Why doesn't my iPhone 6s plus charge while it is on the cable? I plug my iPhone 6s plus into the lightning cable and it will make the "chime" sound to let you know it is charging, but if I move it even so slightly on the table where it charges or pick it up to text, it will stop charging.

I checked to see if my cable was the problem, but it charges my iPad. It must be my iPhone lightning port then?

Sometimes even when I do not touch my iPhone and it is charging, it will keep making the charging sound and light up (as if it was unplugged and the re connected).

I've had the same problem. Sometimes shooting a little compressed air in the port or taking a swipe in there with a clean cloth (not a q-tip or kleenex) can get rid of gunk that might build up from normal use (like the phone being in a bag or pocket that has dust, dirt, lint and such.) My old 3G (with the wide charger) was doing the exact same thing until I cleaned it out - had a TON of dog hair, lint, grime, tobacco and such from like four years of riding in my pocket. Pushing in the charger just pushes down and compacts whatever is in there.

Some people suggest a toothpick or using a little rubbing alcohol (like 90% so minimal watercontent) but whatever you use I'd recommend being gentle. Here's a video where they gently use a pin. Whatever you choose to try, I'd first shine a bright light in there and take a good look (even better if you have a magnifying glass). Here are some more suggestions if mine don't help.

My folks have big cover cases for their mobiles which have flaps that close over the charging port, I just looked in their charging ports and there didn't look to be any gunk, so maybe a good idea for moving forward with a lint free mobile lifestyle?

I think possibly it's your phone battery is leaking or phone port is broken.


Absolutely eliminate "Automatic new Desktop when dragging" As far as I know I do have only one (1) Desktop enabled
I'm looking at this web page right now in Safari.
Safari is a normal window (say, 50% of the width and height of the physical screen, and it is sitting right in the middle of the physical screen).
This is a mid 2015 mbp with no external monitors attached.  Every piece of software is the latest as of writing
Using the pointer, I grab an image (say, one of the small icons on this screen).
I grag it to the extreme right of the desktop - as if I am going to drop it on the desktop near the right
But I keep dragging it, and hold it on the extreme right edge of the screen

IN FACT WHAT HAPPENS IS......

After a few moments, the "whole desktop" will slide to a new desktop on the "right".
Strangely, this new desktop has a different color background to my usual desktop
The "new" Desktop appears to be identical to my usual only desktop (same icons scattered around etc), except only the background color is different

And click here for a video !!!

http://tinypic.com/r/jq2nis/9

I want to completely disable this "sliding" function.  (Or at least know what the hell it is!!) Is it possible?

Related!  How do I correctly set strictly ONLY ONE desktop?

Not seeing this behavior. I have several desktops enabled, yes macOS will happily slide to the next available if I drag a file/window to the extreme right of the screen, but it won't create NEW desktops. Once I hit #4 (the last desktop I have enabled) holding a file against the right side of the screen doesn't trigger any action. Perhaps you have more than 1 screen enabled in Mission Control? Remove them, it should not auto-create more. (added as answer per request!)

It turns out for some reason I had
about 400 desktops
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/344432/19991
It seems that when you have more than "a hundred" or so the interface becomes so confusing, I didn't even know I had 2 desktops.

This seems to entirely explain the problem, but

It remains a mystery why I had 400 desktops.

I still don't get how to completely turn off this desktops feature, but, that's life

When you do have only 1x desktop, then as Dr.Nixon reports the problem I describe indeed does not happen.
Phew


Why can't I change my desktop background? I had a nice background, a photo from the internet. It had been there for quite awhile. Then I tried to set it to a different one, another picture from the internet, by right-clicking and doing "Set as desktop background...", but it instead set my background to blue. And now I can't change it.
I also tried downloading this photo (and a number of others, all jpegs) but when I tried to open them to set as background directly from the downloaded file, it just said it couldn't, because the file was damaged or had an unrecognized format. JPEG?? Now the Mac can't open JPEGS?

Go into System Preferences->Desktop & Screen Saver. Change the desktop to one of the defaults. Then drag the image file into the window. That should fix it.

all you have to do is go into system preferences - than desktop and screensaver - than click solid colors - and than import a photo.
this is because if you have recently chosen solid colors as your background, or have had one of the pre made backgrounds for apple, it will automatically default to that instead of one of your custom photos.


Using a Gamepad To Control Any iOS Device? Gaming has taken on a whole new dimension since the introduction of the iPhone & definitely the iPad. Whilst these two Apple devices are great gaming devices, alot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons that are not so great.

Is there an App that will turn a gamepad eg an XBox 360 or Playstation gamepad into a controller for any game with touchscreen buttons & How to configure it ?

It's definitely possible to use a PS3 controller on a jailbroken iPhone. You need the $7 app Blutrol and the SixpairTool for MacOS X. Before I rewrite the instructions, please simply refer to http://lifehacker.com/5991266/how-to-use-a-gamepad-for-any-ios-game-not-just-emulators.

EDIT: In a nutshell

GETTING READY:

First, you need an jailbreak your iOS device. Then, download the App Blutrol (http://apt.thebigboss.org/mobileweb/onepackage.php?bundleid=ch.ringwald.blutrol&db=), which currently costs $6.99. In order to use the PS3 controller, you will need an additional app for MacOS: SixPairMac (ringwald.ch/cydia/blutrol/SixPairMac-v1.0.zip)

SETUP for PS3 controllers:
Connect the PS3 controller via USB Cable, and the iOS device (via lightning cable or 30-pin cable) to your Mac. Click the button "Pair Controller to iPad" in SixPairMac. Now, open Blutrol on your iOS device and select the PS3 controller.

Jailbreak your device and get blutrol on cydia with you Xbox controller:)
If on IPad mini put you controller on screen go to lock screen and click the game you want to play the controller on:)


How can I get a video *into* the photo/video gallery on an iPad or iPhone? Let's start by assuming that I have a perfectly compatible file. (In my use case, I was literally trying to get a video I took on my iPhone, that lives in my iPhone photos/video gallery, onto my iPad, so this isn't about conversions or codecs.)

Now, there are many ways to transfer and watch the the video, but I can't find a single darn way to save it with my other videos and photos:

If it's short, or I'm willing to clip it, I can email it to myself, but unlike photos, clicking on a video enclosure doesn't allow you to save it to the native app.    You can open it in vlc, good reader, etc.
If it's under 180MB, I can upload it to Dropbox from the source device (iPhone for me) and then access or watch it on the destination device (iPad for me).  But I can't save it to photos from Dropbox on the iPad

Why do I care, if I can access it and even watch it as described above?   Two reasons:

I like having things organized in one place.   I don't want to have to remember which vids are in Photos, vs. Dropbox, vs. Good reader, etc.
Most apps that use video (including Apple's own iMovie, for frack's sake) can only open and access movies located in the photos app.

Please tell me I'm missing something elegant, if not obvious?

I'm surprised nobody has answered this correctly.

The solution is to open iTunes, click on your iPhone, go to the Photos tab, then Sync Photos for the folder that contains the photo and video subfolders you want to sync.  Each subfolder will then be sync'ed to your iphone UNDERNEATH the Camera Roll as new Albums, and these are treated seperately than the Camera Roll and will always remain synced.

Furthermore, apps that can access the Camera Roll almost always can also access Synced Albums, so this should really work well for you.  I keep a whole bunch of old photos and videos on my iPhone at all times using this method and it works great.

As a bonus, unlike the Camera Roll, these Synced Albums don't get backed up in iTunes, so it won't slow down your Backup like a growing Camera Roll will.

You tap the camera icon and press either record (for a video) or capture (for a photo) then it will automatically save.


I cannot send GMAIL using Outlook 2016 I have Outlook 2016 and I'm trying to pickup my gmail using IMAP.  I can receive emails, but it does not send when doing a test send on setting up the email. Error code: 0x800cce05

SMTP Server:
smtp.gmail.com
My outgoing server requires authentication (ticked)
Port: 465 (SSL). Also tried 587, SSL, TLS

It works fine on my mobile, works fine with Office 2010. Works fine with Windows 10 mail. But not with Office Outlook 2016.

it might be that you have to allow less secure apps to connect to your gmail account: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

more details:https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/LhWVrYZc_Eo/5EMpldFUC3wJ


Searching for file within Time Capsule Mavericks OSX 10.9.5.
I need to locate a file in the Time Capsule.
I can navigate into the directory I want to search in, and using OSX find, I can "search" for a file that is right there and there are no results.

For example navigate to directory Website containing two or three files including index.php and search for "index.php" yields nothing.

I think that I'm not actually navigating to a directory, but that the OS is displaying a virtual directory based on the Time Capsule database.

How does one search for a file within Time Capsule backups?

Searching a TimeMachine backup is tricky - for one thing Spotlight has not indexed the backup (do not tell Spotlight to do this - you will be in for a world of hurt)

Second, you are sort of correct about about TimeMachine being virtual.  what it really is a hundreds of symlinks that link about in all kinds of crazy ways.

Your best bet, is to mount the volume using TimeMachine and recover the file using the interface Apple has provided.

If you are not going to do that, then hopefully you know where the file should be on the original system, and you should navigate to latest/path/to/file.html  where "latest" is the name of one of the directories in at the root of the TimeMachine archive.  Really it is...  If you know what date you want the file from, you could use that date in place of "latest"

I had the same issue and did this:

You need to open a terminal: I use xquartz.

Go to the directory or network volume where you think the file is.

I did this on my mac:

cd /Volumes
cd OldDropboxArchive/

I needed to find a document about the standard model in particle physics. Which subdirectory could it be in? I know it's a word document. I type this:

find . -name "particledocx" -print

Hope this helps...


Is there any network monitor software with a notification area icon? I often use my laptop in the subway / office buildings where internet connection may be laggy / absent for some period of time. Is there any network monitorying software that can constantly monitor my network connection quality (for example, by sending ping to google.com every few second) and display a green-yellow-red icon in the notification area so I will know if i have a normal internet connection or not?

