texts: How can I delete one of my devices from the "lists of known hosts (ECDSA)" after connecting to it with SSH?

texts: How can I delete one of my devices from the "lists of known hosts (ECDSA)" after connecting to it with SSH on Sierra ?


texts: Why is a black iPhone 4S is shown as white in iTunes?

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I've recently got a new black iPhone 4S, but in iTunes and Xcode organizer it is shown as white (see screenshots below).

I purchased this new within the UK (model MD239B), but I'm not sure if it was refurbished. The search request says it is a white one. Could it possibly be a refurbished device? I've checked the serial number on support.apple.com, there is no single word similar to 'refurbished'.


texts: "show in finder" open the file instead of opening the directory containing it

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the problem appeared after i tried path finder app, i didn't like it, i removed it using cleanmymac, than i used

defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.apple.Finder

and
 rm Library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

now every time i click on show in finder, instead of opening the folder containing the file( the default behaviour of finder), it open the file, for EXP: if the file is a dmg it mount it, if it's a text file it open it on an editor, would any one have any idea how to reset finder


texts: Where is the auto save option in Microsoft Office 2016 for Word and Power Point?

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Yesterday, I managed to lose a couple of hours of work, because I had forgotten to save my file.

Now I wanted to enable the auto save option for Power Point and Word, which I thought would also be available in Office 2016, but I can't find it. Also, googling only brought up guides for Word 2011, which don't work with Office 2016.

Could some one of you please point me to the correct option?

Thanks a lot!


texts:
My wife constantly misplaces her phone.
Is there any way to make a shortcut in iOS (or macOS) to enable a one-touch solution to find her iPhone? (I can see her phone in the Find My app).


texts:
IOS 12.1.4 (16D57) on iPhone MG5D2LL/A

With Facebook not allowed to give any notifications except badges, …

the sound turned off for Facebook in notification settings, …

notifications turned off in the Facebook settings, …

keyboard clicks turned off, …

and volume turned completely off with the iPhone volume buttons, …

when my wife posts something in the Facebook app, her iPhone makes a click that annoys her.

How can we make it stop?


texts: Create clean install of MacOS, yet still have access to old install

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My goal is to create a clean install of MacOS, yet still have access to the old install (somewhere else like another partition) while I work on the new install to match the old one. I am assuming that I will miss some items initially and will need to refer back to the older install.

One path to accomplish my goal would be to have a dual boot (though not preferred). While I am working on the clean install, I would be able to reboot to the older version to perform work if necessary UNTIL the new clean install is ready. Eventually I would delete the older version.

Another path could be to create a virtual box install of High Sierra, time machine back up that, while I work on making that right I would still have access to the old install (host). Then once I'm convinced that I have everything ready I would backup and restore the new virtual install as a real install on my Macbook.

Does anyone have any advice to accomplish this?


texts: How to make automator run an applescript that turns of mac?

texts: I want to make an applescript that taps the apple in the corner, taps shut down, and then taps shut down. I can't record it, since it actually involves shutting down the computer, making the script not being saved.


texts: How do I permanantly disable zoom feature when taking screenshots/screencapture (cmd+shift+4)?

texts:
Recently made a jump to Mountain Lion and it appears Apple added a feature to the screenshot function (cmd+shift+4) that zooms in when it is a small screenshot. It's a pain and I want to disable it permanently. Is there any way I can do this?

Example screenshot


texts: Text is invisible in some apps in El Capitan

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I've recently updated my Mac Mini to El Capitan and I am having problem with some of my apps: text is not displaying inside them.
I am facing this issue with at least this apps: GitHub for Mac:

Finder (folder names at the left panel and tags are empty) and Mail app

I thought that it can be the font issue, so I tried to go to the Fonts app and remove all duplicates, remove all fonts with errors and then reboot - no luck, still the same.
What can cause such a behavior?
It seems to be the system-wide issue (I tried to run Finder in Guest user and the issue was still present).


texts: Mac Sudden Motion Sensor: Obtaining activation state

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Very similar to this SuperUser question, I'd like to know if there's a way to know when the SMS is actually engaged.

Note that I do not want to know if the sensor is enabled (which can be done from the Terminal with sudo pmset -g). Specifically I want to know when the sensor trips and forces the hard drive's head to park, and when it senses the danger is clear and allows the head to move again. In an ideal case a Growl notification would be fantastic, but even a log would suffice.

I ask because as Apple notes on their support page, the SMS can be tripped in certain environments such as nightclubs when it would be undesirable. However the only way to know if you are in such an environment is by guessing since I haven't found a way to tell the frequency or length of time the SMS actually causes head parks. I understand the simple thing to do is disable the sensor outright, but the point of the question is how to gain visibility into the actual activity of the sensor.


texts: How to connect to the internet from Terminal when using a proxy with authentication

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I have to use proxy servers to connect to the internet. I have set all proxies in my system proxy settings. Now I can connect to Internet using my browser and applications.

But I cannot connect to internet from my terminal.

I tried

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxyserver:port/"

But still terminal applications cannot connect to the internet.


texts: Adding Unicode decorators to text in Pages

texts: Is it possible to add a copied (via Cmd+C), for example, vector arrow to  a letter in Pages? If so, how?


texts: Can I upgrade the SSD on late 2013 retina Mac Book Pro?

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Do the late 2013 models (13" - (ME864LL/A, ME865LL/A, ME866LL/A), 15" - (ME293LL/A, ME294LL/A)) support after market SSD upgrades? If so, is a drive that works with the late 2012/ early 2013 rMBPs compatible with the late 2013 models?

Although not officially supported - A couple sources (EveryMac, OWC) indicate the late 2012/ early 2013 rMBPs support after market SSD upgrades.

[Update]
ifixit posted a teardown here indicating in step 8 that:

  The proprietary SSD has changed to a PCIe format, but still isn't a standard
  2.5" drive. However, it is a separate daughtercard, and we’re hopeful we can
  offer an upgrade in the near future.


texts: iCloud Photo Library uploads from Windows: albums and mov

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I am trying to migrate from Flickr to iCloud Photos, and having some trouble. I am currently using an iCloud account on a Windows 10 machine.

Albums: It seems to be possible to upload albums from Photos.app on a Mac, but not on Win - only choice is upload and then organise. Am I wrong?
Is there a supported file spec for iCloud anywhere? The one I've seen mentions support for MOV files, but with no codec specifics. I am trying to upload .mov files from an old Lumix.

A "normal" video .mov uploads fine. The issue is with the other mov type, which might be Motion JPEGs (these are essentially photos with an .amr sound recording packaged in a .mov). iCloud won't accept those even after conversion into an mp4. Is this because of the very low (sub-500kbitsec) bit rate?

Converting to MP4 with a custom VBR and stitching multiple of those files seems to have worked. Although iCloud for Windows still gives an "Unsupported file error", it is uploaded. This leaves question one.


texts: How can I tell whom a text message is addressed to?

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I have my iPhone 5S set up so I may receive text messages sent to my email account, my phone number AND my son's phone number. The problem is, when I get a message (say, one that was sent to my son's number) I can't tell if it was sent to ME or HIM.

How can I see this info?


texts: How to bypass iMac 2015 Firmware Password?

texts:
first of all, I apologize for my bad english
I have a question and I will be really happy if someone can help me.
A while ago I bought an imac from 2015 as used ( so I don`t have any invoice) but lately I miss some speed and because of this I decided to upgrade HDD to SSD. When I did it and wanted to do a clean install, I got a padlock on the screen, "So frimware password", and I don't have this one.
I tried to go to recovery mode via Command + R, but when I pressed that, it asks again for the password.
boot via USB failed.
NVRM reset failed
memory replacement, not helped
Does anyone have any idea about this ??


texts: Macbook Pro renders font differently then other screen

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This is the font looks on my friend's Macbook Pro:

This is the font looks on my computer with DELL U2412M monitor:

They look different, the first one looks smooth and the second one looks blurry.

Anyone have insight on this?


texts: How can I protect lock down the hosts file under SIP

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I want to prevent myself from modifying the hosts file. I tried to do what was answered here: Protect hosts file , which was:
-disable sip by booting into recovery mode and reboot
-run:
chflags restricted /etc/hosts

-enable sip by booting into recovery mode and reboot
However, I can still replace the hosts file with a modified version. Is there a way to completely lock down the file where it can only be modified or removed or replaced after sip is turned off?
M1 Macbook running Big Sur


texts: Getting a list of currently running processes

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I'd like to get a list of all the applications currently running on my machine using the command line. It should be similar to what you get when you open up Activity Monitor and choose to save the list.

I noticed that the ps -a command does something similar, but it cuts off the names of the processes.

I'm only interested in the name of the processes, so I don't need all the columns that Activity Monitor outputs.

Update: I should have been more clear... I don't want the entire path to the process to be displayed. I just want the name of the process, as it appears in Activity Monitor. For example, ps causes lanchd to be displayed as /sbin/launchd rather than as it is displayed in Activity Monitor (i.e. just lanchd). This is a problem because processes that have very long paths end up being truncated (depending on my terminal window's size), and I can't even see the process name.


texts: After Catalina upgrade “Desktop” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found

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Today I upgrade to Catalina 10.15

When I go to Finder and try to open any location that is on my iCloud I get the following message

  “Desktop” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.

Where Desktop is the location I am trying to access


texts:
I am getting so fed up with this:

It is too real not to make the mistake in a moment when I am not fully on alert (and to be hones that stresses me out), and I want to use my powerful Mac to protect me from killing myself.

So I want my Mac mail to do some work for me, more than just be dumb and to dump all emails in the junk.

I want to eliminate me in the process.

I want to make a Rule in mail that:

1-Analises each email coming from "my"? bank, or containing the name of it.
Regardless of real or not.

I want a script to display a large warning on the screen for that email to remind me that that email can be a Scam, so I do not accidentally open it.

How do I do that in Mail.app.

