

NOTE: If you're doing this to free up space, then you will also need to remove your deleted photos from the Recently Deleted album (as photos are stored there for 30 days before actually being removed from your device). You can select the Recently Deleted album from the very bottom of the Albums screen in order to remove them from there and free up space.


Iphone 4 ios 6 has shared calendar with iphone 5 ios7.. Having issues syncing

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts and Calender > Sync

Set it to always and the old events will be synced as well on both the devices.


This issue might be graphical 'bug'. If you are sure that mail is empty, you can always try to reboot/hard reset device and if the issue is still there, then take a iTunes backup and restore device. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184 should be good article for this troubleshooting step.


Does OS X's Disk Utility create hardware RAID or software RAID?

According to this article the "WD Thunderbolt Duo 6TB" misses - in contrast to the Pegasus2 series - one essential thing to be able to create a hardware RAID: a hardware RAID controller(-chip).

So whether you use Disk Utility or the native Western Digital tools you will only get a software RAID.

Even with an hardware RAID controller inside an arbitrary device, Disk Utility can't create/handle hardware RAIDs because it doesn't contain the necessary drivers to do so. AFAIK the only Apple tool for hardware RAIDs is the "RAID Admin" or "RAID Utility" accompanying the Mac Pro RAID Card and Xserve RAID Card.


The process to install c++11 on 10.6.8 on MacPorts has recently been automated, and for the majority of users, now happens automatically. The previous instructions you were following are no longer necessary.

The installation process leads to MacOSX 10.6.8 running with a reasonably current libc++, clang-8.0 (at present -- clang-9.0 is available as well), and the required underpinnings in cctools (assembler, ranlib, etc) and ld64 (linker) to install software requiring the currently available c++17 standards, and newer as clang/llvm progress.


Always Automatically 'Right-Size' All Finder Window Columns Individually?

The only solution up to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), is to download XtraFinder - a free app that is very useful for your issue as well as many other things, including restoring full coloured labels rather than OS X's silly little dots.
Sadly the full functionality of XtraFinder was destroyed initially when El Capitan came along but if you don't mind disabling System Integrity Protection some of XtraFinder's features can be restored. The guy who publishes this is working on an update that will restore everything in El Capitan, later. You can plumb the internet to get more information about XtraFinder and also how to disable SIP.


Applescript - activate background application doesn't work

I think the problem is..  Telling an application to activate, is handled by "Standard Additions", but you are asking "System Events" to handle that action.

tell application "System Events" to set AppName to name of ¬
    every process whose background only is false
tell application (some item of AppName) to activate


Are you comfortable with AppleScript? If so, you could write a script to export the contacts created after a date of your choosing.


How can I add some html to my Mail.app signature?

It's not a huge effort to go through, but it does involve a little effort on your part. I haven't tried this myself (though will try it shortly just out of interest), but the basic principle seems to be to make a .webarchive file and drag it into the signatures preference box.

Worked example
eHow article
MacWorld example

I went and tried this and it does work in the current version of Mail.app, on Snow Leopard. The trick is essentially;

Create a .webarchive of your desired signature.

Bear in mind that any graphics you put in there need to be graphics that are out on the 'open web', rather than references to files on your own computer etc. I think it's this bit that catches a lot of people out.
Go into Mail and go through the motions of creating a new signature.
In the Library/Mail/Signatures folder you'll see Mail creating a new file with a guid-like filename (eg 61F51203-5C18-4061-A8EF-F53B17C41476.webarchive). Make a note of this filename!
Close down Mail, and replace the contents of that signature file
with your webarchive file.

The best way of doing that is;

Paste your webarchive file into the same folder (eg rob.webarchive), then highlight the new file that Mail created and press return - the filename should become selected for you.
Press cmd-c to copy this filename, and then alter the filename (eg add 'old-' to the front of the name). Press Return to close the 'name editing' session.
Now select your own webarchive file (eg rob.webarchive), and again press return to edit the name. Now cmd-v in the name you copied from the first file, and press Return to close the editing.

When you restart Mail, the new signature you've made will be available.

Gotchas include;

you're linking to images, css files or whatever that are not available on the internet,
you're not composing your message in 'rich text' form.

