texts: Can I download apps without having an apple id?

texts: Is it possible to download apps on iPhone 4 without creating an Apple ID ?


texts: Apple Keynote Presentation: move through slides with mouse scroll wheel?

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When I give a presentation I've created in Google Slides, I can move through slides via my wireless mouse's notched scroll wheel. I really like the granularity this provides—stepping forward or back through a single slide is easy, but I can also scroll through a bunch of slides quickly if necessary.

I'd much prefer to create presentations in Apple Keynote, but there doesn't seem to be a way to scroll through Keynote slides with my mouse's wheel. My current solution is to export the slides to a PDF and give the presentation in Preview, but this causes me to loose animations and embedded videos. Is there another way?


texts: Big Sur: remove per-user permissions for builtin apps

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I am trying to create a limited user account without access to several builtin apps, such as Terminal.
Changing these apps permissions either through Finder or chmod failed - I assume due to them being in the write-protected /System volume. I've also tried to copy them over to /Applications and change permissions on the copy instead, but that only leads to them appearing twice in Finder.
Is there an officially sanctioned way for access control left that doesn't involve me disabling SIP and remounting /System as read-write? Screentime is not an option for me, because I've found it to be highly unreliable on iOS.


texts: Automatically switching proxy server settings

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I have a local proxy server running on my network that I'd like to route web traffic through while I'm at home. I can do this under System Preferences > Network > Advanced > Proxies, Web Proxy (HTTP) and Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS).

However, I only want to use this proxy server when I'm on my home network. It seems that this setting persists even as I change Wi-Fi networks, unlike on iOS.

And I only want to use it when I am not otherwise connected to my office's VPN.

Is there a good solution for managing this for me?


texts: How to resolve permissions errors on OS X Lion after Homebrew install

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I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and am trying to get Homebrew installed. However after the installation, I run brew doctor per the installation instructions, and see a series of errors indicating that /usr/local directories aren't writable. For example:

Error: /usr/local/share isn't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew.

If a brew tries to write a file to this directory, the install will
fail during the link step.

You should probably `chown` /usr/local/share

I get these for a bunch of directories:

You should probably `chown` /usr/local/include

You should probably `chown` /usr/local/share

You should probably `chown` /usr/local/share/man

I can't figure out why this error is coming up, as it appears that I am part of the Unix group that has write permissions to these directories:

Mini:~ felciano$ ls -ld /usr/local/share
drwxrwxr-x  4 root  admin  136 May 13 15:53 /usr/local/share
Mini:~ felciano$ whoami
felciano
Mini:~ felciano$ dscl . -read /Groups/admin GroupMembership
GroupMembership: root felciano
Mini:~ felciano$

What am I missing?


texts: How to reliably restore photos on iPhone 4S?

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I've been asked to help restore photos and videos from an iPhone 4S, after a reset. No iCloud backup. I see a lot of software that claims it can do this, and paying a fee is just fine. But does it deliver? Has anyone done this?

Ideally, I would like to dump the user accessible flash to an image file and use tools like photorec and magicrescue to carve the JPG files out. The video files are of lower priority.

What have all of you done to recover lost data on iPhones?

Thanks!


texts: Using scp with large files kills ethernet?

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This morning I tried to use scp to copy a single large file from my old Linux Ubuntu machine to my brand new 2017 Mac Book Pro. I ran into a very strange problem: scp would happily copy 95% of data (around 150 MB/sec) - to then "stall", and at some point tell me about broken connection. Afterwards, I basically had no more LAN access.

This happened on MacOs Sierra. What could be the reason?


texts: Is there any way to mute a specific program? I want to be able to mute Firefox.


texts: How can I ensure continuity of Time Machine history from Yosemite to El Capitan?

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I know this is a notoriously difficult problem to solve on OS X, but I'll try again, circa El Capitan era.

I have used the disk shown below as Time Machine disk with Yosemite.

Yet when I select it as Time Machine disk now that I upgraded to El Capitan, it is accepted as a backup disk, but not as an existing disk. Hence there will be no continuity in the history (and the oldest backups will be erased sooner than necessary).

How do I have continuity?

My attempt to make sure that the name of the machine (under system preferences \ Sharing) exactly matches the previous name of the machine does not solve the problem.


texts: I have Yosemite 10.10.1, after the upgrade my Cal has a 1 in a red dot on it, like there is message or something. What is this?

texts: I updated to Yosemite 10.10.1.  I sent an invitation to a colleague.  Now I have a Red Dot with 1 in it on my iCAL icon.  I deleted the invitation, but the Dot and one remain. Does anyone know what this is?


texts: Pages 5.1 underlines some words as misspelled, but does not allow me to "Ignore/Learn Spelling"

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I am using Pages 5.1. When I misspell words, spellchecker underlines them in red. I am usually able to either "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" when I right-click the word:

But for some words, those options do not appear despite spellchecker underlining them in red:

This can be particularly annoying when I use recurring names. Why can't I "Ignore Spelling" or "Learn Spelling" on these words? And is there a way to fix it?


texts: Create new partition from brand new MacBook Air

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I just purchased a macbook air, and when opening Disk Utility, I see the following:

251 GB Apple
 - Macintosh HD

I want to have a 10GB partition besides the current one, which will have the format: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive).

I am wondering if I can do that just from the Disk Utility (by clicking on the '+' sign), or that will delete the current partition?


texts: Why is there an infinite loop in the File System on a Mac? /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD

texts:
While playing around with find in Terminal I came across this odd behavior:
There seems to be an infinite loop in the Mac File System like so:

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/

...and so on.

Apparently it is possible to access Volumes and Macintosh HD over and over again.

How is this possible? Should this not confuse any process digging recursively through the File System?


texts: How do I turn off drawing mode in iOS 10's Messages?

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I want to turn off the little squiggle in the bottom right corner of the Messages keyboard (the one that activates drawing mode). How can I do this? Is there a setting?

(I know the keyboard in the bottom right screen turns off drawing in landscape mode, but I want to permanently disable the feature.)


texts:
I'm using Pages 09 to prepare a document and have just noticed that the Zoom level (at least on my install) is not WYSIWYG.

The Page setup is correctly showing A4 as the output paper size.

The default Zoom and the Zoom setting for the document are both at 125%.

The computer is a Macbook Air 13.3", so has a resolution of 1440X900.

As far as I can tell it the zoom level would need to be about 175% to be correct.

(A quick look at Wikipedia shows that the Air has a DPI of 128PPI which may be the issue)

Is there a default that can be changed to set Pages to assume that DPI is greater than the default (presumably 72 ppi)


texts: Apple "option" keyboard shortcuts and touch typing

texts: Apple keyboards can have shortcuts using alt/option to type non-standard characters. For example, I can type the Swedish å by using alt+k and then typing a, and the Portuguese ç by using alt+c and then typing c. Now, from a touch typing perspective, how should I use these shortcuts? I mean, with which finger should I type them? I reckon that these resemble all the shift+key combinations, which I strike with the pinky of each hand, but the apple keyboard has only one alt key on the left side.


texts: How can I connect multiple wireless headphones to the same iPhone at the same time?

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I like to listen to audio files on my iPhone 6 while jogging outdoors.
My girlfriend wants to join me (jog with me and have her own headphones listening to the same audio).
How can we both pair our wireless headphones to my iPhone simultaneously so that we're listening to exactly the same thing?
(And these audio files are not available in some shared location like Spotify.)
(Also, we own a headphone splitter, but using wired headphones is inconvenient since cords make running difficult.)


texts: Is it possible to install a .pkg using a terminal ? (I wanted to install an app through ssh).


texts: Is there a OS X equivalent for iproute2?

texts:
I am searching a command line tool collection like iproute2 on Linux.

Network Utility is OK, but I would like it on the command line.


texts: Cut in CLI doesn't work as expected - returns full lines every time

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I'm running MacOS Mojave and I'm trying to get a list of owners of files in given path. I'm trying to do it like this but it doesn't work.

$ ls -l /usr | cut -f3
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  971 root  wheel  31072 23 sty 20:05 bin
drwxr-xr-x  304 root  wheel   9728 23 sty 20:05 lib
drwxr-xr-x  248 root  wheel   7936 23 sty 20:05 libexec
drwxr-xr-x   16 root  wheel    512  3 lis 10:50 local
drwxr-xr-x  239 root  wheel   7648 23 sty 20:05 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   46 root  wheel   1472  3 lis 10:41 share
drwxr-xr-x    5 root  wheel    160 21 wrz 06:06 standalone

Specifying delimiters seems to work but not for the TAB character (which should be default).

$ ls -l /usr | cut -f3 -d' '

971
304
248

239

I'm using ZSH with Oh my zsh and iTerm 2 if it matters.


texts: Error: "sudo: command not found" when trying to use XAMPP

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I am trying to use XAMPP to create a server on my MacBook. I'm following the tutorial here:

https://www.webucator.com/how-to/how-install-start-test-xampp-on-mac-osx.cfm

and I'm stuck on the bit where I'm required to put the command

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security

I get asked to input my password and then encounter the following error:

sudo: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp: command not found

Any help here please?


texts: Is there a best / OSX-specific way to force all files created in a directory to have certain group ownership?

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Basically I need any file filefoo that is newly created by userfoo or userbar, both members of groupfoo, in /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory to have the same ownership that would be achieved by that user doing chown whicheverusermadethefile:groupfoo filefoo after the fact.

(Longer story: I have two users running simultaneously on the same machine. The users have a shared folder at /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory. These users, say userfoo and userbar, are both already members of a group groupfoo. userfoo syncs this directory using Dropbox, but Dropbox can't sync files downloaded by userbar into that directory b/c of permissions. File-by-file or a bunch at a time this problem can be solved with chown and adding the right group ownership to the file or directory, but new downloads or additions continue to pose a problem. Thanks to some old tinkering with umask the files are created with the correct group permissions such that userfoo's Dropbox instance can read and sync them when their ownership is anyuser:groupfoo, but the group itself is wrong because new file ownership defaults to userbar:staff instead of userbar:groupfoo.)

