Payment verification When I go to download free apps it says it wants a payment method. I have already changed my settings to "none" like everyone says to do. But it still asks for one. How do I get it to stop asking for this after I already changed everything?

You only get to choose none when you set up a new account. If it wants verification, you will need to enter payment or contact support and have them somehow waive that on the back end.

See:

Can I download a free app from the App Store without a credit card?
Do I need a credit card on file to get free apps?

Now - once you've added a card and verified, you might be able to go back to none, but your account was somehow flagged as needing verification so Apple Support would need to weigh in if that was intentional or can be waived.


How to hide video on an iPad? So Walking Dead season 1 was a welcomed recent gift, it isn't The Sopranos but it's not bad. But it's pretty graphic. With a couple of hundred hours of Left 4 Dead 2 I don't mind but I don't think it is suitable for children.

Is there a means to hide either selected video, or ideally, all episodes of a show in iTunes?

Failing that are there third party apps to achieve this that are still good for playing and watching video? I'm thinking along the lines of Comic Zeal which does a great job for comics - drag and drop iTunes syncing, great organization tools etc. The difference would be that if older son switches away from the game I said he could play to my app, without an extra password the videos would either be unplayable or just not appear at all.

Disabling iTunes isn't an option because sometimes I'll want to hand over the iPad so he can watch a video that is OK. So global Parental Controls options won't really work.

I feel that this is absolutely third-party app territory. One that fills your needs well would be OPlayer HD (not a Universal Binary, iPad specific), chiefly due to it's capability to password protect content, with a few very notable caveats:

Put the 'safe for everyone' videos in iTunes, sync it and use the Videos player for those.
Use OPlayer's sync mechanisms (iTunes Document Sync, WiFi Transfer, etc.) for getting the restricted videos into the app, and then password protect it.

First, note that OPlayer does not support a simple pin/passcode, instead you have a full keyboard to type out a password. (You can always make your password a simple pin, I'm just stating that the input interface uses the full keyboard and not a "ten key" digit mode.)

Second, note that OPlayer's password protects the WHOLE app. Not just specific videos. This is why I suggest you split up the videos between the built-in player/iTunes housed videos, and OPlayer specifically.

Lastly, and perhaps most annoyingly, if you are done using OPlayer you should absolutely double-tap the home button and manually close OPlayer when you're done with it. If the app is running at all, even "suspended", you will NOT be re-prompted for the password when you return to the app.


How do I move a folder in 10.9 Mavericks? I am trying to move a large (100GB+) folder from the Desktop into a subfolder on the Desktop. When I drag and drop, it invokes a copy, and I do not want to wait an hour while it goes through with this (I will need to do several such moves.) I have read that holding CMD while drag-dropping will invoke move, but it does not. If I wait for a folder to finish the alleged "move" operation, it turns out to be a copy, with the original folder left behind.

Interestingly, if I attempt to move (drag/drop) a smaller folder, it does so without issue. What am I doing wrong?

Open your terminal (Terminal.app)

Then do:

mv source_folder destination_folder

e.g:

mv /Users/foo/Music/ /Users/foo/something

This is way faster than copying as it maintains inode


Why is Xcode 6 Beta download so slow? I'm in the process of downloading the Xcode 6 beta, and it's downloading painfully slowly, <10kb/s, and as of now is forecasting that it'll take 2 days, 20 hours, and 55 minutes and climbing.  Is there a mirror somewhere I can download this beta?

Because everyone wants to download things from Apple right now. 10.10 Beta access, iOS 8 beta, XCode 6 beta. Their servers are under stress. Unless it's your own connection, but I'm sure you checked that :)


Change iTunes/iCloud Apple ID Primary email address How do I change my email address on my iTunes account?

I opened my iTunes account at a job that I had 11 years. Now that I no longer have that email address, I would like to transfer it over to my new email address.
Can I do that or do I have to close my old account and open a new one?

You can go to http://appleid.apple.com and click "Manage Your Apple ID" and after you login you can edit your primary email address. No need to create a new account. :)


Mail-app not using Push I just bought an iPhone 4S and configured my mail-accounts. But for some reason, the new mail is only pushed when I open my Mail-app. I set the settings for incoming messages to "Push". Any idea how this is possible?

I my former iPhone, an iPhone 3G, did the job excellent...

This may solve your issue.

Open Settings app.
Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Under the Accounts heading, open "Fetch New Data".
Be sure that Push is set to on.
Open Advanced at the bottom.
Under each individual account, make sure that it is set to Push.  If push is not an option, then your email provider does not support push.  The only ones that I am sure of are iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, and Gmail (if setup as an Exchange account).


Why Mac and iPhone sent message are separated? I am logged in on Mac and iPhone to my iCloud account. When I am sending message from them, receiver has two different conversation from different sources / devices. Why?

You can send messages from different phone numbers and email addresses linked to your Apple ID. You can check those under:

(on iOS) Settings.app -> Messages -> Send & Receive
(on macOS) Messages.app -> "⌘," (Preferences) -> iMessage tab

If you are sending from different addresses and the receiver does not have both addresses saved in the same contact they will definitely show up as separate conversations.


How do I turn off MacBook display when I have an external display? I went through a similar question, but the answer was informing how to hide the monitor, but not how to disable it.
I do not want any new windows to creep into the laptop display when the external display is connected. I could not find any in the Display Settings (under System Preferences).
I don't want to close the lid because I think it impacts the air flow of the MacBook Pro.
I don't want to close the lid because the sound quality is reduced.

Reducing heat by adjusting the lid

Having the lid closed or open does not impact the airflow of your MacBook Pro (MBP). Ambient air is never in short supply and the "exhaust" (where the hot air picked up by the blade fan(s) are expelled) is located at the back of the unit (the black stripe on the newer models and the grey stripe on the first generation machines).

Some claim that keeping the lid open allows the chassis to cool down, but these claims have never had any real data behind them (simply anecdotal evidence and unsubstantiated rumour). Personally, I have a 2006 MBP that was eventually relegated to being a desktop. I ran the system for well over a year with the clamshell open, and then closed, and saw no different in CPU/CPU temps (nor any variability in the other heat sensors) as a result. Moreover, the newer models have far more efficient blade fans and would suffer even less from the effects of heat (additionally, the new Intel chipsets run cooler than their predecessors). You can conduct your own testing of course. I had replaced the heat sink, re-applied a sane amount of Arctic Silver thermal paste, and used Lobotomo Fan Control daemon to monitor my system's temperature.

Disabling the internal display, properly

There are two ways to connect a secondary display to your notebook without enabling the default screen (note that this does not mean dimming it, but rather turning it off).

The first is to connect the display with the lid closed when the machine is powered down. Once the external display is connected, turn the machine on—it will detect the secondary display while leaving the internal one turned off. This will alleviate the issues you have with "dragging things off the screen" as the system will constrain your desktop to the one, active monitor.
The second is to connect the secondary display when your system is awake and active, and the clamshell open. Make sure the notebook is plugged in. Once you connect the secondary monitor, the system will recognize it. Once it does, close the lid on your notebook. The device will be put to sleep. Once that happens, move your mouse, or hit a key on your keyboard to wake it. Once it wakens, it will enable the secondary display, but not the internal one.

Additionally, you may set the attribute to leave the system in the sleep state even if the clamshell is opened. You can do this using pmset, a local utility found on OS X that actually handles all your power settings. You can accomplish this with the following command:

sudo pmset -a lidwake 0

The -a, -b, -c, -u flags determine whether the settings apply to battery ( -b ), charger (wall power) ( -c ), UPS ( -u ) or all ( -a ).

To reverse the command, set the 0 to a 1. These settings are persistent, in that, they do not need to be re-applied every time the machine's power is cycled and are saved to the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist


Question about USB C and DisplayPort I recently purchased a 2017 MacBook Pro 13" no Touchbar, so I have just 2 USB-C ports available.

I've spent literally like 2-3 days looking for the perfect USB-C Dongle (I like the ones that take the 2 ports and turn them into a full range of different ports)

But I'm concerned because at home I have a external monitor that doesn't have USB C port, so when I had my old 2012 Macbook I used a mini DisplayPort to Displayport. But, now with this MacBook pro I do not know what to do!

I keep reading that in USB-C hubs/dongles, just ONE port charges the Macbook and sends video signal, the other one is just a USB-C port.

So, if I purchase a USB-C to Displayport cable to connect to my monitor, I won't be able to charge the MacBook at the same time, right?

What can I do?

In summary: I need a way to connect my MacBook to my ASUS PB278Q (HDMI is ok also) and at the same time charge the MacBook and be able to have a good USB C hub (in the worst of cases.. one with a cable will do)

From Apples's specification page, the 2017  MacBook Pro 13" has two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports:

Thunderbolt 3 has several different signals embedded within it:

PCIe
USB 3.1
Power
DisplayPort

USB-C is just the connector type not the USB specification.  In this case, the USB specification is 3.1.

What you need is a USB-C Displayport cable - it's basically a DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable because the DisplayPort signals are already present (it's Thunderbolt).  You would only need an adapter if it was just a simple USB port.

If you get one of those hubs/dongles, it must support DisplayPort and/or power passthrough.  If you get a USB hub, then you lose the Thunderbolt functionality.

If you want something that you can have a single cable setup that preserves your charging, display and USB connectivity, I suggest getting a Thunderbolt dock.  They're not cheap, but they do offer the functionality you're looking for.


Mac Pro 1,1 running any kind of latest version of macOS So I'm having trouble installing any kind of OS X on my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. Sierra won't work. El Capitan won't work. Yosemite seems like it's really, really hard to get working and I haven't tried any other version before that.

