How to prolong screenshot snippets time (Mac) When you take screen shot you have small snippets at the bottom right conner. It is very useful to drag and drop. But it disappears too quickly.
How I can tweak time of that snippets?

I had a look at the plist for Screen Capture and there doesn't seem to be a time period to extend the time the thumbnail stays on screen. But you can disable/enable the thumbnail and/or change the default location the screenshot is saved to. For me, I have all my screenshots saved to Desktop so it's easily accessible for editing and have thumbnails disabled.
To change these two settings open the app Screenshot by searching in Spotlight. You will then get a cropped window and bar with options at the bottom of the cropped window. Click on Options and you'll see "Show floating thumbnail" and "Save to" options. You can enable/disable floating thumbnail and/or save all screenshots to another file location by default.
See image below for an example:

By the way, behind the cropped area (on the left), you will see the plist file for screen capture that I was looking at. As you can see there isn't a value to change the thumbnail length.
Hope this may help somewhat for you :)


Cannot change apple ID country/region I have bought an apple gift card while I was on a business trip in Germany. Now I can't roll back to the original country region - still have 15 Euro's in balance. Will it be possible to change the country of region to my original country? Seems apple ID won't accept my local credit card since it is not German.

Before you can delete your Apple ID or change your Apple ID country or region, you must spend any Apple ID balance. You also might have to wait for any pending refunds to process. If you have less balance than the cost of a single item, contact Apple Support.

View your Apple ID balance

Change your Apple ID country or region


Execute arbitrary script when iTunes plays new song? I want to execute a script when iTunes plays a new song.  I have looked at Automator as well as the iTunes Library in Script Editor, but don't see anything that will allow me to do this.  Any ideas?

You could use an AppleScript to watch for song changes. The script below will get you started:

tell application "System Events"

    set previousSong to ""

    repeat
        if exists process "iTunes" then
            tell application "iTunes"
                if player state is playing then
                    set currentSong to name of current track
                    if currentSong is not previousSong then
                        set previousSong to currentSong

                        -- Execute your script, command, or application here
                        say "Song changed"

                    end if

                end if
            end tell

            -- Wait some seconds
            delay 10
        else
            exit repeat
        end if
    end repeat

end tell

This AppleScript checks every 10 seconds for the name of the currently playing song. If the song name differs from 10 seconds ago, the phrase "Song changed" is spoken.


Google Chrome display corrupted over VNC Over VNC, everything looks great except Google Chrome, which is completely messed up (image below). Chrome is fine if I'm using the machine directly instead.

This is a brand-new Mac Mini (Yosemite 10.10.5), literally just set it up and enabled VNC access. It's done one OS update and reboot.

How can I fix it?

Here's the screenshot:

Turning off hardware acceleration in Chrome fixes it:

Connect directly (so you can see Chrome)
Go into Chrome's Settings
Scroll down and choose "Advanced settings"
Scroll right down and eventually you'll see Use hardware acceleration when available — turn it off, restart Chrome, and you're all set


How do I repeat a calendar event every x seconds in macOS Sierra? I'm trying to set up calendar events in macOS Sierra's Calendar that repeat every 2,551,440 seconds (which happens to be the synodic period of the Moon).

Ultimately, I want a calendar that provides the Moon rise and set times for my location, and it also needs to list the Lunar phase (e.g. Full Moon, New Moon, etc.). I have found plenty of examples on the Internet where people have manually created the events, but that's incredibly tedious (one event per day for years!), and it's based on different time zones (and so are of no use to me).

I have seen from the ICS specifications that the file format itself supports events that recur every x seconds. I then exported an event as an ICS file, and then edited the ICS file in TextEdit, but I must've got the code wrong, as it didn't re-import into macOS Calendar with the correct repeat interval. Instead, it imported a single event with no repetition.

Can someone please explain how to go about doing this?

I found the RRULE Generator, but that only supports hourly intervals, not seconds, and so is not precise enough for my needs.

I considered running a bash script to generate the event (which would run as a cron job every 2,551,440 seconds), but that would only give a month's notice. I'd prefer to have it set up indefinitely.

Another option may be to write a script in Python to create individual ICS event files; this would also be tedious...

I understand that this can't be done in Calendar directly; the solution will most likely be manually editing each ICS file to set up the recurrence correctly, and then importing them into Calendar... I just don't know how...

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

I know this won't be the answer you were looking for.

In your question you stated:

  I then exported an event as an ICS file, and then edited the ICS file in TextEdit, but I must've got the code wrong, as it didn't re-import
  into macOS Calendar with the correct repeat interval.

Unfortunately you probably didn't get the code wrong.

While you are correct that the ICS specification does indeed support intervals down to the second, the problem is that the default macOS Calendar app doesn't support this (at least not in terms of repeat or recurrence values). So, what you want to do is not possible with the default macOS Calendar app. In fact, the problem you have is twofold, as the Calendar app does not recognise intervals:

shorter than a day
not represented as whole numbers

To explain this further, the first problem above would not necessarily be an issue if the Calendar app accepted a decimal value to enough decimal points, because then you could enter an event that repeated every 29.53 days.

However, even if the app did accept a decimal value, it'd likely be limited to no more than one decimal place, which won't be precise enough when dealing with days.

Unfortunately, MS Outlook won't work for you either (it doesn't accept anything less than daily intervals and even though you can enter decimal values, it just rounds them up or down).

And Fantastical, while an excellent calendar app for macOS, is as limited as the default calendar in this regard.

Instead, what you will need to do is:

find a solution that registers intervals shorter than a day, or works with decimal values, or
download one of the existing astronomical calendars for this purpose and then manually edit the ICS file to change the time zone to suit the various Australian ones you need.

Sorry this isn't what you were looking for, but maybe the second 'download and edit' option will work for you without too much effort.


Can I install 10.8 over 10.7 and maintain windows xp boot camp functionality? I have an iMac with 10.7.5 running fine with Windows XP installed with Boot Camp that works both as native boot and with Parallels. I want to install 10.8 over 10.7 and I have read that XP cannot be installed from 10.8, but will XP/Boot Camp survive the upgrade?

According to Apple's documentation:

  If your Mac has a Boot Camp partition with Windows XP or Windows
  Vista, you can continue to use your Boot Camp partition, but you can’t
  upgrade to Boot Camp 4.0.

So it sounds like if you upgrade to Mountain Lion, it won't touch your Boot Camp 3.x installation; you won't get Boot Camp 4.0, but you'll be able to continue using XP.

However, I think if you do a clean install of Mountain Lion, that will install Boot Camp 4.0 by default, which requires Windows 7. So you can only keep XP if you do an upgrade, not a clean install.


Using iPhoto with an already existing folder I have a pretty big (~60G) already existing folder of photos residing in /Users/ME/OndeDrive/Pictures . I want to be able to use iPhotos with that folder without (a) changing its structure, (b) creating copies of all the files (which is what is done if I do "Import to library"). Is this possible?

You can create a referenced library.

Hold ⌥ when launching iPhoto and choose Create New, then select a location for storing the library. This library won't hold the masters but will hold versions and metadata.

Upon opening this library, go to Preferences → Advanced and uncheck Copy items to the iPhoto library. This will make any new imported photos stay in their original location and only be referenced in the library.


How do I report a spam/fake radio station in the list of iTunes internet radio? This radio station doesn't play and is just an advertisement for another service. It doesn't play any music. It only asks you to visit their web site. How do I report it?

  Chillout Beats    Live365 - Epic Chillout - flavored with downtempo, lounge, and a splash of light trance-house-dance.     Relaxing, inspirational, and motivational.

You can use http://apple.com/feedback or contact Apple Support for the iTunes store to register that opinion / information about their music service.


Using Migration Asst, have gone from Mac 1 to Mac 2, but now Mac 2 back to Mac 1? I had to send MacBook Pro #1 out for repair and used Migration Assistant to temporarily work on a loaner (MacBook Pro #2).

Now #1 is back. Do I:

Use M.A. to go from #2 to #1, hoping it magically merges and resolves the differences in my user account existing on #1?
Reformat and reinstall the OS on #1, and use M.A. to go from #2 to #1?
Some other optimal solution?

Assuming that you did a full migration from MBP #1 to MBP #2, then I'd probably go with your second option (although that may depend on how long MBP #1 was away for and how much work you've done since).

The only downside of this approach is that some 3rd party software may need you to reactivate them in order to use them. It's not really a problem, just may add a little inconvenience if you happen to be in that situation.

Since you asked, there are indeed other solutions, such as cloning the drive from MBP #2 to MBP #1 using software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! You can also use Disk Utility to do the same thing.


Less brightness after plugging once my macbook pro to a thunderbolt display I own a Macbook pro (15'4) with Yosemite.

I used to use it without an external display.
The brightness was very powerful :)

I've just plugged a thunderbolt display (Mac 27''), and then removed it.
I even restarted my MacBook pro right after.

Now, I found that the brightness is not as powerful as before, even on MAX :(

My color profile is the one by default (LCD color).

Is there an explanation?
Have someone ever experienced this?

You could try a NVRAM reset by starting your mac and holding the following keys:

CMD + ALT + R + P.

(More info)

When your Mac restarts, you could release the keys.

  Some say that you have to do this 3 times for the best result, but I can't explain why

More information about a PRAM/NVRAM reset can be found on the Apple Support Website

When you use your Mac and connect it to displays or change the screen's brightness, it could be that your settings become a bit corrupted. You could erase those settings by preforming a PRAM reset as explained above.

