texts: How do I delete photos from JUST my iPhone 6s when using iCloud Photo Library?

texts: Whenever I got to delete a photo, it says "This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices." I don't want it deleted from my iCloud Photo Library, only my iPhone 6s. What I want to do is import photos and videos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro and then delete them from my iPhone. If I import those photos and videos to my Mac and then delete them from my iPhone (ignoring the warning) will they also be deleted from my Mac?


texts:
I'm trying to convert m3u8 to mp4 on a Mac.

I have followed the instructions of a person who does it using VLC in Windows, however I can not find the option in the mac version.

Media -> Open Network Stream...
Enter a Network URL
Play Submenu (missing on a Mac) -> Convert
Set Destination File -> Start
Ok! File Downloaded and converted.


texts: I turned off displaying files, folders, and volumes on my desktop. Now my desktop is clear and shows only my background image. I've been letting all apps that want to save to desktop do so. I've accumulated over 100 screenshots for example. My Desktop folder contained around 3 GB of files. This afternoon when I got on my computer I produced a screenshot. I went to open the screenshot in Preview and discovered my Desktop folder has been altered. There are still files there but all screenshots, for example, were missing along with several folders. When I go to the Desktop folder, I discover a new folder named "Desktop - name-of-my-computer". As I said, this new folder is inside my desktop folder. Inside this new folder there appear to be all items that were on my desktop yesterday. My question is does anyone know what happened to change my desktop folder?


texts: Mavericks unusable (beach ball) when CoreStorage fails

texts:
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)

I've upgraded it with a 180GB Intel SSD 520 series (model INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3), which replaced the SuperDrive CD-rom, and I setup a Fusion Drive with my main Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02. Both disks now look as one for a total of ~500GB.

Since I've upgraded to Mavericks I've noticed this impossible issue with the  beach ball of death. At some times it just makes my life miserable.
I think I've tracked it down to this message log that keeps appearing at the exact moments when the computer freezes:

22/01/14 17:16:04,000 kernel[0]: CoreStoragePhysical::issueUnmap: unmap returned e00002ca

That's it, it never changes the returned e00002ca. I couldn't find any sort of information about the issue. Any idea?

Below is the configuration of the fusion drive as being seen by the System Information tool:

Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02

NVidia MCP79 AHCI:

  Vendor:   NVidia
  Product:  MCP79 AHCI
  Link Speed:   3 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:    1.5 Gigabit
  Physical Interconnect:    SATA
  Description:  AHCI Version 1.20 Supported

Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02:

  Capacity: 320,07 GB (320.072.933.376 bytes)
  Model:    Hitachi HTS543232L9SA02
  Revision: FB4AC50F
  Serial Number:    081216FB1400LEJHVM3F
  Native Command Queuing:   Yes
  Queue Depth:  32
  Removable Media:  No
  Detachable Drive: No
  BSD Name: disk1
  Rotational Rate:  5400
  Medium Type:  Rotational
  Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
EFI:
  Capacity: 209,7 MB (209.715.200 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk1s1
  Content:  EFI
disk1s2:
  Capacity: 319,21 GB (319.213.174.784 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk1s2
  Content:  Apple_CoreStorage
Boot OS X:
  Capacity: 650 MB (650.002.432 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk1s3
  Content:  Apple_Boot
  Volume UUID:  A3B8405D-F6D7-3E1E-B368-9FC0EF7283BD

INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3

NVidia MCP79 AHCI:

  Vendor:   NVidia
  Product:  MCP79 AHCI
  Link Speed:   3 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:    1.5 Gigabit
  Physical Interconnect:    SATA
  Description:  AHCI Version 1.20 Supported

INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3:

  Capacity: 180,05 GB (180.045.766.656 bytes)
  Model:    INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3
  Revision: 400i
  Serial Number:    CVCV30350908180EGN
  Native Command Queuing:   Yes
  Queue Depth:  32
  Removable Media:  No
  Detachable Drive: No
  BSD Name: disk0
  Medium Type:  Solid State
  TRIM Support: Yes
  Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
EFI:
  Capacity: 209,7 MB (209.715.200 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s1
  Content:  EFI
disk0s2:
  Capacity: 179,7 GB (179.701.792.768 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s2
  Content:  Apple_CoreStorage
Boot OS X:
  Capacity: 134,2 MB (134.217.728 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s3
  Content:  Apple_Boot
  Volume UUID:  8E3ACF9F-6DE9-3F12-BB8B-8B76ABDDFBA8


texts: I have had X11 installed on my Mac for quite some time (as long as I have owned it I think) and have never used it. Do applications still use X11 or is out outdated at this point? Should I "learn" how to use it because I may use it in the future? The reason I ask is that I read that you can run X over SSH and I thought it might be useful to run a window manager to get some graphics from a remote machine. Then I realized I have never used X11 and launched it only to become confused. So should I use X11 and why?


texts:
Can I colour a cell red if todays date is on or after the date I have entered in the cell?

I have tried the IF function and conditional formatting but cannot make it work...


texts: Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?

texts:
The numbers in which I'm most interested

-2
0
3
5

… I might add to that shortlist.

What do those numbers mean; where might we find authoritative explanations?

Somewhere in Apple open source, maybe?

Background

There's a suggested answer for -60, a question about -81, a debatable suggested answer for -108, discussion of -128, -72, -62, -30, -2, 0, 3 … and so on, but unless I'm missing something:

nothing like an Apple-provided list of explanations of the commonly seen numbers.

Examples

Three messages recently sent by kernel on a MacBookPro5,2:

2014-03-31 09:04:49.000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
2014-03-31 11:01:24.000 kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
2014-03-31 14:47:00.000 kernel[0]: |Previous Shutdown Cause: -60

Possibly relevant to some cause numbers

Error codes in http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CarbonHeaders/CarbonHeaders-18.1/MacErrors.h

that's in Apple open source for Mac OS X 10.6.2 but not in open source for Mac OS X 10.6.3
the source code for 10.6.2 is almost identical to what's installed under MacOSX10.8.sdk
it may be sensible to treat some of those error codes as deprecated.


texts: Email is shown by the sender email ID instead of receiver

texts:
I made archive folder in outlook and shifted my all "sent" emails in that folder.

When I check my sent email in the archive folder, need to find a specific email, all email was shown by the sender email ID instead of the receiver.

This is the main problem to find the receiver email ID in an archive folder.

How I can arrange it by the receiver email ID.


texts:
I was using my SD card on my phone. One fine day it showed a message that it was corrupted. I put the card in an adapter and plugged it into my iMac.

I was able to read and copied all I need. I decided to format it anyway and used disk utility to do so.

It said that it had finished erasing, but all the files were still on it.

I tried deleting each folder. But when I ejected and put it back in, the files are still there. I can't format it via my phone either and I am too scared to use the terminal for erasing. Can anyone help me?


texts: What criteria does Apple Mail use in searching for emails?

texts:
I searched for the rather innocuous phrase "business days" in Mail.app on macOS on my Gmail account. I found only 4 mails in the last two months.
Frustrated that I wasn't finding the mail I wanted (which had the exact phase "business days" in it), I went to Gmail, entered the same phrase, and found 17 hits in the same time period. This included the email I was looking for.
How exactly does Mail.app search emails? I thought it searched subject lines only, but none of the four emails found in Mail.app contain "business days" in the subject line. I am asking this to better train myself to use the Mail app's search feature, because (at least for the time being) I find it more convenient to use the Mail app rather than a different client.


texts: iCloud gets stuck syncing in Sierra, how do I fix

texts:
I recently upgraded from Yosemite to Sierra.  I have ~ 2.5Gb of data on my iCloud Drive.  I am NOT using the Documents and folders sync, photos sync, or any of the other special folder sync options available.  The exception is that I am syncing preferences.  As I have said I do have two folders that sit in the iCloud Drive that are not part of any of the special folders.

The problem is that after the initial sync, any change in those files/folders siting on the iCloud Drive get stuck syncing.  The icon animation (pie chart) and the text that appears under the file/folder indicating the progress cycles between 0 and ~90%.  It never gets to 100%.

On previous occasions restarting fixed the problem, but only temporarily.  Currently, I have a 53Mb file that has been syncing for 4 days now.  I have tried restarting to no avail.  While signing out of iCloud, brings up the message, "iCloud need to finish updating before continuing with signing out".  But it never finishes.

Additionally, I have tried to upload the file manually to iCloud via Safari, this process is also stuck currently.

Anybody have any ideas of what might be going on?


texts: Rendering problems in Safari 11.1 in Mac OS 10.13

texts:
I faced with strange rendering problems when use Safari in my iMac: sometimes after I search in Google using address bar, page not rendered and text in address bar disappears (see attached screenshots).

And sometimes text in address bar became invisible

In Chrome everything is fine.

I already tried disable extensions/reset cache/reset settings, but nothing helps.

Does anyone has experience with such problems?
I tried search other people with such problem, but didn't find anything in Google


texts: Does Touch ID for Mac Touch Bar support third-party apps?

texts:
Does Touch ID for the MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar support third-party apps?

E.g. could it be used, in theory, to authenticate login to password manager applications like 1Password, much in the same way that it can do in iOS?

To answer this question, I'm looking for some sort of factual reference to what we know is in Xcode, or what has been said by Apple.


texts: How to avoid the "more" link in mac dictionary context menu?

texts:
I have converted a star-dict glossary to the mac dictionary format but the when I use the three-finger functionality to look up a word on macOS using safari or other standard text controls.

When I do this gesture, only the looked-up word and its part of speech are visible and I have to click the "more" link to view its definition.

I prefer to have both visible when I look up a word in a context. I have already modified the defaultstyle.css file in the mentioned glossary package. If I set the font size for html.apple_client-panel h1 as 12px, it acts as desired (both the word and its definition are displayed at once with no "more" link, but I need a  bigger font size.