I'm looking for a guide to follow, where I can install either Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra on it. I have a Macbook Pro where I've aquired the original installers ready to put on the machine.

My real questions are: Where can I find that guide? If this is impossible, what is the highest version I can install? Mavericks? Mountain Lion?

It sounds like you have a mac pro 1,1 like mine with Quad core 2.66GHz processors.

It is correct about the 32 bit EFI on these systems but there is a workaround with a re-written bootloader for the MacPro 1,1 that will enable you to run El Capitan (last OS before Sierra) flawlessly on your Mac Pro. It even includes a script that will check and fix the bootloader each restart which means you can install system updates without having to repatch your system each time.

You will need a better video card. I suggest one with at least 1 GB of video RAM. There are a lot of PCIe graphics cards out there that will work in a MAC but they don't boot EFI which essentially means you will get a black screen during boot up until the boot has completed - then the video card will switch on. This is only an issue is you have to boot into a separate hard drive or a Bootcamp partition. You won't be able to see your selections once booting and holding down the OPTION key right after the chime. You will have to find a fully Mac Compatible video card if you want boot screen graphics.

To get El Capitan to install on a MacPro 1,1 you need several things:

an 8GB USB
a copy of the Mac App Store El Capitan installer
at least 12GB of RAM
a video card capable of running the latest OpenGL and with at least 512MB of video memory - 1 GB is better.
You will need to rebuild the installer to work with a MacPro 1,1 and to use the 32bit EFI translator. Instructions and the links for the downloads can be found here.

No Mac OS after Lion will install on a MAC PRO 1,1 without editing the original install file. Apple places checks in the installer so that it will only work with certain motherboards. Part of the tweak to the installer involves adding your system's board ID to the installer so it will pass a check and install. There are tools and instructions for how to rebuild the installer for Mountain Lion (uses MlPostFactor which is a "patched" install and not native - certain kernel level functions will fail such as "Bootcamp" also Little Snitch and Hands Off will not work) Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan.

El Capitan is about the easiest OS to modify because Captain Pike's Script automates the entire process. No real advanced knowledge or manual editing of system files is required. I followed the instructions, downloaded the script, let it do its thing and I have a flawless MacPro 1,1 running OS X El Capitan.

I also recommend adding an Airport Extreme wireless card and a Bluetooth card for your machine. I don't think you will find a Bluetooth card for the MacPro 1,1 that will work with OS X's "Handoff" feature but if you are using an iPhone you will want it to be able to sync with your Mac Pro without having to plug it in, so you will need the AirPort and the Bluetooth to get the most out of your Mac. They are easy to find, relatively easy to install and are fairly cheap. Instructions for how to perform these upgrades can be found here.

Incidentally El Capitan is the last OS so far that you can tweak to run on an old MacPro 1,1. If you are having trouble finding a Mac App Store copy of El Capitan, Google is your friend for finding torrents. Just make sure to include the words "pirate" and "MAS El Capitan torrent" in your search terms.


Does migrating to Apple's new Photos app actually double my storage requirements? I was using Disk Inventory X to visualize my hard drive storage and help me find some extra space.

It appears that iPhoto Library takes 52.0 GB and Photos Library takes 49.4 GB.
Is this a known issue that moving from iPhoto to Photos duplicated everything or is this just a sym link under the covers?

Short answer, no. The measuring tool you are using doesn't take the time to deduct the space saved when files are hard linked, so it over-counts the space used.

The Libraries are using 'hard links' to the real location of the files, so both appear to be approximately the same size, but each actual photo is only located in one place on your hard drive, with pointers from both Libraries.

Deleting either Library will not affect the storage space, only deleting both would actually remove the 50GB of data from your drive.

See: Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries

More on hard links from Ars Technica:

  A hard link is simply a reference to some data on disk. Think of a file as a combination of a name and a pointer to some data. Deleting a file really means deleting the name portion of that duo. When there are no more names pointing to a particular piece of data disk, then that disk space can be reused."


Can someone fool me with their location on 'Find my iPhone'? Can someone fake location in iphone?

the guy ... knows how to google things very well.

Which is not the same as being a competent software engineer, and that's what you will need to be to send false info to Apple's location services.

  Sometimes I see her call log and see calls from her parents even when her find my iPhone location is at home and her parents are at home.

Means nothing. I know several people who call others in the same house. Easier than yelling down the hallway or to the back yard.*

The easiest way to appear to be elsewhere is to get a second device. An iPod will work just fine. Set it up with the same Apple ID and select it in any of the location services apps. That works for Find My Friends, does not work for Find My Phone. Since you said "Find my Phone" you are either using the wrong term, she has a phone you own, or you have access to her Apple ID?

Sounds like you need to do some private detective work. Just drive over to where she is and see if she is there.

Funny of the Day:
Girl is watching a movie with boyfriend. Hears incoming text on the phone, which she left in the kitchen. Gets up, goes to phone which reads "bring more chips back" sent by boyfriend who is still on the couch.


Unified Buddy List in iChat - how to handle same person on different networks I have a few people between Facebook/Gchat/AIM that I have IM info for them on more than one account. This could be the case, espc. with multiple Jabber accounts.

With the unified buddy list in 10.7, how to I send an IM to someone through Google chat versus Facebook?

There is a drop down at the top of the IM that says who it is from, but that shows up even if I know the person is on one network and not the other.

Update: It seems that sometimes the name will show up twice, but hard to tell which is which. Wondering if there was a better way to do this that I may be missing.

In more than one case now, it looks like multiple copies of the name will show up. You have to either check the buddy picture or other features (for example, video chat doesn't show up for Facebook) to determine which network you are contacting them on.


How to clear out this Photos/ Camera Roll related data taking space on the iPhone even after Deleting all Pictures? iPhone 6 iOS 10.2:

Used iMazing: Selected iPhone Between left sidebar options: Pick “Camera” instead of “Photos” - kinda counterintuitive. Select All / CTRL A Delete from right Menu / or Trash icon buttton.

Deleting 7000+ photos took a while. To test if it’s working I closed iMazing and when I got back in as before, was left with 2000 or so.
Repeated and mostly gone. For some reason 2/300 were left and would not delete no matter what I tried via iMazing.

So deleted it using the Photos App - Selecting from Bottom right to Top left (auto scrolls) and selects all.

Delete & then Remove recently deleted.

Now I thought this was done; no pics or videos or anything showing inside photos/ camera roll.

—————

But when I look via

General > iPhone Storage and select the app:

Photos & Camera - 318 MB >

Synced from iTunes Library 70 MB

Shared Photo Stream 248.1 MB

I don’t remember using any of these above.

How can this be cleared out?

It is likely that a wipe and restore will fix the issue.

As the iPhone is essentially a pocket computer with a simplified and locked down interface it is difficult, at best, to get into the inner workings to apply fixes that are needed to solve a particular problem .

I have found that many issues like this are readily solved by a simple, though tedious, process.

Back up your iPhone via iTunes to your local computer. Give the backup a password so it saves the app passwords already on the iPhone
Go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings and wipe the phone
When the phone reboots, plug it back into the computer and restore from the backup you just created.
You will have to now enter AppleID/iCloud passwords to reconnect it to your Apple accounts

You should now see that the space formerly occupied by (deleted) photos and the like is now freed up.


iTunes versions installed When I click on iTunes update it shows there is a new version available.

However when I click on get it, it comes up with no updates available but shows 2 of the same versions downloaded? 11.2.1 !

How do I go about fixing that?

on MBA 10.9.3

Solved problem #1.

I forgot that I did "Hide Updates" on iTunes (silly me).

By reactivating, it did show the bundle and allows me to update to 11.2.2 among all other updates in that bundle.

That still does not solve the part of having a duplicate update version showing foor 11.2.1.


Enable screen sharing on mac w/o display I have an old mac mini with a dead video card but otherwise it is working fine. I don't think screen sharing is currently enabled on that mac mini. What I'm trying to do is enable screen sharing on that mac mini so I can remotely login from my other mac and work on my mac mini. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Your going to have to get into your machine to set up screen sharing. The only way that I can figure is to take the drive out and place it in some other machine.  I suggest placing the drive in an external drive enclosure.  I set my mac mini machine up with a static ip address. Once you get this to work, you would move the drive to the old machine.

I use Realvnc client and Realvnc server.  They have a free version, but may be slower than you want. https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/docs/faq/pricing.html I pay for the local lan version.  I turn off encryption.  Not seeing a connected display, vnc will use software drivers.  You'll need to reboot about once a day as the display will get messed up.  For those with working video hardware, you can attach a dummy hdmi plug. This will speed things up a bit and avoid display mess ups. I'm connected to my mini via 100meg ethernet.  Works well enough.

Does this machine work in safe mode?

You may have a problem with the video chip.

Here is how to tell...
  Shutdown your machine.  Hold down the shift key.  Poweron.  Bootup will be longer.
    Wait awhile while you harddrive is being checked.
  An article on how to boot into safe mode.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455

Runs OK in safe mode...
Running in Safe mode leaves out some video drivers.  Which results in your machine not using advanced video hardware. As luck would have it, you can run the safe mode video drivers in normal mode.

Here is how:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16057567#16057567

Look through the above thread.  See the second page.  You don't have to read through the first page.  Just go to the part where I try a solution that works.

Using the safe mode video driver results in these limitiations:
  -- OpenGL acceleration is not supported on this mac
  -- Your mac lacks quartz extreme acceleration

Summary of G5 problems. Includes instructions on a hardware fix for the brave at heart:
See -Rotten Apple- articles in both of these threads.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4023152?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18700825#18700825

Robert

R


How can I deactivate the speaker on the Airtags? I've purchased some Airtags and would like to use them as a tracker for my cat, in case it runs away. I know that Airtags start beeping after a few days if you're not around and given that they're quite loud I want to make sure that my cat doesn't get stressed out by incessant beeping around their neck.
Is there a way to completely disable the Airtags speaker via software or hardware modification? I'm okay with methods that remove warranty from the device given that the tags are quite cheap.
P.S. I am aware that Apple doesn't "officially" recommend using Airtags for tracking pets but it would still be useful for my particular usecase.

