Backup photos from all devices to iCloud, but do not download them to all devices

By default, iCloud Photo Library only downloads thumbnails of your photos onto each individual device. When you view a photo, a device-optimized version is downloaded. Higher-resolution versions may be pulled down as you zoom in. The full-resolution version isn’t downloaded until you try to Edit or Share the photo.

This default setting is best on space-limited devices such as an iPad or iPhone. As I mentioned, only thumbnails are downloaded by default, so you will not fill up your iPad’s storage. As your device runs out of space, iOS/macOS will automatically purge local copies and retain only thumbnails, as needed.

When you enable iCloud Photo Library, make sure Optimize iPad Storage is checked under Settings → Photos & Camera:

On your Mac Mini, open Photos and make sure Download Originals to this Mac is selected under Photos → Preferences → iCloud:

The above configuration will cause your Mac Mini to keep a full-resolution copy of all your photos, with only thumbnails downloaded to your iPad by default, and everything backed up in iCloud.

Be aware that these photos will consume your iCloud data allowance. You may need to subscribe to an iCloud storage plan.


MacBook Pro Support for 3840 x 1600 (and higher) resolutions

Using these three sites:
Apple display site, Apple Insider site, and MBPr site, I have what I believe to be the correct answer. Using HDMI, you should be able to use a WQHD+ screen at 30Hz. Apple Insider's site recommends the LG 34UM88-P. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that you computer supports 4K at anything higher than 30Hz. Please let me know if any of the information stated is incorrect. I would recommend finding a store that stocks the monitor you are looking to buy, and asking them if you can bring in your laptop and an HDMI cord to test the monitor and make sure it is compatible with your computer.


How can quicktime record audio from two sources: mac and iphone?

Just setup two windows in QuickTime: one for iPhone video and audio, and the other for Mac audio and press record on both windows. If the Mac audio isn't synchronized perfectly with the iPhone audio and visual, then you can just use iMovie or Final Cut Pro X, if you have it, to edit them.

Make sure that "New Audio Recording", for your Mac's internal microphone, is selected FIRST, then create a new window by selecting "New Movie Recording", for iPhone video and audio. If you select "New Movie Recording" first, then "New Audio Recording" will be grayed out. I don't know why, seems pretty stupid.


Bootcamp Windows 10 internal speakers don't work, audio port lights red

I finally found a way to solve this issue:
First in OSX, I installed the "Latest Windows support software from Apple" on a USB flash drive via Utilities -> Boot Camp Assistant.
Then in Windows, I reinstalled the missing audio driver using the BootCamp.msi installation file located in WindowsSupport/BootCamp/Drivers/Apple in said USB flash drive.
Internal speakers now work normally again, and the audio port no longer lights red!


What are some ways to copy and paste more efficiently on iOS?

Are you using iPhone or iPad?

If you are using iPad, you should be able to do that. The iOS (or now called iPadOS) in iPad allows you to run 2 apps side by side at the same time. You can copy and paste the info between those 2 apps easily.

If you are using iPhone / iPod Touch, seems no workaround other than copy and paste the link one by one like what you are doing it now.

https://www.apple.com/ipados/
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ipados-tips-and-tricks/

Update: Maybe you can try this method? https://www.matthewcassinelli.com/ios-clipboard-shortcuts-copied/


How can I find the PPPoE password configured in Airport

If your PPPoE is provided by your ISP, so contact you ISP's help is short way than try to extract the account info from AE's settings.


Which MacBook supports Thunderbolt 3 and has regular USB 3 ports??

None.

Currently, the only "MacBook" that supports Thunderbolt 3 are the MacBook Pros that were released in 2016 and on.  Those only have USB-C type Thunderbolt ports.  If you are looking for something that will give you USB-A ports along with USB 3.0 compatibility, you will need a (dreaded) dongle.

The 2016 MacBook Pro 15" (with and without Touchbar) has the following ports:

  Charging and Expansion Four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports with support for:

  Charging
  DisplayPort
  Thunderbolt (up to 40 Gbps)
  USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps)

The 13" model has only 2 Thunderbolt ports:

  Charging and Expansion Two Thunderbolt 3  (USB-C) ports with support for:

  Charging
  DisplayPort
  Thunderbolt (up to 40 Gbps)
  USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps)

The MacBook Air (2015) only supports Thunderbolt 2 while the latest MacBook only support USB-C with DisplayPort (no Thunderbolt).


Migrating to new user account: must chown old account's files... I think

You can check and re-assign ownership recursively over a directory tree with find, stat and chown.

#!/bin/bash

olduser=<oldusername> # replace this with your old username
newuser=<newusername> # replace this with your new username
dir=<dir> # replace this with the directory you want to run through

find $dir | while read filename
do
  owner=$(stat "$filename" | cut -d ' ' -f 5)
  if [ $owner == $olduser ]
  then
    chown $newuser $filename
  fi
done


How to always show file sync status icons in Backup and Sync from Google on Mac?

I recently came across this issue are well, where green checkmarks appeared on the bottom right corner of folders and files on my desktop.

I found that this issue was due to my google drive, indicating which files have been uploaded and which ones havent. To get rid of the checkmarks, I did the following:

Click on the google drive icon (cloud with an upwards arrow) on the top menu bar
Select the three dots in the upper righthand corner
Select preferences in the dropdown menu which opened a new window
In the window, selected settings in the left side menu
Deselect "Show fille sync status icons and right click menu"

Do step 5 ( one to two Times )
100% it will work

This solved the issue for me and hopefully it can help you out.


Keyboard shortcut to show hidden files on macOS Big Sur

⌘ Command⇧ Shift. still works. Check Keyboard Shortcuts to see if you have a shortcut overriding the toggle hidden files action
To permanently show hidden files, open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true; killall Finder


Command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF

You can use the docx2pdf command line tool to bulk convert docx to pdf. It uses Microsoft Word to directly convert to pdf so you will need to have it installed. One macOS, it uses JXA (AppleScript for JavaScript) to talk to Word and on windows it uses win32com.

pip install docx2pdf

# single file
docx2pdf myfile.docx

# entire folder
docx2pdf myfolder/

Disclaimer: I wrote docx2pdf after getting frustrated at the lack of cross-platform tools to convert docx to pdf directly using Microsoft Word as I needed a perfect replica with zero formatting issues. https://github.com/AlJohri/docx2pdf


Can't enable iCloud Drive on OS X Sierra

In case this is your company's computer, it could have been deactivated through a management software, like jamf:

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/20997/disable-icloud-desktop-and-documents-in-sierra


Is there simple note-taking tool available for Mac?

The PearNote app is one I can recommend with no caveats. It is simple, beautiful and powerful.

You don't have to use all of its features, but they are there if you ever wish to add audio or video.


Where can I find what other information can I query/use?

Check out the Library in Script Editor.
Script Editor > Window > Library    ⇧⌘L
You can also query the properties of the current track to see what else is available specifically to it, e.g.:
tell application "Music" to get properties of current track

On my system at the moment, it returns:
{class:file track, id:181, index:8, name:"Brain Damage", persistent ID:"C2EE4E8E7AD4C9A6", database ID:157, date added:date "Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 3:59:39 AM", time:"3:50", duration:230.757995605469, artist:"Pink Floyd", album artist:"", composer:"Roger Waters", album:"Dark Side Of The Moon", genre:"Rock", bit rate:192, sample rate:44100, track count:9, track number:8, disc count:1, disc number:1, size:5595268, volume adjustment:0, year:1973, comment:"", EQ:"", kind:"AAC audio file", media kind:song, modification date:date "Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 1:08:28 PM", enabled:true, start:0.0, finish:230.757995605469, played count:1, skipped count:0, compilation:false, rating:0, bpm:0, grouping:"", bookmarkable:false, bookmark:0.0, shufflable:true, lyrics:"", category:"", description:"", episode number:0, unplayed:true, sort name:"", sort album:"", sort artist:"", sort composer:"", sort album artist:"", loved:false, disliked:false, album loved:false, album disliked:false, cloud status:unknown, work:"", movement:"", movement number:0, movement count:0, location:alias "Macintosh HD:Users:me:Music:Music:Media.localized:Pink Floyd:Dark Side Of The Moon:08 Brain Damage.m4a"}

Also have a look at: About Scripting Terminology:

The terminology for an app is found in its scripting dictionary, an
.sdef file stored in the app bundle. The dictionary describes the
commands, classes, and properties an app supports. This information is
used by the scripting components of the operating system, the app
itself, and any other apps or scripts that interact with the app
through scripting. It also serves as a reference, which you can
consult in Script Editor for guidance as you write a script. See
Figure 10-1.
Figure 10-1Example of a scripting dictionary in Script Editor


How to copy time stamp to iOS clipboard?

I found an app that does exactly this.  Time Stamp Text by CA Smith
https://appsto.re/us/fPUO1.i

I don't have any connection with the developer, but needed the same thing and found it.


Natively, I believe MacOS prohibits this in order to increase security (Touch ID is less secure than a standard passcode in most situations). However, I know there's and app called Unlox (http://unlox.it) that will let you unlock your Keychain using Touch ID on your iPhone. This leads me to believe it is possible to do this with a 3rd party application of some kind.


Is it possible to "window" fullscreen games?

I'm not sure if there is a generic way, but a lot of games give you the option if you hold down option when starting.


Easiest way to build a one-off iPhone "App" (probably JS on a local web page)?

I asked this as a genuine question, but I'm now answering it myself since I found a technique that works for me and it might help others.

I wrote a basic old-school HTML + Javascript page that did the required calculation, then uploaded it to my web server along with the manifest file described here. Having visited the page once, my phone has cached it and can now re-open it (including re-running the Javascript to give the new result) even without Internet access.


Apple mail matching signatures with account aliases possible?

For this kind of professionnal use of E-mail, I abandonned Gmail and Mail many years ago.

I use Thunderbird ( Thunderbird home page ) which is much more secure, lets you configure it exactly the way you are looking for through the concept of "identities". You can define many "identities" per account, each one being defined by:

a name
a "From:" field
a "Reply-To:" field
an "Organization:" field
a signature (in HTML or text)

I use this E-mail client as a much faster interface to Gmail letting me answer with the identity required and permitting my correspondant to answer me with my appropriate reply address.

