Are there sites that support editing and ordering photo prints, cards, and books on an iPad? I'm reposting this question (unchanged) from webapps.stackexchange.com, because I've received no answers there and this seems like an appropriate question for the Apple Stack Exchange site.

I've tried the Shutterfly iPad app, which allows uploading photos, but doesn't support any other functionality available on the website. And I can't edit photos or design cards and books from the Mobile Safari browswer on the iPad, presumably because those features use Flash.

Are there any other photo websites that provide either a full-featured iPad app (that includes creating cards and books and ordering prints) or an iPad or iPhone app that allows uploading photos and a website that allows one to create cards and books and order prints in Mobile Safari?

Note, I download photos directly from my camera to the iPad, so I'm trying to figure out how to avoid any need for a PC.

Someone (on vark.com) recommended Apple's MobileMe (http://me.com).  But http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html doesn't show that it supports editing photos and ordering prints, cards, and books.  Does anyone have experience with MobileMe?

I don't really have a direct answer for you, but I would like to help by sharing what I know.

I have a Mobile Me account, and there are no tools for editing your photos online. It's an image gallery. A gallery is meant just for viewing and not for editing.

Mobile Me was designed to work in conjunction with the iLife software on a desktop mac. You edit the photos, order the prints, make the cards, and the books in the iPhoto app on the Mac.

Photo editing on the iPad is the easy part, but I think you are approaching it from the wrong angle. There are tons of free (and cheap) apps that allow you to edit photos. (Photoshop Mobile for instance. Just check the Photography category in the App Store). Once you edit them in an app, then I would upload them to a service that supports printing services. The hard part is going to be the ordering of prints, cards and books from the iPad.

We can only hope that sometime in the near future, Apple creates a mobile version of iPhoto just as they did with iMovie. That would be ideal.

EDIT

You can order prints from this app as well:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323705153&mt=8%3FpartnerId%3D30&siteID=KEmRFwU0WKY-yY5rDqaKJMaSUWCfbLPC3w
You can also order prints from the Walgreens app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/walgreens/id335364882?mt=8
This might solve your issue as well!
http://www.ritzpix.com/net/OrderPrints/
You might want to check out this app and service:
http://www.ecce-terram.com/order-solutions/mobile-client.html

  ECCE TERRAM announced a new service this week that will allow people to order prints of photos stored on their iPhones from the phones themselves. With their Photo2lab Client, users may select a photo (both those taken with the iPhone and those transfered from iPhoto), add text and create prints, post cards and even mini photo books. You'll even be able to add an address to a post card from the iPhone's built-in contacts list.

Just released.  I hope this helps:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/roes/id533327862?mt=8


How to use 3 external monitors on 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina? Several people have posted about how they use 3 external monitors with their MacBook Pro Retina. see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhvyLB_Tbw
Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player
How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?

However, when I attempt to do this on my 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina, I can only run 2. Either, 2 thunderbolt, or 1 thunderbolt and 1 HDMI. When I plug in all 3, only 2 of them work.

Apple tech says

  Yep. You can only have 2 external monitors (unless you want to add a usb monitor).

Is there some trick I am missing? Some setting to tweak? I have 3 monitors just waiting for the solution. One of my monitors feels quite left out...

3 external displays DOES work.

I am on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro. I have 1 monitor on the HDMI port, 1 on a displayport to HDMI adapter, and one on an ACTIVE displayport to DVI adapter. I'm thinking that the trick here is to use an Active DVI adapter (mine is from Accell)

check this out
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/mac/
dunno if this helps
greetzz


Can't Turn off Finder Tabs on Mojave MacBook Air with Mojave (14.2) and the option in Finder > Preferences > General NOT Checked: "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows."

Yet Finder stubbornly opens all new windows in tabs.

For example, I have a folder on the desktop open and in list view. I double click on another folder on the desktop and it opens in a tab in the folder that was just opened.

I have rebooted
I have deleted any Finder preference files in
~/Library/Preferences and rebooted.
I have turned the preference on

No joy.

Anyone know where the Finder Tabs preference is stored so I can delete it or have a trick to make it behave?
   (open in tabs), rebooted and turned open in tabs off

I believe that the option only works when opening folders directly from a Finder window. If you CMD-click on Favorites, then a new tab is opened if the preference is On. And a new window is opened if the preference is Off.


VGA monitor doesn't work at boot time on Mac mini 2011 I have Mac mini 2011 and Samsung Syncmaster 710v (old TFT monitor) connected through mini DisplayPort to VGA. The monitor shows something only when the login screen appears (no boot menu, no boot-loading, just black screen, BUT no info that the monitor isn't connected).

On new monitors (VGA), my Mac works great and I can see the boot menu. Is it the monitor's problem, a mini DisplayPort issue, or software?

Could be something to do with the energy save technology and standy mode on old tft monitors, if your monitor has energy save.

Probably that's not 100% compatible with new Macs.


Is it possible to install iMovie 9 on El Capitan? Is it possible to copy iMovie 9 from my OS X Yosemite MacBook and install it in a new MacBook I am yet to buy and will have OS X El Capitan and iMovie 10?

iMovie 10 has very limited export options compared to iMovie 9. So I would like to copy iMovie 9 from my old computer to my new computer. If this is not possible, is there any other way to install iMovie 9 on El Capitan that already has iMovie 10 installed?

Yes. iMovie.app copied from older computer to newer computer with El Capitan works.

(Apple store employee said it would not. Confirmed that it is wrong)

Don't. I was told by Apple tech that iMovie 9 was not designed to work with El Capitan.


Download Manager for Mac OS X What is a good Download Manager for Mac?
Are there free ones available?

There are several choices :

Folx :

  Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style
  interface. It offers convenient downloads managing, flexible settings,
  etc. Folx has a unique system of sorting and keeping the downloaded
  content.

iGetter:

  iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. With
  iGetter you can get the most out of your Internet connection be it
  dial-up, wireless, cable, DSL, T1 and other high end broadband
  connections. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads
  using segmented (accelerated) downloading.

Leech (paid one) : clean UI.

  Every modern browser has its own download functionality, so why should
  you use a separate application for handling downloads in the first
  place? Because Leech works better than any built-in download manager.

jDownloader 2

  JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a
  huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast
  as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set
  bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more. It's an
  easy-to-extend framework that can save hours of your valuable time
  every day!

 - Fat Pipe: (free)

  Most servers and internet service providers limit the speed a single
  connection can have. We can bypass these limits by splitting a
  download task up into many smaller chunks. This guarantees that you
  will fully saturate your internet connection.

http://fatpipeapp.com/media/demo.mp4

I think download managers are uneeded, at least, anymore. This question was asked 4 years ago, I know, but Download Managers are useless in today's world.

Need a download manager still? Your browser. Done!


Can iPad 3 play 2048×1536 video in its native resolution? Can the third generation iPad play 2048×1536 videos in its native resolution?

I've converted some 4K footage to 2048×1536 mp4s using Apple Compressor. These files play correctly on my Mac, but iTunes refuses to sync them over to my iPad.

How can I achieve 1:1 pixel perfect Post-HD videos on my iPad 3?

If you take a look at this page,  it looks like the guy figured out how to get to 1920x1440 and even up to 2048x1536 using mpeg4 or h264.

If you have an Apple developer account, you could copile your own VLC media player.


Normal Temparature of a Macbook Pro I received my Macbook Pro yesterday. I would like to know what is the normal temperature of a Macbook Pro. Here is mine

is this okay ?

This response assumes you got the MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core i5" 2.4 Late 2013, which was released the day before you asked this question. That device used the 2-Core i5-4258U Intel cpu.
Given Table 28 of the v1 datasheet for 4th Gen Intel Core Processors, it seems the lowest maximum allowed temperature of the i5-4xxx line is 66.4C, well above your highest listed cpu temperature of 50C.
Here is a screen shot of the table for convenience:

My new MacBook Air sometimes reaches 50°C, so you should be fine.


Unusual Dock Icon Appearing in OS X 10.10 Yosemite Lately, I've been getting this unusual "clone" of the Chrome icon appearing at the left side of my Dock. It comes out randomly. Initially, I thought it's a new feature that binds the iPad session on Chrome to the one in Mac.

The position is very odd (left side of the Finder). And whenever I click it, it merely opens a random commercial site. That's when I felt suspicious.

Is this a new feature that simply needs to be disabled, or is this a malicious program? Any idea how to remove this?

That is Handoff and a natural feature when OS X and iOS devices are signed into the same iCloud account. This works if you have iOS 8+ or OS X 10.10.x Yosemite. If you have a supported application then you will be able to open it on your Mac right where you left off on your iOS device.

Looks like you was running Chrome on your iPad at the time.

If you wish to disable Handoff on a Mac, open 'System Preferences' and select 'General'. It's the check box labeled "Allow Handoff..." towards the bottom of the window pane.

If Bluetooth is off, Handoff is disabled as well.

It's something called Handoff apparently. If you go to system preferences, then general, you can choose to disable Handoff. Turning off Bluetooth works too.

:)


Mac OS X administrator account still requires sudo when trying to install Ruby, Vagrant, and Grunt using terminal I am still required to use sudo on my installs. I am sole proprietor of the laptop and have an administrator account. Shouldn't I be able  to install software without using sudo?

Even though the account is an administrator, you still need to use sudo to become the root user. Administrator still has restrictions on what files can be read or written to.

For example, the /System/Library/User Template/ folder is set to System: Read/Write and even though you are an administrator, you won't be able to open this folder without either changing the permissions or using sudo to become the root user.

No, you need to use sudo because you are not root user (good thing, because you don't want to accidentally wreck the computer), sudo allows you to momentarily "become" root. If you were not an administrator, you are not one of the privileged users that are allowed to use sudo, and thus, you would not be able to install anything requiring sudo.


