Syncing ipod to itunes I have an iPod that has been in use for some time.

I now want to sync it to iTunes on my macbook pro so I can copy some songs from the macbook to the iPod.

when I connect the iPod to the macbook it comes up saying

welcome to your new iPod

The only options are to set up as a new iPod or restore from a backup, neither of which are what I am trying to do.

is there are way to get this to work the way I am wanting? or is there an alternative way to get songs into the music section on the iPod without syncing with the mac?

Your best bet would be to copy the iTunes library folder and the iPod backup from the computer that it was originally synced with to the macbook you want to sync to. This may get around iTunes wanting to force it to be step as new.

If you have never backed up your iPod then plug it into the computer you originally synced it with and perform a backup in iTunes. You can then use iTunes preferences to find where the backup was stored and copy this to the new macbook.

Then choose restore from backup on the macbook and theoretically it should re-setup the iPod in the same configuration as now and also allow you to use the macbook as the current syncing computer


What is the purpose of the small arrow pointing to applications in the Dock Just curious: Why do some icons have a small arrow pointing at them in the Dock?

On a Mac, these "arrows" are dock indicators for which apps are currently opened. (the arrows exist in up to 10.4 tiger, but since 10.5 leopard are now little lights)

The Mac OS revolves around an application based system, as opposed to Windows' window based approach. What i mean by this is, that in Windows (before 7), closing the last remaining window of an application (such as Firefox), quits the process. This means that the next time Firefox is used, it needs to be loaded again.

The Mac OS however, is application based. Applications are launched and remain open regardless if the windows have been closed. These running applications get a dock indicator, while they are open. This system, although consuming more system resources, means that (for example) Firefox is really snappy to open, since the application has been open all along, and doesn't need to be loaded again just because all the windows were previously closed.

Hope that helps, feel free to comment anything I can clarify on!


Network usage whitelist for cell tethering on OSX? I frequently use my Macbook on my iPad's data plan. Unfortunately, unlike iOS, OSX can't limit application network usage based on whether it's on a cell network, and I always have to remember to close Steam, uTorrent, Dropbox, automatic updates, etc. whenever I start tethering. Is there an app out there that I can turn on and off quickly to whitelist a small number of applications and prevent everything else from using the network?

TripMode was made specifically for this purpose, and even turns on automatically when connected to designated cell hotspots.


Dump dom of url from command line with safari? The following command will dump the dom for a web page using Google Chrome:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome  --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://example.com

I'm wondering if something similar is possible for Safari.
I can do this with AppleScript but I'd prefer the solution for Safari to be "headless" (see --headless option in command above), so I think an AppleScript will not achieve what I'm looking for.
** UPDATE **
Selenium driver has a headless mode for other browsers. But it doesn't look like there is such a mode for safari: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58314435

I’m fairly confident Safari isn’t amenable to scraping, so use Chrome or Firefox for that on macOS if you need a browser to be scriptable.
However, swift and python are exceptionally good at this by calling code directly via NSURL or equivalent as well as using the NSURLSessiond daemon and working with the OS directly and not even needing Safari.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41517065/web-scraping-in-apple-swift-3
How to know what nsurlsessiond is downloading

Of course you have to learn some new language and API/SDK for this to pay off. The pay off can be huge if you have a command line tool that does all the heavy lifting far more efficiently than Chrome or Safari can.


How do I export text messages from android into iphone When moving back from Android to iPhone, I'm unable to transfer my text messages with the "move to iOS" app.

About half my text messages are missing for some reason.

I'm looking for an alternative method (either an application, or steps to do by hand). In regards to application, I am specifically looking for something that not sketchy (eg. dr. fone, or the rebrands of such app).

Ideally something open source or provided by a reputable company.

I've attempted to move messages over by editing the backups sqlite database file, however upon restoration, itunes thinks the backup is corrupted and refuses to restore it.

What are my options?

Method for saving text only: similar to the "move to iOS" app, but still requires a complete application-SMS Backup +. It also transfers text messages, but it cannot be added to iPhone Messager or iMessages.
Here are the steps: Log in to Gmail on Android> Settings> Forwarding and POP / IMAP> Enable IMAP> Enable IMAP> Download SMS Backup from the Google Play Store +> Launch the application> Connect to Gmail> Backup SMS to your Google> On iPhone login Gmail> Done.
Method for saving text and merging with iPhone Messager: It is recommended to use transfer tool to convert the file to a format supported by iOS.

The above information is from this article, it also mentions the comparison of several methods.


How to send existing photos to photo stream? I just enabled iCloud on my iPad. I've also downloaded iPhoto on my Mac to sync my photos on the iPad. The problem is that I can only get pictures that I downloaded after I enabled iCloud on my iPad.

Is there a way to add all the photos to photo stream?

Drag the photos from the album to your photo stream. Careful though; I did this and can't find a way to undo what I've added to my photo stream!


Mac Mini won't boot. Is it the monitor or the Mac? I just bought an old Mac Mini to start developing for iOS. The Mac Mini has a DVI port, so I connected it to my Dell 24" display which has a DVI connection. But it appears that my Mac wont boot. I dont even know if it is booting or not because my monitor does not show anything, as it did not get any signal and went to standby mode immediately. My questions are:

Do I have to connect a keyboard and mouse to the Mini in order to boot?
Even if I don't connect a keyboard and mouse to the Mini, will I still see something on the monitor? Maybe like an error message telling that no keyboard was found? To be clear, my display works fine with my PC.
I tried with my Microsoft USB keyboard and an IBM USB mouse, but I did not see any difference, i.e. nothing could be seen on the display.
Does this mean I have to buy a keyboard and mouse from Apple to make it work?

Can someone help me and give me some hints? Thanks a lot in advance!

The Mac will boot with or without a mouse and keyboard, and you should see something on the monitor either way.
You do not need to use Apple mice and keyboards.

So, the problem has to be either the monitor or the Mac Mini.

You can look at the power light to see if the Mini is running. If it is steady white, the computer is on. If it is pulsing, the computer is sleeping. If it is off, the computer is off.

If the computer is on but nothing is coming up on the monitor:
Check all connections. Try with a different monitor, if possible. Make sure the correct input is selected on the monitor.

If the computer won't turn on:
Check all connections. Make sure it's plugged in. Make sure you've pressed the power button all the way, without holding it down too long.
If you can't get it to turn on at all, take it back to the people who sold it to you and get your money back; they sold you a broken machine.


macOS Sierra Installer not launching: The application “Install macOS Sierra” can’t be opened So, I downloaded the second GM before the public release, tried to open it and got this error: The application “Install macOS Sierra” can’t be opened.
I then downloaded the public release from the Mac AppStore, same problem.

I tried using chmod +x /..../Contents/MacOS/Install/InstallAssistant, made the app open but immediately stops responding.

Note: I did download both files from another Mac, put them on USB and brought them home, I always used this method and it worked, not working now.
I'm on a late 2013 MacBook Pro (15 inch).

Any suggestions or ideas on why this error is occurring?

I know it sounds stupid, but I compressed the file and transferred it to my personal Mac via USB, decompressed and it worked, but seriously couldn't find out what was causing that error.


No suggestion for misspelled added words I've added a word to the Mac dictionary.  When I spell it correctly, I have no problem. If I misspell it, I don't get suggestion that includes my correct spelling. This happens even when my misspelling is very close to correct. Can I get a correction for a word I added, but later in use, misspell?

You can create your own corrections in System Preferences → Keyboard → Text. These corrections can be used to correct misspellings for any word, regardless of whether you've added the word to the dictionary yourself. Add your misspelling to the 'Replace' and the correct spelling to 'With', and repeat for multiple misspellings.


specify Open With application for stacks My application preferences were reset, and at which point the 'Open In Finder' arrow on the stacks is now opening iPhoto. Does anybody know how to change this?

My Finder.app had become corrupted, I was able to re-install Finder.app (without needed to re-install my entire system) with Pacifist found at http://www.charlessoft.com/.


How does iPhone toasting/bumping apps work? I've just seen the ad for IKEA Skål!. If you haven't seen it, you can see the video linked. Basically, you can choose a drink and make a toast-like gesture (using the iPhone) with another person having the app. This results in both phones automatically exchanging names and photos, and optionally both of them will share the picture of their toast on Facebook. The ad is really nice, but I am curious about how it works.

[Edit]: As a commenter pointed out, there is also another application Bump, which use the same technique to perform similar (and even more) functionalities. The FAQ stated that this application was designed with personal and data security in mind, and uses various sensors and algorithms to "feel" the bump and the server will find matching bumps according to the sensor reading and algorithms.

How exactly does the iPhone know that I am toasting/bumping with another person? I mean I don't think GPS can track the phones that accurately. And how does it transfer the contacts and photos? And how can it correctly determine who is toasting with whom if there are multiple users in the same room? How is the security and confidentiality protected?

I don't have the facts to back this up, but my guess is that when the app is open it's searching for other open apps on bluetooth or local wi-fi. Then perhaps the physical "clink" is registered by the accelerometer and its timestamp matched with your friend's app.

I don't think this is meant to be that serious of a thing in the first place, so there's likely not that much security (and it would totally kill the mood if you had to exchange passkeys or something in order to make a stupid Facebook post). Of course, the fact that the iPhone is a closed platform and the App Store is regulated is some measure of security--no one would be able to distribute an app that harvested contact information from the Toast app. The Toast app probably only shares when it's running and active in the front.


MacBook Pro 15" 2011 - missing audio device (no sound driver) I have a problem with a 15" MacBook Pro (2011, OSX 10.7.5): After being repaired due to a water damage recently, the sound was just working fine. Some days later the audio device in the status bar turned gray and the MacBook didn't play any audio anymore.

After having tried several approaches to solve the problem (e.g. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1736638?start=345&tstart=0)

So I repaired HDD permissions and deleted ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.BezelServices.plist in normal and safe-mode of OSX. After a restart the speaker icon is highlighted again and sound was available again.

