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I have created a small AppleScript that queries Music App if it is playing, and if it is then it queries and gets artist and song name. Now I want to query some more information.
Where can I find the documentation regarding the available commands and information that I can use from Music app? For example, I now use something like:
set a to "Now playing: " & artist of current track & " - " & name of current track

what else can I use except artist of current track or name of current track? Where can I find what other information can I query/use?


texts: Which Trans Music Manager equivalents exist for OS X?

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I have a Denon DP-200USB turntable that converts analogue records (LPs) into MP3s (one MP3 per side) and stores them onto a USB memory stick.

This lovely piece of kit comes with some software called Trans Music Manager (PDF) that will automatically split tracks (based on silence between tracks) followed by naming and tagging them using Gracenote.

Sadly this software runs under Microsoft Windows, for which I don't have a licence.

Are there any solutions out there that can do this easily under Snow Leopard? Free and open-source software is preferred, but paid-for alternatives would be considered.


texts: Having to hold links and webpages to open them

texts: I'm having to hold and press links in Safari to open the pages - I used to just touch it and it would open. I prefer the latter but how do change it back? I can't find any info online (probably because I don't know the correct terminology to perform an effective search).


texts: How to make double click on titlebar maximize a window to fill up screen?

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I hide my dock. How do I acheive this: double click on titlebar to maximize a window to fill up screen?

Please pay attention to two red rectangles (not fill up the screen though I double click on titlebar) as shown below a screenshot of the entire screen.

This post How to maximise a window to fill up screen in Mavericks? proposes to use SizeUp (PS: it is not free?) by assigning a new shortcut. Is it still possible to use double click?


texts: I uninstalled Dropbox but still have .dropbox listed when I do ls -a. Why?

texts: I have uninstalled Dropbox from my Applications on OS X but it is still showing as .dropbox in my home directory.  Why is that please?


texts: Auto login boot camp partition in VMWare Fusion?

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My VMWare Fusion is set up to use a Boot Camp partition. Is there any way to have it automatically login to a user account when the virtual machine starts up, but still require a password when booting via Boot Camp?

The reason I ask is because when launching VMWare Fusion in unity mode, you always have to interact with the machine the first time it logs on. It would be nice if you can just run an application from the VMWare Fusion menu, and have it seamlessly startup the virtual machine, login, and launch the application without any interaction required.


texts: HDMI Audio doesn't work on AMD RX580 Mac Pro 5,1

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I have a Mac Pro 5,1 2012 and just installed an AMD RX580 GPU. The sound doesn't go through the HDMI so I have to plug into the headphone outlet on the front of the computer (and can't use the speakers on my monitor).

This post says HDMI doesn't work on non-native GPUs and suggests reading this. I have Mojave installed and would like some advice on what's the easiest way to get HDMI setup. Looks like there are several ways. I'd prefer the easiest and least complicated/invasive method. Has anyone tried this?


texts: "A newer Command Line Tools release is available" but no updates in System Preferences or AppStore

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When I upgrade a package, homebrew prompts this:

==> Upgrading mysql@5.7
Warning: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.
Update them from Software Update in System Preferences or
https://developer.apple.com/download/more/.

I have XCode Version 11.3 (11C29) installed, and no updates in System Preferences or App Store

Opening Xcode does not prompt me to install command line tools either, how can I get the latest version?


texts: How to fix an iPhone with half a screen showing a different color?

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I have an iPhone 6. It screen was changed about 10 months ago and its battery was changed about 1.5 months ago. Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that half of the screen is darkened and with yellow-ish vertical lines. As far as I can tell, there was no immediate damage that was connected to this (i.e., no drops, or water damage, etc).

This appears to be a hardware issue and I don't know if it is related to either of the fixes.

Here is an attempt at a screenshot (which is taken from my macbook):

Does anyone have an idea what this problem is and is there an easy way to fix this? Do I need to purchase another screen?

I don't live in North America, so getting a screen replaced will cost more than $200USD, so I would like to avoid that.


texts: How loud is an iPhone 6 in dB (unweighted)?

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How loud is an iPhone 6 is if you make an unweighted measurement in dB?
I found this, but they use a pop filter on the microphone. How loud is it really?


texts: Best way to share one keyboard and mouse between a Mac & PC?

texts: I have a Mac and pc sitting beside each other. Each has an independent monitor. Currently I am using a two port usb switch to move between the two systems, but it can sometimes be cumbersome to switch between the two quickly. Anyone have any other suggestions for ways to switch between the two systems?


texts: Opening .doc from Mac Classic on a modern computer

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I have an old Macintosh Classic running Mac OS 7.0.3. It has Word 5 installed on it and contains a some .doc files created within it. The documents are in Czech language and contain letters like ěšč and so forth.

I would like to copy them to a diskette and open them up, either on a Windows PC or a modern Mac, however, saving them and moving them over to the computer allows me to open them in Word, but the non-English characters are all corrupt. Is there any way to open the documents so that they display as they should?

I have tried saving the files as various versions of Doc, WordPerfect and so on (pretty much anything Word 5 offers), but all behaved the same way.

Note: The documents seem to open fine in Office 95 on Windows 98.


texts: Loading Windows 7 on external drive for gaming

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I'm attempting to load Windows 7 onto an external hard drive in order to boot from the hard drive whenever I play games. I originally split my internal drive to make a Mac OS side and a Windows side, but both sides quickly ran out of room and performance suffered.

In summation, I want to host the windows machine on the external drive, instead of the internal one. I have tried several tutorials, but none have proved successful. The most successful was this one (http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.com/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html) but my computer did not offer my external drive as an option to boot from when I restarted.

I have:

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive (1TB)

Access to a Windows Vista PC if that helps


texts: Keyboard layout not usable in all programs

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I have used Ukelele to create a keyboard layout file (foo.keylayout) that lives in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts. I used a US english layout as a base and have added some keymappings that let me type æøå (Norwegian characters) by pressing the left alt/option key and the ', ; and [ keys, plus some other symbols I use often – all using the left alt/option key.

This works great in most programs, like this text area in Chrome, in Finder, Macvim, Terminal… almost everywhere.

But, in Evernote and Sparrow, these mappings do not work, and if I show the current layout in the menu, I see that it switches back to the US layout when I bring one of these programs to the front. It is not possible to switch to my own layout in the dropdown menu – it switches back to US again immediately.

Is it possible to fix this – or is this because of the technologies used by Evernote and Sparrow?


texts: Is there a way to tell if I can use a SATA III SSD in my early 2011 MBP 15"?

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I put my MBP next to the new Retina MBP today, and although the new display was incredibly crisp, and normal usage distance, it's just not that much better than mine as I'd opted for the high res (1680x1050) display. I'd thought I could for a lot more on the display, but it's not enough of a difference to justify cost, so I'm sticking with this, and going to upgrade the HDD to SSD instead.

I've heard that some of the early 2011 SandyBridge models had a problem with the SATA controller and that they didn't actually support SATA III.

Is there a way to check this out without actually just installing one to see if it works?

Intel 6 Series Chipset:

Vendor:   Intel
  Product:  6 Series Chipset
  Link Speed:   6 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:    3 Gigabit
  Description:  AHCI Version 1.30 Supported

I see from the system info that it has a 6gb link speed, but obviously the standard HDD is only SATA II, other than that I'm at a loss to see how to tell.

Any ideas?


texts: Bluetooth peripherals randomly disconnecting under Mavericks

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I've scoured the internet to try to find a solution to this bizarre problem (similar problems here and here and here), but have unfortunately failed so far. I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on an early-2013 retina MBP, and my Magic Mouse and Bluetooth Keyboard disconnect every 1–3 hours, causing the following kernel errors:

1/26/14 12:09:23.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice][waitForData][7c-6d-62-f4-b0-ee] Timeout waiting for data
1/26/14 12:09:23.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][80.14] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d6 for reportID 0x0030
1/26/14 12:09:23.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice][getBatteryState] Couldn't get battery state from device
1/26/14 12:09:26.000 AM kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][handleACLPacketTimeout] -- Disconnecting due to device not responding (ACL Packet timed out) for connection handle 0xd
1/26/14 12:09:26.308 AM loginwindow[59]: Preferred Localizations total: 1 contents (en)
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][handleACLPacketTimeout] -- Disconnecting due to device not responding (ACL Packet timed out) for connection handle 0xc
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice][waitForData][7c-6d-62-f4-b0-ee] Became inactive waiting for data
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice::getExtendedReport][80.14] ERROR: [BNBMouseDevice] getReport returned error e00002d7 for reportID 0x0060
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice::createUsedVoltagesDict][80.14] ERROR: Unable to get calibrated battery thresholds report for product ID 781
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [BNBMouseDevice] notice: _outstandingIO > 0 but isInactive() returned TRUE...
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchDevice::willTerminate] entered
1/26/14 12:09:29.000 AM kernel[0]: [AppleMultitouchDevice::stop] entered

Additionally, the Bluetooth panel in System Preferences freezes up completely and shows glitchy information:

The only way to get the mouse and keyboard to reconnect (and the only way to get the Bluetooth panel to work again) is to:

Turn all the peripherals off
Put the computer to sleep (without closing the lid)
Wait for 60–90 seconds for the computer to magically wake itself back up
Turn on the peripherals. All is well.

If I put the computer to sleep with Bluetooth working, it will stay asleep. If I put it to sleep after the peripherals disconnect, it will wake up automatically after a while.

I have no idea what is triggering these disconnects. They don't happen at the same intervals (sometimes it happens after an hour, sometimes four), but they always happen. Since upgrading to Mavericks I've had to do this whole put-the-computer-to-sleep thing several times a day. This did not happen under Mountain Lion.

I've tried the following things, without success:

Reset SMC
Reset PRAM
Deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.bluetooth.* and /Library/Preferences/com.apple.bluethooth and anything else related to Bluetooth
Reinstalled Mavericks
Had the physical Bluetooth controller replaced by Apple (just got the computer back yesterday)

Despite all this, the problem persists. I still have to put the computer to sleep 4–5 times a day to get the mouse and keyboard working again. Seemingly nobody knows how to fix it—it has even stumped Apple.

