texts: How do I remotely control my iPhone from my MacBook with no wifi or AC power available (so no router)?

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I'm connecting my MacBook successfully over my home wifi network via VNC (using Mac OS X's /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app) to my jailbroken iPhone 5, which is running Veency.

Now, in preparation for needing to control my iPhone remotely from my Mac when there is no wifi or AC power available (so a wireless router is impossible), I'm trying to use VNC over a direct wireless connection between my Mac and iPhone. I've created the network on the Mac and connected it to it from the iPhone. Problem is, I need the iPhone's IP address so that I can connect to it via VNC.

How can I use VNC to control my iPhone from my Mac when there is no wifi or AC power available? If I can't do it over a wireless direct connection, is there some way to do it over a USB cable connected between the MacBook & the iPhone?


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My mac machine has been assigned two public ipv6 addresses with same prefix. One is autoconf temporary and the other is autoconf secured. I know about secured one but what is the purpose of autoconf temporary address?

Thanks


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I'd like to know if there is a function that allows a hotcorner to trigger 'minimize current window in focus'. There is an app that I use on PC that ha this and I find it very useful.

I'd be open to 3rd party apps to get this functionality.


texts: Install VMware Fusion 5 from ISO image on my Mac

texts: I have an ISO image of VMware Fusion 5 that I would like to install from on my iMac.  How can I do it? I know I can install from a .dmg file and I now I can install from an ISO image when I already have a virtual machine installed, but can I install the real Applications from an ISO image?


texts: Mac App Store update stuck (Installing - Calculating...)

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I opened GarageBand for the first time, to find that most of the loops required me to download the Apple Loops from Software Update. I agreed to this.

The App Store opened and gave me the option to install the update from Updates - I clicked Install and waited for the download to complete. It did, and then the installation began.

About half an hour later, the update is stuck on (Installing - Calculating...) This doesn't seem normal - the last time I installed the Loops, they were done in about ten minutes.

Force quitting and re-opening the App Store doesn't help, nor does a reboot. When I open the App Store, the update is still at the same process.

Is there anything that I could do to get the update to finish installing?

Here is a screenshot of the App Store in this state:


texts: How to disable Documents folder protection?

texts: I'm working on a C++ program in Xcode, which opens some files in the project folder, which is in ~/Documents/Xcode Projects. Because it's in my Documents folder, every time I run the program, it asks for permissions to access my documents folder, and I have to click yes every time. I tried explicitly giving the program permission in the settings, and that works for a little bit, but after about 3 runs of the program it asks for permissions again. Can I just disable the document folder protection? How?


texts: Lost Mail when removed pop account to re-add as imap account

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I removed an mail account from the mail application because it was configured as pop and had to be imap. Now I have lost my mail which was stored locally. I have read about iskysoft data recovery, but that tool has a folder structure which is huge. So I am clicking around in folders to see if there is any mail from 2011 etc.

I am not so familiar with Mac OS X and the mail application. These are times when you would want to have an up-to-date timecapsule backup, but that one is from november 2013 :S

Can you suggest a better mail recovery tool or a manual recovery? Or tell me that this is the right tool and that this will solve all my problems and will put back the lost e-mails in the Mail application.

I have just read about disk drill. but that is no option for me (I think) because I should have used 'recovery vault' first. before removing the pop3 account. http://help.cleverfiles.com/mailbox-recovery-2/


texts: Is there a way to force iTunes 11 to update tags?

texts: Is there any way to force iTunes 11 to rescan the music library and update the information for any tags that have been changed outside of iTunes? I know that selecting a single track and then 'Get Info" will force an update for that track, but it doesn't seem to work with multiple tracks.


texts: Ethernet Adapter Windows Driver - how to find for BCM5701

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I am having troubles with finding driver for my Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.

I checked the version and I have a BCM5701 chip. These Broadcom drivers don't support my adapter.

I want to get it working under my second PC Lenovo X1 Carbon with Windows 10 64-bit

Where can I find drivers to this ?


texts: Notes Application not able to open after upgrading to MacOs Sierra

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I have Macbook Pro 15" Retina display. I recently upgraded to macOS Sierra from El Capitan.  After upgrading, I am no longer able to open my Notes application.

I have important data on Notes; how can i recover or can fix this issue ?

Please check it out and please help me what should i do.
Thanks


texts: Signing out of a deleted apple id on M1 Macbook Air

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I had accidentally left a deleted apple id signed in on my M1 Macbook Air. (The id has been deleted for over two weeks now.)
I contacted Apple support, and they told me to factory restore the Mac. I followed their instructions, going into recovery mode, erasing thr Macintosh HD, and reinstalling Big Sur OS, but after the download/install finished it gave an error similar to the following:
"An error occurred while preparing the update. Failed to personalize the software update. Please try again."
This exact error has a solution given on Apple's website, here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211983
But following the "Erase using recovery assistant" instructions (the second ones), after step 9 it asked me to sign into the same apple id - and when I try, it says the id does not exist. When I try a different one, it says I need to sign in with that old id.
Is there anything I can do? Will using Apple Configurator from a different Mac work?


texts: Does TRIM have my pictures in memory somehow?

texts: I have a new iPhone 7plus.  My 17 year old helped back up my old iPhone before we left on vacation last week.  My new phone was activated but not synced before we left.  When we got back, I asked him to sync my phone thinking that still needed to happen.  Well, it erased all my pictures from our trip and took my phone back to the backup before Spring Break.  I have called Apple and an independent company and told there might be a tiny bit of hope in something on my phone called TRIM.  I am obviously not technical and have no idea what this is.  Any help is appreciated.  Is there any possibility in retrieving my pictures or not?


texts: Mac Pro 5,1 PCI GPU power 6/8 pin confusion

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I have a Sapphire HD 7950 from eBay I got to go in a Mac Pro 5,1. It has dual 8-pin sockets. Being second hand it has no instructions/data sheet.
The one I already own [different Mac Pro] has dual 6-pin sockets, which was the perfect fit for the motherboard's 6-pin PCI power. Plug & go.
Google gives far too many opinions over far too many models for me to know what the solution is. There seems to be cable adapters for dual 6-pin to single 8-pin, which really doesn't seem optimal; single 6-pin to dual 6 & 6+2, which sounds a bit optimistic.
Simplest start point… can I use my two existing 6-pin cables in the 8-pin sockets, or will something go boom?
I can't seem to find a single 6 to 8-pin cable, of which I could buy two.
In terms of power requirements/stress, this Mac is never going to be used for anything more than video playback. I just want to get the Mac to run Mojave, rather than be stuck on High Sierra [Metal2 requirement].


texts: How to exchange simple text files with Messages, WhatsApp with any recipient

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I often have to send simple text files to recipients working on Mac, iPhone, PC running Linux, Windows, mobile running Android. These files are slightly formatted (just tabs and returns) to be easily readable without requiring heavy or untrustable tools.

I would like them to be able to read them as straight forwardly as possible, i.e. without having to make them a lecture on computer tools to install. The working expected environment of recipients is the basic one:
no Cloud sharing (no iCloud, no Dropbox).
The file names should be self explanatory and not distorted, example:

meeting 25/01/2019.agenda
authentication project.schedule

Currently upon sending such a file with Messages or WhatsApp, my recipients just see an attachment, but its content isn't displayed, and worse, none of the target OS is able to present a choice of application able to display a simple text file.
If I copy and paste the content of files to sent, the name of the file is lost, the content is completly damaged.

Is their any mean to achieve this simple and basic need with either an application (for me to install and use) or through a basic function of iOS or MacOS I didn't found yet.


texts: Notes synchronisation with google account, uncountable notes generated

texts: I have setup my macbook to sync with my google account for notes and apparently for each note that i start to write on my mac several versions, i believe all versions of the notes (after each modification) are saved within all mail in my gmail, however only the final version of the note is kept under the label notes. Is there any way to prevent mac notes to save drafts on the google server?


texts: Finder: why is a *.wmv movie a "document" and not a movie? Howto correct?

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See screen shot of my Finder settings

all folders and movies (flv, divx, mkv and mov) are correct categorized, only *.wmv file is a document. Should be movie.

Howto correct that?

> ls -l@ *.wmv
-rw-r--r--@ 1 john  staff  224665155 Jun 12 17:35 sweet-cat-imgur.wmv
        com.apple.quarantine           26


texts: Does iPhone Xs Max have a SIM card slot?

texts: I’m confused by the store listing and want to make sure I’m not tricked into buying an eSIM only iPhone.


texts: Are iPad/iOS updates region dependant or serial number dependant?

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I've got an iPad running iOS version 4.x and I want to upgrade to iOS 5 but I'm currently in the middle east. iPads in the middle east don't have FaceTime installed on them. I'm a little worried that if download the latest version of iOS the apple update site would notice my IP address and give me a version of iOS without FaceTime.

Is the version of iOS downloaded for an update based on location/ip address or device serial number?


texts: How to calculate a date field in Numbers

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I'm using a date field as a conditional element. If cell A1 which is date field is empty (no date has been entered yet), then leave the cell A2 blank. If there is a date entered into A1, run a calculation (which I already have).

Thanks


texts: How to set Inbox by Gmail as the default email client in Safari (macOS)

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I use Safari as my main browser on macOS.

I would like Inbox by Gmail to be my default email client so that it opens mailto: links.

Is that possible?


texts: how to create a repeating event in Automator?

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I would like to programmatically create a repeating event.  I'm using Automator and it seems that Automator can't do this, plus I want to pass variables provided by the user into the event creation process so I'm guessing I need to do it in AppleScript instead.  Trouble is I haven't been able to find information on how to do that.
How can I create a recurring event in Automator using AppleScript (or really any other way would be worthy of note as well)?


texts: How to disable DNS resolution when using a HTTP proxy

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I'm running behind a corporate firewall and http proxy. The DNS resolves internal names but does not resolve external names. The proxy does allow connecting to external sites and when using this with Firefox everything is smooth. However, having this proxy configured in system preferences does not allow Safari or anything that uses the system preferences to browse the external sites.

A tcpdump shows that Safari tries to resolve the name of the site, fails doing so and then doesn't reach out to the proxy server. I tested a local setup and when DNS does resolve it will reach out to the proxy server.

