No shared Links available in iOS 7 Safari New with iOS 7 is a "Shared Links" tab in Safari. I have twitter accounts setup on my device (TweetBot shows them). However I don't see any content in the Shared Links tab. Just this message:

No Shared Links
Links shared by your contacts from select social networks will appear
here.

How do I link my twitter account in Safari so that content appears here?

Go to Settings > Twitter and link your account there. Once installed, and linked, if you open the Bookmarks tab in Safari, you will see Bookmarks, the Reading List, and Shared Links. If you have logged in properly, your Shared Links will appear here.

Yeah, logout of twitter and back in again in your settings.


What Math/Calculator software is available for the iPod touch? I just saw Pi Cubed, and now I'm thinking, what Math/Calculator apps are available for iPod Touch?

The best calculators for iOS:

Wolfram Alpha
PCalc
Calcbot
Soulver

I use (and rate) Missing Calculator, although by the looks of things it isn't in the App store (UK) any more..


What might break Mavericks "look up" gesture? On my main OSX account, the define gesture on my trackpad (three finger gap) recently stopped working. It's checked in System Preferences, but not functioning. This affects both my magic trackpad and my MacBook's built in trackpad.

So far, I've tried:

Deleted com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist.
Deleted and re-paired the trackpad.

This isn't a hardware issue, as an another user account on the same computer works fine.

Has anyone seen this? What might be wrong?

Although I never found which preference file was responsible, deleting all of them (I'd already tried com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist) restored the gesture.


What happens when a Mac SATA drive is put in a Dell laptop? I am planning to buy a Mac. But I see Mac uses same Intel processors as other Windows/Linux laptops. So I would like to know if I take a hard disk(say the Mac book is released before mid 2012, so the hard disk is not soldered) from the Mac book and use it in any other laptop (say a Dell) that supports the same size HDD.

Is this possible? Have any one tried. Please help me.

It depends on what you mean by "use".

You may access files on that drive from Windows/Linux, provided you have driver for HFS+ filesystem (Linux could have it already installed, at least in read mode, Windows driver must be downloaded separately). (i.e. the hardware is 100% compatible - and would run well if you reformatted the drive for Windows / NTFS).
You certainly will not get the Dell to boot OS X simply by moving the parts. OS X has very limited drivers and they are tailored strictly to Mac hardware.

No you can't.macbooks although they technically use the same hardware, the chips in Mac products are coded to look for specific "elements" in Mac OS. If there is no handshake between chip and OS,  Neither will operate!


deleted photos still take up storage I have deleted all my pics including from recently deleted and i have 45GB in icloud but still my photos are taking up a lot of space even though there is nothing in the photo album. Please help urgent issue!!

I had this problem for a long time with my 16gb iPhone. After a lot of looking I discovered iExplore and this tip:

http://iexplorer-support.macroplant.com/customer/portal/articles/1325738-how-to-delete-all-photos-from-an-iphone-or-ipad

Essentially, Photos caches lots of files and due iOS bugs, the caches don't always get cleared up.

I used the solution on the above page and cleared up 2GB of space.

I would suggest using the google photos app, as you will have unlimited storage if you were to use the "High Quality" Image choice. And then the app will ask you if you would like to free up device storage, and accept. That, personally is the best option for me.


How can I manage apps with File Sharing within iOS (without using computer)? I want to know if I can manage (copy MEDIA (music or video) from it   and   paste MEDIA to it) the File Sharing folder of iOS apps using iOS devices (iPhone, iPad ...) without plugging the device to a computer. AND WITHOUT JAILBREAK

If you have already jailbreaked, then you can use iFile. If not, sorry I don't know either.


How do I set up an IRC server on OS X for my local network? Is there a nice way to set up an IRC server for my wireless home network, running on an old Mac Mini?

On other forums people have recommended compiling IRCD-Hybrid for OS X. I have Homebrew installed and it contains a formula for ngIRCd; would that work?

Or should I give up and just use the Bonjour functionality built into iChat?

Since you have Homebrew installed, ngircd is very simple to install and configure.

Install ngIRCd

$ brew install ngircd

Add /usr/local/sbin to your PATH

$ vi ~/.bash_profile

edit the config file (very easy to follow, even for a beginner, as the defaults are just fine for everything.) Note the path may be different for you to homebrew / ngircd version folders.

$ cd /usr/local/mxcl-homebrew-697d2ae/Cellar/ngircd/17.1/etc/
$ vi ngircd.conf

Here's a sample config file, should you need it.

Verify your config, if you like:

$ ngircd --configtest

Then simply start the server:

$ ngircd

There are a couple packages available via Mac Ports. If you haven't used macports it's just like YUM or apt-get on linux.


is there any c++ compiler for ipad2? I am a student in college and just started to learn C++. I have an iPad 2 and no computer (it broke and I will not buy another one). So I want to find an app that seems like codeblock for Windows. The ability to run code and maybe can fix it is a big plus. Thanks a lot!

No fully functional IDE exists on iOS to make runnable apps without jailbreaking  but you can sign up for a free Amazon Web service account and get an ssh client and program "on the iPad" assuming you have a network account.

An app like nimbus or textastic would be an ideal companion once you were clear how compiling elsewhere fit your desire to learn.

Xcode is currently only available for Mac OS X to develop programs that run iOS and cocoa touch (not which is very much not C++ - even though Xcode can be used for C++).

Have a look at this question on learning C which will apply almost entirely to C++ on iOS.

Is there a C compiler for iPad?

If it helps, there is Java for iPad on App Store but you will have to pay to compile


iOS 10 broke my decimal separators, any way to change them back? Since iOS 10, Apple has started using what I assume to be language-based settings for separators.

Until 9 it was using region-based settings for me.
I happen to prefer dots over commas but I don't really care about the appearance.

My problem is Apple doesn't enforce proper localization and my brokers(which are the apps I use the most) all happen to have broken locale functions that turn 1,000 shares into 1.000 shares and then interpret that as if it meant 1 point O shares.

I waited a few months but Apple seems to be applying no pressure on the infringing apps.

Separators appear as if they were something the user could possibly set in the Settings screen.

Is there any way to fix them without switching everything to US English?

edit: As of iOS11, the apps and/or iOS have been fixed. Still not able to choose the separators, though.

Yes, please have a look at Settings > General > Language & Region.

After "Preferred Language Order" you see a setting for "Region". Change it to your preferred setting.

If it is already set to your correct region setting, set it to another region and then back to your preferred region.

Let me know if this works for you.

edit:
Make sure to check the "Region Format Example" field. It displays how the decimal separator will look like.

Change country to Swiss or German and vice versa. Hope this helped.


OS X computer name not matching what shows on terminal My computer name in System Preferences > Sharing is set to "archos", but is showing as "iphone" on Terminal. It just started doing this after I loaded Xcode for doing iPhone development:
Last login: Mon Nov  7 14:46:55 on ttys001
iphone:~ travis$

Any ideas what could be causing this?

It's perfectly normal for this to occur; when you login Terminal remotely bash does a reverse DNS lookup. It will only be the same if the hostname is not specified on the network you're connecting from and there is no reply from the DHCP server, or the reverse lookup against the remote DNS server fails to resolve.

You can easily over-ride the default setting by using this command in Terminal:

# sudo scutil --set HostName archos

You can check it by using:

# nslookup nn.nn.nn.nn
( or )
# host nn.nn.nn.nn

(where nn signifies your Mac's ip address)

In addition to the previous answer, remember that you can use a static address in your router. You have to enter the static IP and the MAC address of your network card, then you set a name for it. The hostname will be automagically updated to the specified name. That's it.


Deleting Photos, what iCloud saves and how to access things from iCloud and device storage issues My understanding (erroneous as I may be told this is) is that iCloud is like a virtual external drive to some extent. Maybe that is my first mistake. But before everyone starts saying to look at other posts, please know I believe I have read all the posts about photo stream, camera roll, and the link that was posted (in one of these answers on this general topic) about iCloud backups, as well as those Q&A's related to freeing up space. I am still confused.

I am reaching storage capacity on my iPhone. I have a lot of photos on my phone because they've always migrated over from phone to phone every year or so. However, I need to free up some space and would like to delete photos from my iPhone (the device I took them on), but am still not sure if I do this, if it will remain on iCloud.

I have an iPad and a Macbook too, and they (the photos and docs) are on there, but with photos I just don't ever want to lose, I want to be sure that if I start deleting off my phone, and my computer gets stolen or dies and my iPad is broken or whatever, that I can still always access all of my photos by just logging in to iCloud from any device.

I (supposedly) have iCloud backing up all of these things. However, If I log into iCloud.com, I do  not see my documents and photos. Shouldn't I conceivably be able to log in to iCloud.com from any device (Apple or not - say my work computer) and access my saved documents and photos?

Because I cannot go to iCloud.com (not settings/iCloud - bit iCloud.com) and see these things, I am hesitant to delete photos from my phone, depending on the idea that they are stored in iCloud. The same is true, to a different extent with my documents.

I have purchased extra storage on iCloud w/the idea that these things will always be there. What am I missing.

Also, aside from apps, photos and documents - are there some less obvious things I can delete that will free up space that would not be evident to the less than professionally savvy user?

Your question is probably about 5 ones about how things work, so I'll address the elephant in the room.

You need to decide how you want your photos to be stored.