I can't find any known bugs on the Apple Diagnostics website, you could report it by sending a mail to feedback@apple.com


S.M.A.R.T. Error MacOS 11 Big Sur Beta Installer Mid-2014 MacBook Pro 13" lowest spec.
I recently upgraded the SSD to a 500GB WD Blue NVMe M.2 drive. I suspect the given issue may be something to do about this upgraded SSD. I have three partitions on the drive, one (really two, Data and System) for macOS, one for Bootcamp, and one for Shared files.
I am running macOS 11 Big Sur Developer Beta 1 as of now. I saw an available update today for what I assume to be the public beta. I downloaded the 12 GB .app installer, and once I got to the 'select a drive' phase, all three partitions were grayed out with the error:
This disk has S.M.A.R.T. errors. The popup (in an attached screenshot) specified that this was a hardware issue, although the drive is less than a month old.
Before everyone renounces me for even thinking of installing the developer beta on my mac (I do understand how incredibly buggy macOS betas are), I want to assure all the veterans this is not my main machine, although I do use it for application development and various other uses. I don't want to run a clean install though, as this machine does have data and I am tired of wiping it on numerous occasions. I have only seen minor bugs, UI glitches, and slowdowns over the period of about a month of using this beta. In any case, any help debugging this problem is welcome.
Here's a screenshot:

I would load the app DriveDX which specifically looks for the SMART status of the drives. The app is not free but has a free trial period. You can use that to check your drive. It will tell you the SMART status and details about the drive. It very simple to use. Just start the app and it will start scanning your drives. Give it a minute or so to complete and display the results. See the image below for an example of the output. Yes my drives are failing or have failed.


AppleScript : Dim brightness below factory setting I want to dim the script below "0" on my iMac.
Here is my current script, but this stick to OSX settings.

try
    tell application "System Preferences"
        reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"
        delay 8
        tell application "System Events"
            set value of slider 1 of group 1 of tab group 1 of window 1 of process "System Preferences" to 0
            delay 5
        end tell
    end tell
on error
    display notification "Dim screem down failed"
end try

I found this app "Shady" which is going even below.
They have a link for the Open source on they Web site but 404.

Any idea how to implement that with AppleScript?

As was noted in the comments, brightness cannot go below a setting of 0. If you use the brightness keys on your mac, you'll note that if you keep going, you hit screen off, which entirely turns off the screen backlight. From experience, I would assume this is zero. Below zero would mean your screen is actively attracting light from it's surroundings. You can adjust some settings by 1/4th notches by holding the option key and pressing any of the adjustment buttons, but that's as close as you'll get. What shady is doing is merely darkening all of the colors on your screen, which does decrease brightness because of how well made lcds work, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're after, as that can definitely affect how colors look otherwise. EDIT: If 1/4 brightness increments are not enough, shady and those small increments should stack in effect, but some older macs can't dim their brightness in 1/4th increments after you get down to one notch.


Is RAM upgrade worth it if I have an SSD already? I recently purchased a Macbook Pro.  I had an SSD from my last computer which I formatted, installed into my Mac, and used as my one and only HD (I don't need that much space so I didn't opt to do the upgrade where people pull out their optical drive).

I'm not much of a hardware guy - my knowledge is limited to basic understanding of where my data is hiding and how to swap parts.  I do work in Eclipse though, and I'm noticing that my RAM usage is near 100% (I still have the default 4gb installed).

I'm considering going for the 8gb install, but I'm wondering, Is upgrading the RAM worth it if I have an SSD already?  I know that when RAM is full it will use swap space on the hard drive so I don't know if it would benefit me to get an SSD or not...

I know there are some similar questions out there, but they all seem to focus on "Should I get RAM or SSD."  I've got the SSD, I just want to know if the RAM would provide any increase in performance.

RAM still is a lot faster than any SSD which you use in your Mac. RAM has a shorter access times and much higher transfer rates:

[table]

The SATA interface by which the hard disk is connected limits the throughput to a theoretical maximum of 6Gbit/s (600MB/s) for SATA3.

You can determine how much the page outs are written to the disk by taking a look at the Activity Monitor. I try to keep the ratio at a maximum of 10/1 (page in/page out). The more page outs you have, the more like a RAM upgrade will benefit you.


How might I save a variable between Applescript runs? I'm trying to save three distinct variables that my Applescript application would then be able to access on launch, and if the user wishes to he may manipulate those variables from within the application.

More specifically, I'm working on a script that runs a bunch of equations based on a user's selected latitude and longitude, and outputs the results in a string, including the city's name. If the user wishes to, he may choose a different city and restart the script based on that city.

Choosing a different city, setting the variables, and rerunning the script accordingly is fine. I can just set up a subroutine containing the following code:

set choice to choose from list {"City A","City B","City X"}
if choice is "City A"
    set city to "City A"
    set lat to (latitude of City A)
    set lon to (longitude of City A)
else if choice is "City B"
...

My problem is that I have to initialize these variables when the script starts. I can set a predefined value for these variables, or I can run this subroutine at the beginning of the script, but I can't find a way to save the choice for future runs, so that the result of this choice becomes the default. That is, if the script by default runs these equations for City A, and I pick City B from the list, the next time the script runs, it should run the equations for City B automatically, without any user input.

I tried setting up a second script with exactly three lines of code:

property city : "City A"
property longitude : (longitude of City A)
property latitude : (latitude of City A)

but subsequently realized that it fails for exactly the same problem: Applescripts can't save variables inside themselves between tasks. I can update an external variable once it's loaded into the current script, but that doesn't actually edit the original script.

Another thing I tried was creating a blank file somewhere and rename it according to the user's choice, then testing for the file's name and updating the variables accordingly, but I'd also like to share the application for others to be able to use, and that would require them to also have this file in a specific folder. For some reason, Script Editor doesn't like it when I try getting the file path of a file inside an application package, so unless there's a fix for that, I can't just hide the file inside the application itself.

I've seen here that if you save the file as .applescript you can have it write onto itself, but I'm unsure of how you would go about doing that.

I am aware that there is a thing called Database Events that I could possibly manipulate, but I'm not sure of how I would go about doing that.

The minimum I'm looking for is a way to save variables to access them on launch next time, but if someone could address all of the possibilities I've mentioned above, that would be excellent.

Add a property declaration at the start of your script. Changes to that property during the execution of your script will be saved and available the next time you execute.

  The value set by a property definition is not reset each time the script is run; instead, it persists until the script is recompiled. [src]


Is it possible to use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch? Is it possible to use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch?

I have an old iPhone 3G that no longer has a SIM card and I want to use it as an iPod touch.  How can I achieve this?

There is an Apple support document on how to do this.  You don't need to keep a sim in the phone but you need to put one into it to activate it before taking it back out.

Here's the procedure for 3G and 3GS:

  You can use any SIM card associated
  with the carrier that your device
  supports to activate the phone. Simply
  place a SIM card from the last carrier
  with which you used your iPhone into
  the device, and activate it. Then
  remove the SIM card. You can now use
  the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS as you
  would an iPod touch (Wi-Fi only, no
  cellular service).

  Note: You can use the activated SIM card from your new iPhone to do
  this.

  To re-activate an iPhone 3G or iPhone
  3GS that displays the "Connect to
  iTunes" screen:

  Insert a SIM card from the carrier with which you used your phone. Note:
  If you are using the same carrier, you
  can use the activated SIM card from
  your new device to do this. If your
  device is unlocked by your carrier,
  you can use any SIM card.
  Connect the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS to iTunes on a computer connected
  to the Internet. iTunes will then
  activate the device. You can remove
  the SIM card at this point and use the
  iPhone as if it were an iPod touch.


Is there a way I can see the payout history in appstore connect? Is there a way to see the payout history in appstore connect? I have tried looking in financial reports, but I can only get reports per month.

From Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4996656/itunes-connect-check-total-sales

  From the Apple User Guide for the Financial Reports (available at bottom of iTunes Connect page):

    We do not store or regenerate the data after the periods have expired
    (14 rolling days and 13 rolling weeks); you will need to download and
    store this data on a regular basis if you intend to use it in the
    future.


Will upgrading my iPod touch 3g erase any data or settings? My old iPod nano was completely erased, (losing some unrecoverable songs) when I last updated iPod firmware. Is there a way to upgrade my iPod touch 3g without losing all my data?

iTunes should back up the data before updating the firmware and restore it again afterwards (this is what it does with an iPhone)

To be absolutely sure you can right click on the iPod Touch in the tree and select Backup to create a manual one before updating.


MacBook Pro Thermal issues I’m having thermal issues with my MacBook Pro 17” late 2011 model laptop I7 2.5 quad core with 16GB of RAM.

Has anyone had any thermal issues when running DAW software on this particular laptop?

Every software app I use: Protools, Logic, Cubase, Live, Maschine, Studio One, all crash if I'm not running an air conditioner in the room. Even then I can’t  use too many plugins.

I think it’s the battery, as the bottom of the laptop gets very hot. I want to remove the battery, However I heard that my processor performance would be compromised.

I was thinking of also removing the DVD drive to get more air into the computer.

If anyone can help with any suggestions or solutions, I would be humbled and thankful for your time and response.

Spray compressed air back and forth into the exhaust vent in the back of the machine, where the display hinge is located. Do this while the machine is running so that the dislodged dirt will be immediately expelled by the airflow from the fans. Beyond this, nothing should be required.


Two MacBook Pros display my webpage differently I use em units in my CSS for a few links, and they are in the right spot on my computer, but they are shifted too far to the right on the other computer.
They are both running safari 5.05
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Try clearing the cache for Safari (Safari-> Empty Cache).

The next thing to make sure of is that you don't have any extensions or custom stylesheets.

Also, depending on your CSS, the size of the screen and window could affect positioning. Make sure you're using identically-sized viewports.

Otherwise, if both browsers (and OS's) are truly the same version, and you're pointed at the same website, they should look identical.

Have you tried using a different browser?

Also, please note that any questions about code (how to fix this would count) need to be posted on StackOverflow instead of here.


How do I split a Bootcamp Partition on a second drive? I have a Mac Mini Server 2011, which has 2 Hard disks of 750GB  each.
I want to install Windows 7 on the second disk, but i want to split this disk on two partitions: One of 450 GB for Windows and one of 300 GB with exFat to share data between Windows and OS X (is Lion by the way).

I tried with the Bootcamp assistant, but it took for the Bootcamp partition the whole disk, and so I installed that way, but I prefer to have both partitions as I mentioned above.

Can I split it the way I want? I don't mind if I have to reinstall Windows as long as I have the best compatible solution for this.

