Is it possible to disable or remove the iTunes Artwork screensaver? The iTunes Artwork screensaver is, IMO, an abomination. I like using a random screensaver but I do not want to see that one, ever.

Apple, in their infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, seems to have decided that screensavers are mission critical and can never be removed, even by root.

Is there a way around this, or has Apple decided for me, again, how I should use my computer?

I really dislike the iTunes artwork screensaver too. Not so much for the artwork layout, but for the audio playback. ...and sure, if I am locking my computer with a screensaver - why would I want to advertise the music I listen to? FWIW, I am using Sierra 10.12.3

You'd think it would be as simple as removing iTunes Artwork.saver from /System/Library/Screen Savers/... but this is easier said than done.

I am not sure why

$  ls -al /System/Library/Screen\ Savers
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    102 Oct 24 00:17 iTunes Artwork.saver

...cannot be removed from the directory with:

$  sudo mv /System/Library/Screen\ Savers/iTunes\ Artwork.saver/ ~/Desktop/
Password:
mv: rename /System/Library/Screen Savers/iTunes Artwork.saver/ to /Users/mixelpix/Desktop/iTunes Artwork.saver/: Operation not permitted

I don't see anything special in the information window:

...and attempting to change the permission by unlocking the file results in an error message:

...and the same holds true for the parent directory Screen Savers. Since the same holds for the parent directory, true I am reticent to try sudo rm -rf as I would not be able to write a safety copy back to the directory. Call me cautious...

Though I can find no reference to the connection, apparently the screen savers are included in the "System Integrity Protection" which has been a part of macOS since "El Capitan".

  System Integrity Protection includes protection for these parts of the system:

  /System
  /usr
  /bin
  /sbin
  Apps that are pre-installed with OS X

If some brave soul want to try sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Screen\ Savers/iTunes\ Artwork.saver/ please mention your results in the comments.

That said, disabling S.I.P. just to remove the artwork is an option. You could enable S.I.P. after removing the iTunes Artwork.saver file.

From "How to modify System Integrity Protection in El Capitan"

  For the following to work, you must have a proper and up to date Recovery partition on your boot drive. While that should be a given, it’s possible to clone a startup volume without Recovery installed.

  Follow these steps to disable SIP:

  Restart your Mac.
  Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held down
  until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. Release. This boots
  you into Recovery.
  From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
  At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return:
  csrutil disable
  Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.
  From the  menu, select Restart.
  You can re-enable SIP by following the above steps, but using
  csrutil enable instead.

You can also use csrutil status to display whether S.I.P. is enabled or disabled. There is no man csrutil.

Between steps 6 and 7 you should be able to remove the iTunes Artwork.saver file. I'd suggest making a copy in case you ever want to put it back. Also, I have no idea if it will get re-written if you add albums to your iTunes library.

remove one from /System/Library/Screen Savers


How do I create a profile in Apple Configurator 2? I'm trying to create a device profile with certificate settings for an iPhone. I have read the docs on profiles for Apple Configurator 2 but still can't figure out how to create a new / default profile. All the non-Apple documentation seems to be for the old version of Apple Configurator.

All I seem to be able to do in the UI is open a profile file, but I don't have any existing profile files.

Is there some folder that contains default profiles, or some way to make a profile from scratch?

This is actually in the menu, just not the toolbar. File > New Profile

Visit:  Create Blue Print in Apple Configurator 2


Screen sharing with windows 8.1 - observe windows screen on mac Here are already some questions about how to connect to mac's screen from windows, like:

screen sharing from Windows to Mac over LAN
Screen Sharing from windows to mac with no software on the windows computer

I'm looking for a reverse way. My wife got a new windows 8.1 notebook, and i'm looking for a way how to

connect to her notebook from my Mac
observe what she doing and allow remote assistence from my MAC
in short - the same functionality as the /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen\ Sharing.app does with another mac. (e.g. vnc://... )

What i need to install and/or configure in the windows notebook to got the ability share the windows 8.1 screen, e.g. what allows me doing the following:

$ smbutil lookup wifebook
Got response from 192.168.1.13
IP address of wifebook: 192.168.1.13
$ open vnc://192.168.1.13

Any ideas?

(ps: while i'm pretty familiar with UNIX like systems, i'm totally windows noob & ignorant)

A couple of options come to mind. You can try both and see which works best for you.

1) you can install VNC for Windows (there are several versions) on her machine

Most are free and should work with the OSX vnc client application. I haven't use it so I can't say more. As long as they on the same network you should not have any problems. Over the internet, things get complicated...

2) install a free (for personal use) application like TeamViewer.

I prefer Teamviewer as it is simpler and it will work from anywhere in the world with a semi decent connection. There are several other applications like this out there but I've used it for years and I've come to trust it.

The other good thing about TeamViewer is that once her machine has it installed (and password protect it), it will get an numeric ID that should not change. Open an account with TeamViewer.com and save her ID there. Then anywhere in the world you can find her machine and share her screen. Neat no?

Hope that helped.

you can install Microsoft remote desktop for mac, this app can access the windows pc desktop remotely. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id715768417?mt=12


Missing Safari-plugin for audio/MIDI I am using Mac OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) on a late 2012 27" iMac, running Safari 7.0.1 and I always install all new software updates.

But now I have a problem with midi-files that are embedded in websites (like wikipedia, take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality as an example). When I click on one of those midi-files I expect to hear music. But instead I get an error message telling me that there is no plugin for content of the type "audio/midi".

Where can I download the missing plugin?

I am not really shure, but I believe that playing midi files from a website was no problem in previous versions of OS X. Is this a bug in Mavericks?

EDIT 1 (Nov 2014):

This question is almost one year old and has more then 10,000 views, but is still left without an useful answer. And midi is still not supported by Safari 8 and Yosemite.

I do NOT want to download outdated software to use a widely used feature that was supported for many years and is neither a security risk nor any other harm to any computer, just because Apples developers are too reluctant and lame to continue supporting such a simple file format. And I do NOT want to download files and later open them with some other software.

What I want is this:

A plugin for Safari that I can install additionally to any other plugins (meaning: leave the newest Quicktime-plugin as it is and additionally install a new midi-plugin that is independent from Quicktime) to be able to hear music when I click onto a link to a midi-file in a html-document like this.

EDIT 2 (Dec 2014, when starting the bounty):

12,000+ views and still no useful answer.
To win the bounty please post a link to a site where you can download a plugin for Safari that is independent from Quicktime, that can be installed without replacing Quicktime to make it possible to play music that is encoded in Midi-files, like Quicktime did in previous times, just by clicking on a link to a midi-file.

EDIT 3 (May 2015):

20,000+ views and still no useful answer.

I can't believe, that there is really no plugin for Safari (or other browsers running on an iMac; OS X) that is able to play midi-music.

As with any other audio file that is linked in a website, I just want to click on it and do no other extras to hear the music that is stored in this file.

Hey, this worked already 20 years ago, in 1995, in the first days of Internet. This can't be so hard in 2015!

Support for playing .mid files in Safari was removed in 10.8. The QuickTime plugin from 10.7 or 10.6 still works in 10.9 though. See https://discussions.apple.com/message/23948316#23948316.

Copy /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin from a 10.7 or 10.6 installation to ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ on your 10.9 or 10.8 installation.
Run these commands:

f=~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/QuickTime\ Plugin.plugin/Contents/Info.plist
defaults write "$f" CFBundleName 'QuickTime Plugin.plugin2'
defaults write "$f" CFBundleIdentifier 'com.apple.QuickTime Plugin.plugin2'
defaults write "$f" WebPluginMIMETypesFilename com.apple.quicktime.plugin2.preferences.plist

Save this file as ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin2.preferences.plist:

<?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>WebPluginLocalizationName</key>
    <string>en_US</string>
    <key>WebPluginMIMETypeFilteringVersion</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
    <key>WebPluginMIMETypes</key>
    <dict>
     <key>audio/mid</key>
     <dict>
         <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
         <array>
          <string>mid</string>
          <string>midi</string>
          <string>smf</string>
          <string>kar</string>
         </array>
         <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
         <string>MIDI</string>
         <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
         <true/>
     </dict>
     <key>audio/midi</key>
     <dict>
         <key>WebPluginExtensions</key>
         <array>
          <string>mid</string>
          <string>midi</string>
          <string>smf</string>
          <string>kar</string>
         </array>
         <key>WebPluginTypeDescription</key>
         <string>MIDI</string>
         <key>WebPluginTypeEnabled</key>
         <true/>
     </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Quit and reopen Safari.

After that you should be able to play .mid files in Safari, but you have to allow websites to use the plugin manually:

You can also play .mid files with VLC or QuickTime Player 7.

MIDIPlayer X from the Mac App store - £0.79 in UK. Simply drop the MIDI file on to the app.


How can I extract contacts from an iTunes backup of an iPhone? I have an iTunes backup of an iPhone, and I want to extract the contacts from there as a file, e.g., vcf or csv.

There are many advertised paid software packages. Is there any free option?

Well, you can use this simple script I made half a year ago, but decided to publish when saw your question.

It renames all files to their normal names.
After that you can find AddressBook in HomeDomain/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook.sqlitedb

It's not CSV, but quick look through it show that you should take a "person" from ABPerson table (ROWID, First and Last are the most interesting).
After that you look up persons in ABMultiValue table: ROWID acquired in previous step links to record_id, value has the actual value, and label seems to be really weird for me. I'd recommend you to take all values looking as numbers.

Hope you have some programming skills or know someone who can help you.
If not, I could look into making some kind of helper script for it, but can't promise anything.
Those shitty paid apps always made me angry, and I can't understand why is there no FOSS apps for recovering data from iTunes backups. Meh.

There is no difficulty,from iTunes Backup to recover iPhone contacts ,

Open iTunes. First go to Edit > Settings > Devices to disable automatic syncing.
Connect your iPhone to computer. Wait for a while, right-click your iPhone in the devices list and click “Restore from Backup”.
Stay in the backup file contains contacts, click “Restore”.