But I've just been through this and even though I have no use whatsoever for a HTML signature, it does work. :-)


Activity Monitor No Longer displays columns

You probably can just go to the View menu (the one between Edit and Window), select Columns and add additional columns again (or switch to a simple process view and back to hierarchical).

If this doesn't work, you can remove preferences by

Quitting Activity Monitor
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist*


Turns out you have to wrap every formula that generates a duration in DUR2DAYS or DUR2HOURS to convert to a number.


Disable trackpad handwriting keyboard shortcut without disabling Chinese keyboard input?

Removing all the Chinese input methods and adding them back (except "handwriting", obviously) should make the shortcut go away.


Okay I got help from the apple tech boys/girls.

shutdown your computer (press and hold power button till computer
goes black)
power up your computer and immediately press and hold the keys command+R
a spinning world will show up if not connected to internet, connect to a network
then Macos utilities will pop up, on the MacOS Utilities screen, you will want to click Utilities > Terminal from the menubar at the top
type this command into the terminal rm "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/var/db/.AppleSetupDone" and press return to execute the command
now restart your computer and you will be back to the setup for your mac
follow the setup and create your computer account so this doesnt happen again


What models of Core i7 are available in the MacBook Pro

The specs are available at this page.

The 2.53 i5 is the I5-540M (2
   physical / 4 virtual cores, and Turbo
   Boost overclocking).
The 2.66 i7 is
   the I7-620M (2 physical / 4
   virtual, and Turbo Boost).The 2.80 i7
   is the I7-640M (2 physical / 4
   virtual, Turbo Boost).


How to hide a specific active app on OS X (has to be reversible)?

This solution worked for me, but it might depend on the application in question. I tried it with a 3rd party app called "Burn" and it worked.

Go to your applications folder and right click (control-click) on the app you wanna hide from the dock.
Click on Show contents. You should now be able to see "inside" the app's files.
Open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder with TextEdit (right click -> "Open with...")
Go to the very bottom of the file and find the last two lines which should say:

  </dict>
  </plist>

Now insert this before these two lines and save the file.

  <key>LSUIElement</key>
  <true/>

After this the app's dock icon will not be shown anymore. Keep in mind that you will need to use the Activity Monitor or Terminal (killall <appname>) to quit the app if you close the window.

If closing the window quits the app, you can press cmd + h to hide the window. This should make your app completely invisible.

To make it visible again, just remove those two lines again and the app should behave like before.

Source: Link


According to Apple, Apple music isn't available in Morocco, meaning that even is you use a gift card that you can't use it.

Other then that, you need to use a credit card to even use the 3 month free trial.

You can see the available countrys that Apple music is available in here.


Here is the result using Preview on 10.9.5 in full screen mode with 2 pages showing.


I don't know if GoodReader re-issued a new build that was similar in name, but costs more money or if there was a mix up on your account.

Your best bet is to report a problem from within the purchase history using iTunes on a computer since it will have the order numbers (actually they are alphanumeric strings) for both purchases so you can ask Apple's billing support if indeed my guess is the case.

You could also look over the purchase history on iOS - but a developer could remove an old version of an app for sale, and it would no longer appear in the purchased history for download.

Lastly, you could reach out to GoodReader support and ask them if they had a paid upgrade somewhere between the two versions you have in your purchase history. Support for each app is always available from the App Store as well if you want to use that link rather than the one I dug up above.


Screenshots won't be saved after System language change

I fixed this issue updating the output folder with the following commands on the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop
killall SystemUIServer


How to undo pressing Don't Trust on Apple Watch

I got the same message on my Apple Watch and responded "Don't Trust" since I had no idea what computer was trying to connect. Then I read this article so opened the Console app on my Mac. Initially it didn't show my Apple Watch under Devices. I think I had to connect my iPhone to my computer first before both my iPhone and Apple Watch showed up, the latter with an exclamation icon due to the "Don't Trust" response.

I disconnected my iPhone from my computer and restarted the iPhone. I then reconnected it to my computer to check the status in Console again. I got the "Trust this computer" prompt on my Apple Watch again. After responding "Trust" this time and entering my PIN, the warning icon disappeared in Console after a few moments.

It should be noted that there may be delays before the Apple Watch shows up in Console. I think opening Xcode seems to hasten the discovery process but I'm not sure. Also, I have yet to see any Apple Watch log entries in Console.


