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My MacBook won't boot past the grey screen (white unibody MacBook 15", Intel-based, dual core).

I installed an illegal copy of Snow Leopard onto my Mac (as legal copies were not available in my country at the time).

It doesn't boot up anymore, but sometimes when I hold down the option key it boots.

I've installed linux mint onto it, and it works – or rather it worked fine.  More often than not it doesn't even boot into target disk mode (no hard drives appear nor the Mac installation disk).

More often than not it doesn't boot the os installed or reads the installation disks. Its just a blank grey screen. No icon or anything.

However on the rare occasion that it does boot as it should in target disk mode, hard disk appears and if an installation disk is inserted, it is read perfectly and after selecting one of the targets, it boots fine. Problem is, this normal boot only occurs like 1 out of 30 attempts.

I have tried:

Resetting the SMC - can perform
Resetting the NVRAM and PRAM - can perform
Boot into safe mode - cannot perform
Boot into verbose mode - cannot perform
Removing the battery and holding the power down for a minute


texts: Customise voicemail message based on caller

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Is it possible to programme a specific voicemail message to be used when an individual telephone number calls me? I would like to have my general voicemail message for all calls except one from a client with dementia who needs a difference message to reassure her.

I am using an iPhone 6 running iOS 12.


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I need the file that says "Install OS X Yosemite." My mac can't download it  because it is unsupported. Is there any way I can get the file.
Thanks


texts: External Monitor Doesn't Keep Custom Background, When Unpuggled/plugged

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I've got two external monitors hooked up to my MacBook Pro Retina (about says it's circa '13). One monitor is being feed desktop backgrounds from one folder, and the other monitor is being feed desktop backgrounds from another folder.

If I go to a meeting, I unplug both external monitors, and then, when I come back and plugin the monitors again, one of the monitors (not both) sometimes goes back into the custom background folder that I've set for it. Other times, that same monitor will use a default background from Mac.

I don't remember where I saw this, but I remember reading that Mac doesn't have a way of keeping tracking of monitors, which is why this is happening. Am I out of luck?


texts: When trying to upgrade osxfuse, I get "missing DEVELOPER_DIR path" message

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I recently installed Yosemite, and am now trying to upgrade all of my brew installs (brew update, then brew upgrade). After remembering to do xcode-select --install, I finally got all of my installs upgraded except for encfs and osxfuse (encfs depends on osxfuse). Now, when trying to upgrade, I get the following results (entirety included because it's not that big):

▶ brew upgrade
==> Upgrading 2 outdated packages, with result:
encfs 1.7.5_1, osxfuse 2.7.1
==> Upgrading encfs
==> Installing encfs dependency: osxfuse
==> Cloning https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/osxfuse--git
==> Checking out tag osxfuse-2.7.1
==> ./build.sh -t homebrew -f /usr/local/Cellar/osxfuse/2.7.1

OSXFUSEBuildTool()            : supported platforms: 10.9 10.10
OSXFUSEBuildTool()            : building OSXFUSE kernel extension and tools
xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path:
OSXFUSEBuildTool() failed: xcodebuild cannot build configuration Release.

READ THIS: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting

Naturally, I've been to the troubleshooting page, and was still not able to solve my problems (although it might've helped me solve problems with earlier formulae). The results of brew doctor are:

▶ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
  /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse.la

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/libyices.2.1.0.dylib

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:

    fuse4x
    gcc
    ghostscript
    ruby

Warning: Your Xcode (6.0.1) is outdated
Please update to Xcode 6.1.
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.

The results of brew --config are:

▶ brew --config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.5
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew.git
HEAD: b7feb05f247b5cf934991d8035bf44ff6c4180ba
Last commit: 43 minutes ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: 8-core 64-bit ivybridge
OS X: 10.10-x86_64
Xcode: 6.0.1
CLT: 6.1.0.0.1.1413057044
couldn't understand kern.osversion `14.0.0'
GCC-4.2: build 5666
Clang: 6.0 build 600
X11: 2.7.7 => /opt/X11
System Ruby: 2.0.0-481
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/local/bin/python => /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
Ruby: /Users/benjaminhocking/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ruby

I tried manually setting DEVELOPER_DIR:

▶ export DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

That did not make any difference. Does anybody have any suggestions for how I can fix this?


texts: Trick Macbook to not recognize HDMI connection with external monitor but still mirror the screen to it

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I am not even sure if my question is achievable or completely dumb.

I connect my macbook air (macos High Sierra) to an external display via HDMI. As you know whenever you plug the cable in the laptop the new external monitor/ TV is recognized in System Preferences.

Is there a way to send image to the external display and at the same time not recognize the HDMI connection? I have software that stops running whenever an HDMI connection is established and am wondering whether there is a way to trick it?


texts: Change scaling algorithm for non-retina apps running in low resolution on a retina display?

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Regarding non-retina apps running in low-resolution mode on a retina display:

In the past, circa 2012 (ref), these apps were scaled with nearest-neightbour algorithm, where 1 pixel would become a group of 4 identical pixels. Confirmed in Apple Docs from the period

At some point since then, at least by 2016 (ref), these apps are now scaled with a bilinear (or similar) filter meaning that a single pixel does not get scaled up cleanly and the resulting group of 4 pixels is blurred with surrounding pixels

So, my question: is there a way to change the scaling algorithm back to nearest-neighbour?


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Among others that I recognize, I have the "imagent" been allowed to pass true my firewall (allow incoming connection).

What/who is it, and do I must have it or can I just block it.

I do not remember allowing it in the first place anyway, but that could be due to my age :)


texts: Why won't Office 2011 install on Snow Leopard?

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I'm trying to install Office on my mother-in-law's MacBook.  The installer fails every time with:

12/28/12 12:26:42 PM    installd[1798]  PackageKit: Install Failed: PKG: pre-install scripts for "com.microsoft.office.all.quit.pkg.14.2.0"
Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 UserInfo=0x103b1da10 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Office Installer”." {
    NSFilePath = "./preinstall";
    NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while running scripts from the package \U201cOffice Installer\U201d.";
    NSURL = "#Office2011_all_quit_14.2.0.pkg -- file://localhost/Volumes/Microsoft%20Office%202011/Office%20Installer.pkg";
    PKInstallPackageIdentifier = "com.microsoft.office.all.quit.pkg.14.2.0";
}

Outside of the timestamp, installd process ID and userinfo number, it's always the same message.

Here's the hardware overview from system_profiler:

  Model Name: MacBook
  Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed: 2 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  L2 Cache: 4 MB
  Memory: 2 GB
  Bus Speed: 667 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
  SMC Version (system): 1.13f3

I've updated all of the software using Software Update and I've repaired permissions on the hard drive.


texts: Does a Snow Leopard reinstall require rebuilding my Development Environment?

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I'm having some pretty major problems with Mac OS X. Frequent crashes, Dock randomly disappears, general sluggishness, etc. & I think it's time to reinstall.

I heard about a feature called Archive & Install. It sounds like it just re-installs essential system files and doesn't touch anything else. But my question is how much of my development environment will remain intact? I've installed some packages with Homebrew & RubyGems while following Ruby on Rails tutorials. Would I have to reinstall all those?

I'm guessing my Mac apps are safe, even though they're all installed under "Macintosh HD/Applications", and not under my User account?

Would love some advice, thanks.

Rene


texts: Why external links open in Ungoogled Chromium instead of Brave when both browsers are running?

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My default browser is Brave Browser  and whenever I click on a link in any of the mac apps it opens in Brave which is the expected behaviour but for some reason it doesn't when Ungoogled Chromium is open in parallel.  Then all the links open in Ungoogled Chromium even though Brave is default browser in my System Preferences.
This does not happen when other browsers (than Ungoogled Chromium) are open in parallel. I have tested it with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Tor.
I am on Big Sur 11.2.2 and Brave Version 1.21.73


texts: How to stream only the video to an Apple TV from a Mac?

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I have an Apple TV with which I'd like to read videos from my mac, both from Internet (Youtube for example) and from files stored on my hard drive.

There is two ways of doing it: the first one is Airplay Mirroring, but this does not work well enough, since there is a lag between the sound and the video. The second one is to use the built in option to read only the video, and not to mirror the whole screen.

I managed to use both of these options with my iPhone/iPad :

Airplay Mirroring is done through the control center
Reading only the video is done with a little icon that appears on the bottom right of the video player, like this one :

But on my mac, the icon does not appear when I try to read a video. It is always in the menu bar (top left part of the screen), where it only allows me to to mirror my screen. I would like to read only the video, like I do with my iPad/iPhone, to avoid this sound/picture offset.

Is there any way to do it? The best would be to find a solution that would work for videos on the Internet and for saved video files.


texts: How to disable Acrobat Reader in Safari?

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In Safari, the default PDF-Viewer in Safari is "Preview".

Unfortunately, since I installed the Acrobat Reader, this default changed to the Acrobat Reader, which is extremely annoying.

How can I change this back to "Preview"?


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There is an option in Keyboard Maestro to rename any tab on safari with the name you want

I'm trying to do the same using AppleScript but is this even possible?

I have nothing so far, I'm guessing JavaScript would be the way to do it

tell application "Safari"
    tell front window to make new tab at after first tab with properties {URL:myLink}
    -- need to rename tab here
    tell front window to make new tab at after second tab with properties {URL:myLink}
    -- need to rename tab here
    tell front window to make new tab at after third tab with properties {URL:myLink}
    -- need to rename tab here
end tell


texts: Unable to receive packets onto utun interface?