As it often happens, I was able to find out a good enough video tutorial on Youtube shortly after posting this question. In case the video gets deleted, here are the steps:

Open the battery cover
Carefully use a sharp tool (such as a box cutter) to lift over the edge of the internal plastic cover, then pop it open with a screwdriver
Remove the speaker magnet (pictured below) using a screwdriver
Put a bit of glue over the corners on top of the electronics board
Reattach the plastic cover and battery cover


Is it possible to connect two 4k monitors to one thunderbolt port? I want to buy the new macbook pro 13" without touchbar and be able to connect two 4k monitors AND the charger. But this macbook only has 2 ports.

What you want to do is possible, but not without either using an adapter, dock, or the right kind of displays. For example:

you can use a display that allows you to daisy-chain to another display (i.e. you have a charger plugged into one of your ports, and you have one display connected to the other port and a second display connected to the first display)
you purchase a dock such as the OWC's Thunderbolt 3 Dock.
you purchase at least one display that will provide charging power to your MBP (e.g. the LG UltraFine 4K Display).

You may want to also read:

About Thunderbolt ports and displays
Connect with Thunderbolt 3 on your new MacBook Pro
Use the LG UltraFine 4K Display with your Mac

NOTE: IMHO, if you're wanting to run two 4K displays you probably should invest in a MBP with four Thunderbolt ports, as this is likely to provide more flexibility in terms of usage and the variety of devices you can purchase to meet your needs.


"Item not available" error when trying to upgrade to High Sierra I'm trying to upgrade my Macbook Pro late 2011 from Sierra to High Sierra via this link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?ls=1&mt=12
However, when it opens the itunes store shows this error:

To be safe I tried it with the Mojave update via this link here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?ls=1&mt=12
and it gave me the same error. I read on this forum (and tried their solutions) that this might mean that it's not available for me to download. Where can I download the High Sierra update?

I would recommend opening these links in Safari so they translate easier to the correct App Store app.

https://apps.apple.com/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314
https://apps.apple.com/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741

I removed the US store from the High Sierra link and cribbed the Catalina link from another answer. Also, once you get the download set, other issues can crop up. This following link is a compendium of knowledge and is super useful for reference.

How can I download an older version of OS X/macOS?


FileVault1 with no master password but root+user password On my mac I activated FileVault1 about 4-5years ago. Unluckily i forgot the password as i never used it =(

I know root + user password to log in and do all the stuff (also as root in the console). As I would like to work with TimeMachine, now I need to rid of this old problem.

What I did already:

Called mac support, they said I should go to the local mac support. This would be my last choice because of the price and the paid hours it will take for unlocking/copying. Maybe they have some keypairs for backdoors, otherwise I should be able to do the same.
Found this filevault debuglog bug (2012), but its already 5yrs ago that I typed the password,so I dont think those log files still exist. Also because now I have the up2date version of ios.
Found a tutorial which told me to delete /Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain but to first switch it off, which I can't without the passwort.
Tried to switch off FileVault with different username combinations of root/user. But he really really want the "main password".

Like now it is really useless: The system does not protect against "my person" (who lost the passwort) and at the same time it lets me work and do everything....

How do I switch filevault (version 1) off? OR

How do I reset the "masterpassword"? (or any other workaround is really appreciated)

A while back, I wrote up a guide for enabling FileVault 1 which included ways to recover in case of a problem. That said, you really will need your account password or the Master Password in order to recover your data from the FileVault-encrypted account.

The guide is available in Word and PDF format via the link below:

Guide to enabling FileVault


Serve Application from my Mac over LAN I am trying to serve an application I'm developing over the LAN at work. I'm doing this using Apache and this is working fine locally, but when I try to access from another client on the network the http request is timing out. The requests are definitely hitting the Mac as in /var/log/trac.log I can see:

[ 94 14855][20 May 13:15:29][TR_FIREWALL] CFirewallWrapper::NotifyCallback: cRule = rule-3, srcIp=172.18.48.116, dstIp=172.18.48.240

I'm serving over an arbitrary port (23736) to avoid any conflicts but I don't believe the problem lies with apache. If I locally browse to 172.18.48.240:23736 there is no problem. When the external client requests the same there is nothing being added to the Apache access/error logs.

The firewall in system preferences is disabled and I've added the following to /etc/pf.conf:

pass in proto tcp from any to any port 23736

before running:

sudo pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.conf

and rebooting.

At this point I'm just about out of ideas so any help greatly appreciated

You shouldn't need a firewall rule to forward packets because Apache can listen on your selected port.  Leaving it as port 80 also won't conflict with anything.

What you need to look at is your httpd.conf file.  Specifically, the "Listen" directive

# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 23736

Since it's working locally, but not on another client (I'm assuming on the same subnet), you may have the directive set as localhost:23736.

If that's the case, it would cause the symptoms that you are seeing.

What you should have is what I posted above, or to restrict it to a particular IP:

Listen 172.18.48.240:23736

Once you make the change, restart Apache.


Get AppleScript's "do shell script" to use the latest Bash For some reason, I cannot get AppleScript's "do shell script" to use the latest (GPLv3) Bash:

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/bash; echo $BASH_VERSION"
-- Result: "3.2.57(1)-release"

Strangely, it does work with an external .sh script:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo $BASH_VERSION

Calling it like:

do shell script "~/Library/Scripts/Script.sh"
-- Result: "5.0.17(1)-release"

What's the difference and can I get it to work inside the .scpt script as well?

do shell script always uses /bin/sh, even if your default shell, shebang, or $PATH variable is set to something else.
To force it to use a different shell, you will need to call that shell. To run a command in bash, use the argument -c:
/usr/local/bin/bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION'

If you only want to run a single bash script, you can omit the -c with: /usr/local/bin/bash /path/to/script.bash

In AppleScript:
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION'"

The man page entry for bash -c:

-c command_string
If the -c option is present, then commands are read from the first non-option argument command_string.


Icons on the desktop may slow down Mac? When I ask a question about if I run too many process will slow down my Mac for Magican measured my Mac is high CPU usage. A Mac user tell me the icons on the desktop may still influence the performance of my Mac. Is this true?

Reputable sources like Macworld indicate that the Finder draws non-generic Desktop icons the same way it draws open windows, and the more of them there are, the more memory and processor time it takes to refresh the Desktop. I have not found any sources that indicate this is a major factor in system speed, but yes, more custom icons on the Desktop take more resources when the computer redraws the Desktop.


Why when I try to download a free app on my iPad it says Tap Continue and Sign In To View Billing Info? Okay so when I try to download a free app from the App Store it says "Tap Continue And Sign In To View Billing Info". I Searched up how to fix it and I found...."select none for the payment type of credit card " and I did that and it does not have that option!yes I have used a credit card on ROBLOX for ROBUX ....PLEASE HELP ME OUT I'm scared that I might mess up my ipad

Usually, when that happens I open iTunes on my desktop to choose "None" as my payment type. Then when I re-visit my billing info on my device the "None" option is selected and I leave it as that. However, some applications or trials for in-app purchases will require you to enter a credit card to use that service, so that's another issue you may run into if you continue to keep the option "None" in your billing info.


How to Get a Similar color as LightSteelBlue3 in El Capitan? I see many LaTeX threads with the font, etc here.
I am interested in the similar colors as LightSteelBlue3 in OS X that are by default, because I cannot find the color in Homebrew and not by default.

In TeX Live Utility, I find the packages xcolor, colortbl and caption as installed.

How can you get a similar color as LightSteelBlue3 in El Capitan?

I assume you are referring to this answer. Just install xcolor (and any other missing packages) via TeX Live Utility (or manually) and run latex as usual.


Are there non-English books in the iBookstore? All I'm seeing in the iBookstore are titles in English.

Are there any non-English (specifically Russian) public-domain books in the iBookstore?

I did searches for Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Dostoyevski and found at least one Russian language book under each one.  Are these not there for you?


Make TextMate run php from a different binary, not the original php I work with php and postgre, and since the stock php doesn't come with postgre I had to install a different php version.

So I installed php5 from this website: http://php-osx.liip.ch

It's a quick install, just downloaded php5 and its modules and put them in a different directory, now everything works, except the TextMate's "php run".

I couldn't find where TextMate makes the call to the php and I wanna change it, any ideas?

Thanks.

Under preferences, go into variables and update (or create) TM_PHP to point to your desired executable. E.g. I have /opt/local/bin/php because I'm using MacPorts.


iCloud has space but iCloud Backup says that I don't have enough to complete a backup I use 120 MB of iCloud storage space for iCloud Backup of my iPad & iPhone. There is still 4.8 GB free from 5 GB, but I have a notification in iPad's backup window that I'm lacking space to back up to iCloud and would rather not buy more space to back up today.

This could easily be explained as the 120 MB of used data is likely for the data all the apps store in iCloud. Contacts, calendars, specific third party apps can have storage in iCloud. You can determine this by looking at the Manage Storage pane in settings app (see below).

The warning you describe comes up when the expected size of the next backup is greater than the available free space.

You can reduce the size of the expected backup on iOS (updated for iOS 12) as follows:

open the Settings app
tap your AppleID/iCloud avatar (first item, top of list)
tap iCloud
tap Manage Storage
tap Backups
tap the name of the device in question (it usually says this iPod touch, this iPhone or this iPad to help if you have many devices connected to iCloud)
look at Next Backup Size
toggle off any unwanted apps from the list below

If that is less than the available space, you may need to contact Apple support to have your account fixed on the server side. In most cases, you can toggle off the largest few items and then attempt a backup when the estimate is less than the available space.