Yes I know I should not open attachments and reply to emails like it, but it is 100% looking like real emails not to make the mistake eventually when not being on alert all the time. So Mac, do some intelligent work and save me from myself.

In this case the alerts@notify.wellsfargo.com is 100% legitimate From address, so someone tell me how the hell do they do fake that.


texts: "Show Password" in Keychain Access doesn't work

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I am having a problem, as a program is requesting my RSA password but my Mac won't let me see it. As I check the "show password" (mostrar contraseña) chechbox, it immediately unmarks itself.

I already tried "Repair" and turning the computer off and on again (as if it ever worked) and of course, it didn't fix it.

Any suggestions?


texts: Keynote transition delay time for each slide

texts:
I am working with Keynote for the first time to create a slideshow.  I have a slideshow with just over 200 slides in it and I need the last 2 slides (one of which is a short 20 second video clip) to show for longer than the rest, which show 7.5 seconds.  How do you customize single slides to stay longer before they transition without changing the entire slideshow?

I am using Keynote Version 6.2
Software is OS X Version 10.9.5


texts: Why do httpd and mysqld processes not show up in Activity Monitor?

texts:
I'm running Mountain Lions built in Apache2 server. I have started the server and I can see the web pages but I can't see any httpd process in the Activity Monitor. Same goes for MySQL. I can't see mysqld process in it either.

I used MAMP before and those processes where shown in the Activity Monitor.

I can run the following command in terminal to list all processes in a text file. httpd and mysqld processes are showing up there.

ps -A > process.txt

Why the Activity Monitor is not showing these processes?


texts: Callers say they can hardly hear me when talking on my iPhone 7

texts: When I am on the phone with a caller, they say they can hardly hear me. My volume is high and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.


texts: Windows 10 unable to install on partition formatted by Boot Camp Assistant

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I am trying to install Windows 10 on my iMac 27" (Mid 2011 - iMac12,2 - 3.4GHz -Core I7, OSX 10.11.6). When rebooting with the WININSTALL key, Windows Setup stops as it says it cannot install on the BootCamp Assistant generated partition (it is FAT32, wants NTFS). So I click the Formatbutton and he now says that the partition is MBR and he wants a GPT. So how do I make a GPT?

  Note: Regarding the Boot Camp Assistant application: I modified the info.plist file by removing the "Pre" in ' "PreUSBBootSupportedModels" ' so I could get the checkbox to install Windows on the key.

Next question, I tried partitioning manually as suggested in question: Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition?,
but the command:

sudo  diskutil  apfs  resizeContainer  disk0s2  180.8G  FAT32  BOOTCAMP  70G

fails as diskutil does not understand verbs apfs nor resizeContainer.
So I checked on my MBP running High Sierra and there apfs exists but not resizeContainer. Should I upgrade the iMac to High Sierra?

Here is my diskutil list:

diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            967.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                32.0 GB    disk0s5

Here is a list of my WININSTALL:

total 3968
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Feb  1  2014 $WinPEDriver$
-rwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff     3219 Feb  1  2014 AutoUnattend.xml
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Feb  1  2014 BootCamp
-rwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff      128 Sep 30 18:00 autorun.inf
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Sep 30 19:15 boot
-rwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff   397752 Sep 30 17:55 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff  1236376 Sep 30 18:00 bootmgr.efi
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Sep 30 19:15 efi
-rwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    80696 Sep 30 18:00 setup.exe
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Sep 30 19:15 sources
drwxrwxrwx  1 silvano  staff    32768 Sep 30 19:15 support


texts: How to lock a browser with a password/passcode on iPhone?

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Is there a way to make a Web browser on iPhone 11 Pro other than Safari to be lockable with a password or a passcode, even by any extension? That is, when you launch the browser, a password is required. The password isn’t asked again while the browser remains open, even in the background. If you close the browser app, then it will ask for the password at the next launch.

Screen Time blocks all browsers but I need to lock only one web browser, not every browser.

Firefox has passcode feature, but only for saved passwords, not opening the app itself.

Additionally, I look for a solution that doesn’t require me to set up a passcode, Touch ID or something similar on the whole iPhone. I want my iPhone to remain unlocked, except for the browser.


texts:
I recently bought a 2nd-hand iMac which has the following specifications:

iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB
Storage: 1TB SATA HD

It had Sierra installed, and I used it for a couple of weeks.

I then upgraded to High Sierra and noticed that it is very slow.

It seems to lag everywhere, even when inputting text into this text field in Safari. The lag is not extreme, but it is there.

I assume this 2011 iMac has insufficient processing power to smoothly run High Sierra which was released in 2017, so I would like to downgrade to an earlier OS.

I considered downgrading to Sierra, but I wonder whether it would be even better to downgrade to an earlier OS such as El Capitan or earlier.

From the MacOS release dates on the Wikipedia page, I assume this iMac was released with Lion.

I use XCode 9 and not much else, and I assume this iMac has a 64-bit processor, and I don't know which was the first OS to support 64-bit.

I'd like to downgrade to the earliest version that I can, to ensure the smoothest experience.

So which OS should I downgrade to?


texts: So I installed the Mojave beta on a separate container from my High Sierra install, but I really meant to install it in a separate volume. So now I have two containers and my Mojave install has run out of space (It was only 20GB), so I'm trying to move the Mojave volume from Container2 (20GB) to Container1 (230GB), and then delete Container2 so Container1 has the full 250GB. Is this possible?


texts: iTunes Match on iPhone missing almost all of my music

texts:
I subscribed to iTunes Match at launch and was able to run through the matching process. My iTunes now says there are several thousand songs on my account. I turned on match on my iPhone, and ended up with a strange mix of songs on there, most of which were synced from iTunes, and others which were in the cloud and would download when played.

I wanted to make more room for podcasts (which don't go through Match), so last night I switched off Match on the phone, unchecked music syncing on iTunes, and sycned the device. This removed all of the music from my device except for the podcasts, as expected. Then I switched match back on, but the library has not appeared on the device, even with "show all songs" turned on as well. Strangely, a random 10-15 tracks are shown on the device with cloud icons, but the other thousands are missing, even ones which were there and working before I manually synced.

I've switched Match off and on a couple of times, and even did "update iTunes Match" on my computer, but nothing's fixed it. What's up?

Any thoughts on if iOS 5.1 improves reliability of Match?


texts: Give "Backup and Sync from Google" access only to "~/Google Drive" directory (on Big Sur)

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My Google Drive (aka Backup and Sync from Google) is /Users/marcin/Google Drive.  I upgraded to Big Sur and Google Drive stopped synchronizing due to access restrictions.  The only options I can find to get Google Drive working are:

Give Google Drive access to my entire drive - definitely do not want to do that
Move the directory to /Users/marcin/Documents/Google Drive and give it access to my entire Documents folder - do not want to do that either.

The question: Is there a way to keep the local repository in /Users/marcin/Google Drive and give Google Drive access just to this directory?
Alternative: Is there a locating I could place Google Drive directory such that I could restrict access to just that directory?


texts:
I have connected my wired printer with Time Capsule in order to use it as a Wi-Fi printer.
This setup works very well with my MacBook, but my Windows PC on same network is unable to locate the Wi-Fi printer.
I've tried everything listed on the Internet to add it as a network printer, but nothing has worked.
Can someone please advice how I can print to the Wi-Fi printer using Windows as well?


texts: Will LG Ultrafine 5k work with 2012 MacBook pro

texts: I just purchased a 2016 MacBook Pro but have a 2012 MBP Retina I use for work.  I'm considering buying the LG Ultrafine 5k and I'm wondering, will I be able to use the display with my 2012 MBP?  I don't mind if I don't get full resolution while using the 2012, I just want to know if it will work.


texts: How to force Spotlight to import existing index instead of rebuilding (network share)?

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I am having trouble to make Spotlight permanently work for network drives on both Sierra and High Sierra.

I have a NAS (WD MyCloud, running some proprietary linux, kinda busybox) on my local network. I connect to it using AFP protocol. The given shares mounted somewhere in my home folder ~/path-to-share. I can enable Spotlight search by manually starting indexing the volume.

sudo mkdir /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/
mdutil -i on ~/path_to_mount

The first line is needed since Sierra, without that, you will always get Indexing disabled. in the terminal (this is a fix a lot of people looking for). This will start mdworker, and the indexing starts. After it finishes Spotlight works as it supposed, temporarily.  BUT once you unmount the share and mount it (the same way) again Spotlight stops finding anything within it.

During indexing a local database is built under /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/afp%3A. If you take look at the content of this folder, one can find further subfolders name according to user@server_name nomenclature. This would suggest, that it would recognize the server. Manually rebuilding the index with mdutil -i on E ~/path_to_mount "restarts" proper Spotlight functioning, but it can take hours with a considerably large network share, which is unmounted automatically with one single WiFi network change (I am using a portable computer).

So the question would be how can you make Spotlight find/read/use the already existing  - not corrupted - index database.

I have tried different mounting methods, same result: Finder, command line (mount -w -o nosuid -o nodev -t afp afp://server_name/share_name ~/path_to_mount). I have also tried to mount to the default /Volumes/ path, the same result. I can not reload to associated deamon /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist since it is protected by SIP. I have tried everything with SMB sharing also.

Interestingly this problem seems to annoy only a handful of people, I could only find one similar question (How to force spotlight to reimport index), but dozens and dozens of "How to rebuild Spotlight index". Am I missing something obvious?


texts: Static IP address per wifi connection? Configuration in router doesn't seem to take, am I doing it wrong?

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I have a MacBook Pro, and a home WIFI setup that I'd like to assign a very specific IP address to the MBP on.

The router is a Jensen Airlink AL59300, and it has the ability to assign static IP addresses of up 16 devices through their MAC address.

So I added my MBP's MAC address and assigned it an address.

