texts: how do i access my @me.com email account

texts: I just set up a new @me.com email account through iOS5 beta and was wondering if there was a way to access through the web, or if anyone knew the imap server info. It looks like they are using some custom token system for auth on the phone.


texts:
I'm having the following problems:

after latest El Capitan update, my Macbook Pro (mid 2010) crashes (turns off) during boot.
I'm unable to boot in safe mode, the only way is recovery mode.
I've ran disk utility with ok results.
I've done PRAM reset with no effect.
I'm trying to reinstall El Capitan as a last resort but I'm getting the following error message: "An error occured while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."

Currently I'm really stuck in the middle of nowhere, everything I've tried goes terribly wrong and I have no clue what is going on.

Please help,

Thanks.


texts:
I have an iMac 27", Mid 2010 (11,3 model), "Core i7" 2.93 GHz. 4*2GB installed RAM..Plan to upgrade.
Any thoughts, experience if 4 * 8 GB would work if upgraded to or is 16GB with 4*4GB max I can reach?
Thank you


texts: Grey login screen after enabling encryption

texts:
After turning on encryption with FileVault on my MacBook Air with Mountain Lion my login screen went gray. Is there a way to go back to the default one?

The grey one

The default one


texts: Upgrade OS X Lion to Yosemite with server tools

texts:
I have a Mac running OS X Lion (10.7.5) and it is running server tools with Open Directory serving logins etc.

To update to Yosemite, can I just update to the higher OS X version and then buy the newer Server.app and it will pick up the previous server settings?

I have googled a lot but there doesn't seem to be anything that answers my question clearly. Perhaps because it is as simple as updating OS X and getting the newer tool with nothing else to worry about?


texts: Graphics tablet used to work without a third-party driver. How to reenable this?

texts:
I am using a Gaomon S620 graphics tablet and running macOS Catalina version 10.15.6, although my question doesn't, I think, depend on my specific tablet/OS version.
It used to be the case (before Mojave I think?) that you could plug a graphics tablet into a mac and it would immediately work fine with literally no driver installed. (No fine pressure control or whatever, but I don't need this.) Now I'm guessing that to due some added security restrictions, when I plug in my graphics tablet without downloading Gaomon's driver, my computer recognizes pen movement (the cursor moves), but I am unable to click on anything.
I say that my specific model doesn't matter because many people have had this problem with different tablets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/9003e4/intuos_pro_my_tablet_pen_hovers_just_fine_but/
https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/a62n30/tap_to_click_not_working_on_intuos_pro/
https://www.gaomon.net/question/macos_mojave_catalina_solution.html
I know how to solve this issue if I have Gaomon's driver downloaded. Go to Security and Privacy --> Accessibility, etc.
(Basically follow the steps here and give your third-party driver access to your computer.)
But I want to use my graphics tablet without installing a third-party driver. Is there a way to reenable this functionality?
For reference, I am having problems with lag, and I want to check whether it is my driver's fault or if it is just due to high CPU usage. But I can't check because I can't use my graphics tablet anymore without the third-party driver.
Edit: To clarify, I never experience lag (whether the Gaomon third-party driver is installed or not) when just moving the cursor. Lag only occurs when I press down and draw. But as stated above, I can only draw when the third-party driver is installed, as otherwise it doesn't recognize clicks.


texts: Does reducing message history on one device affect other devices?

texts:
If I have one apple account signed into multiple devices, and I change the iMessage message history from Forever to 30 Days on one device, will this have any impact on any other devices with this same apple account?

I'm just trying to make sure I don't delete older messages on any other devices when deleting older messages on the one device.


texts:
I have just upgraded git. It's now a symlink to the Cellared most recent version.

$ ls -l `which git`
/usr/local/bin/git -> ../Cellar/git/2.14.1/bin/git

However

$git --version
git version 2.11.0 (Apple Git-81)

Do I have two different versions installed at once? How can I clean up the remnants of the Apple Git-81 version?


texts: Did iMessage beta on Lion finally stop working recently?

texts:
I tried to send a message using the iMessage beta that I installed on Lion ages ago. The message didn't send, and then I noticed the prompt looked like this:

I tried to exit iMessage and restart it, but it wouldn't let me log in with the following message after entering my Apple ID:

Did Apple finally forcibly disable iMessage on Lion? Are there any solutions to using iMessage for me now? (I know I could upgrade to Mountain Lion, but I'm curious if there are any alternatives.)


texts:
I would like to be able to collect data on file movement to filter it by time, type and/or size.
Is there a procedure or third party app that will allow tracing of any file as it moves from a place of origin to external drives or even to other internal folders?


texts: Internet stops working frequently on OS X Lion

texts:
After upgrading to Lion, I started experiencing this issue:

Internet stops working frequently.
- I open Safari and browse for some time
- Suddenly I can't open any sites; Internet will stop working.
- So I check WiFi; it is online and showing correctly in my MacBook Pro.
- I check with my roommate and his Internet is working properly.
- I switch to Google Chrome and it still doesn't work.

The solution is to turn WiFi off and back on, then restart my browser.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a bug?


texts: What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean?


texts: What is the quickest Mac OS X app to use to remove the background of an image to make it transparent?

texts: I followed the instructions in How to use Preview for Basic Image Editing: Remove Backgrounds and Extract Shapes to use the Preview app to remove backgrounds with an image. The problem is that the "Instant Alpha" tool sometimes does not capture all the pixels and can't figure out how to use the rectangle tool to remove those remaining pixels. I tried highlighting the pixels and then pressing delete but it doesn't work. Can someone explain how to do it or recommend another free, lightweight Mac OS X tool to remove background to make it transparent? I do not want to use Photoshop or anything else expensive.


texts: Why does AirDrop only sometimes require me to open the AirDrop window on my desktop?

texts:
When I'm sending things to my desktop from my iPhone, it randomly doesn't show my computer until I open up AirDrop in the Finder. Does anyone know why this is? (it just shows the blue circles instead of my Mac Pro)

Specs:

Mac Pro Late 2013 (OS 10.12.3)
iPhone 6s (10.2.1)


texts: Removing configuration profiles via command line

texts:
Is there a way to remove configuration profiles as root?

So far I have tried the following:

$ sudo su -
$ find / -name profile # trying in the following folder
$ cd /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Settings
$ chmod 777 com.apple.managed.PlugInKit.plist # operation not permitted
$ mv -f com.apple.managed.PlugInKit.plist com.apple.managed.PlugInKit.plist.old # operation not permitted

Any force moves, copies, removes, or chmods are not permitted even though I am an administrator.  I was able to remove them manually in the UI a few months ago but the system admin disabled that feature awhile back and now I'm trying to remove the restrictions on the filesystem.


texts: Prevent Yosemite from appearing in Software Update section of App Store?

texts:
Updated title for Yosemite / 10.10, the issue remains the same.

This is mostly a moot point for our organization as we're starting to let more and more people upgrade to Mavericks as they desire, however I suspect 10.10 will have similar promotion within the App store once it's released so I'm asking anyway.

For the past few months we've pushed our users to not upgrade to Mavericks which has for the most part been effective with only 3 or 4 (out of almost 200) installing it without checking with us first.  Over the past few weeks though I've seen that number rise dramatically though as people install it thinking it's just a software update.  We've trained our users to install Apple software updates whenever they are prompted, thanks in part to us blocking and releasing updates through our internal software update server, so we may be partially to blame for this.

The problem as I see it is that Apple is pushing Mavericks using advertising in the Software Update section of the Mac App Store.  End users see this (see below) and think "Oh, this is just another update, they must've cleared it for us to use", which isn't necessarily the case.

Have any other Mac admins successfully combatted this, either through blocking it from appearing in the Software Update section or by re-training their end users?  I've had the thought about killing the path to Apple (swcdn.apple.com) but white listing our Mac Pro server to still allow access for our SUS.  I don't like this idea though because we think this would also affect purchasing new apps on both Mac and iOS for the rest of the devices.


texts: SD card works perfectly in macOS, but not in Windows

texts:
Recently I bought a new microSD card - Transcend UHS-I microSD 300S. It's microSDHC 32 GB card, I've also formatted it in exFAT. And I'm also using a 13-inch MacBook Pro, Early 2011 model.

The problem is - I need it to work with Windows installed on the laptop. In macOS it works just fine, I can reformat it any time. But it does not work in Windows 10 on the same MacBook. It shows up only when I reboot from macOS 10.15 to Windows 10 with microSD card inserted in the microSD-to-SD adapter, and when I disconnect it, I can't connect it back - it just doesn't work before I reboot.

I've tried reconnecting the card many times, tried reinstalling Broadcom SD drivers from Boot Camp Support Software 5.1, resetting SMC and NVRAM - still the same problem. The other cards are working just fine, and the same Trancsend card actually works in Windows on other laptop - Acer Aspire 3830TG.

So, how can I fix this? This is very strange problem.


texts:
I was on a public Wifi. When I returned home, reconnecting to my network, a panopli of numbers appeared on the network for 3 seconds. Then my network went after that. Going on google, I received a message saying that my iPhone was in danger, that someone was watching what I was doing. Is this a scam? Because I wasn’t on this page, I was on Time2Watch. I would like to have sincere answers please, I would not want to be spied on. Here are some pictures of the images that '' google or the scam '' sent me.

Thank you !!!


texts: Difference between Apple's Thunderbolt ethernet adapters?

texts:
Apple seems to make (at least) two different Thunderbolt ethernet adapters.  One is the "MD463LL/A".  Another is the "MD463ZM/A".

Is there any functional difference between them?  Is one better than the other?


texts:
I bought a used Mac from someone who was using VoiceOver on the login screen.

I don't have any handicap, and I would like to disable VoiceOver, which I personally find annoying.

Strangely, VoiceOver is ONLY on the login screen, and I can't find an option to disable it anywhere on the computer. Also VoiceOver seems to come along with some sort of highlighting and on screen text.

Any help? I am running on Lion.


texts: Server Admin: How to set up multiple mail domains?

texts:
I've got a co.uk domain set up in Server Admin on an OS X Lion server for mail. It's all running fine.

I'd like to also set up a .com domain to run through the same mail server.

