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846e4872d5658dd05a8c6478262487d794710a9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free app which shows song name in menu bar There are a lot of apps that show which song iTunes playins in different fancy pop-ups (using Growl i guess) but I need only a song name in menu bar and nothing else.
There are NowPlaying and emcee but they are non-free. Then, there are free apps like CoverSutra but those don’t do what I want exactly.
Is there free app which shows name of the song that VLC or iTunes plays in menu bar?
A: Try the following freeware/open source tool: QuickTunes.
Elderly, but may work fine still.
| Q: Free app which shows song name in menu bar There are a lot of apps that show which song iTunes playins in different fancy pop-ups (using Growl i guess) but I need only a song name in menu bar and nothing else.
There are NowPlaying and emcee but they are non-free. Then, there are free apps like CoverSutra but those don’t do what I want exactly.
Is there free app which shows name of the song that VLC or iTunes plays in menu bar?
A: Try the following freeware/open source tool: QuickTunes.
Elderly, but may work fine still.
A: My minimalistic solution involves using GeekTool to display a geeklet like the one I made on top of the menu bar. It runs an AppleScript every 10 seconds and will unobtrusively display nothing when iTunes is not running or not playing, otherwise just show the current track's name.
Advantages: you can resize, position and format the text of the geeklet as you wish (e.g. put it in the very center of the menu bar – something the freeware programs discussed here can't do), as well as have it display additional info such as album, artist, etc. by editing the AppleScript. See here for ideas.
Disadvantages: The geeklet's position is fixed. When your front application uses a lot of space on the left-hand side of the menu bar, the geeklet will be shown on top of the rightmost menu items. This problem is, of course, more relevant for small display sizes.
A: I've just found Tune Buddy which does exactly what I wanted:
I'll check other apps latter, thank everybody who answered…
A: Simple iTunes is a simple iTunes menu bar application which displays current track (Song - Artist) playing in iTunes in menu bar.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/47609/simple-itunes
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4958098?start=0&tstart=0
A: You Control: Tunes
...is free, but requires an email address to receive a serial.
*
*access the whole iTunes library via the menubar
*access playlists via the menubar
*see the current song in the menubar
*see player controls in the menubar
*notifications
*change rating on the fly
A: After having been on iTunesMenu for years I decided it was best to move on, considering the crashes.
So I found SmashTunes: nice and simple, plus it drops the radio station name (which is usually extremely long and just as useless)
Edit: now I prefer Tune Buddy, suggested in an answer above.
A: It may not be exactly what you want, but the best I can suggest is Vox which is free and displays the player controls in the menubar, which you can click on to get the currently playing song (and the current playlist). Like so:
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a9cff32ded3da19ff52fdf92376b7360ec784509 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a Mac screen capture tool that will export to animated gif? I'm looking for a screen capture tool working on MacOSX that will export the capture to animated gif.
A: LICEcap is free (GPL), works on MacOSX, and capture animated GIF directly.
http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
It's never too late ;-)
| Q: Is there a Mac screen capture tool that will export to animated gif? I'm looking for a screen capture tool working on MacOSX that will export the capture to animated gif.
A: LICEcap is free (GPL), works on MacOSX, and capture animated GIF directly.
http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
It's never too late ;-)
A: I am using a utility called Claquette. It can be used to convert video files to GIFs and it also comes with an integrated screen recorder.
The app is a free download on the Mac App Store.
It's editing capabilities are very limited (just crop & trim), but usually that's enough for me.
To compare the results, I replicated the GIF in your question. My version came up as a ~35s long animation with a file size of 511KB:
There are plenty of other tools out there - I went with this one because it provided the best quality/size trade-offs in the exported GIFs (which I usually attach to a newsletter service with size limitations).
A: I just used www.convert-image.com to convert a Keynote-export QuickTime movie file in to an animated GIF and it worked great. The process was relatively painless and the end results was a animation I used to answer a question here on AskDifferent: How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote
A: Using built-in Screen Recording and Shortcuts app from macOS 12+
Step 1: Record screen using the built-in Screen Recorder of Mac OS: Cmd + Shift + 5
Step 2: Using the Shortcuts app which comes with Mac OS Monterey(12.0.1). Use the Video to GIF convertor Shortcut to get the intended GIF file.
A: Starting with macOS Mojave, and later, simply press ⇧⌘5 (Shift-Command-5) and you can choose from the following:
*
*Capture Entire Screen
*Capture Selected Window
*Capture Selected Portion
*Record Entire Screen
*Record Selected Portion
Afterwards, if you want to convert the MOV file into a GIF, you can use Gifski (free at the time of this update) or GIF Brewery 3, which is 4.99 (sorry, it used to be free) on the Mac App Store.
Note that GIF Brewery 3 can do screen recording directly to create animated GIF files.
Gifski can also be installed via Homebrew: https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski
A: There is a really fantastic guide at http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/11/21/creating-animated-gif-screen-captures-on-osx/
In summary
*
*Record video using QuickTime Player
*Converting the screen capture video to animated GIF (with GIF Brewery)
*Crop and shrink the capture area
*Use low FPS
A: Semi-automated process:
If you need to capture video and convert it to GIF, or a very long involved sequence of steps, then you'll need to combine two separate programs. A video screen capture tool, and a movie to gif conversion tool.
Look at these two questions for possible solutions:
Screen video capture application
How can I convert a .mov into a .gif (or a .apng)?
There don't seem to be that many apps that do the movie --> gif conversion on OS X, though. A lot of people use VLC to capture frames and imagemagick to collect them back together into an animated gif. This is probably why the only answer to the conversion question above used an online service.
Manual process:
There is a way to do it in OS X without an additional tool, and this works well if, for instance, you just want to show someone the sequence of steps to disable a particular system preference. The basic process is this:
*
*Use Cmd-shift-4-spacebar to capture a screenshot of the window for each frame.
*Convert the images to gif (or set your screenshot preferences to gif prior to capturing the screenshots)
*Open the last screenshot in preview.
*Open the sidebar in preview
*Show the screenshots in finder, ordered by date
*Select the remainder to the screenshots, drag and drop them directly on top of the icon in the sidebar of preview for the file already opened. If you drop them elsewhere it won't add them properly.
*Preview the animation by selecting the top icon in the sidebar, then using the down arrow. Rearrange any that are out of order using the sidebar to drag and drop.
*Save the document as gif, and then preview using a browser, or another app that shows animated gifs.
This technique is somewhat limited in that you can't easily capture video frames without pausing the video before each capture (for that you should get a video screencapture program and then convert the resulting mov or avi to animated gif), and you can't readily adjust the frame time for each frame.
There's a more detailed tutorial with example here:
http://ipliance.com/index.php/eng/Blog/Howto-Animated-GIF-s-Creation-and-Display-in-OS-X
A: Cleanshot X has support for this feature (Available through SetApp, otherwise you can buy the base tier for $29, or subscribe for $8 a month). While it's pricey for what essentially amounts to "screenshots/recordings but better", it includes a quick image editor, ability to upload to their cloud storage, and all sorts of other features.
A: Was also looking for a good, no-data-shared, screen recorder which could record and convert that recording into gif.
This is the only website you'll need: gifcap.dev
It's not only free, client-side and runs in-browser only, but it's also open-source, check it out: github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap
A: I use an app called GIPHY CAPTURE, which is free on the Mac App Store.
https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture
It lets you size an area of the screen, specify animation rate, and then saves the file when you're happy with what you've done.
A: I use Filmage Screen. It can export as GIF
A: Kap works well for me, so maybe for others too.
https://getkap.co/
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a4b31fdee44c1c28ff0d141ff97008047e480cbf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I view the raw XML of an RSS feed in Safari (or Reeder)? I want to see the raw XML of an RSS feed for a podcast.
In Safari, as of Lion formatted XML files is supported. But RSS feeds are not formatted that way and instead presented in Safari's RSS Reader mode. A view source on that page doesn't display the RSS feed as I expected, instead the HTML and CSS used to put the viewer together.
Is there another way to do this in Safari? I also have the RSS Reading app, Reeder, installed, so I'd be willing to do it in there if possible.
A: Here’s a Safari extension to view the raw XML data: https://github.com/sergeche/xmlview#readme
There’s an online demo, too: http://media.chikuyonok.ru/xmlview/ This works in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
Edit: Sadly, this extension doesn’t work in Safari 5.1. There’s an issue for that here: https://github.com/sergeche/xmlview/issues/16
Alternatively, you could always open Terminal.app and just use curl to view the raw RSS/XML contents:
curl "http://example.org/some-feed.rss"
| Q: How can I view the raw XML of an RSS feed in Safari (or Reeder)? I want to see the raw XML of an RSS feed for a podcast.
In Safari, as of Lion formatted XML files is supported. But RSS feeds are not formatted that way and instead presented in Safari's RSS Reader mode. A view source on that page doesn't display the RSS feed as I expected, instead the HTML and CSS used to put the viewer together.
Is there another way to do this in Safari? I also have the RSS Reading app, Reeder, installed, so I'd be willing to do it in there if possible.
A: Here’s a Safari extension to view the raw XML data: https://github.com/sergeche/xmlview#readme
There’s an online demo, too: http://media.chikuyonok.ru/xmlview/ This works in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
Edit: Sadly, this extension doesn’t work in Safari 5.1. There’s an issue for that here: https://github.com/sergeche/xmlview/issues/16
Alternatively, you could always open Terminal.app and just use curl to view the raw RSS/XML contents:
curl "http://example.org/some-feed.rss"
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b02e27318dc00881eb246127dd8da75392e562ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the position of the Dock? Can I move the Dock using a keyboard shortcut?
If there is no default keyboard shortcut, is it possible to set this up using a program?
A: There's no default, but you could probably use AppleScript to accomplish this. Hmm...
EDIT:
Make an AppleScript to run this shell script:
defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation -string left;killall Dock
| Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the position of the Dock? Can I move the Dock using a keyboard shortcut?
If there is no default keyboard shortcut, is it possible to set this up using a program?
A: There's no default, but you could probably use AppleScript to accomplish this. Hmm...
EDIT:
Make an AppleScript to run this shell script:
defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation -string left;killall Dock
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dea1d99a9afcf532e3cff13c646a4731b9a56e16 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to completely disassociate iMessage from my device? I have an older iPhone that I was thinking about selling soon in order to get a new one. I've set up iMessaging on the device. Normally I would just erase the phone a couple of times and be done with it. But recently, there has been exposed a glitch in iMessaging whereby users continue to receive other user's iMessages, even after the sim card is removed, and the phone is erased.
So I'm curious: is there any way to prevent this from happening?
A: There is a workaround for this issue. You change your iCloud account password and enter it on the new device. After that the old device will have your old password, reboot the old device and you have completely circumvented the issue.
Works perfectly for me.
| Q: How to completely disassociate iMessage from my device? I have an older iPhone that I was thinking about selling soon in order to get a new one. I've set up iMessaging on the device. Normally I would just erase the phone a couple of times and be done with it. But recently, there has been exposed a glitch in iMessaging whereby users continue to receive other user's iMessages, even after the sim card is removed, and the phone is erased.
So I'm curious: is there any way to prevent this from happening?
A: There is a workaround for this issue. You change your iCloud account password and enter it on the new device. After that the old device will have your old password, reboot the old device and you have completely circumvented the issue.
Works perfectly for me.
A: Try this: On the device, go to Settings then iMessage then tap on 'Receive at'. Tap the Apple ID at the top and you get the option to 'Sign out'. No need to change passwords. Should stop messages on that device until you sign in again.
A: Go into Settings -> Messages and halfway down choose Send and Receive.
Tap your AppleID on the top of the page, sign out, and let the new guy sign his or her self in.
A: This drove me mad... finally worked it out. Not icloud settings but imessage settings:
*
*Tap Settings
*Then Messages
*Then "Send & Receive"
*Ensure that at the top, next to "Apple ID", your ID information is
displayed.
If it is still showing someone else's Apple ID, tap it, and choose Sign Out.
Hope this helps.
A: In settings go to messages then select receive at. From there unclick the phone number and this will stop iMessage sharing.. My husband n I share the same apple ID and this fixed the problem with the iOS 6 upgrade No need to turn iMessage off. I tested it n it works. Now remember it only takes a click to start reading each others iMessages again ... This is where trust comes to play...
A: Unregister the old device by logging in here: https://supportprofile.apple.com
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a7fdfb5a37981411fc99c1d505ce4bb8bf9c6be4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Activitate Voice Dictation from Bluetooth Keyboard Getting to know my new iPad and I really like the voice dictation, but I can't figure out how to activate it from my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. My workaround is to turn off the keyboard so I get the onscreen version. Is there a better way?
A: As of iOS 5.1, Voice Dictation is not capable of being started from external keyboards.
There is a workaround. The solution is that when you want to dictate, press the ⏏ key (eject) on your external keyboard. This should bring up the virtual keyboard on the screen, from which you can then start dictation.
Note: This key doesn't work like other function keys until you have tapped into a text entry field and have the flashing cursor.
| Q: Activitate Voice Dictation from Bluetooth Keyboard Getting to know my new iPad and I really like the voice dictation, but I can't figure out how to activate it from my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. My workaround is to turn off the keyboard so I get the onscreen version. Is there a better way?
A: As of iOS 5.1, Voice Dictation is not capable of being started from external keyboards.
There is a workaround. The solution is that when you want to dictate, press the ⏏ key (eject) on your external keyboard. This should bring up the virtual keyboard on the screen, from which you can then start dictation.
Note: This key doesn't work like other function keys until you have tapped into a text entry field and have the flashing cursor.
A: press the keyboard tab (first line) when you want to switch between keyboards. They mic will work after that. I have a Logitech bluetooth keyboard on my Ipad Air 2. I hope it helps.
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963d0989cc86310b13aedd85b1d71a61781e626b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s and I cannot locate it in the app list in iTunes when I synch. Any ideas? I accidentally deleted the Notes app and cannot find it (although when I do a spotlight search it does come up). Any ideas how I restore it to my screen? Thanks!
A: It sounds like it's not deleted, but just off of the screen. I've had this happen to a few of my apps. What I always do to fix it is go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout. You'll get your Notes app back, but your Home Screen will be arranged into alphabetical order, and unless you're JailBroken, this is pretty much the only way to get it back without restoring.
| Q: My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s and I cannot locate it in the app list in iTunes when I synch. Any ideas? I accidentally deleted the Notes app and cannot find it (although when I do a spotlight search it does come up). Any ideas how I restore it to my screen? Thanks!
A: It sounds like it's not deleted, but just off of the screen. I've had this happen to a few of my apps. What I always do to fix it is go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout. You'll get your Notes app back, but your Home Screen will be arranged into alphabetical order, and unless you're JailBroken, this is pretty much the only way to get it back without restoring.
A: It's not possible to delete it, as it is one of the built-in apps that you cannot remove. You can, however, move it somewhere daft. If you check in your app folders, and do the press-and-hold to move jiggle, it should show up somewhere, possibly on the mystery last screen.
You aren't close to the app limit by any chance are you?
A: This happened to me today. The solution for me was simple.
Look carefully in each of your folders amoung your Apps. It is possible that you moved it by mistake into one of them.
A: Have you tried restoring your iPhone?
See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414 for the details on how to do this.
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e43b44a7819c93ed98c2605452d3ec282927426e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I hide an icon? I just saw this question and answer:
My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s...
So apparently it's possible to erroneously hide system icons. How can I do this? I'm sick of the Weather and Stock icons taking up space. My iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1 isn't jail broken.
A: You can't hide them except by putting them away in a folder - I keep one called "useless" just for stuff like the stock calculator, weather, stock apps - wish I could delete them without jail breaking.
A folder is easily created by tapping and holding an icon until they start to shake, then dragging one icon on top of another. The lower icon will take on a border and if the icon is released both are placed inside the newly created folder.
There is at least one icon that cannot be hidden in this way, the Newsstand icon. It can be repositioned but will not create (see above) or allow itself to be put inside a folder. It is the only icon I know of so far with this special behaviour.
| Q: How do I hide an icon? I just saw this question and answer:
My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s...
So apparently it's possible to erroneously hide system icons. How can I do this? I'm sick of the Weather and Stock icons taking up space. My iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1 isn't jail broken.
A: You can't hide them except by putting them away in a folder - I keep one called "useless" just for stuff like the stock calculator, weather, stock apps - wish I could delete them without jail breaking.
A folder is easily created by tapping and holding an icon until they start to shake, then dragging one icon on top of another. The lower icon will take on a border and if the icon is released both are placed inside the newly created folder.
There is at least one icon that cannot be hidden in this way, the Newsstand icon. It can be repositioned but will not create (see above) or allow itself to be put inside a folder. It is the only icon I know of so far with this special behaviour.
A: According to my understanding, this bug has since been removed from iOS 4+, but I'll tell you how to do it anyway. Other than this bug, I don't know of any others, except for one that has no replication steps (iOS just randomly hides apps, and they usually return after a reboot). You're welcome to try this, though.
*
*Fill all 11 pages on your home screen with apps (that's 180 total apps).
*Install one more app.
*Your new app will be hidden.
*There may or may not be a 12th page that you can use while in edit mode (I just tried on iOS 5.0.1, and it didn't have one). If there is, you can put any apps that you want hidden here (as long as there are already 180 apps).
*You could also do this with folders on iOS 4 (you would create a folder with multiple apps, and then start taking everything out of the folder and the last one would split from the folder and hide).
It's difficult to get the apps to go where you want and which ones you want hidden, but the more you play around with it, the more you'll be in control.
Like I said, this has been fixed, but you might be able to find another similar way. If you'd like to JailBreak, though, SBSettings is a great tweak that allows you to easily hide applications on your Home Screen.
A: I believe this is a bug with the software, and therefore might not be easy to reproduce. If it was common and easy to reproduce, I would guess that Apple would have patched it up by now. However, it may be related to a similar problem that was prevalent in earlier OSs...
There was originally a bigger problem in earlier versions of the OS when there was a lower limit to the amount of apps you could install. Once you installed too many, they would disappear. Since then, Apple added folders and more home screens making it much harder to reach the limit now.
On one of the earlier OSs (I believe it was iOS 2.something), you could repeat this by moving apps to the hidden 10th screen. Basically, you would fill up the 9th screen (the last one available at the time), and then begin pushing apps to the 10th screen. Once you were done editing, they would no longer be available.
I believe this is a bug with the software, and therefore might not be easy to reproduce.
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3a641934d16043d7a123c499bd691259ea8b1fe3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to see the time that a photo was taken on the iPhone? Sometimes I took a photo using my iPhone, and then later on, I wonder how long I have been there at that location, I thought of checking when the last photo was taken, and can tell the time when I arrived, but I found it wasn't easily possible to see what time the photo was taken.
Is there really a way to see the time that photo was taken, be it 1 hour and 20 minutes ago, without using any third party app and without importing the photo to a computer? I thought this might be a simple photo info thing that might be invoked by some easy way?
A: You are not missing anything, the iPhone has no mechanism to see that information natively. However, if you search for EXIF on the App Store, there are a few (some free) apps that will happily do that in the device itself.
You must note that, due to the way iTunes work, pictures coming from iTunes will not have their metadata associated. Sad but true.
| Q: Is there a way to see the time that a photo was taken on the iPhone? Sometimes I took a photo using my iPhone, and then later on, I wonder how long I have been there at that location, I thought of checking when the last photo was taken, and can tell the time when I arrived, but I found it wasn't easily possible to see what time the photo was taken.
Is there really a way to see the time that photo was taken, be it 1 hour and 20 minutes ago, without using any third party app and without importing the photo to a computer? I thought this might be a simple photo info thing that might be invoked by some easy way?
A: You are not missing anything, the iPhone has no mechanism to see that information natively. However, if you search for EXIF on the App Store, there are a few (some free) apps that will happily do that in the device itself.
You must note that, due to the way iTunes work, pictures coming from iTunes will not have their metadata associated. Sad but true.
A: Yes - the old mobile iPhoto app as well as the Photos app shows all sorts of photo metadata (assuming you allowed the camera app to store it in the first place) including the capture time.
Camera roll and Photo stream are part of the Library, so you should be good to go. You can get the above screen by tapping the i with the rectangle to bring up the information for photos stored in the library.
In the case of time, even if you deny location services, it should have the timestamp based on the file's creation date/time.
A: To view the EXIF data (time taken, GPS coordinates, and other values) of your photos on the iPhone you will need a 3'rd party application. I could only find these two on the app store:
*
*Exif & IPTC Metadata Browser
*Exif Wizard
A: You can do this with the built in Photos app. Open the photo and observe the date and time shown in the navigation bar at the top. This only works if you hold the phone in portrait mode (vertical)!
A: iPhoto for iPhone will also show you this along with many other details about the photo (ISO, shutter speed, etc) if you prefer to stick with Apple written applications.
I have started to use iPhoto as a replacement for Photos on my iPhone!
A: As on iOS 11.0 or later, You can view time stamp of photo within Apple's Photos App without Third party Apps.
Note that, if it doesn't display the Year, that photo was shot on same year.
But it doesn't display "seconds" field in time stamp, so if you need that level of details, checkout Third party "EXIF" apps on Appstore, like "EXIF Viewer by Fluntro"
Screenshot using EXIF Viewer by Fluntro.
Disclaimer: I have developed the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro App :)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exif-viewer-by-fluntro/id944118456?mt=8
To know more features about the app, checkout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycz0b0uDn9A
A: The free app Camera Awesome allows you to see when a photo was taken.
Open the app and go to the camera roll. Tap the plus button and import the photo you want to view date information for. Select that photo and tap the (i) button. The date and time the photo was taken will be displayed, as well as lots of other useful details.
A: If you want to see what time it was taken without an app, you could simply open the image on a computer using a notepad program of some sort. The time and date will often be within the first few lines of code.
A: Rotate your iPhone. The built-in Photos app shows the date and time the photo was taken in the navigation bar at the top, but only in portrait orientation.
A: Instead of looking on App Store for EXIF, also search for term 'metadata'... there is a free app named 'Photo Metadata Viewer' from Boxo (??) that dumps this info to screen for fairly easy reading. NOT fancy, but free.
A: Some other camera apps give access to EXIF data. Camera+, for example, has an info button in its lightbox picture-viewer which shows EXIF data and even shows a map detailing where that picture was taken.
Note this is helpful even if you're looking for EXIF data in photos taken with standard iOS photo services, embedded in some other app, as Camera+ can import images from the iPhone's standard Camera Roll.
(I have no connection to Camera+ except as a satisfied user)
A: There are probably other apps, but ProCamera has this ability.
A: A free, lightweight app for this is Exif Wizard (size 0.2 MB).
If you only want to access the timestamp or other Exif data, it makes more sense to install Exif Wizard instead of e.g. Camera Awesome (18.1 MB) or ProCamera (17.4 MB).
A: Another third party solution (of which I feel obliged to confess I created) is Photo Timestamps. It's an elegant solution to this problem- it displays your photos in a 3 photo grid with the timestamp displayed over the photo's thumbnail
A: We just released a new app that makes it easy to sort, organize and share your iOS photos by date and location.
Photowerks scans your camera roll and displays your photos similarly to the Apple Photos app, but groups them by date taken or photo location.
Features:
*
*Quickly sort photos by date taken, city, state, country, camera make, or camera model.
*View photos in a grid or list view.
*Tap photo to view date taken and location (city, state)
*Share photos via email, Facebook, Twitter (with photo captions listing photo date and location)
*Create new albums in the Apple Photos app.
*View photo details with standard pinch to zoom gestures and swipe to view previous/next photo.
The app is USD $0.99 on the App Store.
A: Photo Timestamps is a third party app that provides this information. It's not free, but it's also not $4.99. It's got a really clean, minimal interface (obligatory disclosure: I made it).
A: Since this took me awhile to find and a few of the apps here are old I thought I would share several iphone date viewing apps.
The ones I have tried:
Exif Wizard
Good app that I have used for about 2 years. Nothing fancy it just lets you view the metadata. It is only 0.4 MB.
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exif-wizard/id387652357?mt=8
Koredoko - Exif and GPS Viewer
Good app that I have used for about 2 years. Nothing fancy it just lets you view the metadata. It is only 4.5 MB.
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/koredoko-exif-and-gps-viewer/id286765236?mt=8
Camera Awesome
Ok app. It is 48.5 MB. It doesn't do anything exciting to me. I rather use the regular camera app for taking pictures instead of this because of the size. It can view metadata.
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camera-awesome/id420744028?mt=8
The ones I have not tried:
Flickd
Size: 0.3 MB
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flickd/id305580150?mt=8
Photo Date
Size: 3.4 MB
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-date/id605218393?mt=8
Photo Investigator: View, Edit, Remove Metadata; GPS, EXIF...
Size: 3.5 MB
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-investigator-view-edit/id571574618?mt=8
Pixelgarde
Size: 4.8 MB
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelgarde-photo-privacy-editor/id414677492?mt=8
Metadata Cut - View and Remove Metadata
Size: 21.5 MB
*
*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/metadata-cut-view-remove-metadata/id568689108?mt=8
A: My Photo date will allow you to do that.
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7de40b7ce82ea095eea033cfe6713a6f2238f249 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMessages on iPhone 3G? Is there any way to use iMessages on an iPhone 3G?
I believe the latest OS it can upgrade to is 4 something, so that might rule out official support by Apple, but what about a 3rd party solution?
A: 4.2.1 is officially the latest supported version for the iPhone 3G, but you can supposedly install iOS 5 on it with this method: http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/19/install-ios-5-on-iphone-3g-with-whited00r-5/
In the video, it shows the Messages app on the homescreen, so that ought to work for you.
| Q: iMessages on iPhone 3G? Is there any way to use iMessages on an iPhone 3G?
I believe the latest OS it can upgrade to is 4 something, so that might rule out official support by Apple, but what about a 3rd party solution?
A: 4.2.1 is officially the latest supported version for the iPhone 3G, but you can supposedly install iOS 5 on it with this method: http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/19/install-ios-5-on-iphone-3g-with-whited00r-5/
In the video, it shows the Messages app on the homescreen, so that ought to work for you.
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17e70f3383f51f0847f4a1d24a8563fdedcbcd36 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Safari on an iPad be controlled with gestures? On the Desktop version of Safari, you can navigate back and forward with a swipe gesture on the trackpad. Setting up other gestures (close tab, new tab, next/previous tab) is trivial with an app like BetterTouchTool.
I find myself trying to use these gestures, especially the swipes for back and forward, on my iPad (third generation).
Is there any way to enable gestures for Safari on the iPad?
I realize that the answer is probably no; Apple isn't much for hidden features/preferences in iOS and there are no BTT equivalents. So, I'm willing to explore alternatives. Are there any other web browsers for iPad, preferably as similar to Safari as possible, that support gestures?
A: Yes - Dolphin Browser supports gestures. So do Atomic Web Browser and Perfect Web Browser.
As you correctly realised the answer is no for Safari, unless you count the four-finger swipe up to get to the current app list, and other system gestures.
| Q: Can Safari on an iPad be controlled with gestures? On the Desktop version of Safari, you can navigate back and forward with a swipe gesture on the trackpad. Setting up other gestures (close tab, new tab, next/previous tab) is trivial with an app like BetterTouchTool.
I find myself trying to use these gestures, especially the swipes for back and forward, on my iPad (third generation).