Outlook for Mac - archive single email with a keyboard shortcut In Thunderbird I can press the "A" key and archive the highlighted email to a folder named after the current year. In Outlook I've seen various ways to move to a folder via a keyboard shortcut and then select the folder to move to (a two step process); I could not find a way to move an email to a particular folder with a single keyboard shortcut.

Is there a way a to move an email to a designated folder with a single keyboard shortcut in Outlook 2016 for Mac?

Note: I had previously asked this question at personal productivity but my question was deemed "too specific".

This isn't exactly the question you asked, but Ctrl-e is the keyboard shortcut for archiving a message (at least as of Outlook for Mac version 15.36).

In the latest version, you can  Archive with the following shortcut: Ctrl+E.


ERROR: AUCTeX cannot find a working TeX distribution (macOS Sierra) I have installed MacTex and GNU Emacs on my iMac. I have created a simple tex file (the one suggested here) and tried to run LaTeX on it by hitting C-c C-c, but the following message appeared:

  ERROR: AUCTeX cannot find a working TeX distribution.
  Make sure you have one and that TeX binaries are in PATH environment variable.
  If you are using OS X El Capitan or later
  remember to add /Library/TeX/texbin/ to your PATH

Opening Terminal and running

  echo $PATH

yields

  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin

Operating system: macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.4
Emacs version: 25.1.1
AUCTeX version: 11.90.0
MacTex distribution: MacTeX-2016

As patrix suggested, the problem was that the PATH variable that the error message referred to was not the Terminal's environment variable but emacs' own environment variable, whose content can be seen (as suggested by patrix) by evaluating (getenv "PATH") in Emacs.

To add /Library/TeX/texbin/ to emacs' PATH variable, I added the following code to the emacs initialization file .emacs:

(setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ":/Library/TeX/texbin/"))
(setq exec-path (append exec-path '("/Library/TeX/texbin/")))

These lines of code are appropriately modified versions of the ones given here.

After restarting Emacs, the problem was gone.

The problem you are having is because Emacs does not get the $PATH variable when it is started from the Finder and therefore does not set exec-path properly.

An easy solution is to install the Emacs package execpath-from-shell


The Apple light on my Macbook is damaged, could this damage the screen? My Macbook was hit  by my keys and crack the apple light on the back.

If I don't repair it, could this damage the sceen? The cover of Macbook is so thin that I really worry about this, but repair could be troublesome and expensive so I'd rather not have to fix it.

Essentially it is not a light but is simply a hole covered with a piece of plastic. LED which are used as your screen backlight serve as the actual light for the apple mark, so the apple mark is not lit on when the screen is not lit on.

In short, a crack in Apple mark will is not going to influence your Macbook in any way.

same thing happened to me and for me its not really a matter of having the crack hurt the screen its the fact the crack is there. it is very annoying to see the crack but I don't feel it's worth repairing.

If you really are worried, place some clear tape over the Apple to ensure that the plastic doesn't move further towards the LCD and damage it. Also, a protective case over the back of the Aluminum might help deflect any further pressure.

Since the cost to repair the plastic is basically as much as repairing the entire LCD - you might save your $$ until further damage happens.


Which text editors for iPhone support tabs and editing files in Dropbox in-place? I've been searching for a text editor on iPhone with the following features:

Support for browsing files in Dropbox and editing them in-place.
Support for keeping more than one file open at a time and switching between them.

Apps that don't meet my requirements:

GoodReader supports tabs, but it doesn't allow me to edit files in-place in Dropbox.
Byword allows me to edit files in Dropbox in-place, but it doesn't have tabs.

Are there any iPhone apps that support tabs and editing files in Dropbox in-place?

GoCoEdit

GoCoEdit is a Code and Text Editor optimized for fast opening and editing local (on iOS device) and remote (on server) files with your iOS Device.

It supports extended syntax highlighting on many coding languages and has a themable interface with many dark and light themes.

Features:

  Universal App (use it on your iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch)
  Connect to your servers via SFTP, FTP, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive
  Multiple Tabs
  Very fast reconnect and recover of open files after restart
  Upload and Download files/folders or edit files directly on your server/dropbox/drive without download
  Supporting iOS9 features like textselection by cursor, Splitview and Slide-Over
  Supporting 3D Touch
  External/Bluetooth keyboard support, with lots of shortcuts

Textastic 3 is awesome and has tab/dropbox support


Preview: Opening more than 12 pdf files in new windows I've noticed that whenever I have 12 or more pdf files open at one time (each in a separate window) and attempt to open an additional pdf, this additional pdf opens in the same window as the pdf on top. In other words, it's as if the "Open each file in its own window" is disabled once I reach 12 open pdfs.

I can then transfer the newly-opened pdf to a new window by right-clicking on the pdf's thumbnail and selecting "Open in New Window" but I don't want to have to do that every time I want to open an additional file. Does anyone know how I can make this happen?

Again, I already have the "Open each file in its own window" option enabled (and it works when I have less 12 pdfs already opened).

Lastly, assuming this is deliberate on Apple's part (i.e. not some sort of bug), is there a reason why I should be wary of opening up more than 12 pdfs in separate windows? And what other options are there for opening up pdfs in OS X other than via Preview? (I'm sure there are plenty of third-party apps available but I'm particularly interested in built-in alternatives).

Thanks.

[Note: A similar issue was mentioned here:
Difficulties opening PDFs in Preview but the solution offered doesn't apply.]

OS X - Macbook Pro;
Version 10.9.3

[EDIT: This behavior has occurred periodically for a while now (months)--it seems to occur after I've opened files in Preview that have been saved as PDFs via the "Save as PDF" option from the "Print" window.]

You can use the mastodont Adobe Reader.

In fact, this app from Adobe, formerly named Acrobat, was the app provided in Macs, before Preview existed.


How do I restore the default folder icon? I build web sites on a Mac and after the recent upgrade to Mavericks, the icon for all of my web template folders have changed from the standard Mac folder icon to the Parallels icon. I can change it using Get Info, but this has to be done one folder at a time and is unnecessarily tedious.

Has anyone else encountered this, and more importantly does anyone know how to reset the default to display the standard blue Mac folder icon?

Here is what it looks like right now:

Get Info on the folder.
Click the icon on the top-left of the window.
Press ⌘X or Backspace

Alternatively, cd into the directory and run

rm Icon$'\r'

To delete the icon from multiple folders at the same time, run the following command:

find ~/Desktop -name Icon$'\r' -delete

Replace ~/Desktop with the containing folder of the folders that you wish to remove the icons from.

in the new Yosemite, sip doesn't allow you to change system files due to sip.

system integration protection (sip):

Good to stop viruses and malware, but bad for people who like to tinker. Remember to turn it back on and understand the risks of turning it off. They are important to know;

To turn off sip:

Restart mac
When restarting hold cmd+r
Select terminal
Type in "csrutil disable"
Click return
From the  menu select restart
To enable sip again repeat, but type in "csrutil enable" instead


How do I remove all traces of my Apple ID from a borrowed MBA? My MacBook Pro logic board needed to be replaced, so I borrowed an MBA from a coworker.

I restored the MBA from Time Machine to get back to work. When I was done, I removed my user account tied to my iCloud account, and gave it back. They didn't have much of anything on it, so he didn't care if it was restored to previous state (so he didn't have a Time Machine backup for this MBA).

My MBP was Mavericks, but their laptop was Mountain Lion. I offered to do the OS X update for them (as it was free) when I restored, but now I'm wondering if that was a bad idea.

He said that they are getting an iCloud prompt for my account when the App Store is attempting to do updates. They've signed out of everything they can find (system preferences, app store, iTunes), but they can't change it.

Any quick fix for this or do I need to pick up the laptop from them and do some sort of factory reset?

Apps downloaded from the App Store are tied to the Apple ID they were purchased under, and can only be updated with that Apple ID. From what you're describing, you must've installed some apps (licensed to your Apple ID) on his Mac while you were using it.

The simplest solution is to figure out which apps are licensed to you, delete them from his Mac (you can simply use the Finder to drag them from the /Applications folder to the trash), and then (if appropriate) purchase/download them under his Apple ID.

Delete the app and reset it from settings by going to general and go all the way down and see reset and click settings


Is the Force Touch Trackpad on MacBook Pro supposed to be 'nudged' with a mechanical clicking sound? Yesterday I received a brand new MacBook Pro Touch Mid-2017 with Touchbar, which was built-to-order.

Before even passing through the setup screens, I noticed that the Force Touch Trackpad gives away a mechanical thud/clicking sound at each press. At every press, the Trackpad is nudged down/slightly lowered, and this is what creates the mechanical sound. The same thing happens regardless of where on the Force Trackpad's area I press.

I was under the impression that Trackpad are supposed to be non-movable and completely static, and that any tactile and audio feedback is purely from the haptic engine and speakers. I am entirely sure that the sound is mechanical and coming from the Trackpad, not the speakers.

Is this a manufacturing problem?

Here is a video of the sound (the nudge is very slight so it may not be visible in the video): https://youtu.be/gyIG8gAn6B0

The video quality is such that the nudge is not really visible. But yes, the intention is that the trackpad should not physically move in normal circumstances.

The clicking sound on the video however sounds pretty much like it should. The sound is generated by the computer - it is not mechanical.

You could consider taking the computer to a store and comparing the sound with another MacBook Pro.

It is normal, check another of the latest MacBook Pros. The trackpad is not moving. An haptic feedback is generated so you can feel the click, and a click sound is generated as an audio confirmation that you actually did click on something. Hope this helps.


OS X Yosemite spotlight search wikipedia and web content missing One of the new features in spotlight was supposed to be information from wikipedia, web when anything was searched. However, I don't seem to be getting this information when I search in spotlight. Is this feature only available in certain countries? (Im in India, and all the reviews I've read about Yosemite are US or Europe based websites).

This could be related: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions-spotlight-suggestions

It's a list of countries that have Spotlight Suggestions enabled in iOS 8. If this is true, this is a pretty bad move from Apple.