Does anyone know what's going on?


texts: I have an iphone 5 that I cannot backup. I have tried to backup via icloud as well as via computer backup but neither works. When I try to backup to my computer I get an error that says iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the iPhone disconnected. I am using a brand new OEM Apple cable. When I attempt to backup via icloud I get an error that just says "the last backup could not be completed."


texts: Since a few days, i have a limited Screen resolution, resulting in a black bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. When starting up in safe-boot, there is no prolbem. The display dialog let's me select the correct resolution 1920x1200, but beneath ther is written "Usable resolution 1920 x 1080"


texts: How to transfer voice memo with their titles?

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iTunes doesn't keep title of voice memo which make them quite useless. They look like DATE######.m4a.

I'm working with these memos, any solution would fit, even jailbreak I really need to find a way.

iTunes 12.2.1.16, Windows 7, iPhone 3Gs, iOS 6


texts: I encounter this type of pop-up ad often when using an app on iOS. What advertising network is serving this advert? (Or how would I determine this in general when the ad cycles to another app)


texts: Connect two monitors on macbook pro 2018 by using single docking station

texts: I am going to buy a Macbook Pro 2018 15". I am just wondering, if it is possible to connect two monitors via one docking station. If there is any docking station, which it supports 2 monitor connections and extending the view (not mirroring). I don't want to use 2 hdmi adapters because I will need to buy the docking station anyway to have usb and ethernet connections.


texts: Why my 2009 macbook pro is faster than my 2017 retina iMac?

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A couple of years ago I bought a used macbook pro from a friend of mine, I knew it was a good deal cause the mbp was modified and had very good response and performance, the specs of this mbp are the following (although its in spanish you will get it):

I love this macbook, firstly cause its 15 inch and I prefer big laptops, secondly cause the performance its good, from a normal web and email browsing session, up to a large xcode programming workspace or a whole 30 min final cut pro video edition.

In the other hand I recently bought a band new 21.5 inch iMac which also seemed like a good deal, my logic in that moment was that if my 2009 second-hand mbp (2.8 GHz core duo) had excellent performance, a 2014 retina iMac (3GHz Intel core i5) would be up to three times faster than my laptop. iMac specs:

This iMac its always laggy and opening any app takes soooo much time. It constantly freezes and I cant think about having more than 3 apps at the same time, that would be useless.

I dont know exactly what customization the MBP had, guess it was a RAM and video card upgrade next to the 250GB SSD.

My question is, whats the problem with the iMac and what can I do to achieve the same (or better) performance that the mbp?

The SSD is the main difference?


texts: Stream screen over local network to shift processing burden for livestreaming

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I have a bit of an odd problem. I'm not too sure if it fits in here, but I thought I might as well try.

I want to start Livestreaming to Twitch TV. The problem is, I can't play a game and transcode/stream at the same time without running out of processing power.

What I want to do is stream a high quality video feed over my local network to another computer that can handle the full transcoding and streaming to Twitch. Is there any combination of programs that will let me do this with minimal processing requirement on the first computer?


texts: MacBook backlight turns off when brightness is set at 100%

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I was using my MacBook today when suddenly the backlight turned off, right while I was in the middle of using it. I know it was the backlight because:

I have an external display, which remained on, and I could still see my desktop (so the computer hadn't turned off)
The windows that were on the internal display didn't move over to the external display, meaning that the internal display itself was still on, but just not illuminated

After some experimentation, I discovered that I could get the backlight to turn back on by holding down F1 (to lower the brightness) until the brightness setting reached 0, then holding F2 (to raise the brightness) until it was back at 100%. It was as if the system didn't "know" that the backlight was off until I manually lowered the brightness to 0, and then it would know to turn it back on when I raised the brightness.

However, after doing this, the backlight would only last for a few seconds at 100% and then it would turn off again.

Finally, I tried raising the brightness slowly from 0, and was able to work my way back up to 100% without it turning off. It's been working since.

Is this a hardware failure or a software glitch? I'm running OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4) and the issue persisted through a reboot.


texts: Used Air Drop to move a folder with mp3 files in it to my phone. Where are they now?

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I moved some mp3s to my iPhone using AirDrop expecting they would be available in the Music app, but I can't seem to find them. Where can I find them on my phone?

There was no error or anything saying the files didn't go through. It appears as if they have been copied to my phone.


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Is there a way to bold the color of the current active terminal tab in iterm2? I do not see an option to do that on the appearance tab of preferences. I know I can change the tab style, but I still want a really bold appearance.

From the above picture, I want the middle tab to be of a bold color (orange or some other bright colors) when it is active.


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I am trying to sync my iPad running iOS 8.0.2 with my iCloud account and it keeps telling me that I need more space. I have deleted everything I can and deselected every single app from the backup but it still says I need 5.1gb of space.

If I try clicking back up I get the following error

I have only one device, my iPad, linked to iCloud. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Reset USB bus without reboot (MacBook ignores display)

texts: I have a MacBook Pro and work with different external monitors. The monitors have a keyboard and a mouse attached. Frequently the MacBook does not recognize the USB devices in the display and the keyboard and mouse do not function. I have to reboot. Is there a way to reset the USB system without rebooting?


texts: Is there an app which shows contents of a .pkg file and shows which files an installer copies to my mac, what scripts it runs and so on?


texts: Homebrew asked me to move macports now it does not work

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I'm using HomeBrew for my usual mac stuff but I need to do some experiments with other package managers. So I installed MacPorts. everything seems alright but brew doctor asks me to move it:

  warning: You have MacPorts or Fink installed:

  This can cause trouble. You don't have to uninstall them, but you may want to

  temporarily move them out of the way, e.g. sudo mv /opt/local ~/macports

So I listened and moved it. And then in my bash profile I changed

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"

to

export PATH="~/macports/bin:~/macports/sbin:$PATH"

and now when I when run port ... it gives me this error:

  -bash: /Users/foobar/macports/bin/port: /opt/local/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong and how can I solve it?

P.S.1.

I edited the /Users/foobar/macports/bin/port file as the admin and edited the first line from
#!/opt/local/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.5

to

#!/Users/foobar/macports/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.5

now I get this new error:

  sources_conf must be set in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf or in your /Users/foobar/.macports/macports.conf file
      while executing
  "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
  Error: /Users/foobar/macports/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, sources_conf must be set in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf or in your /Users/foobar/.macports/macports.conf file

P.S.2.

changed all the /opt/locals to ~/macportss in

/Users/foobar/macports/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports/_ci/bootstrap.sh

and

/Users/foobar/macports/etc/macports/macports.conf

nothing changed!

P.S.3.

I see some of the guys here try to guid me towards removing/uninstalling MacPorts or HomeBrew. That's not what I'm asking for. I am able to revert all I did and make the MacPorts work again (in fact I just did that). My question is why HomeBrew Is saying that? what I happens If I don't do what it is asking for? What if I want the MacPorts too? and most importantly how make the MacPorts keep working after moving?


texts: Is it possible to stream Pandora over wi-fi on a sleeping MacBook Pro under El Capitan?

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To slightly rephrase the question, should it be necessary to disable HD sleep in the Energy Saver pane as a means to maintain a live wi-fi connection as the computer becomes idle and enters sleep?

Here's what prompts the question: I am attempting to make use of the open-source "Hermes" and the App Store "HD Radio for Pandora" to stream music. Everything is fine until I walk away from the computer. Shortly thereafter, usually about 7-12 minutes later, the Pandora app will get through the last song in the buffer and cease playback. When I return to the MacBook the System reports that the app has crashed. Each of the stand-alone Pandora apps I've tried has produced the same crashlog results. The log cites the main apple thread, another containing the words "Audio toolbox" and a remote/sharing process.

I have reinstalled El Cap over the existing install after a lot of effort to troubleshoot, including renewing the DHCP lease, uninstalling my antivirus protection, trashing Power Management, Bluetooth, sharing, wi-fi and system config prefs, turning off file sharing, etc. Despite reinstalling the OS, the problem remains.

I don't have issues staying connected to wi-fi as a rule, and another Mac on the same network runs these same apps under Snow Leopard and El Capitan, respectively, with no issues streaming audio while idle/sleeping. The disconnect/crash problem occurs consistently, however, on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro whether on a wired (ethernet) connection or wi-fi. I'm not sure what other troubleshooting steps to take to enable either one of these Pandora apps to work. Any pointers will be much appreciated!


texts: I have written an AppleScript application and when running, it appears in the Dock, however I would like it to have it in the menu bar, at the top of the screen, instead. How can I achieve this? Is there some code I need to add to it so it can appear in the menu bar?


texts: What information does Apple collect when an iPad sends "advanced" log data?

texts:
Apple support contacted me regarding an issue I had with an iPad. They requested diagnostic data which I agreed to (in the Privacy -> Analytics).  Then right after the diagnostic data was sent, another window popped up that requested more "advanced" logs and in the description it said it would contain, among other things, my email addresses, file paths, etc. The process took a while and a message warned that the iPad may become slow during this process. At the end it compressed the data and uploaded it to Apple. I couldn't see what was being uploaded but judging from the time it took, I think it was tens of megabytes  (maybe 50~80MB after compression).
Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot thinking I would be able to find this topic online on Apple's web site. But I can't see any document that describes what data is exactly collected or for how long it is retained. Does Apple describe this "advanced" data collection anywhere?


texts: Same number of app icons on each page for iPhone and iPad?

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App icons on my iPhone are 6 rows by 4 columns = 24 per page but iPad has 5 rows by 4 columns plus ‘dock’

Is there a way to have 6 rows by 4 columns on the iPad also?


texts: iPad Air won't play videos in YouTube app

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My iPad air suddenly stopped playing YouTube videos. Everything loads fine in the YouTube app and in Safari except videos. I can see my subscription list and recommended videos and I can also search and get results fast. But now just three days ago both stopped playing. I'm running iOS 10. I updated several weeks when iOS 10 just came out, but this is the first time anything is happening to youtube so I assume it's not the update.

Everything loads but once I click a video, all I see is the rotating circle that means the video is loading. It doesn't load and the gray bar that usually shows how much is loaded does not progress at all.

