Submitting iOS app with password protected content Is it possible to submit an iOS app to the App Store, where the content requires login/password and the publisher keeps control over who can have the account? It's somewhat like an Enterprise Distribution, except we don't want to be limited to the employes of the company. This way we could also give access to the content to selected clients.

Can't comment yet, so I'll clarify here.
I know about the reviewer account thing and I've used that before. My question is about restricting acces to the application to the general public but not only to company's employees (as in Enterprise Dist.). Also there's no plan on selling the access thus we shouldn't fall under In App Purchase restrictions.

@markhunte: Yes, like FB, except the content is not necessarily online, it may as well be all in the app bundle, and the user registration is at the company's discretion.

In iTunes Connect, you can provide a username and password for Apple to use to test your application:

  The user name and password for a full-access account for your app. This account is used during the review process and must not expire. Include details for additional accounts in the Notes field.

However, if your intentions are to not let Apple have access to this content your app will be rejected, plain and simple.


How can I teach Siri how to spell my child's name correctly in texts? When I text my husband something like "I picked up Hailey from school and am on my way," Siri always misspells my daughter's name as Haley (with no "i"). I have an entry in my contact info identifying who my daughter is, but when I'm dictating a text or other message, that appears to be irrelevant.

I'd like to teach Siri that any time I refer to my child's name it should always be spelled a certain way. I feel foolish sending messages with my own child's name misspelled.

Siri isn't the brightest bulb in the box and she often misunderstands
  unusual words and names. Fortunately, you can teach her how to speak
  properly by adding phonetic pronunciations to your contacts.

  How do you do this? Watch this video or follow these
  instructions:

  Open up your uniquely-named contact and tap the Edit button up top.
  Scroll down to the bottom of the contact page and find the area that
  says "Add New Field."
  From your options, choose "Phonetic First
  Name" (or "Phonetic Last Name," depending on which one is the
  problem).
  Enter in the phonetic version of the problematic name and
  tap Save. Now when you ask Siri to recognize or say a name, she'll
  get it right.

Source: Teach Siri to Correctly Recognize and Pronounce Names in Your Address Book


Sleep Wake Failures because of watchdog on 10.13 (supplemental update) I have experienced this twice in the last 48 hours, both occurring around the same time. Are the times correlated or coincidence? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Relevant lines from system.log:

Oct 16 12:08:20 redacted_hostname syslogd[59]: ASL Sender Statistics
Oct 16 12:08:21 redacted_hostname Dropbox[605]: [1016/120821:WARNING:dns_config_service_posix.cc(306)] Failed to read DnsConfig.
Oct 16 12:08:24 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Oct 16 12:08:24 redacted_hostname systemstats[70]: assertion failed: 17A405: systemstats + 665801 [FB138264-8F86-3462-9C53-FC084690A767]: 0x7faaa8a01a80
Oct 16 12:14:49 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1508174089 0

---

Oct 17 12:19:52 redacted_hostname syslogd[59]: ASL Sender Statistics
Oct 17 12:19:53 redacted_hostname Dropbox[493]: [1017/121953:WARNING:dns_config_service_posix.cc(306)] Failed to read DnsConfig.
Oct 17 12:19:56 redacted_hostname systemstats[70]: assertion failed: 17A405: systemstats + 665801 [FB138264-8F86-3462-9C53-FC084690A767]: 0x7fbb6340e520
Oct 17 12:19:57 redacted_hostname netbiosd[3498]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: Setting timer interval to 0 requests a 1ns timer, did you mean FOREVER (a one-shot timer)?
Oct 17 13:48:19 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1508266099 0

Sleep Wake Failure report from 16 Oct:

Date/Time:       2017-10-16 12:13:43 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.13 (Build 17A405)
Architecture:    x86_64h
Report Version:  26

Data Source:     Stackshots

Event:           Sleep Wake Failure
Duration:        0.08s
Steps:           7

Hardware model:  MacBookPro11,3
Active cpus:     8

Time Awake Since Boot: 96000s

Process:         kernel_task [0]
Path:            /System/Library/Kernels/kernel
Architecture:    x86_64
Version:         Darwin Kernel Version 17.0.0: Thu Aug 24 21:48:19 PDT 2017; root:xnu-4570.1.46~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Task size:       2766.31 MB
CPU Time:        1.468s

<ALL THE TASK DETAILS>

================================================================
UUID: <REDACTED>
Code: 6c611cd2 00000016
Stackshot reason: Watchdog

Sleep Wake Failure report from 17 Oct:

No samples for specified time interval

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

status: 0x40003
Code: 0x6c611cd204000016
Stackshot reason: Watchdog

Here's how I would pursue this at work by getting some more power logs and then submitting all to Apple Engineering for analysis.

pmset -g stats
pmset -g log
sudo sysdiagnose Watchdog

To amplify on my comment - watchdog simply watches for stuck tasks so a slow wake from sleep error might be nothing based on a desire to capture statistics on any wake that's not blindingly fast so that the fraction of people that submit error logs to Apple can help them aggregate and measure the overall health of this operation.

If your storage is slower than the best SSD or you have a lot of RAM and your memory is not compressed - I would expect wakes in the 5 to 20 second range for recent computers (last 5 years) and much longer for older Mac hardware.

Unless you have a specific failure, or suspect your hard drive / storage is struggling (run Disk Utility or fsck at single user mode boot) only two occurrences of that wouldn't cause me to do anything other than set a reminder to check in 60 days if the wakes continue to throw "error" diagnostics. I would also check every week for updates and patch the OS in case it's something that gets remedied or tightened up.

Basically, watchdog is designed to monitor for performance, it's clearly gotten a signal or guidance to collect some more details for slow wakes. Other than that - without Apple's source code and a session with their engineers publicly explaining why this specific event was triggered, you may have to monitor this and focus on other aspects like specific apps crashing / failure to wake entirely, etc...


Power Mac G5 2005 boots with flashing question mark Upon start up there is continuous beeping and clicking resulting in a gray screen with a flashing screen ? icon.

I've reset PRAM and hit the reset button on the inside.  I've tried to start from another drive, but I am not sure I have a proper back up.  That resulted in a screen with a reset arrow and an arrow pointed to the right.

I have not tried to blow out dust yet, but I'm wondering if my start up drive is shot.  If so, will replacing it help? And what drive should I replace it with?

Upon running a diagnostics (when I could) this error resulted.

2STF /8/3: A upper

More than likely the hard drive in the upper bay is failing.

Failing hard drives often make loud clicking sounds.  It's not as common, but is far from uncommon to hear beep error tones from failing hard drives as well.
The gray screen with an flashing folder icon occurs when the Mac cannot find a valid OS X system to boot to.  This can be a result of a badly corrupted operating system (often resulting from impending hard drive failure), a failed hard drive or a new unformatted hard drive.
The AHT error code more than likely stands for SATA Function or something similar, and since it references "upper" I would interpret that as the upper of two items.  Depending on your G5 PowerMac you might have dual processors but these are usually referred to as A or B and would throw a CPU error rather than STF.  Since there are two drive bays, where the two SATA disks are aligned vertically, I would interpret the error as meaning the upper disk is having the problem.

To diagnose the issue you could try this...

Power your Mac on while holding command+V (Apple + V if an older keyboard).
Assuming the disk isn't completely failed this should boot the Mac in verbose mode, where you can read what is occurring as the Mac is attempting to boot.
I would be on the lookout for "Disk I/O" errors, these will indicate a hardware failure with the hard drive itself.  If the Mac doesn't boot to verbose mode and instead only shows the flashing folder icon again then I would again assume a hardware failure.  With AHT (the diagnostic you ran) already reporting an error this is likely the scenario.

More than likely replacing the startup disk WILL fix the issue.  Most any 3.5" SATA disk will work although I would keep it relatively small (less than 250GB) as some of the earlier PowerMac G5s had firmware limitations on hard drive capacity.  You will need to partition/format the disk using "Apple Partition Map" and re-install Mac OS X.

Hope that helps!


Finder: unlock files grid in folders Using Finder:

In some folders, I can move the files around. Place them where I want in that folder. This is very good for the eyes, when the folder holds many files and only a handfuld om them are important/relevant

In other folders I simply cannot. The files are somehow fixed to a grid and can't be moved

Changing the "sort by" to NOTHING does not help, still fixed

How do I force Finder to let me place the files as I choose?

Macbook Pro 2012 with Yosemite 10.10.1

In one of the folders where the items are "stuck", go to View menu > Show View Options, or press ⌘+J.

In the new window, change "Arrange By" to "None" and "Sort By" to "None".


How do I get BBEdit to display the error browser programmatically? One of the nice features of BBEdit is that it can show a list of errors (e.g. syntax errors in a Ruby program), and clicking on the error will display the line in the source code file.

How can I bring this window up programmatically, e.g. via the command line, AppleScript, or a language module?

In my specific situation, I'm compiling SML/NJ programs.  The compiler lists errors in the following format:

codegen.sml:121.31 Error: syntax error: inserting  LPAREN
codegen.sml:130.49 Error: syntax error: inserting  EQUALOP

When I get compiler errors like that, I'd like BBEdit to display those error messages and let me click on them to display the buggy line in my code.

You can do it using AppleScript and BBEdit's results browser command. It isn't well documented, but there are some good examples around to help you out. For example: John Gruber's CSS Syntax Checker.

Here is a sample AppleScript.

tell application "BBEdit"
  set error_list to ¬
    {{result_kind: "Error", result_file: "/path/to/codegen.sml",¬
      result_line: 121, message: "syntax error: inserting  LPAREN"},¬
     {result_kind: "Error", result_file: "/path/to/codegen.sml",¬
      result_line: 130, message: "syntax error: inserting  EQUALOP"}}
  make new results browser with data error_list with properties ¬
    {name:"Errors"}
end tell

Of course, you will want to create the error_list variable programmatically, but this should get you started. If you change /path/to/codegen.sml to a file that exists on your system, you can see it in action.