After a few seconds, the lost contacts can be recovered back on iPhone


How can I achieve page-up and page-down in OS X? I am using MacOSX Snow Leopard.

How do I achieve page-up and page-down?

If you have a full keyboard you can use the pgup and pgdown keys on your keyboard, near the numpad.

If you are not using a full keyboard, function, labeled fn on your keyboard, plus the up and down arrow keys will give you a page up and down.

For certain applications, particularly in shell / terminal / tty windows, the expected behaviour is achieved with fn+shift+arrow up/down

user Fn

PageUp: Fn+UP
PageDown: Fn+DOWN


How can I make my Macbook Pro's headphone jack stop "humming"? Switched recently from a Lenovo PC and one thing on my mac bothered me. Headphones plugged into my Macbook pro 13" (latest version) "hum" with static when there is no audio playing. Then after a short period of time, they stop humming, as if all power to the port is turned off. When any sound plays, it starts again. Anybody know of any setting in the Mac "bios" (or whatever they call it) or with drivers or software to get it to stop humming? It's rather annoying.

I found the solution to my problem. For some reason (who knows why) the headphone output was set to 16-bit. Of course that's going to sound awful.

To fix this, head to 'Audio MIDI Setup' (can be found with Spotlight) and change the 'Built-in Output' to 32-bits.

iMac 27 inch - late 2012, i7

Well, Apple probably won't like this advice but it EASILY worked for me :

I use the headphone jack output for audio playback from my iMac (Pro Tools, iTunes, etc) and after upgrading to the iMac from my Mac Pro (early 2008, quad core) physically configured the same way (headphone jack output to my speakers) the iMac would constantly emit a BUZZ shortly after any sound was outputted from it.  i.e. : something like a system sound would play, there would be silence, and then after about 10 seconds or so the BUZZ would constantly output.
read and tried a few things that were completely useless and weird to even give a try (but I did regardless) - things like : 'zap the PRAM' ... reset the SMC ... switch to 32bit .... all weird, misguided and did not solve the problem.
I shut down the iMac, unplugged the power cable from the wall, grabbed a pair of needle nose pliers and then ripped off the GROUND PLUG from the power cable.  Plugged it back in, booted back up and SOLVED.  Apple's mention of a "ground loop" possibly being the problem in other posts was the best advice I found.  They did/would not offer this solution but for me, after working in recording studios for more than 25 years now and experiencing MANY types of grounding issues with regard to BUZZ in the audio signal - it led me to just rip that ground plug off and move forward.
As a professional I cannot profess to know that the possible negative implications might be from having a non-grounded iMac but let me just say that this is not the first time that I have done this with a computer or any type of gear for that matter to just basically "move on".

Let's see if Apple allows this post.  Believe me - try it!  If it doesn't help then make sure that you have a replacement IEC power cable (the one that has a female 3-pronged end and a male 3-pronged end) to swap out to if not successful.


Is it safe to drill a hole in an Apple TV (3rd gen) remote? I'm not talking about the end where the buttons are, but rather the other side. This device gets lost several times a day by children who hold on to it and misplace it on a regular basis. What I want to do is attach a hub cap to it like gas stations do with bathroom keys.

Is there anything at the back end of these remotes? I just want to drill a 1/4" hole.

Have a look around the web for disassembly. From a quick look, it appears there is room to drill a hole below the battery for the silver remote.

The newer generation black remote is much more contained, but there is room in the bottom corners of the remote below the battery.

I'd recommend disassembling and removing adjacent parts before drilling.

Update: Very late reply but for the TV2 remote it should be an all-aluminum body below the battery. I drilled a 1/8" hole through the bottom left.

YES I have drilled a hole in the bottom corner and remote works fine.


What options for clean install of MacOS High Sierra after permanent error message? I have a late 2012 iMac i7 16GB RAM and 1TB FusionDrive which I want to sell. Using the Disk Utilities in Recovery Mode, I erased all data on the Macintosh HD partition. I then went on and selected reinstall MacOS High Sierra in the recovery mode, which failed a couple of times (no progress for hours) and after several tries it showed Mountain Lion (instead of High Sierra before) as the OS to be installed. I tried this as well, but the installation process froze after about 7 hours with "3 hour remaining". Then, I created a USB bootable installer for High Sierra. When booting the iMac and pressing the option key, I am presented this USB drive as startup option, and when I select it I end up in the recovery mode window again with the option to reinstall High Sierra. The installation takes about 5 minutes and in the very last second I receive an error message "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again".

What options do I have from here?

Note: I already checked the system date, which is current. I checked if there's a recovery partition, and there is a Apple_Boot partition but without the usual name ("Recovery HD"). There are no disk / partition errors when running verify / repair.

I finally made it work. It must have had something to do with an encryption I had set up for the FusionDrive previously.
SOLUTION:
I deleted the Logical Volume Group which resulted in 2 separate 'untitled' drives, i.e. one SSD and one larger HDD drive. I then combined those drives again to form the FusionDrive. After that, I installed the original OS X Mountain Lion via web recovery, installed the High Sierra upgrade via the App Store, and then went back to the recovery mode to erase the volume again and install the High Sierra OS from there. Now I have a clean High Sierra preinstalled iMac, as intended.
I would like to use this opportunity to thank all of you for your support, which was extremely helpful for me in finding the ultimate problem solution!!

It sounds like you might have a failing hard drive.  Boot from an external hard drive and use a utility like DriveDx (free download with 15 day free trial) to check for errors.  This utility does a much more thorough scan than Disk Utility.


Can Apple delete an app installed via iTunes or the App Store without your permission? I had always thought the answer to this was no. I have an app that was pulled from the iOS App Store (VLC) still on my non-jailbroken phone and thought this was proof that Apple can't remote wipe an app. But I just heard a claim that they can remote wipe apps installed via their app purchase portals if they choose.

Is this true? True for just iOS apps or just App Store apps?

Yes, it's true Apple can remotely delete apps. This is a failsafe in case a nefarious app accidentally makes it past the review process. Not sure about Mac App store, I doubt the ability exists there. It's a different installation/update process.

I don't think it's been done before, and I wouldn't worry about it. It's a good thing. I would want an app that say sniffs my credit card numbers or is actually a trojan horse of some kind to be removed from my iPhone post haste.

I think it might be possible.
You never know until it happens. If I were in a company that screened all sold applications so closely, then I'd keep the option available. Someone could slip a harmful app through the screening process, and if you could remote wipe all the bad apps, then you wouldn't loose rep for it. :D

But as you say yourself, they haven't deleted apps like VLC, I have it too on my iOS.
Besides, if you sync apps to your itunes, you always have a hard copy of them in your iTunes library, so don't know if wiping would help :D


How to take 9:41 am screenshots on an iOS Simulator and Device? I know that it's possible to record the screen on Yosemite and take screenshots that have 9:41 am.  Is this same functionality possible with the Simulator?

Starting with Xcode 11 beta 4, you can use the xcrun simctl command to set the time and battery in the Simulator.

xcrun simctl status_bar <device> override --time "9:41" \
    --batteryState charged --batteryLevel 100

Example of usage:

xcrun simctl status_bar "iPhone 11 Pro Max" override --time "9:41" \
    --batteryState charged --batteryLevel 100

The simulator needs to be run before executing the command.

See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_11_beta_4_release_notes for more details.

Fix it in post production with Photoshop or Pixelmator or Acorn and your video editor of choice as you are in good company to want to pay attention to these details to build trust and reputation for attention to detail.

One screen shot at the right time with light and dark backgrounds let you adjust the battery level, bars, time and more to suit your needs.

There are even plug in to the simulator that will programmatically clean up the status bar for more than just time if you are running your code that way and not on a device:

https://github.com/shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic


Double clicking the title bar of iTunes 11 does not minimize the window With Mac applications I can double click on the title bar of the application and then it will minimize. iTunes 11 lost this behaviour.

Is there a way to restore it?

I'm on OSX 10.6.8 and using iTunes 11.0

This has been an annoying feature of iTunes 11. Other internet forums here and here, are already discussing the issue and as yet are without a solution. Imagine it's something that needs to be implemented by apple.

Leave the mouse in the top right corner of the iTunes frame, your file bar should drop down with a little blue indicator showing two caddie cornered arrows pointing into each each other.

If this won't work, unplug your mini-display port, three finger slide left to access maximized docks and try it again.


How can I work in other applications while using PowerPoint presenter view on mac? In Windows it is possible to switch between and work with open applications when PowerPoint is open in presenter view. In this mode, the audience sees only the PowerPoint presentation, while you use the other applications.

So the presenter is viewing the presentation via the MacBook and the audience sees it on a projector.

This does not seem possible on the Mac. Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

I am assuming multiple display setup in extended mode (not mirrored).  I had this problem as well.

I found that in PowerPoint Mac 2011:

go to "Slide Show" tab in the ribbon.
Click "Set Up Show" button.
Change radio button for "Show type" to "Browsed by an individual (window)".

This will put the presentation into a window, which you can maximize on the presenting screen (for me the 2nd display hooked up).  Yes you get the title bar, but otherwise it's effectively full screen.  On the primary display (which is still my laptop screen), I can move to different applications without affecting the windowed presentation screen.

If you follow this tutorial it will show you how to mirror the displays which is not what you want. Since you don't want them mirrored then just uncheck the box. I hope this helps.

http://www.usingmac.com/2008/6/19/setting-mirror-display-for-your-mac


How to find a .peg file on iPhone? I found this problem showing up on El Capitan Photos.

Does anybody know how to find the .peg file?

Additionally, I think this error is related to why some of my photos are not being imported into Photos. Has anybody else experienced the same problem?

I think, but I am not sure that .PEG files on iPhone is the container for Google Snapseed when you save a modified image and want to preserve original to make modifications (non deterioring editing).