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I'm using the NetworkExtension framework to create a virtual utun interface. My application receives packets from a client and the application writes the packet into the utun interface.
Since I have enabled ip forwarding using sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 on the system, the packet is sent to the correct interface en0 and sent out through the wire.
When a response is sent back, it is received on the en0 interface. However, I want to forward these packets to the utun interface so that my application can read the packets received. How can I achieve this?
Example:

VPN Application receives packet from client.
Application writes packet to utun interface with source 100.64.0.77 and destination 192.168.1.95
OS networking stack sees that the packets destined for 192.168.x.x are to go to interface en0
Packet is sent out through wire to 192.168.1.95
192.168.1.95 sends a response packet with destination 100.64.0.77 and source 192.168.1.95
The response packet is only received on the en0 interface
The response packet needs to be put onto the utun interface somehow so that my application can read the packet. How do I achieve this?

Some useful information below:
>netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.254      UGSc           en0
default            link#10            UCSI         utun2
100.64.0.77        100.64.0.77        UH           utun2
127                127.0.0.1          UCS            lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH             lo0
169.254            link#7             UCS            en0      !
192.168.1          link#7             UCS            en0      !
192.168.1          link#10            UCSI         utun2
192.168.1.92/32    link#7             UCS            en0      !
192.168.1.99       8c:a9:82:2e:d6:2e  UHLWI          en0    986
192.168.1.254/32   link#7             UCS            en0      !
192.168.1.254      70:f1:96:86:e6:a0  UHLWIir        en0   1196
224.0.0/4          link#7             UmCS           en0      !
224.0.0/4          link#10            UmCSI        utun2
224.0.0.251        1:0:5e:0:0:fb      UHmLWI         en0
255.255.255.255/32 link#7             UCS            en0      !
255.255.255.255/32 link#10            UCSI         utun2

>ifconfig utun2
flags=8051<up,POINTTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=6403<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,CHANNEL_IO,PARTIAL_CSUM,ZEROINVERT_CSUM>
inet 100.64.0.77 --> 100.64.0.77 netmask 0xffffff00


texts: Process recognition tool for macOS to remove unnecessary processes

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I have a gazillion (408 atm) processes running on my Macbook Pro. I'm running MacOs High Sierra 10.13.6. The system isn't slow and I understand that many of them are necessary, but I think the number could be a bit smaller. Is there any tool, app or even process database that can give me info like:

fontd - font caching and verification, system installed, don't touch except sth...
Spotify - music player for the streaming platform, installed by user, can disable
Some random thing - unknown crap, installed by user, uninstall ASAP

With a list like this, I could decrapify my system a bit.


texts: macOS equivalent to Ubuntu mouse middle button on window title bar to lower window?

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On Ubuntu it's extremely handy to lower a given window by clicking mouse middle button on title bar

... is there a macOS equivalent ?

PS.  to lower a window is simply to keep an open window at current location on desktop and push it to the bottom of all overlapping windows ... the opposite of clicking on title bar of partially shown window to raise it to top most window ... given window may very well be occluded by neighbor windows so not necessarily the top most window holding the window focus ... very different from minimizing a window


texts: I've been trying to download Cydia jailbroken. I only found a Cydia demo. I really need to download Cydia on my iPhone 5 with iOS 10.3.3. Can anyone help me with that?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for restoring applications from the Mac OS X Dock?

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to restore a minimised application window from the Dock?

Almost all Apple Mac OS X applications respond to the Apple + M command which minimises the current application window to the Dock, which is fine.

I can then use Command + Tab to cycle through my running applications - including the minimised application, but selecting the application with the minimised window neither restores the minimised window, nor sets focus to the minimised application window in the Dock so I can restore it without having to reach for the Mouse.

Update: Thanks for the answers, however the consensus seems to be to use the 'Hide' feature (Apple + H) instead of minimising, as it's easier to get the window back using Command + Tab.


texts: How does changing key photo in Live photo differ from burst mode?

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I notice when using Live photos you can change the key photo if you want. Is there any quality loss based on doing this? How does this differ from taking Burst mode photos? Is there a difference in how the camera (focus/aperature etc) behaves?

Does this function mean that if I have Live photos enabled there's no technical reason to use Burst mode (other than perhaps more control over how long to capture images for?)


texts: How to embed an Image in Mac OS Sierra Mail Application

texts: Me and a co-worker are trying to embed an image in our email signature in the default apple mail application with an url. For example we have this image https://www.kieran.pw/unnamed.jpg and want this in our signature. We do not want a file that is being sent with the email. We tried to edit the email HTML code in ~/Library/Mail/V4/MailData/Signatures but mail just either deletes it or completely ignores it even though we edited AccountsMap.plist and AllSignatures.plist with the correct data. Did apple remove that feature with version V4 because we read a tutorial about V2 and it apparently worked there.


texts: macOS Mojave Beach Ball when saving a file

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When I'm trying to save or select a file in a web browser, or any other application the beachball appears and the app hangs for ±30 seconds.

I didn't have this problem in High Sierra. Is it a common bug or specific to my hardware?
I have MacBook Pro Retina 15 2014


texts: Is it safe to remove .docker folder? What is it actually?

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I'm on a mission to free up HD space and I used Disk Inventory X to help find folders & files which are taking up the most space. All is good and well until I saw this particular folder which I am completely unfamiliar with: .docker. It's taking up 117.8GB and i want to know whether i can delete it? Is it safe? Is it backed up in time machine backups?

Google just brings up some app framework; and so I'm not sure how essential it is.

Would love your thoughts here.


texts: iPhone iOS 5 showing incorrect time zone

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Recently (and only while at work) my phone has started to claim that its 8 hours ahead of the correct local time (e.g. it is currently  a little after 1230 and the iPhone is showing a little after 2030).

If I disable automatic time setting (Settings > General > Date and Time > Set Automatically) and manually confirm my location, all is well and the iPhone shows 1230. (Location services are switched on.)

Of course, this isn't sustainable because I'd like my phone's time to be kept in sync.

From researching a little it seems as though this is a carrier related problem, can anyone confirm that?

Update: After discussing the issue with my carrier's helpdesk they confirmed a problem with one of their cells which they subsequently fixed and which caused my timing issue to go away.

Moral of the story: it's not always something that you can fix by yourself!


texts: Accessing internet on a MacBook Air through iPhone's access to Wi-Fi, rather than its access to cellular data

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Is it possible to do something similar to iPhone hotspot, but instead of using the iPhone's cellular data connection, it uses it's Wi-Fi connection instead. Thus, allowing a MacBook Air to access the hotspot in order to use the internet through the iPhone's Wi-Fi connection instead of its cellular connection.

I would like to try this because my MacBook Air's Wi-Fi connection is flaky, but when connecting it to my iPhone's hotspot it seems to be fine.


texts: So on my iPod generation 4, I go into my cloud contacts and type my friends name like" amy(: Bestfriend" and then I'll save that and go to my messages and her name will pop up as "Amy then her last name".  I don't get why the name I saved it as isn't showing up.. It did before! Please help?


texts: Restoring from Time Machine to different type of Mac

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I have been using a Time Machine for back ups for about 2 years now. Recently, I got a new iMac 27in and ‘restored’ it from my MacBook Air backup (most updated OS). I chose all the options as seen below:

I have noticed that my new iMac is running a bit sluggish, I am attributing this to the fact that it a Fusion Drive, but I am also being told that it could be because I copied over all the files (including Computer & Network Settings)

Is it advisable to restore a Mac from a different Macs Time Machine?


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If I hit Spotlight type "TextEdit" and hit enter. TextEdit starts and after that I can open any txt file by double clicking on it. As you would expect. If I close TextEdit and click on any txt file it will flash very quick (as if it opens) and than nothing happens. No Console message and it does not open the file. I don't get it. I trashed the "com.apple.TextEdit.plist", but that did not change anything. Restart has no effect as well.

This seems spooky. Any ideas ?


texts: Can an iPad (3rd gen) run solo with an Airport Express

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My folks are using a PC running WinXP to control a non-Apple wifi-router. The PC crashes often, bringing down with it the wifi network. They no longer actually use the PC, just the iPad, but they keep the PC to control the router.

If I replace their router with an Apple Airport Express, can I then discard the PC and control the router solely from the iPad? Could an iPad control a non-Apple wifi-router?


texts: Can I use my Nexus 4 charger to charge an iPhone 4s?

texts: I have a Nexus 4 charger (the block with the USB port on it) lying around. Can I use it to charge my iPhone 4s? Is it going to cause any trouble?


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Any hints on stabilizing MacVim?  I have version "Custom Version 7.4 (73)" as shown in screenshot

Typically MacVim is crashing when I am working on a different application - not when actually editing within vim.


texts: Hiding email address associated with Apple ID when using iMessage

texts: When sending an iMessage to a recipient, they see the email address associated with the sender's Apple ID. As a sender, is it possible to hide the email from the receiver, instead having the parties refer to each other using only a phone number?


texts: Function to turn text into voice while using skype or similar on iPhone

texts: so ideally I would like to type and turn the text into voice that speaks to the person on the other end of skype, on my iphone, is there something like that? Doesn't have to be skype if there is another app that can phone and do this type-to-voice function simultaneously.


texts: Time Machine - can it share external drive with Windows backups?

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I just got a 2TB external hard drive, and I want to use it to backup my 3 Windows computers and my MacBook Pro. If possible, I would like to create 4 subdirectories on the external drive - one subdirectory for each computer. Can I tell Time Machine to put my MacBook Pro backups into one subdirectory, so that it doesn't affect any of the other stuff on the external drive?

