texts: Report *only* mouse wheel events in iTerm2

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In Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal, my iTerm2 (3.2.7beta4) has the following options:

I would like iTerm2 to send mouse wheel events to the application (so that I can e.g. scroll in tmux), but not other mouse events. When I use mouse to select text (without any modifier keys), I want iTerm2 to handle that, not tmux. It looks like I can't do that with the above options. Is there any other way to do that?


texts: How can I fix things when LaTex issues a package minted error for "Pygments" or pigmentize?

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I am trying to install the "Pygments" package to Python via terminal on my Mac so that I can utilize the "minted" package in Latex.

I have downloaded the package via the terminal by using the following code:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py

followed by:

sudo python get-pip.py

and then

sudo pip install pygments

It took a couple tries of repeating the same commands but it finally successfully installed. I don't know what to do now though. I'm still getting the same error from LaTex:

Package minted Error: You must have `pigmentize' installed to use this package.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue and could possibly provide some assistance?


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I'm wondering if we'll ever see native window management in macOS just like Windows 10 offers it. What I mean by that is the Windows key + Arrow keys functionality for moving windows around, halfing windows on screen, moving across monitors, minimizing, maximizing, just with those two keys.

I enjoy using macOS on my MacBook on 1 screen with space swiping, but once I use multiple monitors it becomes really cumbersome to use. Tools like BetterTouchTool help but don't offer the ease the native Windows 10 window management offers.

Is there something inherently different with macOS that we can't get Windows 10-like window management?


texts: Keyboard Layout after startup reverts to "ABC - Extended" when using FileVault

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I am an ordinary QWERTZ keyboard user. Now, when I setup my mac, I neglected the Keyboard Layout setting (I thought it would default to the usual). But, the layout was set to ABC - Extended.

I can change it back to QWERTZ, but every time I restart my mac it reverts back to the ABC setting.

My keyboard does not look like this (But part of me does wish it did).

How can I permanently change the setting of the keyboard layout at the login screen?

After updating to macOS Mojave I still have this problem, so the setting must have slipped back in through my TimeMachine backup.

The screen in macOS Mojave. There are some weird UI issues with Dvorak - QUERTY ⌘.

This are my Language and Region settings:

And my user settings:

The problem persisted after I have updated to macOS Catalina.

These are my keyboard settings:

Update:

I could shed some light onto this issue. The ctrl.blog, which was mentioned in the comments mentions that FileVault might plays a role in this. So these are the steps I did follow:

Reboot
"ABC - Extended" is chosen as the language at the login dialog
Choose German and sign in
Reboot
"ABC - Extended" is chosen as the language at the login dialog
Change the language and sign in
Disable FileVault and wait for it's completion
Reboot
The Loginscreen looks a bit different now, I'm able to scroll with the mouse wheel and I'm able to choose "Remove current from list" in the language menu.
Sign in and Reboot
FINALLY: The language is now still set to German.
Enable FileVault again (hoping that the currently set language will be used as the new Default).
Wait until FileVault is activated (another few hours)
Reboot
There we go again: ABC is again set as the default

I did submit this Feedback to Apple as of November 13 2019.


texts: Email sent from my iCloud email has started going to everyone’s Junk

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I have a username@me.com email address that I've had since around 2011. All of a sudden, about two weeks ago, I've stopped getting replies from people.

Turns out that my emails—including responses to an already-ongoing thread—are ending up in people’s SPAM and Junk folders.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it? It's a huge problem.


texts: Where phpstorm indexes located? And how to change location path?

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I have small space on internal hdd. Therefore I use external hdd.
My phpstorm projects are located there.
If external hdd has been reconnected phpstorm project needs to be reindexed.
It takes too much time. Seems indexes are located on internal hdd.
Is it possible to store indexes on external hdd? How to set it up?

UPDATE:
here is my properties file

idea.popup.weight=heavy
idea.dynamic.classpath=false
swing.bufferPerWindow=false
CVS_PASSFILE=~/.cvspass
idea.smooth.progress=false
idea.max.intellisense.filesize=2500
apple.awt.fullscreencapturealldisplays=false
idea.cycle.buffer.size=1024
java.endorsed.dirs=
com.apple.mrj.application.live-resize=false
sun.java2d.noddraw=true
idea.jars.nocopy=true
sun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false
idea.use.default.antialiasing.in.editor=false
ide.mac.show.native.help=false
idea.no.jre.check=true
idea.fatal.error.notification=disabled
apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true
idea.no.launcher=false
JVMVersion=1.6*
native.mac.file.chooser.enabled=true
sun.java2d.d3d=false
apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true


texts: How to troubleshoot "iPhoto unable to connect to Photo Stream"?

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When I click "Turn On Photo Stream" on in iPhoto it reports "iPhoto unable to connect to Photo Stream." It shows the correct user name on the Photo Stream screen in iPhoto. I have the correct credentials provided on the iCloud App in System Preferences, and Photo Stream is turned on there.

Running Mac OS X 10.7.2, iPhoto 9.2.1 and iOS 5.0.1. System Updates, App Store and iPhoto reports everything is up to date and running the current version.

I am connected to the Internet and able to visit iCloud.com and log into my account just fine. iTunes, and other apps all seem to work fine.


texts: AppleScript or Automator Workflow for Bulk-Converting Powerpoint Presentations to Keynote

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I have a large set of Powerpoint presentations that I would like to convert to Keynote. I can convert each one manually by following these steps:

In Finder, right-click Powerpoint document and select Open With... -> Keynote
In Keynote, choose Save As..., check the Save copy as checkbox, select iWork '08 as the format, and click OK.

However, doing this for each document is tedious. I'd like a way to convert them all at once.

I've been trying to create an Automator workflow for this, but have been completely unsuccessful.  (I think being a programmer actually makes it impossible to understand the for-the-rest-of-us tools like Automator and AppleScript.)  Can anyone help me out?


texts: Which Apple ID is used for Apple Music—iCloud or iTunes?

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I have different Apple IDs for iCloud (backups, iCloud Drive, Keychain Sync...) and iTunes (purchasing media—music and movies.) They are in different countries.

Which Apple ID is used if I sign up for Apple Music?

Is it even possible to be logged in with different iCloud and iTunes IDs and use Apple Music?


texts: On a Mac not using hard drive encryption, how difficult would it be for an attacker with physical access to a machine to break into the keychain? This document answers the question for iOS 10 (the keychain uses AES 128 in Galois/Counter Mode). But I can't find a document for MacOS.


texts: Is there any way to make my iPhone sync calendars with iCloud periodically?

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I have an iPhone and an iPad, both with iOS 6.1. I use iCloud for calendar syncing between them and my Mac. For whatever reason, the iOS devices don’t sync calendars with iCloud unless and until I open the Calendar app on the device. Is there any way to change this behavior so that iOS checks for calendar changes without my intervention?

(This is very annoying for two reasons: I set alarms on events frequently, but each time I do this on my computer I have to remember to launch Calendar on my phone or else it won’t know about the new event and it won’t remind me. Moreover, I don’t even use Calendar—I use Fantastical on the phone and Calvetica on the iPad—so it’s out of my way even to launch the Calendar app.)


texts: Omnigraffle - how to make double ended arrows?

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I'm learning Omnigraffle and am ok with most shapes. But I want arrows with heads at each end, like this (done in Pages.app):

I'd also like to know how to put the tips of the arrows where I want, rather than Omnigraffle's default which is to attach a line to a corner:, like this:

Following Dave Delong's answer below, I realized that you have to style each end of the line.

Like so:


texts: Cannot format SSD to OS X Extended (Journaled) in order to restore

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yesterday my computer stayed awake during all night, when I woke up it stopped working. I got many errors, one that says for example that I don't have enough space in my computer even though that when I checked it said I have more than 75 GB available.
So  after everything failed I booted in Recovery Mode (Cmd+R) and started playing with it. Currently my state is that my SSD is formatted to exFat because I can format to any kind of filesystem except OS X Extended (Journaled). Also, I can only boot up in Recovery Mode, no OS at the moment.
Every time I try to to erase and format to OS X Extended (Journaled) with GUID Partition Map I get this error:

input/output error:
newfs_hfs: write (sector 149512): Invalid Argument

Mounting Disk:
Could not mount disk0s2 with name(null) after erase.
File system formatter failed.
Operation failed.

Technical info

MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2010 with SSD 240GB Kingston (SATA).


texts:
I've been resisting moving to iTunes 12.7 as Apple have removed functionality & are insisting on far greater reliance on OTA than I am happy with.

iTunes 12.6.3 was touted as the 'opt out' version which kept Apps locally yet was capable of handling iOS 11.

As of iOS 11.3 this appears to no longer be the case & it is insisting on updating to iTunes 12.7.3 [even though I'm aware 12.7.4 is out] in order to update the iOS.

Is there any way round this; or does 12.7.3/4 restore any of the old functionality?
I remember the trouble I had originally reverting to 12.6 after falling for the 12.7 'upgrade' last year & don't want to have to repeat that if I can avoid it.

< rant> I really am becoming quite disenchanted with Apple & their insistence on dumbing down each successive version of both Apps & OS < /rant>

I suppose I'd also be happy with "Use 12.7.4, it really is better because..."


texts: Anyone know of a menu bar app that will allow you to pick a song out of your iTunes library and play it, without having to have iTunes running. Alarm Clock allows you to do that (but you need to create an alarm) but it's a great way of just playing the odd song or two. I know there's CloudPlay but I'd of thought there was a free menu bar app out there. There's apps like Ecoute but I just want something that is minimal for playing something when you want it.


texts: iPhone SE powers on whenever moved, defective?

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Got a new grey iPhone SE for Christmas from the Verizon store. Seems to work fine except for one issue. When the phone is off (standby), any sudden motion turns the phone on, as if the home or power button were pressed.

Let me be clear: Nothing is in contact with the power button or home button when this happens. The phone isn't getting any calls or messages or other notifications.

There's a passcode, so nothing bad happens, but it's unsettling to open the pocketbook and see the phone screen all lit up.