My guess is that you should rename it to .jpg and then try again.


How to add shortcut to directories to OS X menubar I have several directories that I want to quickly access in Terminal. And sometimes even in the finder. I would like to be able to hit an icon in the menu bar and have it drop-down a list of folders and files. When I release the mouse I would like the path to be typed out in terminal or a text editor if that's what I am using. If I am in the Finder, I would like the enclosing folder to open.

Is there an app for that? I tried writing an AppleScript but am not having luck.

found it.
XMenu

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware/

To expand on the functionality I needed:
Quickly access a directory while in terminal

Solution:
create a text file or a clipping with the path of the desired location
place that text file or clipping or an alias of either in the specific location
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Snippets

Now an entry with the title of that text file appears under an icon in your menubar. Selecting that entry pastes the CONTENT of that textile or clipping wherever your insertion point happens to be. This works in any text editor or shell.

So if I have a text file named C++ projects and it has a one liner in it like:
cd ~/Documents/Projects/Programming/Fun/HomeAuto/C++
I just select that entry from under the 'snippets' icon that XMenu puts in the menubar, and BAM it's typed for me. I know that another utility, TextExpander has that option but they recently updated their app to be a subscription model. REALLY?!

As a bonus, XMenu can put another little gear icon in the menubar with similar functionality- ANY FILE under that icon is just opened.

In addition, XMenu has options for other quick access directory drop downs as separate menubar items - for example the applications list, home directory, developer specific applications and the documents folder.

Oh, and XMenu is free.


How would I architecture Network Attached Storage? This is a sequel (1, 2) question.

I'm interested in setting up a home networking solution. One or more individuals would be able to access their accounts from any one of multiple Macs around the house.

Direct Attached Storage is one solution.

Here I'm pursuing the alternative, Network Attached Storage.

What hardware do I need for a minimal installation. Say two Macs are the "terminals". Is a third Mac needed as a server?
Presumably I need some kind of RAID disk. Can you confirm?
is macOS server needed?

You need a NAS server, not a third Mac
You need some standard SATA drives to mount into the NAS or buy one that ships with disks included
No

To answer your question keeping in mind that you specifically want to be able to login to your account on another Mac (i.e. sharing your home directory as well as account, including preferences, etc.):

1) You do not need a third Mac, one of the two Macs can pose as the server. However it needs to be turned on while the other Mac is using the file storage.

2) RAID disk is not needed as such. You can use multiple ordinary hard drives or SSDs and form a RAID volume using macOS software in order to gain reliability and/or speed. It is not a requirement though.

3) Yes, macOS Server is needed if you want to easily setup sharing of the home directory over NFS as well as the account using OpenDirectory. You can do without macOS Server and set it all up manually, however it is usually not worth it compared to the low cost of macOS Server (19.99$).


Delete items on the contextual menu (right click) In this case, I only need help with the contextual menu which appears when you right click on a folder in Finder.

I would like to delete this two items:

Burn "folder" to disc... and
Labels. All the labels box with all the eight colors and the x.

I don't use any of them and they only quit me some space.

Is it possible to achieve that?

It is possible to remove some items from The Finder's context menu in the Keyboard preference pane, it is not however possible to remove the specific ones you have asked about, at least as far as I can tell.  If you would like to try and remove some of the other items, go to System Preferences --> Keyboard and select the keyboard shortcuts tab.  Select "Services" from the list on the left hand side and then scroll down to the "Files & Folders" heading on the left hand side.  From here you can select which items to keep and which to remove.  As  I said, there is no option to remove "Burn" or "Labels" but at this point I don't think that is possible.  I'll certainly keep searching for you though.

This might work.

I couldn't find Burn to disc or Labels there though. there might be a terminal command the I am unfamiliar with though.


What does it mean if the phone does half a ring before going straight to voicemail? So many times, I'll call someone (iPhone to iPhone) and the iPhone will ring once, but goes to voice mail immediately about halfway through the ring.

What are the possibilities? I'm assuming the phone is dead could be one, but I know that's not the case. Maybe they could also be on the phone?

Then I'll call 10 minutes later after they text me back saying "whats up," and it rings normally. I figure they must have been on the phone? But I thought it normally gives them a choice whether to drop the current call or not, so maybe that'd take more time than half a ring?

I called 3 times, and all 3 times it rang half a ring, and went to voicemail.

Half a ring means that the phone received the call, but instantly declined it. I've only seen this behaviour with the caller blacklist, or the do not disturb mode ☽...  In your case, as the person you called seen your call,  it means that it's the do not disturb mode that caused this

If its going straight to voice mail its normal off OR he's on the other line. If it rings a couple times he's forwarding ur call. If it rings ur 4 times he's probably buzzy and if it rings like 7 or 8 times that's ify, it could mean his cells off, of possibly he's on the other line or the carrier on his side maybe could have a problem


iTunes 12.3 doesn't recognize iPad 1 with iOS 5 I've upgraded my MacBook to El Capitan and my iTunes 12.3 doesn't recognize my iPad 1 with iOS 5 nor my iPhone 4s with iOS 9.1 any more.

I thought it was because my iPad 1 is too old and can't upgrade beyond iOS 5.1 but my iPhone 4 has the newer iOS 9.1.

So, any advice?

Try using a different usb port and a different cable.
Failing that, go to settings and reset
Jo


Pointing devices not properly recognized and won't left/right click after upgrade to Mountain Lion Have loved my Magic Trackpad since it first came out. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the system fails to recognize the Trackpad after a reboot. I need to pull the batteries, reload them, and power the Trackpad on... then the Mac sees it. But even then, it won't accept any clicks, it just moves the cursor around. I also tried an old fashioned USB mouse... it needs to be unplugged and plugged back in, but like the Trackpad, that allows cursor movement, but it also won't accept clicks (which makes me believe it is not a Trackpad problem). The machine is a MacPro 3,1 dual quad-core (2008).

My workaround in the meantime is (I think) going to be to remove my wife's user account, then I don't need to click to choose the user. But it is extremely annoying.

Anyone else come across this and have a fix?

Go to System Preferences, then click on Trackpad.  You will have to add the use three fingers to swipe box, as well as unclicking the natural scroll box in the scroll/zoom tab.  Hopefully this helps.


Asset Management, Zip Application with File previews? I have large amounts of design asset files I have created and purchased (images, PSDs, icons, fonts, etc...)  These are really starting to take up a lot of space.

I would like to zip the files into an archive, but still have the ability to browse the files as I'm doing design work.

Are there an Mac zip utilities that would allow me to browse a zip file "in place" where I could see what the file content's look like without manually unzipping the file every time as this would be impractical?

BetterZip is fairly comprehensive & has a preview mode, which can be toggled from prefs as to whether it will uncompress or open to preview by default. It also has a Quick Look plugin, which remains free even after the trial period.

Zipster tries to go one better by integrating zip files into the system so you browse them just like folders & can add/remove files without appearing to do anything other than drop/remove a file in a folder.

Overall, BetterZip is the more comprehensive tool… but Zipster is free, vs 20 bucks for BetterZip.

i'm using winzip mac and double click doesn't mean unzip it


How can I repair a broken key of a new MacBook Pro 15'' Retina 2015? I have bought a new macbook pro 15" retina in March 2015, but with less than 1 month of usage, I feel that my enter key is very loose and probably (or almost) broken.

Maybe it's not broken and the quality of Macbook Pros is getting worse and things deteriorate really faster than the older ones.

Aesthetically the keyboard looks normal, but when typing, specially the enter feels horrible...I can't stop thinking I've spent 2K euros in something that is worse than cheap competitors.

The product is under warranty, but I don't know for sure if the authorised firms will do something about it — they might say that this behaviour is normal or that I used it badly (which is not true).

Has anyone had any exprience with this?
How can I resolve this problem?

Thank you very much.

It seems to be the problem of keycap. The plastic part was broken.


Licensing around running VMWare ESX on a mac mini hosting multiple OS X guests The OS X Mavericks EULA grants the rights

  B.
  Mac App Store License

  ...

  (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

By my reading, this implies that I can't use VMWare ESX as the base-level OS hosting OS X guests, as then it wouldn't be "already running the Apple Software". However, VMWare definitely support running OS X as a guest under VMWare ESX. Presumably VMWare wouldn't support something that violates the OS X EULA, or they would have continued the support for OS X guests running under VMware workstation on windows that they had for a short time.

How does this add up?

Also, If we assume that it is OK, what happens if I want to run 3 or 4 guest copies of OS X on my mac mini? The EULA implies that it's not, however the EULA also contains this clause

  C.
  Volume or Maintenance License.
  If you obtained the Apple Software under a volume or maintenance license program with Apple, the terms of your volume or maintenance license will determine the number of copies of the Apple Software you are permitted to download, install, use and run on Apple-branded computers you own or control. Except as agreed to in writing by Apple, all other terms and conditions of this License shall apply to your use of the Apple Software obtained under a volume or maintenance license

This seems like it would provide a solution to both of the above, but I can't figure out if it's possible to purchase a "Volume or Maintenance License" for OS X, as nothing I've been able to find on their website has any information related to it.

Thanks

The OS X EULA does allow for OS X to be virtualized on Apple hardware as both host and guest.  This is why (as you note) VMware Workstation does not support OS X virtualization, but Fusion, ESXi, and vSphere do.  All versions of VMware's apps check to ensure that you are running on Apple hardware and you are running a supported OS (as not all versions of OS X allow virtualization).

Apple doesn't make it easy to purchase a Volume License.  You either need to buy it directly from Apple (it's not on their website, you have to call them) or through a third-party reseller.

You are completely correct that the EULAs are unclear about the question of running 3+ OS X VMs on a single OS X host.  This is a legal question, and not a technical one.  For that matter, so is the limitation about which versions of OS X can be virtualized (ex: 10.6 virtualization requires the Server edition, and all VMware applications block you from virtualizing the Standard edition).  If the EULA were clear that you could not virtualize 3+ OS X VMs, or if Apple had said anything to VMware about it, VMware could limit you to 2 OS X guests per OS X host.