Google search doesn't show any such software :(

Dashboard widget:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Status-Info/PingMonitor.shtml

Or, what is wrong with opening Terminal.app, and run

ping 8.8.8.8

and reduce terminal app to 5 line high... :)

If you want, you can make the Terminal window:

translucent
sticky
float above other apps

with the http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

so, you will get exactly what you want... ;)

If you save the ping into ping.command, you can start it with doubleclick. etc..etc..


What is com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice and why is it using significant energy in my new mac? I just bought a new mac. I've been using it a couple of days, and today I find that under "Apps using significant energy" there is a listing com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice.

What is it ? Why is it using significant energy ? Should I kill it ?

Some System Preference panes in Mavericks are built in a way to separate certain tasks into XPC processes.

  The idea is to break up a complex application into individual processes, each of which requires only the few entitlements necessary to perform a specific subset of the application's total capabilities.

com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice is one of these XPC processes. If you locate the process in Activity Monitor you should be able to tell which preference pane launched the process by the icon. In the screenshot below the process has the Users & Groups icon indicating that it belongs to the Users & Groups preference pane.

I'd check first to figure out which set of preferences it belongs to and make a judgement call on whether it makes sense that it is still running, but if one of these processes is using a significant amount of energy (and is still running once System Preferences is closed) I'd assume something has gone wrong and kill it.

Something you could do to attempt to understand what this process is doing is to open the Console application on your Mac and enter "remoteservice" in the filter box in the top-right corner. I'm assuming if the process is using a significant amount of energy then it is struggling to do something and will have written quite a few errors to the system log about what it is trying to do.

its working ! Fixed to problem .

  sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist


Offline webreader for iPod Touch Do you know of a good app for iPod touch that let's me quickly take a bunch of webpages offline that contain some articles I want to read later when I don't have an internet connection? It would be cool if it could also strip out the noise like ads, navigation, header, footer and leave nothing but the actual article. Also when reading later it should give me as much real estate as possible for the actual content having absolutely no chrome visible just like the kindle app.

You're searching for Instapaper
(I don't feel the need to write the features list as you did it already in your question :)

or just take a screen shot...(home button+snooz button)


What actually happens during "Waiting for changes to be applied" and "Waiting for items to copy"? There are literally hundreds of threads on dozens of different internet forums about iOS devices that get stuck on "Waiting for changes to be applied" and/or "Waiting for items to copy" while syncing.  I have had that problem intermittently for two years, on iOS 6, 7 and now 8, and frankly after trying all of the fixes I have read about, I have given up on trying to solve it.  That's not what this question is about.  What I want to know is:

  What's supposed to happen during those stages of the sync?

Do those two messages mean the same thing, or something different?  What is iTunes trying to do?  Is it reading from an internal database on the device and comparing it to the iTunes library on the computer?  Is it writing to a device library?  What's it writing?  What file is it working on?  Is there any way to watch the activity that's in progress, either in real time or after-the-fact?

Although there is no official documentation by Apple, you can still get some information by watching iTunes and iOS doing their stuff. This can be done by monitoring log files of both, on the iPhone this can be done over an USB connection. Here's a couple of what I've already seen the iPhone doing in the "waiting for xy" sync stages:

After copying new media to the iPhone, the media needs to be indexed, e.g. there's metadata to be processed, thumbnails need to be created etc. Until that is done, the media can't be displayed correctly in the corresponding iPhone apps, so iTunes waits for the iPhone Media Indexer service to complete its work.
When copying new apps to an iPhone, the packaged .ipa-files need to unpack and install, e.g. register in the iPhone's homescreen, app lists, file extension databases etc, this is done during that stages of sync.
The spotlight search might need time to index new files, iTunes waits for this as well (not always, but sometimes!)
When iTunes transfers files to an iPhone, it always verifies the file's contents in several ways, being it archive integrity or hashes that are compared. These processes do need plenty of time, depending on the size of the transferred data, and iTunes waits for successful verification in order to complete the sync.
When there are copy failures detected by any of the verification methods, iTunes will copy the files again. Often these processes are not displayed by iTunes, it is done during the "Waiting for items to copy"-processing.
iTunes will also wait for copy processes to terminate successfully, there are streams and sockets to close when data is transferred between computers. Although this should happen instantly, sometimes there are failures and the iPhone needs some time.
In general, you can say that iTunes utilizes these stages for verification and error correction as well as doing "completional" work. They get extremely useful especially when using WiFi sync, which is much more error-prone than USB.

Edit: To view the log files of an iPhone/iPad, no jailbreak is required. The best tool probably is libimobiledevice, a bundle of free open-source software licensed under LGPL 2.1. It is capable of handling an iOS device without the need of iTunes, so even on Linux machines. Although being designed for Linux machines, it can be run on Mac as well, e.g. by compiling the source code, or, even easier, by installing through homebrew. Although I'm always using it on Linux machines, this should work the same way on Mac OS X.

You probably need to pair your iPhone first, use the idevicepair-binary for this. It should find your USB-connected iPhone on its own, if it doesn't, you can try passing the UUID of your device. After pairing succeeded (it will display a success-message to your terminal interface), use the idevicesyslog-application to view the log files of your iPhone. It will connect to the syslog-socket of your device automatically, if it doesn't, you may pass the UUID again. Then all log messages will get posted to stdout on your computer, e.g. to your terminal output.

There is proprietary software as well that allows you to read the logs on your iOS device, but libimobiledevice as a command line- and open source-tool should be preferred.

I think in "Waiting for item to Copy" process iTunes scans the items that are to be copy , counts items and calculates the estimated time of the copy. As many as files to be copied , the waiting time is increased.


Use iPhone to connect desktop to wireless I have an old Windows XP desktop with no wireless capability, a wireless router, and an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1.  If the iPhone is connected to the desktop by USB, (how) can I use it to access the router (and the internet) without incurring 3g network data charges?

I think what you're trying to do is called tethering. There are several tethering apps available. They require your iPhone to be jailbroken though. Some apps are PdaNet, TetherMe, and MyWi.
I know that with MyWi you can connect to the Wireless Network, turn off cellular data in your iPhone, and use it to tether without charges.
-Notice, these apps are all Paid apps on Cydia, but if you're jailbreaking your iPhone there are ways to get the apps for free.


FaceTime calls lower system volume When you enter a FaceTime call in OS X, as of Mavericks, it lowers the volume of everything else besides the call. There's no way to disable this "feature." People here suggested disabling audio ducking in Voiceover Utility, but that doesn't have any effect, at least not in Yosemite.

Any suggestions for a hack solution to fix this? I don't want to install some system-wide audio mixer to help, but I'll happily mess with the FaceTime application or some system settings. I'm guessing there's some library it's using to control the system volume, and I'm trying to find a way to prevent the app bundle from accessing it.

Open FaceTime app (don't make the call yet),
Paste the following line in to terminal,

printf "p *(char*)(void(*)())AudioDeviceDuck=0xc3\nq" | lldb -n FaceTime

and then make the call.

Update: for macOS sierra or higher, replace FaceTime with avconferenced.

VoiceOver Utility -> Sound -> Disable audio ducking.


How to prioritize WiFi networks on iPhone I can connect to multiple WiFi networks on my iPhone but the problem is that I cannot prioritize them. iPhone automatically connects to a specific network, which is slower in my case, and then I have to switch to the faster one from the network list.

How can I prioritize known WiFi networks on iPhone?

To ensure that your iPhone does not connect to the slower network, go to Settings > WiFi > tap on the blue arrow to the right of the slow network > tap on "Forget this Network"

Next, make sure you connect to the faster network. This way, your iPhone will connect to the fast network and not to the other each time the fast network is in range.


Why won't iTunes let me manually sync PDFs to iBooks? I have my iPad set to manually manage content (i.e. drag and drop, not sync). I'm trying to add some PDFs to iBooks, but it refuses to let me copy them to my iPad. I can do this with epub books just fine. Is this a known limitation in iTunes, or a bug?

Is there any workaround (to clarify: still using iTunes) that doesn't involve having to use the sync option (which forces me to sync videos as well, which is not workable)?

You can get the PDF's on your iPad via some other method (e.g. Email, DropBox, etc.) and then choose to open the PDF inside iBooks.

In your iTunes client, click on your iPad in the Devices area. Do you have the proper settings in the Books tab as displayed by the screenshot? If not, this might be the reason iTunes is only transferring epubs and not PDFs.


Make iPhone use GPS-only location services The question is as simple and clear as it sounds.

When celullar data and Wi-Fi are turned off on my iPhone 6, location services work great and I get my location in a moment with a precision of 1-2 meters.

However, if I turn my celullar data on, it takes 10-15 seconds to get my location and, usually, it is pretty incorrect (+- 200 meters and it randomly moves around while I am standing at the same place). As some of my friends have the same problem, it looks like it is mobile network operator issue (Altel 4G, Kazakhstan).

Why does iPhone prefer to use cell network-based or wifi-based location services while GPS is doing good? How can I turn off cell network-based and wifi-based location services, so it uses only GPS services and doesn't work at all if GPS is not available.

Now, I have to turn my celullar data off in order to get my precise location and turn it on later. However, it makes playing some games involving both location services and celullar data impossible.

The iPhone's systems are optimized for battery life. From the chip design to the OS, battery conservation takes precedence over all.

GPS chips are massive power consumers. Read these answers for more information on GPS chip power use. Due to this, the iPhone will always prefer to find its location with wifi/cell tower triangulation, then refine with GPS.  The phone will often quickly cycle the GPS chip on and off, confirming location as needed. (remember, computers think in microseconds or smaller)

Since the iPhone is not a dedictaed GPS, you likely will never find a way to force it to become one. You might try an iPhone GPS application, many of which seem to 'force' the GPS chip (and drain the battery).

For more, learn about Assisted GPS, which explains how GPS works on your phone, including iPhone. This may also explain why your carrier might be a challenge, as it might not be providing you with Mobile Station Assisted data.