RSS reader with Instapaper or Readability integration? One of my main information stream inputs is RSS feeds. Yet many link to long articles on strangely designed web pages, so I regularly read using Instapaper, or Readability.

Is there a RSS reader with built-in integration with Instapaper?

I want to quickly scan lots of feeds, and hit one button to send to Instapaper. Yes I know that I could use Google Reader, on a browser, with the Instapaper extension installed.

I find the web interface of google hard to scan quickly, and I would prefer an offline RSS reader.

thanks

Reeder (for both the iPhone and Mac OS) can send articles to Instapaper.


How to open terminal in Mac using keyboard shortcut? Keyboard shortcut to open terminal in mac OSX ?

Press CmdSpace to open spotlight search, and type terminal and hit return.

Or if you are in the terminal press CmdT to open a new tab OR CmdN to open a new Terminal window.


iPhoto and Python 2.6 I eradicated python 2.6 from my MacBook pro. Of course I did this before realizing iPhoto was dependent on it.

How do I point iPhoto to my newly installed version of Python?

This is the relevant error:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
  Reason: image not found

When attempting a symlink to my Python executable, I get the following:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python: mach-o, but wrong architecture
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python: mach-o, but wrong architecture

The python bin is located in /usr/bin/python

You should try a symlink ln -s /your/path/to/python /usr/bin/python/


Copy-Paste from Mac to Emacs of ubuntu I use version 10.9.2 of OS X and a virtual machine 6.0.5 VMware Fusion. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been installed on the virtual machine. In ubuntu I use Emacs 24.3.1 as editor.

Once emacs of ubuntu is launched, the Kill Menu (see Edit -> Paste from Kill Menu) is empty. If I want to copy a text from Chrome under Mac to Emacs under ubuntu, I can use Command+C (which saves the text into the Kill Menu of Emacs) then Command+V or Ctrl+V.

I can also copy and paste a text within Emacs by using Command+C (which also saves the text into the Kill Menu of Emacs) then Command+V or Ctrl+V.

However, the problem is, after I copy and paste something within Emacs, I could not copy and paste a test from Mac to Emacs anymore by Command+C then Command+V or Ctrl+V: Command+C under a Chrome page of Mac can not save the text into the Kill Menu anymore. Consequently, Command+V or Ctrl+V within Emacs always pastes the last element in the Kill Menu, which is not what I want.

So I have to close and re-launch Emacs to clean the Kill Menu to enable the copy-paste from Mac to Emacs of ubuntu, which is tedious...

Could anyone help?

I think there are two issues here. One is how to copy from Mac to Ubuntu. That is the work of the VM. You have to set it up and oftentimes it depends on capturing the mouse/keyboard (you may want to look it up in your vmware config for the specific VM you are using, I mean, the one running Ubuntu). From what you said, it looks like this part is working ok.

Then there is a question about the Kill-Yank ring in Emacs. Usually, you kill (cut) using Command+K (it kills from the cursor position to the end of the current line; you can kill characters with Control+K or words with Option(alt)+K) and you paste with Command+Y (it will paste everything that you had killed just before yanking it up). So, unless it is somehow configured differently, whatever you copy or cut with Command+C or Command+X on your Mac side (provided it is correctly configured on VMWare) should be available on Emacs by using Command+Y not Command+V.

Hope it helps.

P.S. There is also another trick: Ubuntu tends to think of the mouse as a peripheral having three buttons. Selecting something (just selecting, not copying or cutting it) and pressing the middle button normally pastes it at the cursor position (I don't know, nevertheless, how your VMWare-hosted Ubuntu would differentiate your middle button. Sometimes, it means pressing both buttons at once. On some configurations, you will need to press a modifier (Option?) while you click the secondary button.


What are these extra /Zone.Identifier files created during Windows Remote Desktop file transfer? Steps to Reproduce

Installs Windows Remote Desktop client for mac
Connect to a Windows 10 server, mounting a local folder over the connection
On the remote server, copy a pdf (e.g. my_file.pdf from a remote folder to the mounted Mac folder
Look at the mounted Mac folder locally on the Mac

Observed behavior

The pdf I copied is there.

A second file with the same name plus /Zone.Identifier is there. (i.e. my_file.pdf/Zone.Identifier (despite the slash, that's one file name.)

The contents when viewed in a text editor is:

[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3

Issue

One Drive cannot sync files with slashes in their file name, so I get lots of errors whenever I do this, and I have to manually delete each one.

Questions

What is this file?
What put it there? Was it the remote desktop client?
Why doesn't it go away when I close the connection?
Why doesn't it happen for .txt files?
How do I avoid creating such a file?

According to Windows: killing the Zone.Identifier NTFS alternate data stream the Zone.Information is:

  The Zone.Identifier NTFS alternate data stream (ADS) is appended to Internet downloads by browsers, and inserted by most decompressors when expanding such downloads.

ZoneID=3 means it was downloaded from Internet zone (as opposed to Local Intranet etc) .  Different zones are detailed in this Microsoft document About URL Security Zones.

It is not a function of the file type it is metadata indicating the files provenance.

For example on Windows I created a new file Doc1.pdf in Word and downloaded a flight boarding pass Test.pdf from the internet.

PS C:\PDFtest> ls

    Directory: C:\PDFtest

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----       27/12/2019     09:51          25598 Doc1.pdf
-a----       10/11/2019     14:24          21784 Test.pdf

Only the downloaded file contains a Zone.Identifier stream.

PS C:\PDFtest> Get-Item * -Stream zone*

PSPath        : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\PDFtest\Test.pdf:Zone.Identifier
PSParentPath  : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\PDFtest
PSChildName   : Test.pdf:Zone.Identifier
PSDrive       : C
PSProvider    : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
PSIsContainer : False
FileName      : C:\PDFtest\Test.pdf
Stream        : Zone.Identifier
Length        : 151

PS C:\PDFtest>

If you then copy these files to mac the stream data is converted to a file but only in the case that there was some.  This is because the filesystem (APFS) does not support streams (and indeed Windows doesn't necessarily know what filesystem it is).

A1398% cd ~/Downloads/PDFTest
A1398% ls -la
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   4 hali  staff    128 Dec 27 09:11 .
drwx------+ 28 hali  staff    896 Dec 27 09:11 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 hali  staff  25598 Dec 27 09:51 Doc1.pdf
-rw-r--r--@  1 hali  staff  21784 Nov 10 14:24 Test.pdf
-rw-r--r--@  1 hali  staff    151 Nov 10 14:24 Test.pdf:Zone.Identifier

Note that if you check with ls the name is not FileName.pdf/Zone.Identifier it is FileName.pdf:Zone.Identifier - it is just macOS displays : as / in Finder. This is the same name as seen in Windows using Powershell Get-Item -Stream above or as mentioned in the link as seen using Nirsoft AlternateStreamView

The contents are whatever were in this NTFS stream. In my case it also contains the website I downloaded it from - the pdf was a flight ticket and has the airline name.

A1398% cat Test.pdf:Zone.Identifier
[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3
ReferrerUrl=https://booking.nouvelair.com/web/Itinerary.xhtml
HostUrl=https://booking.nouvelair.com/web/generatePDFServlet

If you are not interested in this information you can remove the ADS on Windows as described in the above link:

  This batch file kills  the Zone.Identifier NTFS alternate data stream using the SysInternals streams tool:

@echo off
  if !%1!==!! goto :end
  :: use caret before pipe to hide the pipe from the outermost command in the batch file
  for /f "usebackq tokens=1" %%d in (`streams.exe %1 ^| find "Zone.Identifier:$DATA"`) do (
    goto :kill
  )
  goto :end
:kill
  streams -d %1
:end

Alternatively you can remove them on macOS after copying using rm (adjusting the directory)

rm ~/Downloads/PDFTest/*:Zone.Identifier


What's better? Truecrypt or Encrypted disk image? I need to secure some work on my laptop and an encrypted disk image fits the bill. I don't need to hide the file (diskimage) just the contents. I like a sparse disk image since it will expand as I add content but a Truecrypt volume "feels" more secure to me. Is it really? I'm not hiding it from the NSA, just someone that might steal my laptop or access it, etc.

Is there really much difference?

I would guess that the weakest link isn't the choice of formats, but your picking a decent password and not letting it get observed or captured.

In the general case where there is a system tool and a third party one, I usually start with the tool that is built in until I have good, definite and enumerable reasons to not use the default tool.

Go with encrypted disk images in the case you have set out.


Change Banking Information in Apple developer account I have a Apple developer account in US, for which I have listed a US bank account in Banking Information in iTunes Connect. Now, I want to edit/change  the bank account to an Indian bank.
Is this possible?

As mentioned on iTunes Connect:

  To setup a new bank account on iTunes Connect, take the following steps:

  Access the Contracts, Tax and Banking module
  Click on either the "Set Up" or “View/Edit” link in the Bank Info column
  Click on the "Add Bank Account" link
  Select your bank country and click "Next"
  Enter the relevant bank code (local clearing or Swift code) or look up your bank, and click "Next"
  Confirm your bank selection and click "Next"
  Enter your bank account information and click "Next"
  Review the confirmation screen, select the check box at the bottom of the screen to certify your information, and click "Save"
  On returning to the bank account selection screen, select your new bank account from the drop down list, and click "Save"


Cellular traffic noise on iPhone On an iPhone 4, running iOS 6.1.3, when I'm listening music,
I regularly hear noises related to cellular phone network.
For example I hear cellular traffic noise:

when I was out of reach of cellular network and entering a new phone cell,
just before receiving a new SMS,
just before receiving a phone call.