Are there any css attributes I can use to avoid the collapsing of the definition by macOS?


texts: How can I make iPhone clock alarms obey vibrate-only mode?

texts: In the Clock app, if I use a timer or alarm that goes off while my iPhone is on vibrate mode, the alarm sound still goes off.  Is there a way to make it obey the vibrate mode?  Or a way to tell it whether or not to ignore it?


texts: Is netatalk on Linux unreliable for hosting Time Machine volumes?

texts:
During some discussion on IRC about my recent problems hosting a Time Machine volume on my Linux PC (using netatalk) -- which worked well for a long time but recently developed issues where my Mac kept telling me I needed to start the whole backup over* -- one user stated that doing so is inherently unreliable because Apple's AppleTalk implementation (and maybe Time Machine-specific bits) has certain kinds of error correction built in that netatalk doesn't have. He was quite opinionated about this and strongly encouraged me to use an actual Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to my Mac.

I haven't run into anyone else who believes this, though, although I have talked to quite a few people who run the netatalk setup and say it works well for them. What substantiation is there to this hypothesis about unreliability and relative lack of error correction?

EDIT: The exact message is "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you."


texts: Open Word Doc with Pages using Applescript

texts:
How can I get the following to work in Pages? I get an error message saying the file can't be opened but if I change the path to a .pages file it works fine.

tell application "Pages"
  activate
  open "/tmp/test.docx"
end tell


texts: What are the techniques for upgrading scripting languages on Lion OS X

texts: How can I painlessly upgrade ruby and python languages and their libraries? Can I nuke the system versions (which are present somewhere in /System/Libraries) and install newer ones using package manager (macports, fink, homebrew) or should I install them side by side to separate --prefix and override the $PATH variable to use installed versions first? Any other decent options?


texts: Can't access localhost server after pf redirect

texts:
After adding some pf rules to redirect certain egress traffic to a localhost server, I can't access that localhost server directly. I can access it through the redirect just fine though.

I basically followed this answer and added the following rules:

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 169.254.169.254 port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 1254
pass out route-to lo0 proto tcp from any to 169.254.169.254 port 80 keep state

After doing this, I can test successfully with curl http://169.254.169.254. However curl http://127.0.0.1:1254 does not work.
If I remove the rules (specifically the rdr rule), 127.0.0.1:1254 works just fine.

When I perform a tcpdump on lo0, I see the following:

08:27:49.659051 IP 127.0.0.1.63994 > 127.0.0.1.1254: Flags [S], seq 677650599, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439529 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.659177 IP 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [S.], seq 2981033646, ack 677650600, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439529 ecr 1709439529,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.762036 IP 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.63994: Flags [S.], seq 2981033646, ack 677650600, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439629 ecr 1709439529,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.762056 IP 127.0.0.1.63994 > 127.0.0.1.1254: Flags [S], seq 677650599, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439629 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.762089 IP 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.63994: Flags [S.], seq 2981033646, ack 677650600, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439629 ecr 1709439629,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.866634 IP 127.0.0.1.63994 > 127.0.0.1.1254: Flags [S], seq 677650599, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439729 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.866690 IP 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.63994: Flags [S.], seq 2981033646, ack 677650600, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439729 ecr 1709439729,sackOK,eol], length 0
08:27:49.967548 IP 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.63994: Flags [S.], seq 2981033646, ack 677650600, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1709439829 ecr 1709439729,sackOK,eol], length 0
...

So we see the original SYN with the correct source & dest. But then we see two responses coming from 169.254.169.254:80, one to 127.0.0.1:80, and another to 127.0.0.1:63994.

When I add log (all) to the rule, I see similar information:

 00:00:00.000000 rule 0/0(match): rdr out on lo0: 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [S.], seq 1734908561, ack 3748497075, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1711591000 ecr 1711591000,sackOK,eol], length 0
 00:00:00.100977 rule 0/0(match): rdr out on lo0: 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [S.], seq 1734908561, ack 3748497075, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1711591101 ecr 1711591000,sackOK,eol], length 0
 00:00:00.000044 rule 0/0(match): rdr out on lo0: 169.254.169.254.80 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [S.], seq 1734908561, ack 3748497075, win 65535, options [mss 16344,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 1711591101 ecr 1711591101,sackOK,eol], length 0

Why is the rdr rule matching the response traffic and rewriting it? The match rule is defined as to 169.254.169.254 port 80.

This is on High Sierra.


texts: Can you stream podcasts from the server to the iPad or iPhone?

texts:
So we are having a problem right now regarding the Lion Server and streaming podcast.
We already did the steps on technical note TS4126 and now we can play the podcasts made from podcast producer on the server's webpage on Safari on MAC OS X. The problem we're having right now is that we can't play it on Safari on iPad, and on iPhone (via a mobile-format webpage version) the Podcast page isn't even available.

My question is that is it possible to stream podcasts from the Lion server to the iPhone or iPad, or is it even possible to view the podcasts via a different method?

We specifically asks for Lion because we don't have prior experience with the previous servers, but anything that can help would be appreciated. Thanks.


texts: Unable to send messages from iPod to users with non-Apple devices

texts: I have an iPod touch 5, and it won't let me send messages to non-Apple users. I've tried to find help in a lot of websites, but my iPod is still not letting me text non-Apple users.


texts: How to access a website despite a certificate error?

texts:
I am moving a web server to a new infrastructure. Before switching the DNS records I would like to check if the new configuration is working. I modified /private/etc/hosts/ with the IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) of the new server and after flushing the DNS cache everything is working.

But as the certificate doesn't match, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome give me an error which I can't seem to ignore. Is there a workaround for this?


texts: Migrating from MBA 2013 to Mac Mini Mid 2011 using Carbon Copy Cloner

texts:
I've been using my 2013 MBA for music production using Logic Pro X, and I've downloaded all the additional Apple content for it. Also, the MBA has a few other apps and docs I use.

I've recently bought a mid 2011 Mac Mini, and installed Mavericks on there, then I went ahead and used Time Machine on the MBA to create a backup, and then I used that backup on the Mac Mini, so that I could have all the apps and content (esp. Logic's content) available on the Mac Mini, since I am starved for bandwidth here in South Africa.

Problem is that it Migration Assistant didn't restore any of the 35-odd GB of Logic Pro content on the Mac Mini, although I can see the content on the backup drive's file system.

Would I achieve my end result (full bootable 1:1 carbon copy of my MBA) on the Mac Mini if I use Carbon Copy Cloner?

Thanks!


texts: Measuring PDF margins, etc. with Preview?

texts:
I would like to measure the size of the margins and other distances in a PDF without having to print it out. I would like the results in "as printed" units (e.g. inches or cm once printed)

Is it possible to measure PDF margins or other distances with Preview?

If not is there another (hopefully free) application that can?

Update:
I see at this TeX stack exchange post some options for windoze and linux. Any thing like this for OSX?


texts:
I'm in the process of implementing a captive access point and when testing with iOS 8, I don't get shown the captive network assistant.

When I use Android and BlackBerry, they're able to detect that they're on a captive portal.  It just seems like iOS which is the odd-one-out, refusing to display any kind of prompting for the user to sign into the network.

My portal is implemented by redirecting all traffic at an IP level to a local server, which then generates a genuine HTTP redirect to our portal.


texts: Applescript remove Missing value and unwanted data

texts:
I created a script to return some credit card informations from an internal website

                                CC
Info

                    ", "

                            Visa (9999)

                    ", "

                            Visa (8888)

                    ", "

                            Visa (7777)

                    ", "

                            Visa (666)

                    ", "

                            Alipay

                    ", missing value, missing value, missing value}

I have two issue with my script,

I can't get rid of the first link with is not a CC numbers
tried :
set myRawData to items 2 thru -1 of myRawData as string
but don't seems to work.
I don't manage to remove all the missing values.
Can I remove some entry from the list that contain "none" ?

Here is my full script

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell active tab of window 1 to set myRawData to execute javascript "var outPut=[]; var arr=document.getElementsByClassName('sortable fraudScoringTransactionCCSummary');for (var i in arr) {outPut.push(arr[i].innerHTML)};outPut;"
end tell

## set myRawData to items 2 thru -1 of myRawData as string -- not working
set myNewList to {}

repeat with each from 1 to count of items of myRawData
    set itemOnMyList to item each of myRawData
    if itemOnMyList is in myRawData and itemOnMyList is not in myNewList then set end of myNewList to itemOnMyList
end repeat

## not sur
##set myNewList to items 2 thru -1 of myNewList  -- not working

set countHowManyCC to count myNewList

return countHowManyCC


texts: How to resolve freezes when pressing caps lock on external keyboard

texts:
I've been trying to diagnose a problem with my Logitech K120 keyboard paired with a Macbook Pro 15" (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) where occasionally, pressing the caps lock would cause that keyboard to completely stop responding for a few seconds. I'd previously used this keyboard with a Windows PC, and found no issues.

I've tried the following:

Setting the modifier key to do nothing and then setting it back (per this Superuser answer)
Installing Karabiner Elements (from the same Superuser thread. This actually makes it worse, in that when the keyboard freezes the computer, it never unfreezes until I kill Karabiner

Has anyone encountered this before? I might just try replacing the keyboard soon, but I was hoping there'd be a software or configuration fix that would work.


texts:
Is there anything that might be able to mimic a finger (by changing the capacitance of the touchscreen) without having to make much physical contact? For example, an electric field that changes the capacitance? Or something similar? (presumably it would require a power source)

I realize similar questions have been asked, such as this one: What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to?

What I'm wondering is if you could mimic a finger with a electrically charged or powered device...?


texts: I'm in Peru and having battery problems and electric shock issues with my new MacBook Air

texts:
I purchased this MacBook Air in late 2012, found that the initial battery life was more than six hours in the US, then came to Peru. Peru runs on 220, and most everywhere that I am, the electricity is not grounded. Although I used a good quality surge protector, something happened with the battery within weeks, and it holds only about 1.5 hours of run time.

It shows that I'm getting 100% charge, and I had a technician here in Peru check it. He thought it was charging fine. In the meantime, when I used the computer while it was charging, I noticed that I was feeling electricity in my hands. Then my partner came by and felt a strong electrical charge running through my neck. Shortly after that, my neck  spasmed, followed by my lower back, then the other side of my neck and shoulder.

I've tried various ways not to have my body act as the ground for the computer. I'm a writer and need to be at the computer for longer periods than the battery will hold.

