texts: What is the iCloud Lock going on Apple Watch?

texts:
https://www.techmajesty.com/icloud-unlocks-activation-lock-removal/icloud-unlock-activation-lock-removal-for-any-iwatch.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXuAN-11Usc
It seems (according to links above) there in some kind of lock going on Apple Watch. More specifically being called iCloud Lock. What actually is that? Which feature is locked and becomes unlocked?


texts: How is this windows Airdrop app working?

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/airdrop/9nzs8p65cd6q?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
I came across this app in Microsoft store, which seems to be an ''airdrop'' app on windows 10. I am wondering how it performs. The screenshot looks good, but Microsoft store has no comment zone, and I don't know if I should buy it. Any review or comment on this app?


texts: Can I easily view all songs that iTunes can't locate in Finder?

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I recently had a mishap with my music library, resulting in the untimely termination of hundreds of innocent music files. These songs were not removed from iTunes, so there are many tracks that are seemingly normal, but upon closer inspection are actually gone, never to be seen again.

Is there any way I can make a smart playlist or something that'll show me only tracks whose source file can't be found?


texts: iPhone only forwarding a few, random, notifications to watch.

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Sometime around the upgrade to iOS 11 my phone (6s) stopped delivering some notifications to my watch. It seems random, not by app, just random. E.g. some email notifications appear on my watch, others don’t.

At first it was only the occasional one, but over time it’s been getting worse.  Now, I would estimate that only 25% of the notifications appear on the watch.

I have no idea how to even start to diagnose this. Has anyone seen this before?  Any ideas how to solve?

Thanks.


texts: How to get total amount for each client in a list automatically?

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Let's say I have a long list of clients in one column of a Numbers table, most of them occurring multiple times, and in the adjacent column are amounts due for services received, as depicted below. What is the easiest way to automatically add up all the amounts for each client and have them appear either in a third column or in a new table next to his or her name? That is, for Ava I would like the total of 300 + 800 + 1200 + 1600 = 3900 to appear somewhere next to her name, for Chloe it should be 450 + 950 = 1400, and so on.

Ideally, it should require as little maintenance as possible. For instance, if a new client is added to the list, a new entry/row should automatically appear in the third column/new table with that person's name and the sum of all their amounts.


texts: Can I connect two Cinema HD Monitors (23-Inch) without an eGPU to my MacBook Pro?

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I bought a Cinema HD Display a couple of weeks ago and now I plan to buy another one
(The picture quality and color representation is still very good today, the resolution is also completely sufficient for me).
Since I have a 2017 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, I have an adapter to connect USB, HDMI and SD cards via USB-C.
If I now buy a second monitor and another USB-C to DVI adapter, is the image synchronized or extended?
Or do I need an eGPU to fire both monitors?
Thanks for any help :)


texts: Notify someone by email if FileVault Safari-Only Guest User logs in

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This question is related to questions 154363 and 144801 (I can't link to them b/c I don't have the reputation and need my two link limit below), but they don't quite answer what I need.

Please note that I also asked this question on the Apple Support Forums here, but I realized that it may not be the right place to address this question and I'm not sure that it can be migrated here. If the question can be migrated and this a cross-post, I apologize. Let me know which community may be better suited to address this question, and I'll contact the Apple Support community to request it be migrated if necessary, and this can be closed.

Here's the summary: I have an early-2015 Macbook Pro with Yosemite (10.10.5). It has FileVault enabled, and so it has the Safari-Only Guest User. I'm familiar with the terminal, and just started learning about launchd and daemons, but have little experience with the innards of Mac OS X or AppleScript.

I need to be able to be notified by email or other means if someone logs into the Safari-Only guest user account. I found an old forum discussing installing Prey on the Safari-Only guest user account here, and I saw this as a good lead toward the solution. I also found a tutorial to send an email using a launchd daemon on Apple Discussion forums (thread #2523408). However, to put these together, it seems to me that there would require other dependencies to make it possible to send an email on the Guest User, or that I otherwise would need to write an applescript or something to do the notifying through Safari.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks


texts: Keyboard shortcut within Mission Control for choosing a specific application window?

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I use Mountain Lion and want to know if there are keyboard shortcuts for moving around and choosing a particular application window within a given active desktop in Mission Control.

I chose an option to show all active windows separately in Mission Control.

Can anyone help?


texts: Is it possible to turn permanently off annoying MacOS update notifications?

texts: I have Mojave. I found that I can silent all notifications if I go under notifications and specify do not disturb all day. However I think this also means that I will not get any important notifications. I'm fine that this particular machine being hacked, exploited or whatever, seriously, I just don't need updates on this particular machine. Or at least warn once a month, not every 24 hours. On windows and linux its 3 clicks, is Mac capable of something like this?


texts:
I have created a custom bullet list style in Pages (5.5.1) which works great within this document. But now I want to have this custom list style as a default option in new Pages documents (Keynote too if possible!). How can I add my custom bullet list to the default bullet style options?

I have tried searching the web, but have only found how to customize, not save bullet styles...


texts: How do I reset iPhone if hard reset (power + home) won't work

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I have an iPhone that is frozen while browsing with Safari (it happens all the time). I am aware that holding down the power button with the home button for 10 seconds is supposed to reset the phone. It does not. I have held down for 60 sec or longer at least 10 times, to no avail.

What other options exist to force the phone to reboot, other than waiting for the power to exhaust itself completely after several hours?


texts: My MacBook Pro sleeps when I turn off external display

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I have a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012), and had a Dell U24, connected via DVI. I always have the MacBook Pro closed. When I turn off the monitor the MacBook Pro continued working.

Now I have a Dell U27, connected via DisplayPort. Now when I turn off the monitor, the MacBook Pro goes to sleep.

How can I prevent my Mac from sleeping when the display is turned off?


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I know how to create a bootable USB drive from which I can install macOS.

However, the usual macOS installer is interactive, I can't just plug in the installation media and let it do its work. The setup assistant will ask for things like country, computer name, user name, password, wifi settings, etc.

Can I somehow preconfigure the installation media so that it would complete the entire process without any user interaction?


texts: Prevent iPad from charging while connected to MacBook Pro

texts: I would like to know how to prevent an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch from charging while connected to the USB port on a MacBook on battery power.


texts: Which parts of MBA-13" mid-2011 can be upgraded?

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Which parts (if any) in Macbook Air 13" mid-2011 can be upgraded to either:

an original part from a later version of Macbook Air/Pro
or a third-party component which has a better performance/extra features?

Which are those replacement work really well (eg with no compatibility problems; last at least as long as the originals etc)?

E.g.: CPU, SSD, RAM, main board, wifi/BT card, speakers, USB 3.0, camera etc.


texts: Operations: how to filter text messages on iPhone

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Question for operations people. I work at a place that believes in configuring Nagios to send SMS alerts on all priorities of issues - even non-urgent ones that I don't need to wake me up in the middle of the night.

Is there a way on my iPhone to filter these texts based on words in the body or subject? I've got an iPhone 3GS, I think it's running iOS 4.x something but I can upgrade to iOS 5 if needed.


texts: Record non-retina display in 1080p or more

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I've recently install an OSX Virtual Machine on my computer to record my iPad mini 1 display using QuickTime.

However, it seems that the output resolution's limit is my iPad's display size, which is slightly more than 720p (non-retina).

So my question is: Is there a way to record a non-retina display at 1080p or more? The content I record is mostly Open-GL 3D graphics, so it should normally be scaled to whatever size you want, right?

I know that machines like Elgato GameCapture exists, but it's way too pricey for me. Is there a possibly free Software that can run my Apple apps on my computer's graphic card? Just like Elgato, but without the external 200$US machine...

Thanks for helping!


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I got a message from my Mac IDrive app that there has been no backup for four days. The message says the most common cause is the Mac being turned off, but my Mac is always on and connected.  IDrive has been working fine for months.

IDrive support suggested that I upgrade to version 3.5.1.5 but that's what I have, and they haven't responded further. There's no clue in the logs; it just says "Backup operation failed" at the end after listing files for backup.  I Have paid for a years service.

Is there a way to troubleshoot this other than requesting another support ticket?


texts: Can iPhone X be set to show battery percentage on the status notch?

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Is there a way?

In Settings, I can't find such an option and it won't show the percentage there too. Can it be done besides using 3rd party app such as System Status Lite?


texts:
I have accidentally dropped my mac in a way that it damaged my internal speakers. They're not damaged severely, but they are impared.

Basically, without headphones the right side of my MBA 11' produces sound but the left side doesn't. This is clearly evident when I plug in headphones: The left earbud produces little noise and the right earbud produces normal amounts of noise. I have verified it is the MBA that is impaired and not the headphones.

Is it repairable? I have tried restarting my macbook and it didn't help. I don't want to take it to the apple store and pay a hefty amount. What do I do?


texts: Cannot change owner and group of file mounted disk image

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I have an external disk which (for other reasons) is formatted using FAT32. On that disk I have created a sparse bundle image formatted using HFS extended (journaled). This image is then mounted on /Volumes/TestDisk.

$ sudo hdiutil attach -mountpoint /Volumes/TestDisk /Volumes/FAT32DSK/TestDisk.sparsebundle/
$ ls -l /Volumes
total 72
drwxr-xr-x  9 mgd   staff    374  7 Jun 22:48 TestDisk
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      1  4 Jun 17:02 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx  1 mgd   staff  32768  7 Jun 22:21 FAT32DSK
$

Whenever a file is created on the mounted disk, it gets me as owner – also if I create the file as root:

$ touch myfile
$ sudo touch rootfile
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 mgd  staff  0  7 Jun 23:00 myfile
-rw-r--r--  1 mgd  staff  0  7 Jun 23:00 rootfile
$

If I try to change the file owner afterwards, nothing happens:

$ sudo chown root:admin rootfile
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 mgd  staff  0  7 Jun 23:00 myfile
-rw-r--r--  1 mgd  staff  0  7 Jun 23:00 rootfile
$

Changing permissions apparently works fine but the owner/group cannot be changed.

I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3.