If virtualizing OS X is your goal, you should talk with someone who is in Apple Enterprise Sales about what you want to do.  EULA questions really can't be answered in any meaningful way by anyone else.

I was talking with someone from Enterprise Sales who said this was only supported on Apple Hardware. This is frankly pathetic on an enterprise front.
On our ESX hardware we run Windows Server, Windows Desktop, Unix and Linux boxes.
It allows true cloud type functionality - we don't care what the underlying hardware is and have the ability to dynamically shift devices across to other hardware without the end user being aware - fantastic for Disaster Recovery scenarios. I'm quite disappointed in Apples enterprise level offerings, it is clunky, backwards and outdated by at least 20 years.
We can dynamically increase hardware requirements, and have succesfully migrated our test environment across to AWS with minimal impact - something quite impossible on OSX in Apples current mindset.
Until Apple address this they won't get the enterprise, they will only be regulated to small business and home use.


iPhone 5s forwarding automatically to another phone in the household after iOS 8 is installed My son updated his 5s to ios 8 and now for some reason when I call his phone if he doesn't answer it will ring to my daughter's phone and vice versa.   I have looked on both phones and cannot figure out why. The forward feature is not on.

The problem you are having is due to the Facetime feature "iPhone Cellular Calls" which allows you to "Use your iPhone cellular connection to make and receive calls on devices signed into your iCloud account when they are nearby and on Wi-Fi."  This is fine if all of the devices are your own so that you can answer the call on any of your iDevices but obviously not a good idea for multiple people.

Are all of the phones signed into the same [primary] iCloud account? Settings > iCloud

If so, you have 2 options.

Log them out of the primary account and sign in using their own personal AppleID accounts.

If you were using a single iCloud account so everyone has access to a shared account for Music/Movie/App purchases, you should switch over to the new iOS 8 Family Sharing feature.

If you haven't created their own AppleID accounts because they were under 13 or you didn't want to include your credit card on their account profile, with the Family Sharing feature, you can create accounts for each child that is automatically part of Family Sharing and all purchases must be approved by you first. See this Apple KB article for more details.

Turn off the iPhone Cellular Calls option in the Settings > Facetime screen.  This will stop the calls from going to multiple devices for now but in the long run, it would be best to set up multiple AppleIDs and start using the Family Sharing feature.

Tip: When you switch over to the Family Sharing, you can either use the old shared iCloud as your own (the Organizer) or create your own personal account.
 When setting up the Family Sharing, one of the screens will ask if you want to share your purchases or use a different account.  Choose the different account option and use the old shared account.  This 2nd method will share all the previous purchases made under the shared account out to all family members but gives you the option to NOT share your own purchases.  This is helpful for parents to purchase items that the rest of the family shouldn't have access to.

If you want to purchase something that should be shared, either sign into the App Store using the old shared account (just remember to sign out and back into your own account) or simply use one of your kids devices.

Hope this helps :)

I called apple and ios 8 has a feature called Hand Off that comes with the Continuity feature set. You have to go in and turn those off to make it stop.


How to upgrade my browser on 10.6.8 These are the specs of my mac book, currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.  I'm trying to upgrade my browser, as Gmail says it's out of date, and I can't access the playlist on amazon prime.

I am not sure how to upgrade my browser.  Can anyone help?

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook
  Model Identifier: MacBook1,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core Duo
  Processor Speed:  1.83 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache: 2 MB
  Memory:   1.5 GB
  Bus Speed:    667 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03
  SMC Version (system): 1.4f12
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

Thanks!

It really depends on which browser you are using...  I would recommend not using Safari on 10.6.8, since it is unsupported by Apple at this point, and the older versions of Safari have known compatibility / security issues.

The best way to "upgrade" would just be to install a third party browser (Chrome or FireFox, which I linked to below) and those issues should go away.

To clarify, Safari is a fine browser on later versions of OS X; specifically ones that Apple still releases security patches for.

Safari

On Snow Leopard, Safari cannot be upgraded past version 5.1.10. Wikipedia article

FireFox

It appears that you can install the latest version of FireFox, according to the system requirements for FireFox 37 page on mozilla.org

Google Chrome

Google Chrome's official download page says that the latest version runs on 10.6.x Google Chrome Download Page

the latest chrome version that works on 32 bit hardware is Google Chrome 38.0.2125.101


Can I buy one time membership of iCloud to backup my mac? I was going to buy an external hard drive to backup my mac to upgrade to macos sierra , but I was wondering if I could back it up with iCloud (200gb) account, then download it back to my mac paying just $3? Is it possible?

No, you can't backup your Mac with iCloud (via Time Machine).


User folder on mac OS is empty, but still uses 60GB of hard drive space I have deleted all the files under User folder, but it still says that it uses ~60GB of space. Real usage is ~2MB. There are no more files to delete. Is there any hidden files i am not aware of. If yes, how i can delete them?

I do not want to delete the user account. I just want to get rid of information that is useless, but I don't want to mess up my Mailbox or other stuff, so I want an advice if it's safe to delete some parts of those folders.

The space is most likely being occupied by the various files and folders in ~/Library, which is hidden by default on OS X. You can show the Library folder by navigating to your home folder in Finder, pressing ⌘J and showing the Library folder.

Furthermore, you can run the following command in your home folder which will list all the files and folders in your home folder, including hidden files and folders, and display their sizes.

du -shc .??* *

There is a nice program for Mac called CCleaner. While I was a Windows user, CCleaner was a great companion, deleting thrash files and cleaning the registry. ^_^ (well, OS X has no registry...)

I run CCleaner every day, before shutting down my Mac.
https://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner


Reset iPad mini forgotten Apple ID I wanted to know if there is a way to reset my son's iPad mini, because he forgot the Apple ID password. He accidentally reformat, and now, he doesn't know the password.

Try resetting on iOS then create new apple I.D. Use an email address and use a different password.


macOS equivalent to the Windows "Compress file/folder content on disk to save space" option Windows has a useful feature where files can be transparently compressed/decompressed on the fly. This is activated by right-clicking on a File, directory or Disk, selecting Properties and then clicking on the Advanced... button to check the box "Compress contents to save disk space".

When enabled, files are transparently compressed when written to disk and decompressed when read from disk. This is managed by the file system and OS as needed.

I'd like a Mac OS equivalent of this. There's nothing obvious in the Finder and a preliminary search turns up nothing conclusive.

Is there a macOS option equivalent to this? Either natively or through 3rd party software?

This is actually a feature of the NTFS file system (I believe...) and hails from the days when disks were more expensive, much smaller and measured in megabytes. Microsoft has kept this functionality in all versions of windows since the early days of NT.
While you can manually compress files to save space I realize that is not what you are looking for. However I am not aware of a utility or feature of macOS that allows automatic file system level compression of disk contents.
Note that in an article on ArsTechnica it is noted that it sounds like file system compression may be coming to APFS in the (near or otherwise) future.
There may be something in APFS that allows this but so far neither Apple nor any third parties (that I am aware of) has implemented this functionality.

Since I have an external Seagate drive (a couple actually) I am making one of them NTFS mountable and will use compression and use the Parallels mounting tip above... if it works I'll add the "cookbook" here...
I am downloading the seagate Paragon Driver from the MacOS Support page from Seagate...
R


How to make emoji bigger in Messages I just upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.3 from Mountain Lion and the emoticons / emoji are quite small in Messages. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between one and another emoji.

When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.

I've tried making the font bigger in Message's preferences, but the emoji won't change their size either.

The only workaround I've found is to use accessibility zoom; old man style.

The problem persists in Yosemite 10.10.3 with the new Emoji picker.

In TextEdit, I typed a sentence.  I then brought up the Character Viewer (I don't seem to be able to get to emoji any other way, though using Mavericks 10.9.3 on a 2014 iMac), and placed an emoji character into the sentence--the bactrian camel, in this instance.  I then selected the emoji in the sentence I wrote in TextEdit and went to the Font Size menu in TextEdit.  I chose 36, and the emoji enlarged to size 36.  I then selected again and enlarge to size 144.  Worked both times.


VirtualBox 5.1.28 fails to install on MacOS 10.13 due to KEXT security I have tried to install VirtualBox 5.1.28 to macOS high sierra but it fails every time with the following screen:

After some looking around I found this thread and I did indeed see that it was blocking VirtualBox from installing.

After clicking allow and then trying to run the VirtualBox installer again it just fails again with the same generic error message and the same Security warning reappears in the "Security and Privacy" settings.

I tried to also run the pkg install from the terminal to see if I could get more information about why its failing but it doesnt help.

➜  Documents sudo installer -verbose -pkg VirtualBox.pkg -target /
installer: Package name is Oracle VM VirtualBox
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: Preparing for installation….....
installer: Preparing the disk….....
installer: Preparing Oracle VM VirtualBox….....
installer: Waiting for other installations to complete….....
installer: Configuring the installation….....
installer:
#
installer: Writing files….....
#
installer: Writing files….....
#
installer: Optimizing system for installed software….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
#
installer: Running package scripts….....
installer: Validating packages….....
#
installer: The install failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)

The VirtualBox application does appear to install and it can be launched however nothing functions.

Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

Managed to solve it.

Eject the VirtualBox image from: Finder > Devices

Now allow the exception in: System Preferences > Security & Privacy

Finally but not least click Allow button so that way the developer with the name "Oracle America, Inc" will be accepted and the installer using that certificate will run just fine (basically this installer is signed using "Oracle America, Inc" certificate so we are required to enable it use on our machine first)
Then try to install from the .dmg again so that it remounts the device.

Now its working fine for me.

I saw a quick note in one of the messages here or in another thread and it was the critical piece I was missing.

