Is there any way to rotate a magic trackpad?

You have three options that I'm aware of, but depending on the version of macOS you're running, probably only one of them is a real chance of doing exactly what you want.

In summary:

Use Terminal commands to rotate the trackpad orientation. However, the commands I'm aware of only work to rotate it 180° instead of 90°. It also doesn't work for macOS Sierra or macOS High Sierra. If you're running an earlier version of macOS and rotating 180° is an option for you, then see details below for Terminal commands.
Try using MagicPrefs, however this is now on its last legs as an option. It's worked brilliantly for many users for a long time, but for various reasons is no longer maintained
Try using BetterTouchTool. This is probably your best bet. You can install it for free for 45 days to test how well it meets your needs.

Terminal commands

If you decide that rotating your trackpad 180° will meet your needs, and assuming you're running an older version of macOS, then follow these steps:

Launch Terminal (usually found in Applications > Utilities)
Enter the following command (or copy and paste it):

sudo sudo defaults write com.apple.MultitouchSupport ForceAutoOrientation YES
Press Enter
Enter the following command (or copy and paste it):

sudo defaults write com.apple.trackpad.orientation TrackpadOrientationMode 1
Press Enter

Once you've entered both commands you should be able to just turn Bluetooth off and then on again to activate the change in orientation.


Cannot use or update WMware Fusion in Mountain Lion

The latest version of VMWare Fusion is version 4. If you want to use VMWare on Mountain Lion, unfortunately you can no longer use the old version. This VMWare blog post says:

  Does VMware Fusion 3 work with Mountain Lion?

  No. VMware Fusion 3 was released in October 2009 and was optimized for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.  VMware Fusion 3 is no longer being updated for newer versions of Mac OS. Customers wishing to run VMware Fusion on Mountain Lion should use VMware Fusion 4. A free 30-day trial is available for current VMware Fusion 3 users. The trial can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/go/tryfusion


You do not need a special OSX firmware to use a different internal disk. Just plug it in and all will work.


I went into the podcasts tab at the top and had to select 'sync podcasts automatically' before mine would start working. Hope this works for others too!


What does the terminal command file f0009024.apple show you about the files have.

It's highly unlikely they are truncated Apple Single or Apple Double files, but that's the only guess I have at the moment.


How do I delete empty DCIM folders from my iPhone?

If your iDevice is jailbroken you can install iFile from Cydia in that device and then you will be able to access the file system directly.

In /var/mobile/Media/DCIM there are empty folders that you mentioned. You can delete them manually (rmdir empty_folder_name).

You can do this by accessing the file system of your iDevice via SSH also.


Can't open email attachments sent from Windows

The sender is using the proprietary email client Microsoft Outlook.  The entire message is sent in a proprietary format to preserve Rich Text Formatting, according to Microsoft.

A Google search for Winmail.dat will reveal several work arounds to deal with these kinds of files.  The simplest, but most annoying, is to ask the sender to resend the email in plain text format.  This will prevent the attachments from being bundled into the winmail.dat file.

From Microsoft:

  The data in a winmail.dat file is not usable. To resolve this issue, ask the sender to re-send the message in plain text format.


I solved my problem by downloading the combo update to my server and then downloading the update from there. Apparently my ISP had too much people accessing the direct link from Apple. i don't know. I found it odd. Everything working now tho...


My guess is genuine. I recently purchased an 85W off Amazon that's similar to yours. It came in all the Apple packaging trappings and I think it's genuine because my guess is Apple changed the location of the serial number to that harder-to-print location specifically to make the game harder for fakers. (Why would a faker bother to move the serial number into such an awkward location? It's quite possible that printing in that confined space requires special equipment, which would force fakers to either forego the serial number, use a sticker, or use two pieces of plastic instead of one solid piece.)


using iSync plugins in OS X 10.7 and later

Works a treat*

No guarantee that it will continue to work a treat!


Bad stdio forwarding specification '%h:%p

Your config file as well as the command are wrong.

The ProxyCommand line should contain the JumpHost's user/hostname but not the final destination.

Config file:

Host db
  User dbuser
  HostName 192.168.1.111 #db host name/IP
  ProxyCommand ssh user_public_server@public_server -W %h:%p

Host website
  User websiteuser
  HostName 192.168.1.100 #website host name/IP
  ProxyCommand ssh user_public_server@public_server -W %h:%p

The command is then simply ssh db or ssh website because the user friendly Host's name (e.g. db) as defined in the config file is expanded to the HostName/IP (e.g. 192.168.1.111).


Multiple email addresses in a single contact

You can create email or contact based groups with those contacts using the stock Mail app. But you will need iCloud on the web to make those groups.

First of all, you need to make sure your contacts are being backed
up in iCloud. Go to Settings > 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' and
select iCloud from the Account at the top. make sure Contacts has a
green slider next to it.
Now log into www.icloud.com using your Apple ID, and select Contacts.
You'll see all the contacts from your iPhone presented in a list. Click the + icon at the bottom of the lefthand pane. Select New Group.
The new group, called Untitled Group 1 for the time being, appears in the lefthand column below All Contacts. Name the group and click outside the box to save it. (If you change your mind and decide to delete a group, you need to make sure the group is highlighted and then click the cog icon at the bottom left and click Delete.)
Go back to the All Contacts group and decide who you want to add to your new group. You can add contacts individually by dragging-and-dropping their names on to the new group.
If you want to remove a name from a group, you need to be in the group, with the name of the group highlighted, and the name of the soon-to-be-removed contact highlighted too. Then click the cog and select Delete. This will just remove the name from the group (with no warning popup, incidentally), rather than deleting it from your contacts entirely. You'll know if you've got this wrong, because it you tell iCloud to delete a contact completely you will get a warning and have to select Delete a second time to confirm this.)
You can batch-add contacts to speed up the process. Click and hold the Command button (also known as the Apple button) and then click each contact you want to add, in turn. These will all be selected simultaneously. (If you get one wrong, click it again to remove it from the selection.) Now release Command and click-and-drag any one of the highlighted names on to the new group, and the other selected names will be brought along for the ride. For really fast adding, you can hold down Shift instead of Command, then click on two names. iCloud will select every contact that sits between the two alphabetically.
Close down the tab with iCloud in and open up your iPhone. Launch Contacts, and tap Groups at the top left of the screen. The new group will be listed under iCloud. By default all of the groups on the screen will be ticked, but if you tap the new group's name all the other groups will be untucked, leaving just the new one. Now tap done, and you'll see a list of contacts in the new group. (In our experience the new group appears almost instantaneously, provided you've got an internet connection. There's isn't a significant syncing delay.)
You can now send an email to the whole group very easily. Open Mail and create a new message. In the To field, start typing the name of the group, and iOS will offer it as a suggestion. Tap the group (labelled, in our experience, as just 'Group', rather than its full name) to insert all the email addresses as recipients. You can remove recipients individually if you want to send an email to most of the members of a group.

There is a way of creating an email group on the iPhone itself, but it's a bit of a fudge - effectively you're creating a new contact which has multiple email addresses crammed together.

Open the Contacts app.
Tap the Add (+) icon.
Enter the name of the group (such as "friends" or "work") in the Last field.
Scroll down to the Notes section. We're going to use this to write out the email addresses. You need to surround each mail address with greater than and less than symbols and place a comma between each one. For example , .
Tap and hold the names to bring up the contextual menu. Tap Select All and Copy.
Tap Add Email.
Tap and hold the Email field and tap Paste.

That now creates a contact with a single name but multiple email addresses. Open the Mail app and tap New. Now enter the name of the group into the To field. It will turn blue, indicating that it is a contact. When you send the email it will go to all the people whose email addresses you added to Contacts.

Source and images for both solutions: MacWorld


How do I restore default perl in macOS Mojave?

Standard binaries are protected by SIP and can‘t easily be removed nor replaced. Booting into recovery and reinstalling macOS only is the easiest way to solve this. You may need to manually reinstall any user-installed CPAN modules again afterwards.


Can a website on safari give you a virus?

Do not contact the number it is a scam.

This is my advice from several sites including an Apple support document Note the document covers both OS X and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

On iOS this is just a javascript pop up which just affects the page you are on and is just a message. To get rid of it close the browser,  iOS 9 might then prompt you with a Block Alerts button, if so tap the button to stop showing alerts from that webpage.

If you can't close the page then force quit the browser and don't go back to that page.

The writer of the script wants you to ring and the discussion will include asking you for money, it is a scam.


Messages goes unresponsive a couple of seconds after launching - any fix?

Well, after a few weeks I finally managed to "fix" it, even though it meant losing my message history on my iMac.

(1) I deleted all the plist and preferences and caches and anything related to messages or chat.

(2) I restarted in Safe mode. I saw that Messages did start up again, as an empty shell, but it started up.

(3) I then restarted in normal mode.

Messages then started up again. I had to login to my AIM account again, but my buddy list is maintained by them, so that was all there. And I had to reset my iMessage settings.

But at least it is working again, finally.


How to change the focus of buttons displayed in prompt dialogs?

You could modify Tab key behaviour from System Preferences:


Safari 7 User Agent is set to “Custom” by default

I managed to fix it by deleting the CustomUserAgent string in the plist file.

defaults delete com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent

But I still don’t understand how it got to be like that in the first place.


When I open the Music D/L app, it quits immediately

I googled a bit and you're not the only one with this problem. It could be that Apple has decided that this app is a bad app. That would explain why it's not available in the App Store anymore and why it won't start anymore: Apple can do that (I think it has to do with the certificate of the developer).

Another possibility would be that you upgraded to a newer version of iOS and that the app is not compatible with the newer version. And for some reason, the developer is no longer supporting the app.