What did I do wrong?


texts: How To Open System Directories In Finder Without Opening A New Finder Tab

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In the finder I made hidden directories visible. The odd thing is that any system directory (IE one whose name starts with a ".") I can't open them by double-clicking on them. Instead I have to right click and and select to open in a new tab. Is there a way to change this behavior?

I'm using Mavericks, not sure if this issue is specific to Mavericks or not.


texts: How to store note only on my Mac in Notes 4?

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I'm trying the new Notes.app version 4 with El Capitan. I "upgraded" my existing data to be compatible wit the newly revamped version of this app.

I have an "iCloud" group on the left panel, with a couple folders. But I do not have an "On my Mac" group.

So how do I store notes only on my Mac rather than through iCloud?


texts: What are these weird "A in a Box" characters showing up in my Sparrow emails?

texts:
Here's a screenshot.  I think it may be Mac-Sparrow-specific, as I'm not seeing them in gmail or on my iOS devices (including in sparrow for iPhone).
They seem to generally replace links, and are a new problem (possibly since Mountain Lion install, but I"m not sure).

EDIT:  This ceased happening shortly after it started, although I can't say why.


texts: Alternate development environments to Xcode?

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Are there any alternative Intergrated Development Environments (IDE) for Objective-C instead of Xcode?

If so, are there any plug-ins for Eclipse for developing in Objective-C?


texts: How to run Macbook Pro retina on native resolution?

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I have Macbook Pro 13.3 inches Retina display model. The max resolution am able to use is 1440X900. And default is even less. Why Macbook pro retina doesn't work in the native resolution?

Is there any specific reason for the same?


texts: How can I enable natural scrolling for my trackpad, but disable it for my mouse?

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Is there a way to enable natural scrolling on the trackpad, but disable it for mouse?

I think that natural scrolling does make sense on a trackpad, but with a mouse it doesn't feel natural at all


texts: Delete songs from iPhone but keep in iPod

texts: I want to delete songs from iPhone but keep in iPod in iTunes. when uncheck songs from library, this erase from both devices. Is there a way to remove all the songs just from iPhone?


texts:
I've tried multiple e-mail accounts and can't get my computer to talk to the e-mail server.  I've loaded and re-loaded the SMTP and IMAP settings.  Everything seems in order, but it just doesn't want to work.  "Could not connect to this SMTP server" is the message.  I tried it with Yahoo free mail and Gmail.
Nothing works.
I'm running OSX 10.9.5 and Mail version 7.3.


texts: Uninstall/ disable php 5.6.9 osx Yosemite

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I´m running osx yosemite with homebrew, apache, php5.6.9 and have installed php 5.3.
I need php 5.3 to run a certain api which known to have complications with ph5.6.9.
But how can I disable php 5.6.9 to use the 5.3?


texts:
I want to run an applescript whenever a certain person signs onto my Messages buddy list

Exactly. Thats exactly what I want. Pretty self explanatory.

I am aware you can run applescripts for messages events, however I don't know how to check if it was that person who signs in.


texts: What does "Increase Contrast" option change?

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Many forums say, that enabling Increase Contrast option in Accessibility Preferences helps Yosemite to make the animations, like entering Mission Control to be much smoother. This is also consistent with my experience.

Increase Contrast off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOj1U4OZio&index=3&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD

Increase Contrast on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNac3VPZDKI&index=2&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD

What I am interested in, debugging what causes the general slowness of Yosemite interface. It is clear, that at least one of the reasons is canceled when I turn Increase Contrast on. Common sense says, that Increase Contrast turns on Reduce Transparency option too, so it might be the reason, because calculating the transparency of the semi-transparent layers is a hard thing to do. This is not the case, because enabling Reduce Transparency only has no effect on the speed at all.

So the question is: what does Increase Contrast switch? Some GPU parameters? Less textures? Using other rendering algorithms? Something has to be.


texts: USB Keyboard's number pad doesn't work while using vim

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I have a usb keyboard that has a numberpad.

When I use the number pad in most situations, it works as expected (IE when I click the bottom 3 buttons, I get 123 in this web form).

However, when using vim (in a terminal window), in edit mode, if I type 123, I get:

s
r
q

I did not have this problem while I was using synergy to share the keyboard I had plugged into my linux desktop.  (Edited - formatting)


texts:
Have you encountered an OS X text editor capable of indenting both the line

var x = 2;

and the lines

<it>Item A</it>
<it>Item B</it>

in the following html?

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>

Header

<it>Item A</it>
<it>Item B</it>

I have tried all emacs packages purporting to do this simple task properly (through a major and a minor mode), but none is adequate. I am too heavily into emacs to abandon it altogether, but I am now looking for an editor other than emacs for this task.


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My Feb-2011 MacBook Pro hangs with three beeps.

I noted the first strange thing a few days ago. The MacBook was in standby (as always) but very hot (not usual). I thought some process must have stopped the mac from switching to stand by and kept the processor busy, so no big deal.

Switched off, booted up normally. After a while the screen freezes and I hear three loud beaps (they repeat). This happend three or four times, every time it boots up as if nothing happened.

Than it happend at a boot. The grey start up screen is interspersed with terminal messages repeatedly sagin "8debugger called: ", three loud beeps. Turn off, turn on, everything normal again.

I googled the issue and found out that three beeps signal a RAM issue. However most sources agree on the fact that system diagnostics are only run at startup - so this should not happen in other modes of operation. Also I'm puzzled since it did not always hang with three beeps (I got a “regular“ kernel panic most recently, with that black PNG in the middle of the screen, telling me to reboot).

Also I did a memtest, which reported no errors. It may be worth noting that every time the problem occurred I was playing some flash video. system.log and kernel.log do not contain any error messages (at least none relating to a kernel panic).

What may be the cause of this problem? Is it possible that the RAM is damaged (without memtest reporting an error?) or simply loose somehow? In some forum I read it may be the logic board. Do you think that may cause the issue? What should I do next to identify the problem or better: solve it?


texts: Any way to have iPhone microphone only active if sound level is above a certain threshold?

texts:
I'm not sure what the proper terminology is, but I've used online gaming apps years ago where sound through microphone can be set such that it doesn't go through unless it's above a certain noise threshold.

Is this possible to do with calling from an iPhone? This would be really useful if you're calling in a noisy area because all the background noise would be filtered out .

I have an iPhone 11.


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I want to install Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro 13" 2011. I don't nessearly need macOS installed on the machine. Win10 single boot would be fine.

I have a bootable WIN10 USB Installer. I tried to partition the drive via diskutil and the Win10 Installer disk tool. Everytime I get the message I can't install it on this partion.


texts: How can I override default Python modules with ones I install with pip?

texts:
I've run into this issue with PIL and Pillow.  I didn't realize PIL was already installed, so I ran:

sudo pip install PIL

As best I knew, it installed PIL.  Then I wrote a program that used a feature in PIL that would not work due to a bug within PIL.  I started working on dealing with that issue and someone recommended uninstalling PIL and installing Pillow, which has a better interface for PIL.  So I did:

sudo pip uninstall PIL
sudo pip install Pillow

Then, in a new Terminal window I had just opened, I ran a Python script that included the line:

import Pillow

and I get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../HalPy/LandSearch/GetOurLotMap.py", line 7, in <module>
    import Pillow
ImportError: No module named Pillow

but if I run:

pip show Pillow

I get:

---
Name: Pillow
Version: 5.2.0
Location: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
Requires:

I uninstalled Pillow then installed it with the --user option and it did install in my account Library directory tree, but that didn't work.  I've tried almost every combination I can think of to install PIL or Pillow (never both at the same time), but no matter what I do, I can't import Pillow.  Python (version 2.7) never recognizes it as existing.  It's there, I've checked for the directory and pip shows it's there, but it's not.

I've installed other modules with pip and they're put in the same directory (/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages) and are recognized.

As best I can tell, since PIL is included in Apple's install of Python, with all the modules in the /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ directory tree, when I use pip to install it (or Pillow), it's ignored by Python.

Before this, I had /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages in PYTHONPATH before any listing of any directories in the /System directory tree.  I also have, in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages, a file named bypass-Apple-SIP.pth.  The .pth extension is supposed to help it supersede the modules in the /System directory tree.  Inside this file is:

import sys
sys.path = ['/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages'] + sys.path

From what I can tell, this has worked before, but I wasn't dealing with trying to supersede any module that was installed by default with Apple's Python install.

In the past I used MacPorts and found I hated it and had problems with Perl (and, I think, Python).  I don't want to use that, Fink, Homebrew, or anything like that.

As I see it, I'd like to find a way to do one of these:

Uninstall the Apple installed PIL
Make sure Python gives priority to modules in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages over pre-existing modules
Get Python to see any modules pip installs within my home directory tree and use them over the pre-installed modules
Anything else that lets me override the modules in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ if I have problems with those pre-installed modules.

How can I do anything like any of those ideas to use Pillow over PIL and have Python ignore the old 1.x version of PIL that Apple installed?


texts: Can you share a Wi-Fi connection using Personal Hotspot?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1.3. I turn on cellular data + 3G and Wi-Fi constantly.

I was at a site office today and my iPhone automatically connected to the office's Wi-Fi. The tech guy was not around to provide me with the Wi-Fi password to use on my Windows laptop. I then connected my iPhone to my Windows laptop using the USB cable and turned on Personal Hotspot on my iPhone.

At that point, is my laptop using cellular data through iPhone, or the Wi-Fi access point my iPhone is connected to?

I noticed that my iPhone has the 3G symbol in the status bar. But when I disconnect the cable from my laptop, it switches to Wi-Fi.


texts: Set Show Library Folder via defaults from command line

texts:
Is there anyway to activate the Show Library Folder option from the command line?

I know that I can unhide it with the command chflags nohidden ~/Library', but for several reasons I would prefer a defaults command.


texts: How can I enable WiFi calling on an iPhone 4S?

texts:
iPhone 4S (VZN Model) with IOS 9.3.2 unlocked and works with TMO.  What is the procedure / process to configure it for wifi calling.  As I understand it IOS 8 supports wifi calling.

As Bill Tanner has graciously pointed out, Apple indicates a 5C or newer model is supported.  I suspect that the 4S has the hardware necessary to perform wifi calling.  If this is not the case, I'd like to understand the gap that prevents wifi calling: I have successfully made SIP calls (a form of wifi calling) with the device.