I've turned off my iPad, reset it, closed all tabs, deleted the app and reinstalled it twice, tried it in the browser, reset the wifi, connected to different networks, cleared the youtube cache and cookies, and updated the youtube app.

Videos from other sites like dailymotion and Vimeo or Facebook all play just fine and have no problem loading. Netflix also works fine, it's only YouTube that is having this problem.

I've looked at a ton of tricks and such trying to fix it and tried all the ones I could find on my own, but none of them are recent. I'm willing to try just about anything at this point.


texts: iCloud storage recovery not deleting photo albums

texts: Can I delete camera  roll and free up iCloud storage without deleting photos in my albums ?


texts: How do I find the installed RAM layout in my MacBook without opening it up?

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I have a mid-2009 MacBook with 4 GB of RAM installed in it and I'd like to upgrade it to 8 GB of RAM. In order to do that I have to figure out what the installed RAM configuration is so I can determine what it is I need to order.

How do I see the installed RAM configuration in the MacBook without opening it up and actually looking inside?


texts: How to fix OS X Finder window with file/folders panel that doesn't draw itself?

texts:
For no apparent reason, my OS X 10.9.5 Finder has gone haywire. Whenever I create a new Finder window, the main panel, where the files/folders are usually shown, just shows whatever is beneath it, as if there's nothing there. If you drag any other window over the Finder window, that panel will take on the pixels from the other window -- basically the panel is not drawing itself at all.

See screen shot below. It's all greyed out because that's the overlay from the screen shot functionality -- if you look closely you can see how the background is showing through.

I have no idea how or why this happened. I can't think of anything that triggered it. Any idea how to fix this?

Clue 1: rooting the machine doesn't fix it. But resetting the NVRAM does -- at least immediately. After a few minutes of use after the NVRAM reset, the problem reappears.

Clue 2: Icons and Cover Flow view modes work normally. List and Columns view modes do not -- i.e. they show the behavior noted above.


texts: How do I disable requirement to enter password after I close and reopen the lid?

texts:
I don't like having to re-enter my password if I've just closed the lid for only 5 - 10 minutes.  How can I disable this?  I've already tried going to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy, and setting it to require a password only 1 hour after sleep or screensaver.

Mid-2014 Macbook Pro running Mavericks v10.9.4


texts: How does the Mac choose which connection to use when both Wifi and Ethernet are connected?

texts: When I'm connected to two networks with separate routers using Wifi and Ethernet, how does my Mac know what connection to use when I visit a website?


texts: Office 2011(mavericks). Attachments from outlook only open word & excel as read only

texts: Whenever I receive an email in Outlook that has either a word doc or excel attachment it only allows them to be opened as "read only" documents.  How can I have them open as regular documents as they did with Entourage 2008?  Thanks.


texts: I Can't raise the brightness to the maximum.

texts:
I have a macbook pro late 2008. When Im raising the brighntess level, when it reaches the 50% it starts to decrease the brightness till it goes almost dark on 100%. Someone know how to do fix this?

thanks


texts: What do I need to do to get my Apple Watch apps to launch quickly?

texts:
Apple describes its Watch as being "ideal for quick looks and fast interactions", but most (in fact almost all) of third party Apple Watch app Dark Sky take 20-40 seconds to launch — during which time I could have removed my phone from my pocket and launched the corresponding iOS app.

Is there something I need to do to get this app to launch faster than I could launch it myself on my iPhone?


texts:
I have a problem. I used command chflags hidden to hide a folder named !_TRANSCODE. Now I'm trying to undo this by typing chflags no hidden !_TRANSCODE and I get this error: -bash: !_TRANSCODE: event not found

Last login: Tue Nov 15 13:12:47 on ttys000
Marks-iMac:~ StefanCzapla$ cd /Volumes/THE_REASON_MASTER_1
Marks-iMac:THE_REASON_MASTER_1 StefanCzapla$ ls
!_TRANSCODE 03.02.16 Stock Footage
02.23.16                03.03.16                The Reason VFX.zip
02.24.16                03.04.16                test
02.25.16                03.05.16                vfx
02.26.16                1,001 Sound FX          voiceover
02.27.16                Music
03.01.16                Project
Marks-iMac:THE_REASON_MASTER_1 StefanCzapla$ chflags nohidden !_TRANSCODE
-bash: !_TRANSCODE: event not found
Marks-iMac:THE_REASON_MASTER_1 StefanCzapla$

Any help appreciated!


texts: Turn off autocomplete event name internal to Apple's Calendar app on Mac OS?

texts:
This is not about system autocomplete, it's about an autocomplete internal to Calendar (autocompletion of the name of the event when you create one) - and is there any way to turn it off.

I have many hundreds of events in ical as I've been using it for about the past five years.

Problem is whenever I create a new event, then start typing in the event name field, as I work out what I want to call the event (or reminder), a giant list of similar past events that I've entered pops up and is annoyingly distracting. I'm simply not interested in those past events anymore and I don't want to know about them. I use ical as a reminders system for tasks, i.e. as a todo list as well as calendar. I find that better than using a separate task app in addition.

I'd love to find a way to turn these suggestions off, without having to delete all past events from my calendar history (which it looks like I might have to resort to).

Haven't found a way to do this but would be very grateful if someone knows how.


texts:
I know that Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Mac are extremely similar. So similar that I only notice one difference for the Mac version: the green + button doesn't maximize. However, that can be remedied: http://maximizechrome.com. According to Google - I'm not sure where - there's only one difference: dragging highlighted text. I didn't notice this, but I don't usually drag highlighted text.

I don't use Firefox very often, but one thing I do appreciate is when an app behaves the same no matter your OS. I might even switch to Firefox if it does this. Thus, the question: Are there any differences, feature-wise, between Firefox for Mac and Firefox for Windows?

I mean real differences, not just things like the dropdown box styling provided by the OS.


texts: disable brightness and volume change overlay mojave

texts:
I followed this answer and (after disabling SIP) ran

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper\
  Disabled -bool YES

But it doesn't seem to have done anything, I still get the brightness pop up when I use the brightness keys to change screen brightness.

I am in macOS Mojave 10.14.4.


texts: Late 2011 15" MBP - keyboard and trackpad cease to work after 1 month following clean install

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011) 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7 with the faulty AMD Radeon HD 6770M dedicated GPU running OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

The issue is that the keyboard and trackpad cease to work after 1 month or so after a clean install.

I have tried most of the tricks found here and have even changed the keyboard a couple of years ago. However I am now almost sure that the problem is on the software side because every time I perform a clean OS X install, the keyboard and trackpad work perfectly well for around 1 month. Then just suddenly stop working. Also, whenever I enter the boot menu on startup (holding alt key), the keyboard and trackpad are perfectly responsive.

I now know that I could just keep performing clean installs every month to keep them working but is however very tedious. Also the .plist files deletion trick usually gives best results bringing the keyboard back for 2 or 3 days but after performing the trick 3 times or so, it does not work anymore...

What else can I check to keep them operational?

UPDATE

As suggested in a comment below, I booted into safe mode by holding Shift while powering on. Tried this several times and the problem persisted while on safe mode, no integrated keyboard, no integrated trackpad...


texts: How can i have makefile/shell script call /Applications/application.app?

texts:
OS Mac OS X 10.6.6
emacs 23.2.1

I'm currently trying to install magit on carbon emacs using their proposed make solution. I'm an almost complete makefile newby so I might be on the complete wrong path altogether.
Makefile displays:

%.elc: %.el
$(BATCH) --eval '(byte-compile-file "$<")'

which gets expanded to:

emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval "(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name \".\") load-path))" --eval '(byte-compile-file "magit.el")'

What I do understand. However it comes back with:

Cannot open load file: subst-ksc

What after a bit of googling reveals some missing libraries. I also realized that the emacs referenced in the expanded command is pointing to /usr/bin/emacs which is one big file, I don't see the normal lisp / site-lisp / etc directories. I also know that my prefered emacs is carbon emacs located in /Application/Emacs.app which just opens when clicking on it, or alternatively, I can open it in with the terminal:

open /Application/MyApp.app

Finally the title question: How can I make Makefile using the Emacs.app on the applications directory? I hope someone here knows the answer, or can point me to alternatives.

regards,
Jeroen.


texts: What are the differences between the AT&T and Verizon versions of iPhone 4?

texts: Besides working on their respective carriers, what are the similarities and differences between the AT&T iPhone 4 and Verizon iPhone 4?


texts: Is there a way to get iBooks to display the generic cover for my PDFs?

texts: Most (all) of my PDF's I read on iBooks are actual novels or textbooks. Is there a way to force iBooks to use the generic book cover rather than the first page of the PDF document? I'm tired of trying to find a book I want to read when all I'm seeing for thumbnails are the start of the copyright information...


texts: Shortcuts for "Overview" and "Scan" buttons in Image Capture

texts:
I was manually scanning a couple of documents. It's tedious work, partly because it's manual, and party because I needed to make an overview scan first and then the actual scan in Image Capture.

This got me to think, are there any shortcuts for the "Overview" and "Scan" options in Image Capture? Most of Apple's native apps have shortcuts for the most common actions, and I would expect some shortcut for scanning to be set to Command+S or Command+R, or something similar.

I tried looking for a menu bar item which allowed me to overview or scan (which I then would be able to assign to a shortcut in the keyboard preferences), but I couldn't find anything.


texts: Can I make iTunes try to identify a playlist like it would a CD?

texts:
I'm slowly recovering from the problems described in this question, and I've run across a couple situations where I know the track numbers and that a set of MP3s came from one album, but I can't figure out which album they were on. The free MP3 taggers I've found haven't done a great job of figuring out what's what.

In something of a last ditch effort, I tried burning the tracks to CD and selecting the "Get Track Names" option. Lo and behold, it worked! iTunes identified the CD as the original and helped me figure out which album I was looking at.

I have lots of these albums, and I don't want to burn a CD for each one, is there a way to get iTunes to look at a set of MP3s the same way it looks at a CD for identification purposes?


texts: Why is iWork Keynote is suddenly linking images instead of embedding them?

texts:
I've been using iWork for a while and have created some pretty elaborate designs in Keynote and Pages, but I haven't come across a problem like this before or even an option to link/embed images.