Where do you archive them for long term storage?
How many can you afford to lose?
When and how will you clean up all the photos that come from dozens of places so that your long term albums don't have hundreds of internet cat meme pictures and screen shots from iOS?

I would recommend sitting down with a nice cup of tea or coffee and a large piece of paper and just list out what devices you want to take pictures from, what the master collection looks like, and how you'll manage things coming in to and out of that master collection.

Once you've done that, you can look at iCloud through a web browser - https://www.icloud.com/#photos and get a good picture of how close that "master collection" is to your ideal collection.

Then look at your Storage Settings - https://www.icloud.com/#settings

If you are running short, pay a little $$ for one month to buy yourself time and space to get everything safely into iCloud.

Then you can decide if you have a computer to hold things and want to make use of the free iCloud photo stream to get all your photos onto that computer or if you want another solution (google has one, dropbox has one, yahoo/flickr has one, many custom services exist for amateurs and pros to store photo libraries online).

Best of luck. The site will be here for you to ask more narrow questions once you have decided how to steer your ship. It's hard for us to advise you on broad plans - but once you make the broad plans - we can help you navigate certain bends in the river or certain customs officials that are prickly to get your on your way to happy photo management.

The way I'm seeing this in laymen's terms, is that iCloud is an access point, through which you can get on anywhere,and have all your photos at your finger tips. But it is NOT an external hard drive, that is, it WILL NOT STORE your full size photos. You need one central storage point where you can house all your photos, and then you can delete them off your phone, or wherever, to free up space. You pay for more storage with iCloud because it still take up room to store the little thumbnails that you can see.


Had no free disk space on my iPhone 5... but now I do? I realized yesterday that I had no disk space left on my iPhone 5 after I got spammed with iOS notifications that my apps could not be updated (due to lack of disk space). This morning I woke up to about 350 MB of free space - and I didn't do anything.

I don't know what the exact numbers were for usage (Settings --> General --> Storage & iCloud Usage --> Manage Storage), so I don't know what happened. As well as gaining free space, about 10 apps were updated.

My best guess is that there is some internal routine to compress images, since at full resolution they take up a fair amount of space, but even minimal lossy compression can save megabytes per photo without a noticeable loss in quality.

Is there such a documented process, or did something else happen? In any case, I wish I would have screenshotted the storage usage before this happened...

You can try to do the most obvious and smart things that free up space on your iPhone. Which are

Upgrade to iOS 10.3: Apple’s new file system, Apple File System (APFS) included in iOS 10.3 is optimized for flash and solid-state drive storage. According to [Apple Insider][1], there has been a gain of space of almost 8GB in a 256GB model. But don’t expect a gain of 6-8GB in your 16GB or 32GB. As Apple Insider explains, the more memory you have, the more free space iOS 10.3 will reclaim.
Backup Photos using Google Photos: Google Photos is basically a cloud storage for your photos. It works great with iOS too. Google Photos offers unlimited photos and videos for free, up to 16 megapixels and 1080p HD. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device’s storage in just a tap.
Remove “Other” Data on your phone: When you connect your iPhone to a computer and open iTunes, you would encounter the “Other” section in little iTunes usage bar graph. Check out this tip by OSXdaily on how to manage this issue. http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/24/remove-other-data-storage-iphone-ipad/
Use Progressive Web Apps (PWA): Although PWA offers to free up app space, iOS doesn’t fully support it at this point. Some features
such as Add to Home Screen and Push Notifications, are available in
some form in Safari but are not implemented in standard ways. To
give you a comparison of the Space utilization for an App VS PWA,
the Twitter app has a size of 196 MB in the app store. But the PWA
app for twitter is just 1-2MB!
Stream your music instead of downloading them
Remove offline reading list data in Safari: This can be done by navigating to Settings and then General > Usage > Manage Storage > Safari. Then, go to Offline Reading List and tap Delete.
Clear the Safari browser cache: To clean up the cache, simply go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data.
Remove items from iBooks
Disable using My Photo Stream: Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos, then turn off My Photo Stream
Delete Burst Mode photos
Don’t keep both photos when you enable HDR mode. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera, then deselect Keep Normal Photo

If you have tried most of the above-mentioned tips and still find yourself with less storage space then follow this trick to gain more space.  This trick forces iOS to clear it OS cache. There has been an ongoing argument that since this is a system level cache it would have been freed anyway when you actually needed the space. But this does not seem to work if you are in the middle of taking a video and run our of space.
http://techathlon.com/free-gbs-space-iphone-deleting-photos-apps-files/.

I will go with what chris said and i won't do what steve said if the phone is not giving you any problems i would suggest to go to apple store and download any app which will help to clean your cache and temporary files. I know you don't have free space to download it probebly but it us better to have it and use it time to time to get some free space. You shouldn't worry about getting free space automatically cause the phone won't delete anything that is important by it-self it only deletes or upload files to iCloud if you have enabled the photo stream or sharing cause after uploading to icloud it deletes the pics from your phone that maybe gave you some space.


Should I buy Coda 2 on the app store or directly from Panic? I'm very interested in buying Coda 2 (a web development IDE) when it comes out on the 24th. My concern is that the App Store version will have less features than the non-App Store version. Will Apple's new sandboxing policies be likely to limit the use of an application like Coda? Is there any reason to not buy direct from the developer?

As you can read on the FAQ page of Coda, there is indeed a difference:

Should I buy from you directly, or from the Mac App Store?
It's largely a matter of personal preference. Please refer to the pricing FAQ above to see which way gets you the best price.
At the moment, there is only one difference between the two versions: the Mac App Store version will support iCloud syncing of Sites and Clips, and the direct version will not. This is a restriction imposed by Apple.
Apple often changes the conditions for Mac App Store eligibility, and it's possible we may have to modify or remove features from the Mac App Store version in the future. It's our intent to keep them as close to identical as Apple will let us.

So there you have your answer.
So, if you like to sync with iCloud, you should buy from the Mac App Store.
If you like to have a 50% discount, buy from Panic directly!
I would go for the 50% discount. :)

My Personal Take on it is, buy/download it directly. Its always nice to have that copy floating around for use later when its needed for whatever random reason, although you could just require it from the app store the same way. But the draw back to that is, you never know when apple is gonna say we don't want this product here anymore. Like its done with handfuls of apps in the past.

Also from the app store or directly I think you can use icloud regardless. I dont use icloud with coda as Ive to many sites to worry about that take up gigs upon gigs of space. but I remember when I bought Coda directly I was given the option to set it up with iCloud.

and theres my 2 cents..


Photos (OS X Yosemite / El Capitan) – show original in Finder? I would have expected to be able to right-click (secondary click) on a thumbnail of a picture and have the contextual menu give me the option to show the original picture document in Finder... but it's not there and I can't find it anywhere.

I couldn't stand iPhoto, but at least it would allow you to access the original file directly in Finder.
I understand why the Apple want to restrict direct access to the originals (stops users from moving files and screwing up their library), but what if I want to do something other than email or post the picture to social media?

EDIT: I know I can just "Show Package Contents" or use the terminal to access ~/Pictures/Photos Library and hunt through the folder structure manually, but it's painfully inefficient considering all the sub folders

It may be a (deliberately) missing feature, but if anyone knows any way of jumping directly to the original instead of copying or exporting it, that would be great to know.

UPDATE: I have got used to the way Photos works by now. Basically the thing to do is just to relax, let it manage your collection and only export what you need to as a copy, which you can later add back into Photos when you are finished with it. It is certainly a deliberate design choice by Apple, not a mistake.

Photos expects you to export unmodified originals as copies, to preserve the integrity of the internal file management and for collection protection in the same way a database works – it's central to keeping the iCloud storage of your photo collection synced, stable, and functional.

Once you have exported a photo, you can then use mdls and mdfind to see what the "copy" looks like and where the original was stored.

In my case, they are all in ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters/2015/04/08 and such stored by year, month and date for my US locale computer. You'll only have to do this exercise a few times to nail down the internal storage for each time Apple chooses to change it going forward.

I know this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but if you drag the photo to your desktop, it will make a copy there. I find this to be sufficient for most situations where I need to access a photo in the Finder.


Create a symbolic link for sublime text in Mac OS X I have the newest Mac OS 10.12.3. With the new rootless system Apple has implemented, I can't create a symbolic link using ln under /usr/bin. My goal is so that I can use subl in terminal. How can I do this?

The default directory for third-party executables in macOS is /usr/local/bin. Since this directory already is in the PATH you don't have to modify anything except sudo linking the executable to this dir.

If the directory doesn't exist, create it with sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin. If you plan to install brew later, it's recommended to change the owner of the bin folder to your user.

Basically you symlink it. See this answer on github gist https://gist.github.com/artero/1236170


How to mimic Safari 5 Activity window with Mountain Lion, to save FLV video files? With Safari 5 in Lion, I used the Activity window to save video files.

Safari 6 has no Activity window.

With Mountain Lion, what is the best way to replicate what I could do before?

The Activity Window is gone in Safari 6, but you can get most of the functionality with the Page Resources window of Web Inspector.

To enable that, go to Safari's preferences, and on the Advanced tab, check Show Develop menu in menu bar:

Then you can view the page's resources by clicking Show Page Resources… in the Develop menu, or pressing ⌥⌘A.

That will give you a window with a sidebar similar to this one (which I took from a Youtube page):

It groups things a bit differently than the old activity window, but it should display all the same things. FLV files should be in the Other folder, and you can use the search bar at the bottom to filter for certain strings.