As a collateral advantage, you will most probably discover many other advanced function to use in Thunderbird.


Unless you have synced your iPhone and thus have your photo somewhere in your computer, or uploaded it to some service you can't recover it easily.

Most likely you don't have any copies of it and you'll have to find some professional to recover it from the iPhone memory. Maybe, and I say really just maybe, apple care support would be able to do it.

Here's one thing you could try, though: manage to get access to iPhone file system somehow (jailbreak, iPhone Explorer, anything you want) and get some file recovery software. Keep in mind recovering deleted files are complicated and expensive business. You'll only be able to do it this way if you get lucky.


Connecting multiple screens to the 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

We have a brand new Late 2016 Macbook Pro and 2 Apple/LG 21.5 USB-C 4K monitors. Daisy-chaining/MST does not work. We are using the monitors and nothing else with the original cables.
Only way to get it to work is to connect each to individual USB-C ports on the MBP.
Sad but true.


Are Apple's AC Cords for MagSafe (1+2) always the same?

Absolutely no problem to change the cable!  Any Apple adaptor cable with a similar connector since the last decade will do fine.  Even the plugs from your iPad charger will work.

In fact, you also can use a standard radio cable (sometimes called an 8-shaped power cable).  You can find them anywhere, in shops for $2 but probably also attached to various household appliances.  Works fine.

As you can see, your Apple adaptor cable doesn't have a real 8-shape, but rather a B-shape.  This makes the cable useless to attach to your radio, but the radio one can be attached to the Apple adaptor.  There is no obvious reason for Apple to do that.

We regularly buy/replace Macbooks while traveling.  Therefore we end up with exotic power plugs without too much use.  Rather than using a travel adaptor or replacing the whole cord, we just cut off the plug-side and solder or screw on a EU plug bought at the local radio shack.

Cutting the cable and placing 3rd party plug will obviously void the warranty on that very cable, and might be illegal according to your local law.  In Germany this is allowed, as long as your new plug is DVE-certificated.  In any way, it's 220v and placement should be done with care.


Painfully slow to browse large list of subfolders via SMB and/or AFP

I, too, find this a pain with my QNAP box. FYI the firmware has now been updated to 3.6.0 released just a few days ago, and there is some noticeable improvement with the update. However, you may consider using the iSCSI feature among the QNAP settings to make the file shares appear as a hard drive showing up on your desktop for better speed. I've noticed iSCSI works better IMO if your connection to the QNAP is hardwired throughout and not wireless in any way; wireless iSCSI works, just not as fast in my experience.


How do I force iTunes Match to re-evaluate certain tracks

You may not be able to get complete matches, but here's what I have been doing in the cases where one or two tracks don't match.

Select the item(s) to attempt to re-match.
Right-click on them, and select "Create AAC Version"
When this is complete, hit alt-backspace, and choose to remove both the original and the iCloud version. Also choose to delete the items from disk.
Go to the "Store" -> "Update iTunes Match" menu item.

Note that this will keep the play counts, etc on your tracks. It may not succeed on every track, and sometimes repeating the process picks up another track.

Occasionally, I'll get a "Removed" icon there after doing this: just right-click and choose "Add to iCloud" on these.


In this particular instance All My Files are being exclusively sorted by Tags. The problem here is that this is not exactly obvious or apparent. There are several ways to adjust how files are arranged or sorted in Finder. I find one of the easiest and most convenient ways is to:

  Control + Mouse Click within the window or heading.

(In this case control-clicking Show All in the right corner).

Control Mouse Clicking the inside the window or heading above the files should reveal a menu that shows the options View, Arrange By, and View Options. From there select whichever criteria you might prefer files Arrange By - (Name, Kind, Application, etc).

One thing to note is that within View Options you can choose to Sort By instead of Arrange By, or even both; this can lead to some confusion in itself (which is briefly touched upon here).

The Control and Option keys while mouse clicking within Finder windows can reveal options and menus that directly affect what appears — don't hesitate to discover what's there.


What determines the model name displayed in System Information compared to the model number?

I think the model name shown in System Information is determined from information encoded within the serial number. It looks like the precise details of this are private to Apple, but some information is given in this MacRumors post (which includes the image below), and it looks like some sites may have reverse engineered it.

Be aware it is possible under some circumstances to change the serial number reported to the software running on the machine. Specifically: logic boards supplied by Apple to service providers have a "blank" serial number, and service providers must "serialize" them (this is only possible once, from the service provider point of view) by running some special software and providing the desired serial number via keyboard input. (This is why I suggested checking the serial number printed on the hardware in my comment on the question.)


Unless you are willing to research how to flash the firmware of the particular DVD drive in your Mac to change the region, or to make it region-free, I suggest you try the very cool (and free) app VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. If VLC does what you need it to, please consider donating to the 'cause'.

Your milage may vary.

Disclaimer: I have no financial stake in VideoLAN.org - I'm just a very satisfied customer.


Administrator Password pop up screen does not open

I would suggest you to:

Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac

Shut down your Mac, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart.

Test after this.
Note: When your Mac finishes starting up, you might want to open System Preferences and adjust any settings that were reset, such as sound volume, display resolution, startup disk selection, or time zone.

If this doesn't help then at last try to:
Reset the SMC on Mac

First, shut down your Mac and Press Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the built-in keyboard, then press the power button at the same time. Hold these keys and the power button for 10 seconds. Release all keys. And, Press the power button again to turn on your Mac.

This two reset should help.


How do I uninstall Bitdefender Endpoint Security for Mac?

I might be a bit late on this one, but the uninstall script is one of
/Library/Bitdefender/AVP/Uninstaller/BitdefenderforMacUninstaller.app
/Library/Bitdefender/AVP/Uninstaller/EndpointSecurityforMacUninstaller.app

There should be a shortcut in the applications folder too.


Login loop after OS X 10.8 update (WindowServer problem?)

I started OS X in recovery mode (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718) and chose "Reinstall OS X". This downloads OS X from the internet and reinstalls it. The download took me some 2 hours, installation another 40 minutes. Problem fixed.

I was afraid this reinstall would completely format my drive, and install OS X from scratch. But everything seems still intact. My (and all other users) home folder is still there, 3rd party apps in /Applications are still there. And everything is still working.

I never heard of this built-in Recovery System in OS X. Good to know it exists.


How to get long movie clips from iCloud to Google Drive

You have to use your computer as an intermediate step.
If you open 2 windows, one open to iCloud Drive, the other to Google Drive, then you can drag from one to the other … but all the files will go via your computer to get from one to the other. Depending on available space you may have to do it in stages.
If you're working from web access for both, then you will have to download, then upload, as two separate steps for each file.


How can I rotate my images directly from the finder?

Yes - you can use Automator to make a service for Finder (or all applications) to perform rotation of images. Then you can assign a keyboard shortcut to that action.

I'm not aware of quicklook plug-in that rotate, but that's something that might exist. Modifying finder's shortcut bar might be the least likely way to activate things, but hopefully an Automator service (or app / droplet) will do.


Two Bluetooth devices + MacBook Pro + 2.4gHz WiFi = no network throughput; why?

I had the same issue. Did a bunch of troubleshooting with Apple over the phone and in store. The final diagnosis was a logic board and wireless card replacement.

When they took it in to repair it, the tech noticed only one of the three antennas were connected to the motherboard. His theory is that the one antenna was enough to support a connection or two but became overloaded in certain situations, very easily. After reconnecting them all has been working well.

So my suggestion to you is to either open it up yourself or bring it to Apple and see if that may be the issue.


How do I send multiple photos from my iPhone camera roll in a single email?

since software update 3.0 you can select multiple photos copy them and paste it as email body, in iOS you can SHARE it as email.


I suspect based on the comments, that Mike Meyers has a point, in that you are only seeing  MobileBackups, and that tmutil is simply showing you pointers (or logs) to the Time Machine backups on the linux server. For some reason the actually backup on the drive is not readable by Time Machine. I suggest dumping the network drive to an external, OS Extended Journaled hard drive and see if you can point Time Machine to that.


How can I tell if a 30-pin USB cable for an iPhone is genuine?

The cable itself will be stamped with the text: "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China".  The "knock offs" wouldn't be allowed to stamp their cables in this way.Edit: It would be on the cable itself near the end that plugs into the iPhone (30-pin end).Edit: The photo shows the text I refer to.  This is an example of a genuine lightning connector in which they added a serial number for identification and moved the stamp about 8 inches down from the USB end of the cable.


Memory is meant to be used fully then, only later once you have a “problem” does the OS optimize and compress based on pressure. Everything looks excellent, as designed and well in order in your examples. Even if you have some memory swapped, that’s no performance issue in practice. Only after excessive swapping and sustained memory pressure would any any slowdown be measurable or need for remediation on macOS that have the pressure graph prominently featured in Activity Monitor.
The only problem (if you can call it that) is taking older articles at face value and assuming this is not correct behavior. That problem is actually an opportunity to learn how the system is designed and what signals to pay attention to now when you are tuning for performance.
Here are some excellent places to get started on why Apple’s unix operating systems are not like others. Consider how many active hours of running OS Apple has with watchOS, tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS all running the same kernel, same scheduler, and most 24x7 and need no active tuning or management under very strict RAM budgets.

Can I force my Mac to make better use of the inactive memory? (and I disagree with much of this - purge is bad unless you want to test and hobble all optimizations and see how slow running without cached files are until they cache in again or you reboot / tune the apps you run)
Isn't Inactive memory a waste of resources?
What is memory pressure, and how do I relieve it?


Album covers from songs bought in iTunes won't show album cover on iPhone

I had this problem and through asking google I figured out a solution.
Your best bet (it worked for me) is to go to your iTunes, sync your iPhone and then go to music. Once you are at the music tab, you want to uncheck the "Sync Music" at the top (this will get rid of all of the music without album covers, it will be okay I promise). Then you want to sync your phone so it gets rid of the music. Then once that is completed, you want to recheck the "Sync Music" and sync your phone so it reverts what you just did. It will take a few minutes for the music to get back on your phone so be patient! Afterwards, everything should be peachy keen :)

Hope I could help.


