Can I use a different language wireless keyboard? My Macbook pro is Japanese with a Japanese keyboard. I want to get a wireless bluetooth keyboard, but I am currently living in the UK and cannot get a wireless Japanese keyboard here. If I bought a US wireless keyboard, would this work with my laptop?

You can get one on eBay, shipped from Hong Kong, for £34…

but yes, a US or UK one would work too - except the mapping would not be what you may be used to.

Though I may have a Japanese nickname;-) I've never actually used a Japanese keyboard, so I'm not sure what differences there may be in the layout.


Is there a way to delete an app of an iPad that used the same Apple ID without touching it? My relative yelled at me for downloading an app for my friend now I have to delete it but there's no way I can ask my friend if she could delete the app and look for someone else to download it for her (Minecraft). I can't take her iPad and delete it so how can I delet it without touching the iPad. Is there a way? Mine is iPad Pro, hers is iPad Air 2.

It's bought & paid for - you own it forever, you can't send it back.

If you can't physically delete it from your friend's iPad, then there's no way to remove it. They won't ever be able to update it without knowing your Apple ID log & pass, but it will remain until they choose to delete it.

Removing it from any/all other devices will not affect that one.


iPhone has no drivers in Windows 10 I can't browse my iphone 5 (10.2.1) in windows 10 explorer, it doesn't show up as a volume.

The iphone is listed in the device manager, with a warning that it
has no installed drivers.
Windows cannot find any drivers online
("iPhone has no driver"), nor in Apple's common program files
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support).
I've
uninstalled and reinstalled itunes, and the Apple mobile device USB drivers, as a precaution. Iphone is still listed as driverless in
device manager.
I've installed the stand-alone Windows update
(KB3099229_x64) containing media features that were excluded in my version of Windows 10 Pro N.
I've unlocked my device.
I've trusted the computer.
I've rebooted the device.
I've used three different USB ports.
Windows and iphone is updated.
Itunes can interface with the device with no problems.
Update: There are no hardware problems. Everything works on a Windows 7 computer.

So, why don't there exist any drivers for iphone 5 for Windows 10? Seems like a rather huge oversight.

You should try iExplorer for macOS and Windows. At $40 it is a bit pricy, but it is a virtual Swiss Army knife of an app for iOS devices. Worth every penny.

(Disclaimer: I'm a very satisfied user of iExplorer for macOS. No financial ties between me and Macroplant LLC.)


Connect Multiple iPads to WiFi Simultaneously I have approximately 30 supervised WiFi-only iPad 2s located in a central office. They all need to connect to the same network to access the Internet. The most they'll do is visit a website, fill out some online forms, and download a 1 MB document for downloading. More than likely, not all 30 iPads will be in use, probably 15 on average. I bought this router thinking it could handle the load of iPads, but we seem to be having major slow down issues every now and then. I thought it was related to the speed of the Internet, but turns out the connection from the iPads to the router was severely degraded. I couldn't even get the Routers configuration page to pull up on an iPad connected directly to the wifi. I ended up completely turning off half the iPads and rebooting the router and speed increased drastically.

Therefore, what would be the best way to go about hooking up 30 iPads to the same network?

FYI, I'm using Configurator 2 to push the same profile to all iPad's to automatically connect to that wifi network.

*Side Note: Anyone know of a way to stop an iPad from requesting automatic updates? This could cause a lot of network strain if 30 iPads try to update at once. The messages are also quite annoying.

This can be easily solved by getting the proper infrastructure, not just a router.

The specs of your router don't matter.  What you are going to find is that after about 5 (maybe 10) devices simultaneously connect, your speeds are going to drop.  This is because each iPad (device, actually), regardless of what you are trying to do is attempting to use 100% of the bandwidth.  It's the nature of the TCP/IP stack; not your router or device.

I know this from having to deal with a government client that provided free wireless for the jury pool.  When people would come in one at a time, wireless was fine.  When they came in en mass, the WAP would crash.  It didn't matter if there were less than 30 people in the pool or 100.  If they came online en mass, Wi-Fi was down.

What you need is

At minimum 4 WAPs
Enterprise Grade WAPs that allow you to throttle bandwidth to each client.
The AP's configured in as a mesh (Ubiquiti has this baked in)

Try Ubiquiti Networks WAP's.  They will have the features you are going to need.


Reinstall macOS on Ubuntu MBP After an update broke my 2015 MBP, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it (via USB). Now I want to go back to MacOS. When I boot into recovery mode (cmd+optn+R), I reach the usual menu of options. When I select the reinstall option, it takes me to the screen with the Mojave logo in a circle, and asks me which disk I want to install on.

However, no disks appear. Recovery mode doesn't seem to recognize that I have any hard drives at all

how can I reinstall MacOS on my laptop?

Instead of selecting the Reinstall option select the Disk Utility option at the bottom.

This will run Disk Utility and allow you to perform all of its usual functions, such as repairing your disk and formatting it.

Reading between the lines it's most likely you'll need to format the drive to make it available for the macOS installer. Once you've done this you can quit Disk Utility and you'll be returned to the previous menu to select the Reinstall option again.


Is there an iOS Camera App that shoots a photo every minute? I would like to have an App that shoots a picture every minute, so I can carry my iPhone in my breast pocket to have a photoblog of my day.

A perfect solution would be if that app could create a video from those photos directly.

Look at stop motion apps, like Stop Motion Recorder, StopAnimator, Frameographer - Stop Motion & Time-Lapse, iMotion HD and so on.

You can get a variety of apps if you search for "stop motion" in the app store.


How can I integrate Homebrew with non-managed software in /usr/local? I'm about to switch over to the Homebrew
package management system, and almost everything looks very simple.  However,
I've been using this computer for a while, and so I already have a bunch of
stuff in /usr/local.  I'm OK with deleting almost all of it, as there are
formulæ for almost everything in there.  However, it's the "almost" that's
leading to my current confusion.  There are some executables—including published
ones, small personal scripts, and even TextMate's mate tool—in
/usr/local/bin which aren't available through Homebrew.  The Homebrew Tips
'N' Tricks page suggests
using ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.2 && make && make install &&
brew link foo, but this is only a useful suggestion if there's something I'd
like to actually build, rather than a simple binary or a symlink to something
local.

My question, then, is how to deal with unmanaged software and Homebrew
simultaneously.  I see a few possible approaches:

Mix the two freely.  I can't tell if Homebrew will tolerate me dumping
unmanaged binaries and symlinks in /usr/local/bin; my guess is that it
will work for now, but just lead to problems down the road.  However, I also
see that Homebrew's supposed to be flexible with existing file hierarchies.
I'd be curious to hear what the official line on this is.  Nevertheless,
it's not clear that it's an attractive approach.
(Ab?)Use the official system.  Create empty /usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.0
directories, copy the binaries/symlinks in there, and then brew link foo.
This will make symlinks be twice-indirected, but that doesn't seem like a
real problem.  This seems like the best approach to me, but not having used
Homebrew, I'm not sure about the drawbacks.  Is this going to cause
long-term problems when, for instance, upgrading formulæ, or when new
overlapping formulæ are created?
Just don't mix the two.  There are two approaches here:

Put my personal binaries/symlinks in another directory.  I'm not sure
what the best location is (~/bin?  ~/usr/bin?  Something else?), but
it solves the mixing problem by punting on it.
Put Homebrew in another directory (e.g., /usr/homebrew/).  This
solves the problem in the same way as 3.1.  The disadvantage is that I'm
putting Homebrew somewhere nonstandard, which seems like it'll just
cause a series of tiny minor headaches in the long run.

Something else that I don't know about or haven't thought of.

What's the best way to do this?  Is there an official one?  Are there obvious
flaws or benefits to any of these approaches that I haven't thought about?

I use 1.

I just compile my software using /usr/local as the prefix and I'm done. I had no problem so far. I don't know whether I'll experience problems, but I started ~1y ago and so far so good.

However…

If I'd have to start again today, I'd follow 2 (which I didn't know at the time). That way it's easy enough to know where everything is and what, exactly, the software has installed (since the hierarchy for /usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.0 is something like

bin/      etc/      include/  lib/      share/

)

3 doesn't seem worth.


Boot drive (SSD) going read-only randomly I've got a mid-2010 MBP running OS X 10.8.4. I've got a Sandisk SSD as my boot drive in my Super Bay and a 1.5TB hard disk in my HD bay. (I realize I could get better SSD performance if I swapped those, but the HD is too tall.)

When I boot my computer, everything seems fine. But after varying amounts of usage time, the SSD goes unwritable until I reboot. It's extremely weird. I can't touch to create new files anywhere (I get an error message like "touch: test.txt: Invalid argument"), I can't save anything, and applications like Mail, which depend on disk access start crashing without error messages. The Console and logs don't seem to be revealing anything unusual. Disk Utility doesn't start and diskutil hangs. If I manage to run out my main memory, I get the "Boot disk is full, kill an application" message. But even more weirdly, for apps that don't need to save anything, the computer seems to work fine. Rebooting restores everything to normal temporarily.

I'm not sure if it's related, but I also have these sporadic periods of 10-20 seconds of spinning rainbow ball, where kernel_task is my highest CPU user and seems to block ALL other activity. Disk transfers, network transfers, and all else seem to come to a temporary halt until whatever it is its doing finishes. I can usually still Cmd+Tab to Activity Monitor during these seizures.

I brought it to the Apple Store today, and their diagnostics couldn't find anything unsually. They successfully repaired permissions in Safe Mode, but the problem still exists. The tech there said that it seems as though the kernel can continue writing to disk in this state, but nothing in user mode.

Anybody have any idea whatsoever what might be causing this? My only other option will be to reinstall the OS, but I'm trying to make that my last resort.

It is possible that you are using a disk driver such as fuse. If so, uninstall it.

I also have a 2010 MacBookPro with an SSD in my optical bay and a 750 gig drive. I found myself in a similar situation; unable to boot because my data drive randomly became read only at reboot.

The culprit was fuse. It decided to remove my mount point, and create a symbolic link in its place.

Try booting into safe mode by holding down the shift key, and removing any fuse like programs.