In Keynote, all my images are now linked to an external source on my hard disk, rather than embedded in the file itself. When I attempt to copy media in any manner (alt-drag or cmd+c/v or duplicate a page), a grey "placeholder" box is produced with a question mark in the middle and a diagonal line across it (see top right corner of the image).

It only works when the source image is in the same place on my hard disk.

When I insert an image or other media file (insert -> choose) into Keynote, there doesn't seem to be an option to link or embed like there is in other applications such as Adobe Illustrator or InDesign.

Why is Keynote all of a sudden treating images in this fashion? How can I fix this to re-enable embedding of images?


texts: How to transfer large videos from iPad 2 camera roll to Windows XP?

texts:
iPad 2 16GB WiFi iOS 5.1.1

Windows XP SP3 All updates installed

I have one video on my iPad 2 that is 24:13 in length that I filmed myself and stored in the camera roll. My goal is to upload it to YouTube directly or via my computer.

Here is what I have tried so far:

Click "Send to YouTube" when viewing the video in the Photos App. I get the error that the "Video is Too Long" even though my iOS is up to date, I am on WiFi and YouTube has a 10 hour limit.
Plug the iPad in to the USB drive and drag and drop the video from the iPad to my desktop. The file appears to transfer after a few minutes of copying, however the file is always 0 bytes so it doesn't actually work. Mind you I am doing the drag and drop method, not using the Windows Camera Wizard which has issues with large files.

So what can I do to put this video on YouTube? I have replicated this problem with another iPad 2 and another Windows XP computer and it appears that others have had this problem go unsolved from other discussion boards.

Is it really impossible to get a ~20 minute video from my iPad 2 to YouTube or my own computer without the use of 3rd party software? I thought this thing was supposed to "just work."


texts: Upgrading My Mac Os X without losing data

texts:
I currently have mac os x 10.7.3 , I did download OS X El Capitan but did not install it, I'm afraid of losing data. So will I really lose data if I install it? And if so, is there a way to upgrade my mac os without losing data?
And thank you so much.


texts:
In this situation I have 2 cells merged into 1. How can I unmerge it so the result will be 2 cells with the same data?

I have cases with up to 7 cells merged in the xls file. How can I unmerge them all?


texts: Why I have 12 GB of "cancellable" space even if I am not optimizing space with iCloud?

texts: I am not using iCloud drive, and I am neither optimizing disk space with iCloud. But the disk utility app shows that I have 12.62 GB of "cancellable" disk space. I thought that this space was due to the fact that some files could be safely deleted from the disk because they're backed in iCloud. But why do I have "cancellable" storage if I am not using iCloud to optimize disk space?


texts: Sharing a Printer from a Mac to AirPrint

texts:
While I am aware that you can use handyPrint for this.. you have to pay for it to keep using it.. and I have no Paypal or Credit Cards.

Does anyone know a method so when a Printer is shared on your Mac, it broadcasts it as AirPrint so I can print from iOS with it like you could handyPrint. Possibly using a modded CUPS server or change a couple Bonjour plists or something?

Thanks :)


texts:
I'm really kind of clueless as to what is going on here, but it is really becoming frustrating. I haven't ever came across this issue on any other Macs, and it seems to be unique to me for some reason. So what happens is my computer will be connected to the internet and wifi just fine, and then sometimes my mac seems to have just randomly dropped connection to the internet. The wifi bars are all full, and the other computers in the house seem to be working fine during that period. However, for me I have to restart my computer to actually get the internet on the computer to begin working again, and it is ok once or twice but this occurs once or twice every day which is beginning to get frustrating.

Please Note: I am kind of confused about what could possibly  be going on, so I would be more than happy to provide information such as system logs, etc. But just ask.. I don't want to just dump potentially irrelevant information into the question.


texts: Preventing MacBook from sleeping when closing lid on Sierra

texts:
Is there any way to prevent my MacBook Pro from sleeping when I close the lid on macOS Sierra? I used to use NoSleep on OS X El Capitan; unfortunately it stopped working properly after Yosemite and I've heard that on Sierra it causes problems, so I don't want to install it and potentially cause damage.

Does anyone use anything that they personally have used that prevents MacBooks from going to sleep when the lid is closed on macOS Sierra?


texts:
I've a iMac 27" 2011 i7 thats not been used for 2 years, recently plugged back into power and get from what I can make out x8 beeps on pressing power button. Then the iMac sounds like it resets itself and tries to boot again and continues the x8 beeps.

No new ram has been added, I've removed the ram and resetted ram but still get the 8 beeps. I've also powered on with no ram and get the x1 beep signalling no ram installed.

Could due to the iMac not being used or plugged into power for 2 years, mean the PRAM battery is possibly dead on the logic board?


texts: Office 365 keeps prompting for login credentials on Mac OSX?

texts: Office 365 keeps prompting for login credentials within Mac OSX? I came across a problem where a client of mine had bought and installed Office Suite 2016 she than upgraded to Office 365 Business Premium.


texts: Screen annotation software to draw on any app in OSX

texts: I want to draw on any app pdfs, videos, code. It would be helpful to aid in demonstration in a class setting for me. Do you know if any such app exists that does not require an external pen i.e. using mouse or trackpad to draw.


texts: How to quit 'screen' if you don't have \ on the keyboard

texts:
To quit screen you need to hit ctrl+a, ctrl+\. How do you do that if you don't have \ on the keyboard?

On my keyboard I need to hit shift+alt+7 to get a backslash - if I'm in an editor. Won't work for screen of course.


texts:
Looking at:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH9069

How do I set the clock to use UTC with NTP?

(This is in the context of synchronizing the Mac with the Linux server, both should be using UTC and, preferably, connect to the same NTP server.)


texts: Sync only accepted Facebook events in iOS calendar

texts:
If I activate the Facebook calendar sync on my iOS device all events are input in my calendar. Even those I denied. It's there a way to sync only those I accepted?

If it's not possible to do it with plain iOS, is there a way through third party tools? (I'm aware that they could log the calendar events)


texts: System time changes after sleeping and waking up?

texts:
Closing the lid to sleep, after waking, the system time would change by as much as 2 seconds.

Verified by using terminal command for over a month, daily
sudo -S ntpdate -u time.apple.com


texts: My Mac Mountain Lion came with JRE 1.6.  However, I would like to have the full JDK.  I read somewhere that for that on Mac it is better to consult Apple rather than Oracle for downloads/install packages but Apple doesn't seem to offer much support for Java 6 (which I need to work on, can't upgrade to 7).  Better yet, if such an upgrade is available through homebrew.


texts: How to tell if Macbook is using 802.11ac

texts:
I just got a new Macbook Air and a new Airport Extreme, both of which support 802.11ac.

Is there an easy way to tell if my Macbook Air is connecting to the Airport Extreme via 802.11ac?  Relatedly, can I tell if I'm connecting at 5GHz band or 2.4GHz band?

I've already done a speedtest, and the results are inconclusive.


texts: Yosemite: Quick Look previews are transparent

texts:
Since Yosemite i'm having this strange problem with Quick Look (giving previews of files when pressing the space bar): whenever i preview my files they are displayed transparently. Pretty irritating for images, and very inconvenient for text files (see image).

I've tried switching off the 'Reduce transparency' option in the Accessibility preference pane, but to no avail.

Does anyone know if this is a bug in Yosemite or some strange setting i can change?


texts:
I was wanting to reveal the EFI password on my Mac using this in the Terminal:

sudo nvram security-password

but instead of outputting hex data, it gives me this:

nvram: Error getting variable - 'security': (iokit/common) data was not found

I know there is a FW password because I get the lock when holding Option on boot. Any ideas why this isn't working? I have admin access.

Macbook Pro 13-Inch w/ Retina Display, Mid-2014, running 10.10.4


texts: launchd process using aerender exits early

texts:
I'm trying to run aerender (After Effects' command-line renderer) via launchd to render a video on a timed interval.  The command works fine in Terminal.  In launchd - even when I use screen -d -m ... - it always exits early.  Here's my setup.

Skip to bottom for things I've already tried.

plist for launchd:

<?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.home.VideoGenerator</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/Users/home/Developer/VideoGenerator/exec/render.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>300</integer>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/com.home.VideoGenerator.err.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/com.home.VideoGenerator.out.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

render.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
/Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ CC\ 2018/aerender -project /Users/home/Developer/VideoGenerator/resource/video.aep -comp ExportMe -output /Users/home/Developer/VideoGenerator/output/video.mov -OMtemplate Output

Output:

Here is what normal output looks like, when I run ./render.sh from the command line:

aerender version 15.0.1x73
PROGRESS: Launching After Effects...
PROGRESS: ...After Effects successfully launched
PROGRESS: Adding specified comp to Render Queue
PROGRESS:  4/2/18 8:41:57 AM PDT: Starting composition ExportMe.
...

This is truncated.  It also outputs composition settings and render progress, always successful.  Nothing useful for this purpose.

Here's the logged output when I run it from launchd:

aerender version 15.0.1x73
PROGRESS: Launching After Effects...
PROGRESS: ...After Effects successfully launched

And that's it.  (In reality I'm running this in a context where I can log the exit code and it's always 0.  For this purpose I have drastically simplified the project to what you see here, and it still doesn't run).

Things I've tried:

Set KeepAlive to true in the plist

This just relaunches the process after it exits

Add /dev/null as the StandardInPath in the plist (as per this post)

Still exits early

Add -i and -c to the beginning of ProgramArguments (from the same post as above)

Command doesn't run

Set AbandonProcessGroup to true in the plist

Still exits early

Append & to put the task in the background

Silences output

Launch aerender with screen -d -m ...

Using the -L flag and checking the log, the output is the same; it stops after aerender launches After Effects and then exits before rendering.

Running ps aux | grep aerender shows over 20 processes running (probably from all the times I've executed the script), most of them aerendercore.  But no output, no video.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: How can I stop the iPhone from buzzing when it is ringing?

texts: I finally found a nice ringtone for my iPhone but can barely hear it because the phone buzzes while ringing. How can I switch of the buzzing?


texts: How to open a window and tab in Terminal via Javascript automation

texts:
I want to use the Script Editor program to create a script (Javascript) that will recreate my Terminal window and tab setup. I open a few windows, open tabs within those windows, label the tabs, run some commands.