How do I remove 'untitled' partition from terminal or disk utility?

Ok. Nothing on disk3 needs changing yet, so all the CS commands are dangerous or ineffective

What happens when you issue:

diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s4
diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s3

Also, please use care, if you delete the wrong 0s4 you will lose everything. Do you have a backup and internet to reinstall if you or I make a mistake?


Will updating my software to Mavericks delete all of my files and software?

It's always a good idea to back up your system before installing a software update, especially a major one like a new release of the operating system. That said, assuming no catastrophe strikes, your files and programs will be intact after installing the new operating system. While some prior version of Mac OS X offered several install options, including clean install, archive and install, and install in place, Mavericks offers no such options at the install menu, and by default preserves your files and programs.

However, not all programs will run the same under the new operating system. It is always possible that the install will break something (it did for me), and retaining a backup is a very good idea in case you decide you don't like the new OS, so you want to revert to the previous version, as I am about to do.


How do I turn hyperlinks on or off in Numbers?

You can set that up in Numbers Preferences

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Programmatically Change Screen Saver "Start after" time

I was able to find the following:

$defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime n

Where n is number of seconds before screensaver starts (0 = never)

This is exactly what I was looking for.
reference: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080207030932483


How to fix latest text bomb on iPhone 8?

There were no preceding backups, but taking a full backup, hard reset and restoring it seems to have worked well enough.


How can you open a video on your desktop at a specific time using terminal?

If you have the VLC media player installed, you can run the following example  compound command in Terminal to start playing the video file at the 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds mark:
open -a /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC '/path/to/name.mp4' --args --start-time 4230

Showing on two lines to see the whole compound command:
open -a /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC \
    '/path/to/name.mp4' --args --start-time 4230

Using the default macOS open command to open VLC and pass it the --start-time option, the value of which is expressed in seconds.
open options:

-a application -- Specifies the application to use for opening the file.
--args -- All remaining arguments are passed to the opened application in the argv parameter to main(). These arguments are not opened or interpreted by the open tool.

VLC option:

--start-time  -- Starts the video here; the integer is the number of seconds from the beginning (e.g. 1:30 is written as 90).

See also: Documentation:Command line


error message from apple diagnostics after fan replacement

The "MOT" in the error code indicates, as you may have guessed, trouble with a motor of some kind.

It would be logical to assume it points to the fan you replaced.

I wouldn't expect it to be caught during a hardware test, although these fans are controlled by a chip that precisely modulates power, and could detect when the motor isn't acting as expected according to the input, which I guess could be described as "diagnostics not liking a non-Apple product."

Regardless, it does mean at the very least that the replacement part you used isn't identical to the factory part. Is the fan spinning at all? You say the system is fine, but also quiet. Could this be because it was installed incorrectly and isn't even functioning? I can't imagine how you could install the fan incorrectly, but if you don't hear it spinning at all, maybe you should take another look to see if everything is connected, and you didn't destroy the fan connector, which is too easy to do.

Where did you buy the part, and was it listed as compatible with the model you have? Even if it is a third-party part, I find it hard to believe that AHT would detect it as malfunctioning if it had the right specs and was actually connected to the board.


Finder: Select a file after Copy & Paste

If you don't have a current selection, the Paste action will select the new pasted file or folder. Therefore, make sure you don't have a current selection when pasting and the file or folder will be selected when you paste.

A quick way to deselect any currently selected items before pasting is ⌥⌘A. If you'd like more automation in this, you can use Keyboard Maestro or equivalent to intercept a ⌘V and press ⌥⌘A first if you wish this to occur every time you paste.

This answer applies to OS X 10.11.5 and I have also tested it in OS X 10.11.6b1.


Workaround for YouTube to appear in Apple TV

YouTube has changed their API from version 2 to version 3, and on May 1st they shut down access to any program/web page or service that accessed the YouTube v2 API. This included older Apple TVs. In order to actually get a working YouTube program on his Apple TV, he will need a new one, which has an updated YouTube program using the new API.

Other than that, AirPlay is your only option. Which he doesn't seem to like.

Update: AirPlay may no longer works as a fix for this on older Apple TV's. It thinks it is playing an audio file and no picture appears on screen.


MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion freezes frequently (full screen Flash in Chrome, Messages, HTC on USB)

Suspect an issue affecting the WindowServer process (long edition)

a more generic edition of this answer appears under How do you get system diagnostic files from OS X?

power users may prefer to read nearby Suspect an issue affecting the WindowServer process (brief edition …)

The symptoms you describe are familiar but not commonplace and in my case, not frequent.
Prepare for diagnosis
In Terminal, run the following command. Be prepared to enter your admin password for the operating system:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.stackshot.plist

Take a written note of the following key chord, you'll need it later:
Control-Option-Command-Shift-.
Diagnosis by the system
When the problem occurs:

use the key chord
for at least ten seconds, touch nothing
allow maybe five or ten minutes for all parts of the so-called sysdiagnose routine to complete – simply wait as long as you can (with this approach there'll be no on-screen indication of progress)
force a restart of the computer (Command-Control-Power).

After the computer starts:

in Finder, go to /private/var/tmp
seek a file or folder with a name beginning sysdiagnose_
if that file or folder exists, move it to a convenient place – your desktop, maybe.

Hint
Whilst I don't encourage carelessness, you can be a little careless with Control-Option-Command-Shift-. … if you struggle to avoid the fn key on your laptop, don't worry; including it by accident should not prevent the run of sysdiagnose.

Human analysis of diagnosis by the system
Hint: someone might like to ask a separate question about analysing the results of sysdiagnose – a more generalised answer could be useful.
If sysdiagnose_… from the /tmp area is a folder
Presence of a sysdiagnose_… folder (not a .tar.gz file) indicates that either:

the routine was interrupted before completion; or
some part of the routine could not complete.

If sysdiagnose_… from the /tmp area is a file
Presence of a sysdiagnose_….tar.gz file indicates that all parts of the sysdiagnose routine completed, and that the results were archived. If you wish, open the archive – its contents will appear as a folder.
Folder contents at a glance
In the first screenshot below – an example of a completed run of sysdiagnose - I have selected two of the items that may be of interest in a case such as this.

Note that it may be normal to find at least one empty file.

Amongst the .crash, .hang and .spin files – or in the top.txt file – might be a good sign of what was wrong shortly before, or during, the period when you lost control of the computer.
Related:

How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?

For an incomplete run of sysdiagnose it may be useful to focus some attention on files that are abnormally empty …

Technical
stackshot(1) OS X Manual Page
sysdiagnose(1) OS X Manual Page


What does Apple mean by "This may decrease battery life"?

Both, one directly from using more power, the other indirectly from deeper discharges (for the same time off AC power) and/or running hotter while plugged in and sitting at full charge.

Using more power will shorten the max time you can use it during one discharge starting at full, ending when the laptop powers itself off.

If you plug it back in before then, then saving power will mean that discharge cycle wasn't quite as deep.

Every charge/discharge cycle has a small cumulative impact on the available capacity of a Li-ion battery.  (I think that's approximately true).  The deeper the discharge, the bigger the impact.  Bouncing around multiple times between 60 and 80% is probably better for a battery than discharge from 100 to 10% and then back up to 100%.  Also sitting around at full charge, especially at high temperature, is harmful to capacity, so laptops that spend all their life plugged in can still wear out their battery.

Also keep in mind that the meaning of "100%" and "0%" is set by the battery controller electronics.  If a Li-ion cell ever literally discharges all the way (like with a resistor across the terminals), it can never be safely charged again: it's at high risk of catching fire if you did charge it.  So the laptop electronics shut off the laptop before that happens, making the actual "0%" safely far from chemically fully discharged.

See https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries and other things you can google for more info about modern lithium batteries, and how spurs of lithium metal can form that reduce useful capacity.  I think there can be some cases where a charge/discharge cycle can restore some life to a battery, but probably not a super-deep discharge.


Is there a way to run a bash script everytime I print something?

that might be very interesting, funny and useful ! I have not yet a complete answer but what i think could do the trick is to use a daemon that watch and act when something is printed.
You could use this documentation :
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html
And especially this example : "Monitoring a Directory"
The following example starts the job whenever any of the paths being watched have changed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.example.watchhostconfig</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>syslog</string>
        <string>-s</string>
        <string>-l</string>
        <string>notice</string>
        <string>somebody touched /etc/hostconfig</string>
    </array>
    <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
        <string>/etc/hostconfig</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

You should monitor the directory "/var/spool/cups" as mentioned here
https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-design.html and do something when there is change.
So in your case, change the background image.
You could also see the command "lpstat -o" that could be useful for that task (cf https://www.computerhope.com/unix/ulpstat.htm)
To be continued...