Is this possible? If so can someone give me details on how to set it up - without losing the .co.uk domain?


texts:
Is their a file system that can read/write mac and win and do time machine?
I know that OS X can write to NTFS with the correct software installed, but Time Machine usually insists on formatting drives before using them. Is there a compromise?


texts: How will existing apps "scale" on iPhone X?

texts:
When iPhone 6 came out, the non-updated apps in app store were stretched/scaled up with same aspect ratio.

How will the current apps in the app store scale on iPhone X? I.e. without rebuilding them with SDK 11 / Xcode9.

The only realistic option I can think about for iPhone X is that the full screen will not be used? I.e. same aspect ratio as the iPhone 6 & 7.

What makes me think that it will be some kind of "shrinked area" for the iPhone X+SDK10 is that almost ALL apps in the appstore will be broken for iPhone X unless the apps get updated within a month. In reality - This will not happen. Alot of apps will not be updated at the date of iPhone X release.

EDIT:

To clarify, I don't ask for how the apps will look when rebuilt with xcode9/SDK11. I want to know how the apps behave without rebuilding them!


texts: Deleting a file from inside Lion’s Preview.app

texts:
In Snow Leopard it was possible to delete (i.e. move to Trash) a file directly from inside Preview.app using the cmd + backspace combination. (The same combination which is used in Finder.)
This was especially useful for files which had been downloaded to ~/Downloads and were opened automatically. One could have a quick look and then immediately delete them afterwards.

The combination also worked for TextEdit as well as some other programs. Now with Lion this does not seem to work anymore. Is there a fix or a new combination for it?


texts: I short circuited my iPhone 5 through audio jack

texts:
Long story short, I short circuited my second most expensive asset through a usb-male-audio-male. I'm devastated. I'm not rich. I was still giddy about saving a dozen dollars during black friday sales.

I understand basic elements of circuits. So I want to fix it myself.

I suspect that the battery is down. And I suspect some excessive current protection mechanism was triggered.
The battery can be replaced easily.

So my question is that what might have been broken, and how to fix them.

If you can kindly share your knowledge, I will be grateful.


texts: How to create Automator workflow to paste in authentication code within a GUI app?

texts:
I currently have created an automator workflow (in Catalina) that will paste in a two-step authentication code by a keyboard shortcut within the Cyberduck app. However, I am wondering how to possibly create a workflow that can automatically paste the code in via the shortcut whenever a certain pop-up comes up. For example, in Cyberduck we have:

I am wondering how automator can generally be used here. I have seen something that might adhere to what I want, displayed as "text" in the automator workflow options:

but would like to know if this is the right path. Thanks!


texts: How to delay a cmd+Q in the same way as the Caps Lock is delayed?

texts:
On my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro the Caps Lock button has a convenient delay such that when I hit it accidentally it doesn't turn on immediately.
Can I incorporate such a delay for another key combination?
I would like to delay the cmd + Q shortcut such that when I accidentally hit it the application is not quit and I have time to recover.


texts: Is it mandatory to upload screenshots for all screensizes when submitting to the app Store?

texts:
I am preparing a new application, and iOS requires screenshots of the application. They ask for screenshots in the following sizes:

Is it necessary to upload screenshots for all resolutions?

What will be the ramifications if I only upload screenshots for 5.5-Inch and iPad?


texts: High Sierra Combo Update 10.13.4 to 10.13.6

texts:
The combo update will not install and provides the error message that " This volume does not meet the requirements for this update"

I have 62GB spare in 121GM HD.....

What are the "requirements"? What do I have to do to the HD to make this work... It is an Apple update after all.. not a third party item


texts: Send message button missing from Mail app's compose window

texts:
I have an older iMac running macOS High Sierra. I use the Apple's Mail app version 11.5 for handling my emails. Something has changed in my system recently such that the Send message button has gone missing from the compose window toolbar. The compose window used to have a Send message icon for me to send my messages. Now it is missing.

This first figure below shows the toolbar in the Mail app.

Now if I click the New Message button I get the following screen:

And here is the expanded toolbar in the New Message window.

As you can see there is no way to send the message. I've tried starting in safe mode but to no avail. I went to Mail app Preferences and everything appears to be in order. I've tried all 3 accounts, but with the same result.  Does anyone know what's happened, or can help me in any way?


texts:
I am running my boot drive off a SSD. I'm paying attention to try to keep it from filling up, and sorting folders by size, I notice the library/application support folder has logs generated by specific apps. For example, one program that creates an updated backup of my data drive shows a size of 4GB.

Is there any general rule for what can be deleted safely?

Edit - one that I just found, log.smbd.old is 8.9GB. It was created after a reboot, and there's a new log.smbd file which is small. Since I am running the OS on a smallish SSD, these files are troubling. Is there another way to keep the drive clean? e.g. a small app running in the background that will either quickly identify, or preferably, automatically remove these old log files? Note - I am running Snow Leo, 10.6.8 on a MacPro.


texts: Does a 'low backlight dimmed constantly turned on screen' use battery & can it burn in?

texts:
TL;DR: Can a smartphone LCD screen burn in when emitting nearly no light, but just dark dimmed pixels? And could, by such way, a screen-on time of 8 hours be achieved?

I'm designing a concept that requires quick access (from lock screen to tap in app in 1 second) to a single function inside an app. Since the lock screen for users without TouchID takes quite some time, relatively, I thought to force the display to remain turned on. The app should be used during conference presentations and since some conferences are a full day of length most smartphones can't survive that long with the screen turned on.

To save the battery I thought of over-dimming the backlight/screen of the device and become lighter when used. It's an extension of the default dim functionality. But I was worried that

The screen might burn in when having the screen turned on for an hour using black pixels on LCD displays and non-transitioning graphics (like a screensaver).
Even by dimming the brightness to an extreme level, that might not extend the battery life to an 8-hour of constant-on screen time.

Since you don't need to see the screen actually, and actions are confirmed  by vibrating, the screen could be dimmed extremely. Therefor I'm looking to confirm my thoughts.

Too bad you can't run an app in the background and execute actions from the lockscreen, multiple times, without unlocking the device. Neither widgets can, as far as I know.. That would solve the whole issue of being quickly accessible, turned on screens and saving battery life...

I wrote this, because I might be wrong and you might know an alternative.


texts: iPod Touch 5 vs iPhone 5s sound output (Line Out)

texts:
I bought an iPod Touch 5 two months back, I love the sound quality of the device. But after 1 month when my brother bought iPhone 5s, I checked the sound output of the device through the same earpods that came with my iPod. The difference in sound output was huge, I am not talking about the sound quality but the loudness.

I checked everywhere but there was no proper explanation why the difference in sound is so huge.

Is it because the two DACs r completely different or is it something to do with Output Source Impedance?


texts:
Can I use

  security cms

for encrypting and decrypting S/MIME mails? Or is there any alternative?


texts:
As the title describes, I keep getting a random spinning wheel, but there is no crash/hanging of the system of any sort. I've been getting these for the last two or so years, but only recently it has started occuring much more frequently, prompting me to ask it here.
I have a 4GB early 2015 MacBook Air on MacOS Sierra. The wheel appears randomly and is not application specific. I can still move the wheel using my trackpad, so the system is definitely not hanging. However, once I click the trackpad, it disappears, with no other effect. I probably must mention that when the wheel appears, it appears "on top" of all applications, in the sense, that once I click the trackpad to make it disappear, I'll have to click once again on the application window I was previously working with to interact with it.
I am just curious about this strange behaviour as I haven't found any similar issue discussed anywhere else.


texts: How to change the default format in Numbers?

texts: When using Numbers and I want to underline a cell, the default format is outlining the whole cell.  I want the default format in Numbers to be only an underline not a box. Any way to do this?


texts: Is it possible to change file status (from read only to read and write) for multiple files/folders at once?

texts:
I moved all my web files/folders from my default MAMP directory to a more manageable location. Now all the files and folders have been changed to read only.

I figured out how to change the status per one by one, but that would take a lot of time. Is there a way to change all the files and folders to "read and write" all at once


texts: Why isn't auto download working for the iphone Podcast app?

texts:
On my iphone, I use the Podcasts app and I have all of my podcasts set to auto subscribe and auto download.  When I check the app in the morning, I see new podcasts showing up but there is a button with an arrow button next to them to show me there is something new that i can download. (see picture below).  So the autosubscribe is working but the autodownload is not.

When i click on that button below, it then says . ."Preparing to download". and then it eventually downloads if I wait long enough.

That is not my understanding on what "auto download" means to me.  Is there anything that I am doing wrong ?  How can I have it where it will literally automatically download new podcasts to my iphone when they appear online without me having to manually click anything on that particular podcast so I can just see it and start listening to it without it having to download or stream at that time.


texts: Volume control digital or analog to headphone jack?

texts:
I am curious about how Apple's computer DACs are implemented, especially on computers like MacBooks and iMacs. I have been trying to figure out if the 3.5mm output on Apple devices (specifically a MacBook Pro, for me) is controlled by the system volume level through an analog section after the actual DAC, or is it reducing the volume digitally before the DAC?

I can't seem to find any good info about it. Does anyone know?


texts: Extended attributes reappear when reconnecting external drive

texts:
Some files on my external drive appeared grey out. Hence, I removed all the extended attributes using xattr -rc command which successfully does the trick and all my files appears normal. However, after I unplug and replug my external drive, the same set of files again appears grey out. So, to copy any file, I had to re-run the xattr command for the files each time which makes them behave like normal files.

Types of Files

All types of files like .dmg, .epub, .docx, etc appeared greyed out there is not a specific type of file as such.

Regarding extended attributes

When I completely remove all extended attributes the problem disappears. Hence, I am not aware about which particular attributed is causing the files to be greyed out.

Here is the output of ls leO@ on such greyed-out files.