What can I do to fix this?


texts: How to play Apple ProRes 422 outside of QuickTime?

texts:
I've received a number of videos encoded in Apple ProRes 422, and it plays fine in QuickTime 7 or X.
However, I can't open them in any other player (VLC, mplayer, etc. etc.). What can I do to let other player be able to read the file?
Thanks.


texts:
I'm trying to change the icon size on my desktop.
This should be easy via the view options. If finder would offer them.

I tried to get access to the options via the finder menu, cmd+j and I tried the right click on the desktop. But nothing worked. The menus just do not include a link to the view options.

Could anyone help?
pit!


texts: Keyboard Shortcut :: Remove Google Chrome Bookmark

texts:
I keep accidentally typing Command + D in Google Chrome, because I'm used to that taking me to the Address Bar on Windows systems. This results in a bookmark being created.

My question is: How do I use the keyboard to reverse this action, to remove the bookmark that was created?


texts:
I bought the following DVD from Apple: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

The box that was delivered is as pictured in the link above (inserted here for convenience).

The sealed package contains one DVD pictured below:

The directory listing is as follows:

$ ls -l
total 830
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown 197121     27 Mar 31  2010 autorun.inf
drwxr-xr-x 1 unknown 197121      0 Mar 31  2010 'Boot Camp'/
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown 197121 296497 Feb 26  2010 'Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide.pdf'
drwxr-xr-x 1 unknown 197121      0 Mar 31  2010 DVDCDSharing/
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown 197121   1786 Feb 26  2010 'Read Me.rtf'
-r-xr-xr-x 1 unknown 197121 548664 Mar 31  2010 setup.exe*

This is not what I expected. I expected installation media - but what I got is something called Boot Camp. Should I return this to Apple? Anyone know how I use this Boot Camp to install Snow Leopard?


texts: What apps allow me to draw on an iPad and sync it with a Mac?

texts:
I am wondering whether there is an app that allows me to draw on an iPad and sync it with a Mac. I think doing so is helpful because I can switch between PowerPoint slides and the canvas and do some drawing.

A scenario I can imagine is that I am talking on Zoom and sharing my slides with my audience. Then I want to write on a blackboard to explain a concept with some drawing. I want to be able to switch to an app on Mac that is synced with the canvas on my iPad so that I can write on the iPad while the students can see my shared screen and writing in real-time through Zoom.


texts: Disable screen lock when in certain location

texts: Is there a way to disable the screen lock on my Mac, only when certain conditions are met? I'm looking for a way to have it stop locking when connected my home network (i.e. at home)


texts: macOS Sierra won't install and complains on the disk

texts:
After downloading and running the installer, I met with the problem when the installer is asking "Select the disk where you want to install macOS". My default OS X disk which runs El Capitan normally grayed out, and when I click on it, it just complains "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer".

My Macbook pro's model is Early 2015, so I don't think the problem lies in model compatibility. I partitioned the 128G APPLE SSD Disk to a 100G "OS X" disk (running El Capitan) and an extra part not showing up in Disk Utility, in which I installed Ubuntu Linux. I don't know if this is the cause of the problem...


texts: Killing a dialog box that doesn't show up in the dock

texts:
There's lots of information out there about how to kill an application that's not responding. But what if I just have some dialog box that isn't clearly associated with any running application? In particular, there's nothing in the dock that corresponds to the dialog box in question, and even when I attempt to shift focus to the dialog box, the menu bar at the top of the screen remains the menu bar of whatever application was running before.

Here's the dialog box that was freezing on me:

I tried using Activity Monitor but there wasn't anything obvious to kill.


texts: Where could I check to remove temp stored personal files

texts:
Do Mac's save any cached versions of files so that if using someone else's laptop or borrowing own laptop to a relative for temp usage need to be aware to remove to avoid personal info being seen?
E.g. I recently noticed the Recents in the Finder so I was wondering if there is anything else


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I have a Late 2011 Mac Book Pro with 256GB SSD, and I run a lot of virtual machines and apps that do disk io, database, development environment, application servers.  I usually only have about 15GB of free disk space on this machine.

I know that SSD drives are have a limited number of writes, is there a utility on Mac OSX that can tell me how "used up" my SSD. The machine seems to be getting solwer and if my SSD is getting to used I will get a new SSD.

update

APPLE SSD TS256C:

  Capacity: 251 GB (251,000,193,024 bytes)
  Model:    APPLE SSD TS256C
  Revision: CJAA0201
  Serial Number:            X17A40U7K6LK
  Native Command Queuing:   No
  Removable Media:  No
  Detachable Drive: No
  BSD Name: disk0
  Medium Type:  Solid State
  TRIM Support: Yes
  Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
disk0s1:
  Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s1
  Content:  EFI
Macintosh HD:
  Capacity: 250.14 GB (250,140,434,432 bytes)
  Available:    23.48 GB (23,483,908,096 bytes)
  Writable: Yes
  File System:  Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name: disk0s2
  Mount Point:  /
  Content:  Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
  Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s3
  Content:  Apple_Boot


texts: Getting error in Terminal when typing Passwd *Username*

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I’ve been trying to change the root password via Terminal on macOS. I launched Terminal by holding cmd + S while booting, which logged me automatically in as root without password.

When I type in Passwd root or Passwd and then hit enter, I just get an error message that says

  the daemon encountered an error processing request

two times in a row. If a log into my user and then try that it works perfectly but I want to change it from the “cmd+S” menu.


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment during track changes in Word?

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When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of).

What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment at the cursor in MS Word on a Mac when using track changes?

I am running Word 14.2.5 and OS X 10.5.8


texts: Subscribed calendars not shown on my device, but they can be opened manually [iOS 14.4.2]

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I am trying to write a PHP service to make calendars from some data. Anyway, the example it returns (it is static during the test) shows up normally when trying to get it by http://my_domain.com/ics.php or just to download response as an .ics file (location, URL, description, alert fields have been shown properly, I can save it on my device or CalDAV/Cloud server), so the iCS syntax is OK. But when I try to subscribe to it through webcal://my_domain.com/ics.php, its events do not show up on my Calendar timeline (although I can still see it in the "Calendars" sections and even "refresh" it). When refreshing it, the events still can't be seen, but the server notices the request to my_domain.com/ics.php.
I tried:

Rebooting the device & server
Making a static .ics file and subscribing to it
Adding response headers like Content-type: text/calendar and
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=index.ics
Disabling iCloud & Google Calendars accounts on the device
Generating another event in the calendar

And nothing above helped. The subscribition works on Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows 10 device. On my i-device there was another public subscribed calendar, but it also did not worked.
The example of generated ICS can be watched here.
What should I change to make it subscribed and shown properly?
I will appreciate any provided help!
Added: now when accessing through webcal:// safari responses that "Can't opent the page because it is invalid"


texts: How to import photos from PC to iPhone without iTunes, iDrive, iCloud?

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I would like to transfer photos from my notebook (Linux) to my iPhone (6s iOS 10).

Due to company restrictions on the device (AirWatch) I can't use iDrive or iCloud.

I tried to simply copy over the pictures, but the gallery application won't recognize them and I did not find a way to rescan the DCIM folder.

What other options are available to import photos from PC to iPhone without iTunes, iDrive, iCloud?


texts: Recently Apple changed the default shell to zsh from bash.  In the past I made significant changes to my .bashrc file.  How should I incorporate those changes into the zsh terminal?


texts: How can I check if Java is installed on my Mac?

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I have gone into Terminal and typed

java -v

for which it responds with

No Java runtime present, requesting install.

But I am not sure if that is confirming if Java is not installed or whether the Java SDK is not installed.


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I like to adjust my terminal window size to fit whatever I'm working on at the moment—sometimes a tiny screen just to tail a log file, and sometimes I stretch it all the way across the screen to read some wide output.

Whenever I open a new tab in the Terminal it resizes the window, losing whatever sizing adjustments I've made. How can I make it preserve the current window size when opening a new tab?


texts:
I want to change the WiFi signal strength of my Airport base. That feature was removed along many others in the Airport configuration tool since version 6, so I used the previous version to solve my problem like this:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3974623?tstart=0

However the latest version before 6.0 (seems to be 5.6.1) cannot be installed in Mavericks.

How can I access to the lost AirPort configuration features now?


texts: Extending 2007 iMac display to HD projector?

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I have a 2007 iMac and an Epson 730HD projector. I want to dedicate this iMac to playing media on the projector but I'm having problems with extending my display.

I'm using a Mini-DVI to HDMI adapter and connecting to the projector using an HDMI cable. The computer is detecting the projector, but the projector is saying there's no signal. I've tried playing with all of the resolution settings–thinking that maybe the projector just didn't like the resolution that the computer was sending–as I've had this problem before with other displays and setting the resolution to "Best for display" usually did the trick. The projector has a native resolution of 1280 x 720, I've tried every scaled resolution while extending the display and while mirroring. No luck.

My MiniDVI to VGA adapter works, so this appears to be only an HD problem.

Is there anything I haven't tried? Or is my iMac just too old for this projector?

Screen captures of available scaled resolution settings:

My Mac (24" Intel iMac, 2007):


texts: Whenever I su, PS1 changes to \s-\v\$. Why is that? Tried setting it, but it still changes when I su again, or exit the terminal. What to do?


texts: VMware Fusion 2.x not running with 64 Bit Kernel Lion

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has anyone managed to run fusion 2.x under Mac OS Lion? Since the update it says

Incompatibility with 64 bit kernel

This release of VMware Fusion does not work with 64-bit kernel of Mac OS X, you are currently running.
To use VMware Fusion, you must restart your computer using the 32-bit kernel of Mac OS X again.

Any ideas :( ?


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I want to install a startup item in OS X Big Sur which runs a shell script as a user on my machine and connects via ssh to a remote machine I maintain.  I use ssh keys so no password is required for this script to succeed.  It will linger in the background.  How would I accomplish this in Big Sur?  My understanding is that the old /Library/Startup Items/xxx.plist trick is deprecated.  What is used in its place?
Thanks!


texts: Cannot enable Night Shift on macOS high sierra 10.13.3

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Always when i try to turn on night shift nothing changes and i can see following error messages in the logs:

ColorSync: ColorSyncProfileCreateWithDisplayID failed to get profile for kColorSyncDisplayDeviceClass

Does anyone else have this problem or knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance!


texts: Connecting an old Mac to home entertainment system

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I have an old MacBook Pro, with DVI-out video, analog audio (earphone and speaker ports), and of course USB. I'm using it to manage my iTunes library, but the only way to play iTunes content on my home entertainment system is via Wi-Fi to an Apple TV box.