Is this something deliberate? Can it be configured? Or is the phone just defective?


texts: How to remove Guest option from login screen?

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I just started using a MacBook Pro in addition to my Windows 7 laptop (to see if the OS X 10.8 will be a good alternative for me). At Windows bootup, since my user is the only one on the computer, it is already selected at the login screen and I just type my password and go.

On OS X 10.8.2 it shows my name and a Guest account. I have to select my name with the mouse before I can type in my password. I can't even use the keyboard to tab over to my name:

How can I disable the Guest account from showing on the login screen so only my user is displayed with a password box?

In Users & Groups the Guest user is disabled:

I also did some searching and found that this could be a side affect of the 'Find my Mac' feature of iCloud. I verified it is also disabled:

Any ideas?


texts: My Mac isn't locking when I put it to sleep

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If I go  -> Sleep or even hold the power button, my Mac goes to sleep but when I go to wake it up I immediately see the screen I'd put it to sleep on. Before I was asked for my password again upon waking my Mac. I know that you can quickly tap a key after using the power button shortcut to prevent it going to sleep and you won't be locked out, but even after having my Mac in sleep all night last night and waiting a few seconds or minutes before attempting to wake it today I'm not prompted for my password which worries me because I have sensitive information throughout my Mac.

I have just deleted everything in ~/Library/Preferences/ in hopes it would fix bugs. Was that a mistake? Could that be the reason I'm having this issue? Should I go ahead and restore my machine to prevent other weird bugs which may have come up because of that?


texts: Cannot connect to iTunes Store in Mac OS X Lion without any error messages

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I can no longer connect to the iTunes Store on my Mac.

My iTunes is from 10.6.3 (now updated to 10.7.4).

When I try to connect to the iTunes Store, the following error is occurring and indicating no access to the store.

I have internet connection and I can also open websites in Safari, Chrome, Firefox.


texts:
I've seen a lot of questions about adding a smart card login to a Mac, but my problem is the opposite.

I have a company smart card that I use on my personal computer sometimes for checking webmail and such. However, at some point I must have done some Keychain stuff with it inserted into the USB reader, because ever since it requires me to insert the smart card and enter its pin in order to unlock my lock screen or to approve software installs and updates.

Note: I can Switch Users and login normally to those accounts.

I don't want to mess up my keychain, so I'm hoping someone can tell me what I need to do to bring things back to normal so I can manage my personal computer with just my personal credentials.


texts: How do I save iBooks pdfs to an external hard drive?

texts: How do I save all of my iBooks pdfs, located on my iPad2, to an external hard drive?


texts:
I was having hard drive problems with my mid-2010 unibody Macbook Pro. I bought a new hard drive and set up it using a SATA to USB cable before installing. Everything worked great so long as I had the drive hooked up via USB, but when I installed it in the machine, the machine would not boot from it. If I held down option+R during startup, it would not find the new disk.

So I ordered a new SATA cable for the Macbook Pro and installed it. Still nothing. Am I missing a step or should I assume the problem is somewhere else in the computer? Would love your thoughts/wisdom.


texts: Unable to disconnect from iPhone Personal Hotspot

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I can connect to my iPhone hotspot through Wi-Fi on my MacBook Air, but when I then click "Disconnect from my iPhone" in the Wi-Fi menu, nothing happens.

The only method I could use disconnect is to disable Personal Hotspot on the iPhone itself.

Disconnecting on my MacBook used to work prior to upgrading to OS X 10.11, El Capitan. Any idea of a fix?


texts: I have been trying to screen record zoom several zoom meetings on my iPad in the last few weeks but I am unable to figure out why there is no audio. I have tried the same on my iPhone and I never had this no audio issue.


texts: Quick Shortcut to skim through web search results

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I wish to utilize all the shortcuts I can, but I'm not sure how it is called in the first place. (that must be why I cannot find the shortcut for it by searching..)

I've seen a friend use it to speed up going through search results instead of using the mouse key to scroll and click, but it is too long ago. I've tried several combinations to no avail. [Keyboard preference] on the menu was not quite informative.

How do you go through search items on the same tab just using shortcut on Mac? (Safari or Chrome, if different)

For instance, you will see an arrow next to the search result (lets say I am to see the 2nd return result) you have stopped at. At which point you can just press Enter to view.


texts:
I wanted to install High Sierra and made a USB Installation Disk with Disk Maker X

All goes well and the installation is doing fine.

Then this screen appears:

  OSX couldn't install on this computer. To enter the Apple Diagnostic program to test your hardware please hit D during reboot.

SO that's what I did.

Now holding D during reboot does exactly nothing but instead it goes to this screen:

And from this screen it then goes back to the former error.

And that's it. Nothing else is happening.

I can enter the Disk Utility when the error is appearing. But I can't Partition the HD nor delete it because it is used by another process.

Nice. Now what?


texts: How do I move all my apps, and my Apple ID to another iPod that has already been used?

texts:
Ok, so my iPod Touch (its the 4th generation) is totally destroyed; a cracked screen and the screen is messed up, so I cant see anything. And my mom sad I can have hers, and she has a 4th generation like me. What I'm wondering is that if there is some way that I can switch all my apps and my ID to her iPod she gave to me, and I can get rid of her account, or at least take it off..? If anyone knows how I would REALLY appreciate it if you told me.
Thanks :)


texts:
I would like to change the Terminal interrupt keyboard shortcut to ideally Command+Shift+C.  Just this shortcut solely.

Is there a feasible way to do this?


texts: With the new iPads having a retina display, what will happen to iPhone apps that are built to support retina display for iPhone/iPod touch on an iPad sized retina screen. Will the iPad use the retina version of the iphone app or stick with the normal version?


texts: How to copy iTunes Library from one user profile to another?

texts:
On my Windows Vista, I use iTunes to synchronize songs, apps, movies and books (items) with my iPod Touch. The iTunes media folder location is C:\Users\thomas\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media which does not have any items in it. All the items in iTunes have their actual data reside in an external hard drive that always has the same drive letters when connected to my PC and I connect it with my PC only while synchronization with the iPod Touch.

Anyway, there are a lot of items added to iTunes and now I have to create a new user profile since my old one got corrupted.

When I create a new user profile and open iTunes, iTunes will not have any items added to it. How do I get all of the items added to iTunes in my old profile to the new one?

I know one way would be to drag-drop all the items from the external hard drive back to iTunes in the new profile. But is there a saner way, that is, to copy some configuration files from the old profile’s X location to the new profile’s X location? Or perhaps, an option in iTunes that will let me do this.


texts: How to move Keychain from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?

texts:
I am trying to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

I can't find the place of keychain in Mountain Lion anymore.

Even if I will find that keychain file location:

Will it be enough just copy keychain database file?
Or is the database file from Snow Leopard not compatible with Mountain Lion?
How to move keychain database from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion?


texts: Word 2016 for Mac is truncating the PDF page

texts:
When I try to "Save as PDF" a single-page, 8.5" x 14" Microsoft Word 2016 document, it's cutting off the edge. Does anyone know how to resolve this? It almost seems as if 8.5" x 11" (standard letter size) is hard-coded into the PDF driver for Microsoft Office 2016.

EDIT: If I try to Print the document, the print preview window is empty.


texts: Add wallpaper to iPad but not to the list of Photos?

texts:
The only way I found of adding a custom wallpaper to an iPad leaves that wallpaper mixed with all the photos. Can I somehow specify that it's a wallpaper and should go into the list of wallpapers?

(couldn't find this by googling...)


texts: iphone - is the hotspot isolated (can you see other devices)?

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When I turn on the Apple hotspot feature, is it an isolated network, or can I see other devices on it?

Can I use it to connect a third device to a Chromecast?

As in tablet -> iPhone with hotspot (and cellular data off) -> Chromecast?

I want to use a Chromecast while on holiday!


texts: Resizing a partition on El Capitan 10.11.6?

texts:
I want to remove both disk0s4 and disk0s5 partitions which were created for a bootcamp install. However when I goto disk utility then try to remove the partitions from my drive, I get the following error: MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation.

Screenshots below:

Here is what I get when I run diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            425.6 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
4:                  Apple_HFS Untitled                73.4 GB    disk0s4
5:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s5

After I run the command sudo gpt -r show disk0 :

      start       size  index  contents
         0          1         PMBR
         1          1         Pri GPT header
         2         32         Pri GPT table
        34          6
        40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    409640  831297360      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 831707000    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 832976536  143274344      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 976250880     262144
 976513024      32768      5  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
 976545792     227343
 976773135         32         Sec GPT table
 976773167          1         Sec GPT header

I would like to keep all data currently on the Macintosh HD, if someone could help me remove the untitled and microsoft reserved partitions, that would be great, thanks.


texts: Can you distribute an iOS app outside App Store using a single bundle identifier?

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Is there a way to distribute an iOS application to customers with a single bundle identifier outside App Store?

The software firm I work for is providing iPad software to several large companies. Right now we're using the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.

Each of these companies receive an IPA file with their own bundle id e.g. com.SuperApp.FirstCustomer, com.SuperApp.SecondCustomer. The companies install and manage our software using their own Mobile Device Management (MDM) system.

A 3rd-party component we would like to use in our software, PSPDFKit, is a lot more expensive if each of our customers have a dedicated bundle ID.

We don't want to distribute our software through App Store, we just want to send the IPA files directly to our customers – and our customers also prefer this way of the app distribution.


texts: Where is the Display Calibrator Assistant on my hard drive?

texts:
I'd like to use the Display Calibrator Assistant without going through the process of opening the system preferences.

Does anyone know where the program is located on my hard drive?

I've done a search for various keywords without being able to find it.


texts: How do I tell if my AT&T iPhone 5 is unlocked?

texts:
I requested AT&T to unlock my iPhone 5 at http://att.com/deviceunlock . I got an email saying that my device may be unlocked.

According to the instructions in AT&T's email, I need to do an iTunes backup and restore to complete the unlock process.  I have NOT done this yet.

I bought this T-Mobile SIM and inserted it in my iPhone and T-Mobile shows up in my phone's status bar.  I cannot make phone calls because I have not signed up for T-Mobile service and have no intentions to.