Open Disk Utility and format second HDD with Partition Map Scheme to be Master Boot Record.
Then start up from Windows Install Disk by pressing Alt or C and create partitions from there.

You should probably use Bootcamp Assistant before (or after) just to save Windows drivers and Bootcamp taskbar utility to the flash disk or elsewhere.


Is there a clipboard manager/app with a searchable history/pasteboard? So far I only know of Clyppan and Alfred but clyppan is only available as a paid app from the App Store and Alfred only offers its clipboard feature with a pay-for upgrade

How about Clip Menu?
This seems to cover all your requirements and is free.


Accessing the default path for the user keychain folder via terminal By default, user-domain keychains are placed in ~/Library/Keychains. Can this path be changed and, if so, is there a terminal command to print out the configured location?

For context, I have a ruby gem and I'm trying to play good citizen rather than hardcoding the location.

(I know you can add a keychain from any location, but I'm referring to the default path that keychains reside in)

I think it's stored here per-user:  /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist

This plist seems to list all of your keychain references.


Remove application from App Store's Update section I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me for some different Apple ID I've never heard of.

How can I get rid of the update showing up?

I had the exact same problem and this solved it:

  All app downloaded from Mac AppStore(MAS) contain a receipt inside
  their app bundle (example: appname.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt).
  MAS will scan this file to check whether the new version is available.

  You can use this application (Find Any File) to search any receipt on
  your drive: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

  Launch 'Find Any File' and search for: _MASReceipt
  Go through each result that you think could be the culprit, copy the receipt to your desktop as a backup, and after that delete the
  receipt inside
  _MASReceipt folder.
  Open MAS and let it scan for software update. If it's still showing the wrong ID, it means that you've deleted the wrong receipt.
  Restore the receipt backup from your desktop to it's previous
  location.
  Repeat the process until you've found the problem receipt.


How to delete doubled weather widget in El Capitan? After upgrading to OS X 10.11 I have two weather widgets (one, maybe, is inactive). So, is it possible to delete the blank one? If yes, where or how I can do this?

7 simple steps to solve the problem (works even in OS X 10.11.1):

Go to /private/var/db/locationd/ from your finder or terminal;
Give you full privilege to change files inside this folder;
Convert clients.plist file from binary mode into xml1 by running this command in your terminal: sudo plutil -convert xml1 /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist;
Open the clients.plist and remove the key and dictionary pair in the configuration file. For my case I delete all fields that includes weather word;
Don’t forget to convert back the client.plist into binary file using the command below in Terminal: sudo plutil -convert binary1 /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist
The prelast step is to restart the daemon that monitor the change of location. Type this command in Terminal: sudo killall -KILL locations;
Finally com.apple.ncplugin.weatherdisappeared from Location Services, I reaccepted to check my weather by location and everything starting to work perfectly.

This article helps me.


Does turning off cellular data significantly improve battery life? I almost always turn off cellular data when I lock the screen. I only turn it on when I’m using internet. But it’s annoying to do that almost every time. Does it worth the trouble?

You can follow general rules to optimize your battery life.

https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/.

Now respecting your question, you save a lot of battery by turning cellular data only when you needed. Cellular data consumes a lot of battery power, specially when yo have have no coverage or low signal:

"No Cell Coverage and Low Signal. This indicates that either you are in a poor cell coverage area and your iOS device is searching for a better signal or that you’ve used your device in low-signal conditions, which has affected your battery life."
This is according to previous apple link, however, take into consideration that GPS works with cellular data so if you leave it by accident powered on, your battery charge will decrease dramatically.

Also I recommend you to have your iPhone up to date, for possible bugs, of course back-up first.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977

Pay attention on one detail, if you back-up an iPhone with already performance issues, the iOS or iCloud back-ups could be affected too. So it is important to back-up often and not wait to have problems to back-up before an up date or even a restore.

Kind regards!


Sharing non iTunes music on family sharing my question is can you share music from you iTunes library if you put it on there from a CD. We have a lot of CD's at home and on my parents computer and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Only locally with Home Sharing.

Apple states that with Family Sharing activated, you can share

  Music, movies, and TV shows from the iTunes Store.

but you can't share

  Songs added to iTunes Match from outside the iTunes Store.

For Home Sharing:

You have to rip all your cd's first.
Then open iTunes and turn on Home Sharing.

From Apple's Support:

  Open iTunes and make sure you have the latest version.
  Go to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing.
  Enter your Apple ID and password. Make sure to use the same Apple ID when you set up Home Sharing on your other devices.
  Repeat these steps on other computers that you want to use with Home Sharing

This will only work with iTunes, Apple TV's and iDevices on the same network, and the sharing computer must be turned on.


Import finalcut project into imovie My finalcut pro trial expired before I could export the movie I was working on. How can I import it into imovie?

I wouldn't buy a new software just to do that task, so I can think in another way to achieve your goal. Send the project to someone who does have Final Cut Pro. There are always someone willing to help in a Editing Forum. It doesn't matter if the person does not have your media files, as long as he/she exports a XML file from your project, which in 99% of the time is a very little file (both the project and the resulting XML). Get that XML back and than use that file to import your timelines and connect all your media into iMovie or another decent software like Premiere or Vegas.

Plus you can use this workaround to get accurate results:
http://alex4d.com/notes/item/import-final-cut-pro-x-projects-into-imovie

Import Final Cut Pro X projects into iMovie using hidden workaround

Editor and plugin maker Andy Mees has discovered that you can import Final Cut Pro X exported XML into the new version of iMovie. Here you can see the source timeline in Final Cut. It was exported as an .fcpxml file and imported into iMovie.

The reason why the timelines don’t match up is because iMovie timelines have variable scale. Although the faint grey vertical lines are equally spaced, the times they mark aren’t equally spaced (in this case some are marked as denoting 9.4, 10.9, 15.8, 20.3, 24.4, 27.2 and 32.1 seconds).

iMovie doesn’t implement all Final Cut Pro X features such as multiple connected video clips at the same time or auditions. Despite this, you can see iMovie displays an audition icon on one of the audio clips in Andy’s timeline. If you attempt to edit the audition in iMovie, you’ll see an imcomplete UI:

iMovie doesn’t have an ‘Import Final Cut Pro X XML…’ command. Andy discovered a simple workaround.

Control- or Right-click the iMovie icon and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ from the shortcut menu
Open another window that shows the iMovie icon and drop your .fcpxml file onto the icon.
In iMovie you’ll see a dialogue box that asks which iMovie library you would like to import your XML file into:

As well as reading his blog, keep up with Andy by following him on Twitter.


There are settings for the clipboard? There is a way to copy control characters? I want to copy some text that contain control characters (example: LF, NUL, BEL, etc...)

Seemly OSX defaults don't let me, if I choose for example a text that is like this:

'abcdNULefg' to copy and paste, it pastes only 'abcd'

You can try using this method.

From the finder menu > special characters > latin.
Once there, select any characters you like and add to favorites.

Also, once copied,
From the edit menu > Paste and Match style.


Mac equivalent of Notepad++? Brand new Mac user here. Switching over from Windows, where I relied heavily upon Notepad++.

Notepad++ is a raw text editor with a ton of convenience features built into it. My favorite is its file system explorer which gives you a tree of the local filesystem, and you can point and click on any file at load it into the main editor.

I'm looking for the closest thing in Mac-land. On my machine there is only TextEdit, which seems OK, but I can't find a "raw text" mode that prevents me from pasting in HTML or other kind of markup.

Anything close to this?

I use these two text editors and I think both are pretty good:

Sublime Text: Although it's not "free", it lets you use it for trial indefinitely. It just keeps asking you to buy it every 10-15 time you save a document.
Atom: Which is a text editor developed by GitHub and very similar to Sublime Text, except that it's free. Totally. Since it's new in development, you should expect bugs here and there and updates every few days.

Both apps support "packages" which add functionality and support.

You can also check out Chocolat, but I haven't used it, so I can't provide any in-depth details about it. I've just "heard" that it's a good option.

By the way, you can use TextEdit in "raw" mode. Just open its preferences (cmd + ,) and choose Plain text.) However, it doesn't support syntax highlighting, code completion or file-tree viewer.


Over-promiscuous bluetooth on Macbook Pro So I have bluetooth stereo headphones (Motorola s305), that, now with iOS 4.1 and AVRCP, are a delight with my iPhone 3GS, at least, unless I happen to turn them on when my Macbook Pro is around.

Then the MBP thinks it's a pairing request and the headset's command is lost (worse: this happens while the MBP is sleeping, causing it to wake).  I think I once paired it with the MBP when I didn't have other headphones lying around, but I've tried to get the MBP to behave by

Disabling "Discoverable"
Unpairing, then removing the profile of the s305 on the MBP
Telling my MBP to NOT allow BT devices to wake it up

Short of disabling bluetooth (would not be desireable - I like my Magic Mouse), what can I do to get my MBP to ignore the headset?

I've had my Macbook Pro automatically connect to devices when they power up, but I've never seen a Bluetooth device automatically pair when it's not in the Bluetooth devices list.

I've never used Bluetooth headphones before, but it sounds like there's some sort of special case happening for audio devices, or at least this particular audio device. is "Prompt for all incoming audio requests" ticked in the Advanced options? It sounds like unticked would imply that audio devices would pair automatically.


Not able to delete calendar event in iPhone I'm facing this issue that i have accepted a friend's invitation for call and it got added as a calendar event in my iPhone. Now the issue is when i'm opening it, there i'm unable to find the edit button from which i can delete this event from the calendar.

Has anyone faced similar issue like this. Any help is appreciated.

I removed the mail account from the device and then added it again. By doing this i was able to remove those events from iPhone calendar.