Either way, I don't think it is possible to retrieve your songs. Please don't shoot the messenger.


Stop opening Dictionary.app when three-finger-tapping non-text in Google Chrome

In google chrome, you cannot change the functionality of the "Look up & Data Detector" three-finger tap. You can only turn it off completely. More information on the functionality below.

This functionality is called "Look up & Data Detectors" in your trackpad options. This can be turned on and off.

The reason this happens in Google Chrome but not other Apple applications is because it is an Apple functionality. For example, doing a three finger tap in Safari on a hyperlink will cause it to open up a smaller preview window of the page or other very detailed information that the OS can find if it was just a single word.

However it won't do this in Google chrome. In chrome it'll only give a basic dictionary definition, or anything very basic about the word tapped on.


You can set the number of cores used by updating buildmakejobs in the macports.conf file.  By default all cores are used.

  buildmakejobs

  Number of simultaneous make jobs (commands) to use when building ports. Using “0” will cause a runtime autodetection to use all available processor cores.

  Default: 0

This file is in ${prefix}/etc/macports where ${prefix} default is /opt/local


Create PDF from tall images (Automator?)

PosteRazor is free, open source, and appears to do what you need. It takes a large image and splits it into a multi-page PDF.

As Nathan comments, the interface is pretty rough around the edges. Tiler and SplitPrint are paid alternatives if you prefer a little more flexibility and an interface that's easier on the eyes.


Is there a simple To Do app that works on iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Pro?

Most people are looking to choose between the hundreds of Apps that exist in this class.

For most, you can't beat the free Reminders app with iCloud syncing.

It really boils down to what you call simple and how you work. Some find the simple design of Cheddar or Clear to be great while others dislike them strongly. You could easily spend more than $100 for a best of class solution like OmniFocus or Things

If the free reminders app (in conjunction with iCloud's notes and calendar integration), then you can have some more specific requirements from which to choose from the many, many other solutions from the App Store (as most of the apps in this class have adopted the Mac App store and iOS App Store as there is little downside for them to comply with the requirements of sandboxing and code signing).


Are there any ways to improve the font rendering in X11.app / XQuartz?

Warning: this is not my final answer, it will take some time to provide a better one.

Tested on OS X 10.8.5 with XQuartz 2.7.4 (xorg-server 1.13.0) and:

meld - installed via brew install meld
xterm
xclock

To tune the fonts create a file ~/.Xresources and put this:

Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.autohint:   true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull

XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono

Inside ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

style "user-font" {
    font_name = "Lucida Grande 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-font-name="Lucida Grande 10"
gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0

Feel free to post your modifications, as long they are using standard Fonts available on OS X, I would like to make this drop-in recipe.

The last file has an effect on meld and other gtk apps.

Note, the font is the same as the one used in OS X UI but the rendering is still a little bit different.


Using Location services abroad without roaming charges

As long you are using the Network provide they will charge you. Voice or Data or both.

Location service also works with GPS, Bluetooth (only short range) and WiFi.

As long you are in a free WiFi (and turn off voice and data) it is the best way to avoid any surprise charges.


Both (gmail and apple) treat attachments differently.
If you right click the PDF or Word document you should be able to choose from the menu, show as icon.

If you want to permanently show the attachments as icons in Apple Mail, close Apple Mail, open Terminal and issue the following command

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

If you want to undo what you just did-
Close Apple Mail, open Terminal, copy and paste the following command

defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing


automounting NFS 4 results in kernel panic

I hit this same problem, mounting NFSv4 volumes on a High Sierra (10.13.3) MacBook Pro, from a known-good Solaris server.

I unchecked the "put hard disks to sleep when possible" option in the Energy Saver prefs, and I haven't seen it since.


Increase the size of bootcamp of Windows 7 on virtual machine

You might be able to use the application GParted to do this. It's not an extremely simple process, since, "The problem is that if you resize your boot/system partition, you will be completely unable to boot without repairing windows," according to this guide from How-To Geek. However, that same guide will guide you through the entire process of doing so.

Mac Rumors has a list of several alternate methods to accomplish your goal.


macOS sometimes can't connect to WiFi hotspot that's really working perfectly

It happened again twice since I posted this, and I think I found something that seems to work. On the terminal, I do:

networksetup -setairportpower en0 off

networksetup -setairportpower en0 on

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport --scan

(that last command shows a list of available networks with their SSID)

networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 MyWifiSSID MyWifiPassword

Both times this made my connection work again.

Haven't tried Monomeeth's solution yet, but as it involves more manual interaction and rebooting my laptop, I hope the above 'on the fly' method will suffice.


How to let MacBook Pro recognize my external hard drive as internal hard drive?

You should be able to do this with dd by setting Removable to False.

Unmount your disk, then run…

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1 count=1

Don't forget to replace disk2 with the actual disk identifier. This command will erase the contents of the disk. Untested, be careful, usual 'not responsible if stuff goes wrong' applies :)


If I remove Apple Loops, will reinstalling Garage Band from the App Store later restore them?

Why don't you just zip them (The Unarchiver is nice) and store them in /Users/Shared until it's clear whether you need them again.

I've always used Shared for folders of Copies, Archives, Removed items, all zipped. Very handy.


What command line tool can I install on a Mac to play music?

There is already a command line tool installed. The command is afplay and you run it by typing:
afplay /path/to/audiofile.mp3

This link describes better how to use this tool. https://osxdaily.com/2009/10/27/play-mp3s-and-other-music-from-the-command-line/


Ok, I found it - it does not let me save page until it is fully loaded!
Which is painfully slow sometimes, comparing to Chrome.
As far as I can see, Chrome still lets me save page even if it is not complete and even when I just started loading it still works with previous page!
So I can still save the previous page after mistakenly clicking on a link.


Unflip mouse buttons in Microsoft RDC client

Not sure if this would help but it was a strange find when troubleshooting the below issue:

Shut off wireless mouse
Connect USB mouse
Check mouse settings to be sure primary button is set to Left, exit settings
Disconnect USB mouse
Reconnect wireless mouse

In my situation the user was using a new Magic Mouse and MS RDC 2.0.1.  In MacOS the buttons work correctly but when the user logged into their RDC session the mouse buttons would switch as if it were taking settings from somewhere else.  My theory is that the USB mouse settings had been set to primary button: Right and when you connect the Magic Mouse you can no longer access the same configuration screen but RDC seems to still be using the settings.

Hope this helps!


How can one user be faster than the other?

Check your login items. Have a look in System Preferences->Users & Groups->Login Items, and delete anything you don't need starting at login. Also try cleaning up your Desktop, so the computer doesn't have to load all those little tiny images when it's busy trying to do other things. Also check if there are any launch agents running at login. (Look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ for launch agents specific to your user. To find this folder, press Shift-Command-G, and enter the above path.) You'll see things like com.skype.c2c_service.plist. You should be able to work out whether they belong to apps that you want starting at login. (If not, delete the files.)


Failed to expand to the maximum partition size

Since resizing the partition that is currently mounted for the operating system is impossible and the filesystem (FS) may be corrupted. One of the solutions is to use a live CD, especially GParted Live ISO which has installed many tools related to disk management such as partition.

However, GParted can check the integrity of the FS, but it is not able to resize the partition to the maximum size. Hence, parted, a command-line tool, is used. (Thanks for @klanomath 's hints.)

Step 1:  Find out which partition has to be expanded.

$ sudo parted /dev/sd[x]
(parted) unit s print free  # unit: sectors

Step 2:  Expand the selected partition to the designated sector.

(parted) resizepart <partition> <end>s

Step 3: Shutdown the Live system.

Step 4: Restart the macOS VM, and repair the disk.

$ sudo diskutil repairDisk disk[y]


How to sync position, bookmarks and notes over iCloud on ePub books

I finally got this working by signing out and signing in again in the iBookstore. It then asked me if I wanted to sync, I said yes, but it still didn't work, so I went to Settings and saw that the sync switches were off, and now it works. Phew!


Add Spotlight Comments without tags on OS X Mavericks

Turns out, commenting is still there, just hidden a little. Commenting is now a collapsible pane beneath the Name & Extension text field.


Any problems adding a new SSD to iMac 2011?

The German IT magazine computerbase has done tests comparing the efficiency of  TRIM and garbage collection in SSDs of 2010.

The result is that recent SSD have a very effecient garbage collection so that the performace difference to TRIM vanishes. (source, German)

Upgrading the HDD on a Macbook does not void the warrenty (source). However, it does on a Macbook Pro (I think). Since replacing the hard drive on an iMac will require lots of tinkering, I'm pretty sure that you will void your warrenty.

Detailed guides as to how you replace your harddrive can be found here:
They include pictures, step-by-step guide and info on what kind of screwdrivers you need.


Speech Synthesis in OS X

As a user, you can affect macOS's text to speech pronunciation and approach. Everything you need to know is in Apple's Speech Synthesis in OS X.

You can provide TUNE Format information to control how the speech is generated. An Apple developer tool called Repeat After Me may also be useful in this endeavour.

Also see add pronunciation to text to speech.

Let Apple Know

However, you have encountered an interesting and serious bug in Apple's text to voice system. I recommend telling Apple's engineers directly either through the macOS feedback form or via the Bug Reporter service.

The problem can be quickly demonstrated with these two Terminal commands:

say -v Samantha "defeat ISIS"

…and…

say -v Alex "defeat ISIS"


Is it possible to run 10.6 and 10.7 side-by-side and share a user profile?

You can specify the same home folder, but I'd suggest leaving them separate since you'd potentially have incompatible preference, cache, and other "Library" files between the two versions of OS X.

Perhaps symlink the corresponding preferences for the apps that you want to share data.

iTunes Library is easily shared, just hold the Option key when launching iTunes the first time to specify the library to open (it will remember it subsequently).