Is there any way to enable gestures for Safari on the iPad?
I realize that the answer is probably no; Apple isn't much for hidden features/preferences in iOS and there are no BTT equivalents. So, I'm willing to explore alternatives. Are there any other web browsers for iPad, preferably as similar to Safari as possible, that support gestures?
A: Yes - Dolphin Browser supports gestures. So do Atomic Web Browser and Perfect Web Browser.
As you correctly realised the answer is no for Safari, unless you count the four-finger swipe up to get to the current app list, and other system gestures.
A: There are a few Cydia packages which modify Safari to enable gestures and fullscreen mode. I have used "Fullscreen for Safari" which kind of works but is buggy with the debug console enabled (and the swipes are also buggy) on my iPad3.
I have also tried "Swipe Safari" now and it is far superior to the other one, though I think it costs more. It gives you a lot of options in terms of gestures (one, two, three finger swipes, pulling, multi taps, tap and hold)
A: Safari for iPad does not support multi-touch gestures beyond those you mention, and there is no additional way to configure it to do so.
It looks like the following browsers offer muti-touch gestures, and might fit your needs:
*
*Perfect Web Browser
*Atomic Web Browser
*Dolphin Web Browser
A: only way to get gestures, download manager and other cool thinks on you iOS safari is by jailbreaking.
these are the tweaks which will do a magic for you
-sleipinzer for safari
-swipesafari
-fullscreen safari
-safari download manager
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9067c12ed08a4a6db0298d5dcdf63b082e25fb8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Increase font size in OS I have a 17-inche Macbook-pro, the resolution is at the moment 1920x1200, the font size of the system looks very small. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the resolution? It seems that we can't parameter it via System Preferences...
PS: the OS is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C2002)
A: See this answer - https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/45719/11118
Basically you enable a higher-resolution mode where everything uses twice as many pixels, so things appear bigger.
| Q: Increase font size in OS I have a 17-inche Macbook-pro, the resolution is at the moment 1920x1200, the font size of the system looks very small. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the resolution? It seems that we can't parameter it via System Preferences...
PS: the OS is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C2002)
A: See this answer - https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/45719/11118
Basically you enable a higher-resolution mode where everything uses twice as many pixels, so things appear bigger.
A: Higher resolution is not a good choice for a permanent default because you lose the benefit of the larger screen.
Instead, go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom
If you are using a trackpad, choose "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys …" This enables you to use the two finger swipe to enlarge the entire screen, including menus. Make sure to adjust how you want the window to move so you can see what is off-screen using "More Options" - I prefer "only when the pointer reaches an edge" to ensure a smooth, slow scroll sideways or up/down, but there are other choices.
If you don't have a trackpad, you can also set accessibility options for mouse gestures or keyboard control.
When you need, zoom the entire screen - which will include menus. Once you have finished with whatever system level task you are doing, simply zoom back down.
Remember that you can set the "view options" for system level windows, which currently allows you to increase the font to 16 and increase the size of the icons. If you are brave enough, there are also ways to modify the preferences through terminal to change this default size, but so far I have found none that will change the main menus.
For non-system windows, i.e., application windows such as browser pages or documents, you can zoom with a pinch (if you have a trackpad) or set the accessibility options you prefer.
If this is an issue for you, I highly recommend getting a trackpad, as I did for my father, because many gestures for zoom can be completed on the fly with little disruption to your usability.
A: Another alternative (which is not system nor app wide) is to customize your tool bar. Under the menu view, right click or two finger tap on the tool bar, select customize tool bar, add the little A and Big A to your tool bar this will allow one to enlarge or decrease the element inside the running program. Press big A to enlarge and little A to decrease.
The keystroke is command (apple) + or _ when zoom is enabled.
A: Set up an alias:
alias bigxter='xterm -font lucidasanstypewriter-bold-24'
Then put that alias in your .bashrc, so that after you log in, you can type bigxter and your easily visible font xterm window will pop up! Maybe put one or two of those windows as default to logging in as well so you have enough windows to work in.
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0121aad0f496574ee73f379cd08e246bb614da44 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to translate between Windows and Mac -style file locations? For an office with mostly Windows workstations and a few OS X workstations, what's the easiest way for the Mac users to translate to and from a Windows-style file paths?
For example, to automatically translate \\fileserver01\client-files\client01\comp.psd, if sent in an email, to //fileserver01/client-files/client01/comp.psd?
A: I also used an applescript first for windows/macos link conversion but then i found the MacOS app LinkConverter which does the job for me.
You will receive notifications for each link found in your clipboard. Based on the setting of the app the link will be converted:
It works for files and folders as well.
| Q: How to translate between Windows and Mac -style file locations? For an office with mostly Windows workstations and a few OS X workstations, what's the easiest way for the Mac users to translate to and from a Windows-style file paths?
For example, to automatically translate \\fileserver01\client-files\client01\comp.psd, if sent in an email, to //fileserver01/client-files/client01/comp.psd?
A: I also used an applescript first for windows/macos link conversion but then i found the MacOS app LinkConverter which does the job for me.
You will receive notifications for each link found in your clipboard. Based on the setting of the app the link will be converted:
It works for files and folders as well.
A: This site has a way to translate into a mac network location and open it: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040322155331393
So you could easily save that as a text service and be able to select a windows network location, right-click it, and have it translated and opened.
I imagine you could sort of reverse the function and translate back into a windows network location string.
Here's how to set up a text service/quick action to convert to a Mac path and open it in Finder:
*
*Open up Automator
*Choose "Service" (called "Quick Action" in macOS Mojave)
*Drag a "Run AppleScript" item from the library into the main area on the right.
*Copy and paste this AppleScript into it:
https://gist.github.com/2211017 (it wouldn't properly format in here)
*Save it under "Convert and Open Windows Path" or whatever you like.
*Select a path in an application, right-click it, and look for the service you created (it might be under a "Services" sub-menu)
Here's what your Automator service should look like:
A: I know this is an old exchange, but it still works. I forked the code to show an example of converting a network drive path to an SMB protocol with a server IP address.
This is helpful if windows users have a lettered network drive such as W:\a\really\tedious\folder\path
https://gist.github.com/jberg412/036484376a56f09e1a4a
Thanks for the original script PenguinRob.
on searchReplace(theText, SearchString, ReplaceString)
set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to SearchString
set newText to text items of theText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ReplaceString
set newText to newText as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
return newText
end searchReplace
on run {input, parameters}
set myClip to the input
set mylocation to searchReplace(myClip, "<", "")
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, ">.", "")
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, ">", "")
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, "\\", "/")
set mylocation to "smb:" & mylocation
# convert Windows network drive paths to SMB addresses EXAMPLE:
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, "smb:W:", "smb://10.0.0.1/shares")
# check if the person who gave you the windows link used a lowercase drive letter:
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, "smb:w:", "smb://10.0.0.1/shares")
# fix issue with spaces
set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, " ", "%20")
tell application "Finder"
open location mylocation
end tell
# after setting the location, set Finder to topmost, or delete this section if you dont want that.
tell application "Finder"
activate
end tell
return input
end run
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f847b12e821de9895e8cecc808a822d0c83b5145 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Tile 2 windows side by side by keyboard shortcuts I am using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, often I like to display 2 windows side by side, does anyone know if there is any application which makes it possible to tile windows by simple keyboard shortcuts?
A: I use Better Touch Tool to do that.
Here's an example configuration that has a keyboard shortcut for resizing to the right half and one for the left half. I also have a shortcut that quickly maximizes a window.
| Q: Tile 2 windows side by side by keyboard shortcuts I am using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, often I like to display 2 windows side by side, does anyone know if there is any application which makes it possible to tile windows by simple keyboard shortcuts?
A: I use Better Touch Tool to do that.
Here's an example configuration that has a keyboard shortcut for resizing to the right half and one for the left half. I also have a shortcut that quickly maximizes a window.
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c796bd5ebf0700d2987f34dc8f8badac86a7a854 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Updating OS to 10.7.3 with slow internet My internet connection is very slow, and I need to update my OS to 10.7.3. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions as in how to download from another computer and install it on my MacBook?
A: Download the 10.7.3 combo update from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484
Burn it to DVD (or split it and burn to 3 CDs).
Run it on the target machine. It must already be running 10.7.0 or later for this update to install.
If you want to update other Apple software offline, this page has links to many of the common Apple updates:
http://support.apple.com/downloads
| Q: Updating OS to 10.7.3 with slow internet My internet connection is very slow, and I need to update my OS to 10.7.3. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions as in how to download from another computer and install it on my MacBook?
A: Download the 10.7.3 combo update from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484
Burn it to DVD (or split it and burn to 3 CDs).
Run it on the target machine. It must already be running 10.7.0 or later for this update to install.
If you want to update other Apple software offline, this page has links to many of the common Apple updates:
http://support.apple.com/downloads
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50b3e31e46becbccf99a27919606f8b939fe6633 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Weather App where icon shows current temperature and weather on iPhone? It's not always sunny and 73° where I live. Is there any Weather forecasting app for iOS which will change its icon to show current conditions? Or even a way to make the standard Weather.app behave like this?
A: There are two apps, Celsius and Fahrenheit, that I know of that will add badges to their icons to attempt to give you an up-to-date temperature at a glance. I say attempt because the badge approach doesn't support negative numbers so if your temperature dips below zero for either of those two scales you won't know.
But without jailbreaking your phone that's as good as it gets. The App guidelines from Apple don't let third party apps change their icons.
| Q: Weather App where icon shows current temperature and weather on iPhone? It's not always sunny and 73° where I live. Is there any Weather forecasting app for iOS which will change its icon to show current conditions? Or even a way to make the standard Weather.app behave like this?
A: There are two apps, Celsius and Fahrenheit, that I know of that will add badges to their icons to attempt to give you an up-to-date temperature at a glance. I say attempt because the badge approach doesn't support negative numbers so if your temperature dips below zero for either of those two scales you won't know.
But without jailbreaking your phone that's as good as it gets. The App guidelines from Apple don't let third party apps change their icons.
A: Official 3rd party apps are not authorized to change the icon in iOS see this question.
So there is no solution there. The only feature you could get from an official app would be a badge displaying the temperature.
You could look at the cydia store if you have or want to jailbreak your phone.
A: You're looking for Pocket Weather World or Pocket Weather World HD by awesome Australian developers Shifty Jelly. It will display the current temperature (for your most recently-viewed location) as a badge on the icon.
If you're in Australia look for the local versions (i.e. Pocket Weather AU HD which offer better integration with the Bureau of Meteorology's radar services etc.
(iOS icons can't change dynamically, the badge is the best they can do so far)
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da69b888dd7fb96028c4577150575c9b2d500684 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to drag the Dock around the screen? As a Windows/Mac/Ubuntu/Fedora user, I have seen many different ways to manage windows. Some of these, like the Windows taskbar and the OS X Dock, are very interesting and highly useful.
One feature that the Windows 7 taskbar has is the ability to drag it around the screen to snap it left, top, right, or down. This is very fun and also practical in many instances.
I've come to like this feature so much that I accidentally did this in Lion - but nothing happened.
Is it possible to drag the Dock around the screen? If so, how?
A: Yes!
Hold down ⇧ Shift while dragging the divider (between applications & documents). The dock will snap to the left, bottom, or right side of the screen as you drag it.
| Q: Is it possible to drag the Dock around the screen? As a Windows/Mac/Ubuntu/Fedora user, I have seen many different ways to manage windows. Some of these, like the Windows taskbar and the OS X Dock, are very interesting and highly useful.
One feature that the Windows 7 taskbar has is the ability to drag it around the screen to snap it left, top, right, or down. This is very fun and also practical in many instances.
I've come to like this feature so much that I accidentally did this in Lion - but nothing happened.
Is it possible to drag the Dock around the screen? If so, how?
A: Yes!
Hold down ⇧ Shift while dragging the divider (between applications & documents). The dock will snap to the left, bottom, or right side of the screen as you drag it.
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55092fbd15452af169e200d87ea8f4aed6ef9e39 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does an iPad consume more battery power when there are multiple applications open? Does an iPad consume more battery power when there are multiple applications open compared to let's say, having only one application resident in memory?
If there are differences between the different versions of iPad, then I am specifically looking for the answer for the new iPad.
A: No. Only one app truly runs on iOS at a time.
Yes, there are some seconds an app can ask to finish a task before the OS will kill the process if it's not done.
You can have some background tasks like a Skype phone call going in the background, but again this is really the iOS running that specialized code for the app, not the entire app still running.
Other than the edge case, where you exit one app and it has a few seconds to finish up tasks, only one app runs at a time on iOS and your battery life isn't affected by multiple apps. Your battery gets drained due to the foreground app and/or the OS itself doing radio, lighting the screen and running the CPU.
| Q: Does an iPad consume more battery power when there are multiple applications open? Does an iPad consume more battery power when there are multiple applications open compared to let's say, having only one application resident in memory?
If there are differences between the different versions of iPad, then I am specifically looking for the answer for the new iPad.
A: No. Only one app truly runs on iOS at a time.
Yes, there are some seconds an app can ask to finish a task before the OS will kill the process if it's not done.
You can have some background tasks like a Skype phone call going in the background, but again this is really the iOS running that specialized code for the app, not the entire app still running.
Other than the edge case, where you exit one app and it has a few seconds to finish up tasks, only one app runs at a time on iOS and your battery life isn't affected by multiple apps. Your battery gets drained due to the foreground app and/or the OS itself doing radio, lighting the screen and running the CPU.
A: Short answer:
In the best case, the amount of resources consumed by multiple apps will be the same as when you are running a single app. In the worst case, multiple apps will consume more resources than a single app. Therefore, to stay on the safe side, you should close all background apps.
Long answer:
An iOS device consumes more (or the same amount of) resources when there are multiple applications running. Let S be the amount of resources consumed with a Single app running, and M be the amount of resources consumed with Multiple apps running. We have the following relationship: S <= M, and closing apps will keep you on the safe side.
Although Apple's intent was for users to not have to worry about background apps, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is that way. The fact is that developers have the freedom to implement apps as they please, and once Apple opened up the App Store to any developer in the world, all bets of Apple's intent were off. Although developers technically only have 5 background profiles to choose from, there are several ways in which Apps may undesirably consume resources:
*
*Unwanted background behavior: E.g. A user uses Skype for IM only, and doesn't quit the app after the IM session is done. The app is listening to VOIP even though the user is not using it for that reason.
*Unknown background behavior: Imagine an app which helps remind you where you parked by using your GPS. Is it using Apple's GPS background process, or is it using some other feature? Or how about a podcast app which is playing a podcast that is in the process of being downloaded. Will it automatically remove itself from the background once it no longer needs to download the podcast?
*User error: A user is running a radio application and uses the pause feature rather than stop feature, which causes the app to continuously consume resources, but, since the music is no longer playing, has no indication that it is doing so.
*Application error: A radio app which gets indefinitely paused in the background, e.g. due to a poor connection. The user has no indication that the app is running and consuming up resources. Even this article which argues the opposite case mentions that there are apps that can go "berserk and will not terminate properly."
*Undocumented features. There have been cases where apps pass the review process even though they contain features Apple doesn't allow (e.g. tethering). It's not farfetched to imagine a developer hiding a background process in their app as well. It could easily be masked if some portion of the application actually utilizes the documented background processing feature, while the rest does whatever it pleases once it's running in the background. The main reason tethering apps are removed from the App Store is because of the publicity they generate. An application that uses background processing for undocumented reasons would be able to fly under Apple's radar for many years, since no one would necessarily know about these features, let alone care enough to discuss them on the Internet.
With over 500,000 apps on the App Store, there is no way to know what each application does, let alone know what kind of background process it may be running, and whether or not it is well-written.
This is the same reason an Apple Genius would recommend that you close all the apps in the tray. No one is arguing that all of those apps are running and consuming resources. They're arguing that some of those apps may be consuming resources, and since there is no way to know which of them are using up resources, since the icons look the same, the easiest way to solve this issue is to close all of them.
Technically, you could go through the list and ignore all those apps which you know for sure don't use background processing, but that is a far more challenging task than simply closing all of them. (Here's an example which although is exaggerated could still be real: This is a turn-by-turn GPS app, so I need to shut it off; this is a radio app, but I never pressed the play button, so it shouldn't be streaming in the background; this is a GPS app which doesn't use turn-by-turn, so I don't need to close it; this is an app which might be downloading something I don't care about, and I closed it 6 minutes ago, so it might be in the 10 minute window of bg processing, and I should close it; this is just a game, so I don't need to worry about it; this is a parking app which uses my location, did the developer implement it as a GPS app or does the GPS only work when I launch it?) Compare that with: close, close, close, ...
As the number of apps you have installed on your iPhone increase, so does the likelihood of having background processes consuming undesirable resources.
You can't expect a user to know how every app they download will behave. Therefore, if a user is concerned with unnecessary background processing, then closing apps is a good idea.
There have been many times when I would notice my iPhone getting really hot even when I'm not using it. The cause is always some application(s) which is using the processor even though it's not necessarily running in the foreground. The quick fix is to close all the applications (by double tapping the home button). So far this has always resolved my iPhone's overheating issues within a few minutes.
A: Under normal circumstances only one application is in the foreground and actually running. Of course what that app is doing can have a big effect on battery life.
Other applications may be multitasking, but only in very specific circumstances - it's rare. Most apps will actually be doing nothing, so the answer is conditionally, "no".
When you tap the home button the foreground app receives a set of messages that allow it to prepare for and then enter a background mode. The app doesn't have to terminate completely but it is not running either. By default apps may not continue running in the background in iOS. They may request permission to run for up to ten minutes in the background (for example to complete a download) when they are notified that they are about to lose foreground status. Abusing this would be one way to get an app rejected by Apple.
Fraser Speirs recently wrote a very interesting blog post about this which was widely retweeted by developers, because it is right, and current for iOS 5.x.
Quoting from it:
There are exactly five kinds of apps allowed to run indefinitely in the Background state in iOS 5:
*
*Apps that play audio while in the Background state. A good example is
Instacast while it's playing a podcast.
*Apps that track your location in the Background. For example, you
still want voice prompts from your TomTom navigation app, even if
another app is Active.
*Apps that listen for incoming VOIP calls. If you use Skype on iOS,
you can receive incoming Skype calls while the app is in the
Background.
*Newsstand apps that are downloading new content.
*Apps that receive continuous updates from an external accessory in
the Background.
Now if you are running an app that fits into one of the above categories it could be performing background processing. If it is a badly written app it could possibly be doing unnecessary processing. If at the same time you were running a foreground app that is demanding of processing resources then it's possible that killing the background app could make your foreground app go faster.
However! If you look at the categories you will see that these are all things that you would want to do if you were using those apps. You would not want to be able to receive a Skype call only when you brought Skype to the foreground. You would not want TomTom to stop giving you directions just because your passenger started to check email. So terminating apps is almost always a bad idea.
Now a word about the Recent Apps List that you bring up by double-clicking the home button. Notice the name is not "task list" or "multitasking list" or anything like that - it's just a list of recent apps. Some of them may be in the background, suspended and ready to run. Some may be terminated and not running at all - if tapped they would have to start running from scratch. An app from one of the listed categories may even be running in the background. But this list gives no indication of what is running right now. You can remove apps from the list but if the app wasn't running it can't be terminated. Proof: do a hard reset of your phone, letting it boot from the white apple screen. All the icons remain the same. Apps that may have been running are now not running but their icons remain.
Generally speaking there is no need to manually remove an application from the recent apps list.
If you really want to terminate an app that is currently in the foreground without switching to switch away from it before terminating it via the recent apps list, you can hold down the sleep/wake button (top of the device) until slide to power off appears. If you then hold down the home button until the device returns to the springboard, the app is terminated. (If you press Cancel and return to the app instead it is not terminated.) Proof: use an app with state - e.g. do a search in the iTunes Store app. Terminate it in this way, when you reopen the app your state is gone. If you don't terminate it your state remains.
Generally termination of the foreground app is never required - as you may have seen, an app that crashes is terminated by the phone automatically as soon as the watchdog process detects that the app is not responding to system events.
From the iPhone OS 4 press event in 2010:
Q: How do you close applications when multitasking?
A: (Scott Forstall) You don't have to. The user just uses things and doesn't ever
have to worry about it.
A: (Steve Jobs) It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it.
In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have
to think about it.
A: I just found out that the multitasking apps DO run down your battery. I have a 3rd Gen. I-Pad and noticed it was not charging up like it should, wasn't sure why. As of yesterday it suddenly hit 10 % and I panicked. Talked to a nice guy at Apple tech who had me pull up the multitask bar and then physically close all the apps and I had a bunch -- had never heard of this. After an hour, the battery is now up to 30% and still climbing. So folks it DOES happen and the open apps of a variety of types are what causes it. I am now closing them on my iPad and my husband's 1st Gen. iPad which does not seem to be affected -- its battery stays on 100% almost all of the time, but the newer one -- not.
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44f064fb38afa261ae893b65667c069a1a387183 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible?
Can I run simple non-GUI app compiled for OS X on PureDarwin (or vice-versa)?
(Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X)
A: Yes - as long as you do not rely on a library or other feature that is only available in OS X.
The Pure Darwin project is a continuation of the Open Darwin project which was founded by Apple and a non-profit organization called the Internet Systems Consortium. This effort came to an end on 25 July 2006. Pure Darwin continues where this left off and promises a lot more than just binary compatibility with X11 available in the current developer preview (released in 2009).
The site says they're looking for people to join the project...
| Q: Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible Are OS X and PureDarwin binary-compatible?
Can I run simple non-GUI app compiled for OS X on PureDarwin (or vice-versa)?
(Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X)
A: Yes - as long as you do not rely on a library or other feature that is only available in OS X.
The Pure Darwin project is a continuation of the Open Darwin project which was founded by Apple and a non-profit organization called the Internet Systems Consortium. This effort came to an end on 25 July 2006. Pure Darwin continues where this left off and promises a lot more than just binary compatibility with X11 available in the current developer preview (released in 2009).
The site says they're looking for people to join the project...
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e43dfb9edcda165c5db6472812d088cd8808a028 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS and distributed compile Is there an alternative to distcc on Mac OS X Lion?
Apple recently removed distcc from Xcode. It's a feature I use a lot. If I want to update to the latest version of Xcode I will have to give it up.
Do you know of any alternative software that would allow me to distribute compilation over LAN (preferably directly from Xcode)?
A: This question has been asked on Stack Overflow also - it seem that it has simply been removed with no word from Apple, no response in the developer forums (surprise!) and no word about what might replace it.
I can't find any discussion in the LLVM project about a future distributed approach either.
Can you share any information about what you are compiling? I'm curious because I generally only do small apps.
| Q: Mac OS and distributed compile Is there an alternative to distcc on Mac OS X Lion?
Apple recently removed distcc from Xcode. It's a feature I use a lot. If I want to update to the latest version of Xcode I will have to give it up.
Do you know of any alternative software that would allow me to distribute compilation over LAN (preferably directly from Xcode)?
A: This question has been asked on Stack Overflow also - it seem that it has simply been removed with no word from Apple, no response in the developer forums (surprise!) and no word about what might replace it.
I can't find any discussion in the LLVM project about a future distributed approach either.
Can you share any information about what you are compiling? I'm curious because I generally only do small apps.
A: You might be out of luck on this one. If your not trying to run the latest iOS SDK with Xcode 4, you may want to try installing a XCode 3 (i think it goes up to iOS 4.2) or XCode 4 separately with a different path and using it's distributed build capability -- although I think doing this might be more trouble than it's worth.
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e87b1118dbe49cd6fe5d7b86ab213b8f834d60f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I move the top menu bar? As a Windows/Fedora/Mac/Ubuntu user, the menubar at the top of the screen has always bugged me. It doesn't go away and you can't move it. I've tried dragging it away in vain several times. It would look so nice on the right, just like my taskbar.
But after experiencing success with asking other questions that I thought impossible, I decided to ask it here to see if anyone knows how. So, with no further ado:
How can I move the top menu bar in Mac OS X?
A: You can not re-position the menu bar, but you can configure it to be hidden when idle by checking the option 'Automatically hide and show the menu bar' under the General tab of System Preferences. Screenshot provided for further clarification.
| Q: Can I move the top menu bar? As a Windows/Fedora/Mac/Ubuntu user, the menubar at the top of the screen has always bugged me. It doesn't go away and you can't move it. I've tried dragging it away in vain several times. It would look so nice on the right, just like my taskbar.
But after experiencing success with asking other questions that I thought impossible, I decided to ask it here to see if anyone knows how. So, with no further ado:
How can I move the top menu bar in Mac OS X?
A: You can not re-position the menu bar, but you can configure it to be hidden when idle by checking the option 'Automatically hide and show the menu bar' under the General tab of System Preferences. Screenshot provided for further clarification.
A: The top menu bar is non-moveable since the first version of MacOS and later Mac OS X.
You can't move it (tho you can drag it to an external display if you have one).
A: I think the only moving of the menu bar you can do is from monitor to monitor.
SecondBar gives you, well, a second menu bar. It is draggable, so you could position it in the middle or bottom of your screen, but I can't get it to change orientations to go vertically on the right.
A: As mentioned in other answers the menu bar can unfortunately not be moved. However - as of El Capitan - it is possible to hide it!
It is in General | Appearance | Automatically hide and show the menu bar:
No top menu bar!
I appreciate this additional vertical real estate as well as diminished visual distraction.
A: You can't
move the menu bar to your application top. This is a designed function from the original desktop metaphor. This is providing both an ergonomic (it's faster to move to a fix location) and a security function (this area is protected,
and thus can never get hidden).
You can
move your keyboard to the menu bar:
ctrl ^+F2
and from there access any menu entry without touching the trackpad and faster than any mouse addict.
A: You can by holding ⌘ Command while moving the icons but it would only work for the bars that were created by apple.
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5c74ec5674f207f48fe4eb9c1faa881ebe014f8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I turn off the screen with a keyboard shortcut? One of the first customizations I make in Windows is to install WinBubble, an awesome piece of software that lets me add an option the the right-click menu of the desktop: 'Turn Off Monitor.' It's really quite awesome.
Now that I'm using Macs more and more, I want to know how to do this on a Mac. But instead of using the mouse (yes, I'm a keyboard guy), I want to use the keyboard.
Is it possible for me to turn off the screen with a keyboard shortcut? I'm thinking AppleScript - but something simpler is definitely better.
A: Yes - shift-ctrl-eject is the keyboard shortcut for this.
| Q: Can I turn off the screen with a keyboard shortcut? One of the first customizations I make in Windows is to install WinBubble, an awesome piece of software that lets me add an option the the right-click menu of the desktop: 'Turn Off Monitor.' It's really quite awesome.
Now that I'm using Macs more and more, I want to know how to do this on a Mac. But instead of using the mouse (yes, I'm a keyboard guy), I want to use the keyboard.
Is it possible for me to turn off the screen with a keyboard shortcut? I'm thinking AppleScript - but something simpler is definitely better.
A: Yes - shift-ctrl-eject is the keyboard shortcut for this.
A: Control+Shift+Power For current Mac keyboard layouts. Control+Shift+Eject works for older keyboard layouts that still include the Eject key.
This page explains some alternate solutions as well.
Also, if you have "Require password after sleep or screen saver begins" set to immediately in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy, it will ask you for your password after doing this.