My problem is that I don't understand how to read these "dictionaries" in the Script Editor. For example, it doesn't say anywhere how to open a new window or a tab.

Here are screenshots from the Script Editor's window showing the dictionary for the Terminal app.

I can get the app, by saying:

var terminal = Application("Terminal")

So:

How do you open windows and tabs?
How do you learn how to this? Is it in the dictionary somewhere, or somewhere else?


texts: Mac won't boot from USB drive: Prohibited sign

texts:
I tried to clean install OS X El Capitan on my Mac, but it won’t boot from the USB drive. Here are the steps I took to create the bootable USB drive (I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display):

Downloaded the latest OS X El Capitan (10.11.3) from the Mac App Store.
Created a bootable USB drive using createinstallmedia (as explained in Apple’s documentation) and it went well.
Erased Macintosh HD.
Tried booting from USB drive. It loads through the middle, but then a prohibited sign shows up and nothing happens.

What are my options now?

How can I determine what the problem is? I know Internet Recovery is one of my options, but I can’t connect to my home Wi-Fi (apparently for no good reason) and I have to do it with my iPhone’s Hotspot, and I happen to have the setup for El Capitan. (And Internet Recovery will install OS X Mavericks on my MacBook, right? Because it was shipped with Mavericks.)


texts: 2016 13' MBP - No password accepted after a failed update. How could I possibly recover or get this data back?

texts:
FYI, I was at onetime a ACMT. So feel free to talk fast. I have MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016) that appears to have failed an update due to not having enough space. (I'll never understand why the installer can't check for free space before attempting to upgrade but whatever. That's another issue.)
I have the macbook connected via Target Disk mode over thunderbolt. I have 3 partitions. Macintosh HD Macintosh HD - Data and Update.
Macintosh HD and Update Are mountable. However Macintosh HD - Data is not (Probabaly locked by file vault). When prompted for the password. No password works for any user. Even the password for the localadmin account that uses a known shared password.
What leads me to believe it's a Space issue is because, On the Update partition, there is a file called Restore.log (https://pastebin.com/7d0qifX0)
That contains the following lines around Line: 1157.

04358000 : [-[UMEventRecorder _recordEvent:information:callback:]]
(prepareFinished) - {
failureReason = "MSU 1048 (ParallelPatchExtractPayload() 'main' returned -1660120036);";
purgeableSpace = 0;
result = "MSU 1048"; }   04358000 : ERROR - unable to write event to file: 'Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=640 "You can’t save the
file
“2DCD8733-0E6B-421C-85E1-D99D386F0E15-prepareFinished-1613671503449-0.plist”
because the volume “Update” is out of space."
UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Volumes/Update/db/UpdateMetrics/Events/2DCD8733-0E6B-421C-85E1-D99D386F0E15-prepareFinished-1613671503449-0.plist,
NSUserStringVariant=Folder, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fbc1be08670 {Error
Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=28 "No space left on device"}}'

How can I get the data from the Data partition. or recover from this scenario without wiping the drive. Of course the user doesn't have a TM backup.


texts: HEX Code in Color Chooser for Mavericks?

texts: How can I get a HEX code entry into the Color Chooser for Mavericks?


texts: Exporting all pictures from iPhone keeping all features

texts:
I have an iPhone full of pictures and videos (approx 80 GB). I want to export them to free up space (and have a backup if possible). I am looking for a solution, e.g. a software running on Windows or a personal webserver or a cloud, sorting by preferred option. The point is I want to keep all or most of the following useful features provided by iPhone Photos:

People (face recognition)
Places
Search by date
Live photos
Panoramas
Albums

In other words, I want to be able to "browse" just like I do inside my iPhone. I hoped iTunes could support it. I know I can buy iCloud space ($3/month) but I'm looking for a free alternative.

EDIT

Let me clarify even more: I want to know how do you deal with this problem. How do you free up space without losing Albums, live photos, search by places, etc.? Is iCloud the only solution?


texts: Use whereis can not find the file in the Mac

texts:
In the Mac I installed the mysqlclient, use whereis can not find the mysql_config, but use which I can find, why use the whereis can not find it?

aircraftdeMacBook-Pro:bin ldl$ whereis mysql_config
aircraftdeMacBook-Pro:bin ldl$ which mysql_config
/usr/local/mysql/bin//mysql_config


texts: Placing finger twice on Finger Scanner on iPhone 6 plus changes view

texts:
I was fooling around with iPhone 6 plus and found that when you place finger twice on finger scanner or rotate your finger on the scanner the currently running app or the menu views move down to half for the screen.

I'm not worried of this behavior but I am curious why such thing is happening.


texts: command line ps has stopped working correctly after an update

texts:
I use to be able to run this ps command from the terminal:

ps -u whoami -o pid,rss,command

But recently the RSS size returned are all 0!

ps -u `whoami` -o pid,rss,command
158      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
159      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
160      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
165      0 /usr/sbin/pboard

unless I run it with sudo

sudo ps -u `whoami` -o pid,rss,command
158  17556 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
159  22488 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
160  82176 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
165    840 /usr/sbin/pboard

Does anyone know how to fix this or how to get the original functionality back?


texts:
I am using an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3.2. It happens that Health app doubles step count (and therefore also doubles distance). I know this beacause the amount is too high (about double, I should be running to have >6 km/hour walking speed) and I beacause I tested it (I know the walking distance to my work because of Google) I have checked on Privacy which apps can write walking distance and I switched them off, however everything remains the same.

In addition, I checked Data sources on the Step dashboard on Health following fbara's suggestion. However there are only two apps on Data Sources: my Phone and Health App. None of the can be unchecked nor removed nor dragged up and down. The data  supplied by them is very weird: Health App supplies little steps certain specifics days while my Phone source supplies everyday almost all steps. Its supply is already doubled.

It is worth noting that for a long time I didn't have problems

Thanks in advance!

Does some one know how to solve this?


texts: Merge existing HDD and SSD into Fusion drive

texts:
Some time ago I split the Fusion Drive into 2 parts, SSD and HDD accordingly. Now I decided to return to fusion drive, but I have some data that I would like to keep.

Is it possible to merge drives back into fusion drive without need to reformat drives?

UPD

sudo gpt -r show disk0
Password:
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  235298960      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  235708600    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  236978136          7
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

sudo gpt -r show disk1
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1951845952      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1952255592     1269543
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header


texts: Can I reboot or reset AirPort Extreme remotely over wifi using my Mac?

texts:
Internet connection at my home (provided by the housing company) — shared to wifi via Airport Extreme — nowadays quite often cuts off. When this happens, my MacBook is still connected to the wifi just fine, but access to internet is down.

The only reliable way I’ve found to fix this is to walk over to the  Airport Extreme, disconnect its power cord & connect it again, causing it to reboot. Soon, after the wifi becomes available again, internet connection is back too.

My question: is there any remote or "software" way of resetting or rebooting Airport Extreme to get the internet connection back up? (For example using AirPort Utility or something on the command line on my Mac.)

If it matters: AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th generation) running software version 7.6.9.


texts: Some photos are sharp on the phone but low-res on icloud.com/photos

texts:
My wife has an iPhone7 with "Optimize iPhone Storage" enabled, and an iCloud account with more than enough storage -- 77GByte of photos and 200GByte storage on iCloud.
She's gotten to be well aware of the implications of the storage optimization and the need to sometimes tap or pinch images on the phone to re-download a full-resolution image from iCloud to the phone, when it's needed.
However we seem to have the odd situation that, for a handful of images taken on the phone at various different times earlier in the year, when viewed in a web browser on a desktop PC at www.icloud.com/photos , those photos are fuzzy.  They're definitely still stored at full resolution on the phone, because she can email them from the phone and they're the expected size (4032x3024) and sharpness.  And the vast majority of images do seem to be full resolution in iCloud (accessed via www.icloud.com/photos ) , as expected.  No amount of adding the offending images to new albums, or duplicating those images and adding the duplicates, seems to help.
Downloading the image (using the download icon) from www.icloud.com/photos just retrieves a fuzzy version.
She does quite often use www.icloud.com/photos when working on a desktop PC to retrieve her images there, so it'd be nice to have access to all of them there at full resolution.
Is there any way of giving something a prod so that www.icloud.com/photos will realize it only has low-resolution versions of these images and properly acquire the high resolution versions from the phone?
Trying to google the topic mainly just finds lots of people confused by storage optimization and why photos are fuzzy on their device.  But we seem to have the reverse issue of (some) images which are sharp on the device are fuzzy "on iCloud" (or at least when iCloud is viewed via www.icloud.com/photos ).


texts: I'm not really looking for a single correct answer. I'm just looking for some input regarding the inevitable "gotchas" Apple seems to sneak into every major OS X release that screw over a select handful of people before they have time to resolve whatever feature or app got removed in any given release. I want to know about anything at all; I'm a developer, so even lower-level system tweaks and restrictions have an effect on me.


texts: I don't turn off my MacBook Pro very often, and sometimes it just freezes and restarts itself after a few seconds. Its very annoying, especially when I'm working on something. I contacted support a few times and I did everything they said, and recently I started monitoring my memory usage and I noticed that Safari is taking a lot of memory, so I started to restart Safari when I see that its eating up my memory. My MacBook started acting better until just now. While I was waiting for it to restart it self, I saw that the memory levels were ok. So I'm wondering, is there any way I can see the history of Activity Monitor? Or is there any log I can check to see what the error is?


texts: Switch between "In Library" and "All Apple Music" in iTunes Search

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut or hotkey to switch between the "In Library" tab and "All Apple Music" tab when searching in iTunes? From my research, the only way I see the ability to switch between tabs is by clicking them.


texts:
I was trying to run a Java applet (downloaded) through the jnlp file which came with it. And I see this error always.

I looked into the code signing certificate, and its signed from a trusted CA, and the expiry is not until 2020.