However, how do I get my MBP to get that address now? If I simply enter the network preferences and click on the Renew Lease button, it gets the same, dynamic, address every time. Well, sometimes the router has assigned addresses differently, probably due to timing of reconnects, but my MBP never gets the address I set it up with, it always gets a new one from the dynamic pool.

If I set up the IP address manually on my Mac, is that per WIFI connection? Or is the IP address common for all the WIFI networks? Meaning, if I configure my MBP to have 192.168.0.199, and then connect to WIFI at work, will it then try to use that same address there, or can I use dynamic DHCP there, or even assign a different IP address on that network?


texts: Delete photos from iCloud Photo Library faster

texts:
I've disabled the iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone and now have to wait 30 days to remove all photos from the iCloud (I don't need them on any of my Apple devices).

Is there a way to do it faster (without deleting every single photo manually)?


texts: This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with myEmail popup

texts: I just restarted my mac. The internet here is spotty. I saw the popup below. I really could not care less if I can connect to iCloud at the moment of a particular startup or not. I just don't want popups. Is there any way I can get rid of it, permanently? Hopefully not by disabling iCloud; I'm sure there was a reason I enabled it; likely to get rid of some other popup somewhere.


texts: Hotkey for switching between desktops with maximized windows

texts: I use ctrl- to switch between workspaces but if some application is maximized, it creates a new workspace between "Desktop 1" and "Desktop 2" so it's impossible to use a hotkey. Is it possible to switch to maximized window or assign a number?


texts: Touch Bar has blank/void button after Catalina update

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After the Catalina update, the Touch Bar shows a void button on the left of the play button at all times as you can see from this screenshot.

As far as I know, the number of buttons that should appear on the minified control strip is 4... why do I have 5?

If I go into the Settings > Extensions > Touch Bar to customise the control strip, there, while I do the customisation the blank button disappears (see second screenshot).

Why does this happen?

[Edit] As I was looking at this post, with a Youtube tab opened along this, the void was replaced by this icon, that is usually what appears when you have media playing.... I don't know if this is correlated or not. (See screenshot below)


texts: What dose this "square icon" mean for my imap sent mailbox, in mac mail?

texts:
Im running OSX 10.13.6

I have a range of email accounts setup in mac mail, mostly google apps for business gmail accounts and iCloud accounts.

I have 1 custom hosted IMAP / SMTP account which for some reason is showing a "square icon" (see below screenshot) in the sidebar for the sent mailbox. The inbox mailbox for this account works, but the sent doesn't.

Any ideas why this might be and what the square icons means ?


texts: Re-Agreeing to public WiFi through login screens

texts:
On board a train whose WiFi has two screens (click "Join", click "I agree") I have no difficulty from macOS. I'm offered the two screens each time and I click to connect.

But iOS (11.2.6) appears to simplify the login by automating the clicks, after a past initial login. This in turn seems not to go well with this particular WiFi setup.

The WiFi icon indicates that there is a connection, but I can't ping outside.

Tinkering with the settings in the following ways to (re-)establish the connection does not work:

Turning WiFi off then on.
Forgetting then reselecting the WiFi network.
Turning off "auto-join" and "auto-login".
Clicking "Renew lease".

None of these make me go through the click-to-join-then-click-to-agree screens.

How do I connect through iOS to this (public, unsecured) network?


texts: Macbook Pro Mid 2010 NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M random glitch showing when scrolling, writing or watching videos

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I have have a MacBook pro late 2010 (now 4 years old), I use it everyday and there's a graphical issue where letters in the browser become blurry and broken, some kind of weird glitch happens all the time.
Problem
Whenever I scroll on a page or write content in an input, using google chrome letters become like this (click on the picture so you understand what happens).

This is very disturbing when reading.
What I tried
Other browsers
They work a bit better
I have tried on Opera browser and on Safari and this doesn't happen (at least, did not happen as often as chrome). I used firefox for a while now, went better, but Playing videos on firefox does the glitch too. I switched to Firefox Developer Edition and can't tell when was the last time I experienced an issue (see end of question and answers, may help too).
Disabling plugins
Nope. I created a new chrome user (with no plugin installed), still does that flickering.
Reinstalling Chrome
Nope. Tried this multiple times, still the same.
Trying other versions of Chrome
Nope. Thought it worked fine, used it for 30 minutes, does the same again.

Additional informations
I am currently running Yosemite but it's been doing this for a long time.
Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2.66 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 4 MB
  Memory:   8 GB
  Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
  Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0F
  SMC Version (system): 1.57f17
  Serial Number (system):   ***
  Hardware UUID:    ***
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

Intel HD Graphics:

  Chipset Model:  Intel HD Graphics
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  Built-In
  VRAM (Total): 288 MB
  VRAM (Dynamic, Max):  10
  Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
  Device ID:  0x0046
  Revision ID:  0x0018
  gMux Version: 1.9.22

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M:

  Chipset Model:  NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:  x16
  VRAM (Total): 512 MB
  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:  0x0a29
  Revision ID:  0x00a2
  ROM Revision: 3560
  gMux Version: 1.9.22
  Displays:
Color LCD:
  Display Type: LCD
  Resolution: 1600 x 1000
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror: Off
  Online: Yes
  Built-In: Yes

Things that seemed to help
These are taken from the answers below (thanks!), read them for details

I had some unusual cpu usage after upgrading to yosemite, I followed 6 Easy Tips to Speed Up OS X Yosemite on Your Mac (first one helped alot).

I disabled hardware acceleration in chrome about:config

I enabled subpixel font rendering for non-Apple LCDs:
   defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2


texts: Terminal-App: What’s in front of colon and why does it change with a different network?

texts:
When I open the terminal-app, there is this default code. However, it changes depending on the network:
This is how it looks like in my local coworking office:
Last login: Thu Aug 13 14:49:57 on ttys000
HUAWEI_P20-12345678:~ user$

This is how it looks like at home or with wlan disconnected:
Last login: Thu Aug 13 14:51:36 on ttys000
MyMac:~ user$

I don't know what a HUAWEI P20 should be? I have an iPhone and I can't believe that the coworking office has a cellphone as router?
Did my computer get hacked?
What does this line mean and what difference does it make?
Furthermore, what does ttys000 mean?
btw, MyMac is obviously the name of my computer and I replaced my username with "user".


texts: Can't see the image or movie file dimensions in Finder

texts:
I can't see the image or movie file dimensions in the Finder when browsing files on a server. Local files are shown as usual; it's just when I pick a file on the company server that the dimensions are not shown.

The screen shot below shows the dimensions of a local file, correctly, as 1280 x 720. Why is this information missing from server hosted files?


texts: What are the specific restrictions on downgrading an iPod Touch to previous iOS versions?

texts:
We want to test our iOS app on a few devices (iPhone 3G and 4 - or equivalent iPod Touch), but we also need to ensure it will run on the major releases of iOS, maybe 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 4.0.x, etc - I'm a little rusty on the version numbers and who got free upgrades to what.

I've read Is there a way to downgrade a 2nd gen iPod touch from iOS 4 back to 3.1.3? but I'm still unclear whether or not we can just buy a single iPod Touch and downgrade and upgrade as necessary, or if we'd have to buy an iPod Touch per iOS version we want to test.

So, what are the specific restrictions placed on downgrading? Can we just get our devices into DFU mode and apply whatever version we want? I don't want to end up buying a lot of devices if we only need one each.

We don't need any phone-only hardware such as the microphone or sending SMSs, so that's not a factor.

Cheers!


texts: This often happens when I quit apps in fullscren split view mode? Has anyone encountered this too? Any known fix for this?


texts: macOS doesn't auto-connect to Bluetooth device

texts:
I've got bluetooth speakers, which I can connect to from macOS. It works fine, however when I put the computer into standby, then resume it, often it will not auto-connect to them again.
Is there anyway to ensure it does that?
I'm on macOS 11.2.1 (20D74)


texts: Understanding Files on iOS / iPadOS: Accessing stored files

texts:
iOS 13 and the new iPadOS offer the Files app as a Finder replacement. I do not quite understand the integration with the rest of the system, however.

I have copied a set of image files into the "On my iPad" section in Files. They show up in Google Fotos (!) but not in other iOS apps where I would like to use them, eBay Classifieds in my case.

How do I access files stored in the Files app from another app?
I understand that Files is no real file manager, like Finder, but rather an interface to several cloud services that also happens to provide app-internal storage (what is visible as "on my iPad"). Is that a correct view?
If so, how can I access arbitrary user files somewhere on my iPad? I'm fine with restrictions on system files, but content I have created should reside somewhere on the iPad's file system... is there a proper Finder replacement for mobile devices?


texts: Problems with font rendering on a MacBook Pro using external 24" LCD

texts:
I have a 24" HP LP2475w at my home and 23" Apple Cinema Display at work. Today when I turned on my laptop at work, I noticed that all fonts look perfect (after having an issue with rendering for the past two days). I thought the issue somehow got fixed and happily went on with my day.

Later when I came home, everything still worked, because I didn't turn off my MacBook. This is how it looks (correct), even on my home LCD

but when I quit the Terminal.app (or any other app for that matter) and launch it again, while the 24" is still connected, the fonts get ugly

Notice even the background color is different, which doesn't make any sense at all, since the screenshots are taken about 15 seconds apart.

When I disconnect my LCD the Terminal still looks ugly, until I relaunch it, then it looks ok again.

The important thing here is, that I've been using the 24" LCD for the past year and never had this issue, it just started happening without me changing anything.

Is it possible, that my MacBook is somehow having trouble communicating with the LCD when the app starts? I would understand if this happened to everything that is displayed on the 24" LCD, but it happens only to apps that are launched when the LCD is connected.

Even if I quit all the windows in the terminal and open new ones it still looks ok, until I actually quit the application itself and relaunch it.


texts: Retrieve the Apple ID used to download a given app (in iTunes)

texts:
I have multiple devices, all handled with iTunes in the same PC.
Each device is associated with a different Apple ID.