I do not believe this to be a duplicate of the question posed regarding the iphone 5   The question is not whether 4S is supported for wifi calling, but what (if any) procedure would be needed to enable wifi calling functionality.  It would not surprise me this feature is feasible with the 4S and that Apple is in a position to easily add it to the list of model that are valid for wifi calling code / instructions

Insight into the procedure to enable wifi calling on the 4S would be appreciated.  Thank you


texts: Navigate albums while playing music from iPod

texts:
I use an old 1st Generation iPod nano to play music in my car.  I hook it up via the dock connector.

I noticed that when it's hooked up to my car stereo via the dock connector, I'm locked out of the user interface: the screen doesn't show anything about the song being played, I can't pause or fast-forward or play from the iPod's buttons, and I can't navigate to select another album and start playing it.

In contrast, when using the iPod to play music through headphones (not connected to my car), I can play a song.  While the song is playing, I can navigate through my other albums, select a new album, and press play on the other album to switch to that one.  But I can't do this when it is connected to my car.

I don't have this problem with an iPhone 4: even with the iPhone 4 connected to the car stereo via dock connector, I can pause playback or navigate to another album and start playing it from the phone's touchscreen.

Is this problem specific to the 1st Generation iPod nano?  Will other, newer iPod nanos have the same problem?  Will all iPods have this problem, including the iPod touch and iPod shuffle?  How can I identify which devices will or won't have this problem, short of buying it and trying it out?

(I don't want to use a 1/8" to 1/8" cable via the headphone jack, or a FM transmitter.)


texts: Creating two directories in /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/ with slightly different names and just changing the name to the one recognized by the application works, however, this takes too much time. Is there an easier way to change between versions of an application? For example, somehow editing how the application recognizes which directory to write to and having a shortcut to the original and edited version of the application.


texts: how to get Time Machine backup overnight instead of every hour?

texts:
My (older) iMac runs 24/7 and it seems like it's constantly doing Time Machine backups which slows down things considerably.  My wife is always complaining about beach balls.

Is there a way to configure Time Machine to do backups only in the wee hours of the morning?


texts: How do System Preferences remain unlocked?

texts: To make certain modifications to system preferences, you first need to unlock the preference pane. Some of these changes are done on a system level and the command-line equivalent would need to be invoked as the root user (via setuid). However, running sudo has an expiration (typically 5 minutes) before needing to re-authenticate again; how do system preferences assert their "open lock" state?


texts: Backup Photos using Google Photo Desktop Uploader

texts:
I am a user of Photos for OSX, after upgrading from iPhoto.  I am trying to use Google's photo service to backup my library from my Mac Mini.  I have installed the Google Desktop Uploader application from the photos.google.com site.

The application does not seem to allow me to select my Photos library in the preferences as it is grayed out.  If I select the "Pictures" parent folder, the application does not find my photos and they are not uploaded.

My Photos library resides on the internal drive in my mini, and is about 131GB in size.


texts: does iTunes DRM depend on the wifi connection with which the purchase was made

texts: This might be a fairly specific question but my WiFi card was having issues (the Wifi:No Hardware Installed error). I started using an usb wifi adapter. The issue is that now none of my iTunes media is playable. I suspect that these are tied to the the hardware WITH the specific mac address but this seems unreasonable (ie to have Apple fix it and have my laptop for several days)? Is this the issue? Is there a workaround? Can I reauthenticate it? The error I get is:


texts: Mac Pro - Early 2009 - 4,1 wont boot under OSX

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Having some issues with Mac Pro I’m hoping you can help with.
I received a Mac Pro 2009 4,1 from my work place after a user noted it ‘it just died’

Our guys here looked at it and could only conclude the fault could be hardware related but they were unsure what exactly.

I took it home and installed a hard drive I had to hand with Windows 7 pre-installed, powered in on and after about a minute it loaded Windows normally despite not hearing the Mac start up tone.

While browsing around in Windows I noticed the keyboard and mouse would go unresponsive intermittently. This was temporarily resolved by restarting Mac.
This gave me some hope so I installed El Capitan on an external drive using a friends Mac, installed it in my Mac. It fails to boot.

Symptoms:

Blank screen on power up

No start up tone is audible on boot up

The power led appears and is solid.

All fans spin up

The hard drive spins up despite not booting

The red led on the processor tray flashes briefly on power up – as it should

Keyboard num lock led doesn’t light up

What I’ve done so far:

Reset the PRAM battery

Replaced the PRAM battery

Swapped hard drive into every available bay

Swapped graphics card into another available expansion slot

Successfully booted to Windows from HDD

Tried booting from Ultimate Boot CD to run diagnostics. Fails. Probably has something to do with it being an ISO file?

Attempted firmware restoration here: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl976?locale=en_GB
This fails due to the power button remaining solid when held in

So at this point I’m fairly certain (unless I’m missing something) the fault is hardware related. Whether it’s the backplane or the motherboard tray that needs replacing I’m not sure but I thought I’d run it by the community for any suggestions before sinking money into either, or both. Any help is appreciated.


texts: How to prevent conversion to APFS on High Sierra install

texts:
The current understanding seems to indicate that "all SSD" machines will have at least their main/root file system converted to APFS on the install of High Sierra.

That means HFS+ is still a viable boot file system (as it was during testing the beta on an external rotational drive). I want to keep HFS+ for now.

How do I force a full default install, including Recovery HD, onto an "all SSD" MacBook Pro that keeps HFS+ as the only file system?


texts: How to uninstall USB to VGA Adapter's drivers?

texts: About a year ago I bought a USB to VGA Adapter from Insignia (https://www.insigniaproducts.com/pdp/NS-PUV308/6138366). I no longer use this Adapter and would like to remove the drivers because sometimes the drivers can use up to 70% of CPU, but can't find a way to remove the drivers.


texts:
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro - admittedly this was ageing but still working OK, although it was warning about the battery.

I last used it a few days ago, and just noticed the lid was open which seemed to be because the trackpad had popped up.

The battery was obviously dead, but I managed to boot with a mouse.
The Apple store says they don't have replacement batteries for this model.

I was planning to take the MacBook Pro with me on a trip in a couple of weeks.

What is the best course of action. I rarely need to use on battery, but this model is a lot more portable than my iMac.

---------- Edit
I eventually managed to remove the battery. The Loctite on the screws defeated my normal #00 screwdriver so I purchased a new (expensive) set, which after the application of percussion techniques was able to remove the screws, and the battery is now out. In the meantime the bulging trackpad is now cracked.

With the exception of extracting the screws the removal process was quite simple.

ifixit referred me to their Australian store, which did not have replacement batteries, and informed me the US store is unable to ship batteries internationally.

I will pursue other options; possibly deferring purchase until a future visit to the US. (I mainly use the MacBook when travelling.)

I have a subsidiary question - the battery had a warning NOT to remove; it is possible/safe to operate without a battery?


texts: Automator selecting only one picture when making a contact sheet

texts:
I have three folders with about 10 jpg images in each folder.  I am using an Automator service to build a Contact Sheet - I select the images from a folder in the Finder window, right click on the images and then select the Make Contact Sheet from the services menu.  I am running Big Sur 11.01.1 on a MacBook Pro.
The Automator service is set build a contact sheet of each of the images, and works fine for one set of files, but not the other two.  For some reason it only selects one image from the second list of images (always the same one) in the second folder and it doesn't select any of the images from the third folder.  The process runs and generates a contact sheet, just doesn't show any images.  Any help greatly appreciated.


texts: MacBook Pro shows not charging when plugged in

texts:
I've got a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) and as of today it says "not charging" even when it's plugged in.

The MagSafe connector has an orange light, and the power menu's screenshot is attached.

How can I get the battery status to charging?


texts: How can I make a process in macOS use a different hosts file without using a chroot jail?

texts: Unlike Linux, we cannot use HOSTALIASES env var. I believe it is possible to make a process see a different hosts file if I put it in a chroot jail, but I don't want to have to do that for this process. Is there another way to do this in macOS?


texts: How do I change the format of the name in Terminal?

texts:
I don't know what this is called, can anyone clarify? Is it called the name / hostname. I don't know what you call it.

On Ubuntu my Terminal shows kalima@coolbox:~$

But on OSX my Terminal shows compname:~ kalima$

Is this normal? Is there a way to change it so they're both consistent in format?


texts: Why does my iPhone use my location when I tell it not to?

texts: Why does my iPhone use my location even though I tell it not to? As you can see from the Time Zone setting, I have it switched off, yet it says that my location was recently used. Why bother having a switch at all?


texts:
I am trying to purge the stored music on my iPhone 5s after canceling my Match subscription.

I've gone to "Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage > Music" to do so and I simply cannot find Music. Other Apple apps are showing such as Podcasts and iBooks.

I've tried:

Closing and reopening Settings
Closing and reopening Music
Shuffeling about "Show All Music" plus the above.
Restarting the phone + above.

At a loss at what to do and would rather avoid a full reset of the device if possible.

Running IOS 8.3 Build 12F70 (current latest via OTA not a dev build)


texts: How to modify existing podcast information?

texts:
I'm a podcaster and I already submitted a podcast. However, I want to change the "Podcast Website" link under the Links section.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/insight-for-living-canada/id407284701

How do I do that? Do I login somewhere where I can manage all the podcasts I submitted?


texts: Apple Automator (or similar): performing workflow triggered by shutdown?

texts:
I was thinking about turning my desktop into a git repository that automatically syncs with BitBucket. The idea is that, periodically, the desktop is synced as well as automatically before it shuts down, i.e.: shutdown -> sync -> when sync is finished, actually shut down.
Is it possible to do something like that? Just an idea that I had a second ago but I couldn't find the right tools to implement it right away.


texts: Grey screen after login - Blue Screen of death from CMD+R

texts:
Mid-Late 2011 15inch Macbook Pro

7200RPM harddrive
user upgrades
- crucial ram 8GB right after initial purchase
- Corsair ram 16GB since August 2012 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076W9Q5A

Running FileVault2

Came with Lion installed; Currently on Mavericks (Previously Mtn Lion)

Boot up

Login

Hear hard-drive crunching away

Spinner disappears, hard-drive not making noise

Grey screen, left it this way for over 30 minutes, no change

I have tried almost all of these: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1533

Boot with CMD+R

No login needed

Blue screen of death

Boot with C

With Mavericks on USB

Goes to login first
Then same grey screen

Boot with D

Goes to login first
Then same grey screen

Boot with OPTION key

With Mavericks on USB
No login screen
Select USB

Wait
Then same grey screen

Boot with SHIFT

Goes to login first
Then safe boot progress bar

This takes a long time
Then the apple and spinner
Then the "do-do-da" sound of a typical re-start
Then the login screen
Then same grey screen

Boot with CMD+V

terminal output along the lines of:

  bootfile path System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

goes by really fast
Goes to login first
Then lots of terminal output
I have pics but hard to read, could zoom and crop if needed, here is right before grey screen

NOTE: VBoxDrv - I think this might be VirtualBox which I definitely have installed? could be unrelated?