When I had the Security & Privacy dialog open, the Apply button visible and clicking on the button and there was no apparent action. The prompt still remained. I needed to WAIT longer before trying the Apply. I found I waited 20 minutes until the button actually worked (the prompt went away).


Mid 2012 Macbook Air - upgrade RAM from 4Gb? I’ve got a Mid-2012 Macbook Air that I changed out the SSD to 256Gb using the OWC Aura product. No problems at all – but it still only has 4Gb of ram and sucks it up pretty quickly now I have installed Sierra!

8gb was a preconfigured option on these models and from what I can tell the RAM is soldered in.

Has anyone upgraded one of these, and can you tell me how and using what RAM?

Thanks!

Phil in New Zealand

Nope, the RAM on the MacBook Air is soldered in so you won't be able to upgrade it without breaking the computer. You need to make sure the amount of RAM is enough when you buy the machine.

If you don't mind you can downgrade the OS (the lowest you can get on 2012 MBA is 10.7.4), that will probably reduce the amount of RAM needed.

looks like someones doing it. just where to get the ram from
https://youtu.be/CTsEJ49LLsQ


Yellow tooltip stuck on screen There is a yellow tooltip stuck and it floats above all other windows. I do not know from what program it came.

How can I get rid of it without restarting my computer?

EDIT:

The simplest way to get rid of this, at least when it happens for me, is to hover over anything with a tooltip to get a new tooltip. Happens to me quite often with Safari these days, very annoying.

The program was "Eclipse" according to the theme named "Solarized Dark" - so java issue then :P

or iTerm uses the same theme.


How to completely reinstall an app such as Google Chrome on the Mac? The short question is: if I have an app (Chrome) that keeps on crashing on app start up, how do I reinstall the app totally so it will run again?  (removing the app and download and reinstall won't work).

The long question is:

I have an iMac on the top floor of the house, in California, and some days the thermometer showed a max temperature of 39C (which is 102F).   That day, when I see the Google Chrome window, I clicked on it, and it crashed.

At that time, the temperature of the room is probably around 36C.

So to prevent any further damage to the computer, I shut it down and wait until the next day in the morning to power the computer up again.

But now Google Chrome will start up and immediately crash.  I tried going to the Applications folder, delete the whole app, and use Firefox to download Google Chrome from the Internet again to install it.  But the same thing happened.  Install, reboot, app crashed.  Reboot again, run the app again, and it crashed again.  I reinstalled the app for about 3 times total.

And since it might be related to the app setting data having some issue that caused the app to keep on crashing, I found the folder where the app data sits:  ~/Library/Application Support/Google, and I renamed it to ~/Library/Application Support/00G00gle and tried and removed the app and downloaded the app and reinstalled it.  But still it crashed.

So is there a way to totally reinstall the app in this case to make it work again?

AppZapper allows you to remove all of the files associated with an application. The free version allows you to remove an app only 5 times, but check it out and see if it solves your issue.

You could also have a look at CleanMyMac, rather than just removing the application it will also remove associated files and folders.

It will also find old files associated with applications that have already been removed.

Not only that it is a good tool for removing unwanted large files, needless files and freeing up disk space.

I would have a look at that and then see if the problem persists.


Cannot restore or recover ipod Classic 80gb I have an ipod Classic 80gb.   It is currently stuck on the apple screen.  I am unable to recover or restore the ipod.  It is not recognized by windows as either a ipod or a mass storage device.   When I plug it into my PC nothing happens.

It just sits there with the apple logo on the screen.  None of the buttons respond with the exception of a reset.  (toggle hold switch -> hold center + menu for 6 seconds.)  A reset will cause the screen to go blank for a few seconds.

Nothing else I have found seems to work.

Let me know if you have any ideas

You can try to diagnose the problem with the diagnostic mode.

To enter the diagnostic mode, press the folowing key when the apple logo appears after a reset :

iPod 1G, 2G et 3G, press the keys for 5 seconds :

"back"
"next"
"select"

iPod 4G, 5G, mini et nano,  press the keys for 5 seconds :

"back"
"select"

In the diagnotic mode, you can navigate in the menus with the back/next keys and launch a bunch of test.

The hard disk has probably failed. If so, your options include:

Buy a new iPod
Buy a replacement hard drive on eBay (etc) and replace it.
Find a used iPod somewhere and swap parts to yours until it works.


How to identify build number of a macOS installer? Today I read:

  Apple today released an updated golden master (GM) version of macOS Sierra to developers… The new GM seed is build 16A323, while the build released last week was 16A320.

After downloading, in the Finder > Get Info of ‘Install macOS Sierra.app’ I see ‘Version: 12.0.49’ but no build number.

How to identifier the build number of a macOS installer?

My goal is to verify what installer I may be using.

The most reliable way of telling the build number is to check the SystemVersion.plist file inside the installer's OS image file (and not the build number of the installer app itself).

Mount /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
Mount /Volumes/OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg (hidden file)
Open /Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and examine the build number under <key>ProductBuildVersion</key>

To find the build number once macOS Sierra is installed:

Choose Apple Menu > About This Mac
Choose System Report... to start System Information app
Choose Software from left side
From right side find "System Version: macOS 10.12 (build number here)"


Finding the true status of launchd jobs launchctl list

launchctl bstree

These show which jobs are active, dormant or inactive, allegedly.  I have never seen an inactive job personally. Even ones that I have tried to inactivate show as 'D'

Now, in /var/db/launchd.db there are textfiles that show, per user, which jobs are actually disabled, lamentably, the old -w switch was deprecated, and the Disabled  key in the plist is only a default. I don't know why they would do such a thing, there seems to be no way to say definitively

"Service X is off."

It seems that running as root I should be able to ask what is on, and what is off. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: What I was doing wrong was ignoring

/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist

Which is the definitive place apparently for the current state of a daemon.

Handily, this means that the default will be in the plist files in /System/Launch*
/Library/Launch*
~/Library/Launch*
and one can just blow away ( errrm copy and move ) that directory and reboot to a default set.  This worked for me recently.

The launchd GUI LaunchControl will give you a list of services along with their respective status. You can see if a job has been disabled by looking at the check box next to the job name. A colored check box indicates that the Disabled key has been overridden: a red checkbox stands for a permanently disabled job, a green one for a permanently enabled job.

Thanks to the info by chiggsy, we were able to fix a problem in Mountain Lion, where org.apache.httpd was displayed as not running in "launchctl list", but de-facto it was running after reboot, preventing MacPorts httpd to run propperly. Edited the overrides.plist file and set org.apache.httpd disabled=true did the trick. Must be something happening on update from Lion to Mountain Lion which enabled com.apache.httpd.


Why do I get a 'connection to the outgoing server "smtp.gmail.com" failed' message in iOS Mail? Today I noticed I have 3 emails stuck in my Outbox, and when I try to re-send one, I see:

If I press Settings, then select "SMTP  Gmail SMTP Server", and "Gmail SMTP Server" (under PRIMARY SERVER--it is the only one shown as "On"), I see:

I can't edit anything here.

Has Gmail changed the way their SMTP authentication works? How do I fix this?

I occasionally get a call from a client of mine complaining about this.  I don't know of an actual fix (or what the actual problem is) but I usually recommend doing these in order:

Quit Mail fully: double-tap the home button, swipe up on Mail
Normal restart: press and hold power until you get the option to shut off, wait 30s for it to shut off, press and hold power until
the Apple logo shows up again.
Try again and if it fails, forced restart: press and hold power AND the home button until it shuts off - keep holding until the
apple logo shows up again
Remove and re-add the gmail account.

Just simply restart your iOS device. It will work.


Why is so much "Other" space occupied on an iPhone 4? I have the problem in iTunes where the "Other" data on the iPhone is excessively large. It's taking up over 5 GB of space. I've searched this topic over and over, tried just about every option I've seen, and my problem is getting bigger.

I have my daughter's iPhone 4 with 8 GB storage.

She only has about 11 apps on it taking up a total of 407 MB.
Her photos are taking up 83 MB.
Music is only using 6 MB

What I've tried so far:

Restored the iPhone to factory, and the problem grew by 1 GB
Downloaded DiskAid trial as suggested here, but I could not see what the problem was from there.
I've Deleted Safari browsing history and cache, but that didn't move the needle much. probably gained 3 MB.
Deleted some of the larger apps, but nothing was more than 600 MB.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

iPhone is NOT Jailbroken by the way.

Update

Well, I'm just going to do a factory reset and set the phone up as if it were new. I'm too tired to keep trying to figure this out.

Factory Reset

I ended up doing a Factory Reset to clear off the "Other" data.

The key is that since the Other seemed to be backup related, I did not restore the phone from the backup. Instead, I selected "As a new phone".

One by one, I added back her apps, music and photos, watching the Other bar like a hawk.

The Other data remains virtually gone now only taking up 430Mb.

Try the DiskAid application. That may help you find information on what's using up space.


How to sync Yahoo Mail with OS X? Ever since I moved to a MacBook Air from a PC about two weeks ago, I have had a problem in syncing my Yahoo Sent Mail on my MacBook Air with my iPad and iPHone. What gets synced is some old sent mail going back from 2010, rather than the latest.

How can this be rectified?

The problem is likely to be that Yahoo Mail runs on POP3 normally as opposed to IMAP. Without going through all the technical details all you really need to know is that POP is all about the Server talking to you in one direction, your mail client isn't talking back, whereas IMAP is a two way street - as in, when you delete something in your mail client, it gets deleted on the server.

SO, what has likely happened is you were running a mail client on your PC (like outlook probably), and when you delete mail that you've red or sent etc. or clear out any of your folders, it only deletes the mail on your PC, not on the server, and all your old messages are still there. What this means is a significant anti-clutter session may be necessary on your end of things.

To solve the problem for future, there is a way to setup IMAP mail transfer with Yahoo Mail, but rather than ramble on here I'm just gonna give you a link to this youtube video which will show you how to set it up.