BTW, I will be installing one of those NTFS drivers for the Mac OS X, so that it can write files to the NTFS-formatted external drive.


texts: How to prevent Safari saved passwords being seen with Mac password?

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In Safari on OS X via Safari/Preferences/Passwords/ it is possible to view all saved passwords in plain text by entering the Mac password.

I want to use a different password. Is this possible?

I know that it is possible to change the password used to access the Keychain app via this method: Mac OS X, passwd, and keychain, however it does not change the behaviour in Safari as mentioned above. My ideal situation is for Keychain to manage all my passwords across all my devices and autofill them, without revealing them in plain text to someone who knows my device passwords.

RELATED: How to prevent keychain passwords being seen with iPhone passcode? the same problem on iOS.


texts: How do spam email accounts get onto devices?

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My mom recently asked me about an email inbox on her phone called "My Weather". She didn't know what it was or how it got on the phone. It had 200+ emails in it and all were product or service offers from obscure websites. Basically just spam. Although, amusingly, there were new emails every day with a weather forecast. Funny. Anyway I checked email settings on the phone and there was an email account that was not my mom's with an address that went something like "FirstnameLastname157@minbox.email". There was no option to delete it like a normal account so I looked up minbox.email and found an Apple discussion forum on it. While this explains how to delete it, I want to know how it got on the phone in the first place, and what exactly it is. It must have been from a link in Safari or an email that opened something in Safari. I didn't think this was possible on iOS or any mobile device. I found very little information when searching for it. Maybe if I checked the next few Google pages... But you would think something like this would be a popular topic on forums. I did find this website which seems very suspicious: https://minbox.com/ Although this website asks you to enter an email address and it looks very poorly made, it's not definitive evidence that that's where the software came from.

If anyone has any information about this it would be greatly appreciated.


texts: IPhone 6s Plus why an external camera like FLiR no longer charges the phone after interaction dialog?

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I got an external camera attachment for iPhone and it has an external power input. My understanding is that the camera is a part of an MFi (made for iPhone) - a certified accessory.

According to the manufacturer, it is supposed to charge phone when the camera receives external power:

I plug in the camera, the charging symbol appears
The camera pops up a dialog asking to interact with a default program
Charging symbol disappears and does not come back
I can confirm that the phone does not receive power - it discharges when the camera is attached.

I called the manufacturer and the camera is not defective - it has something to do with new iOS- I tried 9.0 and 9.2

Is there something new about MFi (made for iPhone) program that prevents external devices from charging the phone? Is there a way to prevent the phone from creating an interaction dialog for that particular app?

I verified that the accessory is MFi compatible:


texts: For right clicking, are ctrl-click and two-finger-tapping used exchangeably?

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For right clicking, there are two ways when using the trackpad

Control-click, i.e. tapping the trackpad while pressing Control key
two-finger-tapping

Can they be used exchangeably?

If not, when to use which?


texts: User account no longer in ‘admin’, how to recover?

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After a recent OS X update (currently Sierra, 10.12.3) the normal user on this machine is no longer in the admin group.

I don't know what caused the account to be removed from that group; how can I get it back?

Advice found via I don't have administrator account on my mac suggests booting to Single-User mode, and using the dscl command:

dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership username

This fails immediately:

Could not read path: path = /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist, error = 2: No such file or directory

and no change in groups occurs. Apparently I can't expect dscl to work in Single-User mode.

So what should I do, to re-add the username to the admin group?


texts: How to resolve "Do you want to allow"  to use up to 1.4 GB of storage on your Mac?

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I am using Safari on a Mac and I imagine that the problem is a combination of the two.  The exact website I see it for is https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com, but I understand this can happen with a number of different websites.

I see the matter talked about at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/do-you-want-to-allow-yahoo-to-use-up-to-1-2-gb-of-storage-on-your-mac.2227032/, however following the steps within Safari, the url does not show up at all, so there is nothing I can configure.

If I push don't allow, next time I load a page from that site I get the same dialog.
If I push allow, I will get a dialog with a higher number (higher than 1.4 GB) next time

How do I resolve this?  In particular:

How would I remove this content, whatever it is.  There is now way that that site should need 1.4 GB.
How would I set a limit for a site so that it does not ask me if I want to allow storage?


texts: Is it possible to quickly clear flags in Apple Mail 6 ( probably with AppleScript)?

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I'm running Apple Mail 6.2 on OS X 10.8.2.

I'm wondering how to clear flags easily, maybe a button exists or a shortcut is possible? Currently I need to press the down arrow in flag button and click "clear flag", which is really inconvenient.

I think AppleScript is highly promising, but I don't know how to do it.


texts: 10.11.3 - launchd to start a job either at startup or at time of day

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I am attempting to use launchd to have SelfControl be active from 8am to 8pm. My first attempt was to just use launchd and have a little bash script which starts self control (for 12 hours) at 8am, but this isn't really flexible enough because if my laptop is off at 8am then obviously nothing happens.

Any advice on a better way to approach this problem or modify my current approach?

Here is the .plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" \
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
     <string>my.selfControlScheduler</string>
  <key>Program</key>
     <string>/Users/ira/Documents/coding/self_control/sc_sched.sh</string>
  <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
     <dict>
     <key>Hour</key>
     <integer>8</integer>
     <key>Minute</key>
     <integer>0</integer>
     </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

And here is the bash script

sudo /Applications/SelfControl.app/Contents/MacOS/org.eyebeam.SelfControl $(id -u $(whoami)) --install

The length of time to block the blacklist in SelfControl for can be set by doing

defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl "BlockDuration"=xxx

I think that's all the relevant information


texts: How do I move my plants vz zombies safegames to android?

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I want to try strategies here

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/162404/is-there-a-way-to-transfer-game-progress-from-an-ios-device-to-android

I am now on android. I want to move app data from iphone to android.

The problem is, alas, I already upgraded to iOS 8.3. Ifunbox no longer can do that without jailbreaking.

What should I do?

I can jailbreak (if so, how)

Or, can I just back up everything to iTunes and then copy the back up data to andorid? I rooted my android already.


texts: OSX: Spotlight shows the content of locked notes

texts: When I search in the spotlight for a locked note, I can see the content of that looked note. I went ahead and rebuilt the spotlight index, but still showing the content. Am I missing something here or is it a bug? OSX-ELCapitan 10.11.5


texts: How to change fonts picked by Terminal.app to display languages other than English?

texts:
This is definitely and advanced topic and possibly needs a hack that I am willing to do.

I edit Arabic files quite a lot. Arabic characters displayed by Terminal.app are not playing nice at all. To top that, some custom fonts that I use are getting picked up as alternatives for certain glyphs in my vim sessions.

The default font for displaying English works fine and I have no complains about it.

However, I want to change the font picked by Terminal.app when displaying other languages, in my case it is Arabic.

To answer this question, one must know if it is even possible. Are the fonts hardwired into the binary? Is there a hack to bypass that?

UPDATE:

It turns out the only hack to solve this problem wasn't a hack. It is the best of what the OS offers for eligible Fixed Arabic Font and that is Courier New. The font can be read very clearly except for "ARABIC LETER HEH INITIAL FORM" Unicode FEEB. Hopefully someday someone will fix that letter for better reading in the terminal. Or just copy those glyphs over to Menlo.


texts: Is it normal for MacBook Pro CD/DVD drive to makes noise on wake after long sleep

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Every time I put my MacBook Pro (13in, mid-2012) to sleep and shut the lid, then wait at least 20 mins then open the lid and wake it up, my CD/DVD drive makes an odd sound as if it thinks there's a disk in there to read but then realizes there isn't and stops the sound.

Many of my friends own MacBook Pros and none of their CD/DVD drives do this on wake after a long sleep. I should probably also mention that this sound only started happening about 6 months after I bought it, it's now 1.5 years old.

So, is it normal for my MacBook Pro to make a sound on wake after a long sleep?


texts: Why does iPhone Activity not recognize Apple Watch Activity has been set up?

texts:
The Activity app on my iPhone always shows the "setup" screen: "Set up Activity on your Apple Watch". I have already set up Activity on my Apple Watch; it works fine and shows the rings filling up each day. But I cannot access historical Activity data which should be displayed in the iPhone app.

I have tried restoring the watch from a backup and setting up the watch as new. Neither has worked.

A little background: I bought my Apple Watch along with my iPhone 6s Plus. That initial pairing worked without any bugs in Activity on phone or watch. However, two weeks after purchase, my iPhone experienced some kind of catastrophic failure. I got it replaced at the Apple Store. Since pairing my watch with the replacement phone, the iPhone Activity app has never recognized that I have already set up the Watch Activity app.


texts: Why does my calendar no longer hold two different time alert? What I put in my second alert will change my first alert to match what I put for my second alert.


texts: Is moving without shutting down good for MBP

texts:
My friends told me,while I am moving to other places, I can just close my rMBP without shutting down the computer.

Is it a right concept?
Will it damage hardwares?


texts: Red dot showing in the software update icon but already updated

texts:
I just updated my Macbook to the latest version of Mac OS: Catalina 10.15.4.

However, I noticed that in the system preferences, there is a red dot on the software update icon, but after clicking it, it says it is already up to date...

So I want to know why it is here and how can I get rid of the red dot?

Thanks in advance!

  Fortunately, after upgrading to 10.15.5, the red dot disappears...


texts:
I'm trying to do a simple calculation of 12 $/h multiplied by some other cells which represent days and hours. This is a simple multiplication on Google Spreadsheet, but in Numbers units are automatically added (ie. 252d, 8h) and this somehow resulting in totally wrong calculation results.