Check /Volumes for any symbolic links (Except for the symbolic link to / )

If the issue persists, try creating a new user account.

Lastly, because both sata ports are sata 2, it is unlikely you would see any performance increase by swapping drive locations.


Automator use current directory location my goal is to use Automator to open an application with arguments

open ./MyApp.app -arguments

via running a shareable Buddy.app with Myapp.app (the Automator/workflow). both apps should be shareable together with anyone so they run straight off.

the simplest way to do so, seems to be to run the Buddy.app from within the same folder as MyApp.app.
then i can move the Buddy.app with MyApp.app anywhere, and they will still work together

to set up the relative file locations in bash script,

open "$(pwd)"/myapp.app -arguments

only problem is that Automator uses the home directory instead of the application directory.
ie pwd is the home directory, and not the actual file location.

in Automator the output from

echo $(pwd)

is my home directory, /Users/User

so the question is, how to get Automator (Buddy.app) to detect the current folder location and run MyApp.app ?

Have your workflow figure out its own path (more robust)

This works as long as your Automator workflow lives in the same directory as MyApp.app; you can create copies of either the workflow or the app at your discretion and reuse those copies wherever you want; nothing needs to be unique.

Steps

These are the steps to automate launching MyApp.app:

Open the workflow in Automator.
Add a Run AppleScript action. Remove all the boilerplate code inside and replace it with the following lines:

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set appPath to (text items 1 through -3 of (path to me as text) & {"MyApp.app"} as text)
tell application "Finder" to open file appPath

Save the Automator workflow in the same folder as MyApp.app.
Run the Automator workflow; it should launch MyApp.app.

Explanation

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"

This means “Watch out, I’m going to split a string soon; and I want you to use the : character as the split boundaries.”

path to me as text

This instructs the workflow to figure out the path to itself; path components are delimited by a colon (:), which is a remnant of Classic Mac OS.

text items 1 through -3 of […] & {"MyApp.app"}

This cuts off the last part of the path, and appends MyApp.app to the path.

[…] as text

This pieces the path back together (again with : as a delimiter).

tell application "Finder" to open file appPath

Lastly, this final line causes MyApp.app to launch.


Split Macintosh HD into 3 At the moment I have 1 250GB partition on my mac (Macintosh HD).

What I want to do is split my hard drive into 3 partitions. This is because I want to dual boot with Windows 8.1 and make a reserve drive for when El Capitan comes out so I can test it without my computer becoming buggy. The only issue is I can only split my Mac into 2 partitions. How would I do this? I also tried doing this in recovery mode and it did not work. Would I have to use a 3rd party tool like GParted? If so would it be safe and would I loose my recovery partitions if I do?

Thanks to @tubedogg for linking me to this post and giving me the tips.

To fix the issue I had to run the commands diskutil cs revert <disk id> and diskutil cs resizeStack (Not sure if that worked since I think it game me an error).

I had to reboot for the effects to change and I partitioned my drive in recovery mode (think you can do it within OS X though).


How to embedded apple script in a link in HTML? I tried to embedded apple script in a link in HTML, but all it does is brought up the Apple Script Editor Application with profiled script in it.

I want it to execute after I click on the link - so I don't have to press the play button.

Can someone help me fix this real quick ?

link.html

<a href = "

applescript://com.apple.scripteditor?
action=new&script=

tell application %22Safari%22%0D%09
make new document with properties {URL:%22https://www.google.com%22}%0D%09

end tell ">

Click me to run the script !

</a>

Result:

The app is called LinCastor. (It can also be installed with homebrew cask if you have it.)

First click "add new scheme" in the bottom left of the main window, then change the title to whatever you like and the "scheme(s)" to x-applescript-runner.

Change the "handler" below from AppleScript to Shell, and paste this code in:

#!/usr/bin/env python

THE_PASSWORD = 'secret'

import os
import urlparse
import subprocess

params = urlparse.parse_qs(os.environ["URL_QUERY"].lstrip('?'))

password = params['password'][0]
script = params['script'][0]

if password == THE_PASSWORD:
    subprocess.call(['osascript', '-e', script])

Hit "Save and Activate", then test it with this url:

x-applescript-runner://?password=secret&script=display%20dialog%20%22hello%22%0A

Obviously you'll want to change the password from secret to something better like V2VkIEZlYiAxMSAyMjo0MjozOSBFU1QgMjAxNQo= (but not that either!). The password should make it slightly more secure, but of course anyone who sees your URL will still be able to run whatever they want with a URL.


How to correct spelling in Dictation on new iPad (3rd generation) The Dictation feature on iPad (3rd generation) insists that Clare is spelled Claire, and I have been unable to find a way to correct this, other than manually placing the cursor, which is fiddly and rather defeats the point.

I have looked online for tips, and have not found any useful information so far. There is this Apple page iPad (3rd generation): Using Dictation, that has a very short "Dictation tips" section, but it currently only covers selection of different languages.

Is there any way to have control over the vocabulary, or spelling, of the Dictation feature?

I found the answer from iMore's How to turn on and use Siri-like Dictation on your new iPad:

  If Dictation gets confused about any of the words you speak, it will underline them in blue on the screen. If the word is incorrect, tap it to get a popup menu with alternatives. Tap an alternative to switch to it. You can also simply edit voice dictation text like any other text.

Sure enough, single-tapping on Claire gives me an option to change the text to Clare, and of course it works other ambiguous words.

A particularly useful example is when you mean Buy, and the dictation types By, with a blue underline. Tapping on that gives the two alternatives Buy and Bye.


Recovering Lost Mode then Deletion from Find my Iphone I have 2 iphones and today I had an experiment; from Find my Iphone App I have turned on lost mode in one of my phones and then I've erased it. Now I see

"This iPhone has been lost. Please call me.

"1421421"(my phone number)

on its screen and its not possible to do anything with it.
Couldn't find a solution after checking icloud and some search. Anybody have an idea how I can take it back?

You can use the PIN to unlock the device and connect to the internet (if needed)

Then open the find my phone app and go to that device.

Tap/select Turn Off Lost Mode

Alternatively, connect it to iTunes to complete the unlock on that device. Worst case, you have a chance to try backing it up (assuming you don't have a current backup). At that point, you can restore the device in iTunes.


Your connection is not private I am unable to access certain websites within Chrome. I am getting the error message "Your connection is not private". Anyone know how to fix this?

I've already tried the following:
Cleared cache and cookies, resetting the browser, reinstalling the browser,
downgrading/upgrading the browser (happens on multiple versions of Chrome)
and same websites work in Firefox and Safari.
I've corrected the time and that did not fix the issue. I ran the command sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com

Click on the Advanced link on the bottom left.  It will show you an option to continue on to the site you want to visit.

Chrome will show you this page if it finds problems with certificates, http vs https, etc.  It's just to let you know that it thinks something's not right and it gives you the option to continue or go back.


Close window without closing application How to close a window without the application quitting? does not address my question, strangely.  I don't want to hide the application windows like Cmd+h does, and Option+click didn't actually do anything for me, and isn't what I want anyway.

I work with a lot of different application windows, especially with the browser and the terminal (I'm a software engineer and run my coding editor, debuggers, servers, etc. from the terminal and am constantly switching between term windows and tmux sessions to develop/troubleshoot our solutions).  Sometimes (actually, most of the time), when I finish with a session, I want to close the window without closing the application.  I make heavy use of keyboard shortcuts, so it interrupts my flow to have to grab for the mouse and point->click the corner to close the window.

Is there a way to get a shortcut to close windows in OS X without closing the entire application?  This is really interrupting my flow and productivity.

I'm using Mavricks, btw.  I've also tried iTerm2 and the default Mac Terminal but couldn't find anything that lets me do this in either of those applications.  Chrome also doesn't seem to support closing just a Window.  Either terminal is fine, I have things configured to the point where tmux eliminates my need for a fancy terminal, because Tmux can do it anyway, plus some.

Have you thought for a keyboard combination like cmd+w?

In Google Chrome you can close all tabs with cmd+shift+w, in Safari the same way.

Alternatively you can write an AppleScript like tell application "Terminal" to close front window or as terminal command: osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to close front window'.


Attempting to run find command gives "Permission denied" I am attempting to obtain a list of applications on my Mac using find to search for *.app. However, when running the command, I get a lot of Permission denied messages, as below.

The computer is mine and I have administrative access. How can I run the command without the errors?

Last login: Thu Jul 17 07:42:01 on ttys000
pamelas-mbp:~ pamelabohler-sampson$ find / -iname *.app > ~/applications.txt
find: /.DocumentRevisions-V100: Permission denied
find: /.fseventsd: Permission denied
find: /.MobileBackups: Permission denied
find: /.Spotlight-V100: Permission denied
find: /.Trashes: Permission denied
find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
find: /Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/Users: Permission denied
find: /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC: Permission denied
find: /Library/Caches/com.apple.Spotlight/schema.201.plist: Permission denied
[...]
find: /private/var/spool/postfix/private: Permission denied
find: /private/var/spool/postfix/public: Permission denied
find: /private/var/spool/postfix/saved: Permission denied
find: /private/var/spool/postfix/trace: Permission denied
find: /private/var/tmp/launchd: Permission denied
find: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd: Permission denied
find: /System/Library/DirectoryServices/DefaultLocalDB/Default: Permission denied

You need to be root to access certain system directories. Prepend your command with sudo:

sudo find / -iname *.app > ~/applications.txt

This will give a prompt for your password:

Password:

Enter your password (the characters will not be shown), then press Enter. The find command will then be run as root and have access to the directories.


Quick switching to maximized application on Lion I used to use spaces for quick switching between applications (I had a space with a browser, another with a terminal and yet another with an editor). For spaces I could have a keyboard shortcut. This way, I had a quick way to switch using a keyboard shortcut.

Lion introduced maximized applications. I find this a great feature, however, after maximization the application it is on its own space for which I do not know how to define a keyboard shortcut.

Could you give me a hint how to quickly, using a keyboard shortcut, access a maximized application on Lion?

Thank you!

Use Ctrl + the arrow keys:

Ctrl + Right: switch to next space / maximized app to the right.