Since Office 2011 wants to use the Microsoft User Data folder within ~/Documents, you'll likely have to symlink this folder from one of the profiles.


Go to System Preferences → Printers & Scanners and set Default printer to Last printer used.


My shell prompt changed ... without prompting

Looks like you installed Anaconda/python recently. Run
conda decactive

to remove the (base) label (and deactivate conda of course).
PS: You may be using zsh instead of bash, so maybe you should look into .zshrc and .zprofile.


How to set Outlook 2011 as the main contact manager?

Applications like FaceTime access information stored by Address Book using Apple's Core Data framework. Microsoft has it's own way of storing contact information, and FaceTime won't read it. In order for FaceTime (and other apps) to access your contacts, you need to get the data into Apple's storage container.

Until Microsoft puts Outlook on speaking terms with iCloud, you may use SyncServices to Sync Outlook contacts with the Apple Address Book. From within Outlook:

  On the Tools tab, click Sync Services.

  In the left pane, select the check box for Contacts.

  Under Select the accounts to sync, choose the account or accounts that
  you want to sync for the selected item type.

  Note  The On My Computer account includes all Outlook items that are
  not synchronized with a Microsoft Exchange account.

  On the Outlook folder to add new items to pop-up menu, choose the
  location in Outlook where you want new items to be saved. "New" items
  are those that are added first in a different application or device,
  and then synced to Outlook.

  Close the Sync Services dialog box, and then on the confirmation
  message, click OK.

Be certain Outlook is fully up-to-date because there were reports of problems with syncing using earlier versions under OS 10.7 Lion.


Can I SSH pictures directly to the iOS Camera Roll?

Your going to have to change some sort of index file that the iPad uses to keep track of what photos are in the camera roll.  The file is probably in some sort of proprietary Apple format, the details of which are not available to the public.  You might look in to the format of the file that controls the music library, which is also not public but the details are available around the internet thanks to persistant hackers.  I bet the Photos file format is similar, with Albums swapped out for Playlists.  But I'm mostly guessing.

Good Luck!


How to connect a Pioneer XW-SMA3 AirPlay speaker to WPA Personal wifi network?

My speakers are now on my wifi.  A bloke called Jason from Pioneer called me this morning and told me to ignore the manual and instead to do the following:

Turn the unit off and unplug it from Ethernet and power.
Plug the power back in and turn the unit back on — wait for it to power up again.
Plug your iOS device (assumes you have one, and that it is currently connected to your wifi) into the USB port in the back of the speakers and unlock the iOS device so that it shows the home screen.
Press and hold the Input button at the front right of the speakers, along with the hidden little black button on the back labelled • Network Setup / - wireless direct, and keep both held down for about 3 seconds.
A dialog box will appear on your iOS device saying "A connected device wants to share your network settings (cancel) or (allow)."
Press (allow).
Wait about 10 seconds and open the Music app on your iOS device and click on the AirPlay icon.  Your speakers will appear in the list of available speakers.
You can now unplug your iOS device as the speakers are connected to your wifi.

I actually had to try this process twice to get it to work but now it's working perfectly.  In Safari on your Mac under the Bonjour menu in Bookmarks your speaker will appear and you can then perform any other configuration you like, such as giving the speakers a more sensible name.


I always use this site to give me an idea of relative speeds of graphics cards - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php [click the G3D header twice to sort by speed]

It's not necessarily any absolute indicator of the suitability of any given card for a specific purpose, but it's enough to give them some kind of recognisable hierarchy.

From it, you'll see that the M290 is considerably faster than the 755M, though neither is exactly stellar in performance.

As to why, only Apple can know that. They periodically switch between AMD/ATI & NVidia & have done for many years.


How to determine what an app does and if it contains malware?

Short answer: you can't know

A bit longer answer: Simply running and using the application will not show you what might be going on behind the scenes. To dig into that, you'll need to run the application in a debugging environment to analye data and process flows, keep track of any subprocesses created, monitor any network communication initiated by the application etc. etc. As this is rather cumbersome and requires a lot of skills and experience, it usually comes down to trust at the end.


Unable to erase, reformat, or repartition USB drive

Your command should work if your disk looks something like mine below (note disk1 vs disk2):

diskutil list disk1
/dev/disk1 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.5 GB     disk1
   1:       Microsoft Basic Data WINSEVEN                1.5 GB     disk1s1

I would unmount the disk as opposed to ejecting it next time.

diskutil unmountDisk disk2

You can pull the drive and reconnect it and see if a lower level erase is possible.

diskutil eraseVolume FAT32 WIN8 /dev/disk2s1

I would expect you to use FAT32 with eraseVolume as opposed to eraseDisk so you might need to repartition things first and then try erasing the volume or recreating it.

diskutil partitionDisk disk2 1 MBR FAT32 WINSEVEN R

After the above command - you should have something similar to the below with the exception of disk2 replacing disk1

$ diskutil partitionDisk disk1 1 MBR FAT32 WINSEVEN R
Started partitioning on disk1
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for the disks to reappear
Formatting disk1s1 as MS-DOS (FAT32) with name WINSEVEN
512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk1s1: 2923976 sectors in 365497 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=2 drv=0x80 bsec=2929726 bspf=2856 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
Mounting disk
Finished partitioning on disk1
/dev/disk1 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        +1.5 GB     disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WINSEVEN                1.5 GB     disk1s1


Mail.app: Warning while pressing "Reply" instead of "Reply all"

A quick-fix way to avoid this error is to Control-click on the Mail toolbar, select Customize Toolbar ... and instead of accepting the Apple default where Reply, Reply All and Forward are joined in one big button, choose each one singly, dragging them to the toolbar as a single button, spacing them widely and not contiguous at all ... and Show Icon and Text makes it even more obvious which is which.

If Reply All is the one you use most often, set the spacers so it shows up in the middle, and place Reply to one side. I do the same with Junk and Delete as well.


Why aren't my iPhone 4 keychains being saved?

You are probably in pretty bad shape here, the system keychains are generally created as part of the iPhone's activation process (they include things like the APNS certificate, which is negotiated with Apple during activation). Even if you do manage to create a new keychain, all the certs on it will be different, which means that anything that has exchanged keys with your iPhone (like push notifications, encrypted backups, etc) won't work.

You might be able to create an empty keychain by using the security commandline tool. I am not sure if that is actually installed on the iPhone by default. You might also be able to create an empty toolchain on a Mac and copy it over, but I am not sure if the iPhone keychain is format compatible with the Mac OS X one.

I think it is important to remind people, if you don't know exactly what you are doing then mucking with system files can be very dangerous, and you should always make sure you copy the original files so you can revert it.


Lost sender's name in my received emails.

Go to "Settings" -> "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
scroll down to "CONTACTS" go to entry "Short Name" at the bottom of this page uncheck "Prefer Nicknames"


How To Let My MBP know that a USB is bootable?

First of all, unetbootin or any other ubuntu usb flasher wont "break" your usb. If your usb is givving you an error when plugged into mac os saying"unrecognized drive",  then this is GOOD! Mac os cannot read a linux filesystem by default. It definitely cant read an ext4 filesystem. The only linux filesystems mac os can read are ext2 and maybe ext3, but even then, that is with the use of external software like Fuse. The linux filesystem is not native to Mac OS, therefore, the os cannot read the disk. However, the linux filesystem CAN be read by intel hardware (which all apple macs use now). Therefore, your mac will be able to read the flashed ubuntu usb and boot the ubuntu installer by you either holding the alt/option key on boot, or if that doesnt work, by installing refind boot manager and using that as a bootloader to boot your usb. If you are trying to dual boot mac and ubuntu, you will most likely need to download & install refind anyway, as that is how you should be selecting which os you want to use at boot. Lastly, because linux is not recognized by Mac OS, it is doubtful that there is a way to get your ubuntu partition (or usb for that matter) to show up in the system preferences boot profile. Once again, to boot your ubuntu partition you must hold the proper start up keys for disk selection at boot, or install refind.

The only possible way that these methods won't work or your bootable USB won't be bootable, is if you are using the following outdated hardware:

PowerPC based Mac
a much older 64 bit mac with a 32bit efi (such as the 2006 core 2 duo models)
An older mac that is 32bit using a 32bit efi.

It is highly doubftful that you are using of these types of macs as they are almost 20 years old. Therefore, if you are not able to boot your ubuntu install disk, it tells me that you are doing something wrong, as opposed to the USB stick being "Broken".


Rules for filtering spam that comes written in russian alphabet, Mail 4.5, OS 10.6.8

From MacHints:

Select Mail -> Preferences -> Rules
Select Junk -> Edit
Select (+) to add a new rule.
Click on the "From" drop-down and select "Edit Header List..."
Add "Content-Class" by typing "Content-Class" in the "Header:" text box and then hit "Add Header" and "OK."
Set the first pop-up on your new rule to Content-Class, the second to Contains, and the third to charset="windows-1251".
Select (+) to add a new rule.
Set the pop-ups to Subject, Contains, and charset="windows-1251".
Select (+) to add a new rule.
Set the pop-ups to From, Contains, and charset="windows-1251".
Click the "OK" button to end the rule definition.


The issue was fixed after replacing the trackpad module.


kextstat-Listed Files Not Present in Extensions Folder

VirtualBox puts their kexts into /Library/Extensions just as they should be. No third party should put anything into /System… if it's not absolutely necessary to do so.


How to configure Xserve to go into sleep mode when Energy Saver setting don't work?