Interaction Gmail and Mail.app - Moving messages locally I use the Mail.app to access my multiple email accounts on my MBP and store some of the messages locally so that it doesn't end up stored forever online.
The thing is, I feel like moving a message from my Inbox to a local folder (i.e. "On my Mac") works for all accounts except Gmail.
Whenever I move a message from my Inbox to a local folder (either by drag-and-drop or with a rule in Mail.app), I discovered that the email is still in Gmail. It just isn't in the Inbox anymore, I have to go to "All Mail" to see it.
Is there a way to erase the message from the server as soon as it is stored locally? (or even with some delay like with deleted messages) Otherwise, it kind of defeats the purpose of all this...
I discovered that more than 1,000 emails are still stored online while I stored them all on my mac...

you need to login to gmail's settings into the Forwarding and POP/IMAP and make sure you have it selected to to delete Gmail's copy, so it doesn't sit in Gmail's folder/server while you have it locally stored on your Mail.app, e.g.; picture below of option you need to select.

notice option "delete Gmail's copy"
once you do this you should good to go, hope this helps! :)


How to file-manage an iPhone from a Windows box? I am considering buying an iPhone, probably an XR, XS, or X.

Is it possible to file-manage such a device from a laptop that is running Windows 7 Pro and is connected to the iPhone by USB cable, and if so how can I do this?

The kind of file management tasks I have in mind are straightforward ones such as copying files to and fro, editing text files (which comes down to being able to open and save from the Windows machine), renaming and deleting files and directories, creating new directories, and moving files and directories about. Is this just as easy to do as if the laptop were connected by USB cable to say a flash drive rather than to the smartphone? Or is it perhaps impossible because there is no way of making an iPhone running iOS show up on a Windows box as a drive in the first place?

(Note: I have no need to sync; this question concerns file management only.)

Generally speaking you can't do this on a PC (Linux or Windows) or a Mac. Though on Windows PCs you can usually get to the folder that holds music and pictures, if I remember correctly.

But really there is no way to treat an iPhone like a thumb drive without jailbreaking it or jumping through hoops that would end up (possibly) being more trouble than it is worth.

The only thing you should do is back up the phone to your PC from time to time. Yes you can use iCloud backup, which I do use, but I also change that button in iTunes and back up locally from time to time. Mostly because I am a vaguely paranoid IT guy who has seen so many people lose data because of incomplete backups that I have two backup methods for my iPhone.


How to change display name on the iCloud email? My email is an iCloud email that ends in @me.com and my display name is incorrect.

I look at my apple ID account name and it is correct.
I look at my iCloud account and my name is correct.

But when I send emails it says an incorrect name.

Where can I change that?

After logging in to iCloud.com, click Mail, and then at the bottom-left of the screen click on the Settings (gear) icon. Click Preferences... in the pop-up menu. In the pop-up window, click Accounts then change Full Name to how you'd like your name to appear.

This will change the name that appears on emails you send through the iCloud.com website and the Mail app on OS X. If you are using another desktop mail client, you will need to configure that separately.


See Installation Status of All App Updates I have so many apps on my iPhone, when I install a batch of updates it takes a while for them to complete.  Given how many different screens my iPhone has, it's difficult to determine when all of the updating apps are done installing.

Is there a different view/screen I can pull up to track the progress of all apps currently being installed and/or updated?

Unfortunately, there is no feature like this built into iOS. Something may exist with a Jailbreak, but I am not aware of such a tool.

You have something 'like' this in the Mac App Store, where the update screen shows the progress itself.

You can possibly suggest the feature on Apple's Feedback Page, or submit a bug through Apple's Bug Reporter.

Luckily, in iOS 5, multiple apps can be downloaded and installed simultaneously, so this should speed up the process, and make it more noticeable.


Keyboard shortcuts not working in Safari and Firefox after update to Yosemite After updating two distinct Macs (a MacBook Air and a Mac Mini, both using the same iCloud account) from Mavericks to Yosemite, I noticed the following weird bug:
All keyboard shortcuts in Safari and Firefox (not in Chrome, nor in any other app I've tried) have stopped working. When using a shortcut in Firefox, the corresponding spot on the menu bar is briefly highlighted (for instance, ⌘T flashes File), but nothing else happens; in Safari, not even this menubar flashing occurs.

Weirdest of all: on both browsers, if I first open a menu by clicking on the menubar, then any shortcut works (while the menu is open).

Question: Has anyone else encountered this bug? What would you recommend? Should I notify Apple somehow?

I have had this exact problem for weeks, and it's been driving me crazy, but I've finally found a solution. I found this thread on the Apple Support Communities, where “stevendeluxe” says the following:

  Problem fixed!
  I compared the system preferences for each user and found out that I had several languages activated in the language/region settings. So I deleted the language adding the option "list sort order". This option wasn't activated in my test account.

  You have to try which language is the "bad one" on your system (In my case it was "german"...haha) and delete it. UPDATE: I've tried to re-add the deleted language and still safari works fine.

I did the same, went to “Language & Region” in OS X System Preferences (found in the Apple menu at the top left of the screen), and removed two languages I'd added as a lark (Swiss German and Klingon, to be precise), and after restarting the computer (which OS X requires if you remove the primary language), all my keyboard shortcuts work again. Joy and jubilation.

I hope this works for you, too.


TimeMachine backup broken after upgrading After recently upgrading my Mac, TimeMachine started suggesting that it had verified the integrity of the backup and that I needed to start a new backup. I have my backup on a NAS mounted as afs on my Mac. However, when I looked at the files in the backup, macOS had renamed my TimeMachine backup to .purgeable.sparsebundle. When I looked in the directory, there were no files except the bands directory. Now it seems the bands still exist but none of the plist files exist. I accidentally started a new backup and I am not sure if that deleted these files and renamed the sparsebundle but regardless, I don't have the files. I then proceeded to copy over the plists from the new backup to this directory and tried to follow the tutorial here. However, when I execute hdiutil attach command, I see the following output -

hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/Backups/djmbp.sparsebundle
/dev/disk2              GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1            EFI

The volume is missing. Help appreciated!

The problem with "… Time Machine must create a new backup …" is an old annoying one, see one of many discussions on apple, from 2016.
Apple doesn't seem to be interested.
You did well in finding a good tutorial on jd-powered.net.

However, as you wrote you accidentally started a new backup, that will have deleted all the old backups.
When I had the recurring problem in 2016 and 2017 I moved the whole old backup over from my time capsule to a spare disk before restarting a new Time machine backup. Moving them over wired Ethernet took days, literally. (Btw: I am not too sure that my old safeguarded backups are still usable.)


Automator: Move files into new subfolder based on file's name Disclaimer, this may not be something Automator can do.

I have a large directory of movie files. In order to use a piece of software, each movie needs to be in it's own folder. I'd like to create some sort of automation to do the following:

Create folders named after each filename ex: Cool Movie.m4v =>  Cool Movie ƒ
Move movie file to corresponding folder

I'm hoping that between Automator, Bash, or AppleScript, there's a way to do this.

Clarification:

If I have a folder that looks like this:

Movies ƒ

Movie A.m4v
Movie B.m4v
Movie C.m4v

I'd like it to look like this after:

Movies ƒ

Movie A ƒ

Movie A.m4v

Movie B ƒ

Movie B.m4v

Movie B ƒ

Movie B.m4v

I had a similar question and with the help of wch1zpink came up with this solution. In automator:

create a new workflow
add get selected finder items
add run applescript
replace the script with this:

tell application "Finder"
    set selectedFiles to selection as alias list
    set containingFolder to container of item 1 of selectedFiles as alias
    repeat with i from 1 to count of selectedFiles
        set thisItem to item i of selectedFiles
        set fileName to (text items 1 thru -5) of (name of thisItem as text) as string
        move thisItem to (make new folder at containingFolder ¬
            with properties {name:fileName})
    end repeat
end tell


Macbook doesn't display on external screen until after I log in (Yosemite). How to fix? I have a macbook pro (mid-2011) and an HP Pavilion 22bw (prob inconsequential) connected via a Thunderbolt DVI Adapter.

Ever since installing Yosemite, I now need to open the macbook pro and log in via its own screen, rather than the external monitor.  It simply does not display / send any signal to the external screen until AFTER I'm logged in.

Does anyone else have this issue?  Is there any other option?  This is highly inconvenient with how my workspace is set up.

Thanks!

To Fix this issue do the following while your external monitor is plugged into the MacBook:

Open Displays in System Preferences
Click on Arrangement at the top of the window
If Mirror Displays is checked, uncheck it
The position of the two displays should now be shown in the Displays Window
One of them will have a white bar at the top.  This is probably your MacBook
Click on each display in the window and you will see the relevant display framed in red.
If the white bar is at the top of your MacBook display, move it to the top of the external monitor display.
Then click Mirror Displays again.
This should resolve the issue


Set Today View as default on Lock screen in iPhone Is it possible to make Today View as the default on the iPhone Lock screen?

Currently I need to swipe right on the Lock Screen to see the Today View screen (security is not an issue because Today View is accessible to anyone without logging into the iPhone).

I want the Today View screen to be the default on the Lock Screen when the iPhone is locked.

I am using an iPhone 7.

No. As of this writing, it is not possible to set Today View as the default view in lock screen.


Can 2 separate macbook Pros work on one imovie project at the same time? I have a question regarding Imovie. I am wondering if 2 separate MacBooks can work on the same iMovie project at the same time. I am working on a project with a partner. When I say "at the same time", I mean that both computers can move scenes around, and add commentary and music at the same time. The same project can be open on two separate computers and an edit on one computer shows up on the other. Basically, I am asking if iMovie can work just like Google Docs, 2 people can make edits in real time at the same time. If so, how can I connect the two MacBooks together on the same project?
If this doesn't work on iMovie, will it work on final cut pro? Thanks

“Collaborate with Others” function()   I think it is on right top corner of app. ;)


An undiagnosable screen fault (flickering/glitching) I have been experiencing an intermittent screen flickering/glitching. The problem occurs where I use, or leave the laptop on for several hours, until I let the laptop rest (i.e. shut it down and leave it off) for several days, then promptly starts again with a couple of hours of use.

The flickering/glitching affects the whole screen. I don't think the attached image does the problem much justice. The whole image on screen appears to shake, moving up and down, ghosting between two 'screens'. The problem started with faint horizontal lines across the screen and then escalated within a matter of hours.