How do I force Numbers to not insert this unwanted extra data? Changing the cell formatting from "automatic" to "number" doesn't seem to have an effect. I want it to behave like other spreadsheet programs.


texts: Macbook Air USB ports stop working one after another until none (of the two) remain

texts:
I have a 2017 Macbook air that has a nice habit of sequentially disabling USB ports (even while they are not being used). I am forced to restart my machine at random times in order to get them back to working order and it takes quite a while for me to get all the work I had open started again.

This seems to be a common problem, but there is no working solution on this site or any other that does not involve restarting. The closest one I've found is here: Reset USB bus without reboot (MacBook ignores display)

It looked promising, but alas didn't actually work.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem that does not include restarting the computer? Is there a circuit I can reset or service I need to restart?

Thanks!


texts: I have been looking all over the place for a simple answer, I want to make keynote presentations using photos from my company facebook page, I feel like it is impossible there is not a simple import from web option somewhere but I cannot find it and looking on google they want me to download my facebook albums which is not an option with thousands of pictures, someone please help.


texts: What to do if a distribution certificate is expiring for an app store app

texts: I have an app in the app store and the distribution profile is about to run out in about a week, but my developer membership doesn't actually  expire till next year.  Do I need to rebuild and re-submit my app with a new certificate?


texts: Is encrypting an external hard drive prior to Time Machine equally secure as TM encryption?

texts:
It's more it less an order of operations, but should I format and encrypt the external hard drive first without any data and then run TM?

I figured that way would be faster rather than TM having to encrypt the data on the fly.


texts: iCloud backups stopped working on our home network

texts:
Several months ago, iCloud backups from our iPhones and iPad stopped working on our home network. We get the "last backup could not be completed" message. The backups work on other networks. I thought it might be a problem with our DSL router, but I replaced it and still have the same problem. iCloud Drive works fine.

Any ideas as to what is causing this?


texts: opening smb://user@server/share URLs no longer works

texts:
Recently, I noticed that when I try to open smb:// URLs that contain a share (exact syntax: smb://user@server.domain/share), I am just presented the dialog asking which shares I want to mount, but in the past it would directly mount the given share and open a Finder window.  (I am typically using open smb://... from the commandline, but I think the same holds for links on intranet pages from within Safari.)

Is this a limitation of Mojave (my suspicion is that this is caused by the upgrade, but I am not sure)? Do other people have the same problem? Is there a setting or workaround for this?

Update: It started working again, maybe through one of the updates Mojave got in the meantime. This status update is written on macOS 10.14.3, which allows to directly open shares again. (I only get a password prompt, but not the annoying share choice when specifying the share already.)


texts: On reboot system asking for keychain password for local items

texts:
I reinstalled OS X Yosemite, I am now using a new admin password (I also changed my iCloud account password.) Upon setting up iCloud, it reused the iCloud data.

Everything is running fine BUT on each reboot I am asked to enter the "old iCloud password" for all system agents using the "Local Items".

___________ wants to use the "Local Items" keychain. Please enter the keychain password

and it only accepts my old iCloud password, not the new one ...


texts: Automator or AppleScript to Remove Multiple Strings from File Names?

texts:
I deal with a lot of files (mostly images and video) with quite a few different words and phrases that I want to remove from the filenames. I keep finding Automator tutorials or AppleScripts to completely rename or replace X with Y in filenames, but what I really need is an action or script I can run from Hazel that just deletes X, Y, Z, A, B, C, and whatever else I might later add to the list of words and phrases to remove.

For instance, I want to say something like search for "X", "Y", "Z", "A", "B", "C", "this phrase", "-)"

and delete it or replace it with "".

Could anyone provide me such a script or instruction on what Automator might need to do it?

Thank you.


texts:
i work for a company with a 'Mac' department (they are creative/graphics).
At the moment they are using an old server mac with a shared Hard drive formatted in HFS+;  i would like to buy a NAS with full compatibility with HFS+ partition. I know Synology and QNAP offers compatibility with Mac World (using AFP), but i'm sure they use EXT filesystem as main partition.
Is this correct to use Ext partition either for 'existing' Mac datas ?

Thank you!


texts: How to display timecodes with iMovie 10.0.7 N

texts:
On discussion forums, I read that I have to go to iMovie Preferences and ask to display timecodes.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH2129?locale=en_US&viewlocale=fr_FR

But my preferences window only contains two checkboxes, none of them related to timecodes.

Do you know how to see the timecode for a given image in a movie ?

Thanks for your help !


texts: Is there a way to get macos to recognize my external hard drive without rebooting the operating system?

texts:
I have a 4TB external drive connected to my 2015 macbook pro.
It has 2 2TB partitions.
I use 1 for time machine backups and the other for other files.
From time to time when I plug it into the USB slot, it is not recognized.

Not only are the volumes not mounted, but the device itself doesn't seem to be recognized.

>diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.0 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume d                       815.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 43.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                522.7 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4

Rebooting the machine solves this problem but it is annoying to have to reboot the machine so frequently.

Is there a way to force macos to recognize the device without rebooting?

I'm currently running Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E220a)

P.S. I rarely reboot the laptop because I have many desktops loaded with programs and it would take a long time to recreate them.
When moving between home and work, I will eject the volumes and put the machine into sleep mode so that I can continue where I left off.


texts: Safe way to get "rm dir -rf" working (place options after dir name like on linux)

texts:
I don't know how many times I've done it. I'll type in rm dir and then have to move the cursor back and add in -rf to the command. Probably 10,000.

In linux, I can just add the options in after the dir name.

Is there any good bash magic that will let this safely happen? Here is a non-functional prototype of a simple bash rm function that I think would do the trick:

function rm() {
  if $2 eq "-rf" then run "builtin rm $2 $1"
}

But before I reinvent the wheel, I wanted to see if there were other options I'm missing. Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to temporarily skip media restore in WhatsApp?

texts:
I use WhatsApp on an iPhone X. I have chat history and media backed up on my iCloud. The total size of the backup is around 6 GB.

I had to send in the iPhone X for repair, and I’m using a temporarily loaned iPhone 6.

I restored the WhatsApp chat history from iCloud, but the iPhone 6 is a 16 GB variant. I’m unable to restore the media onto this phone since “system files” are around 11 GB. If I turn off iCloud Drive, it goes down to 7 GB but with that turned off, I can’t backup/restore WhatsApp. The only thing enabled in iCloud Drive is WhatsApp so I don’t know why it’s consuming 4GB on the phone when I haven’t restored media.

Is WhatsApp backup cumulative?

If I skip the media restore, and continue backing up the chat history, will I be able to restore the entire chat history and media on my iPhone X when I get it back?
Will the media part of the backup be erased from iCloud if I skip media restore and do a chat history backup on the temporary phone?


texts: Finder generic icons for music/movies on second drive

texts:
I have added an SSD to my iMac with OS X Lion and wanted to reorganise files a little:

System and home folder on SSD
Music, Documents, movies on HDD

That's not hard, but when I move the Music folder to Finder's sidebar I get a generic folder icon. Is there any way to get the music icon for that folder (which is on a different drive)? I find it visually quicker and easier to find the correct folders in the sidebar if they have custom icons.

Only solution I found is to use ColorfulSidebar.bundle and get Snow Leopard style color icons (and change them as you like in folders info panel), but I would like to have the newer gray style all over system. The ColorfulSidebar also does not work for in-app file browsing (you always get gray icons).


texts: Is there a notification if someone is using Remote Management to observe my screen?

texts:
I noticed in my sharing settings that my boss has Remote Management access over my computer, with all options checked (Observe, Control, Show when being observed, Generate reports, ...).

Will I receive any notification when my screen is being observed?


texts: How can I do a fresh install of OSX Mountain Lion onto my SSD for my Macbook?

texts:
My macbook is sluggish and has so much stuff that I don't use anymore and just want to start over from scratch basically. I did a time machine backup just in case something goes wrong.

New blank SSD
MacBook Pro (early 2011)
backed up everything that I wanted to keep on an external HDD so that I can put it back on the SSD once OSX is installed again.

I can't directly clone everything to the SSD since my HDD has over 300GB used and my SSD is only 120GB.

Is it possible/how can I get OSX installed on my SSD without a HDD Caddy.
There is no install disc since my Macbook came with the OS preinstalled on my HDD?


texts: I accidentally allowed software to load when asked. How do I find out what I allowed (and block it again if needed)?

texts: I just upgraded to Mojave, and all went well. When the system restarted, I was shown the name of an application or extension that was being blocked from loading, and I mistakenly authorized it to load. I didn't get a chance to read the name and don't know what it is. How can I figure it out?


texts: How to disable dock and menubar in fullscreen games with RTS style mouse scrolling?

texts:
When playing games that use the newish Mac OS X fullscreen mode (i.e. the icon in the upper right hand corner of the window with two little diagonal arrows), moving the mouse cursor to the top or bottom edge of the screen causes the menubar or the dock to appear, respectively. Aside from being a bad experience, in one game it actually causes a blip in framerate. This is pretty distracting given that scrolling around a map in an RTS or other top-down game is one of the most common user actions.

I've recently run across this issue in two different games (AI War and Invisible Inc) and I'm really hoping that there is some workaround and it's not just the new normal because quite effectively fouls up the experience of playing certain games on OS X.