Alternatively, you may be interested in the ClickToPlugin Safari extension, which can do HTML5 replacement of a lot of Flash web video, and in most cases gives you the option to download the file directly just by right-clicking on the video.

The easiest way to download flv files on most sites is to use click2plugin safari extension


After a iPhone is stolen, can that device's iCloud backup be accessed? I had an iPhone 4 stolen from me and there is an associated iCloud backup with tons of data I want. Is there any possible way to access this without the iPhone 4?

I also got an iPhone 5 recently but don't think the restore will work (but haven't tried).

Apple doesn't expose iCloud backups directly to end users via computer or web interface, but you can restore that backup onto pretty much any other iOS device.

The new iPhone (or any iOS device for that matter) has iOS version the same or newer than the version backed up from the stolen phone. Simply erase all content on the current device (losing everything in it) and restore your old backup onto the device.

Hopefully, have not "created" much new data on your new phone and don't have to write down many new contacts or items or export any documents before you erase it. However, you could always back that device up to the same or different iCloud account or to iTunes and restore that once you've gotten your data to a more portable form.

The prior answer isn't true. Elcomsoft have a forensic app called EPBB that enables you to access your data in icloud. It unfortunately costs $200!


How to stop Chrome’s "Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in your keychain." question? Whenever I use Google Chrome to access a login page in which I have the username/password saved in the Keychain (via Safari) Chrome would pop up a dialog box that asks "Google Chrome wants to use your confidential information stored in {some domain name} in your keychain?"

There are a few problems.
1) I'd prefer Chrome to save the credentials in its own storage, instead sharing one with Safari.
2) If not, I'd rather it to not ask me about that.
3) Failing that, it should at least give me the right credentials. This is more of a problem when I have multiple logins in the same site, and it rarely gives me the one I'd want the first few time, because it doesn't try to match the path portion of the url's (only the domain portion is matched).
4) At the very least, Chrome should give me an option to say "Deny all", instead of popping up a new one after every time I click "Deny".

Note that I use Safari and Chrome for different purposes and I don't want to delete the Keychain items. How do I stop Chrome from doing this?

That is many questions all in one. In order to manage our search engine, we prefer to have 1 question at the time.

  1) I'd prefer Chrome to save the credentials in its own storage,
  instead sharing one with Safari. 2) If not, I'd rather it to not ask
  me about that. 3) Failing that, it should at least give me the right
  credentials.

To prevent the pop up is done with granting the Access Control in the key-chain.

Here is a sample:

Open the relevant key chain item and click on access control.

Add and allow Google Chrome to use it.

Click on Chrome, Preferences, Show advanced settings, uncheck the box "Offer to save your web passwords".


Multiple languages and Emoji button on iOS keyboard I'm using German and English keyboard on my iPhone and want to insert emojis easily. The problem is when you have 2 languages and emoji, it only jumps to the next keyboard. This is very annoying.

Is there a possibility to have a language button (German/English/…) and a emoji button?

No, this is not possible.

You can quickly switch to a specific keyboard by holding down on the keyboard language button and sliding your finger to the specific keyboard.

Also, the keyboard order is always fixed, so you know to double-tap the keyboard language button to go to a specific keyboard from another specific keyboard.

Yes it is possible. Just add emoji as a keyboard!


CA storage for cURL on Mavericks I was troubleshooting a problem with Arcanist and Phabricator on MacOSX, a cURL/60 error, but it wasn't clear how to check where the php curl libraries were getting their Certificate Authority trust from.

Where or how does Mavericks handle trust storage for Certificate Authorities and self-signed certificates for cURL and/or the curl libraries?  Is there a source of documentation on this which I'm missing?

Nb, I'm pretty new with MacOS.

For documentation: If you want to read any of the Unix library instructions, you can open the Terminal application. Type "man curl" and you will get the manual for the curl function. There is an app called "iMan" which does a nice job of showing manual pages in a more readable format, and can search for manuals or show variations of similar libraries (https://sourceforge.net/projects/iman-macosx).

The documentation you are looking for is here. It explains how to use cURL on Mavericks and how to supply your certificates:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2013-10/0036.html


How to see file name in Finder search results using macOS Sierra It appears that Finder search results are displayed using metadata instead of the file name. I want to know the file name for the file in the results.

You can see in the first screenshot there are 3 files that simply say "Altitude" in the Name column, which is extremely unhelpful. The second screenshot shows the folder they are in outside of Finder's search results.

Open finder, go to finder preferences in the left corner.

Go to advanced.It should appear a window like this:

Select show all filename extensions and you're done.


Merging or combining two iOS backups In May of 2015 my iPad Mini died because it got wet. I purchased a new iPad Mini 3 and reinstalled the apps I wanted on it ( and mourned the loss of my old Mini).
Now that it's July and my new mini has its own backup I've discovered that I still have the backup to the old Mini (I know, I was pretty dumb that I didn't realize this sooner.)

Is there anyway to restore the old backup to the new iPad without losing the new backup? In other words, can I combine them?

Yes, I just did mine only with iPhone.

Back up new iPad Mini
then restore backup of old iPad
after backup complete
restore backup of new iPad Mini. Viola!


Can I change the application icon of an Automator script? I have created a couple of automator scripts. I was curious if there is a way to change the application icon on those scripts to something other than the robot.

After the script has been created do the following :

Find the source app with the icon you want
Get Info of the source app (cmd-i)
Click on the icon inside the source app's info window
(Not the one in the big Preview section at the bottom, if you have one of those; the little one in the top-left corner.)
Copy it (cmd-c)
Get Info of the automator script (i.e., the destination app) (cmd-i)
Click on the icon inside the destination app's info window
Paste the icon from the clipboard (cmd-v)

This method works for every files in Mac OS X.

Apple's official page on customizing files and folders works great for this!

For the sake of completeness, for others who view this, I am sharing this.


iPhone 4/4s Spotlight Search Problem Spotlight Search on iPhone 4s doesn't show any results.

Everything is checked under Settings -> General -> Spotlight Search.

Restart doesn't help. New contacts don't appear.

Under Settings -> General -> Spotlight Search

are the areas you want to search selected (tick on the left hand side), if not just tap the group (Contacts, Applications, etc) to add them to Spotlight Search.

I went in settings/spotlight settings then unchecked everything except for spotlight suggestions, works great now. I don't usually need to search anything on my phone just net


Can two external displays be driven from one Thunderbolt port? I have the new MacBook Air which only has a Thunderbolt output (no HDMI or DVI) and I have 2 external monitors. How can I get this all hooked up (at the lowest cost, if possible)?

EDIT:
After using the DualHead2Go ME, I'm half-satisfied; it does split my single external port into 2 DVIs, but the externals act as 1 with double the width, so the resolution is very off and weird to look at. Looking back I probably should have bought the Pro to support both of my externals, but with my current Air this is the best I can do for 2 externals.

While Apple's display adapters will let you connect one of these external monitors, there's also the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital ME which will connect two external DVI displays (I've never seen or used one, ymmv).

If you have monitors that have DisplayPorts, you should be able to go from the MacBook Air to DisplayPort, and then DisplayPort out on one monitor to the other one.

This is DisplayPort 2.0 or 2.1 I think.


no such process error with launchctl start. Mac OSX 10.9 The goal is to set machine's network name with the ipaddress of this machine.
I have created a plist file and put it into /Library/Launchagents/. For debugging reason I used the command "launctl start".
Here is my plist file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.myfile.hostname</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/sbin/ipconfig</string>
    <string>getifaddr</string>
    <string>en0</string>
    <string>|</string>
    <string>/usr/bin/tr</string>
    <string>-d</string>
    <string>'.'</string>
    <string>|</string>
    <string>sudo</string>
    <string>/usr/sbin/scutil</string>
    <string>--set</string>
    <string>LocalHostName</string>
  </array>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>

  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  <string>/tmp/AlTest1.err</string>

  <key>StandardOutPath</key>
  <string>/tmp/AlTest1.out</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Then I use:

launchctl start /Library/LaunchAgents/com.myfile.hostname.plist

and get the error:

launchctl start error: No such process

As the error is not explaining what exactly is wrong with that file Im struggling to find the reason. The command itself on the command work fine. If this is the wrong section for this question please advice.

Thanks in advance

Try using the launchctl command:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.myfile.hostname.plist

This will load the job ticket rather than start a named job.

I am not sure pipes are permitted within a launchd job ticket list of arguments. Using them requires the argument to be passed to a shell for interpretation and this may not happen. Consider passing the command directly to /bin/sh as a single argument.

Remove the extension, it should work then.

launchctl start /Library/LaunchAgents/com.myfile.hostname


What is rapportd and why does it want incoming network connections? I've just updated to the latest MacOS 10.13.2 and after restarting, my machine asked me to allow incoming network connections for "rapportd".

After blocking it and checking in the firewall config, I can see that this is an executable in /usr/libexec/rapportd which was created on my machine on the 1st of December.

That's a day after I installed the security update 2017-001 (for the second time; autoupdate didn't seem to notice that I'd manually updated it), and I haven't installed or updated any other software recently / around that time. Google Chrome updates whenever it feels like it, so this could be related to a Chrome update (no idea when it last updated).

The internet suggests this is related to some banking protection program but that doesn't seem to fit here, and from a vague text-edit inspection of the binary I can see that it references /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Rapport.framework/Versions/A/Rapport (a framework created on my machine back in July and updated in October) which makes me think this is likely to be a new 1st-party OS daemon.