Ctrl + Left: switch to next space / maximized app to the left

Ctrl + Up: Exposé / Mission control showing everything

Ctrl + Down: Exposé for just the windows of the current app


MacBook pro retina 15" mid 2015 - two monitors 4k@60Hz I'm considering to buy the above mentioned MacBook with the Intel Iris Pro Graphics and without the additional AMD graphic card.

Now my question is whether this configuration supports connecting two external monitors with 4k resolution @60 HZ or not. Moreover SST or MST support will be helpful, too.
I'm thankful for every source link provided.

From Everymac:

  *This model supports a simultaneous maximum resolution up to 3840x2160 on two external displays via Thunderbolt 2. Alternately, it can
  support a single display up to 3840x2160 via Thunderbolt 2 and a
  single 1080p display at up to 60 Hz, 3840x2160 at 30 Hz, or 4096x2160
  at 24 Hz via HDMI.


Running Growl without a user logged into a graphical session? I currently have an OS X server (running 10.8.2) that has irssi installed, and is set up to send Growl notifications to my laptop when I am mentioned or have received a private message on IRC. However, Growl only appears to have options to start when a graphical login is done: trying to run it in a terminal over SSH gives:

$ /Applications/Growl.app/Contents/MacOS/Growl
_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.

Running it as a launchd daemon also doesn't seem to work, as I can't use growlnotify to create a notification.

It runs normally when started as a login item or via the Finder, but this is unideal for a server machine, where I only want to login via SSH.

You could try sending growl notifications via the network protocol instead of routing them through the Growl app.  e.g. send the notifications to your laptop using a python script

http://pythonhosted.org/gntp/


How to set wall paper I have an iPhone 3G. Recently I am facing a problem with my phone. When I set a wall paper, it is not showing behind the icons. Of course it is showing the picture when my mobile locks. The background behind the icons is plain black. How can I change the wallpaper behind the icons?

In the settings app, there should be an option to change the lock screen background,  the home screen background, and an option to change both. You are likely changing just the lock screen, not the home screen. Try changing the home screen background.


Re-download music on the same Mac I did buy an album and for some reason a song in this album did not fully downloaded however iTunes thinks it is. So I deleted it and went back to the store to re-download it again. In the store it wrote 'Downloading' next to the song but the song is not getting downloaded. What can I do?

Delete the song, Restart iTunes, go into the iTunes Store and on the Mainpage under Quicklinks "Purchased". Try to download the song again.


OpenAFS and Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 I am the author of this blogpost on how to install OpenAFS on MAC OS X Yosemite. After upgrading Yosemite to version 10.10.4, OpenAFS stopped working. It accepts the Kerberos token but it seems unable to connect to the remote server. Can someone help me investigating this issue? I don't know what to do. I also tried to clone the git repo and compile the latest branch (origin/openafs-stable-1_6_x) but it doesn't work.

The only error I can get is:

02/07/15 09:11:38.000 kernel[0]: afs: Lost contact with file server xx.xx.xx.xx in cell yy.yy.yy (code -1) (all multi-homed ip addresses down for the server)

In the previous version, I would have gotten the same error immediately followed by the opposite (and positive) one:

02/07/15 09:11:54.000 kernel[0]: afs: file server xx.xx.xx.xx in cell yy.yy.yy is back up (code 105) (multi-homed address; other same-host interfaces may still be down)

Unfortunately, this second message is not happening anymore. Can this be happening because discoveryd is not there anymore in 10.10.4?

Update: I have also added to my blog post the instructions on how to make it work with Mac OS X El Capitan.

The firewall blocks traffic from unsigned binaries.  Your File System, Inc. distributes an OpenAFS installer which is signed and includes signed binaries and a signed kernel extension.  You can obtain it from

https://www.your-file-system.com/openafs-client-installer/download


Recent items menus have stopped working on my iMac Recently I noticed that on my iMac, running El Capitan, the Open Recent menu has stopped getting updated, both in the Apple menus, and for apps, and both for the Open Recent menu item, and the list that pops up from the Dock.

I checked in System Preferences | General | Recent Items, and it is saying None. I have tried a number of times to reset it to 20, but it shows up as None when I get back in to System Preferences.

I hope someone can help me sort this problem out.

For me, this partially fixed things:

Close all open apps.
Move ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist (and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist.lockfile if it exists) to a backup directory.
Reboot.

In my case this fixed the recent items lists under the File menu in each app and the Apple menu. But the context menus on Dock icons still do not update.


What are the advantages and disadvantages to jailbreaking an iPad? I just got a new iPad 2, this is my first iOS device.

What are some advantages to jailbreaking and what are some disadvantages?

Note:
Please make sure that answers are objective.
Stick to facts, not personal preferences or ethical debates.

For

You can run any app you like, including ones not permitted by Apple, and you can run them at a system level rather than the unprivileged level they do on a normal device.
You can remove Apple services on the iPad more or less at will.
Provided you can download the image of the software, it's relatively easy to restore to a non-jailbroken state.

Against

Running apps at system level comes with inherent risks - malicious code can kill your iPad, and badly written code can cause an entire system crash / instability.
It's my experience that jailbroken apps (Springboard ones particularly) deplete the performance of the device (But I'm talking about an iPhone 4, rather than the more powerful iPad 2 - may be less valid).
Jailbroken iPads aren't elegible for warrantee - in theory if you reset back to default you're okay, but if that's not possible you've invalidated yourself and they are totally within their rights to refuse you service.
Jailbreaking needs to be redone with every software iteration, and with it, so do your jailbroken apps [possibly no longer true, can anyone verify?]


Messages app on iPhone do not play alert/vibrate for SMS received from some numbers I get no sound (or vibration) in my iPhone when a I receive a message from certain numbers. The number is not listed in my Contacts, it's a very short number sent containing SMS sent by my bank with some secure code or OTP to perform an operation with their services.

The iPhone is not in the Do Not Disturb mode and is not silenced. I sent a message to myself and heard the sound.

What is causing the sound to not play and how can I fix to get the sound back? My iPhone is running the current latest version of iOS 12.3.1.

iOS 12 and macOS Mojave introduced a feature called Secure Code AutoFill which lets you conveniently fill the security code/OTP in the active text field when one is received via SMS.

If you use a Mac which is linked with the same Apple ID as your iPhone, and you have enabled Text Message Forwarding under Settings app → Messages, the secure code/OTP generally send by your bank can be easily entered in the appropriate field with a simple mouse click.

You can read about the feature in the linked article:

How to Use Secure Code AutoFill in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave

  If you've enabled Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone, you can use the Secure Code AutoFill feature in macOS Mojave, too. The code should appear in Safari as an AutoFill option in the relevant field as soon as the SMS is delivered to Messages on your Mac.

  iOS and macOS use local data detector heuristics to work out whether an incoming message carries a security code, and Apple says the Security Code AutoFill feature does not alter the security of this two-factor authentication method.

If you have such a setup, your iPhone doesn't play any sound or vibrate for the received message, and the SMS is automatically marked as read on your iPhone.


Remove "Creative Cloud Files" from Finder sidebar? I've used Activity Monitor to close every process with the Creative Cloud icon.

I've deleted the Creative Cloud Files directory itself, and deleted it from the trash.

I've gone to the "Extensions" preference pane and turned off "Core Sync."

I've quit Finder and restarted it.

And yet the "Creative Cloud Files" icon still shows up in my Finder sidebar, even though the original can't be found.

How can I eliminate this zombie icon once and for all?

This is how you show / hide certain icons of the Finder Sidebar:

Try a right-click on the folder, then 'Remove from Sidebar'.

1) Go to 'Finder', then open 'Preferences' from the menu bar

2) Navigate to the 'Sidebar' tab

3) Uncheck the appropriate icon(s) as required. Then close.
I believe that apps like CCleaner can clean up these "ghost" directories too. However, based on your question, these steps should do the job. Let me know how you get on.


Tool to perform MULTIPLE regex replacements on text It's often been the case that I've wanted to a) perform a series of regex replacements on some text in a specific order, and b) save this replacement to use for later. However, despite the purported usefulness of such a tool, I have not found a program, convenient shell script, or online utility which allows a user to do this.

I will list a number of programs and utilities that I have tried:

Sublime Text: this works well, but only one regex replacement can be made at a time, which is rudimentary for my purposes.
Regex101: This is an extremely invaluable tool for regex replacements, but it also doesn't support multiple substitutions.
Perl: This is probably the best way to perform a series of replacements and save it as well for later. However, it is incredibly cumbersome to use, doesn't show a preview of the replacements that are being made, and has some really ugly syntax.

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do from the command line, from a program, or from an online website?

BBEdit, LibreOffice, and similar tools allow regular expressions in their search/replace dialogues

Typically, there is a check box to allow regex or plain text.  Then you can replace one at a time or click "replace all."


Apple Wireless Might Mouse keeps disconnecting? I have an Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse (not the newer Magic Mouse) that I've used for a couple of years.

In recent months, though, the mouse would spontaneously disconnection itself at random, even when the batteries are still full.

Does anyone have experience with this or know how to fix it?

I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 if that makes a difference.

Thanks!

Try completely disconnecting the mouse from your computer, then re-pairing the mouse with the computer. I don't know if that'll help, but it's worth a try.


Running FFmpeg in Automator/AppleScript I have written an apple script previously to automate a task I do in my work many times.

With Apple updating to Catalina I will lose the use of Quicktime 7 (which is part of my Image sequencing workflow) I want to take the opportunity rewrite my script.

I'm taking it one step at a time and the first is running FFmpeg.

I have written a script:

ffmpeg -r 25 -f image2 -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -codec:v prores_ks -profile:v 0 imagemagick_TL_Test_01.mov

This works in Terminal if I navigate to the folder and run it. Great.

I now want to find a way to make the action drag and droppable.