This seems weird to me. If configured to use a proxy, it should just reach out to the proxy directly? What can I do to ensure this happens?


texts: Is it possible to create a custom sidebar icon for a specific folder in macOS like Dropbox, Google Drive and Creative Cloud currently do without using an application?


texts: Change canvas size in Preview.app without scaling image?

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I have a PNG that I want to add additional content to. For this I need to increase the canvas size of the image: Just make the image larger, but without scaling the existing contents (which the Adjust Size tool seems to insist on doing).

How can I do this?


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I'm running High Sierra 10.13.5 on my iMac. In the dock at the bottom of the screen, there is a collection of folders on the right side of the dock. When I click on one of these folders it pops open but not in Finder. It has a look as shown here. I added a folder to the dock but it doesn't respond like this. Is there a way to make folders in the dock respond this way? And what is this called?

When I right click on the new added folder I get the options shown at the bottom.


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I tried installing the Logitech keyboard layout using this guide.

It appears in the Language Menu, so I added it as a possible layout, but it is grayed out in the Input menu so I can't switch to it.

I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. I downloaded the Logitech layout file from their website, version 3.9.3.

Any idea what the cause of this could be and what I can do to make it work? I have no idea what else to search for to fix this issue.


texts: Show window dimensions in titlebar in iTerm2

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In the default Terminal app the current width and height of the window are always displayed in the title bar, whereas in iTerm2 they're only displayed for a few moments when resizing.

How can I change it so that they're always visible in iTerm2 too?


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Every time I restart my Mac, my Keychain option in iCloud is unticked, my mail passwords are forgotten and my wallpaper goes into default.

Everyday, I fix it by checking the keychain and changing my wallpaper and fixing my mail passwords.

How can I get the Keychain to remain synchronized?


texts: Mute/unmute iPhone based on location or time

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My wife mutes her iPhone 5 at work because she has many landline phone meetings during the day and doesn't want the sound to play over her conference calls.  The problem is that she often doesn't unmute the phone when leaving work.  So, after leaving work, she will often miss calls or texts because she has muted the phone.

Is there any way to mute the phone on geographic location or time?  Ideally it would just mute within a mile of the office and unmute otherwise.  Alternatively, muting the phone 8-5 would work too, just as long as no action is needed to unmute.


texts: Time Machine backs up a huge quantity of data on every run

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I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and a Time Capsule. In the last few days every backup took over 100GB of data. I don't know if there is some issue with permissions or something similar, but to be sure I removed all the old backups and reformatted the Time Capsule disk. I've also run filesystem checks and permission checks on my MBP disk using the installation disk.

Then I've restarted backup from scratch, the first backup took 160GB and for a few days following backups has worked fine (with a decent quantity of data for each run).

Now after some days I started my MBP and the backup is still in progress, when it was started it says that it needs to backup about 40GB of data (which obviously is not true) and while running the limit is increasing constantly, currently is at 95GB and it continue to grow.

I suspect that there could be some hardware issue with Time Capsule, but not sure.

Any hint to solve this issue?


texts: Modify SATA link speed down (Mac won’t boot)

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I have a MacBook Pro (Early 2011, MacBookPro8,2) which I cannot reboot, otherwise I have to reinstall Mavericks every time. Sleep mode works, luckily, but sometimes I need to reboot.

In April my HDD started to fail. I have noticed general slowness and the drive finally failed,  I decided to install a SSD, and I choose a Samsung 840 EVO 500GB, which seemed to have good reviews.

The installation went fine and the drive worked perfectly, but since then, from time to time, but lately almost every time, I cannot reboot the machine. It stays stuck in the Apple logo with the spinner under it.

At this point I can access the recovery partition, the Apple Hardware Test, the single user command line mode. I tried once to boot from the Time Machine drive, but either it was very slow (and I was very impatient) or it didn’t work.

Following this http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2570 the Safe Mode (Shift) doesn’t work (it does the progress bar until one third, then the spinning wheel forever). Verbose Safe Mode (Shift+Cmd+V) shows the output until just mounting the hard drive (or just before mounting). Single user mode (Cmd+S) gives me a prompt, I can do fsck (no problems), I can mount the drive, I can modify files, but as soon as I type exit it just get stuck again.

The first time this happen I think I remember being able to reboot by doing a NVRAM reset, but that doesn’t work anymore. Another time it happened, I opened the laptop again and removed and re-attached the SDD, which seemed to work, but again, that doesn’t work anymore. The only thing that works is reinstalling from the Recovery partition (which is 30 minutes of downloading and 40 minutes of reinstalling).

I found this thread on Apple forums https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5413626 which describes a similar situation to mine. It seems that even if the controller claims SATA 6Gbps, the cable might not be fully prepared for it. It also seems that there was a EFI update to fix some problems with SATA drives (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1450), which I must have installed back then.

Obviously changing the cable seems like an option, but I would like to know if someone knows a way to force the driver/EFI/whatever to force a slower link speed negotiation. Currently I have 6Gbps, but I will like to see if I can boot with a capped 3Gbps.

From other posts I have found people wanting to increase the speed, but I want just the opposite. Maybe it will fix my problem, and I can live with a lower speed.

More information from the System Profile:

Model name: MacBook Pro
Model identifier:   MacBookPro8,2
Boot ROM version:   MBP81.0047.B27
SMC version:    1.69f4

Intel 6 Series Chipset:
  Manufacturer: Intel
  Product:  6 Series Chipset
  Link speed:   6 gigabits
  Negotiated link speed:    6 gigabits
  Physical connection:  SATA
  Description:  AHCI Version 1.30 Supported


texts: Reading pdfs on iPad without storing them permanently

texts: I'm a software developer and my software is generating a lot of PDF reports which I know will consume a lot of space if downloaded. My clients use iPads. Is there a way they can view PDFs without having to store them permanently on the iPads (temporarily store them while viewing and auto-delete them when closed)?


texts: What is the definitive iPhone X corner radius?

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I've been experimenting and have found no conclusive corner radius for the iPhone X.

Some sources, such as iPhone X Screen Demystified - PaintCode, say its 40pts.
Some say it's 44, like UI Design for iPhone X: Top Elements and the Notch - Max Rudberg.

Using Xcode, I created a circle with a width and length of 80 (so radius 40), and put it in the top left corner of the iPhone X (so x and y are zero), there is a tiny white gap between the circle and the the edge of the screen, which you can see here:

I also tried another method, doing this with a button:

button.frame.size.height = 812
button.frame.size.width = 375
button.layer.cornerRadius = 40
button.center = self.view.center

With this I am left with:

So the question is, what is the real corner radius? Or what is going on with Xcode?


texts: Automator: extract PDF text and save in current directory

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I've made an Automator service for extracting PDF text and saving it in the current directory, and it works reasonably well.

It takes one or several PDF files, extracts the text, and saves it as separate .rtfs placed in the same directory as where the original PDFs was found.
Fine, excellent, except for one small rub: what is invariably also saved alongside the other .rtfs is an empty one (zero bytes), with the name of the current directory.

Looking at the workflow below, it seems like both variables ("PDF" and "Bane") are passed to the action "Hent ut PDF-tekst". Is my assumption reasonable, and in any case, how do I fix it?

The script in plain text:

on run {input, parameters}
 tell application "System Events"
 set thePath to POSIX path of (container of (item 1 of input))
 end tell
 return thePath
end run

As an aside, Automator automatically creates a PNG representation of your workflow when you save it, and it can be easily got at by revealing the package contents.
Genius me realized this only after a bit of faffing about with screen capture and GIMP.


texts: iCloud holiday calendar appeared in Calendar app

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I opened up Calendar this morning and a new calendar appeared under "Other"

The calendar is Mexican Holidays and it is a calendar subscription from iCloud. I didn't add it nor do I live in Mexico. I have seen this on a few Macs in our office all running 10.9.x

Calendars include Mexican Holidays, Canadian Holidays and Hong Kong Holidays.

Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?


texts: Create a space from script on El Capitan

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I'm using Slate window manager and I wanted a way to create a new space on El Capitan using script. I have found other solutions like the following, but it doesn't work on El Capitan.

list 1 would contain all the spaces, but add new desktop
and I didn't find any list 2 which would contain add new desktop.

do shell script "open -a 'Mission Control'"
tell application "System Events" of list 1 of group 2 of group 1 of group 1 of process "Dock"

end tell
tell application "System Events" to key code 53

Thanks


texts:
How can I prevent an application from changing the sound volume on iPad?

Sound setting:


texts: Install Java JRE 6 (next to JRE 7) on OS X 10.10 Yosemite?

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I need to test a web application with JRE 6. I am using a Mac with OS X 10.10 and Java 7 for development. How can I install JRE 6 next to Java 7 on this Mac?

This previous answer does not yet account for the fact (also mentioned in a comment) that Apple's download link by now points to a .pkg (Java for OS X 2014-001) file. Without further knowledge I hasten to install it, for it may overwrite my current Java 7 setup (and may no longer contain JRE 6 in the first place).


texts: Can I add "16 pt" option to font pulldown menus?

texts: Finder and all apps jump from 14pt to 18pt in dropdowns.  Can a 16pt be added?


texts: Remove macOS Big Sur "Upgrade Now" button in System Preferences

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I have red circle notification on my System Preferences icon to inform macOS Big Sur update is available. There is also an Upgrade Now button in Software Update:
They annoy me since I did not ask anything, and I don't want to do the upgrade before a few months.
Is there a way to remove them?


texts: Does a black screen save battery on a macbook?

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I've seen some similar questions about iPhone on this site, but none of them focus on macbook, so here comes this one.

The picture below is a screenshot of my current desktop, with menu bar and dock hidden, as well as grey scale turned on.