So, is my phone unlocked at this point?  Is there something else I can look at to confirm this?

Thanks!


texts: Wipe an entire iCloud Photo Library using Windows

texts:
Old Method:

Click 'Select Photos' at the top
Select the very first photo
Scroll all the way to the bottom
Hold the Shift key and click the last photo (this will select everything in between)
Click 'Delete' at the top

This does not work anymore

I need a quick way of deleting 10,000 photos from my iCloud without selecting each one manually using Windows.


texts: How do I put just my external monitor to sleep?

texts:
I am trying to enable Hot Corners, 'Put Display to Sleep', but only on one of my displays to avoid distraction and light from my other monitor when not in use. Is there any way to achieve this through settings, or possibly an app extension?
Thank you!


texts: Automaticly and seamlessly sync iPhone photos as soon as they're taken (over the air)

texts:
I use Snappy. That's my preferred photo app of all! So, please, keep this in mind.

Ideally I want to be able to sync to picasa and dropbox. But I wouldn't mind if it was flickr, picposterous or whatever, as long as it's really automatic and seamless, unlike this guy's solution. I've tried many apps and couldn't find a single one (apparently unlike this guy, which is the reason why I started this question).

Dropbox app like few others do let you take photos from inside the app and submit the photo. But that's not even a seamless sync - if there's no internet connection the photo won't be sent as soon as internet becomes available unless the app stays open.

Maybe a good solution would be just an app able to monitor the DCIM folder and send any new ones through e-mail as soon as it sees it. Then we could use pixelpipe, instapaper, sendtodropbox or anything! That way the iOS already handles sending e-mails exactly the way we expect - it will go through as soon as a connection is available.

For now, I'm using Picbox - it softens the whole manual process at least... But that's still not it!


texts: I am trying to plot a family of similar functions in built-in Grapher. I read that one way to do this is to write one formula for all functions to be plotted and then define the parameter by which the functions differ. For example, typing in "y=sin(ax),a={1,2,3}" should plot sin(x), sin(2x), and sin(3x) simultaneously; however, I got an error message so I am thinking the last updates changed the way to do this; in that case, how do I do that?


texts:
Can't connect as different user while accessing network share with in domain network in Mac.
Through Go > Connect to server > connect as


texts: Can't stream audio from OSX Mavericks to Apple TV

texts: Lately, when I click in "Apple TV" (trying to select it as default sound output), OSX changes it back to "Internal Speakers".


texts:
The Question
How can I unpair the trackpad as a mouse and pair it using trackpad option instead?

Background

I made the mistake of pairing the Magic trackpad via System->Bluetooth->Bluetooth Setup Assistant.  By doing this the only thing I can use the trackpad for is pointing an left clicking.  I now see that it can be paired via the System->Trackpad->Set Up Bluetooth Trackpad... option.

What I have tried

Inside Bluetooth settings: Disconnected the device, then using the - button removed it.  Then powered down the trackpad and restarted the pairing process by holding the power button.

While the green led is flashing, I go to the Trackpad set up and find the device.  However it keeps failing when connecting to the trackpad.  I did notice that it fails immediately  after seeing the "Connected" message displayed on my screen.  At this point I can use the trackpad as a pointing device, but am unable to connect to it using the trackpad set up.

System Settings
OS X Lion
Using USB Overdrive (for a wired logitech mouse)

UPDATE
Following the advice of a comment, I used the XCode's Bluetooth Manger and reset every possible device.  The issue still persists.

To find the Bluetooth Manger (assuming you have XCode installed and using Finder): Browse to MacHD/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Bluetooth


texts: Chrome for iOS keeps loggin out of reddit.com

texts:
Google Chrome for iOS refuses to remember my login session once closed, nor does it remember my username or password.

Other websites (google.com) autologin and stay logged in just fine in Chrome for iOS, and other browsers (Chrome desktop, Safari iOS) have no trouble with Reddit.

Latest Chrome for iOS
iOS 7
2013 iPad Mini, non-Retina

Anyone else have this problem?


texts: How to copy MP3 from PC to iPhone 4s without iTunes

texts: How can I sync my MP3 collection on my Windows 7 PC with my iPhone 4S without having to use iTunes?


texts: AppleScript : Dim brightness below factory setting

texts:
I want to dim the script below "0" on my iMac.
Here is my current script, but this stick to OSX settings.

try
    tell application "System Preferences"
        reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"
        delay 8
        tell application "System Events"
            set value of slider 1 of group 1 of tab group 1 of window 1 of process "System Preferences" to 0
            delay 5
        end tell
    end tell
on error
    display notification "Dim screem down failed"
end try

I found this app "Shady" which is going even below.
They have a link for the Open source on they Web site but 404.

Any idea how to implement that with AppleScript?


texts:
I leave my iMac (24') next to the sliding door in the lounge at night. The door remains open, so the air gets very cold at night. When I turn my computer on in the morning the screen fogs up inside, presumable because of the cold air inside warming up quite suddenly from the heat of the LCD.

Is there an easy fix, or a way to avoid this happening?


texts: Time Machine backing up way more space than hard drive contains

texts:
I have a new MacBook Air running 10.14.5 (Mojave, non-beta). The drive is 500GB and formatted APFS.

The initial Time Machine backup has been running for about 24 hours and still isn't finished.

But it has backed up more data than could ever possibly exist on the drive:

Note that it says it's backing up 683 GB (and increasing) of a 500 GB drive, when not even 200 GB of the drive has been used.

I checked the sizes of my local snapshots, and there are only 4 of them, with the following sizes:

502.2 MB
217.5 MB
5.4 MB
7.4 MB

So that doesn't come anywhere near explaining the difference.

The Time Machine drive was cleanly formatted as HFS+ right before the Time Machine backup was initiated.

So… why is it using so much space? How is it using so much space?


texts:
I will be traveling long haul over a few times over the next few weeks and would like to watch some TV series I have on DVD, using an iPad, but do not want to have to purchase it again on iTunes.

So, is it possible to burn a DVD into iTunes for later viewing on iPad?


texts: Launchd based daemon exit with abnormal code 1, without crash log

texts:
I've seen many questions that relate to specific daemons/applications that exit on this same exit code (=1). All scenarios seems unique and unconnected.

I created a daemon of my own, and also got the same sudden exit with exit code 1. If i could't only realize the meaning of this error code...

unfortunately, there's no crash log with backtraces i can look into, so i deduce it's a planned process termination...
is there any documentation which describe abnormal code per index ?

perhaps it's  connected with my plist. I've added 2 keys that might be relevant : KeepAlive and RunAtLoad.

thanks,


texts: Unable to allocate the free space to main volume

texts:
I've been trying to allocate the left unallocated free space after uninstalling the ubuntu. As there are no options available in disk utility to do that now.

The unshaded part is unallocated.
I tried to workaround using terminal commands but I am getting an error that I am not able to understand.
I ran the command

diskutil coreStorage resizeStack FCF7976D-78ED-4CE9-8029-C6557CB601C5 429.9G JHFS+ Mac 480G

and got

The Core Storage Logical Volume UUID is FCF7976D-78ED-4CE9-8029-C6557CB601C5
Started CoreStorage operation
Checking prerequisites for resizing Logical-Physical volume stack
Error: -69722: You can't perform this resize unless it has a booter (target  partition is probably too small)

What is this error and how to get around it to get back my free space of hard drive?

Link for the commands. http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/08/05/undocumented-corestorage-commands/
You can also refer to apple's man page on diskutil

Edit1 :

~ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            429.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:        Bios Boot Partition                         1.0 MB     disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         4.1 GB     disk0s5
   6:           Linux Filesystem                         65.3 GB    disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD           +429.5 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 FCF7976D-78ED-4CE9-8029-C6557CB601C5
                                 Unencrypted

~ sudo gpt show disk0
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  839592368      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  840002008    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  841271544       1800
  841273344       2048      4  GPT part - 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649
  841275392    7999488      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  849274880  127496192      6  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  976771072       2063
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header


texts: How do you force a 5 GHz wifi connection?

texts:
Wifi networks are often set up in dual-band mode, with the same SSID served on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. I'd like to always use the 5 GHz band (due to interference with Bluetooth and other devices that degrades performance). How do I force Mac OS X to use the 5 GHz base station? (I do not have admin access to the network, so I can't just assign the 5 GHz network a different SSID.)

Note that this question is not asking how to force a particular flavor of 802.11, rather it is asking how to force a particular frequency band.


texts: Default mail program for using Mail merge

texts:
I am trying to finish the last step to mail merge on MS Word/MS Excel/MS Outlook on Mac.

The email option is not enabled and it says the default email program has to be set up to complete this step. I have tried changing the default email reader to MS Outlook which hasn't worked.

The MS office package is V.16.

How can I make the email option available?


texts: How can I share a folder on MacOS, and not allow an attacker to brute force my accounts?

texts:
I want to share a folder between my MacBook Pros while connected to home wifi, and not risk security while traveling with the laptop.

I'm particularly concerned about a brute force attack that can be used to deduce the administrator password.

My solution is to create a "share only" user account that only has access to this folder.  Is this a sufficient mitigation, or should I do more to prevent network attacks?


texts: Is there built in functionality for the Watch 3 to track my sleep patterns?  Is there anything that figures out sleep cycles and duration, and tracks heart rate at the same time for a prelimnary analysis?


texts: iCloud sign out not possible on High Sierra

texts: I recently changed my Apple ID mail address. I was getting messages that I have to enter my password for my old iCloud address. Therefore I attempted to sign out on the system preferences. However every time I try this it gets stuck at some loading process. I have every iCloud service disabled. The internet-accounts panel says that this is not my primary iCloud account. I tried deleting the keychains folder and signed out and on again.


texts: What is the root cause of famous iPhone 4s battery draining issue?

texts:
Even with latest iOS 5.0.1 some 4s users do encounter huge battery drains (1-2%/minute) even when they are doing nothing with the phone.

Is it a hardware or a software issue? Should I get a refund?

Update: The phone was bought 3 days ago from Apple Store in London, UK.