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00c38b41eb5936ae3d20f4bcfe2c2bc633addf2c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS Enterprise developer Account: apns certificate for push notification I have used the iOS development account for creating apns ssl certificate for sending push notification to iOS device for development purpose.I can get the device token using objective c sample code in iOS device.Then I can use that device token to send push notification for that specific iOS device.
Now I am going to implement MDM and for MDM iOS Enterprise account is required.There are some questions, which I want to confirm if someone has already done.
1.So I want to know can I use iOS Enterprise account for creating "apns ssl certificate" for development purpose?
2.Can I get device token for iOS device using the same objective C sample code, so that I can send the push notification to that specific iOS device for testing purpose.
Please help me.
| Q: iOS Enterprise developer Account: apns certificate for push notification I have used the iOS development account for creating apns ssl certificate for sending push notification to iOS device for development purpose.I can get the device token using objective c sample code in iOS device.Then I can use that device token to send push notification for that specific iOS device.
Now I am going to implement MDM and for MDM iOS Enterprise account is required.There are some questions, which I want to confirm if someone has already done.
1.So I want to know can I use iOS Enterprise account for creating "apns ssl certificate" for development purpose?
2.Can I get device token for iOS device using the same objective C sample code, so that I can send the push notification to that specific iOS device for testing purpose.
Please help me.
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ad3a736ddaaac2cf3d3ab8413cab6324d295c297 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I increase significant digits in Grapher? How do I increase the significant digits in Grapher?
A: All the numbers settings can be found via Grapher → Preferences → Numbers.
You can set the “Notation” setting to “Engineering” to display numbers as 123,4568e3 (7 significant digits) instead of 1,2346e5 (5 significant digits).
Perhaps the “Number of Decimals” setting is of interest, too.
| Q: How do I increase significant digits in Grapher? How do I increase the significant digits in Grapher?
A: All the numbers settings can be found via Grapher → Preferences → Numbers.
You can set the “Notation” setting to “Engineering” to display numbers as 123,4568e3 (7 significant digits) instead of 1,2346e5 (5 significant digits).
Perhaps the “Number of Decimals” setting is of interest, too.
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09a332c3d115c14c2dd03e8244d4c9a2d8f62351 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App that caches Maps I've tried looking for an app that caches map data, so that it doesn't need an active Internet connection on the move.
The built-in one doesn't work well in that aspect. Caching the satellite maps turns out to be a nightmare because of the zoom levels involved. Only the road maps (the non-satellite ones) are somewhat easy to cache, depending on how large an area you want to cache.
*
*Is there a way to cache areas in the Maps apps?
*If not, is there a good app that caches satellite/hybrid map data? Paid apps will do.
A: I use the GaiaGPS App for my walks. This is free and does the job. You can save maps and use them once you're on the spot without any connexions. And you can zoom!
| Q: App that caches Maps I've tried looking for an app that caches map data, so that it doesn't need an active Internet connection on the move.
The built-in one doesn't work well in that aspect. Caching the satellite maps turns out to be a nightmare because of the zoom levels involved. Only the road maps (the non-satellite ones) are somewhat easy to cache, depending on how large an area you want to cache.
*
*Is there a way to cache areas in the Maps apps?
*If not, is there a good app that caches satellite/hybrid map data? Paid apps will do.
A: I use the GaiaGPS App for my walks. This is free and does the job. You can save maps and use them once you're on the spot without any connexions. And you can zoom!
A: Advanced caching options are not supported for the build-in maps application. If other applications would provide this using Google's maps data, they would act against the Google Maps TOS. See section 10.1.3 "Restrictions against Data Export or Copying" - (b) "No Pre-Fetching, Caching, or Storage of Content".
This leaves us with apps which use other maps data. Such as...
OffMaps 2 (for iPhone/iPad)
OffMaps 2 allows you to download maps for offline use. The maps data is originally retrieved from OpenStreetMap.
*
*You download maps on a per-region-basis. Two maps are included for free.
*You can purchase a download 'licence' for unlimited maps for $5.99.
I wondered myself how they could demand money for open data - they say:
We do not charge for the data, but for the service we provide around it. We clean the data and leverage its full potential from removing unneeded information via linked addresses with streets to providing a public transport layer. We also need money to feed the hamsters in our server farm treadmills.
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0e80f7a91aa9ebf509a4bdc73c2df0bf655bd852 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on Wifi (instead of 3G/4G)? I would like to use my jailbroken iPhone as a hotspot for my MacBook. It works well when my 3G internet is enabled. But when I disable it, the hotspot menu becomes unavailable... even if my iPhone is connected on the WiFi network.
I disabled the 3G to make sure it wouldn't use my 3G data plan.
Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on WiFi (instead of 3G)?
A: According to an Apple Support KB:
You cannot use your Wi-Fi connection for Internet connectivity while
other devices are using Wi-Fi for Personal Hotspot. You can share only
a cellular data connection; you cannot share a Wi-Fi connection.
This KB mentions the support for hotspots, by device:
While this Apple Support information might not apply to jail-broken devices, it's good for reference.
| Q: Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on Wifi (instead of 3G/4G)? I would like to use my jailbroken iPhone as a hotspot for my MacBook. It works well when my 3G internet is enabled. But when I disable it, the hotspot menu becomes unavailable... even if my iPhone is connected on the WiFi network.
I disabled the 3G to make sure it wouldn't use my 3G data plan.
Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on WiFi (instead of 3G)?
A: According to an Apple Support KB:
You cannot use your Wi-Fi connection for Internet connectivity while
other devices are using Wi-Fi for Personal Hotspot. You can share only
a cellular data connection; you cannot share a Wi-Fi connection.
This KB mentions the support for hotspots, by device:
While this Apple Support information might not apply to jail-broken devices, it's good for reference.
A: You can do this with USB or Bluetooth tethering on jailbroken iOS devices using an app such as MyWi. There are many other jailbreak apps for this function, so it's worth shopping around.
Some will only share the 3G internet connection, but I understand others will share any internet connection over USB or bluetooth.
You can't use wifi tethering to connect your computer to a wifi network your phone knows about.
The hotspot creates a new wireless network, but the iPhone is capable of attaching to only one wireless network at a time. It cannot connect to a wireless network with internet and create its own wireless network to share.
Since the iPhone is on the wireless network, though, you can get your computer on that same network since it will likely be in range.
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3efdfeb2e5a40140733d90a81ffcd84f5f83e7b9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How would I make a keyboard shortcut to *maximize* the current window? I love using the keyboard in Windows. It's an integrated part of the OS, and it feels like it; nearly every mouse action has a keyboard equivalent.
However, as I am starting to use Macs more and more, I'm missing two things primarily from Windows: the ability to maximize (not whatever the green button does (what does it do?))- windows and the ability to maximize windows from the keyboard.
Thus, without further ado: How can I maximize windows with a keyboard shortcut?
A: One of the easiest ways to do this is to use BetterTouchTool. It will let you bind a keyboard shortcut or a trackpad shortcut to many commands, including maximize window.
Once you are in the BTT settings page, do the following:
*
*Go to the Keyboard tab on top.
*On the bottom near Keyboard shortcut, enter in whichever keyboard shortcut you want.
*For Predefined action, choose Maximize Window.
There are many other options related to maximizing besides "Maximize Window":
*
*Maximize Window Left
*Maximize Window Right
*Maximize Window To Bottom Half
*Maximize Window To Top Half
*Maximize To Next Monitor
| Q: How would I make a keyboard shortcut to *maximize* the current window? I love using the keyboard in Windows. It's an integrated part of the OS, and it feels like it; nearly every mouse action has a keyboard equivalent.
However, as I am starting to use Macs more and more, I'm missing two things primarily from Windows: the ability to maximize (not whatever the green button does (what does it do?))- windows and the ability to maximize windows from the keyboard.
Thus, without further ado: How can I maximize windows with a keyboard shortcut?
A: One of the easiest ways to do this is to use BetterTouchTool. It will let you bind a keyboard shortcut or a trackpad shortcut to many commands, including maximize window.
Once you are in the BTT settings page, do the following:
*
*Go to the Keyboard tab on top.
*On the bottom near Keyboard shortcut, enter in whichever keyboard shortcut you want.
*For Predefined action, choose Maximize Window.
There are many other options related to maximizing besides "Maximize Window":
*
*Maximize Window Left
*Maximize Window Right
*Maximize Window To Bottom Half
*Maximize Window To Top Half
*Maximize To Next Monitor
A: I have assigned this script to ⌘M with FastScripts:
try
tell application "Finder" to bounds of window of desktop
tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
set bounds of window 1 to result
end tell
on error
try
tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where it is frontmost)
click (button 1 of window 1 where subrole is "AXZoomButton")
end tell
end try
end try
It doesn't work with multiple displays though.
Applications that haven't been mentioned by other answers:
*
*ShiftIt
*SizeUp
*Slate
A: You can use an application like Divvy to do this. Divvy lets you select a rectangular area that you want the current window to take up. Selecting the entire screen lets you do a Windows-like "maximize" to have the frontmost window take up all available space on the screen.
It also lets you define keyboard shortcuts for specific rectangular selections that you want to use frequently. These can either be per-app, or a "global shortcut" that will work with all apps. To define them, right-click on the Divvy menu bar icon, select preferences, and select "Shortcuts". Click "new" and you'll be presented with a screen to define the selection and the keys you want to use:
A: BetterSnapTool (by the same author as BetterTouchTool) will allow you to do this. You can either drag the window to the top of the screen to maxmimise it (á la Windows 7) or define a shortcut key. There are also lots of other options such as maximise left-half or right-half etc. Its also only £1.49/$1.99 on the app store, which is almost free :-)
A: There's another great app called Moom -- similar to Divvy, but only $5.
It does everything Divvy does, plus keyboard resizing, drag-to-edge-ing, etc.
A: There is a built-in way to do what you want. I currently have Mountain Lion but I suspect it will work on Lion, Snow Leopard and earlier too*:
Trick we'll use:
Holding the Shift key when pressing the Zoom button (the green button) maximizes the window the way Windows does. We'll add a keyboard shortcut for Zoom that contains the Shift key.
Procedure:
*
*Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts
*Select "Application Shortcuts" and press the plus sign (+).
*Make a new Zoom keyboard shortcut that contains the Shift key:
*
*Application: All Applications
*Menu Title: Zoom
(that's the name of the green button's function)
*Keyboard Shortcut: Anything that suits you. Make sure it contains the Shift key!
(e.g. Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-Z. Make sure it doesn't clash with existing shortcuts, e.g. Cmd-Shift-Z with Redo).
EDIT:
Turns out it doesn't work on Safari (and others probably) - I was using it with Google Chrome. The app has to be programmed to support it..
* If someone with Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion can confirm I would be grateful.
A: To do a full maximize, press ctrl-cmd-f
By "full maximize" I mean the kind where the menubars go into auto-hide mode. (forgive my newbie-ness, I only bought my first mac yesterday)
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ca50957396e1f980a15b6b23ec899a2fa7d67da4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook's battery "Not Charging"? My original battery died. I purchased a replacement battery. While this battery DOES hold charge, when it is on the charger, MacBook still states "Not Charging."
I've tried the SMC Reset, taking out the battery, even reinstalling OS! (I wanted to clean install Lion.)
The new battery is an Apple battery.
Why is it doing this?? Also, when I boot into Windows, there's no problem like that. (I need Windows for work. =( )
Here are the screenshots.
Edit: Forgot to mention - there's no light when I put MacBook on charger. I've tried other chargers. I've tried charging other MacBook. It's not the adapter.
A: Since you've already removed the battery and reset the SMC as mentioned in this Apple Support KB, your best bet is probably to bring in your MacBook to an Apple store to get checked out by one of the Genius techs. This is especially true since you've already replaced the battery with a new Apple battery.
| Q: MacBook's battery "Not Charging"? My original battery died. I purchased a replacement battery. While this battery DOES hold charge, when it is on the charger, MacBook still states "Not Charging."
I've tried the SMC Reset, taking out the battery, even reinstalling OS! (I wanted to clean install Lion.)
The new battery is an Apple battery.
Why is it doing this?? Also, when I boot into Windows, there's no problem like that. (I need Windows for work. =( )
Here are the screenshots.
Edit: Forgot to mention - there's no light when I put MacBook on charger. I've tried other chargers. I've tried charging other MacBook. It's not the adapter.
A: Since you've already removed the battery and reset the SMC as mentioned in this Apple Support KB, your best bet is probably to bring in your MacBook to an Apple store to get checked out by one of the Genius techs. This is especially true since you've already replaced the battery with a new Apple battery.
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e900d3107ea1388281fd96d6a926714f39a1e650 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does PhotoStream send pictures encrypted over the Internet? When I'm on a public Wi-Fi network and my photos are being synced to Photo Stream, is there any way for someone on the same network to be able to see them? What about anyone else on the way to Apple's servers?
A: Yes, everything sent to or from iCloud is encrypted with SSL:
iCloud Security
iCloud secures your content by encrypting it when sent over the Internet, storing it in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication.
Encrypting content that is sent over the Internet
The following content is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) when sent over the Internet to or from iCloud:
*
*Photos in your Photo Stream
*Documents in the Cloud
*Backup data for your iOS device
...
| Q: Does PhotoStream send pictures encrypted over the Internet? When I'm on a public Wi-Fi network and my photos are being synced to Photo Stream, is there any way for someone on the same network to be able to see them? What about anyone else on the way to Apple's servers?
A: Yes, everything sent to or from iCloud is encrypted with SSL:
iCloud Security
iCloud secures your content by encrypting it when sent over the Internet, storing it in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication.
Encrypting content that is sent over the Internet
The following content is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) when sent over the Internet to or from iCloud:
*
*Photos in your Photo Stream
*Documents in the Cloud
*Backup data for your iOS device
...
A: It's not clear which parts are encrypted and which aren't. The connection to Amazon AWS is unencrypted.
Apple documentation says that all Photo Stream content is encrypted. Yet while using wireshark to fix my privatizing web proxy's Photo Stream connection, I observed that iPhoto's connection to Photo Stream via Amazon AWS is unencrypted over port 80. Here's the packet capture that shows the unencrypted header, request ID, access key, signature, and so forth:
GET /XXX?x-client-request-id=YYY&Expires=ZZZ&byte-range=54-1229619&AWSAccessKeyId=W WW&Signature=UUU HTTP/1.1
Host: us-nca-00001.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com:80
User-Agent: PhotoStreamAgent/40.34 CFNetwork/596.2.3 Darwin/12.2.0 (x86_64) (Macmini4%2C1)
Accept: */*
x-amz-date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:37:58 GMT
Range: bytes=54-1229619
x-apple-request-uuid: 9F8EFA00-71F8-4799-9241-A8A15CF75079
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
x-amz-id-2: XXX
x-amz-request-id: YYY
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:09:17 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:09:11 GMT
ETag: "ZZZ"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Range: bytes 54-1229619/1798693
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 1229566
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3
The content is "application/octet-stream" and I was not able to identify as gzipped or any other content -- I presume that its encrypted, but I am unable to determine this. Does anyone know what this is? Anyone know which encryption protocol Apple uses for Photo Stream? Or why Photo Stream is communicating with Amazon AWS over port 80?
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259a4694cb35cbc1a3a368e86908088c5b23300b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I force a Photo Stream sync on the iPhone? The Settings page says that Photos will automatically by sent to Photo Stream when I am connected to Wi-Fi, however I've waited several minutes and don't see them in iPhoto. I believe they haven't been sent to iCloud yet. Is there any way to force them to be synced to iCloud from the iPhone?
A: Echoing this answer:
*
*Open up Activity Monitor
*Search for Photos Agent and quit it.
*Restart the Photos app.
| Q: How can I force a Photo Stream sync on the iPhone? The Settings page says that Photos will automatically by sent to Photo Stream when I am connected to Wi-Fi, however I've waited several minutes and don't see them in iPhoto. I believe they haven't been sent to iCloud yet. Is there any way to force them to be synced to iCloud from the iPhone?
A: Echoing this answer:
*
*Open up Activity Monitor
*Search for Photos Agent and quit it.
*Restart the Photos app.
A: I found this post after having the same issue - needing to grab an image from Photo Stream that wasn't coming up.
I found that I had wandered outside my WiFi range, and had reverted to a 3G connection. Upon reconnecting to my WiFi, Photo Stream immediately updated (and I mean immediately :)
I checked this by opening my Photo Stream within the Photos app, and taking a screenshot. Within one second my phone started uploading the new image, and within 10 seconds it was live within my Photo Stream.
If you're having long delays check your WiFi connection - This may not be the only reason for a delay, but it helped me in my situation.
A: In my case, it was nothing mentioned in the other answers. My problem was that I didn't have enough space.
I don't quite understand why it needs space locally to upload something though.
More info in this forum thread.
Update:
Another realistic reason could be this:
So make sure you're connected to a wireless network.
A: Go to iCloud Preferences > Photo Stream. Uncheck "Enable Photo Stream", then click apply. Turn Photo Stream back on in preferences (check "Enable Photo Stream"). After a few seconds, iPhoto will start to download all the photos again. Depending on the number of photos, and your bandwidth, it may take awhile.
(Disable Shared Photo Streams on the SUBSCRIBER device, then enable again.)
A: I figured out if you turn off Photos and start again it starts working.
A: Fastest solution (iPhone restart NOT needed!): I've found that if I open Photos on my iDevice after taking a photo, and then (after the spinning icon goes away) open Photos* on my Mac, the photo appears in my photo stream.
Notes:
This is way easier and faster than rebooting or resetting Wi-Fi.
It's also faster and more likely to work than just killing Photos Agent and restarting Photos.
(Further evidence showing WHY this works: When I open Photos on my iDevice, I see the spinning icon on my iDevice - IFF I've just taken a photo. If I access my photo stream on my Mac‡ without having opened Photos, the new photo is not there.)
*(or iPhoto if you haven't switched to Photos)
‡(such as by clicking Photo Stream under Media in the standard File..Open dialog box in recent versions of MacOS)
Note: Photo Stream only syncs the last 30 days of your photos.
2020 UPDATE: Recently, Photos was changed; when you open it you may need to take an additional step to cause the upload - but if so, you’ll see a prompt about it.
A: I had this very problem today. I had taken 40 or so photos on iPhone 4, iOS 5.1, and when I got back to WiFi connection, I waited more than an hour for the photos to appear in PhotoStream either on the iPhone or my iPad, and they didn't.
None of the following worked:
*
*Switching the iPhone to Airplane mode and back
*Killing the Camera and Photos apps
*Turning off Photo Stream in the iCloud bit of the Settings app (this told me it would delete all PhotoStream photos on the iPhone, so I cancelled)
Eventually, after an hour or so, in desparation I forced the iPhone to power-down, and turned it back on.
Today's photos then started appearing straight away on the iPad. In the time it has taken me to type this, most of them have now arrived already.
A: I've been searching this question too. I found that if you go to the iCloud control panel and uncheck the photo stream box. Hit Apply. Recheck the photo stream box. For me. hiting Apply again, my pc started to pull down the new photos right away.
A: Nevermind, read this instead: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/48270/15253
A: Make sure Low Power Mode is turned off. It blocks all syncs of images.
A: In a similar situation, just keeping the Photos app open on the iPhone caused photos to start syncing immediately for me. (iPhone4/iOS-5.1.1)
A: I was trying to load 1200 photos to my new phone, kept geting time out type message, i tried 200 and it loaded. 200 more over and over until they all loaded.
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f5f12f7b27eca54cf7343513c7ed263af49dcebd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: To-Do List App with Sync, Repeating To-Dos I'm looking for a To-Do list application with with following features:
*
*Due dates
*Notes
*Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made
*Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date
*Prioritization
*Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School
*Badge for items due today
*Projects (which incorporate other to-do items)
Can anyone recommend a to-do app with this functionality (especially the first 4 bolded items)?
A: 2Do
has all the features that you require (and more):
*
*Due dates ✓
*Notes ✓
*Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made ✓ (Dropbox, iCloud and other)
*Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date ✓
*Prioritization ✓
*Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School ✓
*Badge for items due today (tab for today)
*Projects (which incorporate other to-do items) ✓
[pictures]
| Q: To-Do List App with Sync, Repeating To-Dos I'm looking for a To-Do list application with with following features:
*
*Due dates
*Notes
*Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made
*Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date
*Prioritization
*Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School
*Badge for items due today
*Projects (which incorporate other to-do items)
Can anyone recommend a to-do app with this functionality (especially the first 4 bolded items)?
A: 2Do
has all the features that you require (and more):
*
*Due dates ✓
*Notes ✓
*Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made ✓ (Dropbox, iCloud and other)
*Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date ✓
*Prioritization ✓
*Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School ✓
*Badge for items due today (tab for today)
*Projects (which incorporate other to-do items) ✓
[pictures]
A: Todo by Appigo does everything you request:
*
*Due dates Yes
*Notes Yes, per task and per project
*Sync to a cloud or web-based service where changes can be made Yes, sync with toodledo, icloud, dropbox, or a few other methods
*Able to repeat to-dos by due date and last-completed date Yes
*Prioritization Yes
*Groups / Filters / Folders such as Business, Personal, School Yes
*Badge for items due today Yes, and overdue items
*Projects (which incorporate other to-do items) Yes - project contain subtasks
There's also an iPad version, and a desktop app, and they all sync to each other using toodledo, dropbox, or icloud.
A: Remember The Milk (RTM) does what you want. However the notes aren't as easy as I would like in the iOS app.
A: OmniFocus for iPhone meets all but the web-based service criterion (there is a MacOS X companion application which came first). If you are away from all your iOS/Mac devices, you're stuck.
I've used Remember the Milk, Things, Toodledo (synced with ToDo), and a half-dozen others - OmniFocus is the best, hands down.
A: I swear by Awesome Note and would be lost without it.
It does all the things you mentioned on your list (with the possible exception of projects). You can sync with Google Docs and Evernote. The only thing I'd personally like to see, which may or may not bother you, is an Mac version so I can edit my todo's whilst I'm at my computer.
There's also a free trial version on the app store.
A: Wunderkit has everything you need, and more. (I personally use its stripped-down version, Wunderlist, for personal tasks - make sure you check it out as well.) Wunderkit is a perfect tool for collaboration (sharing tasks and workspaces, commenting, tracking team progress), but also works flawlessly for personal task management.
Here are some of the features (I think these cover each and every requirement of yours):
*
*Workspaces (that is, separate spaces for projects)
*Tasks (tags, assignees, due dates, recurring tasks, comments, starring)
*Notification-type badges for tasks due today
*Notes (also with tags)
*Syncing between apps
*Available for Mac OS X, iPhone, and as a web app
I expect the app to be available on more devices soon. I base this assumption on the fact that the before-mentioned Wunderlist is available on iOS, Android, Blackberry, WinPhone, Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Oh, and the best part: it's wonderfully designed, and it's free.
A: Toodledo (the online to-do service) also has a companion iPhone App. This app has:
*
*Due-dates for each item
*Notes for each item
*sync to Toodledo service
*Repeatable to-dos
*Prioritization
*Groups
*Application badge
*Projects (if you are a "Pro" yearly subscriber)
It's not as pretty as 2Do, but it is doing everything I need it to. My only complaint is that the App Badge is not always accurate, even if I'm not editing tasks on the Toodledo site.
A: I use Wrike (also in iTunes), and would recommend it as a great productivity app. It has everything you mentioned:
*
*You can create tasks with and without due dates and prioritize them on your list with drag-and-drop;
*Task description can be easily used as a notepad – you can overview changes in chronological order which is handier than taking separate notes;
*Personally I keep my company’s projects together with personal to-do lists in Wrike. You can group your tasks into folders and subfolders, and include one task into multiple folders;
*There are filters for sorting your tasks by due date, completion date, and more;
*In web version you also can create custom widgets with tasks due today (or basically any other criterion), and Wrike will show you an up-to-date task list on the dashboard once you log in;
*The service integrates with GMail and Dropbox, so you can combine it with whatever tools you already use for your work.
A: I have used 2Do, Clear, Any.DO and finally decided to create Q (kyoo) out of frustration with all of the above for lacking features I needed or having too many features I had absolutely no need for.
A: I would recommend adding Must Do Today to the list. It's a great app, simple and easy to use.
Must Do Today helps you organize your busy day.
http://mustdotoday.com/
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33ff42f799aff43d85cfae66de1017d30db8bb47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Per-app password in iOS 5.1 There is the overall locking password, which prevents the phone from being used. Is there a way to pasword-protect on a per-app basis, e.g. lock mail, but not photos. This is under iOS 5.1 on a iPhone 4S. The password doesn't need to be different between apps, however.
EDIT: This is with a iPhone 4S, not jailbroken.
A: No, there is no way to do this on iOS 5.1 or on any earlier version of iOS.
It's doubtful that Apple will add this feature, given their usual proclivity toward not including features that could be difficult to configure and support, particularly on iOS.
This of course means that each app developer can implement their own passcode locking mechanism. It's just not an API that Apple provides to developers to ask again for the same passcode before it operates as opposed to locking the entire device.
| Q: Per-app password in iOS 5.1 There is the overall locking password, which prevents the phone from being used. Is there a way to pasword-protect on a per-app basis, e.g. lock mail, but not photos. This is under iOS 5.1 on a iPhone 4S. The password doesn't need to be different between apps, however.
EDIT: This is with a iPhone 4S, not jailbroken.
A: No, there is no way to do this on iOS 5.1 or on any earlier version of iOS.
It's doubtful that Apple will add this feature, given their usual proclivity toward not including features that could be difficult to configure and support, particularly on iOS.
This of course means that each app developer can implement their own passcode locking mechanism. It's just not an API that Apple provides to developers to ask again for the same passcode before it operates as opposed to locking the entire device.
A: Apple view these devices as personal so there are no multiuser features. But mail in particular is useful to lock in case you hand your phone over to someone to show some photos, even just for a few minutes. Some people suggest just turning off mail in settings but that doesn't remove cached mail and isn't secure. There is an app called Better Webmail that might meet your needs: PIN locking, supports Yahoo and Gmail etc.
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fad8a8a20a776042351db00df972246fb6153856 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac OS X 10.6.8 - Can't remove SophosUpdate Packages/Folders on Desktop Every day a new "SophosUpdate" folder/package will appear on my desktop (see screenshot).
When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button. When I drag them to the eject button nothing happens. Also nothing happens when I right click one of them and select "eject".
The only thing that got rid of them once was starting up in safe mode but they keep coming back after that.
Does anyone know what I can do? I'm stuck.
A:
When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button.
This is a huge clue, because it indicates that this is a mounted volume (presumably a mounted image of the update package) and not an actual folder in ~/Desktop.
If you enter mount or diskutil list at a terminal prompt, does anything called SophosUpdate show up? If you see one or more of these listed, you should be able to unmount it with sudo diskutil unmount force /dev/diskN where N is the disk number. Alternately, sudo diskutil unmount force "/Volumes/Volume Name" has the same effect.
| Q: Mac OS X 10.6.8 - Can't remove SophosUpdate Packages/Folders on Desktop Every day a new "SophosUpdate" folder/package will appear on my desktop (see screenshot).
When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button. When I drag them to the eject button nothing happens. Also nothing happens when I right click one of them and select "eject".
The only thing that got rid of them once was starting up in safe mode but they keep coming back after that.