Source: macrumors discussion

UPDATE: Apple confirms that

  Spotlight Suggestions may not be available in all regions.

on the Spotlight support page.


OS stops receiving left (primary) mouse click I've got a frustrating problem that seems to have cropped up within the last two months or so.

Infrequently, the left (primary) click stops registering with the OS, so I can't really click on anything.  My mouse moves around the screen, I can right (secondary) click, but I just can't perform a primary click.

I'm running 10.6.8 on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro (http://support.apple.com/kb/SP619). The click stops registering both on the trackpad and my Magic Mouse.

A restart solves the problem.

Any ideas?

Double check that you don't have any stuck keys on your keyboard by testing all the keys, particularly the modifiers (shift, option, etc).
Make sure there aren't any wizards, alerts, or dialogs hidden behind existing windows or in other spaces (this one gets me often, especially running the odd mix of programs I use daily).


Why am I getting an “invalid active developer path” when attempting to use Git after upgrading macOS? After upgrading to macOS Big Sur, I tried to run git from Terminal but it kept giving me the following error:
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun.
How do I fix it?

Solution

Open Terminal, and run the following:

xcode-select --install

This will download and install the Command Line Tools package and fix the problem.

You do not need Xcode, you can install only the Command Line Tools here, it is about 130Mb.

If the above alone doesn't do it, then also run:

xcode-select --reset

Further reading

The problem is that one needs to explicitly agree to the license agreement.  As a follow on step, you may need to reset the path to Xcode if you have several versions or want the command line tools to run without Xcode.

xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app
xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

I found the solution in this question, Command Line Tools not working.

You may get an error message: "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server". In this case xcode-select --reset works as pointed by akozin.

The accepted answer is correct, but also note that git does not make it obvious if the error is coming from remote or from local. If you are running OS X on your remote, your install problem may be on the remote side and you'll see the same error on git clone and git pull but NOT on git status.


Transfer iPhone 5 photo library on to a Network Storage Device I'm running out of space on my iPhone and would like to transfer my iPhone photos to a NAS and then delete them. I like to view my pictures from NAS via an app.

Can somebody recommend a good NAS and app that can help me achieve that?

Instead of using a local solution for your media, you could consider using Dropbox. With Dropbox you can stream videos, photos, and even use it for storage. You get roughly 2 GB for free (more if you refer users), but if you need more space you can easily upgrade your account, for a fee, to the Pro version which provides much more storage.

Synology NAS hardware offers this, take a look to the apps[1] I think it is what you are looking for.

[1] Photo Station is the app: https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/5.2/multimedia


Use Dell Inspiron laptop monitor as only monitor for mac mini I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop and I am planning on purchasing a mac mini, new version , I am tight on money for a while and want to use my current laptop screen as monitor for mac mini, I just want to know if it is at all possible to do, I have windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04 installed in my laptop, and I don't really care if need to wipe them out, or purchasing a monitos is the only option left, also I am planning to use it for coding and stuff, so VNC is probably not a good choice.

You cannot connect the Dell laptop's screen to the Mac Mini.  Not easily anyway.  I am sure somebody could hack something together, and it would involve opening up the case of the Dell, and possibly the Mac.

However, you could use VNC on the Dell, to view what the Mac Mini is "displaying"

I don't think you can use the Kick Start utility to start the screen sharing service on the Mac Mini, so you will need to borrow a monitor form somewhere to get the Mac set up in the first place...

Then, after setting up the Mac, go to System Preferences -> Sharing, and set up Screen Sharing.  Also you will need to allow computers using VNC to connect to it.  It's all there is the settings pane.

Then...  You will use VNC on your ubuntu box (ick, don't use Windows) and connect to the Mac using it's IP address.  You will be able to view and control the mac, from the Dell's monitor, Keyboard, and Mouse.

There will be some lag...  such is life with VNC...

I think that based on the HDMI ports you can in fact use a Mac mini to your advantage.


Is there an app to read the Palm Doc format (PDB) on iOS? Any recommendations from actual users ?

The files are non-DRM pdb books that I have on old Toshiba e830 PocketPC.

I am specially interested in software that can handles non English encoding well (Latin2 or Win1252)

Thanks

You can use Calibre on your desktop to convert your PDB books to ePub. See here for the list of supported formats in Calibre.

You should utilize Calibrate with your computer to help alter ones PDB eBooks to help e Pub. View in this article with the directory helped codecs with Calibrate.


iPad deleted all my books from Books app without asking me A few days ago I was making a video with my iPad Air 2 camera. A pop-up alerted me that the 32GB memory was almost full, inviting me with a pop-up "Manage your space" or like this in Italian "Gestisci Spazio". I clicked the pop-up and was asked me if I would delete apps that I don't use so often. I accepted and Ipad deleted some apps. OK I said.
The day after I realized that the Books app was without my 80 books previously present! Ipad had deleted all my books whithout asking me! Very frustrating :-( . All my books (most of them pdf) had been downloaded from safari or emails so not from the apple store. A learned that the backup doesn't include pdf from Books, so a cannot restore an old backup I done in October 2020. I didn't have activated the iCloud Books switch in iCloud menu under settings, so not recovery is possible.
I already asked apple support without help at all. I read that I'm not alone with this big big bug.

Steve Jobs wanted to give his product usable and user-friendly. I think as developer and user that for iOS the combination of Itunes, Icloud and Icloud drive with all your stupid and strange sync, limitations and stupid and illogic combinations between them changing each year (Itunes doens't allow to save your book distinctly, the icloud backup some time ago saving the pdf inside ibooks app, now not anymore, but they (pdf) can be saved in icloud drive, the photo are sync in icloud but not in the backup,.. and so on..) promoted that ecosystem to be the worst and less usable implementation I could see today. Jobs said that Microsoft doesn't have taste, I think that iOS after 14 versions is also worst than MS Windows 95. I'm on the field and I'm very confused and scared to deal with an Ipad for important things, except to navigate with safari. My teams never would have designed a so painful and not usable system, complicated also for a developer. It canceled my data, but other than that I procrastinate thinking I have to find a way to save my pdf from the IPad to a PC, to save my photo etc. stupid things allowed by a 100€ phone. I have to send and email at my address to add a book to my library :-)! Read the hundreds of messages on apple community how they lost important data after the stupid connection with Itunes, that decides for itself to restore the data it decided and rewrite yours in the device. At the end of the day all that mess just to sell some extra space in icloud. Let me to pay much your device, but at least allow me to use it and manage my data. Painful!


Disable trackpad feedback? Don't want any tactile/haptic feedback when clicking Can I completely disable the haptic feedback from my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina's trackpad?

I want to click without any kind of vibration/feedback.

Ideally it should feel like (as I imagine it would were this disabled) pressing onto a solid bit of metal. I.e. the case surrounding the trackpad.

I have a 12" Macbook (2015) and a Macbook Pro (2017), both running MacOS 10.13.6. The 12" gives me the option for "Silent Clicking" in Trackpad Preferences. The MBP, however, does not give me this option (and I wish it did). So, while it does seem to be capable of being switched off, there does seem to be some hardware-specific aspect to it. Silent mode is nice... wish they all did it.

You can't.  It's not a software controlled click, it's hardware.  You can use the "tap to click" gesture rather than a physical click.  Enable it in System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click tab.

Credit: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3655934?start=0&tstart=0  @captfred


Charge my macbook pro late 2012 60W (A1425) with a 24W usb-magsafe charger - is this safe? I have a campervan, and was wondering if I can charge my macbook pro late 2012 60W (A1425) with a homemade 24W usb-magsafe charger.  I am asking this question, because I am planning to build a charger that can charge using the cigarette lighter.

Is it better to have a higher current / wattage capacity - 75W charger for safe operations of MacBook Pro?

The rating is a maximum power value, and your MBP will draw only what it needs. Your MBP needs up to 60W in order to work at full power AND recharge the battery. Using a 24W charger will only charge the battery if the MBP is using less than 24W to run.

However, because 24 is much less than 60, it's likely that this power source will be insufficient to power the MBP and recharge the battery. If the MBP is sleeping, you might charge the battery very slowly overnight. If in use, you might charge the battery very slowly, or even just make the battery discharge more slowly than normal. I've used 45W power supplies with 60W Macs and they have charged slowly while in use; but when the Mac works hard, the battery level falls, though slower than without the supply.

I'm prepared to say that using a lower-wattage supply will not harm your battery. Whether the actual device you make is safe will depend on you.

It is safe to use a lower power charger than the factory supplied charger but NOT safe to use a higher one. The biggest problem you may have is that your laptop may use more power than it is receiving even when on charge so you need to let it charge without use if using a significantly lower power charge like you will receive from your cigarette lighter. It may not even be enough power to charge when not in use.

Good luck though.


iPhone 5s speaks the words I type when I text My iPhone 5s speaks the words I type while texting.  How do I stop iPhone 5s from speaking the words I type when texting?

Go to Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech and disable the options.

Go to Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech → Typing Feedback and disable Speak Auto-text


Error reading /Applications/Xcode. The file doesn’t exist I have installed Xcode 6.2 in 10.9.5, and i dont know why, when i run,

xcodebuild -license

i get this error message,

Error reading /Applications/Xcode.  The file doesn’t exist.

By typing 'agree' you are agreeing to the terms of the software license agreements. Type 'print' to print them or anything else to cancel, [agree, print, cancel] agree

You can view the license agreements in Xcode's About Box, or at /Applications/Xcode 2.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/License.rtf

After this i notice that xcodebuild is not well pointed, because 'xcode' folder doesnt exist, i just have 'xcode 2.app', so i dont know if i will have problems in the future, since i am getting this error, and if yes how can i fix it?

It's not a bug. It's how the command line works. If you want to copy a file, you use cp /path/file /path/copy. You use spaces to signal a new argument. If you have spaces in your path, you must tell bash to ignore them: cp /path\ with\ spaces/file /path/copy.