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 username  staff  -   4433605 Jul  9 22:38 xyz.dmg
    com.apple.FinderInfo           32
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms          110
    com.apple.quarantine

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 username  staff  -      3659 Jul  9 22:38 replug_facetime.zip
    com.apple.FinderInfo           32
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms          115
    com.apple.quarantine           58

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 username  staff  -  22617886 Jul  9 22:38 robo3t-1.1.1-darwin-x86_64-c93c6b0.dmg
    com.apple.FinderInfo           32
    com.apple.diskimages.fsck          20
    com.apple.diskimages.recentcksum           80
    com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms          161
    com.apple.quarantine           58

Format of External Drive

NTFS; writeable initially via Mounty Software, now natively using some commands.

Here is the output of xattr -pl com.apple.FinderInfo atom-mac.zip

 com.apple.FinderInfo:
 00000000  62 72 6F 6B 4D 41 43 53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |brokMACS........|
 00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
 00000020


texts: Cannot update from Catalina to Big Sur on compatible Mac: "The requested version of macOS is not available"

texts:
I want to update from macOS Catalina to macOS Big Sur on a supported MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014).
Yet System Preferences > Software Update shows “Your Mac is up to Date - macOS Catalina 10.15.7”.
The App Store says macOS Big Sur “Works on this MacBook Pro”.
When I click the “GET” button, System Preferences > Software Update opens and says: “Update not found. The requested version of macOS is not available.”

I found here a similar question regarding updating to a prior version of macOS but could not apply any of the answers successfully.
What can I do to update to macOS Big Sur?
UPDATE:
macOS 11.1 was just released, and now I am offered to update!


texts: hdiutil: Creating case-sensitive image fs for Steam

texts:
I'm attempting to use Steam on my Mac, but I set up my system to have case-sensitivity.

Steam has a thread for setting up an image file with a case-sensitive file system, however, I'm finding that it doesn't work.

Regardless of whether I create the sparse image from Disk Utility or from hdiutil, I get a mount-error.

hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems

However, as far as I can tell I've created the file correctly?

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

MOUNTPT="/.000"
SPARSEIMG="/Users/Shared/Steam/steam.sparseimage"

if [ ! -e "${MOUNTPT}" ]; then
    echo "sudo mkdir -m0777 ${MOUNTPT}"
    sudo mkdir -m0777 "${MOUNTPT}"
fi

if [ ! -e "${SPARSEIMG}" ]; then
    hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs 'Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+' -size 32g "${SPARSEIMG}"
fi

hdiutil attach -mountpoint "${MOUNTPT}" -nobrowse "${SPARSEIMG}"

Can anyone tell me what I am not doing correctly?

UPDATE:
The image that's created mounts properly in Disk Utility, but does not with hdiutil


texts:
I have the Adjust keyboard brightness in low light option selected but this just isn't working correctly.

The screen brightness adjust automatically (i.e. I put my thumb over the webcam and the screen dims, I point a light at the webcam and the screen brightness increases), but the keyboard either does nothing, OR only turns on when in bright rooms. When I turn off all the lights the keys go off.

Is there any way to adjust this and make it work properly?


texts: Downloads folder is showing empty when it's not!

texts:
My Downloads folder looks utterly empty, not a single file or folder. And I have already emptied the Trash too. But for some reason, a Terminal ls run for this folder says there are 16 items! Here's the exact results on the Terminal:

Amits-MacBook:~ Amit$ ls -axhl ~/Downloads
total 16
drwx------+  4 Amit  staff   136B May 16 19:26 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 21 Amit  staff   714B May 16 19:25 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 Amit  staff   6.0K May 16 19:26 .DS_Store
-rw-------   1 Amit  staff     0B May  6 15:18 .localized
Amits-MacBook:~ Amit$

And the Get Info window shows 1 item:

Please advise what's going on here and how I can get my Downloads folder to stop imagining things?


texts: How can I exclude certain ports from the firewall notifications?

texts:
First of all, I know I can manually configure the firewall through IPFW but I hope that the OS X firewall system has an option for this by default.

The problem I am currently having is that when I'm doing web development with Django I get a 'Do you want the application "python" to accept incoming netowrk connections?' every time I save a file within the project.

Note that I need Django to be available throughout the local network since I usually use multiple computers during development (i.e. IE box to test) so I cannot set it to localhost only.

Is there any way to have OS X remember this "Allow" permanently instead of asking every time I save a file?


texts: Can I change mac to iterate over select items with down key like on Windows?

texts:
On windows, all I needed to do in such a dropdown, when it was selected to press down button and it would select the next item, which would result in seeing the next color variant. You could go through all the colors like this neatly and quickly without disturbance.
On mac I have to press down to open up the selection, press down again to select the item and then Enter to see the result. Super annoying. Is there some way to modify this behavior to emulate the more efficient behavior from Windows?
See here, with button presses on Mac:

You can experiment with the UI on this link
I am on macOS Big Sur and this undesirable behaviour was reproduced on Safari, Brave, Firefox (haven't gone further).


texts: Old version (macOS Sierra) for Pages, Keynote and Numbers, iWork

texts:
I uninstalled my iWork tools - Keynote, Numbers and Pages - from my MacBook Air.

Unfortunately, I don't want to upgrade my MBA to Mojave/Catalina in order to install.

I looking for the working iWork version for 10.12 Sierra.

Is there some repository for old versions of iWork?


texts: How to get macOS to play audio-in from aux

texts:
When I am on my PS4, I cannot get the sound to play through my Bluetooth speaker. What I want to do instead is to connect the PS4 controller to my MacBook Pro via the 3.5mm jack and then use some software to forward that to my Bluetooth speaker.

How would I get the audio from the 3.5mm jack going from my PS4 controller  to my Mac, again, from the 3.5mm jack?

Here is a diagram of what I want to make it easier to understand.

PS4 Controller-->3.5mm jack--->MacBook Pro-->Bluetooth


texts: I'm trying to restore lost contacts information from Time Machine. Where is the data stored on the HD? I've searched the Library, Documents and other likely places, but can't find the actual cards anywhere.


texts: My MacBook Air won't charge correctly : the light is green instead of orange

texts:
I have a 2009 MacBook Air (MacBookAir2,1)

I have a compatible MagSafe and a Apple one.

Sometimes (almost most of the time), when the computer is running and not in sleep, if I plug the MagSafe, it goes orange for a few minutes then goes back to green. It says that the computer doesn't use battery but it doesn't charge it.

I have tried with both chargers and it is the same.

Now I have also tried to shut the computer down and charge it : it works, it remains orange and charges the battery.

I must admit that I have changed the battery to a compatible one because mine was too old.

Do you think the fact that it is a compatible battery makes the computer thinks it is fully loaded and stops charging ?  Is there a way to prevent that instead of stopping the computer to charge ?

Thanks


texts: Global shortcut for menu item within menubar bar application

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I'd like to create a applescript that selects the "History" menu item from the menubar application Jing.

I'm aware of how to create a global shortcut for an application with multiple menus, but I'm unclear of how to do this for an app that runs exclusively in the menu bar and doesn't have a "File" menu.

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: Will Mountain Lion's Time Machine read data from a NAS and back it up to an external USB drive?

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So, I have most of my data on a NAS.

Can I configure time machine to backup both my iMac's internal drive as well as my data stored on a NAS? All of the backups are to be stored on an USB drive attached to my iMac.

I'm running Mountain Lion. The NAS I have is here:

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office-nas/linkstation-pro-duo-1

I'm not sure which protocol I'm using right now, but it supports AFP.


texts: How can I find all unnamed people in Photos on iOS (not on macOS)?

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Is there a way on iOS (not on macOS) to list all photos that have people detected in them but for which the people haven't been associated with a name / contact yet?

Perhaps a smart album or a third-party app?


texts: How to reclaim unoccupied disk space with Disk Utility?

texts:
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro which I tried to set up for dual-booting OS X and Linux. It resulted in some unclaimed free space on my SSD, see screenshot below.

Unfortunately, I am unable to reclaim that free space: It is grayed out and there seems to be nothing in Disk Utility that I can use to change that.


texts: How to change the language of the App Store to be able to see accurate star ratings?

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I have an iTunes account with an Italian billing address; because of this Apple assumes that I want the app store in Italian which is not the case.

Part of the UI is in Italian (other parts are in English, go figure), the app descriptions and their reviews are in Italian, even the "Top apps" are the top apps in Italy instead of worldwide.

The biggest problem of all is that there is no way to see the ratings for apps without logging out first. This is a big inconvenience as almost all applications show up as having "no ratings" (as only local ratings and reviews are shown, which are very few and almost non existent).

This of course severely hinders my capability of knowing whether an app is good or not. Even the most popular apps have either 0 ratings or less than 5.

As an example, YNAB which currently has 1574 ratings when viewed from the English store shows up as "No Ratings" while I am logged in.

Is there any way to change the language to English, and see worldwide ratings without having to log out first?

EDIT: 6 years later, there appears to be still no solution.


texts: Cannot remove NextDNS network service in preferences

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I installed NextDNS through a profile a while ago and is was easy to uninstall via its profile. Later I changed my internal SSD to one with a bigger capacity and used Time Machine to restore my Mac state.
Unfortunately the NextDNS profile was deleted in the process but not the network service, thus DNS queries are redirected but I cannot remove the profile because it does not exist. Moreover, I cannot delete the network service in the Network pane because the minus sign is grayed out.
I tried solutions from other questions with similar issues with VPN configurations but none proved useful in my particular case.


texts: Is there a system keystroke (interrupt) I can press to force a coredump on OSX?

texts: How do I force MacOS to dump the state of the running processes and reboot without the need to open a windows or open a command line?  My system is effectively unresponsive to non-system interrupt activities (keystrokes take minutes to process - holding down the power button works).  Is there a key sequence that can tell MacOS to snapshot state and reboot for later diagnosis?  Does MacOS possibly store a system dump somewhere after a forced system reboot?


texts: Where is the Autocorrect dictionary file for Outlook 2015 stored in OS X Yosemite?

texts:
I make intensive use of Office autocorrect feature for fast typing (which I use as a kind of autocompletion - shorthand / stenography). I have been able to modify the ACL file for Office 2011 applications (which works great in Word), but Office 365 comes with a separate 2015 version of Outlook and I cannot find the dedicated file for autocorrect entries.