PS: This question is closest to the one I'm asking about, but the suggested solutions don't seem to apply since they don't ensure correct ownership of new files. Also, I could be wrong, but it looks like the questions here, here, and here aren't what I need, because the permissions are correct--it's the ownership that's wrong--and I need the fix to apply to any process creating any file (in particular b/c the bulk of these files-to-be-shared are pdfs downloaded by Chrome). This one also doesn't seem to do it--the directory itself is already owned by userfoo:groupfoo, yet new files created by userbar don't get the groupfoo gid.


texts: APFS Partition won't expand into adjacent free space under Mojave

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I tried to install Linux Mint on an external drive and the installer crashed.

I used Gparted to delete the two partitions I had created (one ExFat, the Other Ext4) and rebooted into MacOS Mojave. I then tried to add the free space to an APFS Partition name "Shared" and it would not let me.

From other answers it appears another partition is preventing it but I can't tell which one. Would someone please tell me the EXACT commands to enter in Single user mode (Command-S, right?) to fix it?

The output of diskutil list is:

/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         499.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data iMac Windows 10         501.0 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh 1TB           161.7 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.4 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      5.4 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *16.0 TB    disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac Backup 1            2.0 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         10.2 TB    disk2s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Emergency Boot 1        501.9 GB   disk2s5
   5:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk2s6

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +10.2 TB    disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s3
   1:                APFS Volume Shared                  1.9 TB     disk3s1


texts: Can't assign keyboard shortcut to service

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In OSX 10.8.2, I created a service using Automator and saved it in ~/Library/Services. The service receives selected messages in Mail.app. It shows up in the list of services when I click on the "Mail" menu. When I click on the service, it executes correctly. It also shows up in the list of services when I try to assign a keyboard shortcut to it in System Preferences. My keyboard shortcut doesn't appear to conflict with any other. To make sure of this I've tried assigning very improbable shortcuts involving 4 or 5 keys.

Somehow the shortcut never "registers", i.e., it doesn't appear next to the service name in the "Services" submenu of "Mail" and using the shortcut doesn't produce any result. What could be causing this?


texts: How does the special offer Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac "Upgrade" work?

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So, my dad has an old version of Parallels at home. We can't find the original software box or disk but it is running on the iMac. I wanted to maybe avail of the (soon to finish) special offer of the €50 for the "Upgrade."

My question is: if I buy the software online and download it, do I need to have an activation code for the original version of Parallels? I can't find any information on the parallels website and can't find any support for this.
 Thanks.


texts: with magic trackpad, time lag between when i droped a something and when it actually dropped

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I'm using a magic trackpad.
There is a time lag for about 0.5 second between when i dropped a something, for example desctop icon, and when it actually dropped.

I can drop immidiately by touching after I drop something.
But I don't want to touch every time I drop something.
Magic mouse can drop immidiatelly without any extra operations.

What is this time lag?
And how can I solve this problem?


texts: Safari preferences aren't being saved after a fresh Sierra installation

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I just reinstalled Mac OS Sierra on my iMac, but Safari doesn't save any Preferences.

When Safari starts it prompts me to "enable Microsoft Silverlight plugin" (because Netflix demands this plugin).  When I try to enable it (in Safari->Preferences->Security->Plugin Settings and check the Silverlight box and click Done), and then restart Safari, it hasn't saved, and the same prompt comes up and when I look, that setting I just checked is no longer checked.

This also happens when I try to change any other settings in Safari Preferences, as well.  Nothing gets saved after I restart Safari.

Also, any changes made to the top menu bar of Safari aren't saved (by right clicking on it and choosing "Customize Toolbar", then adding the Cloud Tabs button, and removing the "share" button, for example).

Plz help!

UPDATE:
I've tried this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7561960?start=0&tstart=0
which I thought was the problem, but this appears not to be the case.  My ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist file is unlocked and I "can read and write" to it, at least according to Finder.  Still trying to fix this whole issue...


texts:
When booting opensuse via rEFInd, the kernel options are wrong (the root device name is incorrect).

Where do the kernel arguments that rEFInd is using come from, and how do I modify them? The line I'm looking for is of the form

ro root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-APPLE_SSD_SM768E_S119NYAC612 initrd=boot\initrd-3.7.xxx-default

The root argument should be

ata-APPLE_SSD_SM768E_S119NYAC612130-part7

as that is where the SUSE root partition is. If I edit the boot options from the rEFInd menu (higlight the SUSE entry, hit F2, hit F2 again on the default entry) and modify the options to include the 130-part7 suffix, everything works fine. If not, Linux asks me:

  Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-APPLE_SSD_SM768E_S119NYAC612.
  Want me to fall back to
  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-APPLE_SSD_SM768E_S119NYAC612130-part7? (Y/n)

I'd happily hit "Y" here and move on but, unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't work at this stage in the boot process. If I attach a USB keyboard, it works, but I really don't want to carry one around with me. (Perhaps there is a market for a one-key USB keyboard that can be programmed for these things. Dear God...)

So, I am left changing the options via the rEFInd menu every time I boot Linux.

I'd thought about adding a symlink directing ...612 to ...612130-part7, but the links in /dev/disk/by-id/ are stored in tempfs (ie, not persistent). Also, that is a crappy solution.

Help?!


texts: How can i change and customize the special characters on my keyboard?

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This is my first post at AskDifferent, hopefully it works out.

My problem:

i want to insert the symbol "λ" aka 'lamda' everytime i use the Option-L key. However, by default my OS Mountain Lion inserts "¬".

My question:

How can i change this permanently and for every application i open (i.e. any browser, MS Word, Finder, etc…). I've never used "¬" but as an
engineering student i very often require "λ."

This post was very informative and in depth:

How can I expand the number of special characters I can type using my keyboard?

However i have no desire to change my overall layout – only a couple keys. It didn't really address the simple question i have.

Is there a way to do this without creating a new keyboard layout? Can i not simply change a single special character from "¬" to "λ" ?
I am currently looking at the "Ukelele" application but i don't want to be creating all sorts of new stuff.

Thank You.


texts: Is there a way to validate that an apple update is legitimate?

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I have reason to suspect that somebody may have had unauthorized access to my computer. I've just reset my copy of OS X from the recovery partition. Afterwards, I was prompted twice to update my OS via the App Store. One of these I may have selected through a notification; the second I selected through the App Store. I'm now on 10.13.6.

Is there a way now to make sure both of these updates were legitimately provided by Apple?

Relatedly, if somebody wanted to install malware of some kind into the recovery partition of my MacBook, is there any way either to scan and remove that or to replace that portion of the hard drive with a legitimate version of the partition?


texts: Leopard Backup downgrades Snow Leopard installation upon recovery

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I did a Time Machine backup on my Macbook running OS X 10.5.8. Then I installed Snow Leopard and tried to restore all apps, files etc. using Time Machine but it restored the system back to 10.5.8.

How can I do this keeping Snow Leopard?


texts: How to set a text as a footer with Pages?

texts:
I woudld like to set a footer on my page, in order to make some annotation, like this picture.

I would like to make something like the number 3.

I am using Pages from Mac OS X :)


texts:
I recently got an Steelseries Aerox 3 mouse (wired), and whenever I try to use it, my MacBook Pro (2018) starts to lag an insane amount. I also have an Apex 5 keyboard plugged in, but I can unplug the mouse and the computer will work fine. I talked to my dad about it (it’s his profession), and we couldn’t seem to find anything about it. Personally, I think it’s the CPU, as there is a parental control app tray always running in the background. Any suggestions?
I’m running Big Sur 11.1 if it helps any.


texts: Where to put VirtualHost files for brew's httpd24?

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I have installed httpd24 via brew by running brew install httpd24

However I am not sure where to put a virualhost definition files in the file system.

I ran this command /usr/local/bin/apachectl -S and there is the output

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using mbp.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
VirtualHost configuration:
ServerRoot: "/usr/local/opt/httpd24"
Main DocumentRoot: "/usr/local/var/www/htdocs"
Main ErrorLog: "/usr/local/var/log/apache2/error_log"
Mutex default: dir="/usr/local/var/run/apache2/" mechanism=default
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
PidFile: "/usr/local/var/run/apache2/httpd.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="daemon" id=1 not_used
Group: name="daemon" id=1 not_used

And here is a tree output

$ tree /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4
/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4
├── extra
│   ├── httpd-autoindex.conf
│   ├── httpd-dav.conf
│   ├── httpd-default.conf
│   ├── httpd-info.conf
│   ├── httpd-languages.conf
│   ├── httpd-manual.conf
│   ├── httpd-mpm.conf
│   ├── httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
│   ├── httpd-ssl.conf
│   ├── httpd-userdir.conf
│   ├── httpd-vhosts.conf
│   └── proxy-html.conf
├── httpd.conf
├── magic
├── mime.types
└── original
    ├── extra
    │   ├── httpd-autoindex.conf
    │   ├── httpd-dav.conf
    │   ├── httpd-default.conf
    │   ├── httpd-info.conf
    │   ├── httpd-languages.conf
    │   ├── httpd-manual.conf
    │   ├── httpd-mpm.conf
    │   ├── httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
    │   ├── httpd-ssl.conf
    │   ├── httpd-userdir.conf
    │   ├── httpd-vhosts.conf
    │   └── proxy-html.conf
    └── httpd.conf


texts: What areas of the MacBook Air should I keep clear?

texts:
According to the User's Guide of the MacBook Air, it says:

  Set up your MacBook Air on a stable work surface that
  allows for adequate air circulation under and around the computer. Do not operate
  your MacBook Air on a pillow or other soft material, as the material can block the
  airflow vents.