Smartphones use mobile/WiFi networks first to locate you because they are nearest you and this won't drain much of your phone's battery, whereas GPS uses satellites requiring more power from your phone looking for a minimum of 3 satellites to completely work.


How to record both screen and sound with Quicktime on El Capitan? I'm trying to record both what's happening on screen and the audio being played by the applications. To my surprise, QuickTime did not record the sound. I believe it worked before in previous OS X releases, but that is not something that I use often so I have not bothered to try earlier.

What is the current situation on El Capitan ? Have I messed with something that prevents QuickTime from capturing the sound, or has it never worked ?

Here is my view of Quick Time  / New Screen Recording on a Mac Mini:

On my Macbook Pro, I have the option select None or Internal Microphone. Internal microphone actually records the speakers of the Mac Book as heard from its own microphone, which obviously sounds terrible.

This is a MacMini 7,1 (late 2014) and there is nothing in Input Sources.

You  need to install Soundflower in order to run it on El Capitan. El Capitan requires kext to be signed in order to load them. This one gets its kext installed in /Library/Extensions/.

This is due to System Integrity Protection

Then, you have to create a multi-output device with: Audio MIDI Setup.app, which is found in /Applications/Utilities/ :

Finally, when you want to do the actual recording, make sure you use this multi-output device, and capture from the same Soundflower device used in this multi-output device. Otherwise, you can't both listen to and capture the sound, because it goes directly to soundflower without being copied to the built-in output.

alt/option + right clicking on volume gives you this menu:

and Quicktime now looks like this:

You can also use SoundFlower for this. In a way, it acts like a microphone, which makes it possible to select it as an audio source in Quicktime.


Is there any way to upload screenshots directly to FTP or image hosting and give me the url? Is there any application for screenshots that could upload directly to FTP or any image hosting site and just give me the URL?

I come from the Windows world, where I got used to FastStone Capture, where you basically press print screen, click on FTP and it copies the URL into clipaboard so you can immediately paste it for example on IM.

Two of the best apps for this are CloudApp and Skitch.

Cloud app has an option to automatically upload screenshots (image courtesy of Softpedia). It is very drag and drop friendly and pastes the URL to your clipboard for convenience.

Skitch is a little more heavy on the screen snapping controls. It's like grab on steroids. You can quickly hide private information, point out items, and edit the snap before uploading.

The free version of both are well worth it. Both have paid upgrades that are low cost, but you don't need to pay to use either. I have also heard really good things about Droplr so you might check it out as well.

Both CloudApp and Skitch are available on the App Store. The two are better together - skitch is better for grabbing a great screen shot, and droplr for upload and sharing it.

LittleSnapper is designed to work with FTP and copy the URL after upload. Upload is a separate step from snapping, so you will have to set a key command or automate that for the exact functionality you ask.

There is a free trial version from the RealMac website - so you can see if it's what you want before buying a license.


How do I AirPlay mirror my iPhone screen to my MacBook Pro? I am using a 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with Mavericks and a iPhone 5s with iOS 7.

I want to record game tutorials. Where the game is running on my iOS device and I'm recording the tutorial via a screen capture of an AirPlay on my MacBook Pro.

After searching apps from the App Store, I found that there is no apps to record your screen and the only way is through AirPlay on your Mac or Apple TV.

Is there any free and legal way to do do?

I have tried a trial of X mirage and it is just what I wanted, but it cost money. I want to record my iPhone.

Note that I do not have any other apple devices.

If your devices have OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 or anything newer, there's a built-in way to do this via a wired connection.

Quit QuickTime on your Mac if it is open.
Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to your Mac via a Lightning or USB-C Cable.
Open QuickTime on your Mac, and select File > New Movie Recording.
A recording window will appear. Click the arrow next to the Record button, and select your iPhone from the dropdown menu that appears.
Click the Record button and go about your business on your iPhone.
Once you're done, click the Stop button and save the video.

Use Shou screen recorder, no need jailbreak, download from https://shou.tv/ios


Why doesn't .bashrc run automatically? I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen.
I have to select run script: in the Terminal>Preferences>"MyDefaultTheme">Shell prefpane and add:
source .bashrc && clear for it to work...
This seems odd since many tutorials only say you just have to add to the .bashrc file and all is good.
Note that I don't run in bash when using the terminal, I like the other (default) one (don't know what it is) better, because it show me where I am all the time eg:
>>d54c6b47b:~ romeo$

in stead of:
>>bash$

In bash all is loaded as should be.
So my question is, why didn't my .bashrc file load automatically and did I have to add the option to call it everytime?
Also some tutorial told me to do something like:
$alias la=’ls -la’ >> ~/.bashrc

which should write the alias to my .bashrc, this doesn't work either...
Note that I'm a UNIX novice, so be gentle.

Been there, done that. What I came aware of, OS X doesn't read .bashrc file on bash start. Instead, it reads the following files (in the following order):

/etc/profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile

See also Chris Johnsen's informative and useful comment:

  By default, Terminal starts the shell via /usr/bin/login, which makes the shell a login shell. On every platform (not just Mac OS X) bash does not use .bashrc for login shells (only /etc/profile and the first of .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile that exists and is readable). This is why "put source ~/.bashrc in your .bash_profile" is standard advice

I usually just put the things that I'd normally put in ~/.bashrc to ~/.profile — has worked so far like a charm.

To keep with the OSX style login .profile and support the normal bash behavior .bashrc you can use a .bashrc file if you switch between regular nix and OSX by providing a symbolic link to your .bashrc file called .bash_profile. Just make sure this file doesn't exist already before trying this, but this is how I do it.

ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile


Finder Isn't Responding Mac 10.10.1 I am having a problem "Finder isn't responding" on my mac pro retina 10.10.1. All my files on my desktop are gone and the rainbow ball is spinning forever. I've tried many times to relaunch "Finder" by using command + option + esc, yet the problem still exist. So anyone has any idea to fix this problem? Please kindly help.

Please upgrade your OS to OSX EI Capitan which is the latest version of Mac OS X and possibly fixed many bugs of Yosemite and works really fast has inbuilt memory optimizer tool to free up RAM.


How to delete iCloud account without knowing the password I want to delete iCloud Account, but I can't remember the password to gain access to my Apple iCloud. Can someone please help me as there must be away that I can delete the account.

You need access to an iCloud account to delete it, therefore you will need to regain access. If you have forgotten the password, try iforgot.apple.com

there isn't a way without the password, :(


Risks of power chargers left pluged in what risks about Apple chargers always plugged in? I want to leave my iPhone and iPad chargers always plugged under my desk (so I can just connect my device when I want to charge) but I'm worried that they shouldn't be plugged all the time.

If we are talking about fire risk, it is negligible for official Apple chargers. Non-zero, but pretty close to zero. Low-cost knockoffs have a significantly higher fire and shock risk due to cheap parts and sketchy wiring; UL produced an article showing a 99% failure rate of counterfeit chargers.

If we are talking about electrical pull, it is also negligible. Less than 0.1 watts pulled when a phone is not plugged in. You could have more than 150 chargers plugged in and you'd still pull less than a 10-watt light bulb. A single charger costs less than 25 cents and produces 1.5 lbs of carbon emissions (I assumed a liberal 1kWh to calculate this) for a whole year of being plugged in without a phone attached.

It is still a waste of energy and a non-zero percent fire risk, but it's up to you whether those minuscule risks, costs, and pollution amounts are even worth the energy and time expended unplugging it when not in use.

Leaving something plugged in all the time not only increases risk of fire / personal injury, but also increases the cost of the electricity bill. Obviously.

It is not worth the cost and risk to save a few seconds. If you want to consider convenience in more depth, you could consider using portable chargers or purchase an extension cable, plug your cables in, and switch it off until you require it to be used.


Apple's iCloud SMTP Server For Old Devices Does Not Work I have set up my iPod Touch 1G to use the iCloud mail servers as per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864. IMAP works, but SMTP, although it worked for the first ~24 hours, refuses to work, complaining that the username or password is incorrect. I tried manually using this SMTP server on my Mac (Lion 10.7.2) and it gives the same result. Is anyone able to send emails via smtp.mail.me.com or has anyone experienced this problem and has a fix for it?

EDIT: I have checked with a new iCloud account (set up on 4th Nov) and it works, so if anyone else has this issue it is a problem with your account. AppleCare, get ready!

Well it recently started working, so let's hope it stays that way!

Hmm... I wasn't aware that it was possible to use this service on earlier iOS version & hardware models. The iCloud SMTP server (at least on iOS 5) uses an authentication token specifically from Apple.


Rebooting iPhone Doesn't Kill off All the Process I tried to reboot my iphone according to the guidelines here, but after the phone is started, I found that all the apps are still there at the bottom of the screen when I tap on the home button twice.

Any idea why this is so?

As a developer I can assure you that if you reboot the phone, those apps are no longer running in any way. At that point it's literally just a list of apps that you've launched in the past in reverse chronological order.

Edited to note: I've since verified (as @ughoavgfhw pointed out) that backgrounded apps can in fact have their services restarted after a reboot. You can still kill all non-Apple services using the method I describe below.

If you still don't feel comfortable, you can manually quit the apps any time. Simply double-press the home button to reveal the list of "running" apps -- the multitasking bar -- and tap-and-hold on one of them, the same way you rearrange you apps in Springboard.

They'll begin to wiggle, and instead of the black circle with an "x" in it that appears in the upper-left corner of each app icon (used to delete apps off the device entirely) you'll see a red circle with a "-" in it. Tap the red circle and the app will be completely forced from memory, killing an associated processes. After you've quit the first several, even if you haven't restarted your phone you're in the "totally suspended" territory.

Press the home button again to stop the wiggling, as normal.

Deleting an App: Black Circle with "x"

Quitting an App: Red Circle with "–"

Empty multitasking bar, all apps have been dumped

I noticed the same thing myself a little while ago. This is annoying. Apple claims that the apps are in "stasis" and not eating processes, but I find that hard to believe that is true with EVERY app. Especially ones that are in the background waiting to alert you of something (like Skype telling you that you have an incoming call or a GPS app)

I really wish that a "hard reset" would clear out all the background apps but the ugly truth is that the operating system just doesn't work that way.