If you use brew, they have a notice on their website that says that Xcode must not have spaces in the name, otherwise the Xcode command line tools won't work properly. (Brew link: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/38049 )

This is not a real answer but it seems that there is a bug from apple here, so i have reported to them, this issue.

It shouldnt be a space between 'xcode' and '2'.


Why does my iPhone keep asking me for passwords for random WiFi networks? My iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.1 (although this also happened when running 4.3) keeps interrupting whatever I do with it (I might be playing a game or browsing the Web) with a dialogue asking me to enter a password for some WiFi network the phone appears to have found in the vicinity.

It's very annoying.

In the Wi-Fi Networks settings "Ask to Join Networks" is set to "off".

Why does my iPhone do that and how can I get it to stop doing that?

That must be annoying, and you have identified the correct place that should turn the feature off, which clearly isn't working.  So it's not really a problem we can identify with as we are unlikely to be able to recreate it for start.

As with lots of this type of problem, there is no way we can help assist with identifying exactly why it's doing it, other than noting that it is likely transient behaviour and provide some possible steps to try and fix it, which veers us into the realm of off-topic answers as there is no way of knowing if this "answer" can solve it for you.

But with this in mind, I would try the following steps, in this order.

Turn Wifi Off and On.  If this does not solve it:
Turn Ask to Join Networks On and Off.  If this does not solve it:
Turn Wifi Off, turn Ask to Join Networks Off, and reboot your phone, then turn Wifi On
If none of the above solves it, I would consider connecting to iTunes, backing up your device fully, performing an OS re-install, then recovering from your backup.  This is last resort, but if none of the first 3 steps fix it, it's likely that there is some corruption of the settings for your Wifi which may only be fixed by replacing with a clean setup.

Try this:
Settings,
Wifi,
Hit the blue "i" in the circle to the right of your server name,
Choose HTTP PROXY "auto"


What's the shortcut for Show/Hide Playlist in VLC? I checked VLC's preferences but it seems that Show/Hide Playlist is the only player's button that doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X version. Is there any way to control that?

Window Menu > Playlist…
 Opt ⌥   Cmd ⌘   P


Why can't Time Machine see shared drive? I am having trouble setting up a Time Machine backup to a shared network drive. I have an external drive plugged into a MacBook Pro (MBP), and I want to use Time Machine to remotely back up a MacBook Air (MBA) to it. I followed the instructions in “Can Time Machine back up to an external HD connected to another Mac?” but Time Machine will not present the remote drive as an option.

The drive is formatted properly. I have an identical partition to which the MBP does a local Time Machine backup.
The drive is shared properly. In fact, the MBA can see and mount the remote drive.

However, the partition is not shown as a potential Time Machine drive.

Finder can see and access the drive, so why can't Time Machine? Is there a bit somewhere I can flip to tell Time Machine to see it?

When you click the "Options..." button in the File Sharing preferences, is "Share files and folders using AFP" enabled? Time Machine over the network requires AFP, so it won't work if only SMB is enabled.

You may also need to disable SMB. I am not exactly sure why this is the case, but sometimes the SMB share takes priority and Time Machine can't seem to see the AFP share. Note that this will prevent Windows clients from connecting to file shares.

I have had the same problem with my new Mac (Mavericks).  There are lots of solutions on the internet which seem to work for other people and which I tried with no success.  In case it helps this one did it for me.  http://rajiv.sg/blog/2012/11/19/configuring-os-x-mountain-lion-time-machine-to-work-with-cifs-smb-share/


Photos.app no longer detecting SD cards for import Lately, when I try connecting any of my cameras' SD cards, either through a USB-based SD reader or by connecting the camera itself, Photos.app does not automatically launch when the card mounts, and if I manually start Photos (either before or after inserting the SD card) the Import tab does not appear. I cannot find any settings anywhere for controlling this behavior, either - as the Photos Import tab isn't appearing I never have an opportunity to check/uncheck the "launch Photos automatically for this device."

I have tried formatting the card both from my camera (a Sony ɑ6000) and from my computer, and shooting in both RAW and RAW+JPEG - but to no avail.

This setup used to work just fine, and I don't know what's changed. What settings might I need to dig through? I know that in the past, SD card behavior was controlled by a bunch of different weird things (including iPhoto and Aperture, neither of which I have installed anymore). The device doesn't appear in Image Capture either.

What might be going on, and how can I go about fixing this?

EDIT: I should add, the SD card mounts just fine and shows up in Finder - it's just that neither Photos nor Image Capture see that it's an SD card with photos and/or video. The manual import process does work but I'd like to be able to import and erase all photos and videos in one step as I used to be able to (videos are especially annoying to do manually as my camera uses AVCHD which is stored in an opaque "clips" database).

In the Terminal.app, is your SD card appearing with this command ?

ls /Volumes

If not, the problem is that your SD card is not mounted.
https://superuser.com/questions/256445/macbook-pro-not-detecting-sd-card
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5349557?tstart=0

If your SD card is mounted, you can import your photos without the dedicated tab :

in the menubar

  file -> import

keyboard shortcut

  CMD + Shift + I

I was able to fix this by doing the following:
starting my mac in recovery mode by holding cmd + opt + r
selecting disk utility
clicking mount for my SSD
clicking first aid
restart my mac


Strange screen on MacBook Air (2016) Recently my MacBook Air (2016) has been randomly giving me this screen. Longest it’s ever lasted was a minute. One time I had to shut down the computer to get it to go away, another time it went away on its own. Does anyone know if there is a quick fix?

Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac
Settings that can be stored in NVRAM include sound volume, display resolution, startup disk selection, time zone, and recent kernel panic information. The settings stored in NVRAM depend on your Mac and the devices that you're using with your Mac.
Shut down your Mac, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart.

this happens some time to time, at least with my macbook air which is a year younger then yours. i found this to happen when switching to fullscreen or airplay. also since that time my computer needs a replacement. my suggestion is: that you get a good refurbished mac.


Reset 'Top' command default view on Mac OSX I met a problem when using linux top command on macOS. The default top open view now looks like

It displays too many unnecessary columns and didn't sort by CPU or MEM by default. I remember it used to be like

Anyone know how to change it back? I've checked my home folder that there is no .toprc file.

Thanks in advance.

top will generally display as many columns as the width of your window will allow. But to change the sort to cpu (high to low), you can type the following within top:

o to select primary sort

-cpu to sort by decreasing CPU usage

You can add a secondary sort if desired:

O to select secondary sort

-mem to sort by decreasing memory usage

? will show you all options, along with the current sort selections - see below image:

You can also call these options explicitly from the command line, if desired, like this:

To see your longest running processes

top -o time -user $(whoami)

In terminal run: top -o cpu -O mem or create alias like t to run it


How does iOS know if a web site is restricted? I don't add these web sites to the restricted list. Is the iPhone sending every page I visit to Apple? Random surfing will encounter a random  restricted site. In this case it renders this app broken because the 'allow' link doesn't work. Setting is currently set to limit adult content which allows me to use a white list and blacklist. I never added this site to blacklist. I only blacklist 3 sites.

How does iOS know that a website is restricted? Does it send it every page I visit to Apple?

How does iOS know if a website is restricted? Does it send it every page I visit to Apple?

See this is the BS I'm talking about:

iOS 10.1.1

Settings → Restrictions → Websites and select your preferred option for Allowed Websites.

I had the same issue with Safari blocking Google searches at random despite not having any filters on. When I went to Settings/ Screen Time/ Turn Off Screen Time the problem stopped. I believe I had previously signed into Screen Time under 'This is My Child's Phone' by accident. I didn't have any issues with Safari after I signed back into Screen Time under 'This is My Phone'. Hope this helps someone else.


iOS storage disappearing I've got an iPhone 5s 8gb with about 1.4gb of unused storage.

Within the last week this storage goes down to zero multiple times a day just through normal use. When this happens iOS "cleans" all apps and frees up the storage back to 1.4gb.

I've turned app background refresh off but still hasn't improved the situation.

I suspect there's an app using storage without my knowing it.

Is it possible to find the app causing the problem without restoring factory settings and reinstalling apps one at a time?

Plug your device into your computer. Download the app iFunbox. Go to the root file system, then open the directory "Application Archives" then delete all of the ipa files.

Another alternative (without ads) is  iMazing  it does an amazing job with my files. (It's a paid app)

I just turned off the family sharing and iCloud and gained back 3 GB of space.


How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button? Is there any way to create a screenshot of an iPhone without using the combination home+lock button? Is there an app for jailbroken phones? Something else?

I do not have a Mac; only Windows.

Go to settings>General>Accessibility>Scroll down>AssistiveTouch

Turn it on.

Then you just click the home button and it gives you the option of screenshot if you do this:
Click device>More>Screenshot and you are done!

An alternative would be to simply take a picture of the screen with a camera.


How can I make Siri's geo-fenced reminders wait until I actually arrive? I'm walking my dog and tell Siri, "When I get home, remind me to take out the trash." It sets up a reminder keyed to my arrival at a location, my home address. So far so good, but the reminder actually goes off when I'm still about a block from home. By the time I actually get home, I've forgotten all about it.

Is there any way to make Siri/Reminders more accurately assess whether I've arrived or not?

You don't have precise range control over geo fenced reminders with non iBeacon input. Both GPS and WiFi and cell tower location can trigger locations a good block or more away from a precise location.

Until you have iBeacon hardware or software set up, you can snooze that reminder, set a follow on time based reminder or change the original reminder to go off time rather than proximity.

The best you could do is offset the home location to coordinates several hundred feet away from where you typically approach and keep the same default 100m/330ft radius that iOS lets you make larger, but not smaller on iOS 7.

You will need to change the location radius per reminder.

See the follow page http://forums.imore.com/guides-how-articles/262696-guide-how-set-location-based-reminder-ios-7-reminders-app.html

step 10

If you set a named location it should work.  something like "home"


iPhone disappear from Find My iPhone My iphone6 (iOS8.3) was stolen in Vietnam during my holiday and I've activated lost mode half an hour later and erase iphone later on. The erased action was pending for about 36 hours and now the device is not showing on find my iphone at all (and I did not remove it from icloud).