I have taken the Macbook Pro into an Authorised Apple Service Provider who were unable to diagnose the fault with their diagnostic systems; as a result they weren't prepared to replace any hardware. The service provider has proved fruitless. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

If possible, try using a second display (through Mini-DisplayPort or Thunderbolt).

The objective is to find if the issue is the LCD panel (Screen) or the GPU (Video Chip/"Card").

If the issue persists on a secondary/external display, the issue is the GPU. If the issue is limited to the built in display, you've narrowed down the source of the issue to your LCD.

Have you noticed any other patterns, such as use of Safari or other apps? Some apps, upon opening, switch from basic "integrated" graphics, to the more powerful "discrete" graphics chip, and its possible that this change is causing the distortion.

EDIT: I should also note that service providers' diagnostics are unable to detect connection issues with the LCD panel (unless completely disconnected), so any tests they run will be inconclusive if its the LCD. LCD issues simply require visual inspection, and your photo should be sufficient proof. Source: Apple Employee/tech for 8+ years


Terminal Displays My Roommate's Computer I don't know how long ago this happened, but today I realized that when I open up terminal it no longer says
Matthew-MacBook:~matthew$

as it used to. Instead, it appears to have synched up with my roommate's macbook pro. It now displays:
$Gabriels-MBP:~matthew$

I've restarted my mac but it doesn't change the name.
I've tried the suggestions suggested in these posts
sudo scutil --set HostName Matthew-Macbook

But no effect!
echo "$PS1" returns \h:\W \u\$

I know this is late, but the solution here may work for others with similar roommates.

I am thinking that your hostname is properly set, but that your prompt definition may have been pranked.

First check is to run 'echo $PROMPT && echo $PS1' and see if they match. If they don't, then we are looking for a prompt re-definition for sure but it is worthwhile to investigate fully anyways.

The terminal prompt is defined in several places and I suggest you look at them all for alterations

I am assuming that you use bash as your shell based on the output from your echo command. When I went to Mojave I switched to zsh, but I kept my bash settings.  This following is from my previous master file.

# ==============

/private/etc/profile
 Last edited: 2019/07/08

Bash first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. From that file it calls (appends) /private/etc/bashrc, the System-wide bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells. That bashrc checks if bash is interactive, then sets windowsize parms, and then appends Apple terminal definitions before returning control to here

After reading those files, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

# ================

You should look at /private/etc/profile and /private/etc/bashrc as system wide prompts can be set there.

Also look at the  ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile files as they are the final place your prompt is set.

In general you are looking  statements along the lines of:
PS1=' some set of esc sequences like '\n and '\u mixed with the chars like '$' or '@''

 OR

PROMPT=   the same as just above.

If you see Gabiel's name in any of those files then that is the one to change.

I would look at these files in reverse order.

If you are interested, putting the following would give you a nice terminal front based on a Green on Black Homebrew profile for  you, root, and you as sudo -s. Of course you could modify it as you see fit as the colours are defined too. Copy following to the end of /private/etc/profile:

# declare ANSI color codes VARs

 RS="\[\033[0m\]"        # reset
 HC="\[\033[1m\]"        # hicolor
 UL="\[\033[4m\]"        # underline
 INV="\[\033[7m\]"       # inverse background and foreground
 FBLK="\[\033[30m\]"     # foreground black
 FRED="\[\033[31m\]"     # foreground red
 FGRN="\[\033[32m\]"     # foreground green
 FYEL="\[\033[33m\]"     # foreground yellow
 FBLE="\[\033[34m\]"     # foreground blue
 FMAG="\[\033[35m\]"     # foreground magenta
 FCYN="\[\033[36m\]"     # foreground cyan
 FWHT="\[\033[37m\]"     # foreground white
 BBLK="\[\033[40m\]"     # background black
 BRED="\[\033[41m\]"     # background red
 BGRN="\[\033[42m\]"     # background green
 BYEL="\[\033[43m\]"     # background yellow
 BBLE="\[\033[44m\]"     # background blue
 BMAG="\[\033[45m\]"     # background magenta
 BCYN="\[\033[46m\]"     # background cyan
 BWHT="\[\033[47m\]"     # background white
 BFRED="\[\033[01;31m\]" # bright foreground red
 BFGRN="\[\033[01;32m\]" # bright foreground green
 BFYEL="\[\033[01;33m\]" # bright foreground yellow
 BFBLE="\[\033[01;34m\]" # bright foreground blue
 BFMAG="\[\033[01;35m\]" # bright foreground magenta
 BFCYN="\[\033[01;36m\]" # bright foreground cyan
 BFWHT="\[\033[01;37m\]" # bright foreground white

#  end colour VARs

#  set colour prompt

    export SUDO_PS1='\n'$BFRED'\u'$BFGRN'@'$BFRED'\h'$BFGRN':'$BFBLE'\w '$RS''$FRED'$ '

    if [[ ${EUID} != 0 ]]; then
        export PS1='\n'$BFGRN'\u'$BFRED'@'$BFGRN'\h'$BFRED':'$BFBLE'\w '$RS''$FGRN'# '
    else
        export PS1='\n'$BFRED'\u'$BFGRN'@'$BFRED'\h'$BFGRN':'$BFBLE'\w '$RS''$FRED'$ '
    fi

#  end set prompt


Macbook Pro - no sound output I have a Macbook Pro 2015 running Mojave 10.14.6.
I have absolutely no sound output both from internal speakers and headphones, even the startup sound doesn't play. Microphone input is fine. The sound settings are OK, connecting and disconnecting the headphones is recognized correctly, no red light from the headphones jack socket. No peripherals are connected, Bluetooth is turned off.

I tried:

Reboot, multiple times
Install the latest system update
Reboot to safe mode
Reset PRAM
Run sudo killall audiod
Log in a guest account

Any other ideas? Thanks!

I know you've already reset the NVRAM (what you're referring to as PRAM), but the first thing I'd try is to reset both the NVRAM and SMC in that order. Before following the steps below, ensure you have no external hardware connected and make sure you use the built-in keyboard.

Reset the NVRAM

Your Mac uses Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM). Here’s how to reset the NVRAM on your particular MBP:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again and you here the startup chime for the second time.
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc).

Once done, proceed to resetting the SMC as well.

Reset the SMC

To reset the System management Controller on your particular MBP, follow these steps:

Shut down your computer
Keep the power cable plugged in
Press at the same time shiftoptioncontrol (on the left side of the keyboard) and the power button and hold all these down for at least 10 seconds
Let go
Turn your computer back on with the power button.

After resetting both the NVRAM and SMC, use your Mac to determine if you still have no sound output.

If it doesn't, then it's time to test your hardware with Apple Diagnostics.

Run Apple Diagnostics

Follow the steps below to run Apple Diagnostics:

Fully shut down your MBP
Restart your MBP
Immediately press the D key and keep it down until you see the Diagnostics screen appear
Wait for Diagnostics to finish (this typically only takes a few minutes)
Once complete, one of two things will appear on the screen:

a No issues found message
a brief description of any errors found plus further instructions

If the diagnostics test does find errors, take a note of what they are

Note: If pressing and holding the D key at Step 3 doesn't work, start again at Step 1 and, at Step 3 press and hold both the OptionD keys instead. This will try and run diagnostics from the internet instead, so you will need to allow more time for it to complete.

Regardless, take a note of what happens and let me know how you went.


Open fullscreen apps to left of Desktop 1 space In Settings -> Mission Control, you have the option to open a new space to the far right or to the right of the current space via the "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" checkbox.

What is a way, perhaps through a terminal command or otherwise, to have new spaces open to the left of Desktop 1 (primary space)?

Up to the current macOS (10.14.2), there is no way to change the default position of full-screen application.


Problem with iMessage "Delivered" status For some recipients when I send an iMessage (blue blox) I get a "Delivered" message below it.  However, with other users the "Delivered" box never appears.  I know one option is that their phone may be off, but I know this is not the case because I get a response. Why does the "Delivered" status appear on some iMessages, but not on others when I know the message has been received?  Thank you for your help.

Basically, your message has been sent, from your end, to another iPhone or Apple apparatus (it appears in Blue and not Green) but has not been delivered to your recipient.

"Delivered" may not appear for several reasons. The most likely, and also the only I've confirmed, is that the recipient cannot receive the data. This happens when a phone is off or out of service range, obviously. It also happens frequently if they are talking on the phone. When someone is talking voice, and out of a WiFi area, they may not be able to receive text messages, because they may drop or lose some of the data, so it is conveniently held onto for them until they're freed up (i.e. off the phone). It can also happen when WiFi access is spotty, when other apps are running in the background, etc.

The reason you may be experiencing this but still receiving responses is that once a response is sent (in any exchange) that "Delivered" or "Read" message vanishes. Poof. So you're probably just not seeing it change to Delivered to Read before you see a response.

Another possibility that makes sense and could explain both, however unconfirmed by yours truly, is that the "Do Not Disturb" feature is toggled on the recipients phone. As far as I was aware, this simply prevents them from receiving notifications of the messages, but I haven't test it out.

It's one of the above anyway for sure.  Hope it helps.


nslookup works with /etc/resolv.conf, ping and ssh don't In our local university network, I have (obtained by DHCP) the following setup in /etc/resolv.conf:

search a.domain.com b.domain.com domain.com
nameserver x.x.x.x
nameserver y.y.y.y

The settings are the same in System Preferences as well.
The following problem occurs:

nslookup server

works, and is using one of the nameservers to correctly ask for server.a.domain.com.
If I try to ping however,

ping server

fails with unreachable host.

ping server.a.domain.com

works. Manually adding server with the ip address obtained by nslookup to /etc/hosts makes ping work too, but this "solution" circumvents the nameservers and is thus not ideal (and I would have to add about 20 other entries as well). Any idea what is causing this? Why does ping not use the results of nslookup/the searchdomains?

ssh server

also fails, which is the real problem/inconvenience.