Randomly losing CMD+V (paste) functionality

I had the same issue, what I found was that using a Software called ShareMouse, and when it crashed, I lost my Cmd+v functionality; I then forced ShareMouse to close, and cmd+v returned.

You may be experiencing this issue with ShareMouse, or some other piece of software.


What setting enables split screen mode in OS X El Capitan?

Split screen will only work when you turn on 'Displays have Separate Spaces' setting.

After you turn this on, you can use both methods you described.

To expand on bullet 1, from your desktop (i.e., not in a full screen app), click and hold on the green circle and it will give the option to put a window on the right or left.  It will then prompt to put a second, already open, window on the other side.  The two apps will now be in full screen mode together.


How do I silence the message ringtone while talking?

Switch the Ring/Silent switch to Silent.


Why is "Find my friends" gone from Today Pane and how to get it back?

Open Finder and use CmdShiftG to open the "Go to" dialog and enter the following path
/System/Library/Frameworks/NotificationCenter.framework/PlugIns

Repeat the step above for the following path
/System/Library/Frameworks/NotificationCenter.framework/Versions/A/Resources

You should have two directories that look something like this:

Scroll to the bottom of the 'Resources' window and you'll find the "Widget Simulator"

Click on the "Find My Friends" icon and drag it onto the "Widget Simulator" icon, this should launch the Widget Simulator and run the Find My Friends widget inside.

Now check if the widget appears in Notification Centre.

Update:

In terminal explore the contents of the Find my Friends widget, it should contain the following files

├── Info.plist
├── MacOS
│   └── com.apple.ncplugin.FindMyFriends
├── Resources
│   ├── AppIconMacWidget.icns
│   ├── Base.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFMacTodayViewController.nib
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.nib
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.nib
│   │   └── ListRowViewController.nib
│   ├── FMFAccountNotProvisionedViewController.nib
│   ├── ar.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ca.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── cs.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── da.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── de.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── el.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── en.lproj
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── es.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── es_419.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── fi.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── fr.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── he.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── hr.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── hu.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── id.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── it.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ja.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ko.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ms.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── nl.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── no.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── pl.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── pt.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── pt_PT.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ro.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── ru.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── sk.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── sv.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── th.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── tr.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── uk.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── vi.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   ├── zh_CN.lproj
│   │   ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│   │   ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│   │   ├── InfoPlist.strings
│   │   ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│   │   └── Localizable.strings
│   └── zh_TW.lproj
│       ├── FMFNoFriendsViewController.strings
│       ├── FMFNoiCloudViewController.strings
│       ├── InfoPlist.strings
│       ├── ListRowViewController.strings
│       └── Localizable.strings
├── _CodeSignature
│   └── CodeResources
└── version.plist

Update 2

The OP tried the following command to reset the launch services database and this resolved the issue - lsregister -kill -seed


Android tethering: Mac doesn't detect new network interface

You can use this link to some software that works on Sierra I found on a YouTube video. It is only a trial, easily reinstalled though.

http://download.clockworkmod.com/tether/tether-mac.zip


What is keyboard shortcut to cycle through worksheets in excel (office 2011) workbook on mackbook air?

According to Apple's Mac notebooks: Key placement and functions:

  Page Up key functionality is performed by pressing Fn and Up Arrow key.

  Page Down key functionality is performed by pressing Fn and Down Arrow key.


After Upgrade to Mountain Lion I get blurry fonts

Toggling LCD font smoothing (subpixel rendering) should have an immediate effect on the System Preferences window with most displays.

LCD font smoothing is not enabled automatically on some LCD displays though. You might be able to force them to use it with defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 2, which corresponds to the pre-10.6 medium setting  or enabling LCD font smoothing on most displays.

10.5 used to allow choosing from two additional text rendering settings, light and strong. If the default was light before you upgraded to 10.8, you can restore it with defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 1.