There is nothing you can do about this until Apple changes how this works with an OS-level update.

(p.s. When I took my iPhone an Apple store to get it looked at with a problem with the sleep wake switch, the Apple rep told me that he "cleaned out all the background apps" to make things run smoother. Which makes me think that these apps aren't working as exactly as we think that they are)


How do I play a YouTube video in the background on my iPad? I like to 'listen' to YouTube video in the background while I am surfing on my desktop. However, I cannot do this on the iPad as, as soon as I switch from YouTube video to the browser, the video pauses. Is there a solution for this either in the form of an app or a website?

Try the following steps :

1: Start the video from YouTube whilst in Safari.

2: Hit Home key once. You'll exit Safari and playback will stop.

3: Double-tap Home key to bring up the app-switcher. Slide to the right to bring up background audio controls. The icon on the right side will show whichever program you last used with background audio: Safari.

4: Press Play. Youtube audio will resume playback.

One simple solution that I use is to simply convert and download the video to an mp3. Then you can save it and play it back anytime. There is a great new tool that will let you convert and download YouTube videos right from your browser. This is free although you will need to create an account and login to use it. Learn more on my blog...


MacOSX El Capitan: admin password only working from login screen Since a week or so, I have a very strange issue on my Mac... I can login from the login screen, but any further action that requires my password fails: from a terminal if I try to sudo, or from any system preferences pannel that prompts for my password. I cannot add "Show Input menu in login window" because this requires to enter my password... I have only one keyboard configured in System preferences so it is not even an issue of different keyboard layout as far as I can tell. And since my account is not bound to my appleid (and I need my password to do it) I am really stuck...

Is formatting the only option ?

Open Textedit and type there your password
to check which problem might be yours:

typing errors,
bad repeating tuning,
num lock,
keys problems,
session configuration error.

If you think you have a typical problem with just the login window,
just configure your login so as to take advantage of your name
part of the login window to check how your keyboard and your software
are behaving.
Configure System Preferences > Users & Groups as follows:

Within the Name: part of the login window, type all the characters
contained in your password and check for:

bad repeating tuning,
num lock,
keys problems.

Sometimes keychain is broken. Try to reset password

Please don't forget to make backups.


How to view Root directory and subdirectories in Finder? Apparently, the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop points to the root directory but it is not showing all the contents.

Some of the files and directories are the same as those which I see when I perform an ls on / dir in Terminal, but most other directories like /usr, /bin, etc are not visible.

I'm assuming that for security, Mac OS X isn't showing the rest of the files and directories. Is there a way to change this behavior so as to make it like we view root folder in Linux?

Edit:
just found the following here:

  The Finder and the Terminal show different contents for the root
  directory. Some items in the root directory are not visible in the
  Finder. This reduces visual clutter and enhances simplicity. If you
  are familiar with a UNIX-style command line you can use Terminal to
  view all items in a directory.

As per this note, Terminal has to be used to view all the items. So, what do others do? Use terminal or there is some other way?

Shift-Command-G in Finder brings up a "Go to folder" dialog. Type in the name of the directory, for example, /usr/local. Finder will show the directory. I use this with Finder in 'View as Columns'

While this doesn't give a browsable directory from the root directory down, I've found it quite useful.

Pressing Command+Up will go up 1 level to reveal the root directory.


MacBook Pro shuts down when unplugged I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro work computer. Here's the sequence of events:

I fully charge the battery
I unplug the Mac from the power cable
The Mac immediately shuts down

Before unplugging the Mac, I press the battery power indicator button and all lights are green. When I unplug the Mac I press the indicator button again and only one light is green.

I've tried resetting the PRAM, SMC and even bought a new battery but the problem persists. Here is the System Information.

How can I get my MacBook Pro to stay powered on when not plugged in?

Update: It was a dead battery. Apple gave me a new one for free.

Looks like your battery is dead. Your system report states that:

37.   Condition:    Service Battery

Time to either stay plugged to power, or get a new battery.

This is really anormal. Have Apple repair your Mac.


Apple id security questions not allowing me to download apps I bought an iPhone 4S. I am trying to download apps from the App store but it is not letting me do it. Every time I try to download an app, a window pops up asking me to type in my Apple ID password. When I enter my password another window pops up asking me to answer to three security questions. If I click on continue it keeps on asking me to enter the password. I have already answered one security question (as there is only one question) by going on appleid.apple.come manually. It still is not working. Any advice appreciated.

Have you tried resetting your phone? Otherwise known as Powering Off ... and then, like, On again.

"Hold down Sleep/Wake button and Home button for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears."

(Direct quote from Apple graphic, as seen on Gizmodo, in an attempt to thin down the Genius Bar crowds.)


Where can I find the system icons for Mail? I'm trying to track down the .icns files for these icons:

Any ideas? Not seeing them in the app resource folder.

Obviously in macOS Sierra, Apple has changed how it packages some of the application resources and in this particular case the image assets that comprise the toolbar are still in Mail.app/Contents/Resources/, at least some of them, in the assets.car file as shown in the image farther below. Note that there are several .car files in the Resources folder, however looking at the open files for Mail.app in Activity Monitor, there are .car archives outside of the application bundle that are open as well, e.g.:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/VibrantLightAppearance.car
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/SystemAppearance.car
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/Assets.car
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AccountsUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Assets.car
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/FunctionRowAppearance.car

Note: Check in Activity Monitor on your system for a complete list of open files for Mail.app.

Doing a few Google searches, I found a few different apps, both GUI and CL, and had mixed results in both viewing and extracting assets from the .car archives. However, that was using only precompiled programs, and there are a few Xcode Projects I didn't test.

The one in the image below is ThemeEngine and while is actually showed more objects then Asset Catalog Tinkerer did, and opened some .car files that Asset Catalog Tinkerer couldn't, the drawback is ThemeEngine doesn't have an export function like Asset Catalog Tinkerer did. However, I could still copy and paste out of ThemeEngine though. Maybe the Xcode Projects would work better if I compiled then on my system, but just don't have the time to try.

Go to the Applications folder, right click on the Mail icon, click on the "Show Package Contents ", double click the "Contents" folder, double click the "Resources" folder. The tool bar icons should be in that folder (mine are, in Snow Leopard)


Change Spotlight's Top Hit? Say I have two apps that match a search in spotlight (e.g. utility), it seems that Spotlight chooses the first application (sorted alphabetically) as the Top Hit. Is there any way to change this so that a different application appears on top?

Just use some other launcher. Alfred is also good at learning new associations. If for example you select "Disk Utility" after typing "ut", it will become the new default suggestion for "ut". Very low-maintenance.

You could also try Apptivate. It allows you to assign 2-letter shortcuts (like ⌥UT) for launching applications.

One way is to drag the application into the Applications folder (if it isn't already there), and rename it so that it appears on top (e.g. - My Utility).


How can I open a Terminal window directly from my current Finder location? I was wondering if there was any was I could right click inside any instance of a "Finder" window such that I have an option that says "Open Terminal Here". It would be really helpful.

As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal provides Services for opening a new terminal window or tab at the selected folder in Finder. They also work with absolute pathnames selected in text (in any application). You can enable these services with System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. Look for "New Terminal at Folder" and "New Terminal Tab at Folder". You can also assign them shortcut keys.

In addition, you can now drag folders (and pathnames) onto the Terminal application icon to open a new terminal window, or onto a tab bar in a terminal window to create a new tab in that window. If you drag onto a tab (rather than into the terminal view) it will execute a complete cd command to switch to that directory without any additional typing.

As of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, Command-Dragging into a terminal will also execute a complete cd command.

Note: The New Terminal at Folder service will become active when you select a folder in Finder. You cannot simply have the folder open and run the service "in place". Go back to the parent folder, select the relevant folder, then activate the service via the Services menu or context menu.

Try the app Open Terminal

  This application allows you to open a Terminal window with the path of the current Finder window.


How can I make Caps Lock work with Hebrew like it did prior to Sierra and without Ukulele? In Hebrew the Caps Lock is used to activate the vowel points. How do I restore this feature of Caps Lock in Hebrew, and without creating a new keyboard with a program that I do not know, like Ukulele?

If you are talking about Apple's built-in Hebrew PC keyboard layout, you cannot make it work like before, but you should still be able to input vowels via Option plus Shift. Or you can download the new keyboard you need to restore the previous behavior.

It is a regression and loss of functionality caused by Apple, plain and simple. It was not announced, much less given any justification, anywhere that I (or Google or Bing) can find.  It seems like a total goof by Apple.

Contrary to answer 1, you cannot type the same set of nikud using Option plus Shift as before with the Windows Hebrew keyboard, called "Windows - PC" on the Mac: you can type the Apple set of nikud, which is a proper subset of what you could type with Windows - PC.

For example, there is now no way to type Sin Dot and Shin Dot nikudes in the Apple set, whereas you could do so with the Windows - PC set.

Also, the placement of the keys to type with Option+Shift to get a nikud is completely different now. For example, PATAH with Windows PC was Caps Lock+Shift+7, but now it's Option+Shift+6 -- i.e., a change from 7 to 6.

So, you don't just have to change key typing from Caps Lock+Shift to Option+Shift, you basically have to learn the entire set of nikud key locations to combine with anew.


View the current clock Speed of a CPU in OS X? Does anyone know of a utility to see the current speed of the processor?

To be clear, I'm not looking for the model/speed of the CPU, but rather what the CPU is currently clocked at (i.e. it will reduce speed if it overheats).

There is a tool that does that called Intel® Power Gadget.

It will show the current load and Frequency

And Version 3.5.3 on macOS (latest is 3.5.5):

If you open Activity Monitor (Applicantions > Utilities > Activity Monitor), you can do two things to get a visual of current processor performance:

1) You can set the Dock icon to display the performance:

In Activity Monitor, go to View > Dock Icon > Show CPU Usage. As a bonus, the performance bars are also shown while Option+Tab'ing through apps.