My question: Is there a viable way to connect the Mac to an open HDMI port on my home system? I know that DVI-to-HDMI is video only, so I'd have to find out how to add the audio -- which is the whole point of the exercise! (Is there any such thing as an analog-to-HDMI or USB-to-HDMI audio adapter?)

Thanks!


texts:
I am using Skim to preview pdfs generated by vimtex plugged into MacVim via vim-plug on MacBook Air M1.
Whenever I write any changes to my .tex files the pdf opened in Skim does get updated but the display page doesn't move to the updated location. I have set Sync options to MacVim and enabled Check for file changes and Reload automatically options in the Preferences.
Can someone help me by suggesting how to reload pdfs to correct page?
Alternatively, I tried using Preview but it doesn't even auto-reload until I move focus back to the opened pdf on it. I will be okay with whichever of the two can be made to work properly.


texts: How to make OS X Server 3 accessible from the internet?

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I am trying to setup an OS X server so that I can see it from outside of my internal network.

I have OS X Mavericks with the Server app installed as a VM for testing purposes right now. It has access to the internet and I can browse it from my local Macs on the network.

I would like to be able to set it up as a basic web server to which I can set up a website or a small cloud backup etc.

I have various domain names which I use for my website and I could repurpose one of these or purchase a new one if needed.

I tried just turning on the Websites option which didn't work, I did have a play around with the DNS options adding in the IP of my domain etc but didn't get anywhere.

Do I need anything else besides a Mac with OS X Server and a domain name? Or am I missing something completely?

I am fairly technical but this is a bit out of my depths here I have done my google searching but everything I seem to find is always based to set up a local web host or within a corporate network.

If anyone can point me in the right directions I would appreciate it.


texts: Incorrect Terminal.app output for long lines with tabs

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When I run the following command in Terminal.app:

echo -e "a\tb\tc\td\te\tf\tg\tyo"

I should get the following output (using a 40-column window so that lines don't wrap here, and replacing tabs with spaces so that the correct amount of space is shown here):

a       b       c       d       e
f       g       yo

But instead, I get this output:

a       b       c       d       e       y
o

As you can see, the f and g are missing.

After trying various strings, I think the problem is that a tab at the end of a line does not advance the output to the next line, but instead leaves the output cursor one character before the line end.  For example (still assuming a 40-column terminal), 4 tabs puts the cursor at position 32 of line 1.  Another tab should put the cursor at position 0 of line 2, but instead the cursor is at position 39 of line 1, leaving room for one more character to be printed—and even at that point, the cursor is not advanced to the next line, so another tab will put us back to position 39.  Hence, an unlimited number of (single-character + tab) strings will be silently ignored.

I've experimented with a variety of:

shells (including bash, sh, and csh)
terminal widths (including 40 columns, 80, and many others)
terminal types (including vt100 and xterm-color)
terminal character encodings (including UTF-8 and ascii)
terminal settings (including Escape non-ASCII input)

Also, a friend ran similar commands on a Linux system with a different terminal, and did not encounter the same bug.

Anybody know how to fix this?  I'd be much obliged, as this bug is making it might tricky to debug some home-made shell scripts running on tab-separated files.


texts: Would it be possible to create a folder action that can push timed Notifications?

texts: Specifically I'd like to attach a folder action that would pass to the Notification center a timed alert that would go off after 60 days... possible?


texts:
I'm looking for a way to log crontab file writes. A friend of mine pranked me, and did something that occasionally adds */5 * * * * say "deranged" "The current time is `date`"

I haven't been able to identify a pattern yet: Nothing for 2 weeks, then twice in 5 minutes. I'm trying to find the process that writes to the crontab. Is there any way to log crontab writes to a file so I can catch this thing?


texts: When does a mac laptop startup automatically after a power failure?

texts: I'm trying to get the hang of this.  I notice that sometimes when I plug the charger the macbook boots automatically, other times it doesn't.  I know in desktop macs this is determined by a setting in Energy preferences, but not sure when this is supposed to happen with macbooks. Does it change with the model? It's good to know this for troubleshooting.  Any insights would be much appreciated.


texts: Accessibility head control does not turn off

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Accidentally enabled head control accessibility feature and now it just stays on even when I disable it from:
Accessibility -> Pointer control -> Untick "Enable head pointer"
The camera light is still on and mouse moves if I move my head...
Using Big Sur 11.2.2 on a MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1).


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I installed gdal using homedal because I need it for ortho4xp, which uses python3. I noticed that gdal depends on  both python and python@2. Gdal is not the only package doing this. It pulls in numpy, which also specifies both python versions as a dependency. It seems there are lots of packages still requiring python@2

I'm assuming there's a reason for packages requiring both versions of python but I was wondering if there are ways of avoiding having to have python2 around?


texts: iBook G4 opening procedure (for hard disk replacement)

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I am about to replace the hard disk of an iBook G4 (a 12" 1.33 GHz model) with a SSD. The guides I find online, such as this one, describe a rather long procedure where both the bottom and top covers of the case are removed. However, the disk itself should be accessible from the top. Is the removal of the bottom cover really required? And, if so, why?

Edit: yes, it is necessary. To remove the top cover, you must unscrew the power plug, and the screws for that are accessible only from the bottom.

And when guides talk about weak soldering of the power connector, well, they are right. Now I must boot my iBook with a screwdriver (I insert it in a hole I made in the case, to make a contact in the right place).


texts: How to tell a macmini to stop booting to Windows from a macbook pro?

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I need to be able to control a mac mini without a screen and I think using screensharing would be enough. I've enabled screensharing, setup a manual IP address and I have an ethernet cable.

The problem is I don't have display to use on the mac mini and I currently borrowed a keyboard and a firewire cable to setup screensharing:

booted mac mini in target mode (wish there was a way to do it without the keyboard)
booted the macbook holding the alt key and choosing the firewire drive

The problem is the mac mini has a bootcamp partition setup to which it boots by default. I googled a bit and tried the System Preferences > Startup Disk option then the /etc/fstab route but no joy: the mac mini still boots to Windows.

How can I get the macmini to simply boot to it's osx all the time (given that I have to change the settings on a macbook with a firewire cable) ?


texts: I'd be able to very quickly tag a bunch of photos for later processing.


texts: Is making an IPA possible to extract resources like sound files from AppStore Apps?

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Yesterday my brother in law ask me a notification sound of the Photo Lab. I guess if I could download this application and change the ipa extension to zip and extract it, then I can find the notification sound that my brother in law ask me.

So: Is it possible to have ipa file of this app?

Actually: I wanna have the notification sound of Photo Lab


texts: How to diagnose interactive experience stalling and stuttering across applications?

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Mac Pro Late 2013 32GB OS 10.14.6
Something is stalling my machine while I use it. It happens everywhere.
In games, my framerate craters. In terminal, my typing stops. In browsers I can't scroll, or my mouse simply lags and jitters. Same with any other application -- thing just briefly freezes up.
It happens routinely, several times a day. I've restarted several times, I'm not paging. Network is dead. Activity Monitor doesn't monitor in the background, so hard pressed to "look back" after its happened to see if it detected anything, but it happens for a short enough time (several seconds, FEELS like perhaps up to 10, but that's probably too long).

I have the stock 256G SSD, an external 2T USB platter drive, and an external USB 512G SSD. No "scheduled" work is happening when this happens, it's not Time Machine kicking off. I've honestly never seen disk I/O freeze my machine save when it's spinning up a drive and even that I don't think I've seen in a while, but even that doesn't seem to manifest like this. Stuck spinning up a drive usually beachballs, this does not.
I should note that it does not seem to affect music playback, but I'm not super sure about that.
So, I am at a loss as to how to diagnose this. I don't know what monitoring I might be able to enable, what tell tales I perhaps can look for in a log, etc.
My only most remote suspicion is perhaps the WiFi card is acting up. I've had problems with it before: dropping connections, crummy performance. It was bad enough that I wired the computer to the network rather than rely on the WiFi. It's difficult to disable since it's used for several things (currently I'm internet sharing with my laptop with it). I guess I can try to run with it completely disabled to see if I encounter it again, but who knows. (My WiFi expander may be partly to blame for my crummy WiFi experience as well, but that's indeterminate too.)
I dread having to reinstall the OS, but I honestly don't think it would make any difference. That's just a knee jerk response.
So, if anyone has any suggestions as to what I might be able to do to "catch it in the act" and isolate what's fighting me, some logging I could enable, something I could look for in the system logs, anything, I would appreciate it.


texts: How to remove shared devices from my iMac?

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My Sidebar is showing that there is a shared device on my network. I am not on any network whatsoever, this is my home computer used by me only. It says "not connected" but makes me nervous.

Is this a hack of some kind? How do I get rid of it? I tried dragging it to the trash and it didn't work.


texts: Dire need to make Bootcamp work with Thunderbolt Display

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According to this Apple KB article, it's not possible to re-connect a Thunderbolt Display to Windows Bootcamp without restarting the computer.

  A directly-connected Thunderbolt device that is removed by
  disconnecting the Thunderbolt cable will not be recognized until you
  restart the computer.

But if the reboot sequence is able to send a signal to the display to power up, surely it must be possible to write some code that will run in Windows and do the same thing?

Are there any tools out that can do this, or anyone with competence on the area that would be interested in writing a tool to do so?


texts: My Mac does "copy on select" - how to disable it?

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Due to reasons I do not understand, my mac (macOS High Sierra, 10.13.6) does "copy on select". I have no idea when it started, and I assume it comes from one of the tools I am using. Is there any way of finding out why it is doing this? I switched of Keyboard Maestro and BetterTouch already, but still the same.

Any suggestions?


texts: Application not running, but dock thinks it is, so i can't quit/open it

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This has happened to multiple applications so far, i'm not sure what causes it, but it seems to happen after force quitting (sometimes).