Well, XServes are servers after all, designed to provide user services 24/7/365. I bet that there are some services (web serving, mail, iChat, etc,) turned on by default that you must first turn off before the Xserve can sleep. If you didn't setup these Xserves yourself, (or even if you did,) this Snow Leopard Server Getting Started manual may help you to find out how to look for these services in the Server Admin app to shut them down. This Snow Leopard Server Installation & Setup Worksheet may also provide you with more insight.

Through Network Utility on the Xserve itself, or on the remote machine using the Xserver IP address, you could use the Port Scan tab to find out which services are being advertized, and thus which services are running. Here's a handy chart of the ports Snow Leopard Server uses.


How can I convert US-format date and time into a date value so I can use the local date format?

Set the documents Language & Region setting to "Englisch | United States of America" in the respective dialog (File menu > Advanced > Language & Region).

Formatting options for date cells in the Format sidebar should have US formatting now.

Import/paste the date data.

After importing/pasting, set the Language & Region setting (back) to "English | Australia". The pasted/imported cells with "US" dates will retain US date formatting. All other cells have AUS date formatting, so using DATEVALUE on the US formatted cells "converts" them to AUS date formatting.

Hope this makes sense, not an English native speaker.


Can I buy an iPhone 5C in the US and use it in Ireland?

When you buy an iPhone in America for $99 it's probably a SIM-lock together with an subscription. Here you can find the different iPhone 5S models. Search on the internet which Cellular frequencies are used by your provider, and then compare on the site I gave you which models you can use. Mostly the $99 models are locked for AT&T, Verizon,... providers only. So when buying an iPhone in America, make sure you check to model nr on the back of the package.


When ever I press right shift it show Desktop, but in the setting 'Show Desktop' is set to Control Down

I just had the same issue! I am using an external keyboard, btw, but I believe this fix should be the same.

First I just went ahead and restarted, then after my right shift was still acting wonky, I went into the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences, and changed the shortcut to numpad0. I saved it and did a restart again, then it was fixed.

I'm not sure if using the numpad altered the issue, or if all it took was multiple restarts, but before that, even if I disabled "Show Desktop" it would still be active as my Right Shift.

On a weird note, my show desktop used to be a 3 finger swipe down on the trackpad, but now that option isn't even available for me to select. Odd.


My bet is on the agnoster zsh theme with a custom color scheme.

RobbyRussell Angoster theme for zsh

You may need to install Oh-My-Zsh first. For that, take a look at ohmyzsh


Where are Time Machine local snapshots stored in High Sierra

Local snapshots are stored in /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots


How can I figure out what's opening a Terminal window whenever I log in?

This might not be too helpful, but you can always check the date you downloaded things in your Applications folder and (if you remember the date, even vaguely) if you delete it, or anything non-essential near that date, then go by the process of re-installing what you want to find out what is causing the problem (or just leave them uninstalled).

This is my recommendation, and if you are still seeing problems I would recommend Apple Tech Support (the official one).


I think this is it:

I'd go to iFixit for complete instructions on RAM removal and installation.

You will need to remove the old RAM first unless there is an open slot available.

If you haven't already, you should most definitely follow procedures to minimize ESD to keep from damaging the RAM and other components inside.


I have an external 1TB Seagate Harddrive but it shows that only 268MB is available. Why?

I found a solution to this problem. I had to first attach the hard-drive to Windows 10 and delete the last two volumes in /dev/disk6 (DOS_FAT_32 "FV" and Linux) through Windows disk management. After that I attached it back to the Mac and via disk utility erased it one more time with structure APFS.

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC                         524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         494.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery                         5.4 GB     disk0s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +494.4 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.1 GB    disk3s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.1 GB    disk3s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 439.1 MB   disk3s2
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk3s3
   5:                APFS Volume Data                    231.7 GB   disk3s5
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk5         1000.0 GB  disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1000.0 GB  disk5
                                 Physical Store disk4s2
   1:                APFS Volume Naamloos                1.2 MB     disk5s1


Send SMS/text messages from Windows through USB + iPhone?

Not without jail breaking the iPhone. There are numerous tweaks available on Cydia (jail break equivalent of App Store) that enable this functionality.

iPhones and a Mac computer will both send SMS messages natively from your phone number, but this isn't available on Windows.


My Macbook Pro Right Speaker Kept Going Broken Even After Replacement

This is a well known issue of macbook pro since 2009 and it effects even the latest model. The reason being the macbook speakers are not designed to resist heat. If it has been working for hours over 100 degree (or 30 some celsius idk) the rubber will melt and tear under high volume. The left speaker will less likely to have such condition since the ventilation is better on the left corner. Why does Apple keep using this type of rubber? I guess they want the rubber to be bouncy enough to make decent sound while keep the cost low. Besides Apple products are never built to last anyways. All you can do is to cool your macbook while using it or you can try to use superglue to cover the rubber, which would make it tougher but the sound will be worse. For a quick fix, you can put gel around the rubber or just the place of the torn mark(s). Take a look at this picture. This is how I did it.


How can I avoid Time Machine starts to back up files right after the Mac is restarted?

I've found two TimeMachine schedulers softwares: TimeMachineEditor and TimeMachineScheduler.

Both are useful to set the backup interval of Time Machine but none of them enable user to define a time limit (after mac startup) before which Time Machine can't be launched.

However, TimeMachineScheduler has an interesting option to skip backup during a user defined time slot. That may be a decent workaround if you're able to define the time slot -during which you may be "doing something urgent"- that requires Time Machine to be off.


How to see which CPU is on the current machine?

From terminal, you'll want to start with system_profiler

 system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

Also, much more data is available from ioreg but you'll need to parse the output (which can arrive as XML if you prefer) to get things like actual bus and clock frequency of each core.


Mavericks: Can't be logged into two servers at the same time?

Update: I had to disable the Guest account on SERVER2. The guest account didn't have access to any shares, but it seems that simply having it active was enough to cause a problem. Here's what I think happened: 1) Log into server1 as "GUEST". 2) Log into server2. OS X must cache network credentials, so tried "GUEST." 3) Server responded with a list of shares, but since GUEST didn't have access, returned permissions error when I tried to open a share. Still seems buggy to me. If anyone has additional insight, feel free to post here.


I don't know what you can do about converting the files....   However, if xnview will export the still frames to a folder, and if the files are sequentially numbered, QuickTime will be able to make a movie out of these images.

Perhaps xnview can be scripted to export all of the still frames.

Will that work for you?


Extract individual audio tracks from an audio DVD

Here's how I did it in the end, since I was unsuccessful using VLC. In some cases, I ended up with static in the file, and the command line instructions from some of the guides I posted in the question failed, since the commands seem to have changed.

I also tried tools like ffmpeg, but didn't get any usable output from that either.

What finally worked were the instructions found here: http://www.essl.de/wp/2008/01/28/rip-audio-from-a-dvd/

First, I installed the following tools using Homebrew:

$ brew install lame
$ brew install mplayer

Secondly, to get a list of the chapters of the DVD, I used this with the DVD in the drive of my MacBook Pro:

$ mplayer -identify -frames 0 dvd://1 | grep "_CHAPTERS"

This will print the number of chapters per title, in my case, I noticed that there are 13  tracks in the first title.

To get the available audio channels listed, I used a similar command:

$ mplayer -identify -frames 0 dvd://1 | grep "aid"

This showed that the channel with the aid value of 160 had the DVD's stereo track (lpcm).

To extract the audio and convert it to MP3, I wrote the following reusable script (ripaudio.sh), which extracts and converts one chapter:

#!/bin/bash

CHAPTER=$1
AID=$2

mplayer -benchmark -vc null -vo null dvd://1 -chapter $CHAPTER-$CHAPTER -aid $AID -ao pcm:fast:file=$CHAPTER.wav && lame --preset standard $CHAPTER.wav $CHAPTER.mp3 && rm $CHAPTER.wav

Make the script executable using

$ chmod +x ripaudio.sh

Call it to extract the first chapter using

$ ./ripaudio 1 160

What this basically does is this:

MPlayer extracts the audio track with id 160 of the first track and saves it to a file called 1.wav. The video part of the track is ignored
The Lame encoder is used to encode the .wav file into an MP3 file called 1.mp3. Lame's standard preset is used.
The file 1.wav is deleted.
The commands are chained using the && operator to make sure they only run when the previous one succeeds. The whole mplayer etc. command needs to be on a single line.

To convert all of the chapters, the following for loop can be used:

for i in {1..13}; do ./ripaudio.sh $i 160 ; done

This will take a while, but once it's done, you'll end up with one MP3 file per chapter in the current directory.

The script can easily be adapted to use something like flac instead of lame for the encoding. Place the script in your user's ~/bin folder to call it from any location.

While this took a while to research and doesn't have a fancy UI, it was the best method I've found.


Can I upgrade my iOS using the iTunes restore, but not to the latest version?

I just did this. Use ipsw.me to download your version (9.0.2). You can restore from any version that's green. Red means Apple isn't signing it. Press & hold option when clicking Restore in iTunes. Select the downloaded .ipsw

Do note that time is of the essence. Once Apple stops signing the 9.0.2 firmware, you will be forced to upgrade to a current OS image.


Stub applications are smaller apps that do work for larger, more complex apps.

For example, an app can request information from a stub app concurrently with a main process that the original app is running. Then, the stub app can return information back to the main process that initiated the stub binary.


Can I add guide lines or background elements to my Pages document to assist with layout?

Here is how I solved this:

Used a spreadsheet to choose values for all of the margins and four equal-height text boxes to best use the full 11" height of the printed page
Created four text boxes, full page width, and equal height
Used margins at the top of page, bottom of page, and between each text box, with all of these margins being of equal value
Used the spreadsheet to determine the exact starting Y location of each text box and enforce the desired margins
Pasted existing text into the four text boxes, using paragraph separation in some cases to combine the text from previously-separate textboxes into one textbox


How to push streamed music from iPad to TV

The easiest way imho would be to buy an AppleTV2. It's cheap, and "it just works".