I have tried to adapt my old code to include this at the relevant section to run the ffpmeg on the dropped folder but I have encountered error after error. Ideally renaming the output file to have the grandparent folder name and save in the parent folder.

on open dd

    repeat with d in dd
        set d to d's contents
        tell application "Finder"
            set seq1 to (d's file 1 as alias)
            set dparent to d's container as alias
            set mov to "" & dparent & (dparent's name) & ".mov"
        end tell
        do shell script "d=" & d's POSIX path's quoted form & "
    /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -r 25 -f image2 -i \"" & seq1 & "\" '*.JPG' -codec:v prores_ks -profile:v 0 \"" & dparent & ".mov\" && exit
    "
    end repeat
end open

This gives me the error :

[image2 @ 0x7ff9cd000000] Could find no file with path '***:Users:***:Desktop:imagemagick_TL_Test:01:_DAN7741.JPG' and index in the range 0-4
***:Users:***:Desktop:imagemagick_TL_Test:01:_DAN7741.JPG: No such file or directory

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

An important consideration when programming is to come up with a plan for debugging your code.  Here is how I would have coded the code for debugging.

It's difficult to debug an on open handler.  I add an on run handler where I can dummie up the input to a common routine that is called by on run and on open. fyi: I corrected how the input was processed from on open.

(*
   AskDifferent question:
     https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/366992/running-ffmpeg-in-automator-applescript
 Use log statements.

 It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on.  Here is an example.

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

 *)
on run
    --  debug lines
    set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string

    -- here is a log statment.
    log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath

    -- Be sure to select a file on your DESKTOP.
    set see to alias (desktopPath & "auto-show-2015.mp4")

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

    common(dropped_items)

end run

-- Gets invoked here when something is dropped on this AppleScript icon

on open dropped_items

    common(dropped_items)

end open

on common(dd)

    repeat with d in dd
        set d to d's contents
        log d
        tell application "Finder"
            --set seq1 to (d's file 1 as alias)  -- dropped items come in as an array of aliased items.
            set seq1 to d
            set dparent to d's container as alias
            set mov to "" & dparent & (dparent's name) & ".mov"
            log "mov is " & mov
        end tell

        set toUnix to "d=" & d's POSIX path's quoted form & " /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -r 25 -f image2 -i \"" & seq1 & "\" '*.JPG' -codec:v prores_ks -profile:v 0 \"" & dparent & ".mov\" && exit
    "
        log "toUnix is " & toUnix
        set fromUnix to do shell script toUnix
        log "fromUnix is " & fromUnix
    end repeat
end common


Keep low power mode on all the time I would like Low Power Mode to be the default state of my device.

When I get to 80% battery it toggles itself off automatically.

How can I stop it turning itself off?

How can I always keep my phone in low power mode (or some other equivalent)?

With ios13, you can make an automation that turns on low power mode when your phone turns it off.


External SSD no longer bootable I have a Mac Mini (late 2014) with its stock internal drive and an external SSD via USB. The external drive has Sierra and this is what I always boot from. The internal is a clone of the external just for backup, cloned via SuperDuper.

According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190 I can update directly to Mojave on this Mac Mini. I downloaded the installer from the App Store and ran it to install on the external drive. It took about 25 minutes and gave a "success" message, prompting me to restart to finish. When I restarted, it booted from the internal drive instead. I went to the Startup Disk pref pane and made sure the external was selected and tried again. It booted again from the internal drive. Good thing I had it as a backup :)

In the Startup Disk pref pane, the external drive is selectable but it still shows as a Sierra boot. I can tell the install did write to the external drive but I suppose it didn't finish. I ran the installer again -- it only took a few minutes and again showed "success" and a restart prompt. Same result.

I cloned the working internal boot drive back to the previously-working external SSD. So in theory I would be back where I started, with the SSD running Sierra and being my boot drive. But it still won't boot into it and it still shows as a valid choice in the Startup Disk pref pane. I tried resetting the NVRAM but no luck. And holding option at boot does nothing -- yes, it's a wired keyboard ;)

Thoughts?

When upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra, the firmware on older Mac logic boards is also updated. This allows a Mac to boot the newer macOS versions (starting with High Sierra) from APFS container partitions. Sierra can not be installed to boot from a APFS container, but Sierra can recognize APFS and therefore allows the selection an APFS volume with Mojave as the startup disk. However, the firmware may not agree with the selection. Possible reasons for failure are given below.

The upgrade from Sierra to Mojave do not also update the firmware.
The firmware update did not occur because you used an external drive to upgrade macOS.

You could backup your important data to an external drive, then do a clean install of High Sierra to the internal drive. If High Sierra is not available, then select a newer version of macOS. Afterwards, you can do a clean install of Mojave to the external drive.

Update:

Back when High Sierra was first released, I remember many questions similar to your question were posted here a Ask Different. I believe the consensus was that the firmware can  only be upgraded from the internal drive. The update is written to the EFI partition on the drive before the firmware is instructed to update itself. The firmware is not capable of reading the update file from a USB drive. The firmware is capable of reading the update file from the first internal drive (disk0).


How can I make example.com and www go to http://www.example.com/wiki/projects? With OS X Server Websites, how can I make example.com and www.example.com to go directly to http://www.example.com/wiki/projects

I have wikis setup correctly. I want visitors that come to example.com and www.example.com to see http://www.example.com/wiki/projects directly.

How can I do that?

In the server app. Go to the websites menu and under the "Server Website" click the pen icon to edit. The add a redirect of "http://www.example.com" and/or "http://example.com" to "http://example.com/wiki/projects"

Done.


Does an old Intel Core Duo Mac Mini have enough performance to run the latest Garageband? I am getting a used Mac Mini primarily so I can record music using Garageband.

Will the 2007 or 2009 models have enough performance to run the latest Garageband and latest OS X?

I will at most record three audio tracks simultaneously. For playback probably maximum six audio tracks plus maximum six software instrument tracks.

I did some searching and found this (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20020233-263.html):

  As with all of Apple's new software, iLife '11 requires a Mac with an
  Intel processor. iLife '11 is also only compatible with Mac OS X
  10.6.3 or newer (the current version is 10.6.4). Your machine must also have at least 1GB RAM and about 5GB of available disk space
  (though it is recommended that users retain at least 10 percent of
  their hard drive space and leave it open).

  A DVD drive is required for installation, and users must have a
  minimum screen resolution of 1,280 x 768 pixels.

  Some features of iLife '11 require greater minimum specifications.
  GarageBand "Learn to Play" requires a Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo or
  better processor. 24-bit recording in GarageBand requires a 24-bit
  audio interface that works with Mac OS X.

So I guess I will go for a Mac Mini with at least a Intel Core 2 Duo.


Recent items are showing under "No Date" when sorting by date in finder This thing's driving me crazy.

Often, when I download or create a new file, and then I have to upload it to a website or something like that, it will appear after the oldest items under a "No Date" section.

I'm running Mountain Lion but it happened for me at Lion as well.

Any ideas how to fix this?

I don't know if this is really a "solution" per se, but it's a workaround that I prefer anyway: I changed the "Arrange by" to "None" as described here Mac OS X - File Open Dialog: Can't sort or resize columns

This gets rid of the categorization by Today/7 days/30 days/etc. altogether, and just gives a straightforward dialog that lets you sort however you want (be it Date Modified, or Name, or Size). I find this much more useful and fail to see the advantage of the other view (which is made almost useless by this No Date bug).

Note that some applications (e.g., MS Office) do not let you change the Auto-arrange setting. Just open up some other application that does (e.g., Chrome) and set it there (just go to Open File or similar -- you don't have to actually open the file). This action seems to set this setting globally (on 10.8.4).

This problem is all over the web. Why does Apple not comment on it? Does it not care about its users? Why does it not release a fix? Is iTunes so much more important? This bug seems almost ludicrous: The arrange-by setting used for categorization is (normally) "Date Modified", and the actual modified date is clearly shown in the Date Modified column. Indexing in the general case perhaps needs to happen not in real time (e.g., if you are viewing "All Files"), but when we open a dialog, can't just the (usually very few but most important) No Date files be manually indexed in that moment?


How to change the finder services submenu threshold? In the finder context menu, there is a list of services at the very bottom. Once this list grows beyond 4, it becomes a submenu instead.

Is there a way to affect this threshold, i. e. have five services showing on the first menu level?

In Terminal, paste the following line and hit return:

defaults write -g NSServicesMinimumItemCountForContextSubmenu -int 99; killall Finder

You can change 99 to whatever number you prefer – when there are 99 items or more, Finder will place them in a submenu instead of appending them to the context menu. The default is 5.


Can iCal merge Events of attendes into one shared event? When I want to see which Events other Users in iCal are attending through the delegates tab then I get the same entry multiple times for Events which my delegates and I have accepted. Is it possible to just show one event in some special color or else so I don't get a cluttered Month view?

For the moment it seems that this isn't possible. The logic behind using iCal with delegates is that you don't have the delegates tab activated all the time. Normally a delegate should only be looked at when it's needed. So the problem was more that I used the delegates tab in a wrong way ;)


Is there a Siri command for "Get directions to my next event?" I can say to Siri "Get directions to the nearest post office" and it will pull it up. However, sometimes I am on my way to an event that is in my calendar with the address. I would like to say "Get directions to my next event". However, that doesn't work as it pulls up event centers instead.

Is there some other phrasing I can say to express what I want to Siri?

This is impossible to do as of iOS 10.3.3. About the closest thing you can do is, "Hey Siri where is my next appointment", but there is no way to get directions from the address it spits out.

What I'd recommend, instead of using Siri, is to create a widget in Workflow that will automatically grab the next event's location and give you directions. Note: I have never used Workflow to do this myself but I'm 99% sure it has all the various actions you would need to write a workflow to give you directions with one click.

Sorry you are unable to use Siri in this way and hopefully Workflow will accomplish what you're looking to do.


How to Recover Old Version of File in El Capitan without Backups? I know there are many softwares about recovering deleted files. I did not have version control in order in one system, and the file was replaced by an empty file.

I would like to understand if there is any chances of restoring the file. It is .tex file of some hundreds of lines.
I had it in BitTorrentSync but it does not store old versions.
This complication was caused either by TextMate 2beta when running compilation in non-TeX document; BitTorrentSync (has been unstable in 2.x but weak evidence). The file got empty with 50kB total size as a complication.