I don't see it in find my iphone anymore, does it mean the thief(s) restored and remove my icloud from the device?
Or does it mean the phone has been wipe off? I didn't get the email notification saying my phone is erased though.

I don't think I would ever get back the phone, just wanted to make sure all the info on my phone is being erased completely.

I tried to look around for answers but can't seem to find it, if there is already similar article would be great if you could point me the link.

Thanks!

Basically you should be able to use Find My iPhone to locate your device and take additional actions that can help you recover it and keep your data secure. It is possible that the GPS locator has been disabled.


Can I Share All Photos in iCloud Photo Library to Family Members? With iCloud Photo Library, assuming I have purchased enough storage space to store all my photos, can I then share all my photos to other my family members who are using different iCloud accounts?

(This question here seems to imply there is a limit imposed by Apple that is not publicly-known.)

According to this article by Serenity Caldwell of iMore, there are three ways to share photos to all your family members.

Use the "Family" album that is automatically created if you have Family Sharing turned on.
Create a shared album.
Use the same iCloud account for all family members.

Nevertheless, there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically share all your photos to your family members. You will still need to copy photos into the share album. (Unless you are all using the same iCloud account, which I didn't want to do, since each user already have their own active iCloud accounts.)

Since Apple is not capable and even don't want to solve this issue there is only one solution.
you have to use Google Photos. App is also available in appstore


Smooth zoom in safari You know the way you smoothly zoom-in in mobile safari? How do I do that on my Mac + magic trackpad in regular safari?

Its a pinch motion just like mobile safari.  To activate it, make sure Pinch Open and Close is ticked in System Preferences

Wait for 10.7 "Lion" there'll you get the same zooming as on the iPad and you can even double-click on columns to zoom the to full window width.


Which key is Num Lock on an Apple keyboard in Windows? I have an extended keyboard as in the image below

When connecting to a Windows machine, which key is Num Lock?

For future reference, the key on this UK keyboard does not say Clear, it has an image of a horizontal rectangle with an X through it ⌧ but it is the same key and provides the same functionality in OS X.

Under Boot Camp, it's the Clear ⌧ button, according to Apple's documentation.

That makes some sense, at least, because that key is where Num Lock normally lives on other keyboards.

(Note: I don't have the same keyboard to test with, but I'm guessing this document isn't actually Boot Camp-specific; it's just a guide to how the keys are mapped under Windows.)

You can take the following steps:

click a SYSTEM PREFERENCES
click a accessibility
click a mouse & trackpad
click a enable mouse keys


How to always use macbook microphone with Bose QuietComfort 35? I have noise canceling headphones (Bose QC 35), that also have microphone built-in. If the microphone is active, noise canceling doesn't work, they just pass through ambient sounds (this is by design. I suppose, they did it so you wouldn't feel that you're in "vacuum" when you are talking).

Anyway, the problem is that whenever I connect my headphones to macOS, the system switches from internal microphone to headphones' one. Therefore, noise canceling doesn't work, unless I go to system settings and switch microphone back to the internal one.

This is very annoying, especially considering that I have to do that every time I connect headphones.

Is there any way to force macOS to always use internal microphone, or not to use the specific headphones' one?

Update from 10/2017:

So I found out that "headphones' microphone is being used" only happens when Skype is running. But ever since I stopped using Skype (or having it running all the time), the problem was gone!

This is not the solution for the original question, I'm just leaving it here for the future reference.

I still really like @aaplmath's suggestion (and that may be the best one going forward), but I also just stumbled on this solution that requires no coding (AppleScript/Swift/ObjC/Other) in High Sierra, and it's super easy to configure.
Please note that the answer was in the comment section of the article and it seems to work on High Sierra (I'm on 10.13.6), but I don't know if this works on Mojave and beyond.

Open the standard "Audio MIDI Setup.app" utility, and click the + at the bottom to create an Aggregate Device. Then select the Internal Microphone as the only component in this aggregate device and select it as the default input. For some reason this prevents Mac OS X from selecting the Bluetooth Microphone from now on and it will stay on the internal one when you reconnect.
After creating that aggregate input, go to your usual System Preferences -> Sound -> Input (tab)

Source: http://ssrubin.com/posts/fixing-macos-bluetooth-headphone-audio-quality-issues-with-hammerspoon.html#comment-4018174387

If you use your headphones via cable instead of bluetooth, the simplest solution should be to use a cable with a TRS (Tip + Ring + Sleeve) phone jack instead of a TRRS (Tip + Ring + Ring + Sleeve) phone jack. The TRS phone jack only supports Stereo signal, but no microphone. Thus no microphone signal will be transmitted and the built-in microphone should stay active.


Restore from "iOS7 backup" to an iOS6 phone A friend upgraded my device to iOS7. It didn't work properly so I downgraded it a few days later to iOS6.

I have backups both in iCloud and on OS X (iTunes). When I try to restore either I get a message:

  To restore this iPhone from this backup, you must first set up the
  iPhone as new and restore the software to the latest version.

Without this backup I am very inconvenienced, so I ask is it possible to restore an iPhone from a iOS7 Backup if you downgraded the phone to iOS6?

You can edit the info.plist file. I successfully restored my backup to 6.1.4. Edit the build version to your ipsw's build version and product version to the version you want to downgrade to. Using plist editors in windows are highly recommended.

Windows: C:\Users[Your username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup[Your UDID]

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/[Your UDID]/

After that just restore the backup normally. If an error popped up at the end, ignore it. Hope this helps.

I had the exact same problem! I have an iPhone 4, so IOS 7 doesn't work very fast.

The only thing I really needed back were my contacts, so I extracted the contacts from the iPhone back files. Once extracted, I downgraded to IOS 6 and used an iPhone transfer application to put the contacts back in. Check Google for iPhone transfer application.

Download the extractor from here: http://www.winavi.com/iphone-data-recovery/index.htm


How to get Tx-Power of wifi adapter in MacOS? In linux there is a command called iwconfig which shows Tx-Power in its output. How to measure antenna power in MacOS?
The airport utility in mac just shows the datarate and not the power in db.

I want to see the current Tx-power value. I do not want to change it or mess with it. I know that it changes dynamically according to the Region or other factors, but how to monitor the current value?

The Tx- Power is coded in to Firmware and has a maximum allowed by law. (FCC in the US)

Apple did offer the possibility to change the Tx-Power in its older version of Airport utility Ver 5.6

You can download it and try.

The 802.11n (5th Generation) - Airport Extreme card is set to

20 dBm (nominal) Output Power.

The iwconfig does not actually report the output power of the antenna. That is not possible. An antenna can not measure its own output, but a secondary antenna can. The iwconfig power output is a misnomer, it reports the power going in to the circuit that powers the antenna.


What to Remove before selling Macbook? My macbook (feb 2008 white) sold on ebay, but I haven't shipped it yet.  I'm concerned about my privacy.  I can't wipe the hd clean because I sold the computer with valuable software on it.  What files should I remove so that the person who receives the computer can't log into my accounts?  And what other things should I do to ensure my privacy is safe?

The simple solution

Create a new admin account, then use it to delete your personal account(s).

When you delete a user, you have the option of performing a "secure erase" on their home directory:

Assuming you haven't stored any personal files outside of your home directory, this will do the trick.

The paranoid solution

If you want to be really thorough, the only way to ensure that none of your personal data remains is to securely wipe the drive. You can do this from Disk Utility by clicking "Security Options" on the "Erase" tab:

After that, reinstall your applications. None of your personal data will remain.

A guide from here
https://macback.us/sell-macbook-pro/

1 - Create a backup
2 - Sign out of iTunes
3 - Sign out of iCloud
4 - Sign out of iMessage
5 - Erase and reinstall OS X


Strange looking certificate in macOS Keychain I need help with a strange looking certificate which has appeared in the Keychain of my Mac.

The name of the certificate is "A9936B80-41C7-4D34-8020-59C3E40A31A8 A98369B2-0C8C-4CF8-9921-015C5D9A4C86". It is installed in the login keychain under My Certificates. There is no clear name of an issuer, nor to whom it was issued.

It is not trusted by the system and after deleting it gets reinstalled again and again.

What it is?

I found a plausible explanation, the certificate is most probably related to studentd, see https://eclecticlight.co/2019/04/01/back-to-school-studentd-and-classroom-in-mojave-10-14-4/:

  Although run from a system LaunchAgent property list, studentd is run as the user from login. If you log into a user account which doesn’t yet have one, it creates a security certificate in that user’s login keychain, with a name starting with ‘member:’ followed by two UUIDs. The first of these is that user’s UserIdentifier given in ~/Library/studentd/AdHocConfiguration.plist, thus is that student’s identifier for the purposes of studentd. That certificate isn’t trusted, but trust is obtained later if the user connects that Mac to a Classroom system.

I'm almost sure with UTMOST certainty that your MAC is hacked. I've been hacked for over 4 years now by "white hat" hackers AKA ethical hackers. These guys are actually curious about how you got tons of money and they make sure that you're doing it not in an illegal manner.


iTunes grayed-out menu I know this is not a new problem, but I haven't seen a solution to it so I figured I'd go ahead and see if anyone has come across a solution here:

Sometimes iTunes grays out menu bar options such as Quit iTunes and Add to Library. I never noticed any pattern about when this happens, but I've read that others experience it after editing tracks in their libraries. I've also checked for open dialog boxes somewhere, but I don't have any of those.

Anyone know why this is still happening (years after I first saw this), and if there is any solution yet? I am on OS X 10.7.5 and running whatever version of iTunes is the latest that is available via Software Update (the About iTunes option is grayed out as well so I can't check that right now). Any ideas would be much appreciated -- thanks!