I may want to install some apps in more than one device. As far as I know, an app downloaded in iTunes leaves a .ipa file that has embedded the information about the associated Apple ID (in directory C:\userdir\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications in my Win7).

Is that correct?

If so, is there any way to know the associated Apple ID, for each .ipa file?
Will I have more than one copy of an .ipa file in my PC, if the app is purchased with more than one ID?
Where will each one be stored?

And if not, where is the information about which Apple IDs were used to download each app stored? Can it be retrieved?

PS: This question has a title that describes well the present one. But the question itself asks something a little bit different, and the accepted answer is OK for that question, but it by no means answers this one.

PS2: This is a related question.

EDIT: There is a sign on top stating

This question may already have an answer here:
Retrieve the Apple ID used to download a given app (in iphone)

That is precisely the question referred to in PS2. I have posted that one too, and it is a different question (with no answers so far).


texts: Best way to stream videos and music from my iPhone to my TV?

texts:
So I got a samsung galaxy s advance and found out that it can stream stored music and videos wirelessly (via WIFI) to my TV. It is very efficient with no buffering time and full HD quality.
I use an AppleTV for my iPhone, however the connection keeps dropping (the icon disappears), the buffering time takes ages to load a video stored in my iPhone, and the whole experience is very dissatisfying.

Is there another way (through an App or Cydia app) that allows streaming similar to the Galaxy S ?? I have a jailbroken iPhone so I can use cydia.

Thanks


texts: iPhoto not launching after upgrading to OS X 10.10, Yosemite

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Ever since I migrated to a new Macbook Pro Retina (MacBookPro11,2) and to OS X 10.10, iPhoto won't run.

I was running OS X 10.8 on a Macbook Pro (MacBookPro7,1) before. I have tried uninstalling iPhoto and reinstalling using the App Store.

The error I receive is this, full crash log:

Exception Type:        EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/NyxAudioAnalysis
  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlideshow
  Reason: image not found

From what I can tell, there are certain libraries that can't be loaded. Apparently, simply reinstalling iPhoto does not do the trick. Is there anything else I can do?


texts:
I bought a new gen iPod nano and filled it with my best songs.
But when I connected it to my car's audio jack so the music would play through the speakers,
all of the songs sounded flat and weak. I set the equalizer to what sounded best, but it still sounds awful. Sort of muffled and plain. What did iTunes or the iPod do to my songs that made them this way and how can I fix it?


texts: I tried to change my desktop picture but it won't change and i have tried things that have been suggested to other people with the same problem and it doesn't work for me. Please help I am sick and tired of my old desktop background.


texts:
Just the other day I got a push notification message that asked if I wanted to upload certain photos I took at a certain place to Google Maps for that place.

It kind of shocked me since I never remember allowing Google Maps access to my photos (must have tapped too quick sometime I guess) and I wonder if they have been uploading my photos like other applications upload your contacts as soon as you allow them access?

They could have analyzed it locally since there's geo information in my images but still the push notification came when I wasn't engaged with the app so that means it came from a server.

I wonder if my images are now in Google's cloud and linked to my account or it was just a suggestion made by analyzing my local data.


texts: Why does the Century font in Pages '09 not include italics or bold?

texts: I am using Apple Pages '09 to write a document where the font must be in Century. In Microsoft Word, the Century font has an italics, bold, and underline option. However, in Pages '09 the only available text decoration is underline. Why is that so? And do other fonts have restrictions on text decorations in Pages?


texts:
I like to use the official Google Drive Backup & Sync software, however I have three partitions which I can't merge together. (1) 4TB (2) 4TB (3) 2TB. I installed Google Drive on Disk 1, but I have much more space.
I like to have some folder be stored on other disks else I will be capped at 4TB while I actually have more. Is symlink a possibility, or is there another way?


texts: How can I tell which device purchased specific apps?

texts: I have had a problem with children downloading apps. I would like to be able to see which apple device has purchased which app. How do I do that?


texts: Allow access to www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies, but not www.bbc.co.uk

texts:
I'm using OS X Parental Controls to limit what my son can do on our Mac.

He has his own user account, managed by the Parental Controls.

Under Website Restrictions, I've chosen "Allow access to only these websites".  The list of websites we've set up contains http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/, which contains child-friendly content.

Unfortunately, Parental Controls ignores the /cbeebies/ path in the URL, and it allows access to any web page at http://www.bbc.co.uk/.  This is a large site including news which I'd rather my son didn't have access to.

Apple have documented this behaviour in support article HT2900 (and although the article title refers to 10.5 and 10.6, this still seems to be the case in 10.8 and 10.9):

  For most websites, the Internet content filter considers the domain name and not the path. For example, if http://www.example.com is added to the list, then http://pictures.example.com will be allowed, as will http://www.example.com/movies.

How can I set up my son's user account to block access to the BBC website generally, but still allow access to CBeebies?

My son uses Safari and the Simple Finder
We are currently using 10.8 but could upgrade to 10.9 (however, I've just tested and the issue persists there)
We are already using OpenDNS and could apply some blocking there, but I want the blocking to apply only to my son's account on this Mac, not other accounts or other machines on our network
I'm fairly experienced with UNIX, Apache etc.  I'm wondering about setting up a local web server (eg http://localhost/cbeebies/) which would act as a proxy for the CBeebies site only, and add that URL to the Parental Controls whitelist... but before I spend the time to puzzle that out, can anyone share any relevant experience?


texts: I want to make a USB bootable to downgrade from Yosemite to Mavericks. I don't have Mavericks in my recent purchases in the App Store because my Mac shipped with it. Recovery mode just installs Yosemite. Does anyone have a link to where I can download the OS X Mavericks installer?


texts: How can I link to a specific point in a YouTube video from an iPhone?

texts:
When using YouTube on the desktop, right clicking a video gives the option to copy a link to a specific point in that video.

Is there a way to link to a specific point of a YouTube video from an iPhone or iPad?

I've tried using the native iOS app and the mobile site, but I can't find a way to link a specific time stamp.


texts:
I'm running Mojave on my MacBook Pro. IT-support installed VMWare Fusion but I can't expand the VMware Fusion window to the full width of my laptop. It's really frustrating. Any ideas on how to fix?

I saw this for Ubuntu but that's not my OS.

Additionally - is there a setting to enable my windows VM to run full screen on macOS Mojave?


texts: iTunes reports "There is no updates available" for applications but there are updates available

texts:
Recently I moved from Russia to New Zealand. And now I'm experiencing an issue - all the applications I purchased in Russia cannot update here in NZ.
I see there is a number in front of Apps in iTunes but when I click on "Check for Updates" it says that no updates are currently available.
If I take my ipad and see the apps needed to update, after that download all the applications MANUALLY from app-store - it "solves" the issue.
But I need to do that each time any application I've purchased being in Russia updates. It is really annoying.

How can I solve the problem and get the automatic updates really automatic?

There is a question here: iTunes shows App Updates Badge, but no updates are available with no answer though

UPD: well, looks like there is no good solution...

UPD 2: I was insistent enough in my emails to support and among 2 pages of other irrelevant lines this is what I see:

  I have regranted all available Apps back to your account as a one time exception.

So, well, probably the problem is solved partially for now :-)

UPD 3:

Got 250+ updates in my itunes. Brief overview says that there are all the applications I ever downloaded. And if I delete them from the download list - they resurrect on itunes restart. Well, downloading them to delete right after (ps: it is not funny as long as I have 60Gb monthly limit)

UPD 4:

Let's all write a feedback at their http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html !!


texts: Two computers, one External Hard Drive, two different operating systems with Time Machine okay?

texts:
We have two computers, an old MacBook Pro running El Capitan and a 2014 Mac mini running High Sierra. They each need about 600-700 GB to back up.

I purchased a 2 TB external drive and was just planning on using it with a lot of space left over by partitioning for other use. However, now I read I can possibly use it on both through the router and networking.

My questions are:

Can I?
I think partitioning would be best ... approx. 1 TB each, but will it be okay to have two different OS working on it?
I assume I have to format as HFS+, but doesn't High Sierra now use a new file system?


texts: Get short link of a trello board/card on iPhone

texts:
I have a Trello app on iPhone, and I want to share the link of a Trello board/card with my friends via whatsapp. But I can't find this anyway in the iPhone app.

Any idea where I can look for it?


texts: How is it possible that my iPhone is using data when on airplane mode?

texts: All our phones are using data during the night when we are asleep.  I thought that apps were only supposed to update on WIFI.  But my phone is always on airplane mode at night unless I forget, so last night I put in on airplane mode, took a screenshot as evidence, and sure enough, a tiny bit of data was used at 6:00am this morning before I got up.  How is that possible?


texts: Can people on Facebook messenger get a notification when you’re active?

texts:
I have a friend on Facebook. I moved away and he sends me a voice message from time to time (he can’t type). Every time it was the same “Hi ___, it’s ____”. There isn’t a lot I can’t respond to that, so after a while I stopped replying.
But now, I’ve noticed that as soon as I open the Messenger app, within 30 seconds he sends me a new message.
The timing can’t be coincidental - he doesn’t message me otherwise, but as soon as I open the app, a message from him comes through, every time.
My question is, how does he know? Is there a way he can get notifications when I become active (open the app)? Or does he just watch my name 24/7 and wait for me to become active?


texts: How do I reliably toggle slow motion capture with Iphone?

texts:
On an iphone, slow motion video capture is triggered by quick movement - after a bike is seen, or a bird, or a flying ball, then slow motion capture (120 or 240 fps) is toggled.
I need to turn it on manually - either right when I start recording, or else some other way that does not rely on fast movement to toggle it on.
How can I do this?


texts: Xcode 5 syntax coloring file type recognition of .css

texts:
At the moment I am developing a website and I need to edit lots files of the types .html, .js, .css and .pl. My preferred text-editor is Xcode (now in Version 5.1.1) running on an iMac (OS X 10.9.3). For this tasks I am NOT using Xcode as an IDE. I use it just as a text editor.