First, you force quit it, and it does, but the dock shows that it is still open, but not responding. If you go to activity monitor, it does not show up. When you try to use the killall command by name, it tells you "No matching processes belonging to you were found". If you drag the file location into terminal, it still does not work. Deleting (using the rm command, as moving to trash does not work as finder claims the application is running) and reinstalling does not do anything, so i believe it has to do with the dock, or something else on the mac, not the application itself.

OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.3

Edit:

My guess as to what might've happened is the application quit, but the computer never got any indication that it did for whatever reason, so telling it to quit does nothing, but you're not allowed to open an already open application, so you can't open or close it.

Things that do not work:

Terminal : killall Dock

Terminal : killall Finder

Applescript : tell application "(application name)" to activate

Finder Menu : Relaunch


texts:
I have two similar MacBooks that are off by one revision:

Black: Model 2,1 --- 2.16 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
White: Model 3,1 --- 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

I want to upgrade my Black macbook (my primary laptop) with 4GB of RAM but model 2,1 can only make use of around 3GB (3,1 can take 4GB).

So what I want to do is swap the motherboards of each laptop. That way they both get an upgrade -- the Black Macbook moves up to 4GB and the white moves up to 2GB.

Is doing a motherboard swap on my own feasible? I've built my own desktops in the past and I'm not worried about what is what and what goes where. I'm just wondering about the difficulty of the job and/or if there's something I don't know about that would prevent this from working at all.

Oh yeah and also, from an aesthetic perspective I like the black one much more and don't want to just make the white one my primary laptop. It looks pretty worn and the girlfriend put some stickers on it, etc.


texts: Stocks widget on mac os mojave not showing current prices

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About a weeks back, the stocks widget on mac os mojave stopped showing the current prices.

Does anyone know of a workaround to fix this? Thank you.


texts: How To Add Per-Webpage, Not Per-Website Icons for Favorites View In Yosemite

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I am dealing with this mess of icons in OS X Yosemite Safari's Favorites view:

Note how nice and easy it is to visually locate the IPython and AWS icons: I would like to have similar icons displayed for my other favorite go-to sites, most of which are hosted off of various subdirectories of a single private web server (call it "foo.lan").

IPython is accessed via the IP address 10.0.3.3 for "foo.lan".  I got it to work for IPython using the standard method, i.e. including the following in the HTML header:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href=.../>
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

And when I investigated why it worked, it appears the image is cached by Safari in ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons/ as "92AE91400BBEF8B1D9854D7151202EED.png": "92..." being the MD5 hash of the string "10.0.3.3", i.e. the domain I'm using to access IPython.

The problem is that this method of mapping icons to webpages assumes that there will only be one icon per website, not one icon per webpage.  In my case, there are multiple webpages, accessed off of one website i.e. "foo.lan", for each of which I would like a separate icon to display in Favorites.

I tried manually copying an icon into .../Touch Icons,  renaming it to the MD5 hash of the full path to the webpage, and editing the cache plist accordingly: of course this long shot did not work.

Is there any way to trick Safari into associating icons with specific pages within a single site, instead of just one-icon-per-site?  I wonder if this is simply something that needs to be changed in Safari, as iOS is perfectly capable of caching web app icons and displaying them correctly on the home screen.  Such a display capability for OS X Safari would be very useful if it doesn't already exist.

One Solution

User "root" suggested add subdomains that map to each "service portal" running on the website.  So commands.foo.lan, books.foo.lan, and so on.  Some simple trickeration with DNS aliasing (no web server tinkering required, fortunately) confirms that this enables per-page icons as desired (further confirming the diagnosis of the problem).   This seems sort of like hammering in a nail using a screwdriver, though, and wish there was a prettier way to get this behavior.

Even after rearranging all of your DNS to enable this feature, however, you still have to deal with Safari's extreme flakiness wrt actually pulling the pictures from the web server in the first place; this is a problem also seen with mobile Safari's unpredictable failures to preserve icons for your webApps and the subsequent merriment of diagnosing the problem.  Fortunately in a non-(jailbroken-)iOS environment it is possible to force the matter by jumping into CacheSettings.plist, locating the record for the site you whose icon you want to edit, manually setting the TouchIconInCache boolean to "YES", and then - wait for it - manually calculating the MD5 hash of the string of your domain name, changing your icon name to that hash, and copying it into the "Touch Icons" folder as follows:

Once you have completely reorganized DNS in your LAN, and have calculated MD5 hashes of the domain names you want Safari to display icons for, finally you can quickly access icons for your favorite webpages, regardless of whether they are hosted across separate or on the same domain.


texts: I am on iOS 10.2 (Jailbroken, iPad Air 2) and I recently installed a bad tweak, it put me into a boot loop in which I got out of, but when I enter safe mode I can't go into cydia and un-install it because cydia keeps crashing, I try to enter yalu102 app and re-jailbreak but when it "successfully jailbreaks" it goes back into a boot loop because of the bad tweak I installed.


texts: Can I purchase an unsubsidized (month-to-month contract) iPhone 5 from Verizon and let my brother use it in Europe?

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I have an iPhone 4S with Verizon, and I wanted to know if it would be possible for me to buy an iPhone 5 for the off-contract price and then ship it to my brother in Austria and let him use it there on the GSM network.

The reason I think this might be possible is because the GSM part of the Verizon iPhone 5 comes unlocked.

One obstacle that might stand in the way is if I have to activate the iPhone 5 with Verizon before I send it to him.


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My wife just won an iphone 4s with iOS 9.2.1 from a friend that bought a new one.

I did a factory reset (without backup) so the phone would be completely wiped.

I turned on wifi, connected to my home network. But I can't access the Internet. Every time I try, the phone loses connection and does nothing. 3G connection works fine.

I have searched a lot and tried all major "solutions" proposed:

Reset phone
Reset Network Settings
Turn off Wifi-Assist
Turn off Wifi on location settings

And so on. Nothing I have done worked so far.

Network at home works fine. I have my android phone connected along with other devices (notebook, and iPad 2, etc).

Does anyone has any idea how to make it work? May this be a hardware problem?

EDIT

I noticed that, we can surf for quite a while and we always loose connection when opening the app store.


texts: Is it possible to get the full suite of unix options for the command line tools on OS X?

texts:
I follow Unix Tool Tip on Twitter and it is interesting that many of the tips that are posted are not available on OS X.

For example:

  cp - u will only copy files that don't exist, or are newer than their existing counterparts, in the destination directory.

Trying this on my machine results in:

cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
   cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory

Why are these options not available and is it possible to get access to them on OS X?


texts: iPhone 5 overheating and battery drains very quickly

texts: My iPhone is always heated up even if I'm not using it. When I charge it, it heats up even more and battery drains very quickly. Its battery is currently fully drained for more than half an hour and the back still seems as it is heated. What's the problem and how can I solve it?


texts: Opened iPhone SE wrong - screen with lines and no video

texts:
I just yanked my phone screen a little when opening my SE. Now the display turns on but has lines and looks very broken. I am pretty sure it's the ribbon cables but I don't know where to get replacements and can't find any guides on the obvious sites like iFixit.

What I need to know is if it's definitely a problem with the ribbon cables. Where can I get parts and guides to fix it?


texts: Can I adjust the size of the scrollback buffer of a certain terminal window?

texts:
I want to adjust the size of the scrollback buffer of a certain terminal that is already open and running a command (that produces a lot of output). Currently the size of the buffer is set to be limited only by the size of the memory but it slows down my whole system when the lines can be counted in the millions.

However, the only way I have found to do this is to open the inspector and then double click the profile and finally change the profile's setting for the size of the scrollback buffer. The problem with this is that it affects all other terminals that use the profile.

In older versions of OS X (I am on High Sierra), IIRC, you could adjust this setting per window in the inspector. Has this setting moved somewhere else or has it disappeared completely?


texts: How to get color of pixel in coordinates 123, 456 in screen?

texts: My AppleScript app needs to get color of pixel in coordinates 123, 456 in screen.


texts:
I'm not sure where this error is coming from. I thought it was maybe for an old backup/sync app I used called Spideroak, but my limit there is 6gb. I have used Box, Dropbox (still do with over 12gb of free space), Spideroak, Foldersync, and Mozyhome in the past. Spideroak and Dropbox are the only two known to still be active. I only use the free 5GB iCloud backup for iOS device backups. I cannot seem to find where it's coming from.

Searching for the text string online has not yielded any results either. This is the dialog box that pops up and awaits me every morning when I get to my desk for the past couple weeks.

Also, the Dismiss button does just that, and Upgrade Today does nothing, not even providing a hint (like a tooltip or anything).

Also, Activity Monitor app doesn't appear to provide any hints from active processes either. Figured I should add that in case someone thinks of it, too. It could be something obscurely named, and I'm missing it, but nothing obvious comes to to list.


texts: Icon is not disappearing after removing the app

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I've jailbroken iPhone4s (iOS 7.1) with pangu. Through cydia I've installed Terminal app. Then I've uninstalled the app. But the icon on the screen is not going. Does that mean uninstallation was not successful? If so how can I remove that completely?

Steps taken to uninstall

cydia -> installed(option) -> chose terminal -> modify (top right corner) -> chose remove


texts: MacBook Pro won’t recognize my user name and password

texts: My MacBook Pro mid 2010 stop recognizing my password or username when ever I try to install software or access security settings. But whenever I power on the computer and it gets to login screen it does accept my password there. I have try to boot to recovery and try to reset the password there but it didn’t show me any drive. Any help will be helpful.


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in the past, I used to click an URL to a local file in any application (e.g., TextEdit) and the finder or Path Finder would open.
An example for such an URL is  file:///Users/username/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~Keynote/Documents/hgs%20demo.key, that points in fact to a file on iCloud.
Now, when I click on such a link from say TextEdit (but also other software like in the notes section of a task in OmniFocus), nothing happens anymore. When I paste it into the URL field of a browser, the file does open however.
Is there a way on macOS to set applications that open certain kinds of URLs?
For example, OmniFocus "knows" / is associated with omnifocus:///...
→ Can I tell the Finder (or Path Finder) to be associated with file:///... (such that it would open a window with the associated path)? Or how can I re-enforce this association?
Thanks for your help.


texts: Books automatically deletes my books when offline, and when there is enough space on device

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There is something strange going on with Books on iPad and iPhone. It keeps deleting some books locally, keeping them in the cloud.

