What Window Management Options exist for OS X? I'd like to do something with my windows on OS X, where something includes options like re-arranging, moving, re-sizing, remembering positions, cloning across Spaces, etc. What options exist?

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Spectacle
Open source, available at GitHub, accepting donations
App Store link (will not be updated past version 0.6.9)

Center = Command+Option+C
Fullscreen = Command+Option+F
Left Half = Command+Option+←
Right Half = Command+Option+→
Top Half = Command+Option+↑
Bottom Half = Command+Option+↓
Upper Left Corner = Command+Control+←
Lower Left Corner = Command+Shift+Control+←
Upper Right Corner = Command+Control+→
Lower Right Corner = Command+Shift+Control+→
Left Display = Command+Option+Control+←
Right Display = Command+Option+Control+→
Top Display = Command+Option+Control+↑
Bottom Display = Command+Option+Control+↓
Undo = Command+Option+Z

Per Spectacle' Github:

Spectacle users have recommended Rectangle as an open source
alternative.

Rectangle is maintained as of 2020.
brew cask install rectangle

Use Gridsutra. Awesome UX and so easy to use. Apart from others, you will notice the effectiveness, easy of use, and features that no one else offers. Especially support for adobe package and the window sticking to corner. I am a happy customer and waiting for more excitement from that team.


Shift+3 returns £ sign instead of # sign When I press Shift+3 on my Mac, it returns £ sign instead of # sign. How can I fix it? Any ideas?
Input source - British - PC

The keyboard is working as designed for Apple.

If you want to use the keyboard as normal the # is given by Alt-3

I found this annoying as well and the way I get round it is to change the input source to Australian the only difference is that Shift3 is now # and Alt3 is £

Input Source setting is System Preferences->Keyboard->Input Source By default this will just show the UK keyboard to see more hit the + at the bottom of the list and add Australian

This is the answer I gave in Stack Overflow and I think is a duplicate here as well but I could not find the original.

Press Alt+3 to get #. Likewise should you ever need the Euro sign, press Alt+2 to get €.


iPhone alarm through headphones only? By default the iPhone alarm sounds both through the headphones and speakers (understandably), is there a setting somewhere to set the alarm to only go through the headphones?

(The use case is I want to wake up with the alarm but not wake everyone else in the house)

You could mute the voice before inserting the earphones and then put in the earphones and set the volume. This way the alarm sound will only come through the earphones because you have muted your phone, not the earphones.

Use the built in clock app for your alarm and it will bypass the cable and come out the speaker.  All third party alarm apps fail at this...


How to show the macOS menu bar on fullscreen mode When you maximise apps to fullscreen on Mac OS Sierra, the menu bar is hidden. This is expected, because it's full screen, but if you're using an app with tabs (like Visual Studio Code), the menu bar often drops down when you're trying to switch tabs. This can be infuriating.

Google Chrome doesn't have this issue because the developers have cleverly coded the app to move the tab bar down when the menu bar appears. Unfortunately this option isn't available in Firefox or Visual Studio Code.

I've been trying to find a way to permanently show the menu bar when apps are fullscreened as a workaround.

I don't know if this is considered full screen but if I click on green button in top left corner of app while holding down option key, the app screen will maximize but leave apple menu visible.

If you create a new desktop from mission control, then use jmh's answer, you will get the same behavior as just pressing the green button alone, but preserve the menu bar.


mount "nolocks" option ignored on Mavericks 10.9.1? I'm not 100% sure if this is just my misinterpretation of the mount output, or if this is actually an issue.  I'm mounting an nfs share with the following command:

mount -t nfs -o nolocks,noowners 10.0.0.1:/vol/shared ~/shared

But when I look at the output of mount I see the following:

10.0.0.1:/vol/shared on /Users/ryan/shared (nfs, nodev, nosuid, noowners, mounted by ryan)

Why isn't nolocks listed in the options?  The reason I need this option enabled is that the server I'm connecting to doesn't have locking enabled, and when I try and use the share I experience extremely slow performance as a result (at least this is the most likely reason).  I'm fairly sure that it isn't mounting the share with locking disabled, because I'm still experiencing the same issue.

nfsstat -m

It shows the options from mount_nfs


Moving photos from MacBook download folder to desktop and Photos I would like to move photographs from a professional photographer to my desktop as well as into Photo. Please tell me how to do that.

Select all photos you want to move (in downloads folder in Finder), go to Edit menu-> cut. Go to desktop and in Finder, Edit menu-> paste.

For photos, Go to File -> import -> navigate to downloads and select using command-click or shift- click and hit review for import. Then finalise.

Drag and drop the files into iCloud, ftp or box.com


Can I set the "Exercise" goal for my Apple Watch Activity app? The Apple Watch Activity allows for setting an overall "Move" goal, but I don't see how to change the green "Exercise" goal from the default 30 minutes. Is there a way to accomplish this?

No there is no way to accomplish this.

From Apple - Apple Watch

  You close the Exercise ring when you reach the globally recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day. And you don’t even have to do it all at once, which means you’re more likely to fit it into your day.

From all searches I have performed I have not found any possible way to change it and the above quote suggests that 30 minutes is the amount Apple has fixed on (the call it "recommended").

On your watch, press hard on the activity screen in the activity app. You can increase/decrease the daily calorie burn goal. Doesn't look like you can change any other as of yet.


Is it normal for the Finder to be slow when many files are in a folder? I have a maxed out MacBook Pro (end of 2013, 1TB SSD, Quad Core Haswell) and collect a lot of ripped mp3 files from viny, move them around in a folder structure. The problem is that Finder is incredibly slow and laggy, dragging files from one folder to another seems almost broken. I also noticed the same stuttering when scrolling through my apps folder.

Is it normal for Finder to react so slow, when many files are in a folder or might this be a hardware problem? I'm on 10.9.5 and can't upgrade at the moment.

Bulk file & folder moves/copies using the Finder are more easily accomplished at the command line in Terminal. A benefit is that the process executes faster.

The mv and cp commands are what you need. Use wildcard file selection on the source side of the command, and create target paths from dragging the associated Finder icons into the Terminal window. Take a look at the myriad options available at man mv and man cp.

As IconDaemon said, terminal is better but selecting files from the origin and then using CMD+ C  and ALT +CMD +V at the destination can cut paste in a less troubling manner than dragging and dropping.


Are there privacy concerns with the Built-In iSight Camera and LED Indicator? I was having a discussion with some friends about the built in camera of computer and what you can do with them, and I realized that my macbook has one of those. That got me thinking about how the camera and LED are connected; Are they connected to the same power supply or can they be turned on or off individually?

If it's not connected to the same power supply has Apple said anything to ensure my privacy against anyone looking at me without the LED turning on?

I don't think turning off the green light while accessing the iSight is possible. I have checked the following sources for evidences against:

Security software like Prey and Undercover - They are highly motivated to do so, but unable to.
Drivers for other OS-es (Linux).
Forums, mailing lists and security advisories.

And the conclusion is:

  All Apple laptops have cameras that cannot be disabled (unless the LED is burnt out). Due to the way the iSight is set up electrically, the green light will always be on when in use.

Apparently camera signals are used for adjusting screen brightness. Try it out: when you cover the camera lens, the screen goes darker within a few seconds. The change is even reflected on the bar graph you see when you manually adjust the brightness so no mistaking there. This proves that some optical information gan be read from the camera even though the indicator light is off.


Change canvas size in Preview.app without scaling image? I have a PNG that I want to add additional content to. For this I need to increase the canvas size of the image: Just make the image larger, but without scaling the existing contents (which the Adjust Size tool seems to insist on doing).

How can I do this?

This works well for me:

Select all (cmd+A) and cut (cmd+X) the image from its canvas (convert to png if asked).
Resize the image as desired from the "Tools" menu (unlock the proportions if desired)
Re-paste original image from the clipboard (cmd+V) and move it where you want it on the resized canvas
Use cmd+- if necessary to zoom out (you'll see checkerboard where the canvas is and white beyond)
Paste in other images, etc, as you like

The best method I have found is:

Take a screenshot that is larger than your image you are working on, I usually take a shot of an empty text document so that it is entirely white.
Paste your image onto the new image, and then add your other pasted image as well.
Select the new combination image and copy it and make a final image by creating a new one from the clipboard.

This method only works if your two or more images are smaller than your screenshot image, but it works 95% of the time for me.


Access disk attached to Airport Extreme over internet? According to Apple's product page, the Airport Extreme...

  "...can turn your external USB hard drive into a secure drive you can share across your Wi‑Fi network and access securely over the Internet."

My interpretation of the "access securely over the Internet" part is that if I plug in an external hard drive to an Airport Extreme on my home network, I can get to it from anywhere via the internet... including outside of my home network.

Am I interpreting this correctly? If so, it sounds like a pretty awesome feature! I guess I'm skeptical though because when I Google around for this, I find nothing relevant... including any info from Apple. What gives?

Sometimes, the only way to get an answer is to try it for yourself! So, I went out and bought an Airport Extreme. Bottom line:

YES, YOU CAN ACCESS AN ATTACHED DISK REMOTELY FROM OVER THE INTERNET!

The magic happens with iCloud's Back to My Mac feature. Here's how you do it:

System Preferences > iCloud: Turn on Back to My Mac
Airport Utility > Select AirPort Extreme > Edit > Disks: Tick "Enable file sharing" and "Share disks over WAN"
I chose to secure the shared disks "With device password"... meaning the password that is set for the AirPort Extreme.

Now, when you're away from your local network, just click the name of your AirPort Extreme in a Finder window's sidebar (if you don't see it, make sure "Back to My Mac" is ticked in Finder > Preferences > Sidebar).

Amazingly, that's it. It blows my mind that Apple isn't promoting this more heavily or that there's little talk about it out there. To me, this is a pretty killer feature!