So, I narrowed down the issue to the problem mentioned in the following link: Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X which says that OS X has prevented any app from an external developer to not run. This change was made to Gatekeeper.

But, I was not able to find an official release doc which talks about this change.

Another place I heard that Apple has stopped the usage of Java applet all together. Did not find any official doc about that also.

Can anyone point me to a link to an official doc about these updates?


texts: I am having trouble with installing apps from App Store,  it pops up "this app requires iOS 6.0 and later".. I've been trying to upgrade the iPad to iOS 6.0 and it is saying iOS 5.01.is the latest version..  What to do?


texts: New WD External Drive Can't Eject & Files Won't Display on MacOS

texts:
I cannot see the files or folders on this external hard drive and I am unable to eject the drive. I must not lose this footage.

The drive is a brand new WD My Passport 25E1 Media 2TB External Hard Drive. I'm using it to store large amounts of video footage. It's only a few days old. I've had no problem transferring and opening files on the hard drive until now.

When I first purchased the drive I formatted it for MacOS using Disk Utility. It is currently a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. It has never been plugged in to any other Mac or PC.

Current Problem

The hard drive is plugged in to my iMac.

When I view it in Finder non of the hundreds of gigs of footage display. No files, no folders.
I cannot eject the drive. If I attempt to eject the drive I get this message:

  The disk "My Passport" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. I have not tried to Force Eject.

There is valuable footage on this drive I cannot lose. If I view the drive in Disk Utility it shows 318.15 GBs used and 1.68 TB free. This indicates the files are on the drive but not visible.

Steps I've Done So Far

Attempted to Eject the Drive
Confirmed Storage is Used in Disk Utility
Closed All Open Applications & Attempted to Eject the Drive
Logged Out of my MacOS User Account & Attempted to Eject the Drive
Opened WD Drive Utilities and Clicked "Run Drive Status Check" and "Run Quick Drive Test" with No Effect, Results, or Message. It doesn't do anything.

Right now I'm seeking guidance because this footage is essential and cannot be lost.

How do I confirm the files are still on the drive?
Why does the drive not display the files or folders it should?
Why can I not eject the drive?
Should I attempt a "Force Eject", and if I do, do I risk
losing the files on the drive?
How do I identify what programs are
running that are preventing the drive from ejecting?
How can I eject the drive?

Help in this matter is immensely appreciated.


texts: Lion Recovery Terminal will not allow me to run TestDisk?

texts:
Setup: Macbook Air (2011) running Lion with BootCamp (Windows 7).

Problem: I have somehow screwed up my partition table. When I boot I only can select Windows instead of Windows and Lion. However Windows gives a BSOD regardless of safe mode option selected.

My Attempt: I have booted into Lion Recovery and tried running Disk Utility to repair disk volumes but it fails. Also tried to reinstall Lion but unable to because Lion doesn't recognize disk volumes (however it does see that there are two main partitions but they are grayed out).

I have data on both partitions I would like to recover so I am trying to use TestDisk to rebuild the partition table, but when I launch TestDisk from my external thumbdrive I get "Illegal instruction: 4".


texts: MacBook pro unresponsive / slow after startup

texts:
After starting my macbook it is very slow/ not responding at all to mouse clicks and keystrokes. I do not get the famous beachball but just the normal pointer. On windows that are already open i can scroll content with the mousewheel or two fingers on the pad, but thats all the response. If i have a browser open it will respond to mouse over/hover but not to clicks.

I have not been able to find the cause for this, i have started up in safe boot, but after a while that gets the same problem, the disk shows to be ok and i started on single usermode to run fsck which also shows ok.

I have enough drive space and no processes / tasks eating away resources as far as i can see.

I run osx 10.6. On a macbook pro with 4gb ram, 500GB hdd, core i7

Any ideas or help would be very much welcome


texts: Changing OS X behaviour after crash recovery

texts:
OS X tends to try and help out and reopen everything to just the way it was before it crashed. I mean this in two ways:

If an app running within OS X crashes, OS X will remember the last working state of the app and resume at that point next time you launch the app.
Example: Safari crashes because I've shamelessly opened way too many tabs and windows again. The next time I launch Safari I tax the system severely and fight to be able close windows or even force quit again.

If OS X itself crashes, the computer automatically restarts and loads OS X again, at which point every application, web page, and document that was open at time are simultaneously reloaded.

How can I prevent or alter the way such situations are handled?


texts: How can I add a new application to the Open With menu?

texts:
How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application?

In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari.

I'm running OS 10.7.4.


texts: Is it possible to unlock iOS 6.1.3 already?

texts:
For a iPhone 3GS with a IOS version 4.1(with cydia) is it possible to upgrate to 6.1.3(or something above 5) and unlock.

iTunes gives update for 6.1.3 . While evad3rs have unclocked till version 6.1.2 .

How can such an upgrade be possible. I know that first of all I have to upgrade through iTunes. But will I be available to unlock after that?


texts: How can I get my Mac to use the full resolution of my external monitor? "UI Looks like" half resolution

texts:
I added an external monitor to my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017, running Mojave), and the results have been pretty disappointing. When I open "System Report:", I see these lines under Graphics/Displays:
Displays:
  LG HDR 4K:
    Resolution:                     3840 x 2160 (2160p 4K UHD - Ultra High Definition)
    UI Looks like:                  1920 x 1080 @ 30 Hz
    Framebuffer Depth:              30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)
    Mirror:                         Off
    Online:                         Yes
    Rotation:                       Supported
    Connection Type:                DVI or HDMI
    Adapter Firmware Version:       7.55

What is this "UI Looks like"? Is there a way to get the full resolution of my screen?

Additional information. Thanks to @Alex for a solution that worked.
Examining the EDID data from the monitor, I see that its native resolution is 3840x2160. This is the resolution reported by "About this Mac/System Report". The "UI Looks like" half of that resolution. The Mac's native display is 5120 x 2880, which probably explains why the text was smaller and more stuff was fit onto the screen.
Going to Settings > Displays and selecting the "Scaled" checkbox allowed me to choose settings that made the text look more like what I expected on the machine's own display. Going back to "About this Mac/System Report" now shows the external display to be 6016 x 3384 and the "UI Looks like" value is again half of that resolution. I don't know if "About this Mac" is lying to me, or it really got the monitor up to that resolution.I was actually able to push it all the way to 6720x3780.
When I chose the very highest resolution, the resolution actually went back down to 3840x2160 but now the "UI looks like" was full 3840x2160 resolution.
Honestly, all I really wanted was for the Mac to put the monitor into its native resolution and then adjust the text height and other scale values to make it look right. But whatever. At least I can make it look good.


texts: Which text editors take advantage of Lion's Versions feature?

texts:
I've been a fervent user of Textmate for many a year, and I hope to continue to be one. However, the versions feature of OSX seems like a great and easy to use idea.

I'm mostly doing HTML, CSS and PHP, and I am a solo developer. Admittedly, I probably haven't spent enough time trying to work it in, but I've never managed to fit SVN or git into my workflow. However, I recognise their potential usefulness.

So, are there any lightweight text editors suitable for web designers/developers that work with Versions?

Useful features would include:

Syntax highlighting
A project view/sidebar
Auto-indent


texts: Which iCloud service runs in background in OS X?

texts:
I wondered which service is acutally updating the MobileDocuments folder in OS X?

I looked through the Apple Developer pages, but nowhere is any information about background services in OS X.

  When i save a file with TextEdit in the iCloud,the file is created in
  the MobileDocuments folder. But how does it trigger the background
  service?

Is there any information about those things yet?


texts: Black hole all IP addresses except for 192.168.1.1

texts:
I have a machine. I want to configure it so that it can only talk to 192.168.1.1 (gitserver) and 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

This machine is meant to be pure work, no distractions.

I'm on OS X Lion.

I'm familiar with iptables on Linux, but not sure how to configure this (or if it's even possible).

What do I need to read up to make this work?

PS: configuring the router is not an option; it's some simple $30 router.


texts: Can I disable the screen recording gamepad shortcut in iOS/iPad OS 14?

texts: As of iOS/iPadOS 14, when you double-press the Share button on a DualShock 4 controller, the Back button on an Xbox Controller, or the Select button on other controllers, it starts recording your screen. Unfortunately, this means that there is an input delay when pressing the button normally (so it can wait and see if you're going to press it a second time). In games where the button is used, this delay is annoying. Is it possible to disable the shortcut?


texts:
I'm running Windows 7 in Coherance mode in Parrellels desktop, and have the task bar visible at the bottom of the screen.

Is it possible to move the task bar down, behind the Mac Dock, without turning on Dock hiding?

Like this:


texts: Does the integrated Intel Iris Pro GPU support an external display?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013.) This model has an built-in Intel Iris Pro GPU and a dedicated GeForce GPU.

Without an external display, the integrated GPU is active and the dedicated GPU is idle.

After I connect an external display, the built-in GPU is idle and the dedicated GPU is active. Power consumption nearly doubles, the system get hotter and the fans turn on.

I expected the dedicated GeForce GPU to only take over when the intensive graphic programs are running, not when running Safari on two displays.

Does the integrated GPU support two displays?

If yes, then how can I get the integrated GPU to support two displays?


texts: Internet sharing option "to computers using iPhone USB"

texts:
Under System Preferences > Sharing, there is an option to share your connection from wherever "to computers using: iPhone USB":

At first glance, this looks to me like:

               [Mac]               [iDevice]
-->--(LAN)-->--˄   ˅-->--(USB)-->--˄

i.e. reverse tethering over USB.
However, according to these two answers, reverse tethering is not possible over USB with a vanilla iOS.
Three other sources describe a way to do it on a jailbroken iOS, but although stated otherwise, this seems to work only with a Windows PC.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the above option is neither "normal" tethering, like

                  [iDevice]               [Mac]
-->--(Mobile)-->--˄       ˅-->--(USB)-->--˄

which would be under "Network":

nor sharing a connection from an iDevice to something else, like

                  [iDevice]               [Mac]               [Whatever]
-->--(Mobile)-->--˄       ˅-->--(USB)-->--˄   ˅-->--(USB)-->--˄

which would be in the "from" field on internet sharing:

So, about the option shown in the first picture:
Evidently it cannot be used to tether to vanilla iDevices, and there's no way Apple would put it there for jailbroken devices, on which it also doesn't seem to work.