2) Go to Window > CPU History. This will display a floating window with CPU performance:

It can be set to to always stay on top of other windows too.


Hide ONLY .app file extensions but show the rest Is there a way to hide ONLY .app file extension? I know that you can enable or disable the visibility of file extensions in Finder but I'm interested in avoiding .app file extensions from showing up. I hate the redundancy of seeing that the files in my Applications folder are Applications.

The "Show all filename extensions" option overrides the "Hide extension" option in Get Info. This means that there are a few possible solutions one could try to find in order to hide ".app" extensions while showing the rest:

Find a way to exclude certain extensions from "Show all filename extensions".
Find a way to hide extensions, other than the "Hide extension" option, that it is not affected by the "Show all filename extensions" option.
Find a way to override the "Hide extension" option, other than the "Show all filename extensions" option, that can be configured to include or exclude items based on their extensions, or perhaps even by their location (e.g. exclude the Applications folder).

To the best of my knowledge, none of these are possible, but I would be happy to be proven wrong about that.

Possible Workaround

The easiest workaround I can think of is to leave "Show all filename extensions" unchecked and to manually set other files to explicitly show their extensions, which can be done very easily with Automator and the SetFile command.

You can set this up as either a service or an application. In both cases, it can be used on both files and folders, and will also process the contents of subfolders.

To set this up in Automator, add a "Run Shell Script" action, set "Pass input" to "as arguments" and set the script to this:

(Note: You have to install Xcode to get the SetFile command.)

for f in "$@"
do
    find "$f" -name "*.*" -exec SetFile -a e {} \;
done

If you set this up as a service, be sure to change "Service receives selected" to "files or folders".

You could also look into using this as a folder action. As files are added to a folder, the script will automatically set their extensions to be shown. For example, it could be useful to attach such a folder action to Downloads, Documents and the Desktop, or any other folder which frequently receives files with "Hide extension" checked.

Hopefully, setting this up as a service would make it so trivial to use that you wouldn't even need to worry about batch-processing an entire volume (which could take awhile). Rather, you could simply use it as needed whenever you come across files or folders of files with hidden extensions.

Go into finder.
click on preferences.
go to the advanced tab.
uncheck show all filename extension.
restart--


iPhone SE powers on whenever moved, defective? Got a new grey iPhone SE for Christmas from the Verizon store. Seems to work fine except for one issue. When the phone is off (standby), any sudden motion turns the phone on, as if the home or power button were pressed.

Let me be clear: Nothing is in contact with the power button or home button when this happens. The phone isn't getting any calls or messages or other notifications.

There's a passcode, so nothing bad happens, but it's unsettling to open the pocketbook and see the phone screen all lit up.

Is this something deliberate? Can it be configured? Or is the phone just defective?

The iOS 10 update brought the new Raise to wake function to the iPhone 6S, 7, and SE. It's completely normal but can be annoying at times. You can disable it from Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Raise to Wake.

Learn more about Raise to Wake and disabling it.

It's deliberate, not any sort of malfunction, and you can disable it. Leaving it enabled drains your phone battery as it uses gyroscopic sensors.


How to remove preinstalled Apache and PHP from Mac OS Sierra I have been trying to figure out how to completely remove preinstalled Apache and PHP from my macbook pro ... The reason is that I am using the homebrew version of both Apache and PHP. The current version of PHP that I am using is PHP 7 as you can see in the screenshot below

but when I use php -v in the terminal it shows me PHP version 5.6 .. see screenshot below.

I am trying to find the preinstalled PHP but can't seem to find it ... Can you guys help me out and point me to the right direction ? Thank You.

Removing system macOS binaries is not a good idea, they will be reinstalled during a next system upgrade and they could be needed by some system scripts.

To enable the homebrew php from the command line, read the output of brew info php70:

  If you wish to swap the PHP you use on the command line, you should add the following to ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile or your shell's equivalent configuration file:
    export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php70)/bin:$PATH"

If you have installed php 7.2, check the output of brew info php72.


Import Chrome bookmarks to Safari under iOS I just wanted to know if it is possible to import Chrome bookmarks into Safari on iOS?

I’m using Safari on my iPhone but I am using Chrome for work. And now I just want to have all my bookmarks Chrome also in Safari, without using my computer to export the bookmarks and then manually import it on my Mac.

It is currently not possible to do this without a computer.

Very basic functionality like this doesn’t exist at apple because they want you to buy a mac.  It’s moves like this that will keep them behind the competition as the world advances with open source software.


Can't import photos from iPhone 6 to Mac I have taken a lot of photos on my iPhone. But when I connect it to my Mac, the photos do not show up in Preview. I can see the photos on the iPhone, but they are simply not recognised when I plug the iPhone to the Mac - any ideas?

The photos on iPhone doesn't directly show up in Preview.app on your Mac after connecting. You will need to copy (via import or sync) them to your Mac to be able to see them in Preview.app.

After connecting your iPhone to your Mac, launch Image Capture.app. You can find the app in Other folder in Launchpad, or simply search for it via Spotlight.

Once the app is launched, your iPhone is unlocked and both the iPhone and Mac have trusted each other, you should be able to see all the photos and videos in the Image Capture.app window.

Simply select, drag and drop the photos from within Image Capture app onto a folder in Finder to copy them to your Mac.

Ensure updates on both the phone and mac are compatible. I keep having a similar problem every time I update the mac, as for some reason, even though the phone appears to be on automatic updates, this does not happen, and no update notifications appear on the phone.


Is there an iPad app that will 'play' a large PDF file as a slideshow? I'm looking for an iPad app that will 'play' a large PDF file as a slideshow.

I've tried the major popular PDF apps, including GoodReader and ReaddleDocs, but none seem to have a 'slideshow' function.

I've also looked into a few Music Notation viewers, but they all seem to require a screen tap to advance to the next page.

Ideally, I want to be able to view a large, graphic-intensive PDF file and then hit 'PLAY' and have it auto advance it's pages.  Bonus points if you can zoom, or flip back/forward a page and then after preset interval, the slide show resumes.

Presentations are meant to be presentations. If you're going to do the process that 3rdparty suggested, I highly advise that you convert the PDF into a presentation friendly format (jpgs are fine if you want to "fudge" it), but invest in Keynote for the iPad and use it!

Keynote iPad's presentation skills are really astounding. Digital Laser Pointer, private presenter's notes on the iPad and the external display you connect to displays the full screen presentation (requires the VGA video out cable or some equivalent products, the composite/component video cables might work too). Transitions, animations, rich media, everything.

It sucks that you already have it in a PDF, but if you do the work to convert it, the iPad will help you present it wonderfully.

mobile document viewer,
mobile PDF notebook X1


How to fix / Reset App Store app on Mac OSX - El Capitan Newly upgraded to Latest released OS X - El Capitan (10.11.5). Now when I open App Store app, the spinning wheel to right of < > buttons on upper left side continues to spin with no content visible below on any tab button. Originally, I saw that 1-update was available. I read an earlier note to use Activity Monitor and kill processes related to App Store. Saw 2 that had long process times (storeassetd, storedownloadd). Plus now see App Store Web Content in "(not responding state). How do I fix this???

Go to Finder and press ⌘ + Shift + G;
Locate ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore and delete com.apple.appstore which are cache files;
Then press again those commands and go /private/var/folders, open each folder and each subfolder until you find com.apple.appstore and delete this folder;
Restart your Mac.

I have tried all of this. What I have done is delete the App Store key chain entry in Finder, Application, Utilities, Keychain Access and then search for appstore. Delete just that one. (MacOS Catalina).


Trouble logging into macOS When I left my MacBook Pro for a minute, it closed out, which is normal. But, when I returned, it refused to accept my password to my regular administrator account. So I clicked on Guest User to see if I could log in through there. Now I can’t log into Guest and there is no way I can get back to my regular login. It does not want to accept my password.

How might I troublsehoot this further?

I fixed the problem by doing the following steps in this video. Here is the link to the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxAgiNqkDM


Samba share unreachable on OS X 10.8.2 I have a remote Samba share with my web hosting provider. I am unable to access it using OS X 10.8.2, while accessing it from a Windows 7 VM inside the OS X works fine. On OS X, I use "connect to server..." and try to access smb://servername/sharename. The operation times out with an unspecified error.

According to the hosting provider, this is because Apple dropped native Samba support in 10.7, and started using its own implementation of the protocol instead. This new implementation seems to have compatibility problems that prevent connecting to this particular remote share.

This Apple forum thread seems to confirm that users are having issues since OS X 10.7.

Is there a simple way to get back native Samba support in 10.8.2? I myself am not afraid of some command line tinkering but I want to share this samba drive with a number of colleagues. I wouldn't want to have to make deep changes to their OS Xes.
Alternatively, do any third-party tools exist that add  support for "original" Samba?

I am only guessing here, as my G4 quicksilver can't run OS X 10.8, but the confil file may require SMB signing and NTLM v2, try lowering the authentication level, and turning off SMB signing and let me know if that resolves your issue. In previous versions it was smb.conf

You may want to also try:
http://eduo.info/apps/smbup

http://jsddevelopment.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/wdtv-live-and-samba.html

Make sure to use back slashes \ for smb urls instead of forward slashes // used for afp.


Can I detect Facetime screen shots? Can I somehow know if the other caller is taking a photo (screenshot) while we are on FaceTime? I need to know if they are secretly taking photos of me.

No, there's no way to tell...unless, of course, they have their volume cranked and you can hear the camera shutter sound.

You can detect if somebody screenshots you during Facetime.


iPhone suddenly drains battery quickly, but only sometimes My iPhone 7 normally lasts about a week, but sometimes it suddenly starts draining very quickly. I have Background App Refresh completely turned off, and I wasn't using the phone at all when the activity shows 100% screen turned off. Why does it do this, and how do I stop it?