Can some pattern (black specifically) save enough energy on a macbook that you’d get more than 5 minutes runtime in a full battery to discharge cycle?


texts: Traveling with laptop without iPhoto, How do I acquire older version like 8.1.2?

texts: Traveling with Macbook running 10.6 (recent upgrade from 10.5.8). It was a gift and does not have iPhoto. My Sony camera is jammed with images I would ordinarily unload to the big iMac at home (which has iPhoto). Without upgrading to the latest OS (which seems problematic) is there someplace I can acquire (buy, beg, borrow) an older version of iPhoto such as 8.1.2? The Apple site itself has some very unhappy reports from users of the new iPhoto. Upgrading this entire laptop to the latest OS just so I can download some images seems excessive. Or am I wimping out here?


texts: I am not able to see the website title in Safari on macOS

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I open a website in Safari by entering the website address in the address bar. But I am not able to see the title of the website.
When I open the same website in Google Chrome I can see the title for the website such as "Online Shopping site" in the title bar. But I want to use Safari because I think my MacBooks battery drain very quickly when I am using Google Chrome.
Is there not way to see website title in Safari like in Google Chrome?


texts: Where could I get my networks domain name?

texts:
I am trying to determine domain name of my network.
I tried some programming methods, commands but i could not
get domain name of my network.I got ip address using cat /etc/resolv.conf

I was doing program to get domain name but i dont know even
where it is actually stored?

Can you tell me location where domain name is stored?


texts: macOS Sierra - why did my Calendar stop free-scrolling?

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I was able to freely scroll forward and backward in time. I can only go forward via the arrow keys one page at a time now. No idea why this is happening.

I tried a workaround at one point by clearing my calendar (methodical removal of plists, etc...) then restoring it from iCloud. After that restoration it didn't work. Next day scrolling worked. Day or two later, scrolling calendar stopped working and still doesn't.


texts: Can I modify defaults to get a website to popup when I hold down a letter on the keyboard?

texts: You know how if you hold down 'i' on the keyboard you get î, ï, í, ī, į, and ì by selecting from number 1-6, well, what if I want, say, for example, igloo.com to pop up as a seventh option when I hold down i. That way I can store things in my keys, even longer stuff not necessarily websites.


texts: After updating to macOS 10.13.5 it asked for iCloud account and password

texts: I Update To Mac Os 10.13.5 From High Sierra After Updating MacBook it again ask for icloud password and id is it normal?


texts: Can you switch the top case and keyboard to a different language?

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I really regret not getting a CTO 2012 macbook pro before they went to the retina only. I was wanting a different keyboard on a MacBook Pro that has an nvidia 650 GPU and a 1680x1050 monitor.

Once when I took my computer in to an Apple store the genius bar guy offered to switch my keyboard to a US keyboard; so, that would imply that it is possible. So, does anybody know definitively if I can just get a MacBook Pro with a US keyboard and then just find the appropriate top case and keyboard with the language I want and then switch them out or should I just keep hoping one shows up refurbished?


texts:
In the box of my iPhone 7 there was a leaflet with all sorts of small print easy enough to be dismissed as some legal document (and maybe it is). I couldn't help reading it and on the reverse page it says something about Class 1 Laser Information:

See text: "This device contains a laser"

So my question is where in the iPhone and, more importantly, for what purpose is the laser in the iPhone?


texts:
Java applets freezes every browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).

Java version: 1.6.0_33

Software: OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)

"Native" Java applications (like Eclipse etc.) works fine.


texts: Removing app from iOS app store and notifying users that the app is no longer supported

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We want to remove our app from the App Store and shut down the servers that support it. From what I've read, removing the app from the App Store will not remove the app from the devices of the existing users - and there is no way to tell users to remove it.

Is there a standard way to tell the users that the app is no longer supported? Should I just send the users a message (in the "message-box" feature that our app has)? Should I upload a new version which opens a popup message telling the user that the app is no longer supported - and remove the app from the app store a week later? Will apple review accept such app update, or turn it down claiming that the app is unusable?

I'm less concerned about the specific mechanics of shutting down which is also discussed here, but I'm looking for customary procedure or examples of how this is done well.


texts: Is a .sparseimage file with a strong password safe?

texts:
I have created a .sparseimage file of my Home folder on my 2009 iMac running OS 10.11.2 and have chosen a 17 character password which https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm notes that against an Offline Fast Attack Scenario (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second) it would take 11.52 million trillion centuries to break.

My intention was to move it to my iCloud account but I find I cannot do so because it exceeds the limitation on file sizes that one is allowed to upload to one's iCloud account.

My question is, am I risking the possible compromise of this file by storing in on my Dropbox account?  It has financial and other legal info that I would never want compromised.


texts: I'm sharing my internet in work and forgot to turn it off! Does anyone know how I can do it via the command line? I have SSH access but thats it. D'oh.


texts: OSX recovering ownership after bad chown command

texts:
In hindsight, I made a bad decision, but I texted my wife a command:

sudo chown -R ${USER} /Applications/...

to run in a directory.  She didn't think it worked and started putting spaces where spaces shouldn't be, so she wound up running:

sudo chown -R ${USER} /

She shut it down after I told her she shouldn't have done that, and now I'm having no fun with this thing.

No biggie, I thought.  I've fatfingered some bad recursive commands in my past on Linux, but this is weird.  I've been repairing the root ownership from the recovery command line, but I don't know what happened to the user account.  When I look in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/, I see daemon, nobody, and root. My wife's user home directory is still there, but the ownership everywhere is 501.

So, clearly I am having some issues trying to chown things back to where they should be, but on top of that I'm not even sure I can resurrect that user to make things seamless.

Any thoughts?

EDIT - Running OSX 10.11.4, El Cap


texts: Removing Files after Successful Extraction unrar rm shopt globstar

texts:
shopt -s globstar
for f in **/*.rar; do
    dir=`dirname "$f"`;
    unrar e "$f" "$dir" && rm -frv "${f::-2}*";
done

From echoing out testing the rm command, the file is the correct path.  I don't receive any errors about an incorrect path or anything.  I know there are other methods to use find, but that would be pointless and use extra cpu cycles this should be working from everything I found.  Any ideas on how to use the rm command properly?


texts: How to delete multiple podcast episodes from iOS 6 podcast app?

texts:
I know how to delete a podcast subscription form the iOS 6 podcast app (How to delete a podcast from new iOS 6 Podcast app?) but I'm having trouble deleting multiple episodes within a subscription.

Even if I have it set to save only "unplayed" and I mark everything as played, I still see hundreds of episodes listed (but not downloaded).  I realize they're not taking up space, but I'd prefer the list to be clean and just show the most recent / unplayed episodes.

In iOS 6 in general, is there a way to do a multiple select before a "swipe to delete"?  Or is there any other way to delete multiple instances of something without having to do it one at a time?


texts: Is there an iOS program that performs multivariate linear regression?

texts:
I'm looking for an iOS program that can calculate some statistics for me.

I want a program into which I can enter a bunch of observations, then the program uses multivariate linear regression (ordinary least squares) to find coefficients and standard errors for the line of best fit. I know of plenty of programs that do this on the Mac, but not any iOS programs.

There aren't any programs in the app store that list this as one of their key features, but I didn't know if it was an additional feature in something like Numbers. Alternately, while I'd prefer not a web app, that's certainly better than not having an app to do this. A web app that uses local storage so it can run even when offline would be best.

Any suggestions?


texts: What does Holding Home Button on Power Off Screen do?

texts: When you hold the home button on the power off screen of an iDevice on the lockscreen or Springboard, what is it supposed to do?


texts: iTunes: bulk edit/update paths to music files

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I had to change a path from /a/b/c/d/<hundreds of files>.mp3 to /a/b/c/<hundreds of files>.mp3

Is there some way to bulk update this information?

I'm using iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion


texts: What is the best way to set up a shared calendar in iCal?

texts:
I am looking to have a shared calendar which my partner and I can access.  I have a MobileMe account and my partner has a Google account.  We both have Macs, I have an iPhone and she has a Blackberry.

I am looking for a solution where we can create a calendar that we both have access to from iCal (and maybe iPhone / Blackberry if possible) and that we can both edit.

So far however, I have not managed to get anything to work.  The logical solution seemed to be to create a Google Calendar on my partner's account and subscribe to it on my MobileMe account but I cant get any changes I make to be pushed back to the Google calendar.


texts: I own a 11 month old MacBook Pro 13" with Apple Care. From the last 2 months, I've noticed a bright line on my screen which is about 0.5 cm in size. Should I be worried? Will Apple be able to repair it?


texts:
I mainly use the USB connection between my MBA and iPhone 5s just to do backups. There is no music on my iPhone. Today, when I have connected my iPhone I have noticed a random music library from the person I have never met.

macOS Sierra 10.12.4
iOS 10.13.2

I can confirm that my iPhone has never been associated with another AppleID as I have bought it brand new.

Any ideas on what might be happening?


texts: How do I choose a dialog option with keyboard, but without TAB?

texts:
I want to choose "Add".

I guess I can enable "Keyboard access" and use the tab key, but there must be a reason developers have it disabled by default. And that answer says there are dialog-specific shortcuts anyway, and I guess that's the "Mac" way to handle it. What are they in this case?

(Tried various combinations of ⌘, ⌥, ctrl, ⇧ and other keys. Only ↵ and ⌘+. choose "Don't Add" and that's it.)


texts: Can I "play higher rated songs more often" in iTunes 11?

texts: After upgrading to iTunes 11, I miss the "Play higher rated songs more often" feature available in iTunes DJ from previous versions. Is there a simple way to restore this feature? I used to use a complex series of smart playlists like The Ultimate Smart iTunes Playlist before this feature came around. I suppose I could do that again, but I'd rather have something simpler.


texts: Rename multiple files at once keeping the same name when possible

texts:
I'm switching from Windows to the macOS world and I was wondering: Is there a way to rename multiple files at once while keeping the same name where possible (when the file extension differ) like the default behavior on Windows.
Here is an example:
I have a folder containing these files:
DS_3426.jpg
DS_3426.mp3
...

On Windows, I can select both of them, hit enter to rename, type the new name, lets say record1 and this will yield:
record1.jpg
record1.mp3

On macOS, if I select these files and click rename x items..., it opens a menu in which I can replace/format/etc the rename, but no options to just rename all the files with the same name (when possible, that is the file extension are different).
I dug through every option of Finder but couldn't find a way to do that, the main goal being speed (as I do these kinds of group rename operations hundreds of times a day).
Am I missing something here or is it just not possible on macOS?
Cheers!
PS: Using an automated script here is not possible as I dont know the name of the file in advance (the picture gets renamed depending on the audio file associated).


texts: USB 3.0 disk not mounting in single user mode

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2013) with MacOS X 10.11. To cut a long story short, due to issues with the NVIDIA card and graphics switching, I'm able to boot into single-user mode, but can't complete the boot past that into the Finder, so I would like to make a back-up of the data while in single user mode before taking the laptop to the Apple Store (since the graphics card issue is a known issue).