The only airflow vents I see are in the back right where the screen and keyboard meet. Thus, I'm wondering if covering the front 90% of the bottom of the MacBook Air with something soft such as a cloth (i.e. the part with no vents) will have any adverse effects on the cooling mechanism. The only thing I can think of is that the bottom of the laptop acts as passive cooling by having that little bit of air between the bottom of the laptop and the desk its sitting on. Having it on a cloth or something similar would no longer provide this air cushion and would affect the cooling mechanism of the laptop.

Is my theory about how the passive cooling works correct? Or is it fine to use the laptop on something such as a pillow as long as it doesn't cover the end that has the vents?


texts: Does force closing apps have any benefit on iOS devices?

texts:
I've gotten mixed answers from various websites and people concerning this question, and I wanted to put it out there for all of you to answer once and for all.

The question is, does force closing apps, (that is, double-clicking the home button, then swiping up on them), have any benefit to the battery or overall performance of an iPhone or any other iOS device?


texts:
Making an AppleScript but for some reason it isn't working. Any ideas why not?

delay 1
set volume 1
say "Hello " & (do shell script "whoami") using "Whisper"
say "Do you want to play a game?" using "Whisper"
display dialog "Do you want to play a game?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
if the button returned of the result is "Yes" then
-- say "Bwahahahaha!"
else
-- display dialog "Big mistake" & (do shell script "whoami")
end if


texts:
I'm using MacBook pro 2017 15 inch and i just got 3x DELL U2518D UltraSharp monitors to connect to my macbook pro.

What I actually need is best possible solution to connect this external monitors to my macbook pro. Should i use USB-C to DisplayPort adapter or should i go with USB-C to DisplayPort Cable?

What is difference? Is cable better? Or adapter?


texts: Lion: Switching Spaces with Key Controls darn slow?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Speed up Mission Control Preview Animation

I loved to use Spaces in Snow Leopard. Now with Mission Control I love using the feature even more. However as many people on the web pointed out, the animation when switching between to spaces is really slow.

And yeah I know that it's faster when using the Magic Mouse, a Trackpad or anything else. It's also faster for me. However I like switching between Spaces with ALT-ArrowKeys like I used to.

Numerous people already pointed out the same problem: See here or here

Everybody says the same. It's fast enough when you use the Trackpad or Magic Mouse or even some CMD-key with the Space-Number, but it's really slow when you try switching between s


texts: What should my home folder permissions look like?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out the best permissions configuration for my home folder in Sierra.

Would executing this make sense:

sudo chown -v -R $(whoami) ~/* && sudo chown -v -R $(whoami) ~/.*;
sudo find ~/.* -type f -print -exec chmod -v -R 640 {} \;
sudo find ~/.* -type f -print -exec chmod -v -R 750 {} \;

I'm looking for everything to work, but I want to restrict access as much as possible. My permissions were set to read-only to "Everyone" (no idea why).


texts: How to properly use drag and drop with MacBook Pro on OS X 10.7?

texts:
It seems extremely hard to be able to drag and drop files between two finder windows with a single move on the trackpad - as soon you reach the end of the trackpad you'll drop the files,… in the wrong place.

How can you solve the drag'n'drop problem without using a mouse and still be able to use gestures?


texts: Does unsupported RAM effect display cards?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 17" Mid 2010 which normally supports 1067 MHz RAM. I needed more memory and installed 2 x 4 GB RAM 1333 MHz modules which - as expected -  also work with 1067 MHz.

After a couple of weeks the display started flickering and showed disturbances similar to television statics for a second and then returns to normal. A couple of weeks later this happens more frequently like every 5-9 minutes. It especially occurs when a secondary display is attached.

Could the RAM modules cause this or is my display card just dying?

This is how it looks like: video


texts: Can't delete Alex voice from the iOS simulator

texts:
I'm working with iOS voices for accessibility reasons. In iOS simulator I've tried to install Alex voice which is one of the most popular English voices. To choose it I downloaded it first. However, after that, the voice looks like something between enabled and disabled.

E.g. for Allison I see that it's not downloaded hence it's not available for me. On the other hand, Samantha is downloaded, so I can navigate further and edit the voice, for example I can delete it. But for Alex I can't neither delete it nor select it to use later.

When I try to press Erase All Content and Settings... for the simulator, sometimes it doesn't change anything, but sometimes it erases Alex voice, but situation returns after downloading this voice. Is there any other way how it Alex can be installed on the simulator?


texts: Is there a way to improve the quality of the cached images Safari uses for forward/back swiping?


texts: Increment CSS property values in Safari web inspector with keyboard arrows

texts: In Safari's web inspector tools, when modifying a CSS property of an element, is there a way to increment with the keyboard's up and down arrows like in Chrome?


texts: How can I change the lock screen background image in Lion 10.7.4?

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With Lion, I know that, in order to change the lock screen background image, I have to change

/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png

In particular, I used an image with the same size as the resolution of my MacBook screen (1440x900).

So far so good, but after the update to Lion 10.7.4, the lock screen background switched back to the gray texture. I thought that the upgrade overwrote my custom image, but it didn't. I tried overwriting my image, but again, nothing changed.
Now I'm stuck with that dull texture. Can someone help me please?

Note: Please note that I'm not trying to change the login screen background, there are plenty of answers related to that problem.


texts: Faulty or oversensitive temperature sensor on 15-inch Macbook Pro?

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I have a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro, 15-inch.

Whenever the CPU usage goes above ~30%, the reported temperature spikes and the fans kick in.  As if the temperature sensor was oversensitive. I've tried resetting SMC but no change. Is there something else I can try?

(An authorized service provider just sent it back to me after replacing one of the fans but that didn't fix the issue.)


texts: How does Facetime compare to normal video calling?

texts: So, Apple is billing Facetime as though it is a revolutionary technology. I'm not going to ask you whether you think it is, as that is clearly a subjective question. What I will ask instead is how does it compare to normal video calling. Is there anything new that hasn't been done before?


texts: How to access IPhoto on my external hard drive

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I can't access my Iphoto libraries from my hard drive. Every time I go to open the IPhoto file in the hard drive the error pops up as follows:

"You can't open Iphoto Back up because it is in Time Machine"

and when I try to open Iphoto with the Hard Drive plugged in the following error pops up:

"The iPhoto Library is a Time Machine backup, and so cannot be used as the main library.  Relaunch iPhoto with  key held down to choose another library."

I followed the directions but there is no library to choose. I'm not sure if I am going about the correctly but I am wondering if my time machine isn't compatible with Iphoto.


texts: Associate "chrome-extension://" to Chrome browser?

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I have installed the Chrome SSH client in my Chrome browser.

How can I make the application association for "chrome-extension://" to the Chrome browser?

I would like to execute this command in Terminal to run application.

open chrome-extension://pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo/html/nassh.html

Here is my current workaround:

SSH_APP=chrome-extension://pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo/html/nassh.html
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome $SSH_APP


texts: How can I boot my MacBook Pro from a DVD to update my SSD firmware

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I have a MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (mid-2011 model) running OS X 10.8.2.  I upgraded to an SSD which I bought from Crucial and works just great.  Crucial sent an email recommending I upgrade my firmware to get even better performance from my SSD.

I downloaded the firmware to my desktop in the form of an ISO file from the Crucial website, and the instructions told me to burn this to a disk and change my boot order in order to boot from this disk.  I burned the disk but subsequently have not been able to get a bios screen or to be able to boot from the DVD I created.  I have tried holding down the C key but nothing seems to happen.

What do I need to do to complete the installation of the firmware?


texts: Loud crackle from home button on iPhone 8

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Ive got a iPhone 8, running iOS 11.4 latest sub version.

As i understand on the latest iPhones (i think from 7 onwards) the home button is not a touch button but rather an inbuilt Taptic engine which is kind of like a rumble pack, this combined with the speaker create a faux user feedback for the home button.

Recently when pressing the home button i have been getting a loud electronic crackel which sounds like the faux feedback through the speaker but about 10 times louder and distorted.

This has happened a couple of times and clears after a few clicks, but comes back.

Apart from taking it to the Apple store is there anything i can do to address the issue. The phone is within warranty but id prefer not to have to go to an apple store if i dont have to.


texts: Using an Address Book custom label on a printing label

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I have a custom label in my Address Book cards (to indicate the name I'd like to appear on a label, e.g. The Smith Family).

I'm on Lion (so that's Address Book version 6.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.2).

When I go to print the labels, File > Print > Mailing Labels I can't change it from using the Name (Prefix - First Name - Surname).

Before I set off trying to export this to a mail merge and use a much more complicated method, is there a way of doing this within Address Book?

I found this hack which suggests adding the label as the Company Name, because that is an option to print, but some of the people have actual company names, so that isn't going to work for me.


texts: iOS: Green strip to return to numeric keypad much too small

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I'm finding it incredibly difficult to return to a call using the green stripe at the top of the screen after switching apps, It is even suggested by Apple that this is the way the function works.

For those of us who do not have thumbs the size of Barbie dolls, it is most arduous to get back to the numeric touch pad (like when trying to access phone menus).

Is there a way to make this green bar bigger, perhaps in Accessibility options? Also wondering if there might be plans to fix this annoyance in the future for iOS users.


texts: How to quickly stitch a ton of albums back together into compilations?

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I trusted Google Music Manager to download my music collection onto a new computer, importing the lot into iTunes. Only after I wiped my old computer did I realize that my music was now screwed up: Most any album featuring multiple artists was now split up into many albums. So Mr. Robot OST is about twenty different "albums", and it's become a pain to try to play a whole album in iTunes. How can I fix my songs?

I read some blurbs online about manually fixing an album, by checking the compilation box for each individual song. But I have a fair amount of songs to fix, so that would take a long time to do by hand! Can someone recommend an iTunes plugin or AppleScript or bash file to fix my music?

Assuming it's safe to enable the part-of-a-compilation bit on every song, even those that aren't actually part of a compilation, then I wonder if I could just loop over each .mp3 file and run some CLI app to fix the bits?


texts: Simplest way to edit EXIF ImageDescription or IPTC Caption-Abstract?