I would like to get rid of these "cellular traffic noises".

Does anyone else hear these "cellular traffic noises"?

Do they occur on more recent versions of iOS?

Are these "cellular traffic noises" interference noises and hence fully hardware related?

Do the new models of iPhone (5 or 6) avoid these interferences?

All phones have done this, since they were first invented - the analog ones used to be far worse. It used to be compulsory to switch them off in the studios where I worked, as the interference could actually make its way onto a recording.

It's caused by electromagnetic induction to a nearby amplified circuit - hi-fi, tv, computer speakers etc.

It was always known as 'hunting' - not that it's any real technical term, but it roughly describes what's going on. If the phone is bordering one cell & hunting for the next, or if a signal comes through that data is about to be fired at it, the radios ramp up their power ready for it & the beep boppidy bop beep that you hear is the handshake as it ramps up.

Turning the phone 90˚ may help, by shifting the induced magnetic field out of alignment with the circuitry that's picking it up.

The only alternatives would be to move it well away from any other electronics, or switch it to Airplane mode.

This answer gives some simple background as to how induction works; it's the same for radio circuitry as audio.


After Installation of Yosemite some command line tools not found! I just did a clean installation of 10.10.
Now some command line tools won't work anymore.
In example gshred is not found anymore (always worked on Lion) and man gpg gives
"No manual entry for gpg".

Has anyone an idea what the problem might be? :)

GPG for Mac can be found at:
https://gpgtools.org/

Your problem description also means, if not using some PKI infrastructure, you lost your PGP keys...


How to lock a browser with a password/passcode on iPhone? Is there a way to make a Web browser on iPhone 11 Pro other than Safari to be lockable with a password or a passcode, even by any extension? That is, when you launch the browser, a password is required. The password isn’t asked again while the browser remains open, even in the background. If you close the browser app, then it will ask for the password at the next launch.

Screen Time blocks all browsers but I need to lock only one web browser, not every browser.

Firefox has passcode feature, but only for saved passwords, not opening the app itself.

Additionally, I look for a solution that doesn’t require me to set up a passcode, Touch ID or something similar on the whole iPhone. I want my iPhone to remain unlocked, except for the browser.

iCab Mobile has had this feature since at least 2012.

iCab » Settings » Account

(iCab is, by far, the most feature-rich browser on iOS. I’ve referred to it as “Safari Pro” for many years.)


App to view my iOS photos with their filenames Is there an app for iOS where I can see all my photos from the iOS Photos app, with their filenames next to them? Preferably without duplicating the photos, but rather just mirroring them and showing the metadata associated with each photo.

Document 5

Edit :

Document 5 AppStore link


Moving websites saved to the iPad Home screen to Safari bookmarks on Mac Context: My dad (not the best with tech) saved a lot of websites to the home screen of his iPad 2 (running iOS 9.3.5). He now has a MacBook Pro (new, running macOS 10.13 High Sierra), and I was tasked with trying to find a way to move those sites he saved back into bookmarks.

This answer didn't help at all, but I think my question was the same:

Export iPad home screen bookmarks/Safari bookmarks to PC/Mac

Can I transfer these sites to bookmarks, or is all hope lost?

Follow these steps:

Tap on icon on Home screen of iPad to open in Safari.
Once the website is open in Safari, tap on the share icon and add the website as bookmark in Safari.
Repeat for all the website icons on Home screen one by one.
Go to Settings app → iCloud and turn on switch for Safari.
On your Mac, turn on iCloud sync for Safari.
The bookmarks should show up in Safari on Mac.


How to boot Macbook Pro when in closed clamshell mode without the windows getting resized I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro that I use an external 1440p monitor/keyboard/mouse with.

Another question shows it's not possible to boot it without opening the lid. When I do this, all of my windows resize/move to fit the 900p internal display, messing up my work environment every time I bring my computer from sleep.

Is there anyway around this?

With my 2007 MBP I can get it out of sleep by clicking a mouse button or key on my external keyboard with the lid closed. No problem.

On a cold boot, I press the power button and then close the lid as fast as I can, and then it boots up on the external monitor with no ill effects.

Should work that way for any MBP!


Quit the app after the last tab/window is closed I find those black little dots under the applications are annoying, like this:

In fact, in the figure above, I have no Word docs open. In the case that I thought maybe I was working on something (which happens a lot), I will click the Word icon to find out which doc I was reading. However, it opens a new blank Word, which I find annoying.

The extreme way of disabling all the dots is not a good idea. I need to be aware of which apps I am working on.

One reason that I like (Mac)Vim very much because it gives an option like this:

But not all apps give this option, it seems.

So, I am wondering if there is any solution for these annoying dots.

After some search, I found this, which was in 2012. So no updates?

Edited:
By the way, I don't like ⌘+Q to close the app directly, because it may close other running windows/tabs accidentally.

Here's an incomplete solution: Use Script Editor app, and in its preferences, get its icon visible in the Menu bar. Write a script that checks all the apps' open windows and closes them if there is none, neither minimised or hidden or in full screen or split. Whitelist some apps, like Spotify.  Put the script in /Library/Scripts/ so that it is accessible directly under this menu. Use this periodically yourself when you feel to do so. If you use it rarely, better discard it.

In addition to that, keep these preferences as suggested:

In System Preferences → Mission Control, Tick "When switching to an app, switch to a space with open windows for the application"
In General, untick "Close windows when quitting an app" to prevent accidental losses.
In every app you come across, tick "ask before quitting". In "General", Tick "Ask to keep changes when closing documents"

Now gimme the script!!

Search the site for such questions, put together a script, ask a new question/ update this.


MacBook shows circle with line through on boot even on Safe Mode and kernel panics I was rebooting my early 2011 MacBook to run a hardware test on system boot using the shift key. It all went well and the hardware test was accomplished. I rebooted as usual and I get a circle with a line through it instead of the Apple symbol.

Regardless of whether I am booting in safe mode it doesn't boot.

I did the hard disk check and privilege repair which had some complains of that got fixed.
I can't get the system to run. I don't know what a reinstall from recovery will do to my stuff or the machine. What's lost?

Here's a picture of the kernel panic:

You know the answer already.

For some reason your booth sector got scrambled.

You could try to the reset EFI to see if it helps.

  An EFI (extensible firmware interface) is a set of instructions stored
  in computer memory that act as an interface between computer
  components and the operating system during startup. If you are having
  startup problems or your computer components do not work properly, you
  may be able to solve the problem by resetting the EFI to its default
  settings.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_8007618_reset-efi-chip.html

Reinstalling the OS with CMD-R will only fix the system files and not your files. It depends if you have the Restore on your hard drive or you need to use the Internet recovery.


Finder can't authenticate even though I am the admin I am trying to authenticate but it seems that my approach is not working. I am logged into the administrator account, so I obviously know the admin password, but I can't authenticate in Finder or any other place that requires unlock.
I am running the latest macOS High Sierra.

This is a proof that I am the Admin.

Based on the list of accounts, it appears to be that you're not an admin and there is no admin account on your computer. You'll need to create an admin account by running Setup Assistant again.

  Boot into Single User Mode ⌘ + S.
  Mount the drive by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter.
  Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter.
  Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter.
  Complete the setup process, creating a new admin account.


Format SSD and restore TM backup My SSD stopped mounting by itself on boot. So I booted into Single User mode, ran /sbin/mount/ -uw / and exit and it got mounted and I could boot from the SSD. However, after booting all I see is the Guest user and not the admin user.

However, I have a TM backup and would like to simple erase the entire disk and restore. The issue is I can't erase the disk in Recovery Mode using Disk Utility as it does not get mounted automatically.

What would be the best approach?

Hold down the Command and R keys at startup to start the computer from the Recovery system. The Recovery menu that appears includes the option to restore from a Time Machine backup.

First: delete your SSD drive using Disk Utility. (Mac OS Extended (Journaled))
Second: Choose for Backup from TimeMachine.

And now we wait...

It would be wise to connect your machine using an network cable instead of WiFi.


Ethernet MAC address on Macbook 12" I am trying to locate my ethernet MAC address on a Macbook Retina 12" using ifconfig but I can only see en0 which should be my wireless card; it's quite baffling. Any help would be much appreciated.

MacBook Retina 12" dont have Ethernet port built-in hence en0 is your wifi. Do you use any kind of adapter for ethernet to work? If so, you can use System Preferences > Network > (choose interface matched with your ethernet adapter) > Advanced... > Hardware. From here you can see your MAC Address easily if your ethernet adapter plugged :)


iphone thinks it's up to date when it's not I have iOS 9.0.1 and today i want to update to 9.0.2 but my iPhone 6 thinks it's up to date. I was using all of the betas without any problem since iOS 9 beta 1 then i updated to GM version. I really don't wanna hard reset or iTunes update to my phone. Any idea?

You can always find full lists of download links within 24 hours of a release going live.

9.0.2 is listed here - http://www.redmondpie.com/download-ios-9.0.2-links-for-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-ipsw/

The links are to Apple's own download servers - just make sure you pick the correct version for your device.

Initiate the update from iTunes by holding the  Alt ⌥  key as you click Check for Update & navigate to the file you just downloaded.


Second iOS devices getting my iMessages and FaceTime calls My brother updated his iPod today but because he connected with my Apple ID, he is receiving all my iMessages and FaceTime calls on his iPod.
How do I stop this from happening?

You can simple  switch of these sync settings by disabling the services in the Settings < FaceTime/Messages.

Of course, if you've got like a troll brother, he will simply turn back on these services. If that's the case, you can protect these settings with Restrictions. At least, you can for FaceTime. With a simple password, you can prevent him from using FaceTime.
If you let him use your Apple ID, he should be able to live with the fact his iPod is password protected.