After a few tests, I found out that Outlook does take the Mac OS system dictionary entries into account (which are stored in an .sqlite file in /Library/Dictionaries/CoreDataUbiquitySupport/username/UserDictionary/local/store/UserDictionary.db - in case you're wondering where it was...). So I have been able to add my own dictionary entries in this sqlite file and Outlook does take them into account. Heck, Outlook gets real slow when this system dictionary is fed with more than 3000 entries (I bet you're wondering wtf is in this list, never mind).

Luckily, I found out that Outlook's Autocorrect feature also uses its own set of entries (which can be manually updated through Outlook Preferences > Autocorrect) - these work better and faster. So now I just need to find this damn' little file where I can store my huge list of words through a bulk import…

A long search on the Web made me realize I am probably a very lonely user of Outlook's autocorrect feature (at least on Mac)… Any weird guy like me out there who would incidentally know the path to this golden little file?


texts: Issues with iCloud settings when cloning Mac hard drives

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I'm cloning several Mac Minis from an original one. Somehow the iCloud settings get messed up every-time, and I have to go through the following:

Logout (it still maintains the username, but I get an empty shell).
Login.
Go though all the original settings manually.

As I have to do this process multiple times a day, I wonder if there is a way to automate this process, or - best option - fix the problem at the origin, and have the cloning get everything right in the first place.

I am using latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner, and this is a known issue.
Not sure about SuperDuper!.

It looks like there is a key macOS has a "Local Items" keychain that gets ignored when it's copied to another Mac, and that could be part of the problem.

Any ideas?


texts:
I try to mount a SMB share in Finder but I have two problems.

The time for mount is about 25s.
Folder listings; very slow when there are many elements inside.

The smb share is ending by .local. I know that this create a conflict with the Mac's Bonjour zero-configuration networking service but I can't chance my domain.

The others stations running on Windows 7 are working very fast.

Does it exist any solution to mount and list quickly?


texts: Can't boot, fsck -ya in single user says 'Disk full'

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My Macbook Pro suddenly turned itself off (I believe I got a popup saying it was soon out of diskspace, but I didn't think this meant "Your OSX installation will soon be unusable"). After this, I haven't been able to boot into OSX.

Booting into single user mode and running fsck -fy bails out with the message that the "Disk full error":

** Rebuilding extended attributes B-tree.
CreateNewBTree returned -34
   Disk full error

Checking the Mac disks from Linux (I've got a dual boot), I can confirm that non of the Mac related partitions are out of diskspace:

the EFI partition has 180MB free (9% used)
the Mac Boot partition has 113MB free (82% used)
the main Mac harddrive has 17GB free (83% used)

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: How can I set up seamless navigation of vim and iterm2 splits?

texts:
I am trying to map my C-h, C-j, C-k, C-l keys to be able to navigate vim (running in iterm2) splits but if there is no vim split to move to it should figure out that I want to jump to a different iterm2 window.

Pretty much this http://robots.thoughtbot.com/seamlessly-navigate-vim-and-tmux-splits but without having to run tmux (or at least without needing tmux to do the multiplexing)


texts:
I've giving my 2009 iMac to a friend. It was running El Capitan and Windows 10 on Bootcamp. I've tried to be clever (which apparently I'm not) and I've done a clean reset of Windows 10, not understanding that I would no longer be able to see or access Mac. Yes, all traces of macOS have disappeared.  Even the Mac keyboard doesn't work, presumably because I've lost all Bootcamp drivers.

The Mac partition may still be there somewhere, as the Windows partition only takes 130GB of the 500GB HDD. So somehow, I need to restore macOS using a Windows mouse and keyboard. Oh dear.....

Any advice would be much appreciated.


texts: Is it preferable to buy two 8GB or one 16GB for iMac 27" 2017 memory upgrade?

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I have 16GB of RAM installed on my iMac 27" 5K i7 2017 (2 x 8GB).

There are 4 slots in total and I would like to add another 16GB.

I don't know if it's best to buy 2 x 8GB or 1 x 16GB?


texts: Automator workflow to screen capture a series of video links

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My job requires me to screen capture recordings in Adobe Connect, using Camtasia. I would love to set up a list of urls for many of these recordings and have Automator cruise through them while I'm away from the machine. The workflow would start with a list of urls. For each one it would:

Click on the url to launch Adobe Connect
Start Camtasia recording the
screen for 70 minutes
Maximize the Adobe Connect window
Stop and save
the recording (ideally with a custom name connected to the original
url, but I can do without that)
Close the Adobe Connect window and close the Camtasia recording
Repeat
for all the urls on the list

I've barely used Automator but I actually managed to get it partially working. The thing I don't know how to do is have it repeat using a list of urls. My workflow just gets it to do all the steps once, which doesn't really save me any time. I also need some kind of variable in the Apple Script that makes Camtasia vary the name it uses to save the file. Otherwise Camtasia is going to save over the same filename again and again.

EDIT:
I managed to almost get it done (maybe?) with this Applescript.

set myList to {"p10nlnl2mk6x", "pdweybcght9w", "pq7aydrk6712", "pc8vtqhtvk13", "pooix1p6mpk3", "p0xlc3nttd2m", "p7q09gm8dbhd", "pvccnetb4z1s", "pz0b03x0nauz", "pw4lr56emb8a", "pg6kxxzlo5mv", "pn97lly62vi0"}
repeat with theItem in myList
    open location "https://example.com/" & theItem
    delay 10
    tell application "System Events"
        perform action "AXPress" of (first button whose subrole is "AXFullScreenButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
    end tell
    tell application "Camtasia 3"
        startRecording region {0, 0, 2880, 1800}
        delay 4200
        stopRecording
        save document 1 in "/Users/[user]/Desktop/" & theItem
        close theItem
    end tell
    tell application "Adobe Connect"
        quit
    end tell
end repeat

But it fails on the "save document 1" line. I get:

error "Camtasia 3 got an error: Can’t get document 1. Invalid index." number -1719 from document 1

EDIT 2:

Okay I have a solution that I think works but isn't the most elegant. It requires Camtasia to already be open, and then uses keyboard shortcuts to start and stop the recording.

repeat with theItem in myList
    tell application "System Events"
        key code 19 using {command down, shift down}
        delay 2
        click checkbox "Start Recording" of window "Camtasia Recorder" of application process "Camtasia 3"
    end tell
    open location "https://liveonline.kaptest.com/" & theItem
    delay 20
    tell application "System Events"
        perform action "AXPress" of (first button whose subrole is "AXFullScreenButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
    end tell
    delay 4500
    tell application "System Events"
        key code 19 using {command down, option down}
        delay 5
    end tell
    tell application "Adobe Connect"
        quit
    end tell
end repeat

This results in all the recordings being collected in a single Untitled Camtasia document, but that's fine because the raw recordings are in a temp folder somewhere I can get at after this is done. It accomplishes my main goal, which is to walk away from the machine overnight and have it offline individual recordings unattended.


texts: Dell D3818DW: How to connect KVM between PC and Macbook pro mid-2012?

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I just bought a Dell 38" Ultrawide (D3818DW) and I wanna get all the cables I need while I wait for it to arrive.
I want to use the KVM feature of this monitor between my MBP mid-2012 and my PC so I can switch seamlessly between them.

I've read that I need a Mini-Display Port to Display Port cable to connect my MBP. And to use the KVM feature, I have to also connect a USB downstream cable to the MBP.

However, I also read that connecting a MBP via USB-C can bypass having to connect a USB Downstream to use the KVM feature. My Mac has a Thunderbolt 2 port and two USB 3.0 ports.

So, can I just use something like the StarTech TBT3TBTADAP TB 3 to Legacy TB adapter for display and KVM? So I won't have to have two wires sticking out of my MBP when using the KVM feature.


texts:
I use iMovie 9 to edit and export movies. I have some old movies, 640x480 pixels wide. When I export them, iMovie suddenly changes it to 640x360 or 960x540. Both cut off a piece of the video. Is it possible to export these movies to 640x480 somehow, or do I need another editor?

I'm waiting for Lightworks to come out, but that will probably take till summer I'm afraid. I understand iMovie 10 is a disaster, so I'm not going to upgrade to that.


texts:
Previously on Chrome, I could use ⌘+F to bring up the Chrome find bar, then esc would close it. However, on macOS Sierra, esc now exits full-screen mode if the Chrome window is in this mode (which I commonly use).

What is the shortcut to close the find bar? Alternatively, how do I disable esc closing full-screen mode?


texts: Boot Camp 5 drivers will not install in Windows 8

texts: I have a Macbook Pro Early 2011 and I had Windows 7 installed on it through boot camp.I recently upgraded to windows 8 by using an upgrade CD. When I upgraded I had Boot Camp 2.3 installed and that was not working with windows 8. So I downloaded Boot Camp 5 Drivers and tried to install them but every time the installation fails because it says that it requires windows 7. Is there some way to work around this? Or do I need to go back to windows 7 then install the drivers then go to 8?


texts: Gmail app on App store only has "Open" and not "Install" option

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I have an iPhone X and I configured the pre-installed Mail app to my Gmail account. After using it for some time I recently got an email from Google saying "you are missing out, update to the Gmail app". So I clicked on the "Get the app" button which took me to the App Store and there was an "Open" button which, of course, opens the Gmail app.

The problem is that apparently the app does not get installed, so if I fully close it, then the only way to access it again is to go the the App Store, look for the app and click on the "Open" button which is, frankly, super annoying.

Of course there is a work around which is to keep the app always open and then swipe through all the open apps until I get to the Gmail one, but that is also cumbersome and annoying.

Is there a way to actually have the app installed and available in the phone's home screen?


texts: Deleted Bootcamp partition and it just disappeared. Nothing to merge with OSX partition

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I had Windows 10 Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro 15" 2015. I just tried to remove the Bootcamp with Bootcamp assistant by clicking "restore" and it gave me an error saying "The disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."

So I followed instructions given by this answer and I deleted the Bootcamp partition using Disk Utility.

The partition was successfully deleted and there was 200GB of unused space. I tried to merge it with my OSX partition and it gave me an error. Forgot what type of error exactly, something about one of partitions being broken (wrong amount of blocks or something?)

Now the problem is that the 200GB of unused space (previously used by Bootcamp) just disappeared. Nowhere to be seen.