Does anyone know what I can do? I'm stuck.
A:
When I highlight it my trash can turns into an eject button.
This is a huge clue, because it indicates that this is a mounted volume (presumably a mounted image of the update package) and not an actual folder in ~/Desktop.
If you enter mount or diskutil list at a terminal prompt, does anything called SophosUpdate show up? If you see one or more of these listed, you should be able to unmount it with sudo diskutil unmount force /dev/diskN where N is the disk number. Alternately, sudo diskutil unmount force "/Volumes/Volume Name" has the same effect.
A: you have to do it through Terminal
# sudo rm -rf ~/Desktop/SophosUpdate
it should ask you for your password and return nothing, to verify that it completed without any errors try this command
# echo $?
if you get 0 that means everything went ok, if any other number then something was wrong. at that point I suggest you to try Disk Utility to "Verify Disk" and/or "Verify Disk Permissions"
A: Looks like your Sophos antivirus cannot perform automatic update. Try running it manually or just disable auto updates.
Reinstalling it could also help.
Also, have you tried permission check from disk utility?
A: I ended up uninstalling sophos and installed the free personal edition instead of the one I had (corporate?).
It's been working fine since then.
I guess it still doesn't answer the more general question of how to remove a strange mounted item on your desktop with that red bar through it. Any ideas on that?
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8ddc9f438b5e62b9083b06911fd32cde0d83abd8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use AirDrop if one or more of the participating computers is asleep/off? I'm currently AirDroppping 3 very large files and I need to know if the files will continue to transfer while I'm not using one of the computers.
A: It should work as long as you have Wake for network access enabled in System Preferences → Energy Saver → Battery/Power Adapter.
Depending on the capabilities of your Mac, the option's description may differ:
*
*Wake for network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over both Ethernet and AirPort
*Wake for Ethernet network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over Ethernet only
*Wake for AirPort network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over AirPort only
[source]
The option "wake for Ethernet network access" is mentioned only to round up the answer. Wake on demand for ethernet will not help if your Macs communicate using Wi-Fi.
However, you can enable AirDrop to communicate using Ethernet as well as explained here. This will also enable AirDrop on so-called unsupported Macs.
| Q: Can I use AirDrop if one or more of the participating computers is asleep/off? I'm currently AirDroppping 3 very large files and I need to know if the files will continue to transfer while I'm not using one of the computers.
A: It should work as long as you have Wake for network access enabled in System Preferences → Energy Saver → Battery/Power Adapter.
Depending on the capabilities of your Mac, the option's description may differ:
*
*Wake for network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over both Ethernet and AirPort
*Wake for Ethernet network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over Ethernet only
*Wake for AirPort network access - Your Mac supports Wake on Demand over AirPort only
[source]
The option "wake for Ethernet network access" is mentioned only to round up the answer. Wake on demand for ethernet will not help if your Macs communicate using Wi-Fi.
However, you can enable AirDrop to communicate using Ethernet as well as explained here. This will also enable AirDrop on so-called unsupported Macs.
A: No, AirDrop requires a user to be logged in, which obviously means booted.
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ed70466a45f13225053f48fdb6f86310550e022c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: App to plot my hike on google map? I'm looking for an app that will periodically plot my coordinates on a map which I can directly or through an export/import, put onto a google map. Is there something that does this?
A: Kinetic
For all my tracking needs I've become a fan of Kinetic. Accuracy is good. The customizable screens mean you can tailor the view for the activity. For example: I have a simple screen for when I ride my bike that's easy to access when I'm moving fast, versus a more complicated screen I'll use on hikes.
The routes are exportable via email in formats that Google Earth and Maps will happily read (like KML).
| Q: App to plot my hike on google map? I'm looking for an app that will periodically plot my coordinates on a map which I can directly or through an export/import, put onto a google map. Is there something that does this?
A: Kinetic
For all my tracking needs I've become a fan of Kinetic. Accuracy is good. The customizable screens mean you can tailor the view for the activity. For example: I have a simple screen for when I ride my bike that's easy to access when I'm moving fast, versus a more complicated screen I'll use on hikes.
The routes are exportable via email in formats that Google Earth and Maps will happily read (like KML).
A: Trails
I've used this app to track my MTB trails. You can export the .gpx files and see them in google earth right on your iOS device.
*
*Record waypoints with altitude for multiple tracks.
*Edit recorded tracks on the map: name waypoints or delete unwanted ones.
*See the distance, speed and duration of your track while you record.
*No internet connection required during tracking.
*Display your tracks OpenStreetMaps and select between road and topographic maps (that include cycle roads)
A: This article had a recommendation for the hiking apps - AccuTerra. The app seems to provide the functionality that you're looking for. The review notes that:
The app tracks your trail as you hike, allowing you to place markers
at significant points along the way and review your hike duration,
distance, pace, and elevation gain at any point. All maps are stored
in your phone’s memory, so no reception is no problem.
From the iTunes app page, the app claims to:
*
*Unlimited Tracks! There is no limit to the number of hikes/tracks that can be recorded.
*Unlimited Waypoints! There is no limit to the number of geo-located points that can be recorded.
*Unlimited Geo-coded pictures! Photos taken within AccuTerra On Demand are linked to your adventures and can be displayed in the
location in which they were taken.
*Real-time elevation profile and travel statistics.
*Easily toggle and track between AccuTerra Maps and basic online maps
*Share your adventure. Upload directly from AccuTerra into your Facebook™ account, or send your tracks and photos via an email link
for viewing in Google Maps™ or Google Earth™
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273e5a1dac59429ac621d57e0fc6f3f2cca55d79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: If on Wifi only, how does Mail work when not connected? If I have an iPod touch, which will only connect to the internet via Wifi, how will it work with email? If I write an email on the bus, will it send when I get home? If I check an email with an attachment, will it download the attachment when it's connected, so that I can read it offline?
A: Yes. Email works well when not connected to internet.
You will get warnings that it cannot connect to your email accounts. One warning pops up for every email account that you have set up on your device (and possibly one for all the outgoing servers as well). After canceling all of these, you are home free.
If you send an email and are not connected to the internet, it will sit in the outbox, and should send automatically as soon as you reach wifi connectivity. (It may alert you that it failed to send.)
Like you thought, there is an icon that appears for any attachments that aren't downloaded. If you aren't connected to the internet, you won't be able to engage the download of the attachment.
| Q: If on Wifi only, how does Mail work when not connected? If I have an iPod touch, which will only connect to the internet via Wifi, how will it work with email? If I write an email on the bus, will it send when I get home? If I check an email with an attachment, will it download the attachment when it's connected, so that I can read it offline?
A: Yes. Email works well when not connected to internet.
You will get warnings that it cannot connect to your email accounts. One warning pops up for every email account that you have set up on your device (and possibly one for all the outgoing servers as well). After canceling all of these, you are home free.
If you send an email and are not connected to the internet, it will sit in the outbox, and should send automatically as soon as you reach wifi connectivity. (It may alert you that it failed to send.)
Like you thought, there is an icon that appears for any attachments that aren't downloaded. If you aren't connected to the internet, you won't be able to engage the download of the attachment.
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897b2a4230a92d3c660c87e32c4de5ae6c48d1f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using my iMac in a country with a different power supply standard We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America.
Is the power supply in my iMac auto-adjusting, universal? Can I just buy a new IEC cable for it to match the local plug standard and run it straight in to the wall? Or do I need a transformer?
Edit: I have an older iMac. 2007. 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo.
A: Building on @penguinrob's answer, the specs for the 2007 iMac can be found on the Apple Support KB:
Electrical and environmental requirements
Meets ENERGY STAR requirements
*
*Line voltage: 100-240V
*AC Frequency:
50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
*Maximum continuous power: 200W (20-inch
models); 280W (24-inch model)
*Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10°
to 35° C)
*Storage temperature: -40° to 185° F (-40° to 85° C)
*Relative
humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
*Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet
It looks like you should be able to get by with the IEC cable/adapter; the transformer can handle 100-240V, so you likely do not need an additional transformer.
| Q: Using my iMac in a country with a different power supply standard We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America.
Is the power supply in my iMac auto-adjusting, universal? Can I just buy a new IEC cable for it to match the local plug standard and run it straight in to the wall? Or do I need a transformer?
Edit: I have an older iMac. 2007. 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo.
A: Building on @penguinrob's answer, the specs for the 2007 iMac can be found on the Apple Support KB:
Electrical and environmental requirements
Meets ENERGY STAR requirements
*
*Line voltage: 100-240V
*AC Frequency:
50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
*Maximum continuous power: 200W (20-inch
models); 280W (24-inch model)
*Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10°
to 35° C)
*Storage temperature: -40° to 185° F (-40° to 85° C)
*Relative
humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
*Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet
It looks like you should be able to get by with the IEC cable/adapter; the transformer can handle 100-240V, so you likely do not need an additional transformer.
A: According to http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html (under Electrical and Operating Requirements), it specifies a line voltage of 100-240V AC, so if the country you're going to provides plugs with output in that voltage range, you should be fine.
According to http://web.archive.org/web/20071025020751/http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html (snapshot of the imac tech specs page from October 2007, the same voltage requirements apply.
A: It's not what you asked, but (at least some of) the G5 and G4 iMacs do not support different power supply standards.
I know this, because a co-worker tried plugging a 120V one into a 240V UPS, and it almost caught fire.
To make the situation even more amusing/tragilarious, he did this twice. Only one of the computers he blew up was an iMac, though.
A: No problem re getting an adapter and usung the iMac, BUT instead of directly into the wall, plug it into a power surge bar as some countries have more “ebb and flow” than in North Merica.
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64b514969eb8a26aaaccd2f2066f3a087e10fd0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What programs have trouble with case-sensitive (HFSX) filesystems, and how to fix them? There are some programs that require a case-sensitive filesystem, and others that require case-insensitive. Even though Apple warns against using case sensitive file systems, in some situations it is useful.
What programs have trouble with Case Sensitive (HFSX) systems?
What are the work-arounds?
In general, the problem is that the developers have a file in their app called FOO, but try to access the file by the name foo. In an HFS+ system that is case preserving but case insensitive, searching for foo will find FOO. That is not the case in HFSX. The general solution is therefore to
*
*Find the misnamed file or folder
*Make a copy, a link, or rename so the expected name is found
A: According to this question, Photoshop CS5 won't work on HFSX.
Convert a partition from case-sensitive to case-insensitive
| Q: What programs have trouble with case-sensitive (HFSX) filesystems, and how to fix them? There are some programs that require a case-sensitive filesystem, and others that require case-insensitive. Even though Apple warns against using case sensitive file systems, in some situations it is useful.
What programs have trouble with Case Sensitive (HFSX) systems?
What are the work-arounds?
In general, the problem is that the developers have a file in their app called FOO, but try to access the file by the name foo. In an HFS+ system that is case preserving but case insensitive, searching for foo will find FOO. That is not the case in HFSX. The general solution is therefore to
*
*Find the misnamed file or folder
*Make a copy, a link, or rename so the expected name is found
A: According to this question, Photoshop CS5 won't work on HFSX.
Convert a partition from case-sensitive to case-insensitive
A: MeshLab version 1.3.2 does not work on HSFX systems. The CFBundleExecutable in Info.plist specifies MeshLab, but the binary in the Contents/MacOS folder is meshlab. The solution is to edit Info.plist (change MeshLab to meshlab) or:
cd meshlab.app/Contents/MacOS
ln -s meshlab MeshLab
A bug report has been filed here: https://sourceforge.net/p/meshlab/bugs/323/
A: Thing (beta, 1.6b24) does not work with HSFX. The solution is to rename or link the Versions folder to versions
cd Things beta.app/Contents/Frameworks/CulturedRuntime.framework
ln -s Versions versions
A: Console 10.9 (536.100.1) in Maveicks, OS X 10.9.5 (13F1096)
The order of system log queries is dependent upon file system capabilities. This is troublesome only if you expect queries to be sorted alphabetically without case sensitivity.
With case-insensitive HFS Plus (a before A):
With case-sensitive HFS Plus (a after Z):
A: OneDrive
OneDrive won’t synchronize your folder if it’s in a case-sensitive volume. The application itself seems to work, so I created a case-insensitive data volume and moved my OneDrive folder there.
Version: 19.192.0926.0012
Note: I’m using APFS not HFS+ but I think they will cause same issues.
A: Steam
I then put the path on a case-insensitive filesystem, but the program exits after update. I then tried manually run the binary from command line (to see whether it provides more detailed error message):
/Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx
Running this twice and it works. Note that the log is different, so it definitely did something different the second time, even though it looks the same in GUI.
Note: this doesn’t mean that all games work. It’s only about Steam itself.
A: The CrashPlan backup software (v 3.6.3) has a known case sensitive issue.
Solution is:
*
*Open Terminal
*Stop the CrashPlan service by entering this command:
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
*Open the CrashPlan plist file by entering this command:
sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
*Enter your password for the computer when prompted
*Locate the following string:
<string>/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/MacOs/CrashPlanService</string>
*Update it to (note capital s on MacOS):
<string>/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/MacOS/CrashPlanService</string>
*Press Control+X to exit
*Press Y to confirm the changes
*When you see the prompt File Name to Write, press Enter to save to the existing location
*Start the CrashPlan service by typing:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
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5b705b27d34c151222e63f15c433009ec8bc81ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I revert the default mail client back to Mail from GMail? I downloaded Google Chrome and it automatically changed my default mail reader from Mail to GMail in Chrome. I went to the preferences section of Mail and didn't see an option to make Mail the default reader.
A: This can be disabled in Google Chrome. Go to Settings, then select "Show Advanced Settings..." at the bottom of the page. Click "Content Settings", and click "Manage Handlers" under the "Handlers" heading. Under "Active protocol handlers", change mailto to "None".
Then go into Mail.app and into Preferences -> General, and make sure "Default E-mail Reader" to "Mail"
| Q: How do I revert the default mail client back to Mail from GMail? I downloaded Google Chrome and it automatically changed my default mail reader from Mail to GMail in Chrome. I went to the preferences section of Mail and didn't see an option to make Mail the default reader.
A: This can be disabled in Google Chrome. Go to Settings, then select "Show Advanced Settings..." at the bottom of the page. Click "Content Settings", and click "Manage Handlers" under the "Handlers" heading. Under "Active protocol handlers", change mailto to "None".
Then go into Mail.app and into Preferences -> General, and make sure "Default E-mail Reader" to "Mail"
A: In theory, it should work as described above. But for me it didn't, so I used RCDefaultApps prefpane to restore the handler for mailto back to Mail.app (on Snow Leopard).
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b703a6a6e914f2997f336e47e8dbb44933479a16 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I get iPhone charge status from my Mac? I have my iPhone plugged into my Mac via USB. Is there anyway to check on the charge status? I know iTunes does give you a small battery indicator, but I am looking for something a bit more detailed, like % charge.
I thought it is something nice to have and I am a bit lazy to reach for my iPhone to check every time I charge my phone.
A: You are able to see the charge status on the iPhone page on the new iTunes 11.
| Q: Can I get iPhone charge status from my Mac? I have my iPhone plugged into my Mac via USB. Is there anyway to check on the charge status? I know iTunes does give you a small battery indicator, but I am looking for something a bit more detailed, like % charge.
I thought it is something nice to have and I am a bit lazy to reach for my iPhone to check every time I charge my phone.
A: You are able to see the charge status on the iPhone page on the new iTunes 11.
A: Well, it's really quite janky, but one option may be to install Reflection, have the iPhone set to mirror to Reflection, and call it a day. You're going to want to use a charge cable here since this drains the battery right quick.
It doesn't currently support this use-case, but the Apple Configurator does have a monitoring section that probably will support battery-level monitoring at some point.
Really though? I'd get iStat for iPhone and set up the device on a dock. It's got a nice big battery monitor.
A: It's definitely possible to get this information as you get a % charged figure for the iPhone when you plug it into a machine running Linux.
A: You can see it using this app I think: https://www.fadel.io/batteries (mentioned here).
A: The answer is no. See, the battery in your phone is connected to the "motherboard" of your iphone. Think of it as the battery is only working for the iphone.
When you plug your phone in via USB, you can't access the information about the battery from your computer because of this.
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4296e58b301bab366b675a8cb0ce6b046a10f1f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Auto-launch apps at iDevice startup In another question I asked, Graeme suggested using alternatives like Skype instead of FaceTime for its support for audio-only calls.
Skype has the advantage of being cross-platform, but is there a way in which I could actually make Skype auto-login when my iPad starts, and keep it running continuously like FaceTime? Or is this functionality restricted to in-built apps only?
A: Skype is a VOIP app so it is in the class of apps that actually do run in the background. However you need to start it manually. There's no facility in iOS to start a non-Apple app every time the device starts.
| Q: Auto-launch apps at iDevice startup In another question I asked, Graeme suggested using alternatives like Skype instead of FaceTime for its support for audio-only calls.
Skype has the advantage of being cross-platform, but is there a way in which I could actually make Skype auto-login when my iPad starts, and keep it running continuously like FaceTime? Or is this functionality restricted to in-built apps only?
A: Skype is a VOIP app so it is in the class of apps that actually do run in the background. However you need to start it manually. There's no facility in iOS to start a non-Apple app every time the device starts.
A: Auto-launch app:
To use the features of the External Accessory framework, you must add ExternalAccessory.framework to your Xcode project and waitting for Accessory send RequestAppLaunch IAP2 control message, but it needed a Accessory with MFi.
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eb5c546e91753189447e8834fc2f1223d9714552 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I simulate having a slow CPU? I am almost done coding my webapp-game. It runs on all modern browsers. However, I want to establish some minimum requirements for it.
Thus, I need a slow Mac. However, I don't have access to a slow Mac that has a modern browser (IE 9+, Safari 5+, Opera 11+, Chrome, Firefox 4+).
Using the tool mentioned in this question, I can simulate a slow Internet connection. I can use up plenty of memory easily. However, I have no clue how to simulate a slow CPU without resorting to underclocking.
Is there any way I can make my Mac's CPU slower temporarily without underclocking?
A: One solution is to use virtualization to have another instance of Mac OS X running on your computer. Many virtualization applications (such as Parallels Desktop) let you decide how much resources an instance can have (e.g. memory or cpu). Lion increased its support of virtualizing Mac OS X.
If you do decide to go with Parallels, there's a useful how to article describing how to set up an instance of another Mac OS X Lion.
| Q: How can I simulate having a slow CPU? I am almost done coding my webapp-game. It runs on all modern browsers. However, I want to establish some minimum requirements for it.
Thus, I need a slow Mac. However, I don't have access to a slow Mac that has a modern browser (IE 9+, Safari 5+, Opera 11+, Chrome, Firefox 4+).
Using the tool mentioned in this question, I can simulate a slow Internet connection. I can use up plenty of memory easily. However, I have no clue how to simulate a slow CPU without resorting to underclocking.
Is there any way I can make my Mac's CPU slower temporarily without underclocking?
A: One solution is to use virtualization to have another instance of Mac OS X running on your computer. Many virtualization applications (such as Parallels Desktop) let you decide how much resources an instance can have (e.g. memory or cpu). Lion increased its support of virtualizing Mac OS X.
If you do decide to go with Parallels, there's a useful how to article describing how to set up an instance of another Mac OS X Lion.
A: A good way is to use the command-line utility cputhrottle, which allows you to set a cap to how much CPU a given process is allowed to use.
Install it with (for instance) brew: brew install cputhrottle
Then choose how much processor percentage the process for your browser (and/or your browser tab content process) can use: cputhrottle <PID> <PERCENTAGE>.
You can find the process ID using the Activity Monitor app.
To terminate cputhrottle (which actively throttles the process for as long as it's running), press Control-C.
A: You could always install OS X in a virtual machine and set the virtual machine to have a slower processor, perhaps.
A: Run a few instances of yes > /dev/null &. Each instance will peg a core to 100%, so run one for each core. You could also try re-niceing the yes processes to a higher priority or lowering the priority the browser.
A: Add sleep cycles to the main loop or parts of the code that runs often is a good first step. Next, add some calculations that are slow / irrelevant. Depending on what you want to stress, you can also so some awkward pointer math or casting of variables to slow things down. This is an easy thing to sandbag when programming.
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08c05b6f72d8d715fbe06b19bb6656469a5d67c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use a secondary axis in Numbers? One of my main problems with Numbers is the fact that it has much less of the functionality of Excel. That's why I barely use Numbers.
One of the main things that I always thought impossible was plotting two axes on one graph. This is my main reason for my dislike of Numbers.
Now that many other interesting questions that I didn't think had answers are getting answered, I thought I might ask this question:
How can I plot two lines on one graph using a secondary axis in Numbers?
A: Yes Numbers does now supports two axes. Steps are:
*
*Select the chart, change the type to 2D 2-Axis
*Make sure you have more than one data series selected.
*The Series tab for each data series will allow you select which axis to use for each series and the type: columns, lines or areas.
*The chart Axis tab contains (Y1) and (Y2) tabs which you can customise.
If you are familiar with customising graphs in Numbers - it isn't complicated.
| Q: How can I use a secondary axis in Numbers? One of my main problems with Numbers is the fact that it has much less of the functionality of Excel. That's why I barely use Numbers.
One of the main things that I always thought impossible was plotting two axes on one graph. This is my main reason for my dislike of Numbers.
Now that many other interesting questions that I didn't think had answers are getting answered, I thought I might ask this question:
How can I plot two lines on one graph using a secondary axis in Numbers?
A: Yes Numbers does now supports two axes. Steps are:
*
*Select the chart, change the type to 2D 2-Axis
*Make sure you have more than one data series selected.
*The Series tab for each data series will allow you select which axis to use for each series and the type: columns, lines or areas.
*The chart Axis tab contains (Y1) and (Y2) tabs which you can customise.
If you are familiar with customising graphs in Numbers - it isn't complicated.
A: If you want a line graph with 2 y-axes. You to insert->Chart-> 2-Axis. Put in your data. One of the sets will be a line the others a bar. The way to fix that is: Select the one that is a bar then to go to the Inspector-> Chart-> Series. It will say series type-> select that and change it from bar to line. Right below that it says plot on: There you can determine if you want that line to be plotted on y(1) or y(2).
A: Unfortunately, Numbers' only solution is the 2D 2-axis graph which has categorical x-axis values. If you want to retain a numerical x-axis, the best way I've found is actually to lay two graphs over the top of each other.
Step 1
Create two separate graphs of the same size and the same x-axis extents. Style them as you wish, but only add grid lines, axis lines and x-axis labels to one of them.
Step 2
This is the worst bit. Because the y-axis cannot be moved, use control-command-shift-4 to copy a screenshot of the secondary y-axis to the clipboard. Paste with command-v. Make sure the "Zoom" level in Numbers is set to 100%, otherwise the pasted image will need to be resized.
Step 3
Turn off the axis labels on the secondary y-axis, then lay the graphs over the top of each other, using the alignment guides that pop up to align the axes. Position the copy of the secondary y-axis labels. Voilà
A: Was able to do the same thing in Numbers 2009 (v2.1), but had to fiddle a lot.
Use the 2-axis format. The program resists you all the way.
Here is a 2-axis graph (climate diagram) created using Numbers 2.1:
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d539914423edb273633b078190debdbe66a7f90a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CrashPlan's top-bar icon, how to get it? I have two Macs running CrashPlan. In one of them, one day, a CrashPlan icon appeared on the top menu bar that informs me when backups are being done, how much is backed up, etc. In the other one, I don't have that icon. Any ideas how to get it to appear?
A: An alternative more direct way to access the Crashplan menu bar item is to directly launch it from within the Crashplan.app bundle.
It's located at /Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app
I frequently exit the menu bar and re-open it to check Crashplan's status because it's much quicker than launching the full app.
| Q: CrashPlan's top-bar icon, how to get it? I have two Macs running CrashPlan. In one of them, one day, a CrashPlan icon appeared on the top menu bar that informs me when backups are being done, how much is backed up, etc. In the other one, I don't have that icon. Any ideas how to get it to appear?
A: An alternative more direct way to access the Crashplan menu bar item is to directly launch it from within the Crashplan.app bundle.
It's located at /Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app
I frequently exit the menu bar and re-open it to check Crashplan's status because it's much quicker than launching the full app.
A: Are you sure you've checked the option to show it in your menu bar?
A: I believe this icon was added in a recent update. It should update automatically, but in my machine something went wrong in the automatic update, and my Crashplan silently stopped running (I only discovered because I received that e-mail saying no backup was made in the last 3 days). Restarting my machine fixed the problem, applying the update correctly. After that it started showing the menubar icon.
One way for you to check if that's your case is to run the Crashplan app. If it freezes in the green logo with a "Upgrading" text, you should reboot your machine.
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13eba29e27de17b5a43ad8957b1e3a8e49cf6182 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stop skype from automatically starting? After installing skype it will always start whenever I login. I'd rather it didn't do that.
How do I stop Skype from automatically starting?
A: Alternate Method (for Snow Leopard and possibly * Lion):
*
*Open System Preferences
*Select "Accounts"
*Select your user account
*Select "Login Items" at the top
*Remove "Skype"
Ta-da!
| Q: How to stop skype from automatically starting? After installing skype it will always start whenever I login. I'd rather it didn't do that.
How do I stop Skype from automatically starting?
A: Alternate Method (for Snow Leopard and possibly * Lion):
*
*Open System Preferences
*Select "Accounts"
*Select your user account
*Select "Login Items" at the top
*Remove "Skype"
Ta-da!
A: Since an image is worth a thousand words (make sure the options isn't checked):
A: For Skype for Business on Mac OS Catalina:
*
*Right click Skype icon in dock, click Options, ensure "Open at Login" is not selected
*Right click Skype icon in dock, select "Quit"
*System Preferences
*Users & Groups
*Select user in left pane
*Click "Login Items" button in right pane
*Select "Skype for Business" from list and click minus button at bottom of pane
*Repeat previous step if more than one "Skype for Business" is in the list
A: This worked for me.. first list all login items:
$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get the name of every login item'
Then delete skype for business
$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "Skype for Business"'
You may need to run several times if there were repeated items.
A: Right click the Skype icon in your dock and then, under "Options", untick "Open at Login".
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8b8868c6b125a4401ed374ab9b1ad8b63368cd6e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to hide my device's UDID from iOS apps? A few days ago I read an article how iOS app developers can uniquely identify my iOS device using its UDID. The thought of various apps being able to track me (with an ID attached) is somewhat unnerving. Also, I do not feel that I am getting a service of higher quality in exchange for letting developers learn about my preferences and habits. While Apple is apparently moving towards deprecating UDIDs, it will take time. Thus, my question: can I somehow restrict access to my device's UDID?
A: In a word, no, it's currently available for any App to read, and then subsequently use as it sees fit. However, Apple recently made clear that they would not approve future Apps that request it, and so it's use will be negated over time, but of course this won't necessarily apply to the millions of apps already approved.
| Q: Is it possible to hide my device's UDID from iOS apps? A few days ago I read an article how iOS app developers can uniquely identify my iOS device using its UDID. The thought of various apps being able to track me (with an ID attached) is somewhat unnerving. Also, I do not feel that I am getting a service of higher quality in exchange for letting developers learn about my preferences and habits. While Apple is apparently moving towards deprecating UDIDs, it will take time. Thus, my question: can I somehow restrict access to my device's UDID?