But another restart later it didn't work again. Now the approach mentioned before also didn't solve it anymore. As the soundcard was working fine temporarly I'm guessing it's just a software issue.

How can I come closer to a solution?

I've resolved this before (grey icon, no sound) by resetting the PRAM.

Turn off your Mac
Turn on your Mac
Hold Down Cmd-Opt-P-R
Keep Holding until you have heard the startup sound twice

Apple Support Document HT1379


Why does mobile Safari revert to "Never accept cookies"? Every few days Safari on my iPhone (iOS 5.0.1) reverts to "Never" accept cookies. I put it to "From Visited" but it switches back shortly thereafter.

Discussion elsewhere suggests an Exchange link may be at fault (and I do download email from a work account) but nothing conclusive.

This problem breaks logging in to most web sites.

Possible fixes:

Make sure there are no restrictions on cookie permissions, if you are a part of an Exhange account.
It has been reported that turning off iCloud Bookmarks may fix this issue. To do this; Tap Settings > iCloud and then tap the Bookmarks slider off.


Stop showing iOS 9 updates I joined the beta program and installed iOS 9. I then unenrolled and did a restore to iOS 8.4 via iTunes. The problem is that my phone keeps prompting me to install the iOS 9 beta again. How do I get it to ignore updates relating to the beta program and leave me on iOS mainstream?

Settings> General> Profile.
Select the iOS 9 beta profile and delete it. Reboot your phone and you should get iOS 8.4 software up to date when you check for an update.


2010 MacBook Pro fan gets loud My 2010 MacBook Pro (running macOS 10.13 High Sierra) fan gets super loud when I open more than one app at once. (This has been happening ever since I had El Capitan installed.) However, it can go quiet over software - whenever I use Siri, it goes silent, but it goes back to loud as soon as I'm done speaking to Siri.

Is there anything I could do to make my MacBook less loud?

There are a few different solutions that I've personally done to fix my MacBook Pro with the same issue.

Solution 1:
If you have the Dedicated nVidia Chip I'd strongly suggest installing gfxCardStatus (it's 100% free) and disable the dedicated card altogether. It drains battery, isn't very efficient, emits a lot of heat, and in my case, can cause Kernel panics leading to unexpected shutdowns.

Solution 2:
In conjunction to solution 1, I'd suggest also installing Macs Fan Control. A lot of people will say you don't need it and it's true, but Apple usually doesn't ramp the fans up gradually as heat increases, meaning that your MacBook will run hot until it's too hot and the fans ramp up a lot. I'd rather the laptop be barely audible than cook my legs.

Solution 3:
I'd highly recommend re-pasting your MacBook Pro as the thermal paste will be dried up by now. In my case, the stock paste from Apple was disgusting; simply too much paste, and now too old.

Previously my MacBook would get up to 76C watching 720p videos in bed (not the best air circulation) with the fans maxed out at 6000RPM. Now, with liquid metal installed, it'll always sit under my custom threshold of 65C when watching videos with just the Intel chip enabled and is dead silent at <2500 RPM. This iFixit guide is what I used in order to do it myself on my 15" MacBook Pro.

About Siri: The fans ramp down when using Siri, was a feature added that silences the fan in order for siri to hear you better when activated.


Spotlight can't find apps or folder, only seaches the web My Spotlight can't find any apps, even the native ones. It only returns results from web searches. With a little googling I found out that a pretty common solution to that is to rebuild the indexes. The problem is I can't do that: I tried a solution using the os interface (solution 1), but got the following error message:

An then I tried a manual solution, using the terminal (solution 2), but then this happened:

I don't know what else to try. Does anyone have been through that?
I'm using El Capitan latest version (10.11.6). Thanks!

PS.: I tried to post the link to each solution, but I can't post more than 2 links because of my reputation. If someone needs them, I can share on the comment section.

Obviously, Spotlight's index is misbehaving, and you did the right thing using the mdutil command. If repeating that command merely provides the same "Index is already changing state..." result, then the situation requires you to manually remove Spotlight's data directory. It's simple enough to do and it's perfectly safe, but it would still be wise to run a backup before proceeding. Then:

1.) In the Terminal, issue the command

sudo rm -r /.Spotlight-V100

2.) Restart in Safe Mode

Restart your Mac, and immediately after you hear the startup sound, press and hold the Shift key.
Release the Shift key when you see the Apple logo appear on the screen.

3.) Restart (in standard mode) after Safe Mode startup is complete. Spotlight will begin indexing using the preferences you have set for it.


MBP'13 (Late 2011) Win7 (BootCamp) + iMac'27 (Mid 2011) as an external display? Is it possible to use iMac'27 (Mid 2011, MacOS) as an external/target mode display for the MBP'13 (Late 2011) running Windows 7 in Bootcamp?

I'm using thunderbolt cable.

It works perfectly fine if MBP is booted into Mac, but Win7 can't seem to detect external display. Command + F2 on the iMac does nothing.

Yes. You have to reboot the machine into boot camp with the display already connected.

See apples KB article here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924 (bottom of the article)


altering the default number of songs in upnext (itunes11, osx)? Currently I only see about 12 songs in upnext, not so great when I want to create a 3 hour playlist, but I can't find a setting anywhere to increase this.

Does such a thing exist?

You can make a normal or intelligent playlist and play it. Do not use shuffle and you can add songs during playback.

Edit: If you just want to show more songs in upnext - it is not possible. But 12 Songs i s a plenty of view in the future....


How does Messages work between my Mac and my iPhone? I thought with Mountain Lion that Messages are shown on both my Mac and iPhone (so I can start a chat on my iPhone and continue it on my Mac).

What is weird is that I seem to get an arbitrary set of messages on my Mac but it's definitely not fully in sync with the iPhone. A number of iPhone messages never show up on the Mac at all, or 1/2 of the conversation shows up.

Do I need to set something up specifically to make this work or is this as expected?

I think the source of your confusion is the difference between traditional text messages (SMS) and iMessages (Apple's own protocol).

Messages on the Mac doesn't support SMS. Any message you send or receive on your iPhone as SMS won't show up in Messages on the Mac.

If you send a message as an iMessage, though, then it'll show up on the Mac. Now here's where it gets confusing: even though iMessages are "data" and not "text," they can be sent between phone numbers. If you've got iPhones at both ends, a "text" sent from one to the other will be sent as an iMessage by default. These messages will then appear in Messages on the Mac.


Numbers - Perform arithmetic on a section of cells I have a column of cells and I want to do 41 - (value of cell) for each individual cell without having to go through doing it manually.

I know this seems simple but I can't think of an easy and quick way to do this. I could achieve this by coping the column and then inserting formula to the original column etc but I am only doing this as a one time action so it doesn't make sense to do that.

If your first cell to apply this simple formula is A1, then enter in cell B1 the formula:
    =41-$a1
hit return
Then select this B1 cell, grab the little right down circle and simply drag it down your selection as far as you want to apply the same formula.


How can I take a screenshot from all monitors with screencapture or other tools? I wanted to use screencapture to take a screenshot of all monitors from within a script, but this only seems to capture the main monitor. How can I use screencapture or any other tool callable from the command line to capture all monitors?

It's poorly documented, but it is indeed possible with the screencapture command.

screencapture ~/Desktop/screen1.png ~/Desktop/screen2.png [...]

Here's the relevant section from man screencapture:

 files   where to save the screen capture, 1 file per screen

Of course, if you're calling it programmatically, you might not know how many monitors there are, so you'll have to parse the output of system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType or defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist to determine how many filename arguments to pass to screencapture. For example:

$ system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep "Online: Yes" | wc -l
       2

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099333/terminal-command-to-show-connected-displays-monitors-resolutions
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?p=695603


How do I change the answers to the export compliance questions in iTunes Connect? How do i change the answers to the export compliance questions on iTunes Connect once I've entered them?

I don't know how to get back to that page. How do I get back to that page?

(I'm trying to publish an app)

Either uploading a new binary update or rejecting the App's actual binary and then pressing on Ready to Upload Binary should do the trick.
As written under Apple's iTunes Connect Guide:

Cryptography and U.S. Export Compliance
U.S. export laws require that products containing encryption be properly authorized for export. When you’re ready to upload your first binary for your app or upload a binary update, iTunes Connect presents a series of questions regarding software encryption. The questions are designed to determine the level of encryption in the app according to U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) classifications.


Wierd problem after doing a triple boot OS-X, UBUNTU 20.04, KALI-LINUX I've successfully did a triple boot on my Macbook-pro but somehow even after creating separate EFI partitions, all my grub files ended up in the first EFI partition. So I separated them manually.
Earlier to this process, my auto boot was into the Ubuntu boot screen where I was able to select Ubuntu or Kali. To access OS-X, I had to use option key. There I got 3 options and I was able to opt any. But after separating, and using option key, it also gives me 3 options, but I get some kind of error(excuse my limited knowledge).
The following are the pics for reference.
This is the OS-X boot page.
I could boot normally if I select "Macintosh HD" but I get this error when I choose any other "efi boot".
After a few seconds, I get this page, and then I can normally log-in to either OS.
My auto-boot remained the same, which is getting the above page.
This is my disk information. Disk0s1 is OS-X, Disk0s3 is Ubuntu, Disk0s6 is Kali.
$ diskutil list disk0
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         120.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                        EFI NO NAME                 400.6 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         65.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         15.0 GB    disk0s5
   6:                        EFI NO NAME                 399.5 MB   disk0s6
   7:       Microsoft Basic Data                         50.0 GB    disk0s7

$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  234375000      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  234784640        128
  234784768     782336      3  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  235567104  126953472      4  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  362520576   29296640      5  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  391817216     780288      6  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  392597504   97636352      7  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  490233856        863
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

The following are the current partition contents.
$ sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1
Volume EFI on /dev/disk0s1 mounted
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI
.       .Spotlight-V100 .fseventsd  EFI
..      .Trashes    BOOTLOG
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI/EFI
.   ..  APPLE   BOOT
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE
.       ..      CACHES      EXTENSIONS  FIRMWARE
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS
.       ..      Firmware.scap
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE
.       ..      MBP121.fd
$ ls -a /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT
.       ..      BOOTX64.EFI

$ sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3
Volume NO NAME on /dev/disk0s3 mounted
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME
.           .Trashes        .fseventsd
..          .VolumeIcon.icns    EFI
.Spotlight-V100     ._.VolumeIcon.icns
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/EFI/
.   ..  BOOT    BOOTLOG Ubuntu
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/EFI/BOOT
.       ..      BOOTX64.EFI
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/EFI/Ubuntu
.       BOOTX64.CSV grubx64.efi shimx64.efi
..      grub.cfg    mmx64.efi

$ sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s6
Volume NO NAME on /dev/disk0s6 mounted
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/
.       .Spotlight-V100 .fseventsd
..      .Trashes    EFI
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/EFI
.   ..  kali
$ ls -a /Volumes/NO\ NAME/EFI/kali
.       ..      grubx64.efi

This answer assumes the following:

You are using macOS High Sierra or newer.
The /etc/fstab file is setup up correctly for Ubuntu and Kali. More specifically, each /etc/fstab file has the correct entry for the filesystem stored in the EFI partition.
Grub is installed correctly for Ubuntu and Kali.

