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a2b318832f6b67f769aea40ace887ab18962b948 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use downloaded Git instead of preinstalled Git I am following the Lynda.com Git Essential Training. After he downloads and installs Git he enters which git and gets /usr/local/git/bin/git However when I do it I still get the preinstalled path /usr/bin/git
How do I change the path so I am working with my downloaded version of Git
I am using a Macbook Air - Mavericks - OS X 10.9.4 and followed the default install instructions.
A: Add the following to your ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
| Q: Use downloaded Git instead of preinstalled Git I am following the Lynda.com Git Essential Training. After he downloads and installs Git he enters which git and gets /usr/local/git/bin/git However when I do it I still get the preinstalled path /usr/bin/git
How do I change the path so I am working with my downloaded version of Git
I am using a Macbook Air - Mavericks - OS X 10.9.4 and followed the default install instructions.
A: Add the following to your ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
A: I use Homebrew, then install git using Homebrew. This makes sure that git stays on my path, and makes it easy for me to keep git up-to-date, as well as making it easy to install other software, with its dependencies.
To install things with Homebrew, you first need to install the Xcode Command Line Tools. StackOverflow has a great answer on installing the command line tools on OSX 10.9.
After you have installed the Xcode Command Line Tools, you may notice that there is a git command you can use: see Does installing Command Line Tools for Xcode also install Git? That is not the Homebrew version of git, so it doesn't track updates.
Next, go to http://brew.sh and follow their directions for installing Homebrew. That will install git into the Homebrew directory, and link git to /usr/local/bin/git. /usr/local/bin should end up on your PATH before /usr/local/git, so you will end up using the Homebrew version of git.
After that, you can install anything for which Homebrew has a formula, including the latest versions of git. Use brew update to keep your index of available packages up to date, and brew doctor to verify that your Homebrew configuration is correct. Then you can use brew upgrade git to keep your git at the latest version available to Homebrew.
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529ace75e424b2f1f71d79cc8aa7ebbf94a52847 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MBP 2011: Built-in screen mistakenly treated as external display System facts
*
*MBP (Early 2011) (15")
*OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
*No external displays connected
Chain of events
*
*Discrete GPU (AMD Radeon HD 6490M) goes bust [REF-1]
*I managed to avoid the problem by disabling all GPU drivers to force system use of integrated drivers (intel)
Key problem
*
*Since the GPU failure, my system has seemingly begun to treat the built in 1440x900 screen as an external display - this is what I want to fix
*This is preventing me from using to GfxCardStatus.app to enforce integrated graphics mode (as the external display is apparently treated as a discrete GPU dependency)
*For various reason I'd like to stop the system from attempting to harness the discrete GPU
Key question: How can I make OSX treat the built-in display as such, thereby allowing me to enforce integrated-only graphics?
[REF-1]
Apparently a widespread issue, lots of MBP 2011s discrete GPUs are frying around this time of year as a result of manufacturing faults. Google 'MBP 2011 GPU failure' for more information.
[FIG-1]
| Q: MBP 2011: Built-in screen mistakenly treated as external display System facts
*
*MBP (Early 2011) (15")
*OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
*No external displays connected
Chain of events
*
*Discrete GPU (AMD Radeon HD 6490M) goes bust [REF-1]
*I managed to avoid the problem by disabling all GPU drivers to force system use of integrated drivers (intel)
Key problem
*
*Since the GPU failure, my system has seemingly begun to treat the built in 1440x900 screen as an external display - this is what I want to fix
*This is preventing me from using to GfxCardStatus.app to enforce integrated graphics mode (as the external display is apparently treated as a discrete GPU dependency)
*For various reason I'd like to stop the system from attempting to harness the discrete GPU
Key question: How can I make OSX treat the built-in display as such, thereby allowing me to enforce integrated-only graphics?
[REF-1]
Apparently a widespread issue, lots of MBP 2011s discrete GPUs are frying around this time of year as a result of manufacturing faults. Google 'MBP 2011 GPU failure' for more information.
[FIG-1]
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931fead0b16046f2bb22908db4e53b87486ccf60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lock The Dock On Multiple Screen Setup I like all the multiple screen features in Mavericks except one.
I HATE the hit cursor to the bottom of the screen to move the dock. I've searched hi an low for a way to stick the dock to one spot. I'd even buy a product.
There must be a way to say "Dock stick to Screen 2" or 1 or whatever. I have already read that you can go back to the old behavior of multiple screens, but then I loose the other features.
| Q: Lock The Dock On Multiple Screen Setup I like all the multiple screen features in Mavericks except one.
I HATE the hit cursor to the bottom of the screen to move the dock. I've searched hi an low for a way to stick the dock to one spot. I'd even buy a product.
There must be a way to say "Dock stick to Screen 2" or 1 or whatever. I have already read that you can go back to the old behavior of multiple screens, but then I loose the other features.
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2f0f9e5ecb9eb8df573a3f5c385bc7c35764815f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mail.app in OS X — IMAP and Archive Mailbox subfolder creation I am using Mail.app with an IMAP .com email address:
For some reason, at 10.9, Mail changed and now the special "Archive" Mailbox doesn't allow for new subfolders to be added within the "Archive".
It isn't possible to add subfolders via a menu or to drag existing folders into the Archive.
A: The only workaround I have found to add subfolders to the Archive mailbox is to add a new Mailbox (in Sidebar for the IMAP Account, Right click / New Mailbox…) Choose the account and for the name box enter:
Archive/"Name of the New Folder" (without quotes, remember the slash!)
This will create a new subfolder within Archive. :)
Anyone know any other way?
| Q: Mail.app in OS X — IMAP and Archive Mailbox subfolder creation I am using Mail.app with an IMAP .com email address:
For some reason, at 10.9, Mail changed and now the special "Archive" Mailbox doesn't allow for new subfolders to be added within the "Archive".