A: In a word, no, it's currently available for any App to read, and then subsequently use as it sees fit. However, Apple recently made clear that they would not approve future Apps that request it, and so it's use will be negated over time, but of course this won't necessarily apply to the millions of apps already approved.
A: It's possible to spoof your UDID but only if your iDevice is jailbroken. You can freely try PMP - Protect My Privacy app from Cydia store which helps securing your UDID, Contacts and Location info by shuffling and generating random data access.
A: Nowdays access to the UUID has been replaced by the Advertising Identifier that you could control if your want to share it with apps. Go to the Privacy section in settings and flip the switch to disable it.
A: It says "Limit Ad tracker". You can chose it to be on or off. So in other words it will always be ON. That's how I understand it.
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ff21114e2c9cfd41ee39a0b96b8f2260df464604 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change mac menu bar color Is there a way to change the color or appearance of the mac menu bar from the standard gray?
A: Unfortunately, there's no setting to change the color of the menu bar itself.
LeoColorBar
As penguinrob suggests, you could set the menubar to translucent, and influence its color by changing the color of the part of the wallpaper underneath the menubar. LeoColorBar, pictured below, basically automates that for you.
Despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in a while, it's worked perfectly for me in Lion.
A black menu bar
Alternatively, there are applications like Nocturne that you can use to set your menu bar to dark gray.
MenuBarFilter is another application based on Nocturne that turns your menu bar black.
The latter two applications, however, didn't work very well for me in Lion (especially in full-screen mode), so your best bet would be to stick with LeoColorBar.
| Q: Change mac menu bar color Is there a way to change the color or appearance of the mac menu bar from the standard gray?
A: Unfortunately, there's no setting to change the color of the menu bar itself.
LeoColorBar
As penguinrob suggests, you could set the menubar to translucent, and influence its color by changing the color of the part of the wallpaper underneath the menubar. LeoColorBar, pictured below, basically automates that for you.
Despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in a while, it's worked perfectly for me in Lion.
A black menu bar
Alternatively, there are applications like Nocturne that you can use to set your menu bar to dark gray.
MenuBarFilter is another application based on Nocturne that turns your menu bar black.
The latter two applications, however, didn't work very well for me in Lion (especially in full-screen mode), so your best bet would be to stick with LeoColorBar.
A: In System Preferences, go to General. Check "Use dark menu bar and Dock". It will then change your menu bar and Dock to be a dark color.
A: You can use the free LeoColorBar utility. It's very simple, and seems to work very well: just choose the preferred color, change its darkness, and you're all set. As a bonus, you can change your wallpaper within the app as well, and add arbitrary text to the menu.
A: Penguinrob,
In order to change the color of the menu bar, follow the below mentioned steps properly:-
1. Go to Apple menu> System preferences. Then click on Desktop and screen saver.
*Now, click on the screen saver in the right side.
Preview will be shown in the right side.
*Set any of the screen saver settings below the screen saver to preview. If necessary, also click on the Screen Saver options.
*Click the Start after pop-menu and then select an amount of time. The screen saver starts automatically one the Mac has been inactive for the period of time.
*Select “Show with clock” to show the time when your screen saver is on.
*Click Hot Corners to set a shortcut for starting your screen saver.
A: This answer is for people who land here with new Silicon MacBook Pros with the Notch.
Topnotch is a free option that works with dynamic wallpapers.
Denotifier a paid option (with 14 day trial) offers some additional customization options such as independent settings for dark and light modes and can apply them dynamically if changed.
A: In System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Desktop, you can check Translucent Menu Bar, which allows some of your wallpaper to show through.
http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/ allows you to have a black menu bar, although last time I tried it, there were issues with full-screen apps on Lion.
A: Theres an app called MenuBar Filter. All you have to do is open the app and your menubar will become grey/black.
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16c2e2f4a9d419285d7c21e2026788a477b90f17 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Better Skype taskbar icon? One thing I miss from Windows is that I always had a Skype icon at the bottom of my screen that would tell me when I had new messages. Right now, the Skype icon in the Mac taskbar only lets me click on it to change my online status. Is there an app out there for a better Skype icon or would there be a way to customize it to do what I want? On Windows, it turns gold and there's a number with how many new messages you have.
A: In the Skype Preferences, under the Notification tab, you can set the Skype icon to bounce, play a sound and display a built-in visual notification when you receive new messages. Click on the "Event" dropdown to select the events you require. Is this the sort of thing you were after?
| Q: Better Skype taskbar icon? One thing I miss from Windows is that I always had a Skype icon at the bottom of my screen that would tell me when I had new messages. Right now, the Skype icon in the Mac taskbar only lets me click on it to change my online status. Is there an app out there for a better Skype icon or would there be a way to customize it to do what I want? On Windows, it turns gold and there's a number with how many new messages you have.
A: In the Skype Preferences, under the Notification tab, you can set the Skype icon to bounce, play a sound and display a built-in visual notification when you receive new messages. Click on the "Event" dropdown to select the events you require. Is this the sort of thing you were after?
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e8ba60c5e5c2aa5292e43d43f7ed0c5814c26443 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the microphone input sensitivity on iPad 2? Is it possible to change the microphone sensitivity (input volume) on the iPad?
If so, how?
A: What you can do with the built-in microphone is limited. You should investigate purchasing a third-party microphone, or better yet an audio interface with a microphone preamplifier, into which you plug a microphone. This will cost money but give you much more control.
Look for products from Tascam, Apogee, Line 6, IK Multimedia, and Griffin.
| Q: How do I change the microphone input sensitivity on iPad 2? Is it possible to change the microphone sensitivity (input volume) on the iPad?
If so, how?
A: What you can do with the built-in microphone is limited. You should investigate purchasing a third-party microphone, or better yet an audio interface with a microphone preamplifier, into which you plug a microphone. This will cost money but give you much more control.
Look for products from Tascam, Apogee, Line 6, IK Multimedia, and Griffin.
A: Yes, it is possible to change the microphone sensitivity system wide on the iPad 2 and above, but only for external mics, as far as I know.
To adjust the audio input level you need two things:
*
*Apple's $5,- GarageBand (I don't know about free apps that can adjust the mic level)
*An external microphone: either attached to the the mini jack (headphone connector, like Apple's own white earbuds) or attached to the Apple 30-pins or Lightning connector using the USB adapter of the camera connection kit or the Lightning-to-USB adapter cable.
In the voice recording section of GarageBand, select the button with the audio plug. With a supported device you should see the audio-input level slider and other extra settings like a monitor switch. The microphone input level adjusted in GarageBand, works system wide.
Depending of the amount of current you USB-mic needs, it could be that the iPad cannot deliver sufficient energy to power the mic. In that case you can use the Griffin iMic, or a powered USB hub.
My Samson C01U works perfectly without any additional power requirements.
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3b12086b0486ab7a9a63aac85958af292aea96fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When applications are code-signed, what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? In Mountain Lion, I know that some applications, including all applications on the Mac App Store are digitally signed by the developer, so that if they are modified, the signature will not match, and it will raise all sorts of errors (and the situation will escalate with the next release of the operating system...).
My question is what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? If anything in Appname.app/Contents changes (including metadata, like the modified date for the Contents folder), does that break the signature? Is it just the binary in Contents/MacOS? Are the .plists included in the signature? The Resources? As an end user, what can I hack (if anything) without breaking the signature?
A: Even though the question references Mountain Lion specifically, there is an important change in newer version of macOS. On macOS 10.11 and later, signatures that don't cover the entire code are rejected.
See Technical Note TN2206 - macOS Code Signing In Depth.
| Q: When applications are code-signed, what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? In Mountain Lion, I know that some applications, including all applications on the Mac App Store are digitally signed by the developer, so that if they are modified, the signature will not match, and it will raise all sorts of errors (and the situation will escalate with the next release of the operating system...).
My question is what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? If anything in Appname.app/Contents changes (including metadata, like the modified date for the Contents folder), does that break the signature? Is it just the binary in Contents/MacOS? Are the .plists included in the signature? The Resources? As an end user, what can I hack (if anything) without breaking the signature?
A: Even though the question references Mountain Lion specifically, there is an important change in newer version of macOS. On macOS 10.11 and later, signatures that don't cover the entire code are rejected.
See Technical Note TN2206 - macOS Code Signing In Depth.
A: TL;DR It's up to the developer to pick which pieces of the app are signed and whether or not tampering with those pieces results in any actions when the app is launched. You have to use trial and error to figure it out on an app-by-app basis.
It is largely up to the developer to decide which components in their application bundle are represented in the seal that gets signed before they deliver their application. Anything in the seal is effectively tamper-proof as it's mostly impossible to modify these things without changing their hash signatures. But that's doesn't actually mean you can't tamper with them.
The Apple Developer guide has this to say about what you should sign:
You should sign every executable in your product, including
applications, tools, hidden helper tools, utilities and so forth.
Signing an application bundle covers its resources, but not its
subcomponents such as tools and sub-bundles. Each of these must be
signed independently.
If your application consists of a big UI part with one or more little
helper tools that try to present a single face to the user, you can
make them indistinguishable to code signing by giving them all the
exact same code signing identifier. (You can do that by making sure
that they all have the same CFBundleIdentifier value in their
Info.plist, or by using the -i option in the codesign command, to
assign the same identifier.) In that case, all your program components
have access to the same keychain items and validate as the same
program. Do this only if the programs involved are truly meant to form
a single entity, with no distinctions made.
A universal binary (bundle or tool) automatically has individual
signatures applied to each architecture component. These are
independent, and usually only the native architecture on the end
user's system is verified.
In the case of installer packages (.pkg and .mpkg bundles), everything
is implicitly signed: The CPIO archive containing the payload, the
CPIO archive containing install scripts, and the bill of materials
(BOM) each have a hash recorded in the XAR header, and that header in
turn is signed. Therefore, if you modify an install script (for
example) after the package has been signed, the signature will be
invalid.
You may also want to sign your plug-ins and libraries. Although this
is not currently required, it will be in the future, and there is no
disadvantage to having signatures on these components.
Depending on the situation, codesign may add to your Mach-O executable
file, add extended attributes to it, or create new files in your
bundle's Contents directory. None of your other files is modified.
Also from here it's not necessarily true that having an invalid signature for an application means it will fail to launch. The page says:
It is up to the system or program that is launching or loading signed
code to decide whether to verify the signature and, if it does, to
determine how to evaluate the results of that verification.
An application may choose to allow modifications.
Your best bet is a trial-and-error approach with any application you're trying to modify. It may work, it may not. There's no always-true answer that can be given.
If an app has been signed you can look for a Contents/CodeResources file or a Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources file in the bundle. This file lists all the signed components and their expected hash values in the bundle. It's a good place to start understanding what pieces of the application a developer deems critical enough to watch for changes.
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afaf7edd919c50a8491d123b4bc250701bbdd92a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will Time Machine backup portions of my file system that come from mounted drives? I have used the mount command to mount non-primary drive storage in to my the file system on my primary hard drive. So the path /remote-mounts/some-directory actually places me on a USB-attached drive when I change in to it.
Will Time Machine traverse in to the mounted directories and back them up or does it stop at mount points? Is it smart enough to tell that these mounts aren't actually on my primary drive?
Edit: Here's my personal exclusion list with a USB drive mounted. As you can see STUFF is excluded automatically and I can't prevent that. It's un-selectable in the list.
A: It's most likely your filesystem is just one that fseventsd is ignoring due to it not being HFS+
Even with a proper Mac filesystem, you could have unintentionally told the system to secure and ignore this volume by having an obscurely documented empty file called no_log in /path/to/your/fs/.fseventsd/no_log.
| Q: Will Time Machine backup portions of my file system that come from mounted drives? I have used the mount command to mount non-primary drive storage in to my the file system on my primary hard drive. So the path /remote-mounts/some-directory actually places me on a USB-attached drive when I change in to it.
Will Time Machine traverse in to the mounted directories and back them up or does it stop at mount points? Is it smart enough to tell that these mounts aren't actually on my primary drive?
Edit: Here's my personal exclusion list with a USB drive mounted. As you can see STUFF is excluded automatically and I can't prevent that. It's un-selectable in the list.
A: It's most likely your filesystem is just one that fseventsd is ignoring due to it not being HFS+
Even with a proper Mac filesystem, you could have unintentionally told the system to secure and ignore this volume by having an obscurely documented empty file called no_log in /path/to/your/fs/.fseventsd/no_log.
A: Open Time Machine and see if the USB drive is on the Excluded List. Time Machine normally takes any external drive and automatically puts it on the Excluded List, If you see it there, remove it from the excluded list and it will be backed up.
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542ee0e87bebf2daaf96c3d32bb22c9f1999bdc1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do downloads continue when lid is closed?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?
If I close the lid on my Macbook Air (OS X 10.5.8), will it continue downloading files - say from Firefox or Dropbox? Is there any way to make it do this?
A: Nope. When you close the lid, your Mac goes to sleep and stops all current downloads. If you have a downloadmanager, it will pause the downloads, but it will not keep downloading the files.
If you would like to work with your lid closed, I suggest you connect an external screen or try software like InsomniX, which will keep your Mac awake when the lid is closed.
Also, it might be worth trying extention No Sleep.
| Q: Do downloads continue when lid is closed?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?
If I close the lid on my Macbook Air (OS X 10.5.8), will it continue downloading files - say from Firefox or Dropbox? Is there any way to make it do this?
A: Nope. When you close the lid, your Mac goes to sleep and stops all current downloads. If you have a downloadmanager, it will pause the downloads, but it will not keep downloading the files.
If you would like to work with your lid closed, I suggest you connect an external screen or try software like InsomniX, which will keep your Mac awake when the lid is closed.
Also, it might be worth trying extention No Sleep.
A: If you close the lid with an external display connected, the system should not go to sleep automatically. In that case your downloads would continue. Otherwise, the default behavior when you close the lid is to put the system to sleep. Downloads cannot continue if the system is in sleep mode.
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b40d8d8f3846092e17978d710b88b7fe77e9db08 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to search for a file by a hash value with bash script (terminal)? I am writing a script for Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and I would like to know how I can search for files based on their SHA1 hashes. I would like to search the whole file system for the file(s) I will be looking for.
For example the SHA1 value 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8 corresponds to the file MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg How can I search the hard drive for the file with its SHA1 value without needing to compare the file?
A: You can use the find command:
find / -type f -exec sha1sum {} \; | grep 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8
However, since you're running this on all files, it may be extremely slow — try limiting the search directory by replacing / with the path to a specific directory you want to search.
| Q: How to search for a file by a hash value with bash script (terminal)? I am writing a script for Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and I would like to know how I can search for files based on their SHA1 hashes. I would like to search the whole file system for the file(s) I will be looking for.
For example the SHA1 value 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8 corresponds to the file MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg How can I search the hard drive for the file with its SHA1 value without needing to compare the file?
A: You can use the find command:
find / -type f -exec sha1sum {} \; | grep 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8
However, since you're running this on all files, it may be extremely slow — try limiting the search directory by replacing / with the path to a specific directory you want to search.
A: You may also want to try using xargs depending on how many files you will be searching through.
find / -type f |
xargs -I {} openssl sha1 {} |
grep 0d882ff2d5edd7d045c1b57320d2e046793868f8
A: Here are a few lines of command which may help find a file from its SHA1 digest. Let's say the file we are hunting is MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg.
# store the size of the searched file
size=`/bin/ls -l MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg | awk '{print $5}'`
# store the digest of the serached file
sha1=`/usr/bin/openssl sha1 MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.2.dmg | awk '{print $2}'`
/usr/bin/sudo find / -type f -size ${size} -exec /usr/bin/openssl sha1 {} \; |
grep ${sha1}
This find will run on plain files and not directories, socket or special files. It will also only run on file of the right size thus
avoiding to make a digest of the Kernel or your iTunes library and on a flock of tiny temporary files.
If you are sure that the file name is including the right extension,
this find might be accelareted further with the following
argument list:
/usr/bin/sudo find / -type f -name "*.dmg" -size ${size} -exec /usr/bin/openssl sha1 {} \; |
grep ${sha1}
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4207032ae74f8a5b9422f0839e0d8a785e465558 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I view images from iPhoto in Finder? On my MacBook, with 10.7.3, if I go to ~/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary, no images show in the Finder, though it does say "size 4.01GB". If I double click on iPhotoLibrary, iPhoto opens up — is this the only way to view images and drag files, etc? Can't I view them in Finder?
A: The iPhoto (and Aperture) library is now a package — it's still a folder on disk, but in order to view its contents, you must explicitly choose File > Show Package Contents in Finder (or you can right-click on it).
| Q: How can I view images from iPhoto in Finder? On my MacBook, with 10.7.3, if I go to ~/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary, no images show in the Finder, though it does say "size 4.01GB". If I double click on iPhotoLibrary, iPhoto opens up — is this the only way to view images and drag files, etc? Can't I view them in Finder?
A: The iPhoto (and Aperture) library is now a package — it's still a folder on disk, but in order to view its contents, you must explicitly choose File > Show Package Contents in Finder (or you can right-click on it).
A: I found another way recently where by you can simply locate the file in finder itself. I have attached some step-by step photos of how to locate them but it essentially goes like so:
*
*Open Finder
*Go to 'Pictures'
*Right-click 'iPhoto Library'
*Select 'Show Package Contents'
*You will be presented with several folders
*Select 'Masters'
*Within this are folders of every year photos have been taken in
From here you can go to every event and date, however, in a rather unfortunately awkward way
Hopefully that helps if you are looking for another way, and more direct way, to locate files directly within finder, especially in you fancy renaming the once that you want or need.
A: I found this answer helpful https://superuser.com/questions/186385/how-to-open-iphoto-library-folder-on-a-mac. Specifically "When you have an "open file" dialog (to choose files to upload, etc.) on the left there is also a media section which makes it convenient to access iPhoto photos. Pretty easy actually, no need to navigate through a package."
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eba5f6a5727b9857c882b51a3dd3974da6e82808 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I find out the applescript commands available for a particular app? I'm trying to find out if I can get iTunes to do something complex, but don't know what can be scripted.
Is there a way to find out what applescript commands an app will respond to?
A: Alternately, you can drag an application icon to the Script Editor icon to display its dictionary (if it has one). — via Apple’s AppleScript Language Guide
| Q: How do I find out the applescript commands available for a particular app? I'm trying to find out if I can get iTunes to do something complex, but don't know what can be scripted.
Is there a way to find out what applescript commands an app will respond to?
A: Alternately, you can drag an application icon to the Script Editor icon to display its dictionary (if it has one). — via Apple’s AppleScript Language Guide
A: Yes, there is a simple way.
*
*Open the Script Editor app (formerly called AppleScript Editor)
*Go to File -> Open Dictionary
*Select the app you want to find out more about.
When you open it, you can browse through the available AppleScript commands for that application and find what you want.
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e335a9a7bd02501ee4d3882b464a6d440e37a0c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the Mac equivalent of Windows' Power Plans' Maximum Processor State? One of my favorite features in Windows is the built-in Power Plans. I can change how much energy my computer uses - whether I want it to drain power like there's no tomorrow and get incredible performance or whether I want it to run like a turtle and use 1% CPU at the max and barely use any power, or anything in between.
My favorite feature of Power Plans is that I can limit CPU usage. I can make it 30% - or 72% - or 94 percent.
On a Mac, I notice that there are no Power Plans. There is this, but that doesn't do it.
What can I use to limit CPU usage by the entire system (not just one process) on a Mac?
A: OS X has SpeedStep built in, but as you have noticed you have no/little control over it.
Coolbook is a program that works on pre-Lion versions of OS X but is still not working correctly under Lion? It is also limited to Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors.
| Q: What is the Mac equivalent of Windows' Power Plans' Maximum Processor State? One of my favorite features in Windows is the built-in Power Plans. I can change how much energy my computer uses - whether I want it to drain power like there's no tomorrow and get incredible performance or whether I want it to run like a turtle and use 1% CPU at the max and barely use any power, or anything in between.
My favorite feature of Power Plans is that I can limit CPU usage. I can make it 30% - or 72% - or 94 percent.
On a Mac, I notice that there are no Power Plans. There is this, but that doesn't do it.
What can I use to limit CPU usage by the entire system (not just one process) on a Mac?
A: OS X has SpeedStep built in, but as you have noticed you have no/little control over it.
Coolbook is a program that works on pre-Lion versions of OS X but is still not working correctly under Lion? It is also limited to Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors.
A: Processor usage is processor usage is processor usage. Limiting your CPU to, say, 20% would mean that the same task you want to do anyway would still occur, but take up to 5x longer. The battery life of your machine would actually decrease because it would need to power the display, HDD, etc. for longer to do the same task.
A: I think that Windows limit it not only by software, but OS X does NOT do that.
They both implements SpeedStep, but OS X offers no fine-grained control, while Windows do.
A: Unfortunately, there are no power plans built in macOS, however, they may be available from other third parties. Most won't work with 10.7 or above though.
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ba89ac5b2e036651551fefa61eeedd5c85396f94 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew I got Homebrew installed, but:
>brew install iftop
==> Downloading http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
File already downloaded in /Volumes/0/z/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17 --mandir=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17/share/man
==> make install
ln: iftop: Permission denied
Error: The linking step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link iftop'
Warning: /usr/local/sbin is not in your PATH
You can amend this by altering your ~/.bashrc file
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17: 7 files, 116K, built in 3 seconds
FYI, ~/.bashrc does not exist, and
>$PATH
-bash: /Volumes/0/z/android:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin: No such file or directory
What should I do?
Thanks!
A: You can remedy things in your current shell by doing:
mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin
brew link iftop
That'll get you past the warnings and let Homebrew install the iftop package. If the iftop package is installing things in to /usr/local/sbin that you're looking to run, you'll need to ensure this is on your $PATH when you open a shell. To do this, edit ~/.bash_profile and add the line:
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin
To the end of the file to prepend /usr/local/sbin to each new shell you open.
| Q: Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew I got Homebrew installed, but:
>brew install iftop
==> Downloading http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
File already downloaded in /Volumes/0/z/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17 --mandir=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17/share/man
==> make install
ln: iftop: Permission denied
Error: The linking step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link iftop'
Warning: /usr/local/sbin is not in your PATH
You can amend this by altering your ~/.bashrc file
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17: 7 files, 116K, built in 3 seconds
FYI, ~/.bashrc does not exist, and
>$PATH
-bash: /Volumes/0/z/android:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin: No such file or directory
What should I do?
Thanks!
A: You can remedy things in your current shell by doing:
mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin
brew link iftop
That'll get you past the warnings and let Homebrew install the iftop package. If the iftop package is installing things in to /usr/local/sbin that you're looking to run, you'll need to ensure this is on your $PATH when you open a shell. To do this, edit ~/.bash_profile and add the line:
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin
To the end of the file to prepend /usr/local/sbin to each new shell you open.
A: Have you tried using:
$ brew link iftop
As the message recommended? Otherwise it's likely you need to be su to successfully create the symlink. Try:
$ ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17 --mandir=/usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17/share/man
$ sudo make install
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94f4d8c61f4eacff5210f15336469c109f8d4c25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preventing reply-alls from Group MMS text messages? I have some family members with iPhones. They have figured out how to send text messages to multiple recipients: start a new Message, and add multiple contacts in the To line. Unfortunately, they have not figured out that replying to these replies to everyone who got the original text message.
Is there a setting that I can ask them to change on their phones to prevent these unintentional reply-all messages? Or is there a way that I can tell my iPhone (4 on iOS 5.1) to ignore reply-alls?
A: Unfortunately the current version of iOS doesn't natively give us much control over something like that.
As I'm sure you are already aware of, it does allow us to turn off Group Messaging (and MMS Settings > Messages). However, that would defeat group texts in general - not just replies.
.....Maybe the next OS will?
| Q: Preventing reply-alls from Group MMS text messages? I have some family members with iPhones. They have figured out how to send text messages to multiple recipients: start a new Message, and add multiple contacts in the To line. Unfortunately, they have not figured out that replying to these replies to everyone who got the original text message.
Is there a setting that I can ask them to change on their phones to prevent these unintentional reply-all messages? Or is there a way that I can tell my iPhone (4 on iOS 5.1) to ignore reply-alls?
A: Unfortunately the current version of iOS doesn't natively give us much control over something like that.
As I'm sure you are already aware of, it does allow us to turn off Group Messaging (and MMS Settings > Messages). However, that would defeat group texts in general - not just replies.
.....Maybe the next OS will?
A: Select details next to the list of names, select the one name you want to reply to. This will bring up their contact information, select send message/text. Then select their cell number. This will start a new thread to just that person.
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ff16cb62c32fddef892f4b28578e3b2a3f19a84e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable Spotlight? How can I disable Spotlight completely on Mac OS X Lion?
It's using up a lot of resources and I never really use it, so I want to disable it.
The only feature I might want to keep is the icon in the status bar which lets me launch applications. The main feature I want to disable is the indexing every single file on my hard drive. I never use Spotlight to access files, I only use it to launch applications.
Are there any risks in disabling it? Is there an Apple recommended way to disabling it?
How would I re-enable it later on if I want to?
A: In addition to @jmlumpkin's Terminal command, you could simply add your entire hard drive to the Privacy tab in Spotlight preferences. You'd also want to add any external hard drives you regularly plug in.
The same caveat applies: you wouldn't be able to use it as an application launcher, so you'd need to get something like Quicksilver or LaunchBar.
To re-enable, just remove the relevant entries from the list in the Privacy tab.
| Q: How do I disable Spotlight? How can I disable Spotlight completely on Mac OS X Lion?
It's using up a lot of resources and I never really use it, so I want to disable it.
The only feature I might want to keep is the icon in the status bar which lets me launch applications. The main feature I want to disable is the indexing every single file on my hard drive. I never use Spotlight to access files, I only use it to launch applications.
Are there any risks in disabling it? Is there an Apple recommended way to disabling it?
How would I re-enable it later on if I want to?
A: In addition to @jmlumpkin's Terminal command, you could simply add your entire hard drive to the Privacy tab in Spotlight preferences. You'd also want to add any external hard drives you regularly plug in.
The same caveat applies: you wouldn't be able to use it as an application launcher, so you'd need to get something like Quicksilver or LaunchBar.
To re-enable, just remove the relevant entries from the list in the Privacy tab.
A: To disable, open Terminal and run
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
This disables the Launch Daemon that starts and keeps it running. You can also run:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
but from looking online in a few places, this may give you an error like 'Spotlight server is disabled'
If you disable though, it will continue to use an old cache, or not work at all. Therefore, the launching applications as you mention will no longer work. It also may break other functions related to the OS, like the Mac App Store (to know whats installed, etc), and LaunchPad.
If you still need an application launcher, you can use applications like LaunchBar and Quicksilver.
After seeing your update (espc. on how to stop it indexing so much), there are two things to check:
*
*Are you running something like a virus scanner or other application constantly accessing files on your drive? This will force spotlight to keep indexing. A network share would also be a culprit.
*You can also filter what folders Spotlight should index, and by configuring this, can limit how much has to be indexed. Do do this, go to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy.
Re-enabling would be running
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
or
sudo mdutil -a -i on
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98e481cd840622f4adb67054d9b3725009c6a07a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to to specify pronunciations for OS X Lion? The text-to-speech function on Mac OS X Lion is quite good, although sometimes it misses the just-right pronunciation of a word.