High Resolution Guidelines for OS X: Advanced Optimization Techniques

  In OS X v10.8, the default value of the NSFontDefaultScreenFontSubstitutionEnabled setting is NO. This setting determines whether or not text APIs (such as NSLayoutManager, NSCell, and the NSStringDrawing categories on NSString and NSAttributedString) substitute screen fonts when calculating layout and display of text.

  Although screen font substitution will no longer be the default, using screen font might still be appropriate to support:

  Compatibility with documents created with previous versions of your app. The difference in glyph advancement measurements between integral and floating-point values can cause a change in text layout.
  Fixed-pitch plain text style output—for example, the Plain Text mode in Text Edit.
  To keep the OS X v10.7 screen font substitution behavior as the default, set the NSUserDefaults key NSFontDefaultScreenFontSubstitutionEnabled to YES.

  To maintain the screen font setting on a per-document basis, specify NSUsesScreenFontsDocumentAttribute as a document attribute when you initialize an attributed string object.

defaults write -g NSFontDefaultScreenFontSubstitutionEnabled -bool true didn't seem to have (almost) any effect in most applications. But for some reason it disabled kerning in AppleScript Editor.


In Terminal, where it displays XXX@YYY , what is XXX and what is YYY?

name (2) is your computer's hostname. You can change it in the 'Sharing' section of System Preferences:


I can't comment because of reputation, but I had a lot of trouble with Automator until I allowed all the apps into Preferences/Security/Privacy/Accessibility. Maybe you didn't add Calendar?


No, you can't read /dev/tty.iap file on an iOS device. At least as long as the device isn't jailbroken.

3rd party iOS apps are sandboxed and not allowed to read the device filesystem.

From File System Programming Guide:

  The iOS file system is geared toward apps running on their own. To keep the system simple, users of iOS devices do not have direct access to the file system and apps are expected to follow this convention.

Unofficially speaking, iOS however allows read-only access to some parts of the filesystem as noted in this reddit thread:

  Hello everyone, I’m an aspiring security researcher, and got bored. I decided to look at how far the sandbox really lets you go in terms of accessing parts of the filesystem that aren’t part of its designated container.

  PLEASE NOTE: In NO WAY does this at all allow you to modify, add, or delete ANY files in the areas I am about to talk about. These areas in the system are, in UNIX terms, “Read-only”.

  Which directories can you view?

  After combing the filesystem using an app I’ll mention later, these are the directories.

  /System/Library
  /usr/lib
  /Developer

The above explains, why you are able to read /Developer and can't read /dev/tty.iap.


The solution does involve escaping characters, but it turns out that the plist utility does not respond well to “over-escaping”. If I escape only the periods in the key name and nothing else, it works fine. Specifically, the following command resulted in a successful key deletion:

plutil -remove "19781A58-AAF7-4D5A-AZB2-8D82F2A3ZA97@example\.com" example.plist


Configure keyboard combination to switch apps

I can only think of a way to do it with a single key if you enable the function keys to work without holding down fn.

Then you can assign one of the function keys (F1, F2 etc.) to "Move focus to next window".

First enable "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys like this:

Then assign the "Move focus to next window" to one of the function keys like this:


I think this is totally expected it can happen, but not be the usual experience.

Apple has an article explaining how to start over in the calibration. If the measurements start off wrong - they won't get back to accurate in my experience and one watch I had didn't have my phone nearby when I set it up, and ended up with my step length 10% off.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204516

I'd run through all the items from the top and see if you can get the step length accurate for the terrain you're most likely to want the numbers to be accurate. I've set up about a watch about a dozen times, and I only had one time it was off enough to need a recalibration, so it's hard to guess how common this is from anecdotal reports like yours and mine.


How to transfer my apps, home, and OS X setup from an external Lion disk to an internal Mountain Lion SSD

The easiest way is to use Migration Assistant, which you can find in /Applications/Utilities/.

It can copy your apps, data and settings from your old disk if it's connected via USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt. You should end up with a mirror image of your old set up.

Start Migration Assistant, select From another Mac, PC, Time Machine backup, or other disk on the first screen, and From a Time Machine backup or other disk on the second screen, then follow the prompts.

If you need more detailed instructions, consult Apple's Migration Assistant Guide (you want the Time Machine or other disk migration section).