Or you can make him his own Apple ID of course. It's free of charge and done within a few clicks.

If he uses your Apple ID in order to use iTunes Match or get the apps you've bought, that's possible as well. Please see this extensive topic about sharing an Apple ID.


How can I disable Siri for making reminders and calendar items? I would like Siri not to be able to make reminders and calendar items without asking for the lock screen password.

When I ask Siri to create a new reminder, I would like to ask it to unlock my phone first.

Your only option is to completely disable Siri when your phone is locked.

To do this, in the settings:
Click on General
Click on Passcode Lock
Scroll down and uncheck Siri under the heading ALLOW ACCESS WHEN LOCKED:


Wi-Fi Sharing for Development, using the same IP addresses and domain names from /etc/hosts I want to share my Ethernet through a Wi-Fi connection. I'm also doing Xcode iOS development. I have a custom change in my /etc/hosts file for a host pointing to 127.0.0.1. In my application, I want to be able to connect to my Wi-Fi hotspot using the custom domain in my /etc/hosts.

Here is my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   my.test.com

And in my app running on an iPad, I want to connect to my.test.com without error.

How is this possible?

Have used this for a while... Plex Connect DNS Server from here, you may redirect using the loop back idea. Make sure to change self.ip to the IP of the machine you are running the stuff off of. Change the Host intercept to whatever, and it will redirect to your "site" you run off your laptop for development.

This will run on port 53, so anything else that could disrupt the service should be shut down.

Below are the line numbers to add/remove your domains, the last is the interception of domain, the other two are for blocking unwanted hosts.

 60-66
 333-336
 445

below are the lines to make changes to

        param['IP_self'] = '192.168.178.20'  # server ip here
        param['HostToIntercept'] = 'mydomain.com'

Note: Be sure to add the IP Address of the DNS Server to your test devices individually, also you may need to change the Self_IP located at the bottom of the script to your machine's IP, available by option-clicking the wifi button, or opening System Preferences -> Networking -> (Connection Name) -> Right hand side close to the top of the window.

Sources:  Personal Experience, PlexConnect, MiniDNS


iOS 11.3.1 Mail app doesn't shown new mail until the iPhone is rebooted - any cure? I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 11.3.1.  The Mail app is able to download and display e-mail from my GMail account.  However, e-mail to my account at register.com is frequently not displayed until I have powered off the phone and powered it back on.  The webmail service at register.com shows that the e-mails have been received, and the iPhone actually shows a little message saying "Downloading 5 of 5" or whatever, but the e-mails never appear.

We all know that 11.3.1 is something of a failed release, but has anyone else experienced this problem and found a solution that doesn't involve turning the phone off and on to receive new mail?

A couple of things to try

Delete the Account from your phone and re add it.
Go into Settings > General > Reset and reset the network settings

You will lose the WiFi networks you have already been on and authenticated to but all you have to do is re-connect and re-authenticate.

Failing the above I would back up the phone (password protect the backup so you don't lose your saved passwords.) Wipe it (Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings) and then restore from the backup you just made.


How do I configure an archived Outlook folder Is there a way of configuring an archived folder in Outlook for Mac, one which I can regularly move email into and it is stored on either my hard drive or a remove drive?

So I don't want to go through an export process each time - I want something more day to day like Outlook for Windows

Maybe it is the terminology.

The Outlook has a "On my Mac" directory.

Those folders and emails reside on your Mac- you could call them Archive.

Consequently they are already archived since they are not obeying the IMAP rules and activity in the email folders (that are online folders).

So, just create a new folder name it Archive (or anything you choose) under the On my Mac, and drag emails from your emails folders under your account(s)and inbox in to it. That action will move the email from its current location (online) to your hard drive.


How to stop a dhcp server from assigning my ip to another computer My system has been assigned an IP that I liked from a dhcp server.

I have manually given that IP address to my system. Now I am frequently getting an error that someone else has taken my IP address. So my questions are:

While I am using that IP, how this IP can assigned to someone else?
Note: this happens only when I use this IP on my macbook. This never happens when I use my windows pc.
How can I assign an IP address to my system so that nobody else can take that IP from the dhcp server?

It's very irritating when I am in the middle of a browsing session and suddenly an error pops up that somebody else has taken my IP

e.g.

case 1:
I have two systems. system A(macbook pro) and system B (windows pc).
I have given x:x:x:x ip address to system A and now I am giving same ip to system B. system A macbook pro will give error that your ip has taken.

case 2: I have two systems system A (windows pc) and system B (another windows pc). I have given x:x:x:x ip address to system A and now I am giving the same ip address to system B. Now system B will give error ip conflict. I think this is more appropriate error.

I want the same thing for case 1.

You might want to check out your routers web interface. Usually you can assign a preferred (or probably obligatory) IP-Address to a  specific Mac Address in this case the mac adress of your Laptop. (you might want to read the wikipedia article about mac adresses as it explains a lot more and might be available in your native language)


Help find what causes MBP reboot in 10.10.2 I have a Mac Book Pro from 2011. I've been updating it to all OSX versions since I bought it and recently I updated to Yosemite. At the time I also changed memory + HDD. I cloned my old drive to the new and swapped them.

Everything worked fine for 2 months but in the last 2 weeks I've had it crashing on me twice. It has never happened before.

Do you have any tips for how I can find what's causing the problem? I've been trying to look in the system.log file but I'm not sure what to look for. There is a lot of output there that doesn't feel quite right though...

Or should I just make my first re-install since I bought instead?

Thanks in advance for all help that can  point me in the right direction.

The system diagnostics report that I think is from the last crash can be seen here: http://olalindberg.com/static/2015/2015-02-19-mbp-sys-diag.txt

This error might be related as well. I see this a lot in the log and iTunes were running  at both crashes.

20/02/15 08:05:17,698 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibrary Service.491) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iTunesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

No Idea what it means and Google didn't turn up much?

Update:

This error might be related as well. I see this a lot in the log and iTunes were running  at both crashes.

20/02/15 08:05:17,698 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibrary Service.491) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iTunesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

No Idea what it means and Google didn't turn up much?

Update 2015-04-27: I've not had one crash and I have done a memory test to ensure that my memory wasn't the problem. I've also updated all my applications and my NTFS disk driver. Not sure if that helped at all though :)

Assuming you have your Google Chrome on automatic updates, yours is the latest update version 40.0.2214.111

Why Chrome?

You crash report shows it as having problems causing other problems.

That should not crash your system, but only Chrome it self, but who knows.

What can you do?

Disable Chrome (for now) till Google comes up with a fix, and use another browser.


Using Turtle Beach XO Four Stealth Headset with Macbook Pro Retina 15", Mid-2012 I've read a few older posts about headsets and the TRRS headphone/mic input here, here, here, here and the consensus seems to be that the Macbook is expecting "line-level" input (either that or you have the mysterious occasional answer of "mine works!").

My question is more clearly related to this answer: which is, if these Macbook Pros only accept a powered/line-level input, then how do they recognize the iPhone earbuds/microphone? I have not seen this addressed anywhere else.

My Turtle Beach XO Four Stealth is not powered, its only hookup is a TRRS jack. When I plug it in the Input doesn't switch from internal to external as it does for my Apple earbuds/mic.

Any explanations for the difference in behavior? I assume this may just be dependent on the hardware of the headset, but what would this difference be.

Apple use the CTIA standard TRRS while most other companies use the OMTP standard.

These 2 pictures should short it out. Notice the Ground and microphones are switched.

OMTP
CTIA

Hope this answers your question.


Can't burn newly created playlist to CD with iTunes 12.1 I just want to burn some music for my Mom to a CD-R.  I've done this multiple times. If I check MP3 CD box, I receive message stating all music is not MP3, and it won't allow. If I check other option, Data CD or DVD, it copies but if I insert into CD player, message is, " No Audio."

This can't be this hard.

Any help is appreciated.

I have OS 10.7.5

Thanks

If you go to View Options and selected Kind, you'll be able to see which of the tracks isn't an MP3. You can then convert it/them to MP3 and replace the originals in your playlist with the new ones.


installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26 - albuns not colsolidated I just installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. When I want to add a new music album into my music  it is Displaying as individual songs in Music Library. Kindly Find the Image Attached. FYI

Select a song from the album, then press Command+I to view/edit the song's metadata.

There is a field in there called "Album Artist". Edit all the songs so that they have the same album artist and they will show up as one album.


How do I merge keywords in Apple Photos? How do I merge keywords in Apple Photos? I've tired various common methods (e.g. renaming to the same keyword); but none have worked.

From this Apple Discussion:

  To merge two keywords "key1" and key2" I would create a smart album with the rule "keyword is key1" or "keyword is key2". Then assign the new merged keyword to the photos in this smart album.
  And then delete both old keywords in the edit mode of the keyword manager.
  It is no problem to create a temporary smart album with "File > new smart album" for the search and to delete it when you are done. I keep one smart album that I always use for searching.

  If you are using iCloud Photo Library this may result in a very long period of syncing, if you have to change the keyword in many photos.


Is there a way to configure whitelisted websites via terminal? We currently have parental controls configured on our company Macs that we deploy however it looks like the option for parental control is greyed out and there is a website that is being blocked that shouldn't be

Is there a way of configuring whitelisted sites via the terminal as there isn't a way of using the GUI to do it right now

First, convert the com.apple.familycontrols.contentfilter.plist to xml.

 sudo plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Managed\ Perferences/yourUsername/com.apple.familcontrols.contentfilter.plist

Then, edit the xml file and remove the site that you want to remove

sudo nano /Library/Managed\ Perferences/yourUsername/com.apple.familcontrols.contentfilter.plist

This should help you.