I already added AlwaysUseSearchDomains to mDNSResponder, but this fix only helps the problem when using server.foo.

I'm using OS X Lion 10.7.3.

I had the same problem.  The solution I used was to create an /etc/resolver directory.  Inside that directory, create a file named for each domain you wish to resolve for.  Inside each file there should be two lines

nameserver 10.0.100.2
domain  home.cainmanor.com

The file above would be named /etc/resolver/home.  It may need to be named home.cainmanor.com, but I can't test it right now.

Good luck!


Shazam with SoundCloud? Is there a way to get Shazam to listen to music in SoundCloud or MixCloud while I am listening on headphones on my iPhone?

You go into the Shazam app and you need to long press the Shazam logo until the "Auto-Shazam" words appear on the top of the circle. After that when you go back to your home page it will appear a red bar on top of your apps meaning that your Shazam will be listening to whatever song is going to be played.

EDIT: It works with headphones of course :)


Multiple video track layers in iMovie? I have a four videos of the same event (a band playing) all taken from different angles.

I'd like to make a concert video of the footage.  Nothing special, just cut from angle to angle throughout the song -- use the guitar player close up on the guitar solo -- that sort of thing.

Is there a way in iMovie to layout each video in a separate "layer" (sort of like in Photoshop), and then (after I sync them to the audio), movie the "camera" from one layer to another?

If iMovie can't do that, is there other software that can?

Thanks!

You can't really do this in iMovie as it is limited to 2 video tracks. You can do it in Final Cut or Premiere Pro if you're willing to spend the money, or HitFilm Express if you want don't want to spend a penny.


Bootcamp Support Software 5.0 Does Bootcamp support software 5.0 support a new installation of windows 7 on a disk partitioned by bootcamp assistant on a MacBook Air 11" early 2014 running OS X El Capitan 10.11.8?

The version of the Boot Camp Support Software depends only on the model/year of your Mac and the version Windows you are trying to install. When installing Windows 7, you should only use the Boot Camp Support software given at this Apple website. The only exception would be if this site did not provide a download for your model/year Mac.

Note: According to Apple, Windows 7 should include Service Pack 1 (SP1). Although, some users have posted success without SP1.

Once the Boot Camp Support Software is installed, you can run Apple Update to see if any updates are available. Unfortunately, the Apple Update, installed by some of the older Boot Camp Support Software versions, is no longer supported by the Apple servers. However, if you install iTunes or iCloud, you will get a newer working version of the Apple Update software. Whether this version will provide Boot Camp software updates is questionable.


Apple 2015 fiscal year accounting calendar I was wondering if anyone know where I can acquire Apple's 2015 fiscal year accounting calendar?  I have tried a few varieties of search term and nothing is showing up.

You can find a link to the fiscal calendar in iTunes Connect at the bottom of the "Payments and Financial Reports" page.

I'd post a link here, but it might change in the future.


How can i get the mac family number using terminal? I want to get model number/family number.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/mac-specs-by-model-number-family-number.html.

I have found the above link that have listed all the Model number.

That information does not exist in the SystemProfiler.

Click the apple icon in the top left "About This Mac", admittedly not Terminal. Do you have any reason to do this in Terminal?


iOS audio input via USB I am working on a project where I need to process 4 channels of audio input, simultaneously, and in real time on an iOS device.  I cannot find any compact 4-input USB audio interfaces claiming to be compatible with iOS. Do external USB audio interfaces connected via the camera connection kit need to be authenticated to work with apple devices?

Will any class compliant USB audio interface work?

This one (Alesis) might do the job. Still most audio devices are still 2 x 4. This one (Apogee) is also new but expensive. There is a great site for iOS Music (IOSmusicians.com) and they are talking about this device (IOSConnectMIDI4Plus)


How to remove the "high priority" flag from incoming mail in macOS mail I have a neighbour who flags every single one of his mails as "high priority".

I'd like to remove this flag for all mails sent by him.

So, is there any way to control the priority level of incoming mail with a rule?
If not, is there a way to change the priority of selected mails manually?

PS: I understand the priority is given by the server, but after downloading it locally, there is no reason I should not be able to modify some flags.

Hmm. This is theoretical and untested but according to this:

  Many mail clients have the option of marking an outgoing message 'high
  priority' or 'urgent.' In Mail.app, such messages show up in the Inbox
  with two exclamation marks (!!) in the flags column. If you want to
  sort messages by the flags column, so that messages you flag yourself
  are at the top, all high priority messages you have ever received will
  also be at the top of the inbox.

  Mail.app currently has no way of removing this flag from emails you
  have received (as noted in this Apple discussions thread.). The
  following shell script allows you to unset the priority status of all
  the emails you have ever received, so that no emails in your inbox
  have '!!' next to them any more:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/'Envelope Index' 'update messages set flags = flags | 196608 where flags & 196608 != 196608;'

  You can save this as an AppleScript by opening AppleScript Editor and
  entering the following:

do shell script "sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/'Envelope Index' 'update messages set flags = flags | 196608 where flags & 196608 != 196608;'"

You get set this to run when mail receives an email marked with high priority:

Save your script to `~/Library/Application
Scripts/com.apple.mail` Mail > Preferences > Rules > Add Rule

If any of the following conditions are met
Priority is High
Preform the following actions:
Run AppleScript [Select Your Script]


Where can I purchase Mavericks? My husband would like to install OS X Mavericks, not Yosemite. He's using Snow Leopard right now on his MacBook Pro (early 2008). How could he do that?

There are two possibilities here as far as I'm aware:

Take the Mac to an Apple store where they may be willing to install Mavericks for you.
Find someone who is running Mavericks, or who has upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite, and who is willing to help you. They will be able to download the Mavericks installer from their previous purchases in the App Store, and then they can pass the installer on to you via network or USB stick.


Control open -f temporary file name When I use echo 'hello world' | open -f it creates a temporary file in /tmp folder with some arbitrary name.

Is there any way for me to set the name and the path I want for open -f temporary file?

What technically happens here is the following:

f tells open to read input from standard input and open the results in the default text editor
Because most text editors can't read the content to be edited from standard input, open creates a temporary file with the input it receives from standard input and then opens the default text editor on this file.
According to man open there is no option to set a custom name for that file

As a workaround you can use

echo 'hello world' > /tmp/foo.txt && open /tmp/foo.txt

which technically does exactly the same thing.


Do I have to restore my Mac if I've forgotten the admin password? I've got an external hard drive which I've hooked up to time machine, I have multiple Mac's but the one in question I am unable to remember the administrator password, which is a pain when trying to create an extra user account and install software, etc.

What should I do in this situation? What's the best way of keeping all my files and existing software but be able to start up with a new user.

PS: Worst case scenario is to restore the iMac  and getting all my files back, ncluding Microsoft Office (if I am correct Time Machine will automatically back up software as well?) but is there a way of setting up the mac once restored through TM keeping all the files but not the user profile.

You can restart the Setup Assistant by performing the following:

Boot into Single User Mode ⌘ + S.
Mount the drive by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter.
Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter.
Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter.
Continue setup, making sure not to transfer data.
Setup a new administrator account. You can use this account to reset the password to the original account (through System Preferences → Users & Groups).

The new account can then be deleted once the original account has been recovered.


Can iPad get dead pixel I had my iPad for years, it is old and today while something black was on the screen (normal, I was looking at somthing black) I noticed some tiny greenish (barely noticed) pixel things on the screen, they are only noticeable when I turn the brightness up a little and I did google "black" and had a look at pure black images full of nothing and had a look at a few.

These defects are absolutely on my screen, it is not dirt or anything becouse I wiped it. They are not annoying but I want to know in case  it's bad.

Apparently there is a thing called dead pixel where there are pixels that lay on a screen and do nothing, but I am not sure if this happens on IPad becouse the times I saw about it was on somthing else.

Yes, your iPad (any device with an LCD display) can get a dead (off) or a stuck (always on) pixel.

Is it bad?

No. It will not affect the the performance of the device.  It’s analogous to a blown light in your house; while not detrimental, it can be annoying.


Using POSIX path to attach a file to email in AppleScript I am attempting to send an email via the standard Apple Mail application using a POSIX file reference on macOS Sierra (10.12.3). Everything builds fine, but when it sends, the attachment is not being received.

Here's the code:

set fileReference to (choose file with prompt "Select file for attachment...")

tell application "Mail"
make new attachment with properties {file name:fileReference}

The recipient is set earlier in the code, and there are no issues with sending the email itself: just the attachment.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Open Script Editor, create a new document, and add the AppleScript Code, shown below, to it.
In the make new to recipient ... line of code, change the values of {name:"John Doe", address:"johndoe@domain.com"} to your name and email address for testing purposes.
Now run the script.

Note that after selecting the attachment, the script will compose the email, attach the file, and send it.
Then check your Inbox for the message, to see that the file was attached.
It worked for me!

AppleScript Code:

set theAttachment to (choose file with prompt "Select file for attachment...")
tell application "Mail"
    set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"File Attachment Test", content:"Was a file attached when you received this email?" & linefeed & linefeed}
    tell theMessage
        make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:"John Doe", address:"johndoe@domain.com"}
    end tell
    tell content of theMessage
        make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachment} at after last paragraph
    end tell
    send theMessage
end tell


Error trying to install any macOS version in macbook 2010 mid I have a problem that I have not been able to solve for weeks, and nowhere do I find a solution to this, perhaps someone with more knowledge will help me and help others with this thread, the problem is as follows
I have a 2010 macbook mid, and I had high sierra installed, I want to go to catalina, use the catalina patcher to perform the entire procedure exactly as indicated by others as well

usb botteable utilize 2
format use all
Also try to install it without usb
use OS image from internet downloaded via torrent or download it from the catalina patcher app itself
use also mojave patcher and high sierra patcher

when entering the bootable formatie as apfs guid, and also use the mac os format
I have the same error
after starting the installer after 2 minutes it goes to a screen that shows the error
"MacOS cannot be installed on your computer"
an error occurred while installing macOS, to use apple diagnostics to check your mac's hardware, turn off the computer, etc, etc
To see the diagnostic error, it does not show anything, only the planet and an exclamation point, nor using the internet cable.