Last night when the phone battery went to 10% the phone just shut down automatically, like other were doing when the battery was reaching 2%.

Also, I observed that the percent of battery discharge was not linear, meaning that sometimes I observed the batter level going down with 5-8% at a time (while using the Phone). If I remember well from the other iPhones I had, the battery discharge in percentage should be smooth.


texts: Can I set an arbitrary nvram variable using rEFInd?

texts:
Is there any way to customise the rEFInd bootloader to set a custom nvram variable, either in refind.conf or any other way? Specifically, I'd like to set a value for the boot-args variable.
It seems like an obvious/standard thing that someone might want to do, and I know that the OpenCore bootloader has a whole NVRAM configuration section to support it, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the docs about it for rEFInd.


texts: Why am I able to open Wireshark and capture packets in macOS without root privileges?

texts:
As far as I know, capturing packets using Wireshark requires root/administrator privileges. In Windows, it prompts for UAC elevation and runs with administrative privileges. The same thing in Ubuntu; it prompts for a password to authorize access before showing me the interfaces.

However, in macOS, there is no authorization required. I don't have to enter a password. Instead, Wireshark is directly showing me the interfaces and I am able to capture packets.

How is Wireshark able to do this on macOS? What is special about macOS that allows interfaces and packets to be monitored without administrative access?


texts: I've got a broken screen on my iPhone 4.  Does anyone have any hints, suggestions, or products that you have used to repair your broken screen?  Is there anything different about the iPhone 4 vs other iOS devices (due to the Gorilla Glass)?


texts: Why is it called Desktop Picture or Background in macOS and wallpaper in iOS? Is there a technical difference?

texts:
macOS calls it Desktop Picture while iOS uses wallpaper. I haven't found any information about it so I wonder if someone has a piece of information that may help.

macOS
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207703

iOS
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200285


texts: How do you delete apps from Lion's Launchpad?

texts: When pressing alt/option in Lion's Launchpad, only some icons get the delete X overlay to remove them.  How do you delete the others?  I've read that control-option-command should do this, but it simply launches the app for me.


texts:
I have an old 13” MBP (Early 2011) which I use regularly but just a few minutes per day.

Today I came back home - MBP was turned on and charging - and keyboard just doesn’t seem to work.

Some keys (A, D, S) do seem to work, but the rest of the keyboard is unresponsive. The very bad sign is that, by pressing J it actually writes stuff like adsssadsa.

I couldn’t do any of the standard suggestions (reset PRAM or SMC). The shortcuts just don’t work, so that the machine turns on as if I wasn’t pressing any key.
While D works (when MBP is turned on), I was not able to enter the Apple Hardware Test. Any idea why?
As read somewhere, I run kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 } ‘ to identify problematic apps, but nothing was printed

Now to me this really looks like a liquid damage, but I am more than 100% sure that nothing happened. Could this be explained / solved in some other way, do you have any suggestion, other than going to the closest apple store?

I surely will, but it’s not so close and I’ll be able to go only next week.


texts: macOS: Setting up an administrative account from a user account without admin password

texts:
I need to get administrative privileges from a standard user account. I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.6. I have six accounts on my MacBook for me and my family. One of them is administrative and the rest are standard user accounts.

I gave myself a standard account as well, aside from the admin account. I regularly use the user account. Now I have forgotten the password to the admin account, and we can not gain access to it. Needless to say that is causing some problems here at home, albiet we can still use our separate user accounts but nothing that needs admin privileges. Some insight would be helpful and appreciated.


texts: Which applications on Mac AppStore build HTML5 (drag and drop)?


texts: How can I prevent my machine from automatically downloading deleted system files?

texts:
I spilled coffee on my keyboard and most keys are now constantly pressed so the machine is not usable so I disabled the built-in keyboard in order to use an external keyboard but I am having some problems. I do not want to replace the built-in keyboard, I just want to disable it and use an external keyboard.

I searched around and found that I could disable the built-in keyboard by typing the following to disable:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/

And the following to enable:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext/

I typed the above but it didn't work so I typed:

open /System/Library/Extensions

and deleted the file called AppleUSBTopCase.kext because I figured that it is the driver for the keyboard. This worked and everything is fine now but as long as the machine is connected to the internet, it will keep downloading the drivers after I delete them and the machine becomes unusable again once the keyboard is enabled. How can I prevent it from doing that (without disconnecting it from the internet...)?


texts: Where is the mount point and format of the iOS memory when it is plugged in a mac?

texts:
I would like to do manual changes to my iOS iPhone, and I would like to know if it is possible to plug the iOS into a mac, find the mount point and /dev/disk<number> and then cd to it and do changes. What is the format of the iOS memory and mount point?

Is it possible to mount the phone if it is not mounted yet? How does iTunes make changes to the phone?


texts: Unlock recovered iPod after losing it and setting Lost Mode, and test it

texts:
Story of a lost (and incredibly recovered?) iPod

I purchased an iPod 5 on Aug '14, it has iOS 7.1.1.
I lost it in Jan '15. I did not have any credit card info in the device.

Background info

The iPod had an 8-letter lock to use it. I also entered a restrictions 4-digit password.
WiFi and GPS were off.
Within a couple of hours of losing it, I went to iCloud, and set Lost Mode for the iPod. I also set a custom message, showing my phone contact number.
As per official documentation,

  Lost Mode locks your screen with a four-digit passcode.
  I do not remember that code now, I would have to try.

For some time I was tracking the iPod in my iCloud, and it always showed offline.

Current status

Yesterday (6 months later!) I received a contact in my phone about the iPod.
I am confident that many things (including torture) were tried on the device to unlock it, and I was contacted only because they failed.

I will pick up the iPod during this weekend, so I want to be ready to try it out on the spot.

Question #1:
What would I need to unlock it?

As per this,

  How do you turn off or cancel Lost Mode?

  You can turn off Lost Mode by entering the passcode on your device. You can also turn off Lost Mode on iCloud.com or from the Find My iPhone app.

I do not remember the passcode, but I see it in my iCloud (which I used for setting Lost Mode).
I guess I also need it to be online, so I have to be next to a router to which it was previously connected.

Question #2:
If I manage to unlock it, what should I quickly test (in, say, 3 minutes) as essential to get an idea if it is functional, despite presumed torture.

Thanks


texts:
I have just gotten the New IPad - my first foray into the world of Apple.  I'm eager to make the most of it that I can, for both personally and for work.

In order for me to be able to use it for work, I really need to find a solution that works seamlessly with DropBox to provide client-side encryption for my files.

Despite searching for hours (days) and downloading and trying all manner of offerings, I just can't find anything that works.  The closest I've seen so far is BoxCryptor, but that only works if I manually upload the file via the BoxCryptor client.  I want something that will work seamlessly so that Notebooks (or EverNote, etc) think they're using DropBox directly, but the files are being encrypted / decrypted just before they enter or leave DropBox.

Any clues?

Michael


texts:
I’ve noticed in the last couple of days that the battery of my iPhone XR is not lasting as long as it used to, its maximum capacity is 90%.
In the last 2 hours I’ve lost 80% of my charge only watching YouTube video using Wi-Fi.
In the battery usage by app section of the battery settings, i see that Photos app used the 33% in the last 24 hours, I’ve checked in the app but I wasn’t uploading/downloading anything from iCloud.
I am running iOS 14.1.
My question is simple, how and why do I have these problems? Could they be caused by a widget?


texts: How do I clean a 13” mid-2012 MacBook Pro motherboard

texts:
My brother-in-law spilt coffee on his 13” mid-2012 Macbook Pro just before XMAS. He shutdown the Macbook Pro and a few days later removed the HD. He bought a new Macbook Pro for XMAS and the old HD works fine in an external case.

Last weekend he gave me his old MacBook Pro. What I would like is to give the motherboard and other components a clean to see if I can get this working. But I have no idea what to use and how to clean it?

Can someone share how I would go about this and what I would use to clean it?


texts: Can I share iCloud storage without also agreeing to pay for iTunes purchases?

texts: We have four phones on the same plan, including those our children use (who are adults).  We're running low on iCloud storage.  Apple messages said we could get 50MB each for $.99 a month or 200MB that could be shared.  But now it appears that the sharing would also entail agreeing to pay for iTunes and a number of other things.  How can we share just iCloud storage, as Apple seemed to tell us we could do?


texts:
I installed ZendServer CE.
This is my /usr/local/zend/apache2/conf/httpd.conf file: http://codepad.org/vorWrTKb

This is my /etc/hosts file.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%losd0   localhost

Document root is /Users/anthony/apache/html

If I turn zend server off http:/localhost/ still works.
Moreover I have another web-site (php) here /Users/anthony/apache/html/somesite and it also still works on localhost.

At the same time I haven't any virtual hosts in /usr/local/zend/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf having that documentRoot.

This is my httpd-vhosts.conf file http://codepad.org/qx20aZua

I checked default apache macos service and removed file from /etc/apache2 httpd.conf.

If ZendServer is on:

127.0.0.1 runs /Users/anthony/apache/html/ (correct)

localhost runs /Users/anthony/apache/html/somesite (it shouldn't)

If ZendServer is off:

127.0.0.1 runs /Users/anthony/apache/html/somesite (it shouldn't)

localhost runs /Users/anthony/apache/html/somesite (it shouldn't)

So I cannot understand how localhost works if apache doesn't?


texts: Can an appleTV wake up an iMac to stream it's itunes

texts:
Let's say I have an imac with all of my videos on, which has been synced with itunes. If my computer has gone onto standby, but I am in the other room with an appleTV and want to watch something from itunes on there, will the appleTV be able to wake up my imac automatically and play the content?

I haven't bought an appleTV yet but I am trying to have to avoid going into my office and turning on the imac everytime I want to watch some content on my appleTV.

I understand I can enable wake-on-lan on my imac but does the appleTV have the capability to do the same, wake it up and then stream it's content.


texts: How do I change the "primary group" for an existing user?

texts: My current primary group (the gid I see listed by id) is me, rather than staff. I'd like to change it to staff, without changing anything else about my user account. How do I change the "primary group" (PrimaryGroupID) for my account?


texts:
Is this a normal fan speed and CPU temperature for an idle MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015). The fact that fan 2 is not spinning worries me. I can get 'loaded' fan speeds and temps if that would be helpful.