What does rapportd do?

EDIT: It looks like the man page has been updated and now reads:
Daemon that enables Phone Call Handoff and other communication features between Apple devices.

I just had the same experience. The man page states that it is a:
Daemon providing support for the Rapport connectivity framework.
Checking the code signature with codesign -dv --verbose=4 /usr/libexec/rapportd shows it is signed by Apple and in a SIP-protected location (unless you turned off SIP), this appears to be legitimate Apple software. The man page implies it's related to communication, though I've yet to find any real documentation on it.
(Thanks to John Keates for the code-signature tip.)

Have you recently agreed to install software to protect communications with your bank? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusteer#Trusteer_Rapport


Shortcut to revert autocorrect change I like the autocorrect feature, but sometimes I want to revert to the word I typed. If i backspace to the word, I see an overlay with the word as I typed it, but can't figure how to revert to it without using the mouse. Any suggestion?

After you've got the overlay with the previous, uncorrected spelling, you can press the down arrow key, then Return/Enter. This accepts the selected, uncorrected spelling.


Maximum Data Size of iMessage I was wondering how big a document (picture, voice, video) can be "iMessaged" from an iPhone. Also, would the iMessage data size be any different if you are iMessaging from within Mountain Lion.

Extracted from [Mountain Lion's Features][1] page:

  Send large attachments: Send high-quality photos, full HD video, or documents. iMessage allows attachments of up to 100MB.

The max file attachment size for the iMessage and Business Chat services is 100 MB.  Platform (iOS, macOS) doesn't matter in this case.  Both channels are IP-based, not carrier-based, so it's just WiFi or cellular data.

In my 8 1.5mb photos at once is the limit.


Packaging a self-made service with dependancies — possible? So I wrote a small service (a couple of services, really) which basically lets a user capture its screen (full screen or an area) and then make edits if necessary and then it uploads it directly to imgur and gives the user a direct image link.

I wrote it for myself but people at my workplace got interested and asked me to install it for them. Since my service has a couple of dependancies I basically had to borrow their Macbooks for like 15 minutes to install everything.

I wonder if it's possible to somehow pack everything so that I can hand it to other people who want to use it.

What my app consists of and what it requires:

A package from brew called imgur-screenshot (also available directly from github afaik)
A number of automator services that I wrote
A free image editor — Skitch
A config file for imgur-screenshot placed in ~/.config/imgur-screnshot/
Doing a couple of quick tweaks in system settings like assigning hotkeys to these automator services

I wonder just how much of these things I can bundle together and send as an archive or something to people who're not developers so that can do the installation in a couple of clicks. Also, how should I handle putting the config file into a hidden folder?

Wrote a bash scripted that bundled and installed everything in the end.


No speaker sound in ios7 on iPhone 4s Recently I received a refurbished iPhone 4s running ios 7.  The speaker sound does not work in some applications.  For example videos from the Photos app play no sound.  However, the ringtone works.  Keyboard sounds do not work.  The music app does not emit sound either.

I have tried power cycling, updating applications, calling the phone and restoring from backup.

Calling the phone seemed to help as audio returned, but then the same problem resumed about a day later.

EDIT 1: This problem is intermittent.  For example when unlocking the first two keys make sound but the third and fourth do not.  It does not always fail in this pattern.  One moment the sound may be working on youtube, and go silent the next.  There does not seem to be any pattern to the failures.

What can be done to fix this?

i had exactly the same issue. Cleaned the charging socket + the earphone entrance.  Voila!  it was working again

I had the same problem till I discovered that iOS 7 had turned on the DND (Do Not Disturb). Once I turned off it worked perfectly.


How does an iPhone import photos from the photo stream? If I put a picture on my Mac to photostream and it moves to my iPhone's photostream and I delete the picture from my photostream on my Mac, will there still be a picture left on the iPhone in the camera roll?

No.
When you delete an image from Photo Stream, there is a message (at least on iOS) that says something like

The image will disappear from Photo Stream on all your devices.

Hence, deleted means no longer in Photo Stream anywhere.

Yes. the photo remains on the camera roll, but deleted from the stream.


Macbook pro trackpad stops working after plugging in USB mouse in Windows 7 under bootcamp We have a new Macbook Pro which we've installed Windows 7 under boot camp. We've also installed the drivers off the OSX CD.

When I plugged in a USB mouse the Trackpad stops working, which is fine because I've got the mouse. When I unplug the USB mouse the track pad still doesn't work.

Has anyone else experienced the behaviour? Is there a solution to it?

During boot camp assistant partitioning, it prompted you to create  windows support folder. After installing windows you should have run setup from this folder. If you run it again and reboot, you should have your track-pad driver restored. When you run it again, select repair.


iOS6 on iPod Touch (4) no Wi-FI LAN, when there is no Internet? I got a question of one of my customers:

They are experiencing problems when connecting a iPod to a WIFI LAN without Internet connection.

Basically, the iPod connects, gets a IP from DHCP, but then it can't reach a local Intranet server (with Safari to http://172.16.2.n).

We can ping the iPod, but thats all. And, once we connect the LAN to the Internet, everything works again.

I tried the same with my iPhone 4(v6), that seems to work fine. Also with IOS 5 it works (both without Internet connection).

Anybody a clue?

Thanks.

Well, I'll take a crack at this one. I see three possibilities: 1) the packets are not leaving the iPod; 2) the packets are being dropped somewhere along the path; 3) there is a DNS related issue.

Lets start with DNS.

From the iPod try connecting to the Intranet server using the Intranet server's IP address instead of its name. If this works than either the DNS setting in the iPod's association to the WiFi network is incorrect or the search domain is incorrect. You can check this by going to Settings->WiFi->your_wifi_network_name. If these look incorrect, try to "Forget this Network" and then reconnect.

If you still have the problem then it gets a bit more tricky

Go the App Store and get an nslookup app and a traceroute app for your iPod. Several are free and work fine. Make sure neither of the apps require a internet connection to work. Once you have the apps, open the nslookup app and enter the DNS name of your Intranet server (ex. www.myserver.local). It should return the internal IP address of the server (i.e. it should not return the internet reachable address (if it even has one)). If it does return the correct address then take that address and use it as the input for the traceroute app. The traceroute should tell you all the IP hops it takes to get to the Intranet server. If it gets so far and then stops without getting to the Intranet server's IP address then we have a network problem to troubleshoot. If it does then we have an Intranet server problem to troubleshoot.

If traceroute gets all the way to the Intranet server then turn on the detailed connection logging on the Intranet server. Then, from the iPod, try to connect to the Intranet server. Now, look at the log file on the Intranet server and see if you see the iPod IP trying to connect and if so, what error is generated. Troubleshoot the error.

If traceroute does not get the Intranet server then turn debug logging on the network devices that sit between the iPod and the Intranet server. The traffic is making it somewhere and then being dropped. Find where it is being dropped and troubleshoot why it is being dropped.

NOTE: If traceroute never leaves the iPod and/or you do not see traffic on the first device that the iPod is connected to then the problem may be within the iPod itself. If that is the case then gulp do the normal iPod stuff like reset it/reload it/etc. (I hate it when someone tells me to do that!)

I hope this was of some help to someone and that I didn't ask you to chase a red herring

Try assigning a static IP address and manually insert the Subnet Mask and Router Address (DHCP).


Can I use the T-mobile contract free iPhone 5S with my AT&T number? I am thinking of purchasing the contract-free 5S because my contract with AT&T just expired, and I will only need the phone in the US for a few more months.  Will I be able to use my AT&T sim card (I currently have a 4S) when I receive the T-mobile contract free 5S? Also, I assume I will be able to take it abroad with me and use an international carrier once I move abroad at the end of the year.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, as long as you buy it from Apple's online store.


Downgrading OS X version from Mavericks to last OS upgrade? I had an Application I used a lot with kids in my family that ran on the Power PC Mac. It was an interactive Alphabet program by the Learning Company with talking cartoon Characters.  2 through 5 year olds loved it. It was based on a
Dr. Seuss's Book about the ABC's. Every letter was covered. The child could spend large amounts of time exploring each letter and little talking animations would come up. I upgraded my Mac laptop to Mavericks. Now the program will not work and there never was an upgrade of the program. How can I undo Mavericks and go back to the way my Mac used to be? I want that Power PC program back worse than an upgraded Mac.  Find me an ABC Program that Surpasses this Dr. Seuss program and I might reconsider downgrading. Can you please help me?

The last Mac OS which supported Power PC emulator (Rosetta) on x86 was Snow Leopard. You can back up your data using Time Machine, find distributive on your CD and install it.

UPDATE

As people said, you should copy your data directly without using Time Machine.

I had a similar issue - tried 10.8 on an 2010 MBP. In the end, I had to re-install the older OS, because Apple does not see that any user should ever want to go back from the latest version.

If you have an external USB volume, either put the new system on that and install 10.6 on the PB (note: You must manually select Rosetta, by default it will not be installed!), or install 10.6 on the USB. Use the Control Panel "Start volume" to select which to boot from.

10.6.8 has become Apple's Windows XP. There are lots of good reasons not to upgrade.


How to change the recent files smart folder icon in the dock? I create a recent files smart folder, place it in the dock. I right click and choose display as folder. I get the following icon:

Is there a way to change this icon?