Transfer data between two Mac via USB-C I want to transfer files between two late 2016 MacBook Pros. I have a USB-C data cable from my external USB-C hard drive.

Can I connect the Macs using that USB-C data cable to transfer files?
Or do I need to put one of the Macs in target disk mode?

You needs to put one of the computer in Target Disk Mode (Press T on startup) and connect another USB-C equipped Mac with a USB-C cable (or USB-C to USB Adapter/Cable for older computer) Note that the USB-C cable that come with your MacBook Pro 2016 does not work.

There are a more complicated method (and this requires a Thunderbolt 3 Cable (or use a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 Cable for older computers) and both computer have to be a Mac that support Thunderbolt. But this does not requires Target Disk Mode. Connect both Macs with the Thunderbolt cable (or with the adapter) and go to System Preferences > Network on both Mac. Go to Thunderbolt bridge (add one if it doesn't exist) and there set configure IPv4 to manually on both. Now set Subnet Mask on both to 255.255.255.0, now give two IPs to both computer (i.e. 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.2.2). Now you can use File Sharing (and other shadings) with the two Macs by Thunderbolt when you use the IP address.


How to connect iPad to Macbook I have a macbook air running Mavericks, and I want to transfer files to and from an ipad. When I connect them via usb, the ipad does not appear in the filesystem anywhere, and I cannot mount it via Disk Utility either.

Some things I have seen recommended elsewhere:

Upgrade the Macbook's operating system to Sierra, then upgrade iTunes, then transfer individual files via iTunes. I want to avoid this if possible, and I have deleted iTunes because it was causing problems. Also, I want to be able to transfer files which are not compatible with iTunes.
Jailbreak the iPad. I also wish to avoid this; the iPad is not mine and it would void the owner's warranty.

I use this for accessing the filesystem on my android device via my macbook and it works fine. Is there something like "adb" for the ipad so I can connect via the command line?

In short, no.

Android does not sandbox apps like iOS does. There are many apps that expose the filesystem without jailbreaking, but every iOS app doesn’t look outside it’s own sandbox for files.

Workarounds:

use a filer app like Dropbox, box, documents (I believe by readdle) and iTunes to transfer all your files to that app sandbox.
wait for iOS 11 when general file management arrives
use any of the dozens of cloud sync options. (Some of these even have the ability to set up a local cache so the Mac uploads to a server on your network and the iPad downloads from that local server the content but almost all end up,putting a copy of your file in the cloud somewhere outside your local network)

As to your points.

iTunes will write just about any file to the container apps. If the iOS app tells iTunes to restrict files to a pattern, that’s more on the iOS app you choose to contain the files than iTunes which will transfer any file to a general storage app.
Not a good idea as jailbreak aren’t widely shared anymore and also, you can get official apps that do most of what jailbrreaking used to provide.
most apps on iOS just play by the rules and use document share scheme and the upcoming filer API with iOS 11. Since iOS implemented legitimate doc sharing, all the apps that used to do this (sugar sync, cubby, all manner of WebDAV and filer apps ) have withered or died.


Filesorter alternative I found a really cool app in the App Store called FileSorter

It automatically sort files. Is there any FREE alternative?


Disable audible alarm on UPS I would like to add an APC brand of a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) device to a Mac only environment.  By default APC has a very loud heart attack invoking, babies crying in the night alarm to indicate power interruption. This audible alarm function can be disabled through a setting in their "Powerchute" power management software.  However the APC software seems to be Windows only.

I understand that the Mac will see the UPS in System Preference in the Energy Saving pane for settings concerning saving and shutting down but not for disabling audible alarms.

I've re-listened to a very good episode of The Typical Mac User Podcast about UPSs (ref.) http://typicalmacuser.com/wordpress/2010/07/20/tmup-212-a-ups-can-save-your-butt-with-george-starcher/ however I still cannot quite grasp the setup.  It seems one has to initiate the APC device on a Windows computer, disable the audible alarm, then the Mac will recognize this configuration.

I don't want to make the investment if the audible alarm shut-off is not guaranteed. The closest current solution seems to to be an APC download "PowerChute® Personal Edition for the Mac OS X operating system" (ref.) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10324/apc-powerchute.  However the only current reviews were not favorable.

Has anyone gone through this process?

There is APC UPS Daemon can do exactly what you want:

  Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2.


How do I remove a directory that has a file with colon in it I am trying to delete a directory with rm -rf however I keep getting the error Directory not empty.

If I do an ls on the directory I see this message ls: HTML : CSS: No such file or directory.

So it sounds like there's a file or directory that has a colon in it. Is there anyway I can delete that file or directory with the colon in it?

Assuming it is on your local drive

rm DIRECTORY/*\:*

should remove the file.


How to find my password for iCloud My Apple computer is about 6 years old.  The original and current apple password is 5 letters, all lower case, plus one digit.  It opens my computer and I consider it my apple password.  Unfortunately, when on my iPhone or iPad, and I am asked for my "apple password" it does not and cannot work (it doesn't fit password requirements). If I try to create a new password, for my iPhone and iPad, I cannot make it happen, no matter what instructions I have followed in the support information. My husband who has all the Apple gadgets and computer, has tried but is unable to assist me.

If you have ever signed up for an Apple ID, which is the user name you use for everything at Apple including iCloud, you can recover/reset your password at this page:

https://iforgot.apple.com

This is not the same as the password you used to lock down a user account on a computer running OSX.


Shift + T not working on Apple Wireless Keyboard Yesterday I was doing some typing on my keyboard, when I found that I could not type a capital T with either shift key. I tried a different user account, and even rebooted into Snow Leopard (was using Lion) to no avail. I tried a USB keyboard, and it works fine. I don't understand what is wrong because the shift key still works, and the t key still works, just not at the same time. Any Ideas?

I did that once by accidentally setting an application hot key to be Shift-(and some letter key). Did you recently change hot key settings? If not, did you install something recently that may have had hot keys. If all else fails, try rebooting in Safe Boot Mode (hold down the Shift key on startup until the gear starts spinning), log in and see if you can type. When you are done in Safe Boot, restart w/o any keys.


Dual screen with new Mac Mini So I've begun the long-awaiting switch from PC to Mac in the office and picked up a new Mac Mini yesterday.

We currently use dual screen on all machines in the office.

I'm wanting to hook these up to the mac mini and use dual screen.

The mac mini has thunderbolt and hdmi output.

I've done some research and what it looks like I would need is a:-

DisplayPort Thunderbolt to HDMI / DVI / VGA Adaptor (like the one pictured below):-

Yet, as I was about to purchase one of these adaptors, I noticed that the description said that only one of these outputs can be used at once (so I wouldn't be able to have one monitor plugged into the DVI and the other plugged into the VGA as per the above photo).

Is this right? If so, what is the recommended setup to have a working dual screen setup with the mac mini? Would I need to get two of these adaptors and plug one each into the two Thunderbolt ports that my mac mini has? Seems a bit overkill if you can't utilise more than one port on an adaptor at once.

Your advice or recommendations greatly appreciated.

The general answer is your Mac Mini 2014 has two Thunderbolt 2 ports so your best bet is to drive one monitor from HDMI and the other from Thunderbolt so that you have another Thunderbolt port free for storage or networking.

Out of the box, fully supported by Apple is either two displays via Thunderbolt (and they can chain if one of the display is actually Thunderbolt and not DP or another adapter) or one display via Thunderbolt and the other via HDMI.

See http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5219#18

  MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late
  2012), and Mac Mini (Late 2012 and later) computers can use an
  HDMI-compatible device on it's HDMI port while using one Thunderbolt
  display, or they can use two Thunderbolt displays.

If you can't or don't want to use Thunderbolt or HDMI, you could avail yourself of USB adapters. The part you listed looks like it will connect to a Thunderbolt port and end that chain and be seen by OS X as one display no matter which of the older ports you connect to one (or more) displays.


Problem with moving photos to new album on iPhone I created a new iPhone album, later I moved some photos from Camera Roll to the new Album. The problem is that when I delete the moved photos from the Camera Roll, I can't find them in the new Album. Why!?

I just want to have these photos in the new Album without being in the Camera Roll, too.

Albums on Photos are not like folders or "real world" albums, where you would put a copy of your picture and empty the "box" where they came all together.
They work like tags, where you would mark a picture with the themes it pertains to and when looking the album you're just organizing by tags ("family trip to Chile", but also "In laws", "Summer"); if you erase your pictures from the camera roll (the "box"), they get erased from every album because you're deleting the original which is "tagged" to appear on your albums.

On the other hand, you can put the same image on as many albums as you like, without duplicating the picture, thus saving space.


rMBP Late 2013 Facetime HD Camera Not Working I have my rMBP since the end of December. When I got it, i needed to update the OS X to 10.9.1. I don't recall if i tried the FaceTime HD Camera later or before the system update, but i'm sure it was working back then.

Now it doesn't work. At least it isn't stable. Some time it works, but very little times. When i turn up the PhotoBooth or any other software (Skype, Messages), the greenlight starts to blink repeatedly and that's about it. I can't see nothing besides black image.

I've been reading in questions simillar to mine it this forum and others, but it seems people with a problem similiar to mine only happened in OS X 10.8.4.

I read in a post ( https://discussions.apple.com/message/24030755#24030755 ) that updating the AppleCamera.plugin, located at /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/ would do the trick. I've tried that, but with no results.

I've also performed a hardware diagnostics test. Didn't have any warning or error. Seems the hardware (the webcam in this case), is running just
fine. If anyone is interesting to perform the same test: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781

Skype is known to cause this issue. Update or uninstall that (or install a clean OS X on to an external drive to test this out).