In the finder I right-click the file that I want to edit and select open with ▶ > Xcode to open it. When I do this for .html, .js and .pl Xcode automatically uses the correct kind of syntax coloring to highlight keywords, comments etc. in the source-code.

But when I open a .css file the same way then there is no highlighting automatically activated by Xcode. The complete text is written in black letters on white background. I can manually select Editor > Syntax Coloring ▶ > CSS in Xcode to get the correct highlighting. But I hate to do this 50 or 100 times a day when Xcode can do this for any other file type automatically.

I want Xcode to always automatically use the CSS-highlighting when it opens a .css file. How can this be done?


texts: I just updated my iPhone to iOS 7 and, even if the country and billing info is for Romania, on the phone AppStore and iTunes Store are in german, only a few buttons are in Romanian. I would like them to be in Romanian or english, what can I do? I read online about this issue but nothing works. The phone is in sync with computer.


texts: imac mid 2011 - GPU dead, need to replace, can i swap my 2gb for a 1gb?

texts:
new to the forum and fixing my own imac.

My mid 2011 - recently crapped out, suspect it's the video after much reading online.

I'm running a 3.4ghz, i7, 16 gb 1333 mhz ddr3 / Amd radeon HD 6970M 2048mb

So looking around to replace the 6970m, (the 2gbs are pretty pricey) so if i dropped in a 1024 or 1gb version would it just run a bit slower or would it have other issue?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thank you in advance
John


texts: iOS photo editor's "marker" markup tool is translucent…is opaque possible?

texts: The "marker" markup tool in iOS 11 photo editor is translucent. Is it possible to make it opaque?


texts: How to easily type a template without copy paste?

texts: Several times a day I type the same URL (in text form) into website forms. I would like a simple script (or Automator action) that types the URL where I have a cursor placed.


texts: Is it possible to get a virus on an iPad Air?

texts:
I went on a website and some ads (the ones that open up another tab on your screen) popped up.

Then I did some research and it turns out the website I went to is fake and is known for hacking, however I did not enter any personal data so I just want to know if it's possible that either the website or the ads somehow got a virus into my iPad.

(note that I did not interact with the ads I just simply closed it after the page loaded!)


texts: Stop sign when booting from internal ssd, boot goes fine if the ssd is in external case

texts:
sorry for the long post and my english.

I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 13 which I purchased in july 2011 and it worked fine until one week ago. Since when I bought it i replaced the stock hdd with a 240G OCZ Vertex 3 and it never had any problems.

One week ago my Macbook crashed while I was working (only the spinning wheel was moving but the system was unresponsive in every other way) so I turned off the computer by pressing the power key. When I turned it on again it showed me a stop sign at boot but after a minute or so it booted up normally. The next day it totally stopped booting, hanging on the stop sign and not moving from there anymore.

I thought that maybe my ssd failed after 4 years of intense use, so I took it to an Apple Store and the Genius told me that they couldn't do anything apart from replacing my old hdd (which is working fine) but they couldn't assure me they would be able to recover my data (my last backup was old).

So I took the stock hdd and installed Yosemite again. The computer booted up normally and started working again. The strange thing was that I was able to look at all my files on the failed ssd (which I put in an external sata to usb enclosure). I tried to repair the ssd because Disk Utility gave me some errors. Then I tried again to boot up from the ssd but I got the stop sign again.

So I did this: I took another ssd drive I had and which I was sure was working fine from another pc (it's an OCZ Vertex2 120G). I cloned my working stock hdd and tried to boot up from the Vertex2: i got the stop sign again and couldn't boot up.

I tried the verbose mode and it didn't gave me any particular message before getting to the stop sign.

I tried the following steps:

Reset NVRAM, SMC, PRAM or whatever I could reset
Repairing my ssd with Disk Utility and fsck (no errors)
Disabling kext-signing, even if I had no TRIM enabled

The last thing I did was to put the ssd in the external sata to usb and try to boot up from there: surprisingly it worked.

I am now writing from my original ssd with all my files. So far it didn't give me any error and is working just fine.

I got in touch 2 times with Apple Support and they told me they had no idea and that it must be a hardware failure (?). However, this explanation makes no sense for all the reasons I listed above.

I am using Time Machine to backup my data but my computer is obviously very slow compared to when the ssd was in the internal slot. I can't use it like this everyday and I need a solution to have it working again.

Any ideas?


texts: Can I sync my iPhone with the new Apple Photos app via iTunes / without iCloud?

texts: I would like to sync my photos from my Mac to my iPhone using the new Apple Photos app without using iCloud, like it was possible with the old iPhoto app and iTunes on the Mac.


texts: How do I recover Game Center password if it's different then my Apple ID password?

texts: How do I recover Game Center password if its different then my Apple ID password. This for my sons iPod, he created this account for his games but cant remember the password. I tried the forgot password option thinking it would reset it for him but it didnt since he has his own password for it. How do we find the password he created?


texts:
I am trying to compile an Android kernel on my Mac (El Capitan). It needs to include a certain "elf.h" header file. It is not clear to me yet what this file exactly is, and I apologise for that; anyway, what I ask now is: how to install it?

I tried brew install libelf, but this only installs a gelf.h, and had a look at elflang on github (https://github.com/elflang), but there are two options in this repository, none of which seems to include an elf.h


texts: time machine refuses to backup to time capsule

texts:
I'm trying to backup my hard drive to the time capsule, but it gives me the following error:

Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “aaragon's Time Capsule”.
The backup disk is not available. Make sure the backup disk is connected or select a different backup disk.

Latest successful backup: March 19, 2015

I don't know what to do as I've tried everything on this support page and on this one. I use dual backup so I have two disks (see picture).


texts: Is there a repeating, vibrating timer app for the iPhone that supports app-switching?

texts:
When studying, I used to use one of those cheap digital kitchen timers that chirps every ten minutes as a little reminder of how fast time was passing -- it helped me keep track of time without the temptation to constantly glance at the clock.

The kitchen timer gave out on me recently, so I've been looking for an iPhone app to replace it. Ideally, it would have an on and off setting, and when on, would periodically vibrate in my pocket every ten or fifteen minutes.

Unfortunately, the apps I've found are quite chintzy and don't support switching between apps, or stop as soon as the phone is set to sleep -- and either of these is a deal breaker.

Are there any iPhone apps out there do what I'm looking for?

(I've been burned by a couple of paid apps that turned out to be lemons, so I'd be most grateful.)


texts: Can someone help me evaluate if this is a scam for Mac support?

texts:
My father-in-law purchased a $400 lifetime support contract with a company (Cyber PC Experts).

Recently his computer has been acting up—running very slowly—so he requested support. The service tech took control of his computer remotely (from India) and pretty much fixed the issue.

A few days later, he gets an email from them saying that they need to check his computer again because it was hacked.

They did a few things to his computer while he was watching to show that it was “hacked.” Then proceeded to try to sell him a ~$1000 software/config to clear current “hacks” and to thwart future hacks.

I wasn’t involved until I heard this and went over to his computer and took over the phone conversation with the tech that was remotely using his machine.

My father-in-law told me that they showed him an IP address and then showed him the geographic location of the IP address and said that was where the hacker was. They even zoomed in and showed the building. It was a location in Los Angeles… Where my father-in-law lives.

I used a website to “Find My IP” and it matched up with IP address that the tech was showing him. Basically I think it was the public address that our cable provider shows as public for our home. I tried to “Find My IP” using other computers at his home and it gave the same IP address.  So it was probably Time Warner’s data center.

The tech on the other end was also showing him the output of the netstat and top commands. They were telling him that there were a lot of “sleep”-ing processes and that supposeduly means his computer has been compromised. They also said that the high % of idle CPI cycles means that the computer was slowing down.

So, I basically kindly declined to buy the ~$1000 software to clean out his computer and prevent future hacks.

Am I right to call their bluff? Has anyone else encountered this kind of scam before?

Here are some report on Cyber PC Experts:

Complaint / review: Cyber PC Experts - Internet Scam | #1299834
Cyber PC Experts Reviews | Scambook


texts: Can I configure Mission Control so any space can be summoned on any monitor?

texts:
I'm new to Mac and trying to get dual display spaces to behave like my previous system.

It seems like my choices are to have up to ten dual display spaces. Or I can separate the spaces, and get five on each screen.

I'd like to have ten independent spaces that aren't bound to a particular screen. e.g. Spotify usually lives on the right because it's secondary but I like to glance at it. If I'm working on a playlist, I'd like to bring its space to the left monitor. Can I do this without moving spotify to a different space?


texts: Until now, I was under the impression that ePub was the de facto standard for Apple and the default format used by iBooks. But recently I downloaded some ebooks from the iTunes store and found them to have the .ibooks extension instead. What's the difference between the two? Also, how can one convert an ePub document into an ibooks document, if that is possible?


texts: Apple Bug Report (Apple's Response Time?)

texts:
I did a bug report because of this Xcode Situation ( Xcode.app gets scanned by socketfilterfw (OS X Firewall) at every launch ).

I wonder about the time Apple usually needs to respond.

Weeks, Months? I really have no clue.
If you know more (from your experience) please tell me.


texts:
While working with my Apple TV, I noticed that pressing the home button (to the right of the menu button) would instead take me to the TV app.

Is there any way I can change this behavior, such as a toggle in Settings?


texts: iTerm2: Difference between preloaded Light and Dark themes

texts:
I can't seem to spot the difference between the preloaded two themes: Light and Dark.

Background: I was looking for a theme that "inverts" the default color scheme, i.e. dark text and light background, but neither seem to achieve this.

Could someone en-light-en me? (Pun intended.)


texts: I have an Android phone with a lot of notes in Google Keep. Is there an easy way to sync all my notes to my Mac so I can add, delete, and modify notes on both devices? (I've seen some paid apps, but I'd prefer to try something free if there's a way.) Thanks in advance.


texts:
My iPhone 4S' home button isn't working properly. It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Could it be because of the dust?