It isn't possible to add subfolders via a menu or to drag existing folders into the Archive.
A: The only workaround I have found to add subfolders to the Archive mailbox is to add a new Mailbox (in Sidebar for the IMAP Account, Right click / New Mailbox…) Choose the account and for the name box enter:
Archive/"Name of the New Folder" (without quotes, remember the slash!)
This will create a new subfolder within Archive. :)
Anyone know any other way?
A: Under Mojave I was able to create a new mailbox that was "On My Mac" with multiple folders. I am able to create subfolders under those folders.
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7db743f3c2676067008197d2b0dec0071c3a1a7e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change m4v type from Home Video to Movie How can I via the command line change the iTunes Media type from Home Video to Movie? After I convert a DVD to m4v via Handbrake I would like to set the iTunes media type.
I can do this manually in iTunes but I'm looking for a command line approach so that I can automate it.
A: The best approach is using Subler to open the m4v file and then fetch the metadata from the iTunes Store or MovieDB. Then, just save it and add it to your iTunes library. This is as automated as the process will get.
| Q: Change m4v type from Home Video to Movie How can I via the command line change the iTunes Media type from Home Video to Movie? After I convert a DVD to m4v via Handbrake I would like to set the iTunes media type.
I can do this manually in iTunes but I'm looking for a command line approach so that I can automate it.
A: The best approach is using Subler to open the m4v file and then fetch the metadata from the iTunes Store or MovieDB. Then, just save it and add it to your iTunes library. This is as automated as the process will get.
A: Just change the extension from "m4v" to "mp4"?
Because "m4v" is - if you convert a video with Handbrake - a MPEG-4 file. And the usual extension for MPEG-4 files is "mp4" and not "m4v".
The question seems to be solved, but I have some questions to learn a little bit. :-)
*
*Why is Handbrake setting the video extension to "m4v"? This extension is unusual and for special content (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4V). As Handbrake says: convert to
MP4, so the file extension should be "mp4" and not "m4v".
*What do you mean with "iTunes Media Type" and "Home Video" - do you mean "Movies" and "TV Shows"? The difference between "Movie" and
"TV Shows" is usually only a difference if you download iTunes DRM
(aka iTunes bought or rented videos).
*How can I change the "iTunes Media type" - and what for?
*You voted "njboot" answer as solution, but I do not understand what "m4v" has to do with metadata from the iTunes Store or MovieDB.
As I said: just want to learn. My suggestion: just change "m4v" to "mp4".
I just converted a DVD with Handbrake and changed "m4v" to "mp4" - no problem. Then I added the video to iTunes (both: "m4v" and "mp4") - and both were added to "Movies".
P.S. I would prefer to post this as comment, but comments do not allow so many characters - hopefully it is okay?
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2f20d4b756080e986843af67fdcb5669ab34f935 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to transfer/copy Notes from one iDevice to another without using restore method? I tried using iCloud account. But it did not seem to work. basically, I signed into iCloud on both iDevices with same Apple ID. And making sure Notes was set to on. Newly created notes will show up on both devices. But I also need the current local previously created notes to sync as well.
Any suggestions?
A: With iOS 9:
Open the Folder containing the Notes you want to move.
Click the Edit button. It is faint. You might not see it right away.
You will see a column of selection circles ⭕️ appear, and also the words Delete All and Move All.
Tap the circles for your target Notes, then Move To ..., and the destination.
All done.
| Q: How to transfer/copy Notes from one iDevice to another without using restore method? I tried using iCloud account. But it did not seem to work. basically, I signed into iCloud on both iDevices with same Apple ID. And making sure Notes was set to on. Newly created notes will show up on both devices. But I also need the current local previously created notes to sync as well.
Any suggestions?
A: With iOS 9:
Open the Folder containing the Notes you want to move.
Click the Edit button. It is faint. You might not see it right away.
You will see a column of selection circles ⭕️ appear, and also the words Delete All and Move All.
Tap the circles for your target Notes, then Move To ..., and the destination.
All done.
A: As it turned out, Apple does not provide an option to auto sync/copy previously created notes for Notes app to iCloud in order to sync to other iDevice. From this doc:
"In Notes on your iOS device or Mac, verify that your notes are not stored in a local folder. Example: On My iPhone or On My Mac. If you have notes in these folders, you will need to copy or transfer them to iCloud or IMAP to sync with your other devices."
Well you will need to literately do what what doc said: copy/paste one note at a time to iCloud. If you had previously create notes and once you signed in iCloud account, the Notes app will show two accounts: "On My iPhone (or iPad)" and "iCloud". So you just need to do it copy and paste one note at a time the old passion way. This is no fun.
A: Its very simple, try Airdrop, open the notes on iphone from which you wish to transfer it, tap on Share icon, tap "AirDrop", and simultaneously enable "AirDrop" from other iphone, choose "Everyone" ,and you are done with it.
Only drawback is that we have transfer notes one by one.
A: Apple provides a web interface, so you can log in to https://icloud.com and see which notes are syncing.
Then once you are logged in, go to one of the devices and sign out and back in with the same Apple ID. Check that the date is correct on the device before signing back in. At that point, go to the settings app and ensure notes are synced for iCloud. Also, update your iOS device unless you have a very good reason to not run the latest version of iOS on each device.
Once you have notes syncing from the web to the first device (and back) then you can repeat the same steps with the second device.
iCloud should sync notes to multiple iOS devices as long as you are using the same exact account and have signed in correctly. I've seen a wrong date cause delays or no syncing since the code has to know which device has the last version of each note to work.
A: I used AirDrop to transfer the Notes (one at a time). The source device had two Notes accounts, one of which was syncing and one local only. The destination device had only one Notes account, which was syncing. I transferred each Note using AirDrop from the source device local account to the destination device single account. After syncing, the Notes appeared on the source device's synced account.
