texts: Is there a Services.msc or ntsysv utility for OSX? I just want to harden my OSX by disabling any unwanted service and it's ports.


texts: Is it possible to change the color of the window title bar (possibly with Terminal.app) like in Firefox?


texts: how to activate internet tethering in iPhone 3G

texts: I am using an iPhone 3G and surfing internet on it. I want to connect this phone with my laptop so as to surf internet on it, but my iPhone carrier does not support the internet tethering option. It is invisible. Is there any way to enable that option.


texts: Disable Airplay on Mac because of too many Airplay devices

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I'd like to find a solution to my problem. I recently moved to a dorm of around 1100 students, and each one of these students has a mediabox that is also an Airplay device.

Because of this, the Airplay service seems to completely destroy the sound on the client and make it very slow. I've worked around this by just disabling bonjour altogether by unloading the mDNSResponder and mDNSResponderHelper plists from the launch daemons, but this also makes the multicast announcements of my IPTV service fail.

I've tried blocking the bonjour packets to no success either (with Littlesnitch).

I'd just like it to not load the Airplay devices at all, so it doesn't get hogged up with them.

Information about my system: OSX 10.9.3 (on both a Macbook and an iMac).
Things I've tried:

Chmodding the mDNSService to 000 (doesn't work that well)
Blocking the ports associated with Airplay announcements (5353)
Completely unloading the mDNSResponder and mDNSResponderHelper

I'm connected through a wired network, and the announcements are sent via multicast announcements (as with my IPTV).


texts: Is it possible to enable Legacy FileVault for a network user?

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I am running Mac OS X 10.8 Server with File Sharing and Open Directory providing home directories to network users, so when users log in their home directory is automatically mounted over AFP.

Is it possible to enable "Legacy" FileVault (FileVault 1) where the user's home directory resides inside an encrypted DMG sparsebundle when the user is an Open Directory user whose home directory resides on a network share?

I know this could be done in 10.6 server for mobile clients but I do not know if it can be done in 10.8 server.


texts: 4k Monitor, 2014 Macbook air, and an all around DILEMMA

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I would like to get a 27 inch 4k display to hook up to my early 2014 macbook air. My Early 2014 Macbook air only has a thunderbolt 1 connection and I an aware it is not possible to get 4k quality through my thunderbolt 1 connector.

Could I still use the display, using a thunderbolt 1 to thunderbolt 3 adaptor, and get a decent quality, perhaps 2k, on it without anything looking distorted?


texts:
I'm continuing to hatch a plan to keep running whilst emergency repairs are carried out on my MBP. Further to a question I posted on Monday I'd like to know if anyone could shed light on whether this is possible.

Can I take my MBP drive out, put it in a caddy, plug it in to an iMac and boot my drive via the external then run it as a normal setup? I understand this might run slower, hopefully not too much. The main thing though is to not have to break from routine for long to get things up and running (owing to a huge deadline a week out that my laptop is too unstable to meet).


texts:
I use gmail will the OS X mail app. When I get a new email, there's about a five minute delay until a notification appears. It's instant on my android phone.

I can check for new mail every minute. Is it possible to make it instant?


texts: Do any OS X twitter apps integrate well with Notification Center?

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I'm looking for an app to let me keep the twitter integration from OS X (where I can tweet from Notification Center (hereafter abbreviated NC)) but also have my mentions from NC open in the app as opposed to opening Safari or another web browser.

I'm afraid the answer is no app can register/snatch the system twitter notifications intercept Notification Center links in a stand alone app rather than Safari, but I'm going to ask in case this is possible.

Even if I have to turn off the OS X twitter notification in system preferences  or log out entirely to achieve this goal, do any OS X twitter clients integrate well with notification center for either DM or mention notifications?


texts: If I've migrated from iPhoto to Photos, can I safely delete the migrated photo library?

texts:
I used to have iPhoto on my machine and have migrated to Photos. I notice now that I have two photo libraries on my machine that are taking up over 10 GB each. I'd like to reclaim disk space, but I don't know if I can safely delete one of them.

The two files are:

Photos Library.photoslibrary (15.6 GB)
iPhoto Library.migratedPhotoLibrary (11.3 GB)

I'm inclined to think that I can delete the second one because it has "iPhoto" in the name, but I'm unsure of if it is still being used by the new app. Can I safely delete the migrated photo library?


texts: 15.4" Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2012): Broken metal pieces from connector on the motherboard

texts:
Yesterday I was replacing the housing on my 15.4" Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) (A1398). When I was removing the Logic-board, I broke this little metal parts from one connector. I don't actually know what is that connector for (MagSafe 2 charging port maybe?). Is it important? Is that maybe grounding/earthing? Should I be worried about that and fix it?

MacBook is Working normally but it seems to me that it has some static electrical charge right now. I was reading little bit about that - and it says on forums that electrical charge may appear once the laptop is disassembled.


texts: Is it possible to use mini jack to lightning adapter for input?

texts: As now new iPhones are shipping with a mini jack to lightning adapter and AFAIK lightning connector should be super-programable, is it possible to get audio input from a mini jack plugged into adapter? In other words if I take a radio, and I pug a male-male mini jack into a headphones port, can I record the audio on my iPhone?


texts: Universal (MacOS and iOS) iCloud path to file?

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Is there a way to get a universal path to a file in the iCloud directory? That is, a way to copy a path to a file stored in iCloud which will correctly direct to the file whether you use the path on iOS or MacOS?

Specifically, I'd like to link to an iCloud file in my Bear note taking app. However, I want this link to correctly function whether I use it from my Mac or from my iOS devices. Is there a way I can get such a link?

Edit:
Ideally, a solution which also works offline would be best. For example, on the Mac, a link such as file:///Users/username/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~Preview/Documents/my_file.pdf will reveal the linked file. However, this doesn't work on iOS. An equivalent link which works both on iOS and MacOS would be the ideal case. The first solution provided works as a device agnostic link, however, it does require an internet connection.


texts:
I'm trying to access the site http://www.svenskadomaner.se but it's unreachable from my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.5). The domain belongs to a web hosting company and it's not only this specific site I can't reach but all sites on their servers.

What I've tried/checked:

Different browsers
Different connections (home, work, friends)
Different user profiles
Firewall (turned off)
No AV programs (as what I can see)
Checked /etc/hosts
Flush DNS
Changed to Google's DNS
Ping svenskadomaner.se (Request timeout)
Traceroute svenskadomaner.se (stops at first step)
Update to Mavericks

Their IP is : 5.150.255.189

I'm really out of options here. What is the next thing to try?

Note: I can access the sites through a proxy site


texts: How to install windows on Macbook Pro having Apple File System?

texts:
I've MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Mid 2015 having 250GB SSD storage.

I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 (which my MacBook supports as per Apple's Documentation for BootCamp) but not able to do so, in a while.

It looks like my MacBook is on Apple's new file system that is APFS and windows support drivers are not supported yet. (Or I do not know if they support it)

If anyone knows how to do it on a System having APFS, please let me know.

Here's the update on error screens and what I'm seeing:

Step 1: Launch the Boot Camp Assistant and I see this:

Step 2: It asks me to locate and select the ISO file of Windows 8.1 which I downloaded from Microsoft website.

Step 3: I see that it started downloading the Microsoft Support software. Also, I observe that a 4.2 GB of unknown format disk is created in disk utility. (Which I suppose, is a placeholder for the currently downloading Windows support software since Apple says, my MacBook version do not need any external bootable thumb drive)

Step 4: I see that downloading is completed and installation has begun.

Step 5: I check the disk utility once again to see available partitions. (To make sure if boot camp is doing partition in next step or not)

Step 6: I see that disk partitioning has begun

Thanks in advance.

Step 7: I get an error in boot camp which reads: Disk cannot be partitioned.

Step 8: Now, I check disk utility once again to see if any changes are there:

I see that two partitions named as OSXRESERVED and BOOTCAMP are created but they are unmounted by default.

Step 9: I try to rerun the boot camp assistant to try my luck and I get the following error:

Read the error description: It reads as my Macbook's startup disk should be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). But, my MacBook is having APFS which is different from Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Any proper help is much appreciated.


texts: iCal/Calendar and GMail - constantly errors and problems

texts:
I'm using iCal/Calendar on MacOSX 10.8.2 and have one main account on GMail. It mostly works.

However, about every 1 minute - 12 hours (it really varies a lot), I get some errors from iCal that it couldn't find the CalDAV calendar or it got error 404. But then it works again. (It looks similar to this error although the suggestions there don't help me.)

Also, in addition to that, I have some sub-calendars (e.g. for birthdays). Mostly they show up in iCal, sometimes also twice (and then I have all entries double) and sometimes they completely disappear.

This is really annoying. So annoying that I want to have this resolved or I must find an alternative to iCal. I don't always want to click 'ok' on this error dialog. I also don't want to hope for luck that it shows my sub-calendars.

Is there some way to fix this? Or what are good alternatives to iCal?


texts:
long time lurker first time poster (go easy on me...)

I've had this problem since El Cap & its finally driven me crazy enough to post here.

On my 2009 Mac Pro I had 2 drives. 1 with Yosemite & 1 with Windows 8.1 under Bootcamp. I was able to use the Startup Disk Tool to select the Windows drive, hit restart, & boot into Windows no problem. When I upgraded to El Cap, that process no longer worked. I would use the same process, hit restart & my Mac would reboot, land on the gray screen, hang there for a bit, then go to a black screen & bring up the prompt "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY". At which point I have to do a hold the power button down & restart the system that way.

I tried reinstalling Windows, reinstalling El Cap, opening up the EFI partitions of both disks & placing the various directories there, & all sorts of other methods all to no avail.

I recently picked a 2010 Mac Pro tower & hoped that the problem would be solved with a new install of Sierra & Windows 10. No luck. It does the exact same thing.

I can hold Option while booting, select my Windows disk, & proceed to Windows without issue. However, I much prefer the Startup Disk method (It lets me use a non flashed Nvidia card since I don't need to see anything before the system starts).

I suppose my question is 2 fold. 1) Is holding Option + selecting disk the canonical method for booting into Windows & I'm wasting effort trying to get the Startup Disk method to work? 2) Has anyone gotten the Startup Disk Tool to work on their system & if so can you give me any pointers?