Below are steps that can be taken to improve your configuration.

Remove from the Mac Startup Manager the existing internal drive icon with the EFI Boot label shown below.

Use the macOS commands given below.
 sudo diskutil mount disk0s1
 rm /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
 diskutil unmount disk0s1

Give names and labels to the EFI partitions used by Ubuntu and Kali. Also, make Grub from the Kali installation appear in the Mac Startup Manager. Below are the macOS commands I would use.
 sudo diskutil mount disk0s3
 diskutil rename disk0s3 EFI2
 bless --folder /Volumes/EFI2/EFI/BOOT --label "Ubuntu"
 diskutil unmount disk0s3
 sudo diskutil mount disk0s6
 diskutil rename disk0s6 EFI3
 mkdir -p /Volumes/EFI3/EFI/BOOT
 cp /Volumes/EFI3/EFI/kali/grubx64.efi /Volumes/EFI3/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi
 bless --folder /Volumes/EFI3/EFI/BOOT --label "Kali"
 diskutil unmount disk0s6

Add a Kali linux icon to Mac Startup Manager.

Note: This step assumes you have completed the previous step.

Download the file mac-icns.dmg from this SourceForge website to your Downloads folder. Next, enter the following command to copy the Kali linux icon set (icns) file to your third EFI partition.
 hdiutil attach ~/Downloads/mac-icns.dmg
 sudo diskutil mount disk0s6
 cp /Volumes/mac-icns/OSX10.11.6/os_kali.icns /Volumes/EFI3/.VolumeIcon.icns
 diskutil unmount disk0s6
 hdiutil detach /Volumes/mac-icns

The next time you boot to the Mac Startup Manager, the following icon should appear.

Change the type of the partition containing Kali to the linux filesystem data type.
Boot to either Ubuntu or Kali linux. Open a window to enter commands. Enter the following command to edit the GUID Partition Table (GPT).
 sudo gdisk /dev/sda

Enter the following commands into gdisk.
 t
 7
 8300
 w
 y

Restart the Mac.

Configure Grub to be hidden and/or omit other operating systems.
Boot to either Ubuntu or Kali linux. Open a window to enter commands. Enter the following command to edit the grub file.
 sudo nano /etc/default/grub

To remove other operating systems from the Grub menu, add the line
 GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true

after the line given below.
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

To skip the Grub menu, add the line
 GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

after the line given below.
 GRUB_DEFAULT=0

Exit the editor and enter the following command to update Grub.
 sudo update-grub

Booting Ubuntu from the Mac Startup Manager

Note: This section refers to the files stored in /dev/sda3.

When Ubuntu is selected from the Mac Startup Manager, the bootx64.efi (which is a copy of shimx64.efi) is booted before grubx64.efi is booted. This results in Ubuntu being automatically made the default operating system to boot.
Alternative to Booting Grub Using bootx64.efi

Note: This section refers to the files stored in /dev/sda6.

One of the above instructions is to copy the grubx64.efi file to the bootx64.efi file. If the grubx64.efi is changed during some future Kali update/upgrade, then this new file will not be copied to bootx64.efi. One way to avoid this problem would be to replace the bootx64.efi file with a rEFInd version. This new version would silently boot Grub from the grubx64.efi file. Below are the steps needed to make the change.

Boot to Kali linux.

Open a window to enter commands.

Enter the following commands to remove any previous versions of rEFInd that may have been downloaded.
cd ~/Downloads
rm -rf refind_*_amd64.deb refind

Use a web browser to download and save rEFInd to your Downloads folder from the following SourceForge website.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/

Enter the following command to install rEFInd.
cd ~/Downloads
dpkg-deb -xv refind_*_amd64.deb refind
sudo refind/usr/share/refind-*/refind-install --usedefault /dev/sda6
sudo umount -q /tmp/refind_install
rm -rf refind_*_amd64.deb refind
cd ~

Enter the following command to open refind.conf file in the gedit editor.
sudo nano /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/refind.conf

Add the following lines to the end of the refind.conf file.
menuentry Kali {
    loader /EFI/kali/grubx64.efi
    icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_linux.png
    enabled
}
scanner manual
showtools
timeout -1
screensaver -1

Exit nano and save the changes.

References
Separating EFI partitions of Ubuntu 20.04 and Mac OSX on Macbook Pro
Fully Move Grub to New Partition
Grub2/Setup
A gdisk Walkthrough
The rEFInd Boot Manager
The rEFInd Boot Manager: Installing rEFInd
refind-install
How to extract a .deb file without opening it on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
What is the difference between grubx64 and shimx64?
How To Add Apt Repository In Ubuntu


Netatalk disk not shown in TimeMachine, manual connect via afp works I set up netatalk on Ubuntu to backup via TimeMachine to one partition there over my network. I can connect to the partition through the Finder Go... menue. But I cannot see an option to create a new folder. In TimeMachine this backup disk does not show up.

I tried using this Ubuntuusers' wiki page for netatalk v2 and using these instructions for netatalk v3. None works. I suspect a problem with my MacOS but don't know where to search. How can I make the backup disk visible to TimeMachine?

I've recently had the same experience.  Netatalk exported a volume with time machine set to yes, I could mount the volume, but it would not show up in the Time Machine preferences panel.

From the Finder I tried to create a new file/folder and realized that I didn't have write permissions.  Granting read/write permissions on the underlying volume on the file server then allowed Time Machine to find it.

The specifics of how to change permissions will vary but I changed ownership (chown) and permissions (chmod) on the mount point on the file server.


Which IRC client stays online when in background? I tried some iOS IRC clients, but when I put the app in the background, I am logged out.

Are there any iOS IRC clients that stay online when in background?

An app called Colloquy can run in the background for up to 10 minutes on iOS 5.  No IRC app can run for more than 10 minutes in the background on iOS 5 due to how iOS is designed.  The Colloquy web site has an FAQ that explains:

Can I run Mobile Colloquy in the background?
Yes, starting with Mobile Colloquy 1.3 & iOS 4.0 if you have an iPhone 4, 3GS, or a third-generation iPod touch (32GB and 64GB models from late 2009) you can, though it's important to understand how it works.
Due to the way multitasking is implemented in iOS, Mobile Colloquy can't stay connected constantly. When you press the Home button or switch applications, Mobile Colloquy asks iOS to allow it to continue to run to complete a task in the background, that task being to keep you connected for as long as possible. Any highlight word mentions, or private messages you receive will trigger a notification while Colloquy is running in the background.
Tasks can only last a maximum of 10 minutes, so 9 minutes after you've switched away from Colloquy it'll warn you that you'll be disconnected in a minute. To continue to stay connected, just tap Open on the alert. Switching back to Colloquy before 10 minutes have elapsed, then switching away again will reset the countdown.
For more details on how multitasking works in iOS 4.0, see this excellent blog post from Craig Hockenberry.


Can I get Mountain Lion on a MacBook? I own a MacBook which I purchased approximately 6 years ago (I'm not sure exactly what version it is, but I can get that information if needed). It is running OS X Leopard, and I want to install Mountain Lion onto it.

Is this possible? If so, how? If not, what is the most recent OS I can get on the system?

Probably not. The system requirements for 10.8 say "MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)". You'd also need to install 10.6.8 or 10.7 first in order to install Mountain Lion from App Store.

See these Apple KB articles:

System requirements for OS X Mountain Lion
System requirements for OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6
How to identify MacBook models

EveryMac.com has a list of maximum OS X versions supported by different Macs:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/maximum-macos-supported.html
http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/os-x-lion-faq/macs-compatible-with-os-x-lion-hack-options-for-incompatible-macs.html


USB keyboard, unaffected by settings, repeating keys when held together Key Repeat and Delay Until Repeat settings work fine and are immediately applied for the MacBook keyboard in TextEdit, but have no effect on the USB keyboard - even after reboot.

If I hold hi, the result is hhi via the USB keyboard. Further, if I hold hit, the result is hhihit.

Another example, if I hold ca, the result is cac via the USB keyboard. Further, if I hold cat, the result is cactac. So different keys seems to give different behavior.

Any idea how to disable the repeating letters upon holding on the USB keyboard? Since it makes it difficult to type quickly. Also a bonus would be to have the keyboard settings applied to the USB keyboard.

TeckNet Kraken LED Illuminated Gaming Keyboard
macOS Sierra 10.12.3
MacbBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)

Thank you to @tom-gewecke's suggestion! Trying a different keyboard worked, functioning normally without this issue.

So it seems to be a compatibility issue between the aforementioned keyboard and OS, possibly other versions of both.