I wasn't able to find anything online, since searches only result in "turn off your apps" or similar.

You should be able to scroll down farther on that screen with battery level and activity and see specifically which applications are using energy.  Never seen the "not available message" however...

Did you setup automatic iCloud backups? They occur at night, if the iPhone is locked and plugged in the charger, and connected to WiFi.
Also is iTunes WiFi sync turned on?

iCloud Backups(iOS 12.1.4): Settings->AppleID->Phone->iCloud Backup.

You could check for iTunes WiFi sync on your Mac or PC.


How do you do command-line video screen capture on OS X with libav? On linux I can do something like:

avconv -f alsa -i pulse -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1400x1050 \
  -i :0.0+0,0 -vcodec libx264 -threads 4 \
  -acodec libmp3lame video.mkv

but of course the alsa and x11 driver should be different on OS X. How would this work to do command-line video screen-capture?

I found a solution that works really well. You're able to record with ffmpeg using an input device called avfoundation.

Details
More options
ffmpeg options

Here is an example command-line:

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -pix_fmt yuyv422 -i "1:1" -t 10 -vf crop=1280:720:1:65 -r 30 output.mkv

You may or may not get asked to specify -pix_fmt when this option is not included; it might be worth trying other formats to see if you get better performance.
As explained in the details link, -i selects both video and audio input. If you want to capture audio playing on your computer, you'll need something like iShowU Audio Capture.

To get that to work, you'll need to press Option + F11, select iShowU Audio Capture as an input device and as an output device. You'll notice that once you select it as an output device that you can no longer hear the audio yourself through your speakers or headphones.

A quick fix is opening Audio MIDI Setup, create a Multi-Output Device and adding iShowU Audio Capture and your normal output device. Select this new Multi-Output device in your sound outputs and there ya go, you can now hear the audio and have it captured.

Unfortunately you aren't able to control the audio levels now...if someone knows a solution to this please let me know.
-t is the time in seconds to record.
-vf is very useful for cropping and offsetting. The current setting is cropped to 1280 width 720 height, offsetting 1 pixel to the left and 65 pixels from the top. You'll need to use a third party tool to get exact pixel measurements of your screen.
-r is framerate.

I can't get ffcast installed on mac (as it cant find libx11, though I installed xquartz), otherwise that would be perfect

https://github.com/lolilolicon/FFcast


how to keep low-res photos handy, while archiving high-res versions? I have a laptop with a 256Gb SSD that always seems to be full.  A lot of my disk space is used by photos (in Aperture and iPhoto).

What I really want is to have low-res versions of all my photos on the SSD with high-res versions backed up to an external hard drive or Time Capsule.  If I'm visiting family and someone spontaneously decides that they want to see Christmas from 4 years ago, I want to at least have low-res versions to show, even if I need to go home to my external hard drive for high-res versions.  And I want it to sync, such that if I decide while I'm on the road that some photo is crap and delete it, that it deletes the high-res version when I plug back into my external hard drive.

This seems so logical to me that I'm constantly surprised that this problem doesn't seem to be solved.  Aperture "vaults" appear to be just a backup copy of the entire library; they don't let you delete the high-res versions from your main computer.

Am I missing something?  How do you keep photos from filling up the limited space on an SSD?

Depending on how your Aperture library is set up, I think it will do this automatically.

If you use a referenced library (see the Aperture manual for more information on managed vs referenced), Aperture won't store the hi-res masters in its own library - it will leave the file management up to you. It does, however, keep a low-res preview of the image in the library. So you could store your images on an external HDD, but still have access to the low-resolution previews when the HDD isn't available.

I haven't tried this myself, so I'm not sure how small the previews are, but I'm guessing they'd be good enough for the purpose you're describing.

I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for. I work with Photoshop, and I'm not sure if Aperture has the same options, so stop me if I'm wrong but here is how I would do this.

You can create a automatic batch in Photoshop. Create 2 series of actions where you start with the original photos. The first action will store your original photos at your external hard-disk.
The second action will make a low-res copy of the images and store it in a folder at your choosing.

In this way, you'll have all the work done for you and just need to select the folders where you would like to store both the low-res and the high-res photos.

Again, I don't know for sure if Aperture has something similar.


Apple Script: 'activate' an application in fullscreen Im trying to run tell application "X" to activate on an application that is running in fullscreen, but its not working. Any ideas on how I can work around this and give focus to a running app in fullscreen?

Allow the Script Editor to access Accessibility in System Preferences, & try this script. You should define the application name properly.

set MyApps to {"Google Chrome", "Skype", "Finder"}

repeat with MyApp in MyApps

tell application MyApp

    activate

    delay 3

    tell application "System Events" to tell process MyApp

        set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true

    end tell

end tell

end repeat

or if you have a single application then

tell application "Safari"

activate

delay 3

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"

    set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true

  end tell

end tell


iPhone 7 Won't Play Music on Bluetooth Headphones My iPhone 7 was playing music over my bluetooth headphones fine up until a few days ago.  Now all music just plays through the iPhone speakers instead.

I looked in the Settings - Bluetooth and the headphones display as "Connected".

This is not a new headset; it was working correctly up until just a few days ago.

When I power up the headset it gives me the same message it usually does when successfully connected to the iPhone, "Power On - Connected".

Is there a setting somewhere that overrides where the audio outputs to?

I realized that it stopped working after I updated to the latest version of iOS.  After going into the Bluetooth settings and "forgetting" the headphones and then re-pairing it worked fine.

I was having the exact same problem but discovered that the volume had been set to zero. I didn't do that. I don't know how that happened. But just increasing the volume solved the problem.


OS X default input language I have three languages in macOS Sierra. I want to set a default one, when I open new window in browser, for example, English.

Usually it's so but sometimes it's another one that I use rarely. And I can't understand when it's English and when another one.
I'm new to Mac, in Windows there is default language option. Is there some option like this in macOS?

You keyboard input language is controlled by system preferences/keyboard/input sources and what you select in the "flag" menu in the Menu Bar (not by Language and Region).  Check your settings there.

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Language & Region.

Do one of the following:

Add a language: Click the Add button , select one or more languages in the list, then click Add.

The list is divided by a separator line. Languages above the line are system languages that are fully supported by OS X and are shown in menus, messages, websites, and more. Languages below the line aren’t fully supported by OS X, but may be supported by apps that you use, and shown in their menus and messages, and on some websites.

Delete all the languages that you do not use and it will be done :D


How does one add a custom iCloud Drive folder to the Finder Favorites sidebar? Recently, I upgraded to iCloud Drive and began storing a number of files in it. I created a new folder in iCloud Drive (not one of the default "Pages" or "TextEdit" folders) and put my files in it. However, because I use it so frequently, I would like to put the folder in my Finder sidebar. When I tried to do so, it would not allow me — it simply gave me the option to drag it into an existing folder in the sidebar. It did not even display the circle with the cross through it ("do not enter sign," if you will) that often appears when I attempt to drag a folder to the Favorites bar that cannot be added. However, I was able to add the default iCloud Drive folders ("Keynote," "Preview") to the Favorites sidebar without any issues. I have also tried CMD-dragging to create an alias on the sidebar, but to no avail.

I'm running a late 2013 iMac on OS X Yosemite 10.10.1.

A solution is to create a temporary alias of your new folder.

Create a folder in iCloud Drive.
Right-click the folder and select Make Alias.
Drag-and-drop the alias folder (little black arrow on folder symbol) into your sidebar.
You can now delete the alias folder (NOT in the sidebar).

Hope this helps, if not leave a comment.

It is even easier:
any folder that you have (created), just drag it to the sidebar: it will stay where it is, and appears in the sidebar. When you right click it in the sidebar you can remove it (the folder stays where it is).


How can I use two iPads and one Apple ID and still have different content on each iPad I have two iPads and I've backed up and transferred everything onto the second iPad. So now they are identical in loaded apps and data. But I want to use them for different purposes, pleasure and business.

How can I delete things on only one iPad without them being deleted from the other as well.

You can delete apps on any device without affecting the other.

You can disable iCloud on one of the iPads, meaning it won't download content from the other.
Or effect the content of the other


Is there any way to rename app name in lauchpad? I have 3 eclipses installed on my mac eclipse jee, eclipse for android and eclipse for php.
all three eclipses are cooming in launchpad with the name eclipse.
Is there any way i can rename app name like
eclipse jee, eclipse php, eclipse android in launchapad?

You can by using an Administrator account and renaming the apps in Finder. LaunchPad will show the changed name accordingly.

There also is this app, which seems to make renaming items and other operations in LaunchPad possible. Unfortunately, it seems to be discontinued, so try it at your own risk.

Finally, if you are comfortable with SQLite databases and SQL, you could manually make the necessary changes in the LaunchPad database. I'd advise you to first back up your database before you start tinkering with it. You can use the built-in sqlite3 command-line client to manipulate this database. You'll want to find the appropriate records in the apps table, and update their title field.

Create a symbolic link of your Launchpad app:

ln -s Launchpad.app Launchpad_renamed.app


Max memory for 21" 2007 iMac? Have a 2007 21" imac. friend installed 2, 4GB memory for me, Apple genius says that's what causing slow downs on my machine? when they tested it only had a 4GB & a 2GB cards, so someone along the way did a switch on me. Apple says my machine can only handle 4GB total. i wonder if that's true? seems like it ran quite well for a long time, & it used to corroborate that it had 8 GB memory, so something fishy has occurred. machine is running quirky & would like to have max memory. Would appreciate some knowledgeable input...

Crucial, UK state that 4GB is the maximum amount of RAM that your iMac officially supports.

If you put more in and it worked then this could be seen as a 'bug', and wouldn't be supported by Apple. Such abilities could also be revoked through software/firm was updates.

In another forum some users have confirmed 2007 iMac works with 8 GB with no issue after the el Captain upgrade.


Deleting VPN Configuration Files From Network System Preferences Unfortunately I used a bad VPN service called VPN OneClick Pro. When you uninstall the app it does not remove the VPN configuration files it creates in Network in System Preferences.