However, when in single-user mode, if I plug in a USB 3.0 disk, I get an error after about a second or so, once the disk has spun up:

AppleUSB30XHCIPort:: resetAndCreateDevice: failed to create device after (1) tries, disabling port

and no new device appears in /dev. In contrast, if I plug in a USB 2.0 key, it appears in /dev.

I'm assuming this is therefore a USB 3.0 issue - is there any way to get this to work correctly in single user mode?


texts: Unknown when I receive incoming calls on Iphone 5S

texts: I have an Iphone 5S. When I receive calls I do not see a number it only reflects "Unknown" on the screen. How can I change this to ensure that it reflects either the number or name if the person is in my address book?


texts:
After plugging in my headphone into my iphone 4s no sound comes through. I can
hear the music from the phone itself. Do I need to change the settings?


texts: Is there any way to apply open-ended keyword tags to songs in iTunes?

texts:
Other iLife apps like iPhoto already support this functionality, like assigning "vacation" or "mountains" keywords to certain photos.

Is it possible to add tags to songs in iTunes without resorting to the rigid options currently provided (i.e. the 'Comments' or 'Grouping' fields)? See this mock-up for an idea of what this type of tagging would be like:

In the above mock-up, we could assign sub-genres to a song. This would allow us to create smart playlists based on these sub-genres or do whatever else we'd like with them.

Currently, someone would have to use comma-separated values in the 'Comments' or 'Groupings' field to apply this type of sub-genre tagging. It's very inflexible and annoying.

Why doesn't this type of tagging exist? Can it be implemented with plugins?


texts: iCloud account locked for security reasons

texts:
I've been having troubles with my iCloud account on my iPhone lately and it recently became really annoying in the sense that i can't do basic things such as updating apps.

Basically i have been told that due to security reasons i had to verify my account. Following that procedure i was given a security phone number entry to get some sort of key to reinitialize my account's password. Here's the twist though : I no longer have that phone number and I don't have any sort of key recovery either. Ultimately i just thought of logging out of the iCloud account - side question here, can anybody tell me what kind of data I exactly lose when I log off the iCloud session on the iphone ? - but then i realised that to logg OFF the account i had to logg IN that same account I do not have the logs of. Am I doing something wrong or is this kind of an irrelevant way to deal with people who lost their logs ?

Thank you for reading/helping out.


texts: How to completely block specific Wi-Fi SSID on macOS?

texts:
I'm looking for a way to totally blacklist a Wi-Fi network (by SSID) in macOS.

And no, I promise you that I really (truly!) do not need to just have the computer "forget it" by removing it from the network list. I need to completely and  totally prevent the computer from connecting to a certain network entirely.

It's super, crazy easy on Windows. Is there any way to do this on a Mac?


texts: How to force empty Trash if it has system files?

texts:
The question title may seem a duplicate, but this case of mine is unique. This happened because of this problem, which I was able to answer/solve. https://superuser.com/questions/1447825/will-re-installing-mojave-through-internet-recovery-delete-data

And now the system files of the Previous Content, from the previous installed OS cannot be deleted. It seems the MacOS sees these files as legitimate system files, while in fact, they're not.

I'm using Mojave now btw.


texts: Currently only my left AirPod is connected to my Mac and I can't figure out a way to have it recognize my right AirPod! My research suggests I need to completely reset my AirPods but I don't want to do that...


texts: Question about Enterprise licensing and Apple Business Manager

texts:
At the recent WWDC19 seminar, Apple made some drastic new changes to the Enterprise program, and Apple is making it now mandatory that all clients use the new Apple Business Manager process.

Without going into specifics, for about 80% our clients, we are using two umbrella Enterprise licenses to create provisioning profiles for our clients. Apple used to be relaxed about this and ... although not recomended ...noone really said anything, but now Apple is really cracking down on this. With this risk in mind, my dev team and I are trying get the respective clients to enroll themselves (with our guidance) with a new Enterprise license for themselves. The client would fully own the license themselves, and just add my Tech lead and myself as developers to the group. However, this process has not been successful.

I am just curious what others experience has been? Others in this forum that are mobile app contractors must be impacted by this as well, and proactively investigating contingency plans. Are you getting your clients to purchase their own Enterprise licenses, or are you going down this Apple Business Manager Path? As I mentioned above, we have tried getting one of our clients to enroll for an Enterprise license for their internal employees, but it seems the mere mention that a 3rd party contractor is building them an app, raises alarm bells for Apple and they instantly reject the client’s application. I suspect that this same negative result will come from all our client’s requests.

In short, I am curious how others are handling this dilemma, and what has your success has been moving clients to use Apple’s new Business Manager?


texts: How to make shared printing works on Yosemite within an IPv4 only network?

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Network landscape

My network is made through Internet Sharing from a Mac: Bob hosting an USB printer: Clara. On this home network is a Mac: Alice which is usually printing on Clara through Bob.

Alice    --AirPort--    Bob    --Ethernet--    Internet
Mac                     Mac
10.0.2.23       10.0.2.1    192.168.1.1
                         |
                        USB
                         |
                        Clara
                        printer

Of course, on Bob the Firewall is on, and the sharing of Clara is on.

One key detail: this problem of shared printing failing occured when I upgraded Bob from Mountain Lion to Yosemite.

Bug

For security reasons (don't let open what you don't fully control), I stop any IPv6 on the internal side of my network.

On both Alice, Bob I ran:

networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Since this modification my network is working perfectly (and in fact much better). Alice can access the Internet with ssh, http, IMAP, smtp… without a glitch, but for printing.

Alice does still see Clara as a shared printer, but printing dosen't work, and the printer window stays on the message:

Printing - Looking for printer

forever. The CUPS error log does says:

E [23/May/2015:11:05:50 +0200] [Job 621] Unable to find printer.

If on Alice I check the reachability of CUPS on Bob
I get:

alice$ telnet 10.0.2.1 631
Trying 10.0.2.1...
Connected to bob.
Escape character is '^]'.

Hence CUPS is running on Bob and perfectly reachable through IPv4.

If I turn IPv6 back on, shared printing is working again.
The firewall isn't involved in this network problem.

Question

How may I get shared printing to work on an IPv4 only network?

I already found this correct analysis of a similar problem on Linux:
Disabling IPv6 seems to break CUPS

But the suggested modification to the cupsd.conf
framed with the relevant launchctl stop... launchctl start
doesn't fix it.

Moreover I discovered that I have to be cautious on tuning:

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

because Printer Sharing activation is overwriting this configuration file.


texts:
I have a computer on my local network for which I would like to use a nice alias, and therefore I put an entry in /etc/hosts. After a while this change is undone. The entry is gone from /etc/hosts. It happens repeatedly for several days now.

Do you know why this is happening?


texts: I cannot configure Mail 5 on Lion to work the way I want with Google GMail

texts:
I just spent a good hour on Mail app, and its pissing me off.

First archive button is dumb, it actually creates a label called [imap]/archive.

Sending messages is dumb, it actually creates a label called 'Sent Messages'

Deleting messages is dumb, it actually creates a label called 'Deleted Messages'

I don't understand how can the iOS version work well, while the Lion version behaves completely different. Does anyone know how can I get around these problems? My current solution is to use Sparrow. I have also tried looking around the stackexchange websites (superuser and apple), Apple forums, MacRumors, Google, etc..

Other topics with no solutions:
How do I get archive to work in Mail.app in Lion?
http://superuser.com/questions/315171/how-to-stop-mail-app-in-lion-creating-an-archive-folder-for-archiving-in-gmail


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 15" (2018) model. I just purchased a Sonos amp, and so I'm currently enjoying the quality that this provides.

The issue is however AirPlay can be a bit flaky at times with the audio connection and delay issues on playback, is there a way to connect from USB Type C to HDMI using ARC here possibly if adapters can support this standard? If not I can purchase an adapter to RCA, however I would like to send the audio straight through and let the amplifier handle this part if possible. Thanks.

EDIT: This may possibly be an issue with the Sonos amp possibly due to the fact that this worked via my existing HDMI cable/adapter to a Denon AVR via eARC which I later decided to return, however here the HDMI output did not show up in the audio list, however I'm not 100% certain which HDMI specification the Macbook Pro (if not the adapter) is lacking here for the connection to work if this is supported at all.


texts: iPhone text messages are delivered to my work iPad!

texts: My iPhone text messages are delivered to my work iPad, what is happening and how can I put it right?


texts:
My iPhone has frozen on the slide to unlock screen.

I cannot turn it off or reset it.

The device turns off every minute and restarts to change the time.

Is there a way to stop it?

I have tried to restore using iTunes and this message pops up,

I have gone through the 'more information' on the apple website


texts: Have all "ipad mini 2"s a retina display?

texts:
I want to buy a iPad mini 2 and I'm searching about it. Actually I'm confused. Somewhere people call it just "iPad mini 2" and somewhere else "iPad mini 2 with retina display" ..!

Ok, all of them have retina display? Or there is some iPad mini 2 which don't have a retina display?


texts:
I am trying to save a file but get the error message saying file could not be saved. This happens only after the first time I save a new file. That means, if I create a new file saving works. BUt if I try to save the second time, I get the error message.

I also see this error in the Console. Omnigraffle is the application I am trying to save with. I have tried to set the permission on /.vol with no effect.

3/22/12 11:28:06.201 AM [0x0-0x6c06c].com.omnigroup.OmniGrafflePro: [ERROR] genstore_storage.c:GSAddPathAsGeneration:980  copyfile "/Users/xman/gfx/process.graffle" to "/.vol/234881026/2/.DocumentRevisions-V100/staging/adding.gdpTISed/14F74540-E254-4B92-A8EE-B857FD311DB6.graffle" failed with error 13 (Permission denied)

Additionally, I cannot install the new version of Xcode. Not sure if it is relevant or not, but it fails with a generic error.


texts: How can I sync my iPad/iPhone with iTunes except for the apps/iBooks?

texts:
There are several GB of data on my iPad which I do not need to have on my MacBook Pro. I want to sync my iPad with iTunes on my Mac except for...

iOS apps
iBooks

But whenever I try to sync, I am prompted to first transfer all the purchases to iTunes - otherwise the apps will be removed from my iPad.