Boot with Option-Command-P-R

Reset NVRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
After reset auto reboots
Then login screen
Then same grey screen

this is where it starts to get good:

Boot with CMD+S

terminal output along the lines of:

  bootfile path System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

goes by really fast
Goes to login first
Then lots of terminal output

Now I have an interactive terminal !!!! Logged on as root

Followed some advice here - https://discussions.apple.com/message/22355542#22355542

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
rm /Users/<admin_acct>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

says 'Read-only file system', tried with sudo and same result
also tried chmod 777 on the files but same message

Any ideas what to do next, besides taking to Apple Store (or local apple tech in my case)?

can I go from CMD+S terminal to

Apple Hardware Test
Recovery System
Disk Util

All of my data is backed up on Timemachine and I have been up and running on a different machine for now, so a clean install would be great - thinking this could be a hardware issue though?

UPDATE 1:

From "Single User Mode" CMD+S

Executed: /sbin/fsck -fy which had the following output

Ran it multiple times; it only found issues during the first run, but still no luck - grey screen after login, then ran

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

This allowed me to do writes so then I removed both com.apple.loginwindow.plist files (see above), no change; still hangs when trying to login

UPDATE 2: [SOLVED]

Thanks to @smr

see also: Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install)

Boot into Single-User mode

# Execute the following commands:
/sbin/fsck -fy /
/sbin/mount -uw /
mkdir /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
cd /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
mv /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* .
mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD* .
touch /System/Library/Extensions
exit

NOTE: this leave the computer with suspect graphics, going to do a re-install; apparently a GPU failure: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/17/2011-macbook-pro-gpu-glitches/


texts: Why am I seeing a big blank circle instead of cellular data indicator on iPad?

texts:
Since last night, and all of a sudden, I’m starting to see an awkward big circle replacing the cellular data signal indicator on my iPad Mini 3. The circle only shows up with the cellular data turned off and only on the lock screen and on the notifications view, while with the iPad unlocked and with app open I see the normal four dots for cellular data. My iPad currently runs iOS 12.0.1 which I installed about a month ago, but I didn’t encounter this issue until yesterday. I tried restarting my iPad multiple times, removing and reinstalling the SIM card, turning the cellular data on and off, but none of that solved the issue.
Below are two screenshots showing with and without the circle on the top right edge of my iPad screen.


texts: How do I change my background on my MacBook?

texts: On my MacBook Air, I accidentally somehow pasted a picture on Olaf on my screen and when I try to change it, it just goes into a black screen. I have tried changing the screen saver and it just doesn't work. Does anyone know what's wrong with my computer?


texts:
Recently I changed my partition scheme from MBR to GPT, and during after conversion I saw a another partition named EFI ... I don't have a good idea what does it do or its purpose ... but I think it's use for backup's.

So my question here is can you explain/tell me about EFI and it purpose?


texts:
I have an iMac, and always crashing almost everyday. Can you please point me out to the right direction? Below is the Report after it had crashed.
I Have already reverted to factory settings. no software installed, still the same. Upgraded or not to the lasest OS ,same issue.
Does anyone know what is the problem? I'm new to iMac, mercy. Thanks in Advance

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801b720bae): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone ipc ports: expected 0xffffff8031e9f5a0 but found 0xffffff8031e9f580, bits changed 0x20, at offset 0 of 160 in element 0xffffff802f46b900, cookies 0x3f0011f8906d50c2 0x5352102bf3b1c29"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3248.50.21/osf mk/kern/zalloc.c:503
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9127333b50 : 0xffffff801b6dab12
0xffffff9127333bd0 : 0xffffff801b720bae
0xffffff9127333c40 : 0xffffff801b720656
0xffffff9127333c80 : 0xffffff801b71f2e2
0xffffff9127333db0 : 0xffffff801b6c784e
0xffffff9127333e20 : 0xffffff801b6c8ce3
0xffffff9127333e70 : 0xffffff801b6d463b
0xffffff9127333ec0 : 0xffffff801b6d1c84
0xffffff9127333f10 : 0xffffff801b7b8dca
0xffffff9127333fb0 : 0xffffff801b7ecc86

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: watchdogd

Mac OS ver

System Profile:
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x111), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.95.175.1a6)
Bluetooth: Version 4.4.5f3 17904, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 23.10
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3430554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, 1 TB
Model: iMac14,1, BootROM IM141.0118.B13, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.7 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.14f24
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro, Intel Iris Pro, Built-In
Model: iMac14,1, BootROM IM141.0118.B13, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.7 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.14f24
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro, Intel Iris Pro, Built-In
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3430554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x111), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.95.175.1a6)
Bluetooth: Version 4.4.5f3 17904, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, 1 TB
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 23.10


texts:
I've installed hpn ssh using this command:

sudo port install openssh +hpn

I want to transfer lost data (100GB at least) using sftp command terminal command.

I am wondering, is installing hpn ssh all I need to do to gain speed advantage with sftp command? After installing hpn ssh, my current upload speed is around 1.8MB (i have a line of 2.5 MB, so that is pretty close). Sadly, I didn't do a test before installing it. stupid me

Also, I noticed that transferring lots of individual files takes a lot more time than transferring 1 big file. Is zipping all the files and than sending that 1 zip the recommended way of transfering to remote host? I would prefer the option to not zip the files first, since zipping 100GB takes some time.

If you know a better solution to transfer large amount of data to remote host, I am open to it:)


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

texts:
In High Sierra I used some custom icons for my folders in the Finder; but with the new update to Mojave and the dark mode, the predefined icons also become darker. However the custom icons don't.

Inspecting an element you find a dark preview, but when you extract the icon this is the clear, the same as there was in High Sierra. E.g.:

Previously visualization of the developer predefined icon. It's dark:

But if you extract that icon, it's clear:

There are no dark icons in the system library, at least not in the same directory as always:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources

Are they being actively obscured by the operative system without there being icons with that real appearance? In this case, any idea to apply this method to the custom icons without modifying it into a new coloration?


texts: What determines the width of the cone in the Maps app?

texts:
I have noticed that the "direction cone" in the Maps app sometimes changes its acuteness: sometimes it will get wider or narrower. The cone seems to represent some sort of accuracy/confidence. I'm particularly interested in what factors (environmental?) alter it.

What causes this? (or am I just imagining that it changes at all?)


texts: How can I tell if I have the 64-bit version of iTunes installed?

texts: As I understand it, the 64-bit version of iTunes is actually a 32-bit application, and so appears in the Program Files (x86) folder. Is there a way to see if the version of iTunes I've installed is the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version?


texts: I dropped my iPhone earlier today. The screen is now full of cracks but the phone still functioning. Is there any cases of DIY style repair being performed? Can anyone share their repair steps for this?


texts: Determine whether Logic Board has actually been replaced

texts:
I recently had the Logic Board in my Retina MBP 15″ 2012 replaced under a warranty extension program and Apple paid for it. I've reinstalled OS X several times and feel things aren't running properly. Also, I also couldn't find a way to merge my Time Machine old backups with new one.

The problem I have is confirming that I actually got a new board installed. I have not found a way to confirm this. My Mac help isn't helpful and Google is even less helpful. Why is it so hard to confirm that new hardware is really installed after this repair?


texts:
I am working on multiple screens.
when I intend to open a new chrome window(not a tab),I have to press 'CMD+Tab' to shift to the current and press 'Ctrl+N'.

If input command

open https://apple.stackexchange.com

A new tab created not a new window.


texts:
I know that Apple has made SMB the default network protocol for a few releases now.  However is there any benefits of using AFP?  Is there anything I can do on a AFP volume that I can't do on a SMB volume?

I do know that if I connect my Synology with AFP I can have a custom icon for the volume.  However with SMB I can't.  So I'm wondering if there's anything else that I lose with SMB?


texts: Which RAM to buy for mid 2010 15 Inch Macbook Pro

texts: I am looking to upgrade my 15 inch macbook pro from 4GB to 8GB of RAM. I have never upgraded anything on a macbook before and I am wondering how important is the specific RAM that i purchase? I read in a couple places than only OWC and Crucial RAM works with my macbook pro. Is this correct? Or can i buy any two DDR3 1066Hz 4GB RAM and just slot it into my Macbook Pro?


texts:
I bought a cooler for the bottom of my MacBook because I use it on my bed.  The Instructions say to flip it so it doesn't work against the computer.  I don't want to open it up because it's loaned to me from my school.

All I would like to know is if the fans are pulling air in or pushing air out?

Apple MacBook Mid 2010


texts:
Goal: Add a domain printer just through the terminal without using its IP address.

Following the instructions here:
https://dae.me/blog/1826/add-a-printer-via-command-line-in-os-x/#comment-256587

I ran this command:

sudo lpadmin -p sharp4141n -L "front office code" -E smb://ESC-PRINT01.byu.local/ESCN284_MX-4141N -P /Users/jaybrown/Desktop/ESC_PRINT01_ESC_N284_SHARP_MX_4141N_PCL6.ppd

But get the error:

lpadmin: Unknown argument “smb://ESC-PRINT01.byu.local/ESCN284_MX-4141N”.