Thanks for any help you can offer.


texts: OSX Hierarchy questions and organization

texts:
I've done extensive searching on these questions and have even come across others, however, they do not answer any of my questions.

What are ~/Library and /Library for respectively? I can see they store certain applications, but why there and not /Applications or ~/Applications? I'm confused between the 4.
In my personal system, I see go, git, and android-sdk directories in /usr/local for these programs. Why would these not be stored in those application or library directories I mentioned above?
I know this is all down to choice, but where do I store, or what is a common place to store libraries such as boost that I would use across all of my C++ programs?
in line with the question above, where should I store the projects/source files for my C++, Java, IOS, Android, etc. projects? I feel like my system right now is very unorganized with some projects on my desktop, home directory, etc. because of my ignorance on these things, I want to find a good, organized system.


texts: Changing icon of app using CandyBar failing on OS X 10.4.11 Tiger

texts:
So I'm using OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on Power PC (old iBook G4 - gift/joke for Christmas) and I installed and am happily using CandyBar to customize the icons.

However, I want to customize the icon for TenFourFox, as it isn't all that esthetic. I have the .png, .ico, and .icns of the icon I want to use, but whenever I try to use CandyBar to change the icon, it just takes the placeholder for that type of file, as you can see here:

Default TenFourFox in CandyBar:

Trying custom icon (drag-and-drop):

Does anyone have any clue what is going on and how to fix it?

BTW, I'm using CandyBar 2.6.1, if that could be part of it. The newest version only supports 10.5+.


texts: Auto configuration of mail/calendar/contacts?

texts:
First day when I launched my Mac mini (OS X Lion) and started to use Safari - at some point it asked me (during the login procedure to the Gmail account) if I want to auto configure mail/calendar/contacts for this gmail account.

I think that I clicked "no".

I am curious about this feature and I would like to use it (detection of Gmail by Safari? I don't know what to call it) but I am not able to get it back to work.


texts: Can Photos app on macOS sync faces (or People)?

texts:
I'm running the Photos app on several Macs and have iCloud Photo Library enabled. One of the Macs downloads the originals as well, the others use the Optimize Mac Storage feature. But I can't seem to find out how to sync faces across the devices.
In Apple Support article #HT204486 it states the following:

Photos lets you tag people's faces in your pictures so you can find friends easily. When you use iCloud Photo Library, these faces automatically update on all your devices.
iCloud doesn't automatically update changes to the names associated with Faces or the contents of the Faces photo album in the Photos app. You can tag people's faces with names on multiple Macs, but the face tags and Faces photo albums will remain unique to each computer.

Now I've read this a couple of times but I really can't figure out what this actually means; the first paragraph says "sure, it can be automatically updated on all your devices" but the second paragraph states "but it doesn't update changes".
Simply put: is it, or is it not, possible to have the same faces on all my macs? And if so, what is the best approach for periodically assigning photos to faces/people?
Note that I've seen a similar (one-liner) question, with an appropriate response. But these do not reflect what is stated in the support article.
Update 27 Sep, 2016: now with macOS Sierra and the accompanied Photos app this is still not possible. Meaning the new "People" feature is device specific and is not synched into the cloud. And is therefor useless if you have multiple devices. There is another question for this as well.
Update 20 May, 2017: with Photos v2.0 (3150.4.120), on macOS 10.12.5, the "Faces" feature has been renamed "People". However, it is still not possible to sync people across Macs AND iOS devices.


texts: Give Free Space from "Free Space" partition to a specific partition

texts:
After some issues with my internal disk, I moved my OS on an external drive which is split into :

 - (disk2s2) Macintosh HD (Apple_HFS): my operating system;
 - (disk2s5) Volume 1 (Apple_HFS): My data Storage
 - Free Space: A free space partition resulting in my messing up

I want to give the free space (550 GB) to Volume 1 (my data storage) but the command "resizeVolume" only allows me to give the free space to "Machintosh HD" (my OS) and not to "Volume1".

The issue is that since my partitions are in Apple_HFS formats and not in APFS format, I cannot use the "resizeContainer" command as suggested in other posts.

I don't want to lose any data on both partitions.

How should I do it?


texts: How to install OSX El Capitan downloaded from ftp server?

texts: I downloaded OSX El Capitan in one Mac, then I copied installation files (.app) to shared ftp folder. In another Macs It doesn't start. Is it for security? Can I do that? Can I copy installation files to USB?


texts: Bash Ctrl-A Returns to Start of Line but Doesn't Display Properly

texts:
When I ssh into a Linux server from bash Terminal, I can use CTRL+A to return to the start of line properly, and CTRL+E to go to end of line and everything works fine.

When I use bash locally on my Mac, when I use CTRL+A it logically goes back to the start of the line, but doesn't display the cursor in the correct place.  It displays the cursor 7 or so characters off and doesn't update the line text correct.

Example

find . -name "hello.cpp"

CTRL+A!

find . -name "hello.cpp"
       ^~~ cursor shows here ????

Insert "this is a test" (just to show)

Displays:

find . this is a test -name "hello.cpp"
                      ^~~ cursor is still here ???
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~^ text inserted here ???
^~~~~~^ unchanged for some reason

Command executed

this is a test find . -name "hello.cpp"

I use the same

PS1=\n \e[1;95m \u@\h \e[0;32m\w \e[1;30m $(__git_ps1 " (%s)" ) \n \e[1;95m \@ \n $ \e[0;30m

as I do on Linux.

Version Info

bash version: 3.2.57(1)
terminal version: 2.6.1 (361.1)
OS X El Capitan, 10.11.5


texts: Set Gmail as default mail handler for Mail PDF print option for Snow Leopard

texts:
I handle most of my email through Gmail's web interface either in Firefox or Chrome.

Often I would like to print -> PDf -> mail pdf to a customer.  However the Mail PDF option in the print panel opens up a Mail.app compose window.

Instead I would like this to open a compose panel in whatever browser currently has a copy of Gmail running.

At present I can print directly to PDF, then in Gmail compose, attach, comment, send, then delete the PDF.

An alternative not quite as good solution from my perspective would be for Mail to track the contacts from Gmail so that a few characters would auto complete.  But that solution also eludes me.


texts: How to connect Wireless Keyboard when new hdd on imac 27

texts:
I have an iMac 27 emc 2390, i just had a hdd failure, so i bought a new hdd, plug it in and then start my imac with the instal dvd in.
The point is that my keyboard isn't recognize so i can't boot on the cd so i can t reinstal the OS.
Any ideas please?

i bought a USB keyboard, plug it in, but it seems to work only when the folder ? appears. the keyboard isn't responding before that, making it impossible to hold Option or C or anything else.


texts:
I did a restore on my iPhone 3GS running the latest 4.2.1 (after a failed attempt at jailbreaking).

For whatever reason the applications won't sync. For each of the apps it gives me an error:

The app "iDivide" was not installed on the iPhone "iPhone" because an unknown error occured (0xE8000001).

I've shutdown and restarted the phone, all to no avail.  Everything else seems to sync fine (photos, podcasts, etc...).

How do I sync my apps?


texts: How can a I run a bundled app with Java 11?

texts:
I followed the answer to this question to get a bundled app to work with Java 8...

How to direct an app to use a specific Java version?

I would like to know if I can get it to run with the latest version of Java. I've installed openjdk-11.0.2.jdk using homebrew. I tried the same trick in the above answer, but it didn't work. The app quits immediately without any feedback.

I am assuming that this is a problem with the Java configuration, but it is possible it is an issue with the app (it works with Java 8).

Is there another way to configure macOS to run with Java 11?


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As subject: I cannot edit the file ssh.plist which is located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons.  I want to change the sshd port.

I tried to use 'information' in the finder and unlock it.  This didn't work.    I tried:

As root, I tried..

macos:LaunchDaemons root# pwd && chown $USER ssh.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
chown: ssh.plist: Operation not permitted

I also tried to cp the file to my own Desktop, edit it in situ and cp it back.

macos:LaunchDaemons root# pwd && cp /Users/darren/Desktop/ssh.plist .
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
cp: ./ssh.plist: Operation not permitted

I did this before - a while back.  I think it was maybe the one before Sierra, but I don't recall the 'code name' of that release.

Has Apple locked this file down definitively?


texts: Can you lock the sorting order in Mail? (OSX 10.11)

texts: Just wondering if it's possible to lock the sorting order in Mail? My mom keeps accidentally clicking on the top bars "From, Date, Subject" and getting confused. I'd like to be able to lock it to only sort by date Descending but still display the "From, Date and Subject" tabs so she knows what she's looking at.


texts: How to delete all emails from a mailbox on iPhone

texts: How do I delete all emails on my iPhone4 from a mailbox without selecting them one at a time?  On the last iPhone OS update, something changed which caused all of my old emails to be re-downloaded to my phone.  I have about 3500 emails all but the last few days' I need to delete.


texts: How do I sync iPad to iTunes without losing iCloud stuff

texts:
I have an iPad that has never been synced, It was just set up with an iCloud account originally. I now want to sync it to my laptop to get my photo albums on it, but when I plug it into itunes I am given the option to restore from a backup (taken from my iPhone, so I don't want that) or to set up as a new iPad (I also don't want that, because it sounds like it will wipe the contents (any iCloud data and any apps, etc.).

How do I go about syncing it to this computer without wiping it?


texts: Mac Numbers: How to identify cells that match a range of cells from another table?

texts:
I have two sets of data on two sheets both including customer reference numbers, some of which match. I am trying to run a formula to identify every row in Sheet 2 where the customer reference number is also found on Sheet 1.

I can compare like for like cells but I can't seem to set a range for comparison i.e. Does Sheet 2 Cell B2 match any of Sheet 1 cells C2, C3, C4....C400.

Hope the above makes sense, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


texts: WhatsApp integration on iOS 10 does not work: "You'll need to continue in the app"

texts:
I am using an iPhone 5S and I just updated to iOS 10.
I enabled the Siri support towards WhatsApp in Settings > Siri > App Support.

However, when I use Siri and ask, for example "Send a message to XXX using WhatsApp saying Hello", Siri tells me "Sorry, you'll need to continue in the app".

It seems like the integration has not been enabled yet. Does someone know how to solve this issue?


texts: macOS Sierra lost focus Finder when using mission controls

texts:
I never experienced something like this before I upgrade to macOS sierra a few days ago. At first, I didn't notice it, but after a while, it becomes annoying as hell.