Once the backup is complete, you can tune the backups or manage your space as needed on iCloud.


Karabiner - ESC held down mapped to CONTROL_L I would like to do the following with karabiner, i am trying for the past hour, and couldn't get it to work. I want

ESCAPE key to work as ESCAPE, when it is pressed and released. When ESCAPE key is held down, it should work as CONTROL_L.

This is what I came up with, after many attempts, based on looking through the sample.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <name>Change HoldingEscape to Control_L.</name>
    <identifier>private.holdingEscape_to_Control-L</identifier>
    <autogen>__HoldingKeyToKey__ KeyCode::ESCAPE, KeyCode::VK_NONE, KeyCode::CONTROL_L, Option::NOREPEAT</autogen>
  </item>
</root>

I think this is the correct definition to set in your private.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
    <item>
      <name>Change HoldingEscape to Control_L</name>
      <appendix>(+ When you type Escape only, send Escape)</appendix>
      <identifier>private.holdingEscape_to_Control-L</identifier>
      <autogen>__KeyOverlaidModifier__ KeyCode::ESCAPE, KeyCode::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::ESCAPE</autogen>
    </item>
</root>


How can I troubleshoot R and tk on macOS? I am getting warnings and empty popup boxes when compiling and loading R packages that depend on tk. They say that tk was not installed correctly.

I am using homebrew, but I can't tell which package might provide a correct install of tk, or if it would conflict with the existing (but broken) installation.

What is the recommended way to install enough of tk on OSX so that an R package with tk as a dependency (e.g. RNCEP) R will compile without giving this warning?

Update

Here is the warning that I get when trying to load an R package that depends on tk.tcl:

Warning message:
In fun(libname, pkgname) :
  Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/Scripts/tk8.5

  /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/Scripts/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/tk8.5
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts
  ./lib/tk8.5 ./lib/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts ~/Library/Tcl/tk8.5
  ~/Library/Tcl/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts /Library/Tcl/tk8.5
  /Library/Tcl/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts /System/Library/Tcl/tk8.5
  /System/Library/Tcl/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts
  /System/Library/Tcl/8.5/tk8.5
  /System/Library/Tcl/8.5/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts
  ~/Library/Frameworks/tk8.5
  ~/Library/Frameworks/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts /Library/Frameworks/tk8.5
  /Library/Frameworks/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts
  /System/Library/Frameworks/tk8.5
  /System/Library/Frameworks/tk8.5/Resources/Scripts ./library

Try installing tk from the ActiveState ActiveTcl binaries. If you're on Mavericks, make sure that you install ActiveTcl 8.5.15.0 or greater, as there are some problems with earlier versions on Mavericks. Also, please note that ActiveTcl is not open-source software.


How can I figure out the culprit with internet hiccups my wife is experiencing? I'm having a hard time figuring out why my wife hates our internet connection. She says that it times out on her throughout the day. This happens both on the laptop and phone. She uses FireFox and Chrome (work and personal), and the error connecting pages show up on both.

She is running Yosemite 10.10.2 on her mid-2011 MacBook Air and iOS 8.2 (12D508) on her iPhone 5. Both of her devices are running out of storage if that makes a difference. (There is never enough storage space for pictures of kittens.) She gets a ping of 30ms for google.com in the living room where our access point is located.

When I work from home, I do not experience any issues. My ping is at about 12-15ms for google, and I am hardwired to the router. When I'm mobile around the house, I have no issues whatsoever. I'm on a mid-2014 MacBook Pro.

Given that this issue is a hiccup, as it comes up, and fixes itself quickly, what would be a method I can use to figure out how to fix this issue so that she has a pleasant internet experience?

NOTES:

Internet setup > Comcast -> DOCSIS modem -> ASUS router ~10 yards~
Linksys AP (running DD-WRT)
My wife is about two yards away from the Linksys router
The hiccups happen during the day and not in the evening
The other devices on the network are our Windows 7 HTPC (sleeps during the day), DiskStation (sleeps unless it's woken up), an Android device, and an Onkyo Turner
Speedtest.net shows our connection at 120/12 MBps in during the day and 60/10 in the evening

Update to latest OS X 10.10.5 and iOS 8.4. Both the updates solve the annoying Internet issues.  The issues were frequent disconnection in regular intervals, slow Internet speed etc. In Yosemite, Apple introduced the troubling Discoveryd component for networking which was the main cause. It has been replaced in OS X 10.10.4 and iOS 8.4. Install the updates and your Internet should work properly.


Why is macOS is unable to verify my Yahoo user ID Through System Preferences > Internet Accounts

I enter my Yahoo user ID and password and am getting error message, "unable to verify user id and password".

I have enabled POP in my Yahoo account and reset password to ensure it's accurate.

In Apple Mail, add a new account and after entering a full name, email address and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings.

Use the following settings:

Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL)

Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL/TLS)

Username: full email address (example: bill@yahoo.com)

Password: the password you login to Yahoo with

Make sure to identify four mailboxes as special: Drafts, Trash, Sent and Bulk Mail (Junk).

For example, in the left pane under the heading "On My Mac" under the Yahoo account, select the Draft folder. Then on the menu bar select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts.  Do this for the other 3 mailboxes to make sure your mail gets sorted correctly.


Is Etrecheck safe to use and is this safe place to download? I wanted to check my system and heard about EtreCheck.

1) Is it safe app to use?

2) Is this safe place to download it from?

Yes, Etrecheck is safe to use.

And yes, you should definitely download it from the official website.

Countless people (myself included) have used Etrecheck as a troubleshooting tool. In fact, if you browse Apple's support communities you'll see it often used there as a troubleshooting tool.


Clone the Windows partition with Carbon Copy Cloner? I have bought a new Hard Drive and I want to switch from my old disk to my new one. Time machine will do the job for my Mac partition, but not the Windows partition I guess. So I'm looking for way to transfer the content from one disk to another.

I've found the utility Carbon Copy Cloner. But I don't know if this soft is able to make a clone of the Windows formated partition (visible on my mac)

PS/ If you have another solution ...

EDIT: I just noticed that actually, Time Machine "sees" the Windows partition. Does it means that I will be able to restore it without any pain?

Look into finding a copy of Winclone.  The main problem for SuperDuper and CCC is the inability to write to NTFS volumes.  They can backup your files, but often not necessarily capture the extended attributes with regards to ownership and permissions etc, resulting in an inability to make a sensible restore.

Winclone is no longer in active development, but it is effectively CCC for windows/bootcamp partitions.  I've used it to transfer bootcamp partitions from one drive to another in the past.


Install FreeDOS via Bootcamp Is it possible to run FreeDOS via Bootcamp on a Mac?

If so, what are the instructions for doing so?

There were a few housekeeping chores that I preformed before booting from the FreeDOS DVD. I have both Yosemite and El Capitan installed on my Mac. To avoid SIP problems, I chose to preform the chores while booted to Yosemite. SIP was still enabled, but Yosemite ignores the SIP settings. I assume you can use El Capitan with SIP disabled.

I required the partition, that I chose to install FreeDos, to meet certain requirements.

The partition must be formatted MS-DOS (FAT) by the Disk Utility
application. Note: Later when installing FreeDOS, I reformatted the
partition again.
The partition must appear in the the Master Boot Record (MBR)
partition table. The contains of the this table can be displayed by
using the following command.

sudo  fdisk  /dev/disk0

If you are installing on a second internal disk, then replace
disk0 with disk1.
The id shown in the MBR table for this partition must be 0C. This
usually occurs after formatting the partition as MS-DOS (FAT). In my
case, I first had to format the partition as "Mac OS Extended
(Journaled)", then format as MS-DOS (FAT). This must be a bug in the
Disk Utility.
The partition must be flagged as active in the MBR table. By
"active", I mean "bootable". The active partition is marked with an
asterisk * character in first column of the output from the

sudo  fdisk /dev/disk0

command. You can use the

sudo  fdisk  -e  /dev/disk0

command to change the active partition. The proper interactive
command is flag.

  Note: More information on the fdisk command can be found by entering the command man  fdisk or online here.

I also had additional requirements.

The Mac needs to be set to boot using legacy mode. This can be done
with the bless command. In my case, I was installing to the 4th
partition on disk 0, so I used the following.

sudo  bless  --device  /dev/disk0s4  --setBoot  --legacy

The 0 represents disk0 and the 4 represents the 4th partition.
Actually, when booting in legacy mode, the partition is chosen by
the bootstrap code stored in the MBR. It is safe to assume this code
will choose the partition set active in the above step 4. So when
booting, the partition value set by the bless command will be
ignored.
The MBR must contain valid bootstrap code or no bootstrap code. OS X
is installed without this code. This is why you see the warning
message below when using the fdisk command to change the MBR.

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

When I installed FreeDOS, the MBR contained the bootstrap code that
was being used by Windows 10.  You can view the contents of your MBR
by using the following command.

sudo  hexdump  -C  -v  -n  512  /dev/disk0

If you are unsure if the bootstrap code in your MBR is valid, you
can zero out this memory by using the following command. The
bootstrap code occupies hex addresses 0 through 1B7.

sudo  fdisk  -u  -f  /dev/zero  -y  /dev/disk0

At this point, you should be able to start installing FreeDOS using the DVD. I chose to install everything.

When I reached the display shown below, the computer seemed to freeze. In reality, the computer was just taking a long time to install software. More that just the Kernel is being installed here. This is why the progress bar does not seem to change.