Some videos (seems random) exported from Premiere can't be Airdropped to iPhone Editing videos in Premiere, sometimes a certain video fails to Airdrop to an iPhone.
I examined the Get Info window of each video that worked and of the one that didn't. Same approximate size, same file type, same codex etc. Looked at the settings in Premiere seem similar.
Anyone know how to solve this?
Found this thread and tried a bunch of the suggestions.
Tried converting it to .mov in Quicktime failed.
Tried saving it as 4k in Quicktime failed.
Tried importing it to Photos (works) then Airdropping it. Failed.
Tried trimming it in Quicktime. Failed.
Tried uploading it to Dropbox then downloading it to Photos on the iPhone. Failed.

Digging through the thread I linked in the question (this one) finally found steps that solve it for me.
Sequence Settings

Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels
Fields: No Fields (Progressive
Scan)
Display Format: 29.97 fps Drop-Frame Timecode

Export Settings

Format: H.264
Preset: Match Source - High Bitrate

Ensuring these settings are the same in every sequence makes it so all the videos exported are able to Airdrop to and play on iOS.


Why is my MacBook Pro slow? (2010 model) I have a 2010 MacBook pro 2.26 GHZ, 2GB Ram. Let me detail a bit of background first.

I had it running Leopard, and had the same issue with it running slow. I got annoyed with how it was running, so I wiped the HDD. I used DBAN on it, then installed Leopard from disk, then purchased Lion. I did this 2 days ago.

The only apps I have on my Mac, that I've installed, right now are:

FireFox
Logic Pro 9
Native Instruments Komplete

And that's the only applications I've installed. Currently the only apps I have running are:

Firefox
iMessage

In the activity monitor FireFox is using 560MB ram with 2 tabs open. I get the same when I use Safari, or Chrome.

When I switch applications on the Mac, or even switch tabs on FireFox, I get the spinning wheel. When I open a new application it takes a long time to open. I can't have anything else open if I'm browsing the web because it's painfully slow switching tabs, and even rending pages is slow (it's not an Internet issue).

The Mac seems to be always Indexing. When it's indexing it's not even usable.

I can't understand why this is happening. I have an older iMac that performs better than this Mac. I'm ready to sell it, I've had enough of Mac laptops, they just seem to cause constant headaches.

There is no reason why a web browser should be consuming so much RAM with two tabs open (one being bit.ly the other being Stack Exchange).

Can anyone offer some advice? If you need any information from me leave a comment and I'll update the post.

Aside of getting more RAM, you can do following.

Disabling the flash in your Firefox will save you some.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

To your third question:
On my OS x 10.8 the "kernel" alone uses 1 gig already!! so you are definitely running short on RAM.

Just get another 2 Gig and see it fly.


Unexpected Safari Extension -- Download Video After a very recent install-from-scratch of Mojave, I was installing a Safari extension and noticed one already there called "Download Video".

It claims to be version 1.0.0 and that it "Downloads video from a webpage". It was not active (i.e. its box in the Extensions manager was unchecked) but I've no idea how it got there. I certainly didn't knowingly do it myself

I did notice one other inactive extension -- "Open in Internet Explorer" -- that I also did not explicitly install myself. However, it says it came as part of Parallels Desktop and I did install that. So that leads me to conclude that the installation of certain apps may also involve installation of Safari extensions. And I certainly have installed some apps since after my clean Mojave install, so maybe the Download Video thing piggy-backed in off one of those? But most of what I've installed is fairly well-known, standard stuff -- MS Office, Emacs, and the like. Nothing I'd expect to have a sneaky video downloader hanging off it.

Any idea where in could have come from?

Safari 12.0.2
Mojave 10.14.2
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

If I had to guess on what this was there would be two things that I would guess that it might be:

Adware

You might have accidentally installed a package somewhere that installed this as an option in the installer, and this would install adware that could change your default search browser. The person who made the extension might have messed up and not made it so that it didn't activate it.

Real youtube downloader

At one point you might have installed a browser extension if you wanted to download a youtube video. These are everywhere and since youtube does not have a built in free system to download the videos officially, there are a ton of different 3rd party plugins that people have developed and this might be one. If you can remember that you installed it then you shouldn't worry.

Either way, I would uninstall it if you don't use it anymore as it could be anything


File Sharing with Active Directory login not working I've set up macOS Sierra (10.12.6) machine and it binds to AD (Win2012R2).
It works with SSH and VNC login without any problem, but not work with File Sharing.

Connect to mac server as smb://macserver then user authentication prompt popup, but cannot login with AD user account... Auth with mac server's local account works, I can mount file share.

Is there any special setting for it?　Am I missing something?

Now fixed, computername should be less than 15 characters but it was 16. Changed to fewer letters then it works.


Where can I find the gray linen texture that's used as the Lion login screen background? My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the options in the Desktop preferences (in the Apple section, anyway.) I'm assuming the graphic exists somewhere, and if I know where I can choose it from the folders.

Can anyone tell me where this graphic is saved or what its filename is?

Open System Preferences » Desktop and Screen Saver:
Click the "+" at the bottom left:
Press Command + Shift + G to bring up the "Go To Folder" menu, and paste in the path to the background image:

/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png

(Press Go, and then Return  when you see the NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png file is selected)
You will now be back at the System Preferences window. Make sure that the drop-down selector is set to 'Tile'

Voilà!


Adobe Creative Cloud: Mac App Alternatives? A couple of days ago Adobe announced that its Creative Suite Software is to be rebranded as Creative Cloud, the development of its creative suit line will come to an end.

Whilst Adobe CS6 will still be supported and available for purchase, all future products will be provided through the subscription-only Creative Cloud service. However even with discounts, Adobe's software was out of the price range for many students and entry-level professionals.

However I see a problem in that alot of people don't always have guaranteed income. If income runs short one month and they can't make the subscription payment, their access to the software that provides their livelihood is cut off. Whilst other won't want to be tied to a subscription service or use the cloud.

So therefore my question is:

What are the best Mac App alternatives which are cheaper (or perhaps free), that provide the same or similar core functionality in each of Adobe's products to make your very own Creative Suite ?

Edit:

Perhaps one app per answer with a link to the Mac App Store, and brief description.

For a Photoshop "equivalent", there is already Photoshop Element (80$) that is cheaper but has much less functionalities.

Of course there is also Gimp (Free), but IMHO it's horrible to use on OSX and not available on the Mac App Store.

If you're looking for a simple and quite powerful software for your money, there is Pixelmator (16$) or Acorn (currently on sale for 30$).


Audio cutting out at certain points I'm trying to listen to a podcast through Apple's headphones on my Macbook Pro (Retina, 13 Inch, mid 2014), running OS X 10.10.1, but the audio keeps cutting out.

When the audio cuts out, the following log messages appear in the Console app:

26/11/14 18:27:51,370 AirPlayUIAgent[348]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.369515 PM [AirPlayAVSys] AirPlay became the default audio device
26/11/14 18:27:51,378 discoveryd[51]: AwdlD2d AwdlD2dStartBrowsingForKey: '_raop' Browsing service started
26/11/14 18:27:51,379 discoveryd[51]: AwdlD2d AwdlD2dStartBrowsingForKey: '_airplay' Browsing service started
26/11/14 18:27:51,407 SystemUIServer[198]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.407192 PM [AirPlayAVSys] AirPlay became the default audio device
26/11/14 18:27:51,437 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.436712 PM [AirPlay] Set up for stream GeneralAudio, PCM/44100/16/2 -> ALAC/44100/16/2
26/11/14 18:27:51,437 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.436854 PM [AirPlay] Available DNS names: Infra [84383554262E@Julia\032-\032MacBook\032Air._raop._tcp.local.%4], P2P [intentionally disabled]
26/11/14 18:27:51,437 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.436997 PM [AirPlay] Pairing not required. Connect over Infra with "Julia - MacBook Air" via 84383554262E@Julia\032-\032MacBook\032Air._raop._tcp.local.%4
26/11/14 18:27:51,438 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.437740 PM [AirPlay] Add Peer without AWDL at MAC <<NULL>> with infra critical
26/11/14 18:27:51,438 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.437835 PM [AirPlay] MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00 has 0 connections, 1 require infrastructure
26/11/14 18:27:51,000 kernel[0]: IO80211AWDLPeerManager::setAwdlPeerTrafficRegistration Clearing AirPlay peer 00:00:00:00:00:00
26/11/14 18:27:51,438 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:51.438200 PM [AirPlay] Register AirPlay traffic for AWDL at MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00 with target infra critical PeerIndication=2 err=0
26/11/14 18:27:51,000 kernel[0]: IO80211AWDLPeerManager::setAwdlPeerTrafficRegistration Clearing AirPlay peer 00:00:00:00:00:00
26/11/14 18:27:51,000 kernel[0]: IO80211AWDLPeerManager::setAwdlPeerTrafficRegistration Clearing AirPlay peer 00:00:00:00:00:00
26/11/14 18:27:55,436 coreaudiod[597]: 2014-11-26 06:27:55.436424 PM [AirPlay] ### Start taking too long...continuing asynchronously

Every time it happens, the first message seems to be AirPlay became the default audio device, but I'm not currently using any airplay devices as far as I'm aware. How do I stop this from happening?

Rebooting doesn't help. Also, I'm in a library, so I currently can't test playing audio without headphones.

When I asked this question, I only had one option in the audio output devices list in my audio preferences. When I went back some time later, I noticed an option called [someone's name] - Macbook Air. I accidentally clicked it, and quickly set the setting back to my headphones. This seems to have fixed the problem.


How to listen to old MP3 books on iPhone? Macbook Pro Catalina - iPhone 7+
I have many old mp3 books on old hard drives. I do not understand the modern iPhone manager. It seems completely subscription oriented.
How do I move an old fashioned mp3 file to my iPhone and listen to it, and have it remember where I left off the next day?