Edit: For completeness sake, I'll just clarify what you can expect from the AppleTV2. Since it is an AirPlay compatible reciever for both audio and video, you can stream music or videos being played on your iPad (or iPhone/iTunes for that matter) directly to your TV. On your computer, you can even stream any audio source through software like Airfoil. Starting with iOS5, AirPlay even allows you to mirror your iPad on the television set.

Additionally, if you enable Home Sharing in iTunes on a connected computer, your iPad can serve as a remote to play content (audio/video) in your iTunes library directly on the TV. For this usecase the content doesn't even need to be on the iPad. You'll just need the Remote app by Apple, available for free in the App Store. The only downside here is that your computer (and iTunes) need to be powered up to access the media.


Once you get the cookies, you only need to run
youtube-dl --cookies /pathtocookiefile

If you use Chrome and accept third-party plugins to read your cookies.
Just try this cookie.txt,open the youtube then click cookie.txt plugin.
One more click ,you can download the cookie file for one tab or all.

If you want do it manual in Chrome. F12 >  Application > Storage > Cookies.
You need convert cookie list to Netscape format cookies file

#domain          HTTP/Secure    Expires      Name Value
.youtube.com     TRUE/FALSE    1548523767    GPS    1


New Mac Apple ID won't accept payment details

Ring them.
Or rather, get them to ring you - which they will, in English, to Spain

Start at https://getsupport.apple.com

I've had to do a similar thing in the past when setting up my folk's new Mac last year, British accounts, English speakers, Spanish address.

They are incredibly helpful & patient. You really won't regret having bought a Mac.


What are the differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash?

Griffo is correct. Now in your scenario, the difference boils down to the following:

if you pick /bin/login, then this program will check in the user database what your default shell is and run that shell as a login shell, thereby invoking the rc files that are run only when the shell is run as a login shell (in case of bash those are /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and , and ~/.profile.
if you pick /bin/bash, that shell will be executed as a login shell, independently of what shell is set in the user database. This can come in useful when the shell in the user database does not work properly, or you want to be able to use different shells.

As per the comment by Chris Page, the shell is run as a login shell in both cases.

If you have not changed your login shell from the default, which is /bin/bash, and you have not changed the rc files of this shell, then the difference will not be noticeable.


Folders wont remove from finder sidebar (El capitan bug)

What worked for me was going to finder/preferences/sidebar, and unchecking then re-checking my user name folder (the offending folders did not appear there), which had the effect of making the offending folders disappear.


In my opinion parts of the log system of macOS 10.12.0 are flawed.

The output (dump) of sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder is visible in the Devices > $hostname  "log" though.

First launch Console and choose your host device in the left pane. Enter a filter like mDNS in the search field at the top.

Then enter  sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder in Terminal and watch the results fly past in Console.


Problems with using HP 27fw external display on a MacBook Pro when running macOS

If by HP27fw you mean this display, then you may have gotten a fairly low end 27 inch display.

For example on my work PC (Optiplex 7060, Win-10) I have three Dell 24-inch displays that are set to their native resolution of 2560 x 1440. So, you ask, what does that have to do with my display on my Mac? Glad you asked.

The specs of that monitor say

  Recommended Resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz (FHD)

And it makes no mention of any other resolutions that are supported.

So what you have here is a monitor that is 3-inches larger than one of my displays and yet it has a lower resolution.

While the display resolution of a monitor can have a lot of different available resolutions a good quality display that supports a resolution that will look good on your Mac at 27-inches is probably closer to 2560 x 1440. And if you want a really high end display at the 27-inch size look at a 5K display at 5120 x 2880.

I would say that you got a display that will work with your Mac, however it will not work well with your Mac and you need to get one with a higher native resolution to properly display the video output the Mac is capable of.


No. The popups occur because to receice mail, you will require an Internet connection (be it cellular or wifi). Without a connection, Mail cannot pull any emails from the server (hence the notice).

The popups are hardcoded into to the app and there is currently no option to supress them.

So you have two choices: a) you can wait for your phone to negotiate a connection with your carrier or wireless network and then open Mail, or b) click through the prompts as you currently do. I'd choose the former (a) because even if you don't wait (perhaps want to read old mail), you'll not only have to bypass the prompt asking you to enable a connection, but also the prompts that tell you a connection to the mail server could not be established.

As much as it's likely not the solution you were hoping for, it does make some sense as Mail is generally of little use without an Internet connection (except for those rare moments when you need to reference an old email).

A Popup Blocker does exist in the halls of Cydia (requires jailbreak), but fails to mention if it handles those specific Mail warnings (it might be located under the Data Network errors listing).


How to get Mountain Lion to recognise modifier keys from external Windows keyboard

Did you select the keyboard from the menu at the top? (Edit: it is not shown if there is only one keyboard.)

If you have installed keyboard or HID drivers, try removing them.

You could also try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.*.plist.

Another way to change the modifier keys is to use KeyRemap4MacBook:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <!-- <devicevendordef>
    <vendorname>KINESIS</vendorname>
    <vendorid>0x05f3</vendorid>
  </devicevendordef>
  <deviceproductdef>
    <productname>ADVANTAGE</productname>
    <productid>0x0007</productid>
  </deviceproductdef> -->
  <item>
    <name>swap_command_and_control</name>
    <identifier>swap_command_and_control</identifier>
    <!-- <device_only>DeviceVendor::KINESIS, DeviceProduct::ADVANTAGE</device_only> -->
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::COMMAND_L, KeyCode::CONTROL_L</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::COMMAND_R, KeyCode::CONTROL_L</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::COMMAND_L</autogen>
  </item>
</root>


How to edit .imovielibrary extension as project?

Found the answer. You cannot open an .imovielibrary and open it as project from the first interface. It will default to opening the library of finished movie clips and allow you to drag into the timeline (which won't include any of your transitions, etc available for edit).

Instead, you need to click the Return to Projects button on the top left (which it will then ask you to save your current project. Save it then delete it).

You will see your project file there. It won't default (at least it didn't for me) to opening it as a project, instead it will default it opening it as a playable movie. You need to click the ellipsis button under the project thumbnail and explicitly tell it to open as project:


Why cannot discover user in Airdrop when open personal hotspot?

AirDrop is different than a personal hotspot.

A personal hotspot is for sharing your internet connection.

AirDrop has separate controls, located in the control center.   You must also turn on Bluetooth and wifi.

Official Apple doc with screenshots.


IR won't activate screen on 10.8.3 Mountain Lion Mac Mini

Don't know how to get the display to wake up using your IR remote, but @wuc provided a great workround since you said you can ssh into the machine.

Step 1: SSH into your Mac.

Step 2: Run this command: pmset schedule wake "01/01/2012 20:00:00" (with a date of your choosing, of course).

Here's a bit of background on the new "features" Apple added to Lion and Mountain Lion that make it harder to wake up your display.


OS X SMTP issue - Unable to send email (gmail)

To make new SMTP:

Open Mail Preferences.

Click on Accounts.

If you have more than one click on one of them.

In that window look for Outgoing Mail server (SMTP).

from the pick up select Edit SMTP server.

In the new window select the (+) and enter a description (name you like), and smtp.gmail.com

Back in Account screen select that name.


Can you only partition a hard drive once?

From what you have presented in your question, you are finished using the Disk Utility. When you install Ubuntu, you can use the tools provided by the Ubuntu installer to finish partitioning the drive. You can used these tools to do the following.

Delete the existing MS-DOS (FAT) formatted partition labeled UBUNTU.
Create a new partition for Ubuntu. You should give this the mount point /. If necessary, save some free space for the swap partition.
Create a new partition the desired size of the swap space. With the current releases of Ubuntu the creation of this partition is optional.

Note: Ubuntu will use the hidden EFI partition created when OS X was installed. This EFI does not appear in the image you posted. However, this EFI partition will appear in the Ubuntu installer when you change the partitioning. You can use the OS X command diskutil list to see all partitions including the hidden ones.


HTML is a simple markup language and doesn't, arguably, require an IDE like Xcode. I'd recommend anyone starting to learn HTML (and related web tools like CSS and JavaScript) to start with a simple text editor. Learn your skills manually before relying on an app to speed up the process. Most of the time you'll find you can do a lot faster with a really good text editor than an all-in-one IDE. For something free on Mac try TextWrangler.

To be honest there aren't that many amazing and free editors/IDEs for websites on Mac OS. For some money there are a lot of amazing tools such as Sublime Text, Coda and Espresso to name a few. If you just need it for a short time it's not likely worth it however all of them currently provide some form of trial period.

Edit: Changed scripting language to markup language. Not sure what I was thinking.


You can't selectively sync calendars on iCloud. If it's on iCloud, it goes to all your devices. You can however select which calendars get shown on a each device.

In iCal for OS X and Calendar for iPhone and iPad, there's a Calendars button in the upper right corner of each app. Tapping/clicking it will give you a list of all your calendars, grouped by what service they use (iCloud, Local, CalDAV, etc.). Simply uncheck the calendars you don't want to appear.

If you want to save a separate copy of one or more calendars as an archive, you can do that with iCal on the Mac. You can save either an iCal Archive, containing all the calendars in iCal as one bundle, or you can save individual calendars as .ics files. Both options are available under the File → Export menu in iCal. Export… will save whichever calendar is selected in the Calendars pop-over menu as a .ics, and iCal Archive… exports all your calendars.


Does Fusion (VMware) support 2D graphics hardware acceleration for Yosemite guest OS?