One year later, this is happening to me as well. I'm on 10.8.5 and iTunes 11. I have used iTunes since it's inception and don't think I've had this problem until iTunes 11.

Most menu items are greyed out, like Quit and Preferences, but some work, like new Playlist and most items under the File menu. Otherwise iTunes still works, but to quit, I have to force quit or close down the Mac altogether. I see no open dialog boxes anywhere.

If you go to Preferences → Advanced → Reset warnings. It fixed the problem for me on a Mac.


How can I list my open network ports with netstat? I would like to list my open network ports in Terminal with built in commands. As what I know, netstat is the command to use. But I'm struggling to get any useful information out of it.

How can I list my open ports with netstat? Any specific flags that helps me in this case?

netstat -anvp tcp | awk 'NR<3 || /LISTEN/'
Active Internet connections (including servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)     rhiwat shiwat    pid   epid  state    options
tcp46      0      0  *.62981                *.*                    LISTEN      131072 131072  34548      0 0x0100 0x00000006
…

sudo lsof -PiTCP -sTCP:LISTEN
COMMAND     PID      USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
BetterTou 34548 grgarside   20u  IPv4 0xa42a1d0ade5d3585      0t0  TCP *:62981 (LISTEN)
BetterTou 34548 grgarside   21u  IPv6 0xa42a1d0ad67f7a5d      0t0  TCP *:62981 (LISTEN)
…

Based on @kroolk's great answer, I would suggest this one-liner:
netstat -Watnlv | grep LISTEN | awk '{"ps -ww -o args= -p " $9 | getline procname;colred="\033[01;31m";colclr="\033[0m"; print colred "proto: " colclr $1 colred " | addr.port: " colclr $4 colred " | pid: " colclr $9 colred " | name: " colclr procname;  }' | column -t -s "|"
...which will not truncate the output of  ps (at least on my mac) and give the full command including arguments :-)


List of emoji substitutions for Messages in Mac OS X I use the Messages application a lot on my Mac Book Pro. It is lovely! Since most of my friends uses iMessage I could send messages directly to them on their phones.

I use emojis a lot. I know some substitutions for popular emojis like :) gives me a smiley. However I want to be able to use substitutions for all the emojis. I find it disturbing to use the drop-down menu for inserting an emoji. This forces me to switch from the keyboard to the mouse/touchpad way to often :/

Is there a complete list of all emoji substitutions used in the Messages app?

This list is based off of the old iChat plist and scripting the list of emoticons from Wikipedia into Messages.app:

 :)
 ;)
 :(
 B)
 :D
 D:
 :d
 ;p
 :p
 :o
 :s
 :x
 :|
 :/
 :[
 :>
 :@
 :*
 :!
 o:)
 >:-o
 >:-)
 :3
 (y)
 (n)
❤ <3

Note most support using - for a nose so :-) works for  as well.

I have recently bought a mac and wanted to know the same question I've recently discovered the easiest way to do it. If you go onto your settings and click the key board option, then select the text sub heading it will give you the option to create your own shortcut I put the short cut that i wanted to use in the left hand side box. If you then double click the right hand side box and hold down ctrl cmd and space bar at the same time it will come up with a list of emojis which you can then insert. Then you are ready to use them in your messages.

Hope this helps


What is 'symptomsd" and why is it at times using 60% of my iMac's CPU? There is a system process on my iMac running El Capitan called "symptomsd" that has been consistently bouncing back and forth between about 20% to 60% of the CPU resource on my iMac.

It is running from /usr/libexec/symptomsd. There is a private framework it loads called /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Symptoms.framework that itself contains other frameworks called:

ManagedEvent.framework
SymptomAnalytics.framework
SymptomEvaluator.framework
SymptomPresentationFeed.framework
SymptomPresentationLite.framework
SymptomReporter.framework

It doesn't seem to write much to the system log files. In fact the only relevant message in "All Messages" on the iMac is:

  syslogd[46]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module
  "com.apple.networking.symptoms" claims selected messages. Those
  messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL
  database.

There is a preference file at /private/etc/asl/com.apple.networking.symptoms that seems to indicate that logs should be written to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/com.apple.networking.symptoms.log but that file doesn't even exist on my iMac.

I tried watching what it was doing with tools like fs_usage but I'm not getting much useful information back just lots of "ioctl" requests. I tried manually killing and triggering it to launch again, and it seems to examine all the applications installed on my iMac and then go back to making lots of "ioctl" requests.

Searching on Google all I've been able to determine is that this seems to be one of those things that is shared between OSX and iOS. No information anywhere on what it actually does though.

Anyone have any idea what this process is for or know anywhere it is documented?

I have an iMac and had the same issue. It appears to be a bug in Mac OS X.

In my case, I had both Ethernet and Wifi turned on for my iMac. Turning Off Ethernet in System Preferences > Network, keeping Wifi as the only connection, prevents the issue completely. Now, the symptomsd consumes about 0.2 ~ 0.3 % CPU load as it's supposed to.

I started to experience only recently after upgrade to Mac OS X 10.11.1. I guess this is a bug introduced recently.

Not managed to find any conclusive information on symptond anywhere so far.

And not entirely confident in my fix, but turning off the firewall seemed to alleviate the problem for me anyway.


Can I use Split View on an older iPad model? I can use Slide Over, but not Split View. Can I modify any plist files or do something in order to be able to use it on my iPad mini 2?

There's really nothing that you can do to change that. iOS is not open-source, so users can't change source code. But it's also hardware limitations, so even if you were to find a way to force Split View multitasking into your iPad Mini, there's no telling what would happen. Apps would likely randomly crash, if they were even to open in the first place. Apple does a great job of supporting older hardware, so if Split View was feasible to implement on older iPads, Apple probably would have done it.

Install Medusa tweak from Cydia and you will get real splitview multitasking.


iCloud container taking excessive disk space I have almost no disk space left on my MacBook Air.

Having run Disk Inventory X, one of the main hogs is the files under Users/MyName/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams/assets (assets contains several folders with gobbledygook names).

**The content here seems to be my iCloud Photo Sharing shared photos (ie. "Shared" in Photos), which is about 21.9Gb large.

I don't understand why this is the case, since my "Photos" folder (ie. library) is only 12.94Gb large (local storage is optimised, real library more like 52Gb).**

My MacBook Air early 2015 has the 120Gb storage and runs OS X 10.11.6

So, what is this folder mentioned above, why is it so large, and can I delete any of it without losing my Shared photos or the photos streams which I have been added to?

The iCloud files come down from the cloud, so you can't really delete a local copy as it will start downloading again. Instead, let's review the settings that control what data comes down.

Ideally, you can turn off iCloud on the Air and let the OS delete all the content so you have space to work. (Bad things break in odd ways when the boot drive fills).

Open iCloud preferences and under photos turn off either/or/both:

iCloud Photo library
iCloud photo sharing

The first will be your pictures existing only on other devices and Apple servers. The second is all of the shared photos that other people have shared with you and you have shared with other people.  I even know of some people who use iCloud photo sharing to share photos only with themselves because these photos don't count against the free 5 Gb storage limit.

You are correct that the folder you found is for shared photos. If you can't free up other space on the Mac - you can opt out of some sharing of images / movies that are large. I also find the optimize photo size option handy on mobile devices when I don't need the full resolution of photos in my local copy of the Photos library:

I found this answer was the cure to my problems; a disk space shortage.  I just put a new SSD in my imac from 2009, which runs like a rocket now, and after 3 months, I was running out of space without putting hardly anything on it!

Also, unless you are willing to pony up for icloud space, then you'll most likely have to store photos on your imac locally, taking up space or prescribe to another clound storage solution.  We use dropbox, which was the bellweather before Apple got into the cloud storage realm.  We use that, but our account is so large now, about 110GB, that linking dropbox and any of our computers, takes up a lot of space on them.  So we access it through a browswer and that works fine for our needs.  Primarily its for backing up photos anyway.  We pay $99/yr for 1TB of storage.


How to solve stuttering after upgrade to Mountain Lion? After upgrading to Mountain Lion, audio playback in iTunes stutters, as well as video playback and other minor system hangs.

How can I solve this without a downgrade?

Is there confirmation of it being a ML bug?

There's a thread on this problem, still unsolved and the problem seems pervasive:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149309?start=60

My specs: Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro i7 with 16GB of OWC RAM.

EDIT

CNET has made an article about the issue

I've solved my system wide stuttering with Mountain Lion by now (first sound only, mostly, then aggravated system wide).

Here's why: My MacBook Pro became unbootable from stock HDD.

I had a bootcamp partition, no luck when booting into Windows too, got stuck when booting, jusk like when booting into OS X (got stuck at apple sign with spinning wheel).

I've got a Ubuntu DVD and started a live session, SMART disk diagnostics: 258 bad blocks, imminent disk failure.

I half apologize Apple in this point, for blaming solely the OS for being just weird. The stuttering origins, in my case, wasn't solely about the OS.

I should have take notice since when first upgraded to Mountain Lion. With my stock HDD, everytime I tried to install OS X, I needed to reboot a few times and got negative time counter (WEIRD) for the remaining installation time.

So what confused me so much?

I booted into Windows bootcamp: no stuttering, booted into Mountain Lion: stuttering plus very slow OS.
OS X Disk Utility never helped or warned about the amount of bad blocks (doing PRAM/SMC resets, filesystem and permission repair never truly helped).
When using Lion and Snow Leopard, there was no such a slowness/stuttering as there was in Mountain Lion. Before ML, I never experienced "sound stuttering", only when upgrading to ML this started to happen. So I suspect ML may be more sensible to disk with bad blocks.

I think I had few bad blocks initially and it became aggravated over time, I don't know whether ML usage helped in the aggravation process. Truth is, it was like I'd forced the disk to became unbootable when I last used it with Mountain Lion. It was slow as aways but still usable, I'd got a miniDisplayPort/HDMI cable and thought it was time to try it. The machine became very sloooow when I tried to play some video while connected to my TV, after disconnecting, it just hang, so I forced shutdown and it never booted again.