When opening the Display preference pane in MacBook/MacBook Pro, additional floating window is displayed for the connected external display. The scaling and resolution settings for the external display can be adjusted in that window.

For additional instructions, refer to the Apple Support Document, macOS Sierra: Adjust your display’s resolution.

  Set the resolution for a connected display
  If you have more than one display, additional resolution options are available.

  After the display is connected, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Displays, then click Display.

  Press the Option key while you click Scaled to see additional resolutions for the second display. Then select a scaled resolution option for the second display.


No partition scheme option when erasing a USB disk in MacOS High Sierra?

I thought I had the same issue but it's probably because in the view options at the top left corner of the Disk Utility window, "Show Only Volumes" is selected.

In order to change the partition map, it seems you have to select the actual disk. So simply select view - show all devices, then select the actual drive you're trying to reformat, then when trying to erase, you should have the option to choose a partition scheme.

Hope this helps!


Unaccent Special characters and bulk-rename

Renaming a file in AppleScript can be performed through the Finder:

tell application "Finder"
   set the name of file "Monterey" to "Eden"
end tell

Reducing a filename to a-z is tricky. If you are comfortable with perl, there is an ideal module called Text::Unidecode. Other approaches, such as using regular expressions, is discussed by Perl Monks in removing accents.

You mention using php, so this question may provide easier answers to integrate into your workflow, How do I remove accents from characters in a PHP string? The highest voted answer suggests:

function stripAccents($stripAccents){
  return strtr($stripAccents,'àáâãäçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöùúûüýÿÀÁÂÃÄÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝ','aaaaaceeeeiiiinooooouuuuyyAAAAACEEEEIIIINOOOOOUUUUY');
}


Move HDD from a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) model to another MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) model

As long as you're certain the replacement hardware is identical to your original, then yes this will work. One important caveat:

This is something I would not do without testing first. I'd invest in either a USB-SATA drive adapter or a cheap USB enclosure and use that to connect your old laptop's drive to the replacement laptop and see if it comes up as a bootable drive by holding down the option key at startup. If it shows up in the boot manager and successfully boots the system that way then it should be ok to swap it in.

If you're unsure of how to verify if your replacement is the same build as your old laptop I'd recommend using this site: [http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html/] to do a comparison using the serial numbers of both systems.


2011 13.3" MacBook Pro freezing during boot process

If you had the hard drive still in the Mac I would have had you boot the mac into recovery mode and reinstall MacOs. It wont delete any information since its only rebuilding the system files.

You'll need to do the same when you get a working Hard Drive back into the Mac.


uninstall camera and reinstall on iPhone

You can't uninstall the Camera app as it is a built-in app. Instead, you will need to reinstall iOS by connecting the phone to iTunes over USB and clicking Restore in iTunes.

This also will allow you to back up the device and save your apps and content.

Lastly, Apple's warranty is worldwide and you can initiate service in the US online and via phone at http://support.apple.com and if you need a repair, they will give you options even if you are in India if it turns out to be hardware.


If I move a window quickly to the right or left I often find myself in a different space. Is there a way to prevent this

You must hover with the mouse at the edge of the space for a certain, very brief, period of time before the space switches. To avoid this, you can increase the timed delay such that you never inadvertently trigger the behavior:

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 9;
killall Dock;


Why does iTunes continually reset the play count of select songs to zero?

This is an ongoing bug in iTunes Match. The few users that seem to have any success at all manually update by going to Store > Update iTunes Match. This may or may not work for you because it really is a bug. Play count updates also appear to be delayed by days for some users.


You can use 3rd party input method named "RIME".

You can download RIME by goto: http://rime.im/
Unzip downloaded file and run Installation.
After install was successfully, you need to login your account again.
Click on Squirrel Input Method icon (on top menu) and choose Settings....
You will see list of setting files, open file named default.yaml and edit like below:

After editing, save file and close.
Click on Squirrel icon then choose Deploy.
You now can type Cantonese!
zuk nei cing gung -> 祝你成功

Sorry I can attach only one photo.


Return User To Admin Users and Undo Parental Controls

As User 2

Open Users & Groups
Unlock it with Password
Disable (uncheck) parental controls for user 1
Enable User 1 as Admin

Log out from User 2, log in as User 1

Open Users & Groups
Delete user 2 (you will be offered to save or not the user data)


How to disable swipe navigation on Edge for Mac

I found a solution in the trackpad settings. In System Preferences go to Trackpad > More Gestures. Then disable "Swipe between pages".


What is the easiest way to find and delete duplicate songs in iTunes?

There is a menu item for this directly in iTunes:

You may find additional utilities at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes.


How to prevent Finder windows from automatically popping up when I attach a disk?

Apparently it is set in the HFS+ filesystem header. I found some technical detail here, including C source to modify it.

  The idea is to set word 2 of the finder info field in the HFS+ volume
  header. The Mac OS 9/X Finders know to open a window corresponding to
  the dirID stored in this field.

And there's an ancient app to set it here.

For a tool to read the volume header check out fileXray (non free.) Its manual shows the location of the relevant flag on page 170, it looks like :

# Open folder ID
         finderInfo[2] = 0

If you're also using these disks for backups you probably aren't going to want to mess with the filesystem header, certainly not with the outdated tools above.


Debugging Mail.app on OS X is fairly easy - especially in the case you describe where the problem is with one account.

Get the Incoming Mail server name from preferences (Mail --> Preferences... --> Accounts --> (your account) --> Incoming Mail Server) - it's likely something like mail.gmail.com or imap.gmail.com
Quit Mail
Open terminal and type this all as one long line (it's split here for readability):

/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -LogActivityOnHost imap.gmail.com -LogIMAPErrors YES >& ~/Desktop/MailConnection.log &

The harder part becomes making sense of the volume of data being logged, but again it seems you have a good handle on the scope of the issue. I would take a gander at your IMAP and label settings in gmail preferences to be sure your account isn't suppressing those folders for IMAP delivery.


Adding variables to a shell command in Automator

There are multiple ways to solve this problem. One way is already described in the question Automator variable in shell script (make sure to enable the options precisely as follows):

Ask for Finder Items (Type: Folders)
Set Value of Variable (Variable [example]: Directory-Path)
Ask for Text (Checked: Ignore this action's input; Checked: Require an answer)
Set Value of Variable (Variable [example]: Spotify-Url)
Get Value of Variable (Variable: Directory-Path; Checked: Ignore this action's input)
Get Value of Variable (Variable: Spotify-Url)
Run Shell Script (Pass input: as arguments; Content: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH ; /path/to/spotify-ripper user.name "$1" "$2"—change the "/path/to" part with the real path to spotify-ripper, of course: probably /usr/local/bin/spotify-ripper)

Another way is to use AppleScript, either in a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator or as an AppleScript application saved in AppleScript Editor. Here's an example in AppleScript:

on run
    try
        set spotifyDialog to display dialog "Enter a Spotify URL:" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK" cancel button "Cancel" default answer "https://" with title "Spotify Ripper"
        if the button returned of spotifyDialog is "OK" then
            set spotifyURL to text returned of spotifyDialog
            choose folder with prompt "Choose a folder:"
            set theDirectory to the result
            do shell script "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH ; /path/to/spotify-ripper user.name " & quoted form of POSIX path of theDirectory & space & spotifyURL
        end if
    end try
end run


Homebrew - How to upgrade a HEAD forumla?

It's --fetch-HEAD for upgrade command.
Try:
brew upgrade libimobiledevice --fetch-HEAD


gfortran compilation error (installing Quantum ESPRESSO)

The problem is that you're giving arguments to the "as" (assembler) command, that it doesn't understand.

This is usually caused by you having installed more than one type of "as", and calling the wrong one.

In this case you're actually calling "as" in the /opt/local/ subtree, which is not the system default "as".

Try removing /opt/local/bin/ from your path, and doing a reconfigure - or manually using configure arguments force the compilation to use a different "as" command.


Can I run a program with ≥ 512mb of VRAM required?

The NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB doesn't contain any dedicated VRAM. Instead a maximum of 256 MB of your 8 GB RAM are used as VRAM (shared memory).

I doubt that you can run apps which require 512 MB or more VRAM. You may try to lower the VRAM requirements of the application though - depending on whether this possible at all. Anyway, it will run incredibly slow then.


Is it possible to livestream the screen of an iPad?

Yes. Engage screen recording and you will see which apps allow you to stream from that app. Also, Airplay to an AppleTV or video out often can be sent to an HDMI capture card.
To try this you could use Zoom or WebEx or TeamViewer or Microsoft Teams. We pay for and use the last two at work widely, but I believe all of them let you try and use the app for non-commercial uses after registration.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207935

Also, the squirrels are awesome. Check out if you broadcast from a computer and share your iPad to it. Amazing things are possible for sharing now from iOS 14.


Print folder contents with non-standard printing settings

I was not able to find a way to do this in Automator.  My work around was as follows:

Use Automator to convert all documents to pdf
use CUPS to print from the terminal with non-standard settings, e.g.

$ for i in *pdf; do lpr -o sides=two-sided-long-edge $i; done


Mac doesn't recognize hosts on local network

I believe what you want to do is to make the linux machine announce itself using mDNS. But then it's not a Mac question anymore, but a Linux question.


Like all while/do (Applescript repeat) loops, you must ensure a condition is met for it to exit.

How do you ensure that a condition will be met and not go on infinitely?  From what I can tell you have a window that can contain "Start MP3" or "Stop Loop."  What if it contains "I love balloons" or is blank?

You haven't created any logic for this (error trapping) so this loop will repeat until the window meets the condition to stop.

To prevent that you to put in a fail safe that sets the condition that stops the loop.  You can do this  by adding a counter and checking the counter against a predetermined value that will force condition that stops the loop to become true.

For example, we set a limit that the loop will run 10 times:

set count to 0

repeat until (stopString = "stop")

    ...

    if count > 10 then
        set stopString to "stop"
    end if

    set count to count + 1

end repeat


iLife Slideshows screen saver not working after update to macOS High Sierra 13.13.3

I ended up reinstalling my OS, so it's a solution, a bit drastic perhaps, but very effective.