If dust is the problem how do I proceed with removing dust particles? And, if not, what can I do?


texts:
I have DuckDuckGo installed as my default search engine in Safari on both my iPhone 6 and iPad mini 2 (both iOS 9.1). I also have it installed on my PC, but on my PC I'm able to customise the settings whereas on my Apple devices the customisations don't save and apply.

For example, if I use my device to click on the burger icon in DuckDuckGo search results > Advanced Settings > Advertisements, and change from ON to OFF, then click Save and Exit, the settings don't save and the search results still display ads. Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a solution for it?


texts: Macbook pro 16 inch 2019 noisy display in chrome after waking up from sleep

texts:
I have this issue sometimes when my mac is waking up from sleep. Some applications like Google Chrome
A part or whole of the application is turning into a noise picture and until I restart the system, it won't fix.
In this screenshot I have opened inspect view of google chrome. In some websites, one part or whole of the website also, is being displayed like this.
I've updated to the latest version of Mac (Catalina 10.15.7) and chrome (86.0.4240.183 (Official Build) (x86_64)). Also this issue is happening when I use the main display or external display too. No differences.


texts:
In my quest to understand how to indent & unindent on MacVim using elegant shortcuts that are built-in... I couldn't figure how.

The following links explain that > < keys will be handy, but none work on my keyboard, hence I wanted to clarify if these keys are something other than visible on the physical macbook, but no explanations are found.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2332340/indenting-a-bunch-of-lines-in-vim
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/235839/indent-multiple-lines-quickly-in-vi

Please can someone give me more guidance?


texts: What causes the pop-up "To view this web content, you need to install the Java Runtime Environment"

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On OSX Yosemite an annoying pop-up comes up quite often saying:

  To view this web content, you need to install the Java Runtime Environment

I know the solution is to install java; however I'm wondering what's the cause for that.

A quick ps -axww tells me:

13218   ??  S      0:00.29 /System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Download Java Components.app/Contents/MacOS/Download Java Components

I dug around and I found that there is a LaunchDaemon that references this in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.java.InstallOnDemand.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.java.InstallOnDemandAgent</string>
    <key>MachServices</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.apple.java.installondemand</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Download Java Components.app/Contents/MacOS/Download Java Components</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Does anyone know what is the purpose of all this? The pop-up appears at random times, which makes me think there's a background daemon that demands Java to run but I could not find any source for this behaviour.


texts: Remove black bar on Mojave split screen?

texts:
I just updated from Sierra to Mojave, and now split screen apps have large, black dividing bar between them.

Is there a way to remove or shrink that black bar going down the middle of the screen?


texts: Two full screen apps in OSX Lion when using multiple monitors

texts: Is it possible to run two full screen apps at the same time in OSX Lion when using multiple monitors?


texts: Missing Groups After Syncing with iCloud

texts:
I lost all of my groups when syncing Outlook 2010 with iCloud sync on Windows.

How do I get them back?


texts: Duplicate "iCloud Drive (Archive)" folders

texts:
I have two iCloud Drive folders.
Is this normal behaviour?
Can I delete one (how about both)?

Running macOS Mojave 10.14


texts: How to partition free space in a Mac SSD

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I have a Mac with a 250Go SSD. I used to have a Windows partition, but as I had no longer any use for it I wanted to free up its space.

My error was here : instead of using BootCamp helper to delete my Windows partition, I deleted the space in the Disk Utility app.

Now, I am in this situation when I open my Disk Utility:

So there are clearly 2 free spaces of 30Go each on the drive (which is weird since it says there are 251Go total, and if we sum up the 3 spaces here it gives something like 280 Go). Then I tried to partition the space like this :

Which gives me the following error:

Sorry for the French, basically it says that the starting util of the volumes I wanted to free up are mounted. So I went and tried with my terminal to find those spaces, but they are nowhere to be found :

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            219.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +219.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 BB809D5E-5AC1-490E-8037-651B300154BD
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +7.5 GB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS InstallESD              7.2 GB     disk3s2

Since I can't find the volumes in my diskutil list, I can't force the unmount on them. How to retrieve this space ?


texts: Cannot transfer rented movie from iPod to computer?

texts: I rented a movie on my iPod touch 5th gen and want to sync it to my computer so I can watch it there. It won't transfer however. What do I do? Do I have to rent it again on my computer?


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I have disabled the Dock in the desktop spaces with the following command.

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock

But when an app is in full screen mode, I can still open the Dock when I move the mouse to the screen edge and then move it again in that direction.

How to disable the Dock in macOS High Sierra in full screen mode?


texts: How to get automator to trigger folder action when file is downloaded by Google Drive Sync

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I have an Apple Automator Folder Action that takes files placed in a "Process" folder, makes a copy of them, modifies the contents and then places them in a "Modified" folder. It works just as expected when I use finder to put files in the "Process" folder, but I also need it to process files when Google Drive Sync downloads a file into the "Process" folder as well. When I tried using Google Sync to download in files the Folder Action never got triggered. It didn't seem to matter how many files got downloaded in by Google Drive Sync it didn't trigger the Folder Action. I know the script is working because if I then added a file to the folder manually with Finder it would run the Folder Action on all the files in the folder even the ones that Google Sync added. For some reason the downloading of the file into the folder by Google Sync just isn't triggering the Folder Action.
Is there a way to set this up so that when Google Drive Sync finishes downloading the a file into the folder it also triggers the Folder Action I created?


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Over the last few weeks I have noticed that some WiFi access points just aren't registering on my iPod Touch. It used to connect to my home WiFi as soon as I pulled up in the car outside, and got that 'meep' noise as emailed synced.

Now whenever I turn it on, it doesn't always connect to the Access Point. Even when it is connected the signal strength is only 1 bar, whereas before it was always full(ish) strength. The Access Point is 8 feet away outside my bedroom, on the landing.

I don't know if it's related but about 4 months ago the iPod Touch went down the toilet. So I washed it with plenty of clean water, and left in a tub of silica gel type stuff for a few days before charging and it's worked pretty much fine ever since. Apart from one brief episode a couple of months ago when the screen was flashing between the icons and a full white display for a few seconds.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions / recommendations.


texts: Migration Assistant Reports failed files, Prompts repair errors: No Documents transferred, High Sierra

texts:
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro and a 2018 Macbook Pro. The target machine has a bigger SSD than the source, so I know it's not a space issue.

I ran Migration Assistant on both machines and the process completely relatively quickly. After it completed I received about 2 dozen files that could not be transferred. The machine than boots into macOS and I start receiving repeated authorizations requests to repair files.

I also receive notice that the keychain needs to be replaced with default.

Should I attempt to boot the source into target disk mode and transfer via thunderbolt?


texts: Is battery life supposed to go not even a year?

texts:
I have a MacBook pro that I got about 10 months ago. It seems like I am already starting to experience battery life issues. I have a charge cycle history of less than once a day since I bought it. I first thought it was too much stuff running in the background, so I put a fresh copy of Ubuntu on it to test that out. It still seems to have a bad life. At full charge, 50% brightness, the battery says 3 hours remaining, but then after a few minutes, it goes to 2 and I get an average of about 2.5 hours. I have appleCare. Is there a problem, or is time just going faster for me and the battery is normally like this? I think the battery said it usually has a good 5 years, and it hasn't been 1 for me. The battery indicator on status bar also never says 100%, and is usually stuck at 95-99 when the green light indicates full. Is this normal? Or do I have a bad battery? Is there a way to test my battery properly?

Here is what the power stats say


texts: Can two Macs be kept in sync using a single external hard drive?

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I regularly commute by bicycle from home to work and find the weight of a MacBook Pro a little excessive. My thought is to have identical MacBooks at the office and home and only carry a hard disk on the bike.

So how would it be easiest to ensure that the two laptops are totally synchronised? Would Time Machine do the job or would it be time consuming and cumbersome? Or is there a better way of doing this avoiding cloud-based or network-based sync solutions.

The only connection between the two MacBooks will be through a portable hard drive.


texts:
It seems that there is no way to search file content using regex by spotlight. Is it so? Thanks.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/Concepts/QueryFormat.html


texts:
iClarified says that there's an untethered jailbreak for iPhone4 for iOS 4.3.1 which is the most up-to-date version of iOS as of writing this question.
Let's assume we are talking for unlocked phones. My question is which tool is better - RedSn0w or PwnageTool? My question is valid not only for 4.3.1.

Wikipedia says "redsn0w is a utility to jailbreak iOS devices" and "PwnageTool is an iPhone jailbreaking application for Mac OS X that creates custom iOS firmware images" (cannot post a third link, but that one is easy to find).

Reasoning for the question: I have read on several places that an irreversible thing could be made to a iDevice (iPhone for example) that mutilates it somehow and it cannot receive updates from iTunes with stock iOS and only custom iOSes can be installed. Wikipedia says redsn0w is a jailbreak utility while PwnageTool creates custom iOS.

Second question: does PwnageTool do the irreversible thing I have read about? Does redsn0w do that either?


texts:
iPhone was exposed to water for maybe 2-3 seconds, pulled out immediately, put in rice. Tried to turn off but screen wasn't working. The phone sat in rice overnight, but was continuing to get notifications throughout the night and my wakeup alarm went off as usual.
Decided to take it out of the rice, check it out. Phone seemed to be running as usual except the screen was totally black. Popped out the SIM card to check if any water there, and the screen turned on, with a few black vertical lines on the right side. Worked for about twenty minutes, then went black again, although the phone didn't stop getting notifications.
Soft reset brought the screen back.
Gradually more lines have been appearing, thin white ones this time. Turned phone off, when turned back on, screen is black again. Was able to unlock to backup on iTunes only because somehow the touch is still working even though the screen is black.

I have been researching how to replace screen on 6s, but it's not worth it if the phone is a goner anyway. Would love any advice.


texts: Microsoft Remote Desktop Client Configuration

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If this should be posted in networking stack overflow please let me know, and sorry if this is not the correct place. I'll delete the question if it's inappropriate.