I've just replaced the original Toshiba MK5065GSX 500GB 5400RPM (what a crap and I think it was failing when under warranty) with a new Seagate Momentus XT 750GB (SSD hybrid drive, 7200RPM).

MAN, NOW IT'S BLAZING FAST! (also now I see the benefit of my early OWC 16GB RAM upgrade)

Anyway, I bought a MacBook Pro in early 2011 and here's what I've learned about MacBooks:

First problem:
     MacBook Pro refuse to charge without any apparent reason, I thought it was some smart emergency battery calibration routine, no it was not. I've dumbly let the warranty end and didn't replaced this failing and VERY expensive MagSafe, needed to buy a new one. At some point the stock MagSafe stopped charging and didn't return to charge after some hours, as it was aways doing.

Second problem:
    Slowness in Lion (I bought Lion)
   Got RAM upgrade, no help (I bought 16GB RAM)
   Got ML upgrade, NO HELP, got stuttering (I bought ML)
   Died HDD (started dying around 1 year of usage)
    Got new better HDD (bought)

Third problem:
   Bad management of headphone jack makes sound speakers muted.
    Blame OS X, any other OS: sound speakers working when expected to work.
    Google for: Headphone jack red macbook
   I think I can't solve this

Fourth problem:
    I've spent a lot of more money

Given my experience, I have some concerns whether ML helps HDDs die.

Now it's blazing fast, no stuttering and I can't put a headphone. If a put one, sound speakers only return to be recognized at random afterwards.

I WILL NEVER BUY APPLE STUFF AGAIN

Maybe, only used and cheaper apple stuff for upgrades with my own choice of good hardware.

TIP: Aways check your disk healthy with serious tools

The stuttering is a known issue. It should be fixed in the upcoming 10.8.1 update due shortly.


Why does iTunes continually ask me to authorize my computer? I just recently bought an album on iTunes and I have a weird problem. All of the songs (18 in all) except for one, play perfectly fine. When I try to play it, it says "This computer is not authorized to play "". Would you like to authorize it?" It prompts me to sign in with my Apple ID, which I did. Then it says "This computer is already authorized." I have no clue how to fix this! I've tried the steps outlined in iTunes: Missing folder or incorrect permissions may prevent authorization and iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases, but neither of them work. Any suggestions?

In the end, deleting all the offending track and re-downloading it was the only thing that worked. Why I didn't think about this at first, I don't know, but it worked!

De-authorize  your computer and then re-authorize it, cured the authorization causality loop.


Will I still be able to buy and install Lion after Mountain Lion is released? I own an Early 2008, white MacBook (MB403LL/A) which still has Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, installed.

My understanding is Mountain Lion will not support my MacBook. If this turns out to be true then I would probably want to upgrade to Lion since it will be the last supported (for a bit longer) release which I could use.

Previously, before the App Store when OS X was sold on optical media, it was always possible to purchase an older version of OS X. The media was still "out there".

With Lion I am not sure what my options are. Does anyone know if I would still be able to buy and install Lion from the App Store after Apple releases Mountain Lion?

I'm just trying to better understand what my options might be. I really have no desire to install Lion unless and until I feel I have no other choice.

Update: July 26, 2012

Copying the link to MacWorld article Apple pulls Lion from the Mac App Store into this question. (The link was in one of bmike's comments below.) The article seems to sum up my question/concerns about this matter rather well.

I also found the excerpt from this article quoted below interesting. Apparently not even Apple knows how to respond to this?

... Apple spokesperson Monica Sarkar told Macworld that, while Lion is no longer available for sale from the Mac App Store, customers can
still purchase it from the legacy products list via Apple phone
sales. But when we called 1-800-MY-APPLE, sales representatives there
said Lion was not available.

I called 1-800-MY-APPLE and bought Lion 10.7 for only $19. I told the automated machine that I wanted to buy OS X 10.7 Lion. I was transferred to a sales representative, and he looked it up and said it was $19.99 plus taxes. I was surprised because I was expecting a $29.99 price tag. So I made him double check to make sure it was indeed 10.7 Lion and not 10.8 Mountain Lion. He said that it was for sure and that I would be emailed a PDF with a redemption code to get it.

I went through with the purchase last night (November 6, 2012) and got the email today. I was able to redeem the code in the App Store and download it from there!

We don't know yet.  But maybe Mountain Lion install will only work when Lion is already installed.  If so, then certainly Lion will remain on sale.


Latest version of Firefox Portable for Mac I would like to know what is the latest version of Firefox Portable for Mac. I just found versions from 2011-2013 and they seem pretty old. By the way, these softwares are not from the official developer (Mozilla).

Like you said there are no up-to-date Portable Firefox for OSX at the moment.

In order to have this to work, it would require to modify the source code to modifiy the directory where Firefox store it's tmp/config files.

I do not know what Firefox Portable for Mac is, but I am running a current version of Firefox on my Macs, you can get it from here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=sem2015Q2&utm_term=fast+web+browser&utm_content=speed1

Firefox discusses portable here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/973932


How to get Wi-Fi details from menubar in Big Sur like before? In previous versions of macOS it was possible to get details of the current Wi-Fi connection by command + option clicking the Wi-Fi icon in the menubar. This would show the ip address, WiFi strength, Wi-Fi frequency etc. None of the system icons react to this type of clicking anymore in Big Sur.
Here is a screenshot of how it used to look:

Is it possible to restore this behaviour or get something comparable?

Just to give this an answer for future searchers…
The key command was always Opt/click.
In the past, Cmd/Opt/click would also work - just by accident really.
In Big Sur, it no longer does work, so you have to use the prescribed command - Opt/click.

Before you click on the WLAN symbol in the menu bar, please press the option button.  But you can also regulate the whole thing via the terminal.  Here is an order
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I


Cursor changes position in input line after I highlight some text to overwrite it My problem is that when I highlight some text (doesn't matter where or in which application) in order to write over it the cursor, sometimes, suddenly changes position causing a lot of typos.

Let's say I've searched the phrase "stack exchange apple" in Google.

Now I want to search for stack overflow so I first highlight "exchange" and "apple" this way:

and then I simply type "overflow" in order to write over the highlighted text. What I sometimes end up with is this:

And I can assure you that I didn't press any arrow keys or trackpad or mouse button of sort. I simply wrote in the keyboard "overflow" but what happened is that after I pressed "O" the cursor changed position and the word ended up like this.

I'm running macOS Sierra v10.12.4 on a Mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro

Are there things that can fail or settings to help with this?

The most likely culprit once you rule out Bluetooth mouse / trackpad and any wrist or liquid input is hardware.

If you can reproduce this on a clean os install onto an external drive (to avoid wiping your normal drive and files and apps) it could be:

failing battery pressing underneath the trackpad
failing or damaged capacitive sensing grid
failing chip that processes the capacitive touch sensor

It's unlikely to be software, but I'd still download and install a clean and updated os to be sure unless you have close and easy access to hardware service.

Same exact problem.  I'd be very surprised if this were a physical issue.  I have the same problem on two separate Macbook Pro's.  Also happens in multiple applications.  There's definitely no mousepad bumping either.
 Unfortunately, the behavior difficult to reproduce.


iPhone stolen, selected to erase data over iCloud My iPhone was stolen last night, I logged into my iCloud account and selected find my phone, but the WiFi was turned off and could not locate it. I selected erase my phone when WiFi is detected and then I selected remove the device.

After thinking about this all night I am now wondering if I should not have deleted the device. Will the phone still erase the data even after I deleted the device from my account?

As soon as the device connects to the internet, Apple's servers will send the erase message to the phone. I have seen this happen three weeks after the message was sent and the effect was nearly immediate.

I don't know of any way to recall the erase message once you've sent it, and you should receive an email if the device ever registers and the erase message is sent.

All the things you did after the erase request are moot since if the phone never checks in, you can't really stop the erase and if it does ever check in, it will get erased and self remove from your list of devices.

You might open a support ticket with Apple to be sure the email will send if you erase the device (I haven't actually tested that sequence), but common sense says you might expect the email if the erase ever gets issued.

First, I would say that your first step - checking for the phone on Find My iPhone - was excellent. Then, though, you should have called the police and reported it missing - while still frequently checking for its appearance in the software!

If you report the phone stolen, and you notify the police that you have tracking software enabled, they may help give it priority when it shows up on the software. (I had that happen with a missing iPad.)

As to whether the phone will still erase the data, I believe it will. Your instructions are sent to a server, which will follow through whenever the device appears online. You might try re-adding the phone to your account and see what happens...

I would suggest giving it at least 3 days to appear before giving up, especially if the police are willing to help.

Good luck!


Saving Terminal Color/Opacity Preferences My question is related to this question:
Transparent Background in Terminal?

I have successfully found the menu to change color/opacity. I used the "homebrew" profile. Then I attempted to change the opacity as shown in the answer. However, once I put the opacity at 100% and closed the window, it completely ignored my changes and went back to 90%. How do I actually ensure that my preferences are saved? There is no "OK" or "apply" button on the color menu.

Clicking once (and only once) on the "color and effects" icon and adjusting the opacity should properly save any adjustments. Double-clicking may have caused the issue.

My contribution is more of a help, not really a solution, but maybe you could use it. What if you have changed the appearance of the terminal but you don't really like it? With this code you can reset it at any time.
rm $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist; killall Terminal


How can I keep a clone of a folder? I have a folder with Docs in on a Time Capsule, I would also like this same folder to be in Documents on Mac.

I want both to update whenever a file is changed or added.

Do you know of an automate command or a piece of software that will do this without me having to initiate it manually.

I Just found SynkPro with a google. Not used it but it says it can "sync your home and work computers—even if they're not connected—by syncing them both with an external hard drive serving as a "shuttle" for your data."