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On Windows 10 (don't know about earlier versions), all you have to do is click on the image file in Windows Explorer and then edit the file details. The updated caption is written directly to the file.

I can't find anything this simple on Mac OS X. (I can view a caption with the Finder and with Preview, but can't change it.) I can add metadata in the Photos app, but there seems to be no way to sync it back to the original file. (I assume the new file written when you Export has the metadata, but that doesn't do what I want.)

I have my own app in the Mac App Store that can do this (ExifChanger), but I'm surprised that there's no way built into OS X to do it.

Am I missing something?


texts: Self storage of notes with extended formatting

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The notes app on OSX and iOS offers to sync notes with e-mail accounts. I noticed that for notes synced with an icloud account, the app offers extended formatting possibilies (I use checkboxes and hand drawing, but there might be more). When synced with another e-mail account (I tested hotmail, gmail, bluewin.ch and my work e-mail), those features are not available.

Hence my question: is there any provider that can offer this extended formatting? What would they need to provide that the one I tested don't?

Context: I am looking for a replacement of our current e-mail provider at work. icloud is not an option since we want to have our e-mails stored in Switzerland, where we are based. I was wondering if we could find a provider offering those possibilities.

PS: while researching I stumbled upon this thread. My question, although similar, is limited to notes.app, not the entire panel of icloud services.


texts: Kernel CPU usage shows more than 100%, temperature low, fan speed high

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The activity monitor is showing strange things, like kernel CPU % usage being way above 100%, between 200% - 1.000%.

At the same time the cooling fan is running at max speed and the CPU temperature seems to be 47°. At the same time, everything started to react very slowly.

I am only running chrome with 3 tabs open.

What could be the problem? Am I reading the % correctly and why would it show >100%?


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I am somewhat new the world of Mac and "i" devices. I have an iMac 9 and I am thinking about buying an iPad mini but have read statements on the web that if I write my own app I will go through the App Store to get onto my own iPad and pay a $100 annual fee. How mush truth is there to this? This is very extreme for someone that wants to write apps for my own use.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I reinstall Adobe Design and Web Premium CS6 on my Mac?

texts: When I tried to open Photoshop I got a message that files were missing.  Someone (mis?)informed me that I had to uninstall Photoshop and then hit the button to reinstall. Instead the whole file along with Acrobat Pro and a whole bunch of other stuff disappeared. And there was no reinstall button. Is there a simple way to fix this?  I have the license key for the suite.  Do I need anything else?


texts: Installing gcc47 as default using Homebrew

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I'm trying to install gcc47 as my default compiler using homebrew.  I can successfully install gcc47, but it adds a -4.7 suffix on all of its binaries.  If I try to symlink it in /usr/local/bin things get tricky.  Consider this:

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
$ gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.7 /usr/local/bin/gcc
$ which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
$ gcc --version
gcc-4.7: err    or trying to exec '/usr/local/bin/../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2': execvp: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/*gcc* /usr/local/bin/*g++*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  33 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/g++-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/g++-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  22 Mar 28 11:32 /usr/local/bin/gcc -> /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  33 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/gcc-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  36 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/gcc-ar-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/gcc-ar-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  36 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/gcc-nm-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/gcc-nm-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  40 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/gcc-ranlib-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/gcc-ranlib-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  59 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-g++-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-g++-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  59 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  61 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-4.7.2 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-4.7.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  62 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-ar-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-ar-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  62 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-nm-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-nm-4.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff  66 Mar 27 15:48 /usr/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-ranlib-4.7 -> ../Cellar/gcc47/4.7.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0-gcc-ranlib-4.7


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I work in an IT department and I am moving large amount of people from their iPhone 4 to a new iPhone 4S. What currently happens is the person who is getting an upgrade comes in, activates the handset and I can then update it. I then add everything that they need on the phone from the iphone configuration utility and the appstore which involves them needing to be there to enter usernames/passwords.

This is all fine apart from it takes quite a bit of time out of the person's schedule. I feel it would be a much better approach if I was able to update all the phones beforehand and then have the recipient activate the phone. This would save on the large amount of time that is spent waiting for the phones to update, which is important when the recipients have very little time spare as they have incredibly busy schedules and getting the time required can be quite a squeeze.

Is there anyway I can update first or am I out of luck?

Note: We are using Windows so the Apple Configurator isn't an option


texts: Mac Yosemite : Can I recover directories deleted via rm -rf

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I was working in the terminal and I accidently deleted a directory by "rm -rf"

Is there any utility which can recover files deleted via unix commands?


texts:
I'd been using a spelling auto-correct in Windows that worked amazingly well (without being annoying). It basically uses the list of most commonly typos from Wikipedia and substitutes any occurrence from it, if the user types that, with the correct spelling.

http://www.biancolo.com/articles/autocorrect/

It uses the software Autohotkey to do this.

Is there any way something similar can be done on the Mac? (Karabiner is a software that does some of the things AutoHotkey does, but from what I know I wouldn't be able to do this.)


texts: Can I configure and start TIme Machine from the commandLine

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I have a problem with my MacBookPro, the left click button on (any) mouse and the trackpad doesnt respond to any clicks, so the only thing that works properly is the keybaord.

I havent been able to solve the issue so I am taking my labtop to an Apple store on Friday, but I fear they may need to send it away and may wipe the disk so Id really like a backup of the machine.

But although I have backups of my most immportant docs I have never used Time Machine and dont have a backup of the whole thing. So Id really like to do a backup but I cannot seem to configure anything in the Time Machine preferences with only the keyboard, is there a commandline equivalent that I can use ?


texts: How do I trigger a script when a second monitor is attached

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I am on macOS El Captain (upgrading to High Sierra soon) and I'm looking for a tool which can trigger an AppleScript or shell script every time when the number of monitors/displays attached to the system changes.

I have tried  ControlPlane, but could not get the trigger on attached-display-change to work. Two questions:

1) Does anybody know that display triggering in ControlPlane definitely works on macOS El Captain and higher? (Indicating that I am doing something wrong.)

Or:

2) Is there another tool which can act on a change of numbers of displays every time a monitor/display is (dis-)connected?

PS: I am aware there are other questions in the StackExchange network relating to this topic (like How can I run a script whenever I plug in an external monitor? or Reset Mac OS X Windows Position after de-attaching external monitor), but the answers do not seem to apply to El Captain/High Sierra .


texts: iOS 10.3.2: cookies will return after deletion. How to clean-up?

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I discoverd that in iOS 10.3.2 (german language set, timezone Berlin / MESZ) in my iPad not every information concerning history and tracking could be deleted:

Following Einstellungen (Setting), Safari, Erweitert (more or extended), Website-Daten (website data) there is a list of pages visited (I assume with cookies set). When I'm trying "delete all" none of the entries will disappear. I tried additionally deleting one by one. By entering this part of setting again (even without using safari in the meanwhile) there are some of the entries there again, some of them with 0 bytes. Resetting / rebooting iPad or cleaning history completely before deleting or combination of different steps cookies still are there.

Are the domains which are listed in some sense untrustworthy? Or do they use some "irregular" code / approach? The most persistant ones are

onedigitals.co.uk
parismatch.com
dove.com

Additional some google-domains (domains containing string google) and spiegel.de could be very often seen. Or some new sort of supercookies (but they are flash aren't they - and iOS does not support flash)? Or bug in iOS?

Perhaps related to


texts: MacBook Pro: water damage improved screen's brightness!

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This isn't your typical water damage story.

One side of my 2007-model, pre-Unibody laptop got damp from rain in a backpack yesterday. When I opened it, the left quarter of the screen had a splotch of water damage.

The damaged area is brighter and more vibrant than the rest of the screen!

The screen has seemed dim for most of the laptop's lifetime. Not long after its first birthday I even disassembled the screen looking for the problem. I found a blown capacitor and supposed a backlight power issue, but later discovered that wasn't the case.

Now this seems to confirm it's some kind of optical effect. But what? I know plenty about optics and this doesn't make sense. The water must be filling a gap and providing better coupling between two layers, but there's no brightening if I press lightly on the screen. There's a little thin-film interference at the edges of the water layer where it tapers off. So the water layer is doing something.

The laptop will be fine in a few days; the water seems to be evaporating out through the screen. But I'm suffering this physics mystery.


texts: Can I download free apps without a payment method?

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I just downloaded the newest iOS version, which I don't know what it is, and I can't download free apps now. I used to be able to download free apps, but now apple requires a credit card to download apps even if the apps are free.

I don't know what version of iOS I am using, nor what type I was using earlier. Nor do I know what type of iPhone I am using other than that it is an iPhone of some sort. I don't know how to find out this information either.


texts:
Has anybody tried Chax with Mac OS X Lion?

I got it to install perfectly, but I do not see a Chax tab in iChat preferences.


texts:
What are the weights of the San Fransisco font?
More specifically: standard (not compact)

I'm pretty sure it's different for the two types (display and text).
I'd like to know both.


texts: Is there any GUI application that runs on both Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra?

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I'm trying to make the argument that macOS (Mac OS X) has a very long legacy as a desktop operating system, but my colleagues brought up the point that it's gone through so many iterations since 10.0 that it might as well be considered completely different.

My question is this: Is there any way to run even one GUI application on both Cheetah and High Sierra?

Dirty tricks can be used, but it has to be the same distributable (e.g. .app file). I don't really care if it's a fat binary, or if I have to install a different window server or anything like that. As long as I can somehow demonstrate to my colleagues that I have a GUI application that I can run on Cheetah that also runs just fine on High Sierra.


texts: Get low battery notifications for mouse earlier

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Is it possible to tweak the % that I get warning of low battery for my Magic Mouse 2?