In the compilation, I had in place the option --shell-escape with XeLaTeX which allows to run Python inside LaTeX document.

View

In TextMate, you see the corrupted file

In doing vim file.tex, I see corrupted file

Last login: Wed Apr  6 21:41:50 on ttys000

MacBook-Air-3:~ masi$ vim   /Users/masi/BitTorrentSync/diseases/1.4.2016.tex

Clinical infectious disease - David Sch...
Mandel

Herpes virus infection % = Herpesviridae
\begin{itemize}
"~/BitTorrentSync/InfectiousDiseases/1.4.2016.tex" 1909L, 50380C

which indicates that something has went very bad wrong, most probably in the compilation of TextMate.

How to Restore an Old Version of a File in El Capitan?

No success in restoring the file, like patrix points out.
So regular daily backups is the way to go to prevent loss of data.
However, this cannot only be the measure in the long-run.
We need to understand why such an occasion occurs.

Suggestion for improvements in Text Editor, Python and LaTeX

I think the reason for the corruption of the file was the shebang --shell-escape inside TextMate but also because of LaTeX community. There are many other tickets in TextMate which should be fixed so this one is not in the high list. So I just do not use "always" the shebang for Python because of the danger of losing data.
We should

understand how to limit the rights of --shell-escape
understand how to have Python in inside LaTeX without full shell rights
much more error tests are needed for tracking down this error
active text editor development with open/community development

I think this is not only the editor' fault. I think this is also LaTeX community task because they allow in the first place python in the .tex document with too wide permissions.
I think the current method should be better implemented because of such damages.
I think we need pythonLatex or something else because importing whole python in LaTeX is dangerous currently without Unit tests.

I propose Unit tests for LaTeX documents. This could help me to understand between the integration with Python and LaTeX, and with text editor


Battery Consumption too high I’ve noticed in the last couple of days that the battery of my iPhone XR is not lasting as long as it used to, its maximum capacity is 90%.
In the last 2 hours I’ve lost 80% of my charge only watching YouTube video using Wi-Fi.
In the battery usage by app section of the battery settings, i see that Photos app used the 33% in the last 24 hours, I’ve checked in the app but I wasn’t uploading/downloading anything from iCloud.
I am running iOS 14.1.
My question is simple, how and why do I have these problems? Could they be caused by a widget?

My question is simple, how and why do I have these problems? Could they be caused by a widget?

It can be caused by anything including (a) widget(s).
However, in this case, it's an issue with iOS 14.

Apple Confirms iOS 14 Battery, Data Problems For iPhone Users
iOS 14 Battery Life Bad & Draining Fast? Here’s Why & How to Fix It

I have personally tested this after experiencing severe battery drain on my iPhone after upgrading to iOS 14.1 by reverting to iOS 13 via a restore from backup.  When I did, the issue went away.
What can you do to fix?  There are some tips like ensuring your apps are updated and closing apps (not suspending them) when not in use.  I personally just keep the phone plugged in all the time and I'm waiting for a new release that hopefully fixes it (actually, I'm waiting for the iPhone 12 mini instead).


How do I stop OS X attempting to import photos on each boot? Everytime I boot my iMac up while my iPhone is attached it attempts to import photos, giving me a message as soon as I login about how it "can not import photos because the device is locked". This has started up in the last 3-4 days, presumably because of an OS X update (I'm on version 10.10.5).

I don't want it to try importing them on boot (and it's annoying getting this message on each boot), and I've already disabled various settings to stop it importing automatically when I connect my iPhone.

How can I prevent it from trying to import photos each time I boot my Mac up?

Connect phone.
Launch Image Capture [in Applications]
Set "Connecting this iPhone opens:" - No application


Normal temp in a MacBook Pro while using an external screen I've recently bought an apple cinema display to complement my old MacBook Pro Late 2011 and I've notice the increment in the working temperature of the machine while connected to the display.

I know that the cause of that increment is the continuous use of the GPU when connected. However, I would like to know if the increment of 20ºC in the temperature is something normal. When it isn't connected the machine is usually working around 50ºC and now it's around 72ºC.

Mine is one of those affected for the problems with the GPU. Apple changed de logic for free in 2014 because the computer was covered by Apple Care. I don't know if they swapped the logic for a new one or refurbished. The operation happened in Finland and was made by a Apple Authorized Service.

For that reason I'm a little concerned about the temperature rise. I don't want to change again the board, even more now that it isn't covered by apple anymore.

I just ordered a cooling pad that it's going to arrive today. I'm spending the summer in the west coast in USA, in Oregon. I don't thing the summer is going to be terrible, but I would like to be safe (better safe than sorry).

So the questions are two:

Are these normal temps for the GPU?
Should I be worried?

Thanks a lot!

Those temps seem fine to me.

The late 2011 MBP models usually range from about 40ºC (104ºF) to 100ºC (212ºF) depending on whether the CPU is idle or under load. CPU temps (just like ambient temperatures) typically have a bearing on GPU temps too, especially within the extremely confined spaces of a MacBook.

If you're interested, you can check out the Intel Mac Temperature Database for an indication of the various temperatures that Intel Macs run at. Unfortunately the database doesn't separate out GPU temps, but it's still a useful guide.

That said, I do understand your concern considering your Mac's history. I would just keep an eye on those temps when you're in Oregon to see how much the ambient temperature affects things. But a GPU temp in the mid 70s (ºC) or high 160s (ºF) is nothing to worry about.


Are there any Lion optimized text editors with VIM keybindings? I am looking for a text editor with support for Lion's new features - specifically autosave, versions, and full-screen support.

I would also really like to be able to use VIM keybindings, either standard, or as an option. Does this combination exist?

Check Sublime Text 2, it is still in beta and they have adding full-screen support in Lion but not others you mentioned.  And you can use Vim key-binding too.

MacVim is also working on some of the Lion refinements (the ones that are included have some rough edges) - it's certainly not stable since it's being fixed as the days go by, but as an open-source program, you can see the bugs/defects and know when the features you care are shipped or have issues.


Least intrusive way to install Ruby 1.9 on a borrowed MacBook? I need to use Ruby 1.9 for a programming test, and I'll be borrowing my dad's MacBook Air to do so. He's running OSX 10.7.5 and has Ruby 1.8.7

What's the least "invasive" way to install a newer version of Ruby on his machine. Do I have to install XCode? Do I have to install RVM? Would homebrew be useful for this? If so, is it relatively simple to remove them once I'm done? I'd like to return it "clean" and avoid making any unnecessary changes to his system. It would be ideal if I could undo/uninstall any changes I do make.

Thanks for your help!

The problem is that there aren't any builds for Ruby for OS X, so you'll have to at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode to be able to build it. But once you've done that, you might as well use any of Homebrew, RVM or rbenv to install Ruby, rather than building it yourself.

I don't think there's any major difference in terms of how easy it is to remove either of these tools, since they were all designed to be standalone and as little intrusive as possible. In fact, RVM and rbenv live in one folder only.

The choice is yours.

With Homebrew

I would say the easiest way of getting Ruby is through Homebrew. Note that Homebrew has Ruby 2.0.0 as of writing this answer, so you won't get 1.9.3 through it.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
brew install ruby

Homebrew and everything it installs lives in /usr/local. You can use this gist to remove it completely – just copy and paste it to a Terminal. Although I would say having Homebrew on a Mac is never a bad idea, which is the reason I'd recommend this over the other methods.

With RVM

RVM is a little more intrusive in the way it interoperates with your shell, but if you're going to remove it after, then you shouldn't worry about it.

Install RVM by following the instructions. For 1.9.3, you then just need:

rvm install 1.9.3

Note that in order to use RVM you would have to change your shell's configuration file (.bash_profile) as well, so remember to clean that up afterwards. Apart from that, RVM lives in ~/.rvm, and can be uninstalled with rvm implode.

With rbenv

rbenv is a competitor to RVM, and does the same thing. Except that if you want to install Rubies you need ruby-build as a plugin.

Follow its installation guide and once you're done, use rbenv install 1.9.3-p392 for the latest 1.9.3 patchlevel, for example.

To remove rbenv, you only have to delete ~/.rbenv and remove the line that loads it from ~/.bash_profile.


Is Cellular Network Data Usage persisted to a new iPhone I got my original 3GS on release day in June 2009 as an upgrade to a 1G. In around September 2009 it developed a problem with the mute switch so I had it replaced at my local Apple Store.

A friend just asked me what my data usage is (as he is looking at his first smart phone contract and doesn't know how much data allowance to include) so I checked my stats on the 3GS.

It says at the bottom Last Reset: Never so my question is, when does Never begin?

My current 3GS was restored from the backup of my original 3GS when it was replaced and I'm not 100% sure but I think that the original 3GS may have been restored from the 1G.

Does my usage stat include only the current 3GS or does it include the original 3GS usage (and possibly the 1G usage if I restored from it) as well?

EDIT: Following Cawas's answer, here are my current stats for illustration:

Apple apparently has no official information about this and, given your stats, I now believe we simply can't know about it without an app.

If all you want is get to know your data usage the safest way is checking it with your carrier, because the iPhone data really isn't all that precise. Another option would be jailbreaking your phone and using some cydia app such as Data Counter, Download meter or even SBSettings, which would still use the iPhone data and still wouldn't be as precise as your carrier can be.

Now, if you're fast enough you can even get some app for free, on the Apple Store, though DataMan Lite might be enough for your needs.


Revoke an applications access to keychain passwords I granted an application 'always allow' access to my keychain, i no longer want to have this application set to this, is there a central place where i can see which applications are allowed to access items / passwords in the keychain and then remove them as wanted ?

security is a command-line program which can access/manipulate the keychains.  The following command will output a long stream of text, but it contains the info you're looking for.  You just need to know how to look for it.

security dump-keychain -a login.keychain

This is an example of a keychain entry without any specific access controls:

access: 2 entries
    entry 0:
        authorizations (1): any
        don't-require-password
        description: <NULL>
        applications: <null>
    entry 1:
        authorizations (1): change_acl
        don't-require-password
        description: <NULL>
        applications: <null>

This is an example of an item that only iChat has permission to access:

access: 3 entries
    entry 0:
        authorizations (1): encrypt
        don't-require-password
        description: <key>
        applications: <null>
    entry 1:
        authorizations (6): decrypt derive export_clear export_wrapped mac sign
        don't-require-password
        description: <key>
        applications (1):            0: /Applications/iChat.app (OK)
    entry 2:
        authorizations (1): change_acl
        don't-require-password
        description: <key>
        applications (0):

If you only want to search for a specific application, then it is probably easiest to just send the output of the above command to a file, and read through it manually to search for your application string to find out what items it has permission to use.