You can easily change any icon folder from any picture you want (copy the picture you want -> get info of the folder -> click the actual picture folder -> paste the new picture).
From Apple support to change picture of folder :
Create custom icons for files or folders on Mac
You can create a custom icon for any file or folder using your own pictures, icons downloaded from the web, or the icon from another file or folder.
Use your own picture or a picture from the web

On your Mac, copy the picture you want to use to the Clipboard.
One way to do this is to open the picture in the Preview app , choose Edit > Select All, then choose Edit > Copy.

Select the file or folder whose icon you want to replace, then choose File > Get Info.

At the top of the Info window, click the picture of the icon, then choose Edit > Paste.


Purchasing an iMac but pay every month I'm not sure about this, but I just want to know if it's possible to purchase a product from the Apple website, but not to pay in full, but pay every month since I cannot fully pay the whole price of a 27" iMac but I can if I pay every month.

Cheers.

EDIT:

Ok, I had a chat with an Apple Expert on the live chat (via the website) in order to pay monthly, you will have to place an order WITH a financial payment which is label in the payment method (second tab on the panel).

After that, confirm your order and you will be redirected to an Apple "Apply Now" which you will place an confirmation for Apple to approve or disapprove, if you are approved you will be sent an application - if you dislike the Terms and Conditions, your order will be canceled.

Cheers guys, hope this will help everyone.

Apple offers financing for a lot of their products. Typically you will see a link above the "Select" button for a given product on its page. See the image below from the Mac Mini catalog page...

The financing may not come from Apple directly, but it is an option.

As far as I know, Apple don't offer any hire purchase or leasing arrangements through the Apple store or website. You will need to find a third party to lend you the money.


How can I make a calendar appointment reminder remind me "5 minutes later" on iPhone like BlackBerry? Confession, I have just converted from BlackBerry to iPhone. On BlackBerry, if I had an event in my calendar with a reminder set for 15 minutes before the event, it have the option of dismissing the reminder or let it remind again in 5 minutes. I have been unable to find anything similar on the iPhone?

Unfortunately, iOS does not have a directly equivalent option. There are some workarounds and apps given here: Is there any way to change the snooze time for alarms on the iPhone?

Launch the Calendar app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
Tap on the name of the event you'd like to change the default alert for (or add an alert if you have default alerts disabled).
Tap on the Edit button in the upper right hand corner.
Tap on Alert.
Choose the alert time you'd like the Calendar to remind you at and then tap on Done in the upper right hand corner.


How do I enable location services for a specific website on Safari for OS X? In the past I've disabled Location Services for a specific site in Safari for OS X, but would now like to enable it, for that site only. How do I do that. None of the instructions I've found describe the current user interface for Safari (e.g., there is no "Reset Safari" window in 9.1.2).

The following works for me in Safari 12.0.

Go to the specific site you want to change the setting for.

Now, from the Safari menu (next to the Apple menu), choose Settings for This Website.

A pop-over should appear, with a Location setting at the bottom.

Go to safari preferences (press ⌘+,) -> Click on privacy -> Then choose ask every day, and revisit the specific page tomorrow.


MD5 checksum on multiple file? I have files like this.

md1.gz
md1.gz.md5
md2.gz
md2.gz.md5
....
md300.gz
md300.gz.md

Is there any application (or command line) to check the md5 of all files ?

EDIT: Currently I use cfv from macport. work great without any modification

The md5 command will check multiple files for you. Simply list all the files you want after the command. I.e. md5 md1.gz md2.gz md3.gz. It will output the md5 hashes like so:

MD5 (md1.gz) = 1c2c02b085a1bc2fed683eca86c0df02
MD5 (md1.gz) = c5515451d8f90a822457a4a8e4bf1791

If you want just the hashes, use the -q flag, it will print only the hash, without the identifying information.

I'm guessing that you want to compare the hash of the files against that in the corresponding .md5 file. You could write a quick shell script to check each generated hash against the one stored in the .md5 file.

Something like this should work:

#!/bin/bash

for file in "$@"; do
  generatedhash=$(md5 -q "$file")
  storedhash=$(< "$file".md5)
  if [[ $generatedhash != $storedhash ]]; then
    echo "Hash for file '$file 'does not match"
  fi
done

Save that to a text file, call it something like checkmd5.sh and do chmod +x checkmd5.sh in the terminal.

It will print out a warning for all files that don't have a matching hash. It prints nothing if the hashes do match. It's quick and dirty, so apologies if it doesn't work for your particular case. But based on the examples you gave, if you run ./checkmd5.sh md*.gz it should check the hashes of the .gz files against the corresponding .md5 files and tell you if any are bad.

Maybe my own product will help you.
fHash https://github.com/sunjw/fhash
An open source files' hash calculator for Windows and Mac OS X.

MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and CRC32.
Drag & drop.
Integrated with context menu in Explorer/Finder.
Support multiple files.


Clear terminal and prevent restoration There is some sensitive data (credit card numbers and such) that I store on my hard drive, encrypted. I use a script to decrypt the data and display it in the terminal window. When I am finished, I would like the script to clear the terminal, so that the sensitive data can no longer be viewed (even if someone gains access to my computer).

I have read here that ⌘+k clears the terminal output. To implement this in a script, I used AppleScript as suggested in the accepted answer to this question:

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "k" using command down'

Finally, my script closes the terminal window with

killall Terminal

The problem: if I leave the terminal window with the sensitive output open for about 30 seconds or longer before closing if, then the next time I open terminal, it restores the sensitive data (the text [restored] is displayed below it). If the data was initially displayed for less time, it is not restored.

  How can I clear the terminal window from within a script, and prevent Terminal from restoring the cleared data?

I am running OS X 10.10.3.

Final Solution:

Remove the Terminal saved state, located in:

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Terminal.savedState/*

Then, make that folder read-only so that it can't be written to.

You can use the clear command to clear your terminal window from within a script.  As noted on this other thread, the following commands in sequence will clear the current buffer, then the scroll back buffer:

clear && printf '\e[3J'

  Please note:
  (The clear command looks up the appropriate sequence for clearing the screen for the current terminal, but the “erase scroll-back” escape sequence is custom and must be hard-coded. If you put this in a shell script that you don’t know for certain will only ever be run with Terminal, you should check that $TERM_APPLICATION is Apple_Terminal before sending it.)

Alternative 1

Turn off Terminal.app's window restore functionality:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

Alternative 2

You can also store sensitive information in the Secure Notes section within the Keychain Access utility.

try history -c
and command + k

sorry

just send the output to /dev/null

If you need to view or store the output, then redirect it to a file for later use your_commands > path_to_filename/filename_where_output_is_stored


What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? I would like to call for a place to list some little things that surprise you about Lion. There are so many articles and lists of all the new features with information overload, I would rather focus this spot of the site on tiny delights with a note why it makes a difference to you.

Please one topic per answer, this isn't a race to enumerate everything that changed. This isn't the place for massive topics like the implications of FileVault 2 on your entire workflow - just a stroll past some little gems, fun oddities or subtle changes specific to Lion.

Answers must relate to why or how you use the feature - links to official tips and tutorials are great, but the intent is to collect little gems that affect how the system gets used. Expect answers that are not specific to lion or lack a personal use case to be heavily edited or deleted.

Using the FaceTime camera to add signatures to PDFs in Preview.

Click the annotations button in the toolbar and use the drop down menu next to the signature icon to grab your signature from a piece of paper you have written it on. Then just click and drag in the document to place it. Haven't really needed it yet, but it's implemented so nicely that I did it just for fun.

only These Three New Features
made me want Lion, and I've mitigated all of them
so I don't want Lion, nor any subsquent version of Mac OS X,
and neither should any conscientious and responsible admin
(Control is an illusion: ignoring request for one feature per answer. Sue me.)

purge
Generally, OS X has decent memory management. But a minor annoyance that many have noticed is that, when watching in Activity Monitor while using Applications over time, the inactive memory will begin increasing, and while the system will eventually return that memory to free memory, when it does this is arbitrary and not consistent. The result is there are times when Applications need more memory, and while it should be available, instead of the system immediately returning inactive memory to the system, the application will squeeze what ever it is doing in the available memory without doing so.
The purpose of the purge command is detailed in its man page that I linked above, but a side-effect of running it is that all inactive memory will be returned to free memory. So running purge in the Terminal is a manual way for a user to free up that inactive memory.
Technically, the command first appeared in 10.6 Snow Leopard, but only if you installed the Developer Tools (xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg), which is what I did to avoid the temptation of upgrading unnecessarily.

realistic New Text-To-Speech Voices
I found them to be quite amazing, especially Emily, Jill, Samantha, and Tom. Samantha, btw, is the same as the voice of Siri. I found upgrading difficult to resist for these alone, until I discovered how to install these new voices in Snow Leopard, which thankfully has entirely quelled this irrational temptation to upgrade.

full-screen Applications
Pretty much System-wide, Lion introduced the ability to take applications full-screen, hiding the Dock, the Menu Bar, and other applications. But there are only two applications that I really wanted to use full-screen.
full-screen Safari
Thankfully, Apple released Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard, and that was one less temptation to upgrade.
full-screen Terminal
This was the one last temptation to upgrade to Lion, and the strongest one. I was envious for a long time of this single and long-time functionality available to users of Windows and its command prompt (cmd.exe). When this feature was revealed in Lion, I nearly fell out of my chair. I was only able to duplicate this functionality in Snow Leopard after discovering iTerm2. But the MacPorts port of iTerm2 was no longer supported in Snow Leopard, and the build would fail immediately. So I edited the Portfile for the iTerm2 port to allow it to build. I'll explain how I did this for other Snow Leopard lovers below:

How to build iTerm2 on Snow Leopard using MacPorts
MacPorts
MacPorts is a robust, stable, mature and easy to use package management solution, for OS X. It is modeled after FreeBSD's ports system, which has been adopted as the basis of NetBSD's pkgsrc.
install Xcode 3.2.6 for Snow Leopard
MacPorts requires an appropriate version of xcode; xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg is the most recent version for Snow Leopard (after registerring for a free developer account, and logging into developer.apple.com, that link will begin your xcode download). Once the download completes, open your Terminal.app and complete the installation:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ hdiutil attach -quiet -noverify -nobrowse -noautoopen ~/Downloads/xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/Xcode\ and\ iOS\ SDK/Xcode\ and\ iOS\ SDK.mpkg -target /
 Password:
 ...
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ hdiutil detach -quiet /Volumes/Xcode\ and\ iOS\ SDK/
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

build MacPorts 2.1.1 for Snow Leopard
Get to know  MacPorts
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ curl -Ok https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.1.1.tar.gz
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ tar xzvf MacPorts-2.1.1.tar.gz
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ cd MacPorts-2.1.1
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ ./configure
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ make
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo make install     # *not war!*
 Password:
 ...
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ cd ..
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ rm -rf Macports-*
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate
 Password:
 ...
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ diskutil quiet repairPermissions /
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

add MacPorts to your $PATH:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/ man:$MANPATH
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

edit iTerm2 Portfile
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ cd $(port dir iTerm2)
 1337haX0r@snobox:/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/iTerm2$ sudo cp -p Portfile Portfile.orig
 Password:
 1337haX0r@snobox:/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/iTerm2$ cd
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port edit --editor vi iTerm2
 ...
 # change original line 36: "if {${os.platform} eq "darwin" && ${os.major} < 11} {"
 #                 to read: "if {${os.platform} eq "darwin" && ${os.major} < 10} {"
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ # or just download this edited Portfile http://pastebin.com/51VWPySF
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ # and replace the original:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ curl -O  http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=51VWPySF && mv download.php\?i\=51VWPySF Portfile
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ cd $(port dir iTerm2)
 1337haX0r@snobox:/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/iTerm2$ sudo cp -p Portfile Portfile.orig
 Password:
 1337haX0r@snobox:/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/iTerm2$ cd
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo mv Portfile /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/iTerm/Portfile
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

build iTerm2
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port -vsc install iTerm2
 ...
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ # iTerm2 will appear in /Applications/MacPorts/
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

And you can keep everything updated simply with:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port -vsc selfupdate
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port -vsc upgrade installed
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

If for whatever reason you are unsatisfied and/or need to remove MacPorts:
to completely uninstall MacPorts
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port -dfp uninstall --follow-dependencies installed
 Password:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo port -dfp uninstall all
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo rm -rf /opt/local
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Tcl/macports*
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ # you can keep the GUI applications you built, or delete them:
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/MacPorts
 1337haX0r@snobox:~$

and Overcome Your Lion-envy !!


iOS messages to iMessage (Mac) I have recently moved from an android phone to an iPhone 5.  I have successfully moved all of my text messages from my android to the iPhone using the "Move to iOS" application from the Google play store.

I have made an iTunes backup of the messages, phones, etc. to my MacBook Pro.  Using 3rd party software, I am able to see all of my messages that are on my iPhone via the backup on my Mac.

Does anyone know of anyway to have the conversations imported to the Mac's iMessage application?  I know that the messages are found in ~/Library/Message/Archive/ directory with 3 database files found one level up from that.  I have attempted to save SMS.db from the iPhone backup and rename it chat.db.  However, it does not recreate the messages so I think there is more to the story than a simple renaming.

Thanks!

This is possible.

Move the sms.db and Attachments from your phone. They are located at /var/mobile/Library/SMS/ or you can extract them from a backup made by iTunes.

On your Mac, move the contents of ~/Library/Messages to a backup location.

Copy the sms.db and Attachments folder to ~/Library/Messages

Using an SQLite browser such as DB Browser open the sms.db file and execute the following to change location of attachments:

UPDATE attachment
SET filename = replace(filename, '/Library/SMS/Attachments/', '/Library/Messages/Attachments/')
WHERE filename LIKE '%/Library/SMS/Attachments/%';

Rename sms.db to chat.db

Then you should delete the folder ~/Library/containers/com.apple.iChat and restart. You are now done.

Source: https://denbeke.be/blog/mac/exporting-messages-and-attachments-from-iphone-to-mac/

This is not possible. If you have enabled it future messages will be available on the Mac also!


Unable to format / erase hard drive I have an external HD that died on me a while ago and I'm trying to see if I can format / erase it to start using it again.

The disk does not show up in Finder but I can see it in Disk Utility. When I try to erase it from there I get

Disk Erase failed with the error:
POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Cannot allocate memory

When I try to verify the volume:

diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk2
Error starting filesystem verification for disk2: Unrecognized filesystem (-9958)

I've tried running a surface scan in Techtools Pro, it processed 650 blocks and all were bad. I cancelled the operation cause it was very slow.

Diskutil info /dev/disk2 tells me:

Device Identifier:        disk2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk2
   Part Of Whole:            disk2
   Device / Media Name:      WD Ext HDD 1021 Media

   Volume Name:
   Escaped with Unicode:

   Mounted:                  No

   File System:              None

   Partition Type:           None
   Bootable:                 Not bootable
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported

   Total Size:               2.0 TB (2000396746752 Bytes) (exactly 3907024896 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        Not Applicable

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no filesystem)
   Ejectable:                Yes

   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not Supported

I've also tried:

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Stef2TB /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating partition map
Waiting for disks to reappear
Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Stef2TB
Error: -9944: File system formatter failed

Can I salvage this drive somehow or is it ready for the trash?

I found this worked perfectly (from the terminal):

diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT MyName diskX

You'll need to change diskX to whatever the number is for your drive. You can find that out in disk utility, select the drive, click info, and look under 'BSD device node'

I was having exactly the same problem as described above; unable to reformat my 16GB USB after interrupting an "erase free space" command. This worked http://www.macissues.com/2014/04/05/how-to-fix-deep-formatting-problems-with-os-x-drives/
The instructions are clear & simple, no Terminal experience required. The command will force a reformat--of course any data will be lost, but your drive will be usable.
EDIT: After doing this, my pendrive wouldn't mount but was detected by Disk Utility. I simply selected it and formatted it and voila! It mounts and works!


How can I force Apple Mail to COMPLETELY refresh an IMAP account? I have a Gmail account that is configured on three different Macs, let's call them Home, Work, and MacBook. Home and MacBook are on iCloud, Work is not, and MacBook is the one experiencing the issue.

No matter what I seem to do, Apple Mail on the MacBook, for only this Gmail account, displays no messages in any folder, and indicates two unread messages in the inbox. Home and Work display the same account correctly, with an accurate reflection of the inbox and messages contained in other folders.

Things I have tried:

Synchronize
Rebuild
Disable account, quit, remove ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-address@imap.gmail.com folder, then restart
Removed the keychain items for the account from iCloud, remove folder above

Each time, the account comes back with two unread messages out of zero. The Account Info screen shows accurate numbers for everything except the "Sent Mail" folder (though nothing in any folder displays). In experimenting with enabling and disabling IMAP for labels within Gmail, I have seen the item for the "Sent Mail" folder in Account Info display with the correct number of messages, but a title of "Sent Mail" does not exist. Very odd. Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that.

Any ideas?

I'm not sure if this will work for everyone, but I was able to resolve the issue in two parts. To get messages to display properly for all folders on the account, I needed disable/remove the account from iCloud so that it was no longer being synced. Then I removed the mailbox folder described in the question, and added it locally to the MacBook.

After the folders were displaying properly, the index was still a little messed up in that the inbox was displaying an unread count that didn't exist.

To get rid of this, I had to rebuild the full index -- this appears to be different from the Rebuild function that exists in the Mailbox menu, and is more similar to what happens when you open an upgraded version of mail for the first time.

Quit Mail
Navigate to ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Delete any file that starts with "Envelope Index"
Start Mail
Follow prompts to allow Mail to rebuild the index -- this may take a few restarts of the app.

Based on the information you gave, it sounds like Gmail is set up incorrectly on the Macbook.  I would make sure that the mail settings in Mail>Preferences>Accounts is exactly the same on all three computers.  It really sounds like Gmail on the Macbook is set up as a POP account.


Locked out of iPhone. Don't want to restore After 6 months of not going on my phone, I have forgotten my (complex (I feel like an idiot)) password. Is there any way that I could save the files on it to a computer or talk to Apple or my service provider (because I could prove the Apple ID on the phone is mine) and have the password removed? I just don't want to have to lose everything I have on it by doing a full restore. Any possibilities? I have never backed it up to iCloud or any computer so I would have to delete everything on it. It is an iPhone 5 with ios 7 or the first one after seve

Here are a few iPhone lockscreen bypass procedures. Though they greatly depend on exactly which firmware is on the device, otherwise, I have a feeling your S.O.L.

http://www.wikihow.com/Bypass-iPhone-Passcode

You could even try going to - iforgot.apple.com - from there you can reset your password and get into your iphone.


how do I upgrade my processor on my MacBook Air? I am trying to download a piece of equipment which requires at least a 1.8 Ghz processor. My MacBook Air has only 1.7 Ghz. Is it possible to upgrade it?