Best way to hook up a network drive is to add a network drive that get's its own IP address.  Adding a USB drive to an airport extreme is not good because it's not reliable. Tends to disconnect, and then to reconnect you have to reboot the airport and the usb disc.  Not worth it.


Transfer Health App Data to Computer Is there a way to transfer the step data (ideally, total steps per day) from my iPhone to my computer?

Thanks!

In iOS 10 in the Health app

Hit the profile (head icon) in the top right corner.

At the bottom of your profile is Export Health Data. Touching that brings up a dialog and eventually the normal sharing choice e.g. Message, Mail etc

Take a look at this link, for Excel and R:
http://www.ryanpraski.com/apple-health-data-how-to-export-analyze-visualize-guide/


Text unselected when clicking to activate Terminal window (OS X Lion) I've noticed this behavior in Lion's Terminal.app:

Let's say I have some text selected in a non-active terminal window. Meaning, another window is active - it could be another terminal window, or another app's window. If I click on the window with the selected text without clicking the selection itself, the text remains selected when the window is activated. However, if the click happens to be on the selected text, the text becomes unselected.

Is there a way to prevent the unselect behavior? I have to consciously avoid clicking the selection, otherwise I need to re-select (very annoying because text-selection often requires precise pointer movement).
The behavior is also inconsistent for no apparent reason - why have special behavior if the text is clicked?

UPDATE

This only seems to happen with the Basic profile (I haven't tested all of them though). If I use something like Grass or Homebrew, the selection is retained.

If you're perturbed every time you move the mouse (like me), you could alway try switching to keystrokes.

For example, to switch between open applications, use CMD+Tab, and then between windows using CMD+~

Another useful way to get around with the keyboard is to use Tab to move between all controls using the Keyboard control panel in System Preferences like so:


Safari won't open after Lion? I just finished upgrading to Lion from SL and Safari won't open. When I click it, the app bounces in the dock for a moment then a box pops up and says

Safari quit unexpectedly.

Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.

I tried going to the apple website to download safari but http://www.apple.com/safari/ doesn't contain a download link on the page (to me, at least) and http://www.apple.com/safari/download just redirects to http://www.apple.com/safari/.

I can't find a Safari version for Lion anywhere.

Found this pkg to Safari 6:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/37/23/041-5058/lr5tynbldi18zcrqo8a8uq88 rnjushqliu/Safari6Lion.pkg

You need to delete the  two Webkit folders under system folder.
Then run updates and all will be well


Any way to move contacts between groups on iPhone? Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups.

Seems like an oversight that I would have to go back to my Mac, or delete a contact and manually recreate their card in a different group, in order to do this.

Go to "groups" in "Contacts" and uncheck all the groups except the one the contact you want to move is in.
Search for the contact you want to move and "Share" the contact  to your own email address or phone # via text.
Click "edit" on the contact you just sent and delete it.
Go back to Groups and uncheck the group the contact was sent from.
Leave only the Group you want the contact in checked.
Go to your email/text and import the new contact.  It will automatically be added to the only active group which you selected.
Go back to Contact Groups and select all the groups you want showing on your phone.

Voila!

As noted above changes can be made via Mac or iCloud web GUI. I use Contaqs.app on my iPhone to make Group/Contact edits. Within a Contact I can remove Group relationships, in a Group I can add Contacts, or with a Contact selected I can drag/drop to a group to add it.

There are other 3rd party solutions, this is just one I've used that continues to be maintained and is useful in other ways.


How can I fix constantly resetting HD 4000 GPU? Problem:
My MacBook Pro started showing graphic issues. For a little bit more than two years the system was running without any major issues, but now it is almost unusable. Last month a few of those hiccups started to occur, but in the last few days they happen more frequently (today over 50 times).

The graphic issues manifest in stuttering user interface, which usually means that the monitor freezes and temporarily becomes unresponsive. Sometimes the a second occurring freeze after 10 sec results in an application crash, sometimes the applications run a little bit longer. Sometimes the stutters throw me back to the log-in screen or restart the computer.

This behavior occurs in applications such as Safari, Preview, QuickTime, VLC and Heroes of the Storm. It's also impossible to play videos.

What I already tried:
The extended Apple Diagnostics tool didn't show any errors. I've reset PRAM and SMC. I also reinstalled the Combo Update 10.10.4 and I even reinstalled the OS from the Recovery Utility. The error persists. I have attached the beginning of one of the console logs which is related to the freezes.

Any other ideas on what I can try?

System Details: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) OS X 10.10.4 Intel Core i5 2,6 Ghz 8 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 4000

Console Log:

  Event:               GPU Reset
  Data/Time:           Sun Jul 5 18:23:08 2015

  Application:         com.apple.WebKit

  Path:

  OS Version:          Mac OS X Version 10.10.4 (Build 14E46)

  Graphics Hardware:   Intel HD Graphics 4000

  Signature:           8013

  Report Data:

  ===========================================================================
                           Intel GPU Hang Summary
  version 1.0.0

  ===========================================================================

  -- Summary of Status for ALL Rings --

  MAIN Ring is hung in a batch buffer <-- ROOT CAUSE!

  MEDIA Ring is idle

  BLT Ring is waiting on a semaphore

  [.....]

If your issue appeared with 10.10.3, I am 98% certain it is a bug in OS X Yosemite, introduced with the 10.10.3 update and related to Intel HD 4000 GPUs. Welcome aboard. The kernel panics are totally erratic, some users have also graphics glitches like you describe. The only common feature is having an Intel HD 4000 GPU.

However, your case seems more severe than that and could also be caused by a dying GPU.

On MacBook Pros with dual GPU you can avoid the problem by disabling Automatic Graphics Switching (System Preferences > Energy Saver).

Please contribute to the thread in the apple discussion forum and file a bug report (with link to the thread).

Try disabling either the GPU or the integrated graphics card driver: http://blog.b-nm.at/2015/08/03/macbook-pro-gpu-problems-gpureset-freezing/


Reset dvd drive region When you setup your dvd drive for the first time it will ask you what reigen you want to set.

Each time you put a dvd from a different reigen into the drive it will ask you to change again.

But you are only allowed to do this 4 times, once you've exhausted that is there any way to change it back ? Or are you now stuck - ie. not able to play dvd's from any other region ?

Unless you are willing to research how to flash the firmware of the particular DVD drive in your Mac to change the region, or to make it region-free, I suggest you try the very cool (and free) app VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. If VLC does what you need it to, please consider donating to the 'cause'.

Your milage may vary.

Disclaimer: I have no financial stake in VideoLAN.org - I'm just a very satisfied customer.

This is pretty troublesome to change the region code everytime you load a different DVD. For me, I would choose to make a digital copy of all my DVD collection without region code and then load into DVD drive, it does not ask for region anymore.


Why cannot discover user in Airdrop when open personal hotspot? When my iPhone opens the personal hotspot, I cannot find other users via Airdrop. What is the theory behind it?

AirDrop is different than a personal hotspot.

A personal hotspot is for sharing your internet connection.

AirDrop has separate controls, located in the control center.   You must also turn on Bluetooth and wifi.

Official Apple doc with screenshots.


Configure OS X to pass incoming traffic to another server? I have a PC and a 2011 Mac mini on one wireless network, which does not have Internet access.  The Mac mini is also connected to another network which has Internet access.

Is there a way I can share access to a single IP using the Mac?  i.e., Forward all requests on ports XX-YY to AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD?

EDIT: I'd prefer a solution that is 100% command-line based.

OS X 10.11.3
I need the PC to be able to access resources on the Mac's network.
Internet sharing replaces the Mac's connection to the wifi network.

The PC is wired to a wireless router without internet.  The Mac is wired to a wireless router with internet.  The Mac is also wifi connected to the PC's wireless router.  The PC's wireless router is not capable of acting as a client.

An SSH tunnel will serve the purpose here, assuming that you configure a gazillion LocalForward ports.

Place these contents into your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host [hostname]
User [username]
Port [SSH port]              # (if using port 22, omit this line)
LocalForward 1 0.0.0.0:1     # Replace all these
LocalForward 2 0.0.0.0:2     # port numbers with
LocalForward 3 0.0.0.0:3     # the actual ports
LocalForward 4 0.0.0.0:4     # that you need.
LocalForward 5 0.0.0.0:5     #
LocalForward 6 0.0.0.0:6     # Format is like this:
LocalForward 7 0.0.0.0:7     # LocalForward [port] 0.0.0.0:[port]
LocalForward 8 0.0.0.0:8     #
LocalForward 9 0.0.0.0:9
LocalForward 10 0.0.0.0:10

... and so on for whatever ports you want.

This will set up listening ports on the Mac, and will forward the traffic on those ports to [hostname] over an SSH connection to [username] on port [SSH port] whenever you run this Terminal command:

ssh [hostname]

Keep in mind that [hostname] must be running an SSH server, and you will get a shell on the remote host in Terminal.  It's possible to configure a port-forward-only SSH server, but that is beyond the scope of this answer.  If you don't want a shell on the remote server, run this command instead:

ssh [hostname] sleep 3600

You will instead get a 1 hour connection, and no shell.  Don't close the Terminal window.  If you want, you can set it up such that you can close Terminal by running this:

nohup ssh [hostname] sleep 3600 &

Replace 3600 with the number of seconds you want the connection to last.