Is there a way to specify a pronunciation for certain words or phrases in Lion?
For example, let's say my friend's name is "Tony", and the voice for OS X (Alex) pronounces Tony "tooney". Is there a way that I can set Tony to be pronounced the same way Alex pronounces "Toe Nee"?
A: You can also use [[inpt PHON]]:
[[inpt PHON]]_t1OW ~n2EY.[[inpt TEXT]]
See the Speech Synthesis Programming Guide.
If you download the Auxiliary Tools for Xcode package from https://developer.apple.com/downloads, you can use the Repeat After Me application to convert text to the phonetic syntax:
| Q: How to to specify pronunciations for OS X Lion? The text-to-speech function on Mac OS X Lion is quite good, although sometimes it misses the just-right pronunciation of a word.
Is there a way to specify a pronunciation for certain words or phrases in Lion?
For example, let's say my friend's name is "Tony", and the voice for OS X (Alex) pronounces Tony "tooney". Is there a way that I can set Tony to be pronounced the same way Alex pronounces "Toe Nee"?
A: You can also use [[inpt PHON]]:
[[inpt PHON]]_t1OW ~n2EY.[[inpt TEXT]]
See the Speech Synthesis Programming Guide.
If you download the Auxiliary Tools for Xcode package from https://developer.apple.com/downloads, you can use the Repeat After Me application to convert text to the phonetic syntax:
A: Open Applications > Services > VoiceOver Utility and go to Speech > Pronunciation. Add a subsitution for "Tony" and tell it to pronounce it as "toe nee".
Interestingly, my computer running 10.7.3 with the Alex voice pronounces Tony correctly. Because of this, I wasn't able to test this solution, so it may not work.
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911935013f9827093530038ccdaf7afd71e530ff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: TextEdit removes Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) from Unicode/UTF files. How to fix? I'm working with UTF-8 files, but TextEdit seems to not fully support the BOM. When a BOM is present, it DOES render unicode characters correctly. However, upon saving the file, the BOM is removed, so subsequently opening the file in TextEdit causes 'the wrong' characters to be displayed.
Is there a way of remedying this? Bear in mind I'm sharing files with several non-technical users, so anything related to the command-line is out of the question. If the solution is 'use another text editor', this might just about be acceptable, if it's free, and not totally different from TextEdit - i.e. the simpler, the better. But, ideally, there's a way of fixing TextEdit ...
A: This isn't the main solution you're looking for, but TextWrangler is free, handles UTF-8 (and many other encodings) very well, and doesn't have too steep a learning curve, particularly if you're just using functionality similar to TextEdit. I know you'd like to fix TextEdit, and I hope you get an answer explaining how to do that, but in the absence of a primary solution, this should be a good backup plan.
| Q: TextEdit removes Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) from Unicode/UTF files. How to fix? I'm working with UTF-8 files, but TextEdit seems to not fully support the BOM. When a BOM is present, it DOES render unicode characters correctly. However, upon saving the file, the BOM is removed, so subsequently opening the file in TextEdit causes 'the wrong' characters to be displayed.
Is there a way of remedying this? Bear in mind I'm sharing files with several non-technical users, so anything related to the command-line is out of the question. If the solution is 'use another text editor', this might just about be acceptable, if it's free, and not totally different from TextEdit - i.e. the simpler, the better. But, ideally, there's a way of fixing TextEdit ...
A: This isn't the main solution you're looking for, but TextWrangler is free, handles UTF-8 (and many other encodings) very well, and doesn't have too steep a learning curve, particularly if you're just using functionality similar to TextEdit. I know you'd like to fix TextEdit, and I hope you get an answer explaining how to do that, but in the absence of a primary solution, this should be a good backup plan.
A: TextEdit → Preferences → Open and Save
Set “Plain Text File Encoding” to “Unicode (UTF-8)” for both opening and saving files.
If that doesn’t fix it already, open Terminal.app and enter the following:
echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
Then logout and login again.
This fixes the ancient UTF-8 bug in OS X that also manifest in QuickLook.
To fix it for just a single file rather than for all files (I don’t see why you would, though), just write the extended attribute that TextEdit uses:
xattr -w com.apple.TextEncoding 'UTF-8;134217984' filename.txt
Hope this helps!
A: I think using TextWrangler to always save as "UTF-8 with BOM" is the best way to make sure all other systems will see your files as UTF-8. Another option would be to use UTF-16 instead, but that is unusual and could confuse some users.
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bc8197bb50319fdbc103932dc87727debc359171 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I tell if my Mac supports Mini Toslink? Apparently on many modern macs the 3.5mm headphone audio jack supports Mini Toslink.
How can I tell whether my mac supports it, whether it supports surround sound (4 speaker or better), and whether the microphone input acts as a mini toslink input?
A: While not specific to mini TOSLINK, Apple lists all their 192kHz-compatible models on their "Play high sample rate digital audio on Mac computers" article. (The wording makes it sound like some machines supporting 176.4kHz may not be listed, though.)
*
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) through MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) through MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
*iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014) through iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2014)
*iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)
*iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) through iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
*Mac Pro (Late 2013)
*Mac mini (Late 2014)
| Q: How do I tell if my Mac supports Mini Toslink? Apparently on many modern macs the 3.5mm headphone audio jack supports Mini Toslink.
How can I tell whether my mac supports it, whether it supports surround sound (4 speaker or better), and whether the microphone input acts as a mini toslink input?
A: While not specific to mini TOSLINK, Apple lists all their 192kHz-compatible models on their "Play high sample rate digital audio on Mac computers" article. (The wording makes it sound like some machines supporting 176.4kHz may not be listed, though.)
*
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) through MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
*MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) through MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
*iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014) through iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2014)
*iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)
*iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) through iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
*Mac Pro (Late 2013)
*Mac mini (Late 2014)
A: Take a look at Mactracker. You can find the specs for your own Mac by clicking the "This Mac" item in the left-hand pane.
From a quick look:
*
*On the audio output side, the 3.5-mm analog/optical combo jack was added in Mac mini models from Early 2006 and in iMac models from the iMac G5.
*On the audio input side, 3.5-mm analog/optical combo jack was added in Mac mini models from Early 2006 and in iMac models from Mid 2006. A line-level microphone or optical digital audio equipment can be connected to this port as described in this Apple support page (for the Macbook Pro).
A: Since you didn't list a mac model, you can just pop your serial number of the mac into this URL and see if your model has TOSlink or "digital audio equipment" listed in the specifications.
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#
A: I can not find a direct source to note when Apple started making audio output ports toslink enabled. But to answer your other questions:
*
*Almost all macs since 2006 do support this, and looking at the product page for each model will tell you exactly.
*If it supports toslink, it supports surround sound
*According to this KB, the input is also optical as well.
A: Do the following:
*
*Open "About This Mac"
*Open "More Info..." (skip this step on macOS Sierra)
*Open "System Report..."
*From the left pane choose Hardware > Audio
*Check if Optical Digital Audio Output is present
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d0b6e04e49da1f2af555dacfb9aee1bac17daabf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Internet sharing over AirPort In MacOS X 10.6, is Internet sharing over AirPort implemented as NAT or full-blown routing? The backing wired network is a corporate one, Ethernet with DHCP.
A: Can't find anything definitive from Apple, but the detailed testing done here by Princeton University indicates that it's NAT (and that it's inappropriate for use on their campus, so might well be for your scenario too).
| Q: Internet sharing over AirPort In MacOS X 10.6, is Internet sharing over AirPort implemented as NAT or full-blown routing? The backing wired network is a corporate one, Ethernet with DHCP.
A: Can't find anything definitive from Apple, but the detailed testing done here by Princeton University indicates that it's NAT (and that it's inappropriate for use on their campus, so might well be for your scenario too).
A: Type:
ps ax | egrep '[ /](PID|boo|nat)'
in a Terminal or xterm window.
Fire InternetSharing from the System Preferences. Type the same
command again.
You will be able to see the different daemons which InternetSharing
spawns under 10.6 or 10.7 .
The answer is…
InternetSharing does 3 things:
*
*address translation through natd,
*address distribution through bootpd,
*routing through route (but I got this information through other means of investigation).
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0d610053113b5d924bc9d022de5d99544cbafd73 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Apple provide replacement tips for their In-Ear Headphones? One of my earbud tips has been lost. I'd like to replace it. I'd prefer not to use a third-party service, as the quality of the material is never as high as Apple's.
Do you know if Apple will replace them?
A: I know it used to be not a big hassle to change them. You could just send them to Apple and a few days later, the new earbuds arrived. But since many people took advantage of this system, Apple came up with a limit (both in quantity as in warranty time).
Now days, my best guess is to go to the Apple Store and ask if they will replace it.
But why would you exclude non-Apple earbuds? There are some very good (and cheap) ones. For example on DealExtreme or even on eBay.
| Q: Does Apple provide replacement tips for their In-Ear Headphones? One of my earbud tips has been lost. I'd like to replace it. I'd prefer not to use a third-party service, as the quality of the material is never as high as Apple's.
Do you know if Apple will replace them?
A: I know it used to be not a big hassle to change them. You could just send them to Apple and a few days later, the new earbuds arrived. But since many people took advantage of this system, Apple came up with a limit (both in quantity as in warranty time).
Now days, my best guess is to go to the Apple Store and ask if they will replace it.
But why would you exclude non-Apple earbuds? There are some very good (and cheap) ones. For example on DealExtreme or even on eBay.
A: Yes - call Apple Support, open a web ticket or visit a reseller or an Apple Store. The service departments can order replacement silicone cups if they don't just have them in stock.
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46fd0a385bae03f7b997bd3797733af5455c56eb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I run VI with colors on Lion? I'm looking to enable color syntax highlighting in vi. I just enabled colors in Terminal via here. Any ideas on how to enable this?
NOTE: Usually on Linux when I open vi with vi file.txt and it opens in black and white on default, I can open the same file with vim file.txt and it will show the colors, but this does not work here.
A: I'll also say that MacVim is a nice upgrade from the standard Vim that ships with OS X, but it isn't necessary. What you need is Vim configuration that adds syntax highlighting to VIM.
The fastest way to get that is with Janus -- it's a set of VIM plugins and configuration files pre-configured and ready to go. It works with Vim and MacVim.
To install it:
curl -Lo- http://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash
And then follow the instructions. That calls their automatic installer. It requires Vim 7.3 or greater. You'll get an easy path to colours and plugins in Vim.
| Q: How do I run VI with colors on Lion? I'm looking to enable color syntax highlighting in vi. I just enabled colors in Terminal via here. Any ideas on how to enable this?
NOTE: Usually on Linux when I open vi with vi file.txt and it opens in black and white on default, I can open the same file with vim file.txt and it will show the colors, but this does not work here.
A: I'll also say that MacVim is a nice upgrade from the standard Vim that ships with OS X, but it isn't necessary. What you need is Vim configuration that adds syntax highlighting to VIM.
The fastest way to get that is with Janus -- it's a set of VIM plugins and configuration files pre-configured and ready to go. It works with Vim and MacVim.
To install it:
curl -Lo- http://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash
And then follow the instructions. That calls their automatic installer. It requires Vim 7.3 or greater. You'll get an easy path to colours and plugins in Vim.
A: You need to customize your ~/.vimrc to enable syntax highlighting, among other things. Very simplistically, you'll want to add:
syntax on
Google "vimrc" for sample vim configuration files.
A: It’s a matter of having the right settings in your ~/.vimrc file. Here’s mine: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc.
The key is to add this:
" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
You can install color schemes in your ~/.vim/colors directory. To enable a colorscheme, use:
" Select a colorscheme
colorscheme molokai
I’m using Molokai, which looks like this when editing a JavaScript file:
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15a8aee95ec42d884c42704072e38385b6a66c3b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do the current Apple USB Keyboards support charging the iPad? As the new owner of an iPad, it was disappointing, but not surprising, to see a "not charging" in the upper right hand corner of my iPad when I connected it via USB to my Apple Keyboard from 2007. However, connecting it directly to my MacBook Pro from 2010 does charge the iPad, so it seems it's just a simple matter of my USB keyboard not drawing enough power.
Is this something that Apple has updated/changed about their USB keyboard since I bought mine in 2007? The products are otherwise identical. If not Apple, are there any third parties that have keyboards that will supply the necessary power to charge an iPad?
A: This is standard. The keyboard USB port gives you enough power for a mouse, but not enough for most other devices.
| Q: Do the current Apple USB Keyboards support charging the iPad? As the new owner of an iPad, it was disappointing, but not surprising, to see a "not charging" in the upper right hand corner of my iPad when I connected it via USB to my Apple Keyboard from 2007. However, connecting it directly to my MacBook Pro from 2010 does charge the iPad, so it seems it's just a simple matter of my USB keyboard not drawing enough power.
Is this something that Apple has updated/changed about their USB keyboard since I bought mine in 2007? The products are otherwise identical. If not Apple, are there any third parties that have keyboards that will supply the necessary power to charge an iPad?
A: This is standard. The keyboard USB port gives you enough power for a mouse, but not enough for most other devices.
A: Looking at this the other way, iPads want far more than the "standard" charge when in operation and show "not charging" to let you know that although power is present, the battery will not take any significant charging while not sleeping.
The article Apple Computers and Displays: Powering peripherals through USB is the canonical list of situations where Apple detects and sends more power downstream to operate things like the MacBook Air superdrive, the iPad and even iPhone and iPod now can take far more current to charge when connected directly to an Apple display or computer.
A: Yes, but only with the iPad in sleep mode.
The iPad requires at least 500mA from a USB port:
Apple peripheral devices may request more than 500 mA (Milliamps) at 5 V (Volts) from a port to function or to allow for faster charging. Such Apple peripheral devices include:
*
*iPad
*iPhone
*Alluminum Wired Keyboard*
About wired keyboard we get the information:
*When connected to a computer that supports a connection of 1100 mA at 5 V, the first port on the keyboard to have a device or peripheral connected to it that requests standard 500mA power will receive that power. At that point, 100 mA at 5 V is available through the remaining port on this keyboard. This keyboard does not support extra power out of its two ports simultaneously; it requests extra power from the host computer to provide power out of either one of its two ports, then the second keyboard port receives the standard 500mA.
Note: Apple computers and displays that were introduced before 2007 support only 500 mA at 5 V from their ports and do not offer additional power.
[source 1 from support.apple.com]
As the wired keyboards can provide the minimum 500mA required by the iPad (just like older Macs can), it should be possible for it to power the iPad. However, it can not provide an additional current which would allow for faster charging.
But, the new iPad can only charge in sleep mode when connected to a low powered USB hub:
The fastest way to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter. When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge, but only when it's in sleep mode. Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.
[source 2 from support.apple.com]
A: The keyboard has a non-powered hub inside, and can only supply 100mA of power to any connected USB device.
Recent Macs will support 1,000mA (1A), and some very recent might support 2,000mA (2A), but since the keyboard hub doesn't, then attached devices will still only receive 100mA, too little to charge an iPad.
Newer hubs could support supplying more power when they are connected to 1A or 2A USB ports on the computer, but that's a very new standard (and it is now standard) so you're unlikely to find any, even apple products, that do so yet.
You can put a powered USB hub inbetween and get the standard 500mA, but if you want the fast charging you'll need to connect it directly to the USB port on the computer.
A: Best solution for extra USB ports on a mac is to purchase a usb extension lead to plug directly into your mac - this will then give you four full powered extra sockets
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41111b5915776b01b44d432ab1455c837250dba9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to enable TRIM for an external SSD? I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case.
Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?
A: According to OS X Daily, TRIM is enabled for all Apple SSDs, but not for third party drives. The article claims that a third party utility, Trim Enabler, turns on TRIM for third party drives as well. More details can be found on the developer's page. Note that this utility isn't officially supported by Apple, so you should back up before installing the utility.
The interface of the external drive shouldn't matter for TRIM support (USB 2, FW800, or Thunderbolt). However, please note that Macs did not begin to natively support USB 3 until June 2012- with your 2011 iMac you'd be using USB 2 with one of those drives.
| Q: Is it possible to enable TRIM for an external SSD? I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case.
Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?
A: According to OS X Daily, TRIM is enabled for all Apple SSDs, but not for third party drives. The article claims that a third party utility, Trim Enabler, turns on TRIM for third party drives as well. More details can be found on the developer's page. Note that this utility isn't officially supported by Apple, so you should back up before installing the utility.
The interface of the external drive shouldn't matter for TRIM support (USB 2, FW800, or Thunderbolt). However, please note that Macs did not begin to natively support USB 3 until June 2012- with your 2011 iMac you'd be using USB 2 with one of those drives.
A: Yes, you can enable TRIM on an external SSD. I own a Lacie Rugged USB/Thunderbolt 128 GB drive and I enabled it with TRIM Enabler. I am using it as a boot drive.
I do not know if it is smart to enable TRIM but I could not find any posts where it would stand that TRIM can harm your external SSD.
But for any case, I have multiple backups of my SSD drive.
A: I realize this question is over 4 years old, but I'm adding a comment because this page was the first hit for a Google search on the subject and some of the comments are outdated whereas others were plain wrong.
Apple added native TRIM support in OS X 10.6.8 but only for Apple OEM SSDs. To get around that restriction, software such as Cindori's TRIM Enabler allowed TRIM to be used on 3rd party SSDs. Later, OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) introduced a security requirement called kext signing which prevented TRIM Enabler from working without completely turning off kext signing. Then in OS X 10.10.4, Apple introduced a “trimforce” command which enabled TRIM on 3rd party SSDs without turning off kext signing. (I have sources but Stack Exchange won't let me post more than 2 links)
Contrary to many of the comments here, the interface DOES matter. The vast majority of USB enclosures do not support TRIM, but allegedly there are some that support it such as the JMS 578 USB bridge controller (source: http://bbs.pceva.com.cn/thread-125643-1-1.html). All five of the USB 3 enclosures / docks I have support it. Firewire supposedly supports TRIM, but I haven't tested it. Most Thunderbolt enclosures should support TRIM, and I currently have TRIM enabled on a SanDisk Extreme SSD in an Akitio Thunderbolt 2 enclosure. I used the trimforce command in terminal to enable it.
In order to check if your enclosure supports TRIM, you’ll want to go to Apple > About This Mac > System Report > Hardware > SATA/SATA Express > and look for “TRIM Support” under the enclosure specs. If TRIM Support is not listed, your enclosure most likely does not support TRIM. If it is listed but says “No”, you can try turning TRIM on by using the trimforce command in terminal. Just open Terminal and type “sudo trimforce enable”. Once your computer restarts, check System Report again to see if TRIM Support changed to Yes.
Finally, TRIM does matter, even for modern SSDs with sophisticated garbage collection. I experienced this firsthand when my SanDisk SSD started slowing down as it got older before enabling TRIM on it. There’s a good, but somewhat outdated article about it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/ask-ars-my-ssd-does-garbage-collection-so-i-dont-need-trim-right/
A: I have a Crucial 960gb m500 ssd that I put into a G drive thunderbolt/usb chassis a couple of years ago for time machine and random manual file backup.
It seems to have started slowing down recently with "preparing backup" msg that last for a couple of hours before doing the backup. I ran trim force with the drive attached via thunderbolt, My osx system report now says that trim is enabled
for this device. I'm waiting and seeing if it makes a difference!
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8609f82b0870d2b100d870a03c1721ed09f37033 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Mail how to mark message as not junk I have some mail messages that OSX Mail puts in my junk folder but does not show the header saying "Mail thinks this message is Junk Mail" and so does not show the button allowing me to mark the mail as not junk.
How do I get Mail to allow me to mark the mail as not junk.
These emails are put in the junk folder by me.com/iCloud so I would hope Apple would allow control via their apps.
A: It seems iCloud is marking the message as junk using its algorithm. I don't believe you can adjust this from within the Mail.app. You will need to log into iCloud.com, enter Mail, find the particular message in your Junk Mail folder and then with the message selected, select the gear menu and you should be able to Mark as Not Junk.
To recap, as iCloud is flagging message as junk you must unflag message within iCloud.
| Q: OSX Mail how to mark message as not junk I have some mail messages that OSX Mail puts in my junk folder but does not show the header saying "Mail thinks this message is Junk Mail" and so does not show the button allowing me to mark the mail as not junk.
How do I get Mail to allow me to mark the mail as not junk.
These emails are put in the junk folder by me.com/iCloud so I would hope Apple would allow control via their apps.
A: It seems iCloud is marking the message as junk using its algorithm. I don't believe you can adjust this from within the Mail.app. You will need to log into iCloud.com, enter Mail, find the particular message in your Junk Mail folder and then with the message selected, select the gear menu and you should be able to Mark as Not Junk.
To recap, as iCloud is flagging message as junk you must unflag message within iCloud.
A: There isn't a tie between the server filtering of junk mail and the Mail client on the mac.
If this is troublesome, most people pick to disable the server side filtering and train the Mail client on their mac so that it can do all the marking and filing so you don't have this cognitive dissonance between a message that your local mail client "thinks is junk" and mail that sits in a folder that coincidentally is named junk.
A: I found this question while search for the same problem. My email provider was Gmail, but the iCloud idea tipped me off.
If there is no brown banner on the email, Apple Mail did not mark it as junk/spam, your email provider did.
In my case, it was a company email managed by Google Apps. So I logged into Gmail, went to the junk folder, and clicked the 'Not Spam' button on the emails. I did it for a few to train Gmail.
A: all you need to do in Mail toolbar is click on the thumbs up icon to the right of the trash bin.
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c4ed38e1baa4087ab80b8066f74140fd3de89d5c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What should I look for when buying a used Macbook Pro? I had been a Windows guy for a decade and I am planning to buy a used Macbook Pro (2009 model). What should I look for and check when buying a used Macbook Pro?
A: Beyond visual inspection, you should be able to run Apple Hardware Test in order to check the system hardware's working condition.
| Q: What should I look for when buying a used Macbook Pro? I had been a Windows guy for a decade and I am planning to buy a used Macbook Pro (2009 model). What should I look for and check when buying a used Macbook Pro?
A: Beyond visual inspection, you should be able to run Apple Hardware Test in order to check the system hardware's working condition.
A: Besides the hardware test, it's very important to know the health of the battery! Although the results aren't 100% accurate, coconutBattery gives you a fairly good result about how many cycles the battery has had.
If the number is over 300, you can almost be sure the battery capacity is lower than 80%.
But you should ask the guy you're buying from how long the battery lasts and if you don't trust him, try it yourself.
A more obvious question is if the Mac is still under warranty. Since it's a 2009 notebook it's very unlikely, but maybe it has Apple Care... You never know.
And the last thing I would check, besides the things already mentioned by AJ., is the optical drive. Does it read/write CD/DVD's at an acceptable speed.
A: Look for future OS X support
Apple is well known for dropping support for older hardware as time goes on. The pending Mountain Lion Release is a perfect case in point.
Here is an extract from the linked page:
Macs that will support OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
As usual, the newer the Mac the better:
MacBook Pro – 13″ from mid 2009 or later, 15″ from late 2007 and newer, 17″ from late 2007 and newer
MacBook Air – late 2008 and newer
iMac – models from mid 2007 and newer
MacBook – 13″ aluminum from 2008, 13″ from 2009 and newer
Mac Mini – early 2009 and newer
Mac Pro – early 2008 models and newer
XServe – early 2009 models and newer
Macs that are NOT expected to support OS X Mountain Lion
Older Macs and those with weaker GPU’s will likely be left behind:
Anything with an Intel GMA 950 or x3100 integrated graphics card
Anything with an ATI Radeon X1600
MacBook models released prior to 2008
Mac Mini released prior to 2007
iMac models released prior to 2007
Original MacBook Air
EDIT
BTW, Superduper fast Thunderbolt is Apple's I/O future. Support for this started with the Early 2011 MacBook Pro. As of this writing there are very, very few devices for it out there.
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c25bd5018cfc4ceb1fde8ea65c01bb48ed86e35a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Anyone know of a Finder replacement? I am starting to dislike the Finder. Does anybody know of a good Finder replacement, something Unixy or Nexty which will still work with all Mac OS X applications?
A: Terminal might sound like a cop-out, but it's as Unix-y as it gets, loaded with Command Line Goodness. To better integrate into the Mac experience, be sure to check out the open command, which can launch applications, or open files using their designated application.
| Q: Anyone know of a Finder replacement? I am starting to dislike the Finder. Does anybody know of a good Finder replacement, something Unixy or Nexty which will still work with all Mac OS X applications?
A: Terminal might sound like a cop-out, but it's as Unix-y as it gets, loaded with Command Line Goodness. To better integrate into the Mac experience, be sure to check out the open command, which can launch applications, or open files using their designated application.
A: I'm a big fan of ForkLift (free trial, $30). It isn't cheap, but it's well worth it.
It's basically a souped-up version of Finder for power users.
I recommend that you try out the beta of version 2.5; it's stable and has some features that the stable version is missing.
A few of my favorite features
*
*Dual-paned windows
*Tabs
*Store commonly used 'workspaces'
*Save and mount remote connections
*Work with archives without unpacking them
One especially Unix-y feature is the ability to create 'tools', which are shell scripts to run on selected files.
A: As @DanielL said, Terminal can be a great solution, however I wouldn't use the default Apple terminal for this, I would run TermKit since it has a nice graphical interface despite its terminal-ness. Using terminal commands and typing in the name of each file loses the 'finding' aspect of the Finder, where emphasis is placed less on exactly where the file is, especially on Mac OS Lion. While tab-completion partially fixes this, it still has a lot to catch up on.
A: I use both TotalFinder and PathFinder.
For general Finder-type things, I find TotalFinder very similar to the Finder with the major benefit of Tabs (yeah!) and Dual Mode, where you get two Finder windows side-by-side. This is great for moving files between folders.
PathFinder has many more advanced features:
You have 4 panes (2 on each side of the PathFinder window) that you can customize. I have mine to show:
1) Processes - showing all open apps
2) Selection Path - showing the full path to the selected file/folder
3) Recent Documents
4) Recent Folders
Below your PathFinder window you can set up various options, too. I have mine to show:
1) Info - similar to Get Info for the selected item
2) Preview - which is, well, a preview of the selected item
I have barely touched the full features of PathFinder. Check out:
http://www.cocoatech.com/docs/pf/start
for more details about AppleScript and developing for PathFinder.
Bottom line: If you want a simple enhancement to the Finder, I would suggest TotalFinder. If you are a scripter or programmer, I would go with PathFinder.
A: You may find this post interesting:
5 Alternatives to the OS X Finder (It includes descriptions with some pictures)
Sumarizing the post:
1-Xfolders
2-mucommander 3-Disk
Order
4-FileBrowse 5-Path
Finder
A: Perhaps not what you had in mind, but for something "terminal like," I use Alfred, which is (IMHO) the best-of-class in application launchers. The basic version is free, but I liked it so well I sent them $45 or so for their deluxe enhanced version family site license plus lifetime free updates. There are other price-points, as well.
In practice, you hit a hot key and start typing the name of an application, document, script, website, email, whatever, and it presents you with a list of ten things it thinks are close matches. You then pick one using mouse or hot keys. It then "learns" your abbreviation, and moves your choice to the top of the list next time.
It does lots of other stuff, as well, such as keystroke folder navigation.
I loathe crawling around the Finder for stuff, and don't even like using the Dock. With Alfred, I drive about 50% by keyboard.