Avoid showing hidden applications in the cmd+tab navigation menu

Here is a blog post from someone who managed to remove Finder from the Application Switcher by adding this entry:

 <key>NSUIElement</key>
  <string>1</string>

To the info.plist file of the specific app (in this case, Finder).


What app/notification is causing this sound on my MacBook Pro Early 2011

Sound files are stored in ~Library/Sounds, Library/Sounds or in System/Library/Sounds folder. Look in these 3 folders and see if that particular sound file is there.


How to pull Newsstand apps out of Newsstand, or else put other apps into Newsstand?

Note: with the release of iOS 9 you can now pull New York Times and other apps from Newsstand.

What you ask isn't possible on stock iOS 7. Newstand subscriptions are not treated as full fledged apps or Safari bookmarks that can be placed arbitrarily on the springboard.


1Tb PCIe SSD in 2012 Retina MacBook Pro?

No, the 2012 and early-2013 Retina MBP SSD's are not PCIe-based, so you could not install an SSD from a late-2013 Retina MBP.


How can I shut down using keyboard shortcut and not reopen windows on login?

If you uncheck the checkbox, it should stay unchecked by default in 10.7.5 and later. After that you can shut down by just pressing ⌃⌥⌘⏏.

In 10.8:

If "Reopen windows when logging back in" is checked, applications that were open before you logged out are reopened after you log back in, and the state of the applications is restored. It doesn't depend on whether "Close windows when quitting an application" is checked or not.
If "Reopen windows when logging back in" is not checked and "Close windows when quitting an application" is not checked, applications that were open before you logged out are not reopened after you log back in, but the state of the applications is still restored if they are opened manually or as login items. If "Close windows when quitting an application" is checked, the state of the applications is not restored when they are opened manually or as login items.

In any case, the state of applications is still restored (or there is an option to restore state) after the Mac was forced to shut down.

The list of applications to reopen at login is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.*.plist.


Applescript: Help to extract PDF "Author" metadata and set it in iTunes Author field

This uses the built in unix commands to get the Author.

Try it and let me know if it needs a tweak.

tell application "iTunes"

    set sel to the selection

    if sel is {} then display dialog "Please select something" buttons {"Cancel"}

    repeat with i from 1 to count of sel

        set the_track to item i of sel

        set the_posix_path to POSIX path of (location of the_track as alias)

        set authorfield to paragraph 2 of (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemAuthors " & quoted form of the_posix_path & "|  awk -F\\\" '{print $2'}")

        set artist of the_track to (authorfield & "-") as string
    end repeat

end tell


What parts can you upgrade on a MacBook Pro?

In addition to Am1rr3za's answers (other than the CPU, which is soldered to the logic board), you can also convert the optical drive bay to a caddy which houses a second hard drive or solid state drive.  This is a huge upgrade if you can stand being without an internal disc drive...


Explicitly set it within the file itself.

Right click (or option + click) the file > Open With > Other... > TextEdit.

Alternatively, you can use a text editor such as nano or vi within Terminal.

Set the attribute below the shebang line

#! /bin/bash

kMDItemContentType = "public.unix-executable"

#Rest of your shell script

I just tested this on a script in my bin:

njboot$ mdls /Users/njboot/bin/jpgrm
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2014-06-10 06:06:53 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2014-06-11 19:58:23 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "public.unix-executable"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "public.unix-executable",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.executable"
)


Accessing events on external drive in iMovie '11 on Lion

Lion turned off an older and less secure method of authenticating AFP connections, which a lot of third-party vendors of NAS devices were using, including Synology. Synology have made available a beta release of their new firmware which fully supports Lion (as long as your Synology device was made in 2008 or later).


How can I make it so that customers can download my app on their ios device without using the app store?

Short answer: You can't.

You can't install native apps without Apple's App Store or a developer account's limited ability to distribute test software or an enterprise account's ability to distribute to it's registered devices.

Web apps are completely unrestricted, but have no means to "install". You have to instruct users to save the bookmark on their home screen.


Do all Magsafe adapters have removable extension cables?

Yes. All Apple MagSafe adapters have universal / interchangeable connectors where you can use your preferred length and polarity and groundedness connecter of regional preference to mains power.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD837AM/A/apple-world-travel-adapter-kit

The internal connector is standard IEC C5 or C7, and Apple adapters connect to the metal earthing pin optionally based on the cord or adapter chosen. Get a good photo of the gap, since a drop or crush can make the part very tight to remove.  The removal is quite linear with not a lot of play so hopefully you don’t have to break things to get it apart.


Will my other partitions be wiped when doing a clean install of Mavericks?

The windows partition wont be touched if your just re-installing on
  the Mac partition. unless you format the entire disk then you have a
  problem

*"More in depth explanation

Partition Map or Table  - is instructions written at the beginning of the drive that tell the hardware it's running from: what, how many, and where the partitions are on the drive. There is only one partition map on the drive. It can be MBR or GUID.

Partition  - is a space on the drive that appears as another volume, but still resides on the same piece of physical hardware.

Formatting - is how a entire drive or partition is structured to hold data, one drive can be partitioned into many separate partitions each with their own formatting. The Partition Map holds all the information of what is what.

Changing the partition map/table scheme will erase all data on the entire drive, it's like burning a treasure map, no directions anymore.

Changing the format of a single partition on a multi-partitioned drive only erases the data on the partition being formatted."*

SOURCE : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3044


Yes. Be sure you erased the entire drive from recovery. Some people erase only a volume and get stuck, the entire drive should be erased for your downgrade to work the fastest.
Which of these keys are you using?

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

For your case, you want Shift-Option-⌘-R

Reinstall the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.


Updating OSX to El Capitan resolved the issue.

Update:

Just to clarify. The issue started when I updated my iPhone to the latest version (ie IOS9). A notification popped up saying my iMac's would also need to be updated to IOS9 to remain compatible which is likely a bug as my iMac doesn't run IOS (Ie should have said OSX 10.11 El Capitan).

At the time I wrote this question I wasn't aware that OSX had just released a new version.

From what I can tell, Notes.app has received a big overhaul in the latest IOS/OSX. Looks like they're on the warpath to kill and replace Evernote. Either way, the new features aren't available in older versions.

Looks like their syncing strategy is to continue syncing the old version of notes between devices but (eventually) cut iCloud.com support.


How do I log-out (or reset) Microsoft's RMS / AIP [Azure Information Protection] identity on a Mac for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook?

After a too long search:
Go into the Mac's KeyChain and look for an Application Password called something like:
com.microsoft.office.rmscache

(Search for RMS.)

I deleted this record.
Quit Word.
Opened the protected file again.
Now I get the RMS/AIP login Window again and can user another account.

For the record, logging Word out normally or using Microsoft's remove-Office-license-from-Mac-pkg did not have the desired effect. Office's license account, Word's account (providing OneDrive etc.) and RMS/AIP's account are three separate entities.
In a simple world you have one account for all of them. In a more complicated set-up you can use the provided work-around to switch accounts.
(Fyi, an alternative: create an extra MacOS user account.)

Breadcrumbs I found:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17214.ad-rms-information-resetting-the-office-2011-for-mac-irm-client.aspx
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/030bba52-551b-4f31-8394-589b00418e22/azure-information-protection-on-mac


How can I use the "signature" function in Preview on Mac Mini with no camera?

You apparently can transfer the signature from your Macbook to your Mac Mini. This webpage explains the process:

http://www.stuartcarnie.com/2011/08/transferring-preview-app-signatures-in.html

Hope it helps! If you run into any problems feel free to ask.


Time Machine Server - one MBP can back up, another can't. Why?

So, the problem was that the second MBP needed the Time Machine server credentials User in all lower case. The Mac mini has a local user, let's say Arthur. I configured the second MBP to use the credentials Arthur/(a password) and the connection wouldn't work. Configuring it as arthur/(a password) worked just fine.

Thanks to Allan I found this by mounting two volumes from the Mac mini, one using SMB and one using AFP, and noticed that the AFP mount showed the user as 'arthur', and the SMB showed the user as 'Arthur', even though I'd logged in as Arthur for both mounts.


How to change a Mac/iCloud account the right way

You can’t split an AppleId so either one party keeps it or the other keeps it. Then you remove the account from all devices not belonging to the new owner.

When you delete an account, you can choose to retain the data locally or erase it. Without a backup, this choice is permanent.

Since app purchases cannot be transferred

Data like Safari history(other than copying from ~/Library folder) is more amenable to an export or migration once you detach from iCloud keeping in mind only one owner of the account remains. To deranged things, one option is to change the email address and all other info of the account so it matches one identity. This preserves all the devices' sign-in and data.

As comments say, both old and new account are not Apple domains, Logging into AppleID account page and changing the email address would work. Verification is required ofc.

  You can change your Apple ID to another third-party email address if your current Apple ID is a third-party email address. You can also change your Apple ID to a login alias that already exists.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667


I've extra registered on this website to share this answer, because I have been trying to get my notes back for a month. Now I have them back and I am so happy and gratefull that somebody took their time to share their answer, so I will do the same in case somebody needs it here later.
These are the steps, from another Apple forum:

Quit the Notes app.

Back up to iCloud all of the notes previously stored on your Mac, and turn syncing off. You may want to create PDF backups of anything you don't want to risk losing.

Restore these three files, located in ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/, from a backup to your desktop:

NoteStore.sqlite
NoteStore.sqlite-shm
NoteStore.sqlite-wal

Drag the three files from your desktop to ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/ on your Mac and agree to replace all three files.

Launch the Notes app and check your notes. Hopefully, they will be there.


IOS 8 get pictures off iphone 5 with windows 8

Have you tried installing the iCloud for Windows?

This will connect your Windows PC to your iCLoud account and allow you to save your iCloud photos to a local directory (I believe it's in C:\Users\\Pictures ).