If you are willing to switch "Time Capsule" for "some service in the cloud" this is exactly what Dropbox does really really well :)


Choose providers in ios 9 spotlight suggested news I wonder where I can choose/ change the news sources that spotlight uses in the new iOS 9...!
I live in Switzerland and don't have the News App...

i've never visited most of the sites before

I think the news section in spotlight search is linked to your iOS news app, try changing sources there to see if it has any effects. You may also want to take a look at your spotlight search settings.


Screen rotation bug and reset Poked at the system settings, display settings, and changed screen rotation setting to 180.
Immediately after rotation setting became read only, and then after 30 seconds it crashed.

After reboot i cant'go to system setting any more, it just says to me that it cant open display settings and hangs.

NVRAM reset (options+cmd+R+P) does not reset screen rotation setting, only everything else.

So. How to do rotate display back to default? Command line options anyone?

Macbook Pro 13", 2013, OS X 10.10.2

Accepted answer didn't work for me but the following free command-line tool did;

https://github.com/CdLbB/fb-rotate

Once compiled (see readme) just ./fb-rotate -d 0 -r 0

I bought Pivot - Display Rotation on the Apple Store and it fixed the problem.


How to change the keyboard for alphanumeric password on lock screen on iPod I want to change the keyboard of my passcode to Japanese. Even if I change the language of my iPod to Japanese and get rid of the English keyboard, I still only can set my passcode in English. I can't find anything that will help me do this. If any of you know please help! Arigato!

Good morning! report it to Apple support
Request them to investigate, ask them to inform you and also post "how to" on their website as well

Note: Usually Apple or other smartphones makes only post the most common situations or most common inquiry's answers

For those more specific questions, one has to ask them to investigate and post it
If there is an Apple support agent or technical support person that knows how to use his or her resources and is willing to investigate on it for more than 5 minutes, they may be able to get you an answer

Thanks!


Mid 2010 MacBook Pro and Thunderbolt display Is there a way to use Thunderbolt display with mid 2010 MacBook Pro that only has a Mini DisplayPort (i.e. no Thunderbolt)? I understand that Thunderbolt displays are officially supposed to work only with post 2010 Macs, however I only care about the display functionality, i.e. I want my Mac to simply see it as a monitor.

Try a thunderbolt to mini display port adapter. Should be sold at the apple store or for cheaper on Amazon.


Keynote - Random Elements and Shuffle Slides In Keynote 6, if I have a slide with 2 images, how can I randomize the position of the images every time the presentation is run?

For example: Sometimes image 1 is at the top of the slide and image 2 is at the bottom. Sometimes it is opposite; image 2 is at the top of the slide and image 1 is at the bottom. Is this possible?

In keynote there is an option called Magic move transition. So you can set image with magic transition , in each running the image position will get changed. For more reference


How can I increase brightness on Mac without Mac keyboard I’m using a MacBook Pro and I broke it a while back. So, the keyboard doesn’t work on the laptop. I hooked up a keyboard to the USB port so I can still use it. I’m using a Dell keyboard.

Last night I wanted to listen to music without the brightness of the screen. So without thinking I turned the brightness off. Now I can't get the screen back so I was wondering if there's a way I can use the Dell keyboard to get the screen brightness back?

key: "scroll lock" to decrease brightness
key: "pause" to increase brightness

there is a very simple solution : just reboot


Alt+Enter Shortcut in MacOS For over 10 years I have been using Linux, where I always had Alt+Enter as a shortcut to open a new terminal. Recently due to employment change I have to use MacOS. About 100 times a day I hit Alt+Enter with nothing happening. I would like to set or hack my beloved shortcut into MacOS. Using Shortcuts in System Preferences/Keyboard does not seem to accept the Enter key.
You would earn my eternal gratitude by pointing me in the right direction!

You can try and follow the Automator action at the following related post.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/120300/316076
I do something like this to launch my work apps in the morning.


Uninstalling all instances of apache, php and mysql So When I first got my mac mini, I installed things like apache, mysql and php - not knowing that apple either came with these or had a tool called mamp that would allow you to run these.

I thought this was like ubuntu and I could install and run everything my self. I soon got frustrated and installed mamp on top of what ever I was doing, which wasn't working, and got that to work - Unfortunately a side affect of that was, every time I updated a file or folder on the mamp server, I had to stop, start mamp just for the changes to take affect.

This isn't normal.

So my solution is to uninstall apache, php, mysql AND mamp and then just install mamp and get it working as it should.

How would I do this?

Just delete or move the apps from the app folder s long as they don't have their own un-installer. If that doesn't work, back up your mac, reinstall the OSX, and copy the data you want from your back up file.


Set inherited permissions on iLifeAssetManagement? I have a second user account on my machine that is only used for iCloud syncing for my wife's apple id. In order to consolidate photostream photos I'm going to set up a process to pull new photos out of her photostream folder and import them into my iPhoto library.

But first, I have to alter permissions so I can see her photos from my user account. I've managed to set the permissions for the "everyone" user to see the photos from my user account, and that works for existing photos. But when new photos come in, they are set where only her account can see them.

Here is what I'm using. Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm missing. :-)

sudo chmod -R +a "everyone allow read,write,execute,append,readattr,readextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit" '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub'

Thanks.

I would try to avoid ACL's: they are tricky and often behave unexpectedly.

If I were you, I would try stick to standard UNIX permission, following these guidelines:

Create a user group (say, MeAndWife)
Make sure users Me and Wife are the ones and only members of MeAndWife
Change group ownership of sub directory to MeAndWife by something like chgrp -hR MeAndWife '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub'
Grant the owning group members the same permissions which are granted to the owning user: this may be obtained in several ways, but one that I like is by running find '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub' -group MeAndWife -and -perm -u=r -and -not -perm -g=r -exec chmod -h g+r {} \; [this basically states: Find files/folders with owning group MeAndWife, for which owning user does have read permission, but owning group members do not; and give owning group members read permissions]. Of course you should repeat this step for write and execute permissions (just replace -u=r and -g=r with, respectively, -u=w and -g=w for write, -u=x and -g=x for execute).
Finally, I think that if you want to be able to navigate to the sub directory from your account, then you need to make the full path to your sub directory searchable by everyone. That means, run through chmod o+x '/Users/Wife/Library', chmod o+x '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support', chmod '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement' and chmod o+x '/Users/Wife/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets'

That should do the job: new files in sub should inherit group ownership (MeAndWife) and permissions (same as owning user). If you find that that is not the case, you could use launchd in conjuction with a very simple script to fix file permissions periodically (say, hourly).

Not sure whether on OSX you are supposed to state explicitly list,search for directories. Strictly speaking, read/write/execute/append do not apply to directories, only to files.

  bmike: This seems both wrong and not an answer. Of course permissions affect directories and directories are just a type of files. Can you improve this or should it just be deleted?

@bmike: of course standard UNIX permissions do apply to both files and directories irrespectively. But ACL's do not. Just have a look at man chmod: you will then realize that there are

actions for both files and directories (delete, [read]/[write]&[ext]attr, <read>/<write>&security, chown)
actions for directories only (list, search, add_&[file]/[subdirectory], delete_child)
actions for files only ([read]/[write]/[append], execute), as well as
inheritance flag for directories only ([file]/[directory]&[limit]/[only]&_inherit)

So this proves that the answer is not wrong.

Is this an answer, btw? Yes it is, in that it hints that the user is not giving the directory the proper ACE's.

After all, I think that the user's question and bmike's comment point out to the fact that ACL's are tricky and somewhat misunderstood. Personally, I dropped them completely, and reverted to using standard UNIX perms wherever possible.

This leads me to suggesting the user an alternative approach, which is what I will do in a separate answer.


Recurring 'Broadcast Message' in terminal Yesterday I updated my Macbook Air (early 2015) to macOS Mojave.

Since then when I open a terminal window I am getting recurring messages. I can't run any terminal command at the moment.

What can cause this message?

Your system is running something called the Malloc Debugging and reporting a problem in your memory ? It is a program to detect memory bugs. Since it is stuck in a endless loop, the reported memory bug might not even exist.

It reports the same bug in your memory, over and over as seen here.

More info about Debugging memory-related bugs

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/Articles/MallocDebug.html

To stop the program in Terminal try Use key combination in Terminal Ctrl + C. or, Ctrl + Z , or CTRL+ \

You can also try...

Simple test is to start in Safe mode, or even more simple is to create new user account and try it.


How do I insert a picture into the Notes app? I use the Notes app for keeping track and sharing the extended notes with fellow physicians in cardiology studies. There are a lot of pros to this app and I would find it very much useful if I could insert pictures into specific areas within Notes. (a video would make it even better). How is it possible to customize this for a such purpose and is there an alternative to this solution?

The iOS Notes app is not able to insert pictures. At best it will paste a url to an image.

I suggest you use another note app such as Evernote or Notability.

Use Evernote that is the best note taking website/app


DIY repaired iPhone won't boot fully - flashes Apple logo when powered via USB I recently tried to do a screen repair on an iPhone 4.

It won't boot fully, so I may have managed to break something else. Basically it wont turn on, and I only get a flashing Apple logo when plugged into a computer. I believe it could be the motherboard, although I have visually inspected it extensively to determine if i could have physically broken anything. I could not detect any fault. When I use the suspect motherboard on another iPhone frame I get the same problem.

Get into DFU mode and do a restore in iTunes.

For DFU mode:

Turn the iPhone off (not needed in this case :)
Push the sleep button for 3 seconds (Apple logo should appear)
Push both buttons for 10 seconds (Apple logo should disappear)
Release the sleep/wake button and hold the home button for at least 15 seconds.

Nothing will show up on the screen, but if you connect it to iTunes it should recognise it. Then do a full restore.

If that doesn't work, you screwed something up inside, you might want to open it up again and re-check all connections.

Have you tried DFU mode and restore via iTunes? DFU mode is turn off > home + sleep 10 seconds > release the sleep button, until a "connect to iTunes" appears.