--- CPU Stats ---

CPU temp: 52.38°C

.

--- Main Fan Stats ---

Total fans in system: 2

Fan 0 speed: 2154.0 RPM

Fan 1 speed: 0.0 RPM

.

--- Other Temp Stats ---

TaSP Unknown  30.0°C
Ta0P Unknown  30.13°C
Th1H NB/CPU/GPU HeatPipe 1 Proximity  37.5°C
Th2H Unknown  38.13°C
Ts0P Palm rest L  26.0°C
Ts0S Memory Bank Proximity  32.5°C
Ts1P Unknown  24.63°C
Ts1S Unknown  32.78°C
TBXT Unknown  27.19°C
TB0T Battery TS_MAX  27.19°C
TB1T Battery 1  27.19°C
TB2T Battery 2  27.19°C
TCGC PECI GPU  56.0°C
TCSA PECI SA  61.0°C
TCTD Unknown  -0.42°C
TCXC PECI CPU  68.06°C
TCXP Unknown  68.06°C
TC0E CPU 0 ??  66.97°C
TC0F CPU 0 ??  68.75°C
TC0P CPU 0 Proximity  47.0°C
TC1f Unknown  70.72°C
TC1C Core 1  67.0°C
TC1F Unknown  70.72°C
TC2C Core 2  62.0°C
TC3C Core 3  62.0°C
TC4C Core 4  58.0°C
TG0D GPU 0 Die  35.0°C
TG0F Unknown  35.0°C
TG0P GPU 0 Proximity  45.0°C
TG1D GPU 1 Die  -127.0°C
TH0a Unknown  32.25°C
TH0b Unknown  31.25°C
TH0c Unknown  30.25°C
TH0x Unknown  -127.0°C
TH0A Unknown  32.25°C
TH0B Unknown  31.25°C
TH0C Unknown  30.25°C
TH0F Unknown  -53.75°C
TH0R Unknown  -53.75°C
TH0V Unknown  31.08°C
TM0P Memory Slot Proximity  40.25°C
TM0S Memory Slot 1  37.64°C
TPCD Platform Controller Hub Die  44.0°C
TP0P Unknown  40.13°C
TW0P AirPort Proximity  36.31°C

UPDATE

I sent the mac off to be fixed and it turned out to be something stuck in the right fan causing it to not move! Looking at my fan speeds now:
left: 3000rpm
right: 2800rpm (seems consistently slower so maybe slightly damaged :L)

CPU temp is now idle at: 48°C ish

Long story short if one of your fan's is around zero then its got stuck or has broken!


texts: Aperture: Import content of smart folder

texts:
Is there any way to import the content of Smart Folder into Aperture library?

Or may be choose any criteria during importing, like file kind, date etc.

BTW: Can I see a size of all checked files?

Update: I know I can choose from this set but may be any more options...


texts: How do I customise the Touch Bar to show the volume up button and the volume down button

texts:
At the moment I have to tap twice to turn down the volume which is super annoying.
I just wanted to have 2 buttons on my Touch Bar like the old Macs. An up volume and a down volume but it seems apple wants us to annoying tap twice to allow this.


texts: Is there a workaround to enable streaming music to multiple speakers from iOS?

texts:
It is well documented that you cannot stream to more than one AirPlay compatible device through iOS. (In an early developer build of 4.0 the functionality was put in but was taken out in the GM).

I am aware you can stream iTunes content to multiple devices and even use the Apple Remote App to control multiple devices.

However, I am looking for a solution that allows me to play a Pandora/Spotify/Slacker/Songza app on my iOS device and allow me to stream that music to multiple devices.

The only solution I have found right now is a complex solution using Rogue Ameoba's AirPlay Speakers app on the iMac but there is about a 4 second lag and additionally, once you have captured audio, you have to manually go to the computer to cancel the connection to allow for other connections.

Does anyone have other workarounds or solutions to this challenge?


texts: Macbook Pro Audio Input Not Working With Microphone

texts:
I am trying to connect microphone to my early 2011 17" MacBook Pro, but I cant get it working. MBP 17" has 2 audio jacks so I supposed the second one is for microphone but just doesnt work (Mac or Windows) and I gotta use USB audio card shipped with my headset.

Am I doing something wrong or the other jack is not supposed for audio input with classic 3.5mm microphone jack?

EDIT:
I of course selected the Line-In device in preferences. The bar under device list wasn`t doing anything while I was talking, but when I was moving with the cable it blinked (I guess because I created some noise by moving the cable).


texts: Does deleting a photo on iPhone also delete it from PhotoStream?

texts: I am trying to transfer my photos from my iphone 4 to my new iPhone 5c. I put all my photos in icloud in a new photo stream and shared it with my iPhone 5c and some with my macbook. If i now clear my iphone 4 completely will I lose the new photo stream with the photos that im trying to save?


texts:
I want to compress several files and encrypt them with a password if possible.

Are there any build-in tools in Mac OS that provide such functionality?
If not, can you recommend me a (freeware) alternative?
I'd also be happy with a terminal command.


texts: change download folder based on website from which I download

texts:
Is it possible to change Downloads folder in Google Chrome (or any other browser) on the fly, based on the website from which I download?

Example: I start downloading on facebook.com and it downloads the file in ~/Downloads/Facebook. If I start the download from stackoverflow.com than the file is downloaded into ~/Downloads/Stackoverflow.

How can I achieve this? I imagine it would be possible to write a Stay Open AppleScript application that starts at computer startup and than continuously check domain name of my current tab. Not sure how I would change downloads folder on the fly though...


texts: Cannot seem to download command line tools

texts: I'm trying to download and install Command Line Tools for my Mac through Xcode, but it is not in the downloads section like youtube videos tell me to go. So, I manually download it and install it, and it still does not show up. I need this so I can download MacPorts. Any suggestions on how to get it? Or how to see if I already have it? Thanks!


texts: Partitions: Create Bootable USB to load Windows 10 install

texts:
I am using a MacBook pro running Catalina to create a bootable USB that I can use to install Windows 10 on another machine.  Initially I formatted the USB as FAT32, but the Windows setup ISO includes a file that is greater than the max file size (4 GB).

I understand that ExFAT can handle files greater that 4 GB, but cannot be bootable.  Therefore my plan was to partition the USB to have a FAT32 bootable partition, and an ExFAT partition.  I would then load the ISO onto the second partition.

The problem I have now is that I cannot re-partition the USB drive.  The option in the disk utility is greyed out.  I erased it with a number of different formats, but to no avail.  I also investigated command line options for eraseDisk but it doesn't seem to take a partition size parameter.

So, the question is can I create a bootable USB that will store a file greater than 4GB?  How?

Secondly, if there is a better way to go about installing Windows 10 on a bare machine, please let me know.


texts: Subtitles in videos don't appear on iPad?

texts:
I've searched around for an answer to this, but I can't seem to find it. Perhaps someone here can help?

I've created several M4V files through Handbrake from a DVD I own, and added them to iTunes. The episodes of the TV show appear OK, but the soft-coded subtitles I selected in Handbrake don't appear as an option when playing the episode on my iPad. But, if I open these same M4V files through VLC Player, the subtitles are there, and can be turned on and off.

If they're in the M4V file, why can't I enable these subtitles on my iPad? :(


texts: My iPad won't turn on and when I try to charge it only the red filler icon (battery icon ) display. The red filler keep blinking three times and then the screen went black. Its keep doing the same thing again again and I even let it charge for more than 2 hours but it won't turn on or charging. This happen suddenly cause usually when the battery died then I charge it, it work. But now it happen like this. Someone please give me advice or what can I do to my iPad ? And what it's problem...


texts: How to Speed Up Guest OS in Macbook Air 2013-Mid?

texts:
I followed the post here about Solution for Slow Ubuntu in VirtualBox.
It is not targeted for OS X.
I am feeling rather slow video play (not native) in the system Macbook Air 2013-Mid.
I feel that some of default settings of VB5 may not be appropriate for the system, especially in the video play.
My settings

where

less RAM for guest OS than host OS (2 < 8 GB)
dynamic space 50 GB so does not end too early
System > Acceleration > Nested paging On; PAE/NX On; Paravirtualization Default (here, the new VB5 choses KVM automatically);
System > Processor > 1 CPU (so Host OS has two)
Display > Memory > 128 GB (can be too much, slowing the system)

Video play results

Playing just youtube video in Guest OS makes the OS X run in its max where the first process is VirtualBox VM

USB

I let USB be 1, although the VB5 should support USB3. However, I got a warning after changing the setting to USB2 or USB3 so I left it to be USB1.
It would however great to get sufficiently configured system.

How can you Speed Up Guest OS in Macbook Air 2013-Mid?


texts: Setting a static route every boot with launchd / plist is failing

texts:
I hope to use launchd to set a static route on a server at boot time since I haven't figured a better way to configure this sort of networking on a server.

My problem is that the command seems to be running before the network stack is set up, so I'm looking for advice how to change my plist to somehow depend on the system routing being set up before it runs.

  Jan 16 14:39:45 server com.company.route.legacy_printer[149]: route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable

  Jan 16 14:39:45 server com.company.route.legacy_printer[149]: add net 10.1.1.1: gateway 10.0.1.2: Network is unreachable

I get this error after a reboot, but loading the same plist as root once the mac has booted works just fine so I'm hoping it's an easy tweak or someone clueing me into a better way to get a static route reliably after each boot.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.company.route.legacy_printer</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/sbin/route</string>
        <string>-n</string>
        <string>add</string>
        <string>-net</string>
        <string>10.1.1.1</string>
        <string>10.0.1.2</string>
        <string>255.255.255.0</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I have reviewed both Running a command whenever Mac boots up with launchctl/plist and How can I run/stop/relaunch an application automatically, at boot/login/some other time? to get this far, but need an extra nudge on finding the correct dependency to get the timing right for the route command.


texts: How can I import text substitutions from Wikipedia "Lists of common misspellings for machines"?

texts:
Wikipedia has some nice lists of misspellings for machines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Veelvoorkomende_spelfouten/machines
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lista_de_errores_ortogr%C3%A1ficos_comunes/M%C3%A1quinas

How to import them as text replacement definitions in System Preferences > Language & Text > Text?


texts: Can I have multiple mice & keyboards for one Mac?

texts:
I would like to control two cursors with two mice in the same time, as well as have two keyboards for separate control and text input.