Also, in some of the subsequent steps, I needed to press the space bar several times before the installation would proceed.

When reached the step associated with the display below, I chose 1.


Borderless PDF saving from website I'm trying to save a website as a PDF file using the File -> Print.... The PDF preview has a white border all around, as does the final final PDF product. I've followed the steps suggested on this website, but that doesn't work. Other websites suggest using File -> Page Setup, but that option no longer exists in later versions of macOS.
I'm using Safari 11.0.3 on macOS 10.13.3.
How can I force the PDF file not to have any white borders?

It sounds like the border is a part of the PDF document itself, in which case it's not an issue with printing preferences. The easiest solution is to crop the PDF in Preview, then print it.
Instead of File > Print, perform File > Export as PDF (or Save as).
Open the PDF in Preview and crop it.
From the above Apple support article:

If the Markup toolbar isn’t showing, click the Show Markup Toolbar
button , then click the Rectangular Selection button .
Select the portion of the page you want to keep.
Click the Crop button in the Markup toolbar (or use the Touch Bar).

Once you select the portion, you can alternatively the shortcut command + K to crop it as well.
Once you are finished, save the PDF if you wish and print it.


Why are my Touch Bar volume controls grayed out (disabled)? I’m unable to adjust the volume using my Touch Bar, how do I get out of this mode?

(as you can see the volume buttons are disabled).

I experienced the same problem. The fix:

Open System Preferences > Sound
Select the Output tab
Select MacBook Pro Speakers (or another working output) under Select a device for sound output.

The cause: I connected my MBP to an external monitor, which, unbeknownst to me, had speakers of its own.


Reminders in notification center/lock screen without time/day set Let's say there's a certain list of items I need to get when I go shopping.  I don't know what time I'm going to be shopping so I don't set them to have a 'Remind me on day' or 'Remind me at location' set.

I want this list to appear in my notification center (where I will see it without necessarily seeking it out) but it won't, unless I give it a reminder time/location.

Is there a way to have reminders appear in notification center/lock screen without time/location reminders set?

I don't think there is a way to get reminders to appear on the lock screen without putting either a time or a location stamp on them.

However, if you know where you will be doing this shopping, then the location-based reminders will actually work well for you. Just set up a new contact with the store's name and address (and, optionally, the phone number if there's any chance you might ever need to call them). Then you can use the "Remind me at a location" option and select the name of that store. Make sure you select "Arriving at" rather than "When I leave". Your reminder will go off the next time you go to that store regardless of what day it is.

Unfortunately this will only work if you do know where you will be doing this shopping. If you were thinking of something like "Remind me to check the oil next time I gas the car", then I'm not sure what to suggest aside from doing a "when I leave home" reminder (which would have to be refreshed every time you leave home for a different purpose and which therefore would probably be more trouble than it's worth.)

I've used this technique several times, simply by entering the names and addresses of my local shopping mall and local grocery store into Contacts, then hitting a location-based reminder. This is actually how I do my grocery lists: whenever I need to add something I just edit the reminder. Next time I go to the grocery store, there's my list right on my lock screen. If it's a long list I might need to unlock the phone to see the whole thing, but overall I've found it works great. (Certainly much easier than working with a handwritten list which I had a bad habit of forgetting to take with me when I went shopping....)

** Please note, though, that the size of the geofence depends on many factors and your phone might consider you to have "arrived at" a particular location when you are actually a few blocks away. This has occasionally caused my grocery list to pop up prematurely if I'm just passing by the store rather than going in.

Hope this helps!


Cannot buy apps from App store When I attempt to buy an app but after clicking "GET" button for an app the following happens :

1. "GET" text becomes "INSTALL"
2. I click "INSTALL"
3. "INSTALL" becomes loading image
4. loading image disappears and "GET" text is displayed.

The app is not installed.

Not sure if related but this seems to have occurred since updating ipad to latest ios version - 9.3.4(13G35).

First, try restarting your device.

Second, try doing a forced-restart by holding the power and home buttons down at the same time until the Apple logo appears, and then release (this should only be done in desperate times, not as usual practice).

Third, follow these steps: (which can be seen on this site)

Go into the App Store.
Across the bottom, you will see a white bar.
On the far left, you will see a star and the word "Featured."
Tap the star 10 times. You will see the screen flash white momentarily.
Restart your device again.

Then try to download the desired app again.


Is it allowed for an iOS app to run volunteer computing projects? I’m wondering if it is technically possible for an app developer to allow running BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) projects directly on iOS devices.

Technically, it is possible. In fact, there’s a paper titled “Exploring mobile devices as Grid resources: Using an x86 virtual machine to run BOINC on an iPhone”. The paper was published in 2009, the abstract says:

  […] In this paper we propose the use of mobile devices themselves as grid computing nodes. We demonstrate the feasibility of this concept by implementing the BOINC client on an Apple iPhone. Work units are downloaded from a BOINC server and executed on the iPhone via a virtual machine emulating an x86 processor, and results are uploaded to the server. […]

Whether Apple would allow such an app on the iOS App Store though is another matter. BOINC has an Android app, but no iOS app, and their FAQ says:

  Can I run BOINC on my iPhone?

  There are currently some technical and legal barriers to doing volunteer computing on iPhones. It's possible that in the future these issues can be overcome.

A member of the BOINC project has mentioned one problem for them:

  As I understand the main problem of creating iOS BOINC app is that app can't download executable files […]

The App Store Review Guideline he is referring to is:

  2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code, including other apps. […]

As far as I know, there are no other volunteer computing project apps on the iOS App Store. I’m guessing another guideline that might be troublesome for such apps is:

  2.4.2 Design your app to use power efficiently. Apps should not rapidly drain battery, generate excessive heat, or put unnecessary strain on device resources.

Volunteering computing resources is of course likely to cause a rapidly draining battery and other strain. Whether or not this counts as “unnecessary” when the user is giving the app explicit permission to donate computing resources is something that would have to be argued with Apple.


Where is the bash profile on iOS? Where is the bash profile on iOS, I am jailbroken and can't find the bash profile, I would like to create some aliases and edit it.

The profile used for shells on iOS is /private/etc/profile, however it is recommended to add your own profile file to /etc/profile.d/ which is sourced by the shell when /private/etc/profile is run, using the following script:

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
    if [ -r "$i" ]; then
        . $i
    fi
done

I don't know if adding ~/.bash_profile yourself will cause it to be automatically sourced.


I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) but I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) using this link http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-4.3.5-ios-iphone-4-3gs-ipod-touch-4g-3g-ipad-1-using-redsn0w-how-to-tutorial/

The problem is that when I followed the steps, it isn't working

It has unrecognized specified IPSW.

The IPSW I downloaded from http://www.redmondpie.com/download-ios-4.3.5-for-iphone-4-3gs-ipad-2-1-and-pod-touch-direct-links/ iPhone 4 (GSM).

Does anyone know what's happening here?

You are using a version of redsn0w that cannot handle that specific version of iOS. You will need to find the correct version.

Here is a guide that might help: http://technorati.com/technology/gadgets/article/how-to-jailbreak-ios-435-on/

And it is of note that they have not released an untethered jailbreak for either 4.3.4 or 4.3.5, which means you will have to load the IPSW in redsn0w and apple the crack (select the option "just boot tethered") every time you cycle the power.

Also of note that the redsn0w .8b series is reserved for the iOS 5 betas.

You can see the full list of versions here: https://sites.google.com/a/iphone-dev.com/files/home/

Off hand I don't remember which will jailbreak 4.3.5 but give the latest .6 series a try first and work backwards.

And a word of caution, be wary of Redmond Pie, fromy experience they are far from a credible source for help and frequently report inaccurate information or often times completely spread misinformation. They seem more concerned with "getting there first" than actually reporting steps that you can rely on.


MacBook Wi-Fi can't connect on Connectify: invalid password I made a hotspot using a Wi-Fi external receiver connected on my laptop running Windows with a program named Connectify just today.

My PC gets the Internet connection via the Ethernet connection and share it with Connectify. The name of my Wi-Fi network is "connectify".

I have noticed that only my iPad and iPhone are able to connect to it.

My MacBook just says "invalid password" when I know for a fact that the password I configured is correct.

I've never been able to connect to my Wi-Fi network from my Macbook. I have already deleted the Wi-Fi location configuration and made a new one without sucess.

What might explain this MacBook or Wi-Fi failure?

Lets try to reset your Macs settings.

            Go to System Preferences > Network.
            Click the Wi-Fi connection.
            Click the Advanced... button on the bottom right.
            Click the Wi-Fi tab.
            Under Preferred Networks, select your wireless network.
            Click the - (delete) button.
            Turn off your Wi-Fi connection.
            Turn it back on.
            Select and login to your wireless network. This will re-save your connection under Preferred Networks.
            Close your laptop and reopen it to test whether it worked.

Next would be to try connecting manually using your Terminal (located in the Utility Folder.

Copy following in to your Termial:

To find the Network

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport scan

To Connect

networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 WIFI_SSID_I_WANT_TO_JOIN WIFI_PASSWORD

Replace the SSID and Password with your data.


Can an app be restricted to access Internet I have an iOS app, I don't want this (only this) app to access Internet. Is there any option in the settings to do that?

You can not prevent it from accessing the internet completely. However, you can disable it from using mobile data. Go to Settings -> Network and scroll down.


What is the MakerNote Apple 0x0002 field in iPhone/iPad images? Is it a unique identifier for photos? What is the MakerNote Apple 0x0002 field in iPhone/iPad images? Is it a unique identifier for photos?

Example:

  [MakerNotes]    Apple 0x0002                    :
  bplist00O..?~yvronlkigc]F".???{ws[...]

bplist would suggest it's a binary property list.