The first thing you want to do is get your MP3 files into iTunes. So copy those mp3 files to the Mac/PC you sync your iPhone with using iTunes. And drag them into the iTunes window to add them. Once there you can set the author, title and any other metadata you want to set. On a Mac click on the mp3 you want to edit. ⌘ Command  i  will bring up the dialog to do that.
One of the things to remember to do when setting the Author, title etc. is to click the options tab and check "Remember playback position." I also usually set the equalizer to "Spoken Word" and just so the audio book doesn't come up when you are listening to your music on shuffle I would also check "skip while shuffling."
I have found that setting the "Media kind" to anything but music often (at least for me) results in strange things happening, so just let iTunes think it is music.
Usually that will do it. It is not as good as a dedicated audio book player but it does work reasonably well.


How do AirPort Express and wireless access point relate? I was reading a story about how some guy reverse engineered AirPort Express and can't get one thing: what's that AirPort Express in plain words?

I understand that there's a device called "wireless access point" that connects to a wired network of the Internet provider (that might be Ethernet) and makes that wired network accessible to Wi-Fi or some other wireless protocol users.

Apple has a picture of a white box with a recognizable 110V plug and looks like it is AirPortExpress. What does that white box do exactly and how does it relate to a wireless access point?

The article is about reverse engineering the AirPlay part of the Airport Express device. The AirPlay feature allows iTunes to stream songs (audio) to the unit and you can connect a set of speakers or an amplifier to it via the 3.5mm stereo jack.

However the protocol (and the key) AirPlay uses is not documented, and if I want to implement the same feature on other hardware (for example make my linux gateway computer have the same functionality as an AirPlay device), I have to reverse engineer the protocol (the language both devices speak over the network) and re-implement it.

The interesting part is that AirPlay uses asymmetrical encryption to encrypt the audio stream, and the private key is located only on the device. By obtaining this key, the last part of the puzzle is found.

After I wrote this, I have found an article, which describes it (probably better) than me.


Can I replace the HDD in a Fusion Drive? I'm thinking about buying a refurbished iMac that has a 1 Tb fusion drive. Is it possible to replace the stock HDD with a 3 Tb drive?

The fusion part is not contained in the drive. There is a separate connector for the SSD on the logic board. You can definitely replace the hard drive with a larger one once you buy it.

Fusion Drive is a marketing term for what's known under the hood as CoreStorage, the technology which, among other things, can combine two drives into one. Apple doesn't pull any hardware tricks to implement this. It's 100% software-based. They have a connector (albeit somewhat proprietary) for the SSD, and another connector for the HDD. Combined with CoreStorage, they form the Fusion Drive.


How can I boot to Safari Only (Chromebook style) in Lion? How can I boot safari only in Mac OSX Lion Chrome OS style? I heard that there was a key that one had to hold at startup, which one is it?

I finally found the answer to this. There are two types of Guest User mode in Lion:

a) Safari-only mode: This is the default setting if no Guest account is enabled. Therefore to turn this on, go to System Preferences / Users and Groups / Guest User, then uncheck "Allow guests to log in to this account".

Note: Under "Login Options", "Display login window as:" must be set to "List of Users" or this will not work.

b) Snow Leopard-like Guest Account - a full guest account as in previous versions of OS X. This mode is enabled when "Allow guests to log in to this account" is checked.


iMessage on iPad with 2 iPhone numbers Is it possible to use two different iPhone numbers for receiving iMessages on my iPad?

I had the same issue but after signing out of imessage on my ipad and disabling imessage on my ipad, when i reenabled imessage on my ipad, the option to use my phone number appeared.


How to monitor and control thermal CPU throttling in OS X? I recently came across the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for Windows. I tried it under Bootcamp Windows and it was very interesting to learn in what situations my MacBook Pro's (mid2012) CPU is doing thermal throttling. The tool is also designed to change the CPU's voltage, in order to reduce thermal throttling. However, this option was not available.

So my questions are:

Is there a similar tool to monitor CPU (thermal) throttling under OS X (Yosemite)? Answering this part will qualify to accept the answer ;-)
Why was the option to alter the CPU voltage not available under Bootcamp? Is this feature not supported by my CPU (i7 2.6 GHz Ivy Bridge 3720QM)?
If my CPU is capable of changing its voltage, is there a way to reduce CPU voltage in OS X?

Disclaimer: Yes, I know that this may potentially break my hardware. No warnings necessary ;-)

To monitor throttling, you may run:

pmset -g thermlog

in terminal and watch output:

If CPU_Speed_Limit is less than 100 at some moments, then it means CPU is throttled.


Login as TeamsServer system user How can I login as the _teamsserver user? I have sudoed and set the passwd for teamsserver, but it does not take it when I use the login command. I need to see the output of some scripts as they are run by teamsserver, and verify that teamsserver has the correct permissions and utilities available.

To just look at log files etc. I usually use either

sudo less /path/to/log/file

or (in case I need root access longer) run sudo -s to get a root shell.

To run processes as another user you can use

sudo -H -u _teamserver cmd-to-run

And finally, to simulate a login there is

sudo -H -u _teamserver -i


Global hotkey not working in Chrome or Intellij I'm trying to create a global hotkey which can be used with any application open. Currently the shortcut is ^ Control⌘ Command⌥ Option⇧ ShiftP, though I've tried a few other keys as well. With most of the applications I use, the shortcut works, but when Chrome or Intellij have focus, nothing happens.

Apps can enable/disable shortcuts as their developers see fit.  In fact, they can completely override system defaults and choose to ignore any custom shortcuts you may have defined.
Chrome is notorious for this.
In Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, it specifically tells devs to "respect standard shortcuts."

Respect standard keyboard shortcuts and create app-specific shortcuts for frequently used commands. Keyboard shortcuts let people activate menu items and actions by pressing specific key combination.

Apple advises devs not to remap the standard shortcuts but we know that they do it with their custom method of closing the browser.  Press and hold ⌘ CommandW to close the selected Tab.

In general, don’t override standard keyboard shortcuts. Users may become confused if the shortcuts they know work differently in your app. Only in very rare cases does it make sense to redefine a common shortcut. For example, if people spend a significant amount of time in your app, it might make sense to redefine a standard shortcut that isn’t applicable to your app. Another option might be to let the user choose their own keyboard shortcuts.

So, while Apple obviously frowns upon redefining shortcuts - you still can.
So, why doesn't your key combo work? Chrome (and I suspect IntelliJ as well) have configured the application to ignore or rewrite certain system user defined key combinations.


Do Pages, Numbers and Keynote for Mac/iOS offer real-time collaboration on shared documents like Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iCloud do? In Pages and Numbers (I guess Keynote too) for iCloud if you share a document and then send the link to other people you get real-time collaboration between the contributors as they edit the document and you can see the edits taking place live.

Does this work on Pages and Numbers for Mac/iOS?

Yes, you can use Real Time Colaboration on a computer with at least
iOS 10 and macOS Sierra.


Confused about network unlocked,carrier unlocked,factory unlocked I'm new to iPhones,if a phone is stated to be network unlocked,carrier unlocked and factory unlocked will it be able to be used with any carrier? The iPhone is a iPhone 5
    Thank you.  Loritiana123

Yes, but not Necessarily any carrier.

Network unlocked, carrier unlocked, factory unlocked all essentially mean that the phone can be used on any carrier that model is designed to work.  There is different meaning factory unlocked suggests the phone was never carrier locked and bought directly from Apple for the full retail price.  Carrier unlocked suggests that it was once locked to a carrier and has now been unlocked.  Network unlock could mean either.

Determine the exact model number of the phone. For an iPhone 5 it's likely A1428 (GSM) or A1429 (has both CDMA and GSM models).

Consult this table on Apples website to see which models work on which carriers by country.  (You will need to scroll down considerably to reach the iPhone 5 section.)

The model number is printed on the back cover of the phone. Source Apple Support Article HT201296.

A1428: iPhone 5 (GSM model)
A1429: iPhone 5 (GSM and CDMA model)
A1442: iPhone 5 (CDMA model, China)

FWIW, if you're considering purchasing this phone used you should request proof that it is carrier unlocked.

You should also use Apples Activation Lock tool before buying to ensure that the findMyiPhone is turned off.  If the activation lock shows on the phone will be of no use to you, until the original owner releases it.  This is different than the carrier locking.


Any way to restart LogMeIn Hamachi on a remote machine? LogMeIn Hamachi is crashing on a remote Mac, and I need to restart it without restarting the machine (because then I would lose access entirely.)

I tried un/re-loading the global agent/daemons:

/Library/Application Support/LogMeIn Hamachi/bin/hamachid
/Applications/LogMeIn Hamachi/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar.app/Contents/MacOS/LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar

but it still fails. App keeps launching and crashing.

Solution: I simply uninstalled and re-installed.


Dropbox109 process asking to access firewall on Yosemite As the title says, I have a process called Dropbox109 asking to access the internet. I have denied it.
I have Dropbox installed since Mavericks, and its been working fine (uploads/downloads/sync). What's suspicious is I got this Dropbox109 internet access request for the first time in a year of having Dropbox installed, and I couldn't find any information online.

Does anyone have any idea if it is a malicious program/virus or a legit process?

No, it’s a legitimate, routine request from Dropbox used to check your OS X version. Due to formatting limitations, I’m unable to directly embed this tweet from the official Dropbox support account. See the screenshot below, and click the link to view the tweet.


Safari on MBPr late 2015 (OS X 10.11.6) makes a "Pop" sound randomly. How to stop this? The "Pop" sound I'm talking about is the one found in: System Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects -> "Pop".

Is there a way to stop playing this sound?

OK, the problem was one of the programs making a notification, while the display banner for that program is turned off in my notification settings, resulting in only this pop sound alert (without displaying anything). That caused confusion.

The solution was to disable these notifications whatsoever. If you have similar problem – check your notification settings and look for programs with banners turned off, but with the sound enabled.


Notes.app asks to verify a certificate each time I start it Every time I open Notes.app on El Capitan, I get a popup asking me to verify a certificate.

The certificate is about one of the websites I manage, but I don't get why it asks about it when I open such app...

I've tried marking the certificate as secure in the management panel but it still asks me about it each time.

How can I stop it?