It's frustrating because it happens when I'm offline and I simply lose the access to them.

Why is this happening at all? And how can I stop it?

I enabled syncing things over iCloud Drive and everything, but I can't see an option to disable such optimizations.

PS: the same thing happens with Photos, Numbers and Pages. The Photos app has an optimize storage option. But there doesn’t seem to be such an option for Books, Numbers and Pages.

A clear example: just a few hours I was reading a book on Books, I took a nap, and when I opened the Books app, the book was not available offline anymore. Since I don’t have internet right now, it’s simply impossible to access the document.


texts: Is the camera in the new iPad using "4S optics"?

texts: Apple's website merely identifies it as a "5 megapixel iSight" camera. MacRumors claims that Apple is reusing older parts. I recall reading that the new iPad has a better camera than prior models, so I'm confused. Which one is it? Advanced optics or not?


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I've just bought a new 3rd Gen iPad as a gift.  I assume it comes with iOs 5.1 installed on it.  I want to install iOS 5.1.1 on it as I'd rather not use the Maps app provided in iOS 6.  I know that iTunes will only offer the latest version of iOS (6.0.1 at this time.)

How can I download and install iOS 5.1.1 to a new iPad?  I am not willing to jailbreak it.


texts: Changing app icon in order to change mini window icon

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I have an app bundle on my desktop. I change its icon by changing the icon in its /Contents/Resources/ folder. This updates finder. However I am trying to update the dock.

I have figured I can changed my main dock icon with setApplicationiconImage (Objective-C) but I am having difficulty setting the image of the miniaturized icon on the mini window please see graphic below.

Apple docs say: here

  Cocoa applications can customize both the application's Dock Icon and a minimized window’s Dock icon.

So I know it's possible to set the minimized windows dock icon.

The docs continue on to say that it automatically sets the mini icon to be the icon of the App. Any way to change the App icon? So it updates the miniaturized app icon on the mini windows?

Thanks solutions in objective C are preferred, but core-foundation, applescript, and just regular file api via finder stuff is cool too.

Thanks

Here is a video screencast showing my dilemma: Youtube :: Demo of Issue: Bundle File and Finder Icons Update BUT NOT Dock

and here is image of issue, (without me changing the icon of the dock with setApplicationIconimage)


texts: Is there a way to tweet from a keyboard command?

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I use CMD space a million times a day to find files, launch apps, etc.

Wouldn't it be cool if I could press a keyboard combination and get a box to send a tweet?  I know I can do it through notification center but I'm looking for a method that doesn't require me to leave the keyboard.


texts: What's special about /Applications on macOS Catalina?

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I'm building a macOS binary to accompany a Chrome extension using the Chrome Native Messaging API. When the binary (unsigned, unnotarized) is in my Downloads folder, Chrome is not able to launch it. However, when I move the binary to /Applications (per https://stackoverflow.com/a/59710823/12581350), Chrome is able to launch it.
I was curious if anyone knows the reason why it's able to run from /Applications but not ~/Downloads?


texts: Having Problems Clean Installing Osx El Capitan On Macbook Air 2010

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I have a bootable dmg file that I created using transmac on my pc. Everytime I load it up on my Macbook air it shows the prohibitory symbol after a few minutes.
I check on Disk utilitily first drive shows 60.67gb and the one under it shows 59.90gb. Every time I try to erase the top one it will say failed disk error cannot unmount but I'm able to erase the bottom one but yet it won't clean install the el capitan dmg bootable file from the usb. What am I doing wrong?
I already tried forcing the unmount through terminal and still won't work.

I tried reinstalling the previous Yosemite OSX through recovery but whenever i log it will say temporarily unavailable please try again later. So I'm stuck with a paperweight macbook air atm. Please help


texts: How do I delete a phone number from iMessage or facetime on ipod 4th gen?

texts: My son has an iPod touch 4th gen. My mother in-law has a new iPhone. He logged into his iTunes account with his grandmother's phone so he could download a song for her. After that, she began receiving his facetime messages. I removed his email address from her iPhone and that stopped. But now, her phone number is displayed in his settings/message and setting/facetime under send & receive/you can be reached at. How do I delete her number?


texts: How to add Tamil language to the international keyboard?

texts:
I recently purchased an iPhone 4S in India. It has international keyboard for Hindi language.

But is there any way to add Tamil language to the list?


texts: How do I restore autoconf after Mountain Lion update?

texts: I upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion today and found that I no longer have autoconf installed, is there a specific way to restore that or will I need to manually compile it etc? I have XCode 4.4 installed with Command Line Utilities downloaded and installed as well. Thanks for the information!


texts:
As seen in the image below, I have downloaded 3 custom dynamic wallpapers from this website. All three default to the "night" wallpaper, and the drop-down menu to change it to dynamic is glitched. The text is overlapping, and clicking on it gives the image stretching/fitting options.
I am on MacOS Big Sur 11.2.1.


texts: Shortcut to open the Goto window in file open/save dialogues WITH the equivalent to path added

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When you have a file open/save prompt box open, you can hit the / key to open a GoTo dialouge to navigate via the file path.

Is there a shortcut that does this action but automatically adds the ./

ie. hitting the shortcut would open a box looking like this:

(where normally the period at the beginning is missing)


texts: Installed MWeb for iOS and it created a folder, its available in my phone's iCloud drive but not in Web or Mac iCloud drive! Created a test folder and made sure no sync issues. Any help is appreciated


texts: Using multiple iMacs (27 inch 2009) as displays

texts:
I have 3 Apple iMacs (27 inch, 2009).

Is it possible to use two of those iMacs as displays for the other iMac?

If so, how do I achieve this?


texts:
I mistakenly deleted the latest backup for my iPhone from within iTunes preferences. How can I recover it?

I looked into ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and it is not there anymore. Where can I find the deleted folder containing the last backup?

I have a MacBook Air running Mac OS X El Capitan and an iPhone 5C running iOS 9.3.5.


texts: What are the best practices for battery longevity?

texts:
How do you maximize the cycle count of your battery?

There seems to be a debate between:

Leave plugged in 24/7 but do a full cycle once a month
Charge to ~100%, drain to ~10%, repeat.

NOTE: Taking your battery out is bad

Which method is better and why? How much of a difference does it really make?

Here are some of the better sources I've found about battery behavior so far. Even still I feel they don't conclusively answer the question above. See my elaborations below:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer_battery
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1119715?start=0&tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1519
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries

Elaborating on Option 1

Now IF Apple engineers were smart and optimized for AC draw when plugged in to not use up your charge cycles, then it seem logical to assume that you are using effectively none of your 1000 charge cycles while plugged in. If that's the case, it would seem that the LiPo drop from holding at 100% would be vastly outweighed by the fact you're not using any charge cycles.

However, this is a purely speculative assumption and I could find no evidence to either confirm or deny.

If this is NOT true, and the AC adapter only goes to charging the battery, then there would be no difference. Your battery would drain to 99%, then back up to 100%, then back down to 99%, etc. Those micro-charge cycles would add up at the same rate as 100% -> 0% -> 100%, and you would get no gain. In this case the negative effect of holding LiPo batteries at 100% would outweigh everything else.

Elaborating on Option 2

There are lots of good reasons why Option 2 is the way it is:

Because of known LiPo chemistry issues, holding a 100% charge for a long time causes the battery to degrade
Apple specifically recommends not to leave it plugged in all the time on their website
Draining a battery all the way to zero all the time is bad for the cell (Which is why ~10% is used)
Heat is a killer, and when plugged in AND charging, you get extra heat that causes damage.

There are a couple reasons why I'm challenging Option 2:

It seems silly that the most intuitive use case for thousands of people that use their macs as primary computers is wrong.
If the hypothesis in option 1 is true, you're just burning unnecessarily
through your finite charge cycles.
It's a pain to have to remember to keep plugging in and plugging out and be worried about whether or not your device is plugged in.


texts: How to get "out" of the full screen in applications on iPhone?

texts:
I'm often using some news applications (like WP.PL) which sometimes enter in full screen mode on my iPhone. It means all the buttons dissapear and there's only text/photos to read. Swiping left/right switches between news but all I would like to do is to get out of the full screen and continue reading with ability to change categories etc.
I tried multiple options and 99% of times it gets out of full screen mode but it's more of a random pushing the glass (multiple times) than actually "knowing" how to leave full screen.

Is there some sort of finger combination for all applications or is per app setting I have to leave with ?


texts: At what level of battery health does iOS begin to throttle performance?

texts: I have an iPhone SE running iOS 10.3.3, planning to upgrade to iOS 13. A third-party app indicated I can charge to about 80% of my battery's capacity. I know that right now it lasts less time than when it was new, but it still works pretty well and is perfectly fast. I also know that iOS 13 drains battery faster than iOS 10. But at this level of battery health, would iOS 13 be an additional problem that results in performance throttling which wouldn't happen in iOS 10?


texts: OS X Calendar - view shared Google calendars

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I've been able to add a Google Calendar (CalDAV) account to OS X Calendar (v6, Mountain Lion 10.8.5) without problem, and all my own calendars show up.

Is there a way of seeing calendars others have shared with me (these show up under 'Other Calendars' in the Google Calendar website settings)?

(Same situation on my iPhone.)


texts:
This has been asked again but none of the answers apply because I've tried them all:

My MacBook is a 2013 Retina Macbook Pro, so it supports audio through HDMI
the HDMI cable is plugged directly into the HDMI port (no adapter)
the monitor has speakers, and their volume is to 100% (Asus PA248Q)
I've selected the HDMI audio output in the system settings
I've tried with a different HDMI cable

But still no audio through the monitor's speakers. What am I missing?

FYI, the audio works fine in any other case.


texts: Custom dock icon reverts whenever the app is open

texts:
I have changed the Dock icon for an app and it shows the new icon only when the app is not open.  But as soon as I open it, the old icon comes back. When I close the app, the new icon appears again. I have tried pinning an alias to the Dock, but the same thing happens. It shows correctly in other places, such as Finder and Launchpad.