NOTE: Turns out I was mistaken in what the question was asking. It was internet sharing that @Daniel wanted, not port forwarding. My mistake. I'm leaving this answer here for the sake of informing about port forwarding, but this isn't the best solution for how to solve this problem.
Sure! You're trying to accomplish port forwarding, which a variety of programs can do. If you like using Apple software with a nice GUI, OS X Sever works fine. @klanomath has told me that "OS X Server neither allows port forwarding nor NAT/Routing. Not allowing neither of both it doesn't provide a GUI", so I've removed this suggestion.
ipfw used to be the default for port forwarding. However, it's since been deprecated for pfctl. I personally am very dumb and don't really know what's happening when you use it. I'll paste the (heavily summarized) contents of a GitHub instruction thing. Create an anchor file under /etc/pf.anchors/<anchor file> with your redirection rule like: rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to ABC.ABC.ABC.AB port AB-AB -> AAA.BBB.CCC.DD port XX-YY. To my knowledge, I don't know of any nice GUI clients.
SSH also supports tunneling. For you, you'll probably want to use the command ssh -D AAA.BBB.CCC.DD:XX-YY. There's also a variety of clients that you can use to make managing this a bit easier than via the command line.
You can also configure it at the level of your router. Obviously this depends on your router, but portforward.com has instructions for lots of routers (as does Google.) For example, you can use AirPort Utility to configure port forwarding.
But don't be restricted! Look around, there's tons upon tons of software and methods of doing this.


Can't Delete Video Files from my Macbook Pro hard drive My Macbook Pro hard drive is full. I have attempted to delete video files from All My Files but they won't delete. I also found that several files with just audio from many of my videos are also there. When I try to move them to the trash, they go to the trash but then another copy is made. How do I permanently delete video and photo files?

Open Finder and go to your Home folder (named after your User Account).
Find the Movies folder.

You can drag it into Finder's Sidebar for convenience.
In the Movies folder, you can delete anything.
Make sure to quit all programs before deleting something, so that the files are not in use. In other words, don't be listening to iTunes or whatever while you're deleting media files.

In some cases, a file may be in use, even if you've quit the relevant app. If this happens, log out and back in, or reboot the computer, then attempt to delete the files.
Be sure to empty the Trash after you delete the files, otherwise the space will not be regained.

sorry this only partially answers the question. I have the same problem: my SSD drive on my MacBook Pro is completely FULL - not a kb of space left. I cannot PERMANENTLY delete the photos because they have to go to Trash first, but no space is available because I stupidly made the mistake of attempting to send 30gb of photos to Trash - it started the job then locked up completely when the drive filled up! I have emptied Trash but it is still locked up, I imagine because it's trying to finish the job of shifting the photos to Trash. In windows you can permanently delete a file directly without having to send it to the Recycle Bin. Is there a way to do this on a Mac? (And how do I undo the command to send the pics to Trash? I am a novice Mac user - been using windows on Bootcamp virtually exclusively since I bought my Mac and haven't set up Time Machine yet. I am travelling at moment and don't have my last back up on me either.)


iTunes track notifications for Mountain Lion In OS X Lion there was the preference (via a Terminal command) to enable iTunes track notifications that were displayed as a popup in the dock.

So far it seems as though Mountain Lion does not allow this, I was wondering if anyone knew whether the command had changed or if this is just not possible in OS X 10.8.

The Terminal command I had been using in Lion was:

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE; killall Dock

As best as I've been able to tell, this feature has been removed.

There are two alternatives to the Lion-provided notification mechanism that provide a few more features and customizability.

If you have Growl installed, you can use GrowlTunes to provide Growl notifications on track and playback changes.

The official Last.fm Scrobbler app provides notifications via Growl as well, the bonus being that it's worth using if you also scrobble your playback history to Last.fm. If you don't you probably want to stick with GrowlTunes.

Growl is a generic notification system with a large amount of customizability, like the ability to customize the alert style. Growl has existed for OS X for as long as I can remember, years and years pre-dating even Tiger, iOS, and the Notification Center as well.

This is not the exact fix you are looking for, but is a close alternative.
http://hyperdock.bahoom.com/
"HyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select individual application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more"


How can Finder permanently show a specific file starting with a dot/period? I have a folder on my Mac that I will set up to git-sync with a folder on my web server. I’d like to be able to see the .htaccess file in this folder without having to unhide hidden files all over the system. Is that possible?

I’m using Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

(Mike Scott mentioned in How to show hidden files and folders in finder? that this might not be possible to show only specific files/folders that start with a dot but it would be nice with a definite answer – and instructions for how to do it, if it is indeed possible.)

One way to get around this would be to create a symbolic link to .htaccess and call it something without a dot. For example:

$ cd site_root
$ ln -s .htaccess htaccess

Then you can open htaccess from Finder and you'll actually be editing the .htaccess file.

(You could even make the second command ln -s .htaccess " .htaccess", which would visually look like .htaccess but be visible because of the leading space.)

But if you don't want to use any additional software and don't want to leave your hidden file(s) or folder(s) visible or yet don't want to have to fixe a specific path every time your change your web dev directory and so on,

In a terminal :

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder

to edit the hidden file

and then

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder

after editing!

You can create a doubleclic script launcher with Scripteditor e.g.:

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder"

and export it as Application


What application uses a red cone icon with a notch in it? I saw the following icons in a screen shot of a mac. I know the F-icon is Autodesk Fusion, but what is the icon next to it, the red cone with a notch?

That appears to be the icon for Autodesk AutoCAD (see the red icon in the screenshot).

Here is another view.

Open it and look at the name on the menu bar in the top left?


How to create HFS partition on Windows 7 machine I've got Windows 7 running on my computer and I would like to partition my D: volume, make it HFS+ but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this.

Anyone had done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS partition tool but it does not support HFS/HFS+.

I only know of two commercial tools: MacDrive and TransMac. They both have limited time trials to evaluate before you buy.

You could also try a Live CD of GParted, it has HFS support.

Update: a colleague of mine told me you can create a HFS partition with diskpart. Just make sure it's primary and use partition id af (create partition primary id=af).

This did the trick for me.

Paragon Hfs-Ntfs converter.


iOS invert left and right on screen Is there anyway to invert left and right in iOS, such that the phone looks as it would in a mirror?  (Yes all text would be backward, this is a desired effect.)  Not just a specific app that displays itself in reverse, but a system-wide effect like inverting colours.  It would probably not be a generally sought feature, one that apple would likely implement itself, but perhaps a third-party app exists?

I was looking for a similar app for video (projector issues), I came across a lot of mirror apps that were mainly for photo's and other images but some for text, others for both, as we as for inverting colours. Just search "mirror" in the app store.

I haven't tried any of these, but this question sounds similar enough to potentially be of some use:

horizonally flip OSX's monitor output?  Asked by Joe May 12th of 2013.

Two answers listed there; one with a positive vote count.


How can I access files on my network from my iPhone? I am attempting to access a PDF file on my network from my iPhone and I know how to access these files from Windows OS.

However since I have an iPhone 5, I don't have the knowledge to make that device work with my existing network files.

I have attempted several apps and none seem to work. I am not interested in changing my network to support iOS. My intent is to absolutely have something on the iPhone to access the same sort of files I can from my Windows laptop when connected via VPN.

I recommend FileExplorer Free.  I just installed it to access files that I wrote on a SD card in my WiFi router.  I have an iPhone and iPad.  FileExplorer can use CIFS, SMB, FTP and others.  It can read many formats such as PDF, video, photos, music and Microsoft Office.
There is  priced version for five dollars.

The only built in iOS app with network access is Safari, so if "first party software only" is your rule then you'll need to set up a web server to host your PDF content.

If a local web server is out of the question, you'll need to investigate a 3rd party app.  I'm partial to Dropbox but there are dozens of other choices.


El Capitan froze and rebooted (Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2012) 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i7 8GB DDR3:
Was running NetAdmin Pro which is monitoring
my office LAN, processors consumption was at
~15 - 20%. Simultaneously I ran WiFI Explorer,
3.7% no more than 5% CPU usage. And I was
updating Xcode to v 7.3.1 and was browsing and
watching video from playground.ru
Watch the videos until half of it (20mins) the
Video froze I moved the mouse and turned out
the whole OSX is frozen.
littleSnitch v 3.7 has no reaction
I immediately pull the Ethernet adaptor and
MacBook just went to black screen. I then
switch off the wireless router. (My MacBook Pro
is connected to the network via Ethernet
adaptor and via WiFi router bearing different IP,
I was thinking of cutting both network
communication, in case it was an intrusion)
MacBook just restarted itself to login screen,
after 15-20 sec of black screen and total
silence)
I again restarted and booted into Recovery
mode use disk utility. After completing disk
check.
Login and previously opened programs resume
back (NetAdmin Pro, WiFi Explorer, Yandex
browser, Activity Monitor and AppStore)
AppStore doesn't resume the download
everything else is functioning normally and in
Addition I have got my calendar open after login
(I did not launch accidental nor was it set to
start with system login)

Question 1: Are there any way to know what was happening and what was OS El Capitan last reaction before it froze and rebooted?

Question 2: Are there any software better than "Console" v10.11 to interpret what was going on before it crashes?

P.S. Thank you in advance, I will try to upload the Console messages later from the MacBook Pro

DDT-2:~ Chaleune$ syslog | grep -i "shutdown cause"

Jun 22 14:15:37 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 22 20:34:46 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 23 15:18:23 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 24 17:58:32 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 24 20:09:52 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 24 22:58:15 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5Jun 25 14:43:36 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 25 21:55:31 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 3

Jun 25 22:20:57 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Kext com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog failed to load (0xdc008012).Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 26 10:18:44 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 26 12:09:45 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 26 18:00:31 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 27 13:05:58 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 27 22:56:11 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

Jun 28 14:18:27 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: 5

*Jun 29 18:56:21 localhost kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: -128*

Jun 29 23:31:22 DDT-2 kernel[0] <Notice>: Previous shutdown cause: -128

Opensource.apple shows the following

dsIllInstErr                  = 3,    /illegal instruction error/
dsChkErr                      = 5,    /check trap error/
userCanceledErr               = -128

macwizard gave the following interpretation:

03 Illegal Instruction
The computer has a specific vocabulary of machine language instructions it can understand. If a computer tries to execute an instruction that isn't in its vocabulary, you see this error code. It's less likely than error 02, but still very common.
05 Range Check Error
Programmers can use an instruction in the Motorola 68000 to check if a number is within a certain range. This error indicates that the number tested isn't in the specified range.
-128  userCanceledErr         User canceled an operation

Run a sysdisgnose. That is how Apple receives feedback from seeding/beta customers. The keyboard shortcut is Cmd Opt Ctrl Shift Period.