The utility can be found here. https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1455?locale=en_US


How can I change default X11 application?

cd to /usr/X11/bin
rename the existing X symlink to Xquartz (to X_orig for example) in case you need to revert in the future to the "vanilla" config
symlink X to your compiled binary.


There is a very nice app that's freely available to show you all shortcuts when you hold down the command key a bit longer than normal.

http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/

It works on Mavericks and several older OS and I've never had problems with it other than forgetting to quit it after I'm done discovering shortcut keys. It appears to be advertisement supported, so consider that if you prefer to pay to support developers as opposed to be part of what's being sold.


You will not be able to connect to your Mac without waking it up. Modern Macs can be accessed remotely without needing to power on the display; this behaviour saves energy but is not Power Nap.

Apple's Power Nap technical note describes what the state is and how it affects your Mac.

Power Nap does not leave your Mac in a generally usable state; only specifically designed processes are permitted during the power nap state. The permitted processes do not currently include remote connections via secure shell (ssh).


How to bring to front or order layers in Preview?

If understand you right, here is how I change the order of layers in Preview app.

Select an object like an arrow or rectangle for example.
Right click on selected object.
Select an action from: "Bring Forward", "Bring to Front", "Send Backward", "Send to Back".


How to fix the time display at the top of the screen flashing?

I've noticed the same thing, but only when there was a notification on the lock screen.  I'm chalking it up to that, and not worrying about it.  But still interested to learn more if anyone knows anything.


Disabling password saving for certificates

When the system prompts you to save your session in the following dialog:

Make sure that you do NOT check the Remember password in my keychain checkbox.  If you did check that, then you can always delete that saved password in the Keychain Access app, located in your Utilities folder:

Notice that even if you don't check the box, SSH does cache your password until a reboot.
Dave Dribin has an excellent breakdown of what's actually going on with OS X's SSH Keychain integration: http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2007/11/28/ssh_agent_leopard/
Summary:

The real benefit, though, is the second checkbox: “Remember password in my keychain.” While it does store the passphrase in your keychain, it actually does more than that. It also adds the identity to your ssh-agent for you.
By adding your identity to the agent, you can now log right back into the same machine, without typing any passphrase. However, ssh does not prompt for you passphrase because it gets it from the agent, not your keychain. Remove your identity from the agent, and try again:

% ssh-add -D
All identities removed.

Locking your Keychain
The other thing to consider is just locking your keychain after a reboot or sleeping.  This will essentially give you the behavior that you're looking for as well.
You can do this from the Keychain Access utility, by right-clicking on the keychain that your private key's password is saved in, and clicking on Change Settings for Keychain '<YOUR_KEYCHAIN_NAME>'
The following dialog will appear:

Just select the one that best fits your compliance requirements.


How to stop Numbers from beeping at me when I use the arrow keys?

The keyboard shortcut for going to the last cell of a row: ⌘+Right Arrow

The keyboard shortcut for going to the first cell of a row: ⌘+Left Arrow

The keyboard shortcut for going to the last cell of a column: ⌘+Down Arrow

The keyboard shortcut for going to the first cell of a column: ⌘+Up Arrow

This will save holding the arrow key down repeat extending beyond the table bounds resulting in the annoying beeping/screen flash error.


How do i sync an iPhone 4 (that has never been synced) to a computer without losing all of my pictures and data?

Either iPhoto or Image Capture will let you pull all your photos off the phone to get the safely onto the computer. From there you can store them wherever you want.

DropBox also has a camera upload function now so you can upload straight to DropBox from the phone, or from the computer when you plug your phone in.

Just make sure you use iPhoto or Image Capture first when you plug in your phone.

If you plug the phone into your computer and set it up with iTunes it might prompt you to reset it to automatically sync with that computer. You can do that after you've removed the photos using iPhoto.

If you do sync with iPhoto it'll give you the option to remove the photos from your phone after syncing - that's your choice.

Finally, if you're worried about losing photos, you can configure iPhoto on your computer to use Photo Stream, and on your iPhone too in the iCloud settings. That'll copy the photos to the cloud, and then iPhoto automatically, so you don't need to plug in your phone to sync each time.

Most of this assumes you have a Mac computer, btw, you don't make clear whether you're syncing to a Mac or PC.


How to find out MBA-2011 13" battery serial number on the battery?

To get access to the serial # on the battery you would have to take the MBA apart?

If you want to do that here are the instructions.

It is easier to use the About This Mac.


Getting Silverlight to work on Mac OS X Yosemite

Under Safari/Preferences/Security click the last box that states "Internet Plug-ins: Allow Plug-ins"

So simple and it worked for me running Safari on 2008 MBP with OX X Yosemite


Can I edit content on an FTP server through Finder?

You can use MacFusion, which allows to connect to a FTP server through a filesystem device.
MacFusion requires MacFUSE, or OSXFUSE with the compatibility layer for MacFUSE.

  Mount files and documents as a "Volume" in the Mac OS X Finder.
  Work with your files using your favorite Mac OS X applications directly. No manual upload or download needed!
  Support for SSH (Secure Shell) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers.
  Uses your machine's native configuration for SSH, including support for private keys and custom settings.
  Quickly connect to a any server using the Quick Connect dialog, accessible from Macfusion's optional menu item.


Question on Apple ID for iPad bought as gift

Apple doesn't pre-load anything onto an iPad that is ordered, so you can just hand him the box. He will be asked if he wants to register it and also guided through using his existing Apple ID if he has one.

If for some reason you opened it to "make sure everything works", just go to the settings app. reset -> erase all content and settings and he will get to go through all the setup steps and enter his credentials.

You could go one by one and remove the things you added, but this is the easiest way to get that out of the box experience. You could build suspense by having him go to http://appleid.apple.com and make an Apple ID so he is ready to go when the surprise arrives.

Have fun and let him know we're here with answers to iPad questions, too.


Shortcut to open file with alternative application

I don't think there is a way to associate an alternative app for every extension so there might be no way to do it via script unless you want to write your own app.

Why not use 'Open With' from context menu? I use it all the time, pretty much as fast as pressing hot key shortcut.


iMessage stopped working.. Contacts are shown as red now

One way you will get the red contacts is if the iMessages account is not enabled.

Go to iMessages's preferences. And make sure the enabled check box is ticked.

You Will also get the red contacts if you are not signed in.
If that is the case you will need to sign in to see the enable check box.


ntpd: consistently incorrect time on mid-2013 MacBook Air

The server keyword of ntp.conf(5) would appear to configure only a single server, even if the provided hostname resolves to more than one IP address.

It would appear that the specific server that was being selected is a PoS.

mba: {4899} ntpdc -s ; ntpdc -sn
     remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
=======================================================================
*time.apple.com  129.xx.xxx.xxx   2 4096  377 0.07106  0.000248 0.24763
     remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
=======================================================================
*17.151.16.22    129.xx.xxx.xxx   2 4096  377 0.07106  0.000248 0.24763
mba: {4900} ntpdate -d 17.151.16.22 |& tail -1 ; \
?           ntpdate -d time.apple.com |& tail -1 ; \
?           ntpdate -d ntp1.yycix.ca |& tail -1
26 Nov 01:49:13 ntpdate[97738]: adjust time server 17.151.16.22 offset -0.000318 sec
26 Nov 01:49:16 ntpdate[97740]: adjust time server 17.171.4.15 offset -0.006493 sec
26 Nov 01:49:16 ntpdate[97742]: adjust time server 192.75.191.6 offset -0.006443 sec
mba: {4901}

Going to Date & Time Preferences, and providing a comma-separated list of valid NTP servers seems to fix the issue.

Providing a comma-separated list in GUI results in several server entries in /etc/ntp.conf, although you have to make sure that the hostnames themselves are different (otherwise, the repeated hostnames don't result in any extra actual servers being selected, as per ntpq -p).

mba: {5104} cat /etc/ntp.conf
server ntp1.yycix.ca
server time.nist.gov
server tick.usask.ca
server tock.usask.ca
server clock.nyc.he.net
mba: {5105} ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
+ntp1.yycix.ca   .GPS.            1 u  138  512  377   56.517   -0.662   0.319
-2610:20:6f15:15 .ACTS.           1 u  117  512  377   27.975   -1.774   0.989
+tick.usask.ca   .GPS.            1 u  456  512  377   31.388   -0.636   0.135
*tock.usask.ca   .GPS.            1 u  124  512  377   31.486   -0.864   0.413
-clock.nyc.he.ne .CDMA.           1 u  139  512  377   26.860   -2.161   0.194
mba: {5106}

A list of servers is available at http://support.ntp.org/servers; you have to try to select the servers that are close to you, especially not just geographically, but network-wise.


I just tested it with a couple of different massive projects on my MBP and it created a new file right away.

First guess would be perhaps a bundle or other plugin you've added is interfering with the program operation somehow. You could also try trashing your Textmate preferences file and restart the program to see if that helps (~/Library/Preferences/com.macromates.textmate.plist).


I'm a big fan of Apple's Wireless Diagnostic tool on recent OS releases (find it with Spotlight as it's not in /Applications).

You can use the Utilities window to view real-time performance and also perform a wireless scan to map all close-by transmitters and see if a suggested channel is better than your current channel for your base station.

The one piece of information missing from your post is how your internet speed test compares to the transmit rate your WiFi adapter is communicating to your base station.

If your signal to noise ratio is below 15 or your transmit rate matches the speed test - then you can work on finding a better antenna / channel or affect thins by improving the radio performance.

If the transmit rate is low - that would reinforce your difference between the WiFi speeds and the wired speeds.

Here are a couple of the better threads to help as well:

What OS X signal strength test apps exist to measure Wi-Fi networking?
A utility for tuning your WiFi network?
Wifi channel selection
OS X status bar wifi icon - meaning of bars?

You can even see how this tool can be used in action in this answer - where I turned on a microwave to show that there was some interference from that device.

If you have an older OS, you can get similar information from the logs and wireless clients section of Airport Utility: (Image from the excellent Anand Tech article on Airport Extreme and Time Capsule - http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th-gen-review-faster-wifi-/8)


I'm afraid it's not going to work. Colloquy is a client for the IRC protocol (also SILC and ICB, both of which are rarely used). Google Talk uses XMPP (aka Jabber) for its text chat, which Colloquy doesn't support.