A: *
*iOS9.x
*open notes
*click on the right side "refresh" in the section ICLOUD
*click next. let iOS9 upgrades your notes
*now you can move your local notes to iCloud
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b5c321c26a3ff712b8f80c0d6046fca66da71e3b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I upgrade RAM on late 2013 retina Mac Book Pro? Do the late 2013 models (13" - (ME864, ME865, ME866), 15" - (ME293, ME294)) support RAM upgrades?
A: Per the teardown performed by iFixit, the RAM in Retina Displays is soldered to the logic board. It may be possible to undo the soldering and upgrade it, but the hassle is almost surely not worth it.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Teardown/18695#s53264
| Q: Can I upgrade RAM on late 2013 retina Mac Book Pro? Do the late 2013 models (13" - (ME864, ME865, ME866), 15" - (ME293, ME294)) support RAM upgrades?
A: Per the teardown performed by iFixit, the RAM in Retina Displays is soldered to the logic board. It may be possible to undo the soldering and upgrade it, but the hassle is almost surely not worth it.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Teardown/18695#s53264
A: No. The RAM is soldered to the logic board in all of these models.
Here is the logic board from iFixit's Teardown of the low end 15'' model (2.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD).
Inside the yellow box are 16 x 512 MB DDR3 SDRAM (8 GB total) memory chips. As you can see, they are soldered directly to the board and cannot be replaced without replacing the whole logicboard.
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fbdcaffbcc20549a1ef461f62478e4585dcf124a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks: Enable virtual keyboard on login screen How can the virtual keyboard be enabled at the login screen?
On Windows it is really easy, but I haven't found to way of enabling it on a Mac.
A: This answer focuses on the case where you want to access the virtual keyboard because of layout/external keyboard uncertainties.
If you only have access to a mouse/pad this answer will not help you.
There is a keyboard shortcut that propose you to access to Accessibility Options, and it is working at login screen. (Only on High Sierra.)
Opt-Cmd-F5
And for MacbookPro w/ Touch Bar:
fn-Opt-Cmd-F5 or Triple click on TouchID button
From this new window, you can click and enable the virtual keyboard:
Here is the Mac accessibility shortcuts ref from Apple.
EDIT 2: for macOS Mojave
If the problem is that you're not sure about your keyboard layout, try this:
Opt-Enter : It lets you enter the login in a clear text field. Use it to visually check your layout \o/
EDIT: (added information from comments)
*
*Only available on High Sierra
*Shortcut for MacbookPro with Touch Bar
| Q: Mavericks: Enable virtual keyboard on login screen How can the virtual keyboard be enabled at the login screen?
On Windows it is really easy, but I haven't found to way of enabling it on a Mac.
A: This answer focuses on the case where you want to access the virtual keyboard because of layout/external keyboard uncertainties.
If you only have access to a mouse/pad this answer will not help you.
There is a keyboard shortcut that propose you to access to Accessibility Options, and it is working at login screen. (Only on High Sierra.)
Opt-Cmd-F5
And for MacbookPro w/ Touch Bar:
fn-Opt-Cmd-F5 or Triple click on TouchID button
From this new window, you can click and enable the virtual keyboard:
Here is the Mac accessibility shortcuts ref from Apple.
EDIT 2: for macOS Mojave
If the problem is that you're not sure about your keyboard layout, try this:
Opt-Enter : It lets you enter the login in a clear text field. Use it to visually check your layout \o/
EDIT: (added information from comments)
*
*Only available on High Sierra
*Shortcut for MacbookPro with Touch Bar
A: I just want to expand on what Ivan has said,
According to macOS User Guide, the Turn on accessibility options in the login window on Mac option seams to be available only on macOS Mojave 10.14
I have followed the Guide and it works as expected. (I needed a way to login to my MBP since the built in keyboard is intermittently not working.)
I could not find it under Accessibility, however it can be found in
System Preferences-> Users & Groups-> Login Options Accessibility Options.
Once you have the keyboard checked it will be on the screen the next time you login.
I am currently running 10.14.6
A: I am sorry to say that this is not possible in Mac OS X unlike in Microsoft Windows. Maybe you could just wait for Apple to include it in their future releases. I hope I helped you :-)
A: The answer by itMaxence regarding High Sierra doesn't seam to be valid any more (perhaps apple changed something in one of the updates).
According to macOS User Guide, the Turn on accessibility options in the login window on Mac option seams to be available only on macOS Mojave 10.14
I can confirm that the accessibility options/keyboard is not working on 10.13.4 High Sierra when the screen is locked (login screen).
A: Actually it is possible OSX 10 allowed for onscreen keyboard in lock screen mode. I believe you have to sudo the root to enable it.
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d714859d108e888e964c76b9ba304854ce6755c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change the finder services submenu threshold? In the finder context menu, there is a list of services at the very bottom. Once this list grows beyond 4, it becomes a submenu instead.
Is there a way to affect this threshold, i. e. have five services showing on the first menu level?
A: In Terminal, paste the following line and hit return:
defaults write -g NSServicesMinimumItemCountForContextSubmenu -int 99; killall Finder
You can change 99 to whatever number you prefer – when there are 99 items or more, Finder will place them in a submenu instead of appending them to the context menu. The default is 5.
| Q: How to change the finder services submenu threshold? In the finder context menu, there is a list of services at the very bottom. Once this list grows beyond 4, it becomes a submenu instead.
Is there a way to affect this threshold, i. e. have five services showing on the first menu level?
A: In Terminal, paste the following line and hit return:
defaults write -g NSServicesMinimumItemCountForContextSubmenu -int 99; killall Finder
You can change 99 to whatever number you prefer – when there are 99 items or more, Finder will place them in a submenu instead of appending them to the context menu. The default is 5.