I am on a domain. On an iMac running El Capitan. Please help me out.


texts: Why do X11 applications start but their windows stay invisible?

texts:
After using a fresh OS X system for a while, I regularly hit the point where X11 clients start and run, but their windows do not show up anywhere.

I suspect it has something to do with Mac port paths, but i am not sure. Has anyone else experienced this?


texts: bash in iTerm2: how to log variables like $TERM_SESSION_ID into command history

texts:
To help with recovering history across restarts etc I would like to get some key data, like $TERM_SESSION_ID, stored in my command history. This would be preserved when the command response output in screen history is no longer available.

I have tried a number of ways and though the session text shows the TERM_SESSION_ID data it is not stored in the command history:

1014  26/12 22:28:28 echo $TERM_SESSION_ID
1015  26/12 22:44:58 `echo $TERM_SESSION_ID`
1016  26/12 22:45:35 echo ${TERM_SESSION_ID}
1017  26/12 22:45:50 echo `$TERM_SESSION_ID`
1018  26/12 22:46:05 echo `echo $TERM_SESSION_ID`
1019  26/12 22:49:28 echo ${TERM_SESSION_ID}

Although I saw on screen (and do not mind the error messages):

$ echo ${TERM_SESSION_ID}
w3t0p0:5554ACED-B4C5-4E5A-A7C2-F5215ED4F4D7
$ echo `$TERM_SESSION_ID`
-bash: w3t0p0:5554ACED-B4C5-4E5A-A7C2-F5215ED4F4D7: command not found

I do not think this is down to the "info commands" being non bash-valid commands since I get the same sort of results with

1026  26/12 23:08:24 test="ls"
1027  26/12 23:08:27 echo $test
1028  26/12 23:09:03 ${test}

saw output of ls command here, but command recorded is ${test} as typed

Can you tell me how I can get my command history to log/include the data from the shell variable?

For instance:

1029 26/12 23:10:05 ls
1030 26/12 23:10:06 session
w3t0p0:5554ACED-B4C5-4E5A-A7C2-F5215ED4F4D7


texts: Are highlights broken in iPadOS 14 Books?

texts:
According to the iPad user guide, you can find highlights you’ve made in a book by going to the outline menu and selecting Notes. After installing iOS 14, I don’t see Notes for a book in which I’ve made highlights, only Thumbnails and Bookmarks:

Is this feature broken? Or does it only work for ePub and not PDF?


texts: Is there any way to have macOS Photos bulk convert all of my past JPEG images to HEIC format?

texts:
I’ve seen lots of tutorials online explaining how to convert iOS HEIC files to JPEGs but I can’t seem to find any easy way to bulk convert existing JPEG photos to HEIC?
The reason being is I really like HEIC as a storage format: It easily makes image file sizes 5x to 10x smaller than JPEG equivalents which not only saves space but makes syncing the library to other devices quicker as well.
So I would like to convert all past images in my macOS Photo library to HEIC two take advantage of these benefits. Do any such tools exist?
While I understand how to bulk convert images outside of macOS Photos using ImageMagick and simple Bash scripting, I would like to avoid doing a bulk export, conversion via non-Photos tools and then reimport because that seems messy at best.
I mean Apple is really promoting the use of HEIC within their apps nowadays; why not have some way to easily do that within the macOS Photos application itself?


texts: Only half of the display works, can I set to display only in that region?

texts:
I have a Macbook with a cracked screen, only the top left half of the screen works, is there anyway to reduce the screen resolution, keep the DPI the same, and thus have the entire OS visible in the top left section of the screen which works?

The below photo demonstrates what I mean, with parts of the creen totally unusable, it would make sense to be able to display the whole screen in the remaining usable part.


texts: When data is transferred from my iPhone via 3G, is it encrypted, or is it relatively simple for a hacker to read the data that's transferred to AT&T's cell tower? What about after it reaches the tower?


texts:
Does Mac OS X Snow Leopard store complete information on the client DHCP leases it holds on Snow Leopard Server?  It is apparently not recorded in /var/log/system.log — although this information is logged here on Tiger.
I can get the DHCP leases granted from sudo serveradmin fullstatus dhcp; this is the other end to what I want.
The issue arose when I managed to cripple the machine so that, while it was quite capable of accessing the local network, it couldn't play its part in receiving a fresh DHCP lease, and so the router wouldn't talk to it on any channel other than 80, isolating from anything outside the local network.  I fixed the issue by rolling back the state with Time Machine, but I'd like to know how to troubleshoot this issue in future.
Postscript
Which it did, and being able to verify that no leases had been generated in the past week (by looking at the date of the leases directory in the output of ls -l /var/db/dhcpclient) was useful in debugging the situation, so kudos to Harv.  You can get more information on the individual leases by looking at ipconfig getpacket $INTERFACE, but not the date of when the last lease was issued/deleted.
What happens is that the ipfw firewall was blocking the ports used by DHCP.  Switching off the firewall allows DHCP leases to be granted.  Now, why these ports were blocked is still a mystery to me.


texts:
I have a really old IMO Snow Leopard intel iMac that is still running so that I sync with iPods.

It is running iTunes 11.  Is there a migration point at this point to get the music off the computer(without doing it manually)?


texts: I want to publish my website on a private server, but I can't seem to find an option to "save to folder" on my current version of iWeb.  What do I need to do to save my files to a folder so that I can upload them to a server?


texts: Can't get past choose partition on Windows 8 boot camp install. Then can't remove incomplete installation

texts:
So I got a new shiny sparkling MacBook Pro retina and Windows 8 just downloaded from MSDNAA. Reading success stories on the web that this runs even though Boot camp says Windows 7 makes me want to try it.

I start the boot camp assistant and run through the wizard with all options checked, creating a USB installation media.

During the windows installation I get to the point where I choose which partition to install to, but I get the error message "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 4".
Yes, I have clicked on drive options and then on format, but I still get the same error message.

Not getting anywhere I reboot back to Mac OS X and run the Boot camp assistant again with the hope of starting over and try again. The only availilable option in Boot camp is to remove Windows and restore the hard drive to a single volume. Fair enough. However, the computer only gets to "Status: partitioning hard drive" where it sits for hours (5 and counting). Computer still responsive, but boot camp assistant does nothing. I quitted the boot camp assistant, which it allowed without having to use force shutdown and without questions about whether I really want to quit the program during hard drive partitioning.

One annoying thing is that when booting the computer defaults to Windows, so I have to press the Alt key and choose the Mac OS X partition manually.

Anyone who has any ideas as of how to

get Windows 8 installation past the select partition screen?
get Boot camp to remove the Windows partition without freezing so I can give it another go?


texts: Is there a way to save a web page as PDF on the Macintosh so that I can click on the links within the page to take me to the appropriate web page?


texts: Adding a new contact in iOS 8 merges it with a homonymous old contact

texts:
I have in my iPhone iOS 8 and old contact called Salvador. This old contact has his mobile, and some notes, and that is fine.

Today I select a phone number from my call history and select the add a new contact option. I enter the name contact as Salvador and add a note to this new contact.

The problem is when I recall from my contact app the Salvador name, it only appears once (I'm supposed to have an Old Salvador and the new Salvador as a contact) when I select the Salvador contact the info inside is a combination of the phone and notes of the old Salvador and the phone and notes of the new Salvador.

Why is this happening?


texts: Left Side Option key not working on Macbook Pro

texts:
I recently bought a second hand 2010 MacBook Pro. Just discovered that the Left sided 'Option' key is not working. I have no comeback on this so trying to determine if I can either fix it myself or do I bite the bullet and go to a genius bar.

I have checked the Keyboard Viewer and when I press the 'Option' key it does not respond. Every other key and modifier key works.

So are there further tests I can do? My gut feeling its a hardware problem, can these keys be replaced one at a time or does the whole keyboard have to be replaced? I believe its a costly job to do. I know its hard to answer without looking a the machine itself, just someone might have been in a similar position and can share the outcome.

Any help or advice is much appreciated.


texts: Mac app icons dissapearing and reappearing randomly

texts:
Alright so most of the people have their desktop having some missing icons but i'm not really having this problem, the real problem is that all the apps in finder are missing icons and sometimes they reappear weirdly...

DolphinEMU's icon is the most inactive.

When i look up on finder... this happens...

Yes it's french, but almost all my apps have no icon and they reappear sometimes. they still run perfectly.


texts:
My computer has this annoying whistle sound that goes and comes back.  Does someone have an idea what it might be?  Do I need to take it to the apple shop?

2.93 GHz Intel Core i7
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB
OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)


texts: Clarification on 4k support for 60Hz Monitor

texts:
I have an early 2015 Macbook pro retina 13'

I read this article

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587

It states that MBP will support

3840x2160 at 30 Hz refresh rate

So what happens If I try to use a 4K monitor which is 60Hz?


texts: Big Sur 11.1 and iMac Pro.   I am on a slow (8Mbps) internet connection and the newsd program is consistently eating up more than 10% of that.  I assume it's related to Apple News but can't find any documentation.  Does anyone else see 1Mbs constant downloading from newsd?  I base that info on an iStat Menus readout--and the fact that killing newsd in Activity Monitor instantly brings faster internet to all other apps.


texts: Old external HDD drive not recognized properly in new enclosure

texts:
I've tried searching Google, the Apple Forums, and here for solutions to this and none of them seem to address the issue.

Have been using a Seagate 3TB external HDD for years as a Mac formatted external library and also a partition for TimeMachine, a STBV3000100.  The main problem seems to be that the Micro-B connection on the control board in the enclosure is not very sturdy and I have had to keep the cable at angle to maintain connection.  This is very far below optimal and worried it could lead to damaging the drive.

Bought USB SATA dock (powered externally and can handle 3TB, already checked that, and have used it for other drives since then and it reads the others fine as they were in their other enclosures) and received a "the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" dialog box with the option to initialize, ignore and eject.  I figured maybe it was a problem with the dock so I bought a full enclosure.

Installed in new enclosure (non-Seagate, but rated for 3TB and beyond and external power) and having the same issue.  If I get the controller from the original Seagate enclosure that I bought the drive in and manage to get the Micro-B to work at JUST the right angle to read the drive then it registers as the normal drive and sees everything, including the TimeMachine partition, properly.