Resizing without DESTROYING the second partition of a disk I have a disk that was partitioned in two. The first partition was 1.8TB and is called TIME MACHINE. The second one was 1.2 TB and I call it TOSHIBA 1.2TB.

I would like to reduce the first partition to 1.2 TB and increase the second one to 1.8 TB.

I have managed to reduce the first one from 1.8 to 1.2, but disk utility will not let me increase the second one. Notice the gray space below the first partition. How do I increase the lower partition?

The TIME MACHINE partition was originally encrypted but I had to remove the encryption in order to test something. When I type diskutil list on terminal I get this for that disk:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TIME MACHINE            1.2 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS TOSHIBA 1.2TB           1.2 TB     disk2s4

If possible I would like to delete this boot partition (because this is an external disk that I don't use to boot) and increase this toshiba partition to 1.8 TB.

iPartition

For all my partitioning, I use and recommend iPartition. It will allow you to resize partitions without deleting any data. It also works for Boot Camp volumes and other PC disks. It will automatically move partitions if necessary to allow resizing into free space that is located before the partition.

  With iPartition, resizing a partition is as simple as selecting it, grabbing the resize handle and dragging. Not only that, but if you have several operations to perform, iPartition lets you queue them up and run them one after another, so you can have a cup of coffee while iPartition works. This feature, coupled with iPartition’s ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when necessary, makes iPartition the easiest partitioning tool that you’ll ever use.


Typing Out Nuclear/Symbol Equations Is there any way on typing out nuclear equations/symbol equations (With the two numbers at the top and bottom in front of the element)?

One of my friends have used an app that does this for him automatically, but he refused to tell me the name of the app.

An example of the result would be:

There's an online LaTeX editor here: http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php

To express the example you gave, just enter this in the box:
_{6}^{14}\textrm{C}

The site will generate the image for you


Why are the network connections in the Network System Preference panel mislabeled? Here is a screenshot of a problem I am having. The wireless connection is mis-labled as Ethernet and my wired connection is mis-labeled as Wi-Fi.

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist appears to have the correct labels for the correct interfaces.

Why might these interfaces be mislabeled? Could this cause problems? How can I fix it?

We had this problem when we provisioned an image taken from another device. It won't hurt anything, but if it bothers you, you can rename it from the UI.

Click the gear drop-down at the bottom of the list, then select "Rename Service"


How would I go about making a stand alone app on my dock to open a game using a terminal command? I have a game that they never released for mac, and I installed the game using WINE, the install itself was flawless, but every time I want to play it, I'm forced to open Terminal and run

cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
wine Dead\ Space.exe

I saw a question that I thought would answer this using applescript, but when i tried to duplicate the example, it didn't work. I'm sure the information I've given is enough to start the answer to my problem, if not, just let me know. Thanks

create the following plain text file:

#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/
exec wine Dead\ Space.exe

save it as dead_space.command

in Terminal, change it to an executabe:

sudo chmod +rx dead_space.command

Now, the file dead_space.command should start your game when you double click on it.


Brand new Macbook Pro retina fail Memtest I have a brand new MacBook Pro Retina (8GB, 256GB SSD), which has experienced some issues for past few weeks.

I decided to run memtest after a complete OS X reinstall.

Here's the log :

Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only

NOTE: No command-line arguments have been specified
Using defaults: Test all available memory, one test pass, no logfile

Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) running in multiuser mode
Memory Page Size: 4096
System has 4 Intel core(s) with SSE
Requested memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes)
Available memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes)
Allocated memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes) at local address 0x0000000101000000
Attempting memory lock... locked successfully
Partitioning memory into 2 comparison buffers...
Buffer A: 2971MB (3116023808 bytes) starts at local address 0x0000000101000000
Buffer B: 2971MB (3116023808 bytes) starts at local address 0x00000001babac000

Running 1 test sequence... (CTRL-C to quit)

Test sequence 1 of 1:

Running tests on full 5943MB region...
  Stuck Address       : ok
  Linear PRN          : ok
Running comparison tests using 2971MB buffers...
  Random Value        : ok
  Compare XOR         : ok
  Compare SUB         : ok
  Compare MUL         : ok
  Compare DIV         : ok
  Compare OR          : ok
  Compare AND         : ok
  Sequential Increment: ok
  Solid Bits          : ok
  Block Sequential    : ok
  Checkerboard        : testing 19 of 64

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a144b978, BUFB address 0x000000025aff7978
BUFA Data: 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae, BUFB Data: 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  Bit Spread          : testing   1 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a42e09f8, BUFB address 0x000000025de8c9f8
BUFA Data: 0xfffffffffffffffe, BUFB Data: 0xfffffffffffffffa

  Bit Flip            : testing   3 of 512

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a0d4f978, BUFB address 0x000000025a8fb978
BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000005, BUFB Data: 0x0000000000000001

  Walking Ones        : testing   3 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a18c1978, BUFB address 0x000000025b46d978
BUFA Data: 0xffffffffffffffff, BUFB Data: 0xfffffffffffffffb

  Walking Zeroes      : testing   4 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a21bd978, BUFB address 0x000000025bd69978
BUFA Data: 0x000000000000000c, BUFB Data: 0x0000000000000008

*** Memory Test Failed ***  Please check transcript for details.
Execution time: 512 seconds.

The guys at the Apple Store are sure there is no problem with the RAM.

So why Memtest is failing ? Is it normal ?

As you said in the comments :

Memtest is failing
Apple Hardware Test indicates a possible memory failure

This a clearly a bad indicator for your memory.

The fact that a premium reseller is not taking your MacBook Pro for some obscure reasons would make me call a huge bulls**t.

They have to take if it's defective !


Can you increase the font size in Reminders? The Reminders app in OSX Mountain Lion has no preferences, so I'm wondering if there is any "under the hood" way to increase the font size.  It's too small for use on high res displays.

if there is a hack it is probably related to this one:

Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?

then all we need to do is find out the font name


How long should it take to enable FileVault 2 on a fresh Lion installation? How long should I expect it to take to enable FileVault 2 on a fresh installation of Lion? I'm using a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro with an i7 and a 5,400RPM 500GB hard drive with only 10GB used.

John Siracusa's 19-page review for Ars Technica had this to say:

  Encryption happens transparently in the background, which is a good thing because it takes a long time.

Hopefully someone can be a bit more precise than this.

You might find that the time taken relates to the size of the volume to be converted (not limited to the amount used).

Personal estimates of duration may be difficult.

Expect the most reliable estimates to be offered by System Preferences. If the system was only recently started, don't expect an accurate estimate of time; and don't be surprised if the estimate rises occasionally.

For more detail than is given by the progress bar in System Preferences: in Terminal you can run the following command, which will display a tree view of the CoreStorage world:

diskutil coreStorage list

Within the tree you'll see sizes; amounts converted.

If a volume is heavily used during conversion, it might slightly extend the time taken to complete but for your 10 GB used I would not expect there to be any difference. Use the volume as you normally would until conversion completes.


Finding which files the migration assistant failed to transfer I ran a transfer of about 4 TB of files from my failing Mac to my new Mac. After 62 hours of direct connection transfer time (which seems inexplicable), I was told at the very end of the process that not all files could be transferred without telling me which ones I may have still stuck on my old Mac.
Is there anyway I can get a list of the failed transfer files or do I have to start the entire process over and hope it doesn't fail a 2nd time over the 3 day span of time?

Open a terminal and execute:
diff -qr /Volumes/newharddrive /Volumes/oldharddrive

you have to change the names of the hard drives (or directories) according to your setup.
diff -qr /Volumes/newharddrive /Volumes/oldhardrive | grep ' differ'

is a variant to reduce the output clutter.
You can redirect the output from the terminal to a text file for easier reading:
diff -qr /Volumes/newharddrive /Volumes/oldhardrive >compare.txt


Keyboard shortcut within Mission Control for choosing a specific application window? I use Mountain Lion and want to know if there are keyboard shortcuts for moving around and choosing a particular application window within a given active desktop in Mission Control.

I chose an option to show all active windows separately in Mission Control.

Can anyone help?

If you REALLY use Mission Control a lot there IS a workaround that must be configured individually:

[EDIT:] I wrote an "elaborate" Karabiner Elements script (json); it's linked at the bottom of this post.

The very commendable 3rd party software "Karabiner Elements" (interim version) allows to simulate mouse movements in a "general" way, meaning: no exact positioning to screen coordinates, but just movements to left/right/bottom/top (or combinations of these).

Moreover its "mouse moves" depend on your System-Preferences' mouse velocity settings.
But still, if you invest a little time for finding ideal values for your own mouse, you'll be rewarded by a shortcut "script" that allows to (e.g.:) move between visible apps' windows through arrow-key-directing.

A typical code particle looks like this:
{"mouse_key": {"x": 3072} which moves a mouse cursor "fast" to right, "y" values moving up/down ("3072" = max. value; depending on your mouse settings one click would "call" this code several times).

Here arrow keys move cursor, return/enter take a selected window back to your space.

An over-simplified "script" would look like this:

{"title": "Mission control, navigation",
 "rules":[
            {"description": "Mission control, navigation",
             "manipulators": [
                   { "from": { "key_code": "right_arrow"},
                       "to": [ {"mouse_key": {"x": 3072}} ] },
                   { "from": { "key_code": "left_arrow"},
                       "to": [ {"mouse_key": {"x": -3072}} ] },
                   { "from": { "key_code": "down_arrow"},
                       "to": [ {"mouse_key": {"y": 3072}} ] },
                   { "from": { "key_code": "up_arrow"},
                       "to": [ {"mouse_key": {"y": -3072}} ] },
                   { "from": { "key_code": "return_or_enter"},
                       "to": [ {"pointing_button": "button1"] },
                     "type": "basic"     } ]
}        ]  }

As mentioned: this code lacks essential ingredients, is even dangerous:
E.g., in every app you use a "return" or "enter" would be replaced by a mouse click!