Go to Systems Preferences > Internet Accounts select the account of the website you manage and disable the Notes.


Gamma color problem on Lion I have a MBP with Lion 10.7.2 with an external monitor. When I disconnect the MBP from the external Monitor or when I reconnect it, some application show incorrect gamma color.

It is very difficult for me to explain the aspect variation, but I can solve the problem going into the Monitor preferences -> Color profile and choose the profile of my monitor. This work for Finder and Mac app, but no for other application such as Chrome, that I have to close and restart.

I try to put an image with the incorrect color gamma:

Try keep pressing command-option-control-comma


MacBook power cable with mounting holes my question is, if there is MacBook power cable with mounting holes. I think better picture than thousand words, I mean this power cable end:

with mounting holes, somehow like this:

Apple doesn't make that and I'd bet no one else does as well. Why not fabricate a bracket to physically go over the part you need and fasten it thusly?


How to get iPhone app that's no longer in the store? I once downloaded an app named "aFuel" from the German app store, but I don't have it anymore because over time I removed it from my phone and eventually reinstalled Windows. The app is no longer available (source).

How can I get this app back? (Or any app for that matter!)

I might have a PC backup that contains the downloaded app, but I don't know what to look for. If you can point me to a likely location on disk then I can look through my backups for any relevant files.

If you were running Windows 7 before the reinstall, look for the following folders:
\username\My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\username\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
If you were running Windows Vista before the reinstall, you should look for:
\username\Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
If you were running Windows XP before reinstalling, look for:
\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
These are the default locations for your apps. If you had changed the location of your iTunes folder in your iTunes preferences, you could search your backup copy for a folder called "Mobile Applications" or for the app's name.


Why am I told to "Connect to a power source" for best results when installing/updating software? I've experienced this when installing or updating a number of applications, most recently Logic Pro X. What's the reasoning behind this?

It is recommended so that your MacBook battery does not die while installing updates, which may cause certain programs to break/become corrupted.


USB port problems on new MacBook Pro? I have been using Duet and a Wacom with my MacBook Pro Retina (2012) for a year and have been very pleased with it.

Last week I got a new MacBook Pro (2015). I've been using the Wacom with it with no trouble. Today I connected my iPad 2 as a second display and it started chiming every second just like you said. As if it's not getting enough power (even though System Information says it is getting 1000mA when only 500mA is required, and there is 500mA extra available).

So now Duet can't run with the iPad chiming because it is constantly disconnecting. I tried various cables, but everything works on the old MacBook just not on the new one.

So I've reset the PRAM and the SMC. I tried charging the iPad to 100% before connecting, with the Magsafe charger connected and without, switching USB ports, disconnecting the Wacom, etc.

Most of the time it just chimes, occasionally it stays connected and charging, at which point Duet will work. Then after a while it disconnects and I can only get it to chime again.

This does not occur with the other MacBook Pro, which is running the same Mac OS (10.11.6) and the same version of Duet (I tried downgrading, it worked once and then no more).

Does anyone know how I might diagnose this as a hardware problem, before I bring it in for service?

To diagnose Hardware problems on your mac, you can follow the instructions located at https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202731 it typically takes around 10 minutes to diagnose.


Mac thinks external Dell display is a built-in display So I have a Macbook Pro running OS 10.11 with 1 additional Dell display. For Christmas I received another Dell display, but I'm having issues with this mac thinking the new display is a "Built-in" display. When I bring up the Display Preference, it shows my old Dell display as a DELL E2414H, but the new Dell display is showing up as Built-in display. Both displays are exactly the same, with the only difference being how they are connected. The older display is connected via the display port adaptor which is connecting via VGA, while the new display is connected to a USB 2.0 adapter also connected via VGA. Since the new display is being recognized as a built-in display, the resolution is all fuzzy and the task bar is outside of the screen. When I look at the resolution settings and view the scaled options, everything is set to 1920x1080 ( as it should be).

When I open up the About this Mac menu, it shows that I have 2 additional displays, but says the new one is 30.5 inches ( It is actually 24 inches, just like the other display). I'm assuming that since the Macbook thinks the display is much larger than what it is, this is what is causing the bad resolution. Is there any way to fix this? How do I forced the Macbook to recognize the display for what it really is?

There may not be drivers for this monitor set up for the MacBook. Check if you can find drivers online for this monitor.


How can I play a .drv file I received several .drv files recorded from a security system's cameras. The disc provided to me includes a player called "GenAVplayer.exe" and a filed named "player.bin" which when expanded contains .dll files, I assume various codecs for the player. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can play these video clips on my Mac?

Thanks in advance.

I would recommend either MPlayerX or VideoLAN. Both are freely downloadable and support a variety of audio and video codecs. If you're lucky one might just work!


Create playlists for full albums in iTunes (i.e. albums with all songs) How could I create playlists for all of the albums in iTunes for which I have all of the songs? Assume that track number & track count metadata is accurate where specified, and don't worry about catching tracks which lack that metadata. I assume this will require AppleScript.

I realized this was a complicated enough question I ought to try to skin the cat myself. Here is one approach:

-- Creates a playlist for each full album you have in iTunes
-- Set the playlistPrefix and playlistSuffix as desired before running

-- Based on code by Brad Campbell
-- http://www.bradcampbell.com/2009/05/26/make-a-whole-album-playlist-in-itunes/

tell application "iTunes"
    set playlistPrefix to "FA: "
    set playlistSuffix to ""
    -- The "FA: " prefix will help cluster full albums in iTunes' playlists,
    -- and is narrow enough to not get in your way when viewing on an iPhone

    set albumBuckets to {} as list
    set allSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose enabled is true and podcast is false and kind contains "audio") as list

    -- Find all partial albums in iTunes
    repeat with currentTrack in allSongs
        set albumName to album of currentTrack as text
        set artistName to artist of currentTrack as text

        -- First check for missing values, then perform integer comparison
        -- Zero is on the left to force interger type coercion, just in case
        if album of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of albumName then
            if artist of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of artistName then
                if track number of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track number of currentTrack then
                    if track count of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track count of currentTrack then
                        if albumBuckets does not contain album of currentTrack then
                            copy album of currentTrack to the end of albumBuckets
                        end if
                    end if
                end if
            end if
        end if

    end repeat

    repeat with currentAlbum in albumBuckets
        set albumSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose album is currentAlbum)
        set firstTrack to first item of albumSongs

        -- Filter album list to act only on full albums
        if (count of albumSongs) is equal to track count of first item of albumSongs and 1 is less than (count of albumSongs) then
            -- This is a full album, construct the playlist

            -- Sort tracks by track number
            set albumSongsSorted to {} as list
            repeat with i from 1 to (count of albumSongs)
                repeat with trk in albumSongs
                    if track number of trk is i then
                        set nextSong to trk
                        copy nextSong to the end of albumSongsSorted
                    end if
                end repeat
            end repeat

            -- Don't show artist name for compilations
            if firstTrack is not compilation then
                set playlistNameArtist to artist of firstTrack & " - "
            else
                set playlistNameArtist to ""
            end if

            set albumPlaylistName to playlistPrefix & playlistNameArtist & currentAlbum & playlistSuffix

            -- Create playlist
            if user playlist albumPlaylistName exists then
                try
                    delete tracks of user playlist albumPlaylistName
                end try
            else
                make new user playlist with properties {name:albumPlaylistName}
            end if

            try
                repeat with trk in albumSongsSorted
                    duplicate trk to user playlist albumPlaylistName
                end repeat
            end try
        end if
    end repeat

    display dialog "Playlists created! Check iTunes for playlists beginning with '" & playlistPrefix & "'"
end tell

To try this out, just copy and paste the code block into AppleScript Editor and push Run. Do be aware there's no easy "undo" button - you'll have to just hold down the delete key if you want to ditch all the created playlists.

There's probably a faster algorithm (i.e. one that makes only a single pass through iTunes' library) but I couldn't figure how to work with two dimensional variables in AppleScript, which seems like a prerequisite.

A bonus side effect of this script is that it may surface ancient albums in your library you have moved on from and can safely delete :)


Is there a tool or an app to automatically sort home screen icons? Is there any way to automatically sort all apps across all screens?

There is a way! If you go to your Settings > General > Reset, there is an option to reset the home screen layout. Pick that option and all your apps will be rearranged in alphabetical order. But you'll lose all your folders and maps...


Setting Up A Guest User Account In OS X? I have been advised that if you let people use your Mac, is it better for them to use A Guest User Account as when they have finished, all settings etc will be deleted and your Mac will be left "untouched", rather than running the risk of them changing settings etc and potentially "screwing things up" if you let them use your account - which could be a disaster.

Guidance on how to achieve/enable this, as well as disabling/deleting as necessary would be much appreciated ?

Setting up a guest account on Mountain Lion:

  Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Users & Groups.
  Click the lock icon to unlock it, and then type an administrator name and password.
  Select Guest User in the list of accounts.
  To let a guest user log in to the computer, select “Allow guests to log in to this computer.”

  However, guest users can’t log in remotely.
  If you let guests log in, you can also set up parental controls for guests by selecting “Enable parental controls” and clicking Open Parental Controls.

  For more information about the limits you can set, see this help topic:

  Set up parental controls
  To let guests use your shared folders and their contents from another computer on your network, select “Allow guests to connect to shared folders.”


iPhone backup error - BackupAgent2 - Error uploading "" to "": I have an iPhone 6s and I'm using iOS 11.2.5

I tried running a backup from iTunes, but got the following error:

  iTunes could not back up the iPhone "[iphone name]" because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone.

I've tried multiple computers, OSX, Windows, older iTunes, but always got the same error.

On OSX I've opened the Console app, to see what's going on in the background, and found that the following lines are logged, when the error happens [image]:

error   [date]  BackupAgent2    <private>
error   [date]  BackupAgent2    Error uploading "<private>" to "<private>": <private>
error   [date]  BackupAgent2    Backup error - <private>

I found on some forums that this error log message used to contain a filename instead of <private> (which usually were a corrupted image file) and as a user removed it on the phone, the error disappeared. But it looks like Apple suppressed a lot of things in logs.