What can I do to resolve this?  And what about the control board from that enclosure (or whatever is causing the issue) is causing my Mac to recognize it when it's connected to that but nothing else?

The screenshots below are from when I've plugged it in with the new enclosure, but the same errors appear when I used the dock.

A few notes:
- It doesn't even give me the option to 'Verify Disk' or 'Repair Disk' which similar (but not the same) issues seem to be resolved by
- I don't have another way to access this data (external and TimeMachine) so simply formattting without transfering it first isn't an option, I neeed some way to access it to copy it to a new drive at least first if that's the only way.
- Running OS X 10.8.5 and this is the only computer I've used this drive on.


texts: Is there a way to stream live video from an iPad to an Apple TV?

texts:
AirPlay is a great feature for stream audio/video to iOS devices, but can you stream live video? For example, instead of recording the video and then streaming it, can you just stream on the fly? I want to shoot video with an iPad and stream it to an Apple TV on the same network.

Mirroring the default camera app essentially works for just video, but since audio is not being capture, there is no audio sent to the Apple TV. What are my options?


texts: Mac App Store: we could not complete your update the server gave an error during download: 403 Forbidden

texts:
I wish to update Xcode with Mac App Store and receive this error

we could not complete your update the server gave an error during download: 403 Forbidden

I am logged in with my AppleID. Other updates working fine, only Xcode not.

Warning: Your Xcode (7.3) is outdated
Please update to Xcode 7.3.1.
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.


texts: Prevent .AppleDouble folders on NFS shares

texts:
I've got at home:

a Debian server running multiple services, including NFS shares;
one Mac that I use most of the time
several Android devices
a Windows client

All happily access the files on the server, as read/write.

Now for some reason my Mac thinks it's smarter than every one else and puts all of his turds in every folder. I understand there's a value added when doing this on local HFS shares (or on the server's HFS TimeMachine partition). However when dealing in public (I mean on a server shared with foreign OSes), I think it should behave and keep it to the minimum.

The Mac is a laptop, but it is most of the time sitting on a desk with external keyboard/screen/mouse, which means it keeps the NFS shares mounted most of the time. Which is nice. Which means it keeps watching everything and puts his .AppleDouble turds everywhere as soon as they are deleted.

$ find . -type d -name .AppleDouble -exec rm -rf "{}" \;
$ find . -type d -name .AppleDouble|wc
      0       0       0
...
$ find . -type d -name .AppleDouble|wc
   1251    3109   38017
...
$ find . -type d -name .AppleDouble|wc
   2810    9992  113386

This happened in less than one minute. So server side hacks such as read only or remove .AppleDouble with a cron script are just no go.

Is it possible to just tell the Mac to keep it shut when using shared spaces?


texts: El Capitan update: This partition map modification would make a Windows partition unbootable

texts:
When trying to update to El Capitan (from Yosemite), I get the following error, and cannot proceed with the installation.

  This partition map modification would make a Windows partition unbootable

I have Windows installed with Bootcamp. Here is the disk:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            180.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                70.2 GB    disk0s4
   5: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               471.9 MB   disk0s5

There are no CoreStorage logical volume groups.

Is there anything I can do other than wipe the whole thing? What might cause this?


texts: Can I install Mac OSX Sierra on USB drive?

texts:
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I want to try Sierra as most of the software I want to use no longer works on Mavericks. I went through a number of post that I can install Sierra on 8 GB USB drive but that turned out only to be a macOS installer thumb drive.

I am interested in installing Sierra on USB drive just to test drive it and to run my favorite software. I bought 16 GB USB for that purpose but only found out it cannot be installed there for lack of space.

Can somebody guide me, can I have Sierra USB Image that I can load on USB and test drive it or can I install it on USB and run Sierra from it whenever I want it.


texts:
(I am on macOS 10.14.6 and iOS 12.4)

I am certain that I have trusted my Mac before.
Without the latter trust, I can also access the phone in iTunes.

I have tried reset "Location and Privacy" on my phone. Then

When connecting the iPhone with iTunes running, it asks for the trust and I trust it.
Reboot my Mac and the phone asks for another trust.

Is there some known malware mimics system behavior and steal data from an iPhone?

(I do have installed some pir*ted software recently. That's my fault.)


texts:
I recently swapped my iphone for a samsung galaxy but still have imessages on my macbook. I was hoping to still be able to use imessages on my macbook, however, I am unable to sign into imessages with my apple account, i get the following error:

Could not sign into iMessage. An error occred during activation. Try again.

This has been happening for a week. Can I use imessages on my mac, or must I also have an iPhone?


texts: getting This version of macOS 10.12.6 cannot be installed on this computer

texts:
I have MacBook Pro (13inch Mid 2010) with Model Identifier MacBookPro7.1

As per apple document I can install macOS sierra and HighSierra. But, apparently I keep getting the above issue.

I used a normal procedure
1 - going to app store and click on free upgrade button.
2 - downloaded a copy of installer and tried to install

I already have el capitan installed on it.


texts: How to stop preview from making smoothed lines?

texts: Whenever I go to handdraw a line, it gets smoothed out and I need to correct it


texts: How bad is it to run an ancient Mac Pro with an unsupported OSX?

texts:
I have an ancient (c. 2007?) Mac Pro running OSX 10.7.5 at work. It's so old, Software Update no longer allows me to update to a newer operating system. I use a lot of software provided by MacPorts, and I'm finding I'm having issues that may be related to not being able to update. I'm no longer able to update certain software, either. I use it to ssh to when I'm not in my office, so it's open to the network (though I expect that it is protected to some degree by my institution's network).

Unfortunately, I lack the funds to purchase a newer model!

I know running an outdated computer has problems:

Software vulnerabilities don't get patched, exposing me to hacks (eep!)
Possible instabilities with 3rd party software that might install on my system but not work with my system.
The most current versions of some software packages won't install
I miss out on some of the new features of the newer OSs (e.g. Messages)

I'm primarily concerned with the first problem listed.

Question

What are some other risks, and how can I evaluate and/or navigate them? Is it really, really bad for me to run it like this--so bad that it might be advisable to install and use Linux instead (as described here)?


texts: I can copy El Capitan installation on thumb drive but it is not visible when I hold option key on restart

texts:
I am using OS X El Capitan on Macbook 7.1 (Mid-2010). My thumbdrive is detected inside El Capitan and I can make it bootable and put El Capitan installation on it by using terminal command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction

but thumb drive is not visible when I hold option on restart. Therefore I can't install El Capitan on my new SSD that I have. When I install using terminal, I get this message at the end of the process, in terminal:

  Couldn't mount dmg /Volumes/Install OS X El Capitan/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code 112)Mount of outer dmg failed.

After this, when I ran the hdiutil:

hdiutil verify Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

on the thumb drive, I got:

  Checksumming Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)… Protective Master Boot Record (MBR :: checksum failed with error 1000.  ............................................................................................................................................................... calculated CRC32 $00000000, expected CRC32 $BE5D6293 hdiutil: verify: checksum of "Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" is INVALID hdiutil: verify failed - image data corrupted

So the error can be either on the installation or the thumb drive itself (bad drive).

Sometimes I get this message at the end of the installation thumbdrive making process:

  Failed to copy kernelcache, The file “kernelcache” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.

I want to install fresh clean install of El Capitan on my brand new SSD that I bought, and somehow Apple is preventing me from using it. Any help anyone?


texts: How do you control the security of Firefox browser in Yosemite to run educational Java app?

texts:
I am trying to run the following Java applet in the following web page:

http://artint.info/demos/rl/q.html

However, Firefox is blocking it due to a security issue. Not sure if it's an Apple issue but I tried adding it to the exceptions but it didn't do anything.

I have attached screen shots of what the browser is showing me:

and this too:

and:

Anyone knows how I run can it on my computer? In the browser or not?


texts: Seems odd to me that the Siri assistant feature would be available only for the iPhone 4S. I have the Siri app (from the company Apple bought and integrated into the OS) running on my 3GS and it works just fine. So what gives? It surely isn't hardware. Then what? Just to move more 4S units?


texts: Is it necessary to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down?

texts:
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down? (The drives are not being unplugged.)

BTW, I am aware that I need to eject my external drives before unplugging them, I just don't know if it's necessary when logging out or shutting down. It seems to me this should be obvious, but I can't find an explicit answer to this question anywhere. I am interested in answers for Snow Leopard, Lion & Mountain Lion OS versions, as I have 2 machines, one with Snow Leopard, the other with Lion, & I'll soon be upgrading Lion to Mountain Lion.


texts: iWork Numbers How To Calculate - In Once Cell Function - The Elapsed Time In Hours Between Two Date/Times?

texts:
Let's say I have two date/times. The start date/time is 29th May 2020 at 20:30 and the end date/time is 30th May at 02:30. This link shows how to calculate using two cell references.

How to calculate in one cell the duration?

Something like DATEDIF but accepting the time and output of result in hours, e.g.:

=MYCLEVERDATETIMEDIFF(“29/5/20 20:30”, “30/5/20 02:30”, "H")

which results in:

6

Six being the elapsed time in hours between the above date/times.

What function, or combination of functions and conversions would do the trick? Note that ideally something that works as one cell function, not calculating the difference between two cell references.

Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to have an iMac maintain target display mode even through sleep/screensaver

texts:
I want to be able to make it so that my iMac doesn't exit target display mode until the thunderbolt cable is pulled from my Macbook. I love target display mode in theory, but every time I lock my Macbook, the iMac exits target display mode. I then have to use the iMac keyboard to set the computer back to target display mode, which isn't a big deal when doing it just a couple times, but is incredibly obnoxious in aggregate.

Is it possible to make it so target display mode stays even after locking the connected laptop/computer?


texts:
My Mac Mini crashed. I restarted and after a long time the screen remained gray.

I then started in single user mode, did a disk check (fsck reported no problems) and rebooted again.

The Mac is now booting since an hour. I can log in via ssh and every command takes ages.