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dbc0d7943104c8f16080efa9a6d3fbb983bdebb9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Transferring a single folder from a Time Machine to a different Mac Recently, I purchased a new MacBook and I wanted to transfer files from the old one to the new one. I used Time Machine to back up all my files from the old Mac. Is it possible to retrieve not the entire disk, but a single file or a single folder from that back-up Time Machine to a new Mac?
A: You can also copy the folder from Finder from /Volumes/<Time Machine volume name>/Backups.backupdb/<Mac name>/.
If your backup is on a network volume like a Time Capsule, open the sparse bundle file like /Volumes/Data/Your Mac.sparsebundle/ first.
You can also run a command like cp -a /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Mac/2014-07-17-184058/HD/Users/username/folder ~/Desktop or tmutil restore /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Mac/2014-07-17-184058/HD/Users/username/folder ~/Desktop in a shell.
Finder and tmutil restore remove extended attributes like com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot but cp doesn't.
| Q: Transferring a single folder from a Time Machine to a different Mac Recently, I purchased a new MacBook and I wanted to transfer files from the old one to the new one. I used Time Machine to back up all my files from the old Mac. Is it possible to retrieve not the entire disk, but a single file or a single folder from that back-up Time Machine to a new Mac?
A: You can also copy the folder from Finder from /Volumes/<Time Machine volume name>/Backups.backupdb/<Mac name>/.
If your backup is on a network volume like a Time Capsule, open the sparse bundle file like /Volumes/Data/Your Mac.sparsebundle/ first.
You can also run a command like cp -a /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Mac/2014-07-17-184058/HD/Users/username/folder ~/Desktop or tmutil restore /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/Your\ Mac/2014-07-17-184058/HD/Users/username/folder ~/Desktop in a shell.
Finder and tmutil restore remove extended attributes like com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot but cp doesn't.
A: Try this.
Connect the external drive that you use for Time Machine backups.Once
you enter Time Machine, you should see your saved backups in
chronological order. Scroll through your backups and look for specific
items or folders. Older dates are pink, newest copies are in white.
Use the Search field in the Time Machine Finder window to locate the
file or folder you wish to restore.
Use Quick Look to select what you need, and then press the spacebar to
view the file without having to launch its parent application.
Select the file or folder, and press the Restore button. The file will
automatically be copied to your desktop or to the file’s original
folder.
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c807d504ed74dedb484573a7d983e58419aa9d27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I copy the entire scrollback buffer from iTerm2 to the clipboard? I've just run some commands and have several pages of output in iTerm2. Now I'd like to save it somewhere. (I could have piped it to a file, but I didn't think of that.)
Is there an easier way to copy it all to the clipboard that by scrolling back and highlighting for pages?
A: To capture your history of commands (but not their output):
history > ~/Desktop/history.txt
If you want output as well, the shell command script works as well to capture while you type (but it captures key presses too, so watch out) or iTerm will have some option to save a session, like the stock Terminal's ⌘ + S.
| Q: Can I copy the entire scrollback buffer from iTerm2 to the clipboard? I've just run some commands and have several pages of output in iTerm2. Now I'd like to save it somewhere. (I could have piped it to a file, but I didn't think of that.)
Is there an easier way to copy it all to the clipboard that by scrolling back and highlighting for pages?
A: To capture your history of commands (but not their output):
history > ~/Desktop/history.txt
If you want output as well, the shell command script works as well to capture while you type (but it captures key presses too, so watch out) or iTerm will have some option to save a session, like the stock Terminal's ⌘ + S.
A: Oh, right, duh. ⌘ + A to select it all, then ⌘ + C.
A: Click Shell -> Export text as...
Or press ⌘ + S.
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170f52bef9189ab084acb826275466dd32a8eb6c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Accessing Time Machine for different computer My hard drive died on Computer 1. Backed up to Time Machine. Am now using Computer 2.
I need some files from the desktop of Computer 1. Can I access them on Time Machine? How?
I have three computers all backing up to that time machine, but all I can see is the backups for Computer 2. How do I find Computer 1?
A: If you press the option key when clicking the time machine icon in the menu bar, you can browse backups from other computers.
| Q: Accessing Time Machine for different computer My hard drive died on Computer 1. Backed up to Time Machine. Am now using Computer 2.
I need some files from the desktop of Computer 1. Can I access them on Time Machine? How?
I have three computers all backing up to that time machine, but all I can see is the backups for Computer 2. How do I find Computer 1?
A: If you press the option key when clicking the time machine icon in the menu bar, you can browse backups from other computers.
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4b8c23a10adc6feec7f93648a0437db90cd775d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: List of emoji substitutions for Messages in Mac OS X I use the Messages application a lot on my Mac Book Pro. It is lovely! Since most of my friends uses iMessage I could send messages directly to them on their phones.
I use emojis a lot. I know some substitutions for popular emojis like :) gives me a smiley. However I want to be able to use substitutions for all the emojis. I find it disturbing to use the drop-down menu for inserting an emoji. This forces me to switch from the keyboard to the mouse/touchpad way to often :/
Is there a complete list of all emoji substitutions used in the Messages app?
A: This list is based off of the old iChat plist and scripting the list of emoticons from Wikipedia into Messages.app:
:)
;)
:(
B)
:D
D:
:d
;p
:p
:o
:s
:x
:|
:/
:[
:>
:@
:*
:!
o:)
>:-o
>:-)
:3
(y)
(n)
❤️ <3
Note most support using - for a nose so :-) works for as well.
| Q: List of emoji substitutions for Messages in Mac OS X I use the Messages application a lot on my Mac Book Pro. It is lovely! Since most of my friends uses iMessage I could send messages directly to them on their phones.