If you want a 3rd party client for Google Talk, anything that supports XMPP/Jabber will do, but keep in mind this works only for the text chat. The VoIP capabilities require the Google client or website. iChat includes a Google Talk account option, you just need to fill in your Google ID and password:

Another popular Mac option is Adium, a multi-protocol IM client, that will do Google Talk as well as AIM, MSN, Yahoo and others.


How to change zoom/"green button" behaviour

Hold down Option key and click the Green button. It will change from the Full Screen button back to a Zoom button.

You can also double-click the empty area in the window frame (title bar) if you don’t have it set to minimize when double-clicking.

However, this soft can help you : https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30591/right-zoom

Apple Support


Is there a way to make Adium open links with Google Chrome?

Try to disable the Skype plugin, it must be tempering with the way Adium handles URLs opening.


If you're simply wanting to dedicate your old HDD to Windows 7 duties you don't need to use Boot Camp to do it. Simply partition and format the HDD as FAT (Windows will insist on it being formatted as NTFS when installing), reboot your Mac while holding alt/option and insert your Windows install media. You will then be able to install Windows without further issues.

Boot Camp is only necessary when dual-booting from a single drive. OS X requires a GPT partition to boot from whereas Windows 7 expects an MBR partition. Boot Camp creates a hybrid partition table that works for both systems, but this process isn't necessary if each system has its own dedicated drive.


When you remove a device from find my iPhone, does it's automatically restore?

You can still restore an iOS device even if it has a broken screen. Connect it to iTunes over USB and click Restore iPhone. Because you have disabled Find my iPhone, iTunes will let you restore the device.


You have to update your TERMINFO file.

Thanks to wincent's video and his github pages
Watch the video and look at his github pages, they're excellent.

I have the following note stored on my HD:

We can have italics in the terminal.

This works in iTerm as well as Terminal.

We have to adapt the terminfo database to tell it to display italics.

Create a plain text file which contains the following:

xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors and italic,
  sitm=\E[3m, ritm=\E[23m,
  use=xterm-256color,

Save it as xterm-256color.terminfo.txt

Then execute the following command:

tic -o ~/.terminfo xterm-256color.terminfo.txt

This will create a ~/.terminfo/some_arbitrary_number/ directory, and inside that directory is a xterm-256color file.

What it does according to the manpage:

       The command tic translates a terminfo file from source format into com-
       piled  format.   The  compiled  format  is  necessary  for use with the
       library routines in ncurses(3X).

       The results are  normally  placed  in  the  system  terminfo  directory
       /usr/share/terminfo.  There are two ways to change this behavior.

       First, you may override the system default by setting the variable TER-
       MINFO in your shell environment to a valid (existing) directory name.

       Secondly, if tic cannot get access to /usr/share/terminfo or your  TER-
       MINFO  directory,  it  looks for the directory $HOME/.terminfo; if that
       directory exists, the entry is placed there.

       Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check for  a  TER-
       MINFO  directory first, look at $HOME/.terminfo if TERMINFO is not set,
       and finally look in /usr/share/terminfo.

       -o dir   Write  compiled  entries to given directory.  Overrides the TER-
                MINFO environment variable.

So with the given command we are writing a new terminfo entry in the hidden ~/.terminfo directory. It takes the capabilities of the existing xterm-256color entry (from /usr/share/terminfo/) and adds italics mode to it.

To check that the terminal does the right thing:

with fish:

echo (tput sitm)'italics' (tput ritm) (tput smso)'standout'(tput rmso)

with bash or zsh:

echo `tput sitm`italics`tput ritm` `tput smso`standout`tput rmso`

I guess at the moment most vim terminal colorschemes don't set italic as a style. To check this do:
:hi Comment if the reply contains cterm=italic you're done.
If not add highlight Comment cterm=italic to your vimrc (below setting your colorscheme).

Addendum for tmux

tmux uses its own terminfo files, they also need to be updated to use italics.

create a tmux.terminfo.txt file which contains

tmux|tmux terminal multiplexer,
  sitm=\E[3m, ritm=\E[23m,
  smso=\E[7m, rmso=\E[27m,
  use=screen,

create a tmux-256color.terminfo.txt file which contains

tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
  sitm=\E[3m, ritm=\E[23m,
  smso=\E[7m, rmso=\E[27m,
  use=screen-256color,

and run the tic command.

tic -o ~/.terminfo tmux-256color.terminfo.txt
and
tic -o ~/.terminfo tmux.terminfo.txt


How to move a Reminder from one list to another in iOS?

Using iOS 6.1.2 it is pretty straight forward (I have no older version of iOS with me to check how and if it works there, but I guess it will).

Tab on the task/reminder you would like to move to another list. Choose more options or show more (my language setting is German so I'm not 100% sure how this menu item is called in english). There appears an option titled List. This will allow you to move the item to another list.


Your main volume is encrypted with FileVault and still locked – consequently it doesn't show up in /Volumes. Before being able to mount it you'd have to unlock it:

diskutil cs unlockVolume lvUUID #replace lvUUID by the one shown in the diskutil listing

You will then be asked to enter the passphrase/password. You have to enter a passphrase or a password of a regular user eligible of unlocking FileVault. In your example the lvUUID is shown in diskutil list and starts with 573…. You may also get the lvUUID by entering diskutil cs list.


How to configure Finder to let me rename dotfiles?

I do not know what version of OS X you're using however I have no problem renaming dotfiles in Finder under OS X 10.8.5. That said, If your using a version of OS X that will not allow you to rename dotfiles in Finder and you do not want to use Terminal and the mv command, then a GUI option you can consider using is muCommander.


Generate an iOS Project (.xcodeproj) with AppleScript

You could create an empty iOS Xcode project once, put it somewhere on your disk, and then use an AppleScript to copy the folder (.xcodeproj is basically just a folder) to the desired destination.

(But I can't think of a single use for this...)


Can I backup my MacBook Pro onto my Dell Laptop?

Another alternative is to spend < $100US to purchase a external USB HD (Western Digital, Seagate, and LaCie make good drives,) and use Time Machine to back it up. Time Machine is a very handy and reliable method to backup your entire Mac.


I have experience this before trying to install backtrack Linux on windows. There is many program that can fix this problem just with a CD burn with a .ISO image. Try a program called "Super GRUB disk", it works for me.


How to fix songs still waiting in iTunes Match?

I would export a copy of those songs to a folder in /Users/Shared and then turn off iTunes Match. Then:

Make a new user on your Mac
Log out of your existing user
Log into this brand-new user and fire up iTunes

It should have no music whatsoever and not be linked to your Apple ID. Now go ahead and sign into iTunes match and see what the cloud really thinks your music library looks like. Drag one and only one song from the users/shared folder into this library and leave iTunes running for a while to see what iTunes match makes of it.

At that point you have a very isolated and potentially reproducible issue that you could reach out to Apple support in case the problem is on the server side and nothing that you were doing.


Photo edits in iOS 7 do not save when exported to PC

Try emailing the photos to yourself.

When you edit photos, iOS doesn't actually modify the JPG file. Instead, it saves an XML file with the same name that contains information about what edits were made—that's why edits "disappear" when you copy the JPG. They were never there in the first place.


Slide up on your trackpad with three fingers. On the top, you should see a bar containing Desktop and any other fullscreen windows you have opened. Drag those to rearrange them.
If you go back by sliding down with three fingers, you should find that the windows have been rearranged.


Lose the /.

$ open -a Keychain\ Access.app

works for me.
Or even:

  $ open -a Keychain\ Access


I decided to return to plan A (copy Backups.backupdb), (having first made more swap space on my Mac by deleting movies) and closing down all running programs.

After more than 24 hours, this had completed the copy, and the files all looked OK.

I then enabled the disk in Time Machine, and ran a backup. This informed me it was making a new backup, and proceeded to copy 350GiB of data.

This was not quite as I hoped. Inspection of the file system indicated that none of the files were hard linked into the old backups.

As far as Time Machine is concerned, all my backups are there, and sample checks indicate all files seem OK.

Subsequent backups appear to working as normal, files are hard linked into the initial backup.

I did some pruning of earlier backups with tmutil delete, but it is obvious I am only going to get back to a 2TiB image with serious pruning.

I did toy with the idea of trying to combine the hard links, but decided I will leave the disk as is, and just accept that I now have a 3TiB Time Machine.
At least I do have all my historical backups if I need them .


Your description is a bit difficult to understand, but if you got an application window outside of the screen area and you need it moved without dragging, then this should work:

Open the native Script Editor application.
Open a new blank document and paste in the following code:

tell application "Microsoft Word" to set bounds of window 1 to {0, 22, 600, 622}

Click the play button to run the code.

This should move the Word document window to the top left of your screen and resize the window to 600x600px (note that this will only move 1 window).


How to apply a bash script just to one user account?

My understanding is that you send a script to your remote systems.  You then run the script. I'm not sure what user id the script will be run under. I don't know what you want to do for that user.

You could put the following header code in a script.  It figures out if the user is an admin user or a non admin user.

There are many ways to check for admin. Note: Some of the methods shown don't work.  See:

https://superuser.com/questions/279891/list-all-members-of-a-group-mac-os-x

This bash script lists all members of the group admin.

group=admin;
for i in $(dscl . list /users);
  do [[ $(id -nG $i | grep $group) ]] && echo $i;
done;rc=0

Distilling it down.