I also changed the DATE to finish changing the date from 2016 to 2021 and I don't solve it

I think from my point of view that the error is in the image that is downloaded by OSX (although the downloaded megabytes seem the correct size), can it be that you have to use a virgin image? I do not know what to do, if someone can help in this it would be appreciated in a huge way
imagen for error

You have a 2010 MacBook, I have a 2010 iMac and Catalina nor Mojave will run on my machine. I think your machine is too old to install Catalina. You should check the system requirements for Catalina. It doesn't list a 2010 MacBook as being compatible.


How do I silently start up my MacBook Air? When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.

However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.

How do I start up my Mac silently?

Plugging in headphones used to be the quick and dirty way to assure silence (back in the PPC hardware days).

Now, the self test startup chime still uses the internal speaker whether or not the headphone jack is in use, but the below trick will work on older macs. It is of use with new macs as long as you don't set your mac to reboot automatically and you don't forget about the current behavior and reboot it yourself.

I have a snipped nub of a headphone jack that I use when I am in a place where noise is prohibited no matter what the software decides.

You can get a plug without any cord for less than $5 at a store such as Radio Shack if you don't have headphones you can sacrifice or the cut cord doesn't please you.

It's simply not possible to change the NVRAM mute/volume setting after the mac is shut down (or sleeping) so even if you prepare properly, sound will be made if things don't go as planned on the shutdown.


Safari keeps deleting items from my reading list My safari's reading list is "one shot", in the sense that if I open a URL it gets deleted, so I can just read it once. But some articles are long and I read them in 3-4 times.

I’d like manual removal only from my reading list using safari on macOS.

Is this how reading list is designed, that links disappear when you read them?

They're not being deleted, they're just read and you're hiding read items. Show unread items in reading list by clicking the Show Unread button above the list.


How to prevent Numbers from changing currency automatically I have a spreadsheet that has cells with two currencies: USD and EUR.

I have a cell that is a USD formatted cell and the other, a EUR cell.

The EUR cell values are results of the multiplication of the USD formatted cell values with a given figure as exchange rate.

Now, Numbers does not let me manually change the EUR cell to EUR; when I click "Cell" -> Data Format -> "Currency" and chose a EUR, it reverts back to USD.

I would like to have control over the currency to assign a specific cell as I used to prior to version 4.3 (5046) of Numbers.

Because most of my formulas are now broken as I can no longer make use of more than one currency.

I have a similar problem which may be related. In my case Numbers 4.3 allows me to specify the ratio of two currency cells as a number or a percentage but then immediately and automatically reverts the cell back to the currency format of one of the origin cells. I agree that Apple Developers are probably trying to 'help' (but don't realise that they don't yet have the competence to do so infallibly).

I have reported the problem via Apple's Feedback on:
 https://www.apple.com/feedback/numbers.html
and suggest you do likewise. The more of us that report it the more likely they'll sort it.
Meantime I have had to remove the currency format from my origin cells and added it to the description in the row/column headers. (Not ideal, I know.)


How much does Apple Pay really cost for person to person transactions? In this YouTube video, Craig Federighi said that person-to-person transactions via Apple Pay cost no money if the user had a debit card.

It is hard to believe that for service and background processes they do not charge a penny. Is there any hidden cost?

It's the same as Venmo, zero for debit, 3% for credit.  Nothing hidden.


Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard doesn't work on macOS Sierra I have a MacBook Pro 2010 and I bought the Sculpt keyboard but I can't get it working!

The keyboard just doesn't exist for macOS Sierra.

I searched for drivers, tutorials, etc., but all I found were people trying to remap the keys. I wish I had this problem too, because that could mean that the keyboard at least was recognized by OS...

Does anyone has any tip or trick to make it work? Where to begin?

I don't know about your Macbook, but I got it to work with a late 2016 Macbook Pro with an adapter to go from the USB-C ports to the traditional Type-A USB-Ports. (Hyperdrive by Sanho) So far the Microsoft Sculpt works very well. (Some of the PC-only Fn keys don't work e.g. the search button, but it's not a major issue)

I used Karabiner Elements to change the key assignment a bit. I can recommend this guide: https://www.themtparty.com/archives/6286


Copy files after the current copy operation is completed I sometimes need to copy a lot of files from here and there to an external drive. What I do is copy some files, paste it in the drive, copy some more files, then paste again etc. But this makes the files copy parallelly which slows down the drive.

Is there a way (maybe a third-party app to install) that would queue the second copy until the first copy operation is completed?

Pathfinder from Cocoatech
It's called Queue file operations or Copy queue:

Open in the menubar Windows -> File Operations (or shortcut: altcmdP) and enable Queue file operations. All file operations (like copy, move etc.) will be queued then.

CopyQueue from Curio Software

You have to define new tasks (New Queue or cmdN) first.
You may save them, if you have to use certain copy operations repeatedly.


NSString doesn’t understand the “stringWithString_” message I'm creating an AppleScript Script Library, and want to call some Cocoa methods on NSString. I created an .SCPTD file with this method:

on xtrim(sourceText)
    set the sourceString to current application's NSString's stringWithString:sourceText

    set whitespace to {space, tab, return, linefeed}
    set the adjustedString to sourceString's stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(whitespace)

    return (adjustedString as string)
end xtrim

However, I get the error NSString doesn’t understand the “stringWithString_” message.. Most answers I find on the internet suggest that the AppleScript/Objective-C Library checkbox is not checked.

However, this checkbox has been removed with the Yosemite release.

What is wrong with the script; is there a fix?

Answer from an Apple thread:

As of Yosemite, ASObjC is available everywhere, not just libraries and applications.  Importing the desired terminology via the use statement is now directly supported in the Script Editor - for your example, the NSString class stuff is available by adding a use framework "Foundation" statement.


Recover files from a "working" external hard drive I have an external hard drive with some backup files in it. Today I moved a folder with some Flac files and one jpg from the external HD to my iMac HD. When I tried and open the Flac files on the Mac, VLC showed them as "zero seconds", whereas Preview didn't open the jpg. Both software returned no error message.

I tried opening a bunch of files currently on the external HD (text, pdf, mp3,...) with different software. Same results. Names, extensions, and sizes are correct for all of them, but it seems like they are missing "something" for them to be recognized for what they are (metadata, maybe?)

I tried using SOS (disk utility), it found some minor problems, repair them, but the end result is the same. I even tried a Windows PC with a third party software: the same story, the files just won't open regardless of the software I use.

I finally tried with a data recovery software, but it only found deleted files, I couldn't "recover" files that weren't deleted.

I could probably try and create an image of the disk, but it's 2TB and I don't have enough space, and anyway, will it work?

Does anybody have an idea of what is going on?

Your files are corrupted.

If you can use macOS or Windows to open these files, you’ve reduced the points of failure that would have caused it.  You’re down to the USB enclosure or the drive itself.

Recovery software won’t work because it looks for “orphaned” blocks of data. When you have a file, nothing is orphaned.  The software has no idea that the contents are a jumbled mess, it just knows the file is complete.

For now, test out your drive.  Write files to it.  Then disconnect it, reconnect it and try to read those files back.  If it fails, your enclosure and/or drive is failing.


MacBook Pro 2016 Display has faint horizontal line in 3/4 of screen I am suddenly starting to see this faint horizontal line in 3/4 of the screen and the Dock area, especially on dark colors and blue. They don't appear when I connect to an external port via a thunder bolt.

It's just over a year old :( What could be causing this?

Sounds like a hardware failure, you should go and visit an appleStore or a apple reseller to get this problem fixed.

I had the same Problem, so I went to the appleStore in Oberhausen (Germany). they repaired the Display for free.


Getting 10.6.7 Build 10J869 installed on an 17" MacBook Pro 8,3 (Early 2011) I have a MacBook Pro8,3 (Early 2011) with 10.6.7 build 10J4139 installed on it and I need to get Build 10J869 installed.

Now, I can obtain a combo or delta update for build 10J869 from https://developer.apple.com/downloads, but neither seem to want to install on top of build 10J4139.

Any suggestions?

Have you tried simply installing 10J869 to an external drive? Then you could migrate the data over and finally use disk utility or deploy studio to clone the external OS back over the internal drive.

In your case, the drivers needed to properly install (or at least pass the preinstall script checking for the correct hardware) were never included in a build earlier than 10.6.6 / 10J3210

You can consult the list of builds that supported each Mac Model upon release at Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers.

Since you are trying to get an older build running - do expect things like slow performance, odd fan behavior, graphics issues and perhaps worse if you manage to get the 10J869 build running.

At this point, you have two less than optimal avenues for getting the build on the mac you intend:

Run the install from a mac that will run 10J869 - you can install to the MacBook Pro in target mode or use a disk tool to transfer the data.
Modify Apple's install package to disable the check for this hardware ( or flip the comparison ) and hope the install goes well running from your mac.

Sometimes running an older version of the OS is harmless, so depending on how urgently you need this, you might give it a go and report back how it works.


Mac App Store app can't be uninstalled, won't finish installing So I went to download and install McSolitaire thinking it might be a fun game. Well, something went wrong during the install process. Now I've got a half-downloaded app in my Applications and the Purchases tab encourages me to re-install it, noting in red that an error has occurred. Deleting the app from Applications and returning to the App Store causes the app to reappear in Applications, still with the small slider indicating still copying.

At this point I just want it to be installed or gone. I don't really care if I play Solitaire using the app.

What do I do now?

Some screenshots for the discerningly minded:

and

Clicking install says:

and below that ...

Seems to me you should contact apple support.

I can think of several diagnostics here.

Is it apple ID specific?
Is your DNS servers having trouble or not local enough so apple knows where you are and which CDN node to use? Make sure you use the ones from your ISP.
Lastly, you may want to test with another user account, and make sure the app store functions correctly there.
If you can get away with it, does it work in Safe Mode? (holding down shift at boot)
When you run a traceroute, is the latency really high? What about speed?
What OS are you using? Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion probably has a much more integrated app store, and it might work better for you. (major surgery though.)