I use emojis a lot. I know some substitutions for popular emojis like :) gives me a smiley. However I want to be able to use substitutions for all the emojis. I find it disturbing to use the drop-down menu for inserting an emoji. This forces me to switch from the keyboard to the mouse/touchpad way to often :/
Is there a complete list of all emoji substitutions used in the Messages app?
A: This list is based off of the old iChat plist and scripting the list of emoticons from Wikipedia into Messages.app:
:)
;)
:(
B)
:D
D:
:d
;p
:p
:o
:s
:x
:|
:/
:[
:>
:@
:*
:!
o:)
>:-o
>:-)
:3
(y)
(n)
❤️ <3
Note most support using - for a nose so :-) works for as well.
A: Easiest way I've found without doing anything outrageous was to:
*
*Type the key combination Cmd-Ctrl-Space
Emoji keyboard comes up! Also gives you more options. For example: ☃☼☞⚽︎⚾︎✇
*From System Prefs > Keyboard, there is also an option to keep an icon in the menu bar.
Not exactly a substitution for the emoji keyboard, but makes it a lot easier to just be able to open it with a quick command and then forget about it.
A: You can define your own ones for emojis that are not pre-defined.
Open System Preferences > Keyboard and then navigate to the Text tab.
*
*Click on the Plus Symbol on the left bottom corner
*Type the text you want to replace with a emoji into the left field
*Double Click on the right field
*Go to the menu and click on Edit > Special Characters ...
*There you can add your favourite emoij (or even more than one)
It's not a real shortcut solution, but a workaround when you want to use emojis a lot.
A: I have recently bought a mac and wanted to know the same question I've recently discovered the easiest way to do it. If you go onto your settings and click the key board option, then select the text sub heading it will give you the option to create your own shortcut I put the short cut that i wanted to use in the left hand side box. If you then double click the right hand side box and hold down ctrl cmd and space bar at the same time it will come up with a list of emojis which you can then insert. Then you are ready to use them in your messages.
Hope this helps
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528a1e404b47cb9109d512a0092aa2013cb6c7f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Run program if connected to specific wifi? Is it possible to have a program starting automatically when I connect to a specific router, and having it stop when I disconnect from this router?
Basically I want a program to run while I'm at work (flexible hours, so I can't just have some sort of timer function) but not when I'm at home - or somewhere else.
I'm running:
Macbook air
OS X Version 10.9.4
A: I've created sample daemon app for this purpose. You can find it on Github.
To make it run:
*
*Compile it using Xcode.
*Move Network Listener.app to /Applications dir.
*Move .networkConnected and .networkDisconnected to Your $HOME dir.
*Move Network-Listener.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
*Make .networkConnected and .networkDisconnected executable.
It will automatically run when You log in to Your account. If You want to test it run this in Terminal:
launchctl load -S Aqua -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/Network-Listener.plist
Scripts receive SSID name as arguments.
Feel free to change it for Your needs. In case of any problems let me know.
Everything was created to show the possibilities, a lot of things can be improved.
| Q: Run program if connected to specific wifi? Is it possible to have a program starting automatically when I connect to a specific router, and having it stop when I disconnect from this router?
Basically I want a program to run while I'm at work (flexible hours, so I can't just have some sort of timer function) but not when I'm at home - or somewhere else.
I'm running:
Macbook air
OS X Version 10.9.4
A: I've created sample daemon app for this purpose. You can find it on Github.
To make it run:
*
*Compile it using Xcode.
*Move Network Listener.app to /Applications dir.
*Move .networkConnected and .networkDisconnected to Your $HOME dir.
*Move Network-Listener.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
*Make .networkConnected and .networkDisconnected executable.
It will automatically run when You log in to Your account. If You want to test it run this in Terminal:
launchctl load -S Aqua -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/Network-Listener.plist
Scripts receive SSID name as arguments.
Feel free to change it for Your needs. In case of any problems let me know.
Everything was created to show the possibilities, a lot of things can be improved.
A: You can use Sidekick which lets you perform 'actions' when changing location. The location is reported using the specific Wi-Fi, which means you can do things when the Wi-Fi changes.
Sidekick is an application that automatically updates your laptop settings based on where you are. Just install the app, configure the places that you frequent, (home, work, a coffee shop, etc.) and never fuss with your settings again!
A: wifi-location-changer is a project on GitHub which runs the shell script locationchanger every time the Wifi SSID changes. locationchanger sets the variable LOCATION and runs scselect "$LOCATION", you can replace that with your own action.
A: You can use ControlPlane where you can set up rules to carry out tasks such as opening apps based on various criteria which includes connecting to Wi-Fi.
ControlPlane supports multiple contexts where a context is defined as a location or activity you are performing. Using evidence sources you can create a set of rules that tell ControlPlane what context to apply to your environment. When ControlPlane enters or leaves a context a set of Actions are performed.
ControlPlaneX, an unofficial fork of the open source project, has kept the project working to Mojave.
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4a1362527d2def34ed533adacea1fa34db9f4a87 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pixelmator's Pixel Tool Not Available This is probably a really stupid question, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. I want to use the pixel tool in Pixelmator, but I can't find it. Below is a picture of my toolbar. Is there something I'm missing?
A:
You need to manually add the Pixel Tool to the Tools palette first.
You can add it there manually by choosing Pixelmator > Preferences > Tools > Painting. Then simply drag it onto the Tools palette to place it there.
Source: http://support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10260
| Q: Pixelmator's Pixel Tool Not Available This is probably a really stupid question, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. I want to use the pixel tool in Pixelmator, but I can't find it. Below is a picture of my toolbar. Is there something I'm missing?
A:
You need to manually add the Pixel Tool to the Tools palette first.
You can add it there manually by choosing Pixelmator > Preferences > Tools > Painting. Then simply drag it onto the Tools palette to place it there.