Applescript: path to files in application's Resources I'm new to applescript and coding.

I'm trying to make a little Applescript application that plays an audiofile contained in the .app, using:

do shell script "afplay " & quoted form of ("/Users/billy/Desktop/test.app/Contents/Resources/Stuff/audio.m4a")

The problem is; how can I make the app work on an another mac, without having to change the /username/ manually?

set myPath to POSIX path of (path to resource "audio.m4a")

    do shell script "afplay " & quoted form of myPath

or

set myPath to POSIX path of (path to resource  "audio.m4a" in directory "Stuff")

do shell script "afplay " & quoted form of myPath

You should look at the libraries in the library window of Script Editor.

In this case standardAdditions


Kernel Task High CPU and Strange Activity from Other Apps In Activity Monitor, kernel_task is showing that it is using 90% CPU. Chrome can't keep 2 tabs open at the same time without showing "Aw Snap." Other apps are slow and my fan is running at full speed. I have no idea what is causing this. I haven't installed any apps or anything that might affect my Mac.

EDIT: I've also done a SMC reset and a PRAM reset. Still have high CPU usage.

I have listed my Console Log below.

Console Log

4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344626 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.41:49565 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344635 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.91:44044 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344669 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.41:49568 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:21.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:22.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344696 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.91:44048 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:22.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:23.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344773 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.48:33982 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:23.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:24.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344803 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.48:33984 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:24.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:24.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344830 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.4:60701 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0
4/09/2016 10:37:24.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) socket: LS_SF_CANT_RECV_MORE pid:0/228 pr:6 flags:536 cState:4 line:1055
4/09/2016 10:37:25.000 AM kernel[0]: LS(4354) STRANGE TCP connection (dataInBeforeAccept:0) id:3344854 pid:228 conStatus:4 flags:512 original_from:NULL mixedFrom:10.0.0.91:44058 size:b3d mbuf_type:1  data_flags:0

The culprit was an app called Serviio, which is a kind of Plex alternative.

It uses Java which the process of was 228. This was also the reason that it was trying to connect to IP addresses on my network. I deleted it and it is all back to normal.


Nice Audio Mixer/Repeater I am looking for a nice volume mixer for OS-X Yosemite+ for per-application audio control, I would also like per application sound output control.
I don't mind buying if it's a nice product with long term support.

Soundflower from Cycling74 used to be the app to do this type of task, but is unsupported & no longer reliable - I eventually had to uninstall it.

It was taken over by Rogue Amoeba, who maintain the download but no longer provide updates. It has been open sourced on GitHub, but I've yet to see a stable release; kernel panics are frequent.

It seems quite possible they re-worked the technology into their main product, Audio Hijack. Although primarily marketed as an 'any app' recorder, it actually can achieve some pretty comprehensive routing; comes with a fair number of built-in audio effects & can also use any AU plugin effects too.

This is a quick example, using 2 apps, EQ, volume, optional recorder & a specific audio output.

...and another with 3 sources to 3 outputs...

If you need even more comprehensive routing, there's always Plogue Bidule... if you can ever figure it out ;-)


Random and brief fan spin up I occasionally leave my Mac mini on but with its screens off, the way my power settings is  set.. the Mac should go into sleep mode after 15 minutes of inactivity.

I noticed tonight that this did not happen, and randomly an hour later the Macs fan started to spin up aggressively for a very brief period (5 seconds).

Could anyone tell me what this could be? Or is there a log that I can go through to see what was happening?

EDIT (as suggest by @AnonymousAppDev)

    23/01/2014 01:30:46 GMT
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   PreventDiskIdle                0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   InteractivePushServiceTask     0
   PreventSystemSleep             1
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 182(coreaudiod): [0x000000010000178c] 00:00:57 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleUSBAudioEngine:Bose Corporation:Bose USB Audio:14200000:1'.noidlesleep"
   pid 1063(VLC): [0x000000010000178d] 00:00:57 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "VLC media playback"
   pid 72(hidd): [0x0000000a0000178f] 00:00:43 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
    Timeout will fire in 557 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
   pid 1264(screensharingd): [0x000000080000175c] 00:02:50 PreventSystemSleep named: "Remote user is connected"
Kernel Assertions: 0x10c=USB,BT-HID,MAGICWAKE
   id=500  level=255 0x4=USB mod=22/01/2014 20:59 description=XHC1 owner=AppleUSBXHCI
   id=502  level=255 0x4=USB mod=22/01/2014 20:54 description=EHC1 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
   id=504  level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBMouseDevice
   id=505  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=23/01/2014 01:41 description=en0 owner=en0

I suspect it has something to di with either VLC or my USB Speakers?

First of all, we need to see if something is preventing your Mac from sleeping.

Open Terminal.app
Type in pmset -g assertions

What you are looking for is these lines:

  PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep
     PreventSystemSleep
     PreventUserIdleSystemSleep
     InternalPreventDisplaySleep

and

  Listed by owning process:
    pid xx(nameofdaemon): [0x000000090000012c] 01:45:46 BlahBlah named: "com.randomnam"

Copy and paste all of that into your question.

Next, try resetting the SMC (System Management Controller)

Taken from Apple Support

Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.

Finally, check the Console Logs

Open Console.app
Click in the search box and type in sleep
Find the entries that match the time your Mac was sleeping
Copy and paste it in your answer

The first and third fixes weren't really fixes. I just hope that the data you paste will help find the cause.


Terminal redirection not working on MacOS Mojave? System: MacBook Pro (early 2013), running up-to-date Mojave.

To analyze CPU utilization when an application is running I'm doing the same I've done over and again in a Linux system; running the following command on terminal:

top | grep idle

This works as it should, screen output is:

MacBook:Desktop Peregrino69$ top | grep idle
CPU usage: 13.14% user, 15.97% sys, 70.87% idle
CPU usage: 10.94% user, 8.53% sys, 80.52% idle
CPU usage: 10.95% user, 6.94% sys, 82.9% idle

However if I do

top | grep idle | tee ./utilization.txt

... unexpectedly there's no terminal output at all, and the resulting file is empty. This failing I tried

top | grep idle >> ./utilization.txt

... with the same result.

Testing redirection with a simple echo command echo hello | tee foo works as expected; the word "hello" outputs both on screen and in foo.

What's going on?

If STDOUT is redirected to a non-terminal (e.g. a file) a default buffer size of 4096 Byte is used. In the Terminal STDOUT defaults to line buffering.

Executing the command top | grep idle | tee >> ... will fill the 4k buffer with ~45-50 Byte/s (depending on load and sys|usr|idle split). After a while the first buffer will be written to file. Here, it took ~85 seconds to write the first buffer to the file system.

So either be patient  or if you want the file to be updated immediately (i.e. every second), modify grep buffering:

top | grep idle --line-buffered | tee >> ./utilization.txt

Result after a few seconds:

$ cat ./utilization.txt
CPU usage: 9.5% user, 11.49% sys, 79.44% idle
CPU usage: 5.24% user, 10.48% sys, 84.26% idle
CPU usage: 2.86% user, 4.74% sys, 92.39% idle
CPU usage: 2.3% user, 1.91% sys, 96.5% idle
CPU usage: 3.79% user, 2.25% sys, 93.95% idle
CPU usage: 2.3% user, 3.35% sys, 94.61% idle
CPU usage: 1.91% user, 1.91% sys, 96.16% idle
CPU usage: 2.15% user, 2.51% sys, 95.33% idle
CPU usage: 2.50% user, 4.29% sys, 93.20% idle
CPU usage: 1.43% user, 1.7% sys, 97.48% idle

If Terminal output is also required use: top | grep idle --line-buffered | tee ./utilization.txt saves the output to file and the result is visible in the Terminal window!


Lion on LDAP Linux domain I need to put a desktop Mac OS X Lion in the domain of a corporate network - Linux LDAP.

The Mac is already picking up the IP and the DNS name released. But I can not log into the corporate network.

opendirectoryd.log.9

2012-08-06 14:26:07.780 BRT - opendirectoryd (build 172.10) launched...
2012-08-06 14:26:07.780 BRT - Logging level limit changed to 'error'
2012-08-06 14:26:07.788 BRT - Initialize trigger support
2012-08-06 14:26:07.789 BRT - Registered node with name '/Active Directory' as hidden
2012-08-06 14:26:07.790 BRT - Registered node with name '/Configure' as hidden
2012-08-06 14:26:07.790 BRT - Discovered configuration for node name '/Contacts' at path '/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations//Contacts.plist'
2012-08-06 14:26:07.790 BRT - Registered node with name '/Contacts'
2012-08-06 14:26:07.791 BRT - Registered node with name '/LDAPv3' as hidden
2012-08-06 14:26:07.793 BRT - Registered node with name '/Local' as hidden
2012-08-06 14:26:07.794 BRT - Registered node with name '/NIS' as hidden
2012-08-06 14:26:07.794 BRT - Discovered configuration for node name '/Search' at path '/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations//Search.plist'
2012-08-06 14:26:07.794 BRT - Registered node with name '/Search'
2012-08-06 14:26:08.485 BRT - Discovered configuration for node name '/LDAPv3/hpp.br' at path '/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/hpp.br.plist'
2012-08-06 14:26:08.485 BRT - Registered subnode with name '/LDAPv3/hpp.br'
2012-08-06 14:26:08.486 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/legacy.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:08.488 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/search.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.491 BRT - '/Search' has registered, loading additional services
2012-08-06 14:26:09.491 BRT - Initialize augmentation support
2012-08-06 14:26:09.494 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/SystemCache.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.498 BRT - Successfully registered for Kernel identity service requests
2012-08-06 14:26:09.503 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/PlistFile.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.504 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/FDESupport.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.525 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/ConfigurationProfiles.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.526 BRT - Registered subnode with name '/Local/Default'
2012-08-06 14:26:09.532 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/ldap.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:26:10.238 BRT - Loaded bundle at path '/System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/AppleODClient.bundle'
2012-08-06 14:30:40.625 BRT - Starting shutdown process...
2012-08-06 14:30:40.625 BRT - Deregistered with Kernel for identity service requests

system.log (final part)

see pastebin, too large to include here

Thank you!