I have a desktop (windows/linux) that I need to be able to access from my macbook. It is directly connected to my router via ethernet. What information do I need to connect from outside the network? From within my own network I can connect using 10.0.1.9 as the IP address. How do I specify which device on my network I should be connecting to- as using just the public IP address is not enough. Is it a port or is there a gateway I have to configure?


texts: Win7-damaged Mac GPT partition map on 4TB external HDD

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I recently did a not-so-intelligent thing: I was installing Win 7 64bit on a new PC and I took my old Mac-formatted 4TB external HDD and mounted it internally on the PC.

What I did not realize was that Win 7 cannot recognize HDD's with more than 3TB capacity. While I was installing Win 7, it destroyed the original GPT partition map of the 4TB drive and replaced it with a MBR. Now I am left with an unrecognizable disk, both by Windows and by my MacBook Pro with Mavericks on.

Here is some of the info that I got from Terminal:

Rians-MacBook-Pro:~ RVL$ sudo gpt -r -vvv show -l /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=4000787025920; sectorsize=4096; blocks=976754645
gpt show: /dev/disk1: MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: GPT partition: type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC,
start=6, size=51200
gpt show: /dev/disk1: GPT partition: type=48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC,
start=51206, size=976670666
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 976754644
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2          4         Pri GPT table
          6      51200      1  GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
      51206  976670666      2  GPT part - "Mac Ext 6"
  976721872      32768
  976754640          4         Sec GPT table
  976754644          1         Sec GPT header

Is there any way that I can restore the original GPT map and of course the data on the disk? What was particularly troubling was the following:

Rians-MacBook-Pro:~ RVL$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 60800/255/63 [976754645 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Does the above mean all the data is destroyed or is there a ray of hope. Is there anybody out there who can help?
Thanks!


texts: How can I repair photos that appear as thumbnails but don't load when double clicked?

texts:
I noticed that some of my photos won't load when double clicked, displaying a grey placeholder instead.

Looking for them in Photos library, I did find them in the Masters folder, so they aren't lost.

As far as I can tell, this happens for a bunch of photos in the interval of a few months from last year. I still have to investigate if this happens further back in time.

The problem only affects photos. Videos are fine.

Repairing the library didn't improve the situation. I did find a suggestion of creating a new Photos library from the Masters, but I understand that would discard any editing, so I consider it a last resort.

I've tried dragging the pictures from the Masters folder back into Photos and it seems to work. Photos warns me that it's a duplicate but in the end it keeps only the new copy.  It appears to be imported at the current date, losing the previous, dragged folder.

Any concerns I should be aware of with this procedure?

Any ideas on how to do a proper automatic recovery?

Is there any way I can do the "reimport from Masters" and keep the original import date?

Any ideas on how to find any other affected photos without manually examining them?

I'm running El Capitan, latest update.


texts: What are the short-cuts to click buttons on a MacOS message box?

texts:
On Windows you can use the TAB key to switch between which button has focus then press space to click the focused button.

However, on MacOS, when presented with the dialog in this screenshot, I cannot seem to use tab to switch between the buttons I want to click. I can only hit RETURN to click the Save button, or ESC to click Cancel. But I have no idea how I can click the "Don't Save" button using just the keyboard.

How can I navigate/click buttons in a MacOS message box using just the keyboard (not the TouchBar, Mouse or TrackPad)?


texts: How to set Word default save location as "On My Mac"

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How I can disable the default online save location in current versions of Word for Mac? I see that it is possible to "Set Default location" to online locations, but I don't see a way to do the same for "On My Mac" locations.
The animated .gif demonstrates that sometimes it prompts for saving online and sometimes it prompts for saving locally:

Initially I click the red dot on an unsaved document with "Test Doc 1" in it
It prompts to save online, so I click to "On My Mac" and save it to Downloads
I repeat for a 2nd document (which was behind) having "Test Doc 2", except
this time I cancel before saving, and click the save icon instead
that causes a prompt to save on my mac, which I do (and then the .gif repeats)

I find this behavior confusing and because of it I have often saved things online and been unable to find files.
My main point, however, is that I want to set it so that it NEVER has the initial online save prompt. I have looked for answers and the only option seems to be to sign out of my Microsoft account. But when I do this other problems come up, such as wanting me to sign in and long opening times as it looks for a connection (I have a slow connection). I'd be happy to use Word without being connected if there's a way to do this without introducing these problems.
I have already sent a request regarding this (lack of a) feature. What I'm looking for is a work-around. I suspect those at MS are unlikely to change this situation since it benefits them.
I have Microsoft Word for Mac Version 16.37 on a Microsoft 365 subscription.


texts: How to remove "XXX is an application downloaded from the internet. are you sure you want to open it" at start up?

texts:
Everytime I restart my mac, a pop up shows up telling me that "TunesGoWatch is an application downloaded from the internet. are you sure you want to open it?".

I don't know where this message comes from and I'm not sure how to get rid of it forever (I downloaded this app very long ago but uninstalled it) It pop ups automatically at start up.


texts: Difficulty connecting at 300Mbps with Channel Bonding

texts:
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro (early 2015) running High Sierra to my wifi at 300 Mbps but am only getting 150 Mbps.

I'm running a tp-link router flashed with one of the newer dd-wrt systems. The router status reports that it is transmitting at 300 mbps on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands but my MacBook is only connecting at 150 mbps at most on either band. Also the Mac connection properties say that it is connected at channel 57 at 20 MHz. The router is set up for 40 MHz only.
My wifi analyzer app does indicate that the 2.4 amd 5 GHz signals have 2 channels each.

I think the router is set up correctly.
Is there something I need to do to have my MacBook connect at the higher 300Mbps speed?

Thanks


texts: What's the /home directory for, or did I just accidentally create it?

texts:
I saw reference to a bash command, cd /home, in a multiple choice quiz about navigating within Terminal. I tried it, expecting -bash: cd: /home: No such file or directory, but to my surprise it took me to a top level directory /home. I don't know if it just created the directory or if it was already there, or if it's a temporary thing or what.

I've googled around for info on the hidden top level directories (/var, /usr, /private, /etc, ...) but none mention a /home directory. Using ls -al from / yields (omitting all but the relevant line):

dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel        1 Sep  6 15:57 home

and a ls -al from within /home yields

total 2
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Sep  6 15:57 .
drwxr-xr-x  30 root  wheel  1088 Aug 17 17:17 ..

I was surprised at how hard it was to track down a comprehensive (or even partial) directory tree showing what/where stuff is (beyond what shows up in Finder).

Can anyone help me out?


texts: How to get rid of Python Launcher icon every time a script runs?

texts:
Using Sublime Text 2 or Atom (maybe other editors too), when running a simple plotting script in Python, the Python Launcher icon (the rocket) pops up every time I run the code. The icons add up in the Dock , and I have to close them individually. Is there any configuration to avoid this behavior?

With Sublime Text, for instance, Command + B is the default shortcut I use to run a script. I have not found this issue addressed in Atom's or Sublime Text's documentation (neither in Stack Exchange).

The script that I use is a basic fit to some data:

import csv
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.interpolate import *

with open('data.csv', 'rU') as mycsv:
    data = csv.reader(mycsv)
    x = []
    y = []
    for row in data:
        x.append(float(row[0]))
        y.append(float(row[1]))

p = polyfit(x, y, 2)
xp = linspace(-5, 1, 1000)

plt.scatter(x, y)
plt.plot(xp,polyval(p,xp),'r-', label='p1')
plt.show()


texts: iPhone apps think they are under old iTunes username after it has changed

texts: Ever since apple has decided to make iTunes account access your email address instead of a username I have noticed the apps that were bought under the old username do not recognize this and there doesn't seem to be a simple way to fix this. For example when an app has an update it asks me to enter my old username/pw combo, however if I make a new purchase and then it has an update the new email/pw info is displayed. This more of an inconvenience than anything, but the other day I was trying to make and in-app purchase and the new email/pw dialog displayed for an app I purchased with the username/pw and the transaction would not go through saying I needed to purchase the app first. Is there an easy way to fix this?


texts: Time Machine backup strategy to avoid ransomware/other malware

texts:
I am trying to develop a strategy to protect a 2016 iMac against ransomware and other types of malware.
I have several assumptions:

An infection is going to occur when I am using it. Things such as clicking on an infected email or website.
If the computer can be compromised, then any drive that can be accessed through Finder (iCloud, Drobox, OneDrive, Google Docs or USB drive) can be compromised also.
I can back up to a USB drive, then disconnect it. I am looking for something more automatic. (easier) Something I can't mess up or forget to do.

Could I schedule a USB drive to Mount/Unmount at a scheduled time with Automator and then set Time Machine to backup during that time?

2 am mount USB drive
2:30 am Time Machine back up.
5 am unmount USB drive


texts:
I tried to install GNU utility stat

    $ brew install stat
    Error: No formulae found in taps.

However,it succeeded to install GNU Bash

How to achieve such a task?


texts: How to Break up a Long Element List into multiple lines of code (Applescript)

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In applescript, how do I make this a multi-line/easy-to-read property list?

set props to {target:"Safari", slideNo:2, propsUrl:"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/slideId/preview", rewardsUrl:"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/slideId/preview", coords:{posX:937, posY:497, sizeX:149, sizeY:262}}

something (reasonably) pythonic like...

set props to (
{
    target:"Safari",
    slideNo:2,
    propsUrl:"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/slideId/preview",
    rewardsUrl:"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/slideId/preview",
    coords:{posX:937, posY:497, sizeX:149, sizeY:262}
 }
)

Is this possible? Using '¬' at the end of each line seemed to screw up the formatting.
Thanks in advance :)


texts:
I have just cloned the internal hard drive on a Macbook Pro 2013 to an SSD drive, but I keep getting "Running bless to place boot files failed” message if I try to boot from it.