Can I avoid this dilemma? I thought that iCloud saves what apps/iBooks I use on my iPad.


texts: I've been trying to open an encrypted (FileVault 2) HFS+ external hard disk on Windows 7. Since all the software available seem not able to do it, I've tried by installing the bootcamp drivers on Windows. First manually (placing AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys into system32/drivers and adding the proper regedit keys) and then, since this didn't work, using the whole bootcamp installer. When I connect the drive, it's still unrecognized (even in the Drive Manager). What should I do? (or maybe: is it possible?)


texts: How do you list clients connected to OS X Server 10.8's VPN?

texts:
The 10.6 Server manual says this:

but it doesn't work on 10.8.

Even a Terminal command would be great.


texts: How to test speeds and strengths of wifi from macOS?

texts:
I live in a house with multiple wireless radios and channels – some of which tend to be more reliable than others. I know that connecting to each one sequentially and then do a speed test in a browser would let me start to measure data, but software to assist with a batch test or automate network quality data collection would be helpful.
Is there a Mac app that will let me see the relative signal strengths and speeds of various base station radios?


texts: OSX 10.9.5 - different keyboard layouts per application

texts:
From what I see in the Googles, there used to be a way to set it so that each application/window could have its own keyboard layout.  I have two different apps, and I need different layouts for each one (Dvorak for one, and US for the other).

It seems like that feature may have been removed sometime between the stuff I'm seeing in Google and the current 10.9.5 version.  Is there another way to accomplish this now?


texts: Is the Apple Music app for Android like the iTunes store?

texts:
In other words, can I purchase movies, books, and audiobooks on the Apple Music app for Android? Or is the Apple Music app for Android just a portal to the paid streaming service?

Or is there another way to purchase movies, books, and audiobooks from the iTunes store using an Android device?


texts: Can I add a custom ringtone to my iPhone without syncing to iTunes?

texts: We (bafflingly) have two great guides to adding custom ringtones to an iPhone via iTunes. Is there a way to do it without syncing with iTunes?


texts: My iMac is running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).  I still have iMovie 7.1.4. How do I update it? And which version of iMovie is it compatible with OS X 10.6.8?


texts: Recording direct from camera into MacBook Pro via HDMI?

texts:
Is there any way to 'tether' my camera via its HDMI out to a MacBook pro?

The goal is to record live, uncompressed, video direct from a camera. Thus skipping the camera's file system and recording directly onto the Mac's hard drive via Premier Pro or similar software.


texts: How to get the current sheet name into the cell in Numbers.app

texts:
Scenario:

Have a spreadsheet (Numbers.app v3.6.2/El Capitan)
it contains multiple Sheets (every sheet contains multiple tables, but this doesn't matter)
Every sheet is renamed to some defined name, for example the Sheet 2 is renamed to Feb (month name abbrev).
need get into the cell content the current sheet name e.g. something like the hypothetical function =GETSHEETNAME(), so in the sheet named as Feb, want get to some cell the string Feb.

My reading of the Numbers.app function reference failed and I doesn't find any function for such operation. Is it possible somehow?

EDIT

At the https://iworkautomation.com/numbers/sheet.html I found some applescript, but haven't idea how to use it... :(


texts:
I have a telephone called ''I-Phone 5s'' that I want to
use to play my own audio files, which I have on a computer running
(Arch) Linux.  I prefer not to use any cloud.  How do I do that?


texts: Using "tmutil set destination -p" fails with a failure to save the password to the keychain

texts:
I've got a new FreeNAS setup, and I'm trying to get Time Machine backing up to it from both of my household's laptops. I've set up an AFP share for one of the datasets on the NAS and have got my laptop backing up automatically after solving an issue supposedly related to mDNS.

However, applying the same workaround that I used for my laptop to my girlfriend's doesn't quite work:

Richelles-MacBook-Air:~ richelle$ sudo tmutil setdestination -p afp://richellemba@macknas.local/Time\ Machine
Password:
Destination password:
2015-03-21 23:41:10.889 tmutil[416:9720] ### syncProxyWithSemaphore error:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (connection to service named com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig) UserInfo=0x7f9ca3706660 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig}
Failed to save password to system keychain. (error -1)
The backup destination could not be set.

Further investigation into the above error has so far turned up a blank, and I'm stumped. Does anyone have any ideas?

The laptop in question is a 2014 MacBook Air running 10.10.2.


texts: Why does my mac suddenly have long pauses until I restart it?

texts:
I will wake my mac up from sleep. I enter the password and push enter; it takes 10 seconds to unlock. All actions are delayed; a chrome tab will show blank before rendering the page. Clicking on the apple to Restart... shows the pinwheel (before completing and allowing me to restart).

All actions (e.g. running git in a terminal window) are paused before executing. The CPU isn't running high. I don't see anything strange apart from the pauses. After restarting things are OK again.

This happens infrequently, though it has been going on for at least a year.

I'm running currently 10.14.6 (18G95).

The machine is a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015).
Disk is SSD.


texts: Why is Mail app taking ages to setup my new Apple ID?

texts:
I'm sitting here creating an Apple ID through the Mail app on OS X Yosemite, wondering why it's been taking an inordinate amount of time to finish.

Is it normal to take this long for it to finalize account creation, or should I just go and close the app and start again? I'm tempted to just close it and retry, but I'm not sure if doing so will mess anything up.


texts: What hardware upgrade would be most beneficial for a Mac?

texts:
Would it make more sense to buy a Mac with a better processor, or with a better graphics card, or a SSD?

For general computer use, mainly word processing and Chrome/Safari.


texts:
I have a number of books in iBooks on my MacBook. All of them were showing nicely in "Two Pages" mode, until I clicked the "Show Notes" button, on two of them. Those books changed to "Single Page" mode and the "Two Pages" option under "View" is now disabled, even after disabling "Show Notes Panel" under "View".

I've already tried deleting everything under the /Users/jonasmatser/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks directory and adding the books back to the emptied iBooks application, but that didn't help.

Any suggestions what other preferences or files I could try to delete or other things I could do to get those books back in "Two Pages" mode?


texts: Can't get past my FileVault encryption on my Mac as I've forgotten my password. I know my admin username and password, but not my password for my FileVault on my regular user profile. I need to unlock my FileVault to even be able to switch users and login to my admin account. Also, I tried my recovery key and it doesn't seem to unlock it. Any ideas?


texts: Reading List items not being marked read

texts:
I use Reading List to mark items to read later. I don't like deleting read items because I do sometimes refer back. In any case, items added to Reading List sync properly across my iCloud devices.

However, I'm finding items are almost always not marked as read on either device when I read an item in the list. I scroll down and read, and get to the end where "UP NEXT" is shown, but hours or days later the item still appears in the Reading List "Unread" section.

Any suggestions on how I can make sure these items are properly marked? Other iCloud features are working reasonably well.


texts:
I just started having problems with my Mid 2011 Mac Mini — it's fan is continously on although the computer temperature is relatively low and not a lot of CPU is being used. I'm very nervous about this because my last Mac Mini died due to overheating issues.

I realize this may be a common problem, but I specifically would like to know about two keys that appear when I run iStats:

$ istats scan
Scanning keys...

Tp0C Unknown  43.45°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TA0p Ambient temperature  40.38°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TA0P Ambient temperature  40.38°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TA1p Ambient temperature  34.63°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TA1P Ambient temperature  34.63°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCGc PECI GPU  59.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCGC PECI GPU  59.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCPG   98.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCSc PECI SA  50.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCSC PECI SA  50.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCTD Unknown  0.16°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCXc PECI CPU  57.19°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TCXC PECI CPU  57.19°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0c   53.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0d   51.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0p   46.13°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0C CPU 0 Core  53.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0D CPU 0 Die  51.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0E CPU 0 ??  58.81°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0F CPU 0 ??  62.41°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0G CPU 0 ??  94.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0J CPU 0 ??  1.59°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC0P CPU 0 Proximity  46.13°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC1c   56.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TC1C Core 1  56.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TI0p Unknown  38.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TI0P Unknown  38.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TI1p Unknown  36.5°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TI1P Unknown  36.5°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TMBS Unknown  50.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TM0p Unknown  40.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TM0P Memory Slot Proximity  40.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TM0S Memory Slot 1  40.8°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TPCD Platform Controller Hub Die  45.0°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TP0p Unknown  43.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TP0P Unknown  43.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TW0p Unknown  38.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇
TW0P AirPort Proximity  38.25°C  ▁▂▃▅▆▇

Done scanning keys.`

As you can see everything is a somewhat normal temperature except for the TCPG and TC0G keys, which are close to 100 degrees Celsius. Would anyone be able to tell me what these keys are, and how I could address this issue?


texts: Is it possible to prevent specific backups from getting deleted?

texts:
This question was asked three times, as far as I know, but none of these has an answer that I'm looking for:

1 – This unfortunately doesn't seem like a method to preserve specific backups

2 – This was marked as a duplicate of the above but I feel like it better suits the question. However, there aren't any answers for it

3 – This probably is my question best stated but there are no answers

So my question is, is it possible at all to prevent specific backups from being deleted from my Time Machine drive? Would it be possible to copy and paste specific backup to another location to preserve it and then restore from them later on? (I don't particularly think that it would copy a bootable backup, though)


texts:
I want to export my presentation as video. Followed this: Save a presentation as a movie file or MP4.

But I can't find any video formats in the Export menu.

Should I install any extension separately to have this work? Is there any other software which does conversion of presentations to video with all transitions and animations.

P.S: I use PowerPoint for Mac Version 15.34 [Office 2016].


texts: Preventing iPad Pro from getting hot during usage

texts:
My iPad Pro 2018 gets quite hot during usage. I've noticed that this occurs around 50% brightness (not even 100%). If I turn it lower to, say, 10-20%, it doesn't heat up anymore. I assume this heating is partially due to the thinness of the device, which conducts heat very easily.

This heat is rather uncomfortable on my hand while I write on my iPad. Is there any way to get rid of this heat without lowering the brightness too much? I don't want to reduce the brightness due to legibility.