Using the latest version of VMware Fusion 7.1.1 (Professional) and running OS X 10.10.2 on a early 2013 MBPr 16GB giving the VM 2 GB or 4 GB, graphics are slow in comparison to running OS X 10.8.5 in a VM.  The performance with OS X 10.10 in a VM is IMO bad enough it's not worth using in a VM for production purposes.


How do I connect 2 iCloud accounts to a single iCloud Photo Library

You need to have an iCloud id just for photos - Login on both devices using a (perhaps new) iCloud id which your photos will 'live' in. Turn off mail, contacts, calendars and reminders and notes on both devices for this shared iCloud id. So from now on, to apple's iCloud servers, it appears both iPhones are owned by the same "person".

After this, set up your mail id on your iPhone and your wife's mail on hers so you have access to your individual email accounts (you can also active contacts, calendars and reminders for this account so they appear on your respective iPhones).

Note: You will be sharing the same iCloud photo library, but also the same iCloud Safari passwords and wallet - but if you are sharing with one another all photos taken from your iPhones then this is (perhaps) a moot point...


Cannot access a specific remote IP address on Mac Os X 10.7.5

The problem lies on the LogMeIn Hamachi network which, on IPv4, tries to get all the 5.0.0.0/8 netblock even if there are classes opf public IP addresses in there.
Solved by setting LogMeIn to use IPv6 only.

See:

http://community.logmein.com/t5/Hamachi/Hamachi-and-the-5-0-0-0-8-netblock/td-p/55826

and

http://community.logmein.com/t5/Hamachi/5-x-x-x-Address-Range/td-p/83996


Adding the correct developer identity preferences is done in Xcode.

Open Xcode
Select Preferences in the Xcode menu.

Click "Accounts"
If your developer Apple ID is not listed click on the "+" on the left and add it.
Click on the Apple ID and then "Manage Certificates". This will allow you to create the various required signing certificates.


you need to start memcache by typing

memcached

in terminal and leaving the window open

or start the daemon

memcached -d

you could also look for a loadctrl script if you want this to always run on boot.


Directory with correct permissions is not writable

Write permission could be blocked by file/folder modes, user flags, non-ownership, Access Control Lists (ACLs) and/or extended attributes.  Below are some commands which can fix these types of errors.

  Note: I assume my_folder does not contain any symbolic links. If there are symbolic links, then these commands may need to be modified.

You can recursively change the folders mode to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) by using the command given below.

find my_folder -type d -execdir chmod 755 {} \;

You can recursively change the regular files mode to 644 (-rw-r--r--) by using the command given below.

find my_folder -type f -execdir chmod 644 {} \;

You can recursively remove user flags by using the command given below.

sudo chflags -R nouchg,nohidden,noopaque,dump,nouappnd my_folder

You can recursively change user ownership of the files and folders by using the command given below.

sudo chown -R $USER my_folder

You can recursively change the group of the files and folders to staff by using the command given below.

sudo chgrp -R staff my_folder

You can recursively remove any Access Control Lists (ACLs) by using the command given below.

chmod -RN my_folder

You can recursively remove any extended attributes by using the command given below.

xattr -rc my_folder

Often searching for locked files and/or folders can be useful. Below is a command for this.

find my_folder -flags +uchg -exec ls -dF {} \;


Can't increase Mac OSX bash shell history length

You also need to set HISTSIZE=10000000.

HISTFILESIZE determines the number of lines to keep in the history file while HISTSIZE determines the number of lines to keep in memory.  Both default to 500

Execute echo $HISTFILESIZE $HISTSIZE before you make the change and then again after.  You should see 10000000 500 first then 10000000 10000000 after.


I figured out the issue.  The file from my friend was not corrupted, and upon receipt in Slack, it was still not corrupted (which allowed me to use the Slack preview to view it).  However, when I downloaded the 165kB file, it only showed up as 19 bytes on my Desktop.  The issue is with the Slack download process, not Word, the document, or my computer.


Teamviewer is lowering my Macbook Pro's audio

This sounds like the audio ducking feature, commonly used by video chatting applications to temporarily lower the volume of other sounds.

To turn it off, go to Applications/Utilities/VoiceOver Utility.app > Sound

Uncheck "Enable audio ducking".


Sign out of YouTube on iPhone video app uploader

Start the YouTube app on the iPhone
Select ".../More" at the bottom right
Select "Sign out" at the top left


You can get a graph per core to show by going to Window on the menu bar and selecting Cpu Usage or Cpu History. There is also an option under the View menu to place a similar graph in Activity Monitor's dock icon.

If you're using a reasonably new Mac, Hyper Threading is enabled, so you'll see twice as many graphs as you have physical cores.


Different ways of displaying documents between Adobe Reader and Preview

Preview.app is a mediocre PDF viewer at best. There is not much you can do, except to complain to Apple to finally get Preview.app up to date.

It is possible that the eBook reader you are using is also not quite up to date, and it writes slightly defective PDFs which Adobe Reader is able to fix, but Preview.app isn't.


Constantly dropping internet on El Capitan?

This fixed it for me:

System Preferences → Energy Saver → Battery Power: Uncheck “wake for network access”
System Preferences → Network → Advance → TCP/IP: Configure IPv6 – select “Link-Local only”

Found the above fix in the comments of this article: http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/16/fix-wi-fi-problems-mac-os-x-el-capitan/


I'm not aware of any way of doing this within iOS proper (although there may be a way to implement such a feature on a jailbroken device).

However, you could just double tap the home button to then select the previous app from the screen.

Also, using your iPad in landscape (I.e. Sideways) may help with accessing the default 'back' button.


How can I make crisper screen shots on MBP Retina?

I'm afraid that there really isn't a way to do it.  I've been running into the same issue.  The effective resolution at 1440x900 is actually 2880x1800 pixelwise- so the reason that you see crisp text is because you are looking at an image with 2880 x1800 resolution on a capable display. Because scaling down usually involves smoothing, the images will look terrible in email /on other peoples computers.
One solution is to download a program such as SwitchResX that allows access to "non-HDPI" resolutions.  This would allow you to set the display to a true 1440x900, take the screen shot, and switch it back.
Best of luck!


How can I retrieve the complete "Documents and Data" from iCloud to my Mac?

The folder's already on your Mac. Your data is accessible in ~/Library/Mobile Documents.


Vim can get addictive once we get the hang of it. To vim-ify the Finder is a lovely idea.

However, what features are you thinking about? For example, browsing files using the navigation keys h, j, k, l, then pressing i to enter edit mode and rename files or folders?

Vim’s power lies in text mode, whereas macOS interface is designed to be used with a mouse/trackpad. It may be better to stick with vim to process textual information, and to use mouse/trackpad in a graphical environment.

By the way, I cannot see a simple and effective way to hack the Finder (as you said Karabiner is fantastic, but it just won't do it). It would probably require to program a specific macOS Finder utility using Swift.

Alternatively:

Some code editors can be controlled the vim way, like Sublime Text with enabling the Vintage Mode.
Web browsers can be controlled the vim way: Chrome with Vimium or cVim, Firefox with Vimium-FF or Vim Vixen (thanks to @Ruslan and @wchargin for mentioning it)
The bash shell running in Terminal.app can be used in vi mode using set -o vi or set editing-mode vi.
There are great textual file managers ready to install via Homebrew that worth a try, like:

nnn. To install run brew install nnn.
lf. To install run brew install lf.
vifm. To install run brew lf.
ranger. To install run brew install ranger.
midnight-commander. To install run brew install midnight-commander. Run by typing mc.
fdclone. To install run brew install fdclone. Run by typing fd.


Upgrade a MBP(8,1) dual i7 to 16GB RAM from 4GB or to a SSD?

16GB Memory + 128GB SSD + Data Doubler from OWC (or analog from ebay) to put SSD into it. Only caveat would be if your MBP is one of early ones that had Optical SATA connector capped at 3Gbps. Then if you want SSD to be as fast as possible it's better to put it in place of HDD.


Moving folder to Trash in Finder is not synchronized with Terminal

In a nutshell, yes, this behaviour is expected. It's less than ideal but it's completely explainable and it's a biproduct of how files and directories are represented on the filesystem level.

It helps to understand how files and directories are represented on the underlying filesystem via inodes. And how moving a file on the same filesystem doesn't actually change the file blocks, it just shuffles the inode metadata around.

Lets step back a bit though and make sure we understand that: when you delete a file via Finder you're (for the most part) not actually deleting it. You're just moving it to a trash location that's on the same logical partition as the file. That the trash location is on the same partition is important. It lets the OS exploit the inodes to make the delete really, really fast.

Now lets talk about inodes. For regular files, inodes hold the metadata for the file along with some pointers to the data blocks on the filesystem that actually hold the data for the file. The metadata is stuff like the creation date, the last accessed date, the owner and group, the permissions settings, etc.

For directories the inode holds all that metadata plus it holds a pointer to a list of all the inodes that are "in" that directory. So if I "move" a file on a filesystem all I'm doing is taking a reference to that file's inode out of its current directory's inode file list and moving it to another directory's inode file list. The list changed, but the inode reference to the file didn't.

This metadata shuffle means that the physical location of the file blocks and the inode for the file itself don't actually change on disk. Any program currently accessing the file (assuming file locking isn't being used) can continue to access it even while I'm moving it because all the references it needs have remained the same. The inode for a file or directory doesn't change as long as it's kept on the same filesystem. And when programs access files and directories, most of that access is done via inode references.

Pretty neat.

But it can lead to some jarring behaviour if you're accessing a directory from multiple places and then you move the directory. And this is what you're experiencing.

In your case you have a Terminal prompt in a directory. When you changed in to that directory your shell read the inode metadata for that directory and updated some data structures and environment variables. One of those environment variables was the PWD variable.