You can also run sudo sysdiagnose -f ~/Desktop/ in Terminal. The former will save to /var/tmp and the latter will save to the Desktop.

Sysdiagnose will contain pretty much A to Z.

You should be sure to check the disks.txt, diskutil.txt, errorlog.txt, logs.txt, and the diagnostics folder.

The combination of the model, video viewing(/discrete gpu usage) and the way it just respawned to the login screen makes me fairly certain it's a faulty GPU issue. Luckily there's a warranty extension repair program running until the end of the year, see http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Check /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports for .gpuRestart files to make sure.

Yes. brew install lnav and never look back.

Lastly, neither of the links you posted are about current shutdown causes, so just ignore them.


iOS 10 photos removing individual photo from people folders How do I remove a photo that has accidentally been put in the wrong people photo album?

I have a photo of my dad (who is now deceased) that has appeared in the album for my father-in-law (who is very much alive). I can't find a way to remove an individual photo from the new people album once it is in it. I don't want to hide the whole album of my father-in-law, just remove this one misfiled photo.

Select your father-in-law from the "People" album, tap the "Select" button in the upper right-hand corner, tap on the mislabeled photo, tap the "Share" icon in the bottom left, then from the list at the bottom of the screen select "Not This Person."

If you need to select multiple photos, check all applicable pictures from the scrollable list at the top of the Share sheet prior to pressing "Not This Person."

If you don’t see this control, you are likely browsing photos from a location other than the People album. Use the back buttons in the top left to navigate all the way back to the top-level list of albums, then tap into the album corresponding to the person who has been wrongly identified in photos.

As above 'Select your father-in-law from the "People" album, tap the "Select" button in the upper right-hand corner, tap on the mislabeled photo, tap the "Share" icon in the bottom left, then from the list at the bottom of the screen select "Not This Person.".
If you cannot see 'Not This Person' in the list, try swiping left to see more options or tapping 'More'


View Keychain from encrypted IOS 8.2 backup? Is there any way to access the keychain from an Iphone 5 IOS 8.2 backup?

Here are the hard facts:

encrypted backup where I KNOW the password
device is lost

So far I could restore all the (important) files just fine, however I am stuck on how to view my saved passwords. Apple support sites only show me how to restore a backup, but not how to read it. After searching for quite some time
I found two possibilities:

Decrypting the iPhone keychain from backups

This requires me to have not only any iPhone (like the Apple support pages) but even the original one, which I have the backup of. So that's not possible.

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker

This seems to work. I downloaded the demo version, which shows which passwords are saved on the backups, but not what they are. However, the cheapest version for OS X is 199€.

Isn't there any other way to access my data for free?

I had the same problem and found a great article that helped me decrypt the keychain from my iOS 9 backup: Recovering Google Authenticator Keys from iOS Backups.

Here are the steps for El Capitan:

Install pip: sudo easy_install pip
Install m2crypto (see answer to Trouble installing m2crypto with pip on El Capitan)

First, install openssl and swig with Homebrew: brew install openssl swig
Then install m2crypto using pip:

env LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" \
CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" \
SWIG_FEATURES="-cpperraswarn -includeall -I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" \
pip install --user m2crypto

Install some more Python packages:

pip install --user construct progressbar pycrypto pyasn1

Download the iPhone Data Protection Tools
Extract your backup: python backup_tool.py PATH_TO_BACKUP
And finally, decrypt your keychain:

python keychain_tool.py -d "PATH_TO_extract/KeychainDomain/keychain-backup.plist" "PATH_TO_extract/Manifest.plist"

Try this tutorial - how to decrypt keychain

http://www.securitylearn.net/2012/05/03/decrypting-the-iphone-keychain-from-backups/


How to select power direction over USB-C I have a USB battery which has a USB-C port on it.

When I connect it to my MacBook Pro (regardless of whether the MacBook Pro is running off its battery or via the mains), the Mac doesn't charge the battery, but instead uses the battery to power the Mac.

If the Mac is not on its own power supply, it will use the USB battery for charging (very slowly, but useful in a pinch).

In every case, the Mac tries to make power flow from the battery to the computer.

How do I reverse this? How do I make power flow from the Mac to the battery?

Apparently this is selectable, and other OSs provide an option.

Method 1: Reverse/inverse the sides/plugs of the USB-C to USB-C cable. Might works or not.

Method 2.1: Use a USB-C to micro-USB(male) cable and a micro-USB(female) to USB-C(male) adapter.

Method 2.2: Use a USB-C to USB-A(female) adapter and a USB-A to USB-C cable.

Method 2 should always work. However you cannot use PD charge then.

Explain for method 1: I've heard C-C cables have sides to determine host / device. But I can't find the source. From my personal experiment, it depends on cables.

Electrical current will always flow from a higher voltage to lower. Batteries in USB battery packs have regulated output voltage in which the batteries when charged is slightly higher than 5V and regulated down to 5V to ensure a constant output voltage is maintained even when the battery is close to empty. Hence current flow normally would flow from battery pack to laptop. Some battery packs have a separate charging plug/ circuit to charge the battery this plug supplies a higher voltage than the battery until it’s fully charged voltage is reached. All rechargeable batteries have a higher voltage when charged and a lower voltage when discharged. Battery packs without a separate charging port, can switch from discharging mode to charging mode (with a booster circuit in order to charge the battery pack which has a higher charge voltage) if it detects the usb PD circuit has a slightly higher voltage than its regulator is producing ... indicating an alternative power supply.


Restoring iPhone contacts from backup immediately undoes itself By accident, I deleted most of my contacts on my iPhone. They were also on another device, and were deleted from that one as well when they were deleted off of the iPhone. I restored the iPhone from a backup and they appeared for a minute…then disappeared again. I tried to restore it from the backup again and the same thing happened.

How can I fix this?

It is possible that, after restore, you are syncing your iPhone with some source where the contacts have been deleted as well. If so, you will need to stop syncing and/or restore the contacts in that place as well.

You can also try to check if your data shows up in your backup, using the iPhone Backup Extractor tool at iphonebackupextractor.com. Then you can try to recover it with this tool and importing back to your phone. Hope this helps.


View All Assigned Keyboard Shortcuts Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.

There is a very nice app that's freely available to show you all shortcuts when you hold down the command key a bit longer than normal.

http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/

It works on Mavericks and several older OS and I've never had problems with it other than forgetting to quit it after I'm done discovering shortcut keys. It appears to be advertisement supported, so consider that if you prefer to pay to support developers as opposed to be part of what's being sold.

There is a cool widget for dashboard by dashkards that has both general OSX shortcuts as well as a good list for several common apps. Its got a small ad banner, but it's quick to access which is nice. http://dashkards.com


Can I disable macOS Sierra's sticky window edges? In macOS Sierra, the window edges are sticky and grab the edges of the display, the top of the Dock and the bottom of the menu bar when being moved around.

This is very useful most of the time, but sometimes I would like to disable it. Whilst it is possible to move the window away from the edge and move it back again which seems to override the sticky edge functionality, I'd like something to prevent the initial grab in the first place.

Is there a way to disable macOS Sierra's sticky window edges?

Hold down option when dragging. Will disable "sticky" edges as needed, when needed, without disabling it all the time by default.

Applying the option 'Keep Folders on top when sorting by name', in Finder's Advanced Preferences section appears to work for me.


There was an error connecting to Apple ID server I am trying to login to iTunes App Store or the Mac App store on my Mac but it gives me the error every time "There was an error connecting to Apple ID server". Till now I have :

Removed all the antivirus
Disabled firewall
Reset HOSTS file
Tried all suggestions in If you can’t connect to the iTunes Store - Apple Support

I am on El Capitan 10.11.2 on a 2012 Mac Mini.

What I have not tried is Keychain first aid, which was ironically removed in this version of Mac OS. About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.2, Security Update 2015-005 Yosemite, and Security Update 2015-008 M…

What should I do ?

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Here is the log from Console:
http://pastebin.com/raw/8FTiHQF6

Old question: new answer.  Today I had the same problem on my iPad mini.  It turns out that a prior troubleshooting solution was to manually reset the date to an earlier time.  My date was 4 years (yes!) off.  I went to settings and changed to my iPad time to "set automatically" and everything worked.  Other symptoms besides this included the search function in the app store never returning any results.  That was also fixed once the correct time was set.

Try going into Keychain and checking under Keychain Access --> Preferences --> Certificates to make sure both OCSP and CRL are "Best attempt".  See discussion here:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/29988458#29988458


Bash not recognizing packages installed using pip-3.6 I installed pip-3.6 using Mac Ports:

sudo port install py36-pip

Then, using this version of pip, I installed virtualenv:

sudo pip-3.6 install virtualenv

Now when I tried using virtualenv, bash isn't recognizing it.

PS: I didn't want to select pip-3.6 as pip because I have pip working with OS X's version of Python 2.7.

MacPorts may not have put things where you think, see here. Did the pip-3.6 command work? What do you get when you which pip-3.6?

Have you considered Homebrew over MacPorts? pip3 comes automagically with python3.x with Homebrew. It also has a virtualenv package that is easy enough to uninstall if needed.