If you can pull out the raw binary, you can decode it. There are some command line tools available. Search for bplist online.

If that fails, a discussion of the format is available here:

https://synalysis.com/how-to-decode-apple-binary-property-list-files/

My guess would be that the excellent Exiftool will decode this field for you.

I maintain an image metadata software library (for Java and .NET) and would be interested in a sample image with this field. Perhaps I can add support in my software. If you have time, please open an issue and attach a sample image.


How to debug Trace/BPT trap: 5? I get a Trace/BPT trap: 5 error when using the open command:

$ open -a Emacs
Trace/BPT trap: 5
$ open -a Safari
Trace/BPT trap: 5
$ open -a TextEdit
Trace/BPT trap: 5

Any suggestions how I can narrow down what is causing this?

I understand from my earlier question, that it has to do with not finding a dynamic library - but which one and why is it not finding the library?

Fron the GUI, everything works fine, but is present from termnal as well as iTerm.

System: Macbook Pro Retina, Maverick

Any suggestions?

ADDITIONAL INFO:

$ otool -L /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 20.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 1056.0.0)
/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 228.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 59.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 855.11.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1251.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics (compatibility version 64.0.0, current version 600.0.0)

and

$ otool -L /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs-10.7
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs-10.7:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1138.47.0)
/usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.3.0)
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.2.11)
/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 227.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 53.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 635.21.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 41.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 833.25.0)

so I can't see anything missing?

I suspect you will by now have seen the problem reappear. The fix you described had a side-effect that ended up, for a time, solving the problem.

I believe that the problem had to do with the security context in which your terminal's shell was attempting to launch programs that try to connect to the window system.

My solution to this problem, whenever it has occurred from my Terminal.app shells, has been to use reattach-to-user-namespace (https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard). For example, at a bash prompt:

tk-mbp:~ tommy$ wstorm Projects/my-webapp
Trace/BPT trap: 5
tk-mbp:~ tommy$ exec reattach-to-user-namespace -l bash
(reading ~/.bash_profile)
tk-mbp:~ tommy$ wstorm Projects/my-webapp
tk-mbp:~ tommy$ # that worked...

When you rebooted as part of the fix you reported, it had the side-effect of creating a shell process whose connection to the security context of your windowed login session was not stale, as it had been before when the commands were failing with "Trace/BPT trap: 5". So although there might have been a real problem with the PATH setup, I believe it was the refreshing of the shell's process environment that was the true fix.

FWIW, I've got reattach-to-user-namespace installed via Homebrew.


Could ._ files contain malicious software? Doing clean install after mess up, put my image, video, music, text files to external hard drive (not time machine). I was checking them in Windows computer and found many files having copies that all started with " ._ "

Like image.png

was

._image.png

None of them could be opened. I checked Internet and seems Mac just makes copies like that for system.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...rscore-files-created-and-how-can-i-avoid-them

But no where can I find answer:

1) could these files carry anything malicious for Mac?

2) Are they files that could run a code? Executable files?

3) Or are they same as any image file? As in risk of ._ files having anything bad in them being as low as risk of image/video/music/text files having anything bad in them?

4) If ._ file is copy of something actually malicious, will ._ also be malicious?

No, these are not malicious files at all. In fact, they are actually just harmless and annoying. These are files that are hidden on the Mac, but will be visible on Windows because of the format of the external hard drive. "._" files are invisible resource fork segments of files.

When you are using NTFS or SMB, these files are not shown because the resource fork and original file are treated as one. You mentioned you were using Windows to view the drive, meaning you are most likely on exFat or FAT32. In these scenarios, expect many annoying files like these and on Macs, annoying trash folders. You might also notice files like .DS_STORE files, generally hidden on Macs, but shown on Windows.

If you want to read more, check out this article by CNet here.


Can I Remap Command+F in Safari? How can I remap Command+f to search the current web page? In Safari it somehow is set as a shortcut for fullscreen, which drives me insane!

What I would like is to at least kill Command+f to act as a no operation or remap it to do text search in the page.

This is crucial to sort throught the posts of an assortment of comments under YouTube videos.

You can do it like this:

System preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts

Click + And select Safari as Application.

Then enter the exact name of menu command (In your case: Find…) and enter your preferred hotkeys (Control + F on the screenshot)


Is apple pay free to use when using a credit card at a shop? I've added a credit card to my wallet/apple pay. According to my bank the service is free. But is it also free from the perspective of Apple? I've read that Apple gets 0,15% of each purchase but they get that from banks.

You won’t pay any extra to use Apple Pay (unless the retailer makes a surcharge for all card payments, in which case you’ll pay that surcharge) — Apple’s cut comes from the processing fee that the retailer pays.


Macbook pro mid 2014 15" turns screen off when unplugged and starts fans at max power I'm having a problem with my macbook where, for some reason, when it's unplugged to the power the computer randomly turns the screen semi-black (not totally black) and starts the fan at max power.
The computer itself is still on (the apple is bright) and I have to turn it off by long pressing the power button.

I'm not able to understand what is going on:

The logs from system.log

Apr 19 09:15:03 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.sandboxd[153]): Service exited due to SIGALRM | sent by kernel_task[0]
Apr 19 09:15:03 marco syslogd[96]: ASL Sender Statistics
Apr 19 09:15:05 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bsd.dirhelper[9925]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.bsd.dirhelper
Apr 19 09:15:05 marco systemstats[107]: assertion failed: 18D109: systemstats + 676139 [952918BC-3D73-37CE-8C6A-851AAF3C70D1]: 0x7f946c61bfe0
Apr 19 10:13:48 marco syslogd[96]: ASL Sender Statistics
Apr 19 10:13:48 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.newsyslog): Service only ran for 8 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 2 seconds.
Apr 19 10:13:49 marco fud[9987]: objc[9987]: Class MobileAssetUpdater is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAccessoryUpdater.framework/Support/fud (0x1029ab908) and /System/Library/AccessoryUpdaterBundles/ApplePowerAccessoryUpdater.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ApplePowerAccessoryUpdater (0x1054b2a68). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Apr 19 10:14:01 marco timed[133]: settimeofday({0x5cb98349,0xeea4a}) == 0
Apr 19 10:14:03 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.duetknowledged[10064]): Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /usr/local/libexec/duetknowledged
Apr 19 10:14:03 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.duetknowledged[10064]): Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
Apr 19 10:14:03 marco com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.duetknowledged[10064]): Service exited with abnormal code: 78
Apr 19 10:20:55 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1555662055 0

Where 10:15 is the computer still on, but close to the time of "death". I left it running from 10:15 to 10:20 (in this time the fan was running at fullpower) where I turned it off, but nothing appeared in the logs for that time period (weirdly)

Do you have any suggestion on how to debug and fix this issue? I might consider formatting everything as a last resort but I prefer not to because I have a lot of setup of various work projects

OSX Version: 10.14.3

If the screen is semi-black, it should change the brightness of the logo as well. Not sure how one is happening and the other is not.

Before you proceed, you might wanna take a backup of your data.

Do the below:

Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Install Onyx and try to fix system issues - https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html It's a powerful and reliable system maintenance app
If you are an advanced used, try live usb booting with Linux and see if the same problem happens. If it doesn't, then the problem is with macOS. You might need to format your mac. If it does, then you might have a hardware problem and should be handled in a different way.

Glad to be of help. Let me know how this goes.


Changed iCloud password but Yosemite password not changed I recently changed my iCloud password on my iPhone but the password to log in to my Macbook Pro (running Yosemite) hasn't changed. When I click change password it says that my account is using my iCloud password.

How do I get my Mac to update the password it is using?

Go to settings User and groups, then click Change password... and click use iCloud password or, simply Reconfigure the password


Why does Ctrl-D open Mission Control? When I try to use Ctrl-D in Terminal for EOF, it doesn't work.  Instead it starts Mission Control, moving all my windows around.  I have checked under System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts and Ctrl-D is not defined as a shortcut there.  Mission Control is the default Ctrl up arrow.  So why is this happening and how can I make Ctrl-D function as EOF character instead?

I'm running Mojave 10.14.4

Doh!  It turns out there was a custom keyboard shortcut defined in BetterTouchTool.  Problem solved.


Why does ssh not detect disconnects? If I SSH into a remote host on OS X, and then close the lid and travel home, upon opening the lid, OS X sometimes notes rather quickly that a disconnect has occurred (with the message "Broken pipe."), but often ssh just hangs. I thought of adding TCP keep-alives, however, the man page notes:

  The default is "yes" (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the client will notice if the network goes down or the remote host dies.

Is there anything more I can do or check? Why does it work?

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=1

(or net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf)


Apple TV Not Waking on Demand for Computer Behind Switch I can Home Share between a Mac Mini, Mac Pro, and my AppleTV with no problems as long as the two computers are awake. The ATV finds and streams the libraries with no problems.

The Mac Mini and ATV are connected to a switch, while the Mac Pro is connected directly to the router. Everything is on the same subnet and has the same IP range, and everything is wired (not using Wi-Fi).

If the Mac Pro is asleep, the ATV seems to be able to wake it on demand and stream it's library (after I added specific port forwarding rules to my router as suggested by Apple - details below). Again, the Mac Pro is connected directly to the router.

The main problem is with the Mac Mini, which, along with the ATV, is connected via a switch. If that computer is asleep, it will not wake up and the ATV can not stream it's library.

One weird thing I've noticed is that if both computers are awake, the ATV shows both libraries as available to stream. If I sleep everything (including the ATV) then wake it up, both computers appear as available to stream, but when I click in to the Mini's library it fails to load.

Also, the last time I checked, Wake on Demand was working over Wi-Fi, but I'd prefer to keep as many devices hard wired.