So in other words, when you open System Preferences and then click on Network, to your left you always see your Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Firewire, etc. VPN OneClick Pro places about 28 VPN Configuration files. The minus button "-" has been greyed out so removing them is impossible.

How do I remove the remnants ?

To remove the VPN Profile from your Mac:

System Preference > Profile > Vpn One Click > Remove.


Fine Adjustment in Playback on Itunes How do I do fine adjustment on the progress of video playback in iTunes?
For example, on the iPad, if you slide you finger down while holding onto the dot on the playback progress bar, you will go into fine adjustment mode and you track the progress second by second.

Btw, I'm on OS x

Thanks

Maybe that's helpful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnhFxY40C_w


Can't download apps from App Store as get button doesn't start download For a couple days now, whenever I try to download an app from the App Store on my iPhone 5s with iOS 8.3, it brings up the 'use existing Apple ID' or 'create new one' window.

When I select the existing one and fill in my account information it closes the pop up window and starts to download the app (indicated by the circle starting to turn) but after one second it goes right back to the 'get' button.

When I try to download it again it all goes to square one. İt has been driving me nuts! İts like a vicious circle!

From the Apple help site at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201400 it recommended

  Make sure that your date, time, and time zone are correct. Tap
  Settings > General > Date & Time.

My settings were correct. However I turned off the automatic date/time/timezone feature to make the date and time zone setting be manual.

Voila, I could connect to the iTunes/App store. I had turned my phone off and on several times. I really wanted to avoid doing a reset. So I've escaped it for now.

If you are having trouble downloading or updating apps from the App Store, try using your Touch ID instead of your Apple password. Settings>Touch ID & Passcode then turn on the iTunes & App Store option.
Cheers!


No emergency alerts on iPhone I have "Emergency Alerts" enabled on my iPhone, but I do not receive alerts on it. Emergency alerts are enabled, but Amber alerts are off. I know that some alerts have gone out today because I have an older iPhone that doesn't have phone service but which does still receive emergency alerts. What do I need to do to get alerts on my regular phone? I tried turning them off and back on, but it didn't help.

The phone that doesn't get emergency alerts is an iPhone 6 using T-Mobile (USA) and running iOS 9.3.2. The one that does get alerts is an iPhone 4s running iOS 8.something, formerly used on AT&T and T-Mobile, but which doesn't have any current mobile service. Both phones connect to wifi at my house, if that matters.

Apple support suggested the following:

Disable emergency alerts
Reboot the phone
Re-enable alerts.

This worked. I don't know why I wasn't getting them, but I get them now.

I just found out if your iPhone or iPad is on mute and even though the alerts are on you won’t get them


How do I remove Podcasts from IOS Podcast app I've been using the IOS Podcast app and I'm trying to remove podcast from it. I had subscribed to a podcast, but now I unsubscribed and deleted the episodes. It still shows up in my podcast menu though. How do I remove it from the list of my podcasts?

Also, It does not show up on my podcast list on my mac iTunes, so I can't delete from there. Any ideas?

It's not a huge deal, but I download and try a ton of podcasts and the list builds up quick with podcasts I use and a bunch that I no longer listen to.

if you pull down on the list of podcast, there is an edit button in the top left corner. the podcast can then be removed by clicking the x

If you switch the view to list view you can swipe left and delete


How does Bluetooth improve location accuracy? I noticed that iOS 7 on my iPad now says this in the Bluetooth pane of the preferences if Bluetooth is turned off: "Location accuracy and nearby services are improved when Bluetooth is turned on."

How does Bluetooth improve location accuracy? I know that Wifi improves accuracy because Apple has various Wifi networks mapped out, but how could Bluetooth help?

iOS 7 introduced support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) iBeacons. These are small Bluetooth devices that can be placed to indicate a very specific location and the system respond in some way when they are detected. Enter a shop and an app for the shop showing you the latest offers might be one way for this to be leveraged. This would be different from usual geolocation APIs which become inaccurate when you are inside large structures (offices, malls etc.) as they cannot get a GPS fix, and WiFi coverage tends to be meshed with repeater stations

Apple has various Wifi networks mapped out

Not correct. This was done by Google. Their Street View photographing vehicles had built in WiFi wardriving equipment.

Apple couldn't have done this without physically driving through almost every street on the planet.


Where's the # key in Lion In Snow Leopard alt-3 used to print a #, in Lion it doesn't.
I'v tried different key combination keyboard viewer but still no luck.
Any ideas were the # key went?

Since it varies by keyboard layout - why not open your keyboard viewer and find out?

In the US keyboard layout on lion, it's still shift + 3

You have to select this from the menu bar after enabling it in the menu bar

You're talking about the hash key? Doesn't it print when you press Shift+3 ? Or maybe your keyboard layout is different but on every keyboard I've seen in the United States that's where the hash key lives.


Wi-Fi Interfering with Bluetooth Mouse I have an issue with my Logitech MX Master when trying to connect to my Macbook Pro (Early 2015 retina base model) via Bluetooth. The mouse has a stable performance only when Wi-Fi is turned off. Once Wi-Fi is turned on, however, the mouse gets really laggy. The cursor skips/jumps randomly, and the mouse's connection becomes very spotty and sometimes flat out disconnects.

I've been reading other posts on Stack Exchange and Apple's forums, and it seems many other people have had similar issues. Is there any workaround? This issue is proving to be a huge inconvenience :(

Also, how come my mouse keeps having to reconnect as a new bluetooth device every time I pair it, instead of having it paired to the previously connected slot. Here's an image to show what I mean, since it's kind of confusing to put into words:

I moved over the MX to band 2, then turned my wifi  off and back on. Everything is fine now.


How do I change the owner name on my MacBook Pro? When I use Terminal my computer says

Last login: Thu Jun  7 22:00:00 on ttys000
John-Does-MacBook-Pro:~ John$

That was the default account name on the computer when I bought it. I have been using it for 2 weeks now and I am pretty much set with the OS and I really don't want to do a reinstall. I deleted the John Doe account but that did nothing.

How do I change my Terminal so it doesn't display that any more?

In System Preferences, go to Sharing and change the name at the top of the window.

Create a new "USER" --  named as you wish.

Move the entire contents of your current

User Folder to the new folder via Drag & Drop.

If you hold down the Command Key during

the operation, selected items will be MOVED,

as opposed to copied, aliased, etc.

Reboot while holding down the Option Key.

Voila !


Fluid: when I try to login, my Fluid App launches the default browser instead I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website.

But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.

Why can't I login? Why does my Fluid App defer browsing to my default browser when I try to login to the website?

Fluid Apps try to keep your browsing limited to the website or webapp you chose when you created the Fluid App. Therefore, any Fluid App will send you to your system default web browser (like Safari or Firefox) if you browse to a URL "outside" that website.

Now, determining what constitutes a "website" is more black art than exact science. "Website" is in scare quotes because a website is a rather vague idea that may include documents and resources that are located on different servers... and therefore located in different URL domains.

Also, the login flow for many websites often quickly and quietly redirects you thru several URLs that may or may not look anything like the home URL you provided. This will cause Fluid to defer browsing to the system default browser.

Your Fluid App looks at any URL it is asked to display and tries to guess whether the resource at that URL is part of the same "website" as the home URL you provided. This is a tricky guessing game, and Fluid can never be 100% accurate out of the box.

The good news is that Fluid has a whitelist/blacklist feature for allowing/disallowing browsing to any URL pattern you choose. Basically, you need to define what constitutes your Fluid App's "website" to control what your Fluid App is allowed to do.

To configure this feature, go to your Fluid App's Application Menu (to the right of the Apple menu):

Preferences > Whitelist Preference Pane

In the Whitelist Prefpane, you can add/edit/remove URL patterns that will keep your Fluid App browsing only to URLs you would like. Select the "Allow browsing to URLs matching these patterns:" radio button.

In the "Pattern" table below, you should add a Wildcard Pattern for any URL which you want to your Fluid App to visit. Star ("*") is a special Wildcard character in this table. Star means "match anything here", and is a powerful way to easily include or exclude very large groups of URL patterns.

Alternatively, you can use full Regular Expressions instead of Wildcard Patterns by wrapping your URL pattern in forward slashes / like: /http:\/\/google\.com\/.+/. If you don't know what Regular Expressions are, forget I mentioned them. They're much more complicated, and Wildcard Patterns can almost always get the job done more easily.

If you find that your Fluid App is unnecessarily kicking you out to your default browser (say, Safari) you should try to determine the first URL that is loaded in Safari. This first URL is the one that Fluid thinks is not part of your "website". After determining that URL, you should add a pattern to the table described above to match that URL. I suggest applying stars liberally to the pattern so that Fluid will be more accepting of browsing to a similar URL.

Fluid also ships with a fair amount of "special case" code by default for some of the more well-known webapps. Basically, this means that Fluid has a collection of URL patterns that are known to work for some of the more popular webapps (especially ones that quickly redirect you to URLs that don't match the common home URLs), and Fluid will automatically insert these patterns on first launch. Gmail is a good example and the default patterns for Gmail are shown in the screenshot above.

Once I opened the Gmail Calendar in the browser and copied the FULL URL, I was able to use that URL in the Fluid app to create a standalone app that was my Google Calendar.  Previously I had only entered a shortened URL and was probably why a blank browser window was opening.

My advice is to go the the website first in your browser, then copy the URL for creating a new Fluid app.


Outlook for Mac 15.9 missing ribbon I have installed a fresh copy of Outlook for Mac v15.9 twice now and after a few days of use the ribbon disappears from all of the windows (main window, email window, etc). When I select View > Ribbon in hopes that it will turn it back on, nothing happens.

How can I get this crazy ribbon back so I am no longer using the menu to send and reply to emails?

I've had the same problem using the 2015 Outlook preview on a Mac.

Quitting (using the shift alt delete equivalent) and restarting the programme gets the ribbon back every time for me.