After selected a window from mission control, or just dismiss it (press esc), it just lost focus of Finder and switch to another random apps (Skype, Chrome, XCode, blah blah...)

How to fix this?

Update:

This not only happened to Finder, but System Preference and sublimeText as well. Probably more apps might affected by this issue. But some apps (xcode, skype, chrome...) are not affected. I'm so confused....

Update 2: I've found the reason, but it's not satisfied me!

The reason for this lost focus is because I've set the option of Finder in dock assign to all desktop:

It won't lose focus anymore if I set it to a specific desktop. However, I'd like to have all Finder in all desktop as I used to it before :( still annoying.


texts: What 4K modes does MacBook Pro (Late 2011, Radeon HD6750M) support?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011, and I'm planning to buy a 4K monitor (http://www.samsung.com/levant/consumer/computers-peripherals/monitors/led-monitor/LU28D590DS/ZN).

However, all the Internet is bloated about 4K support with different answers about 4K support on MBPs. Some say it's not possible, some say only at 30 or 24Hz, some say with multistream etc.

What can I exactly get with late 2011 MacBook Pro (Mavericks 10.9.4) in terms of 4K?


texts: i bought a new macbook pro with mountain lion preinstalled and i dont know how to put it on my older 10.6.8 Imac. There is no file for it on the macbook and says i havent bought it in the app store.


texts: Pressing the control key with AppleScript

texts:
I use Voice Over and Dragon Dictate. I have figured out how to make Dragon Dictate press Control-Option-A, which makes Voice Over read a page of text, and now I would like to figure out how to tell Voice Over to stop reading through Dragon Dictate. The trouble is that the Voice Over keystroke is just Control. I have never been able to find any AppleScript key code for this.

On the same note, whenever I read about keystrokes in AppleScript, I get the impression that I'm always expected to press some other key along with the control, the command or the option modifier key. But what if I just want to press one modifier key through a program like Dragon Dictate?


texts: Cannot bind 127.0.0.123 to tcp socket python

texts:
I'm trying to learn TCP sockets for my project. I will be using them to transfer files between computers.

The server client combo copied from some tutorial runs fine as long, as the ip I'm trying to bound is 127.0.0.1. When I change it to anything less standard, like 127.0.0.123 OSX says, that I cannot bind to this address:
socket.error: [Errno 49] Can't assign requested address

I have no problems on debian tough.

Server code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket

TCP_IP = '127.0.0.123'
TCP_PORT = 50050
BUFFER_SIZE = 1024  # Normally 1024, but we want fast response

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.bind((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
s.listen(1)

conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'Connection address:', addr
while 1:
    data = conn.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)
    if not data: break
    print "received data:", data
    conn.send(data)  # echo
conn.close()

Client code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket

TCP_IP = '127.0.0.123'
TCP_PORT = 50050
BUFFER_SIZE = 1024
MESSAGE = "message sent from client to server"

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
s.send(MESSAGE)
s.close()


texts: Is it possibe to upgrade and re-jailbreak (in order to unlock) a 3Gs running on 4.1?

texts:
I have a locked 3Gs running 4.1 and it's pretty annoying not be able to install anything on it anymore (most apps nowadays require at least 4.3)

I can not unlock it officially because i bought second hand two years ago and can't reach the person i bought it from :s

So i would like to know if it will be possible to jailbreak it (to be able to unlock it) after upgrading it, or should i just leave it at 4.1 and use the basic functions ?

Modem firmware : 06.15.00

Thanks


texts: Apple Mail is not syncing completely with Gmail account

texts:
I have a Gmail account. For years, it has sync'd very nicely with my Apple Mail folders. Now, several of my Mail folders are no longer syncing with their respective Gmail Label (folder). In some of these folders may show some of the emails stored in my Google Gmail account, but not all. Some other Mail folders are completely empty now despite the fact that their may be 100-150 messages stored in the respective Gmail Label (folder).

I have tried using Apple's "Rebuild" function in Mail, but nothing happens in the Activity window. Any suggestions?

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 16 GB Ram; 480 GB SSD


texts: *Persistently* disable password authentication in SSHD on macOS

texts:
I want to be able to SSH in to my mac.

I do not want to be able to use passwords to authenticate.

I know how to configure this, what to put in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  But every time I install even a minor OS version upgrade, I have to go make these changes again, and its failure mode is "fail dangerous" - it simply starts allowing password authentication again.

Is there some other way to tell the OS not to re-enable password authentication on every update?


texts: Move Bootcamp to external drive - restored, fdisk - still not recognized as bootable!

texts:
I want to copy my W7 Bootcamp partition to an external HDD, and be bootable of course. It is currently functioning fine alongside Yosemite on a different HDD.

DiskUtility Restore works...
I marked the partition as active...
But the new Bootcamp partition is still not recognized on start-up.

Please help!

Details:

Currently using (and working from) Yosemite OSX10.10.2 on an
internal SSD.
Source: HDD1 (external-USB) works fine and can boot as W7 or Yosemite. This is the original Bootcamp partition I want to clone or copy.
Destination: HDD2 (external-USB) is blank and much larger than the HDD1 Bootcamp partition. This is the drive I'd like to copy my Bootcamp partition to and have it bootable.
The HDD1 Bootcamp partition was origninally made with OSX10.6.8.

I have tried:

Formatting HDD2 as GUID-FAT32; using DiskUtility to 'restore' the HDD1
bootcamp partition to; using sudo fdisk to mark as active;
everything seemed to go great but it doesnt get recognized upon
boot-up.
Same as above but formatting HDD2 as MBR-FAT32.
Running disk repair after step 1, looks good.

My fdisk commands:
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1; p; setpid 1; 07; flag 1; p; write; y
...seems to work. See attached image.

What am I missing???

Thanks in advance.


texts: Install old app version on iPad 1st generation iOS 5.1.1 (Windows 10, year 2018 question)

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I've just got first gen. iPad with iOS 5.1.1 and reset it to it's factory settings. Then I installed iTunes version 12.4.3.1 on my Windows 10 PC. Both iTunes and iPad are connected to same account and both are authorized. Now I can search for apps in the App Store.

I've already read tons of tutorials and advice how to install apps on outdated devices. I also checked this detailed answer of Chad's, but so far I find some app I need in App Store, I'm not more able to to do it. Install button on iTunes is now completely disabled.

And the same for any other app on the store.

Now I have now no clue how to handle it. I would be thankful for any advice.


texts: Should I partition an external drive before or after using Time Machine?

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If I partition my external drive into two parts, I'd like to be able to remove the partition at a later time in case I decide Time Machine should take up the whole disk.

Similarly, if I'm using Time Machine right after taking the external drive out of the box, I'd like to be able to partition the drive at a later time with the TM backup data still intact.

Which of the above two actually work?


texts: Guest user randomly created on my Mac, after setting up Find My Mac

texts: How do I disable the guest user? Is there a reason why it gets created? It won't mess up any of my files or data on my computer right? Is find my Mac suppose to randomly create it?


texts: Enable packet filter firewall (pfctl -Ef) temporarily stops all network connection

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I've noticed that when re-setting my firewall with a new set of rules, all network communication completely stops for a short time, until it regains with the new set of rules.

In fact, it also occurs when I start firewall after it was previously closed or when it switch from enable to disable state.

Why does PacketFiler temporarily halt connection every time it changes state (using pfctl -Ef or pfctl -d) ?


texts: I just tried printing a photo and it cuts off the sides. It's a piece of yet so it's quite important to not cut off the sides. Is there a way to set which part of the photo prints? I ended up taking a screenshot ofthe photo when the UI hid which reduced the quality severely and printed a huge black border around wasting a lot of ink. So is there any way to access printer settings as is traditional on the PC/mac?  (Eg choose orientation or greyscale/color)


texts: Siri unable to determine my location despite location services enabled

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Specs: MacBook Pro Late 2012 running macOS High Sierra

I am trying to ask Siri to tell me what the weather is in my current area, but apparently Siri is saying that it doesn't know where I am, despite having location services enabled.

I tried disabling and re-enabling Location Services for Siri through System Preferences, but that didn't seem to fix anything, and Siri said the same thing: "could not determine your location."

Then, I disabled Location Services itself, but when I re-enable it, Siri still can’t tell me where the Mac is.

My timezone is also correct, but Maps isn't able to determine my current location either.

What are next steps in fixing this?

EDIT - Already fixed this by installing the latest macOS update.


texts: Fix Application launcher from Java 1.6 Legacy to Oracle Java 7

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I'm using a Mac Pro 64bit Mojave.

Is it possible to create a .command or .sh or some other low-effort "launcher" for a Java program where all of the compiled code is in the "plugins" dir that does not open a terminal?

My situation is this: I'm tasked with making an old Java 1.6 project, once compiled, work under Java 7 on Mac Mojave.

Initially my issue was that the compiled launcher demanded Java 1.6 "legacy" be installed first where this is a contraint that no, we must not install other JREs before running the app.

But I figured ou that if I make a .sh file which runs the app by pointing the Java 7 binary and passing in the main plugin as an argument I can run the app successfully:

#!/bin/bash
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_80.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
\ -classpath /SOFT/corporateAppName/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0v2.jar
\ org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main

If I then change the .sh to .command I then have a runner from GUI, no need for terminal to start it.

This could be acceptable for the client if it didn't also open a terminal.

The reason I'm not instead trying to have my build generate a mac binary that does not fail with with legacy Java 1.6 needed is because I feel that that is not likely to be doable/ might require a year of work :

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7131356
https://github.com/s-u/rJava/issues/37
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27507016/no-java-runtime-error-in-os-x-10-10-using-oracles-1-8-0-jvm
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44009058/even-though-jre-8-is-installed-on-my-mac-no-java-runtime-present-requesting-t
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19533528/installing-java-on-os-x-10-9-mavericks

The common solution to this seems to be to give in and install the version of Java that macOS asks for and it will not really use it, only for init, or migrate to a version of Java in which the bug is not present (10+) neither of which are an option.

Unless there is actually a way I can change my jenkins-ant-cocoa build process in order for it to generate a launcher that would not present this bug, or also altering the binary launcher in a way that fixes this.


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I had sent my MacBook Pro for a hard-drive replacement which was returned back with a fresh installation of the OS.
But there is no password set when I need to "click to unlock".