I currently only get it at 2% at which point it's very close to dying so I have to stop what I'm doing and plug it in. A reminder about 10-15% would allow me to plug it in the next time I have a natural break.


texts: How can I tell the difference between display sleep vs. computer sleep on my MacBook Air (Late 2010)?

texts:
How can I tell the difference between the entire computer sleeping and only the display sleeping?

I'm trying to diagnose sleep problems, and one of the basic things I need to know is the difference between these two kinds of sleep modes. I can't rely on the times I set in the settings since that is what I'm trying to debug.

I have a 13" Macbook Air late 2010, if that makes any difference.

Things I thought might help:

Trackpad move vs. trackpad click. I've noticed that when I force the computer to sleep via the Apple menu, it's not enough to move around the mouse via the trackpad... I must press down on the trackpad or another key.
Caps Lock light: If I leave caps lock on for testing purposes, sometimes I will see the light turn off, while other times it stays on. I thought that perhaps this could tell me the difference between the two.
The Apple logo on the back side of the laptop, although its light seems to go off in both cases, so that doesn't help
Plugging in a USB device which has a light, which indicates when the computer is supplying it power. The light seems to shut off when in sleep mode, but stays on when the display is sleeping. I'm not sure if this is a reliable method, though

The problem with the first two methods is that I was able to recreate a situation where the caps lock key remains on, but the trackpad mouse move does not wake the computer.

Are there any reliable ways to know if the entire computer has gone to sleep or not?


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My AppleScript needs to get thread count of process x.

I have tried many ps etc codes but all these are not working for some reason.

I tried these:

do shell script "ps uH p 301 | wc -l" -->"       0"
do shell script "ps axo pid,ppid,rss,vsz,nlwp,cmd" --> error "ps: nlwp: keyword not found


texts: Mbp 15 retina early 2013-waiting for disks to reappear

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I have a mbp 15 early 2013 model. It was running smoothly until yesterday suddenly it passed out with a folder question mark screen. so I went to recovery because I can't boot up. In the startup disk I can't find my ssd and in disk utility can't first aid my ssd and even can't erase my ssd to perform a fresh install.. when tried erasing in terminal it shows up the error waiting for disks to reappear.. so I think that ssd is working fine because it shows up on the disk utility, so this might be a controller problem in which in my case I don't have a hard drive cable, instead I think it's part of the logic board where ssd has to be plugged.. suggest me a solution.. Sorry for my explanation if it's bad.. I'm very much worried  as of now..

My question is different.. the apple genius couldn't figure out whether it's logic board or ssd.. because both are functioning properly in diagnosis.

how it is different.. I cant able to format using gparted.. so by using terminal I tried pdisk commands and was able to create and write partitions.. so does it conclude that ssd is still working.. if so what could have been the error


texts:
I noticed that my manuals are very old in my system although all updates done.
Etc man cmp tells about the flag -l

-l  --verbose
          Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.

while Wikipedia is about more fully

  Output the (decimal) byte numbers and (octal) values of all differing
  bytes, instead of the default standard output. Also, output the EOF
  message if one file is shorter than the other.

The last sentence was critical in my understanding of the output.
I would like get more fully manuals to my system.

Possible ways to get better manuals

cabal
homebrew
...?

How can you install better manuals to your terminal commands in OSX?


texts:
I know how I can have to apps open side by side in split view, but I have a slightly different case.

I have two terminal windows open side-by-side, is there anyway I can quickly switch between them. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do this?


texts: Add text captions/subtitles to videos without Adobe Premiere? (burn in)

texts:
I want to add text captions to some videos I am uploading to social media/Facebook.

Is there a simple way to do this in QuickTime? Adobe Premiere is too expensive.


texts:
Has the GPS chip been upgraded in the iPhone 4S? How does it compare to the 4 and 3GS?

As I understand it the GPS in iPhone 4 is much better than that in the 3GS.


texts: Why does Network Restore on my MacBook Air 2012 give me Mountain Lion, not Mavericks

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I recently upgraded the SSD of my MacBook Air 2012

Very happy with the Network Restore.  Hold CMD+R on start-up, use disk utility to format, and then network restore OSX.

But why does it only offer Mountain Lion?

I then have to upgrade to Mavericks using the App Store.

Which isn't painful, but why couldn't I just restore to Mavericks in the first place?


texts: TexMaker, permanent changing of the path

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I just update my MacBook with the last OS, El Capitan. I follow all the suggestions (link-1 and link-2) in order to make TexMaker work in a proper way, but when I relaunch the application all the changes in the paths are back as the origin so I always have to specify /Library/Tex/texbin instead of /usr/texbin. How I can make this changes permanent?

There is a different setting in the terminal or system settings where I should specify the right path?


texts: What are the NitroPDF alternatives for mac?

texts:
NitroPDF is an excellent software for various kinds of formatting, merging and splitting of PDF files but it is available only for machines running windows OS. What are good alternatives for such softwares on machines running OS X ?

The main pdf related features that I am looking for are :-

Editing : Allows to edit a pdf
Merging : Allows simple merging of multiple of pdf files into one
Splitting : Splitting of an existing pdf into multiple pdf
Print : Change a pdf from 1 page per side to a pdf of 4 (or more) pages per side.
Highlighting : Allows to highlight a part of the pdf.

I am not sure if the default pdf viewer Preview provides all these features.


texts: Unable to shut down iMac / force close Transmission

texts:
I'm trying to shutdown my iMac but I get the following message.

"Your Mac hasn't shut down because "Transmission" failed to quit. To continue shutting down, quit "Transmission".

I've tried Force Quitting it via the dock and menu bar, neither of which work. Tried 'killall Transmission' in the terminal and that said 'No matching processes belonging to you were found.'

Any ideas what's causing this and how to fix it?


texts: Photos media library on external hard drive

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I moved my Photos media library to an external hard drive. Everything works fine except the ejection of the hard drive. Everytime I try to eject it my Mac says that it is in use:

$ sudo lsof +D "/Volumes/[Drive]
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
mds        86 root   18r   DIR    1,9      544      2 /Volumes/[Drive]
mds        86 root   20r   DIR    1,9      544      2 /Volumes/[Drive]
mds        86 root   22r   DIR    1,9      544      2 /Volumes/[Drive]
photoanal 608 xxxx  txt    REG    1,9    32768 653409 /Volumes/[Drive]/Pictures/Fotos.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.mediaanalysisd/MediaAnalysis/mediaanalysis.db-shm
photoanal 608 xxxx   27u   REG    1,9  8323072 653402 /Volumes/[Drive]/Pictures/Fotos.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.mediaanalysisd/MediaAnalysis/mediaanalysis.db
photoanal 608 xxxx   28u   REG    1,9   214272 653408 /Volumes/[Drive]/Pictures/Fotos.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.mediaanalysisd/MediaAnalysis/mediaanalysis.db-wal
photoanal 608 xxxx   29u   REG    1,9    32768 653409 /Volumes/[Drive]/Pictures/Fotos.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.mediaanalysisd/MediaAnalysis/mediaanalysis.db-shm

I use iCloud to sync my photos with my iPhone. It is not important that the photos are on my Mac immediately. I also would be okay with starting Photos from time to time.

Is there a way to eject the hard drive without shutting down?


texts: Optical audio input options for iMac Pro

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I will soon be upgrading from a 2014 Mac Mini to an iMac Pro. I am a little surprised to discover that the iMac Pro does not have a digital optical audio input (TOSLINK/SPDIF), which is something I've been relying on with the Mini for audio capture, for I have a piece of home studio equipment that only has an optical digital output.

I thought there might be an external USB-C audio capture device on the market instead, but a look through online stores doesn't offer any hobbyist-level solution (there is high-end pro audio gear that is way beyond my price bracket or needs).  A few devices do analogue input (such as the Griffin iMic and the Behringer Uca202), but that's not what I'm after; neither can do optical/digital input.

The search is hindered by all the output devices showing up from the same query, so perhaps I missed something. It seems like an obvious device to offer.

Has anyone solved this problem? What are my options?


texts: I had borrowed a USB modem which I used briefly with my Snow Leopard MacBook, and while setting it I had told System Preferences to show modem status in menubar. Now I have removed the modem services, but after doing so I have realized that I cannot remove the modem icon from menubar anymore. Is there a way to do so, short of finding and reinstalling (and uninstalling) another modem?


texts: Cannot access iPhone files using my macbook via Bluetooth

texts:
I turned on bluetooth on my Macbook Air 13" (Early 2015, 8 GB RAM) and on my iPhone SE.

I'm trying to access the files from iPhone using my macbook. When trying to connect to my iPhone, it shows an error: "There was an error connecting to the device".

However, if I start a personal hotspot on iPhone I can successfully connect via bluetooth and get internet from my phone.

Using my macbook I can successfully connect to my old Samsung S3100 phone and browse the files via bluetooth.

Also, I can use my iPhone to connect via bluetooth to my piano and get/send midi data from/to it.

I feel like just the communication between my mac and iPhone is kinda broken—it could be the cause why AirDrop is not working too.

How to fix/debug this?


texts: Problems recording a 2-hour long webinar on QuickTime

texts:
I recorded a 2-hour webinar because Microsoft Teams won't allow a download. I used Soundflower and Quicktime screen recording. At the end, when I wanted to save, I saw Cannot save:

I tried a few more times and could not save it. I could export it with a different resolution and decided against it since it would take a lot of CPU time. I found the raw file at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information/ (source). I showed the package contents of the .qtpxcomposition file and saw the 11.7 GB .mov recording in it.
It plays alright for 25 minutes and the audio is OK throughout. After 25 minutes, the video frames freeze both on VLC and on QuickTime. If I navigate to the end, I can see new frames, so I'm sure that it's not my screen that froze. Obviously, the size of the file indicates that a lot of the frames were saved, but I can't find how to play them.
How can I view this recording, or how can I re-record again properly?


texts: Is there the way to resolve RAM problems?

texts:
I have Macbook Pro 13" Late 2011. It has 4GB RAM, i bought 2x8GB Corsair, CMSO8GX3M1A1333C9. It works cool in 98% of time, but when i play games or use very heavy apps like Photoshop, i always get crashes and reboots. I try to use only one slot with 8GB in there – the same problem. On 4GB (2x2GB) no crashes or reboots but it's mush more slower...