Then you deleted the directory which placed that directory's inode under the .Trash directory's file list. The metadata for these two inodes was updated so the deleted directory now had a parent directory metadata attribute that points to .Trash and the .Trash inode metadata got a new entry in its list of children: the deleted folder's inode. But your Terminal app didn't know this happened. There's nothing that told it that it should reload its data structures. That's why pwd and $PWD continue to show the original path to the directory. You have to trigger an action in the shell that causes that inode metadata on the working directory to be re-read and the data structures and environment variables to be re-generated. It can be something as simple as called cd . to do a no-op change directory. Or you can move out and back in to the directory with absolute paths.

The reason the reason that cat in the Terminal works to show you a file in that directory is that the inode that cat uses to access that file didn't change just because its location on disk changed. So cat can still find it given you're using a relative reference to the file. If your file was originally located at /foo/bar/moo.txt and you tried to do cat /foo/bar/moo.txt after you deleted the bar directory via Finder you'd see that the cat call would fail with a file-not-found error. But cat moo.txt would continue to work because all the file system data structures that cat needs to use to find moo.txt in your working directory have technically not changed enough for cat at your Terminal prompt to lose track of them.

That's the long explanation. Hope I didn't lose you. :)


xCODE 11.3.1 - Failed to create provisioning profile

The solution for this error is emptying the field at the Code Signing Identity at Build Settings.

I thought it didn't help since there are still multiple errors. I now realize that those errors are not related to the one this question deals with.


This menu does include the Romanian diacritics when you're using the Romanian input source. I've provided a tutorial on quickly changing the input sources in:

How can you customize the keyboard layout / shortcuts?


Insert code blocks in the body of emails

The magic behind the formatting on StackExchange is a great perl script called Markdown. Download it, and double-click the resulting Markdown_1.0.1.zip file.

Then, in terminal, type

chmod a+x ~/Downloads/Markdown_1.0.1/Markdown.pl
sudo cp ~/Downloads/Markdown_1.0.1/Markdown.pl /usr/local/bin/

Once you have that done, you can create a Service in Automator.

The service you create receives rich text in any application.
Uncheck the box that says Output replaces selected text.

Your service will contain two actions:

The first action is Run Shell Script.
Here is the shell script:

/usr/local/bin/Markdown.pl | /usr/bin/textutil -stdin -stdout -format html -convert rtf | /usr/bin/pbcopy

Your section action is Run AppleScript.
Here is the AppleScript:

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "v" using {command down}
end tell

Save the service, and, if you wish, assign it a keyboard shortcut using System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Services

Then, you can type text using the formatting codes you use on this site, and run this service to generate formatted text. This will only work if your mail messages are set up as Rich Text -- if you have plain text mail messages, running this service will simply erase the contents of your message, as your rich text formatted by the service will not be able to be pasted.


iOS: Green strip to return to numeric keypad much too small

Tapping the green colored status bar on iPhone takes you to the current call screen.

If you are finding it harder to tap it because of the smaller size of the hit-target, you can achieve the same result by an easier alternative approach. Open the iOS app switcher UI by either double clicking the Home button (for iPhones with Home button) or swiping up from the bottom (for iPhone without Home button). (Refer to the Apple support document, Switch apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch)

Now swipe left to access the front-most item in the app switcher UI. The frontmost app would correspond to the current call UI. You can tap on it to the same effect as tapping on the green color filled status bar shown at the top when a phone call is in progress.

Note that this approach works for a call made with either the Phone app (Cellular call) or Apple's built-in FaceTime app. For 3rd party apps, you'd have to tap on the corresponding app in the app switching UI.


Remove application from App Store's Update section

I had the exact same problem and this solved it:

  All app downloaded from Mac AppStore(MAS) contain a receipt inside
  their app bundle (example: appname.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt).
  MAS will scan this file to check whether the new version is available.

  You can use this application (Find Any File) to search any receipt on
  your drive: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

  Launch 'Find Any File' and search for: _MASReceipt
  Go through each result that you think could be the culprit, copy the receipt to your desktop as a backup, and after that delete the
  receipt inside
  _MASReceipt folder.
  Open MAS and let it scan for software update. If it's still showing the wrong ID, it means that you've deleted the wrong receipt.
  Restore the receipt backup from your desktop to it's previous
  location.
  Repeat the process until you've found the problem receipt.


How do I tell if my Mac supports Mini Toslink?

Do the following:

Open "About This Mac"
Open "More Info..." (skip this step on macOS Sierra)
Open "System Report..."
From the left pane choose Hardware > Audio
Check if Optical Digital Audio Output is present


Most if not all of Apple's own apps aren't removable like apps you download from the App Store. The only way to get them "out of the way" is either put them all in a separate screen, or put them in a folder (by dragging one over the other to create such folder) and then keep them there or drag the folder itself off screen (to a screen you don't use and don't have any other apps on)

To drag applications, either to change their placement or create folders, tap on any app and keep holding until they start to "shake". Press the Home button to turn off this mode.


How do I get Terminal.app pasting behavior in iTerm 2?

You hit a bug. Upgrade to 3.0.9 to fix it.


How to recover an iPad from power-off during an upgrade?

No - you would need to try to back up over USB to PhoneView or a similar tool.

Once you're sure you can't get any data back, then connecting to iTunes can easily wipe whatever's left and then return a proper working OS onto the hardware.


LaCie Rugged Safe Firewire Write Speed / Faster from a windows virtual machine?

I would be wary of accepting any sustained write speed test results from inside a VM as fact. Most VM architectures execute clever caching and other algorithms when writing to virtual disks. Try running the "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k" command from inside an empty Linux VM against a large virtual disk to see exactly what I mean (speeds far higher than your physical storage).

How are you testing the firewire drive from within the VM? Is the drive being passed through to the VM as a firewire device in Windows or as some other device/drive?

More details would be very much appreciated.


MAC OS Mojave: Why do the icon texts display unnormally (squeeze and crowd)?

There are likely a few things going on here. Firstly is that Apple's new default font is San Fransisco in Mojave (OS X 10.14.x) and I believe in 10.8 was Lucida Grande. So some of the text crowding you see could be caused by a different font with it's different kerning, etc.

It is also possible, and judging from the screencaps you posted that some of your desktop/folder defaults were changed or reset when you did the upgrade.

If you go to your desktop and select "Show view options" from the "View" menu a window will pop up allowing you to change a lot of the items that will effect what you see on your desktop. You can do the same in a Finder window but I'm sticking with the Desktop here for sake of simplicity.

The things you may want to fiddle with are the grid spacing and the text size.

The grid spacing will move icons closer together and farther apart. So if you have long-ish file names Finder will squish the text when the icons are closer together.

The text size will also affect how Finder shows file/folder names. Bigger fonts will cause the Finder to try and fit longer file names in smaller spaces (grid spacing) and squish the words/letters together. The trade-off here is that smaller font sizes can be harder to read.

In your particular case I would increase the grid spacing and decrease the font size substantially and then see if things are looking better.


Slow network copy between iMac and MacBook Air

1) I do not think so.

2) You need Apple Extreme 802.11n Enabler for Mac, more Information is How to tell if 802.11n-enabling software is installed or an OSX Update. See HT2447.


Can I retrieve files from Time Capsule if I lost my laptop and want to retrieve the files to my new laptop?

Choose Time Machine from the menu bar, hold alt and select Browse Other Backup Disks, then select your old machine's backups.


Cannot find/download/install the iOS 13 Beta profile

The iOS 13 developer betas are available as device restore images and not in the form of beta profile (which is generally made available when a public beta is released). You'll need to download the full restore image and restore it onto a device.

Go to Apple Developer - Download and log into with your Apple ID registered in the Apple Developer Program to access the developer betas. This is how the webpage looks like currently:

The restore image is available for all registered developers irrespective of whether they are enrolled in a developer program. Apple will release the public betas a month later.


Here is the app you are looking for:

myAT&T

The trick is to look for name of the app publisher shown under the app name.

Number and value of ratings is another factor to look for to ascertain the authenticity of the app coming from the intended publisher.

It is also a good idea to visit the service providers website and follow the App Store link for the app to ensure you are downloading the intended app.


Which were the first 500 apps on the App Store when it launched in 2008?

This PinchMedia RSS feed in Wayback Machine is the best I could get so far:

Top 100 Paid Apps as of July 21, 2008

Still hoping I can get a full list. According to TechCrunch, there were 552 apps at the beginning, 417 paid, 135 free. If there would be a way to get top lists for all the categories, it should be possible to assemble the full list.


Need to reset admin password with OS X 10.6.8 Will this impact Time Machine backup?

Resetting the password should not do anything to the files stored by Time Machine. Files on the system are associated with a user ID, and changing or resetting a password does not alter the user ID.

If you delete the account that holds the files you are interested in, this will not directly delete the matching files in the Time Machine backups, but as Time Machine continues to run and throw out old backups, eventually the files deleted from the computer will be removed from the Time Machine backups. But as mentioned, just changing the password of a user account (even an administrator account) does not change the documents made by that user.


How to replace fusion drive and restore MacOS?

you should go to ifixit site and look to see if they talk about replacing the drive. There are several ifixit sites devototed to the Mac Mini. One site is here.


How to create a smart folder for files created in the last 5 minutes

A 'Smart folder' is in principle a XML formatted file that, when opened, returns a Spotlight search result. To create a Smart folder you can add multiple search terms by pressing the + (or alt+). For example, you can choose to only return files that where created in the last 7 days. Although there is a profusion of search terms, some are still missing (like searching within the last 5 minutes).