So what does it actually do, and what can it be used for?


texts:
Since the last major upgrade to macOS Mojave, I have the Wi-Fi process taking up a lot of memory and in an exponentially way. Time to time I need to force quit it in Activity Monitor because it takes too much memory (around 5 GB). Did anyone else faced the same issue and was able to resolve?

I am using a MacBook Pro 15-inch 2017 with macOS Mojave 10.14.

Edit: I've recently noticed that the Wi-Fi process uses a lot of memory when connecting to the internet through personal hotspot on iPhone.


texts: I'm looking to go rogue. Where do I jailbreak my iPhone 4.


texts: Is there a way to take Flash updates out of the hands of Adobe?

texts:
I swore off Flash for a long while, until the great Safari support in Mavericks. Now I use it without fear.

However, the updating is always a pain. It seems like when I go to certain websites the "Adobe Flash Player Install Manager" fires up and bugs me to update. I don't want to have to think about doing these Flash updates all of the time.

Is there a way to stay up-to-date while not having this app bother me all of the time?


texts: transfering contacts from my old phone to iPhone via Bluetooth

texts: Is it possible to transfer all my contacts from my old phone to iPhone via Bluetooth?


texts: Which built-in tools do Little Snitch-like applications rely on?

texts:
Little Snitch is a well-known piece of software that allows Mac users to block outgoing connexions from a specific app.

Now, whenever I ask how to do the same with built-in OS X tools, I get an answer like: "you can’t do this without Little Snitch. The built-in PF firewall is not an application firewall, and the built-in AF can only block incoming traffic. No OS X tool allows this."

This cannot be true. I mean, in this case, how would Little Snitch, or Hands Off!, or small apps such as RadioSilence achieve this to begin with? These apps themselves must certainly use built-in tools of some sort to block traffic on a per-application basis. I searched for open source alternatives with the idea to have a look at their sources and find out "how they do this". But... I found no open source alternative. Any idea?


texts: Can I erase and reinstall MacOS and not lose my windows partition and my Dual boot option

texts:
I want to downgrade from Mojave and don't have a TimeMachine backup from before.

So my best bet is to erase the current install and reinstall from scratch (with a bootable USB stick with the High Sierra install).

My only concern is my Windows partition:
* will it remain untouched
* will the reinstalled system be aware of that partition and still offer dual boot at ... boot time?


texts: Troubleshooting the USB ports and peripherals on a Thunderbolt display

texts:
I use two Thunderbolt displays with my mid-2012 retina MacBook Pro. I keep my iPhone 5 in a dock hooked up to the left Thunderbolt display via USB. On Friday, I noticed that when I went to commute home, my battery was very low. Odd! Today, I noticed that sitting my phone in its dock didn't make the charging lightning bolt show up next to the battery indicator.

A few minutes of testing proved that all three USB ports on the left Thunderbolt monitor are failing to charge my phone. Using the same cable in the other Thunderbolt monitor, or in the laptop itself, behaves exactly as expected.

How do I go about troubleshooting these USB ports?

UPDATE: OS X (10.9.2) also does not see the camera on the left-hand Thunderbolt display, and won't send sound out through it, either. It's not just the USB ports, clearly. How do I troubleshoot, uh, everything-but-the-screen?

UPDATE 2: From a suggestion in the comments, here are the System Report details on USB, Cameras, and Audio:


texts: terminal script for renaming folders in a specific scheme

texts:
i have about hundreds of movie files stored each in a folder. the scheme i named each folder is like this:

ABCD

for movies with titles starting with A,B,C or D for example. In this folder are those movie folders like this

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 0526 20180223Eph

0526 is a specific number for this file/folder.

I'd like to rename all folders to this scheme:

(0526) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 20180223Eph

but i don't know how to do this on my mac?! please note, that some folders don't have the suffix like 20180223Eph.

It should be done for all movies in one turn - renaming all by using finder would be a little to long...

Thanks in advance,

mnasdaq


texts: MacBook Pro (15" Retina): Where are all the LCI stickers located?

texts:
How many Liquid Contact Indicator stickers are inside a MacBook Pro (15" Retina)?
Where are they all located?


texts: Synching iPhone with internet calendar (.ics)

texts:
Looks like my issue has been around for a while (iOS 5.0.1 (iPhone 4s) unable to synchronize with Internet Calendar File (ics)) — has anyone come up with a fix yet?  I am trying to sync my iPhone calendars with the calendar on my PC that is in .ics format.  The .ics file is located on a home server that allows both me and my wife to see each other’s calendars and its been working great.  Now, I want to be able to see my calendar from my iPhone 4 (with OS 6.1) .. and I’ve tried setting it up with: Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / Add Account… / Other / Add Subscribed Calendar. With every possible configuration I can think of, I get the same response:

  Calendar Subscription — Unable to verify account information

For server name, I’ve tried actual servername, IP address, etc; we do have security on the server but I put in the account name and password … ‘nuthin! Unable to verify. Through the phone's browser, I am able to open up the folder on our server and see the .ics file. The path is

  xxxx.homeserver.com/webcal/nat_calendar.ics.

I've tried sending an invite to myself, opening it in the phone, clicking on the link and I get this error:

  Cannot Subscribe: Could not subscribe to the calendar nat_calendar.ics from myservername.

Seems simple. What am I missing here?
Any ideas?


texts: Smaller Album artwork in iTunes 12.5.1.21?

texts:
I have hundreds of different albums in my iTunes library and would like to see as many of them as I can while still remaining in windowed mode. Unfortunately, iTunes does not have a clear option to display albums in a smaller format.

I have gone under Preferences and selected "List View" as Smallest and I have also tried using Command-J to select View Options but neither has had any impact.

How can I make these unnecessarily large album cover icons smaller so that I don't have to scroll through the equivalent of several pages to see my entire library?


texts:
When I purchase songs from iTunes, I often times hate the way the MetaData is presented. For example, I prefer the format

Artist          Song Name
-------------------------
artist_name     song_name f/ featured_artists

But songs purchased from iTunes usually come in the form

Artist                                    Song Name
---------------------------------------------------
artist_name feat. featured_artists        song_name

My concern is that once I use iTunes match to match all of my music with the music that exists on Apple's servers, iTunes is going to use the MetaData as stored on their servers as opposed to the MetaData that I have meticulously set in my library.

If it is going to use Apple's MetaData instead of my own, this is a complete deal breaker for me.

Does anybody who has signed up for/used iTunes Match know the way iTunes Match behaves in this regard?


texts: Restoring data from iPad to new Mac after old Mac died

texts:
My wife's Mac died.  We sent the hard drive to a data recovery service, but the platters are damaged beyond repair or recovery, nor do we have a usable backup.  Now she has a new Mac.

Her iPad 1 (iOS 5.1.1) still has important data on it, for example audio and video that she worked hard to create herself (as opposed to purchasing it from the iTunes store).  In many cases the only remaining copies of this audio or video are trapped on this iPad.

My vague understanding is that if we were to connect the iPad to the new Mac, iTunes would permanently delete all of this data.

Is there any safe, foolproof, credible way to copy non-purchased audio and video from the iPad to the new Mac, without accidentally destroying it in the process?

It would be nice to get purchased music and apps back too, ideally without having to locate and pay for everything again, but the irreplaceable original content is the more immediate concern here.

Although I consider myself to be fairly tech-savvy in general and I've used a Mac for years, unfortunately I'm not at all familiar with the iPad or even with iTunes -- basically I have zero experience or knowledge of either of those things.  We don't have access to another identical iPad to play with, and I'm extremely reluctant to experiment now and possibly destroy this important data.


texts: What is this strange process `qemu` connecting to minergate.com?

texts:
I noticed this in Little Snitch:

qemu-system-x86_64
/usr/local/Cellar/qemu/3.0.0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
Total: 444 B sent, 0 B received
    Outgoing to xmr.pool.minergate.com (78.46.23.253, 46.4.119.208), Port 45700, Protocol TCP (6), 222 B sent, 0 B received
    Outgoing to xmr.pool.minergate.com (78.46.23.253, 46.4.119.208), Port 45700, Protocol TCP (6), 222 B sent, 0 B received

I blocked it but couldn't stop it from reloading. I couldn't find it in LaunchControl. (I never installed qemu via Homebrew.)

Is this some kind of bitcoin mining malware? Any way to figure out where it came from?

For now I just deleted the binary.


texts: Pins in headphone jack pushed inside, is it possible to remove the metal sheath and fix them

texts:
So one of my MacBook pros headphone jack's pins has been pushed inside, and no amount of using a toothpick is fixing it, so it's it possible to take apart the computer, remove the metal casing for the headphone jack and push the pins back?

It's an old laptop (2012) so it's not covered by warranty.


texts:
Has anyone made Keywurl work with Safari 5.1 after their Lion upgrade?

I tried updating the MaxBundleVersion without luck:

http://hacketal.com/making-keywurl-work-with-safari-5

I'm not interested in using Glims, SafariStand, etc, I just want Keywurl to work.


texts:
I wanted to duplicate a note and remove some of the texts. But I forgot to duplicate the note. So I did remove most of my writings accidentally. Closed to app and when I went back on it I saw the disaster my work have been lost.

Is there a place where we can go back in time and choosing a note from versioning like on Dropbox?


texts: Mail viewing custom headers doesn't work

texts:
My mail forwarding service has recently started adding a "Resent-From" header to all the messages, and I'm trying to filter this out in Mail.app.

I go into Preferences -> Viewing and select "Show message headers: Custom...". The list is initially empty, so I add "From", "To", and "Subject".

When I then view messages, I still see other headers like "Resent-From" and "Reply-to". And if I go back into Preferences and click on that dropdown again, the list of headers is empty again.

How do I get this to work properly?


texts: How can I play local multiplayer games on Apple TV

texts:
I would like to play multiplayer games such as Beach Buggy Racing on my Apple TV 4th generation. I wonder if I need to buy an MFi game controller, such as the Steelseries Nimbus or if I can just use iPhones as remotes together with the TV remote?