Triggering an alarm on MBP while the lid is closed I would like to use an alarm clock application on my MacBook Pro. The thing is, that I need to close the lid on the MBP while sleeping. Now I know this is a common issue, but after moderate amount of Googling I haven't found any reasonable solution. Some solutions are already old, do not work on 10.6.7 or the current line of MBP.

This application almost works. It has everything alarm clock should have. It can wakes the computer from sleep as well. It has some problems with closed lid though. The alarm fires of, but after like 3 seconds it auto snoozes. After snooze cool down expires the same thing happens again. If the lid is open and MBP is sleeping the application works just fine.

Can anyone recommend any other application?

ps. Now I know, that running MBP closed is not recommended due to possible overheating, but all need it the alarm clock, so after 10-20 seconds I will manually turn it off, so it shouldn't be an issue.

I used to use InsomniaX, but it has stopped working with the recent updates, and the developer's site says he's stop development. However, I found a similar app that works called InsomniaT. It's not quite as useful as InsomniaX, but it gets the job done.

There are two actions at play here, and if you'd to consider as two separate actions, you'd be able to explain what you've observed.

Sleep. Sleep can be triggered in several ways. Inactivity (under Energy Saver), explicit (by you via keyboard or GUI) and lid close.
Lid Close. Will usually trigger a sleep, but it need not be.

All the alarm apps mentioned on this page is unaware of "lid close". So the following infinite loop occurs:
Alarm triggers -> wake from sleep -> detect lid closed -> sleep -> alarm triggers -> wake from sleep -> detect lid close -> sleep -> ....

The answer to this question lies in taking a step back and trying to understand what you're trying to achieve, and solve it using a different line of thought.


Is there a way to "unsubscribe" from group texts in iOS? When you send a group text message in iOS, it appears as if you automatically opt in to receive any and all replies to that message. Is there a way to avoid being included in group replies? Is there a way to remove oneself from a group chat?

As Messages and SMS integration + iMessage is designed today, this can not be done.

What you could do is:

block the people and leave SMS / iMessage enabled
place that conversation on Do Not Disturb so you don't get notifications from that group
enable no notifications for either SMS or iMessage
turn off iCloud Messages entirely
disable SMS entirely

Just as you can't block a number or email from sending you an iMessage - there is no technical way to get others to not send you a group message (other than by exerting social pressure to exclude you from further communications).

I haven’t been able to find anything playing on my phone, and several forum posts suggest that it can’t be done:

On Mac Rumors, sla252 writes (November, 2011):

  Just got off the phone with Apple tech support. They admitted there is no way to remove yourself from an iMessage group chat. The tech guy says the best thing we can do is go to http://www.apple.com/feedback

There’s also a Reddit thread in which huntard713 suggests (October, 2011):

  Settings-Messages. Turn group messaging off.

It's now November 2011 and I can’t find this setting on my iPhone, and this was in response to a slightly different problem (about who sees the other participants in a group iMessage, so I don’t know how effective this.

I’m sorry this doesn’t really answer your question; for now at least, it looks like you can’t leave a group iMessage.

Actually if you turn off imessage or group message and they are txting you by phone number it will just switch to sms and use your txt msg limit up unless you have unlimited


How to sign out of iCloud on iPhone and Macbook without having access to rescue email and with Find my iPhone and Find my Mac turned on? I have an iPhone 7 Plus and a Macbook Pro 15" 2014.
I was trying to make calls from Facetime Audio on Mac from my iPhone. My Apple ID was asked on Facetime on Mac. I entered my details and it told me that your account has been locked due to security reasons.
So please enter the answer to your security questions which I don't remember. I entered twice and it greyed out this option of security questions. Now the only thing I was left with was to email myself (through Apple) the reset link so as to reset the password. But here's the bad thing that happened to me: The email that I was using with iCloud and Apple ID was my previous employers email and since I left the job, I couldn't access it anymore. So I couldn't get the reset link. Same thing happened with me on both iOS and Macbook.

Now I can't have iCloud sync between both these devices, can't download anything from the appstores on both the devices. I tried signing out of iCloud on my iPhone (and on Mac) but since my Find my iPhone(Find my Mac on Mac) was ON, it didn't let me sign out. I backed up my iPhone and tried erasing all my iPhone so that I could log in with some new Apple ID but since FInd my iPhone was ON, I couldn't erase my device either. Also tried restoring through iTunes, but all in vain since Find my iPhone was ON.

What should I do now? My Macbook and my iPhone are my primary devices and I can't live without iCloud syncing on.

First of all, the comment by Patrix is an excellent way to start. I've helped many users by using the various options there (sometimes having to add other security email addresses, calling Apple Support, etc). This process may or may not be extremely frustrating - I've seen users sort things out pretty quickly, and others who have had to wait days for Apple to call them back once everything was sorted.

However, another option which may or may not be palatable to you is to just contact your previous employer.

About six weeks ago I came across a very similar situation, except in their case it was an old email address from an ISP they were no longer with. After some negotiation the old ISP agreed to recreate the email address at their end for one hour and set it up to autoforward to the user's current email address. During that hour the user was able to access the emails from iforgot.apple.com and change their email address etc.

Of course, in your case it may be a case of being allowed access to your old email (either because it still exists, or because they've recreated the address for you). Or they could set up an autoforward as happened in the above example.

If this isn't an option, then iforgot.apple.com really is your only option.

Ask Apple support. They will as you proof of ownership.


Can I get windows 7 like window resizing on Mac OS X? Windows 7 has a nice new feature for moving around windows.

The one that I am particularly interested in is:
Windows Key + Left/Right : Move the window to the left or right of the screen, or over to a second monitor.

But, Windows Key + Up: Maximize the current window and Windows Key + Down: Restore or minimize the current window. are also quite useful.

Is there anyway that I can get this functionality in OS? Preferably replacing the windows key with Command Key.

Shift It

If you read this Article I think you get what you want.

I was looking for the same thing since window management on Mac is not ideal. I use MondoMouse (15$) for window sizing and control which I even like better than the Windows 7 model.


zsh-autosuggestions: How to install zpty module? I love zsh-autosuggestions and found in the README:

completion: Chooses a suggestion based on what tab-completion would
suggest. (requires zpty module)

With a web search I din't find out what zpty is and how to install it on macOS. Homebrew prefered.
zpty
zsh: command not found: zpty

If that matters, I am a oh-my-zsh user on latest macOS.

zpty is a module that comes bundled with Zsh since version 3.1. That text you quote just means that if you don't have Zsh 3.1 or later installed, you cannot use that particular feature of zsh-autosuggestions.
If you do have Zsh 3.1 or later installed, then there's nothing else you need to do to use that feature. zsh-autosuggestions takes care itself of loading zpty when it needs it.

Apparently zsh has moved away from zpty and suggests the utility zsh-autosuggestions which hopefully would address your use-case. Installing with homebrew does not need zpty as a dependency.
To install:
brew install zsh-autosuggestions

And after installing, you'll need to edit your .zshrc file to include
source /usr/local/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

Then reload your .zshrc using:
source ~/.zshrc

Hope this helps, and I hope I understood your question.


Missing emojis from iPhone English keyboard on iOS 9.3.1 How do I restore missing emojis to the English keyboard on my iPhone 6?
They were there, and after a reset of my phone and restoring it from a computer backup, the emojis are missing.
I tried rebooting my device and that didn't work.
What should I do?

Go to Settings, then general, then keyboard, then keyboards, then add keyboards, then find "Emoji" and add it.

Edit: thanks Tom.

From this article:

  Navigate to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards
  Tap "Add New Keyboard..."
  Select "Emoji" from the list


How do I unset an IP address set with ifconfig? I recently used ifconfig en1 1.2.3.4 to set the IP address of a network interface (specifically, the wireless card) on a Mac… How can I remove/unset it?

Using the graphical network configuration tool doesn't seem to change (or even be aware of) this address - when I use it to manually set an address, a second address is added to the device.

For example, right now ifconfig shows:

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 00:23:xx:xx:xx:xx
    inet 192.168.141.99 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.141.255
    inet 192.168.1.112 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    media: autoselect
    status: active

The first address -  141.99 - is the address I manually set. The second address — 1.112 — is the address assigned by my network's DHCP server.

Use delete:

ifconfig en1 delete 192.168.141.99


Hands free auto repeat. Hidden feature or stuck key? I have a new MacBook Pro. Twice so far I have pressed a key and removed my hands from the keyboard, yet the key continued to repeat.  Once it was the delete key (fn-Delete, the backspace function), and another time it was the g key.

Just want to know if this was a simple matter of the key getting stuck, or if I accidentally pressed some other key combination that causes this to happen.

Rather than an exorcist, I'd take it to an Apple Store, because the keys should not repeat unless you let them pressed. There are various factors than can cause this behavior, but if the machine is relatively new, there shouldn't be any reason for this to happen. Most of the ideas come from a Software malfunction, some utility misbehaving or such.

I suggest you create a new user and work a few hours/days from there to see if it happens again. If it never happens, migrate your data to this new account and problem fixed. If it keeps happening, rush it to an appstore and see what happens. It's not common. Good luck!

known bug on many apple models and recent osx versions (since snow leopard) - fix permissions and if that doesn't help backup your personal stuff and reinstall whole system from fresh. either of those is reported to resolve this issue.


How to install an app on iPhone from a second machine? I actually took many hours this morning to find out how to do it, but I want to see alternatives to it.

I got my iPhone in sync with my iTunes at home, my first machine. I could "just" bring the app folder/file back home and sync through that. It works just fine.

The question here is on alternatives to that. Jailbreak or not, how could we do it on a second machine?

edit: I mean to install an actual file like application.app or application.ipa just like they are on the Mobile Applications folder or on iPhone's own /Applications one.