Source: http://support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10260
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4026f9f4a88982132a1155941344848a29bdf9d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will deleting Clash of Clans on an old device affect progression on a new device? My sister transferred her Clash of Clans to her new iPhone. Now I have the old iPhone. I want to download and play Clash of Clans. Will her Clash of Clans be deleted from her new phone if I delete her Clash of Clans on the old phone?
A: You can delete Clash of Clans from the old phone and it won't affect Clash of Clans on the new phone.
You should create your own Game Center ID to play on the old phone. This will ensure your games don't interfere with her games. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4314 for steps to create a Game Center account if you don't know how to do this.
| Q: Will deleting Clash of Clans on an old device affect progression on a new device? My sister transferred her Clash of Clans to her new iPhone. Now I have the old iPhone. I want to download and play Clash of Clans. Will her Clash of Clans be deleted from her new phone if I delete her Clash of Clans on the old phone?
A: You can delete Clash of Clans from the old phone and it won't affect Clash of Clans on the new phone.
You should create your own Game Center ID to play on the old phone. This will ensure your games don't interfere with her games. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4314 for steps to create a Game Center account if you don't know how to do this.
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e0ffa437e515cd5dfebc121b8dc89ab132db6f9b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you type ~ on the iPhone's keyboard? The iPhone keyboard has support for typing characters like ¿ by selecting a similar character on the keyboard and holding the key for a short time. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to type a ~ character (a tilde). How does one do that?
A: On keyboard, press the 123 button to bring up numbers. From here press #+= to bring up more characters. ~ is the 4th from the left, second row.
Answered on an iPhone :D
| Q: How do you type ~ on the iPhone's keyboard? The iPhone keyboard has support for typing characters like ¿ by selecting a similar character on the keyboard and holding the key for a short time. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to type a ~ character (a tilde). How does one do that?
A: On keyboard, press the 123 button to bring up numbers. From here press #+= to bring up more characters. ~ is the 4th from the left, second row.
Answered on an iPhone :D
A: It depends on the language of the keyboard. In the German keyboard it is the third from the left, second row. In the English keyboard also. And in the SwissGerman also, and in the Dutch also.
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67e87b104155a83e1a526edd2bfb172a2605d8d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Transfer iPad games to external hard drive? I have a 16gb iPad 2. Most of the space is taken up by games and it's hard figuring out what games I want to remove to open up space. Is there a way to transfer the games wirelessly to an external hard drive? I know on Android, you can transfer games to a micro sd card. Not sure if it's possible on an iOS device.
A: No, unless the device is jailbroken. Without jailbreaking, the applications can't be transferred elsewhere and remain useable.
| Q: Transfer iPad games to external hard drive? I have a 16gb iPad 2. Most of the space is taken up by games and it's hard figuring out what games I want to remove to open up space. Is there a way to transfer the games wirelessly to an external hard drive? I know on Android, you can transfer games to a micro sd card. Not sure if it's possible on an iOS device.
A: No, unless the device is jailbroken. Without jailbreaking, the applications can't be transferred elsewhere and remain useable.
A: You can use iFunbox to backup your data to your mac/pc.
Note: This does not transfer your data.
If you want to transfer your data too, select everything and and save it to your mac/pc
Next, when you want to use the app, re install it through iFunbox, delete the old content and copy the data you saved to your mac back into the file in your mac.
(This is a very troublesome and long method)
A alternative is iUSBport by hyper, but I don't have it and am not sure if it works.
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3177d0c489cc0d063b93bea4615e12cec6d98fa9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are my top-row keyboard buttons not working on Mac Lion? A kid tampered with System Preferences on my Mac Air running Lion, and now, none of the top-row keyboard buttons work. For instance, altering screen brightness, toggling the dashboard, and altering volume don't work.
There does seem to be some mismatch though. For instance, pressing the eject button now takes me to the dashboard.
How can I restore the default functionalities of the top-row keyboard buttons?
A: If you check the Keyboard pane in System Preferences, you should see an option called Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. I think you'll find it checked. The default is to have it unchecked.
Then within the Mission Control pane in System Preferences, I think you'll find that "Show Dashboard" is set to F13. The default is F12 (note that the default doesn't work if Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys isn't checked).
| Q: Why are my top-row keyboard buttons not working on Mac Lion? A kid tampered with System Preferences on my Mac Air running Lion, and now, none of the top-row keyboard buttons work. For instance, altering screen brightness, toggling the dashboard, and altering volume don't work.
There does seem to be some mismatch though. For instance, pressing the eject button now takes me to the dashboard.
How can I restore the default functionalities of the top-row keyboard buttons?
A: If you check the Keyboard pane in System Preferences, you should see an option called Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. I think you'll find it checked. The default is to have it unchecked.
Then within the Mission Control pane in System Preferences, I think you'll find that "Show Dashboard" is set to F13. The default is F12 (note that the default doesn't work if Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys isn't checked).
A: I had exactly the same issue but the Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys checkbox did not make any difference. What worked for me was resetting the SMC.
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aa0d61aa94725bb0d1f0fe5f90dcbccac1fd9cd7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Find My Mac be disabled on a stolen MacBook without a password? My friend had his MacBook stolen from his house but he didn't have a password on his MacBook so if the thief logged out of his iCloud can it still be tracked since he already put a lock on it?
If he deletes the iCloud account while the MacBook isn't connected to Wi-Fi can he still track it if the MacBook connects to Wi-Fi?
A: *
*No, not without the original password
*No, but you can sign into your icloud account from a different device and track the computer
| Q: Can Find My Mac be disabled on a stolen MacBook without a password? My friend had his MacBook stolen from his house but he didn't have a password on his MacBook so if the thief logged out of his iCloud can it still be tracked since he already put a lock on it?