I've read that up to two MFi game controllers are supported. However, Beach Buggy Racing seems to support up to four players in split screen. Has that limit been lifted or would we need to use a combination of iPhones, Siri Remote and iPhones as controllers to get to four?


texts:
At some point towards the end of last year (2019), Wi-Fi started frequently dropping off and then automatically reconnecting on my MacBook Air 2018.

At least two things happened around that time, that could have triggered the issue, but I do not remember when they happened and in which order, and whether it even was before or after the issue started occurring:

macOS update from Mojave to Catalina,
light drop of the laptop, which didn't seem to have affected anything else.

Things I gradually noticed during the investigation:

My connection is 50Mbs down / 4Mbs up, and it seems to be easier to reproduce when uploading data rather than downloading. Consistently able to reproduce when on a Skype call.
Eventually able to reproduce when downloading a file from test FTP server, even with very low speed limit set on client side.
Able to reproduce at home with 802.11n (2.4 GHz) network.
Unable to reproduce at home with wired connection.
Unable to reproduce at home with any other device using wireless connection, including another mac laptop (MacBook Pro 2018), Android phone (Motorola moto G6), and Windows laptop (Asus Y50-70).
Unable to reproduce in the office, where network is mixed 802.11ac (5 GHz) / 802.11n (2.4 GHz).
When watching /var/log/wifi.log around the disconnect events, the following line caught my attention for some reason:

<kernel> AppleBCMWLANCore::getSSIDData(): Get failure: APPLE80211_IOC_SSID: -528342013

Various tweaks I tried, none of which helped:

Changing home router settings (transmission mode between b, g, n and mixed b/g/n; transmission rate; channel; channel width between 20 and 20/40 MHz; multicast rate)
Disabling IPv6
Resetting NVRAM
Wipe all WiFi settings from MacBook
Lowering MTU


texts: How can I see (and delete) app data for apps that aren't installed?

texts:
I recently did a "restore" of my iPhone, and loaded data in from a backup (an iTunes backup, not iCloud) So, all my apps were gone- I had to re-download them. So I did, but I noticed that when I did so, the data was all still there.

However, I didn't (and don't want to) reload all the apps I had installed. So, what I want to do is be able to see which other "not currently installed" apps have data on the device, and be able to delete some of them. How do I do this?

(Or, was it actually just pulling this data from iCloud, despite that I was using an iTunes backup?)


texts: How can I modify a package from the Mac App Store?

texts:
I used to hack at apps on my Mac all the time (change the icons/sounds etc... in the resources folder of the package). I have tried with apps downloaded from the App Store, but it no longer seems to be possible. In fact, even creating one empty file will stop the app from launching. I assume that Apple are doing some kind of one way hash of the application folder, and checking if it has changed.

Is it possible to either bypass the code-signing check or be more sophisticated about modifying apps that are signed and downloaded from the Apple Mac App Store?


texts: Accidentally used dd on my main OSX drive

texts:
I've made a bit of a balls up...

When attempting to create a bootable Ubuntu usb drive I accidentally ran dd on my main system drive :(

sudo dd if=/path/to/image.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m

I realised what I'd done pretty quickly but everything seemed fine so I re-ran the command on the correct drive /dev/disk2 and thought "phew not sure how I got away with that"... Then things started going wrong... I could continue using the applications I had open but opening anything new / accessing the hdd caused that thing to lock.

Sadly I haven't been using time machine, lesson learnt!

I spoke to AppleCare who said I need to reformat the machine but I'm really hoping there's some way to restore whatever 1m I destroyed (I'm assuming something to do with the partition information). Wishful thinking?

Also, AppleCare told me to restart, which means I can only user repair mode utils.

Help!


texts: How can I transfer my contacts from iPhone to MacBook?

texts:
I don't know why I'm unable to do such a simple thing, I have tried everything which I could find on Google search. I want to transfer all my contacts from my iPhone to my Mac so that I can manage duplicate contacts.

Why Apple doesn't allow  such an easy thing to be done with ease? Why I'm not allowed to move my contacts from iPhone to my computer.

Problems I'm getting:

The iCloud method: In my iPhone when I got to Settings -> My Name -> iCloud -> Contacts. The "Contacts" is already on, and I don't know what to do next.
The iTunes Method: When I click on "info"  in iTunes tab (after clicking on my iPhone icon) I get something written like "Your contacts are shared over air via iCloud" (I don't remember the verbatim).

Please help me.


texts:
I have a script (which backs up, using rclone) that I can run from the Terminal  or Automator after chmod a+x, with no permissions problems.

However, when this script is run in cron (or launchd), stderr shows  "/bin/bash: /Users/joshua/script.sh: Operation not permitted."

I am more familiar with Ubuntu, where this approach works fine.

What do I need to do here?

Edit: The above question remains relevant, but note that launchd is the favored cron replacement for Mac, while Automator is available for application-level scheduling.


texts: I have an early 2008 17 inch MacBook Pro, and I'm trying to upgrade it to run more like a modern laptop. What are the first things to upgrade and some top priorities. Also when would it cross the line where it would just be easier/less expensive to buy a somewhat new macbook. Thanks for any advice.


texts: If the Dock fails to relaunch after killing it, is there any way to force it to relaunch?

texts:
Every now and then I encounter an issue or bug in macOS that requires me to kill the Dock process. (For example, oftentimes some of my keyboard shortcuts for switching spaces stop working and the only way to fix it is to restart the Dock.)

However, sometimes when I kill the Dock it will fail to automatically relaunch, leaving my system in an unusable state. Aside from something like rebooting or logging out of my user account and logging back in again, is there anyway I can force the Dock process to launch again?


texts:
My computer is getting old (almost 6 years old I think) and is becoming increasingly slow. The past few week were pretty bad and I am now realizing that my computer is continuously short on physical memory. Here is a screenshot of the memory activity showing that 3.98GB out of my 4GB of physical memory are used.

This screenshot was taken while I was using my computer as I usually do, not very intensively. I had 2 Safari windows open (gmail and StackExchange), I had two .txt files of about 10kb each opened with Sublime Text 2 and had the R (programming language) console opened but nothing really heavy was running and no particularly big objects were stored. I had 4 terminal (Bash) windows open to manipulate files and some ssh connections but nothing was running at the moment of the screenshot. I also had a 328kb pdf was open in Preview.

Safari is taking much memory (at least more than what I would expect), so I switched to Google Chrome (but Google Chrome is known for taking much CPU) and to Firefox but the problem was not persisted.

Are those applications taking too much memory? If yes, how can I solve this issue? Am I just overestimating the capacities of my computer (but I felt like I didn't such issues before)?

FYI: My machine is a MacBook Pro running on OSX Yosemite (10.10.2) and here are some other screenshot in case it helps!


texts: Is there a video player on windows for iPhone recorded videos?

texts:
I want a video player which can play iPhone 8 recorded videos on windows 10. Windows media player plays some but doesn’t play others ... same for VLC player.
Thank you

EDIT:
More details were requested so here they are:

Is the VLC media player updated ?List item
-> Yes
The file format of the videos that don't and do playback?
-> .MOV doesn't play(except few which were actually live photos) /.MP4 plays.
Do they play on a different machine?
-> No. Not on windows machine.
are the files showing black, or what is happening when you
double-click click them/open them in VLC? Any error message?
-> No error message on VLC. It doesn't play. Nothing happens on VLC whereas on Windows Media player it says an error occurred.

Hope that helps. Thanks.


texts:
iPhone 8: Instagram has problems loading stories. The circle appears and it is loading dozens of seconds each video or freezing at loading.
What I have done so far:

tested on Wi-Fi
tested on cellular data
turned on/off assistant (to smart switch between Wi-Fi and cellular data)
reinstalled instagram app
rebooted phone

Other apps are working ok, the problem exists only in instagram.
EDIT: Seems like from 2020-12-18 the problem is gone on iOS 14.2. I suspect Instagram app update has resolved the problem. iOS 14.3 seems fine also.


texts: Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”?

texts: I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the mouse is starting to show its age and I've been looking at Apple's Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, and I'm wondering - do either of these support the "middle click" operation? If not, is there a gesture or a multi-finger click that can be used for the same things (i.e. opening new tabs, etc)?


texts: Google Maps: mark road as Closed on iPhone/mobile (Directions)

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Is there a way to mark a road as Closed in Google Maps Directions on a mobile phone (iPhone but likely to be the same on Android)?

So that the itinerary is changed, avoiding that closed road.

Note1 on the desktop version the road is to be "report as closed", but didn't see that on the mobile version.

Note2 any other solution that makes Maps avoid that road is welcome as well.


texts:
When I connect my first-gen iPad to my Mac, I have in duplicates in my iTunes. This song have a gray font and have a circle next to their names. Here is a screenshot:

Any idea how to remove this songs? Why do they always show up even after deleting all of my songs off of my iPad?


texts:
I am trying to sign up for Apple Developer membership, and I've enrolled and paid for 1 year.

But after trying to sign in to my developer account, it states that my membership is pending and to complete your enrollment by purchasing the membership.

But I've already bought it and they sent a confirmation email to me.

Does anyone have an idea why it is telling me to complete your enrollment by purchasing the membership?


texts:
When I list out launchctl, I'm seeing nearly a hundred instances of iterations of:

Command: sudo launchctl list | grep --invert-match com.apple yields:

1   -   0x7fb4b0f38e50.anonymous.launchd
711 -   0x7fb4b3e4dd70.anonymous.xpcd

What might these be or how would I go about prying open these to see what they are precisely and why there are so many instances of these?


texts: I want to update an app but it asks for another Apple ID

texts:
Yes, this is asked a lot, but most people suggest deleting the app and re-installing it with your own Apple ID. I can't do that, because I have made serious progress and I lose it all if I do that. You can't connect to the app through Game Center etc, so I can't transfer data that way either.

What can I do?


texts: How to sync ForkLift Favourites and settings across computers?

texts:
is there any 'easy' way to sync my ForkLift so I don't have to keep updating my three computers every time I add an FTP for example..

I thought about doing a symlink via dropbox but I don't have idea of which folders contain this information.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Luis.