How do I set my password ?
How do I retrieve my sudo password ?


texts: Target Display Mode troubles, can't disconnect anymore

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I used to run my 15" MBP with 21.5" iMac in Target Display Mode and everything was fine for a while. But as of a couple recent macOS upgrades, every time I disconnect, the iMac never restores to it's previous state. The screen is black. Once in a while, after 10 minutes or longer, it would come back. But more often than not, I have to power-cycle my iMac.

I have tried every way possible to connect/disconnect. Different port combos, Apple genuine cable, unplugging Thunderbolt physically, Cmd+F2. All of this used to work, but not anymore.

It's really annoying because even if I let my MBP go to hibernate/sleep/screen-off, I end up having to power-cycle my iMac.

Any suggestions would really be appreciated. Is anyone having this experience, as it doesn't seem common?

I have not found anyone complaining about this exact problem.


texts: How to enable logged-in thumbnails for Safari Top Sites for Secure (HTTPS) Sites?

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How do I allow Safari to generate logged-in thumbnails of HTTPS pages? Maybe there's a hidden setting for this?

Right now thumbnails of secure (HTTPS) pages are rendered without login data. For example, for private GitHub repo I see big "404" error. Most of my Top Sites thumbnails are login forms and error pages for various sites which makes "Top Sites" feature almost useless.

I'm aware that enabling logged-in thumbnails for Top Sites may have security/privacy implications.


texts: Is it good to keep apps closed on iOS devices?

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Is it better to keep apps closed (double tap home button, hold the icon, and exit the app), as much as possible on iOS devices? I know the more apps one has open, the more RAM, for example is used, but would that same principle apply, in measurable effect, to iOS?

For example, would my iPhone (4S in this case), or iPad (3rd Gen) run any faster, or have longer battery life, or do better in any particular way if I had only 5 apps open, versus having 50 open?

Side note: I know there are some apps that don't handle multi-tasking very well (possibly due to a lack of programming expertise?) and hence will deplete battery life while running in the background. I'm not necessarily talking about those.


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Does anyone know of an app that can notify me of new emails in my Gmail in specific time intervals? I mean, I want to set up hour intervals when it is ok to receive notifications.

I have researched a lot and seen apps like pushmail, where you need to forward to another email address, but I wan't something that does not need my mails to be forwarded.

The app will need:

Gmail IMAP connection
Notifications on new mail
Quiet periods (or else OK-to-notify periods)
Custom notification sounds
Nice UI ;)


texts: I am having Macbook Retina(13 inches). How can I check whether laptop's fan is working or not?


texts: How do I kill the "server connections interrupted" window/process?

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When my MacBook wakes up, away from a network it was previously connected to, it shows the "server connections interrupted" window. When I click "disconnect all", I get a spinning beach ball of death. Restarting the finder doesn't help. Logging out and restarting is not possible anymore. The only thing I can do is a hard reset.

Or is there a way to kill the process from the terminal or from the activity monitor?

Strange fact: when the interrupted connection window is beachballing, I'm also unable to invoke the 'About this mac...' command in the apple menu. Nothing happens...


texts: How to change default cell formats in Excel 2011?

texts:
My employer has provided me with Office 2011 on my MBP workstation, running Mountain Lion. They use networked Excel docs almost exclusively, so I need to adapt to it. There's a handy toolbar item for working with default cell formats:

I've got three or four formats I use to code item statuses in the project sheets (to do, problem, incomplete, complete), and I can figure out how to modify these default styles to my preference ... and delete the couple dozen I will never use. The problem is, whenever I open a new doc, all my custom styles are reset and the extraneous defaults I deleted have returned.

Is there a way to permanently change these default styles? I want the changes to persist both for new docs I create, and when opening docs someone else has created. Google has proved fruitless for me, but my search-fu is not the strongest.

PS (Though I would prefer to, please no comments about switching to Numbers. Already had that conversation with the boss.)


texts: Restoring Saved Webpages on Home Screen from Backup

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I ran into an update issue with my iPad, and took it to the Apple store to fix it. When I got there, an employee said that I could only recover from the issue by resetting my iPad. After he reset it, it was left in the 'new' state. I managed to restore my information from a backup that was made a few months back, but one of the most important things that wasn't restored were a large number of Safari webpages saved to the homescreen, organized into sub-folders, etc. These represent quite a large time investment to manually restore, and it may be impossible for me to do so from memory.
I read through this post about restoring additional information through an iTunes re-sync, but I'm not sure that the linked scenario applies here, and I don't have a device to test this with.
I tried reaching out to Apple support / the Apple store, but they could not or would not help me.
Any help that you could provide to restore these saved webpages would be incredibly appreciated! :)


texts: I am leaving for a vacation and leaving my rMBP. How should I store it except from shutting it down? How much charge should I leave in order not to lose too much capacity?


texts: Whenever I am trying to dowanload free apps from the store it asks me about additional purchases. I am unable to understand this . Please help


texts: Why do some applications in System Preferences say "To use the “xxx” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen."

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When I open my MIDI driver in System Preferences I get the following message:

  "To use the “YAMAHA USB-MIDI Control Panel” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen."

Then when I open a normal thing like "Sharing" "Sound" or "Startup Disk", I get the same prompt.  It's as if I'm switching between different modes.

What is going on in the background?  Is this to run some compatibility script?  Why does the system need to prompt for this?


texts: Routers that are compatible with Time Machine

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I'm looking for a router that provides file storage requirements for OS X Time Machine to see the router as a backup destination. I found that Netgear R7000 is supporting it. While unfortunately, Linksys WRT1900ACS doesn't.

Of course, Apple sells their own solution (Time Capsule) which serves as a router and a time machine destination for backups but I don't prefer to invest in that hardware.


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I tried to reload Cydia, which stopped working on my jailbroken iPhone 4. I downloaded "Redsnow" and "Ipsw 4.3.2", which worked, until I went to use and downloaded an app with Cydia.

I did not realize that this jailbreak version needed to be tethered to reboot!
So i put my iPhone back in sleep mode and boot from Redsnow only to have it get locked in the logo boot mode for 2 days now! Yesterday I panicked and downloaded the latest update from iTunes and did a factory instal with no avail - still in this boot logo loop

How can I fix this and use my phone?


texts:
There are two users enabled and used at the same time.
Usually I need to click via mouse the username in the top bar, choose the username2, type in the password.

Am wondering if there's a quicker way.

Like a quick-action callable from the TouchBar; that would benefit also from the close fingerprint sensor over there.
Or maybe simply using a shortcut, that I didn't find yet in the System Preferences.

Any ideas or insights?


texts: Use password window with script code in Terminal on macOS

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I wrote a small command script for changing file permissions in Terminal, but the user that runs the script needs to type in the password of the computer. This happens in the Terminal window itself.

Is it possible to extend this so it gets a popup box where you enter your computer username and password?

This would make the process look cleaner for people that are not into programming.


texts:
There are various resources about how to create a RAM disk, but they all deal with HFS+ RAM disks. But how does one create an APFS RAM disk?

I tried passing APFS as file system to the diskutil command like below, but that doesn't work. Since diskutil has a whole bunch of APFS-related subcommands I assume there's more magic necessary.

DISK_ID=`hdiutil attach -nomount ram://$((4 * 1024 * 2048))`
diskutil eraseVolume APFS "RAM Disk" "$DISK_ID"


texts: Connectivity from iMac to TV via HDMI cable

texts: I connected my iMac to my TV via HDMI cable. The desktop background shows up on the TV, but no other content. Oddly, a couple of the items in system preferences show up, but nothing else. How can I see what's on my computer on my TV screen?


texts: How do I update iMovie to the latest version

texts: I purchased my MacBook Pro in October 2014. It's running OS X 10.10.4 "Yosemite".  Can I update iMovie to the latest version at no charge?


texts: Suddenly T.M. posted 'delayed' when backing up to an external 250 gb drive. I have deleted perhaps 10 old back-ups but freed up space does not show on T.M. Shows 47 gb of space out of of total 214 gb. How can I get this freed up space to occur? Running OS 10.6.8. 2.33 ghz Core 2 duo.  Thanks for any assistance.


texts: When minimizing, not have new window of same app come to focus

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There's a couple of behavior's that I find very frustrating, and no luck yet in fixing them:

Imagine chrome with multiple windows open.  There's one in front, then another application, then the other chrome windows.  When I hit apple + M to minimize, another chrome window pops up, rather than showing me the other application, which would be desired.

Similarly, if I have chrome windows on multiple desktops.  If I'm using one application on the first desktop, go use chrome on the second, and switch back to the first, chrome will appear on top when all I want is the original application!

The wrong window appears on the foreground in leopard.

Thoughts? Thanks!


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ServerAuditor is a free iPad app that allows ssh to a server. I am trying to copy my public key to a server to allow password less login. On a pc this is easy-
Generate the rsa key
open terminal and

a@A:~> cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh b@B 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
b@B's password:

Enter the password and I'm good.

This app however has the following script where $1 is .ssh and $2 is authorized keys and $3 is the public key

if test ! -e $1;
then mkdir $1;
chmod 700 $1;
fi;
if test ! -e $1/$2;
then touch $1/$2;
chmod 600 $1/$2;
fi;
echo $3 >> $1/$2

I think I know what the bash script is doing but why does it change the permissions?


texts: How do I re enable a permanently disabled Notification Center in Mavericks?

texts: I disabled my notification center but i want to re enable it again i followed this link "How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?"


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Occasionally, after reconnecting WiFi, Mail.app's dock icon bounces, and a dialogue prompts if I want to take all of my mail accounts back online.

I can't imagine a single circumstance in which anyone would ever say "no". At the minimum, I always want to choose "yes".

Is there a way to make Mail just always automatically reconnect, unconditionally, without nagging me?


texts: How can I set program associations in mac?

texts: I know the way to change association per extension (get info => open with => change all) but is there a way like in Windows to change association of all video extensions to be opened by VLC like this:


texts: Can't transfer ringtone to iPhone or remove existing from library

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I'm using iTunes 12.7 and iOS 11.3. A while ago I added a long list of custom ringtones that are still in my phone. iTunes can't see them (Tones section is blank). I can use iExplorer to delete the files from iTunes_control, and they then disappear off the phone, but the iExplorer media library still shows them there.