If he deletes the iCloud account while the MacBook isn't connected to Wi-Fi can he still track it if the MacBook connects to Wi-Fi?
A: *
*No, not without the original password
*No, but you can sign into your icloud account from a different device and track the computer
A:
Can Find My Mac be disabled on a stolen MacBook without a password?
Yes, it could be done also on MacBook with account password.
If you don't have configured a password to choose boot options the thief is able to delete all your content, without having your root password.
He can simply:
*
*Do not connect your Mac in internet.
*Turn on Mac pressing Cmd+S to enter in CLI mode.
*Change your admin account password (I have intentionally omitted details on this step).
*Logout.
*Login using your account with his password.
*Disable all services related to iCloud, so disable Find My Mac.
In this case you're unable to locate your Mac and the thief is also able to reinstall from zero the Mac OS X.
A: If your device is built on T2 Apple security chip you can bypass the Find My Mac activation lock. This method build on CheckM8 exploit. You can use CheckM8 Software. Firstly, it works on any Mac devices with the T2 security chip, which protects Mac OS computers from unauthorized startups. Secondly, it requires no Apple ID or password for the successful bypass of Mac Activation Lock. This tool bypass this Activation Lock by skipping the activation step on the computer hardware, which the T2 chip controls.
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8dfa894465b3af39c95d1a0f2fd99d8ddc85537e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Missing App After Downloading I've downloaded Tumblr on to my iPad 2 and the button in the App Store now shows OPEN.
But when I tap the 'OPEN' button, nothing appears (it's just the same!)
I checked it again after resetting the home screen view so it's arranged. I searched for 'T' and there's no Tumblr!
Maybe it's bit blurry, but there's all the apps which started with T. I've searched in the search Spotlight too but also, nothing appears with 'Tumblr'.
A: Reboot the device by holding both the power and home button until the Apple logo is shown. This will reset the SpringBoard cache which should show the app on the home screen if it's been downloaded (and in Spotlight).
| Q: Missing App After Downloading I've downloaded Tumblr on to my iPad 2 and the button in the App Store now shows OPEN.
But when I tap the 'OPEN' button, nothing appears (it's just the same!)
I checked it again after resetting the home screen view so it's arranged. I searched for 'T' and there's no Tumblr!
Maybe it's bit blurry, but there's all the apps which started with T. I've searched in the search Spotlight too but also, nothing appears with 'Tumblr'.
A: Reboot the device by holding both the power and home button until the Apple logo is shown. This will reset the SpringBoard cache which should show the app on the home screen if it's been downloaded (and in Spotlight).
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3392ccb1307e19dfb55d8454c9e2afa716de86fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to interface with iOS lockdownd I used nmap to portscan my iPod Touch, and found a single port open, which was port 62078, labeled as "iphone-sync". I did some research, and found that the proccess behind it was a program called "lockdownd" which could be used to interface with the iPod.
I was wondering if and how I could use this to interface with and possibly control my iPod.
A: Port 62078 is the port on which the iOS lockdown daemon listens on. Normally it is interacted with via usbmuxd which is a protocol that allows arbitrary TCP connections to be made over a USB connection.
lockdownd can be used to do a lot of nifty things with the built-in services Apple expose on unjailbroken devices. The goto library for interfacing with this service seems to be libimobiledevice which is an open-source library implementing the usbmuxd and other iOS protocols. For a better overview of the capabilities of lockdownd and the iMobileDevice library, take a look at some of the packaged tools the library provides. If you know C, the source code for these tools is here.
| Q: How to interface with iOS lockdownd I used nmap to portscan my iPod Touch, and found a single port open, which was port 62078, labeled as "iphone-sync". I did some research, and found that the proccess behind it was a program called "lockdownd" which could be used to interface with the iPod.
I was wondering if and how I could use this to interface with and possibly control my iPod.
A: Port 62078 is the port on which the iOS lockdown daemon listens on. Normally it is interacted with via usbmuxd which is a protocol that allows arbitrary TCP connections to be made over a USB connection.
lockdownd can be used to do a lot of nifty things with the built-in services Apple expose on unjailbroken devices. The goto library for interfacing with this service seems to be libimobiledevice which is an open-source library implementing the usbmuxd and other iOS protocols. For a better overview of the capabilities of lockdownd and the iMobileDevice library, take a look at some of the packaged tools the library provides. If you know C, the source code for these tools is here.
A: Obviously (and someone has already mentioned this in a comment), it can be used for syncing the device over WiFi because iTunes does it.
However, the interface is undocumented, and as such unsupported by Apple.
Another option, if you are looking at controlling the device remotely and generally having fun with it, would be to jailbreak it and writing your own control software that would run on the phone. That would allow you to connect over an interface you would create yourself.
Such software may even already exist in the jailbreak community.
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ba7afcea41d5d4bb4ff989ce99e30ab9772c6138 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to create a keynote theme? How do I create a theme for keynote? I know how to install a theme, and I want to create my own theme. I can create the images my self. Is there any app or anything to do so?
A: If you are using Keynote 6 then all you have to do is take an existing theme, make the modifications that you want then choose Save Theme from the file menu
It well then ask what you want to do with your shiny new theme
| Q: How to create a keynote theme? How do I create a theme for keynote? I know how to install a theme, and I want to create my own theme. I can create the images my self. Is there any app or anything to do so?
A: If you are using Keynote 6 then all you have to do is take an existing theme, make the modifications that you want then choose Save Theme from the file menu
It well then ask what you want to do with your shiny new theme
A: I did this myself but I noticed there was a step missing. If you want to create a new background with an image you import, make sure you pull down the divider on the sidebar and add the image to the MASTER slide. Then you can save the theme. I tried saving the theme before doing this and couldn't figure out why it still looked like the old theme when I opened the new one.