My goal is to have two users on one computer, so I can let my brother to play/chat anything while I do my job. If we have two monitors, then I don't need to buy a new computer.

If you know of some software that can do this, please let me know.


texts: How do I show 'Names and Pictures' by default in Messages.app?

texts: I am running the latest Mavericks version, 10.9.2.


texts:
How to run on Mountain Lion X11 forwarding via SSH?

Example:

ssh -X some@example.com xterm

my /etc/sshd_config has

X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes

# XAuthLocation added by XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org)
XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth

Restarted sshd with

launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd
launchctl start com.openssh.sshd

(and from the Preferences -> Sharing too)

Started XQuatrz, and from the xterm I run

ssh -v -X mrp@192.168.1.17 xterm        #this part not works :)

got the next:

debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).
Authenticated to 192.168.1.17 ([192.168.1.17]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: Sending command: xterm
debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Transferred: sent 2656, received 2480 bytes, in 0.1 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 29582.4, received 27622.1
debug1: Exit status 1

from the xterm

$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-BHtJfJ/org.macosforge.xquartz:0

changing it to :0 doesn't helps

running from the xterm

$ xauth list
jonatan.local/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  f4f85682af36ae7d95cd3d244cb6beb2
192.168.1.9:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  f4f85682af36ae7d95cd3d244cb6beb2
jonatan.local:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  f4f85682af36ae7d95cd3d244cb6beb2

Any idea?


texts: Problems after switching from MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2018 to MacBook Pro 16" Late 2019

texts:
Today I've got my new MacBook Pro 16" Late 2019. It will replace my "old" MacBook Pro 13" mid-2018.
I've set it up as a new MacBook and just copied over some files.
I now have a massive battery problem. It says "Battery not charging" all the time. It even losses Power. My setup worked well with my 13" Macbook. I've tried the article from the Apple Help Page, but that didn't work.
Also, I've connected my 2 LG 32UK550-B Monitors. They now have a really ugly tint to it. The Color Options also change in the Monitors menu depending on the connected MacBook. My 13" is just fine with like 20 Color Profiles and my 16" just has 4 profiles. All look ugly.
Can someone help me here? Do I have a faulty MacBook?


texts: How can I print an image in its original size on a Mac?

texts:
I have an image of screw heads (source) that I would like to print in its original size onto a sheet of (8.5 by 11 inches letter) paper.

Opening the JPG in Preview, clicking File → Print, and then setting the "Scale" value to "100%" definitely does not accomplish this. In my case, it blows the image up so large that the picture doesn't even fit on one page.

Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac?


texts: How do I get a printer to work on the new MacBook Air M1?

texts:
I'm trying to print from my new MacBook Air M1 running Mac OS Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B29).
I have a Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo.
I downloaded DYMO Label™ v8.7.5, its read me includes "Support for MacOS 11 Big Sur". I installed it and added the printer in System Preferences: Printers & Scanners. I opened the DYMO Label and tried to print a label. Nothing printed.
The System Preferences: Printers & Scanners shows a yellow dot and Error (see below).

Tapping on the Open Print Queue... button does nothing.

Restart computer, no printing.
Unplug and reconnect printer, no printing. Printer is connected by USB to CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock.
Check printer feed, printer will feed labels when the hardware button on the printer is pressed.

Printing from AirPrint connected Canon MX920 does work. However, tapping on the Open Print Queue... button for that printer also does nothing.
I have contacted Dymo Support, but have nothing but the automatic email back from them yet.
Has anyone gotten a Dymo printer to work with the new M1 laptops?


texts: What software has the features I need to replace Skype?

texts:
For the past few years Skype has been getting progressively worse with each iteration. Skype 5 moved away from the compact 2.X era interface to an interface that's much more wasteful and less usable. Features like videoconferencing went paid-only, and now the latest betas are integrating with Facebook and have ads.

I've been on the fence a while regarding Skype; for all its faults it still is useful, but I've gotten to the point where I don't like the direction the software is taking and I'm looking into potential replacements.

The following is a list of Skype features that I use; I'm looking for a set of software/services that will cover most of these:

audio calling
video calling
audio conferencing
video conferencing
Mac client
iOS client
Windows client (for family without Macs/iOS devices)
calling phone numbers
call recording (I use Ecamm's CallRecorder for Skype)

There are other features, like chatting, sending files, SkypeIn, and voicemail, but the above features are the ones I need. Any suggestions?


texts: Why are swiffy files without sound on iPads?

texts:
According to Google, "Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads)." - https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

But, if you check the "Supported features and browsers" - at https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/gettingstarted.html - it turns out sound in swiffy files is "partially supported", which means not at all by Mobile Safari iOS 5, Android Browser 4.0.3 and  Firefox 15, but is supported (maybe only "partially", it's not clear), by Chrome 22, Safari 6.0, Internet Explorer 9 and Opera 12.

I have converted a few flash-movies-with-sound to swiffy and seems to me the Google table should be about "Supported features and operating systems". Swiffy files play, with sound, on all my Windows browsers (IE, FF, Chrome). But on an iPad,  using both Safari and Chrome, swiffy.html is dead silent.

So the question is... does anyone know why it is that on iPads, regardless of the browser (or at least those two), swiffy sound cannot be heard and is there any solution? If there isn't, swiffy has been oversold as a means of "reusing Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads)" if on those devices there's no sound.

It's a mystery why Google hasn't figured out a way of having swiffy deliver sound on iPads through Chrome. So is the problem Apple's iOS, and why?


texts: Upgrade to El Capitan, unable to use keyboard and trackpad after sleep

texts:
I have upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan. This version is stable enough but when I let my macbook pro 15" (2013) sleeping at night and reopening at the morning, keyboard and trackpad do not work anymore...

This issue never happened before and I tried to reset PRAM and SMC but nothing works.

I also tried to troubleshoot it by looking at logs and I spot these 2 lines:

06/10/15 09:25:20,000 kernel[0]: USBF:    21910.354    IOUSBHIDDriver(AppleUSBTCKeyboard)::RearmInterruptRead  returning error 0xe00002d8 (device is not ready), not issuing any reads to device
06/10/15 09:25:20,000 kernel[0]: USBF:    21910.379    IOUSBHIDDriver(AppleUSBMultitouchDriver)::RearmInterruptRead  returning error 0xe00002d8 (device is not ready), not issuing any reads to device

So I found that the IOUSBHIDDriver module was not load by the kernel, so I searched how to load it manually.

I did:

kextstat | grep -i "IOUSBHID*" (which return nothing, normal the module is unloaded)
kextload -b com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver
kextstat | grep -i "IOUSBHID*"
   65    3 0xffffff7f817f0000 0xa000     0xa000     com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (900.4.1) 7180DE6A-7FF9-35D5-A78A-8C417A4BD45E <39 33 5 4 3 1>

Keyboard and trackpad still not working...

I check once again that the module is still loaded and it's not.

Am I alone with this problem ? Do you have any workaround waiting for an eventual patch from Apple ? Please do not tell me to reinstall.. It's not a real solution.

Thanks

Edit: today I didn't got the problem.. Let see tomorrow morning


texts: "Can't make "documents" into type integer." -1700

texts:
I have been making a simple script for my sister, but it does not work. It calls for an integer? I did not specify it in my program, but it calls it anyway?

activate
display dialog "Click Start to start importing your own kindle books!" with title "Kindle Book Uploader by Jeremy Zhang" buttons {"Cancel", "Start"} default button "Start"

property documentFolder : "documents"

tell application "Finder" to (get name of every disk whose ejectable is true)
try
    set kindleLocation to ¬
                ((choose from list result with prompt "Select your Kindle from the list:") as text)
end try

try
      set bookFiles to ¬
                ((choose file with prompt ¬
                          "Select kindle files to import:" of type {"public.html", "public.rtf", "com.microsoft.word.doc", "public.data.mobi", "public.plain-text", "com.adobe.pdf"} with multiple selections allowed) as text)
end try

display dialog "Please wait while the application copies the kindle books..." with title "Kindle Book Uploader by Jeremy Zhang"

tell application "Finder"
      if not (exists folder documentFolder of kindleLocation) then
  make new folder at kindleLocation with properties {name:documentFolder}
      end if
end tell

set fullKindlePath to POSIX path of (kindleLocation as alias) & "documents"

tell application "Finder"
 move (bookFiles) to fullKindlePath
end tell

display dialog "Process has been done! Please eject your kindle and the files will be on the home screen of your Kindle." with title "Kindle Book Uploader by Jeremy Zhang"

And the result from running it:

tell current application
 activate
end tell
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
 display dialog "Click Start to start importing your own kindle books!" with title "Kindle Book Uploader by Jeremy Zhang" buttons {"Cancel", "Start"} default button "Start"
  --> {button returned:"Start"}
end tell
tell application "Finder"
 get name of every disk whose ejectable = true
  --> {"JEREMY DISK"}
end tell
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
 choose from list {"JEREMY DISK"} with prompt "Select your Kindle from the list:"
  --> {"JEREMY DISK"}
 choose file with prompt "Select kindle files to import:" of type {"public.html", "public.rtf", "com.microsoft.word.doc", "public.data.mobi", "public.plain-text", "com.adobe.pdf"} with multiple selections allowed
  --> {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:JeremyZhang:Downloads:5 ETS SAT S.pdf"}
 display dialog "Please wait while the application copies the kindle books..." with title "Kindle Book Uploader by Jeremy Zhang"
  --> {button returned:"OK"}
Result:
error "Can’t make \"documents\" into type integer." number -1700 from "documents" to integer

What am I doing wrong?
AppleScript Editor 2.5 (138)
AppleScript 2.2.3


texts: How to setup a specific application to open all files with unknown extension

texts:
I am trying to open some files with unknown extension and it always ask me to choose an application from local or AppStore.