For most users, the headache free method is preserving the iTunes folder in its entirety and bringing it over to the other computer. You would then sign into the account you obtain the app with on that computer, and authorize it.

If you're simply without the first computer and want to get the app back, then you would simply re-download from the App Store for free (assuming it hasn't been removed).

It's quite simple if you have iOS SDK installed. I've found the solution in the first place I should have looked for, because I actually generated the app file using Corona. But I suppose this is irrelevant to the question.

Open Xcode Organizer, plug in the iDevice and drag n' drop the app into "applications". That's it.

Now, if you don't have iOS SDK, I highly recommend against installing it just for this. It's almost 5GB of downloading. This is why I'd like to know of alternatives.

edit: I believe the best way is using the iPhone Configuration Utility, yet again like that guide from corona. I've confirmed it works just like using the Organizer, but it doesn't need the Xcode. Just download it (this needs a free login, or find another place on the web with that file, v3.2 is about 10Mb), and drag the app / ipa inside your phone. Dealing with licensing the iphone is a whole nother issue (don't you love self promoting?).


command line ps has stopped working correctly after an update I use to be able to run this ps command from the terminal:

ps -u whoami -o pid,rss,command

But recently the RSS size returned are all 0!

ps -u `whoami` -o pid,rss,command
158      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
159      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
160      0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
165      0 /usr/sbin/pboard

unless I run it with sudo

sudo ps -u `whoami` -o pid,rss,command
158  17556 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
159  22488 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
160  82176 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
165    840 /usr/sbin/pboard

Does anyone know how to fix this or how to get the original functionality back?

I have 10.6.7 and your

ps -u `whoami` -o pid,rss,command

producing

  PID    RSS COMMAND
  180    696 /sbin/launchd
  185  19108 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
  189     32 /usr/sbin/pboard
  .... etc ....

so, the problem is in your system. So, what return this:

ls -l /bin/ps

should this

-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  134816 12 okt  2010 /bin/ps

if your ps has other permissions, repair with:

sudo chown root /bin/ps
sudo chgrp wheel /bin/ps
sudo chmod 4555 /bin/ps

This looks on the face of it to be a permissions issue.

I would try and Repair Permissions as per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452


How do I convert this Applescript to Terminal osascript? I'm trying to convert this AppleScript into osascript format that can be run from terminal:

tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "input" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
    end repeat
    tell table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
        select (row 1 where value of text field 1 is "Internal Microphone")
    end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"

What is the appropriate syntax to do this? Do I have to type osascript -e before every line?

There are several ways to accomplish the goal. Here is the method I would use...

In Terminal run the following compound command, e.g.:

f="myscript"; touch "$f"; open -e "$f"; chmod +x "$f"

Note: Change myscript to the name you'd like.

In the new blank TextEdit document that opens, add the following as the first line:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

Then add your AppleScript code under the shebang you just added.

Save the document.

Now to use it in Terminal, e.g.:

./myscript

Or:

/path/to/myscript

Or place in in a directory that is within the defined PATH and then simply use its name, e.g.:

myscript

This method also works; however it's not practical for long scripts:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Preferences" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Preferences"' -e 'reveal anchor "input" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"' -e 'end tell' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"' -e 'repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"' -e 'end repeat' -e 'tell table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window 1' -e 'select (row 1 where value of text field 1 is "Internal Microphone")' -e 'end tell' -e 'end tell' -e 'quit application "System Preferences"'

Please read the manual page for osascript for additional information. In Terminal:

man osascript

On a separate note, if you omit the following line of code you'll not have to see the System Preferences window flash on the screen:

Saved as as script, remove:

tell application "System Preferences" to activate

In the very long drawn out command line, remove:

-e 'tell application "System Preferences" to activate'

yes you have to put osascript -e before every line like this:

osascript -e 'display dialog "Hello from osxdaily.com" with title "Hello"'

and I hope this link will help you more.


Can Apple watch warn me when my iphone is out of range Now and then I manage to leave for office without my iPhone. As I depend on some two factor authentication apps and other stuff on the phone this basically means that I have to go back and get it.

It would be an extremly helpful feature if Apple watch could warn me actively when my iPhone gets out of its range. The little red indicator that watch displays in the top bar is not enough. I need a tap and some beeps.

I looked around the Watch app on my iPhone but could not find any setting activating such a feature.

Is there a way to get my watch to warn me when my iPhone is out of range? An app maybe?

I haven't found an app that does this yet either. Your best bet would be to wait for the upgrade to watchOS 2.

This should enable developers to add more functionality to their apps, including the function you're in need of.


Vim Explorer "not an editor command" When I open MacVim (installed with homebrew) in the GUI, the Explorer works as expected.
But if I open "vim" in a terminal, I've got that message:

E492: Not an editor command: Explorer

But the netrw is installed. This is what return :scriptnames

4: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.712_1/share/vim/vim74/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim

vim --version

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 14 2015 16:38:12)
MacOS X (unix) version

brew info macvim

macvim: stable 7.4-81, HEAD
GUI for vim, made for OS X
https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-77 (1905 files, 34M)
  Built from source
/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-81 (1918 files, 35M) *
  Built from source
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/macvim.rb
==> Dependencies
Recommended: cscope ✔
Optional: lua ✔, luajit ✘
==> Options
--with-custom-icons
    Try to generate custom document icons
--with-lua
    Build with lua support
--with-luajit
    Build with luajit support
--with-override-system-vim
    Override system vim
--with-python3
    Build with python3 support
--without-cscope
    Build without cscope support
--without-python
    Build without python support
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
.app bundles were installed.
Run `brew linkapps macvim` to symlink these to /Applications.

I had no .vimrc yet, when I added a .vimrc file, the Explorer worked without any problem.

But even without .vimrc or .gvimrc, the Explorer worked correctly in MacVim.


Contact switched to Android; how to send texts instead of iMessages? My brother switched to an Android phone from an iPhone recently.

When I attempt to text him, it still tries to send those messages as iMessages.

Two questions:

will he receive these iMessages, and
if not, how do I default messages to him as texts instead of iMessages?

Thanks  for any help!

Your brother's Apple ID probably still has his phone number associated with it for iMessage. The smoothest way to deal with this is to have him disassociate his phone number from his Apple ID.

Apple has a self-service web site that explains how to accomplish this:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

If that doesn't work, this older KB article has a helpful section "Unlink a phone number".

If he has other Apple devices (Mac or iPad) that are using his Apple ID, your iMessages may be being delivered there. If none of those devices are available when you send him an iMessage, your phone will eventually offer you the opportunity to resend the message as an SMS or MMS.

Unfortunately you can't disable iMessage on a per-contact basis.

In contacts make sure the label for his number does not say iPhone, if it does change it to mobile. To do this select edit in the upper right corner, tap his number and select mobile. If I understand right this is how the phone knows which to send, iMessage or text. If the label says iPhone I am not sure if it will revert to text or not.


How can I create a gmail pop account in mac mail in Mac OS 10.6.6 I have enabled pop at gmail and successfully used it on other PCs.

On my mac (10.6.6) I go into Mail, I press the + to create a new account. There is no option to choose the Account Type anymore. Just the Name, email addr, and password. If I put in my gmail address, it just defaults to imap. I don't see a way to change it to pop anywhere.

I want to use pop as a way to backup my gmail to my mac.

How can I create a pop account for gmail?

Mail searches an online database to see how to connect to an account; it defaults to IMAP for GMail because that can work better than POP, but you can override it later.  Tell Mail.app not to take the account on line immediately, then edit the account to switch it from IMAP to POP.

(Personally, I'd switch GMail to IMAP instead.)

Go to "Add other mail account" where you will be able to set up as POP


App Store "An Unknown Error Has Occurred", Apple Support fix was only temporary. How fix permanently? When opening an application installed from the App Store (TextWrangler) I am prompted to sign in. After entering the correct Apple ID and password I get an error, An unknown error has occurred. This only happens with one app, other apps installed are OK.

This error also occurs when I sign in to the App Store. So its not just affecting a single application.

This also seems to be affecting my iCloud login. It prompts for a password then just seems to hang.

I spoke with Apple Support yesterday. They had me delete all Caches from /Libary/Caches, ~/Library/Caches, and a few cookies then restart my iMac. This fixed the issue yesterday. Today I start my Mac and get the same error again. I called Apple Support and got the runaround, I was told to use ExpressLane which doesn't really seem to have a solution.

How can I permanently fix this error?

Previous attempt to identify/triage the error

Searching online turns up similar suggestions to clear caches and cookies, but also some more extreme suggestions involving network settings that I am hesitant to try.