What can I do to fix this? How can I get my OSX partition back to the original 500GB?

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

  No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0


texts: Slow website loss times on Google.com and apple.com

texts:
I've noticed that recently when I try to use Google products or (more specifically) try to access apple.com, there are slow 30-60 second wait times or no load whatsoever. This applies to all web browsers that I've tried (Chrome, Firefox, Safari). I have no VPN connections or device profiles. This also only occurs when I'm using cellular data.

iPhone 8 Plus
iOS 11.4.1
Carrier: Verizon Wireless 32.0
Available space: 20 GB/64 GB


texts:
I'm trying to uninstall Adobe Air on Lion.

All of my air apps won't load so I think an uninstall/reinstall will help.

I've opened the Adobe AIR uninstaller but nothing comes up.  I can't figure out how to do this.

Does anyone know how I can uninstall Adobe Air?


texts: What's the minimum partition size for osx mavericks when dual booting with windows 8?

texts:
I used boot camp to setup dual booting between windows 8 and mac osx mavericks.

To get the most possible space for Windows 8, should I have formatted my computer first?

I was able to partition my drive as:

205 GB OSX
18 GB Available 295 GB Win8

It is a 500 GB hard drive.

If I formatted it first, could I have made the OSX partition smaller? If so, how much smaller?


texts:
I didn't find this question, but if it is here let me know.

I have a problem disk.  I want to copy as much as possible from it before I scrap it.  But there are many thousands of files, so manually re-starting the copy every time it reaches a bad spot is not appealing.  I would like a copy program that will automatically go on to the next file when it reaches an unreadable one.  Any suggestions for this?

I have tried the following.  But none does what I want with this disk.  All will hang at some spot and apparently never recover, even if left overnight.

copy by drag 'n drop
Carbon Copy Cloner
SuperDuper!
Disk Utility
Tech Tool Pro
even some experiments with "cp -a" in the terminal  (but I'm no Unix expert)


texts: How to enable searching inside Google Drive/Docs using Spotlight?

texts:
Has anyone found/created a working solution for searching inside Google Docs using Spotlight (their contents, not just their names)?

Precipitate used to provide this functionality, but unfortunately no longer works and is no longer maintained.


texts: Dual boot with Windows 10 on 2011 Macbook Pro with APFS

texts:
I have been able to successfully dual boot a 2011 Macbook Pro with Windows 10 before when OS X still used the HFS file system, but things have obviously changed with how the system boots with APFS.

I understand that Windows will not know what APFS is, and so Bootcamp will not work while using Windows if you want to switch over to OS X by using Bootcamp. However, I have another perplexing issue....or simply curiosity.

When you hold down the option key at bootup, I see a hard disk icon with “Macintosh SSD” - obviously that’s OS X. But I don’t see one for Windows (BOOTCAMP). I see “EFI Boot” instead. If I select that, I boot into Windows 10. So, ok, it works, but why does it not say “BOOTCAMP “ or “Windows”?

Also, if I’m in OS X and I go to the System Preferences and choose BOOTCAMP as my startup disk and restart the computer, it boots into nothing and says there’s no startup disk. So I have to power down and hold option again.

I suspect there’s a nuance or issue with the EFI partition or MBR now that APFS is involved, because I never had this issue before with fresh installs, which this was for both sides - OS X and Windows.

If anyone knows what’s going on, please let me know!

Thanks!!


texts:
I have my MacPro booting into Lion off a 3 disk (software) RAID 0 array. I want to dedicate a fourth drive to Windows 7 via Bootcamp. However it won't run at all on my system, exiting with a 'RAID is not supported' message.

Is there a way around this? Or a reliable, easy-to-use third-party bootloader like grub or similar I can use to set-up a dual-boot?


texts: How can I get the dev name associated to a Volume name?

texts:
I am creating a bash script to unmount my usb drive after the backup is done.
To unmount the drive I use the command:

diskutil unmount disk4s1

But sometimes when I plug my usb drive it gets a different dev name, as disk3s1, or disk2s1.
I need add a line in my script before unmount the disk, to get the dev name associated to my volume name.

What command could I use to get the dev name given its volume name?


texts:
I would like to expand the system search to DjVu -files or find an alternative way to do this.
My current OS X is Yosemite 10.10.2 but this can a Unix tool tool.
DjVu contains an OCR text layer, making it easy to perform copy and paste and text search operations.
The search is also more efficient than in PDF.

How can you search Djvu files also efficiently in a system search?
I am open about tools.
It can be Finder but I would prefer first efficient terminal tool.


texts: MacBook Pro fan is not running on default settings regardless of how hot it gets

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina) and I am noticing that the fan is not running at all even though the temperature gets to more than 60c and the system starts lagging. I had iStat Menu installed and when I switched from default to manual setting and set the speed the fan would start spinning.

Now I am using the manual setting and running it on 4000rpm and the temperature gets to between 40c-50c. I am concerned about why this is happening? Why does it not work automatically on the default setting even though it gets so hot to the point that it starts to lag. Is it a software bug or does my fan have some sort of hardware issue?

One more thing: when I adjust the fan speed slider from 4000 to 2000rpm the fan suddenly stops working and I can not hear any sound and the temperature starts to heat up.

I also uninstalled the iStat Menu to see if it makes a difference, but the fan still doesn't run no matter how hot the laptop gets. Please advise the possible solution to this problem.

I am running Mac OSX 10.11.

P.S. Sorry for my bad English.


texts: Why is AppleScript not ejecting my volume?

texts:
I have a hard drive in my mac with multiple partitions, and I want to eject some of them with AppleScript. Simple:

tell application "Finder"
    eject disk "Photos"
end tell

Except it does not work. I can eject the drive from Disk Utility no problem; here it is right after ejecting:

So the question is, how do I debug this situation — what could be going wrong?


texts: Allow a single app temporary administrator privileges

texts:
I have a standard user who runs a piece of software that allows them to repair storage devices (flash disk/SD cards/on board storage for specific cameras/etc) which needs administrator privileges to run properly in OSX 10.11

Is there a way to permanently grant admin accesses to a single app so it can run properly without needing an admin password every time?

Will add more details about the software, but still waiting a reply from user.


texts: Is it possible to pre-install apps on an iPad?

texts:
We're giving away iPads (for real, and no you can't have one) as part of a promotion to our referral network. But the plan is to ship it pre-installed with our sales presentation apps and sign-up tools.

However, you can't install an app on an iPad until you've activated it through iTunes.

Is there some method anyone's aware of that would mean we can pre-install these apps on the pad before giving it to the recipient to activate?


texts: iPad Hardware Keyboard Shortcuts in Split View

texts:
For reference, I'm using the iPad Pro 2018 model.

I've run into some pretty frustrating behavior with iPadOS and a hardware keyboard, and I wanted to ask for help here.

How do you swap between apps in Split View?  Cmd + Tab works fine when switching between apps when they're just open by themselves, but let's say I have Safari and Youtube open side-by-side. In that case, Cmd + Tab stops working and I'm unable to swap back and forth between each split.

Am I missing something really obvious here, or is there really no way to do that via hardware keyboard shortcuts?


texts: I have a brand new MacBook Pro. I started a migration from a time machine backup...it has now been stuck on “about a minute remaining “ for 8+ hours. How does one remedy this?


texts:
Ok, it should be very easy one to figure out but I can't do it, so I'm asking experts. I want to know which one is accurate trackpad gesture for selecting text. Is it "three finger swipe right" or "one finger fixed with two fingers swipe down" or "three fingers swipe down" or any other ??

This is the  context in which I'm asking this question.

I'm trying to automate my text selection to get highlighted in preview and to get copied to clipboard in web browser. Two different things , but selecting text & assigning gesture is common.

The way I select text in browser is by "three fingers drag right & down simultaneously".

This is how automatic highlighting worked in preview: selected text by "three finger swipe right" -  assigned action "^ command H" to this gesture using bettertouchtool app & selected text is highlighted. But can't use same technique in web browser to automatically copy my text with trackpad gesture.

When I use "three fingers swipe right" gesture in browser it only selects few words or one line & not the entire set of lines/para like in preview. So what will be right trackpad gesture to select text in browser. I hope its clear now.


texts: Is it possible to convert a MacBook Pro from the glossy to the matte option?

texts:
I have foolishly managed to crack the glass on the glossy screen of my 15 inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro.

While considering the option to replace the glass, I then remembered I'd always wanted to have the matte (anti-glare) option.

Is it possible to convert from the glossy to the matte option? Is it as simple as removing the glass and installing a bezel?
Or are there more parts to the matte screen than this?
Or is it a completely different LCD panel?
Are there any other caveats, particularly with respect to the bezels that seem to be available on eBay and the like?

Edit: Should have mentioned that I already have the high-resolution glossy display.


texts: Safe to delete old "Macintosh HD - Data" partition?

texts:
I did a clean install of MacOs today, and when choosing where to install it chose "Macintosh HD". It now seems there is a new "Macintosh HD - Data" partition, where MacOS currently references, as well as my old "Macintosh HD - Data" with all my data still there.
Assuming I don't need any of the data on it, is it safe to delete the old -Data partition?
EDIT:
diskutil list returns the following:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         371.0 GB   disk0s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                128.0 GB   disk0s3
4:           Windows Recovery                         920.6 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +371.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     269.1 GB   disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 634.7 MB   disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.2 GB     disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4
5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     42.1 GB    disk1s5
6:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.1 GB    disk1s7
7:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.1 GB    disk1s7s1

diskutil apfs listVolumeGroups returns the following:
APFS Container (1 found)
|
+-- Container disk1 9A012B72-C05A-43FB-9A22-F7DC25CC2E05
    |
    +-> Volume Group 94245471-6F9F-3BB6-A6B7-37F3B9A771D5
    |   =================================================
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (Data)
    |   Name:                      Macintosh HD - Data
    |   Volume UUID:               94245471-6F9F-3BB6-A6B7-37F3B9A771D5
    |   Capacity Consumed:         269121105920 B (269.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Volume Group A7914E12-F1B5-415F-A537-6942D294B6E8
        =================================================
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s5 (Data)
        Name:                      Macintosh HD - Data
        Volume UUID:               A7914E12-F1B5-415F-A537-6942D294B6E8
        Capacity Consumed:         42299822080 B (42.3 GB)
        -------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s7 (System)
        Name:                      Macintosh HD
        Volume UUID:               5ABDE43A-2F43-414F-8BCE-1AA92D42D887
        Capacity Consumed:         15050797056 B (15.1 GB)


texts: Why does the output of “last” in macOS 10.12 (Sierra) show seemingly nothing but “crash” entries?

texts:
I just upgraded my Mac mini (Late 2012) to macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and noticed something strange: When running the last command in the Terminal—which shows you a history of user logins, reboots and shutdowns—seemingly all of the entries are now indicating “crash” when I can assure you this system has never crashed since the upgrade.