I tried entering this command in the terminal diskutil apfs updatePreboot /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/
but it still doesn't work. Anybody got any suggestions?


texts: Stuck in upgrading PHP version on localhost Mojave

texts:
I'm trying to get PHP7.2 working on localhost, but phpinfo() keeps saying 7.1.19 is in place while ~php -v tells me PHP7.2.18 is in place.

I run ~php -v it says:

  PHP 7.2.18 (cli) (built: May  2 2019 13:03:01) ( NTS )
  Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
      with Zend OPcache v7.2.18, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

~echo $PATH

  /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/sbin:/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Applications/VMware
  Fusion.app/Contents/Public:/opt/X11/bin

I installed PHP7.2 via brew in

  ➜  php@7.2 pwd
  /usr/local/opt/php@7.2

I expect te get on localhost PHP 7.2.18 in place.

UPDATE

Followed these instructions from the link mentioned by @miken32 (How to use the php that brew installed?)

Edited httpd.conf in folder /etc/apache2

#LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so
LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

If I uncomment the first line and comment the second line, I can run phpinfo() from localhost, however it says it's PHP 7.1.19 and php -v says 7.2.18

In case I comment the first line and uncomment the second line, localhost won't start and php -v says 7.2.18

I also followed these steps, but no luck either.

$ brew update php // get the latest homebrew php packages
$ brew install php@7.2
$ brew link php@7.2 // create an alias to this keg-only version; see comments output during installation
$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile // add the alias to your path; see comments output during installation
$ source ~/.bash_profile // reload .bash_profile to use the new settings immediately
$ sudo apachectl restart

Also tried brew link php71 --force but that didn't help either.

So it seems the webserver doesn't start when I switch lines httpd.conf

Any steps I can take the get 7.2.18 going?

UPDATE 2

➜  apache2 sudo apachectl -t

  httpd: Syntax error on line 178 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
  Cannot load /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so into
  server: dlopen(/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so,
  10): no suitable image found.  Did
  find:\n\t/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so: code
  signature in (/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so) not
  valid for use in process using Library Validation: mapped file has no
  cdhash, completely unsigned? Code has to be at least ad-hoc
  signed.\n\t/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so: stat()
  failed with errno=22

Line 178 says:

  LoadModule php7_module
  /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

Have to look into it. Somewhere on SO in a older post the suggestion was done if there are any 'strange' characters that might cause the error. Verified it and the only strange one is '@'. However that is Brew's out of the box installation.


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I'm going to buy iPhone X and I wonder which size will be most appropriate, 64GB or 256GB.

I'm not a big user of apps, taking pictures or video but because my iPhone 5S 16 gb is full right now I am afraid iPhone X will fill up in the years ahead. I'm using iCloud storage to optimize storage on iPhone so all my photos and videos are on iCloud.
For now I would like to keep all my files on the device.

How large are the pictures and videos on iPhone X?
For example how much space will be used by a 1 minute video?


texts: Big Sur restarting apps on wake from sleep

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This is not always the case, and maybe its the length of time in sleep, but after approximately an hour in sleep mode on waking all apps are reloaded. I loose my tabs when web browsing, apps reload without files started, and time tracking reloads (meaning I lose my current tracking data!!!). Any guidance would be welcome.
M1 Macbook Air Big Sur


texts: "Unable to download the software from the server at this time error" when installing printer

texts:
I keep getting the following message (see image below) when trying to install a shared printer, I first got this error a month ago and have been trying every couple of days since, but i guess the error is permanent rather than a glitch.

Any ideas how i could resolve this ?


texts: Macbook pro getting overheating with external monitor

texts: My macbook pro (13") is overheating when I connect an external monitor (27"). I understand it's a problem with the scaling and the GPU, but what are my options to prevent that? An external GPU? A docking station with its own power? I'd like to also get a second monitor, so I'd really appreciate if there is a known solution for this overheating situation. Thank you in advance.


texts: Two 4K displays on 2015 MacBook Pro 15" and ordering of Thunderbolt devices

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Using a 2015 15" MBP Retina, maxed out, what's the best source of information on ordering of Thunderbolt devices relative to a cinema display? 4K screen, and 3 Thunderbolt drives?

With the Cinema Display on the end, after the 3 Thunderbolt drives, the sound is severely distorted.

I've never run the Thunderbolt out the back of the cinema display.

And does the Thunderbolt out the back of the Cinema Display power a 4K Display Port cable? (when I tried this on the back of the drives, I got only 2560 resolution, so I'm guessing that the 4K monitor needs a direct connection).

UPDATE
I'm quite happy with the setup pictured below:

Cinema 27" on left
Dell 2715Q 4K Running at next to highest resolution
Retina 15" screen to right running at next to highest resolution
Thunderbolt drives connected to Cinema 27", as well as USB2 and Ethernet
USB3 drives connected to Dell 2715Q built-in USB hub.

Is there anything more optimal?

Is two 4K displays an option? Guessing not due to Thunderbolt.


texts: What ports need to be opened to use the L2TP VPN server on Mountain Lion Server?

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I am using a Mac mini OS X Mountain Lion Server (10.8.5). My goal is to have the server's own VPN service running over L2TP only.

The Mac mini is behind an AirPort Extreme (4th generation)

AirPort Extreme has:

static IPv4 address
no connection sharing (bridged mode)
Back To My Mac disabled (as for all the Macs and AirPorts on the network)
Internet connection via Ethernet to my ISP's box

ISP's box:

has static public IP address
is the DHCP server with

IP addresses reservations configured for my AirPort Extreme & Mac mini and
private IP addresses from x.x.x.10 up-to x.x.x.50

has NAT/PAT rules for

UDP 500 - ISAKMP/IKE
UDP 4500 - IPsec NAT-Traversal
UDP 1701 - L2TP
ESP/IP 50
AH/IP 51

Mac mini Server:

has static IP address
is the DNS server for the network
is (of course) the VPN server with the configuration as follows:

setup for: L2TP only
VPN hostname: public IP address
Shared secret: dull-8caracter word
Addresses: 10 for L2TP x.x.x.200 up-to x.x.x.209
Name server:
my MacMini private-static IP address + ISP'Box private IP address + google DNS
Routes:
x.x.x.0 255.255.255.0 (my private network) private
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 public

NB: My ISP is NOT blocking any ports.

I am aware of the "advanced" guide provided by Apple.

I have been able to access the server when inside my network (-_-)

Trying to connect from 3G network with iPhone 4 gives

  "L2TP VPN server did not respond"

Trying to connect from 3G OR other ADSL network with Windows8 gives

  "error 789 the L2TP connection attempt failed because the security layer encountered a processing error during initial negociations with the remote computer"

Is this real life?


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I want to install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro(15'' mid 2012 version). It seems like only Windows 8 can be installed. I was using Windows7 on this mac before. I have erased it and want to install it again but this happens. Can someone please help me?

Thank You


texts: How do I see full movie titles in iPad Video browser?

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On my iPad, long video titles are cut off even though there is lots of blank space everywhere. Even when I tap a video, the detail screen cuts off the title in the exact same location despite there still being lots of blank space everywhere.

Full movie titles are a lot more useful than blank space... Can I somehow see them at all when I'm away from my PC?


texts: Ive got a gen1 iPad Pro with iPadOS 13.7 on it. But when I go to General and Software update, it tells me there’s no update available. Is this correct? Shouldnt I be getting iOS 14?


texts: Why does the external monitor on my MBPR constantly lose its signal?

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I have a Macbook Pro Retina, manufactured in August of 2012 (mid 2012). The laptop seems to be incapable of continuously driving an external display. On some monitors it will lose the signal once or twice a day; on my home monitor it will lose the signal many times an hour, sometimes taking minutes to "settle down". The effect is as if I had un-plugged and re-plugged in the HDMI cable. However I see this happen on three different monitors, two of which come in through HDMI and one through Thunderbolt. I even bought an apple monitor for $1000 that I returned, because on that one every now and then the MBPR just wouldn't detect it at all (and I would still see it quickly drop and re-establish the signal a few times an hour).

Here is a video of what that looks like, as it flashes to blue repeatedly: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19671563/IMG_1363.m4v

I tried gfxCardStatus and using Discreet Only, no luck.

The apple store guys were no help. They claim they have never heard of this issue even though I repro it daily. When I check the Console, this is the first message I always see during an incident (for the worst-performing monitor, at least):

8/24/13 4:30:01.312 PM WindowServer[82]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003d

I have tried every conceivable Display setting (Best for Retina display, Best for External display), and I am mirroring. I never had even a single problem on my older Macbook Pro; I have had problems since day 1 on my MBPR and they are getting worse (i.e., the external monitor is losing its signal more frequently every day).

Can anyone recommend a solution or suggest a cause?


texts: Copying Xcode installation from one Mac to another

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I have installed 3 different versions of Xcode on my Mac.

Can I just copy the /Applications/Xcode*.app app bundles from my Mac and put it on other 10 Macs I have? I don't want to go through the hassle of downloading and installing it again.

Has anyone done this successfully?

NOTE: I saw another question on copying to an external drive. I am NOT doing that. Just copying from one machine to another and keeping the installations in /Applications folder.


texts: Open With - Change All reverts back to original application CS5/CC

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I have just set up a Mac (10.8.4) with CS5 and CC.

By default all my Indesign files now want to open in Indesign Creative Cloud. If I Get Info of the file and choose Indesign CS5 and then select Change All, the selected app reverts back to Indesign CC.

If I don't choose Change All and just modify the one Indesign document the setting sticks. However I need to change all my Indesign/Photoshop files to open in the CS5 app.

I have tried rebuilding the launch services. But the default application still reverts to CC whenever I hit Change All.

Any ideas?


texts: Bought Apple Watch Series 4 Cellular from US, will it work in India?

texts: Did I make a mistake? Is there any way to start using cellular feature in India with US watch model?