CPU usage is almost 0%
Memory is also OK (more than 3GB free)
Load is perfect ( less than 0.2 )
/var/log/kernel and secure do not show anything strange
fan is around 2000 rpm
temperatures: HD 53, CPU 66, .. everything else around 60 or lower
disk is not full (> 30 GB free)

What am I missing? Where should I look for the cause of this sudden slowness?

After 1h 15' I managed to get the finder. Apps are starting (slowly) and system seems OK but for the fact that every action takes almost one minute to have any visible effect. (Command line via SSH is a little bit more responsive but not much)


texts: Apple support, mac with unencrypted drive

texts:
Because of an incident happened a few days ago, I'll have to bring my MacBook Pro to an Apple Store to get it repaired.
Problem:
Even though automatic logins are disabled, and to access the computer it is necessary to type username password, the hard drive is not encrypted with file vault. The computer does not switch on, so I can't do anything to enable it now.
Of course, this means that connecting the hard drive to another computer will make its contents fully accessible. This is my fault for not enabling file vault, I know.

In any case, I am mentally assessing what kind of sensible data is present on the drive.
I do not store logins and passwords in plain text files (I keep them encrypted with a specific application), but my default browser has cookies to automatically login into a number of services.
The Apple Mail app, also, has automatic access to my email accounts, although I believe that those login details are stored in OS X Keychain, which should be protected by the user's password.
Question
Does anyone know to what extent my data is exposed? What I should mostly worry about? What would be available to an attacker?
Also, does anyone have information about the policies of Apple support with the data on mac computers?


texts: I want to save my photos from iPad OS9.3.2 to PC Windows

texts: I am planning on giving my iPad to son.  I want to reset it for him but, first, I want to offload the photos and contacts onto my PC. I have found that if I use the iCloud, as soon as I shut iCloud off, all the photos and contacts are gone from PC. This is a pain. Can anyone help?


texts: Does macOS Mojave (10.14) support 32 - bit Apps?

texts: According to Apple, 32-Bit apps will lose support soon.  When opening 32 - bit applications on macOS High Sierra I was prompted with a message stating that in future versions of macOS the app would not be supported. This was similar to messages on iOS 10, on opening soon-to-be unsupported applications. These applications lost support in iOS 11.  So, does macOS Mojave, a future version of macOS, support 32-bit applications and allow you to open and use them?


texts: How do I delete/break a symbolic link in Lion?

texts: I've made a symbolic link from my SSD to my HDD incorrectly and want to keep the folder on my SSD. How can I delete or break the symlink? Is there a Terminal command that will delete every symbolic link on my Mac?


texts: Macbook Pro Late 2013 runs very slow after removed battery

texts:
My Macbook Pro Late 2013's battery puffed up (getting bigger and bigger by day) and I asked the Apple authorized service store to remove it completely so that I can use the laptop as a PC (table computer). After the battery was removed, I noticed that it run very slow. I went to many suggestions on google and found this Fix
but I could not find the MacBookPro11_3.plist file (my model id MacBookPro11,3) to remove, other files could not be removed because of Operation not permitted. I also tried to run SMC and PRAM reset but they didn't help.

Can anyone help me? I really appreciate all your help!


texts: Delay in screenshots and cursor issue on MacOS after update?

texts:
I'm running 10.14.6 (18G6032) Mojave on my early 2015 macbook pro. There was some kind of software update in the past week, and I've noticed 2 issues since I updated that I suspect was due to the update.
(1) The screenshot option Command + Shift + Control + 4 seems to now be delayed. By this, I mean when you press those 4 keys and release, you get this "target" looking symbol that shows up to select where you want to start the screenshot. This target used to pop up instantly, but now there seems to be a 1 second delay.
(2) My mouse cursor seems to randomly disappear sometimes, especially when I go into full screen mode on a video. The cursor still works, but I can't see it on the screen. I have to move the "invisible" cursor to the top left apple logo and click on it, and that makes it reappear.
Has anyone experienced these issues?


texts: Finder freezes after updating to OS X 10.10.4

texts: The Finder is unresponsive after booting ever since I've updated to OS X 10.10.4. It takes a couple of minutes until it is ready. What can I do about it?


texts: Can I get drivers to run Win 7 64 bit on a MacBook 2.1 manually?

texts: I have a working MacBook 2.1 mid 2007, i wish to run Win 7 64 bit. Is there a way to get the drivers i need manually? apparently running Win 7 64bit on this model is not fully supported.


texts: Identifying which iOS app caused the notification sound to play

texts: I often hear the notification bell go off in my iPhone, but when I pull down the drop-down of alert events, I dont see anything which matches the time the alert went off. Is there a way to see what event caused the alert notification to go off?


texts: Is Wifi enabled in iOS 5 even when the device is put to sleep?

texts:
I've been under the impression that iOS shuts down WiFi when the screen is off - which is good as far as battery savings.

Lately I've been suspecting that WiFi remains on, and I did a test. My iPhone's screen has been off for like 15 minutes. I opened iTunes and did a WiFi Sync, it worked! Does that mean my WiFi is on 24/7??

Thanks

EDIT: I don't have a data plan and I selected cellular data OFF. Maybe it's related?


texts:
My  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) - 2.5GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
was stolen two days ago. I have notified the police.

I have clicked on “Notify me when found” on the Find my iPhone app on my iPhone. I have been checking Find My iPhone regularly over the last few days and it has always been 'offline' but a short while ago the name of my MacBook Pro has changed and the “Notify me when found” button has disappeared from the app. So I guess the thief has managed to change the name of the computer. I have selected the 'Erase Mac' option in Find My iPhone and this is now 'pending'.

The MacBook Pro was password protected. Fortunately, I have a Time Machine backup of the whole system.

My questions:

Knowing now that someone is messing with it, should I click on “Lock”
 or “Erase Mac” or should I still wait and expect the thief to
connect to be online to locate him?
If the thief has been able to change the name of the computer what does that mean? Does this mean he must also have access to my files?
Can he mess with my Apple ID? Will he be able to get any of my other passwords (social networks etc?).
Now that I know the machine is still registering with Find My iPhone (under my account) can I assume the thief will not be able to get online without 'Erase my Mac' taking effect (and rendering the machine useless to him/her, or only until he can change the hard drive?).


texts: same power chord for Magsafe 2 and Lightning

texts: I have a Mac Air 13" and an iPhone 5. Is there a power cord / adapter that will work for both of them? My goal is to be able to plug one power cord into both of them.


texts:
I can't manage to keystroke Command + S on an app, it's seems to trigger "Save AS" instead of "Save"

 tell application "TextMate 2"
    activate

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

    --
end tell

I don't have "shift" in my keystroke so I don't know why I can just save my documents without any extra windows.

Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?


texts: iOS - How to set iOS to ask for the passcode only on boot?

texts: I need to make an iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2) ask for the password only after boot, so I can use it and close the screen when it's already on without the need of writing my passcode.


texts: Will installing Jupyter Notebook mess up the Hydrogen package in Atom?

texts:
I recently downloaded and installed Python 3 from python.org because I wanted to use Hydrogen with Atom (the editor). From what I can gather, Hydrogen (in Atom) runs on (powered by?) Jupyter kernel. Hydrogen allows me to check code inside Atom. That feature is great. However, once I saw how Jupyter Notebook works, I really want to try Jupyter Notebook on my MacBook Pro (High Sierra).

As you can tell, even though I can manage to get things installed, that's the extent of my technical know-how. So I am wondering if installing Jupyter Notebook will disrupt/mess up the existing Jupyter (kernel?) operation.

My apologies for my awkward phrasing--I simply don't know what kernels are or how they work. Thanks in advance!


texts: What does the with-bindings option do in brew?

texts:
I'm looking to brew a package (graphviz) and see it has one option—amid others—

--with-bindings
   Build Perl/Python/Ruby/etc. bindings

I might want that, if only I knew what it means...?

What might with-bindings mean and why, or why not, would I want that?


texts: Transfer video file from OS X Lion to iPod touch 4th gen with iOS 5

texts: I have a recently purchased MacBook Pro with Lion and I want to transfer a video file to my iPod touch. The only problem is this is not the Mac with which my iPod touch library is synced, so I cannot really use iTunes sync feature. What can I do?


texts: Bypassing AMD Radeon GPU of 27" iMac (mid 2011) for Target Display Mode purposes

texts:
I have the 27" mid-2011 iMac that was recalled due to an issue with its AMD 6970M card (1GB for me), but in my case it just malfunctioned after 6 years and it's out of warranty and not eligible for any free repair.

In this forum I got the details of how to connect it to a new 2017 MacBook Pro with Touchbar, using TB cable (older) and TB to USB-C adapter. That's all good.

Questions I have:

Will Target Display Mode attempt to use the GPU of the old Mac or use my MBP's GPU?
If I have to use a video card in the iMac, is there some other integrated graphics card on my iMac I can use and how do I disable the faulty AMD one? The AMD one sometimes (or rather most of the time) prevents the iMac from booting and sends it to an endless restart loop or hangs the machine in ever lasting suspension.
Assuming we get past the two above, anyone know of any easy solution so that I don't have to boot the iMac all the way and then use keyboard shortcuts to enable TDM? I actually would like to connect the keyboard and mouse of the old iMac to the new MBP permanently.


texts:
I recently upgraded to macOS Catalina. I use a setup with Karabiner Elements and Hammerspoon, so I can switch between apps using shortcuts like Caps-Lock+Letter.

My caps-lock is configured to act as a 'Hyper' key when held down, meaning its the same as pressing command + option + control + shift.

However after Catalina upgrade, whenever I press caps-lock + W, the screen flashes.

It also happens when I press the keys individually, so command + control + option + shift + W, so I believe it is some new shortcut introduced in Catalina that does this.

However I can't seem to find what it is and how to disable it, could anybody please help?

The flash is the same as the flash you see when you go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Audio > Test Screen Flash.


texts: On my mac, OS X Yosemite, if I have terminal open and multiple desktops the terminal window appears on all desktops. How do I disable this feature and have the terminal stick to the desktop it was launched on or dragged to?


texts: Filtering files by source with Automator

texts:
I want to sort my Downloads folder and want to use Automator for it. The Files & Folders library gives me plenty of options, however I was not able to find an action which let me filter files by their source.