At the same time, I can't transfer any new ringtones to the phone. When I try through iTunes, the files remain greyed out and never transfer to the phone. When I try through iExplorer, the files transfer but never appear on the phone.

View from iExplorer (these are the old ringtones):

View from iTunes (these are the ringtones I'm trying to transfer):

Any thoughts?


texts: Show window preview when switching windows of the SAME app

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I've recently switched to MacOS from Ubuntu, and have been trying to replicate my usual keyboard shortcuts for window management.  I'm using Cmd+` to switch between windows of the same app, but when doing so, I can't see which window I'm switching to until I've already made the switch!
In Ubuntu, it works a bit differently:  it shows a preview of all open windows for the current application.  See below:

Note the preview of each Terminal window.  This allows me to Cmd+` around until I find the window I'm looking for.
Is there any way to add this functionality to macOS?


texts: Connecting a VGA monitor via Thunderbolt to a MacBook Pro

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I have a MacBook Pro 13.3" with OSX 10.8.4, which I use mostly at home and at workplace to connect to external monitor.

At home, I have monitor with HDMI input and at my workplace with VGA input. I'm using a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to VGA and a Thunderbolt MiniDisplay port to HDMI cable convertors.

When I connect the monitor with the HDMI input at home it works perfectly and it connects quickly; that doesn't happen with the VGA monitor. When I connect it, the MacBook detects the monitor, but the monitor is not showing anything and goes to sleep mode.

Sometimes opening and closing my laptop helps, but not always.

After restarting the MacBook, I'm able to connect.

It's not comfortable to always restart the laptop, since I mostly leave it in sleep mode without closing applications. Does anyone have the same problem and found other solutions to this problem? How should I connect a VGA monitor without restarting the MacBook?


texts: I'm trying to download an update for a program I use frequently. The program can only run on a non-case sensitive file system, so it can't run on my main partition. I partitioned a second drive that isn't case sensitive so I could download it. That partition is now completely full. I tried partitioning more space but disk utility says "This partition cannot be modified.". Below is a screen shot of disk utility. What can I do to get more space for my second partition? I tried making a third partition, that was non-case sensitive as well to try and merge them together, but disk utility says "This partition cannot be modified." Please help?


texts:
I shoot a photo in iPad. I want it will be available in iCloud. How can I do it? I cannot see the PhotoStream in iCloud.

I can see all Pages, Numbers etc documents but not photos, I find this very confusing.


texts:
I was trying to delete files inside the current directory with rm -r /./* command. When executed it warned me about removing "...Siri..Application". I kind of panicked, thinking it's trying to delete all files from system and immediately terminated the terminal process.
I want to know if this command deleted any other files. I see most files there and am able to restart iMac so all seems good but just to be sure.

PS: sorry for lack of full warning message. I quickly closed the terminal and not going to try command again to get it.


texts: Why does Apple Activity Monitor report that my Mac with a dual-core Intel i5 Ivy Bridge CPU has 4 cores?

texts:
I just got a new Apple MacBook Pro 13", mid-2012, which has a dual-core Intel i5 Ivy Bridge CPU. When I run Activity Monitor and turn on the Floating CPU Window, it shows a 4-bar graph (indicating 4 cores).

On my older MacBook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo dual-core processor, Activity Monitor only showed a 2-bar graph (indicating 2 cores).

Why does Activity Monitor seem to indicate that my Mac has 4 cores, when clearly it does not?


texts: Export versions of a document (/.DocumentRevisions-V100)

texts:
I'm trying to automate the following process:

get all versions of a document,
check in each version to a repository (Subversion, in my case)

As a half-solution, I'd already be happy with:

get all versions of a document,
name them to include a version info (an incrementing revision number, a timestamp, whatever),
place them in a common directory.

However, I couldn't find any tool, command-line or otherwise, to help with this. Nor does there appear to be Automator or AppleScript support for managing versions, or, some other means of browsing the /.DocumentRevisions-V100 database for a particular document.

I only seem to be able to browse to a particular version, mark it as current, save a copy, then repeat. Is this correct? Has anyone attempted to at least speed this up with UI scripting?


texts: macbook air sleep/wake problem after dual boot

texts:
I installed ubuntu on macbook air 6,2 (Early 2014 model) using these instructions

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir6-2/Trusty

Now whenever I put my mac on sleep (closing the lid) while using os x, the screen doesn't turn on on wake up. So I have to force it to shut down by holding power key and turn it on again.

What should I do?


texts: Creating an animation from a bunch of .pdf files

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I have histograms in a bunch of hundreds of .pdf files.

I would like to find a way to make an animation from these files to use in a Powerpoint presentation.

How can I do that ? It would also be great to be able to view the animation with Quicktime.


texts:
I had an issue with my MacbookAir 2014 last month and I had to erase my hard drive and restore from Time machine backup. Since then, fan of my mac is always making noise. To test what happend, I installed Mac Fan Controller app and now this is what I see.

Min/ Max value of fan is same.

If I want to update it, I get this error message:

  Something is wrong - min/max fan values are equal(6500)

I tried to reset SMC after reading some blog over internet. My Reset procedure was

Removed the Macs Fan Control app
Shutdown my mac and keep the power connector on.
Press Shift+Control+Option (left of keyboard) at once and press power button. Keep like that for 10 sec.
Then release all the buttons at once and power on the mac.

But nothing happen.. Min/Max values are always same.. I am not sure if my sms reset worked or not and how to take the min value to default.

Mac details for reference:

TIA
Ariful


texts:
I have two systems accessing a NAS (Isilon), with local user authentication. On first system (actually two systems with same OSX) running Lion (OSX10.7.5) I used following command:

dscl . -append /Groups/Testers GroupMembership joeuser

Verified his secondary membership with:

dsmemberutil checkmembership -U joeuser -G Testers

This presented "joeuser" to the cluster with access rights based on his secondary group membership and works fine.

On second machine running Mountain Lion (OSX10.8.5) I added & verified joeuser using same commands.

Cluster will not recognize "joe's" secondary membership from the Mountain Lion machine, and will not allow access to directories that were accessible from the Lion machine.

What's changed in user presentation, and how do I fix it / create a secondary membership via different (working) way on the Mountain Lion (and then Mavericks)?


texts: iOS Ad-Tracker blockers. Who is your champion?

texts:
Firefox Focus? BlockBear? Brave AdBlocker?
Another specialized browser? DuckDuckGo? Ghostery?


texts: How to Disable resize window on mouse over edge

texts:
I have my window in full screen and I want to scroll. In Windows, I would just move the mouse all the way to the right side of the screen where the scroll bar is. Then I would click down and scroll. But for Mac, instead of being able to scroll, it shows the drag/resize window cursor and if I press down and move it, it resizes the window.

Is there any way to make it so that I can just scroll the window instead of resizing it?

I'm using BetterTouchTool if there is no built in function and it would help with anything.


texts: iPhone Health "Walking + Running Distance" is way off

texts:
The "Walking + Running Distance" on my iPhone 6 is wildly off.

I've walked <2 miles today (0.5 mile commute, 0.8 miles for lunch, and whatever around the office), yet my iPhone is reporting 10.3 miles. It's been way off like this for a while.

Is there any way to troubleshoot what's happening here? Or recalibrate the feature?

Number of steps seems OK...6767 steps at 1.5ft/step would be about 2 miles, which is close to my estimate.

Additionally, I cannot "Show All Data" for any of the health metrics, the loading spinner just keeps spinning.


texts:
Can a single Apple ID/ iTunes account switch between multiple country AppStores to buy free Apps unique to each country?

If I use my single Apple ID/ iTunes account but move & have moved across countries where certain Apps are only on those country AppStores, can I switch between them and buy Free Apps, yet maintain them on my iTunes and iOS devices?

Additional Information:
I am wondering if this workaround worked for someone / still works?

It was done on Mac OSX, but I am wondering if it can be done in Windows.


texts: System Crashed and Cannot Install Sierra again

texts:
Suddenly my MacBook Pro 2017 running Sierra 10.12.6 crashed and couldn't pass the boot loop (stuck at the apple logo with the filled progress bar for hours)

Then I restarted with command+R and tried to back up my main disk to an external HDD but it fails.
I got the following error:

Validating target...
Validating soruce...
Validating sizes...
Restoring
Could not restore - Device error
Operation failed

I tried to reset NVRAM with holding down Option+Command+P+R, but did not help. When I run first aid from the Disk Utility, it says:

File system check exit code 8.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed...

I run the hardware check (command+D on restart) and it couldn't find any issues. So it is a still matter of software problem..

Then I have created a bootable USB (ownership ignored on the usb) from Sierra 10.12.6. It boots from USB well but when I try to install Sierra on my Macintosh HD got the following message:

The operation couldn't be completed. Permission denied

Do you have any suggestions on how to install Sierra again and/or backup my disk?


texts: MacBook Air Running Yosemite - Merge Two User Accounts?

texts:
I am brand new to Mac.  I very recently migrated all of my files from my Windows PC.

When setting up my MacBook Air initially, I was instructed to create a user account.  When I migrated my files from the Windows PC, it created an entirely separate account.

Is there a process to combine the two together or possibly migrate files from one to the other and delete one account?

Thank you very much.


texts: Latest OS X update broke my preexisting dual screen setup (10.12.6)

texts:
I just updated my MacBook Pro mid-2012 Retina 15in to the latest OS X and now that I've rebooted it doesn't want to go into dual screen anymore. I've used this setup for a long time now (couple of years) and it's never been a problem. I'm connected with a mini-DP to DP cable, and I've tried to reset the PRAM/NVRAM already.

When I connect the cable to my Mac the MacBooks screen starts flickering a few times, then I get a "No signal from cable" message on my other screen and everything goes back to normal on my MB.

I'm really at a loss as to what could possibly be the reason, are there any logs I could look at to see what might be happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

EDIT: I tried booting into safe mode and back, didn't work either. I'm looking for a HDMI cable but may have to buy one to test if that works.