The commandline version of Spotlight is mdfind (manual). Although harder to use, mdfind commands are more flexable than the Smart folder/Spotlight alternative. You can, for example, search for files that were created in the last 5 minutes like this:

mdfind 'kMDItemFSCreationDate > "$time.now(-300)"'

Or were changed in the last 10 minutes:

mdfind 'kMDItemFSContentChangeDate > "$time.now(-600)"'

Fortunatly Smart folders support the mdfind command! To use mdfind search commands do the following:

Go to Finder and press CommandF to start a new Smart folder.
In the search-items bar you can select 'Other...' from the drop down menu. Search for 'Raw query' and add it to your search terms
Now enter your mdfind search query in the empty text field

kMDItemFSCreationDate > $time.now(-600)

Save your search and you are done.


How to sync mouse pointer correctly in screen sharing when connecting to a Windows VM?

In the Screen Sharing app, go to the View menu and click "Customize Toolbar..." There's a button you can add to the toolbar called "Cursor" that toggles your Mac's mouse cursor. You can turn it off so you'll only see the one on the remote machine instead of both the remote and local cursor.


iPhone with broken home button is stuck on black screen after jailbreaking

Let the iphone discharge.
Then connect it to your computer.
If iTunes recognize it, try to restore it.


Saving .mp4 file to iCloud drive, saying need more space but drive saying 147GB available!

If you've just upgraded your iCloud storage you may need to restart your system for it to notice the additional storage.


Create System Preferences URL to Privacy Files and Folders in 10.15 Catalina

List of URLs for reference (*updated for macOS Catalina & Mojave):

Accessibility Preference Pane
Main    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess
Display x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Seeing_Display
Zoom    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Seeing_Zoom
VoiceOver   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Seeing_VoiceOver
Descriptions    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Media_Descriptions
Captions    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Captioning
Audio   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Hearing
Keyboard    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Keyboard
Mouse & Trackpad    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Mouse
Switch Control  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Switch
Dictation   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?SpeakableItems

Security & Privacy Preference Pane
Main    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security
General x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?General
FileVault   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?FDE
Firewall    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Firewall
Advanced    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Advanced
Privacy x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy
Privacy-Camera x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Camera
Privacy-Microphone  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Microphone
Privacy-Automation  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Automation
Privacy-AllFiles    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_AllFiles
Privacy-Accessibility   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Accessibility
Privacy-Assistive   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Assistive
Privacy-Location Services   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_LocationServices
Privacy-SystemServices  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_SystemServices
Privacy-Advertising x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Advertising
Privacy-Contacts    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Contacts
Privacy-Diagnostics & Usage x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Diagnostics
Privacy-Calendars   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Calendars
Privacy-Reminders   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Reminders
Privacy-Facebook    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Facebook
Privacy-LinkedIn    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_LinkedIn
Privacy-Twitter x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Twitter
Privacy-Weibo   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Weibo
Privacy-Tencent Weibo   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_TencentWeibo

macOS Catalina 10.15:
Privacy-ScreenCapture   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_ScreenCapture
Privacy-DevTools    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_DevTools
Privacy-InputMonitoring x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_ListenEvent
Privacy-DesktopFolder   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_DesktopFolder
Privacy-DocumentsFolder x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_DocumentsFolder
Privacy-DownloadsFolder x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_DownloadsFolder
Privacy-NetworkVolume   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_NetworkVolume
Privacy-RemovableVolume x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_RemovableVolume
Privacy-SpeechRecognition   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_SpeechRecognition

Dictation & Speech Preference Pane
Dictation   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.speech?Dictation
Text to Speech  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.speech?TTS
Sharing Preference Pane
Main    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing
Screen Sharing  x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_ScreenSharing
File Sharing    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_PersonalFileSharing
Printer Sharing x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_PrinterSharing
Remote Login    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_RemoteLogin
Remote Management   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_ARDService
Remote Apple Events x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_RemoteAppleEvent
Internet Sharing    x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Internet
Bluetooth Sharing   x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.sharing?Services_BluetoothSharing

Software update x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate?client=softwareupdateapp

Ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6652598/cocoa-button-opens-a-system-preference-page/48139877#48139877


I tested it, it is the number of seconds from the beginning of the video.


How do you trash items on new Mac Photos?

Hit the delete key while a photo is selected or while viewing a photo. To recover photos, a "Show Recently Deleted" option is available in the File menu. On this screen you can permanently delete a photo or recover it within 30 days.


Changing the Finder icon for an external disk formatted as ExFat?

I do a "Get Info" on the drive. This brings up the info window. To add the icon, I drag and drop the .icns file on the image shown in the upper left corner of the window.

  When I refer to a "drive", what I really mean is a partition located on a physical or virtual drive. Since the partition is ExFAT formatted, the partition can also be referred to as a volume.

Maybe your .icns file is no good. Maybe you should try one of mine. You can download the ones I use here. Or, you can try the free online tool I used to create these .icns files. Go to iconvert icons.

When you drop the .icns file, a copy of this file is renamed .VolumeIcon.icns and placed in the root directory of the drive. For example, if I use a Terminal application window, I can show this file.

Steelhead:~ davidanderson$ diskutil list /dev/disk1
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.0 GB     disk1
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 UNTITLED 1              808.2 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED 2              808.2 MB   disk1s2
   3:               Windows_NTFS UNTITLED 3              808.2 MB   disk1s3
   4:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED 4              808.2 MB   disk1s5
   5:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED 5              808.1 MB   disk1s6
Steelhead:~ davidanderson$ mount | grep disk1
/dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 1 (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
/dev/disk1s2 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 2 (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
/dev/disk1s3 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 3 (exfat, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
/dev/disk1s5 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 4 (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
/dev/disk1s6 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 5 (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
Steelhead:~ davidanderson$ cd "/Volumes/UNTITLED 3"
Steelhead:UNTITLED 3 davidanderson$ ls -l .VolumeIcon.icns
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 davidanderson  staff  26582 May  5 15:50 .VolumeIcon.icns
Steelhead:UNTITLED 3 davidanderson$

Here is a screen shot from my Desktop.

If you something goes wrong read this:

There must be a cache of volume names to icons buried in OS X. I say this because no matter what combination of reformats, ejects, unmounts and deletes I preform, the same icon reappears. Something like the following is happening:

The  operating system encounters a valid .VolumeIcon.icns file in
the root directory of a partition (volume).
The .VolumeIcon.icns is read in to the cache and associated with
the volume name.
Even if the .VolumeIcon.icns file is changed, the operating system
does not update the cache. (This is one of the bugs!)

If you do the following, you may have a shot at success. I do not guarantee this to be an inclusive list.

Remove the .VolumeIcon.icns (if it exists) from the root folder on
the drive, by following these instructions.  Highlight the drive
(volume) and select "Get Info" from the menu bar. Next, highlight
the icon shown in the upper left of the pop up window. Finally,
from the menu bar, select "Cut". Note: This file is not normally
shown in the Finder, unless you enable the Finder to Show Hidden
Files.
Rename the drive to some name never used before.
Eject the drive and remove from the computer.
If necessary, quit the Disk Utility application.
If necessary, quit the Terminal application.
Close all Finder Windows"
Hold down the option key and right click on the Finder
icon on the Dock. Select "Relaunch".
Connect the drive back into the computer
Drag and drop the .icns files on the icon in the upper left corner
of the "Get Info" window for the drive. It may appear as if
nothing has happened.
(Optional) Verify the .VolumeIcon.icns appears in the root folder
of the partition (volume). This file is not normally shown in the
Finder unless you enable the Finder to Show Hidden Files.
Experienced users can also use the Terminal application to verify
this file exists
Use the Disk Utility application to unmount the partition (volume).
Use the Disk Utility application to mount the partition (volume).


Yes - In the Mission Control preference pane make sure that the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" option is unchecked.

Then for the app(s) you want to behave as in your post: right-click their dock icon and under the 'options' menu item select 'Assign to: None'.


The flag icons are located in the file /System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat. The .dat file can be opened/read with the GraphicConverter app.

The .dat file is a flag "database". To access the single flags in GraphicConverter use the pages drop-down menu at the bottom right of the main window.

Several input method icons (e.g. PNGs, TIFFs) can be found at /System/Library/Input Methods/Input_method.app/Contents/Resources/... with Input_method.app one of the various IM.apps in /System/Library/Input Methods.

The Custom Input icon may be this one: /System/Library/Input Methods/PluginIM.app/Contents/Resources/Custom.tiff.


typing a backtick on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Disclaimer: This info is for English keyboards. If you're using a keyboard for a different language, look for the keys on your keyboard that match the photos.  Pictures of Apple's keyboards for various languages can be found here.

This question was answered 5 years ago, but pictures may be helpful for viewers coming upon it now.

To make a backtick on the US English keyboard - Use the key just to the left of the 1 key

To make a backtick on the British or International English keyboard - Use the key just to the right of the left shift key


As far as I know, not with the stock options. You may be able to do this on a jailbroken phone if there's a jailbreak community app for that. Short of that, you'd have to make one yourself.

Otherwise, you're down to changing these settings manually when you're away from WiFi.


What happens if I upload an incomplete app on the App Store?

You can upload the app without worry.

If your app got rejected,it won't affect the future submissions and you'll keep the app name with yourself. Your app name won't be taken by any other person.

There is a feature in the itunes-connect to set the release date. Even if your app got approved, it won't be released to public.

if there are major tasks to be completed in the application, it is better to create a new application and make the app-status to waiting for uploading of binary. you'll have 6 months time for uploading binary(setup) after creating the app in the itunes-connect.


Can I install Windows 7 on MBP's Expresscard 34 Wintec SSD?

I use Parallels to run Windows on my MacBook Pro 5,1

I boot from my SSD 64GB and have my Parallels image on the SSD.

It runs super fast! It takes 14 seconds to boot up Win 7.