The problem is, I sometimes need to generate some text file with extensions like ".backups",".config" or even some random text like ".abc123". It means on my Mac, in most time files with unknown extensions can be read by a text editor (personally I prefer Sublime Text).

Is it possible that all files with unknown extension can be automatically opened with a default application like Sublime Text?

This is different from Choose a default app for opening files with no extension? which asks about how to handle files without extension. Here I'm looking for a way to handle unknown extensions (kind of a wildcard rule).


texts: change screen resolution with AppleScript

texts:
How can I change change screen resolution using AppleScript? If AppleScript can't do it, what about Terminal?

I tried with examples at How to set screen resolution with a keyboard shortcut on Retina MBP?, but they don't work anymore. I'm on MacBookPro Retina.

This is how the script definitively should start:

    tell application "System Preferences"
        activate
        reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"
    end tell
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "System Preferences"
          -- insert magic
        end tell
    end tell

Now I just need to click on "Scaled" and select different display resolutions, but I don't know how these buttons are "called".


texts: Network services deleted via terminal reenabled after Restart

texts:
I have written a shell script to remove all services excluding ethernet. The aim is to remove these services and PPPoE entries so the end user only sees ethernet under Preferences > Networking.
However, after a restart the services return. This also happens with just running the terminal command  networksetup deletepppoeservice [servicename]
I presume there is a plist somewhere that repopulates these entries, however I have deleted networkInterfaces.plist to no effect.
Here is the code snippet in question:
SERVICE="Ethernet"
for NETSERV in ${networkService[@]}; do
    if [[ "$NETSERV" != "$SERVICE" ]]; then
        networksetup deletepppoeservice "$NETSERV";
    fi
doneSERVICE="Ethernet"
for NETSERV in ${networkService[@]}; do
    if [[ "$NETSERV" != "$SERVICE" ]]; then
        networksetup deletepppoeservice "$NETSERV";
    fi
done

The goal:

Thanks.


texts: Unable to redirect Salesforce links to Salesforce App

texts:
I'm unable to open the Salesforce links in Salesforce App. The links are directly opening in Safari, but they need to open in the Salesforce App rather than the browser.

Is there some settings involved so that iOS is able to recognise the App by clicking on a link? How do I get this to work?


texts:
Is /usr/bin/etags severely out of date in Yosemite?  If so, what is the easiest way to get an up-to-date version of etags, to use with Emacs from http://emacsformacosx.com/?

I am using:

GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2014-10-20 on builder10-9.porkrind.org.
Yosemite 10.10.1


texts: How to create custom Keyboard Shortcuts?

texts:
Is there any way to create custom keyboard shortcuts that do whatever you want through a third-party app or just through default OS X apps, like Automator and or AppleScript?

I want to create a shortcut that will bring up the power dialogue box, as shown in the image below.


texts: Can I connect an Apple Watch to my iPhone without syncing activity data? Or is there another way to roll back Activity data?

texts:
First, the problem: I accidentally entered a 25-hour workout manually instead of a 1-hour workout (I entered "yesterday at time X to today at time X+1", instead of "…to yesterday at time X+1").  I deleted it immediately, but the damage was done.  This gave me thousands of unearned exercise minutes and has awarded me an unbeatable exercise record achievement, which are both really frustrating – I've been tracking my data for over a year now, and this really gets in the way of that.
Unfortunately, after talking to Apple Support for over an hour, I learned that there really isn't a way to undo this.  The exercise minutes haven't gone away, even though Apple Support said they were supposed to, and Apple Support said there's literally no way to remove achievements short of resetting my data completely.
Except!  The reason I'm in this pickle is that my Apple Watch actually basically died recently (or maybe not quite, some of the issue seems to be with the charger (that I've now replaced)) – it's barely charging (this might be cable-related), discharging quite rapidly, and basically isn't usable.  However, it might be usable enough to connect to my phone and unpair from it, which would create a backup with the old, pre-disaster activity data.  There's just one catch: as soon as I connect it to my phone, it's going to sync, importing the new data and breaking everything.  Apple Support wasn't sure if there was a way around this.
So that's my current situation.  I have my phone and a borrowed Apple Watch with the post-disaster, thousands-of-exercise-minutes Activity data, and my old Apple Watch with the pre-disaster good Activity data.  I want to import the data from my old Apple Watch and zap the data from the new Apple Watch.  How can I do this?
I'm also interested in other ways to solve this same problem – I'm under no illusions that I've thought about this completely enough to totally explore the problem space.  But this is the best idea I've had.

In short: Can I (1) connect an Apple Watch to my iPhone (2) without syncing activity data, then (3) unpair it to create a backup, and (4) restore another Watch from that backup, thereby (5) wiping out the past few days of activity data?  Or is there a better way?

Product versions:

Phone: iPhone 8+, iOS 13.5.1
Old watch: Apple Watch Series 4, 44m, watchOS 6.2.8
New watch: Apple Watch Series 5, 40m, watchOS 6.1

I also asked this question on Reddit in /r/applehelp.


texts:
I mistakenly selected an outdoor walk instead of an outdoor run in the Workout app for Apple Watch. I realised after my run and wondered if there was a way to edit the type of workout on the iPhone?

Looking back at my workout history, it looks a little ridiculous.


texts: How can I remove this alert badge from my settings icon?

texts:
I'm on the iOS 12.1.2 version.
I have no other alerts in my settings.

But this just won't go away:

I think it's related to prodding for iCloud upgrades, but I'm just not seeing anything at all. How can I get rid of this badge?


texts: How to stop Windows firewall from blocking Bonjour hostname resolution

texts: I have Bonjour installed on my Windows 7 PC, and the installer appears to have poked all the necessary holes in the Windows firewall. However, I can't ping windows-pc.local from my Mac. If I completely disable the Windows firewall, I can. How do I configure Windows firewall to allow Bonjour hostname resolution?


texts: Can't run OpenJDK macOS Catalina "Can't verify it's not a Virus"

texts:
I downloaded OpenJDK 13 from the official website and extracted it to my /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ folder. If I now try to run it with java -version I get a prompt saying something around the lines of "macOS can't verify it is not a Virus" and asks me if I want to delete it or cancel.

The Tar's Checksum matches the one from the Website.
I used sudo in order to move the folder, otherwise I got access denied
Running java as sudo changes nothing

Any ideas on how I can get OpenJDK 13 to install on MacOS Catalina?


texts: My Safari download button has disappeared

texts: For some odd reason, I am unable to witness my download button, even when i am downloading something. I am able to access the downloaded file(s) in Finder just fine, but theres no download button for me to access it, open, and/or drag and drop the file in Safari itself. Does anyone have a solution to this issue?


texts: It takes up a lot of storage(20 GB), and I can't locate it in finder either. I can only see it in storage settings, where it won't delete. I also don't have steam anymore.


texts: Is there an iPhone video editing app which creates live editable subtitles like the iOS Clips app?

texts:
I create short English videos with subtitles for Instagram videos.
My main requirement is that it creates subtitles while I speak that I can then edit.
I’ve been using Clips until now but it is very buggy and has become unusable. I’ve not found any other iOS video editing apps which offer this functionality.
Can you suggest one that does?


texts:
Since upgrading my version of OSX, my computer no longer detects a USB game controller.  I know the controller is in working order because my Linux machine can talk to it.  I don't know which version broke it, but I have photo evidence of the controller working about a year ago and I'm currently running 10.11.3 (Mid 2014 MBP).  I can't divine anything useful out of /Applications/Utilities/System Information, maybe you can.

How do I debug the onset of incompatibility with my USB game controller?


texts: Big Sur terminal sometimes 5-second lag, 16in macbook pro

texts:
update 5 issue seems to still be happening for another user (see comment in answer below) under macOS 11.2.3.
update 4 Looks like this issue in terminal is no longer happening after updating to 11.2.3. However, there's now a similar issue in Google Chrome where having multiple tabs open and then clicking a tab does nothing, but then moving the cursor will go to that tab (the expected behavior is obviously to go the tab immediately upon clicking the tab). The "Battery" settings under System Preferences now has a checkbox to enable/disable discrete graphics switching (not sure if it was there before) but disabling switching causes the Chrome tab problem to go away.
update 3 This just happened to me again when my macbook was at 100% battery, and plugged in. Is it possible that it's not due to the graphics switching?
Update 2 Looks like this is a known bug with the hybrid graphics of my MBP, as the answer below points out. Here's another thread. Interestingly, I haven't noticed any issues in other apps like Chrome or Safari that much, just in Terminal.
Update I notice that the lag seems to happen only when running on battery. Additionally, I've observed in even when not pressing return, for example when using Vim and just navigating around with hjkl, sometimes a single keypress would seem to not register, but then the second press would "flush" of them, or alternatively waiting about 5 seconds will "flush" the first press.
original
I'm using the default terminal in Big Sur using 2019 16 inch macbook pro. I'm on a clean install, with no changed settings or installed programs. Default shell settings.
Sometimes (maybe once every 15 min or so) when I input a command in terminal (e.g. ls or cd ~/Documents), and when I hit Return on my keyboard, the terminal seems to do nothing. If I press any key again, then the Return "goes through", along with the second key I pressed. Alternatively, if I just wait 5 seconds, the Return "goes through", and everything is fine.
Has anyone else noticed this terminal lag?


texts: Newsstand magazine downloads very slow and halting

texts:
My newsstand has two subscriptions: New Yorker and Economist.

When a new issue is available for either one of those, the period required to download the issue is super slow, and unreliable - it will seem to spin along well, showing the download numbers increase, but then simply halt. The iPad will then go to its lock screen, and when I go back, zero additional downloading will have progressed in the meantime. In fact, sometimes it pops back to the previous downloaded amount prior to the last little progress session.
I have "download automatically" set in the preferences for Newsstand for these subscriptions. It doesn't do it on its own (and, as above, barely does it when I ask it to specifically).