So firstly: it is NOT restricted to the "Mission Control" view; reason is: there is no actual app to aim at! … MC's "frontmost_application" is the top one in "normal" view, e.g. Finder or Safari.
This MUST be handled by calling "mandatory" modifiers (I recommend/use: Control & Shift).

Next: above, you have to keep arrow keys pressed while the cursor "rolls" across your screen.
This is improved by making "multiple" (= farther) "jumps" in one key press AND preventing key repetitions.
About 4 to 8 "moves" (= times "arrow" pressed) to get from one end of your screen to the other seems practical to me; the return key will select an app's window and "go back".

I installed a much more elaborated code version on my MacBook-Air – and it works quite nicely.
Maybe, if somebody's interested, I'll post a json file here, once I optimised  all facets of it …
Here is my code for a "realistic" mouse jump behaviour:

https://gist.github.com/clemsam/ef03ed5127fd9783267b60065c70fc17


Photos: decrease in quality when exporting a live photo as a gif The photos app decreases the quality of each frame to terrible levels when exporting a live image as a gif. Can somebody suggest a fix or an alternative?

The GIF format was never designed to be for photos and by definition only allows 256 colours.
From Wikipedia, GIFs are used as follows:

  GIFs are suitable for sharp-edged line art (such as logos) with a limited number of colors. This takes advantage of the format's
  lossless compression, which favors flat areas of uniform color with
  well defined edges.[23]
  GIFs may be used to store low-color sprite data for games.[24]
  GIFs can be used for small animations and low-resolution video clips.[24]


List wireless connection information in terminal In OSX if you hold down the Option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar it will show details of the wifi connection - speed, BSSID ,channel etc.

Can this information be listed in the terminal?

Yes, with the following command:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I


Where are images metadata and album data stored on iPhone? and how to extract them? I am trying to connect to my iPhone via iTunesMobileDevice.dll and other libraries provided by iTunes. So far I am able to reach the file system and copy images from iPhone. However images are stored in directories titled 101APPLE to 109APPLE and the filesystem looks something like this:

...
/PhotoStreamsData/.MISC
/PhotoStreamsData/.MISC/Incoming
/DCIM
/DCIM/101APPLE
...
/DCIM/.MISC
/DCIM/.MISC/Timelapse
/DCIM/.MISC/Incoming
...
/PhotoData/Metadata
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/109APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/108APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/107APPLE
/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/106APPLE
/PhotoData/AlbumsMetadata
...

Now I need to extract the Album data as well and rearrange my images in the related albums which I have made on my iPhone.

My question is that where the album data (and other metadata about images like time or ...) is stored? and how is it possible to extract them?

Extra Information to Clarify My Question:

I need information about iOS File System. Specifically about how and where iOS keeps data about photo albums, i.e. which photos belong to which albums? the date that photos are taken, etc. Finally I need to be able to rearrange the folders which are like above into what we see on the iPhone Gallery. something like this:

Photo Gallery:
- Album1:
    -IMG_001.JPG
    -IMG_002.JPG
    -IMG_003.JPG
- Album2:
    -IMG_002.JPG
    -IMG_004.JPG
    -IMG_005.JPG

In this article, I'll answer the question on how to examine photo metadata with the exiftool.

There is the apple supplied sips command. man sips

$ sips -g format  /Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.JPG
/Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.jpg
  format: jpeg

I give an example of exiftool for use on a mac. The use of exiftool on Windows  command line will be the same.    I have heard a lot about exiftool.  I wrote an applescript to use this tool.  You could use any language you like.

I assume you were connecting your iPhone to a mac, but the some concepts should apply.  Applescript is supposed to be readable to about anyone.  It's in "English".

fyi:

(* *)
  is a comment
--
  is a one line comment
set a to b
  is a = b in normal languages
log
  is a print statement
display dialog
  put up a dialog box
common(dropped_items)
  means call function common with argument dropped_items
on common(input)
  is the function header

applescript app:

    (*
  This script provides an example of using the command line ExifTool tool.
  The script was written to answer ASC Discussion question https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8511361

   Shows exif data before and after any change.  You may run the script by either double clicking on the app or droping files on the app. I Included debugging statements on run path.

   Requires ExifTool by Phil Harvey.  Download
       https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

    You need to place exiftool in your default path.  I suggest "/usr/local/bin/exiftool". No you cannot go into terminal and alter your path.
    You can alter this script to change the path.

  Input:
      Drop files on AppleScript icon.
      or
      double click on the app.
      or
      run from the script editor to see the log output. You will fist need to click on the "list" icon at the bottom of the script editor screen.

  Output:
      Creates file "tryAttachmentsLog.txt" in you home folder.
      When run from the script editor, you get logged output.

  How to save:
        Save as an Application Bundle.  Don't check the two boxes below.

For testing, run in the Script Editor.
    1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
    2) Click on Run

Author: rccharles

 *)

-- Gets invoked here when you run in AppleScript editor.
-- This is for testing although you could use it for production
on run
    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "

    set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string
    log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath

    try
        set see to choose file
    on error errMsg number n
        -- Be sure to select a file on your DESKTOP.
        set see to alias (desktopPath & "rockSlab.jpg")
    end try

    -- Simulate dropped items list.
    set dropped_items to {see}

    common(dropped_items)

end run

-- Gets invoked here when something is dropped on this AppleScript icon
on open dropped_items
    display dialog "Number of items dropped is " & (count of dropped_items) & ". " giving up after 3

    common(dropped_items)

    --display dialog "Processed " & (count of dropped_items) & ". " giving up after 3

end open

on common(dropped_items)
    -- Required by debug routine.
    global debugRunning
    set debugRunning to ""

    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    tell application "Script Editor"
        activate
    end tell

    log "class = " & class of dropped_items

    try
        set pathToExiftool to do shell script "which /usr/local/bin/exiftool "
        log "Found exiftool here: " & return & pathToExiftool
    on error errMsg number n
        set theMsg to "could not find exiftool. Error message was " & errMsg & " error number was  " & n
        log theMsg
        display dialog theMsg giving up after 20
        return 1
    end try

    repeat with droppedItem in dropped_items
        log "class droppedItem = " & class of droppedItem
        set unixDroppedItem to POSIX path of droppedItem
        log "unixDroppedItem = " & unixDroppedItem
        set quotedUnixDroppedItem to quoted form of unixDroppedItem
        log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDroppedItem
        set toUnix to pathToExiftool & " " & quotedUnixDroppedItem
        set seeUnix to do shell script toUnix
        debugLog("--- Before ---- " & unixDroppedItem & " ---------------")
        debugLog(seeUnix)

        --  Perfrom whatever action you want out of exiftool
        (*
        see tags in a picture:
        exiftool   /Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.JPG
        the tags will have spaces in them leave out the spaces when typing the tag name
        *)
        set toUnix to pathToExiftool & " " & "-CreateDate -CircleOfConfusion   " & quotedUnixDroppedItem

        set seeUnix to do shell script toUnix
        log return & "result of exiftool is  " & return & return & seeUnix & return & return
        debugLog(return & "result of exiftool is  " & seeUnix & return)
        set toUnix to pathToExiftool & " " & quotedUnixDroppedItem
        set seeUnix to do shell script toUnix
        debugLog("--->>> After <<< " & unixDroppedItem & " -------------------")
        debugLog(seeUnix)
    end repeat

end common

(* ======================== Common Subroutines ======================= *)
-- ------------------------------------------------------
(*
*)
on appendToFile(fileId, theData)

    local theSize, writeWhere

    set theSize to (get eof fileId)
    set writeWhere to theSize + 1 as integer
    write theData to fileId starting at writeWhere

end appendToFile

-- ------------------------------------------------------
(*
 debug(<string>)
 Write messages to a log file.

  -- Need to place these two lines in the calling routine.
    global debugRunning
    set debugRunning to ""
 -- references appendToFile()
  -- example:
    debug("start program. Reading from " & listOfFiles)

   found here: /Users/mac/Documents/BJ\ Prior\ Years/BJ2004/sendmailapp2\ copy

*)
on debug(theMessage)
    -- return
    global debugRunning
    local theSize, startupDiskName, pathToLog, fileReference

    set pathToLog to (path to home folder as text) & "tryAttachmentsLog.txt"
    -- log "pathToLog is " & pathToLog
    -- display dialog "pathToLog is " & pathToLog giving up after 4

    try
        -- Complete the path.
        set pathToLog to pathToLog as text
        set fileReference to (open for access file pathToLog ¬
            with write permission)

        if debugRunning = "" then
            set theSize to (get eof fileReference)
            if theSize > 0 then
                appendToFile(fileReference, " " & return)
            end if
            appendToFile(fileReference, "   --- debug on " & ((current date) as string) & "   --- " & return)
            set debugRunning to "running"
        end if
        -- log "theMessage " & theMessage
        -- display dialog "in debug..." & return & "theMessage " & theMessage giving up after 3
        appendToFile(fileReference, theMessage & return)

        close access fileReference
        tell application "Finder"
            set the creator type of the file pathToLog ¬
                to "R*ch"
        end tell
    on error mes number n
        try
            set commonErr to "error ... " & mes & " error number is " & n
            log commonErr
            close access fileReference
            display dialog commonErr giving up after 4
        end try

    end try
    -- log "end of debug"
end debug

(*
write log message to script editor log and to our file log
*)
on debugLog(theMessage)
    log "debugLog: " & theMessage
    return debug(theMessage)
end debugLog

Example output:

(*  --- Starting on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 5:45:54 PM --- *)
(*desktopPath = Macintosh SSD:Users:mac:Desktop:*)
(*  --- Starting on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 5:45:59 PM --- *)
(*class = list*)
(*Found exiftool here:
/usr/local/bin/exiftool*)
(*class droppedItem = alias*)
(*unixDroppedItem = /Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.jpg*)
(*quoted form is '/Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.jpg'*)
(*debugLog: --- Before ---- /Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.jpg ---------------*)
(*debugLog: ExifTool Version Number         : 10.36
File Name                       : rockSlab.jpg
Directory                       : /Users/mac/Desktop
File Size                       : 5.9 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2019:06:12 17:20:33-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2019:06:12 17:45:54-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2019:06:12 17:21:08-04:00
File Permissions                : rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Exif Byte Order                 : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make                            : Apple
Camera Model Name               : iPhone 4
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Software                        : Photos 1.0.1
Modify Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Exposure Time                   : 1/120
F Number                        : 2.8
Exposure Program                : Program AE
ISO                             : 100
Exif Version                    : 0221
Date/Time Original              : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Create Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Components Configuration        : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Shutter Speed Value             : 1/120
Aperture Value                  : 2.8
Brightness Value                : 5.52228164
Metering Mode                   : Multi-segment
Flash                           : Auto, Did not fire
Focal Length                    : 3.9 mm
Subject Area                    : 1295 967 699 696
Run Time Flags                  : Valid
Run Time Value                  : 3126374362166
Run Time Epoch                  : 0
Run Time Scale                  : 1000000000
Sub Sec Time Original           : 493
Sub Sec Time Digitized          : 493
Flashpix Version                : 0100
Color Space                     : sRGB
Exif Image Width                : 1936
Exif Image Height               : 2592
Sensing Method                  : One-chip color area
Scene Type                      : Directly photographed
Exposure Mode                   : Auto
White Balance                   : Auto
Focal Length In 35mm Format     : 35 mm
Scene Capture Type              : Standard
Lens Info                       : 3.85mm f/2.8
Lens Make                       : Apple
Lens Model                      : iPhone 4 back camera 3.85mm f/2.8
XMP Toolkit                     : XMP Core 5.4.0
Creator Tool                    : Photos 1.0.1
Date Created                    : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Current IPTC Digest             : d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
IPTC Digest                     : d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Profile CMM Type                : Lino
Profile Version                 : 2.1.0
Profile Class                   : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data                : RGB
Profile Connection Space        : XYZ
Profile Date Time               : 1998:02:09 06:49:00
Profile File Signature          : acsp
Primary Platform                : Microsoft Corporation
CMM Flags                       : Not Embedded, Independent
Device Manufacturer             : IEC
Device Model                    : sRGB
Device Attributes               : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color
Rendering Intent                : Perceptual
Connection Space Illuminant     : 0.9642 1 0.82491
Profile Creator                 : HP
Profile ID                      : 0
Profile Copyright               : Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company
Profile Description             : sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Media White Point               : 0.95045 1 1.08905
Media Black Point               : 0 0 0
Red Matrix Column               : 0.43607 0.22249 0.01392
Green Matrix Column             : 0.38515 0.71687 0.09708
Blue Matrix Column              : 0.14307 0.06061 0.7141
Device Mfg Desc                 : IEC http://www.iec.ch
Device Model Desc               : IEC 61966-2.1 Default RGB colour space - sRGB
Viewing Cond Desc               : Reference Viewing Condition in IEC61966-2.1
Viewing Cond Illuminant         : 19.6445 20.3718 16.8089
Viewing Cond Surround           : 3.92889 4.07439 3.36179
Viewing Cond Illuminant Type    : D50
Luminance                       : 76.03647 80 87.12462
Measurement Observer            : CIE 1931
Measurement Backing             : 0 0 0
Measurement Geometry            : Unknown
Measurement Flare               : 0.999%
Measurement Illuminant          : D65
Technology                      : Cathode Ray Tube Display
Red Tone Reproduction Curve     : (Binary data 2060 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Green Tone Reproduction Curve   : (Binary data 2060 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Blue Tone Reproduction Curve    : (Binary data 2060 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Image Width                     : 1936
Image Height                    : 2592
Encoding Process                : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:4:4 (1 1)
Aperture                        : 2.8
Image Size                      : 1936x2592
Megapixels                      : 5.0
Run Time Since Power Up         : 0:52:06
Scale Factor To 35 mm Equivalent: 9.1
Shutter Speed                   : 1/120
Create Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56.493
Date/Time Original              : 2019:06:12 17:04:56.493
Circle Of Confusion             : 0.003 mm
Field Of View                   : 54.4 deg
Focal Length                    : 3.9 mm (35 mm equivalent: 35.0 mm)
Hyperfocal Distance             : 1.60 m
Light Value                     : 9.9*)
(*
result of exiftool is

Create Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Circle Of Confusion             : 0.003 mm

*)
(*debugLog:
result of exiftool is  Create Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Circle Of Confusion             : 0.003 mm
*)
(*debugLog: --->>> After <<< /Users/mac/Desktop/rockSlab.jpg -------------------*)
(*debugLog: ExifTool Version Number         : 10.36
File Name                       : rockSlab.jpg
Directory                       : /Users/mac/Desktop
File Size                       : 5.9 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2019:06:12 17:20:33-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2019:06:12 17:46:00-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2019:06:12 17:21:08-04:00
File Permissions                : rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Exif Byte Order                 : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make                            : Apple
Camera Model Name               : iPhone 4
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Software                        : Photos 1.0.1
Modify Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Exposure Time                   : 1/120
F Number                        : 2.8
Exposure Program                : Program AE
ISO                             : 100
Exif Version                    : 0221
Date/Time Original              : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Create Date                     : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Components Configuration        : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Shutter Speed Value             : 1/120
Aperture Value                  : 2.8
Brightness Value                : 5.52228164
Metering Mode                   : Multi-segment
Flash                           : Auto, Did not fire
Focal Length                    : 3.9 mm
Subject Area                    : 1295 967 699 696
Run Time Flags                  : Valid
Run Time Value                  : 3126374362166
Run Time Epoch                  : 0
Run Time Scale                  : 1000000000
Sub Sec Time Original           : 493
Sub Sec Time Digitized          : 493
Flashpix Version                : 0100
Color Space                     : sRGB
Exif Image Width                : 1936
Exif Image Height               : 2592
Sensing Method                  : One-chip color area
Scene Type                      : Directly photographed
Exposure Mode                   : Auto
White Balance                   : Auto
Focal Length In 35mm Format     : 35 mm
Scene Capture Type              : Standard
Lens Info                       : 3.85mm f/2.8
Lens Make                       : Apple
Lens Model                      : iPhone 4 back camera 3.85mm f/2.8
XMP Toolkit                     : XMP Core 5.4.0
Creator Tool                    : Photos 1.0.1
Date Created                    : 2019:06:12 17:04:56
Current IPTC Digest             : d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
IPTC Digest                     : d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Profile CMM Type                : Lino
Profile Version                 : 2.1.0
Profile Class                   : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data                : RGB
Profile Connection Space        : XYZ
Profile Date Time               : 1998:02:09 06:49:00
Profile File Signature          : acsp
Primary Platform                : Microsoft Corporation
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iPad 3 used up 250 MB of LTE data in 3 hours without active usage This morning I purchased 250MB of data from AT&T ahead of the auto-renewal schedule because I had used it up two weeks back. I then checked a few emails without downloading attachments and rode to work. Didn't use the iPad at work, though it would have WiFi there anyway.

About 2 hours after the purchase I receive the usual "only 20% of data left" email and am astounded by that, but go to lunch anyway. When I return from work I have the 10%, 2% and no data left email in my inbox.

I have iCloud Documents (though I only have a few of them), FaceTime and Reading List activated over cellular, but not iTunes. The iPad had been synced the night before, I was not signed in to Skype or similar and I actually didn't use it.

Anybody an idea what might have caused this??

I talked to the AT&T help line and all he was able to see is that the data was consumed in 5-6 bursts, not tickling over the three hours. But which service, no idea. I'll visit an Apple Store and check with them, maybe they have means to determine what went awry.

If you use Photostream or iTunesMatch there is a good chance that one of the two uses cellular data unexpectedly. As far as I remember there was a problem (before iOS 6) with syncing these two services: when you started the sync in WiFi mode and then switched to cellular (e.g. because of leaving from home), the sync would continue independent of the setting disallowing usage of cellular.


⌘+Tab app list filtering Is there any way to hide apps without windows from ⌘+Tab app list? So I could close skype, mail, adium, etc. and still receive notifications from those apps. So for example when I receive message in windowless skype and it creates a window I can switch to skype, But skype window does not appear in ⌘+Tab app list, since I switch a lot at work.

Alright, so I found as program called "Witch" which may help you. It's got a free trial on the website, but it does eventually costs $14. Check it out, it's got everything you want it seems.
Website: http://manytricks.com/witch/
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/witch/id412485838?mt=12


How to extract the text of a PDF document with Automator, and save it in a directory How can you modify the output folder of the Extract PDF text action ? I made a basic workflow to extract the text of PDF files, but the output folder is stuck to Desktop. I can change it in Automator, but the changes are not saved. It reverts to Desktop when I reopen the workflow.

Bureau means Desktop. This is the one that refuses to be set.

This seems to be a bug with Automator, as I can reproduce the same problem.

The workaround is to have Automator move the file to your desired destination after the text is extracted. Just add the Move Finder Items action (sorry, I'm not sure of the exact french translation) after the Extract action, and set it to your desired directory.


How to text a message to a number on an iPhone? On my iPhone 5, how do I text a message to a number? I am trying to send the words "HELLO WORLD" TO 888765?

In iMessage

create a new message (icon at top right)
enter the number you want to send the message to into the To: line
enter the message as usual
send it