Hope this helps.


How do I close Chats tabs in Skype for Business for Mac? On the Windows Skype for Business client, to the right of each tab there is an X that allows closing the tab so it no longer shows in the list.  I have not been able to find a way to close tabs in the Mac client, despite extensive searching.

(It is possible to re-use exiting tabs when continuing to talk to someone, but if they start a new conversation with you or switch to a different device, it creates a new tab.  After using the client for one day, I have 5 tabs from one co-worker. I'd like to make the old ones go away.)

OS X 10.11.6 / El Capitan and Skype for Business 16.0.3638

I found that clicking the tab once selects the tab and moves the cursor to the chat box. A second click on the tab selects the tab, then you can press the delete key to delete the tab.

Double-click.  It opens in another window.  Then you get the normal interactions.


How to attach video from Photos app to Gmail message I'm using the new Photos app on OS X Yosemite. I've imported multiple photos and videos from my iPhone 5 and they are now in my Photos library.

I would like to attach one of the videos in my Photos app to a Gmail message. I've tried dragging the video from Photos to my Desktop, but I get the following error:

I've also tried searching for the filename in Finder (IMG_2671.MOV), but that yields no results. Does anyone know how to get this working?

The Apple Photos app keeps all photos, thumbnails, application settings and other image/video meta-data in it's own package file located at ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary. As such, you won't find the original images or videos in a normal Spotlight search.

Native OSX applications can present themselves to Photos as a compatible extension. You can see these when right-clicking on a photo or video and selecting share.

Exporting the video from Photos

As gmail is not a native application with this capability (and a quick google search suggested no alternatives), you'll need to export the video and attach it manually.

Select the video in Photos and choose File -> Export

You can choose to export the video unmodified. However, as you'll be attaching the video to an email, you may want to choose Export 1 Video and select a smaller Movie Quality so the video will fit within gmail's attachment size limit of 25mb.

it is much simpler than all that: in Photos open, select the picture, then CTL+Click on it, in the side menu that opens select "share", that lets you choose Mail: than it adds itself to a Mail that you can then write.


Running Mac OS X on a Windows PC I have bought a Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch (late 2012 model).

I've been very satisfied with Mac OS X so far and I would like to use it on my home computer, which currently has Windows and Linux on it.

Would it be legal (and possible) to make an ISO image of Mac OS X Mavericks from my MBPr and install it on my home PC for everyday usage among my family members? Or do I need to buy the OS as a separate product now?

Apple’s EULA states that you’re only allowed to install OS X on Apple hardware. If it’s legal to go against an EULA depends on the country and its legislative authority.

The closer you can get to having a PC running OS X is through a virtual machine. Of course, you'll need a machine with a lot of resources (RAM, CPU, ...) to run it smoothly. Of course, this isn't more legal according to Apple's EULA.


Problem "do shell script" on curl – Works in Terminal, but not via "do shell script" I want to use "curl" with "do shell script" in an apple script. It already worked some months ago, but then the provider changed to https-only service.

So I update curl on Mac OS Terminal:

$ curl -V
curl 7.49.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) libcurl/7.49.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2h zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets

So it works in Terminal and gives back the right answer:

But when I try to call the same command via do shell script in Apple Script it responds this:

So – is the problem, that curl in the do shell script environment isn't updated - and how could I do this? Or what is the problem?

I've found the solution. The problem is, that homebrew installed an optional newer version of curl, but the command do shell script does use the old version.

After a hint from a friend I used which curl in terminal and apple script editor and get different results:

Terminal says: /opt/local/bin/curl
Apple Script do shell script says: /usr/bin/curl

So the solution for my problem is to force do shell sript to use the newer version via:

do shell script "/opt/local/bin/curl \"https://v.gd/create.php?format=simple&url=http://www.test.de\""


What's the difference between the battery of iPhone 5s vs iPhone 5? Do they have the same capacity and/or run time for certain identical tasks?

I know iPhone 5's battery has a charge capacity of 1440mAh. Has this been improved in the new iPhone 5s and/or iPhone 5c?

There are slight improvements to the battery capacities of the 5S and 5C over the 5.

iPhone 5 - 1440mAh <- 5.45Whr at 3.8V
iPhone 5c - 1508mAh <- 5.73Whr at 3.8V
iPhone 5s - 1558mAh <- 5.92Whr at 3.8V

Source

In terms of battery life comparison for 5 vs. 5c vs. 5s, they ran some benchmarks in their review.  In some tasks the 5c/5s are better than the 5, in others the 5 is better.  With the exception of their Wifi browsing test, the new phones are comparable to the 5, with there being less than an hour difference in battery life.  In the Wifi browsing test though, the new phones ran out of juice .57 hours sooner (5c) and 1.3 hours sooner (5s).

During the keynote, Phil Schiller stated that the battery on the iPhone 5C was slightly larger than the battery on the current iPhone 5, and the Apple iPhone compare page states the same battery life for the 5C and the 5S, so I suspect they may have the same battery.


echo works incorrectly with GeekTool I am trying to use echo in GeekTool to print text without a newline like this: echo -n "test"

When I run that command in Terminal it prints this: test
In geek tool it prints this: -n test

What is going on and how can I fix it?

After some experimenting, I've found that GeekTool seems to replace the token "echo" with an internal function that doesn't accept the -n switch.

One solution:  Give GeekTool the full path to echo(1).  For example, /bin/echo -n "test" works where echo -n "test" does not.

First GeekTool isn't a Shell its a Monitoring Tool which has a Shell mode plugin to use Scripts/Commands to get Information you can't get otherwise. Second if you would have done a simple man echo you should have seen that echo is a Shell builtin command so there is no actual executable.

Thats why GeekTool don't use the same echo (it simply can't cause it's a Shell builtin) so they made there own builtin echo command.

Now a little Question to maybe help you with your Struggling do you really need echo?

Maybe it is possible for you to paste the command you like to use and describe the result you'd like to get?

Then we can help you more.


Finder on Yosemite misbehaves: doubled text, blank windows, lack of updates Since updating to Yosemite, Finder has been acting strangely. I can usually get it to show a normal-looking and -behaving window for a few operations, and then the window will either:

Be blank, showing no files or folders where I know it is pointing at a non-empty folder.
Show prior state, rather than the state I know to be true now. For instance, I could delete a folder, but it still shows as present, even after forcing Finder to refresh the view somehow.
Double the labels under the finder item:

The only third-party extensions showing in the "Extensions" system pref pane are Dropbox and PCalc.

I've read that old versions of Rogue Amoeba's "Instant On" feature can cause Yosemite problems, but I'm on the current version, 8.0.2.

I can fix it temporarily by dropping to the Terminal and saying killall Finder.

You have to make a PRAM reset.

To do that restart your Mac, and BEFORE the "Bong" press ALL the following keys, until you hear the "Bong" again : cmd + alt + P + R
After your can let your Mac start normally.

If the problem persist, redo the manipulation but stay your finger on the key until you have hear the "Bong" 5 times.


My iPhone 6 screen is not showing all my apps, they are half way down the screen My apps on the screen are not showing all the way at the top. They are showing only on half the screen and I can't see all the apps.

That’s Reachability. Double-tap the home button to move the screen down (on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus size displays) so you can reach the top of the display one-handed. You can tap the area above or double-tap the home button again to return to normal.

@grgarside is right. You need to double-tap the home button (Notice it's not double-press, as that activates the app switcher).

For more information: Apple introduced this feature for larger-screened iPhonesThis is called Reachability. The feature makes it quicker and easier to reach to content at the top of the screen.This is currently available on the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

A double-tap, or -touch, will move the top half of content on the screen down to the bottom half of the screen. You can then tap on a link or button, or scroll through a list or webpage. After tapping on the screen, the content will slide back to its normal position.

(reference: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-reachability-on-iphone-6-6-plus/)


How to edit html in dashcode via GUI So I know how to create a webpage with dashcode (3.0.5).  If I start a new project I can create a webpage/website by simply using the GUI, drag and drop items, resize WITHOUT coding.  However, if I open an .html file with dashcode after I create a site the code opens.  I cannot figure out how to edit the page as I can when I first create a page.  I'd like to use the IDE that allows me to drag and drop things with ease, not manipulate the HTML.

When you're trying to open your project, make sure you're opening the .dcproj file since this is the actual Dashcode project, rather than the exported HTML project.

Opening the .html file created by Run & Share won't work in Dashcode's actual project editor, and will show the HTML code just as you mentioned. You have to open the Dashcode project file, saved as .dcproj by File → Save.

I don't know about Dashcode, but if you want to use an IDE for easy editing of HTML then go for Dreamweaver/Coda/Espresso IDEs. They provide nice built-in APIs to ease programming. Taco HTML is a tool where you can easily debug and manipulate your HTML code, but there is no drag and drop there.


Finding iPad games that can be played over the internet What is the best way to find new iPad games that can be played over the internet? (Not splitscreen, not bluetooth, not WiFi, only the ones that can be played over larger distances)

(I know there are a lot of game review sites out there, but none of them seems to have the filter options I need.) The answer could be a set of search terms I could use, or a review site, but I'm looking for a source to find these games.

Go to Game Center.

Select the Games section.

You will see the "Find More Games" button there.

Or open App Store>Games>Game Center to see a list of Internet based multiplayer games.


How to report App Store rule violations? Is there a link or somewhere to report App Store rule violations? Specifically, when an app is using push notifications to send you advertisements/promotions, despite this being explicitly against Apple's rules.

The closest thing I've found is a form to report intellectual property violations, and I can't find anything else that's close.

  5.6 Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising,
  promotions, or direct marketing of any kind.

Recently, AppGratis was removed from the store for this (and other) violations.

I'm stick and tired of one app in particular, Real Racing 3, sending me ads to 'buy' in-game cars. You need notifications turned on in the app because of other game-related mechanics, such as when a friend challenges you to a race or your car is repaired. There is no option I can find to opt-out of the advertising messages.