I wonder if it's possible for the developer to use a different API for fullscreen that makes this a non-issue?


texts: Has anybody used Dragon Dictate on OS X with MacVIM

texts: I'm a Ruby on Rails developer and I've seen a very intriguing video of a developer using Dragon Dictate on Windows to do software development. I'm a long-time OS X / VIM user and I am wondering if anybody uses Dragon with MacVIM. Googling doesn't seem to turn up any results.


texts: Chrome cant show image when using cellular data. but working fine when using wifi

texts:
i try to open my website where there is some function to get current location and show the image of my location.

but its only working when im using wifi data and when im using cellular data the image got blank.

any suggest why this happen??
its problem from my iphone or from my website??


texts: Create apple script which auto names files with info from clipboard when a key combination is pressed

texts:
I work with file sets all beginning with the same number, but with variations, e.g. 0545038773.jpg, 0545038773_right.jpg, 0545038773_left.jpg, 0545038773_TOP.jpg, etc

I'd like to assign the, _left, _right, _TOP, etc. to specific key combinations like Command or Option and 1 pressed at the same time, OPT3, OPT4, OPT5, etc.

Ideally, you'd copy the first part, 0545038773 from wherever, then when you select the file and press the key command, OPT+1 for example, the script highlights the name field, places the copied info from clipboard, 0545038773, then appends the _left, or _right, depending on which key combo is pressed.

Any help would be appreciated. I had something that did this for PC but I don't have access to the script anymore to try and start translating any of it.

Even the first part would help. Select file, press key command, naming field then highlights, pastes from clipboard.   Thanks.


texts:
I have as my iTunes balance around $52. When my son, using the Family Share program, requests to purchase a song and I approve, it is bypassing the Gift Card balance and charging my credit card.

Any suggestions?


texts: 2 airport extremes, one extends the main network but doesn't provide internet over wired ethernet connection

texts:
I have 2 apple airport extreme base stations, one is wired in to the modem the other is setup to extend the network of the first.

I want to be able to plug computer into via ethernet into the airport set up as the extender, but it doesn’t read any internet connection.

Any ideas?

For context both base stations are configured with the same SSID and password

The 2nd extreme is not currently in bridge mode, (I tried that but no dice) and in airport utility on the "Wireless" tab I have "Network Mode" set to "Extend a wireless network"

When I have that option selected the "Network" tab in airport utility is completely grayed out.


texts: Trying to re-sync Messages between iPhone and Mac

texts:
This morning my phone asked me, unbidden to log into my Apple ID (or iCloud, I can't keep those straight). My login did not work (I used the correct password), but I was able to login after resetting the password.

Now Messages.app conversations that I reply to on my Mac do not sync to my phone. My friends got text that said "[my email address] added [my email address to the conversation." and then "[my email address] removed Dwight from the conversation"

How can I get my phone and computer back in sync?


texts: Macbook pro default apps installed under different apple id?

texts: I just got a 13 inch MacBook pro, and it came with a lot of default apps installed (e.g. Garageband, iMovie, numbers, keynote, pages, etc.). There were also updates available on the app store, but when I clicked the update button I got the message: "... cannot be updated because it was refunded or purchased with a different Apple ID." So what Apple ID downloaded this app other than my own? Is there a way to fix this other than deleting and reinstalling everything?


texts: Why is twitter unreachable from Chrome but not Safari?

texts:
I am using macOS 10.13.6. When I go to www.twitter.com in Google Chrome I get a

This site can't be reached.
https://www.twitter.com/ is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

On the same machine I can fire up Safari and I can get to the same url with no problem. On Chrome I tried using a guest and incognito account with no luck. I also used the settings feature to restore settings to their original default. Nothing seems to help. I am not having this problem with any other site, just twitter.


texts: How to remove a large number of unused keywords from Apple Photos app?

texts:
My Photo library has evolved over many years, starting out as an iPhoto library, then being merged with an Aperture library, then becoming a Photos library.  Over the course of the last 20 or so years I've accumulated thousands of keywords that have zero photos associated with them.

The Photos app itself does not support a 'Delete unused keywords' feature, and I have looked at using AppleScript to do this, but, despite being quite an experienced programmer, I could not work out how to do this (AppleScript drives me nuts quite honestly).

I'm hoping someone has already written such a script, or if not a script then some other utility that will do this for me.


texts: Can I connect a Thunderbolt Display and a MacBook Retina 12" using usb-c to thunderbolt 2 adapter

texts: I have a Thunderbolt Display and am looking at buying a MacBook Retina. Is it possible to connect it to my Thunderbolt Display using the newly presented usb-c to thunderbolt 2 adapter?


texts: Using Shazam to pick up audio over internal soundcard / headphones

texts:
I recently discovered Shazam has an app for mac, it seems it works by listening on the built in mic (or any mic presumably).

I wondered if there was a way I could get it to listen to the soundcard instead? I typically listen to radio streams over VLC, through headphones and thought it would be awesome to be able to use Shazam for those unknown tunes.

I found out about the Audio MIDI Setup.app which you can create aggregate devices, I thought maybe I could somehow forward the output into the mic- but I don't really understand it exactly truth be told.

Is there a way I could get this to work?


texts:
Last night, not having a means to charge an IPhone 6s I turned it off. The battery level indicator at that point said the remaining charge was 21%. Restarting the phone in the morning, the battery level indicator said 11%. Does turning off and starting it several hours later normally require 10% of battery?

EDIT: the phone was completely powered off. Hold down the right-side button and slide to power off. It was in that state for at 10 hours. I wouldn't expect any power usage in such a state.


texts: external disk formated with NTFS not working on Mac

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Hard drive read only access with Mac

I bought new 1 TB WD My Passport and format it with NTFS on windows XP. and now when I connect it on mac, I see the drive but I cant add files to it.

what is the issue?

Thanks,


texts: Time Capsule network, Windows machine on different subnet?

texts:
I just received a Time Capsule for my birthday last week.  I installed it, everything went fine and I was loving it.  I transferred files from my 2 Macs and my 1 Dell and all was rosy.
Then the weekend past and today I tried to access the Time Capsule from Explorer on my Dell (running Windows 7) and it doesn't see it anymore.  I tried using the "Airport Base Station Agent" and when I connect through that or try to Map a Network Drive I get an error saying that "NAME OF TIME CAPSULE" cannot be found, check the spelling and try again.

In doing some digging, I discovered that my Macs are on the IP Subnet 172.16.8.xxx and my Windows machine is on 192.168.216.xxx.  And the Subnet Mask for the Time Capsule network is 255.255.252.0 (notice the 2nd to last is 252, NOT 255) while the Windows machine is on 255.255.255.0.

Actually, when I run ipconfig the Windows Machine is even more confusing than that.  The settings I listed are for the "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection 2" but there is also a "Wireless LAN Adapter Wireless Network Connection" which is on 255.255.252.0 with an IP of 12.9.104.xxx

To make it even stranger, I have VirtualBox running on the Windows machine running a Ubuntu server.  The Ubuntu machine is set up to grab its own IP using DHCP from the network and not use the Host Machine IP.  The Ubuntu VM running on the Dell has the same IP range as the Macs and the Time Capsule.

I have some ok experience with networking, though not a ton going between OS X and Windows (I usually use DropBox for file transfers).

Summary:
1 Time Capsule.
2 Macs connect to Time Capsule fine.
1 Windows 7 Dell connects to Time Capsule Network, but on different IP range and cannot see anything else on the network.
1 Ubuntu VM running on the Dell connects to Time Capsule network on same IP range as Macs and can connect to Macs correctly.

Edit
I forgot the strangest part (as if the VM thing wasn't weird enough).
When I use the "Airport Utility" from Windows (which was used to set up the Time Capsule initially) it sees and connects to the Time Capsule fine on IP 172.16.8.xxx, but when I PING that IP...no dice.  It times out every single time.

What in the world do I do?


texts: Wiping old iPhone without touch or me.com?

texts:
I want to sell an old iPhone 3G for a few bucs... But I have a problem: the touch screen of the phone is broken and the phone has no internet-connectivity.

Is there any chance to delete the content on the phone? I can still make backups with iTunes.

Thanks for help :-)


texts: Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player

texts: I am running 3 external monitors off of my macbook pro 10.6.8. When I try to watch a DVD, the player slides down to my macbook pro. Want to play it on a larger monitor. Possible?


texts:
Sometimes I receive PDF files that open with Preview (Version 7.0 (826.4), Mavericks) with the following message:

  To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version
  of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe
  Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
       For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html

or sometimes the message is same same but different:

  Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to
  display this type of document.

  You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®,
  Mac, or Linux® by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.

  For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit
  http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.

  Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a
  trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other
  countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the
  U.S. and other countries.

Here you can find a real life example PDF (Thanks to @Tetsujin), Canadian immigration application

I dislike Abobe's bloatware so much that I will not install their Acrobat Reader on my Mac. Ever.

When I use a Windows machine and open this PDF with Acrobat Reader there it contains a form with dropdowns and input fields.

Is there a way to open this pdf in OS X? I would prefer the Preview.app.

Screenshots:


texts: iMessages split between different devices.

texts:
I have a bunch of Apple products. iPad, iMac, iPhone etc. And lately I've been noticing that some of my iMessages show up on one device and not the other.

For example: when my parents text me, I will be out and about. And when I get back home to my iMac, I will see that there were several texts that I didn't receive on my phone but they are on my iMac and iPad or vice versa.