I have tried the following ways of changing the icon:

Copied the new image onto the info window.
Replaced the favicon.icns file in the package contents
Restarted the Dock and Finder several times
Cleared the icon cache by executing:

rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache;killall Dock

I know the cache has updated because the icon for Pages, which I had uninstalled but hadn't unpinned from the Dock, changed to a question mark.

The app is YouTube to MP3 by MediaHuman.

How do I stop the icon from reverting? I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.


texts: macOS 10.13.4 not installed and disappeared from AppStore

texts:
I started to update my MBP (2013) to macOS 10.13.4 using the AppStore.

After installation and login, I got a notification that some things didn't get install.

I opened the AppStore, macOS 10.13.4 is not available anymore to download, neither it is in the Installed section.

I checked also "About This Mac", my version is still 10.13.3

No, I never installed any Betas or GM.


texts: Will leaving the screen of an iPad turned on 24/7 decrease its lifespan?

texts:
I am coding a time attendance app to be used on an iPad in a secure mount outdoors (in a weather proof box).

I am thinking of blocking the home button, and leaving the iPad’s screen turned on at all times.

I was wondering if this will reduce the lifespan of the iPad by a significant amount.

Also, are there any other ideas on how to solve this problem?  Proximity sensor with camera would be pretty cool.  Or really just light vs dark sensing.


texts: Is it possible to left-align the URL in the Safari address bar?

texts:
As of Safari 8 on OS X Yosemite, URLs in the URL bar are displayed centered. This looks really nice, but I’m a web developer and I often need to change just part of an URL to test something. To do that, I need to click somewhere on the URL, reposition my cursor over the newly-left-aligned address, and then click again to place the insertion point.

Is there a way to get Safari to display URLs left-aligned all the time?


texts: iTunes 10 file directory organization in Windows

texts:
I'm pretty new to iTunes.

I have a video series that I want it to be imported to iTunes and be organized in this hierarchy:

Artist->DVD No. and Title->Lesson No. and Title

The files are now organized using Windows 7 Tags \ File system.

Example:

D:\My Videos\John Due\Learning about Birds\4 - The Wings\2 - Advantages


texts:
I purchased a new iPad.  When I set up my Roadrunner email acct it downloaded over 300 from the main server to my inbox. I looked for a way to delete multiple email but there doesn't seem to be any method for that. As I was playing around with all the mailboxes, I did something because my inbox still says over 300 yet It only shows the current ones. ( I am keeping up to date deleting all incoming )
How do I find the phantom 300 ?  I've looked in every folder !


texts: "Open in Low Resolution" is checked on Retina MacBook Pro checked and greyed out

texts:
ZBrush 2018 opens with high DPI support, but ZBrush 2019 has the "Open in low resolution" checked, and is greyed out so it cannot be changed.

Anybody know what is going on?

Pixologic just suggested checking the permissions, but they are identical to ZBrush 2018. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How to disable iOS 7 warning about mobile data being turned off for an app

texts:
I use an app that can consume a sizeable amount of bandwidth, so I have disabled mobile data for that app under Settings > Mobile > USE MOBILE DATA FOR > [App Name] > OFF. The setting works great, and prevents the app from using any mobile data, so it only updates when I'm connected to WiFi.

The only problem is that, now, whenever I start the app, iOS 7 pops up the following modal dialogue:

  Mobile Data is Turned Off for "App Name".
  You can turn on mobile data for this app in Settings.

  [Settings]    [OK]

This message is so über-modal that you can't even press the Home button before tapping OK. It has become very frustrating.

Is there any way to disable the modal warning to remind me that mobile data is turned off for an app?

Edit: The answer to this problem detailed here.


texts: MacOS Safari iCloud tabs stop working randomly after some time

texts:
MacOS: High Sierra 10.13.6

Safari: 11.1.2

After a random amount of time the iCloud tabs button on MacOS Safari becomes disabled, making impossible to rich the iCloud tabs of other devices.

Of course syncing is enabled in System Settings > iCloud > Safari.

I have been able to workaround the problem rebooting MacOS or logging out and logging in the user, which both solved the problem temporarily until the next random block.

Any advice on how to fix it or how to solve it without terminating the user session?


texts: What is the chance that jailbreaking my iPhone will brick the phone?

texts:
How does it actually work? Does it change just the firmware on the main filesystem? Does it touch the bootloader?

I'm trying to figure out what's probability of

iPhone jailbreak bricking the phone
Apple's update bricking the jailbroken iPhone (In the line with those questions, does Apple's update simply overwrites the flash partition with the new one and then applies the backed up data?)

Edit: should probably mention it's a 3GS with 4.1 firmware.


texts: External Display "static" on MacBook Pro 15″ 2014

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My MacBook Pro (15", 2014, OS X Mavericks 10.9.4) and my 24" 1920x1200 monitor are not working together.

I connect the two with from the Mini DisplayPort on the Mac to DVI on the monitor. The monitor only shows a "static" effect like when an old tv cannot pick up a signal and my Mac's screen flickers ~30 seconds.

When I turn the monitor off then on, when my Mac is still connected, the monitor goes blank and the MacBook screen begins to flicker every ~3 seconds.

Does anyone know what is going on here? I ordered a DisplayPort to HDMI cable just hoping that the cable I used was faulty.


texts: How to close a mission control space using hotkey?

texts:
Using "Better Touch tool", I have a hotkey set to "Add New Space To Mission Control". I would like to create the inverse of this and set a hotkey to close the current space. Specifically, I would like hotkeys to open and close desktop workspaces.

If this isn't build into BTT, is there a bash command which can be used to accomplish this?


texts: I am forced to use Opera instead of Safari on windows, and would like to sync my bookmarks with MobileMe. Is this at all possible?


texts:
I use zsh. For some reason, with zsh, when I type open <TAB> (which should list the files to autocompletion), it opens Finder in the current folder.

I don't have anything aliased for that. I didn't change any config recently. I don't have any idea about why this is happening. Bash works, though.

Any ideas on how can I fix or debug that?


texts:
This is a question that could be better on Stack Overflow or Programmers, but I thought I'd try it here first.
As a programmer, I need lots of screen real-estate for the IDE and files that I'm editing.  If I need to work from a laptop, I currently use an Acer with 18.5" screen and 1920x1200 resolution. It's old, heavy (almost 4 kg) and in need of replacement.
Most of my work is on Windows, but the ability to do Mac and iOS development would be great, so I'm considering a MacBook Pro with VMware or Parallels instead.
The new MacBook Retina sounds great, but I'm worried that the ultra-high DPI won't work well when used with Windows on Parallels, and text will be so small it's unreadable (many Windows apps tend not to scale fonts well, and my eyesight isn't 100% any more).
Has anybody got experience of running an IDE (Delphi, Visual Studio, whatever) on a Retina MacBook Pro under Parallels? Was there a significant increase in the amount of usefully legible information compared to a non-Retina MacBook?
[Edit: I've just been reading some more detailed stuff about how the display can be scaled from AnandTech. The screenshot showing Portal with an illegible console is the thing that concerns me. ]


texts: Accessing OS X built in dictionary lookup in Firefox

texts:
I am really frustrated that Firefox does not provide the three-finger-tap lookup operation is in built in OS X. What is baffling me is that it supports other gestures such as two finger swipes and taps. So why not the 3 finger tap dictionary ?

Is this possible to actually implement ? Or is it because access to in built dictionary and trackpad is blocked by OS ? How can I start looking at this problem ?


texts: The fans in my MacBook Pro (2007) run at full speed for no reason?

texts:
For some reason the fans in my MacBook Pro (2007 model) seem to run at full speed for no apparent reason, I've been using the "iStats" gem to monitor my temps and fan speeds - what's strange is that the CPU temperature often sits around 40 - 45°C even when the fans are running around the 2000RPM mark - yet occasionally, for some odd reason it decides to boost them up to 5000RPM+. I'll just be happily browsing the web and all of a sudden it decides its time for takeoff...

Anybody know a reason or possible fix for this? I've considered using some software to control the fan speed manually though I don't want to do anything that might potentially cause the system overheat.

Any ideas are welcome!


texts: Corrupted iPhone App after IOS 5 Upgrade

texts: Harraps Dictionary App is corrupt after IOS 5.0.  How do I restore it. I can see no way to download the App again through iTunes.


texts: Restore all hidden Windows for all applications?

texts:
I have a pretty good idea what direction this question is gonna go, but I'll ask it anyway.

Is there any way or workaround to quickly un-hide all hidden applications? By which I mean, applications that have been tucked away with CMD+H and are normally restored with CMD+Tab when you want to access them.


texts:
I have been using headphones with an external USB sound card, but the sound card broke today, and my other audio ports are messed up.

I have an iPhone, and I know that a computer with a wireless card can stream it's audio to an iPhone, but can a computer without a wireless card (on an ethernet connection) use this or a similar service to send audio to an iPhone? Maybe even a tethered iPhone, because I can do that.


texts: Finder doesn't show newly created files anymore unless restarted

texts:
The title says it (I mean, when a new file is created in an other application). This started happening today, and I think this may be related to an error message which I got the first time in yesterday evening:

This is the link from screenshot: https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1387401 — just in case you want to check it out.
And, of course, I did a reboot after that message.

The issue is not reproduced in 100% of the trials, but it's there…
I checked the disk with Disk Utility and it says it's OK.
What could it be?

Analysis

The output of df -ki:

Filesystem    1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity   iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1      487385240 443717640  43411600    92% 110993408 10852900   91%   /
devfs                 202       202         0   100%       703        0  100%   /dev
map -hosts              0         0         0   100%         0        0  100%   /net
map auto_home           0         0         0   100%         0        0  100%   /home

After deleting some trash:

Filesystem    1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity  iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1      487385240 391070420  96058820    81% 97831603 24014705   80%   /
devfs                 201       201         0   100%      698        0  100%   /dev
map -hosts              0         0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /net
map auto_home           0         0         0   100%        0        0  100%   /home


texts: IPhone 6 Camera Stopped Working after 8.4 Update

texts:
After updating to 8.4 two weeks ago, both cameras stopped working.  The camera app shows a black screen and once you press any of the buttons the rest of them stop doing anything.  The shutter button 'clicks' but does nothing, then the settings randomly disappear.  No other modes work, though I can scroll through them.  I can not change to the front camera. Other apps that use the camera will open, but I only get grey screens. (Some crash right away.)
I've restarted, updated to 8.4.1, but nothing.  Any ideas?


texts: Projects between iMovie iPhone and iMovie OS X synchronised?

texts:
I am trying to address the question here about transferring the videos between OS X and iOS from the iMovie perspective. Because iMovie is Apple product, I hope there is some easy synchronisation. There is iCloud in iMovie OSX but I cannot see it in iMovie iOS (iPhone 5) so I am worried that I am just wasting my times to work with projects requiring both iOS and OSX.
Is it possible the get the iMovie projects synchronised between OSX and iOS?