Here is the output of last on my system:

my_mac:~ jake$ last
jake      ttys001                   Sat Sep 24 09:05   still logged in
jake      ttys000                   Sat Sep 24 09:05   still logged in
jake      console                   Sat Sep 24 09:01   still logged in
reboot    ~                         Sat Sep 24 09:00
jake      ttys000                   Sat Sep 24 09:00 - crash  (00:00)
jake      ttys000                   Sat Sep 24 01:19 - crash  (07:41)
jake      ttys000                   Sat Sep 24 00:13 - crash  (08:47)
jake      ttys000                   Fri Sep 23 23:45 - crash  (09:15)
jake      console                   Fri Sep 23 22:45 - crash  (10:15)
reboot    ~                         Fri Sep 23 22:44
jake      ttys000                   Fri Sep 23 07:35 - crash  (15:08)
jake      ttys000                   Fri Sep 23 07:31 - crash  (15:12)
jake      console                   Fri Sep 23 07:00 - crash  (15:43)
reboot    ~                         Fri Sep 23 06:59
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 22:56 - crash  (08:03)
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 22:03 - crash  (08:56)
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 21:21 - crash  (09:38)
jake      ttys001                   Thu Sep 22 21:18 - crash  (09:41)
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 21:16 - crash  (09:42)
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 19:59 - crash  (10:59)
jake      ttys000                   Thu Sep 22 19:23 - crash  (11:36)
_mbsetupuser  console                   Thu Sep 22 08:35 - crash  (22:24)
jake      console                   Thu Sep 22 08:26 - crash  (22:33)
reboot    ~                         Thu Sep 22 08:21

Typically that output should reflect reboot for a cold boot or even a warm reboot. That data can be gleaned now by running last reboot as shown here:

my_mac:~ jack$ last reboot
reboot    ~                         Sat Sep 24 09:00
reboot    ~                         Fri Sep 23 22:44
reboot    ~                         Fri Sep 23 06:59
reboot    ~                         Thu Sep 22 08:21

But it still seems odd/broken to me since I’m quote confident this behavior was not the case in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or previous versions of Mac OS X since the main reason I use last like this is to casually keep track of the last times I shut down or restarted the system.

NOTE: Yes, that last man page I link to on the Apple website states that the entry is for Mac OS X 10.9 and is a “retired” document, the output of man last on my macOS 10.12 system is 100% the same.


texts: How is the iOS App Store Updates list organized?

texts:
I have dozens of apps in my iOS App Store that have updates available, but I have no interest in updating most of them. There are certain apps though that if an update were available I would want to install it. But I can't find any rhyme or reason to how the updates are sorted in that section of the App Store app which makes it harder for me to see if something is available short of slowly scrolling through the whole list or searching for that app directly.

So how are they organized?


texts: How to correctly plug an iPhone for charge?

texts:
An Apple official article for iPhone says:

  When you use the Apple USB Power Adapter to charge iPhone, make sure the USB cable is fully inserted into the power adapter before you plug the adapter into a power outlet.

(from iPhone User Guide at https://help.apple.com/)

This seems to hint that plugging the cable and iPhone before plugging both to the charger has some potential risk?  How so?


texts: Anyone gotten 10.7.2 to bind properly to Active Directory in a multi-domain environment?

texts: I work for an international non-profit that has Active Directory with multiple domains. (A bunch of them.) We can't get Lion (10.7.2) to bind to it properly. Has anyone been successful in getting AD to work in Lion 10.7.2? We have a bunch of new Macs and can't get them on the network. We'll be testing AdmitMac this week, but would rather not pay more than $100 a machine to get them hooked up.


texts: How to change the spelling language in OS X with AppleScript?

texts:
I often need to change the spelling language in OS X from English to Turkish and vice versa, how can I do it with an AppleScript?

Note: I have read this question already, but in there, the answer suggests using Automatic by Language, which does not work properly, so I need to make these specific changes.

I'm using a Mid-2015 MacBook Air with OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.


texts: Mojave Screenshots save location set to Ram drive doesn't work

texts:
I have just updated to Mojave 10.14.6 and found that the shift-command-5 allows user to set a save file location. I always use Ram Drive to work for temporary file since SSD have a limitation in read/write life. (I have encountered a malfunction SSD before. When that SSD is "broken", it did not allow to write and become read only. So any sensitive data inside it cannot be erased.)

For instance, I set the saving location for the screenshots to Ram Drive. However, the screenshot does not save other than to local drive.(I haven't tried in USB though)

If I set it to a Ram Drive, nothing is saved. If I switch back to a local drive. It works again.
Things tried:

Add system access rights to the ram drive and the specific folder (not work)
Add utilities/screenshot.app to Accessibility in preference (not work)
saving location confirmed by defaults read com.apple.screencapture location, it is set in /Volumes/Ram/uploads but just don't work

Does any one have such an experience and successful in doing so?
Many thanks.

Edited 1

I am using tmpdisk to create ram drive on startup which formats the ram disk as Mac OS Extended (not in the format list of current MacOS Disk Util)
Tried USB stick (a micro SD card with USB Type-C adapter) running ExFAT, it works. The micro SD come with ExFat because it is sharing with Android phone. I just grab for test and use temporarily.

Edited 2
With the inspiration of @Tetsujin, I have tried the following:

I format the Ram drive using Disk Util with ExFat and Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Both work suddenly.
Then I reboot to try the startup format. It still works.
Then I turn Accessibility off for screenshot.app and then reboot to try, it also works

It seems that only the first time I tried didn't work. I am unsure what make it working or not working. I could only conclude that reformat it and reboot it seems resolving the issue.

Thank for your time.


texts:
I have a headless MacMini attached to my Time Capsule that has a series of firewire disks attached (I use it to store photographs, and it runs CCC to backup one disk to another with lots of redundancy). As disks have failed over the years, some of them have had to be renamed, and they show up with their new names on the MacMini if I screenshare to it. But my MacBook Air still shows them when I connect to the MacMini for filesharing with their old names. Restarting, cleaning system cache, trashing logs, and trashing Finder plist have not corrected this. If I bring in a new computer that has never before connected to the MacMini it will show the old names too, so I assume this means the problem is on the MacMini, not on the machine accessing it. Recently, I added an iMac to the network to keep connected to my film scanners. I'm having the same problem with it's hard drive name. I changed it from its original name to iMac HD, but the original name still shows up for sharing the disk on other machines. It's confusing to have a network where all drives are called Macintosh HD, so I want the name change to show up across the network.
Is there a fix for this?


texts:
I need to re-install OS X Lion and I'm at a stage where when I turn my laptop on, it needs an internet connection to proceed.

I have a good strong Wi-Fi signal, but I need to sign in. I usually do this by opening Safari, which prompts me with the sign-in page. I can't open Safari though because I'm in the re-install screen.

Any ideas on how to get around this?

Also, what's the proper terminology used here?


texts: Does it make sense to buy a compatible Mac external disk?

texts:
What is the advantage of buying a compatible Mac external disk?
Using Tuxera NTFS I can have an external disk for both, the windows partition (or any windows machine) as well as for the Mac one.

Does it make sense to look for a compatible external disk nowadays?
What would be the best way to deal with the PC/Mac compatible problems in terms of disk formatting? Is using Tuxera a nice way to deal with it?


texts: cannot use the mac_alias package to generate an alias

texts:
I have about 3000 files and I need to turn them into aliases so doing it by hand is not an option plus in the future I want to be able to do this automatically.  I'm trying to use this package
https://mac-alias.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The module only has three methods, for_file, to_bytes, from_bytes.  I want to be able to generate an alias.  I would think I would need to tell the computer which path I want the alias to occupy and which path I want the alias to point to.  But I only see a method which creates some sort of object using the for_file method, but once that is done I cannot figure out what do with it.
In case I'm not being very clear I want to generate an alias which points to a file.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to clear the search box in Lion's Mail?

texts: I am running 10.7.2 and would like to be able to clear the search box in Mail with a shortcut. How do I do this?


texts: Brother HL-1440 Disappears From Mavericks

texts:
I'm using OS X 10.9.4 and I have a Brother HL-1440 that I've been using for years, even before I was using an iMac.  It's been a real workhorse and doesn't show signs of failure mechanically (it's still on just the 1st toner cartridge after the one included when I bought it).  I've never had an issue with this printer working with OS X until about two weeks ago.

It looked like it was online and I ran a program on the Terminal that sent output to it.  Nothing happened.  It kept showing up as "Offline," but I couldn't find anything to tell me why.  I finally looked around, found the Brother driver (probably the same as the one I had been using), downloaded and installed it, removed, power-cycled, then added the printer and it showed up again and I was able to use it.

A week later I was using it from the command line again and, again, it showed as "offline."  I tried re-installing the driver, power-cycling, and the rest of that line of thinking, but now it doesn't show up at all.

I grabbed a different USB printer cable, hooked it up, connecting it to a different hub, and the printer just does not appear now.  I can use either printer cable, but it's not there.  I've tried using CUPS directly, through localhost:631, but it doesn't see it either.

I know it's been around a while, but it would surprise me if the electronics (which don't move) would give out before the mechanical parts show any sign of failing.

What can make a printer disappear that I might be able to fix?  It seems like there's something flaky going on (and the USB info shows everything else shows up well, so it's not the port on the iMac).  If I have to junk it and replace it, I can do that, but if I can get it to behave again, that'd be great.