I have feeling this has something to do with what the address the iMessage clients are using on each device. How to figure out what the problem is?


texts: Does anyone know of a good way to have autocompletion of custom items on a mac?  I know this is built into different programs, but what I would like would be independent of the program being used.  For example, if I need to type my email address somewhere I would like to be able to enter the first few letters and then have it completed for me.


texts: Unable to add self-ripped HD+SD encodes to iTunes 11

texts:
For a while now, iTunes has supported the concept of "HD+SD" files.  Instead of having two separate files, one for the SD version and another for the HD version of a movie or TV show, iTunes can "bundle" both versions under one single file entry, which is labeled as "HD+SD", and iTunes automatically chooses the "right" version of the file to use for a given situation (e.g. use the HD version when streaming to my Apple TV, and use the SD version when syncing to my 16 GB iPad mini because I have "Prefer standard definition videos" checked in the sync settings).  Here is a video describing this feature and how to use it.

I am using HandBrake to do the encodes, using the "Devices -> Universal" preset for the SD encode, and the "Devices -> Apple TV 3" preset for the SD encode, and am using IDentify 2 to do the metadata taqging.  The problem comes when I attempt to add these files into iTunes.

In previous versions of iTunes this process was pretty straightforward: assuming that the HD+SD encodes are properly tagged with the same cnID (which mine definitely are, I checked), just select both the SD and HD encode in Finder, and drag+drop them onto iTunes, and it will automatically create an HD+SD entry for that movie/TV show/whatever.

Unfortunately I can't seem to get this to work in iTunes 11.  If I drag both the HD and SD encodes onto iTunes, it results in only one of them getting copied.  (seems to be random, sometimes it's the SD version and sometimes it's the HD version)  If I then try and drag the other file in, it does not copy the file in nor does it create the HD+SD file entry.

iTunes 11 definitely still supports HD+SD files, as the ones that I added in previous versions of iTunes still work fine.  I just can't seem to figure out how to add these HD+SD files in iTunes 11, because the way I've been doing it up till now no longer appears to work.


texts: Deleting all iCal events and cleaning out iCal, so I can start new

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I had downloaded meetup iCal reminders, and now my iCal is inundated and there seems to be no way to remove meetup events from it. They just keep loading in, and I can't change it.

Moreover, I would basically like to reset my iCal so it is a blank slate and I can create the various events as I want.


texts: when syncing with my ipod touch, why does itunes say "optimizing photos" even if nothing has changed .

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every time i sync, i get a status saying "optimizing photos . .1 of xx".  this is even if no photos have changed since my last sync.

what is going on here?  why does itunes keep trying to optimize photos every time i sync ?


texts: How to enable telnet server on macOS 10.13.1?

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I wanted to add telnet server on my macbook pro(macOS 10.13.1) and followed steps in How to get BSD FTP and Telnet back in 10.13 (High Sierra)? to install telnetd with homebrew.

Everything was OK and I can find telnetd under /usr/local/Cellar/telnetd/54.50.1/sbin. How can I enable telnet server as Daemon?

I tried command

  sudo launchctl load -w /Users/public/telnet.plist

No error occurred but didn't work.

This telnet.plist was copied from other macbook and just modified the telnetd path. Are there other options to get telnetd to run and listen for incoming connections?


texts: Mavericks OS X Server : Wiki : Copy & Paste Tables?

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How can I transfer a table in a wiki page to another page? (...without copy&paste for each cell separately)

I use OS X Server on Mavericks. In the wiki I would like to copy a table from one wiki to another wiki. I went into edit mode for the source and destination page. Then I marked the table, pressed Cmd+C and in the destination page pressed Cmd+V. The result is a table with another table "over it" and both are messed up. I tried source page not in edit mode, but it doesn't work.

What methods can be used to copy a table that's on a wiki page to another page?

EDIT:

It looks like copy & paste works well within one Safari instance, but fails, when I try to copy the content out of a VMWare Fusion VM. (Copy in the guest and paste in the host.)

An example for the result:

I will try to access the Server instance in the VM from outside the VM (didn't want that so far) and see whether copy&paste works, when I use a single instance of Safari to do that.

EDIT#2:

I tried it using a single Safari instance and it worked well. I can enter edit mode in the two wiki pages, select all content from the source page, press Cmd+C and in the destination page press Cmd+V and the content is added nicely and beautifully. So it seems the clipboard transfer out of the VM breaks it for Safari.

I will play with this during the next days - for now it works for me.


texts: Mapping Previous/Next track keys with IntelliType driver with Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000

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I'm using the Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 set with Mac OS X 10.9.
I'd like to figure out how to map the next/previous track keys (mostly for Spotify) from the MacBook Pro's keyboard onto the keyboard's sepecial keys like 1,2,3,4,5. (The volume and play/pause keys work just fine).
Is that possible, and any helpful tips?
Failing a good way of setting this up, I'll settle for a more generic keyboard mapper from function keys to next/prev track keys (Is KeyRemapForMacbook the goto thing for that?).
Thanks!
-k


texts: Random patterns all over the place on screen. Activity monitor shows cpu usage is 80% idle... not sure what's going on

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Does anyone know what's going on here? My screen randomly renders these patterns all over the place at random times. OSX High Sierra. When you resize the window, it's gone but reappears soon after.

This problem only started happening recently (after recent High Sierra update)... screen is fine.


texts: Can I get Mavericks QuickLook to display Finder images scaled up to full screen like before?

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In Lion if I used QuickLook to display an image, and then clicked the double arrows to make it full screen, it would scale the image to the size of my monitor (up too, not just down). Then when I used the arrow keys to navigate in the Finder, all subsequent small images would also display scaled up. That no longer happens. In Mavericks, small images are now displayed at 100% with a black border around all four sides. You can scale individual images up by tapping the Option key, but that only applies one image at a time, not the whole series.

Is there any way to get that setting back? I used that feature a lot, and it's rather disconcerting that it's gone.


texts: A key combination inserts invisible and festy character in Xcode

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Xcode inserts an invisible character whenever I press Ctrl+X, Ctrl+S (was trying to save the code but then realised that I am not using Emacs and should use command+S instead, and went back to delete the festy character.) Deleting something that is invisible is not fun, so.

Is there a way I can disable this "feature"? And by that I mean make Xcode stop inserting the character and essentially does nothing when I press the key combination. I am not looking for a full Emacs key binding setting for Xcode.


texts:
I have just upgraded my phone and I need to ensure everything transfers accurately. However my iPhone is not allowing me to back up. Not on iTunes or iCloud.

I have tried plugging it into my mac to backup and nothing happens. The last back up was last week, and I know its petty but I want to transfer everything over, not a week old transfer.

When I go to System Preferences > iCloud > Backup - I press "Backup now" and it says estimating time remaining and then "The last backup could not be completed."

I am connected to a strong Wi-Fi. I have storage on my phone but it's still not working.


texts: Safari: search producing unpredictable results

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I've observed something weird with Safari search. The search is unable to find words that are obviously present.

For example, I went to this page. I know that the phrase 'lincRNA' is present on the page, therefore I expect to be able to search for 'RNA' (which works), 'lincRNA' (which works) and 'ncRNA' (which fails).

Does anyone else have the same experience? Are you able to reproduce this?

Thanks,

Paul


texts: How can I get Nike+ to play songs from Spotify?

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Recently I've started using the Nike+ app on my iPhone to keep track of the distances and times when I go for a run in the park. I noticed that it has a power songs feature, which I haven't tried out as yet, I imagine it would allow me to specify particular songs that I can listen to while running.

When I try to use the power songs feature, it only lists the songs that I have in iTunes, I only have a small collection of itunes songs that I would care to listen to whilst running and would prefer to find a way of using the songs that I have on Spotify instead.

I have an unlimited Spotify account so I can store my playlists offline. I am not registered with Nike+.


texts: Where can I find statistics for most searched apps in the App Store?

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Does anyone know if it's possible to find out what people are searching for in the App Store?

I'd like to be able to pitch to a client that there is a high demand for a certain type of app. Is it possible to see this sorta like a Google AdWords Keyword Tool for the App Store?


texts: Cydia WiFi Hotspot for SSH Without SIM Card

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I have recently jailbroken an old iPhone 4 I have and have been having a great experience with it as a device to fiddle with, however I need to be able to use it in areas where there isn't any WiFi over SSH.

Is there any tweak installable which will allow me to toggle the phone to make a WiFi Hotspot. The phone will not have a SIM Card installed to I don't care about mobile data. I simply want to connect to the phone's WiFi hotspot and SSH into its console via my iPad.

Thanks for any responses.


texts: How can I get zsh to show the current path in the prompt?

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I am not able to see path of my current directory or even username in terminal while using zsh. I was able to see it until few days back. Now it just shows blank. I tried uninstalling oh-my-zsh but it dint work. If I switch to bash, then I can see path. I have tried restarting my mac as well but no luck.

Currently, terminal looks like below:

Until few days back, it used to look like below:

Below is my .zshrc

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=/Users/vishalsingh/.oh-my-zsh

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion. Case
# sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
# ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
# COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
# much, much faster.
# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
# stamp shown in the history command output.
# The optional three formats: "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"

# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(git)

# User configuration

# export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH"
# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# You may need to manually set your language environment
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
#   export EDITOR='vim'
# else
#   export EDITOR='mvim'
# fi

# Compilation flags
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# ssh
# export SSH_KEY_PATH="~/.ssh/dsa_id"

# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
#
# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"


texts:
I accidentally deleted my external SSD using the delete function in Disk Utility, and now it does not show up using diskutils list in Terminal nor in Disk Utility. I have disconnected and reconnected the device and it does not show up in Finder. I have also attempted to restart my machine a couple of times.

The data on the disk is not really important I have other backups, but I would like to use my disk again.

How would one go about to access it?


texts: How to find out when and where backup recovery password was set for iPhone backups?