Logs after starting TextWrangler and being prompted to login:

9/19/12 10:01:30.611 AM com.apple.backupd[889]: Couldn't find en0.
9/19/12 10:01:30.638 AM com.apple.backupd[889]: Backup completed successfully.
9/19/12 10:01:58.592 AM RockMelt[306]: Cannot find function pointer CMPluginInFactory for factory 3487BB5A-3E66-11D5-A64E-003065B300BC in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x796aa090 </Users/jon/Library/Contextual Menu Items/Google Notifier Quick Add CM Plugin.plugin> (not loaded)
9/19/12 10:01:59.885 AM RockMelt Helper[931]: Internals of CFAllocator not known; out-of-memory failures via CFAllocator will not result in termination. http://crbug.com/45650
9/19/12 10:02:00.615 AM RockMelt Helper[931]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1100)
9/19/12 10:02:07.797 AM WindowServer[89]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "RockMelt" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
9/19/12 10:02:11.035 AM WindowServer[89]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "RockMelt" after 4.24 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
9/19/12 10:02:34.240 AM Blink Lite[310]:REDACTED
9/19/12 10:03:07.693 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[192]: ([0x0-0xae0ae].com.barebones.textwrangler[938]) Exited with code: 173
9/19/12 10:03:39.054 AM librariand[951]: MMe quota status changed: under quota
9/19/12 10:03:40.741 AM com.apple.security.pboxd[959]: Bug: 12B19: liblaunch.dylib + 23849 [224CB010-6CF8-3FC2-885C-6F80330321EB]: 0x25
9/19/12 10:04:00.293 AM Dock[205]: LaunchPad: __53-[LPAppManager(StoreSupport) _acceptStoreConnection:]_block_invoke_0 app store xpc message error: Connection invalid
9/19/12 10:06:11.123 AM TextEdit[949]: SCNetworkReachability server not available
9/19/12 10:06:11.124 AM TextEdit[949]: SCNetworkReachability server not available
9/19/12 10:06:11.130 AM TextEdit[949]: socket(PF_ROUTE) failed: Operation not permitted
9/19/12 10:06:11.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(990) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
9/19/12 10:06:12.423 AM sandboxd[990]: ([949]) TextEdit(949) deny mach-lookup com.apple.SystemConfiguration.SCNetworkReachability
9/19/12 10:06:12.426 AM sandboxd[990]: ([949]) TextEdit(949) deny system-socket
9/19/12 10:08:22.725 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[192]: ([0x0-0xbd0bd].com.barebones.textwrangler[1015]) Exited with code: 173
9/19/12 10:09:00.951 AM Dock[205]: LaunchPad: __53-[LPAppManager(StoreSupport) _acceptStoreConnection:]_block_invoke_0 app store xpc message error: Connection invalid

I found a solution. Another forum post describing similar issues suggested deleting /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist. I backed that file up, deleted it, and restarted. I can now log in and out of AppStore, access all of my AppStore purchased apps, and it 'sticks' across shutdowns and restarts.

Process is pretty simple, I'll spell it out for future reference:

Open Terminal
cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
cp NetworkInterfaces.plist ~/NetworkInterfaces.plist.bak - Make a hasty backup in your home directory
sudo rm NetworkInterfaces.plist delete the original
Restart your Mac
Open AppStore and try to sign in. It should work.

Apparently this works because the MAC address is used as part of the receipt/authorization process.

Same thing happened to me, and this was how I have fixed it:
http://yasar.senturk.name.tr/blog/2012/09/26/hackintosh-app-store-an-unknown-error-has-occurred-fix/

1- Edit /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist and add following lines:

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>

2- Go to System Preferences, and then Network. Remove all network adapters.

3- Delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and reboot computer.

4- Go to System Preferences, and then Network. Click on + button, select “Ethernet” from “Interface” combo box, then click OK.

5- Reboot computer.

6- Go to System Preferences, and then Network. Click on + button, select “WiFi” from “Interface” combo box, then click OK.


What causes repeating push notification alerts on iOS 7? I recently updated to IOS 7, now every time I use an app I get a message saying Connect to iTunes to use push notifications " Whatsapp" (And Other Apps) notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges, how do I get rid of these once an for all

What happened is somehow the authentication token on your device that should be installed on OS upgrade got corrupted/deleted. I believe currently, the only fix is to restore and restore backup. I haven't seen a way of getting back that token without doing a restore.

I seen different people saying that you have to back up, factory restore the phone, then restore your backup onto the phone and it'll work..
It's so much work but if it works then it'll be worth it


Remotely brick a stolen iPhone or iPad I asked a similar question on android.stackexchange.com and I'd like to see how the answer compares for iOS devices:

If my iPhone is stolen, can I remotely brick the thing, so resale value drops to zero?

For apps like Apple's Find My Phone, how feasible is it for a thief to remove the apps? The answer to this sort of motivates my asking the first question about bricking. The more possible it is to remove the remote tracking/data erasing apps, the higher incentive I might have to just brick the thing, cut my losses, and deprive the thief of any profit from his/her crime.

Before iOS 7 this was not possible or feasible since iTunes would restore an image of the OS that would be free from any locking. Now there is Activation Lock which neatly pre-empts any attempt to remove the Find My iPhone feature of iCloud. Effectively, with Find my iPhone, your device is effectively locked to your Apple ID.

For iOS 7 and later - enable Find My iPhone to prevent anyone else from erasing or using the device.

  If my iOS 6 or less iPhone is stolen, can I remotely brick the thing, so resale value drops to zero?

No.

The best you can do is to wipe the data from the device with an app like Find My iPhone from Apple or the open source Prey application. The device will no longer contain your applications or personal data, but it will still function normally and the thief could then initialize it for their own use.

  For apps like Apple's Find My Phone, how feasible is it for a thief to remove the apps?

Without wiping the device? Hard to impossible. And that's the whole point of these applications: to keep your data safe and the cost of losing the hardware. You're essentially cleaning it for them and getting it ready for their use or resale. But you're ensuring that they can't gain access to your personal data, your PayPal account, your bank accounts and anything else you might have your phone connected to.

In the UK, cell phone carriers will blacklist phones that are reported stolen so they can't be used on the network again. The bigger UK carriers do it. Not sure how common a practice it is in North America, or if carriers here are willing to do it all.

If a law enforcement officer contacts Apple, as long as they have the serial number of the device, Apple can and will upon law enforcement request permanently brick the device and render it permanently useless through software.


Macbook does not wake up properly after several hours of sleep When I close my MacBook Pro in the evening, and then open it in the morning, the display is illuminated and the apple is bright but nothing is happening. So I need to push the power button to restart it. When it restarts, Google Chrome crashes and virtualenv is logged out.

I thought that the problem is with hibernation so I set the hibernation to 0 in pmset. My current pmset parameters are as follows:

 standbydelay         10800
 standby              1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                1
 autopoweroffdelay    86400
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

2018-10-05 12:50:03 -0700 Assertion status system-wide: BackgroundTask 0 ApplePushServiceTask 0 UserIsActive 1

PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0 PreventSystemSleep 0 ExternalMedia 0 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0 NetworkClientActive 0

Listed by owning process: pid 94(hidd): [0x0000000e00098030] 00:00:00

UserIsActive named:"com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968174.3" Timeout will fire in 600 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease pid 188(mds_stores): [0x00000115000b80fd] 00:00:00

BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds_stores.power"

Kernel Assertions: 0x100=MAGICWAKE id=503 level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=31.12.1969, 16:00 description=en0 owner=en0

Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

If I close the lid shortly everything is okay. Any ideas on what is going on?

Recommend to evaluate the Sleep mode.

Run pmset -g assertions in terminal and post the output.

Usually you can see there who is acting up and not letting your mac sleep.

The message Kernel Assertions: 0x100=MAGICWAKE id=503 level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE says it.

Also the ExternalMedia is set to wake it up over your USBbluetooth. connection.

So you have a device (BT keyboard) that does that.

As for why:

You BT track pad wakes up (do you have a Cat?) other BT devices interference, low battery... see this for more.

To test do "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" OFF.

If you have the Magicwake app installed, remove it.

What works for me is pressing Ctrl+Option+delete until the cursor starts blinking again on the sign-in page.


How to bring an application to the front, no bouncing dock icons In my AppleScript, I use activate to bring an application to the front. However, on machines of some colleagues, it doesn't do that. The app-icon in the dock will bounce, but it doesn't get put into the front. This is very annoying, because the user has to go to the app manually every time.

I suspect this is due to some setting or something. Any ideas how to accomplish this?

did you check if "visible" is true or false in your applescript Code?

Looks like the app is running in the background.

Try to set the app to the frontmost window.

If you want to delete the bouncing, it's in the Systeme Preferences, Dock, untick animated apps when open.

Hope that will help you.


Why doesn't Siri call a contact that it clearly understands? I have a contact entry with no first name and a last name of "Charles Schwab Customer Service". When I tell Siri "Call Charles Schwab Customer Service", it shows the words on the screen exactly as I've spoken them, so it clearly understands what I've said. But instead of calling the contact, it asks, "Call Jones Communication Customer Service on 336 Post Office Rd...?" Obviously, Siri doesn't connect what it knows I'm saying to the contact entry I want it to call.

What do I need to do to get Siri to make the call I want it to make?

when you ask Siri to call a company and it finds the company name on the web Siri gives you what he finds on the web.
try for example to create a contact called Subway than ask Siri to call Subway you will see he looks first on the web.


OS X Server Users Read & Write but can't delete running OS X Server (Mavericks) I am trying to use file sharing.
When I create a Folder and select that for sharing and add users they get read & write access, but when I take a closer look via the Server App under Storage, they all have no "Delete" permission on folders inside the share.

This happens on new folders I share as well as with users I newly create.
Any ideas?

Select the containing folder in Server.app, then Edit Permissions….
Click the gear icon at the bottom of the sheet, then select Make Inherited Entries Explicit.
Change the permissions as you desire (the users should no longer be greyed out), then click OK.
With the containing folder still selected, click the gear icon at the bottom of the window and click Propagate Permissions….
Select all the option boxes, then click OK.

Have you tried repairing permissions?

To do so,

Start Disk Utilities
Select the partition in question (not the volume)
On the first-aid tab, click "repair disk permissions"

When I've had a similar problem, this approach has solved it.

Good Luck


How can I get email to "me" to email to my email address? If I tell Siri "email me," the right thing happens: a new message is created with my email address as the recipient. But if I open the email app and type "me" as the recipient, I'm told "Invalid Address" when I try to send the message.

How can I get the email app to understand that "me" as a recipient means to use the email address corresponding to who I've told Siri is me?