What can I look at and check to see why it isn't communicating?


texts: Lion: Safari brings me to the Googlesearch window when I want to go to next tab via keyboard, what can I do?

texts:
Safari (5.1.1-Lion) enervates me many times every day (= very often!):

Every time when I want to go to the next tab via keyboard command (command+tab/or command+tab+alt when going to the left) the Googlesearch input window is activated first.

That means I've always to type in the command a second time.
(I don't use a trackpad. I'm working with keyboard and mouse/trackball.)

Is there a solution/walkaround???


texts:
Through my high school I have a Macbook Air. Because I am the technologically curious person that I am, I found a workaround for installing apps by putting them in the package contents of other apps (i.e. Google Chrome). I did this with Steam. After doing this, they found out about it and cleared out all of the apps' package contents.

They don't specifically know that I did this, but now every time I restart my computer a pop-up comes up saying that I don't have permission to run "steamclean".

I really don't want this to come up if they are trying to help me with my laptop if I have issues with it. Any suggestions?


texts: Why did I receive a text message on my Mac prior to my iPhone?

texts:
Since the Yosemite and iOS 8.1 updates, we can now receive our non-iMessages (SMS) messages on our Mac (more info).

However, the following strange scenario happened to me:

I was using my Mac and my iPhone — just near me — was locked,
the Message Mac app notifies me of a text message from my friend's phone (definitely not an iPhone user),
1 minute later, my iPhone vibrates and finally notifies me of the same text message.

Since my iPhone is the first and only device to get the text message from my cell phone provider, why did my Mac notify me first?


texts: Is there a way to automatically delete all cookies in Safari upon exit?

texts:
For the longest time the ill-named "Safari Cookies" extension (by using SIMBL) provided this function of automatically deleting all cookies in Safari when quitting the application.

But development of that project has stopped and it does not work with the latest version of macOS and Safari. Instead they sell a 20USD product that promises to continue doing that and more.

Is there any free option for providing what should be an essential privacy feature of any modern browser? I don't want to select "Clear history..." from the Safari menu every time I use that application.


texts:
I just upgraded to Catalina with a new Mac... and am wondering if it is possible to change the screen resolution from within the menu bar?

I was sure I used to do something like this years ago in Snow Leopard or Lion or something, but I might be getting mixed up with the 'external displays' menu.
Is this possible or do I need to go into System Preferences each time?


texts: is there a way for Menubar to display only battery percentage?

texts: is there a way to see only the percentage, I dont really care about the small battery image and I dont need it. Is there a way to remove it?


texts: Screen capture utility no longer saves to Desktop

texts:
In the last few weeks, screen capture stopped working on my MBP. Well, partially.

I can still capture to the clipboard with command + control + shift + 4, but if I try to do a standard capture to a file, my Mac plays the screen capture sound but nothing gets saved on my Desktop.

I'm running OS X 10.9.2. The issue has survived a reboot.

Any suggestions?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What are next steps when fsck reports “could not be repaired after 3 attempts”?

Hi Guys I hope someone can save me!!!

I´m so stupid that I don´t have a backup of my files and I have 220 GB of Photos, Music and Work in one Partition. Now it won´t start.

Now that I have an external HD I´m desperate to find a way to save my files but I don´t know how to do it in Disk utilities or Route Shell. I have read there is a DiskWarrior but I have no clue how to install it without entering my Macintosh HD.

When I run fsck_hfs in Single User Mode this is what I see, hopefully someone can help me thank you from the heart:

Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557-393)
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
The volume name is Macintosh HD
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file
Incorrect number of thread records
(4, 23745)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 175703 instead of 175701)
Checking extended attributes file.
Incorrect number of extended attributes
(It should be 340062 instead of 340064)
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired after 3 attempts


texts:
My old imac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 was super slow.
I decided to do a clean install after backing up on Time Machine.  When I reinstalled Snow Leopard, it asked for an account name so I just put in a logical one.  I then went to TM and found that none of the files I wanted were there.  Reading info about this, it seems I made a new account and that if I can rename the account to the original name, I may be able to get to those files.
Unfortunately, I cant recall my old account name.

Any ideas?


texts: How to open an encrypted dmg file in Windows?

texts:
I made encrypted disk image on my MacBook.
Now I want to open it on my PC (Windows 10).

How can I open (mount) an encrypted dmg image file in Windows 10?


texts: What are some Weather Widgets I can use?

texts: I really need some Weather Widgets to use on Dashboard. Please give me your best widgets I can use.


texts: USB Hard drive has very small chance of being recognized by Macbook Pro each time it is connected, but works with other machines

texts:
I have a WD "My Passport" 1TB external hard drive. It isn't recognized by my Macbook Pro (retina, 2013) or a friend's very similar model, but it works with every other machine I've tried, including two Linux netbooks and an older iMac.

Sometimes, it mounts after multiple tries unplugging and replugging the cable. Usually, the hard drive spins up and lights its status LED, but it is not mounted or recognized by Disk Utility or the diskutil list command.

This question seems to describe a similar issue, but their drive doesn't connect every few dozen attempts like mine does.

What could be causing this issue?

Edit: When the drive is plugged in, this is output to dmesg:

Starting poll type 4
Restarting poll type 4
Command 0x2 completed. inCount: 2 data:0x5Command 0x1 completed. inCount: 2 data:0x1001Command 0x16 completed. inCount: 2 data:0x40e0Command 0xa completed. inCount: 2 data:0x0Command 0xb completed. inCount: 2 data:0x0Command 0x12 completed. inCount: 2 data:0xffffCommand 0x13 completed. inCount: 2 data:0xffffCommand 0xf completed. inCount: 2 data:0x1b6eCommand 0x10 completed. inCount: 2 data:0x1bacSmartBattery: finished polling type 4
kxld[net.lundman.spl]: In interface net.lundman.kernel.dependencies.28 of __kernel__, couldn't find symbol _panicstr

kxld[net.lundman.spl]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext:
kxld[net.lundman.spl]:  _panicstr
Can't load kext net.lundman.spl - link failed.
Failed to load executable for kext net.lundman.spl.
Kext net.lundman.spl failed to load (0xdc008016).
 Dependency net.lundman.spl of kext net.lundman.zfs failed to load.
Kext net.lundman.zfs failed to load (0xdc008015).
Failed to load kext net.lundman.zfs (error 0xdc008015).
Kext load request buffer from user space still retained by a kext; probable memory leak.

Edit 2: That output is still displayed when connecting a working flash drive, along with other stuff about USB media and about filesystems. It is not unique to the drive in this question, but it is the only thing outputted when this drive is connected.

Edit 3: So I did in fact have openZFS installed, at least partially. (No idea how or why). After running their uninstall script, nothing is output when this drive is plugged in at all.

Edit 4: Connecting with an ordinary MicroUSB cable instead of a USB 3 cable works every time. I realized that every other device I tested it on that worked didn't support USB 3. I just tested it with a Windows device that supports USB 3, and while it is better than the Mac, it still has a problem recognizing the drive. Interestingly, the Windows computer shows the drive as not supporting USB 3.0.


texts: macbook mid 2010 13" won't recognise ssd crucial mx200 HD 500gb placed in the optical drive

texts:
I have a macbook pro 13" mid 2009 2,26GHz with HDD 160gb. I recently replaced my optical drive with a crucial SSD 240GB and it works really good and it was quite an easy process. Now i am trying to do the same to a friends Macbook pro 13" mid 2010 with a crucial MX200 SSD 500gb, only now
it is not recognisable at all by the MBP.

both sata drives on MBP 2010 are on 3gb/s speeds while the ssd is 6gb/s!
Both macbook run el capitan

I tried disk utilities , i tried restarting with cmd + R and again is not there. I also replaced my friends sata cable with mine (which works fine) and still nothing. I am looking to several articles over the net and the most hopeful case is to replace the sata cable from the ssd to the board. If thats the case i will not have to return the item or lose my money but just buy a new cable.

Basically, do some SATA cables prevent negotiation to 6Gbps or is the 3 Gbps something to ignore and instead focus on maybe the adaptor i got to fit in the new ssd might be broken somewhere in the connection?


texts: Downloading Photos to iPad and adding them to iCloud photos

texts: I'm in a bit of pickle I'm home at my parents and they have an old windows laptop (very old basically no way to install any software on it) from which we copied photos on to an USB stick and then uploaded them via my laptop (linux) to wetransfer to download them to an iPad. I downloaded them with Safari to the iPad and now they are unzipped and and are syncing with the iCloud drive. How do I get them to show up in the photos app and add them to iCloud photos?


texts: In MacOS Catalina 10.15 on Safari, How do you disable Command-I from composing a new Mail message?

texts: I realize a similar question to this has been asked, but it's not the same. The answers in that question are for older versions of MacOS. I'm asking this question specifically for MacOS Catalina 10.15.


texts: Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 Trying to Install Old Command Line Tools

texts:
I've just installed Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 and the latest XCode.

➜  ~ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.1
BuildVersion:   18B75

I was just running updates and noticed one of them was an old version of the command line tools. It won't stop offering me this, and I'm not sure why. I did recently download the High Sierra installer to make bootable media for another computer, but have since removed it from my hard drive.

Here are the offending command line tools:

➜  ~ softwareupdate --list
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
   * Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1
    Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode (10.1), 190584K [recommended]

It looks like I can flag it to be ignored using the softwareupdate cli, but I feel like there might be a more systemic issue that needs to be addressed.


texts: sfltool add-item (to add Finder favorite) stopped working on High Sierra

texts:
I just noticed my normal command line command to add an item to Finder's favorites doesn't work anymore.

E.g. to add the Desktop to Finder's sidebar, I used to do:

sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/MyUserName/Desktop && killall Finder

However, now, it seems it doesn't do anything anymore except showing the output:

Usage: sfltool archive|list-info|list [options]

I also noticed that the file extension of ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems has changed from .sfl to .sfl2.

Does anyone yet know how to programmatically add a favorite item to Finder's sidebar in macOS High Sierra?

PS: I did find some solutions using a Swift script, yet I'd rather be able to just use a simple command line tool as before..


texts: Can I block ports and network traffic when using Personal Hotspot?

texts:
I would like to block ports and network traffic when using my jailbroken iOS device as a Personal Hotspot.