A: When it comes to alternatives of Finder, there are two major alternatives.
First, you have TotalFinder. It looks a lot like the normal Finder, but it can do so much more. You can copy/paste across windows, you can work with tabs or dual screen,... It's my personal favorite. I've been using it for many months now.
The second alternative is PathFinder. I don't have any personal experience with this software, but when I take a look at their website, it has some cool features too.
So, my advice is to check those two options and I can suggest you TotalFinder!
A: For NeXTy try RBrowswer It is really a ftp client but the file browsing works like NeXT's file manager including shelves
A: That the question! We use the Finder to organize and retrieve our files. What means "Finder replacement", something like TotalFinder, PathFinder, …, or a really new way to manage our files? I mean, a new concept able to replace the Finder main function : managing our information.
If that is the question, if you AskDifferent, the following may interest you. I must be honest, I am also the developer of this new concept. But if you know any app that looks like mine, let me know.
The Finder use the Space to organize our files. The Space is divided into subspaces, or folders. As an alternative, or in addition to the Space organization, this new concept use the Time to organize our information, as we do with our brains. All day I record with my 5 senses lots of information. Will I have archive them in folders? No, I simply move the TimeCursor of may consciousness to remember. Like us, this new concept uses a temporal navigation rather than the spatial navigation (like the Finder) to retrieve information.
Here is a presentation of the new concept.
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6722492bd6bc8e94dbd8398d5c9ed1e202fb8167 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Menu bar icons get hidden by long menu bar items Sometimes on my Macbook Pro when I have a lot of icons in the menu bar, if I start an application which has a lot of menu items, some of these icons get automatically obscured by the menu items.
For example, when running iTunes, the Twitter icon gets obscured...
...but if I switch to Finder (which has a fewer menu items) the icon then re-appears
Is there any way I can show or get to these obscured icons without having to switch to an application with a shorter menu bar?
A: I have been using this for a while and it seems to be configurable to do what you need.
http://www.macbartender.com
| Q: Menu bar icons get hidden by long menu bar items Sometimes on my Macbook Pro when I have a lot of icons in the menu bar, if I start an application which has a lot of menu items, some of these icons get automatically obscured by the menu items.
For example, when running iTunes, the Twitter icon gets obscured...
...but if I switch to Finder (which has a fewer menu items) the icon then re-appears
Is there any way I can show or get to these obscured icons without having to switch to an application with a shorter menu bar?
A: I have been using this for a while and it seems to be configurable to do what you need.
http://www.macbartender.com
A: When holding the command-key you can drag the menu bar items around and change their order. That just helped me when I switched to an app where I could see the required menu bar item and then I moved it far to the right so that I could then see it also in the other app.
A: BetterTouchTool has an action that hides all menu items.
You can assign arbitrary keyboard shortcuts or mouse / touchpad gestures.
BetterTouchTool is commercial software (pay what you want – $3.99 minimum). During the 45 day trial phase you can use all features of BTT.
A: An app called AccessMenuBarApps allows you to do that by basically providing a keyboard shortcut to an application with no application menu items. It's free, so it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
A: NoMenuBar is a free app whose only purpose is to have no menus other than it's name so that you can switch to it and see more menu bar icons.
This isn't a direct solution to the question (not have to switch to another app), but it did help me see more icons that even Finder's menus were obscuring.
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beb9beec8282c335af1c834b922cb4d9ebe94751 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What software is available to customize the functionality of the Apple Remote? I am looking to change the functionality of the buttons on the Apple Remote. What software is available to do this?
A: The free BetterTouchTool can do this:
You can set up complex actions to be triggered by any of the buttons being either pressed or held.
| Q: What software is available to customize the functionality of the Apple Remote? I am looking to change the functionality of the buttons on the Apple Remote. What software is available to do this?
A: The free BetterTouchTool can do this:
You can set up complex actions to be triggered by any of the buttons being either pressed or held.
A: Mira can customize the Apple Remote buttons on a per-app basis, and costs $16.
Remote Buddy allows you to customize the Apple Remote and many other devices, however it does cost more than Mira.
Better Touch Tool also allows you to customize the actions of an Apple Remote, as well as trackpad/mouse, but there seems to be issues with the default action still firing with BetterTouchTool (see this question). It is free though.
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d8084a046b69a711bdeedff6153f6f24dd40cd1a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which model of Macintosh has the longest battery life? I was exclusively a PC man (specifically Dell, Gateway, and HP), but I am now planning to buy a Mac, because my sister has a Mac, with a battery life (much) longer than mine, and I would like to benefit from that. Could anyone suggest the best Mac to buy if I want the longest battery life possible. I mean really the longest, even if it sacrifices other things to achieve it.
A: According to Apple's website, the 13" MacBook Air and all of the MacBook Pros have 7 hours of battery life. This means that there are seven laptops for you to choose from: Four 13" computers, two 15", and one 17". The possibility of getting more than 7 hours exists, because this number is determined in this manner:
The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 50%.
—Apple (at the very bottom of the page, point number 2).
| Q: Which model of Macintosh has the longest battery life? I was exclusively a PC man (specifically Dell, Gateway, and HP), but I am now planning to buy a Mac, because my sister has a Mac, with a battery life (much) longer than mine, and I would like to benefit from that. Could anyone suggest the best Mac to buy if I want the longest battery life possible. I mean really the longest, even if it sacrifices other things to achieve it.
A: According to Apple's website, the 13" MacBook Air and all of the MacBook Pros have 7 hours of battery life. This means that there are seven laptops for you to choose from: Four 13" computers, two 15", and one 17". The possibility of getting more than 7 hours exists, because this number is determined in this manner:
The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 50%.
—Apple (at the very bottom of the page, point number 2).
A: My experience is the entry level 13" MacBook Air is quite miserly, but no where near the battery runtime of the enormous 17 inch MacBook Pro. Even with a high end GPU and CPU - it has so much power it's the winner for all day performance according to people I know that have them.
The current 15 inch MacBook Pro are a bit more power hungry than the ones of the mid 2009 vintage - so if you can wait, many are speculating whatever new Ivy Bridge based MacBook Pro eventually gets released will likely be less hot (and get better battery life) than the current CPU/GPU lineup. If you can't wait and need, need, need all day battery life - I'd pick up a used Mid 2009 or early 2010 model and just watch the CPU to make sure you quit programs that will reduce it from 10 hour life down to 5 to 7 life at a more active CPU load. The nice thing about the older mac is you can pin the GPU to the integrated one and know it will be miserly with the power.
Now if I don't take your question literally, but wholistically - you should get a $399 iPad and the $999 MacBook Air. Together, they are a potent combination for Netflix and productivity - I could see you getting 10 hours of netflix and 5 hours of laptop life in "one charge"
A: It depends on what you mean by "battery life". Charge capacity will decrease over the usable life of the battery, so if you mean "max charge capacity", @Mahnax gives you this information above.
If you mean longest usable life, this is largely dependent on usage patterns. Different factors play into usable life, as this article points out:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3008527?start=0&tstart=0
The key point of this article is that you should use (read: disconnect from AC power) your battery a little bit every day to get the most usable life out of it.
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3f398d94bb6fa7a85f26b0393afc2985a01d6dde | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Quicktime Screen Recording doesn't work in Lion When starting a new Screen Recording in Quicktime Player in Lion 10.7.3, as soon as I click record I get this following error message:
Here's a video demonstrating the issue: http://db.tt/CROyXgIt
Here are the settings under the triangle on the right:
A: Finally figured it out - apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.
| Q: Quicktime Screen Recording doesn't work in Lion When starting a new Screen Recording in Quicktime Player in Lion 10.7.3, as soon as I click record I get this following error message:
Here's a video demonstrating the issue: http://db.tt/CROyXgIt
Here are the settings under the triangle on the right:
A: Finally figured it out - apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.
A: Simply restarting my mac worked for me.
A: FWIW, I ran into this issue today and the problem was with the external monitor. After unplugging the Apple Display, I was able to see the phone screen output fine.
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2551e8b6849db1c649cabe432a251796142b3488 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I download the versions of Safari that are newer than what Apple ships? I'm a web developer that makes webapps that work in all modern browsers. Amazingly enough, I use 100% valid HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Occasionally, I have to release interesting fixes, to say the least, because my webapps don't work in the latest versions for some reason.
Thus, I have the latest versions of all browsers as well as the betas. Firefox Aurora, Chrome Canary, IE10, and Opera Next 12.
I have but one missing: Safari. Of course I have the normal version of Safari, but can I get ahead of the curve before the launch of the next Safari update by Apple?
I'm looking for either the Mac or the Windows versions - both if possible.
A: Safari is Apple’s build of WebKit. Nightly WebKit builds are available at nightly.webkit.org.
| Q: Where can I download the versions of Safari that are newer than what Apple ships? I'm a web developer that makes webapps that work in all modern browsers. Amazingly enough, I use 100% valid HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Occasionally, I have to release interesting fixes, to say the least, because my webapps don't work in the latest versions for some reason.
Thus, I have the latest versions of all browsers as well as the betas. Firefox Aurora, Chrome Canary, IE10, and Opera Next 12.
I have but one missing: Safari. Of course I have the normal version of Safari, but can I get ahead of the curve before the launch of the next Safari update by Apple?
I'm looking for either the Mac or the Windows versions - both if possible.
A: Safari is Apple’s build of WebKit. Nightly WebKit builds are available at nightly.webkit.org.
A: If you are registered as a Safari Developer (which is free for anyone), you sometimes get access to beta builds of Safari. For example, developers currently get access to a beta of Safari 5.2, the version shipping with Mountain Lion. Think of this as the beta channel of Chrome - where its much more stable and almost OK for daily use. I am not sure if the beta is available for Windows right now, but they usually do offer a beta build closer to release time (this is also usually too when its no longer a private beta, but a public use beta). The difference in these beta builds are usually more user-oriented new features, etc.
Safari (and Chrome, and a few other browsers) are built on WebKit, and you can download nightly development builds on their site. Think of this as the Chrome Dev channel, or moreso Canary with nightly new features (and bugs). The focus of this version is nightly bug fixes or new features.
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8a7a8e0aa44fe879b0f5d8db0be172fa4b426dee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I access my Photostream on Windows? I'm trying to swipe a couple photostream pictures onto a borrowed windows laptop, but I can't find any way to do that via the web.
Can I access my photostream in any way other than iTunes? I'd rather not install it on someone else's PC.
A: On a Windows system you can access Photo Stream by installing iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
Based on the description it allows you to access all the features within iCloud. Though this is only supported in Vista and Windows 7.
The iCloud Control Panel is required to use Photo Stream, Mail,
Contacts and Calendars (Microsoft Outlook 2007 or later required) and
Bookmarks (Safari 5.1.1 or Internet Explorer 8 or later required).
| Q: How can I access my Photostream on Windows? I'm trying to swipe a couple photostream pictures onto a borrowed windows laptop, but I can't find any way to do that via the web.
Can I access my photostream in any way other than iTunes? I'd rather not install it on someone else's PC.
A: On a Windows system you can access Photo Stream by installing iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
Based on the description it allows you to access all the features within iCloud. Though this is only supported in Vista and Windows 7.
The iCloud Control Panel is required to use Photo Stream, Mail,
Contacts and Calendars (Microsoft Outlook 2007 or later required) and
Bookmarks (Safari 5.1.1 or Internet Explorer 8 or later required).
A: The most native way to access your Photostream is indeed installing the iCloud Control Panel, just like Justwes told you to do.
If you are looking for some web-based solution, you should try the freshly updated Dropbox app. It has a feature called Photo Upload, which will enable you to automatically upload (all) your photos from your iPhone to Dropbox. By doing so, you will not only earn up to 3GB of extra (free) space, but you'll also be able to access your photos by surfing to your Dropbox account!
A: Just go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam 2\userdata\94328772\760\remote\107410\screenshots
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492c6522d4a73689aa8f861607b125bad33a231f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying? How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies?
My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.
A: Daisy Disk
It's a killer app for analyzing disk use on a Mac. It'll scan all your drives and shows you disk use broken down by customizable buckets: file types, programs, tags, etc. It can show you all the disk space used by a program like Skype if you like and more.
Edit: it's also on sale right now for $10.
| Q: How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying? How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies?
My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.
A: Daisy Disk
It's a killer app for analyzing disk use on a Mac. It'll scan all your drives and shows you disk use broken down by customizable buckets: file types, programs, tags, etc. It can show you all the disk space used by a program like Skype if you like and more.
Edit: it's also on sale right now for $10.
A: If you want to find out how much space an Application and it's associated files are taking up (not just the .app bundle), AppCleaner works great for that. As you can see in this screenshot for Chrome, it shows the application itself, as well as preferences, caches, etc. all nicely totaled up.
A: Disk Inventory maps out your disk usage graphically. Easiest way.
A: Grand Perspective is an open-source application that is free. Similarly to Disk Inventory, it uses a tree map for visualization of the file system. The bigger a block, the bigger the file.
A: Alternatively, if you want to use the command line and (looking at the 2nd part of your question) you're just interested in which files are taking up the most space, I often use the find command.
find ~ -size +50M
will find all files within your home directory (~) greater than 50MB.
You can modify the size descriptor after the number like so (see man find)
k kilobytes (1024 bytes)
M megabytes (1024 kilobytes)
G gigabytes (1024 megabytes)
T terabytes (1024 gigabytes)
P petabytes (1024 terabytes)
A: I am using OmniDiskSweeper. It shows you a nice overview of your used diskspaced and which directory is taking how much space.
It can also erases the data.
A: I hate to spoil the party, but I understand the idea is that the disk is getting too full? so why installing an extra application when a simple 'get info' would do the trick?
For Skype:
followed by:
will tell you how big an App is without need for extra space taking software.
In addition, a second alternative is to use the Terminal typing:
du -sh /Applications/Skype.app/
53M /Applications/Skype.app/
The differences in size between what the Finder gives and what du gives are due to the fact they calculate size in base 10 (the Finder) and in base 2 (du). See also this link on the matter:
du -sh vs Finder file size
A: Late answer but I have never regretted buying an app called "What Size" for my IMAC... its great for finding out whats taking up so much space... and you view everything all at once, not piece by piece. Very user friendly, no reading required, best $10 bucks I spent. Maybe I would have tried the free ones first though if I had known about them, but I'm still very happy with "What Size"
A: If you're looking to clear up space, Skype logs and the occasional text file will no effect.
If you want to make a substantial cut on space without making your mac bulimic, I suggest Monolingual (free and open source), which deletes unused language support (which is usually around 500 MB to 2 GB) and redundant app binaries.
Most Mac apps are "universal," meaning they support both Intel and (the older) PowerPC processor architectures, by having every application contain a binary compiled for each. If you're running an Intel Mac, monolingual can be used to delete the unused app binaries, saving 1-2 GB
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54f226c3e9a042df195a12dabfe41920d3e4ed36 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Have battery status only show in menu bar when running on battery power I use my MacBook Pro plugged in to power and an external monitor 90% of the time, and thus the little charged battery indicator in the menubar is useless. However when I'm not on wall power, is there a way to have it show up? When I have that menu item disabled, my MacBook doesn't give me any low battery warnings, and just shuts down (it's happened several times).
A: I use SlimBatteryMonitor (free, donations accepted, not nagware) instead of the default menu item for the battery status.
SBM can be configured to almost disappear from the menu bar when fully charged.
If that isn't enough for you, you could run a launchd script every few minutes to check the status of the battery, to see whether or not it is fully charged, and act accordingly:
*
*If the battery is fully charged, quit SlimBatteryMonitor (if it is running)
*If the battery is NOT fully charged, run SlimBatteryMonitor (if it isn't already running)
I am actually doing something like this already. I just uploaded the necessary files to
https://github.com/tjluoma/slimbatterymonitor
| Q: Have battery status only show in menu bar when running on battery power I use my MacBook Pro plugged in to power and an external monitor 90% of the time, and thus the little charged battery indicator in the menubar is useless. However when I'm not on wall power, is there a way to have it show up? When I have that menu item disabled, my MacBook doesn't give me any low battery warnings, and just shuts down (it's happened several times).
A: I use SlimBatteryMonitor (free, donations accepted, not nagware) instead of the default menu item for the battery status.
SBM can be configured to almost disappear from the menu bar when fully charged.
If that isn't enough for you, you could run a launchd script every few minutes to check the status of the battery, to see whether or not it is fully charged, and act accordingly:
*
*If the battery is fully charged, quit SlimBatteryMonitor (if it is running)
*If the battery is NOT fully charged, run SlimBatteryMonitor (if it isn't already running)
I am actually doing something like this already. I just uploaded the necessary files to
https://github.com/tjluoma/slimbatterymonitor
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8d98e6b60b6ce0c0ce8e09cece46c82f2dc5c523 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the refresh rate/sampling rate for the sudden motion sensor? I like using my macbook pro's sudden motion sensors as an accelerometer for small at-home experiments. There are applications such as Seismac that already let you do this.
I'm now writing one myself for my own purposes, but I couldn't find the sampling rate/refresh rate for the motion sensors. This information is critical if you need to reconstruct the 3D path accurately. Does anyone know where I can find this information?
A: The refresh rate of the sudden motion sensor is variable.
The supported bandwith depends on the hardware used; so you have to do some more research on the specific motion sensor used in your model. I've searched ifixit without much success.
According to SeisMac the motion sensor used in the first Macbook Pro is the KXM-52. The specifications state the bandwidth depends on the axis:
*
*x, y axis: 0 to 3000 Hz
*z axis: 0 to 1500 Hz
[source: KXM-52 tech specs]
SeisMac itself only allows to set refresh rates between 10-500 Hz in its preferences.
| Q: What's the refresh rate/sampling rate for the sudden motion sensor? I like using my macbook pro's sudden motion sensors as an accelerometer for small at-home experiments. There are applications such as Seismac that already let you do this.
I'm now writing one myself for my own purposes, but I couldn't find the sampling rate/refresh rate for the motion sensors. This information is critical if you need to reconstruct the 3D path accurately. Does anyone know where I can find this information?
A: The refresh rate of the sudden motion sensor is variable.
The supported bandwith depends on the hardware used; so you have to do some more research on the specific motion sensor used in your model. I've searched ifixit without much success.
According to SeisMac the motion sensor used in the first Macbook Pro is the KXM-52. The specifications state the bandwidth depends on the axis:
*
*x, y axis: 0 to 3000 Hz
*z axis: 0 to 1500 Hz
[source: KXM-52 tech specs]
SeisMac itself only allows to set refresh rates between 10-500 Hz in its preferences.
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744b8d57ffe743c432bc89486b056e9cb440430d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to specify "play next" in iTunes? When iTunes is playing songs from a Playlist, sometimes I just want to play a song from later in the playlist. Is there a way to load songs into a queue, or to tell iTunes to play another song next?
I'm using iTunes 10.6.0.40 on Windows 7.
A: You could use iTunes DJ. Select the playlist that you want from the list in the left-hand corner.
Then, you can right click on a song, and select "Play next in iTunes DJ"
| Q: How to specify "play next" in iTunes? When iTunes is playing songs from a Playlist, sometimes I just want to play a song from later in the playlist. Is there a way to load songs into a queue, or to tell iTunes to play another song next?
I'm using iTunes 10.6.0.40 on Windows 7.
A: You could use iTunes DJ. Select the playlist that you want from the list in the left-hand corner.
Then, you can right click on a song, and select "Play next in iTunes DJ"
A: I believe you need to use the iTunes DJ playlist feature to do something like this. It's located on the top of the Playlists list.
This let's you:
Change the list of upcoming songs at any time by adding, removing, or reordering them.
Once you have it enabled, you can right-click a song and choose Play Next in iTunes DJ.
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9402141fe69abb9d19e1638d27897fd6cb623e68 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch to a tab in mobile Safari without it reloading? Many times when I'm on Safari on my iPhone and I choose to switch to a new tab, instead of just displaying its contents, it reloads the entire tab. Is there any way to switch to the tab and prevent it from reloading the tab?
I tried turning off all network connections, but it still attempts to load the tab, fails, and shows a blank page.
A: The bottleneck is the available free memory (RAM) on the iPhone.
If Safari starts running out of memory it will flush the contents of older tabs meaning they have to reload when you switch back to them.
If you have too many tabs open, or you simply have multiple tabs that each have a large web page in them, Safari will reload when you switch back to another tab. There’s no fixed limit; it depends on the combined size of the HTML + all assets each web page you have open and on the total number of tabs you have open.
As the available RAM in new iPhone models increases, this will become less and less of a problem.
| Q: How to switch to a tab in mobile Safari without it reloading? Many times when I'm on Safari on my iPhone and I choose to switch to a new tab, instead of just displaying its contents, it reloads the entire tab. Is there any way to switch to the tab and prevent it from reloading the tab?
I tried turning off all network connections, but it still attempts to load the tab, fails, and shows a blank page.
A: The bottleneck is the available free memory (RAM) on the iPhone.
If Safari starts running out of memory it will flush the contents of older tabs meaning they have to reload when you switch back to them.
If you have too many tabs open, or you simply have multiple tabs that each have a large web page in them, Safari will reload when you switch back to another tab. There’s no fixed limit; it depends on the combined size of the HTML + all assets each web page you have open and on the total number of tabs you have open.
As the available RAM in new iPhone models increases, this will become less and less of a problem.
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ec2dbd8a3e95e05158363240bd8a865000bd3de8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Locking an iPhone if button is broken? My friend's iPhone's sleep/wake button no longer works. Is there any way to turn off the screen besides setting up auto-lock and waiting a few minutes?
A: *
*Download and install the Find My iPhone app.
*When you want to lock the screen, launch the app, find your own iPhone.
*Remote Lock your own iPhone
ps - I never said it was an elegant solution :-) The OP asked "Is there any way" [emphasis added]. This works, I tested it myself.
| Q: Locking an iPhone if button is broken? My friend's iPhone's sleep/wake button no longer works. Is there any way to turn off the screen besides setting up auto-lock and waiting a few minutes?
A: *
*Download and install the Find My iPhone app.
*When you want to lock the screen, launch the app, find your own iPhone.
*Remote Lock your own iPhone
ps - I never said it was an elegant solution :-) The OP asked "Is there any way" [emphasis added]. This works, I tested it myself.
A: If you go to:
*
*Settings
*General
*Accessibility
*Assistive Touch
It provides a transparent circle icon in which you can do many things, such as locking the screen, snapshots, home button, and much more! It worked great for me (my lock button broke as well).
A: if your phone is jailbroken, you can download and install activator which allows you to change any other buttons to the lock button. You can also set pressing the home button twice to lock or other finger gestures to lock too. Mine got jammed and I used the volume up button to lock because the assistive button is really painful to use I have to click 3-4 times before locking my phone.
A: It appears that if you go into Settings > General > Accessibility and enable Assistive Touch, a new transparent button appears on your iPhone. This button can be accessed all the time. It is overlayed over anything appearing on your phone. If you tap it, and then tap Device, one of the options is Lock Screen.
Instead of having the icon always be visible, you can go to the Triple-click Home setting under the Accessibility page and choose AssistiveTouch. This way you can easily show or hide the button with a triple-click of the home button!
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266c6a2e50cf6655ad617b039104499f0d8d3033 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can all Mac executables be copied between machines? Many programs for OS X simply ask to drop the executable into the Applications directory. This obviously means that copying the executable onto another machine is possible without problems.
What about applications that go through an installer (for example iWork) - do these do something extra? Can I simply copy the Pages executable onto another machine and have it run?
A: No
If the application requires an installer, it needs to be installed on each machine. This includes pre-MAS (Mac App Store) iWorks and Microsoft Office 2011 for example.
Only applications that were not downloaded from the MAS and explicitly specify installation by copying the executable can be copied between machines.
Applications purchased through MAS can be copied between machines as long as the user logging into MAS on the target machine is the same user that originally purchased the application.
| Q: Can all Mac executables be copied between machines? Many programs for OS X simply ask to drop the executable into the Applications directory. This obviously means that copying the executable onto another machine is possible without problems.
What about applications that go through an installer (for example iWork) - do these do something extra? Can I simply copy the Pages executable onto another machine and have it run?
A: No
If the application requires an installer, it needs to be installed on each machine. This includes pre-MAS (Mac App Store) iWorks and Microsoft Office 2011 for example.
Only applications that were not downloaded from the MAS and explicitly specify installation by copying the executable can be copied between machines.
Applications purchased through MAS can be copied between machines as long as the user logging into MAS on the target machine is the same user that originally purchased the application.
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63bba4711f6e173ed3ae8876ba9df77dc7724dab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does the iPad auto-correct work exactly? When I type in something incorrectly, or if I'm in the middle of typing, the iPad sometimes shows up an auto-correct suggestion. If I click on the suggestion to choose it, it disappears. And then, when I type the word again, the auto-correct doesn't appear.
How do I get the iPad to actually respond to my auto-correct choice? I tried Googling, but it didn't turn up any results.
A: AutoCorrect will automatically replace the word unless you cancel it manually by tapping it. (Note the small × sign in the suggestion bubble indicating that tapping it will cancel the suggestion.)
So, as soon as an AutoCorrect suggestion appears that you want to use, just hit Space (or insert a punctuation mark) and continue typing.
| Q: How does the iPad auto-correct work exactly? When I type in something incorrectly, or if I'm in the middle of typing, the iPad sometimes shows up an auto-correct suggestion. If I click on the suggestion to choose it, it disappears. And then, when I type the word again, the auto-correct doesn't appear.
How do I get the iPad to actually respond to my auto-correct choice? I tried Googling, but it didn't turn up any results.
A: AutoCorrect will automatically replace the word unless you cancel it manually by tapping it. (Note the small × sign in the suggestion bubble indicating that tapping it will cancel the suggestion.)
So, as soon as an AutoCorrect suggestion appears that you want to use, just hit Space (or insert a punctuation mark) and continue typing.
A: If you are typing and your iPad suggest you something, you should just continue typing or hit the spacebar and your iPad will correct it automatically.
If you take a close look at the suggestions, you'll see a small cross at the right side. Clicking on the suggesting, will make the suggestion disappear since you closed the pop-up.
And once you've closed the popup, it won't be shown in the same word again if you retype the same word.
A: Thanks. I was having trouble figuring that out. I have to agree, the space bar is a bit counterintuitive, especially when you're used to Android. I do wish iOS would give multiple options like Android does. Each has its strong and weak points. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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fe09126aba1233f8f1d64dddab2d736345e479cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I transfer my old mail to my new Lion mail.app I have a new imac with Lion. How can I transfer my imap mail from my older imac with 10.5.8?
A: In the IMAP protocol, all E-Mails are stored and managed on the server. This allows multiple clients on different computers to manage the same mailbox.
By default, the Mail.app in OSX Lion also stores Drafts, Notes and Sent Messages on the server.
Just setup your mail account in System Preferences → Mail, Contacts & Calendars and you should be fine. Your E-Mails will be downloaded from the server.
| Q: How do I transfer my old mail to my new Lion mail.app I have a new imac with Lion. How can I transfer my imap mail from my older imac with 10.5.8?
A: In the IMAP protocol, all E-Mails are stored and managed on the server. This allows multiple clients on different computers to manage the same mailbox.
By default, the Mail.app in OSX Lion also stores Drafts, Notes and Sent Messages on the server.