  I want to sort files by the URL I downloaded them from. Is there an
  Automator action I am missing? Or do I have to use Apple Script for
  that?

The Filter Finder Files gives me the options for filtering by name, date etc., but not by source. How can I accomplish this task?


texts: Sending Network Stream from Playlist (.m3u8) to AirPlay?

texts:
I have a Mac, an Apple TV, and I have a network video stream (.../stream.m3u8) that I'd like to send over AirPlay to my Apple TV.

If I open it in QuickTime/VLC, it plays great, but neither support streaming video over AirPlay.

And when I try to open the stream in iTunes, it instead adds it as a playlist, instead of playing the video.

I'm aware (and a proud owner) of AirParrot, but it's a "whatever's on your screen" type of thing, which gets a little choppy, and the audio is often not properly synced.

Are there any ways, with a Mac and Apple TV, to send a live video stream over AirPlay, or to open it on my Apple TV?


texts: Are location-sensitive reminders bad for battery life and/or data usage?

texts:
If I understand iOS's location-aware reminders correctly, they work by constantly checking your location until they see that you're in the specified range.

Wouldn't this be really detrimental to the iPhone, both to its battery life, for always needing to find your location, and to cell data usage, for always needing to get your GPS location and compare it to Maps?


texts: Is it possible to increase the area dedicated to all-day events? It grows automatically up to 5 events, the 6th is partially shown and from the 7th they are hidden.


texts: File permission problems after migration to iMac

texts:
I used the migration assistant to transfer files from my MacBook Pro (2011) to my iMac. Both computers run Mavericks. Now I'm not allowed to modify files which originate from my 'old' computer because of file permissions. The folders have this red sign and if I look with GetInfo the only authority with read&write access is "fetching".

I don't know whether it is relevant but after migration also the computer name changed from ...iMac to ...MacBook Pro and the transferred files are in a folder which is at the same hierarchy like my home folder of my iMac. Any suggestion how to obtain write access to my transferred files?

Terminal outputs of file properties per Douggro's request:

mac-Myname:~ iMacMyname$ ls -l /Users/iMacMyname/Desktop
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  7 iMacMyname  staff  238 Jul 10  2013 Universal

mac-Myname:~ iMacMyname$ ls -l /Users/MacBookMyname/Desktop
ls: Desktop: Permission denied`


texts:
Is there a command available that displays the Energy Impact from the terminal?
Top doesn't display this info.


texts: Safari remember password of all sites after upgrading to 7.0.2

texts:
I upgraded to Mavericks 9.0.2 the day it was released. I recently found that Safari now asks if I want it to remember passwords on all sites, including sites that I explicitly chose not to remember passwords, like banks. Is this the normal behavior of the updated Safari, or is something wrong with my Mac?

My Safari version is 7.0.2 (9537.74.9)


texts: How do eject a SD card that is being used by Firefox?

texts:
I have had several occurrences where I dragged photos from my mounted SD card to upload to my google plus account but then after the photos were successfully update, my SD card was unable to be ejected when I tried.

It complained that the SD card could not be ejected because it was being used by a "Firefox" instance. When I opened up a terminal and did a lsof on my external SD card it showed something like this:

➜  ~  lsof /Volumes/NO\ NAME
COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
firefox 43658 lowks   77r   REG    1,7  2660487 3802 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00293.JPG
firefox 43658 lowks   78r   REG    1,7  2746774 3884 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00294.JPG
firefox 43658 lowks   81r   REG    1,7  2552369 3968 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00295.JPG

When I went in and deleted the .Trashes folder, and did another lsof, it showed this:

➜  NO NAME  lsof /Volumes/NO\ NAME
COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
firefox 43658 lowks   77r   REG    1,7  2660487 3802 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00293.JPG
firefox 43658 lowks   78r   REG    1,7  2746774 3884 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00294.JPG
firefox 43658 lowks   81r   REG    1,7  2552369 3968 /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/DSC00295.JPG
zsh     45093 lowks  cwd    DIR    1,7    32768    2 /Volumes/NO NAME
lsof    45140 lowks  cwd    DIR    1,7    32768    2 /Volumes/NO NAME
lsof    45141 lowks  cwd    DIR    1,7    32768    2 /Volumes/NO NAME

Has anyone faced a similar situation ? What exactly is going on here ?


texts: Adding new rule for emails containing header

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Is it possible to create a new rule for mail to perform an action if the message contains a custom header?

I want to automaticaly detect emails that contain the "X-hashcash" header.


texts: Will I be able to use cellular data when i'm connected to another device via WiFi Direct?

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If a phone is connected to another device through WiFi direct, will that connection prevent the phone from using cellular data?

Edit:

An iPhone is connected to a dash cam using WiFi Direct (the dash cam shows as a WiFi network when turned on and the iPhone connects with the dash cam by joining the network and putting in the password).

I've read somewhere that iOS can't connect to both WiFi and cellular data at the same time. I just wanted to know if using WiFi directs prevents an iOS device from utilizing cellular data.


texts: How to deploy a .pkg with Profile Manager

texts: I need to deploy the Microsoft Office 2019 suite to a bunch of MacBooks. I only use Profile Manager (part of MacOS Server) and am struggling to figure out how to do this successfully. I've experimented with   mdmctl to create a .plist file and have applied it by uploading it under Custom Settings but nothing happens on the Mac. I've not been able to find any guides on how to use Custom Settings to deploy these plist files.


texts: Boot Camp not recognizing Windows 10 ISO

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I'm trying to dual boot Windows 10 on MacBook Pro, and Boot Camp Assistant is failing to recognize the ISO I've downloaded (from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO).

I'm using an Early 2015 13" Macbook Pro, running El Capitan 10.11.4

On the first step in Boot Camp Assistant, I select the ISO and choose a partition size. When I click "Install", I get this error :

  Need 64-bit Windows 8 or later ISO file.

  Boot Camp only supports 64-but Windows 8 or later installation on this platform.

I have certainly downloaded the 64-bit version, so I'm not sure what's going wrong here. I tried the solutions in How can I install Windows 10 64-bit in El Capitan Boot Camp?, but none worked for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: The effective power bug made my iMessage not work

texts: I gave a "friend" my number and he sent the effective power code and now my iMessage doesn't work anymore I click on the app for iMessage and the app crashes


texts: Does Apple's iOS have a backup DNS server configuration?

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Yesterday I experienced something interesting while setting up a Wi-Fi access point. The access point was connected to the Internet via a local modem (gateway), which had no DNS server address configured. The clients (Windows notebooks, Android phones, iPhones) successfully connected to the access point, and got their network configuration via DHCP, including the DNS server, which was the IP address of the local internet gateway (the modem). But no DNS servers were configured on the modem, so you couldn't surf the web as usual (only by typing in the IP address of a website so no DNS was necessary).

Only if I manually configured the DNS on a Windows machine in the wireless adapter settings, "normal" surfing was working again. Also Android clients couldn't access the Internet (I didn't try to configure DNS manually on a client).

But the iPhone surprised me (running the latest iOS): It could load any web page without troubles, albeit the DNS server (the local gateway) served via DHCP was not working, as there no DNS server was configured.

So my question is: does the iPhone (or more precisely: iOS) have an additional, internal, backup DNS server address configured, which it uses if it gets no working DNS server address via DHCP?


texts: Problems with video resolution using VirtualBox on Mac OS X El Capitan

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I've installed VirtualBox 5.0.10 on my Mac and now I'm trying to run Bio-Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) in a VM.

The resolution of the Linux desktop when I go to settings > monitor is set to 640 x 480 with no other options.
How can I improve this?

I'm using a MacBook Air 4GB Memory 1.3 GHz.


texts: Enumerating messages in Outlook's Drafts folder generates an error

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I would like to enumerate the messages in Outlook's 'Drafts' folder.

When I run this script:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
  set theMessages to every message in the drafts
  --returns 1
  display dialog of (count of theMessages)
  repeat with theMessage in theMessages
    display dialog of the class of theMessage    -- displays 'inm'
    display dialog of the subject of theMessage  -- error here
  end repeat

end tell

I get an error that reads Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make subject of outgoing message id 15002 into type string..

It seems like theMessage is the ID of the message, even though its class is 'inm' (guessing that this means inbox message).

If I cast theMessage to a Message:

display dialog of the subject of (theMessage as message)

I get a different error: Can’t make «class inm » id 15492 of application "Microsoft Outlook" into type message.

What am I not understanding?


texts: How can I just "skip" incoming mail notification?

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When I get an email, macos notification system shows a banner like image below and two options are available: reply or delete.

This is useful, but sometimes I want to just skip the banner because it takes top right corner for some seconds and I just want to clear it away. (I know 'alert' has options for close but I do not like it)

How can I just skip the incoming mail banner by mouse or keyboard?


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Is there any way to disable Command+W in the terminal?

On several occasions I have accidentally closed a terminal window containing important information when I meant to close a Safari tab and did not realize that the terminal was the active window.


texts: iMessage - How to block SMS from contacts without phone numbers?

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I am sometimes getting SMS messages in iMessage app from empty contacts. Such contact has a name (even it’s not in my contacts), but doesn’t have a phone number or email address. Hence, “Block this Caller” doesn’t work.
Bonus question:
How it is possible that Messages app accepts such SMS messages anyway?
Main question
How to block such SMS messages or enable some option that will prevent SMS without a phone number?
Here is an example of such empty contact. No phone number, no email - “Block” button doesn’t work.


texts: Notes.app on OS X crashing whenever I make an edit in the iOS app

texts: Notes.app on OS X crashes whenever I make an edit in the iOS app and it syncs back down to my Mac. When it crashes, I just open up the app again, and everything is synced up and works perfectly. The crashing is obviously super annoying, though. Has anyone else seen this problem?


texts: I just recently received my iPad Mini as a reward from my principal, and it was working just fine. I bought it home with me because it is now my property. Then, this morning, I turn it on and see that I need to put in a password! I never input a password, so can anyone tell me why this just happened?


texts: how to fix permission on default apps in el capitan

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Trouble in permission How fix it? permission in group wheel = read only full permission = only system group