You don't. Mobile processors aren't necessarily made to be replaceable - often, they are soldered directly onto the logic board itself. Aside from the obvious voided warranty/extreme risk of damage to the board, you would need to either try the software for download to see if it'll actually run on your machine regardless of specs, or you will need to purchase a new laptop.

I remember that in the old days it was possible to fake change the CPU (through the terminal) in order for the OSX to report a faster CPU so that some software could be installed?

Maybe you could look into that? It will not give you a faster machine but might make install the software!


Resolving problems with development tools on upgrading to Mac Yosemite I use software development tools including Java, MySQL, Apache, PHP, LaTeX and Homebrew on OS X 10.7.5. What problems might I encounter on upgrading to Mac Yosemite and how can these be resolved?

I am a bioinformatician developing on the Mac and implementing on Linux. I have all of the following technologies that you mention running on Yosemite: Java, MySQL, Apache, PHP; I do not use LaTeX or Homebrew so cannot comment on them. In addition I run Tomcat, Perl CGI, Perl CGI with MySQL drivers, GD graphics for Perl, PHP with MySQL, Eclipse and Python. So in general it is definitely possible.

Your question however refers to your current installations. The answer here is that your current install of MySQL should not be affected. (If you wish you could upgrade and install the latest version available for Yosemite from Oracle's website, although this requires a free sign-up.)  Your current installation of Apache will not be available and this will also affect how PHP runs. You will also have to update your Java.

For the record, let me try to summarise what you would need to do. (I'm assuming you are starting with something as different from Yosemite as Snow Leopard. I never had Lion running - only Mountain Lion and Mavericks - so some of this may already be familiar from Lion.)

Basics

Yosemite no longer has a Developers' Tools disc. Instead you should download Xcode from the App Store. It's free, but a huge download (ca 3Gb). However you are almost bound to need it.
You need to unhide the Library folder (so you can get to the Apache install etc.) which is now hidden by default (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18928). To make the Library folder in your home folder always visible you right-click and select View Options and then tick "Show Library Folder". However I use the main /Library folder for web development and can't remember how I unhid this. Apparently the following terminal command should work:

sudo chflags nohidden /Library/

Apache/PHP/Perl

The old option in System prefs of enabling the Apache website is no longer present for Apache 2. The following excellent article explains how to enable Apache 2 and the PHP5 and Perl modules: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3083. Do exactly what it says.

Java

There are three possible things you may be doing with Java, and as you don't indicate which you are interested in I shall mention them all. However the basic thing is that Apple no longer supplies its own Java, so if you need upgrades you get them from Oracle.

You write Java programs. In this case download Eclipse for Java (https://eclipse.org/) — Luna is the current version. If it launches, you have Java installed. If not, you need to download it from https://www.java.com/en/download/mac_download.jsp? . Then you are fine.
You want to run Java applications on your desktop. You will need the download above, but Yosemite may try to prevent you actually running Java applications that ran fine before. If you have used the application before or trust the author then bypass Gatekeeper by right-clicking when you launch the app and tell Apple you want to run it (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491).
You want to run a Java Applet in a web browser. This is still possible but is now a real nightmare. Basically you need a signed applet and even then you may need to set your Java System Preferences specifically to allow applets from the website in question and also make sure that in Safari Prefs > Security > Allow Plug-ins is ticked and the allowed sites are listed in Website settings. Even then Safari may ask you to confirm you want to run the applet each time. The current policy on browsers now is to only allow Java applets to run if you are using the latest version of Java. I do have some self-signed applets I wrote myself that I can still manage to run. However because the whole plugin technology is being phased out, I think the Java Applet is a dead man walking. (Server-side Java is no problem though, and has advantages over PHP and the like.) More details of setting your browser up for Java applets can be found at http://humairahmed.com/blog/?p=8061 and on the Oracle/Java site.

Note about Java 8 on virgin Yosemite

If you want to run an old Java application on a brand new machine with Yosemite installed (rather than upgrading from Mavericks or earlier), and download the latest version of Java it will be (April 2015) Java 8 and the application will not run. You need to install Java 6 from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572. I'd download it while it's still there.

From my experience, upgrading to a new OS will cause major applications to break. I would hold off on upgrading the OS.

This is from a linux stand point since you're looking to make a major upgrade (i.e. Lion to Yosemite).


Why is the message body not displayed in iPhone's mail app? The normal mail app correctly shows a list of mails in my mailbox including a preview of the message body. When I tap any of them, the mail opens and correctly shows the mail header (sender, subject, date etc.) but the message body is blank.

When I look at the same mailbox using Gmail webpage, I see the identical mails with message body intact so I know that it's not a problem with the mails or the mailbox itself.

I'm using not-broken iOS 4.1 on an originally Apple-unlocked iPhone 4.
I'm using Google's official setup for Google Apps on iPhone.
I've tried purging the mail/contacts/calendar settings and following Google's setup from scratch. The problem is still there.

How can I fix it so the message body is displayed?

Response to answer:
- This used to work flawlessly, but appeared recently, without any obvious change by me.
- It might have been broken by the 4.0.2-->4.1 upgrade?
- The problem appears on wifi and on GPRS/3G, in any location, and isn't related to download delays (keeping a "blank" message open for a minute doesn't make it appear).
- It also isn't fixed by rebooting the phone.

Follow-up:
This is very weird. It seems to break every few months but only lasts a few days, then magically starts working again. Before, during, and after these incidents, I just use my phone normally and don't mess with any network settings or phone settings. I honestly have no clue what's going on.

Has this setup ever worked?

Have you tried just using plain vanilla IMAP?

Is this possibly due to poor connectivity—maybe you have a weak network connection and it's just blank until the entire message downloads?

The problem is that you can't send emails when the phone is on 'vacation' mode! It's really annoying and defeats the purpose of having it on the phone .


How to create new folder using contextual menu in MAC OS? I want to create a short cut to create new folder from the right-click/contextual menu in Mac Mavericks. What is the procedure to do so?

I know some people prefer the mouse, but as an alternative for completeness sake...

Of if you prefer SHIFT-COMMAND-N in any window (including right on the desktop) will create a new folder right there.

When you right click on the desktop or a Finder window the first menu item should be "New Folder", just select that.


Air Play-ing music from a sleeping iPhone A couple days ago, I was experimenting with Air Play. What I'd like to do is play music behind a party, driven from my iPhone in my pocket. I sleep my phone while iPod is playing music all the time, it keeps going just great, but this time it would die after a few minutes of sleeping. I believe what's happening is it's losing WiFi and killing the Air Play connection.

Any solutions for playing an evening's worth of music through Air Play from my pocket, without pulling the phone out and restarting it every few minutes?

EDIT: I should have mentioned, this phone is not jailbroken and I'd prefer not to jailbreak it. I'm a developer and my phone is one of my testing devices. I need to be able to test it in the conditions most users will be in.

If you can avoid bumping the sleep/wake button, you should have hours of playing time using AirPlay. Once the screen is dimmed due to a time-out, you can press sleep/wake to show the current track, just avoid pressing it to force an immediate sleep/screen dim. Let the timer do the work to ensure music playback.

I have Auto-Lock set at 5 minutes (with no passcode lock) and often set down my iPhone on the counter or place it in my pocket while I walk around the house, playing music until a low battery warning pauses playback. If you have to, shorten this setting during the party to avoid uncomfortable musical silences.

There is an app in Cydia called Insomnia which keeps the wifi alive even when the iDevice is locked. Try jailbreaking - if you haven't already - and install it. Works great!


iMovie file export swaps '/' and ':' in the filename When I export my iMovie project to an mp4

File > Share > File (iirc)

And name it "Tacos w/ John" for example, the file created is "Tacos w: John.mp4"

But if I name it "PROJECT: Yi", it saves to "PROJECT/ Yi.mp4"

Why?

They are reserved characters. You can’t use them you need to think of a different delimiter. IE. Tacho-John.mp4


How Does Time Machine Check for "Runtime Corruption" and How Do I Reset It? After working quite happily for months, Time Machine running with a NAS as a backup destination has suddenly decided that my backup is "corrupt" after failing a check for "runtime corruption" and is insisting that I must delete the entire (4 terabyte) backup and start again!

What I want to know is how Time Machine determines "runtime corruption", and can I in some way reset or disable this check?

I have already checked the disk image itself using the following commands:

hdiutil attach -nomount /Volumes/Path/To/Backup.sparsebundle
diskutil verifyDisk diskN
diskutil verifyVolume diskNs2

Substituting paths and disk numbers where appropriate, and have found no errors whatsoever. So what exactly is Time Machine checking?

I've also checked almost all of the most recent backup (using shasum, ignoring files with newer modified times) and everything is fine; I can't find any evidence that anything is corrupted in any way, certainly not any of the files I care about most.

It's laughable really, as the only processes to touch the bundle are Time Machine and related components, there has been no sign of any kind of network connectivity issue, no other errors in the logs, and every other backup for the same day was completed without issue. Which means that any "runtime corruption" is most likely the fault of Time Machine itself!