Just setup your mail account in System Preferences → Mail, Contacts & Calendars and you should be fine. Your E-Mails will be downloaded from the server.
A: You can use the Migration Assistant to import data from another Mac. It can transfer important information, such as user accounts, applications, network and computer settings, and files, from one Mac computer to another via a FireWire cable, ThunderBolt cable, or via an Ethernet or wireless network.
See “OS X Lion: How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac”.
P.S. As @gentmatt points out, for IMAP-based accounts you don’t need to transfer anything. Just set up your account and it will start downloading your messages. If you’d rather not re-download your entire mail archive, I’d recommend using the Migration Assistant though.
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c15c84dc9a70b8c5c1a4dd6c7489ddcecb5ba016 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I silently start up my MacBook Air? When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.
However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.
How do I start up my Mac silently?
A: This is the only thing that worked for me under OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) on a 2012-era Mac Mini (Core i5 Intel CPU). In Terminal.app, enter the following command:
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80
The sudo command will ask for your login password. It needs elevated privileges to update your Mac's NVRAM settings (the Mac equivalent of a PC's BIOS). Don't be put off by the %80 value. It will indeed mute the start-up chime.
If you ever decide you want the chime back again, delete the setting from NVRAM with this command:
sudo nvram -d SystemAudioVolume
| Q: How do I silently start up my MacBook Air? When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.
However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.
How do I start up my Mac silently?
A: This is the only thing that worked for me under OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) on a 2012-era Mac Mini (Core i5 Intel CPU). In Terminal.app, enter the following command:
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80
The sudo command will ask for your login password. It needs elevated privileges to update your Mac's NVRAM settings (the Mac equivalent of a PC's BIOS). Don't be put off by the %80 value. It will indeed mute the start-up chime.
If you ever decide you want the chime back again, delete the setting from NVRAM with this command:
sudo nvram -d SystemAudioVolume
A: Plugging in headphones used to be the quick and dirty way to assure silence (back in the PPC hardware days).
Now, the self test startup chime still uses the internal speaker whether or not the headphone jack is in use, but the below trick will work on older macs. It is of use with new macs as long as you don't set your mac to reboot automatically and you don't forget about the current behavior and reboot it yourself.
I have a snipped nub of a headphone jack that I use when I am in a place where noise is prohibited no matter what the software decides.
You can get a plug without any cord for less than $5 at a store such as Radio Shack if you don't have headphones you can sacrifice or the cut cord doesn't please you.
It's simply not possible to change the NVRAM mute/volume setting after the mac is shut down (or sleeping) so even if you prepare properly, sound will be made if things don't go as planned on the shutdown.
A: For Snow Leopard and earlier machines download and install "StartupSound.prefPane" which will install a preference pane in system settings to allow you to adjust the startup volume and disable the startup sound:
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/BETA/index.en.html
Note that the above has mixed results in Lion. For Lion users the following is recommended:
*
*Login as administrator and open a terminal window
*Create scriptfile for muting
sudo nano /path/to/mute-on.sh
*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'
*Create scriptfile for unmuting
sudo nano /path/to/mute-off.sh
*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'set volume without output muted'
*Make both files executable:
sudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-on.sh
sudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-off.sh
*Check if any hooks already exist (these will be overwritten, so make sure it is OK for you)
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook
*Add hooks for muting
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/mute-on.sh
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/mute-off.sh
Notes:
*
*/path/to/ is the location of the scripts, I used /Library/Scripts/
*you can skip the unmuting loginhook (i.e. each logout will silence your machine), but I like it this way because I always have sound
available exactly at the volume level I set last time
*root has to be the owner of the script files - running an editor from command line with sudo is the easiest way to achieve that
(otherwise you need to chown)
*to delete the hooks, use the following:
sudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
sudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook
(source)
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761dbaeb3597c28f24bf951ba132f98e060f3b99 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why don't my aliases in .bashrc work? I have Lion on my Mac Air. I wrote some aliases in ~/.bashrc file, which looks like:
# Aliases
alias p='pdflatex *.tex;open *.pdf'
alias bromine='ssh [email protected]'
I then sourced my .bashrc file from .bash_profile, which I believe is sourced upon startup. My .bash_profile file looks like
# Setting PATH for EPD-7.2-2
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
MKL_NUM_THREADS=1
export MKL_NUM_THREADS
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2012-02-27_at_18:19:09: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
# source bashrc
. .bashrc
Why is it that my aliases work sometimes upon startup, but not always - (sometimes, I have to manually source .bash_profile)?
A: It seems like your bash shell is looking for .profile instead of .bashrc . What you can do is make a symbolic link:
ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.profile
and restart your session (close, reopen Terminal). Any future bash setting updates can be made to .profile or .bashrc.
| Q: Why don't my aliases in .bashrc work? I have Lion on my Mac Air. I wrote some aliases in ~/.bashrc file, which looks like:
# Aliases
alias p='pdflatex *.tex;open *.pdf'
alias bromine='ssh [email protected]'
I then sourced my .bashrc file from .bash_profile, which I believe is sourced upon startup. My .bash_profile file looks like
# Setting PATH for EPD-7.2-2
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
MKL_NUM_THREADS=1
export MKL_NUM_THREADS
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2012-02-27_at_18:19:09: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
# source bashrc
. .bashrc
Why is it that my aliases work sometimes upon startup, but not always - (sometimes, I have to manually source .bash_profile)?
A: It seems like your bash shell is looking for .profile instead of .bashrc . What you can do is make a symbolic link:
ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.profile
and restart your session (close, reopen Terminal). Any future bash setting updates can be made to .profile or .bashrc.
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550bc3e7d25980354a0c62e95951a6097faddce4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Appstore, turn off password for free apps download? is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore?
I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement
did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password
A: No, there’s no way to do that on a clean iOS install.
However, if you don’t mind jailbreaking your iOS device, you can use PasswordPilot to auto-enter your App Store password.
| Q: Appstore, turn off password for free apps download? is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore?
I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement
did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password
A: No, there’s no way to do that on a clean iOS install.
However, if you don’t mind jailbreaking your iOS device, you can use PasswordPilot to auto-enter your App Store password.
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941c620ec85075ce5c16fe043cc133245d630cae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I extract Album Art from a track? I'd like to use iTunes to extract Album Art into standard image formats (such as .png or .jpg), so that I can back them up in a location external to the iTunes library. How can I do this in iTunes?
A: For completeness sake, in case anybody else comes searching for how to do the same thing on iTunes for Windows, here's the process:
*
*In iTunes, select the song, right-click, and choose Get Info.
*Go to the Artwork tab.
*Then, click & drag the artwork to your Windows desktop. It makes a file.
That's it.
| Q: How can I extract Album Art from a track? I'd like to use iTunes to extract Album Art into standard image formats (such as .png or .jpg), so that I can back them up in a location external to the iTunes library. How can I do this in iTunes?
A: For completeness sake, in case anybody else comes searching for how to do the same thing on iTunes for Windows, here's the process:
*
*In iTunes, select the song, right-click, and choose Get Info.
*Go to the Artwork tab.
*Then, click & drag the artwork to your Windows desktop. It makes a file.
That's it.
A: *
*In iTunes select the song and press ⌘+I to Get Info.
*Go to the tab Artwork and press ⌘+C to copy the Artwork.
*Open Preview.app.
*Select File → New from Clipboard from the menu or press ⌘+N
*Save the file to a custom location. (.png, .jpg, .pdf, .tiff, ...)
Alternative for 3 to 5 : just select the artwork, and drag and drop on you desktop (or elsewhere) (it will copy the original file there; eg : if the file inside was a PNG, you'll have a PNG, if it was a JPG, you'll get a JPG)
A: (Alternative for MAC - inspired from the other two responses)
*
*In iTunes select the song and press ⌘+I
to Get Info.
*Go to the tab Artwork.
*select the artwork you want (you can have more than one in a file), and drag & drop it on you desktop (or elsewhere) (it will copy the original file there; eg :
if the file inside was a png, you'll have a png, if it was a
jpeg, you'll get a jpeg)
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c8e006a36a268dc267c967299fc4277815e3daec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna? I recently received a iPod Nano 6G for my birthday. I very quickly found out that headphones/earbuds are required for radio reception. My dad proposed the idea that the iPod uses the headphones/earbuds as the antenna. Is his hypothesis correct?
*
*Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna?
A: Yes it does. From this Apple KB doc:
[The] iPod nano uses the earphone or headphone cord as an antenna, so you must connect the earphone or headphone cord to the iPod to receive a radio signal.
| Q: Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna? I recently received a iPod Nano 6G for my birthday. I very quickly found out that headphones/earbuds are required for radio reception. My dad proposed the idea that the iPod uses the headphones/earbuds as the antenna. Is his hypothesis correct?
*
*Does the iPod Nano 6G use the headphones as an antenna?
A: Yes it does. From this Apple KB doc:
[The] iPod nano uses the earphone or headphone cord as an antenna, so you must connect the earphone or headphone cord to the iPod to receive a radio signal.
A: Most tiny radios use the headset as an antenna, and as Apple points out explicitly, so do they.
Regular speakers and other earphones would work similarly, though perhaps not as well as the pair that came with the nano, as it likely has a specific length to best pick up FM transmissions.
All wires receive radio signals, and depending on the configuration and length they are better or worse than other wires. In the case of the nano and similar FM radios that use the headphones as antennas, they use filters to couple the captured RF from the headphones into the FM receiver. The filters usually consist of inductors and capacitors and permit only the RF energy to enter the FM receiver, while blocking the speaker output from the audio driver.
The audio driver may have similar filters that block out the FM energy from the audio driver. The speakers are natural filters - they won't react to signals much above 20kHz, and the radio RF is too small to make a difference even if they did perform at 95MHz.
The cable company does the same thing when they send digital TV, analog TV, phone service, and internet to the user, and the user sends back pay per view requests, and internet and voice data. They all use different bands of the total cable bandwidth and they are separated by filters on each end so the right data gets to the right spot, even though they all share one wire. If you have DSL internet service and take the filters off your phones, you'll notice additional noise on the line - because you are now letting the phone receive the DSL signal that was blocked by the filter.
A: Yes.
From the iPod nano manual (page 29):
[The] iPod nano uses the earphone or headphone cord as an antenna, so you must connect earphones
or headphones to iPod nano in order to receive a radio signal.
Where is the Antenna?
Where is the antenna? How can I get the best possible radio reception?
The iPod Radio Remote uses your earbuds as an antenna. For best
results, connect your earbuds to the headphones port on the iPod Radio
Remote and extend/unwrap the earbuds cable completely. If you connect
your earbuds to the headphones port on your iPod, the iPod Radio
Remote will not be able to recognize it as an antenna.
[source: iPod Radio Remote - Frequently Asked Questions]
A: I plug my 5th gen directly into a set of msr 400's, no probs. better sound through a mixer!
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d4c993212aabe63f43707439d652de642bf14ac6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Screen tearing and redraw artifacts on any type of animation I purchased a Macbook AIR July 2011 model about 2 months ago and I noticed in the last few weeks that animations have a lot of screen tearing. I thought at first it was Flash animations but I notice it in HTML animations as well. It might be a browser thing since dragging around the windows quickly doesn't show any tearing. What's causing this and how can I fix it?
You can test this yourself.
Go to http://www.360flex.com/. Click on the left and right arrows on the banner. Notice the screen tearing and redraw artifacts specifically on the images.
Firefox 11
Macbook 1.7 GHz i5
Mac OS X 10.7.3
| Q: Screen tearing and redraw artifacts on any type of animation I purchased a Macbook AIR July 2011 model about 2 months ago and I noticed in the last few weeks that animations have a lot of screen tearing. I thought at first it was Flash animations but I notice it in HTML animations as well. It might be a browser thing since dragging around the windows quickly doesn't show any tearing. What's causing this and how can I fix it?
You can test this yourself.
Go to http://www.360flex.com/. Click on the left and right arrows on the banner. Notice the screen tearing and redraw artifacts specifically on the images.
Firefox 11
Macbook 1.7 GHz i5
Mac OS X 10.7.3
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a2f047efabae6198564aa8e07db34aaa79020cb0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Add Gmail Contact via iPhone I have my Gmail account configured via Exchange on my iPhone 4S. When I add a new contact, it only adds it to my phone. I have to add separately to Gmail and then merge duplicates, which seems like too many steps.
I want this to work so that any contact I add through iOS is added to my Gmail contacts, not the local phone's contacts. How can I accomplish this?
A: In the settings, set your default Contacts account to Gmail.
*
*Launch Settings
*Navigate to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
*Scroll down to Contacts
*Under default account, select the email address you use with Gmail.
Now whenever you create a contact on iOS, it will be added to Gmail. The only time a contact will not be added to Gmail is if you go into the Contacts application, select Groups on the top, and choose an account other than All Contacts or your Gmail account (e.g. iCloud).
| Q: How to Add Gmail Contact via iPhone I have my Gmail account configured via Exchange on my iPhone 4S. When I add a new contact, it only adds it to my phone. I have to add separately to Gmail and then merge duplicates, which seems like too many steps.
I want this to work so that any contact I add through iOS is added to my Gmail contacts, not the local phone's contacts. How can I accomplish this?
A: In the settings, set your default Contacts account to Gmail.
*
*Launch Settings
*Navigate to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
*Scroll down to Contacts
*Under default account, select the email address you use with Gmail.
Now whenever you create a contact on iOS, it will be added to Gmail. The only time a contact will not be added to Gmail is if you go into the Contacts application, select Groups on the top, and choose an account other than All Contacts or your Gmail account (e.g. iCloud).
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b19d4bf7a9fa1dc88b32c20237c3c5bd6e5fb2b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I keep my MacBook Air's battery cool? It seems that the best advice for battery longevity on my MacBook Air is to keep the battery cool. It doesn't have powerful fans like the MacBook Pro, so I would think that overheating is even more of a problem on an Air than a Pro. What are the best ways to keep the MacBook Air cool?
Note: this isn't a duplicate of this question since that question (and the answers) deals with how to prevent the fan noise.
A: Apple only provides a few recommendations.
Use the computer on a hard surface:
Using the computer on a soft surface like a couch, pillow, bed, or your lap can trap heat requiring higher fan activity. Using the computer on a hard flat surface like a table or desk allows for optimal radiation of heat.
Don't block the fans:
Make sure the vents remain unblocked to allow your computer to perform at its best.
On the MacBook Air, the fans are located in back.
| Q: How can I keep my MacBook Air's battery cool? It seems that the best advice for battery longevity on my MacBook Air is to keep the battery cool. It doesn't have powerful fans like the MacBook Pro, so I would think that overheating is even more of a problem on an Air than a Pro. What are the best ways to keep the MacBook Air cool?
Note: this isn't a duplicate of this question since that question (and the answers) deals with how to prevent the fan noise.
A: Apple only provides a few recommendations.
Use the computer on a hard surface:
Using the computer on a soft surface like a couch, pillow, bed, or your lap can trap heat requiring higher fan activity. Using the computer on a hard flat surface like a table or desk allows for optimal radiation of heat.
Don't block the fans:
Make sure the vents remain unblocked to allow your computer to perform at its best.
On the MacBook Air, the fans are located in back.
A: Speaking from experience, I would say that you should be cautious of running Anti-Virus apps which actively scan your computer. They are often resource intensive, and I've noticed that these apps can conflict with Spotlight and cause the CPU usage to skyrocket for a long period of time, which heats up the battery.
A: I got an iLap for my wife, and it works great.
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3f611cd1e56749d177d7c3c88c073d4517c8fe15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Tile scenes side by side in Windows 7 as virtual machine I am using Windows 7 as virtual machine under Mac OS...
The keyboard shortcuts of Windows become difficult because of the Mac keyboard...
For instance, I am used to tiling scenes in Windows by Windows icon key + right arrow or Windows icon key + left arrow, which moves the scene to the right half of the window or the left half...
However, I can't find Windows icon key now on the Mac keyboard...
So, could anyone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut to move scenes in Windows 7 as virtual machine?
A: For VMWare the command key acts as the windows key, so command+right and command+left will do what you want.
If this isn't working, you might not have the VMWare guest tools installed on the virtual machine. There are instructions here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html
| Q: Tile scenes side by side in Windows 7 as virtual machine I am using Windows 7 as virtual machine under Mac OS...
The keyboard shortcuts of Windows become difficult because of the Mac keyboard...
For instance, I am used to tiling scenes in Windows by Windows icon key + right arrow or Windows icon key + left arrow, which moves the scene to the right half of the window or the left half...
However, I can't find Windows icon key now on the Mac keyboard...
So, could anyone tell me what is the keyboard shortcut to move scenes in Windows 7 as virtual machine?
A: For VMWare the command key acts as the windows key, so command+right and command+left will do what you want.
If this isn't working, you might not have the VMWare guest tools installed on the virtual machine. There are instructions here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html
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9348503d6c3f910aea962c45496ec99c71d688d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to control AirPort wireless radio from the command line? I want to know how to control (specifically turn off) the networking (specifically AirPort - I want to turn off the radio) from the command line (specifically from bash in Terminal.app, being run by me) as a user (no sudo privileges or admin priviliges). You CAN turn off AirPort as a user, but I need to do this from the command line – as a user.
A: See OSX Daily - Enable and Disable AirPort Wireless from the Command Line in Mac OS X. Quote:
Turn Airport Off via Command Line
networksetup -setairportpower airport off
Turn Airport On via Command Line
networksetup -setairportpower airport on
You won’t see any confirmation in the Terminal that the command
succeeded or failed, but if you watch the AirPort menu icon you will
see the bars disappear indicating the wireless interface is turned
off, or reappear indicating that wireless is activated again.
NOTE: In OS X Lion, use the hardware name above instead of airport,
e.g. networksetup -setairportpower en1 off.
| Q: How to control AirPort wireless radio from the command line? I want to know how to control (specifically turn off) the networking (specifically AirPort - I want to turn off the radio) from the command line (specifically from bash in Terminal.app, being run by me) as a user (no sudo privileges or admin priviliges). You CAN turn off AirPort as a user, but I need to do this from the command line – as a user.
A: See OSX Daily - Enable and Disable AirPort Wireless from the Command Line in Mac OS X. Quote:
Turn Airport Off via Command Line
networksetup -setairportpower airport off
Turn Airport On via Command Line
networksetup -setairportpower airport on
You won’t see any confirmation in the Terminal that the command
succeeded or failed, but if you watch the AirPort menu icon you will
see the bars disappear indicating the wireless interface is turned
off, or reappear indicating that wireless is activated again.
NOTE: In OS X Lion, use the hardware name above instead of airport,
e.g. networksetup -setairportpower en1 off.
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db69696b21bcfb802bf1fb872c53627fe8c287e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does the Mac support multitouch screens in any way? I love using touch with Windows 7 and 8. Especially on Windows 8, the touchscreen finally feels like it's respected just as much as the keyboard and mouse.
So, naturally, I'd want to carry this experience over to the Mac. I've used a Macbook/MBP trackpad, but those aren't the same. They are not nearly as large and usable as a full touchscreen.
So: Does the Mac support touch screens in any way?
A: One way to get something close, is to use your iPad as a secondary display to your Mac. In this way you are able to extend your normal desktop onto the iPad and input using touch.
See this answer on a different question for more details
| Q: Does the Mac support multitouch screens in any way? I love using touch with Windows 7 and 8. Especially on Windows 8, the touchscreen finally feels like it's respected just as much as the keyboard and mouse.
So, naturally, I'd want to carry this experience over to the Mac. I've used a Macbook/MBP trackpad, but those aren't the same. They are not nearly as large and usable as a full touchscreen.
So: Does the Mac support touch screens in any way?
A: One way to get something close, is to use your iPad as a secondary display to your Mac. In this way you are able to extend your normal desktop onto the iPad and input using touch.
See this answer on a different question for more details
A: Update (2017-03-05): Since Yosemite (10.10), T232HL seems to be far less buggy. However, it's still not very multi-touch.
23" Acer T232HL works without issues with Windows 8.x and Ubuntu 14.04 -- but not with the latest-and-greatest stable release, OS X Mavericks.
OS X Mavericks recognizes it, but first few touches always go to upper-left corner (coordinates 0,0) and are interpreted as a click. Only third or fourth touch goes to the proper place -- but at that time it's already in the "click" phase, so the touch gets interpreted as a drag. It also gets recognized as a graphics tablet (Ink icon appears in System Preferences), but other than that, touchscreen is fairly useless with OS X.
Which is a shame, as its usefulness would be a middle ground between usability under Windows and Linux.
All this happens with a monitor that, to the best of my knowledge, represents itself as a standard USB HID device.
Hence, despite what other answers claim, I'd say multitouch screen support on OS X is incomplete and broken. Drawing conclusions based on multitouch touchpads or singletouch screens or singletouch graphics tablets is silly and incorrect.
There are some third-party commercial drivers that perform some magic to get multitouch screens into a usable state. Since the question was presumably about the stock OS, discussing them is out of scope for this answer.
A: Touch-Base
Touch-Base offers drivers for multi-touch support with their software UPDD Touch. According to their website, version 6 supports macOS 10.8 and above:
Our drivers can be used to add touch support where none exist or for enhanced functionality not offered by the native driver support or to support touch hardware not supported in certain operating system releases. UPDD supports multi-touch at an operating system level (if supported) but also at a native UPDD API and TUIO Server level allowing for the development and support of multi-touch and multi-user UPDD API and TUIO client applications.
...
UPDD V6 driver is available for MacOS 10.8 and above. It supports legacy serial and non-HID USB devices as well as modern HID USB devices. When using a multi-touch touch screen it supports full multi-touch gestures, mimicking the functionality of a multi-touch trackpad or magic mouse. UPDD V5 is still available for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
UPDD Touch Software is not cheap though: a single MacOS and Windows commercial / business license is USD 150, EUR 120, GBP 95.
Check the documentation for more information.
A: As far as I know, there is currently no native support for touch screens on OS X. I strongly believe this is because Apple wants you to do that on iOS instead, so I don't see touch adoption on OS X in the near future.
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8dbca7b4e320e9cbef9be472d8b6e9572d321a38 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD? As a Windows user, I've seen my share of BSODs. I've also seen some errors from Macs, but as I haven't used them as long, I don't really know what the Mac OS X error screens are like.
I've seen some kernel panics and some other error screens, but what I want to know is which one is the basic equivalent of a BSOD. Is it a kernel panic? Is it something else?
What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD?
A: A BSOD is the equivalent of kernel panic in unix and unix-like OSes. From the wiki article:
In Unix-based operating systems, a similar term is kernel panic.
That said, I've seen the following image two times over the past 3-4 years. This is a kernel panic screen, as described in this support article.
| Q: What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD? As a Windows user, I've seen my share of BSODs. I've also seen some errors from Macs, but as I haven't used them as long, I don't really know what the Mac OS X error screens are like.
I've seen some kernel panics and some other error screens, but what I want to know is which one is the basic equivalent of a BSOD. Is it a kernel panic? Is it something else?
What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD?
A: A BSOD is the equivalent of kernel panic in unix and unix-like OSes. From the wiki article:
In Unix-based operating systems, a similar term is kernel panic.
That said, I've seen the following image two times over the past 3-4 years. This is a kernel panic screen, as described in this support article.
A: There is no equivalent to a Blue Screen of Death on a Mac. Mine has been running 12 Hours a Day for 7 years with no issues whatsoever.
A: Probably gonna be the ISPL. This is much more severe in looks, but it is about equivelant.
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946c5cb4c399ae7659f719807c59edf0f6943c03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is an iTunes card country-specific? If I buy a iTunes card in Europe, Holland, could I (or anyone who has the key) use it in Australia?
A: iTunes Gift Cards will only work in the same country they were bought in.
iTunes Gift Cards are not available in Luxembourg, Portugal, or Greece. Gift recipient must have or open an iTunes Store account in the same country as purchaser to redeem gift. The iTunes Store is available only to persons age 13 or older in the U.S. and many other countries; see http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww for a list of countries. Requires iTunes 6.0 or later (7.0 or later for video), compatible hardware and software, and Internet access (fees may apply). Terms apply. See http://www.apple.com/itunes/store for more information.
Of course, if you buy a card for yourself, you’re both the purchaser and the recipient. So only buy iTunes Gift Cards in countries where you have an iTunes Store account.
| Q: Is an iTunes card country-specific? If I buy a iTunes card in Europe, Holland, could I (or anyone who has the key) use it in Australia?
A: iTunes Gift Cards will only work in the same country they were bought in.
iTunes Gift Cards are not available in Luxembourg, Portugal, or Greece. Gift recipient must have or open an iTunes Store account in the same country as purchaser to redeem gift. The iTunes Store is available only to persons age 13 or older in the U.S. and many other countries; see http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww for a list of countries. Requires iTunes 6.0 or later (7.0 or later for video), compatible hardware and software, and Internet access (fees may apply). Terms apply. See http://www.apple.com/itunes/store for more information.
Of course, if you buy a card for yourself, you’re both the purchaser and the recipient. So only buy iTunes Gift Cards in countries where you have an iTunes Store account.
A: I once had the same thing. My girlfriend bought me a iTunes Gift Card in The Netherlands, but since we live in Belgium, I couldn't use it. So I contacted Apple and the responded:
Michiel, unfortunately, gift cards and gift certificates are
redeemable only on the iTunes Store for the country for which they
were purchased. International gift exchanges are not allowed.
I know that is disappointing, and I do apologize for the
inconvenience, but perhaps your friend would like to give the card to
someone who lives in The Netherlands, or use it herself.
Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further
questions, Michiel, and I will gladly assist you further. Have an
awesome day and thanks for being a part of our iTunes family.
Sincerely,
Ms Gerri
iTunes Store Customer Support
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/
A: Well I changed my iTunes Store account and went from the Greek to the German. So, now I am buying from Germany iTunes cards and purchase items from the German App Store.
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8534d9bd3848940cf18f676ed800ddcd3ce1f140 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Getting videos directly into the Videos app I often download videos from online courses on the Internet.
When I need to transfer them to the iPad, I have to connect them to a Windows or Mac running iTunes, and drop them in there.
Is there a way I could bypass connecting to the computer, and directly have the videos downloaded to the Videos app?
A: No, not without jail breaking.
| Q: Getting videos directly into the Videos app I often download videos from online courses on the Internet.
When I need to transfer them to the iPad, I have to connect them to a Windows or Mac running iTunes, and drop them in there.
Is there a way I could bypass connecting to the computer, and directly have the videos downloaded to the Videos app?
A: No, not without jail breaking.
A: There seems no way to download the movies in the Video application.
But I've seen Video uses the YouTube video database. So you can find out a way around. If you've jailbroken your iPad, you can use Cydia to install YourTube HD which will allow you do download movies directly onto your iPad.
If you don't which to jailbreak your iPad, you can install TagDisk HD.
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4ead6cc295bc47bb72c768153ed5dad75d9d4d75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Time Capsule and multiple Macs Does the Time Capule support Time Machine backups from multiple macs out of the box?
A: Yes. Each Mac get's it's own sparse bundle disk image.
| Q: Time Capsule and multiple Macs Does the Time Capule support Time Machine backups from multiple macs out of the box?
A: Yes. Each Mac get's it's own sparse bundle disk image.
A: And to support gentmatt's answer, here is the official documentation of Apple:
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