Iphone bluetooth keyboard custom layout In Finland we have two more letters than English has. All bluetooth keyboards are however with US layout. Can I somehow change layout so buttons in corresponding places would act as these characters.

If yes, are there some restrictions for keys that I can replace? I would need two buttons to right from L-letter. Some keyboards have eg. keys "-" and "=" there but in some variants there are up arrow.

Iphone 4S with IOS 7.

Bluetooth keyboards ARE available with the keys that you need.  For example Apple makes this one:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184S/B/apple-wireless-keyboard

but I am sure there are others.

You have to also set the layout in iOS.  Tap on Finnish in the list of active keyboards and go to the Hardware part of the menu that appears and choose "finnish".

If for some reason you are only able to use a hardware keyboard with the US layout printed on the keys, then (after setting the Hardware layout in iOS to Finnnish) you should get ö from the ; button and ä from the ' button.

It's not possible for users to add new keyboard layouts to iOS yet.

Another solution might be to try using settings/general/keyboard/add new shortcut to make shortcuts you find convenient for the extra characters.


Why are Finder contextual menus different on different macs? I have a 21" iMac late 2010 running OS X 10.11.6 & a 13" MB-Pro late 2011 running the same. In /System/Libary/Core Services in the MBP, I have the following contextual menu:

Whereas on the iMac, I have this one:

Crucially, the latter one lacks "Make Alias" which I want to do for the Applications folder (& have already done so on the MBPro). Both the Applications folder and the enclosing folder "Core Services" have exactly the same permissions and ownerships on both machines. Both users on both Macs are non-admin users.

Can anyone tell me why these contextual menus are different and how to get the iMac one as per the (larger) MBPro?

The “Make Alias” option doesn’t appear in the contextual menu if it’s not enabled in the menu bar (the option is in the File menu). You should find that the option is enabled on one Mac, but not on the other. The only explanation I can think of is that this is due to differing permissions or due to differing enablement of the new “System Integrity Protection” feature of El Capitan (if the latter is enabled, it prevents everyone, including the “root” user, from writing in the “System” folder). The “Make Alias” option puts the alias in the same folder as the aliased item, and therefore you need to be able to write in that folder to select the option.

An alternative way to create an alias, in a different folder, is to drag the item while holding down the Option (⌥) and Command (⌘) keys.

There’s an Apple support article titled “OS X El Capitan: Create and use aliases” you may want to check out.


OSX connection configuration issue to rack application I am on mac ElCapitan 10.11.6 (15G31) and running simple rack application rackup -p 5004. I can connect to it with http://localhost:5004/ and http://[::1]:5004/

But can't connect with http://127.0.0.1:5004/ and http://192.168.0.111:5004/.

This looks like mis-configuration on my machine. I get different errors when try to connect with IPv4 and IPv6.

$ nc -v -4 192.168.0.111 5004 # and nc -v -4 127.0.0.1 5004 and nc -v -4 localhost 5004
nc: connectx to 192.168.0.111 port 5004 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

$ nc -v -6 192.168.0.111 5004 # and nc -v -6 127.0.0.1 5004
nc: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

But I can connect with nc -v -6 localhost 5004

My hosts file is pretty simple:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

I need to make it work with my host machine IP address 192.168.0.111 so I can connect within Docker container. How to fix this?

Additional information I found on different topics

scutil

$ scutil -r 192.168.0.111
Reachable, Local Address, Directly Reachable Address

$ scutil -r 127.0.0.1
Reachable, Local Address, Directly Reachable Address

$ scutil -r localhost
Reachable

$ scutil -r ::1
Reachable, Local Address, Directly Reachable Address

# but note, ???
$ scutil -r qwerty
Reachable

lsof port usage

lsof shows port is by ruby executable and the interesting part is localhost:avt-profile-1. Checking what avt-profile-1 is gives results for "Real-time Transport Protocol media data". More info here. Also interesting is when I stop the rackup application there is no port usage, so this is not service/daemon running on my machine.

lsof -i :5004
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ruby    12167 kode   16u  IPv6 0xf3c39e30b59c5321      0t0  TCP localhost:avt-profile-1 (LISTEN)

Here I have different application running on port 5000. It's reachable via the host IP at 192.168.0.111:5000. Note the NAME *:commplex-main. Addittionaly I would like to know what this is used for.

lsof -i :5000
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ruby    12889 kode   14u  IPv4 0xf3c39e30b22fcbe9      0t0  TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)

host address name

host 192.168.0.111
111.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa has no PTR record

arp

$ arp 192.168.0.111
? (192.168.0.111) at a0:99:9b:17:16:1d on en0 ifscope permanent [ethernet]

nslookup

$ nslookup localhost
Server:     192.168.0.1
Address:    192.168.0.1#53

Name:   localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

$ nslookup 127.0.0.1
Server:     192.168.0.1
Address:    192.168.0.1#53

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa  name = localhost.

$ nslookup 192.168.0.111
Server:     192.168.0.1
Address:    192.168.0.1#53

** server can't find 111.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN

The issue was rackup runs on localhost by default. To use host one must specify it with -o like rackup -o 192.168.0.111 -p 5004. Only one host can be specified.


Can't enter username in form with Silverlight I have had to install MS Silverlight in order to carry out online marking of examination answers on platform 'RM Assessor'

The RM Assessor login page appears, with a username window and a password window. I know both of these.

The problem is this: when I type in my username, absolutely nothing happens. However I can type in the password.

There is a security setting in OS X which causes the problem and which can be reset. How do I know? I am marking exams for a second organisation which also uses RM Assessor and Silverlight. It took 90 minutes on the phone but eventually they found someone who knew what to do. But I can't contact them again.

So I'm stuck again.

MacBook Pro 15" Retina September 2012, OS X Yosemite

Lets assume you use Firefox browser (and have the plug in installed).

If the cookie information is displayed at the bottom of the login page, click on the Close button to hide the cookie information and then click back into the Username box. You should now be able to enter/type your usename.

If the cookie information is not displayed at the bottom of the login page, click on Tools and then Add-ons. This will open a new tab where you can view the Plugins you have installed. Once the new tab has appeared you can close it and then click back into the Username box. You should now be able to enter/type your usename.


Troubleshoot which apps kill battery My 9 month old iPhone 6 would last just 5 hours after a full charge. Apple told me the battery diagnostics look good, and to reset the phone after backup.

I just got 10 hours use and nearly 40 hours standby. In other words, nearly good as the day I got it. Given that I had a few dozen apps, I'm looking for advice how to find the one(s) that were the battery killers. Is it simply of matter of looking at the list of apps used and noting the ones I used during a low time-to-dead-battery time?

Since iOS 9, under Settings > Battery there is an itemised breakdown of the most battery-consuming applications you have, their on-screen time and background time, and the amount of battery they consumed.

Here is an example:


How much space does macOS Sierra take? I have a MacbookAir 11" from 2011, with only 64 GB of disk storage. Originally came with OSX Mountain Lion and now I'm thinking on updating it to macOS Sierra.

My question is: How much space does the macOS take? Will it take most of my storage space only for the OS? Or will I have enough space to work with?

A clean install of macOS Sierra 10.12.3 from a USB Flash Drive takes a little less then 10 GB of space. If you do an in-place upgrade the Install macOS Sierra.app bundle takes a little less then 5 GB but can be deleted if after the upgrade it doesn't self-delete. So, you have plenty of space whichever way you choose to go. (The in-place upgrade method is assuming you have adequate free space  to preform the in-place upgrade.)

As always with an OS Upgrade, make sure at the minimum that your user data is backed up, if not the entire system before performing the upgrade. Time Machine is a good way to maintain backups of the system.


100 GB Missing after failing to install Windows 10 After I tried to install Windows 10 on my MacbookPro 2017 (High Sierra 10.13.3) my mac was frozen on step when bootcamp assistant was creating partitions (I had to reboot). After that i lost 100GB of my space. Somehow i realised how to remove this new partion but now I'm still missing my 100 GB of hard drive on primary partition.

Can you please help me to figure out how can i get everything back to normal ? I would like to have just one 500GB partition as few hours ago.
Here is my disklist:

And when I try to install windows again bootcamp assistant is giving me this message:

In case that you need to see my diskutil i will upload that image from application as well:

Thanks in advance!!!

The Terminal application commands to remove OSXRESERVED and return the free space to the APFS partition are given below.

sudo  diskutil  erasevolume   free  n  disk0s3
sudo  disktuil  apfs  resizecontainer  disk0s2  0


Formatting a used MBP after booting from OS DVD? I'm installing a MacBookPro via DVD which I booted from. Do I use Disk Utility to format the HD which has an OLD OS X, with users info on it that I don't want, so it WON'T upgrade and retain user data, and instead would actually install a fresh copy with NOTHING inherited?

Yes, during install you can start disk utility and re-partition/format the hard drive.  Make sure you set it as a GUID partition type so that OS X recognises it is a boot drive.


What is iTunes Radio's skip limit? Pandora, Spotify Radio, and other music/radio streaming services usually have a limit on the number of skips allowed in a set amount of time. Does iTunes Radio have a similar limit, and if so, what are its conditions?

It's 6 song skips per hour for each station.

I also have iTunes Match turned on and I'm still limited to 6 skips.


Can I put an Airport Extreme in client mode (sharing printer only)? I have an Airport Extreme 3rd gen (A1301). I just bought a Time Capsule 5th gen (A1470). I put the TC where the AE used to be, in a cupboard in the hall. Now I am thinking to repurpose the AE as a printer server on my desk.

Can I configure it so it connects to the wifi of the Time Capsule in client mode? I don't want to extend the network of the TC since then I would risk connecting to the Airport Express instead of the TC with my other devices, which would be undesirable.

On a Windows version of Airport Utility ctrl-click on the "wireless mode" menu will give you an additional option "join a wireless network".  Without ctrl the option is hidden.