It's also even more ridiculous that the only option presented is to wipe everything, rather than perform a deep traversal to compare the contents in detail (to find anything that may indeed be corrupted and replace it, not that I believe there is any corruption at all).

I don't want to have to discard 4 terabytes of backups for some vague, unspecified "corruption" that doesn't even appear to exist, so is there some way I can remove whatever data Time Machine is using to detect its mythical "runtime corruption" (a check it doesn't even appear to do with direct attached drives) so that I can just continue backing up?

EDIT:
So I've gained some new information, which is that the Time Machine "runtime corruption" check is actually just running fsck_hfs -q, which has nothing to do with corruption whatsoever, it is merely a test of whether a disk image was unmounted "uncleanly", which is no guarantee of corruption (as I have already confirmed).

Unfortunately despite managing to clear the "inconsistent" bit (which indicates an unclean unmount) using fsck_hfs -p time machine is still refusing to use this backup, despite the runtime corruption check no longer failing. Meaning some other data must be stored somewhere.

I've now discovered a complete solution by (carefully) following these steps:

Turn off Time Machine's automatic backups in the Time Machine preference pane (to prevent any conflicts).
First mount the network volume to which Time Machine is backing up, how to do this will depend upon your system, there should be a disk image in there named after your computer (e.g- for a system named "Haravikk's Mac Mini" you'll find "Haravikk's Mac Mini.sparsebundle"
Attach the image using the following command: hdiutil attach -nomount /path/to/image (you can fill in the path by dragging onto a terminal window from the finder, just make sure there's a space after -nomount).
Take a note of the device numbers returned, one of these will be your backup volume, usually the last one in the form of diskNs2 where N is the disk number, and the s2 should be the partition.
Run the following command, taking note to add r to the start of the device number to connect to the "raw" (unbuffered) device: fsck_hfs -p /dev/rdiskNs2
Wait for the check to finish; if it finds any errors it should attempt to fix them then run again automatically, wait for the process to finish. If it reports there were errors that could not be fixed then you should consider discarding the backups as recommended, or else run the command again with -f instead of -p (though this is not recommended).
At this point you should really check that your latest backup isn't corrupt; you can do this visually by mounting the image (diskutil mount diskNs2 substituting as appropriate) and examining in the Finder. A more detailed comparison is recommended however but beyond the scope of this answer.
Detach the disk image with the following command (substituting disk ID): hdiutil detach diskN (if you mounted the image above, "eject" it first).
In the Finder open the the folder with your backup disk image, right-click it and choose "Show Contents". Inside you'll find a file called com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist, open it. If you have Xcode installed it will open in this, otherwise you should be able to open it in TextEdit; when editing in TextEdit you'll need to have some familiarity with XML and plist files, though they're pretty straightforward.
Find the VerificationState key and change its value to 1 (it will probably be set to 2 if you're experiencing the same issue as me).
Find the RecoveryBackupDeclinedDate key and delete it, if you're using TextEdit make sure you also delete its <date> value.
Save your changes, unmount the network volume and re-enable Time Machine's automatic backups.
Either wait for the next backup, or run one immediately; if your network destination isn't your only backup device you can trigger a backup to it in the Time Machine preference pane by right-clicking on the destination's icon and choosing "Back up to  now".

Details

It seems that Time Machine's "runtime corruption" check is a call to a fsck_hfs -q, which checks whether a volume was unmounted uncleanly. If this fails, the volume will have an "inconsistent" bit set against it that can only be cleared by successfully repairing it using fsck_hfs -p or similar.

However, in addition to this Time Machine stores a "corrupt" status in its com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist within the disk image bundle. I'm kicking myself for not finding this sooner since it's right there just inside it. I'm not sure if Time Machine performs an additional checks, there is a key related to some kind of extended check, but I'm not sure exactly what this entails.

Correcting both restores the image to "normal" status, allowing Time Machine to run without issue.

NOTE: While in my case the "runtime corruption" check was definitely mistaken, it is important that you check whether there is any actual corruption to ensure this is the case. It's a bit beyond the scope of this answer to cover that as well, but if anyone would like to recommend tools or guides for doing so please comment!

Extra

I ended up finding these solutions myself despite trying to get help from Apple engineers; they just wasted my time trying to find ways to blame me for the fault, rather than telling me what I needed to know, and they've gone and closed my bug report despite my having shown them exactly how I verified no corruption had occurred!

Very, very disappointed with Apple's handling of a report that their flagship backup tool may be deleting users' backups unnecessarily. I'm now seriously considering ditching Time Machine entirely next time I upgrade my storage, as I'm no longer confident I can trust it, or the engineers who work on it, and may go for the overkill option of something based on ZFS send.

I had this once, I deleted the drive from the Time Machine settings and added it again. Your system will then check everything and make a new backup.


Apple store apps won't download but have a iCloud symbol I have downloaded the app before and then deleted by accedent but now it won't download at all and has a little cloud symbol instead of an install symbol

I know my answer might be late for you, but maybe it can help somebody else. I had the SAME frustrating problem with the GOOGLE CHROME APP and I solved it this way:

Go to Settings --> Storage & iCloud Usage
Go to the section that says ICLOUD
Click on Manage Storage
Click on Joana's (Your name) iPhone
At the Backup Options turn off Chrome
Go to the App Store and try to download the app again. Hopefully, it will start downloading! For me this solved the problem.

i had the same prob for watsapp app try checking ur apple id it must be on verfication try siging out nd signing inn ur apple id and then download. also check your i cloud back ups


Restoring from IPSW. Unable to connect to gs.apple.com (error 3014) I had been running jailbroken ios7 on my iPad for a long time. Last month I  decided to update to 8.4
Downloading the update from itunes failed a few times so I grabbed the file from apple servers myself

When I tried to restore using the ipsw file, itunes gave me 3014 error. I tried again next day, same error.
I'm running windows 10 x64 and I have:

Made sure my HOSTS file is not causing it. There is
definitely nothing apple related in there.
Checked my firewall rules, disabled the firewall. That did not help either
performed restore process multiple times with no luck
Tried pinging gs.apple.com from another computer with windows 7.. it times out just the same

Its been more than a month now and my iPad is just sitting there...

Itunes network dianosis shows me this -

Firewall Information

Windows Firewall is off.

Connection attempt to Apple web site was successful.
Connection attempt to browsing iTunes Store was successful.
Connection attempt to purchasing from iTunes Store was successful.
Connection attempt to iPhone activation server was successful.
Connection attempt to firmware update server was unsuccessful.
The network connection timed out.
Connection attempt to Gracenote server was successful.
Last successful iTunes Store access was 2015-08-16 13:05:38.

---------------

The server I cannot connect to is gs.apple.com. I believe that's what causing itunes to throw the error (3014)

Tried pinging it, failed -

Suprisingly, however, I can access it from the browser (why/how?)

My iPhone can recieve updates just fine over the same network. I'm stumped, can someone help me out, am i missing something?

If there's a way to update without the itunes server-check I'd love to hear it. Methods involving jailbreak are welcome

Enter DFU Mode, and then try a restore. Method:

First, plug the iPad into your computer, and then power it off. Make sure iTunes is running on your PC.

Now press and hold both the Power button and Home button simultaneously, until you see the Apple logo. Now let go of the Power button while still holding down the Home button. iTunes can now associate with the device and is told that the iPad is in Recovery Mode.

Finally, simply Restore your iPad to the ipsw file that you downloaded (or just restore, whatever your choice is).

Just in case you didn't know, in order to restore an iOS device to a certain backup/ipsw file located on your Windows computer, shift-click the Restore iPad ( / iPhone / iPod) button in iTunes and find & pick the file manually.

(Note: There is a tool I know of called Cydia Impactor. There's actually a desktop version of it as well. Unfortunately, however, it apparently only works with iOS 8.3 and 8.4 in the jailbreak version of the tool.)

The problem is with your host file that is causing problem connecting with gs.apple.com.

This post will help you fix your host file.

http://www.yourtechinfo.com/2015/08/top-3-ways-to-fix-itunes-error-3014.html


A screen protector or not for the retina screen? Recently, I bought my very first MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

I am hesitating between having a screen protector or not.
Some claim that a protector can prevent the retina display from scratch, while others say that one can only get the best out of the retina display without any extra protection.

Is such a protector worthwhile?

Will the screen get scratched when I use a cloth to clean it, if I do not have the protector?

The points raised are both correct. While having the protector will prevent scratches on the screen, it will also reduce the quality of the display quite significantly. When I bought my Mac, I was also met with this dilemma. After having tried the best screen protector that the Apple Store had, I decided not to go with one. The display doesn't really scratch all that much, and I have not been able to induce a scratch even after using a cheap cloth.
I would suggest you to use a screen cleaning liquid every time you use a cloth, as that is how I have been able to prevent the scratches.

No .Macbooks or even ipad when protected in a case do not require screen protectors. I have my ipad with retina naked for 2 yrs straight without developing a single scratch.But it also depends on how much care u take of your device.


Transfer Photos from Mac to Android Device How can I transfer photos from Mac(including iPhoto) into Android phone? When I connect my android phone to Mac via USB, iPhoto can recognize it, but I can only find the import new photo button, then where is the export photo to android phone button?

Find the Android phone in Finder, as it shows as just another USB device. Drag photos from iPhoto to the Android device in Finder.

You can not use USB cable and still manage to transfer photos from Mac to Android device, if you use AirMore, AirDrop or Dropbox to help you.