The questions are:
– how to resolve that problems?
– may it be that my Mac can't use more than 4GB in one slot?
– what memory will make work with my Mac stable?

Best regards,
Sergey


texts: How do I tell my Apple TV 4K to retry for using 4K as a default?

texts:
When I set up the Apple TV 4K, it was possible that the Internet speed was slower than usual, and Apple TV 4K said it is not possible to play at 4K for the iTunes movies that I purchased.

But what if I stop all other Internet connections, and want Apple TV 4K to re-try to see whether it can use 4K as a default (or that I don't mind the movie being choppy once in a while), how can that be done?


texts: How do I backup just a single user account with OS 10.10 Yosemite?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro that will be securely wiped and reverted back to factory state, but I want to save just one personal user account and restore it after the wipe.  I don't think I want to use Time Machine to do the backup unless it can selectively back up a single account.  Is there a way to copy just that user account folder and have my settings, etc., preserved?  How would I restore it afterward?


texts: macOS Disable mouse acceleration in certain apps

texts: Is there a way to disable mouse acceleration in certain apps? For instance disable in Team Fortress 2 but re-anable when the app doesn't have focus?


texts: Is there a 3rd party program that can change the cursor size?

texts:
I've always used a larger mouse icon in Windows (made it easier to find when zipping around multiple screens :p). Recently switched to using OSX and discovered that the option to enlarge the mouse icon does just that, literally.

It just zooms the mouse up... Normally this wouldnt be an issue, except when I use photoshop, the icons are all larger than their effect area (ie, brush size is inaccurate) due to the mouse literally being scaled up.

Is there another application that can replace the system mouse rather than just scaling it up??


texts: Sending Whatsapp message through Automator

texts:
I have the Whatsapp MacOS app installed. I am trying to experiment sending a whatsapp message using the Automator Workflow.

What I've tried to do: 1. Create a new workflow/application in automator. 2. Started Record 3. Opened the whatsapp application and sent a message(m) to a person(x) 4. Stopped recording

I believe it got saved under the "Watch me Do" workflow. But when I try to run it, I get a "OS Status error operation status -50". I made sure the accessibility permissions are available for the Automator in Security and Privacy settings.

Can you please let me know where I'm going wrong and what I can do to get over this?


texts: Connecting second screen via Thunderbolt and HDMI

texts:
So my problem is the following:

At home I am connecting my MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra installed) to a second screen using the HDMI port. If I do that, and already have my mac running, on that second screen I have a new "Desktop" (i.e. in Mission Control) and all previously opened windows stay on the first desktop of my mac. This is the behaviour I like.

Now at work I am connecting with Thunderbolt. There, my "Desktop 1" gets transferred to the second screen, together with all my open windows, and I have a new empty Desktop on my mac.

So what I would like:

Get a consistent behaviour, no matter how I connect to a second screen.
Preferably, have the behaviour I get now when connecting with HDMI as default (i.e. the main desktop should always stay on my mac).

Anyone having experience with this?


texts: How can I fix things when Catalina will not connect to smb shares?

texts:
Based on proposed solutions at:
What causes some Network Drives using SMB no longer connect to macOS Catalina?

I have edited the /etc/nsmb.conf which worked for about seven (7) days, and now nothing.  I verified that the edited lines are intact after a system update from apple.

I am using Samba version 4.7.6.

On server side I set the smb.conf file in GLOBAL settings to include the line:

min protocol = SMB2
(I have also tried, min protocol = SMB3) different server, same result (no connection).

somewhat at wit's end.  May have to roll back from Catalina.

I can access the servers from android devices and Windows 10


texts:
I'm thinking of getting the basic Mac mini with the Intel HD 3000 graphics. I'm planning to run two 1920x1080 screens - one with a mini DisplayPort to DVI, the other with an HDMI to DVI.

Has anyone tried this and confirmed that it works?

I've seen many threads talking about using two monitors, but the resolution hasn't been specified.

The tech specs page says:

Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution
HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution
DVI output using HDMI to DVI Adapter (included)
Support for dual display and video mirroring

I'm not clear whether that means that I can run on monitor from the mini DisplayPort and one from the HDMI, or whether the resolution is capped somehow.


texts: difference between "Development certificate" and "Developer ID certificate"

texts:
I am reading the pdf (from Apple) named App Distribution Guide.
In page 155 it is written that every team member can create a "Developement certificate", that the team admins can create a "Distribution certificate" (which is used to be able to update the app in iTunes Connect) but only the team agent can create "Developer ID certificate".
What actually is this?


texts: What was the maximum screen resolution in Macs based on 68K CPU's?

texts:
What was the maximum screen resolution and refresh rate that a 68K-based Macintosh could display?

There are reports of Mac OS 9 going up to 1920 x 1200, but that is, of course, running on a PowerPC CPU.

I'm wondering what the highest resolution was, assuming you were running the most powerful 68K-based Mac with the latest Mac OS 8.1 (which was the last version of Mac OS that ran on 68K chips).


texts:
I am trying to find out my public IP address for my MacBook Air  It is on Comcast/Xfinity Wifi (my parents had some tech dudes set it up). When I check http://ipecho.net or any other I get 73.170.168.215, but this is the same as on my iPhone 8.

On the contrary, the two devices have different local ip addresses with all the numbers the same except the last one 192.168.40.XXX. Is the public IP address the same thing as the router?


texts:
I am considering enabling File Vault 2 on my Macbook Pro, which frequently stays at work overnight, and which I often need to log into remotely using ssh.  What are the ramifications of using File Vault 2 for a machine that needs to receive ssh connections?  Specifically,

Will I need to stay logged into my user account overnight, or will I still be able to sign out and leave the machine at the login screen when I leave?
Can the machine sleep without requiring keyboard authentication for File Vault 2 when it wakes up?  Right now, I allow the machine to sleep and utilize "Wake for network access".  Will this still be possible with File Vault 2 enabled, or will I need to prevent it from sleeping?

(I'll note that I'm aware of the sudo fdesetup authrestart option to restart the machine from remote without physically being there, which is helpful only if these other issues are not a problem.)


texts: Paste preset html code via Applescript into text edit

texts:
Hi so I want to preset specific line of html code, and then paste it with key combo using Applescript.

Here is the html code:

Topic title goes here

I want Applescript to paste all of this html code into my text editor using a key combo. I tried a script but it gets confused by the quotes in the html code itself. Please advise. Thanks!


texts:
In Yosemite, the new Safari "hides" part of the URL, how could I show it without going to the address bar every time?

e.g. https://www.google.com.br/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=p9lIVJbjCYiX8QfnpoCgBQ#q=stackexchange becomes google.com.br


texts: Is there a way to add Touch bar controls when using spotlight search?

texts: I never found spotlight useful before, but now I'm thinking if I'd add calculator's controls like the ones in the picture, it'd make spotlight way more useful.


texts: Macbook is flashing Apple Logo, Forbidden Sign, Question Mark

texts:
I have a 13" MacBook Pro, mid 2012, in which I installed a Crucial 1TB SSD, and installed macOS Sierra, then upgraded to High Sierra.

Recently it would not boot after waking up from sleep, then I had to restart.

For 2 times it showed up the forbidden sign. In those situations I turned off and on again and everything worked just fine.

Last time it happened I was not successful, so I tried:

reset NVRAM, holding CommandOptionPRtogether, on statup;
reset SMC, holding left ShiftControl Option together, with laptop switched off then turning it on;
reset SMC, holding power button for 8sec while turning it on;
go to recovery mode ans reinstall macOS High Sierra from USB drive
go to recovery mode, format disk, even erasing partition, and creating new ones, then installing High Sierra,
go to recovery mode, tried the same as previous fix, but installing macOS Mountain Lion, from local/ROM (I guess?) drive - not from DVD or any wired connect disk.

While booting, system still flashes "Apple logo", "forbidden sign" and "folder with ?", by this same order, sequentially, quickly.

Nothing worked so far.
Tried system diagnostics from Apple (turn on + press D), performing exhaustive test, and it is passing all tests.

Does anyone have any clue?
Appreciate all the help!


texts: Some clarifications about Messages.app in Mountain Lion

texts:
After the update to Mountain Lion I see that I have four accounts in my Messages app (see this question for more information). I am a bit confused about what happened here, namely:

The @mac.com account has always been used for iChat, but now in
the Messages app it looks like it is used for iMessage
My Gmail account was used on my iPhone and iPad (I say "was" because
I haven't used iMessage on my mobile devices for a while), but now
it looks like it is used for GTalk in the Messages app
I have never used Bonjour for message exchange, why does it appear
now in the list of accounts?

Why have there been such changes? If I leave the situation as it is now, does it mean that I cannot receive iMessages on my Gmail account but only on the @mac.com account?


texts: Shutdown Cause -20 after dropping my MacBook

texts:
I dropped my MacBook Pro 13" 2019. The Touch Bar is not working. The computer is restarting after 3-5 minutes. log show reports the shutdown cause is -20.

What could be the problem and solution?


texts: How to make Find File dialogue NOT sort by kind

texts:
It seems like the dialogue attaching files to emails in Chrome, which I assume is Finder-based, always sorts files by kind (folders, then documents, then images, then pdfs, etc). This sorting takes precedence over the sorting by date that I set for the folder. When I'm trying to attach some pdf I just downloaded, this is incredibly annoying, because I have to scroll through all the folders, images, and documents in my Downloads folder to get there, while if I could truly sort by date, it would be at the very top.

How can I simply sort by date, and prioritize that over anything else?


texts: Use MacBook Air or Pro for app development?

texts:
I need to replace my old Mac and I am wondering which one should I get between:

MacBook Air or MacBook Pro

The primary goal will be to develop iPhone and iPad Apps and OSX Widgets.