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I had to get my iPhone camera repaired and I had to back it up and erase it so that the repair shop could access the camera app without being able to access my data. After picking it up after the repairs I wanted to restore the backup but had to enter a password. All passwords I could think of are wrong. iCloud password, Mac password, iPhone passwords, pins, and all other sorts of passwords.
When and where was this hellish password set? There was no prompt asking me for a password before backing up my phone. I have spent hours entering passwords and nothing works. It is unbelievable that this is not using my Apple password, Mac password or any other device password.
I am starting to lose it. The thought of me losing all my data forever is just crushing me right now
Is there anything I can do to either recover the password or at least find out when and where it was set so that I can at least get a hint or reminder as to what the password could be?
Edit:
I should mention that I did look through my keychain and couldn't find anything with "Iphone backup" or "iOS backup". My Macbook pro is from late 2017 and I never did an iphone backup before. I really don't remember ever setting a password :/
A friend told me to call Apple. There is probably no chance they can help me in this, right?


texts: Is it possible to perform donation with In-App purchase for amount the user want to donate?

texts: With last update Apple rejected my app, because I have donation process with PayPal through Safari. They said to implement in app mechanism. But is it possible for users to donate with In-App with amount the user want? I would like to avoid creating Purchase Items for every amount I want to use.


texts: Can I switch in a new storage drive without again downloading the Mountain Lion installer?

texts: I have a time machine backup of my early 2011 macbook pro OSX system with mountain lion, I want to remove it's hard disk and replace it with SSD, I have a spare memory key, is there a way to restore data from hard disk to SSD without downloading full mountain lion image, I tried downloading it but Apple servers are too slow, I am getting a speed of 50kbps for a 4.37 gb download, my internet is fine and I have a 10Mbps connection.


texts: How to truly disable Ethernet and Firewire?

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I'm working on securing my Mac completely and utterly. I may be going to China for a business trip and I've been advised to do this but not provided steps that work for a Mac.

Is it safe to say that by setting "IPv4 Configure" to disabled that this will make it impossible for anyone to violate my Macbook through either Ether or Firewire? Should I do similar for an IPv6 setting?


texts:
When using the hardware switch on the side of my iPhone to change from silent mode to non-silent mode, the phone vibrates once.

How can I turn off this vibrate?

There is no vibration from non-silent mode to silent mode.


texts: iPhone SE: USB sound input -> bluetooth speaker?

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I would like to hear the output from my old turntable in my bluetooth speaker through an iPhone or iPad.  I need help on how to get it working.

I have an iPhone SE, a bluetooth speaker which is paired with the iPhone (music works), a UFO202 USB RIAA amplifier connected with a newly purchased Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter (to have enough power for the USB device and also keep the phone charged)

I can hear the audio when the UFO202 is attached to my MacBook Pro (and transmit it if the Mac is paired with the speaker).

I installed Garageband on the iPhone and the UFO202 appears to be recognized as Garageband send modified sound back into the UFO202 (which I can hear in the headphone jack there).  This did not appear to send anything over bluetooth but I am not familiar with Garageband.

So the only piece missing is how I can make the iPhone take the USB input sound and send to the bluetooth speaker?  Can Garageband do it?  Memos?  Do I need a third part app?


texts: How to change the language of the date (day of week) in Yosemite's lock screen?

texts: When my iMac enters the lock screen, my default language for the buttons is German; but the language of the day of week displayed in the upper right corner is English. Is there a way to change this?


texts: tlsv1 alert protocol version when connecting via SSL to OS X Server

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How can I re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.0 on server 5.3 with macOS 10.12.4 in the short term while I evaluate all the clients that aren't ready for TLS 1.2?

If you jump to the bottom, attempts to change comfiguration files have failed so far to restore backwards compatibility

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

After having updated our server to macOS 12.4 and the Server app to version 5.3, using curl to connect to a macOS server https site from a Linux machine ceased to work, issuing the following messages on the client side:

$ curl -v --insecure -o "output.file" https://myserver.domain/path/page.php
* About to connect() to myserver.domain port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.168.xxx.xxx... connected
* Connected to myserver.domain (192.168.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
} [data not shown]
* error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
* Closing connection #0

The connection worked well before the update of the macOS server. So it seems that the update switched off a connection option which curl relies on. I googled a lot, but I am still uncertain about what exactly the cause is.

The same curlcommand works when issued from another Mac. The linux machine has

$ curl --version
curl 7.19.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8h zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.10
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

while on the Mac client

$ curl --version
curl 7.51.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0) libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets

Unfortunately, it is not an option to try updating curlon the Linux machine.

Some resources claim incompatible cipher suites to be the cause, but after some testing, I haven't been able to find a solution using the --ciphers option, and also I am not sure how to find a compatible cipher suite.

I have tried to find out what changed with macOS Server 5.3, but the Apple change log does not give me any hint about it. So the question is:

What has changed in macOS 12.4 and/or macOS Server 5.3 and how can I re-configure my macOS server so the curlconnection works again?

Update 1:

I have temporarily exposed port 443 to the public, so I could perform the SSL Labs tests. The results show that my macOS server supports only TLS 1.2 and nothing else any more. For several simulated clients, the test report Server sent fatal alert: protocol_version - including, for example, IE8-10/Win7 and Java7u25.

I have tried to reactivate TLS 1 and 1.1 in

/library/server/web/config/apache2/sites/0000_127.0.0.1_34543_myserver.domain.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf
/library/server/web/config/proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf (multiple instances here)

changing

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.2

into

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

or even

SSLProtocol All

but it did not make a difference when fetching the URL with curl.

Update 2:

The service proxy error log shows

[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH02008: SSL library error 1 in handshake (server myserver.domain:443)
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] SSL Library Error: error:1408A10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:wrong version number
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH01998: Connection closed to child 11 with abortive shutdown (server myserver.domain:443)

To me, it looks as if my attempts to activate TLS v1 do not work.

So the question is: How can I reactivate TLS v1 in macOS Server Apache?


texts: Is there a standard way to select a tab by number in macOS applications?

texts: From this question the ctl-tab is a standard way to switch among tabs of an application in  macOS. I tried it out on TextEdit and it does work.  If I want to go to the fifth tab (from the left) is there a way to jump to the big finale in a single shortcut combination?  In Chrome it is CMD-[tab-number] e.g. CMD-3 for the third tab.


texts: Safari not loading Gmail; Google/YouTube invalid certificate

texts:
I've tried changing DNS servers to OpenDNS's, I've cleared my history and website data from Safari, and I've uninstalled all extensions… but the browser just won't load Gmail! Whether I click on Sign In at google.com or enter gmail.com in my address bar, the page just never loads.

Not sure if related, but when I try visiting YouTube, Safari says the certificate is invalid. I click to proceed anyway, and the page automatically redirects to https://ad.doubleclick.net/N6762/adi/mkt.ythome_1x1/;sz=1x1;tile=3;ssl=1;dc_yt=1;kga=-1;kgg=-1;klg=en-gb;kmyd=ad_creative_3;ytexp=931369,937426,900245,902410,924645,946201,936112,9405772;ord=1426347126252949? It's a blank page. What's up with the auto-redirection? When I try to visit youtube.com again, I get served a site with no stylesheet or images. google.com loads without a problem although Safari throws up the invalid certificate warning as well.

Gmail loads fine on the Safari-only guest account, if it helps. My hosts file is ok. I'm using OS X 10.10.1 and Safari 8.0.2.


texts: Localhost scan of new iPhone 11 Pro reveals odd ports

texts:
So I just got a new iPhone Pro 11, and I did a quick network scan using the "Scany" app and a few odd things came up.
The following ports are open:

Socks port 1080

ansoft-lm-1 port 1083

ftp-proxy port 8021

None of these seem to be standard Apple ports, and so I'm wondering is this normal? Is this something commonly seen on iPhones as well?
An explanation or more insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!


texts: How can I automate pasting of password into SecurityAgent?

texts:
On OS X 10.8.x I had an Automator service set up to paste a password from clipboard into the password window that pops up for mounting an encrypted disk.

I don't wish to store the password in my keychain, and it is long and tedious to type out.

I never got the applescript within the Automator service quite right. It would generate an error, but it still got the job done (i.e. the password was pasted). Since upgrading to Yosemite it seems the script in the Automator service doesn't work at all. The error generated indicates "window 1" doesn't exist.

Here is what I had:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SecurityAgent"
set value of text field 1 of window 1 to (the clipboard)
if exists (text field 2 of window 1) then
    set value of text field 2 of window 1 to (the clipboard)
end if
click button 1 of group 1 of window 1
end tell

I don't recall where I got this from, but some of it may have come from here

I know very little about AppleScript, and would appreciate some help fine tuning (or completely rewriting) this script so that it does the following:

Checks there is data in the clipboard
Checks the SecurityAgent window is active (or in some way ensures it can be interacted with, to avoid generating an error)
Pastes the content of clipboard
Clicks the 'Unlock' button

I don't know if it is possible, but it would be handy if it also brought 1Password to the foreground and activated "Copy password" (which is a menu option in the "Items" menu). I can, however, have Automator actions perform that task. But it would be nice to see (for learning) how to achieve that with AppleScript.


texts:
Similar, but not a dupe of Time machine restored recovery partition, now I have two

I have a single Recovery partition on my boot drive, even after a recent Time Machine restore. I also intentionally keep 'spares' on other drives, in case of disaster, including an e-drive on the same disk as my Time Machine - so I'm fully prepared in case something ever goes wrong..

However, I've just noticed one drive has two Recovery Partitions.
I'm not sure whether this may cause problems in future; it doesn't seem to be giving me any issues right now, even if I boot to any of the recoveries I can see from the boot chooser, but wondered if it is possible/simple to remove the extra one - or even if it's worth the effort.