#!/bin/bash
# ideas from:
# https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/mac-commands-directory-editor-dscl-and-custom-inventory
# https://superuser.com/questions/279891/list-all-members-of-a-group-mac-os-x
#
# Please note this is prototype.
#
#       THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#       IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#       FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#       AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#       LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#       OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
#       SOFTWARE.

group=admin;
for i in $(dscl . list /users);
  do
    echo "process user ${i}"
    uniqueID=$(dscl  /Local/Default -read /Users/${i} UniqueID | awk '{ print $2 }')

    # exclude system-created users, which have IDs below 500
    if [ "${uniqueID:-0}" -ge 500 ]; then
      if  [[ $(id -nG $i | grep $group) ]]; then
        #echo "${i} is a member of ${group}"
        #-- plan english
        echo "${i} is an admin user."
      else
        echo
        #echo "${i} isn't a member of ${group}"
        #-- plan english
        echo "${i} is a regular user..."
        # print the user's home folder
        homeDirectory=$(dscl  /Local/Default -read /Users/${i} NFSHomeDirectory | awk '{ print $2 }')
        echo "Home directory is ${homeDirectory}"
        echo
     fi
    fi
done
# leave a good impression on the caller
rc=0

finding if current user is an admin

  echo "Current user is " ${USER}
    if [[ $(id -nG ${USER} | grep "admin" ) ]]; then
      echo "admin user"
    else
      echo "regular user"
    fi


How do I AirPlay mirror my iPhone screen to my MacBook Pro?

If your devices have OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 or anything newer, there's a built-in way to do this via a wired connection.

Quit QuickTime on your Mac if it is open.
Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to your Mac via a Lightning or USB-C Cable.
Open QuickTime on your Mac, and select File > New Movie Recording.
A recording window will appear. Click the arrow next to the Record button, and select your iPhone from the dropdown menu that appears.
Click the Record button and go about your business on your iPhone.
Once you're done, click the Stop button and save the video.


What happens with the appearance of the folder icons in dark mode of macOS Mojave Finder?

Are they being actively obscured by the operative system without there being icons with that real appearance?

Folder icons are indeed displayed with a darker shade of blue and a darkened tab when using Dark Mode.

In this case, any idea to apply this method to the custom icons without modifying it into a new coloration?

I think you will have to modify your custom folder icons, but beware the darker look is not consistent: Folder icons are darkened when placed on the desktop and previewed with Quick Look, but when displayed in a Finder window, they maintain their bright appearance, as you can see in the following screenshots:
Folder on Desktop:

Same folder in Finder window, with a Quick Look preview to its right:

So you are out of luck if you want your custom folders to match the way Finder folders look like. I think this behavior is more of an omission than a deliberate design decision, and checking "Reduce Transparency" in System Preferences>Accessibility>Display doesn't change how folders are displayed, that is, this is not caused by Desktop Tinting (more on Desktop Tinting below).
About Desktop Tinting
There is a new Mojave feature called Desktop Tinting that only is activated when using Dark Mode. Desktop Tinting slightly modifies the color of windows to match your desktop picture.
If you want to disable Desktop Tinting, Graphite Mode will disable the color tinting altogether, according to, for example, Apple's Introducing Dark Mode WWDC 2018 Session and Ars Technica Mojave review.
You can find additional information about Desktop Tinting in the Introducing Dark Mode WWDC 2018 video (select the Transcript tab and search for "desktop tinting"):

[D]esktop tinting (...) causes the window's background colors to camouflage
themselves with the desktop picture.
We found that completely
desaturated gray colors have a tendency to have a color temperature
that was sometimes in conflict with what your desktop picture was, and
this effect was magnified when you have a translucent sidebar area,
for example, against a solid opaque area of your window, and so
desktop tinting helps mitigate that.
Once applied, the desktop tinting
gives the whole window a harmonious color scheme, which helps it to
blend in with the surrounding areas and really reduces that color
temperature disparity.

and the Ars Technica Mojave review:

One separate but related feature exclusive to Dark Mode is called
Desktop Tinting, which goes beyond the translucent sidebars and other
UI elements.
Each window samples an “average” color from whatever
piece of your desktop wallpaper it’s on top of and uses that color to
subtly tint every single window in the operating system. (...) Apple says that it’s meant to keep the bold Dark Mode windows from clashing with your chosen wallpaper.


There are several possibilities:

Preview.app (comes with OS X) will open any PS (PostScript) file. In the background, I assume, a conversion to PDF takes place, but this should not be an issue.
Adobe Illustrator can open and edit PostScript files. Shelling out a rather big amount of money for just viewing a PS file seems overkill, though. However, there is a free 30-day-trial (link from January 2013 for CS6).
PostView by Metaobject is said to support PostScript as well, but I personally am not convinced / could not get it to work.

My personal recommendation: Use Preview.app!


I Just found SynkPro with a google. Not used it but it says it can "sync your home and work computers—even if they're not connected—by syncing them both with an external hard drive serving as a "shuttle" for your data."


In case this helps others:

Find a correct set of contacts on a Mac. I don't know Windows, this may work the same way.
Export them as a abbu file to save them. Contacts > File > Export > Contacts Archive.
If you don't have a good set of contacts, I suggest you log into iCloud.com. Go to Settings. At the bottom of the page, select "Restore Contacts". Cross fingers.
If you have a decent set of contacts on a Mac > Open Contacts.app. Highlight all contacts. Drag them to the iCloud tab.

Wait a bit until the list is uploaded to iCloud. Check this on iCloud.com > Contacts.
Your other devices should now sync properly.


Fixing error 73 AND Open Directory without Internet

I've now managed to solve my errors and such. I will now explain how to fix error 73 and how to set your server up as an OD Master. Hopefully someone else will find this useful and save themselves many months of pain trying to resolve their issues.

Firstly, we need to completely reset the database. To do this, we will open up terminal and enter sudo slapconfig -destroyldapserver. The OD service should be reset now. To ensure changes take effect we need to reboot the system. Don't skip this part.
Next we need to configure DNS. Make a new domain on the local network and add the to-be-OD master's local ip address as an A record. Make sure the reverse record also matches up. If this doesn't make sense to you then you need to look up how to set DNS up. Make sure you click the Start DNS button to start up the service.
Now add the local DNS server to your router's DNS output so that your router gives all DHCP connected devices your DNS servers local IP address. To allow external internet connections, you may want to add another DNS server to your local one, so any invalid addresses can be tried for a non-authoritative answer.
Go back to terminal and type in sudo changeip -checkhostname. If there are any issues then follow the example given to fix your machines host name.
Reboot again if you had to make changes. If not then skip the next step.
Redo the last two steps.

We now have to fix LDAP permissions causing error 73:

In terminal type sudo mkdir -m755 /var/db/openldap.
Reboot yet again...

Lastly we can now create the OD server following some of the strict rules explained below:

Open Server Admin, choose Open Directory, under General, click Change...
Choose Master.

Ensure you do not use any account details which are associated with a local machine account in the Master Domain Administrator account fields.
Click continue.
Under Kerberos Realm type in your machines new DNS host name.
Click continue.
Click continue.

Be greeted with the success message and a working OD Master .

I hope this helped someone. Feel free to remake my guide in a better form and reply with it.


How do I generate cryptographically random numbers on OSX?

The /dev/random file on OS X is fairly good since it uses the Yarrow algorithm which many consider to be fairly secure in generating random numbers.

You can use dd to pull a character at a time off the stream and as long as you use caution in converting it into a number range you care to see in your text file, this is a fairly painless way to get some decent randomness.

dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null >> /path/to/your/file


Automatically disable network activity for apps when on a Portable Hotspot

Try TripMode. https://www.tripmode.ch

It is an app that blocks unwanted traffic. It remembers settings for different networks, e.g. you can disable it on your home WiFi and enable it on your iPhone Hotspot.

I've been using it for years, should be exactly what you want. A free trial is available.


iPhone 4 stays linked to a previous Apple ID after restore to iOS 7

It may not be your fault, but s...@gmail may be missing photos of his family and other stuff important to him. Maybe not. At least, send him an email explaining what happened. Maybe he will be ok with this, maybe he will thank you, it's just the right thing to do..


OS X Server: Wiki embed youtube video on page

I had the same problem.

On the Server load terminal.app in your Utilities folder, and type in:

On Mountain Lion:

sudo defaults write /Library/Server/Wiki/Config/collabd.plist FiltersEnabled false

On Lion:

sudo defaults write /etc/collabd/collabd.plist FiltersEnabled false

You may need to turn the Wiki Service off and on afterward for the settings to take affect. You can do this by typing:

sudo serveradmin stop wiki

then

sudo serveradmin start wiki

in the Terminal.


I haven't tried this, but if you're willing to experiment:

Try using (no joke) Garageband with your aggregated device setup.  No need to hit the record button, but you can use the monitor function to hear yourself speak.  And since it presumably knows what to do with both mics, you might both be able to speak.