Note:

Yes, I have done the "show the currently running apps and then fully close down the NYer and Newssstand apps all the way" method - does not help… and I've shut down the iPad all the way and restarted, also.
I live in Thailand, but I'm on a pretty fast DSL and the Wi-Fi is fine… jeez, in these times, overseas location doesn't matter, right?

Anyone have these problems or have a guess?

The iPad is the iPad 3, has the newest iOS as of today (Nov 2012), etc…


texts:
I'm looking for an app that lets me capture a rectangle, puts it up to an image bin, and puts a link to the image into my clipboard.

Dropbox does this, with one problem: it doesn't link to the image. It links to a page containing the image, but it isn't trivial to extract the image from the link.

The reason I want a link to the image is because I use IRC, and most good IRC clients are smart enough that if I enter the URL for an image, the other users of the channel Will see the image. However, if it is linking to a page containing the image then that is no good: they will just see a web link and they will have to click it, and it will open up a new browser window, and that annoys people.

I've also checked out Jing which is very nice, only it suffers the same problem.

EDIT: I started writing a script https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21371254/osx-automatically-upload-screenshot-to-imagebin-and-put-url-in-clipboard

So far it uploads file, puts a link into the clipboard and make some noise. Can anyone finish it off?


texts: OS X Lion Server multiple postgresql installs

texts:
I am using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL on my Mac mini server (Lion). However, I am unable to run the version I have installed, the only version I see running is the version installed with OS X:

216    83     1   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.47 /usr/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql -c listen_addresses= -c log_connections=on -c log_directory=/Library/Logs -c log_filename=PostgreSQL.log -c log_lock_waits=on -c log_statement=ddl -c log_line_prefix=%t  -c logging_collector=on -c unix_socket_directory=/var/pgsql_socket -c unix_socket_group=_postgres -c unix_socket_permissions=0770
216   266    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.27 postgres: logger process
216   300    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:01.01 postgres: writer process
216   301    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.75 postgres: wal writer process
216   302    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.51 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
216   303    83   0 12:17PM ??         0:00.91 postgres: stats collector process
1025  2698   814   0  1:30PM ttys000    0:00.00 grep post

How do I go about starting another postgres instance and having it run on startup?


texts: MacOS: unable to resize partitions after bootcamp failed

texts:
I tried to install Win10 with Bootcamp on my MacBook Air running MacOS Sierra 10.12.1. Doing so I changed my main partition in order to create the one for Bootcamp. But when running the Windows setup I had to choose the partition onto which to install Windows and always got an error there. So I tried reformatting the Bootcamp partition within the Windows setup, but also failed.

So I decided to stop and remove the Bootcamp partition. But somehow I can not delete nor merge it with the MacOS partition. The disk utility app says I can not remove the partition because the other one (MacOS) can not be resized. FileVault is deactivated.

So what can I do? By the way, the terminal command line diskutil cs or corestorage list does not work:

diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

Here's the output from the terminal and from the disk utility app.

The Bootcamp assistant won't allow me to restart the whole process since it can not resize the main partition and it does not let me choose the second partition as a target. Any idea how to cleanup all partitions?


texts: I cannot connect to iTunes and the App Store from my iPad in iOS6

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I just updated to iOS6 yesterday. After the update, I cannot connect to the App Store and iTunes on my iPad.

There are no options to click when I'm prompted by this message "Cannot connect to iTunes/App Store".

What should I do?


texts: How can I see if RAM was failing after removing it from the Mac?

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I recently replaced some original 1GB RAM modules in my Mac Pro with 4GB ones. After a day or two of constant uptime, I attempted to reboot the machine which resulted in the power light blinking quickly (an indication that there is bad RAM). I removed the new RAM, replaced with the smaller modules that were there before and things were fine.

I have had bad RAM before as indicated by ECC failures in the System Information screens. However, before rebooting I didn't look at these screens so I don't have screenshot proof to send to the vendor that it is their modules at fault.

Is a RAM failure somewhere captured in the system logs?


texts: Send mail from OS X without email account

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On linux, I use exim4 to send mail to a public email address. I don't have to authenticate or anything. It pretends its noreply@example.com and sends it to someone@example.com.  Is it possible to do the same on OS X?

I have a cron job, and I want to send mail from the root user as noreply@example.com like with my linux box. I looked up postfix configuration as it seems to be the method used, but all the examples require authentication. Is there anyway to avoid this?


texts: How can I download podcasts directly to my jailbroken iPhone?

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With a jailbroken iPhone 4.x, is there a way to download podcasts (about 60-100megs in size via an rss feed -- they are not in the iTunes store) directly to the phone without syncing?

Ideally, I'd like them to appear in the standard iTunes player on the phone with the other podcasts synced from my PC, but if this isn't possible, perhaps another app is available?

Similar question here, but I'm jailbroken.


texts: How do I remove domains from the network browser?

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When I go to the network browser (in the Finder, hit command K, then click the "Browse" button, or just shift-command K), I see three domain names from a network I used to connect to six years ago. The appear in a list with dropdown trinagles to the left:

example.org
example.biz
example.com

How can I remove those? The computer was bound to an Active Directory domain, but nothing I try in the Directory Utility seems to remove them.

This was true on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, and now on 10.8.

I will not wipe the system and start virgin for something like this that is not causing a problem but annoys me.


texts: Error while installing Mavericks in a clean hard drive

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I've decided to reistall osx Mavericks on my MacBook, so I restarted my Mac clicking cmd ⌘+R. In recovery mode I erased the main hard drive so I can have a clean install.

Then I selected "Install OS X Maverics" and after asking my permission to "verify the installation with apple" I got this error:

An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.

I restarted, and then it started the "Internet Recovery" mode, which now gives me the option to install OS X Mountain Lion instead of Mavericks, and gives me the same error every time.

I've checked the date through the terminal, and it is correct, but I am not in "PDT", I'm in "IDT" time zone.


texts: When will we have LPDDR4x memory in MBs/MBPs?

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Apple just announced their much expected 16" MBP, which still features DDR4 memory in order to be able to support more than 16GB RAM. I find that a bit disappointing, and am a bit puzzled as to why we still haven't seen a shift to low-power memory on macbooks.

If my understanding is correct, Intel's newer CPUs should in theory support LPDDR4x memory, and that these should provide significant improvements in terms of power usage.

Could someone explain what is the bottleneck in the wider adoption of this technology?


texts: I've been using Dictation in TextEdit for several months now. Yesterday, out of the blue, it stopped working. The microphone icon appears and it responds to my voice, but no text appears. I've been using it with "Use Enhanced Dictation". I tried unchecking and checking again,turning Dictation On/Off, and switching languages (English (United States) and English (United Kingdom)) but this did not help. What is wrong?


texts: SysPref > Keyboard > Text auto-spell-correct is OFF but persists in Numbers

texts: I switched off spell-correct in SysPref > Keyboard > Text, but Numbers 3.2 continues not only to suggest corrections, but - when I decline the suggestion by hitting ESC - to replace my text with its suggestion.  How utterly annoying of it!  Any idea how to shut it up?


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Is it possible to add a flag to a bash alias you create yourself? e.g.

con -a = 'ssh username@server1.domain.com'
con -b = 'ssh username@server2.domain.com'


texts: How can I cd to an alias directory in the Mac OSX terminal without creating symbolic link

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I used to be able to cd into aliases with my Mac. Today I was messing around with ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile to make PostgreSQL work. After I restarted my computer it stopped cd'ing to aliases and after some research I figured I was not supposed to be able to do that from the beginning.

So I do not know how I was able to cd into aliases before or how I broke it (maybe a system update became valid after restart, I wasn't restarting for a while). I have only found the following answer on couple places How to go to alias from terminal?.

I am looking for an explanation to what happened and a simple way of fixing it rather than modifying cd function itself. I do not prefer creating a symbolic link because it would be broken when I make a change in the actual file & I have many aliases to replace so it seems like a redundant work.

Note: Im still not able to cd into aliases when I undo the changes I made in ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile, so this seems to be caused by something else or my changes triggered something once and it was enough for a permanent change.


texts: Method for Combining Multiple Word Documents into One?

texts: Are there any methods for combining multiple Word documents into one big document in Mac?


texts: Is it possible to upgrade iOS without connecting the device to a computer?

texts: Is it possible to upgrade the iOS version and apps on an iPhone without connecting it to a computer and going through iTunes?


texts: screencapture as a service doesn't work in OS X 10.9.2

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I have updated to 10.9.2 and looks like it has broken my image uploading script.

It starts with a shell command:

screencapture -i /tmp/last_screen.png

It should take a picture of selected area. It works well when I type it in console, or when I press "run" in Automator to test my service.
But it doesn't work when I try to run it as service or via hotkey - my cursor doesn't change to area select tool.

Added: even "take screenshot" action in automator is no longer working


texts: What permissions do I need to give for my server setup?

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I am trying to have a server setup for my web app locally on my MacBook Pro. I have installed Apache, PHP successfully and checked out my web app's code to /var/www location. Now there's a script in my app that writes a file in /var/www/someDir. To do so I am using the following line:

$file = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/abc.ini", "w");

And on execution I see the following error in error log.

PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/someDir/abc.ini): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /private/var/www/myscript.php on line 6

someDir is owned by user abhilash.goje (that's me) and group wheel. I have tried giving following permissions.

$sudo chmod -R 755 www     -> Did not resolve the issue
$sudo chmod -R 775 www     -> Did not resolve the issue
$sudo chmod -R 777 www     -> Resolved the issue, but not safe.

permission 777 works but I don't prefer to use this solution as it is not at all safe.
Kindly let me how do I set the correct permissions to this folder.

Thanks in Advance!!


texts: iTunes folder contains duplicated music files

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On my macOSX I'm using standard Music folder that contains following folders with music and iTunes folder.

Music
|- Artists
|- Compilations
|- iTunes

I have imported Artists and Compilations into iTunes using "Add to Library". Now Music/iTunes/iTunes Media contains the same mp3 files as Artists and Compilations.

Is it possible import folder into iTunes without duplicating it?