Confirmed, quitting the application (File --> Quit) and restarting brings back the ribbon.  Annoying.


How to get push notifications for a user tweets on Twitter for iPhone on iOS 7 I can change the twitter setting on iOS 6, but in the latest version of Twitter on iOS 7, there is no "Turn on notification" button in the user's setting.

How can I set this?

This is how to on iOS 6
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Push-Notifications-for-a-Users-Tweets-on-Twitter-for-iPhone

The settings you're looking for were moved by Twitter to their site.

Next to that, if you open the Twitter.app on iOS 7 you can:

Click on the settings-wheel when viewing your own page.
Click on "settings"
Click your account name
Here you can manage the settings to get push notifications about each item (or not)

You can now turn on notifications for users you follow on iOS 10 by clicking on the bell icon near the top right of their profile.


Best way to recover/restore Time Machine Backup to a second HD? My Macbook HD got corrupted and it couldn't be repaired. Being a 2011 Macbook model, I decided to buy a SSD to be the primary HD and a second 1TB to be used instead of cdrom (using a kit from maxupgrades).

So far, so good. Problem is: now I want to recover/restore a Time Machine backup to this new 1TB hard disk (that isn't the primary one). Which is the best way to avoid data loss in the process? Can I just copy the files from /Backups.backupdb/Latest?

Well... the answer when you posted this question WAS yes.  You could just turn off auto-backups and copy the backups folder to a new drive and set Time Machine's prefs to use that drive.

But if you've migrated to Mojave, good luck. Apple has seen fit to remove that ability from even an admin's hands.  You don't have the ability to modify the Backups.backupdb folder or contents, even with SIP disabled.

EDIT: I think I found a workaround.  You can't modify Backups.backupdb, but you can delete it and replace it.  Back up your backups, if you feel the need.  Create a folder named "WhosTheBoss" or "ImTheBoss" and put any backups that you want to keep in there (with the same directory structure).  Delete the original Backups.backupsdb folder and make that the name of "WhosTheBoss".  Point Time Machine and/or Migration Assistant to that location and you're good to go.


iPhone productivity app that tracks hours worked with an efficiency parameter I'm looking for an iPhone app that tracks "effective" hours worked over time.
Say I feel half efficient. Then two hours 'effort' amounts to 1 hour of 'actual' work done. If I'm at say 33% efficiency, for example, then when 3 hours go by, I know I've done about an hour's worth of real work.
And perhaps it plots time worked on a line graph over the long term. So I know how many hours I've worked today, or the past week, or in January.
The efficiency aspect is key, and it's the main feature I'm looking for. Does an app like this exist?

When I get grilled to account for every move I make I just look at my emails and history and the time frame from there. I don't know if the computer can determine what is the difference though. There might be setting as if you were a parent ant wanting to know what exactly you kids are doing that can help with that. You could make 2 accounts on the computer and use one for work and one for other.


Can I use two wireless keyboards with my iMac? We were hoping that our iMac would accept two wireless Bluetooth keyboards of the exact same model to be used at the same time. (Lego 2 player, in case you're wondering)

However, I can't seem to pair the second. I thought as long as we used different keys to control each player, we'd be fine.

Anyone have any idea?

You can connect a wired and wireless keyboard at the same time.

I don't have a way to test two wireless right now, but how are you doing it?  Just turning on the second keyboard won't work. Your iMac won't bother because one is already connected. Have you tried connecting manually? In the Bluetooth preferences you can manually connect to other devices. Of course both keyboards have to be paired first. If you have the Bluetooth menu turned on in the preferences, you can try connecting from there as well.

Sorry but OS X just let you connect one external keyboard at a time, maybe you can manage this by using a special separate Application. But i don't know if such an App already exists - try to google it.

or perhaps this works for you use a macbook with its internal keyboard and screen for one person and an extra monitor and a wireless keyboard for the 2nd person.


How to use OS X HTML Mail signature on iOS Mail I am using an HTML signature in my Mail app on OS X for my iCloud mail account. I created this signature following this instruction: http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-make-an-html-signature-in-apple-mail-for-el-capitan-os-x-10-dot-11/

My question is now, is there a way to sync my signature over iCloud to be able to use it on my iOS device? My signature contains links and images. I would like both to appear in my iOS signature, too.

Detailed device information:

I am using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan) and an iPhone 5s with iOS 9.3.2.

Thanks in advance

There is a fairly easy work-around to this.  It requires that you setup your email signature in your Gmail account online.  You can include an image, which means it gets uploaded to your Google account, with a permanent reference to it.  Once you've setup your signature in Gmail, just send yourself an email from the online account.  Open this email up on your phone.  Now select the content of the email, your signature, and press copy.  Now go to Settings > Mail and add your signature by pasting it into the signature box.  Your image will be included. If you used different font sizes, they will all be the same now, but Bold, Italics, etc. will be kept.  Even links have the URL intact.  When you send a new mail from the phone, you might not see the image in the mail you are composing, but as the URL is present in the underlying HTML code, the receiving party will see your image in your signature.  This method seems to work with iOS 10.2 PB 3.

Apple has made it impossible to include an image in a signature since iOS 9.3 which is totally rediculous. To us as a company this had made us which to Samsung mobiles. We simply can not work without professional signatures as email is such an important part of our business. Apple makes everyone go back to the stoneage with this change.


Virtual Hosts Not Working on OSX Mavericks In Mac OS X 10.9.3 I've Included http-vhosts in httpd.conf

# Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

I've commented out the DocumentRoot and the Directory in httpd.conf

# DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
# <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">...</Directory>

I've added the following to my httpd-vhosts.conf file

<VirtualHost *.80>
    DocumentRoot /Users/gdboling/Sites/rocket-gen
    ServerName local.rocket-gen.com
    <Directory "/Users/gdboling/Sites/rocket-gen">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And I've added the following to my /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1    local.rocket-gen.com

I've restarted Apache

sudo apachectl restart

There is an index.html in that directory but when I access http://local.rocket-gen.com from the browser I get a 404. I am getting this in the error logs

[Tue Jun 17 19:09:10 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/htdocs

I can't figure out why it is not working. If I create that directory as the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf it works. But I need to have several Virtual Hosts, so I'd like to get the vhosts file to work.

It looks like you have nearly everything correct. I'm running Mavericks with a couple dozen virtual hosts, so this should work for you.

First, and this might be all you need to do to fix things, you need to enclose your DocumentRoot in quotes. So,

DocumentRoot /Users/gdboling/Sites/rocket-gen

becomes

DocumentRoot "/Users/gdboling/Sites/rocket-gen"

Next, add the following to your /etc/hosts file, on the line immediately following what you already have. Your hosts file should be:

You have this part:

127.0.0.1    local.rocket-gen.com

Now add this right below:

::1     local.rocket-gen.com

I have each of my vhosts set in hosts this way.

This happened to me when I upgraded to Mavericks (10.9.5).  Apple seems to have removed the “Web Sharing” from the “System Preferences” app, which was important to the way the http.conf file was written.

Two ways to fix it:

Start apache with WEBSHARING_ON defined:

  apachectl -k start -D WEBSHARING_ON

Edit the http.conf file to remove <IfDefine WEBSHARING_ON> and corresponding </IfDefine>, BUT NOT the contents between the tags.


Using symbolic link not working to back up iPhone directly to non-default location There are quite a few questions about this and the answer usually involves symbolically linking the backup file to the external drive. (E.g. Is it possible to backup iOS devices to an external drive? or Backup iPhone to external drive on Mac)

The command I ran was

ln -s /Volumes/<externaldrive>/iOSBackup/Backup /Users/<username>/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup

But when I try to backup, I get:

To save space I stopped doing local backups a long time ago, so there is no backup in my Mobile Sync/Backup folder to begin with which may complicate things. When I go to Devices Preferences, there is no backup to delete (as expected):

It appears that the symlink process no longer works (the questions all seem to be from 3 years ago), or perhaps I've not done it correctly.

Edited to remove a wrong suggestion.

I have not witnessed any problems making backups while symlinking the MobileSync/Backup directory, but I have seen many problems restoring the backups with the symlink setup. With that said, it's possible the issue extends to making the backups now too. That would be interesting to verify.


A software update is required to use this startup disk - does not update I'm trying to do a clean install of macOS via USB on my MacBook Pro 2019 13".
I have setup the boot security so that:

It has medium security (I also tried no security) on bootable devices
Allows the Mac to boot from an external drive.

I formatted my USB to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GDUI partition map. The USB with the macOS installer successfully shows on the startup manager. When I try and boot from it, however, I get this message:

I click update and I then get this error after seeing an Apple Logo (yes I was connected to internet):

So in conclusion I cannot boot from this USB.
The USB is of type USB-A that's connected through a USB-C hub, that could be the problem? Maybe a direct connection from a USB-C usb flash drive is better?
Or the wrong formatting on the USB drive.
That's the only two I suspect. But then again, why isn't it updating?
Thanks.

I faced this problem yesterday (and I solved it), here's the context:
TLDR; On the "Startup Disk Selection Screen", that appears after holding Option, connect a wifi network by searching for yours on the dropdown list).  Doing this when the "it is necessary to make an update" screen appears and the computer will download the updates, make the update, automatically reboot, and you will be able to proceed with the installation without any problems.
Full Context:
I wanted to have 2 different MacOS versions on my computer, so I created a Bootable USB with BigSur Installer (did all of this on my Catalina OS).  I also partitioned my HD to install the other MacOS version of the mac but this is not relevant.
After creating this booable USB, I restarted my PC and held the Option key so I could see my bootable USB in there.
I tried to install my new macOS Big Sur but I faced this same message "A software update is required to use this startup disk".  I couldn't update choosing this option, I was stuck on the "try again screen".  I solved this by doing the steps in the "TLDR" section above.
Hope it helps someone!

I had this problem as well... same error.
I pressed the update buttons a few times with a lot of anger and it did work after 4-5 times really fast angry smashing that button. Maybe it helps someone! Was really frustrated as well!