Have you tried to Google for the answer to your question? It's pretty straightforward:

http://www.google.com/?q=how+to+bind+Macintosh+to+LDAP


How display file path at bottom in "All My Files" on Sierra 10.12.3? On older versions of macOS there used to be a file path at the bottom of "All My Files" so you could see where the files were located & click to path if wanted.

Here's a random example I found online:

(file path can be seen at very bottom)

How can I enable this on Sierra (10.12.3)?

The one you reference in the screenshot can be enabled in either of the following two ways:

Using the Mouse

Ensure the Finder is active
Go to the View menu
Select the Show Path Bar option

Using the keyboard

You can also use the following keyboard shortcut:

optioncommandP

You may not be aware, but you can also customise the Finder Toolbar to include a Path button. To do this:

Ensure the Finder is active
Go to the View menu
Select the Customise Toolbar... option
Drag the Path icon to your toolbar
Click on Done

Note: The icon looks like:


How to get Pages to automatically save documents as .docx files Is there a way to get Pages to automatically save documents as .docx (Word) files? How do you do it? I'm wondering because I do not have access to Microsoft Word and this is the preferred format for what I'm doing

Pages does not support saving as a Word .doc or .docx file.  Your only option is to Export your document to that format, which obviously isn't nearly as easy as simply hitting the Save button.

It's important to note that Pages support of .doc/.docx isn't perfect.  If the document has a lot of formatting or review comments, there's a pretty good chance of lost formatting or comments when you export your document.

A free alternative to purchasing Office:Mac is to use Office Online, which will happily run in Safari or Chrome on your Mac.  If this is a short-term need, you can download a free trial of Office:Mac.  If you have an iPad, there's a free version of Word for it too.  I realize that none of these are what you've asked about; I provide them in case an alternative to using Pages will work for you.


Contacts not syncing to icloud I've realised that all new contacts added since replacing my iPhone over a year ago have been going to the wrong account (a non i-cloud one) and therefore not syncing.

There are 203 and so it will take hours to manually recreate each one and delete old one.  Any clever ideas to move them over?
Thanks!

There is an amazing app that backs your contacts up in a .vsf file. You can then email or text yourself the contacts for later use or backup. Here is the link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-contacts-backup/id446784593?mt=8

I'm not affiliated in any way with this app.


How can I prevent Siri from announcing who it's calling when I ask it to make a call? If I tell Siri, "Call 919 555 1234", it announces "Calling 919 555 1234" before making the call. If I tell it, "Call Chris mobile", it announces "Calling Chris - mobile." I'm happy to have the text telling me what it's doing appear on screen, but I want to disable the announcement. How can I prevent Siri from announcing the number or contact I'm calling?

I'm running iOS 11 on an iPhone 6.

You can't disable all Siri feedback but you should be able to cut-off most of the chatting.

Source:

Go to ‘Settings -> Siri & Search’.
Tap on ‘Voice Feedback’

You'll see 3 options to choose from:

  Always On: This is the default option. Siri will vocally respond to
  you after each query, no matter if you use the home button shortcut,
  "Hey Siri," or have your ring switch set to silent. If you're here to
  silent Siri, do not choose this option.
  Control with Ring Switch: When you set your ring switch to silent,
  Siri will not vocally respond to you, but there are caveats. Siri will
  still beep and respond vocally if you initiate a discussion using "Hey
  Siri" or if you're connected to a Bluetooth device, headphones, or
  CarPlay. So, the only time Siri will remain quiet is if you use the
  home button shortcut to activate her/him. If you unmute your device,
  Siri will again vocally respond in every situation.
  Hands-Free Only: Just like the previous option, Siri will only beep
  and respond vocally if you initiate a discussion using "Hey Siri" or
  you're connected to a Bluetooth device, headphones, or CarPlay. The
  only difference here is that you don't have to remember to set your
  ring switch to silent.

The author of that piece sums it up nicely:

  As you've probably noticed, there aren't really any great options for
  keeping Siri silent on your iPhone. The two not-always-on options
  listed above are virtually identical, only one requires you to set it
  manually each time using the ring switch while the other is automatic.

  So what's the answer to total silence, like when you're using "Hey
  Siri" but don't want voice feedback? Turn your volume down.


How do I get rid of a menu extra that I installed? I am on a limited functionality school account with no access to System Preferences. I am a curious child, and I opened the folder Mac HD -> System  -> Library -> CoreServices ->Menus. I copied all the .menu files to my desktop and opened a few of them. I now want to get rid of the menus from the notification area. I can move the .menu files to the trash, but I can't delete any of them that I already opened. I get a "File in Use" error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Command ⌘-drag them off your menu bar, then you should be able to trash them.  You might also want to log out and log back in.


How to get rid of emoji (emoticons) in Terminal.app (OS X 10.9) I am experimenting with Twitter API.

I now have emoji characters in Terminal.app. I don't know how to handle that. How to get rid of that or use it well?

see screenshot

Emoji are simply unicode characters that are rendered as such by the operating system. In the following screenshot, you can see that unicode is "allowed" in filenames:

In fact, these are even rendered by Finder:

To fix this, simply rename the file through Finder or Terminal.

This happens because whatever glyph substitution algorithm that they use is picking up the unicode text in the filename and replacing it with Emoji (which is a ttf font on OS X).


Is any other application known to install TeamViewer? I was listing my launchd items the other day to track down a constantly-crashing gpg-agent, and I was perturbed to notice TeamViewer in there. So, I removed it, momentarily not thinking much about it; I downloaded their uninstaller and I uninstalled. I made the mistake of not taking notes of exactly what I saw. So, now I'm wondering if my system was, in fact, compromised. Is there any legitimate reason for TeamViewer to be on a Maverics system when, seemingly, 'uninvited'?

That is not possible since the TeamViewer requires activation.

Typically they would send you a email that you signed with containing the link to activate it.

So you might had the software from somewhere but it was not active.


pkgutil --forget: Error "No such file or directory" I'm getting a path-location error.

$ pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
Unknown error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "“com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables.bom” couldn’t be removed." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables.bom, NSUserStringVariant=(
    Remove
), NSUnderlyingError=0x7fb0cdc0bd70 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}.
Forgot package 'com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables' on '/'.

The receipt data I want to discard is in /System/Library/Receipts/.

$ ls /System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTool*
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables.plist
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_OSX1012.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_OSX1012.plist
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS1013.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS1013.plist
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOSSDK.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOSSDK.plist

Why is pkgutil looking for the bill of materials (BOM) file in /var/db/receipts/?

Note: I've already deleted the folder /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.

Motivation: Removing uninstalled Command Line Tools from AppStore updates

It's likely that the solution is the same for you as it was for me, which already is written in my post which you've linked to (Removing uninstalled Command Line Tools from AppStore updates).

Boot into recovery to disable SIP, then trash the files, then enable SIP again. Hopefully that works for you as well (seems to be exactly the same problem as I had).

EDIT: perhaps your actual question is why it's looking in the wrong path for the receipts. I have no idea, I'd like to know that myself. :)


Unable to join Wi-Fi network without carrier service I have an Verizon iPhone 4s and would like to use Wi-Fi until I decide on a service provider.

The phone has been reset to factory settings and sees my Wi-Fi network, but when I enter my password and hit join it says it's unable to join the network.

Updated to iOS 7.1.1

Accessing WiFi without carrier service is possible.

To do that turn ON the airplane mode.

That will disable any carrier.


How can I restore files when my account isn't granted access? I had a heavily corrupted MySQL database, so I tried to restore the files from a recent backup (a local time machine snapshot), but that failed with the error:

  The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.

How can I restore these files?

In trying, I added my account to the "_mysql" group with dseditgroup (groups now lists me as being in the "_mysql" group), which is supposed to be granted read/write access to all files and folders, and tried restoring from Time Machine again with the same result. The folders also still display the "inaccessible" icon overlay (⛔) in Finder. I can copy (slightly) older versions of the files stored on an external Time Machine drive from a shell with a sudo ditto, but get a permissions error from MySQLd when it tries to read one of the files (the binary log index).

The computer is running OS X 10.12.6.

I was able to access the local snapshots in "/.MobileBackups/Computer/" via a command line. Unfortunately, I disabled automatic Time Machine backups, not knowing that this would delete all local snapshots.

The files from the external Time Machine backup had an ACL that disallowed all write access to the database directories and files (revealed with ls -le). Removing the ACL with chmod -RN $dir granted access (no more permission errors when MySQLd runs).


ipa installed on device but not appearing My friend has developed an app and sent me the .ipa file. He wants me to install it on my phone. So I went into iTunes and dragged the ipa into the app section. Then I connected my phone to my computer, and made sure iTunes could access it. After that I went to the app section of my device info. I saw the ipa file I've imported earlier followed by an install button. I clicked on the install button and hit the apply button on the bottom. Now the app finishes copying to my phone and it does display properly in the device's app info's home screen section. But it is not appearing on the actual device. I tried restarting the phone, but that didn't help. I looked back at the row that displays the app, the button changed from 'install' to 'installing' but never changed to anything else. Any ideas?

EDIT:

I went into the storage settings and found out there is 40GB of storage left; after I press install it has 39.9GB left, so the app is definitely installed but just not displayed, I can't see it in the Spotlight search either.

This IPA application may not have signed for your phone. So you can not launch it in a normal way. Resigning the IPA or patching the launchd in your phone with some packages like AppSync may resolve this.