The reason is I don't want my backup program, computer updates, or any high bandwidth usage applications to be able to download or upload too much data.

Is there a way to do that using iOS itself or an application?


texts: How to run old AirPort Utils 5.x on MacOS X maverics?

texts: How to run old  AirPort Utils 5.x on MacOS X maverics ? Because the new one is really ugly.


texts: How do I make the emoji keyboard pop up faster

texts:
I am typing something in a text field
press ctrl+cmd+Space to show the emoji selector
type an emoji name
click the emoji I want

But the computer delay between (2) and (3) is way too long, and the first few characters of the emoji name isn't entered into the emoji search bar. The animation takes so long to finish.
How can I get rid of the emoji pop up animation so that I won't have this problem?
Or, alternatively, how can I circumvent this problem entirely and use another (equally convenient) method of inputting emoji?


texts: How to make Pages default to the folder of the opened file when exporting a PDF version?

texts:
I regularly create documents in Pages, then convert them to a PDF using File → Export. I always save the PDF versions in the same folder as the original document.

This save dialog that opens always seems to remember the latest location that I saved to. However, for me it would be much more useful if it just assumed I want to save to the same directory as the original file.

How can I make Pages do this?


texts: Can't use f.lux or Night Shift. How can I work around this?

texts: I have a mid 2011 Mac Mini running High Sierra. According to the apple help site, that model is incompatible with Night Shift. I have f.lux installed (had it for a couple of years) but it refuses to launch in High Sierra. I really like having the less blue night on the screen at night. Is there some way to work around this problem?


texts: No calendar subscriptions showing up on iCloud.com

texts:
I have a number of calendars on the Calendar app on my MacBook Pro (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2): along with the three standard iCloud calendars (Calendar, Home, Work) I have 7 subscriptions. I have tried a number of things, but it seems none of my calendars except the three standard ones want to appear on iCloud.com. Is this an irreparable bug with the Apple software/servers, or is there something I can do to fix this issue here?

Note: It's odd that the calendars and indeed the list of iCloud subscriptions still seems to sync fine with my iPhone. It's just that none of them display on iCloud.com for whatever reason!


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro, running 10.8.2. I'd like to give Windows 8 a go, using Boot Camp. Now, I've probably done a b Boot Camp install of Windows close to 10 times, on multiple Macs, but I'm stumped right now.

This computer previously had full disk encryption on, which I disabled last night.

Now, it seems as though a lot of the free space needs to be... defragmented.

Following are 3 screenshots, the first of Boot Camp, complaining of no free space, the second of all of my free space, and the last of the disk's partition map:

I Googled a bit, and have tried repairing the disk and permissions, and both found a few issues, but still the disk appears to be fragmented.

EDIT: For @pmjordan

Josh-Work-MacBook-Pro:~ josh.oneal$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
Josh-Work-MacBook-Pro:~ josh.oneal$ sudo gpt -r show disk0
Password:
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  488555536      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  488965176    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  490234712          7
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header


texts: How do I share files with users based on Apple ID?

texts:
How do I setup file sharing across multiple macs, such that I can share by connecting with my Apple ID, as opposed to a username/password?

I've searched the net for documentation on doing this, and have the hang of it using username/password, but not using Apple ID.  The situation:

I have two Macs, both running OS X Lion, one with Server (I'll call that one the server, and the other the client).

From the client, in Finder, I see the server.  I click on it, and then click on 'Connect As...'.  A dialog appears, prompting me to connect using either a Registered User, or Using an Apple ID.  I select 'Using an Apple ID', and in the dropdown box below, select my Apple ID.  I click 'Connect' and the dialog shakes back and forth (I presume indicating 'no'), and does nothing.

Both computers have a single user, which is associated with my Apple ID.


texts: Can iOS' builtin dictionary be accessed/browsed as an independent app?

texts:
If you select some text in whatever application, there's a "define" option that will open a builtin dictionary screen:

Can this dictionary be accessed/browsed? As in, an actual application?

iOS 6.0


texts:
Is there a shortcut to close the current window?

⌘W closes the current tab
⌥⌘W closes all windows
⌘Q quits the app completely

However, I’m looking for an intermediate between 1 and 2, to close the current window as if I’m pressing the red x.


texts: My IPhone won't let me create an Apple ID, it says that my Email is already in use. I made a new Hotmail account but it's still saying that it's already in use, which is impossible.


texts:
I've noticed that when uploading long-ish videos to social media, if the device goes to autolock, invariably I'll see the upload failed. Not a problem if one is continuously using the device so screen-lock doesn't activate, but if the file is taking over an hour...
How can I stop screen-lock from breaking my uploads?


texts: How can I add an HFS+ partition to an MBR-partitioned external drive

texts:
I have a 1Tb external drive that currently has two partitions -

64 Gb NTFS
524 Gb ext2

The remaining 414Gb is unused and shows as "Free Space" on the Mac's Disk Utility.   I'd like to take 250Gb of this for an HFS+ partition to use with Time Machine, but Disk Utility doesn't seem to offer a way to add a partition in that space or format it.

My running Linux box (FC9) doesn't offer an hfs+ option for mkfs; if needed, I could boot from a DVD of a more modern Linux distro to accomplish this.

This question is similar, but my partition table is fdisk format, not guid.

I'm running MacOS 10.7.5.

Here is information on the current partitions

# diskutil list disk1
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 61.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                      Linux                         524.3 GB   disk1s2

# gpt -r show disk1
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1   120005549      1  MBR part 12
   120005550  1023999165      2  MBR part 131
  1144004715   809520453

# fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 0C    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  120005549] Win95 FAT32L
 2: 83 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 120005550 - 1023999165] Linux files*
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused


texts: Does lossless audio over Apple AirPlay have preserved audio quality?

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AirPlay is very convenient to bring up the sound on my big stereo speakers, but I am wondering whether the AirPlay protocol preserves audio quality, e.g. bitrate?

I understand that if the WiFi is poor, audio may be interrupted, but when it is good, shouldn't it be possible to transfer the exact copy, considering the relative low bitrate of e.g. Apple Lossless? The other possible option is that Apple transcodes audio before it goes over AirPlay, e.g. to AAC.

Anyone got a clue?


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it happens couple times every day, my MacBook becomes extremely slow. When I check Activity Monitor, I see that ntpd process uses more than 100% of my CPU (usually around 140-180%).

If I kill it (Force Quit), MacBook starts working as usual. But it will happen again in several hours. How can I fix this issue? It becomes really annoying

It started after one of the software updates (not sure exactly when).

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) with macOS 10.12.3


texts: Why Wi-Fi is getting turned-on automatically in iOS 11

texts: I am using iOS 11 in iPhone 5S but its wi-fi is getting turned-on automatically, is there any way to stop it.


texts: How do keep auto-correct from making one particular change

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An email address I frequently type into web forms is srs@.... Yesterday auto-correct started changing the srs to sis as soon as I typed @. While keeping the rest of auto-correct working I would really like it to leave srs alone.

In my searching for an answer I found Is it possible (and how do I do it) to change what word Auto-Correct chooses when I make a typo? But I'm not making a typo.

I found a variety of answers for both OS X and iOS, but none seemed to the point. The worst was decrypting a substitution file maintained by Safari to edit?!


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I have two Apple IDs:

One (lets say A) associated with my old email address (lets say old@xyz), which is the one I actually use
Another one (lets say B) associated with my new email address (lets say new@xyz), which I created when I was in the US.

Now I want to associate new@xyz to the account A. However I'm not able because that mail is already used for the account B.
I tried to change the primary email of the account B with another_one@xyz, but then, when I try to change the primary mail of the account A with new@xyz it says that the mail address is already verified with another account (the B).

Is there a way for dissociating an email from an apple ID?
In other words, how can I use new@xyz with the account A when the address is alraedy used for the account B?


texts: What is the macOS equivalent to Window's AppData folder?

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I was originally looking for my Google Chrome profile because something went wrong and I need to delete it. In the process I realized that I don't know where applications in general are putting this kind of stuff.

Where is the typical place to go looking?


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Most iOS apps that open web pages open them in in-app browsers. These are somewhat restrictive, in that they don’t support bookmarks (and hence bookmarklets) or Handoff (although they do support AirDrop). Is there a quick way to open them in the full Safari iOS app?

The Share Sheet doesn’t seem to have one built in. You can copy and paste the URL, but that’s quite a bit of precise tapping.

This seems like functionality a third-party extension could add pretty easily. Not interested in jailbreaking though.


texts: excluding Windows 7.pvm from Time Machine

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If I exclude the file: MacHD>User>FH>Documents>Parallels>Windows 7.pvm from the backup made by Time Machine, do MS Word and Excel files get backed up?

I have configured Parallels 8 to Share Mac User folder w/Windows and to Map Mac Volumes to Windows. All my MS Office files are stored in Mac HD->Users->FH->Documents.

I'm a bit confused. Any thought would be terrific.

Thx,

FH


texts: 'Show Package Contents' in new iWork (Yosemite) File Formats

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After installing both Yosemite and the new iWork suite updates (Pages 5.5 and Keynote 6.5), I've noticed I can't 'Show Package Contents' in order to access/modify the media associated with these files.

Does anybody know how to get in to these seemingly new formats?

Doesn't seem like a simple unarchive, either...


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On my desktop I have an external drive name 4TB_Drive.  On the same desktop I have a backup drive for the first one named 4TB_Drive_BU.  I'd like to hide the icon to prevent accidentally accessing and changing files there, having it still be accessible to my backup software

When I try and use the routine "chflags hidden" method, I get a "Permissions Denied" response.  All permissions for the drive are R/W.

Any suggestions?


texts: Can I turn the display off without putting the computer to sleep?

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I use rMBP with the latest Mavericks 10.9.2.

I often download something in background, so I can't just press "poweroff" button, because these downloads stop working in sleep mode. However, I have checked "disable sleep mode when display is off" in energy saving settings.

How can I turn display off without putting system into sleep mode? I only found a way just to leave macbook and don't touch it, it turns off just as selected in energy saving settings.