There are some "heatsink" cases for iPhones; is there anything similar for the iPad anywhere?


texts: How to uninstall 3rd party keyboards on ios8

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I've installed a 3rd party keyboard on ios8. I didn't like it so i wanted to uninstall it completely.  It stills appear under "Third Party Keyboards" when I press "Add new Keyboard..." in the Keyboards settings.

Any hints how to make it disappear at all?


texts: iOS: Default Battery Percentage Level for individual services to switch off

texts: We all know iOS switches off services one by one when the battery reaches critical level. But is there any fixed battery level to cut down individual services. For example, Bluetooth will be switched off at 20%, Mobile data at 15%, Wifi at 10%, etc. I am searching these in iOS documentation and Googling as well. But I am not able to find such info. Any help please.


texts: Mounting an SMB share uses the share name and not the local directory name

texts:
I'm mounting an SMB share via the command line in 10.9 with the following:

mkdir /Volumes/MountName
mount_smbfs //user:password@server/Share$/SubDir /Volumes/MountName

Previously in 10.8 this would be mounted on the desktop with the MountName directory name I manually created for the mount point.

Now it's displaying with the remote share name Share$. The mount point hasn't changed and still appears as /Volumes/MountName.

How can I force the local name of a mounted drive in 10.9?


texts: How can I re-build Mail.app's search index?

texts: Since upgrading to Lion, my search in Mail has gotten drastically less helpful. Since I have read many reviews about what an improvement Mail 5.0's search is, I can only assume that my search index was not built correctly. Is there a file I can delete or a terminal command I can run to tell Mail to re-index my messages?


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I've been having issues with my iPhone 5's lock button recently, I'm having to press it more forcefully to get it to work. Then I saw this video and got to a part where the person does a pinch gesture to lock his phone.

Is this a feature to iPhone 5S only or can this be unlocked through some set up in accessibility?


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On iTunes 12.5.3 on my Mac there is an option to "Encrypt local backup".

My wife has just bought a new iPad, but when she tried to backup the old iPad there seemed to be no similar option (on iTunes 12.5.5). There doesn't even to seem to be a "Summary" item under the iPod.

How do you set "Encrypt local backup" and/or change passwords.


texts: idle power consumption of MagSafe 2 45 W A1436 Power Supply

texts: The title says it: plugged into the wall (120vac), but disconnected from the MacBook Air, how much power is consumed by the power supply?


texts: WhatsApp Desktop App failing to establish a web-socket connection on macOS Mojave

texts:
Whenever I open the app I'm getting one of these messages:

Make sure your computer has an active internet connection

or

Nothing works! After I cleared the application data, cookies, and everything, I got the screen where WhatsApp is trying to generate the QR code, and it still does not work as well, it kept trying to generate one!

After Opening the developer tools cmd+option+i on almost every problem I'm facing; the console log contains multiple errors. This is one of them:

WebSocket connection to wss://dev-web.whatsapp.com/ws failed: HTTP Authentication failed; no valid credentials available

Even with the newest version, I downloaded yesterday, it's still not working.


texts:
I have an iMac running OSX 10.8.4 and I have a large collection of photos (10,000+) that I want displayed during the screensaver.  I would like to see a uniform distribution of all photos.  However, I am finding that there is only a small subset of the photos that are actually shown, and there are many repeats.  It is my hypothesis that OSX is choosing a subset of photos (say, 100) at the beginning of the Screensaver session, and that it is just cycling through these.
My question: is there a setting to change the number of photos that the screensaver uses?

I am comfortable with bash shell commands and am happy to modify plist files.

Thanks.  Kevin.


texts: How to prevent Continuity / Handoff app icons in Dock?

texts:
Sometimes I open my iPhone while working at my Mac.

This often triggers a Continuity / Handoff app icon to suddenly  appear in my Dock:

  Safari
  From iPhone

I find it extremely irritating to constantly have this new Dock icon flashing in the periphery of my vision, and to see the Dock itself resizing to fit the new icon.

The worst offender is the current macOS default web browser. Many iOS apps offer to open their current URL on the Mac, which flashes Safari or Chrome in your macOS dock.

How can I prevent Handoff icons from appearing in the macOS Dock?

Is there a way to selectively prevent handing off URLs or browser tabs?

I may want to keep some Handoff Dock icons, but definitely not the generic Browser opening action.

NOTE: I do not want to fully disable Continuity, as I do rely on other features such as a shared Clipboard.


texts: How to download Macaulay2 for MacBook Pro?

texts:
I want to install Macaulay2, and first need to install Homebrew for this.
I was following https://brew.sh/ by putting
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

into my terminal but it asked for a password. I don't know where I would go for this?
Is there an easier way to get Macaulay2 for my computer? I have the macOS Big Sur version 11.1.


texts: iOS 7: How to turn off camera's burst mode?

texts: In the stock camera app, iOS 7 has added a new burst mode feature that takes multiple photos in succession for as long as the shutter is pressed. Is there any way I can turn this feature off and have the app behave like the old one?


texts: MacBook without battery kernel_task 100% CPU utilization

texts: After removing the battery from a MacBook late 2009 following a battery fault, the computer always runs kernel_task at 100% CPU utilization. I assume the process ends up in some kind of spin lock when looking for the battery and failing to do so. Is there a work around to prevent this issue? While waiting for a new battery, I would like to use the computer in a useful way on connected power.


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I have MacBook Pro 2014 with Sierra. I use NTFS formatted external HDD, accessing it with Tuxera NTFS. When I play some media directly from the drive, there is a lag, now and then. It all looks like there is some caching going on, but not in advance, so there is the lag.
Is there any solution to this beside copying the media to my computer's SSD? Is the caching handled by the app which is requesting the media?
EDIT:
When I use SSD, there is no problem. When I use IINA or VLC, there is a problem. When I use QuickTime player there is no problem, it manages to take the data in advance.
So basically my question is, if there is a setting or tool to set timeout to HDD spin. It starts spinning only when data is needed and then it goes immediatelly to "sleep" and when I access the drive again it's starts spinning again.
EDIT 2:
"Put hard disks to sleep when possible." in Energy Saver settings is disabled.
sudo pmset -a disksleep VALUE does not change the behaviour.
EDIT 3:
Little utility called "Keep Drive Spinning" by Jon Stovell does not change the behaviour.
EDIT 4:
It seems like utiliti from CHUD Tools could help me: SpindownHD.app. Unfortunately I'm not able to find it..


texts: What is the earliest version of iOS supporting hardware storage of private keys?

texts: I am working on an app that manages authentication keys, and I need to store them in hardware, because maximum security is absolutely essential. I did some research and only newer versions of Android actually integrate the KeyStore with hardware, but I can't find any source that clearly specifies the earliest version of iOS in which the KeyChain API or the like can be used to cache keys in the Secure Enclave.


texts: iOUSBFamily or USB Prober.app equivalent for macOS High Sierra?

texts: It seems USB Prober.app is no longer a part of Xcode, and iOUSBFamily hasn't been updated since 10.9.4... is there anything equivalent available for High Sierra?


texts: Changing XAMPP directory/file permissions

texts:
On my old Windows setup I used a symbolic link to store my htdocs folder in my Skydrive folder and still work with XAMPP. I've just bought a MacBook and trying to accomplish the same thing but seem to be having trouble. I have created an alias of the htdocs folder in Skydrive and placed it in the XAMPP directory but I'm having file permission problems in the form of…

Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If I understand correctly, instead of just changing the Skydrive folder permissions I also need to change the parent directories so "/Users/Adam/Documents/Skydrive/xampp/htdocs" needs to have read and write permissions for "everyone". When I change to that everything works as it should but I'm wondering if there's a better/safer way of doing it?
I don't really understand the file permissions, is that "everyone" just other users on the computer, nothing network related? If so everything should be fine as I'm the only user on the laptop.


texts: Install Windows 10 on old Macbook Pro without optical drive

texts:
I'm looking to install Windows 10 on an old Macbook Pro (13 inch, early 2011), which I've replaced the HDD in with a SSD. I was able to do this using a flash drive, and managed to get everything working except the audio (Windows wouldn't recognize my computer's internal speakers).  After doing some research, it appears that this problem occurs when you install Windows via EFI boot, so the recommended solution is to install Windows using a burned DVD.  Unfortunately the optical drive in my Macbook is broken, so this method isn't available to me.  I have to tried to install Windows on a partition of my SSD using Virtual Box, but it's not clear to me how to get around the fact that my drive is a GPT partition scheme. (Windows 10 won't allow me to install to my BOOTCAMP partition because it is a GPT scheme)

In short, I would like to install Windows 10 in BIOS (to avoid audio issues) on a partition of my SSD without using the optical drive.  Any suggestions for accomplishing this would be appreciated, thanks.


texts: How do I show all hidden & invisible files on the command line (both .files and invisible flagged files)?

texts:
Is there a way to show only the hidden and invisible files in a directory using the command line?

For instance ls -a | grep "^\." will show all the files hidden by a period as the first character, but what about files hidden with the invisible flag or listed in .hidden (mostly deprecated in practice, don't worry about that one so much.)?


texts: Control Arrow Keyboard Shortcuts in PyCharm

texts:
According to the PyCharm Keymap for Mac, Control + Up Arrow and Control + Down Arrow are used to navigate between the previous and next methods.  OSX of course uses these key combos for (Control + Arrow Keys) for navigating between applications.

Is there no solution beside remapping these keys in either OSX or in PyCharm?


texts: How do I keep an ssh tunnel alive using launchd?

texts:
I would like to keep an ssh tunnel alive. Below is my launch agent plist file but it only keeps the tunnel up for a day or two at the most. I'm using OS X 10.10.3.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
        <dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>com.my.ssh_tunnel</string>
                <key>ProgramArguments</key>
                <array>
                        <string>/usr/bin/ssh</string>
                        <string>-R 0.0.0.0:22221:localhost:22</string>
                        <string>-NTC</string>
                        <string>-f</string>
                        <string>-o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes</string>
                        <string>-o ServerAliveInterval=60</string>
                        <string>user@user.server.com</string>
                </array>
                <key>RunAtLoad</key>
                <true/>
                <key>KeepAlive</key>
                <true/>
        </dict>
</plist>


texts: How do I make Terminal.app's scrollbars disappear in Lion?

texts:
Once I upgraded to Lion, I found out that the vertical scrollbar is always plastered to the right side of the application window.