Contacting the developer (EA, FireMonkey) will do no good because they don't care, so I'm hoping if this gets the attention of Apple then they will enforce their own rule.

Of course I just could remove the app and no longer use it, but it bugs me that small developers can't get away with it and big ones get a free pass.

Apple has implemented many changes in 2017 and 2018 time frame as the size of the store has grown. How you get support depends upon your relationship with Apple.

As a consumer, you would report and ask for support based on purchases you make. As a developer, you have a dedicated channel to report rights violations, fraud, and general concerns.
The App Store is now much better where you can voice critical reviews and get feedback from the developer for all to see. If a major app is doing things that are surprising people, that shows very clearly in the reviews.

But really, unless there's something serious, why wouldn't you just disable notifications for that app, then open a support ticket with the vendor and maybe leave a bad review and delete the app?

I would expect Apple support to show you how to delete the app and how to disable notifications and then hand you off to the developer if they aren't making you happy.

If you purchased the app recently (which should cover the vast majority of things that are blatantly wrong)

http://reportaproblem.apple.com

Apple's report page directs you to the web page listed for support. Even this page is very carefully shaped to get Apple items like billing and subscriptions handled, but venting / reporting / tattling / complaining about an app isn't something Apple has a web page to receive feedback that's easy to find from the App Store apps or the general support pages.

If you are a developer, sign in and contact support:

https://developer.apple.com/contact/#!/topic/select

In 2013 - the state of reporting issues was less formalized. The support was more case by case and reviews were one way (Developers couldn't respond to complaints at all, let alone publicly).

You should send a message to the developer (since you are about to poo over their product on the App Store) - give them a chance to make things right since they might have a fix or be able to assist you directly.
Go into the App Store and rate the app. If you give them one star and a brief review - kill them with kindness: "If only I could ignore the constant upselling of paid upgrades, I might have liked this game"
Look hard at the description in the App Store. If they materially mis-represented the state of the app (say the screenshots are marketing illustrations and not actually screen shots) - report a problem with that purchase from within iTunes. Find that purchase and click the report a problem link. That fires a flag at that item in the store. You won't get a response, but I am confident that in bulk these are reviewed with the most reported problems getting the most scrutiny. That link may pop up a form to add details - if not, it will take you to the website below.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ - Find the section on contacting support and click it.
It takes you to another page - and you will want to submit your detailed feedback to Apple listing the app, the time/date of the violation and the section of the rules you feel are being violated.

At the end of this process, you may also want to take Apple's support survey and ask that they streamline the problem reporting process to make it more clear how / when users should be sending feedback to Apple. You can bet that once enough people start using the tools given and enough complain (politely and with detailed evidence) that it takes too long to report obvious problems with the review tools - it can be fixed.

I do know that if/when your report gets to the desk of a developer support person, they will know how many steps you needed to take to get them the problem report and it's more likely they will dig into it if your complaint has merit.

Most importantly, if you paid money for the app, consider asking for a refund. Detail why the app isn't as described or isn't following the norms you have seen Apple publish and how you feel bad for supporting both Apple and the developer financially when they don't follow the rules set down.

A financial ramification, well reasoned complaints/criticism and using the tools Apple has given for consumers to rate apps together will send a clear signal that the business didn't do a good enough job selling a specific app to you. Once patterns of failures accumulate, they can't go un-noticed.

I think you may need to think over it again. Apple only don't like to have anouncements and advertisments about REAL PRODUCTS which you should buy for REAL MONEY.

In your case -> Game "Real Racing 3" these are Notifications about InGame Cars which you can buy from either Real Money or also the InGame Money you're able to win by doing Races so i think you won't succeed in front of any US Judge.


Accidentally deleted private/var/folders on macOS Big Sur I’m using macOS Big Sur and accidentally deleted private/var/folders while trying to clean up my storage. Now I’m stuck at the Apple logo on the boot up page (the white bar won’t move). I’ve found some solutions from similar questions which did not work for me. I guess the old commands don't work in Big Sur.
Under single-user mode I tried:
/sbin/mount -uw /

It returned:
Volume could not be mounted:resource busy failed with75

I’ve also tried reinstalling macOS but it failed and automatically returned to recovery mode. Sadly I just deleted my back-up a few weeks ago so Time Machine won’t work.
Is there any other way to fix the problem?

You can reinstall “macOS” in the recovery partition, which will install all system-relevant files that are important for the system.  This should solve your problem.


Which memory speed for an early 2008 Mac Pro? I've got an early 2008 Mac Pro with 4 Gb of memory which I would like to upgrade, but I'm unsure of the memory speed. In my "About This Mac" dialog it says the memory speed should be 667 MHz, but online (even on Apple's own site), it says 800 MHz. Is it okay to get 800 MHz memory and mix the two, or should I hunt for 667 MHz memory? Or replace my existing 667 MHz memory with 800 MHz?

According to Everymac, your Mac Pro takes 800 MHz D DDR2 RAM. I'm not sure why your Mac is reporting 667 MHz, but try using the Crucial Memory Scanner and see which they recommend for your specific system.

As far as mixing RAM, it can be done, but it isn't really recommended. From a question on Super User:

  When different speed RAM modules are used, all of the RAM should clock to the speed of the slowest module. Many times, I've found that mixing RAM speeds sometimes causes system instability. I've had plenty of cases where RAM sticks that tested just fine alone wouldn't play well together. So I strongly recommend that all of the RAM installed in your computer be of the same speed.

I eventually went with the 667 MHz RAM, because I expect my own computer to know what's actually in it more than I'd trust external programs or websites. So far everything seems to be okay.


Speeding up iMac (early 2006 I have an early 2006 iMac, the first with Intel CPU and now I am looking for speeding it up a little. I maxed out the RAM (2G) and my only other option is to install an SSD drive there.

First of all, I would like to know if this is a good idea to speed up my iMac?
Shall I take my iMac to the service for this installation or I can try this on my own at home?
Would it be possible to keep the current primary hdd as a secondary hdd in the machine or there is no space inside?

SSD will make everything feel faster, but it's kind of pricey. Your internal HD is probably wearing out anyway, so it's not a bad idea to substitute it. If price is an issue you can buy one of the new 7200rpm with 32/64MB of cache, and do a clean install. Before moving your data into the new HD, install your Applications. This way they will reside in area of the disk which can be retrieved faster.

I am writing this (in March 2014) on my 2006 iMac with an ssd drive that I am using as the boot drive through the USB connection.  It is pretty quick as long as I don't have many applications open and gets the job done.  I followed the directions here to get the ssd drive to work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onorIa2b5oA

it is a 21" mac and I have a monitor on the side. Forget about stutter free streaming movies but for web stuff it works great.


How does the Apple Watch get the temperature? The Apple Watch shows the temperature on the clock face.

When my Apple Watch is disconnected from my iPhone, the temperature display becomes disabled, but the time is still displayed. That leads me to think the watch doesn't have a temperature sensor, but it getting it from the Internet.

My question is: How does the Watch get the temperature?

The temperature shown does come from the Weather App. Small bits of data on the watch face are known as complications.

Tapping the temperature on the watch face will open the Weather app thus revealing the source of the data. The watch gets the data from your iPhone which, in turn, uses location and data from the Internet.
You may find more useful information in the Apple Watch User Guide.

My watch updates temp when disconnected from iPhone. I've tested it


How to view Silverlight traffic in Safari Web Developer? I'm running a Silverlight application in my browser. The app communicates to a web server over HTTPS. I want to see the communication between the app and the webserver. Now when I open Web Developer I can see the requests being made. However, when I try to inspect the response from the webserver, a spinner is shown and it stays like that. How can I view the response in Safari 7?

I can't understand if your app do a XmlHTTPRequest.

Anyway... in the resource section (red circle in the image) you can find all the information about a request, even its response.

Hope this will help you! :)

PS: Sorry, my GUI is in italian, but you will understand as well

You can do the following :

Safari < Settings < Advanced < "Show Develop in Menu" --> Turn this on.
In the Develop Menu bar, choose "Show error console"
In the console, select the tab for "Instrument"

In the Instrument toolbox you can see Network Requests and more. That will let you keep track of the requests you want.

Screenshot for reference below ::


How do I type the Escape key on an iPad keyboard? I just got a Zagg keyboard and it is great for typing long sections of text on the iPad.  But a big drawback is that it does not have an Escape ⎋ key.  All the top row keys are mapped to iPad-specific features. This is bad when using vim or remoting into a Windows machine.  Does anyone know how to get the Escape ⎋ key to work?  Or is there a better iPad keyboard out there that has the Escape ⎋ key?

Give Ctrl and [ a try that should send the same as Esc (ASCII 27).

I don't know if the Zagg keyboard has a Control, but my iPad keyboard has one, and if I do Control-C, it forces Vim to quit (at least on my VPS).


Does Time Machine need the Spotlight index? On OS X, does Time Machine need the index maintained by Spotlight? Will disabling Spotlight completely (via mdutil) affect Time Machine?

Maybe it changed ever since, but these days I think the given answer Nope is wrong.

Apple explained this by stating:

If you add a Time Machine backup disk to the privacy list, you will
continue to see messages that Spotlight is indexing your backup disk.
This indexing is necessary for Time Machine to function properly and
can’t be disabled. Spotlight does exclude from searches any items
you store on your backup disk that are not part of a Time Machine
backup.

I have just tried adding my TM backup drive to the exclusion list in Catalina 10.15.4 and it was refused stating that I cannot add a Timemachine Backup to the privacy list of spotlight. - Others have tried the same in Mojave 10.14.2, in Sierra and High Sierra, with the same result.

Again others have tried doing this more ingeniously in the command line, only to find that mdworker continued to access the backups making indexes.

Oddly, though, Apple has removed its earlier article(s) about this altogether, and there is no longer any official line as to whether it’s possible.