EDIT2: I managed to find a HDMI cable and it works fine with that but not with the miniDP to DP cable. Weird.


texts: I have a MBP that suddenly stopped detecting an external projector. I have used the same laptop with the same projector before. Right now when I boot the same laptop to the Windows partition it works fine with the projector, so I don't think it is a hardware problem. Any suggestions as to what to try? I have tried the "detect displays" trick and that doesn't seem to work.


texts: What must I enter into Terminal, using sudo to make myself an administrator?

texts: My user account is a standard account on my Mac. What must I enter into Terminal using sudo, to make myself the administrator?


texts: Should I reformat a disk if Disk Utility asks me to?

texts:
I have a FAT32 external disc that was suddenly unmounted as I was using it. When I reconnected it and tried to Repair it in Disk Utility, I got the following messages:

Verify and Repair volume “COMMON”
Checking file system** /dev/disk3s1
Can't open (Resource busy)
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

I then tried to do only a Verify, which succeeded:

Verifying volume “COMMON”
Checking file system** /dev/disk3s1
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
29576 files, 36220416 KiB free (1131888 clusters)

I then re-tried the Repair, which succeeded:

Verify and Repair volume “COMMON”
Checking file system** /dev/disk3s1
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
29597 files, 36219680 KiB free (1131865 clusters)
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

Does the fact that the Verify and the latter Repair succeeded mean that the filesystem is in a 100% good state? Or is the verification not exhaustive, which means that it's safer to reformat the disk?


texts: Use find in Terminal to remove directories and files of same search parameter

texts:
If I type the following into Terminal, it will remove all files that meet the search parameter:

sudo find . -type f -name "*Xilisoft*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Then if I start again and type it with d instead of f it will remove all the directories

sudo find . -type d -name "*Xilisoft*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

How do I get it to remove type f and d in one fell swoop?


texts: How to open FrameMaker files on a Mac with OS X?

texts:
I have some old FrameMaker documents on my Mac (Intel Core Duo, OS X 1.6.6). Is there any way to open this files (readonly would be ok)? I cannot use the FrameMaker 10 trial from Adobe, because it is windows only. There has been a reader/viewer app in the past but I cannot find it anywhere.

There are two file formats:

*.mif is Maker Interchange Format (an XML dialect)
*.fm is FrameMaker binary


texts: Can't access USB hard drive plugged in to Time Capsule

texts:
I have the most recent 2 TB Time Capsule to which I connected (via USB) a 1.5 TB Seagate hard drive.

I expect the hard drive to be visible under "Shared", but nothing appears, except the Time Capsule itself.

The hard drive has two partitions on it, one NTFS and the other Mac OS Extended. The hard drive works just fine when connected directly to my Mac. Where's the problem?


texts: How to sort photos inside a shared album in the Photos app in macOS, iOS, or iPadOS?


texts: Mac Keyboard Doesn't Recognize iPhone via USB

texts:
I have a new Mac Keyboard and I've successfully connected my mouse to it, however when I connect my iPhone nothing happens.  The iPhone doesn't go into a charge state and my MBP doesn't detect the iPhone.  I've tried three different cables with no difference.  Connecting directly to the MBP works fine.

Why would the keyboard support the mouse but not the iPhone?


texts: I want to move my keys from login keychain to system keychain from terminal. Is that possible? I checked the security manual but I can not see the option there to do so.


texts: Airport guest network when the network gets extended

texts: I'm looking to extend both the main SSID and the separate guest network from an airport extreme base station for more range. What apple networking hardware is needed? I presume two express would do the trick, one joining each SSID - but wonder if I can do it with less hardware. Advice or tips appreciated.


texts: My iPhone SE (a1723) doesn't pick up 4G signal, only EDGE

texts:
I bought an used iPhone SE here in Brazil (model A1723) but it doesn't pick up any network faster than EDGE, I can make phone calls and browse the network in slow speeds.

In settings I can see that 4G is active, I've already tried resetting the network settings but no luck, any thoughts?


texts: Speed comparison of iPhone 3g with iOS4 and iOS3?

texts:
I have heard that running iOS4 would slow down my 3G. Does anyone know of any reliable data on whether that is the case or not, and if so, by how much?

Related Questions

Is it worth upgrading my jailbroken 3G to iOS4?


texts: Is my Mac infected with the Flashback trojan?

texts:
I own a 2011 model of MacBook Pro with a Core i7 processor and Snow Leopard. I have found out there is a trojan horse which now controls 600,000 Macs.

How can I find out if my MacBook is being controlled?
How can I remove the trojan?


texts: Recently scrolling up and down gesture triggers page change gesture

texts:
Recently my mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro's trackpad has started exhibiting some strange behavior. Attempting to scroll up or down using the two finger gesture randomly seems to trigger the page back/page forward gesture.

I've tried rotating my macbook slightly to correct for any slight variation in my finger positioning, however that doesn't seem to help.

I don't know the exact point where this began happening, but I'm sure it wasn't like this a year ago. I'm currently running Yosemite, after upgrading from a clean install of Mavericks.

Edit: This is primarily happening in Google Chrome. I will try other browsers but I suspect this is irrelevant.


texts: Wiped drive, now can’t reinstall El Capitan from Recovery because the "item is temporarily unavailable"

texts: I wanted to clear room on my computer, so I restarted the computer with cmd+r keys and opened OS X Utilities. I erased my drive and wanted to reinstall OS X El Capitan. After I agreed to the terms then selected my drive I signed into the Apple store. I put the confirmation code in from my phone and it said “This item is temporarily unavailable Try again later”. I tried restarting it and trying then shutting it down and trying but it still won’t work.


texts: Is it possible to add background music (with or without video) to the login screen on a Mac?

texts:
I've never seen this question asked before, and provided that Terminal exists I don't see why this wouldn't be possible.

Does anyone know whether this is, or how they would make this possible?


texts: Can't relaunch/use finder on a 2019 MacBook Pro

texts:
The finder app on my new 2019 MacBook Pro is unresponsive and if I relaunch it then nothing happens.

It's a newer MacBook and thus the power button is the touch ID button. I tried to power off the MacBook by holding down the touch ID/power button but that doesn't work.

I also let the battery run out hoping that that would power down the machine but it appears to only go to sleep.

So how can I fix finder on this new touch ID MacBook pro that I can't seem to shutdown.

..and of course I can't shut it down via the apple logo in the upper left.


texts: System Preferences continues to open on my broken laptop screen even though everything else works successfully on my external monitor?

texts:
My MacBook Pro screen is broken so that I can only see blurred edges and cannot use it at all.  I have an external monitor arranged with the menu bar and all other apps working fine but every time I go to System Preferences, it tries to open on the laptop screen instead. I can't figure out any way to get that window back and even my Display preferences are in that same menu I can't see.

I need my laptop open for the keyboard and mouse so I am at a loss.


texts: Stuck on 'Press home to upgrade' with a broken home button

texts:
I had recently backed up my phone (iPhone 6+), and had to restore it since it was playing up, and when the phone turned on, I was greeted with the 'Press home to upgrade' screen. I had my assistive touch on the top of the screen, tried to press it but it didn't respond. I tried factory resetting it through iTunes, but iTunes requires me to input the password, which I can't really do. I can't put the phone into recovery, because as I previously mentioned, the home button is broken.
What can I do to get my phone back?


texts: How do I install an old app on a new phone?

texts:
I recently purchased an iPhone 6, and I used to use an iPhone 4.  I have several apps on my old phone that I'd like to bring onto my new phone.  I've backed up these apps into my iTunes, and I'd like to install them from my iTunes onto the new iPhone.

My problem is that, when I try to install the apps onto my new iPhone, it won't let me do so without deleting all of the existing data on the new phone.  I've been using the new phone in the interim, so I've got a bunch of stuff on it that I'd rather not lose.

How can I install these older apps onto my newer phone without losing everything?


texts:
When I go to 'Recents' in iPhone, I can see the location of my callers. I'm wondering how this location is determined.

Is it the exact location of the caller at the time of the call, or just where the area code is registered?


texts: Stop Firefox from asking me about blocking Flash

texts:
Lately it seems like there's a new "critical" update to Flash every week or so. And every single time this happens Firefox begins prompting me to Allow or Disallow flash on every single website I visit which uses it. Until in frustration I give in and update Flash.

The thing is, I don't necessarily want to update flash. I also don't want to continually click "Allow" on a multitude of websites.

Is there a global configuration setting that either says "Allow Flash forever on all websites" or "Stop asking me I don't care, just leave me alone already Firefox"

Note: Flash is already set to "Always Activate" so that doesn't work.  This is something new that's just begun happening and it happens across all platforms I use firefox on - Linux, OS X and Windows.


texts: An external drive has TM backups from two Macs running OS 10.6.8 which held thousands of files in common, one copy on each. Now I want to repurpose that drive, but keep a lot of the files from the TM backups for day-to-day use (30 K photos). How do I convert the protected backups into ordinary files I can delete, move, rename and so on? If there's a way to do this without using the console, I'll be in pig heaven. Thanks!


texts: Audio settings in High Sierra resetting after reboot

texts:
I have this issue where my selected audio device will reset to Digital Out after I restart.

I have searched online and found some people suggesting deleting some configuration file for older versions of Mac OS, but the file doesn't exist in my computer.

Anyone knows what file holds these settings so I can see if it's a permissions problem?

Or if anyone knows what the true solution is please let me know.

thanks.


texts:
Preface

I have an iPhone and am getting my own phone number. I have been warned that a factory reset will take place when installing the SIM card/phone number. I do not have a Mac computer, nor access to one (all of my friends/family use Windows). I want to be able to view my iMessages chat history (at least the text and timestamp, but images, stickers, reactions etc would be nice) after getting the new number. Turning on "Backup iMessages to iCloud" requires setting up 2FA (adding a phone number, which I don't have yet). I am signed into the iPhone with an Apple ID (my_email_handle@gmail.com). The device is not jailbroken.

Question

How can I view my iPhone iMessages chat history after a factory reset (without a Mac computer to first backup the history)?


texts: How can I avoid iTerm trying to scp a file when ⌘-clicking it?

texts:
I am working with a developer setup so that I run my code in a docker container and be able to edit it locally (via volume). Local path is e.g. /path/to/my/project while inside docker container it is /app/source.
Say I have a file relative to the project called app/models/team.rb.
On an error in the container I see an output like this:
/app/source/app/models/team.rb:13:in my_method...

iTerm seemed to be smart about the open on ⌘-click such that it underlined only the app/models/team.rb:13 (incl. line number) when I hover over the a of app (unfortunately only on the first character), and opened the local file in my editor (VSCode). That was already great.
I now added an iTerm profile that identifies when a session is running inside docker (greedy: auto profile switching checking for "&docker") and sets the hostname and path via Triggers and regex (besides colors etc). This also works fine.
However now when I hover over the filename, the whole path is underlined and when I ⌘-click, iTerm tries to download via scp (which fails).
How can I avoid iTerm to try to scp the file and make it realize again how to load the local file?
I already tried not to set the hostname, but this results in iTerm not providing anything anymore for opening. When I don't set the path then it's working like before of course, but I'd like to have this information of the docker container in the status bar.


texts: DNS resolution works for nslookup but fails in browser while using openconnect

texts:
Trying to use openconnect to connect to Cisco Anyconnect VPN.