Is there a better one I should get for these purposes?


texts: How to play Flash games in iPad without internet connection?

texts:
I want to play flash games with iPad 2, so someone told me iSwifter can help.

I want to know whether iSwifter can only run with internet connection. If it needs connection, is there any other application the can play flash games without internet?


texts:
Just installed fresh copy of El Capitan and as usual started to install stuff... And suddenly faced strange problem. I'm using Sublime Text. It provides bin called subl, which allow to use it from console. So I added link to it like:

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /usr/local/bin/subl

But when I try tuo use it from console i get:

MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ subl
-bash: subl: command not found
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ ls /usr/loca/bin
ls: /usr/loca/bin: No such file or directory
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ ls /usr/local/bin
brew        mongo       mongodump   mongofiles  mongooplog  mongorestore    mongosniff  mongotop    npm
bsondump    mongod      mongoexport mongoimport mongoperf   mongos      mongostat   node        subl
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ ls /usr/local/bin/subl
/usr/local/bin/subl
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ ls -la /usr/local/bin/subl
lrwxr-xr-x  1   admin  63 Oct 28 19:42 /usr/local/bin/subl -> /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 3.0.7
connecting to: test
2015-10-28T20:22:18.219+0200 W NETWORK  Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:61 Connection refused
2015-10-28T20:22:18.221+0200 E QUERY    Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1), connection attempt failed
    at connect (src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:179:14)
    at (connect):1:6 at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:179
exception: connect failed
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ which mongo
/usr/local/bin/mongo

As you can see other tuff from /usr/local/bin works fine. I also tried just for test create copy of nano and it worked fine...

MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ nano
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ which nano
/usr/bin/nano
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/local/bin/nano_2
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ nano_2
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ rm /usr/local/bin/nano_2
MacBook-Pro-Kiril:~ $ nano_2
-bash: /usr/local/bin/nano_2: No such file or directory


texts: How to prevent cursor from getting stuck in corner in Mac OS Catalina?

texts:
I have a dual monitor setup.
In previous versions of Mac OS, when I move the cursor from the left monitor to the right, it moves without any problem, regardless of how high or low on the screen the cursor is.

Ever since I installed Catalina, if the cursor is within an inch of the top or bottom of the screen, it won't move on to my other monitor. The cursor seems to move between monitors only if it is NOT in the top inch or bottom inch of the screen. Clearly this is an intentional "FEATURE" that was added in El Capitan

This is really annoying behavior. Is there some way I can revert it back to the behavior in Mavericks, El Captian, High Sierra (basically every version of Mac OS before this?)

I've tried looking in System preferences but can't find a setting for this.


texts: Is there a way to fetch the icon file path of an application using AppleScript?

texts:
I'm currently writing an Alfred workflow in which I want to retrieve the icon file path linked to an application. Is there any way to do so natively using Apple Script ?

tell application "Finder"
    set appPath to POSIX path of (path to application "Terminal")
    set resourcesPath to appPath & "Contents/Resources"
    set contentFiles to (list folder resourcesPath)
end tell

Doing that I managed to get a list of file names but now I don't really know how to filter the .icns file.


texts: Bypass for the certificate must be valid for 825 days or fewer

texts:
Is there a way to workaround issue with certs valid for long time (10 years)?
I work in a corporation where Macs are not common and we have some internal long live certificates.

I know I can add single cert to trusted but any option to make Mac to trust all internal certs?


texts: Is https://bugreport.apple.com/web/ restricted to developers?

texts: If so, is there any mechanism for the public to report bugs or is that just included in https://www.apple.com/feedback/?


texts: Apache not running on my machine on OS X 10.7.5

texts:
After doing tail -20 /var/log/apache2/error_log:

[Fri Sep 13 03:14:30 2013] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/
[Fri Sep 13 03:17:00 2013] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/
[Fri Sep 13 03:17:03 2013] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/
[Fri Sep 13 03:17:32 2013] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/hello.html
[Fri Sep 13 03:25:08 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Flipkart-MacBookPro-344.local for ServerName
[Fri Sep 13 03:25:08 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Sep 13 03:25:08 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Sep 13 03:25:08 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Sep 13 03:33:14 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist
httpd : Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Flipkart-MacBookPro-344.local for ServerName
[Fri Sep 13 03:33:14 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Sep 13 03:33:14 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Sep 13 03:33:14 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Sep 13 04:15:14 2013] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Users/anushil.sharma/Sources/website/code/www/hello.html
[Fri Sep 13 04:24:00 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

What's wrong with this?

Any help will be highly appreciated.


texts: Factory Reset MacBook but it is in Japanese

texts:
I have a MacBook Air (A1466). I do not know the password for the screen lock. It has been set on Japanese (I only know English).

I can not do a Factory Reset because I don't understand Japanese. Can anyone walk me through Factory Reset, while it is in Japanese? How do I change the language of my MacBook if it is in Japanese, but I do not know the password?


texts: Doing a clean install of Lion on a system purchased with Snow Leopard results in iPhoto lost. How to recover?

texts:
I am not terribly dependent on iPhoto, but I'd prefer not to purchase it via the App Store, as I already owned the app in Snow Leopard.

However, now that I have done a clean install of OS X Lion (did a complete format and used recovery mode to install Lion), it is not there.

How can I install iPhoto on my system without repurchasing it?


texts: External monitor doesn't detect MBP with HDMI, detects it with VGA

texts: I just bought a new Acer monitor, SA240Y, 24", 1080p, I have a Dell DA200 USB Type-C to HDMI/VGA/Ethernet/USB 3.0 converter mini dock. I also have a HDMI cable that I know it works. When I try to connect my MBP (Catalina 10.15.2) with the given VGA cable it works perfectly and detects it right away, but when I try it with the HDMI cable it does not detect it, screen flashes for a second, my mac detects that it is connected to an external monitor but monitor doesn't detect the mac. Any ideas ?


texts: My MacBook Pro just started acting up. The screen will flicker and I end up having to reboot my computer. I can still move the mouse around, but that's just about it. Would you have any ideas what the problem may be?


texts: How can I set a user-specific environment variable that includes a space character?

texts:
I'd like to add an environment variable for a specific account where the variable has a space. It seems that editing .bash_profile like below doesn't work:

export ENV_VAR=“/Applications/Android Studio.app“

and neither does:

export ENV_VAR=“/Applications/Android\ Studio.app“

I'm having to settle with changing the name of the application package, which isn't preferable.


texts: Convert a PC path to Mac path with AppleScript

texts:
I am a lone Mac user in a company that uses PCs...I often get file paths that I need to manually navigate. I have found some scripts, but they don't seem to be working for me. I'd like to be able to right click on a highlighted path and click on a script that directs me to Finder and the associated file. Here is an example of my PC path vs Mac path:

PC Path:
P:\city\projectname

Mac Version of the same path:
smb://perkinswill.net/projects/city/projectname

The code I found thus far is the following:

Script: “Convert Windows to Mac path and open it”

 on searchReplace(theText, SearchString, ReplaceString)
            set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to SearchString
            set newText to text items of theText
            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ReplaceString
            set newText to newText as text
            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
            return newText
 end searchReplace

 on run {input, parameters}
            set myClip to the input
            set mytext to searchReplace(myClip, "<", "")
            set mytext to searchReplace(mytext, ">.", "")
            set mytext to searchReplace(mytext, ">", "")
            set findIt to "\\"
            set replaceIt to "/"
            set mylocation to searchReplace(mytext, findIt, replaceIt)
            set mylocation to "smb:" & mylocation
            tell application "Finder"
                            open location mylocation
            end tell
            return input
 end run

 -- Thanks to: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/144916/how-to-change-filepath-structure -using-automator-windows-to-mac --

I appreciate your help!


texts: How to stop macOS Safari from crashing iOS Amazon Prime

texts:
If I'm using the Amazon Prime video app on my iPad, and then I open or interact with macOS Safari on my iMac, Amazon Prime crashes every time.  It will often fail to restart on the iPad until I completely close macOS Safari.  What is the root of this problem and how can I work-around it?

I thought that perhaps AirPlay or Sidecar were contributing to the problem, and disabled Bluetooth on the iPad, but that doesn't solve the problem.   My other theory is that Amazon Prime may have an embedded version of WebKit and something within that is attempting to synchronize via iCloud services, but I've found no concrete evidence of that or how to manage it.

In short, I can't use Safari on my iMac and watch Amazon Prime on my iPad at the same time.  It's a weird bug.


texts: How can I use a lower sample rate for songs on an older iPhone, in order to fit more songs?

texts:
I have a first-generation iPhone that I use for playing music at work (connected to Bose Wave Radio). It only has 8GB of flash memory.

Is it possible to have iTunes transfer music to this iPhone at a lower sample rate than the default? I know that there will be some quality loss, but I would like to fit more music on it.

I would rather not resample my whole library because I want to sync full-quality music onto my iPhone 4.


texts: Can't restore latest WhatsApp Backup to new device

texts:
My iPhone 11 went in for damage assessment on 9 January, which is when I did an iCloud backup of everything. The same day I pulled out my iPhone 7 and restored from iCloud to get all my WhatsApp messages onto that phone. Today I received a replacement iPhone 11 and restored the new phone from the iCloud backup of my iPhone 7.
My problem is that WhatsApp will only restore the messaged from 9 January - the iCloud back I made on the previous iPhone 11.
I don't want to lose all the messaged that I received between 9 January and today.
I have tried deleting the WhatsApp backup on iCloud and recreating from the iPhone 7, but somehow the backup restore that the new iPhone 11 finds is from 9 January.
I deleted the old phone from iCloud and re-attempted above, with no differents.
I reduced the size of the WhatsApp backup on iPhone 7 by removing a lot of media and then confirmed on both phones that the WhatsApp part of iCloud storage is the reduced size.
Research indicates that there are 2 backups for WhatsApp - one for the application itself stored on iCloud and another for iCloud backup. I think that my problem is the previous iPhone 11's iCloud backup.
Guidance, help, please.


texts: Unable to resolve hostnames inside macOS chroot jail

texts:
I just created a chroot jail with inetutils, coreutils and bash. Most of the things seem to work. I can ping ip addresses and hosts that are inside /etc/hosts, however, I can't ping hosts that are not in /etc/hosts. I copied both resolv.conf and protocols to the chroot jail, but I still cannot ping hostnames. Which file am I supposed to put inside the jail so I can resolve hostnames? I have also read some stuff about scutil, but I want to avoid copying more binaries as much as possible.