I also found a command sudo log config --mode "private_data:on" to force display these <private> data, but this seems to work on OSX apps only, not on iPhone logs.

So unfortunately here, I came to a dead end.

Can someone help me identify the corrupted file(s), force displaying more detailed errors, or tell me anything else I can do?

From what you’re describing it looks like you have a corrupted backup on your laptop, I assume deleting it will get you to backup your device. What you can do to check is follow these steps:

In the Finder, navigate to your iTunes backups folder
The backup folder of your device MUST contain at least the following:

Manifest.db or Manifest.mbdb
Status.plist
Manifest.plist
Info.plist

If you have any of these missing, the backup is corrupted or incomplete. In that case, simply delete this backup and start clean with a new iTunes backup.

I’m also thinking it might be worth checking if any iOS app installed on your iPhone contains files with special characters in the filename -  they can cause issues while backing up (APFS related, yes…).

I’m sure you’re fine with locating the iTunes backup folder, but just in case anyone else is having trouble here’s how to get there:

Open the Finder
In the Main Menu > Go > Hold alt key, Library menu item appears.
Click Library.
Navigate to Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and locate the iPhone backup. It should be a folder named with your device UDID.


Can I get the Media browsers from the File Open dialog in the Finder sidebar? The File Open dialog has three very useful Media entries in the sidebar (Photos, Movies, Music). They are backed by the various iLife applications, so that you can select, for example, from your iPhoto albums.

The Finder windows have a "Search For" section in the sidebar, but the "All Images" entry there is just a smart folder that contains all image files from your whole hard disk with no further categorization.

Can I get the Media libraries to show up in the Finder as well?

A software alternative that provides a media browser from anywhere:

http://www.karelia.com/imedia/


Equivalent of control-pgDn in Mac On Windows, this combination scrolls right down to the bottom of the screen in most apps. Does Mac have any equivalent? I know fn-down exists but it only scrolls one screen at a time. I am looking for something to take me down to the bottom in one go.

Command key + up/down arrow should get you to the top or bottom of a page.


iTunes (Music.app) not converting song entirely / skip to the next one when playing When using iTunes for AAC conversion, sometime only a part of the song is converted (also, when playing the song, iTunes does not plays it entirely and skip to the next one before the end).
But when I use another app (like MediaHuman Audio Converter for conversion or IINA for playing), the song is converted/played entirely.
The issue clearly comes from iTunes but I cannot find it. I looked up into the information of the songs having the issue in iTunes but the pre-ended box is not checked.
So far I tried to :

consolidate my library (from Apple support)

rebuild a new Library with the .xml file (following that procedure)

reboot into safe mode

but the problem still remains.
It appear that when testing with a new user account (with same file), iTunes manage to do it...
I never signed into my Apple ID, and my library is stored on my boot volume (~28,000 songs for 125 Go).
Anyone with a similar issue and/or knows how to solves it?
UPDATE :
It looks like the issue only occur when opening a full album into iTunes, and that the duration of each song will be equal to the shortest one (for example : if the shortest song is 2:36,  every other will skip at 2:36).
Sometimes it goes well for the first song of the album (even if it´s not the shortest one) but after playing a shorter one, the skip loop begin...
By adding the song of the album one by one into iTunes, everything works fine...
I just updated to macOS Catalina (10.15.7) and Music 1.0.6.10 have the same issue.

As a troubleshooting step I would start with booting into Safe Mode to see if the behaviour is replicated there, and also to see if the behaviour continues again afterwards when you've logged back in normally.

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. can iTunes play and convert full songs or not?)
Now exit Safe Mode by restarting your Mac as normal
Log in normally and test again

Once you've booted into Safe Mode, let me know how you went and we'll go from there.

Test with a new user account

Okay, let's now test to see if this behaviour persists in a newly created user account.

Go to Apple > System Preferences...
Select the Users & Groups preference pane
Click on the plus sign at bottom left (you may need to unlock the padlock first)
Now add the details for the new account and click on the Create User button
Once created, click on Login Options
Ensure that automatic login is off
Also ensure that the Show fast user switching menu is enabled
Exit preferences

Now log into the newly created account (there should be an option at top right of the menu bar), download an .mp3 file and test iTunes again.

Let me know how you go.


"locked" iPhone video playback mode for children? After we upgraded to iPhone 4, one of our old iPhones was pressed into service as a children's video playback device for our 1.5 year old. That's one of the best things about an iPhone upgrade -- every upgrade comes with a "free" previous-gen iPod touch!

And, well, The iPhone is the ultimate kid-pacification device. With one caveat.

He does well holding it, most of the time, but tends to push the home button or accidentally activate enough touchscreen controls to stop video playback at the least or kick out to the home page.

Is there any way to activate a "locked" or "children" video playback mode on the iPhone, where accidental button presses don't stop video playback?

always the jailbreak route. Here is a demo of an app (IncarcerApp?) that does that, locks it. I would love it as my 1.5 yr old does the same thing :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysRou_kvOo&feature=related


Bluetooth app with XAMPP permission problem in Mac OS 11 I using a web GUI for controlling some Bluetooth devices. I use PHP shell_exec command to run our created Bluetooth terminal app. My fiction was work until Mac OS 11.
My customers upgrade Mac OS 10.15 to Mac OS 11. Apple added Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings.
I tried our terminal app, it is running. But it wanted to add Terminal app  Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings
I tried add httpd in Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings. But it does not work

The way to setup this depends on how exactly you're running PHP. It can be run in various ways such as for example inside httpd in an Apache module, as a CGI executable or through a process manager such as FPM.
The important thing here is that you must give the Bluetooth privileges to the process or parent of the process (or grandparent, etc.) that is actually running your PHP code.
For example that could be your php-fpm daemon in a FPM setup.


Why can Firefox not allow permanent access to my screen? When I join a Google Hangout and try to share my entire screen, Firefox always prompts me whether to share a window or the entire screen. I always want to share the entire screen. But when I enable the checkbox for "Remember this decision" I get this warning: Firefox can not allow permanent access to your screen.

Why does this happen? Is it because I'm on a Mac, or is it specific to macOS Catalina?

I don't think it's a Mac specific problem. I saw the same message on Windows and solved it with following steps:

Write about:config to url searchbox and press Enter. You will see advanced Firefox settings.
Create variable full-screen-api.approval-required and set it to true.
That's it, you are now allowed to share your screen with Firefox.


Will a "Mac format" iPod nano (2gen) work on a PC? I have an old 8GB iPod nano (2nd gen, I think).  When I plug it into iTunes, one of the things on the status page is "Format: Macintosh".

I no longer use this iPod, so I'm thinking of giving it to my parents, but I don't think they have a Mac.

Will this iPod be able to work with a Windows PC?

No, but if you connect it to a Windows machine and restore the iPod using iTunes, it will reformat it to work with Windows. If you want to learn a bit more, read this Apple support article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1335?viewlocale=en_US


Why can't I install Python-Markdown? I've had some weird issues with my python install recently but I've usually been able to get it working. However I'm running into a really bizarre issue right now where pip is installing things that disappear. Trying to run through this blog post.

In the terminal:

pip install markdown

Everything installs correctly.

python -m markdown testing.md > output.html

It pops out the following error /usr/bin/python: No module named markdown which seems bizarre, since I'm running exactly what the tutorial is telling me. Then when I write python markdown

When I go to run the command pip install again it spits out the following:

$ pip install markdown
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): markdown in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages

Any tips on how to troubleshoot this?

I think your copy of Python 3 is not using the executable name "python". Try "python3 -m markdown" and see if that works. If it does, you can symlink python to python3, or just execute python3 when tutorials ask you to run python.


What app is featured in Apple's Chase ad? This Apple ad shows an Apple Watch app that lets you compete with friends. What app is this? My guess is that it is some third party app since other ads feature third party apps but others say it is a leak of upcoming Apple Watch functionality.

YouTube: Apple Watch — Chase

  Ready to start a rivalry? Apple Watch lets you set fitness goals and
  compete against family and friends.

I read on a different site that it's Argus: Argus - Calorie Counter & Activity Tracker for Heart Healthy Diet & Living by Azumio Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/KlOnL.i


How to get Dictation to get audio feed? The double "Fn" button is starting Apple voice-dictation but it never comes up with a single word when i close the operation with "Fn" key. If I open the System Prefs for Audio Input I can see my voice is getting level so I don't understand why it won't parse anything I say.

Any ideas?

Close dictation by clicking the 'done' button, not by pressing the Fn key again, unless you have given the process chance to finish typing what you said.

Each time you pause, you ought to see the text so far, but pressing function will just close the window without any further return from the online process. Conversely if you click the Done button it will still finish off what you were saying, even if it's not yet had chance to parse it.

If you close the dictation box using the function button then you may not be giving the process chance to finish, In effect generating a Cancel rather than an Enter.

The time you need to wait before closing may be dependant on your connection speed.

As you are dictating you ought to be able to see the volume level in the microphone icon on the dictation pop-up.


How can I use my iPod touch as an external disk? I have a 2nd generation iPod touch (8GB), but I don't know how to make it work as an external disk. I think I saw a checkbox somewhere but I can't find it anymore.

I've searched the Web, but the way it should work (as a check box on the front page of iTunes when the iPod is connected) doesn't work for me...

Am I missing something or is this not possible anymore? I had an iPod nano that worked in the manner described.

Edit: I would like it to work with a Mac, a PC, the USB port of a DVD player, etc. (as with my good old nano)

I don't think it is possible using iTunes.

You can try iPhone Explorer, though (which is free), or Phone Disk


How can I restore a file from the trash back to its original folder? If I deleted files on my computer and they went to the trash, how can I send them back to the same folder that they came from?

On Windows, I can right-click the files and press restore.

Copying them to a location manually (e.g. via finder) is not a valid solution, since I don't know where they came from.