Nope.

Meta note: why 30 the char minimum?


OSX Mavericks using up RAM I've had Mavericks installed for over a few months now, and the computer has slowly been degrading since then. Before I installed Mavericks, my computer ran fine; now it is always using up all 4 GB of RAM that I have, and using up hard drive memory to keep it running, which makes the computer slow to the point where I can't even use it sometimes.

When I look at Activity monitor, my active tasks don't even add up to 2 GB, let alone 4. What on EARTH is the problem and how can I fix it? At this point I just want to do a factory reset on the darn thing.

Mavericks' new memory management tool was designed to do exactly that, use AS MUCH RAM as possible. See, "free ram" doesn't actually do anything until it's used. It's just there idle, waiting to be allocated. Mavericks uses physical memory much more in order to speed up actions. For example, closed applications and file will be cached until memory is needed, at which point they can be overwritten.

For example, my 24GB machine currently has around 14GB of file caches (after around 5 weeks of uptime). In total, 18 GB of my 24 is used. This demonstrates Mavericks attempt to cache everything possible. If not for file caches, I'd only be using 4GB of my 24GB of RAM, basically rendering 20GB (~83%) of my system memory (costing well over $300) as completely unused.

I don't think your performance issues are a result of the new memory management. If anything, there should be decreased disk access, faster load times, etc. You can try troubleshooting by running sudo purge in terminal to force the deletion of file caches and inactive pages. (Note: Free RAM ≠ faster performance)

The easiest way to test a factory reset is to make a brand new user and disable the auto log in to prevent your typical presses from starting at boot.

You can then restart the OS and log in to the clean user and grab a baseline of the memory allocation your system software and add-on settings are using. Once you have that, you can start to measure and change and decide if it's due to the programs you are running or if the OS needs to be tuned for your workload. I commented on some data you can edit in the question and we can see if there is an easy fix for you.


Import Mac Thunderbird into Windows Outlook? I have exported all my data out of Mac Thunderbird, all the emails, contact list and address book entries, as for now I am ketting go off my mac book pro. I have got a new windows laptop that have pre-installed Office 2013 in it. I need to import these files in WIndows Outlook 2013, please can anyone help me with this as I am new to windows environment.

You help will be really appreciated

YOu cannot directly import Mac Thunderbird mail folders in windows outlook. Firstly convert the thunderbird files to pst format using Thunderbird to PST Converter and then follow these steps to import the converted pst file into windows outlook 2013:

Follow these steps to restore, or import, your data into Outlook:

Click the File tab.
In the Open category, click Import.
In the Import and Export Wizard, click Import from another program or file, and then click Next.
Click Outlook Data File (.pst), and then click Next.
Type the path and the name of the .pst file that you want to import, or click Browse to choose the file to import.
Note Under Options, it is recommended that you click Do not import duplicates, unless you want the imported information to replace or duplicate items that are already in Outlook.

Click Next.
Select the folder that you want to import. To import everything in the .pst file, select the top of the hierarchy.
Note The top folder (usually Personal Folders, Outlook Data File or your email address) is selected automatically. Include subfolders is selected by default. All folders under the folder selected will be imported

Click Finish.

I too had the similar issue and this very tool helped me resolve it that too in quick interval of time. Some related threads for the same problem are listed below:-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5971506
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/158/t/227269.aspx#703477


How can I mirror my iPad display wirelessly? I am looking to display my iPad screen wirelessly to an external display to demo applications.  I found this video showing exactly what I want to do with an iPhone but no explanation as to what the hardware dongle used was.

The main thing is that there isn't a wire tethering the user to the external display.

This is possible using iOS 5 and an Apple TV using AirPlay.

This only works with iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and all video and sound are mirrored wirelessly to any TV that is connected via HDMI downstream from the Apple TV. You do need a wireless network for the two devices to communicate.

  Just double-click the Home button, swipe all the way to the right, and
  select AirPlay Mirroring.

Reference: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/airplay.html

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Tab completion for hosts defined in ~/.ssh/config doesn't work anymore on Yosemite I'm trying to create my ~/.ssh/config file for simplify my work life on the server connection.

In Mavericks all worked properly and with the tab I was be able to autocomplete the hostname with file like this:

Host test-host-name
    HostName 192.168.1.2
    User root

The same configuration on Yosemite have a different behavior. When I type ssh t on the shell the tab does not autocomplete the hostname.

Do someone know if is something changed in Yosemite and now I need to do something to make it work?

You can enable bash shell completion by installing bash-completion via brew:

brew install bash-completion

Then add the following to your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi

Source

(Edit: brew tap homebrew/completions is deprecated as of 2018.)

You can add entries in /etc/hosts and use them in host name autocomplete:

"ssh @" + [TAB]

Reboot is required for system to reload this file.


AppleScript: start/stop QuickTime Player screen recording on timer I would like to use an AppleScript which will tell QuickTime Player to start screen recording immediately and stop screen recording after a specified length of time (e.g. 60 mins).

In my search so far, I have come across this AppleScript:

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    set newScreenRecording to new screen recording
    tell newScreenRecording
        start
        delay 3
        stop
    end tell
    tell last item of documents
        close
    end tell
end tell

but I get an error message saying "the variable new screen recording is not defined". I don't know anything about programming as you can probably tell so I'd really appreciate any help you can offer with this.

It's not pretty, but if you click to start the video this will stop it.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    new screen recording
end tell

--Pause for 10 seconds
delay 10

--Click the stop recording button in the top menu bar.
tell application "System Events"
    click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of application process "screencaptureui"
end tell

Pro tip: Record yourself doing the action you want to automate in automator, drag and drop that operation into a new window and copy the line where it says click menu... (Remove the "\" escape characters) into a simple tell application "System Events" command. But unfortunately it doesn't work for everything.


iOS Simulator installed app location in Xcode 6.1 I am trying to locate the actual location of app installed on iOS Simulator. I am using OSX 10.9.4 with Xcode 6.1

Already tried looking Application Support folder but can't find the simulator location. Tried a bunch of different locations as well, but can't find anything. Any ideas where can I find it or where should I look in apple documentation regarding this? Any pointers will be appreciated.

For newer Xcode's (including 6.1) follow below steps to see the installed apps (.app) location >>

Right click Xcode.app.
Go to 'Show Contents'.
Navigate to this part of the file path: Contents > Developer > Platforms > iPhoneSimulator.platform > Developer > SDKs > iPhoneSimulator8.1.sdk > Applications

Here will show all installed .app list.

Besides if you want to install new .app on simulator, just drag and drop .app to this location.

If you want to create a shortcut to the simulator app, you can do the following:

Control-click xcode.app in Applications and select "Show Package Contents"
Navigate to: Contents/Developer/Applications
Control-click iOS Simulator.app and select "Make Alias", or just drag it to the dock to create an alias there.

I'm using OS 10.9.5 and xCode 6.1.1


What does update_terminal_cwd do in the terminal of OS X I am puzzled by it for quite some while now. In $PROMPT_COMMAND of the bash in OS X, there is a command called update_terminal_cwd. I am sure it's not a bash built in, and most likely only exists in OS X. But I don't know what exactly it does. Anyone knows?

It updates the prompt to echo the Current Working Directory (CWD) and is defined in /etc/bashrc:

update_terminal_cwd() {
    # Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
    # including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
    # remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
    local SEARCH=' '
    local REPLACE='%20'
    local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
    printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
}

Opaque secret encoded format string, '\e]7;%s\a'. Suspect.

local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"

From what I gather, "file://$HOSTNAME" is masked out so you can't see
remote protocol:host espionage.


How to either simultaneously delete photo from photo stream and all devices; or how to designate a photo not to go to the cloud at all.  I'll do something like take a picture of an item at Costco to look it up on the net later.  But I don't want the picture bumped to the cloud, then to my Mac and pad.  It's going to be deleted once it's done it's job.  As it is, I have to delete from my phone, the cloud, the mac and the pad, which gets old.  Or simply leaving them there cluttering up my photos collection.

Turn off the automatic stream button for streaming file from cloud to Mac and iPad, this may work.


Can the Macbook's webcam be ON without LED indication? Was reading some topics online about hackers accessing user's webcams (on Windows) to spy on them etc, and I am now interested to know if I'm at any risk.

To make it simple, these are my questions :

Can Safari allow websites to activate the webcam without my permission ?
Can the webcam be activated without the LED being lit ?
Are there any known trojans that affect macs and leave them vulnerable for such hacks ?

Thanks

This research paper reported by the Washington Post and Ars Technica says yes.

Though it was only tested on "old" Macs (Late PPC, early Intel)

Any software that so chooses may ask you to initiate a FaceTime session. It cannot start one without your say-so.

The FaceTime cameras (like yours) cannot be active without the LCD on.

There aren't really any hacks that matter.

There are a number of really lame, goofy hacks in some web plugins (Flash), that could be used to access a Flash player that displays your camera's stream, for example, but you'd have to have the camera on, or accept a FaceTime session, or whatever.


Is there a way to type Niqqud on iOS? On my iPod touch I am able to type basic Hebrew characters by adding a Hebrew international keyboard.

Is there some way for me to type Hebrew vowels (Niqqud) [without using any specialized apps]?

I think not, only by using a hardware keyboard or via copy/paste from another doc or an app like Unicode Maps.  You might be able to make a custom layout as well with Unicode Maps.  Also have a look at Keyman.

A 3rd party keyboard is Davka Nikud.

Don't know Hebrew, but on iOS 5 there's a load of built in international keyboards, one of them Hebrew.

Go to Settings > General > International (Near the bottom) > Keyboards.

In there you can add a Hebrew keyboard, and any others you need.

When you activate the keyboard anywhere on your iPod touch now, you should a "world" key near the bottom left. Tap that to cycle through the different keyboards you added.

This should be available in earlier iOS versions, but I'm not sure if the settings are in the same location.

Hope that helps.