Because I run GNU Screen within Terminal.app, the right side of the screen session gets hidden partially underneath said scrollbar. Likewise for emacs sessions.

Is there a way to disable scrollbars in Terminal.app in Lion?


texts: Is it legal to use 2 authorized computers in different households?

texts:
I would like to share my music with my girlfriend. Can we share a single apple ID?

What does the following really mean?: "Apple is the provider of the iTunes Service, which permits you to purchase or rent digital content ("iTunes Products") for end user use only under the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement." (From Itunes' Terms of Use)

Does it mean that the person who owns the account and buys the music is the only one who can be "end user"? Because if I share a single account with my girlfriend, she (the account's owner) would have the right to be end user but could she legaly give me part of that right too? At least for one of the 5 computers she can authorize?

(note for future anwswers: we are NOT in the same household)


texts:
Im trying to sync my photos on google plus using my iphone, because i had more free space on it.

How do it sync in timely manner  - auto sync.


texts: CMD 2 keyboard shortcut no longer working

texts:
Since Wednesday I can no longer use ⌘2 as shortcut in any application on my MacBook Pro. I've quadruple checked Keyboard Shortcuts in Settings and I have nothing there. ⌘ and any other key works fine.

Today I discovered that with an external keyboard attached, I can use ⌘2 by using the 2 key on the number pad, but not the 2 in the number row.

Ideas?


texts: How can I export PDFs from a PC to a new iPad?

texts:
I want to load some of the PDFs I bought from the internet to my iPad from my PC (Windows 7). How can I do this?

I've never bothered about tablets before, but somehow I got an iPad. I did some research in Stack Exchange, but all I could find was information regarding the sending of PDFs from an iPad to a PC; not the other way.


texts: Renew free provisioning profile from CLI

texts:
I'm developing an iOS app to run only on my phone (a.k.a. sideloading), and I don't need to distribute it.  With a free iOS dev account, my provisioning profile expires every 7 days.  I'm looking for a way to automate the process of re-signing the app without launching Xcode.  So far my script is like this:

open myproject.xcodeproj
xcodebuild -project myproject.xcodeproj
osascript -e 'quit app "Xcode"'
ios-deploy --justlaunch --bundle ./build/Release-iphoneos/myproject.app

Simply opening Xcode GUI for a few seconds is enough to renew the provisioning profile.  But I'd like to do this all through the command-line.


texts: Kernel Tasks Swamping processor-2012 13" Retina

texts:
Acquired a 13" Retina liquid damaged - Apple Certified Tech.  Trying to salvage.

Haven't disassembled yet to see the extent of the liquid but it boots and runs.  No liquid spill indicators triggered.

Battery is recognized but in "Replace" mode and does not charge or function.  Boot time is slow, run time is slow.

Activity monitor shows that CPU's are "swamped" in the 85% to 90% range at all times with nothing but the O/S installed.  Primary usage is pegged to Kernel Task.

I am seeing some posts that this could be battery related?  I disconnected the battery yesterday  but there was no change in CPU usage.

I am also wondering if it is possible that there is a security software that has been activated that is looping causing the CPU's to to load up.  I got this from an Apple employee but I suppose it's possible that it has a dark past.

Have tried Safe mode, no change.

Anyone?

Thanks.

John


texts:
Is there a way to amplify the input audio even more then how far the slider goes on system preferences?

Maybe an application or something?

I am using line-in to pass a small signal through from the mic input, and I can hear it ok when it is quiet, just it needs a bit more volume.


texts: Xcode is constantly hijacking my Editor settings for .rb files

texts:
I'm quite baffled by this as i can't find how and why it's happening.
For years i'm using Sublime Text to open ruby files and surely i have Xcode installed but except of command line tools i don't use Xcode as an IDE ever.

Just since today and no software update has been installed in this regard for weeks Xcode registers itself to open .rb files.

When i noticed i used Finder / Get Info and all the normal procedure to fix this.
and this works but only for an hour or so.

Suddenly clicking a ruby file i notice how the file icon changes mid click from the dark grey with orange icon to the white page with red icon from Xcode.

Played this game 5 times today and even tried rebooting.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Stop Xcode from Hijacking my File Associations

Sounded similar but only so far that for me this happens without any updates just after a short while multiple times a day.


texts: Toggle "Announce the Time" when presenting?

texts: This answer shows how to programmatically toggle "Announce the time", but how can I automatically trigger this when I dis/connect from/to (certain) external displays?


texts:
On my mac, i deleted a bunch of songs and checked "delete from iCloud" checkbox. On my iPhone (10 minutes later), songs are still there.

Is there a way to force the sync between devices on demand? (and ultimately delete them from iPhone)


texts: How can I get a logged user's username without the domain?

texts:
I'm trying to write a script to automate a task that involves the logged user's username.  The problem is the username is coming up as domain/username and I just need the username.

LOGGEDUSER=$(stat -f "%S" /dev/console);

Any way to output the result and remove part of it?  This currently outputs domain/username I need to remove the domain/.


texts: How can I start Bluetooth tethering using the command line?

texts:
I'd like a quick way to start tethering using my iPhone, hopefully just using the keyboard. Using the bluetooth menu, I can choose the Connect to Network option in the submenu for my device, but is it possible to automate this?

Ultimately I want to assign this to a shortcut in (the very awesome) Alfred.app, but anything using the command line or AppleScript will work.

Is this possible? Thanks!!


texts: Mail.app crashes - then bogus display and corrupted cache

texts:
Since the last Mavericks update (10.9.2) and Mail.app update coming with it (7.2 - 1874) my mail application is regularly behaving badly.

Nearly everyday I face crashing and then display issues:

Mail.app crashes at random times,
the list of messages is not refreshed when deleting a message or when a new one comes in,
navigating in the list of messages is messy (you click on one message, it is the next or previous one that is being selected),
the main window is displayed like out of focus (greyed upper left corner red/yellow/green buttons),
composing a new message is impossible because the recipient field is not available,
and other weird display issues.

Quitting Mail.app, deleting the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail folder and restarting the application usually solves the display issue.  At least until the next crash.

Rebuilding the mailboxes, waiting for it to finish, quitting Mail.app and then restarting usually also solves the issue.  But for it to re-appear after the next crash.

I also noticed that this behavior tend to appear more when I use the combined Mail.app smart folder.  I have 4 different smart folders and usually read my emails from the top level smart folders, combining the elements from all 4 smart folders.

I've been using Mail.app for years (back from Leopard I think) and never faced this issue before.  And I've not done any major configuration change lately.

I'm using one plugin: GPGMail, in its latest version which is said to be Mavericks compatible. Re-installing or completely removing GPG Mail didn't make things go better.

Has anyone else experienced this type of behaviour?  Do you know any other way to reset the Mail.app state to a cleaner set up? (without wiping out all the accounts configuration)  Would that be a known Mail.app bug that hopefully will get corrected in the next version?


texts: Best practices for storing a replacement battery?

texts:
My early 2011 MBP has been giving me the "Replace Soon" battery warning, and an app I have says that the battery can hold 57% of its original capacity. I bought a new one on Amazon, but now I've decided to wait as long as possible until doing the surgery, in order to squeeze as much life as possible out of the current battery before beginning the new one's life cycle.

My question: What do I do with the replacement? It's currently in the cardboard box that it came in (not the big box from Amazon, a smaller box inside that). How can I store it for a month or so while keeping it happy and healthy until the time comes to give it the privilege of powering my computer?


texts: Should I install the AX88179 USB Ethernet Driver - or any other external driver?

texts:
I try to avoid external drivers that require root permissions to install, as they might break regular functionality/integrity easily, yet it seems like a must to install them sometimes.

I bought a USB 3.0 HUB with an Ethernet port, it seems to use an AX88179 chip, a common one as I see, it doesn't get recognised automatically

Should I risk it and install the drivers or keep using the Wi-Fi instead and not fix something that's not broken?


texts:
Typing $ qlmanage -m plugins will give me a list of QuickLook plugins and their associated MIME type (at least I think it's a MIME type):

plugins:
  org.openxmlformats.presentationml.slideshow -> /System/Library/QuickLook/Office.qlgenerator (32)
  com.adobe.pdf -> /System/Library/QuickLook/PDF.qlgenerator (622.3)
  com.apple.localized-pdf-bundle -> /System/Library/QuickLook/LocPDF.qlgenerator (622.3)
  com.apple.iwork.keynote.key -> /Library/QuickLook/iWork.qlgenerator (11)
  ...
  public.script -> /Applications/Development/TextMate 2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/TextMateQL.qlgenerator (1.0 - loaded)public.source-code -> /Applications/Development/TextMate 2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/TextMateQL.qlgenerator (1.0 - loaded)
  public.plain-text -> /Applications/Development/TextMate 2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/TextMateQL.qlgenerator (1.0 - loaded)
  public.text -> /Applications/Development/TextMate 2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/TextMateQL.qlgenerator (1.0 - loaded)
  ...

Questions:

What is the number in parentheses?
How do I know which plugin will be used by a given file?  Is it just the file's extension or is MIME type (e.g. public.plain.text) embedded in the document's metadata?
How do I get AsciiDoc documents associated with one of the plugins that renders plain text?
How do I change plugin associations?  For example, use Sublime Text's plugin instead of Text Mate's.


texts: iPhone vibrates several times a day with no visible notification

texts:
Several times a day for the past several weeks, I'm noticing my phone briefly vibrating as though I've received a notification of some sort. However, upon checking, I have no new notifications of any kind.

Per the suggestion in How do I know which App is sending Vibrate-only Notification?, I've triple checked my notifications, and any app which has sound enabled (and therefore vibration when phone is muted) should also either badge the icon or appear in history or the lock screen. Neither is occurring.