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=120 time=22.322 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=120 time=26.672 ms

$ ping google.com   # Host not in /etc/hosts
ping: unknown host

$ ping example.com  # Host in /etc/hosts
PING example.com (93.184.216.34): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=160.226 ms
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=147.602 ms


texts:
My iMac (early 2009) is super slow and spotlight and timemachine doesnt work at all. I am suspecting the the spotlight index (which never seem to finish) is behind some of the performance issues. I have reset the spotlight index and deleted the old files and restarted indexing. I am snooping the progress with this command: sudo opensnoop -n mdworker and then I can see that the indexing seems to halt on 0    169 mdworker       5 /.vol/16777218/695996

I suspect that this is a calendar event? How can I see if spotlight indexing is crashing and restarting? I have let it run for hours and it never finishes.


texts: How to remove word suggestion bar in text messages in ios10?

texts: How do you remove the word suggestion grey bar that is above the keyboard? On the previous ios you were able to pull it down. That option is no longer avaliable in ios10.


texts: Mark email as read if it is moved to trash

texts: On my iphone 5, I often delete emails without opening them. When I then work on my Macbook, these emails are marked as unread in the Mail app and, as a result of that, the Mail symbol in the Dock shows a notification. This behavior is confusing. Is there a way to mark an email as read upon moving it to trash? These emails come from different senders, so I cannot create a rule in the Mail app.


texts: Macbook Pro (5.1 Model Late 2008) 16GB RAM upgrade

texts: Can I add 16GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro (5.1 model, late 2008) running at 1333 DIMMs?


texts: What happened to Apple made server racks?

texts: Simply the question is, what happened to the the Apple made server racks? It is very disappointing to see Apple doesn't support the back-end hardware since 2009. I know there is a Server Mini, and OSX server, but lets face it, we want a professional and fast hardware to backup OSX Server.


texts: Make "move item" a default right click option

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Is it possible to get the option (⌥) + right click move item here command to show up by default on right click when copy pasting items between different locations in finder. Rather than having to hold the option key ?

Im using OSX 10.10


texts: how to concatenate csv files so each file is added adjacently i.e., to the right, instead of sequentially i.e., to the bottom

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in other words I am trying to join a few hundred csv files that are 1 column each and I would like each csv file to create a new column instead of creating a new row.

This is the command I'm currently using:

gls-Mac-Pro:~ gliiiitch$ cat *.csv >merged_files.csv


texts: Apple Photos has given the same name to dozens of photos, as if they were different people

texts: Photos of "Patricia" are now listed as if they were dozens of different "Patricia" -- even though the name for each "person" is exactly the same. How can I combine all of these into a single record?


texts: Mid 2007 20" iMac — Faint vertical lines on display, is this a serious problem?

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I was given an old iMac to toy around with. Its working well, but it has faint vertical lines on the display visible on solid colors. I've done some googling and haven't found an answer exactly what this is.

Attached is a pic I took with a camera. The vertical lines are most visible in the black space on the bottom right.

 The lines in the white space are something my camera picked up, not a problem.

Is there any way to stress test this and determine the stability and/or seriousness of these artifacts?


texts: How to disable zoom-out in Safari in split-screen on El Capitan?

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In split view on El Capitan Safari zooms-out some websites, making them unreadable (and making split view unusable).

Is there any hidden setting to disable this?
I tried to use setting in 'Advanced' preferences that is called 'Never use fonts smaller than X' - it does not seem to make any difference. Also there is nothing in TinkerTool about that.

As an example, this is how Chrome and Safari behave in the same situations:

When Safari side takes minimum space, Safari completely "zooms-out" website and shows "overview" (?) of the web-page:

When Chrome side takes minimum space, it still shows normal font sizes without any special treatment. (Notice how this web page looks normally in Safari):

This effect looks cute, but is not very useful in my opinion.

Can this behaviour be disabled, so Safari behaves like it does when window is just resized?


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I need to consolidate two iCal installations: the data from my old laptop should be merged into my new laptop’s iCal data.

I tried exporting the old iCal data and importing it on the new laptop. Unfortunately, this would replace all my new iCal data. I don’t want this. I also don’t want to export/import separate calendars – I want to merge them (i.e. “work” with “work”, and “home” with “home”).

Is there a (hopefully painless) way of achieving this?

Note to self: use cloud-based calendar in future


texts: SuperDrive - one in five dvds won't mount

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I recently turned my 2009 mac mini into a mediacenter.
It appears that about one in five of my dvds will not even mount. I suppose this has to do with some copy protection. Same goes for my music CDs.

I would be willing to buy an external drive - but I'm worried that in the end it will have the same issue (and I won't be able return a "functional" drive). And so far I don't know which "feature" will be required to play all DVDs.

Web search only gave me info on failing drives that won't read any media. But as I can reliably read some media I don't think these apply to my case.

I hope someone can shed some light on this issue.

Some additional info

About the mac mini - in the course of turning it into a media center I did a fresh install of mountain lion with latest updates. The only additional software installed is XBMC and VLC. So I doubt this might be a software issue.

Before that I hardly used the drive. I think I only used it like a dozen times. Also didn't burn any disk.

DVDs won't open in the Mac DVD player software and not even mount as data disc.


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I'm using built-in Python 2.6.1, however, I need to run Python 3.0 from time to time.

Is it OK to install Python 3.0 on my Mac? Is there anything that I need to be cautious?
How about the easy_install? If I have 2.6 and 3.0 on my Mac, where to the library for easy_install is installed?
Is there any easy way to make python point to 2.6 or 3.0?


texts: Transferring PDFs from iBooks to your laptop/desktop

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There are a lot of tutorials on how to load PDFs into iBooks, but none say how to backup or transfer them back to your computer. I understand there is a button to email them, but I probably have accumulated 100 or so useful pdfs on my iPhone.

I worry if I click sync books, it will erase everything I have on my iPhone and only use what's on my computer the first time I do it right? I have never synced it before loading the books.

Is there any safe reliable (hopefully native) way to preserve books and PDF that were loaded natively from iOS? I do not want to risk losing them. I'm using iCloud, does that back them up as well? Either way I would like to have an extra copy of them on my hard drive.


texts: How can I get iTunes not to consider "Various Artists" an artist in the artist view?

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When I type "monkees" into the "Search Library" box in iTunes, it offers me three things: (A) "The Monkees" as artists, and (B and C) the two songs I have by The Monkees. The search dropdown shows, right below the artist name listed on (A), that I have 439 songs by The Monkees. This is wrong: I just have the two. But those two songs both come from compilations, which have the following tags, among others:

Artist: The Monkees
Album Artist: Various Artists
Part of a compilation: True

The number 439 appears to be the total number of tracks with Album Artist = "Various Artists" that I have. And sure enough, when I select choose the Monkees artist hit from the search boxes, it shows me not just Monkees tracks, but every Various Artists track, split up by album, and with the two Monkees tracks being nowhere near each other. I'd much rather see just the two Monkees tracks.

What is the preferred way to handle this issue? I believe I have my music collection set up right (say, as described by this page and in a variety of other conversations I've found online), but the current behavior seems silly to me.

Here are some things I've tried:

Going to View -> View Options under the Artists view and toggling the Group Compliations box
Switching to the Songs view and playing with the settings under View -> Column Browser.
Erasing Various Artists from the Album Artist field and leaving it blank instead.

Item #3 seems to work, but it's clearly not standard and so I would expect adopting it as a solution would cause other stuff to break, either now or at some point down the road.

Is there a clean way to handle this?


texts: How to validate user input as integer, then confirm that integer is a specific length using Apple Script

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I'm building an Apple Script to prompt and receive input from a user via a dialog box. The default answer of the dialog is "Enter Code". The required input is a 6-digit code given to each user. On receiving the user's input (or code), some validation checks need to occur confirming that the user's input is acceptable based on the following conditions:

User can't enter letters or symbols.
Input must be in an integer (whole numbers only, and yes zero counts).
The code (input), just be exactly (or equal to) 6 digits long. No more or no less than 6.

Background - the user's code is generated ad-hoc from another application and is unique each time. There is no way to cross reference this code.

For example, the user enters 123456 into the dialog box. Using Apple Script, how can I script this, ensuring again, that the code is all numbers, and precisely 6 digits long?


texts: Installing Network Link Conditioner for All Users (Yosemite)

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I'm currently deploying "Network Link Conditioner" out to my web team. It's the latest version from the Apple Developer Website (October 16, 2014 from Hardware IO Tools) and I'm installing it on 10.10 and 10.9 partitions.

My issue is that I install it on my admin user and the rest of my users can't see the PreferencePane in System Preferences. Investigating further, only the root user and the user it was installed on can see the pane.

I've verified that it's in the /Library/PreferencePane (the root one, not the user one). I've tried installing it through the root user, through the admin user and through a custom user. I've tried adjusting permissions on the PreferencePane file itself. Nothing seems to be working

The install display says it's installing for all users, but it doesn't seem to be actually doing that. The worst part is if I try to reinstall it on another user, I get the error

  "You can't install the "Network Link Conditioner" preferences.
  "Network Link Conditioner" preferences is installed with OS X and
  can't be replaced."

Any suggestions?