It's on a drive with 3 main partitions, Data [Downloads], Boot Camp [MacWin7] & a clone of my regular boot drive [KickClone]

I'm not certain how to even test what OS is on each Recovery, or if it's truly important that it's Sierra.

So, I guess the actual question is ...

Is it best to leave it, or to try remove it?
If remove, that would of course lead to a secondary & tertiary, 'which one?' & 'how?'

I wouldn't want to remove it if it's in any way 'dangerous', because I don't have a direct clone backup of the entire drive, only of each partition's contents, so I don't want to have to do a full rebuild of the structure.

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Downloads               999.3 GB   disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             784.2 MB   disk3s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data MacWin7                 209.1 GB   disk3s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS KickClone               1.8 TB     disk3s5
   6:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             1.3 GB     disk3s6


texts: Why do text on some websites appear scrambled in Safari?

texts:
Safari has started display scrambled text on some websites. This only happens on certain site and in Safari. I've also noticed that the problem may appear in certain spots on the website, like the header, or an ad on Facebook.

Here's a screenshot of oDesk.com in Safari 5.1 (7534.48.3)

And here's a comparison in Chrome (13.0.782.112)

The problem only cropped up today but it's really frustrating as Safari is my main browser. I've tried deleting the Preferences file but that didn't solve the problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


texts: Focus follows mouse (and autoraise) for Chrome windows

texts:
Is there a way to enable focus-follows-mouse behavior for Google Chrome windows? The desired behavior is that if there are two browser windows, occupying the left and right halves of the screen, then moving the mouse from the left half of the screen to the right half of the screen would change focus from the left browser window to the right.

I looked at How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor? but the solutions didn't seem satisfactory. One worked only for X11 apps and terminal, and another suggested using Zooom/2 (which is now defunct). Since I only care about getting this working for Google Chrome windows, does anyone know if there is a way to do this using a simple extension or add-on?

As a bonus, it would be nice if I could get this working on Mavericks.

I have given up on getting universal focus-follows-mouse behavior, although if you have a solution to this more general problem that would be even better...

Due to lack of responses, I have cross-posted this question here.

UPDATE: I have posted a slight variant of this question on superuser as well, after another day with no answers.


texts: Is running Linux through a VM as fast as running it natively on MacBook?

texts: I am trying to decide whether I should run Linux natively or through a VM on MacBook 7,2? How much performance difference would I observe? Is it worth installing Linux natively or is running it through a VM sufficient?


texts: It says I have to have at least 42 GB or more but as you can see I have 55 GB available. Tried looking online for solutions but all they say is time machine but I have never used this and the "Backup Automatically" is not selected.


texts:
In macOS, one can select text quickly and precisely using shortcuts.

Pressing SHIFT and the arrow keys will select one character at a time (← →) or one line (↑, ↓) at a time. And pressing ALT and SHIFT in combination with the arrow keys will let you select each word at a time (← →) or from the insertion point to the very beginning or end of a document (↑, ↓).

However, I am having a hard time making it work on a larger document:

Why isn't the shortcut working in the second situation?


texts: how safe is an HDD encrypted with filevault?

texts:
I have a macbook pro and I want to encrypt the whole system with filevault.

My question is now, how secure are my data for removing hard disk from device and mount it in an external case?

For example someone steal my macbook, while it is in hibernate. Now, he won't shutdown the system clearly, open the case and remove the HDD.

Are the data already encrypted, even it is not shut down correctly?


texts:
Can i upgrade my mid 2012 macbook pro to use DDR4 ram ? Checking Apple > About this Mac > Memory i got the following

Your Mac contains 2 memory slots, each of which accepts
a 1600 MHz DDR3 memory module.

Which seems to suggest not, but i wondered if DDR4 was even around at the time my mac was made, is Ram a backwards compatible upgrade like placing a Sata SSD in a 10 year old device ?


texts: Can I view my Xbox 360 Screen on my Mac by using an HDMI to minidisplay port adapter?

texts: Or can I not have input into the Macbook?


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I've bought a MacBook Pro 8,1 one month ago. Snow Leopard was pre-installed on it. Yesterday, I did the free upgrade, provided by Apple. I received a code for the App Store. I filled it in, and I got immediately the OS X Lion upgrade tool (after downloading). But is there a way to put the new OS X, on a DVD as backup?

Please, keep in mind that everything is legal.

Thanks.


texts: How to apply the parameters of view to all the directories?

texts: I know how to setup the mode of the view for a directory: sorting, the size of icons, etc... However, this gets applied only to the current directory. Whereas I want to apply them to all the directories. How can I do this?


texts: Not able to resolve my domain name intermittently on iOS

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I am experiencing a strange behavior w.r.t DNS resolution when connected to certain WiFi networks. (only on iOS devices)

Issue is: Safari is able to resolve my domain name correctly but sometimes for almost 2 minutes it is not able to resolve and throws a page not found error. This happens say once in a couple of hours.

If I enter my ip address in Safari it works. At the same time the domain resolution works fine on android devices.

One Fix is: If i change the DNS settings from my ISP DNS to point to Google or OpenDNS or another popular DNS server the issue disappears. (but i can't use this solution for my usecase since i can't ask all my users to change their DNS settings).

The Android device is also in the same network and points to my ISP DNS, but for some reason with android the issue does not exist.

It seems to be problem between Safari/iOS and my ISP DNS servers. Has someone faced a similar issue? Anything i can tryout?

P.S. I am using AWS instance and Route53 for DNS Service.


texts: How do I prevent my iPod nano's screen from going to sleep?

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I have broken my desk clock and am trying to use my square nano to show me time instead.

The problem is that when I set the screen to show time and leave it for some time the screen dims and eventually shuts off after which I have to get the screen back again by going to the menu.

Is there a way to make sure that the screen does not turn off? Dimming should be okay to save power, but it should at least show the time when I touch the screen.


texts: iPhone Outlook app still fetches mail when in Low Power Mode, while the default Mail app doesn't

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I'm trying to compare the default Mail app that comes with iOS and Microsoft's Outlook for iOS.

The use case I'm particularly interested in is when the Low Power Mode is enabled. From what I understand, that feature disables some background activity, such as Background App Refresh and Push (not sure if there's a difference between the two, but anyway), which is supposed to pause the background activity of the apps installed. My concern is whether a non-default app would follow that. This article claims that:

  If I have Airmail or any other third party mail app running, that app will still push and fetch mail like normal. Unless I manually disable those features inside that particular app, I’m not reaping all the benefits of Low Power Mode.

And I can see where does that point come from, because when I enable the Low Power mode, the default Mail app does actually stop fetching e-mail, while Outlook doesn't.

So I searched Outlook's Uservoice iOS section and they do claim they actually addressed that, and all you have to do is just shut down Background App Refresh:

  completed Microsoft Outlook responded:

  You may disable Background App Refresh on your iOS setting.

  iOS Settings >> Outlook >> Toggle Off Background App Refresh

The thing is, Background App Refresh is already turned off and even grayed out because, again, I'm in low power mode. But Outlook still keeps somehow reciving e-mail immediately.

So this doesn't make any sense to me. I know Outlook could have some custom code polling mail servers in a loop directly, but since the emails arrive almost immediately, that'd be like constant polling which would kill the battery even faster. So that must be some kind of push, but again, it's supposed to be off while in Low Power?

There is a chance that support representative doesn't have a clue of what's going on - I had to call Microsoft once, ended up talking to their outsourced people, and that's the impression I got. So if that's the case, that means the issue is not fixed as he claimed, but that still doesn't clarify why Outlook keeps fetching mail while in Low Power.

I've tried to research as much as I can, but if I missed something, please clarify. Thank you.


texts: Delete apps from previous Apple ID and set iPhone to factory seeting

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I sold my iPhone to my friend and she used her Apple ID to sync some apps and music, but after a few days she gave it back to me. Now I have 2 questions:

How can I delete all her apps and Apple ID from my phone? (I mean I need to reset to original factory settings to use my own apps and Apple ID.)
I have a backup from my phone. How can I sync my own apps and use my own Apple ID?


texts: Why is my MacBook Air faster than my iMac?

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I'm wondering why my MacBook Air (13 inch, early 2015) is so much faster than my iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)?

The MacBook Air is configured with a 1.6 Ghz dual-core i5, 4 GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 6000 and a 128 GB SSD.

The iMac is configured with a 3.1 Ghz quad-core i5, 8 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 and a 1 TB SATA hard drive.

I run similar programs on both, some of which you would think would slow down the laptop, yet the laptop always seems to outperform the iMac. The iMac has been incredibly slow lately with Safari being especially painful at times. I thought maybe it was b/c some of my programs probably require a better machine than I have but then those same programs perform great/much faster on the laptop (which I'm sure does not have the min. specs for them).

The iMac is incredibly slow especially with opening just about everything from Mail, Photoshop to Safari (yet Firefox opens right up). The heavier program I run on both my machines is called Archicad v. 23. Archicad is much faster to open on the laptop.

I'm adding a link to some screenshots from the laptop and iMac to compare and screenshots of the current Activity Monitor from the iMac which I just restarted (it would only let me upload two images here so I added the link instead).

https://ibb.co/album/fMBk6F

UPDATE 3/14: These screenshots here are from the iMac - not sure which are best to post i.e. CPU or Memory, etc. it only allows two images. Also should point out the iMac can run a little better once everything has been loaded and it's been sitting for an hour or two...but the start of programs and getting it running at normal speed after a restart takes a long time.