You can't.
Because of the design of iOS, there is no native way to accomplish this. The reason for this is that the address field in mail and messages are almost exactly identical, not just in looks, but in function.
In messages, you can actually send a text to me, but it will send whatever you said straight to 63 (see number pad). This is because some companies hand out shortcodes, and say something like Text APP to WMART (96278) to download the Walmart app!. users can either punch in 96278 into messages, or they can punch in the much more memorable WMART into the address field and still have the message go back to the right place.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that mail will actually try to send an email to me if you hit send. This may be a planned feature for within organizations or something, or it could be an oversight. But due to the design of iOS, you are unable to accomplish what you wanted.

You need to put on your full email address in the "to" address bar
the above answer is Right in some point.The Application will try to send the mail to me,if you really want to send by typing me then you should try saving your own mail address with the name of mee and then you can try(not confirmed but i am 90% sure it will work)
and siri will send to ur mailbox cause u have saved your email address in there so it will automatically redirect there.
So you need to save your own mail address n u can try or can write down the full mail address


What the font: the letter i used in Apple's information button I am wondering what typeface this is:

Hoefler Text Bold Italic

http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_styles.php?productLineID=100010

It was designed for Apple:

  Hoefler Text is a contemporary serif Antiqua font that was designed
  for Apple Computer to demonstrate advanced type technologies. Hoefler
  Text was created to allow the composition of complex typography; as
  such it takes cues from a range of classic fonts, such as Garamond and
  Janson. Designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991, a version of Hoefler
  Text has been included with every version of Mac OS since System 7.5.

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ sais that this picture looks like BearButte Bold Italic font

Also you can look at this quiz to find letters from images


Why do sidebar folders turn white? Sometimes, not always, when I drag a file to a sidebar folder, it turns white.  The folder I'm dragging into turns white, and it doesn't turn back.
  I have to delete the folder from the sidebar, and then re-import it, and then it's a normal color.

I have no idea why this happens, but you can go to Finder > Preferences and select the Sidebar tab. At the very bottom of the window will be a "Recent Tags" option with a checkbox next to it. Uncheck the box and it's fixed.

ignore it - the problem goes away on its own and the text returns to black


What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"? I sent an iMessage to a friend, and at the bottom it doesn't say "Delivered" as it usually does. It doesn't say "Not Delivered" either, it just doesn't say anything at all.

What does it mean when an iMessage doesn't say "Delivered" nor "Not Delivered"?

The receiving device is probably off, in sleep mode, out of cell reception, flat battery - something like that.

When it doesn't say Delivered, it means the other person is texting someone else or on the phone.  Once they stop texting or hang up the phone, you will see the text message has been delivered.


"codec missing or unavailable" error when importing media file in Adobe Premiere CC When I try to import any video file (e.g. AVI files) in Adobe Premiere Pro cc in my Macbook Air, I get this error:
"codec missing or unavailable"

What to do about it?

AVI is just a container for a video format, and can contain videos encoded in different formats. The error you're seeing says that Adobe Premiere does not know how to process the video format that's within the AVI file.

First, you would have to find out (or know) the codec used for the video within the AVI file and then download and install the appropriate codec on your system.
To find out the codec for the file, examine it using a tool like QuickTime or VLC and see if you can use the Inspectors in these to get the video and audio codecs for your file.
If these two don't help, you would have to use a media information tool like MediaInspector or AviInfo on OS X or GSpot on Windows. Then search and install the codec for the file.

Here's some additional explanation and information from Adobe on "Troubleshoot file formats and codecs":

  Video-recording devices and video software applications encode files in a specific file format, such as AVI, QuickTime (MOV), and Windows Media (WMV). For a list of the file formats that Adobe Premiere Elements supports, search "Supported file formats in Adobe Premiere Elements " in the Adobe Knowledgebase.

  Some video file formats, including AVI and MOV, are container file formats. The data inside these container files is encoded according to a particular codec. Codecs are algorithms for compressing video and audio data. Many different codecs exist.

  For example, an AVI file can be encoded with the DV codec, a commercial codec (such as DivX), a Motion JPEG codec, among others. (Camcorders that record to miniDV tapes use the DV codec. Some still-image cameras use the Motion JPEG coded.)

  Adobe Premiere Elements sometimes cannot decode video files that were created with a poorly designed codec or a codec that is not installed on your computer.

  Knowing the format and, when applicable, the codec of the files you are working with helps you use these solutions. To gather this information, do one or more of the following tasks:

  Open the file in Apple QuickTime Player and choose Window > Show Movie Inspector.
  If the file is from a camcorder, camera, or other video-recording device, see the device's documentation, or locate the device's specifications on the manufacturer's website.
  Open the file in a third-party application that analyzes media files, such as MediaInfo or GSpot 2.70.

All I did was add ".mov" to the file name and all is well!!!


How to restore Mac OS X on a new hard-drive? I am going to upgrade my MacBook Pro hard-drive, but before doing so I'm trying to figure out how to restore OS X on it. My DVD drive doesn't work so I cannot re-install from the DVD.

I have a recent Time Machine backup, is that enough to restore the OS? And in that case, what would be the procedure? Also, in case the Time Machine restoration fails, is there any way to re-install OS X from a USB or external hard-drive? Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

Yes a Time Machine (TM) backup is sufficient; you don't need to "install" the OS and then restore the backup.  However you will need a copy of the OS at least and that can definitely be placed on either a USB stick or external HDD. The OS media contains the utilities you'll need to restore the TM backup.  Example here.

(edit for clarity) Depending on how new your MBP is, more specifically which version of OS X you have, you may also have a built in Recovery that has all the tools you need to do this as well.

if you really like to have 1 to 1 the same it's better to copy the disk than to use Time Machine. With time machine it works like this at first it does a proper new os install the copies the files from these Folders back to your disk.

/Applications
/Users/*
/Library/*

so if you use something like homebrew, macports or fink or any other terminal tools witch install them selves in /usr/local/bin they will be lost.

Also things like changes made by lion tweaks
and candybar etc. will be lost.

Also self made permission changes on System folders or icon changes on these folders may get lost.

For a 1 to 1 copy you can use a os x install usb stick or any live linux stick with gparted on it.

then clone the whole disk (including the hidden restore partition).

now boot into the new disks restore partition and run a disk permission verify/repair and if needed also a disk verify/repair so you know your os on the new disk works all fine.


-bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted I am getting a weird error with the mvim script that is supposed to start the MacVim interface.

See below for the issue. /bin/sh is just fine, mvim was chmod +x'd, other /bin/sh scripts run fine... I'm at a loss here.

jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ file Applications/mvim
Applications/mvim: POSIX shell script text executable
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ head Applications/mvim
#!/bin/sh
#
# This shell script passes all its arguments to the binary inside the
# MacVim.app application bundle.  If you make links to this script as view,
# gvim, etc., then it will peek at the name used to call it and set options
# appropriately.
#
# Based on a script by Wout Mertens and suggestions from Laurent Bihanic.  This
# version is the fault of Benji Fisher, 16 May 2005 (with modifications by Nico
# Weber and Bjorn Winckler, Aug 13 2007).
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ chmod +x Applications/mvim
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ Applications/mvim
-bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

Below you can see that /bin/sh scripts run fine...

jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ vim test.sh
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ chmod +x test.sh
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ ./test.sh
hi
jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh

echo "hi"

Hmm, so it seems OS X thought it was a good idea to quarantine my script, for some reason, and not tell me about it.

jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Applications/mvim

fixes the issue.

I too had a similar problem that was seemingly caused by something different and I just couldn't put my finger on what it was.

This is an edit to my original answer.  I have now remove my back and forth attempts to understand the causes.  I suggested it was caused by symbolic or hard links that somehow changed due to some file or disk actvity.  But all I seemed to do was make the simple solution somewhat confusing.

Regardless of what happened it is an easy fix - just create a new copy.  A file copy won't work as that just copies whatever that file had become.  Use cat instead.

   $ cat weatherHistory.sh > weatherHistory2.sh
   $ rm weatherHistory.sh
   $ mv weatherHistory2.sh weatherHistory.sh
   $ ./weatherHistory.sh. # Executes as expected

This is on MacOSX 10.14.6.


IPhone 6 Plus and 7 locking up I had a locking up problem on my 6 Plus and after talking to a Apple Tech higher up the food chain he said it was a software bug somewhere and that I would need to reset and start over as a new phone. Instead I bought a 7 and started over with my 6 as a backup. The 7 worked fine until I turned off the Icloud Contacts at which time the problem is now on teh 7 too. I even reset it as a new phone and teh problem continues. What can I do?

you could try downgrading to an older version of ios. you would need to put the device into what is called DFU mode or recovery mode, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15qaTA4lQPc

you will also need to download the version of ios you want from here
https://ipsw.me/

once downloaded, put your device into dfu mode, open itunes, hold shift and click restore, browse to where you downloaded the firmware file and install it


How to add Tamil language to the international keyboard? I recently purchased an iPhone 4S in India. It has international keyboard for Hindi language.

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

As you can read on the iPhone support pages, Tamil isn't supported (yet) by the iPhone:

  Keyboard Support
  English (U.S.), English (UK), Chinese - Simplified
  (Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke), Chinese - Traditional (Handwriting,
  Pinyin, Zhuyin, Cangjie, Stroke), French, French (Canadian), French
  (Switzerland), German (Germany), German (Switzerland), Italian,
  Japanese (Romaji, Kana), Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan,
  Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Emoji, Estonian, Finnish,
  Flemish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic,
  Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish,
  Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian
  (Cyrillic/Latin), Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian,
  Vietnamese

Although, iOS5 is capable of displaying Unicode Tamil email and text.
But you'll have to use 3th party apps like IndicNotes which will allow you to type Tamil. Then you can share your note with SMS, Email,... Not the most ideal solution, but you'll be able to type Tamil on your iPhone.

There are many apps which allows to type in tamil and then copy paste.
It would be great if we could add tamil into keyboard as we have it for hindi/other languages.