About My Setup:

Router:

IP Address in the range of 192.150.23.xxx
Subnet on 255.255.255.128 (This was done in order to port forward to the broadcast IP address. On a standard subnet of 255.255.255.0, my router wouldn’t let me forward to 255.255.255.255. I read that I could change the subnet to 255.255.255.128 and broadcast to 255.255.255.127.
Port forwarding: everywhere I read on the web recommended forwarding port 7 over UDP to my broadcast IP address of 192.150.23.127. After speaking with Apple, they also recommending doing the same with ports 1900, 5350, 5351, and 5353.
I verified this subnet change and port forwarding is working as expected because I downloaded an iPhone app called mWOL and it can send a magic packet and wake any computer I point it to.

Mac Mini:

Wired connection to switch
Energy Saver > Wake for network access checked
iTunes open

Mac Pro:

Wired connection to router
Energy Saver > Wake for network access checked
iTunes open

AppleTV:

Wired connection to switch

Any ideas what could be happening? Could the magic packet be getting swallowed when sent to the Mini? Perhaps related to the fact that I’m using a switch?

I would think that the magic packet is indeed getting "swallowed" by the switch.

I suspect that the UDP broadcast packet containing the WOL magic packet is going through the switch from the ATV while the Mini is switched out. Could you replace it with a hub or router for a time to test? UDP broadcast is always fun.

Can you wake the Mini from the Pro?

If you can then that tells us that WOL is working on the Pro and the problem is indeed the switch. You need to configure the switch so that it somehow holds and rebroadcasts the UDP broadcast packet on all ports.

The problem is that the ATV and Mini are on the same switch.

What is the brand and model of the switch?


Disk space given back to Mac HD after removing partition, but is not usable This looks similar to some other related questions here, but has some meaningful differences. I thought it was worth a separate question for that reason.

Like others I had an error while installing Windows 10 with Bootcamp. I had the error where you select the BOOTCAMPdrive and then click "Format," and then the disk is renamed to "Disk 0s5" (or close to that, if I remember correctly) and there is an error when you select it to install Windows 10.

I then followed the many instructions and exited Boot Camp Assistant, delete the recently created partition, and then started to go through the process again. I went back into Boot Camp Assistant and restored the HD to all being for Mac OSX. There was an error during the process. It said it failed, but the Mac HD then said 839 GB again like it should say. However, the 175 GB I had allocated for Windows in the partition, out of the 839, were not available. So when I go to set up the partition again I only have a total of 60 GB available instead of the 235 GB available like it should say after freeing up the former partition. So the 175 I used for the partition is back on the main disk, but I can't use it for anything, and am not sure how to free it up.

This is the print out of diskutil cs list:

<my-imac:>~ <my-account-name>$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 37905FD6-6AA8-4E49-BB1E-B19031E8101E
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         838904774656 B (838.9 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 923BC4E2-174B-4C6E-B604-72C4A7263521
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     23553724416 B (23.6 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 7F30C1AF-0F14-4F43-9AF0-6058373887DA
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     815351050240 B (815.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 74B7428F-8D10-4BB8-87D3-19B8F73C2844
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          837958688768 B (838.0 GB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

When I run DaisyDisk it also does not show the 175 GB that I should have reclaimed after deleting the partition as being available. It says I only have 60 GB available out of the 839 GB.

Since daisydisk agrees with the cs list how can I add ~175 GB to get my fusion drive back to 1 TB total capacity?

As DavidAndersen noted in his above comment, this was me needing to resize the Stack. In hindsight, that should have been more obvious to me as 839 was not the full size of the TB disk. After issuing the diskutil cs resizeStack F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8 0 command the last volume is at 1 TB.

    +-> Logical Volume Family 74B7428F-8D10-4BB8-87D3-19B8F73C2844
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          1021952655360 B (1.0 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse


Keynote 6.6.2, iMac, OS El Capitan: How do I export Keynote presentation to quicktime without the voice over? I created a Keynote slide show.
I created the 'audio' for the presentation using Garageband.
I then dropped the audio into my Keynote presentation.
Then I recorded the slideshow to time the slides to my audio file.

Now... when I try to export to Quicktime, it includes both my audio file AS WELL AS the 'voice over narration' that was included when I recorded.
(Basically, it's my mic picking up the audio from the presentation as a I recorded it so it's like an echo and it sounds terrible.)

I looked in the forum and in 2009 someone asked a similar question. The answer was:
Remove the voice narration when exporting to quicktime.

However, there doesn't seem to be that option in the latest version of Keynote.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Let me know if you need a screenshot or screencast for further clarification.

Thanks.

I have two solutions, the first one is to export to QuickTime with the audio and then remove the audio the secondary is to first remove the audio then export to QuickTime.

Solution 1
First export to QuickTime
Open iMovie and create a new movie project (you can remove the new project later)
Drag and drop the video file to the large grey section at the bottom
Right click and click Detach audio
Right click on the new green bar below and click Delete (all audio has been removed)
To export, Click File->Share->File and click next and save it where you will find it.

Note, this solution removes all the audio. If you would like to keep some, you can simply add the audio just before you export the file in iMovie by drawing it to the large grey section.

Solution 2
An audio file in a keynote looks like this:

They are placed on the slides and don't have any fixed positions so they can be located at anywhere. To remove them you have to look thru all the slides and remove them one by one. Click on it then press backspace to remove it.


Unlocking iPad 2 (iOS 7) with the Apple ID credentials Someone set a passcode to my iPad, and he can't remember what it is. Now I can't open it, I'm always asked for 4-digit passcode. But, I do know my Apple ID credentials, and my iPad is connected to my Apple Account.

I know that in Android based devices there is an option to skip the passcode screen using the Google Account of the device, but I can't find similar way in my iPad.

Is there a way?

Sorry, but there is no way to bypass a forgotten password. You must restore it in iTunes. If your device is backed up in iCloud or iTunes, you can restore your data.

iOS: Forgot passcode or device disabled


Long time Migration of macs (over 80 hours) I just changed my previous Mac (MacBook Pro dual core running Snow Leopard) to a MacBook Pro i7 with Lion, and after it is still migrating after 3 days (and according to the migration bar is about 60%, even if it indicates since it started between 60 - 80 hours. I wasn't aware of the reboot with one key (guess T) to use firewire, so it is using wifi...
It has been the worst nightmare I have gone through with a computer with any OS (yes, even Windows)

The worst thing is that the MacBookPro doesn't bring a CD/DVD so I could start the process on scratch usinqg FIREWIRE... and reinstalling the OS in case of any corruption.
I don't know what to do, but, waiting another 3 days is going to be a big issue.

Yeah, I have had similar experiences with WiFi transfers involving large amounts of data. The good news is that if you are extremely patient it will probably work out OK. The other good news is that if you have not messed with the factory partitioning scheme it doesn't matter that you can't install from CD/DVD.

If you do choose to restart the whole process - by resetting your new machine to original configuration with the Lion Recovery Partition - then a Migration using Target Disk Mode and the right FireWire 800 cable will probably take only an hour or so to complete.


Is there a tool I can use to securely wipe data from iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch? Is there a tool or application that will securely wipe an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (i.e. any iOS device?)

I'm not interested in a complete wipe that would brick the device.  Rather, I'd want to wipe all free space after it's been reset to default or had the OS reinstalled.

Furthermore: by "securely wipe", I'm referring to multiple successive passes with random data, etc. to thwart any attempt at data recovery.

For instance: If somebody wanted to sell their old iPhone on eBay, how can they be sure it's completely wiped, so there's little hope of a malicious buyer being able to recover sensitive data that used to be on it?

I think this is especially important when people are using iPhone apps to store passwords, credit card numbers, etc. (even if those apps have a supposedly secure storage mechanism.)

iOS 4.0 supports a very rapid secure erase called "Data Protection". If you upgrade from 3.0 you need to do a restore to set the stage for hardware encryption of all the data.

If your device isn't capable of hardware encryption (often called secure data at rest), then you can use the Erase all content and settings function. This built-in functionality to secure wipe your iDevice has been around since iPhone OS 2.0

As this doesn't work the same way on all iOS devices, do read Understanding 'Erase All Content and Settings' before you depend on this to clear data securely.

Once you are through erasing the device, you might want to connect it to a clean iTunes library and restore the device and set it up as new. Making a new account on your Mac or PC is an easy way to have a library with no account, no songs, and no apps just to be sure the device has a clean (and easily verifiable) start to it's new life.


New Terminal behavior after upgrading to OS X 10.11 I've noticed square brackets in the "gutters" of a Terminal window when editing files in emacs. The brackets are on either side of the screen and go away if I force a window update by either resizing it or a ctrl-l. I'd like to figure out how to turn the feature off.

Here I've just made some edits to the lines starting with 'a.x' and 'or'.

Here's a zoomed out view showing the brackets in both the right and left hand sides of the screen.

I have:

looked at the preferences for Terminal
looked at my emacs configuration
built a new version of emacs ( 25.4 )
found an emacs feature new in 22.x called fringes

set-fringe-mode off had no effect in 24.5 or 24.4

skipped local initialization (-q)
skipped all initialization (-Q)

I fired up vi (vim 7.3) and lo and behold, the square brackets show up in the gutters there too!  So not an emacs problem more than likely.

I'm running OS X 10.11 El Capitan on a mid 2014 MBP and the Terminal version number is 2.6 (361).  The change bars show up in text editors running within Terminal whenever a return occurs on a line with or without existing text and go away on a redraw.

I'm hoping someone will see this and know how to turn it off.

The short answer is "Hide Marks" in the "View" menu of Terminal.