I think you can just right-click the file and select "Put Back"


Have emojis from MS Outlook render properly in iOS I notice that when emails are sent to me from Microsoft Outlook that include smilies, the emoji is rendered as a 'J'.  Is this a known issue with a fix or work-around available?

Outlook uses a non-unicode wingdings font to represent the smiley, instead of the Unicode standard smiley which everyone agreed to use 5 years ago.

Until MS changes its app to conform to the standard, the only fix is to ask the sender of such emails to delete the autocorrect entries in Outlook which replace things like :-) with a single wingdings character.


Catalina Keyboard shortcuts preferences missing 'full keyboard access' vs.

I am not sure why I do not see this option. I want to see this option because I have for long since been in search of the hotkeys to enable navigation through search results without a mouse click.

This seems to be the only option possible without using a plug-in, unless I'm mistaken?

It was quite difficult to find leads to (enabling toggling between search results!!!) it, the link that explained the relevant information of what I desire are here for instance.

The UI was simply changed in Catalina. In Catalina, ticking "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" is identical to selecting "All controls" in Mojave. Unticking "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" in Catalina is identical to selecting "Text boxes and lists only" in Mojave.

You can confirm this using Terminal in both versions of macOS and seeing what changes in the output from defaults read (redirect the output to a file and diff the two files). Switching between the radio buttons on Mojave and enabling/disabling the checkbox on Catelina both only change the following preference:

defaults read "Apple Global Domain" AppleKeyboardUIMode

When "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" is ticked (or "All controls" is selected) the value is 2. When "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" is unticked (or "Text boxes and lists only" is selected) the value is 0.


Issue with Mail, receiving my own sent emails in Inbox I have 2 Gmail accounts hooked up to Mail.  One is an @gmail.com account, the other is a business account run through Google Apps.

When I send an email from the business account, the email always shows up in my Inbox as if the message was sent to me.

The "Automatically Cc or Bcc me" checkbox is unchecked in the "Composing" section of the Preferences.

If I send the email from the gmail website, no problems occur.  If I send an email from my "@gmail.com" address the problem does not occur.

Anyone have any advice?

I've solved the problem for my own use. The problem for me was a glitch in gmail itself. Elsewhere the question was asked, does this behavior happen with messages sent from the gmail web interface as well? If those messages are also showing up in your gmail inbox, it's probably not a Mail fault. Check your gmail filters for the following:

  When you use a filter with the "never send to spam" option enabled
  that is (accidentally perhaps) matching message you send, they will
  show in the Inbox.

This is considered by some to be a gmail bug. The solution is:

  The filter does the same thing as the "Not spam" button, which puts
  the selected conversations in the Inbox. You can exclude sent mail
  from your "Never send to spam" filters by including "-me" in the From
  field, or by adding "-from:me" in the "has the words" field.

In my experience it is not necessary to fully comply with Google's recommended settings for IMAP accounts, namely that you should uncheck the box to "Store sent messages on the server." I very much want to leave this selected, and having it selected is now working fine for me, now that I have added the "-me" exception to the misbehaving filter.

Refer to these threads for further background:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/hdItaHiUAgc
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/NI1aRo6SvTc


Getting 'module' object has no attribute 'bindtextdomain' launching meld I just did

 brew uninstall meld
 brew install meld

Trying to use meld continues to give same error:

15:46:50/config $!8420
meld config.bernoulli.py config.py
Couldn't bind the translation domain. Some translations won't work.
'module' object has no attribute 'bindtextdomain'
/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
/usr/local/Cellar/meld/1.8.6/libexec/bin/meld:155: GtkWarning: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/meld/1.8.6/libexec/bin/meld", line 155, in <module>
    gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append_search_path'

I just fixed this issue by uninstalling/reinstalling all versions of everything.

$ APPS=$(brew list)
$ brew uninstall --force $APPS
$ brew install $APPS


Mail App is using internet connection to capacity (Retina Macbook Pro Early 2013) My internet connection is working to capacity while "Mail" is open. Of course, it was loading all my mails when I used it the first time, but now all mails are on the machine and still "MagicanPaster" shows me that the internet connection is busy all the time while Mail is open.
The settings are searching for new mails every 5 minutes. I am using OS.X 10.8.3.

Maybe my internet connection is just to slow, but is 400 KB/s for "Mail" not just too much? What options do I have to decrease the traffic?

Update: Even if I change the settings to "Searching for new mails every 15 minutes" the connenction is working still to capacity.
Is it possible to set priorities for internet connection, so that I can use skype or facetime without lacking and still have mail in the background? Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?

Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced

There is an option called "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing"
If you have that set to All messages and their attachments, then Mail will download your entire Gmail archive, which could be several GB.
I suggest setting that to All messages but omit attachments, then quitting Mail, then deleting ~/Library/Mail/V2 and relaunching Mail.  It will take several minutes to clean up and re-download all the messages, but this time without attachments.


Is there a keyboard shortcut to lock my Mac mini? I have tried Command + Control + Q, but that doesn't work. Is there another one, or is there a way to set up my own custom keyboard shortcut?

Launch System Preferences and go to the Keyboard pane.

Next, select the “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab. From the list on the left, select “Application Shortcuts”. Click on the plus (+) button below to add your new shortcut.

In the dialog box, we’ll want to leave “All Applications” selected in the first menu. Enter “Lock Screen” as the Menu Title. Finally, enter your keyboard shortcut. Let’s go with Command+Shift+L.

Click Add and you’re all done!

You also can explore https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 for the official Apple shortcut.


Is there a way to change the default camera app launched from the iOS5 lock screen? In iOS 5 the lock screen can access the camera app.

Is there a way to change the default app that is launched. I would rather use instagram for its social media connections and filters.

Sorry, but Apple doesn't allow this, and it doesn't even look like there is a jailbreak tweak for this.


Can I record with 50FPS in the camera app to avoid flicker? The iPhone camera allows me to choose between 30 and 60 FPS in the settings. However I live in Europe with 50Hz mains frequency. When I am filming old CRTs, I get a bunch of flicker either way. It would be optimal to record at 50 FPS. Is there a way to enforce this? Maybe a 3rd party app? I haven't found  one yet.

Without 3rd party apps: No, iOS doesn't allow you to choose the fps.

Yet, there are 3rd party apps that can give you much more control over photo and video settings. ProCam for example supports your requested feature.


set own video frame in the main screen on facetime is it possible, when using facetime, to increase the size of my own video frame? as in skype where I can set my own video frame in the main screen and my friend video as the little frame in the corner. I couldn't find an option for that, I can only move the little frame across the screen, but can't increase the size.
thanks

No, the size can not be changed. You can provide feedback to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


What is the best scrobbler for Last.fm for my iOS device? I would like to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm from my iPod touch. I currently use the official iTunes scrobbler, but it seems to drop data.

What are the best iOS scrobblers for a jailbroken and a non-jailbroken device? I can't download the official Last.fm app because of stupid geographical restrictions.

Get CloudScrob.

Finally there is an app that ACTUALLY WORKS AND SCROBBLES CORRECTLY.

This app is the best scrobbler there is for iPhone, and I've tried a bunch of them. It scrobbles in batch mode after you've listened to a bunch of songs, and lets you preview and edit the list of songs before it submits them.

And you use the iPod app to play the songs. Unlike iScrob where you had to use that app to play the songs.


If I delete synced Google contacts on my iPhone, does that affect my google contact? I needed some of my gmail contacts to email them and get some info, so I decided to sync my google accounts to my iPhone.
The problem is that I have some repeated contacts and I want to delete those from the iPhone, but I don’t know if that will just delete them on the phone or if it’ll affect my google contacts too.

If you're only seeing the duplicates on your iPhone, they're most likely in different Groups. You can check this by opening Contacts on your phone and tapping the Groups button (screenshot below). If you see a group called iPhone, those are stored exclusively on your phone and deleting them will not affect your Google contacts. You can uncheck the Google group to show (and ensure you only delete) contacts from your phone. Deleting contacts from the Google group will affect your Google contacts.


Mountain Lion US keyboard layout .. bug? British layout when selected US keyboard When I change my input source to US Keyboard and I want to press this key: ` I get some British key.

My keyboard is this one:

And it behaves like this one:

I changed my keyboard layout like described in this: stackexchange post but there is nothing changed. When I press the ` key I get that symbol as on British keyboard.

In result it looks like this:

I think your keyboard has been modified and is non-standard.  If for some reason you want what is printed on the keys to match up with what is typed, you could make a custom keyboard layout using

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele


Can iPhone 5s be tracked if restored completely, and iCloud lock is gone? I lost my iPhone 5s while I was going to sale it to someone else, and I restored it completely so it was basically ready to be set as a new phone. I want to know if it's possible to track it though the IMEI or serial number.

Yes, it still can be tracked.

Anyone with the ability to track the IMEI number can find it if it is online, or using the phone services, since the iPhone is always broadcasting  it.

You can check information about (this is not tracking) yours here http://www.imei.info/

To display your IMEI number read this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4061, or look at the label on the back of the iPhone.

However, even the IMEI number can be changed by someone who knows how to.


Where are the OS X Language Files for Times and Dates? Where does OS X store the language files (.lproj, .strings) for displaying times and dates?

Edit: I'm precisely interested in the terms like «Monday», «Thuesday», «November», «May» etc. from the system itself, not 3rd-party-apps. I guess there is one place where OS X is storing such translations (where apps like iCal/Calendar, the Time/Date-Menulet, and others access the names/translations)

It depends on where your looking and the relative application your using.

If your talking about the ones in an application, they are bundled in the application themselves. In the example here for Skype, the .lproj is bundled in the Resources directory

 /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/Resources

The OS also stores the .lproj files in their respective bundles. By running this command in the terminal you can see where they all are, although you may need to filter a little bit more.

 find .  -name "*.lproj"

The command will render something like this:

The same can be done for .strings,  although you may have some difficulty searching through them all.

find .  -name "*.strings"