How can I transfer my iMovie project from iOS to OSX?

How can I move my iMovie OSX project to iOS?


texts:
I am trying to backup my iphone 6+ to iTunes.  It will not let me : could not connect to the iphone ( insert your name of phone) because an invalid response was received from the device.
I have researched on the web, it tells me to reset my network settings. - if I do this, will it remove all my contacts / photos/ notes before my last backup?


texts: Is it possible to save a song "station" in Apple Music?

texts:
When I play a song in Apple Music and select "Start Station" to begin an ad-hoc radio station based on that song, is there a way to capture the results for later, i.e. to replay the station or turn it into a playlist?

Or can I only return to the original song and hit Start Station again?


texts: Bluetooth headsets briefly connect to iPhone but then get disconnected

texts:
Two BH-M20/BH-M20C headsets are able to briefly connect to my iPhone 6 via  Bluetooth.  I can see the connection in the Settings | Bluetooth | My Devices.
However they both get disconnected within 10 seconds.   These headsets both work fine when connected to my MacBook.
Why are they getting disconnected and what might be the way to resolve this issue?


texts: Do I need to do something special to get toslink input to work?

texts:
I want to record some audio from my A/V receiver.  It has Toslink output, so I want to use that.  I plugged a Toslink cable into that (I can see the red light!), and plugged the other end into a toslink-to-mini-toslink adapter, and plugged it into the "line in" port of my Mac.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to do anything.  In the Sound control panel, even with the Input Volume turned all the way up, the "Input Level" shows nothing at all.  In Audacity, recording just records empty silence.

I have two Macs, and the behavior here is exactly the same on both.  One's an Intel Mac Mini Core Duo ("Macmini1,1"), and the other's a Macbook Core 2 Duo ("MacBook2,1").  According to the spec sheets, both have Toslink input.  I frequently use Toslink output on both Macs using this cable.

I've recorded audio onto both Macs using analog audio cables and Audacity before many times.  Is there anything special I need to do to enable Toslink audio input?


texts: How to set it up to switch between tabs using TAB key on Macbook?

texts: On the image below this is what I want to do. I want to be able to switch tab options with TAB key.


texts: What happened to Preview's "Markup.appex"?

texts: There's a Markup app extension in Mojave--it's clearly installed, because I can use it. Where did it go, though? It used to be in /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Plugins/ in past versions of macOS, but it's not there anymore.


texts: How to get rid of the notification bar glitch on the iPhone 4s if your lock button is broken?

texts: My iPhone 4s has the notification bar glitch, and I've been researching on how to fix it. Most of the people said to restart the phone by pressing the home button and lock button at the same time. But my lock button is broken!


texts:
I'd like to sync my iPhone's contacts to Outlook. The account is linked, so my email is updating, but it won't sync the contacts.

How do I do it?


texts: Slow Keys at log-in screen means I can't access laptop!

texts:
I have a Macbook Air that's less than a year old and woke up today to an issue.

When logging in, I have to hold each key down for 3 seconds before it'll recognise that I'm pressing it - so it'll end up writing four of the same letter in my password and I have to strategically hold down the backspace for 3 seconds to delete the three extra letters. As you can imagine, it took me about 15 minutes to get it right and actually get in to my laptop.

I followed all the advice on other blogs - the issue is completely gone when I boot in safe mode so it's not a hardware issue as far as I can tell. I did a clean install of OS and problem persisted.

The Slow Keys checkbox is unticked so I just have no idea why this is happening.

I should not that once logged in, the keyboard works perfectly fine!

Any and all advice greatly appreciated!


texts: I have a friend who managed to lose some photos a while back, but they "appear" in his iPhoto library. The thumbnails are there but the photos aren't. The photos seem long gone, but the thumbnails seem fairly large- large enough to maybe be useful for some of them. Is it possible to retrieve the thumbnails?


texts: Jailbroken iPhone dead; What firmware "load" options do I have?

texts:
I jailbroke my original iPhone first gen to version 3.14 (I think) and since then I'm unable to use the phone.

I've done this before and never once had an issue (so I'm semi-experienced with this).

Symptoms

iTunes says the phone is in recovery mode.

The screen looks like a newly loaded (not activated phone)

Attempts to fix

I've loaded almost every original (not jailbroken) ipsw from 3.0 to the latest one (for this model) and am not able to get back to defaults. I get the following error:

I've loaded many different Jailbreak programs and none of them can make the phone work.

I'm OK if I don't ever get cellular service and just use it as an iPod Touch.  Anyone know how I can get past this screen in either jailbroken or original mode?


texts: Can I prevent music through an AirPod from pausing when a single pod is removed?

texts:
Right now, when I remove one AirPod from an ear, the currently playing track pauses in the other ear.

Instead, I want to continue playing the track.

My control over this using bluetooth settings is quite limited, so I'm hoping there is another location to investigate to disable this feature.


texts: Cannot restore due to older version of iOS

texts:
I got the iPhone 6s this afternoon and tried to restore the backup from iPhone 6 which is on iCloud. 6s could not restore the backup because 6 was running iOS 9.0.2 and 6s was not. I set it up as a new phone (both have the same name) and upgraded to iOS 9.0.2.

Is there a way to use the old phone's backup?


texts: A friend of mine has a setting turned on on his macbook. As you can see in the screenshot below, the shift, function, control, alt and command keys show up in the top right corner when pressed. Where can this setting be turned off?


texts: How long does Apple provide support for Mac OS X?

texts:
I am currently using Apple 10.6 (Snow Leopard). How long will Snow Leopard be supported for? Does Apple provide an end-of-life policy in writing?

I have read that Apple tends to only provide security updates for the latest two versions of Mac OS X (an 'n-2' support policy, where 'n' is the latest version of the OS. Since Lion and Mountain Lion are out, Apple might drop security updates Snow Leopard.

According to "Mac users left wondering if OS X Snow Leopard's retired" from Computerworld and "Where are the Safari security updates for Windows and Snow Leopard? Users left exposed" on Sophos's blog, some believe that Apple has already, quietly retired Snow Leopard. However, those pages have some contradictory information (Tiger was updated in 2009).

However, the articles above seem to cite rumor. Does Apple provide their support policy in writing?


texts: How can I increase battery life with iOS 4?

texts: Since I upgraded to iOS 4 on my iPod touch second generation my battery life is draining very fast.  Is there anything I can do to help with that?


texts: I am having challenges moving/copying file folder from My MacBook to external hdd or VMware. I have attached screenshot of the folders. the first one with the face icon is not moveable while the other one is. apparently all the folders with that face icon aren't moveable. I have checked if the folder is lock using the Get-info but it's not. all permission are set to RWX. don't know what to else to do. any body having same challenge.???


texts: How to completely remove porn bot in telegram group?(Only displayed in macos version)

texts:
A Russian guy added an porn bot to the group.

Then my message box has one more button.Left side of the sticker.

Even after the admin removed it, it does't disappear and only appear in this group！

I tried click stop bot and even reinstall the telegram but doesn't work.


texts:
I found a lot of people figuring out why instruction similar to this :

Put X to your ~/.bashrc and you can do Y

don't work.

It always turns out that Mac OS X's bash's startup files (or Mac's Bash itself) doesn't source ~/.bashrc file, either in the login shell, or in a shell spawned from window system - like Terminal app in Mac OS X)

Why is this, when all other Unix-like systems with Bash I've worked with before have done this?

PS:

I found what Bash itself says about startup files (which could be helpful) :

  When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
  executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
  After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,
  and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from
  the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may
  be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

Source : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Startup-Files


texts: Gift free month of Apple Music notification

texts: I got this message and it took me to a website AppleMusic.co, but it was all in Spanish and said that something went wrong when I clicked on it.  What does this image mean?  Can I gift it to someone still?


texts: Will I receive texts after turning send as SMS off?

texts: I want to use Viber for my calls and text messages so I turned off send as SMS. Do I still receive texts?


texts: How to disable App Limits on macOS admin account, without passcode?

texts:
I don't remember my passcode and those block-screens are getting annoying) There should be a way to disable it with admin privileges, but I cannot find any info on apple forums.

Edit: I DO remember my admin password. I don't have the 4 digit-passcode for Screen Time feature.


texts: iPhone could not be restored - error number -1

texts:
I posted an old iPhone 4 to my sister (I'm in Australia; she's in Thailand) which was working fine both before and after she received it.

Recently it has started cutting off while being used - especially when using data - and saying there's 'no reception'. This was happening every couple of weeks.

My sister has been restoring the iPhone through iTunes each time this happens, which had been resolving the problem until it came back again.

Unfortunately now though it is no longer restoring through iTunes, and showing this error message:

  The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occured (-1)

Obviously this is a pretty unhelpful error message. This Apple support page covers the next steps for most error types, but it appears that the error number -1 is an error in and of itself!

The phone is now stuck on the usual restore screen:

What steps could we try to resolve this? Or is it likely that the phone is just too old and is suffering from software designed for newer iPhones? In case it is relevant, the phone has never been jailbroken and I (and my wife) have always been the original owners. It is a 4, not a 4S.


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut to focus this textfield in Xcode 4.1?

texts:
What is the keyboard shortcut to get focus inside the textbox pointed in the screenshot below?

I am new to Xcode 4.1. I use Eclipse a lot.

In Eclipse if we want to jump over any file we can use Command + Shift + R and we get a popup box and we can start typing filename and it shows suggestion, something similar to it I am looking in Xcode.