I just did brew install openconnect and use it from cmd line like this:

  sudo openconnect --authgroup=VPN-SSL-GROUP -u FIRST_LAST@domain.com vpn.domain.com

Then I try to access resource.domain.com name from private network and get:

in Chrome: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
in Network Utility -> Lookup: resource.domain.com -> The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2.)

BUT it gets resolved when I use nslookup from command line:

nslookup resource.domain.com
Server:         10.66.0.1
Address:        10.66.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    resource.domain.com
Address: 10.66.110.24

I decided to check the content of /ect/resolv.conf:

nameserver 10.66.0.1
nameserver 10.66.0.2
nameserver 192.168.100.1 # (this is the DNS address of my home router)

and see that required DNS addresses used by nslookup are in place. (If I use resolved address in browser, I successfully access private resource, so routing works fine)

I googled a bit and learned that DNS resolution works not the way I can expect from Linux. There is a scutil utility which can help to manage actual DNS settings.

Here is a list of my DNS settings which I can see in scutil:

> list .*DNS
  subKey [0] = Setup:/Network/Service/47AA11B0-4713-41EF-B532-FC580ACD3E75/DNS
  subKey [1] = State:/Network/Global/DNS
  subKey [2] = State:/Network/MulticastDNS
  subKey [3] = State:/Network/PrivateDNS
  subKey [4] = State:/Network/Service/47AA11B0-4713-41EF-B532-FC580ACD3E75/DNS
  subKey [5] = State:/Network/Service/utun1/DNS # (this one appears when I am connected using openconnect)

The content of State:/Network/Global/DNS and State:/Network/Service/47AA11B0-4713-41EF-B532-FC580ACD3E75/DNS keys match and is equal to:

<dictionary> {
  ServerAddresses : <array> {
    0 : 10.66.0.1
    1 : 10.66.0.2
    2 : 192.168.100.1
  }
}

The content of State:/Network/Service/utun1/DNS (which only exists after openconnect established connection) is:

<dictionary> {
  DomainName : location.domain.com
  SearchDomains : <array> {
    0 : location.domain.com
  }
  ServerAddresses : <array> {
    0 : 10.66.0.1
    1 : 10.66.0.2
  }
  SupplementalMatchDomains : <array> {
    0 : location.domain.com
  }
}

The other dns-related keys are empty.

I also tried to go Preferences -> Network -> my Wy-Fi connection -> Advanced and set DNS addresses manually. Still does not work.

And I also learned about vpnc-script for openconnect. I found it already existed on my machine and tried to specify it explicitly:
--script /usr/local/etc/vpnc-script but it did not help to resolve private domains.

From what I see in scutil it seems to be properly configured, but for some reasons DNS resolution does not work. Any ideas why? What else I can check and try?


texts: Error attempting to drop a photo from Image Capture into Photos

texts:
macOS 11.2.3 (20D91)
Photos Version 6.0 (330.0.150)
Image Capture Version 8.0 (1106)
When I attempt to drag and drop a photo from Image Capture into Photos I receive the
The application “Photos.app” can’t be opened.
-10813


texts: Macbook Air suddenly will not power on without charger and shuts down without

texts:
I have a Macbook Air model A1466 (mid 2013 model). I replaced the battery early 2020. It worked as normal again until now. It suddenly switched of randomly and after doing this for a day or 2 it will not start unless on the charger. Even worse, when it enters standby mode, when the lid is closed or when the charger is disconnected it will immediately shut down hard. When the charger is reconnected I need to press the power button to do a cold boot.
First guess was the battery. But when i run system_profiler SPPowerDataType it gives me this:
Battery Information:

      Model Information:
          Manufacturer: SMP
          Device Name: BQ20Z451
          Pack Lot Code: 0
          PCB Lot Code: 0
          Firmware Version: 2
          Hardware Revision: 00aa
          Cell Revision: 1
      Charge Information:
          Fully Charged: No
          Charging: No
          Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7094
          State of Charge (%): 95
      Health Information:
          Cycle Count: 124
          Condition: Normal

To me this seems that the battery is ok.
Same when I run a demo version of the app Watts:

I also tried to do a reset of the SMC but that did not change anything.
What can be the issue?


texts: On OS X are iTunes and the App Store apps one and the same?

texts:
I have two MacBook Airs (Running the latest version of OS X 10.9). On one of the MacBooks I decided to get rid of some of the apps that I know I am not going to use. One of the apps that I got rid of was iTunes. But, the App Store forces me to reinstall iTunes... again and again.

So, now I am wondering are the App Store and the iTunes apps one and the same? Is that why the App Store forces me to reinstall iTunes again and again?


texts: Pair an Apple watch with an iPhone for display in an Apple store?

texts:
I have an Apple Watch upgraded to WatchOS6 and I have only an old iPhone with iOS12 so this Apple Watch is blank and can't be associated to this iPhone (I'm using those devices for test - I'm not really an Apple user).

I would like to use this Apple Watch for its basic features and for some tests without the need to synchronize it with an iPhone.

1) Will I be able to associate this Apple Watch with an iPhone "for display" in a physical Apple retail store to pass the first WatchOS screen that asks to "associate to your iPhone"?

2) The idea is to associate without linking the watch to the cloud. Am I going to virtually brick the watch or will I be able to reset it from its own settings menu without the used iPhone of the Apple retail store?


texts: Why won't the audio switch back to my Internal Speakers after having used Apple TV?

texts:
When I extend my MacBook display to my TV using my Apple TV, both the video and audio work well, being output through my TV.

However, when I disconnect my Apple TV, the video disconnects, but audio from my computer is still output through my TV.

I tried going to System Preferences > Sound and toggling the output back to my Internal Speakers, but this doesn't seem to work.

Any idea why?


texts: I noticed recently when I open up disk utility and I see my external hard drive show up even though nothing is connected to my Mac. I can't unmount it and it does not do anything. Just wondering, is this just a bug in my system or is there something wrong with my Mac?


texts: I can't enable iCloud backup on my phone

texts:
My iCloud backup is currently off.  So I go into Settings/iCloud/Backup and switch the iCloud backup slider to on.

It comes up with warning stating that the phone will no longer back up to my computer automatically when I sync with iTunes.  I say Ok.  Then the phone thinks for 2 seconds and comes up with an error saying iCloud Backup Failed, `There was a problem enablling iCloud Backup'.

Why can't I enable backup?


texts: Confusion about installing ESXi on Apple hardware

texts:
I am confused about VMware and/or Apple's commitment to supporting ESXi running natively on Apple
hardware.
According to VMware, there are only 8 Apple products that support running ESXi natively (see table below).  Only 5 of these are Mac Pros and of those, none are the current model of the Mac Pro (MacPro 7,1).
Additionally, from my own experimenting around, any version of ESXi (up to and including 7.0b) fails to successfully install on a Mac that already has Big Sur installed.  It boots and the ESXi installer runs, but ultimately it fails.
And since Big Sur has been out for 5 months and no version of ESXi (that I am aware of) will install on a machine running that, I have to conclude that VMware and/or Apple isn't serious about supporting ESXi natively on Apple hardware.
My plan was to purchase Apple hardware (a rack mounted Mac Pro) so I could run, among other OSes, a virtual Mac.  But this goal is looking more and more unrealistic.
Have I missed something?  Are people out there successfully installing ESXi over their MacPro7,1 machine's Mac OS Big Sur (specifically Big Sur)?  Has anyone successfully installed any version of ESXi on top of Big Sur running on any Mac (i.e. not necessarily the MacPro 7,1)? And if people are able to do this, how are they doing it?  I have been using UNetbootin to create bootable flash drives from ESXi ISO images.  These all boot and run the ESXi installer (regardless of ESXi version), but the ESXi installer never completes successfully.
And... when I say "on top of" I mean replacing the existing Big Sur OS with ESXi such that booting the machine takes you straight into ESXi.


texts: What happens when some recipient do not have Group Messaging?

texts:
I'm confused about what participants see and where their messages are sent, when I send a message to multiple users. I understand that when everyone is on iMessage, all participants see all other participants, and all messages go to everyone.

But I'm not clear how things break down if some participants are not on iMessage. I gather (and would like to have confirmed) that:

(1) If Group Messaging is not enabled on my iOS device (or MMS Messaging is disabled), (a) each participant who is not in iMessage is split into a distinct SMS thread, unconnected to the original message while (b) all participants on iMessage remain in an iMessage conversation together.

(2) If Group Messaging is enabled on my iOS device, a group MMS session is created, which behaves much like an iMessage group: all messages go to everyone who also has group messaging enabled on their devices.

What's not clear to me is what happens when Group Messaging is enabled on my iOS device when

(A) some participants have iOS devices with Group Messaging disabled, or when

(B) some participants have non-iOS devices without group messaging or without the feature enabled (or without MMS at all).

Will users in these cases see a group conversation taking place? Will their replies go to everyone or just to me?


texts: Will changing my harddrive to a SSD void my MBP 2011 warranty?

texts: I want to upgrade my harddrive to a SSD. Does apple offer this service? I was going to do it myself, since its easy. Does this void my warranty?


texts: Remap external keyboard numpad so that dot "." is a comma ","

texts:
I am using an external keyboard with a number pad for my MacBook Air running Mojave (10.14.6). Currently, I use a comma "," as a decimal point in Excel - I would like to remap the "." key on my number pad too ",".
I downloaded Key Codes and it shows the following:
The dot on the number pad:
Characters: .
Unicode:    46 / 0x2e
Keys:       .
Key Code:   65 / 0x41
Modifiers:  2097408 / 0x200100
The comma on the main keyboard which is what I'd like the above key to show:
Characters: ,
Unicode:    44 / 0x2c
Keys:       ,
Key Code:   43 / 0x2b
Modifiers:  256 / 0x100
Is there a way to remap the one key to the other? I've read about hidutil but can't seem to get it working.
Thank you


texts: If I use a prepaid SIM card from AT&T retail store in iPhone, do I get 3G or GSM service?

texts:
I have an officially unlocked iPhone 4 from a non-US carrier. Now that I'm in US, if buy a prepaid SIM card from AT&T and use it in iPhone, do I get 3G(WCDMA) or GSM network? To put it in the context, do I see "3G" or "E" in the iPhone status bar?