You may also use LineIn to be able to hear yourself speak.  And finally, soundflower may be useful if you need to shuttle audio from one app to another before making it to your headphones... like say background music from iTunes or whatever.

~~~

Update from OP:

  Thanks, I ended up going with something based on the ideas in your
  post but developed the solution on my own. Here it is:
  pivotallabs.com/ultimate-headphone-pairing


You can run only 2 external monitors. If you want you can also run the MacBook Pro monitor, achieving in this way the 3 monitors configuration.

The only way to run 3 external monitors is to use an external graphic card to connect the third monitor.

This answer comes from personal experience and Apple technical details. I've the same model and I've tested all the possible combinations, also trying passive and active DVI connections.


How to kill Google Drive File Stream process in OSX

The helper application may be keeping it alive, not sure ... but it's possible to completely shut this application down by killing both the helper application and the stream application by name:

sudo killall -9 "Google Drive File Stream Helper"
sudo killall -9 "Google Drive File Stream"


Why extracted .app file appears in Finder 3.1 Mb and in bash only 102 bytes?

.app files are really just folders, but applications (like finder) see them differently and calculate the size of the contents of the folder.

Empty folders have the size of 68 bytes, non-empty folders are 102 bytes or bigger.
All my folders and .apps are 102 bytes since they contain only 1 sub-folder.


Getting rid of the annoying Photoshop CS6 timeline

This was happening to me on a single file, because I'd messed around with animation a little and then deleted it.

What I had to do in the end to stop the timeline opening every time I opened that file, was to copy everything into a new PSD.


Keyboard shortcut to quicksave Tomb Raider II

To eliminate the Fn key you would have to toggle the global control for F-Keys, in the Keyboard Control Panel


Access to NAS mount during Power Nap wake up

No - Power Nap is extremely selective about what activities it will take on and thus far, no third party hooks or API is provided by Apple to allow someone to easily modify what happens when the OS wakes from a nap.

Clearly, someone could reverse engineer things and come along with a solution, but that hasn't happened yet. If they do, we can surely come with a better answer but at the moment you get the behavior out of the box which isn't going to accomplish what you ask.


Does Apple's Numbers support 3rd party plugins / data providers / formulas / functions?

No.

According to this outdated post the answer is no. I also doubt Apple would add this feature.

  There is no "plug-in" architecture yet for Numbers. the '09 version
  does have some basic scripting ability it looks like. But I haven't
  gotten it to work yet. Waiting for someone that knows more than me to
  post some examples.

You can make a feature request here

Although not plugins per se, Numbers (and the entire iWork suite) does have a library for AppleScript.


Mavericks does NOT support MTP natively.  You can use Android File Transfer for MTP file system access or one of many other apps like Dropbox, or AirDroid for file sharing that does not use MTP.


Cut shortcut (cmd+x) doesn't work if I use the left cmd key (cmd+c does work with left cmd key!)?

It may very well be that the Razer drivers are incompatable with OS 10.10 Yosemite.  According to Razer, it seems the latest driver only supports up to 10.7 Lion although the last modified date on the download site is 26 Mar 2015.

One fix may be to find and get the legacy drivers for your Razer device. However, it may be best just to contact Razer about the issue which may also lead to a solution.


Boot Camp not recognizing Windows 10 ISO

Try re-downloading because the Microsoft website has a bug where it will sometimes terminate the iso download half way through, leaving you with an unfinished iso file. If the size of the iso you downloaded is less than 3.7 gigabytes, then it means its incomplete. You have to head to https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO to download a new one.


How to share an AirTag with family members

You cannot share the location of an AirTag with other people.
The only privilege currently granted is indefinite silencing of AirTags owned by family members:

If the AirTag is attached to an item you're borrowing, you can tap
Pause Safety Alerts to turn off "AirTag Detected" notifications for
one day. If you're borrowing an AirTag from a member of your Family
Sharing group, you can turn off Safety Alerts for one day or
indefinitely.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227


Is there a way to sleep your mac through iPhone/iPad?

If you just need the sleep/wake function, you may want to take a look at iNet WOL, which does a great job. It's the little brother of iNet Pro, a much more extensive network tool for the iPhone.


Unable to complete first backup to iCloud due to lack of space

I also recently noticed that the backup "choose data to back up" section doesn't show up in iOS 11 unless you have an existing backup to select first, since the UI is tucked into the screen when you select a backup for a phone.

If you're willing to go forgo the 99 cent subscription fee for a month, you could increase your storage for iCloud, make a backup, see if you can refine the backup to fit back into the 5GB limit, make a new backup, and then bring your storage plan back down.

I did the first few steps myself, and the backup refinement options do appear in the new backup. I've just been too lazy to followup and actually trim my backup to downgrade my storage plan.

Alternatively, you could go into Settings > General > iPhone Storage, and see if you've got some easy targets using a lot of Documents & Data storage to delete to bring down the size of the backup. Only Documents & Data matters for third party apps, since the apps themselves are not backed up, only the app data (documents & data) is backed up. Also iOS itself is not backed up, only the settings and user data within.


The Not Charging message that you see is most likely displayed by the Battery health management feature build into macOS Catalina 10.15.5 and later, and is available on MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3 port.
The Battery health management features is intended to slow down the chemical ageing of MacBook battery by analyzing the battery temperature history and charging patterns, and intermittently stopping the charging.
You can toggle the Battery health management feature by going to System Preferenes app → Energy, and clicking on the Battery Health... button and unchecking Battery health management.

Apple recommends you leave it turned on, but lets you turn off the setting.
You can learn more about Battery health management by reading the following Apple Support document:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211246


How do I stop Alfred from stealing command+shift+\?

Apparently, one of the workflow hijacked the shortcut. Has nothing to do with Alfred itself.


From what country does iTunes payouts come from

Interesting question. I’m a U.S. developer and have always received my payments in full, indicating that there was no exchange rate involved. The payments originate from Apple’s bank, which given this information, I would imagine is in the United States.


Can imac G3 DV 400 be booted when PRAM battery is empty?

Based on the link below, you will need to replace the PRAM battery to boot the iMac. You could always extract the HD, but then would have to find the correct interface to hook it up to your current computer.

http://www.mercenary.ca/articles/fix_imac_g3_wont_start_problem.php

There are a few videos on youtube describing PRAM battery replacement. One source for a replacement battery is http://www.newertech.com/products/pram_3_6v.php


Jay Freeman ("saurik") is the developer of Cydia and brought Debian APT to iOS.

  The iPhone … is running a pared down Mac OS X with its standard complement of a FreeBSD-based userland over a Darwin kernel.

  For distribution, I have chosen Debian's APT

Source: http://www.saurik.com/id/1

These elements together delineate .deb files as the container for the package to be installed.

  In the world of Debian APT/dpkg, anything you can install is a "package". These packages exist in the form of .deb files

Source: http://www.saurik.com/id/7

dpkg-deb allows these deb files to be installed and managed easily and with little overhead, which is very important for iOS devices.


Lion restoring windows throws DO NOT HAVE permission

To solve the permission errors, just boot from your recovery cd(insert cd and reboot while holding alt/option) and click in the menubar on 'Utilities' and select 'Disk Utility'. When you are there, you can choose 'repair disk permissions' (get ready for about 2 hours of not being able to use your computer).

In preview, close each document and then quit the app, that should do the trick.


Access Fast User Switching from a script in Big Sur

User.menu along with other menu items were incorporated into Control Center in Big Sur, which removed the menu item package from Menu Extras. Gone with it is CGSession.
There does not appear to be an immediate replacement, and while workarounds for some of its other functionality have been developed, nothing for fast user switching yet.


XQuartz cannot start on macOS Mojave 10.14.5

I guess the original problem was solved by the author by reinstalling the OS, but this seems similar to a problem I was having which seems to be the result of different versions of XQuartz (and maybe MacPorts' x11) getting in each other's way, particularly due to restrictions involving code signing security, possibly due to my not properly uninstalling one of them before reinstalling.
I seem to have fixed my issue by completely uninstalling XQuartz following instructions at the XQuartz Mailing List FAQ. A key seems to be logging out and logging back in again to make whatever magic happens that sets the $DISPLAY environment properly. I did this after uninstalling everything, and then again after installing what I wanted.
I uninstalled both 2.7 and 2.8. Running the commands if either is already uninstalled should not cause any issues beyond a warning that the resource does not exist.
Uninstall (XQuartz 2.8 and later)
To uninstall XQuartz 2.8 and later, execute the following in Terminal:
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.xquartz.startx.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch*/org.xquartz.* /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/*paths.d/*XQuartz
sudo pkgutil --forget org.xquartz.pkg

Uninstall (XQuartz 2.7.x and earlier)
To uninstall XQuartz 2.7.x and earlier, execute the following in Terminal:
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch*/org.macosforge.xquartz.* /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/*paths.d/*XQuartz
sudo pkgutil --forget org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg

At that point (after logging out and logging back in) I only installed the x11 software using MacPorts (via sudo port install xorg) and things seem to be working again (after logging out and logging back in).
I am still trying to figure out why, in one user account, Mojave is VERY slow to launch /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app from the Finder and VERY VERY VERY slow to launch x11 when invoking 'xclock' or 'xterm' from the terminal, while in the other user account, X11.app launches much quicker (while still pretty slow).


How do I delete songs on my iphone using Windows version of iTunes?

There are two ways to see only your downloaded songs, at least on iOS 13 and newer:
Method 1

Launch the Settings app.
Scroll down to the "Music" section and click on it.
Deselect the "Show all purchases" option.

This should now only show your local downloads.
Method 2

Launch the Music app on your iPhone and click on the "Library" icon in the bottom menu bar.
In the top right corner, click on "Edit".
A customizable list with checkmark circles should appear. One of the categories that you can select is "Downloaded", which – as the name suggests – shows only the songs that are stored locally on your phone. You'll also see another category called "Songs". This category shows all of your songs (both in the cloud and the ones stored locally on your phone).
Uncheck the "Songs" category and check the "Downloaded" category.
Click "OK" in the top right corner of the screen to close the list. You should now see only your downloaded songs whenever you click on the "Downloaded" category.

And if you want to see all your purchases once more (including those that haven't been downloaded), you can simply select the "Songs" category instead of the "Downloaded" category – that is if you haven't disabled the "Show all purchases" option in Settings.


Why can't I write to the last block of my SDXC card on my MBP?

The following procedure should format your SD card to make it usable again and cause bad sectors on the card to be remapped if that is part of your problem.  Warning, erasing the wrong drive could make you cry so make sure that you know what you are doing.

Before inserting the SD card into your Mac, make sure that the write protect (lock) switch is turned off
Open a Terminal window and type diskutil list
Insert card
If an OS X messages pops up asking you to "Initialize... Ingore or Eject", choose "Ignore"
From the Terminal windows, type diskutil list once again
Examine the difference between the two Terminal outputs to determine the disk number for your SD card.  You should be looking in the left most column for something like /dev/disk3 or 4 or 5 etc.
Now type diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk# where # is the number you determined earlier
Here is where you must be VERY CAREFUL.  Enter the following sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk# bs=64k and be sure to replace the # with the previous disk number.  Note the 'r' in front of the rdisk in case you are typing this by hand instead of copy/pasting the text.  You should be prompted for your password to run this command because it is dangerous
Be patient until it finishes.  You can estimate time by opening the "Activity Monitor" application in Utilities and clicking on the "Disk" tab.  At the bottom you should see the Data written/sec in red. It should be some number in MB like 5.  (64 x 1000 / n) / 60 = minutes until it finishes where n is the rate in MB that you just determined or 5 in my example
Once the previous command completes, the card should be completely erased and ready for formatting.  At this point you can close your Terminal and open the Disk Utility application to create an exFAT partition like you were trying to do earlier.


What SATA does an early 2011 MacBook Pro has?

I happen to use a MBP 15" early 2011 and it has a SATA 3 (6.0 Gbit/s) interface.