After I discovered the behavior wasn't specific to emacs, I started looking at Terminal more critically.

In the Edit->Marks menu there is an option 'Automatically Mark Prompt Lines' which defaults to on for El Capitan.  Disabling this option will stop the addition of new "marks".  You can remove specific marks using Cmd-Shift-U on the line you want to remove the mark from.  And finally "Hide Marks" to turn off the visual indicators of the marks.

After removing emacs from the list of suspects, I found several other similar questions on Ask Different, Super User and Stack Overflow that all reached the same conclusion.

Commenter nwinkler provided a link to his research on what marks are and how this feature can be used.  Thanks!


Keynote: trying to add hyperlink, but no field to add the URL I'm trying to add a hyperlink to an image in a slide. I ctrl-clicked the image, chose "add link", then "webpage", but no dialog or field popped up to add the URL. How do I get the URL field to show up?

Screen recording

Keynote version 7.3.1 (and version 8.0.1 - still happening after upgrade), Mac OS 10.12.6

After adding the hyperlink to the picture, if the dialog does not pop up, you can select it using the link icon (circle with arrow) that appears along with the picture.

Note: Be sure the picture is selected when adding the link.  ⌘+K

If this normal behavior is not happening for you, a restart of your Mac may correct it.

Illustration of how to bring up the dialog after setting the link:


How to hide a specific active app on OS X (has to be reversible)? Is there a way to hide the application window and the dock icon of one specific active app in OS X? Kinda like a background service that can be turned on or off.

This solution worked for me, but it might depend on the application in question. I tried it with a 3rd party app called "Burn" and it worked.

Go to your applications folder and right click (control-click) on the app you wanna hide from the dock.
Click on Show contents. You should now be able to see "inside" the app's files.
Open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder with TextEdit (right click -> "Open with...")
Go to the very bottom of the file and find the last two lines which should say:

  </dict>
  </plist>

Now insert this before these two lines and save the file.

  <key>LSUIElement</key>
  <true/>

After this the app's dock icon will not be shown anymore. Keep in mind that you will need to use the Activity Monitor or Terminal (killall <appname>) to quit the app if you close the window.

If closing the window quits the app, you can press cmd + h to hide the window. This should make your app completely invisible.

To make it visible again, just remove those two lines again and the app should behave like before.

Source: Link


OS X Yosemite Improperly Ejecting External Devices I have a WD My Passport Ultra and I had it plugged into my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2012 Model and I had just closed the lid and it went to sleep.
Then I came back hours later and when I opened it a message was stating that it had been improperly ejected even though it was still plugged in.
I wanted to know if this was normal and if anyone else is experiencing this.

It happens occasionally with my external drive which I suspect is a connection problem. I run 10.7.5 so I would judge it unlikely to be a Yosemite issue. If slightly moving the cable around replicated the behaviour, that's probably it.

But no, clearly this is not normal. It would not hurt to try it on other systems which I don't currently have the hardware to do.


How do I add hundreds of ebooks to ibooks collection? I usually use Dropbox to get my epub files into iBooks. This works quite well when I only need to add one file at a time, but now I've received a collection of a few hundred epub files.

I am really not used to iTunes, but from what I could gather the collection a book is part of (in iBooks) is not known/registered by iTunes.

If I add all these files to my iTunes library and start syncing to my ipad I fear my iBooks will get completely cluttered with the new files.  And manually sorting the files on the ipad seem like quite a cumbersome task.

How do I conveniently transfer those epub files from my computer onto my ipad straight into its own collection in iBooks?

All the new files can go into the same collection.

You might not be happy with the current functionality of iTunes, but here's how to works. The folder structure from iBooks in iOS doesn't get reflected in iTunes, so you can't control which category new books will arrive in on the device.

You can have a folder of epub files and drag them into iTunes, but they go where iTunes puts them, not a folder of your choosing. This allows bulk injection of hundreds or thousands of books into management for syncing.

The computer version of iTunes will then make a copy of those files in it's Media folder and sync them to all iOS devices the next time they sync (assuming you have the sync rules to sync all Books to each device).

Now, the good news is that if you go ahead and file a book in a category on your iOS device other than Books, that information does sync back to iTunes and the next sync will re-organize things on other devices so you file once, and then sync each device to get them all in sync.

Furthermore, if you have a new iOS device (or erase an existing device) and push all books to that device. The folder status from the last device sync goes to that empty iBooks on iOS.

If and when Apple adds a control to iTunes, you may be able to order books on iTunes just like you can order App icons in iTunes and then sync the device to see the results.


Safari on iOS crashes whenever I try to type anything into the search field I’m running iOS 8.3 (12F70) on an iPhone 5S. This is an off-the-shelf device that has only ever been used with public releases; there’s never been any mucking around with developer betas or similar. But I have a bug that was giving me real headaches.

If I launch Safari, and start typing into the search/URL field, the app crashes within about four characters, and dumps me back to the home screen.

I’ve tried many different things to try to cure this:

Kill Safari from the app switcher
Reboot my iPhone (both normal and a hard reset)
Change all my settings related to autofill, default search engine, etc. back to the defaults
Disable all the iCloud-related Safari features, and delete my iCloud data from the device
Look for crash logs on the device by hooking up to my Mac, and using Xcode. No joy.
Clear Safari’s website data.
Freeing space on the device (I was running quite low)

But whatever I do, Safari still crashes. This issue has been plaguing me for a week, and I can’t find anybody else on Google who’s having the same problem.

What should I do?

Deleting my history fixed it for me.

Safari > Bookmarks icon > History tab > Clear

Something in my history was poisoning the search results, and causing Safari to choke whenever you trying to type something into the search field. Since Safari tries to suggest pages that you’ve visited before, if a bad site shows up there, it can (presumably) cause things to go wrong.

In my case, the problem site was particularly bizarre. I dumped a copy of my Safari History using iExplorer before I wiped it, and started looking for unusual entries. These two stood out to me:

Title                 URL                      Visits  Last Visited
Cannot Open Page      <long Facebook url>      -7      14 Aug 2015, 17:16
Cannot Open Page      <long Facebook url>      1       14 Aug 2015, 17:12

The Facebook URL is an authentication page that was apparently launched by an iOS game. I don’t understand how it can be last visited in the future (that date is nearly two months after the problem started) or have negative visits.

I’m genuinely mystified as to how that item entered my history – I barely play the game in question, and I’ve never messed about with the date/time settings on my phone. And I have no idea how you get negative visits – possibly some sort of overflow somewhere?

I think it’s likely that this item was the culprit, but how and why are total mysteries.


How do I refresh Application metadata - URL handlers, Web browsers - after installing my own AppleScript? I'm working on an Apple Script that handles URLs. There's a command one can give which re-creates the list that Safari shows to change the default web browser.

Anyone know what this is?

If you saved your AppleScript as application and declared that it can handle the http and https URL scheme in its Info.plist file, you simply need to update its modification date e.g. by running touch "My Program.app" in Terminal, or moving it to a different folder and back again in Finder.

Launch Services will then pick up the change automatically. You will need to restart Safari to update the browser list.


Preinstalled audio, photo and video data size Have recently purchased new MacBook Pro 13″ 2015 (128 GB) and noticed that "About my Mac" displays 1.31 Gb Audio, 750 Mb photo and 410 Mb Films. Does it mean that someone else stored this data on the notebook or it's preinstalled data by the manufacturer?

It could quite easily be Garage Band, if not other app data too. My Garage Band folder at /Library/Application Support/GarageBand is actually 4.8 GB

Source: Delete GarageBand to Save Precious Gigabytes of Mac Storage

  As a rich media application, GarageBand installs relatively large groups of media files to several locations on your Mac’s drive. Based on a clean install of GarageBand 10.0.2 on OS X 10.9.3, key locations of large files include:

  /Applications/GarageBand.app (1.16GB)
  /Library/Application Support/GarageBand (995MB)
  /Library/Application Support/Logic (880MB)
  /Library/Audio/Apple Loops (up to 10GB)*

  *Note that the size of the Apple Loops directory will vary depending on the number and type of loops downloaded by the user. You should not delete this folder (or the Logic folder) if you are using Logic Pro.

  Under normal circumstances, however, users looking to delete GarageBand can expect to save around 3GB of space. It may not seem like much, especially as storage capacities continue to rise, but 3GB can make a huge difference for those with small SSDs.


Keyboard must be press hard on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) running OS X El Captain and something unusual is happening to me when using my own account, keys must be pressed really hard to work, however on the other hand, when I'm using the  Guest account, everything works okay!

Do you know what can be the problem? What should I do?

Check that Slow Keys isn't enabled in System Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard.


Applescript to fill in Keychain dialog box I'd like to fill in the Keychain Dialog box with the Name: and Password fields (printer is windows print queue), but after the Print command, the Keychain dialog box opens up, but never responds to anything till I click OK or cancel.

  tell application "TextEdit"
  activate
  make new document

  print document 1 with properties {target printer:"2nd-floor"}

  tell application "System Events"

         set value of text field 1 of group 1 of window 1 to "CUA\name"

         click button 2 of window 1 of application process "SecurityAgent"

  end tell
  end tell

Hope I missing something silly, thanks.

Consider altering the requirement for a password. Printers on Mac OS X are managed by the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and it is highly configurable.

Mac OS X Hints published this, Disable printer queue password requirements, for disabling printer queue passwords. It should work for modern versions of OS X:

  As root, or in a Terminal session with su privileges, edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
  Find the section below.
  Remove the items you don't want limited: Pause-Printer, Resume-Printer, Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job, etc.
  Save the file, quit the editor, and restart your computer

Section to find and edit:

  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Res
tart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
      AuthType Default
      Require user @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin
      Order deny,allow
  </Limit>