Could anyone clarify if this chart is correct?

Enable 3G, Enable Cellular Data, Result
Yes      , No                  , Make 3G call;  use no data
Yes      , Yes                 , Make 3G call;  use 3G data
No       , Yes                 , Make GSM call; use EDGE/GPRS data;
No       , No                  , Make GSM call; use no data;


texts: Removing macOS boot-args without booting when firmware password enabled

texts:
After setting a bad combination of gzalloc boot-args fields, the booting of every kernel i’ve tried fails (usb bootable, recovery, internet recovery, safe, etc...). The firmware password protection disables the boot keys usually used to reset PRAM so there is no trivial way to remove these boot preventing boot-args. How could i reset the firmware pw or the PRAM without going on a trip to the apple store?
I have a 2020 16 inch MBP with latest Big Sur


texts: What's going on with Apple Numbers dates?

texts:
I have an Apple Numbers table that I've been updating since 2016. At the start, I incorrectly inputted dates such as 1-1-2009 as 1-1-9. (This is not a problem for later dates such as 1-1-10 because Numbers will interpret that as 1-1-2010.) In 2018, I manually corrected this to 1-1-2009.

Now, when I go back via Time Machine to versions with the incorrect dates, a date like 1-1-9 has changed to 3-1-9. So every incorrect date has two days added!

Fun fact: inside the .numbers bundle, there a preview.jpg that is created when the file is saved. The dates visible on there are correct. So clearly, the 1-1-9 remained that way when the file was saved. It even was still that way when I corrected the dates in 2018. But at some point between 2018 and now, the incorrect dates have changed by two days.

Can anyone explain this plus-two day change?


texts: How to hide Dock icons from another Mac?

texts:
I have two Mac laptops logged into iCloud with same credentials. Now if I run e.g. Chrome then it will bring Chrome icon on the other laptop automatically.
That's a good feature to share data/work between them, but how do I disable this feature or hide the icon?
I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.7.


texts:
On a Macbook Pro retina 13 2014 with El Capitan 10.11.5 I can't access websites through their domain name (google.com, bing.com, etc).

I can access the internet with Google Chrome, but with others applications I can't.

I can ping 8.8.8.8:

MacBook-Pro:~ alex$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=18.093 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=18.489 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.093/18.291/18.489/0.198 ms
MacBook-Pro:~ alex$

I can't ping google.com

MacBook-Pro:~ alex$ ping google.com
ping: cannot resolve google.com: Unknown host
MacBook-Pro:~ alex$

I tried to put DNS manually (8.8.8.8), reboot, but it doesn't work.

I tried to delete these files and reboot but it doesn't work:

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist`
com.apple.network.identification.plist`
NetworkInterfaces.plist`
preferences.plist`

tried:

MacBook-Pro:~ alex$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.google.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.            IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.     264 IN  A   172.217.16.68

;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 14 16:00:31 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 48

MacBook-Pro:~ alex$

Could you help me please?


texts: Use headphone jack as line in for microphone on MacBook Pro Retina

texts:
MacBook Pro Retinas dropped the line-in (microphone) jack that previous MacBook Pros had. Sometimes I want to plug in a 1/8" microphone, but there's no option to switch the input from "internal microphone" to "line in".

Is there a way through the command line or 3rd party utility to reverse the direction of the headphone jack to use it as a line in for a microphone?


texts: How to sync home folders with Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive?

texts:
For some reason, I'd like to sync my home folders (that is ~) with sync tools such as Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive.

However, making a symbolism link is not working. Then I found some apps while none of them actually works..

So what's the best practices here? Thanks :)


texts:
I got a new iPhone, and I want to give my old one to my son.  Naturally, I want to disable my Apple account and iMessage on the old phone. How do I do this without affecting my own account?

My son has his own iTunes account and will be on a different network than me.  The phone is unlocked.


texts: Pip cannot install packages after upgrading to Catalina

texts:
I haven't used pipenv since upgrading, but today I needed to work on an old project and I'm getting problems with pipenv and other python utilities. I did a xcode-select --install and brew update && brew upgrade and that didn't help. I ever tried brew bundle dump --describe --global && brew bundle install --global. Even a simple commmand like pip3 install sorteddict fails with

  Using cached sorteddict-1.2.1.tar.gz (5.2 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/_2/qxtp7dds6r5df9q369cxlswm0000gn/T/pip-install-00izrc3z/sorteddict/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/_2/qxtp7dds6r5df9q369cxlswm0000gn/T/pip-install-00izrc3z/sorteddict/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /private/var/folders/_2/qxtp7dds6r5df9q369cxlswm0000gn/T/pip-install-00izrc3z/sorteddict/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /private/var/folders/_2/qxtp7dds6r5df9q369cxlswm0000gn/T/pip-install-00izrc3z/sorteddict/
    Complete output (5 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/tokenize.py", line 447, in open
        buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/folders/_2/qxtp7dds6r5df9q369cxlswm0000gn/T/pip-install-00izrc3z/sorteddict/setup.py'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.


texts: My Mac has recently been freezing several times a day and then eventually having to restart, unsure how to understand the error message or how to fix


texts: Format, clean install, & restore iPhone 3GS

texts:
I have been using iPhone 3GS for almost 3 years now, and the phone has got pretty slow. I understand that there are many reasons for the phone getting slow, but I want to try to improve its performance, even if it is by a meagre amount, by formatting it completely and installing the latest iOS it can support, i.e. 6.x.x.

However, I don't want to lose important data like messages, contacts, notes, internet/network settings, etc. by doing a format and clean install. I have the latest iTunes installed, and would prefer iTunes for this process. I know how to update iOS using iTunes and restore from backup, but I am not sure about format + clean install AND then restore all the important data.

Can anyone please advice me how should I do this task?


texts: play display from MacBook to projector connected to mac pro

texts:
I've got a projector connected to my MacPro. Now I would like to be able to mirror the screen from my MacBook(!) to this projector.

Is this possible? Seems like an use case for AirPlay, but I am new to the Mac-World and do not find a way to do this. Thx!


texts: What app does macOS Mojave use for screen recording?

texts:
I just upgraded to macOS Mojave on Macbook Air. I press command + shift + 5 on keyboard, it prompts a window where I select part of screen and then I begin recording my screen. The video quality is good and even the default microphone works well.

However, it is a little mysterious to me what program it is using for this. In the past, it would use QuickTime. However, I do not see QuickTime or any menu bar visible when this screen sharing utility launches. Also, after I save, and open it, it suggests to open in Quicktime.

Is it using QuickTime behind the scenes, albeit without a menu bar?


texts: What version of iOS enabled Safari / native camera roll integration?

texts:
On macOS, there are music photo and video pickers integrated into the OS via standard file open API. Initially, iOS lacked this for Safari and third party apps. Web sites and Safari had use third party apps or custom JavaScript code to allow this.
Which version of iOS enabled this natively?


texts: Screen Time - Share Across Devices changes code

texts:
I have a device running iOS 12.3.1.  I entered a Screen Time passcode, tested it and knew the code.  However, when I went back and selected "Share Across Devices", it reverted back to some other passcode that I don't know.  I know it wasn't a fluke because this happened across 2 different devices.

I've tried every previous passcode with no luck.  I know I can wipe the device with iTunes and start over but that presents difficulties in getting data back for saved games, etc.

Anyone else seen this behavior or know a way around it?


texts: How to mount an external drive read only on the first try

texts:
How do you setup the Mac to mount the next disk you connect (through USB for example) to mount read only?

My goal is to access a disk without making any changes to it so mounting it read/writing and then changing it to read only does not work.

I can imagine two forms of solution to this question:

mount all disks read only or
don't automatically mount disks that are connected.  In the 2nd solution you could then use a terminal command to mount it read only.


texts: How to use a custom text editor (like Emacs.app or MacVim) in Xcode 4?

texts:
In Xcode 3 we could change file type settings, like indicated below:

  Using External Text Editors with Xcode

  There are lots of text editors available on Mac OS X. If you shelled
  out good money for a text editor, you want to use it to edit your
  source code instead of Xcode's editor. How do you tell Xcode to use
  your desired text editor to edit your source code files?

  Choose Xcode > Preferences to open Xcode's preferences window. There
  is a toolbar at the top of the window with many buttons. Click the
  File Types button. From here you can assign the editor to use for lots
  of file types.

  Initially there will be two items: file and folder. Click the
  disclosure triangle next to file. Click the disclosure triangle next
  to text because you're interested in text editing. The two most
  interesting subcategories are sourcecode and scripts.

  When you come across a file type you want to edit with your text
  editor, select the Preferred Editor column for that file type. A menu
  will pop up. Choose External Editor. If your text editor does not
  appear in the submenu, choose Other. Navigate to the location of your
  text editor, and click the OK button. Repeat these steps for every
  file type you want to edit with your text editor.

  Now when you double-click a source code file in Xcode's project
  window, it will open in your text editor.

But there are no settings for using external editor with Xcode 4.

Is there any way to use custom text editors with Xcode (such as Emacs.app or MacVim)?


texts:
Yesterday, I bought Rayman Origins from the Mac App Store. It appears in the Applications folder stack on my dock as "Rayman® Origins"

That small registered symbol looks pixelated and ugly on my non-retina screen. So I opened my applications folder in Finder in order to rename the application.

If I rename the app to "Rayman Origins1", it appears fine. Likewise, if I rename it to "RaymanOrigins", the name changes as I would expect. However, I cannot seem to rename the app simply "Rayman Origins". Although Finder lets me type in the name, as soon as I hit enter, it snaps back to "Rayman® Origins" with a registered symbol.

What gives?


texts: So in terminal there is a fun feature now, as you can open a man page of the current command by using the touchbar. I failed to close the man page though. The usual q did nothing as well as esc or CTRL-C. Does anyone know how to close it?