Help?! As someone who disables the vast majority of notifications so I can stay focused during the day, this is driving me crazy!


texts: Problems logging into Mac after reinstalling older OS

texts:
I’m having problems with my late 2013 27 inch Mac and need some help.
Last night I tried to install a newer OS (Mojave) and it told me there was a disk management error (69854). I was previously on OS High Sierra.
I followed all the troubleshooting guides etc. and eventually had to
resinstall the OS in recovery mode. It took me all the way back to OS X Mavericks I think.
Unfortunately I don’t have a time machine backup. OS X is installed but it won’t let me go past the login page. When I try to enter my password the screen refreshes and nothing happens.
I’m inexperienced with this sort of stuff so any easy to follow help would be appreciated.
In terms of logging back in, I’ve repaired the “disc permissions” in disk utility but it’s done nothing.
Thanks


texts: PHP not working after upgrading to OS Mojave

texts:
When i try to open localhost it gives me 403 error message like this "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
I have tried changing the permission but nothing happens. It worked fine with High Sierra but after update its not working.I am using the pre installed apache and not using third party apps like xampp


texts: Disabling two factor authentication to ios 10 is possible?

texts: I need to disable two factor authentication to iphone with ios 10+ version, is that possible? or is it possible by supervisor mode ?


texts: How to bring an application made in Automator to the foreground upon launch?

texts:
I've created an application with AppleScript in Automator.

I've created a Service in Automator which launches the aforementioned app.

The Service is triggered by a keyboard shortcut.

The problem is that upon launch, the application's dialog box has a light gray top bar. I have to click anywhere on the dialog for the dialog to turn to the darker gray, which shows that the app is now selected.

Is it possible for my application to do this automatically?


texts: Installed Apache (httpd) using Home Brew, but cannot seem to get mod_rewrite working?

texts:
I'm running macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and have installed the latest Apache (2.4.43) using brew, basically following these steps.

It seems to be working OK, I can visit http://localhost/ and when I change /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (e.g. different port, different DocumentRoot, etc) and sudo apachectl restart, the changes are reflected in my local webserver.

However I also uncommented this line in httpd.conf:

LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so

But putting a .htaccess file in my DocumentRoot and defining some RewriteRules there does not seem to have any effect. Already did sudo apachectl restart but no difference.

mod_rewrite.so seems to be present, that is assuming that lib/httpd/modules/ in my httpd.conf refers to /usr/local/lib/httpd/modules.

Am I doing something wrong? How do I enable mod_rewrite?

(edit) as reference, here are my .htaccess contents:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule test index.html [R=301,L,QSA]

I can visit http://localhost:8080/index.html, that works fine. ✅
When visiting http://localhost:8080/ I get the directory index (list of files), not the index.html page as I would expect from the DirectoryIndex line. ❌
When visiting http://localhost:8080/test I get 'Not Found', not the index.html page as I would expect from the RewriteRule. ❌

(edit2) For what it's worth, if I do apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES it shows a list of loaded modules and it includes rewrite_module.


texts:
I have a mac mini connected to a TV that is on during the day and switched off at night.  This displays a web page with stats during the day.  When the TV is turned off the resolution readjusts to I am guessing "defaults" then when the TV is reconnected it readjusts.  During this process the safari window shrinks and whenever I turn the tv back on I have to readjust the browser window.

This is mac os x snow leopard server.

Is there any way to:

Disable screen resolution detection and always keep the res at the one i want

Always have safari go full screen (no full screen option in safari snow leopard as far as I


texts: How do I write a Mail.app rule to mark messages as read in one mailbox but leave them as unread in my in-box?

texts: I have a Mail.app rule that copies certain incoming messages into an archive mailbox. I'd like those messages to be marked as read in the archive mailbox but remain unread in my in-box until I actually read them. I tried adding "Mark as Read" to the copy rule but that marks the message as read in both the archive mailbox and my in-box, so I never have any unread messages in my in-box. Any ideas?


texts: Does wifi need to be on for AirDrop, even if using ethernet connection?

texts:
My iMac is connected to my network with an ethernet cable - as such I have turned wifi off, to ensure that I am using the wired network, rather than the much slower wifi network.

AirDrop never seems to work on that iMac, whereas I can AirDrop easily between my iOS devices and MacBook (which is on wifi).

I have only just clicked that these two points may be related. For AirDrop to work do I need:

All devices to be connected to the same wifi network?
Wifi to be switched on, but not connected, on the iMac?
Something else?

If I need wifi to be enabled on the iMac, can I "forget" my home wireless network without iCloud forgetting it on my other devices?


texts: Why is my "Encrypt backups" option greyed out for local (USB) time machine disc?

texts:
I'm using Mountain Lion on a new MacBook Pro (retina) with a local USB drive for backup. From what I've read searching around (including other questions on here) I should be able to encrypt my time machine backup on this local USB drive, but the option is greyed out.

The USB drive is 500.11 GB in two partitions of 251.33 and 248.77 GB - the first partition is the time machine backup drive, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled). My Mac's hard drive is internal SSD 250.14 GB formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I don't know what this means, but the internal SSD and the first partition of the USB drive (time machine backup) both say YES for Owners Enabled and the second partition on the USB drive says NO.

Does any of this explain why "Encrypted backups" would be greyed out?

What would I need to do to fix it?


texts: Does Apple use your PayPal or gift card first?

texts: I want to purchase something on the app store but I'm not sure if it will charge my gift card or PayPal?


texts: How do I make a custom context menu item in Finder?

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I do a lot of command line work, which involves a lot of folder navigation with cd.

To make my life easier, I'd love to be able to right-click on a folder in Finder and have a context menu item I could click that simply opens Terminal and cds to that directory.

How would I go about this in OS X (Snow Leopard)? I'm a website developer, so familiar with programming languages and computer literate, so feel free to get technical with me.


texts: Hot Corners Yosemite don't work any more

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My Macbook Pro (late 2013) running OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite, doesn't respond to Hot Corners any more.
Also, if one application is set to full screen, the Finder keeps stuck / doesn't follow if I change (CMD-Tab) the focus to a different application in a different Desktop (Space). I already tried

loggin out and in the user account
restarting the Finder, OS X
repairing rights while starting up from another partition
changing hot corners settings, mission control settings
deleting the ./Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
resetting the RMC, PRAM
I can get back to the main screen / first Desktop with CMD-1 but going back to the full screen application only works with a 4-finger horizontal swipe.
I noticed Hot Corners work fine with a test accounts, so it must be something with this account.

I've been at this for hours and running out of ideas. Any thoughts?
Update 151203
Recently, I updated to OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan, but this didn't change things.
Update 160214
Did some tests again and noticed the screensaver can be set as a hot corner function, but other functions can not. Also, (with or without fn) Function keys don't work (only in this user account).
In the System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts I used the [Restore Defaults] button. This made the Dashboard function available via Function keys again, but not via Hot corners.
App Expose also only works via the keyboard and gestures
Show Desktop and Mission Control don't work at all.
Update 210113
Wow, it's been a while! Since I've updated to Mojave everything works fine. By the I love how this 7+ year old retina MBP 15' still feels as responsive as when I bought it.


texts: How have I got two identical Amazon Prime Video apps on my phone?

texts: I recently clicked a link which took me to the App Store to download the Amazon Prime Video app. This was confusing to me because I already have that app. I downloaded it anyway, and now I have two identical (looking) apps on my phone? How is this possible? I have an iPhone SE.


texts: When does the warranty period start for an Apple iPhone 4s?

texts: I have an Apple iPhone 4s that is brand new and not activated. Has the warranty period already started for this phone or does it only start after activation?


texts: Early 2013 Macbook Pro with 4K: Picture quality?

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This is sort of related to this question. The 13.3 inch Early 2015 Macbook has a resolution of 2560 x 1600. I'm not an expert on displays, I've done a lot of Googling but don't seem to understand.

How does my Retina Display with resolution 2560 x 1600 show up on a 4K screen with resolution: 4096 × 2160 in terms of quality of image? What will the pixel density on my monitor? Let's say the monitor I'm after is specifically this: BenQ EL2870U 28 inch 4K HDR10 Gaming Monitor, UHD 3840x2160, FreeSync, 1ms Response Time, Eye-Care, Brightness Intelligence Plus, HDMI, DP, Built-in Speakers.

Is my picture quality going to be fantastic? Or am I making a mistake trying to fit 2560 X 1600 into 4096 X 2160, 27 inches and it's going to be super grainy with me being able to distinguish between pixels?
What are the monitor specifications that I should be looking for to get the BEST picture quality
Assuming that I may upgrade my laptop and simply end up getting a CPU later on in the future, and money isn't my biggest concern, can I just get a 4K monitor and downscale the monitor's resolutions to 2560 X 1600?

The purpose of buying the monitor is not primarily gaming per say, but I would love to get the same FPS that I can on my laptop when playing Dota 2 and less lag during the data transfer from HDMI or whatever appropriate cable. My laptop supports Thunderbolt 2.


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Is there a way to see when an application was launched? I need to restore some tabs that were open in my browser when I launched it several weeks ago (it is still running) and I want to look in the browser history at the "launch moment".

I took a quick look in Console.app but there was just too much information.

It is about Firefox. I launched a couple of weeks ago and have since then closed a few tabs that were open when I launched and that I would like to restore. Everytime you launch and restore previous session there is an entry for each tab in the browser history. If I just could find this moment it would be easy to find my lost tabs


texts: How do I permanently delete fontbook from mac (Sierra OS)?

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When I try to drag to trashcan, it says it's a system app that is required by os.

How do I bypass this check and remove the app?


texts: AppleScript to copy cell range to clipboard as image is broken after Office Excel update 16.11

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I have a simple script that opens an excel file and copy the used range to cilpboard as image. It was working for at least 5 years. Now with the latest update from microsoft it is not longer working and throwing parameter error (-50). I have tried all combinations of optional parameters with appearance and screen. No matter what I try I always get this parameter error. Please suggest how can I change the parameters to make it working or confirm that it is not working for you too and hence a bug that should be reported to Microsoft. I have following code. The excel file is opened but then I get error -50 stating Parameter error. Parameter 'used range' is correct according to  MS Excel dictionary documentation and the script works with Microsoft Excel 16.10.

    set filepath to "/Users/ayesha/Documents/ayesha/test.xlsx"

    set scriptFilePath to POSIX file filepath

    tell application "Microsoft Excel"

        launch

        set myworkbook to open workbook workbook file name scriptFilePath

        copy picture used range of active sheet

    end tell


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I have an iPhone 6 Plus.

There is a fairly recurring display bug concerning the AirDrop/AirPlay area in control center. Sometimes it appears squished, so that only a few pixels of it is visible. Whatever is there can still be tapped.

Screenshot:

Is this a known bug? How can this be fixed?