Mavericks: Safari does not recognize PDFs and shows them inline Since upgrading to Mavericks Safari does not recognize PDFs anymore and shows them inline (as text)

%PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ %RSTXPDF3 Parameters: D 2 0 obj << /Filter 3 0 R /Length 4 0 R /Length1 772192
>> stream xœì½Ü¥Ey6>çœ§÷rÚÛvØ]úÂB`³j])†"ŠØ5¶(Š ¶Ä***Á5vb"1ˆb×ˆ
%v’hì=ÿëºgæœçœ·ìBòñýòý3Ï{ÏóIOØðÆÅ¯Ü¢ZŸú©RÞýÏyÌÃÎÿôSp™j}èZ\?êa}ücÔP…
[...]

Before upgrading the very same files from the same sites where downloaded as PDFs and shown with Preview (the are delivered with the correct MIME type).

I do not have any Adobe Reader plugin (checked both /Library/Internet Plugins and ~/Library/Internet Plugins.

Open "safe" files after downloading is checked in Safari's options.

Any idea on what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Edit

This is only happening on one machine (I tested the same URLs with other Mavericks installations and they are displayed correctly).

The MIME type handling seems OK. defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist gives:

    {
        CFBundleTypeExtensions =             (
            pdf
        );
        CFBundleTypeIconFile = "document.icns";
        CFBundleTypeMIMETypes =             (
            "application/pdf"
        );
        CFBundleTypeName = "PDF document";
        CFBundleTypeRole = Viewer;
        NSDocumentClass = BrowserDocument;
    },

On both machines

This may not resolve the issue of Safari displaying PDF as garbled text, but you can use this command in Terminal.app to open PDFs outside of Safari:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES


How do I download my photostream photosto my laptop I was able to download my camera roll but not my photo stream. how do I download my photo stream?

Credit: Apple KB Artice

If you are on a Mac:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
Click iCloud. Then select Photos.
Click the Options button and make sure that My Photo Stream is turned on.
This should store them in the PhotoLibrary that is in your ~/Users/[User]/Pictures folder

On a PC:

Download and install iCloud for Windows.
Open iCloud for Windows.
Next to Photos, click Options.
Select My Photo Stream.
Click Done, then click Apply.
This should store them in your C:\Users[User]\Pictures\ folder


Identify if a text was sent using an iPhone How can I find out if a text was sent via an iPhone instead of a Mac? I want to see if my kids are texting me from their iPhones or iPads to make sure they are where they say they are.

Pretty sure it can't be done.

One option might be Family Sharing, which would give you access to 'find my device' on everybody's devices.


Exporting highlights from Kindle Personal Documents to a TXT file There are two main categories in Kindle App for iPad:

Books - contains books purchased from Amazon; highlights are available at https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights — it works fine for me.
Personal Documents - contains all other books; highlights are not available online.

So, I have book purchased at different source than Amazon and I would like to be able to export my highlights and notes to a text file (or any other common format). My approaches so far:

As far as I know, https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights is available for Books category and thus, for Amazon-purchased books only. There are no entries from "Personal Documents"
I cannot move my book from Personal Document to Books - there is no such option in Kindle App. There is no such option on Amazon's "Manage Your Kindle" site too.
There is no option to export all highlights. Kindle app has option to share a highlight via Facebook or Twitter, but there is no option for copy or export it.

I synced my book with Kindle Touch and highlights are synced successfully. But:

There is no export option in Kindle Touch too.
I am unable to read highlights content on my cpu. The file with highlights has extension .azw3r and contains relative references, for example: annotation.personal.highlight 283390 283606.
There are no entries in My Clippings text file (there are entries there but for non-synced books).

The question is: How can I export my highlights and notes from iPad Kindle App to a TXT or any other common file?

Note I'm using Windows but I put this question to Apple.SE since the root problem comes from iPad.


View SSL/TLS certificate in Safari 5+ when no padlock icon shown According to Apple,

  With Safari 5 through 5.1.7, a lock icon appears near the top right
  corner [only] if all of the webpage's content uses a secure connection.

That's all very well, but normally to view the SSL/TLS certificate for a webpage serving content over HTTPS, one would click the padlock icon.

Because the icon is not present on pages that serve only some of their content over SSL/TLS, there ought to be another way to view the certificate, but what is it?

Recent versions of Safari do not appear to display the lock icon or certificate unless all content loaded by the page is https. For example, if the page URL is https but it loads a JavaScript file via http, no lock icon.

The only workaround I've found so far is to run the openssl command in Terminal, like this:

echo ^d | openssl s_client -connect host.example.com:443

This will show you the certificate chain back to whatever root authority is used to sign, if any. "verify error" will show things like "self signed certificate".


Help finding lost music I uploaded about 300 CDs to iTunes on my iMac. My computer was lost in a fire. I am trying to find my music from my new iPhone but can only find music purchases from iTunes. Did I lose them? If not,how do I retrieve them?

If you ever synced your iPhone or an iPod to the iMac before the fire, your music ripped from CDs could still be contained on these devices. You can then retrieve these songs from your device to your new computer using a program such as TouchCopy as detailed here
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

iTunes will only download your purchases to your new device, so if you haven’t synced it before, you may need to rip your CDs again.


Boot Loop - Trying to make a Yosemite KVM VM w/Chameleon Bootloader I am trying to boot a Yosemite VM (10.10.5) following these instructions here.

But it gets stuck in a loop at the BIOS boot screen (the OS has not yet been installed)

My hardware is a Mac mini with Ubuntu 14.04 installed (I specifically need to use KVM to boot OS X VMs for my use case), hardware is:
CPU: GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4578U CPU@3.00GHz
Graphics card: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT integrated graphics controller (rev 09)
Motherboard: Apple Mac-35C5E0812OC7EEAF
I have QEMU 2.6.0, and Chameleon Enoch r2839 (I've also tried Chameleon 2.3 r2838 with the same results)

The command I use to boot is:

bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 \
      -cpu core2duo,vendor=GenuineIntel \
  -machine q35 \
  -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \
  -device isa-applesmc,osk="insert-real-64-char-OSK-string-here" \
  -kernel ./chameleon_enoch\
  -smbios type=2 \
  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.2,drive=MacHDD \
  -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,file=./mac_hdd.img \
  -netdev user,id=hub0port0 \
  -device e1000-82545em,netdev=hub0port0,id=mac_vnet0 \
  -monitor stdio \
  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,drive=MacDVD \
  -drive id=MacDVD,if=none,snapshot=on,file=./Yosemite.10.10.2.iso
      -vnc 127.0.0.1:2

(real string osk string is inserted here, I just didn't add it for public posting)

When I boot, I get to this screen just fine:

When I boot with -v option, it gets to these screens, goes black, and then returns to the original boot screen shown previously:

There does not appear to be any obvious errors or kernel panics. I googled the DSDT and SMBios messages and they don't appear to be anything that would cause issues in this case.

If I try booting it in safe mode (-v -x), I get these screens before it once again returns to the original boot screen:

Again, no obvious crashes or panics.

I've tried various combinations of -v, -f, -x, GraphicsEnabler=Yes/No, the behavior is basically always the same. Keep in mind, I am trying to boot and install OS X in a virtual machine, not on the computer itself.

Can anyone see any problems or suggest other troubleshooting I could do?

I eventually solved this: I had to upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and use just the GraphicsEnabler=No flag as a boot option. You enter it in the same place after boot: that the -v flag in the first screenshot.

Disclaimer:
As far as the legal issues brought up in the comments, most people I talked to did not think you had to actively be running OS X on the machine, as you are allowed do things like run a different version of OS X in a VM, or use VMWare ESXi. I am not a lawyer and did not talk to one, so any individual concerned would have to consult their own legal team.


How to add the /tmp folder to Favorites on the Sidebar of Finder? Can someone let me know if it is possible to add /tmp to Favorites on the Sidebar in Finder? If yes can someone provide me the steps?

Mac OS = 10.13.6

While in Finder...

Press shiftcommandG to bring up Go to the folder:, then type in /private and press enter.

Now preform one or the other of the following actions:

Select the tmp folder and press: controlcommandT

Or

Drag the tmp folder to Favorites in the Sidebar.

The first method places the folder at the bottom of the existing Favorites, whereas the second method allows one to drag it where one wants. It also can be dragged after the fact to change its position in the Favorites.

Both methods have been tested by me to work in OS X Mountain Lion, OS X El Capitan, macOS High Sierra and I see no immediate reason one or the other will not work in other versions of OS X/macOS that actually support this action.


How to burn non-English subtitles into mkv using a mac application? my smart TV app (samsung UE55F8000) doesn't render non-latin subtitles correctly and there is no option to configure it.

The only way to show non-latin subtitles as far as I understand is to burn subtitles into mkv itself on my mac and then transfer this mkv to TV set.

Can you please recommend a software to do this hard burning?

Best regards,

Handbrake a great application for dealing with video on the Mac. Handbrake can burn in subtitles and create both MKV and MPEG-4 files.

The Handbrake wiki contains more information about what is possible with subtitling:

  HandBrake can use subtitles tracks as INPUT from the following sources:

  From DVD’s – Either embedded VOBSUB or CC tracks.
  From Bluray - PGS Subtitles.
  User supplied SRT files.
  From Files (such as mkv or mp4)
  Embedded subtitle tracks.

  HandBrake has two methods of subtitle OUTPUT:

  Hard Burn: This means the subtitles are written on top of the image permanently. They cannot be turned on or off like on the DVD.
  Soft Subtitles: This means the subtitles will appear as separate selectable tracks in your output file. With the correct playback software, you’ll be able to enable / disable these subtitles as required.


Can't select an iCloud Photo Stream for Screen Saver I used to choose an iCloud Photo Stream of mine for my screen saver. But now, when I go to my screen saver settings, there is no option to choose an iCloud Photo Stream, but only Apple's default screen savers.

Any ideas about how to sort it out?

Please check this image below

If this is not visible on your Mac (I've had the same issue after upgrading to Mavericks) please logout iCloud entirely (remove everything from your Mac) and log back in.

It will be visible now.