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66ee38b3ad2fdd336fd6ddc39a549f55933f2fe7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? I don't need fancy features, fan control, etc. Just temperatures are fine.
All of the ones I've found in the App Store and elsewhere are paid, and the only free ones I've found don't work with new machines.
A: It is not really an app, but there is a Widget for on your Dashboard that can display diagnostics information like the temperature. One of them I personally prefer is iStat Pro, you can find it on Softonic (the official site is offline). Hit the large green "Descargar Gratis" (Free Download) button and right-click > open the file from your downloads folder. It will be installed in your Dashboard, where it will show temperatures by default. Confirmed by me to work on the latest (late 2013) 15" rMBP.
| Q: Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? Is there a free temperature monitor program that works on a 2014 Retina MBP? I don't need fancy features, fan control, etc. Just temperatures are fine.
All of the ones I've found in the App Store and elsewhere are paid, and the only free ones I've found don't work with new machines.
A: It is not really an app, but there is a Widget for on your Dashboard that can display diagnostics information like the temperature. One of them I personally prefer is iStat Pro, you can find it on Softonic (the official site is offline). Hit the large green "Descargar Gratis" (Free Download) button and right-click > open the file from your downloads folder. It will be installed in your Dashboard, where it will show temperatures by default. Confirmed by me to work on the latest (late 2013) 15" rMBP.
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eefa0af4bafe3ae2192fe09fb920e0cde8f59b4d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode word completion shortcut Xcode's code autocompletion is quite good, I am missing one thing though:
in vim I can press ctrl+n to autocomplete any word, even those in the comment.
Here is a screenshot from xcode to show what I mean:
I am wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to achieve I am looking for.
A: Control–Space bar is used to either turn the Auto-Complete ON/OFF. You can read more about it here
| Q: Xcode word completion shortcut Xcode's code autocompletion is quite good, I am missing one thing though:
in vim I can press ctrl+n to autocomplete any word, even those in the comment.
Here is a screenshot from xcode to show what I mean:
I am wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to achieve I am looking for.
A: Control–Space bar is used to either turn the Auto-Complete ON/OFF. You can read more about it here
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"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/139539"
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4aa74239347199d5986a914b2de967e41366a3c2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does Sublime open file with cmd+click on its path in Terminal?
*
*For example:
$ ls -lsa
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 denis 404 Jul 16 18:36 pgadmin.log
*cmd+click on pgadmin.log
*Sublime opens pgadmin.log (if path is 'pgadmin.log:12', it opens it and sets cursor to 12th line).
How to change the App, which opens the file?
A: I've checked my suggestion and it worked: if you try to open a file in Finder, this file will be opened with default Application, assigned to its extension. So, if you change default App for this file, you'll get it while opening file from Terminal by click.
| Q: How does Sublime open file with cmd+click on its path in Terminal?
*
*For example:
$ ls -lsa
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 denis 404 Jul 16 18:36 pgadmin.log
*cmd+click on pgadmin.log
*Sublime opens pgadmin.log (if path is 'pgadmin.log:12', it opens it and sets cursor to 12th line).
How to change the App, which opens the file?
A: I've checked my suggestion and it worked: if you try to open a file in Finder, this file will be opened with default Application, assigned to its extension. So, if you change default App for this file, you'll get it while opening file from Terminal by click.
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2defd2bc6c641bd90dbd5b425ca21217e4bd583b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My monitor doesn't sleep if my mac is connected via HDMI: who's at fault? I have a MacBook5,1 running 10.8, and an Asus VW246 monitor.
I connected it to the monitor using a "MiniDisplayPort->DVI(f) adapter" + a "DVI(m)-DVI(m) cable". Now I've bought a single "MiniDisplayPort-HDMI cable", and while it works, now when the Mac goes to sleep, the monitor stays awake in a "HDMI no signal" state.
Can I understand who's at fault: the Mac, the cable or the monitor?
*
*If it's the Mac, can this be worked-around somehow?
*If it's the cable, how can I make sure this won't happen with other cables?
*If it's the monitor I don't think there is anything to fix that, barring using DVI again.
Side-notes:
*
*the only reason I switched to HDMI is that I wanted a single cable, no converters, and I found a cheap HDMI one
*the cable namely supports audio too, but apparently this isn't working with this monitor – I haven't tested it with other monitors, thought (I'm not sure if this can help, I'm writing it "just in case")
*the "HDMI no signal" state is the same as when there's no cable attached
| Q: My monitor doesn't sleep if my mac is connected via HDMI: who's at fault? I have a MacBook5,1 running 10.8, and an Asus VW246 monitor.
I connected it to the monitor using a "MiniDisplayPort->DVI(f) adapter" + a "DVI(m)-DVI(m) cable". Now I've bought a single "MiniDisplayPort-HDMI cable", and while it works, now when the Mac goes to sleep, the monitor stays awake in a "HDMI no signal" state.
Can I understand who's at fault: the Mac, the cable or the monitor?
*
*If it's the Mac, can this be worked-around somehow?
*If it's the cable, how can I make sure this won't happen with other cables?
*If it's the monitor I don't think there is anything to fix that, barring using DVI again.
Side-notes:
*
*the only reason I switched to HDMI is that I wanted a single cable, no converters, and I found a cheap HDMI one
*the cable namely supports audio too, but apparently this isn't working with this monitor – I haven't tested it with other monitors, thought (I'm not sure if this can help, I'm writing it "just in case")
*the "HDMI no signal" state is the same as when there's no cable attached
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d245d98a4dc2f4aa32591eb3333cc1ba54b74e35 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Command line tools to replace bytes in a file I need to write a script that patches a few bytes at a particular offset in a binary file. I know of textual tools for this task (sed, though I find it utterly hard to use) but can't find one for binary patching. Are there any?
If not installed by default, anything I can install with Homebrew would be acceptable as well.
A: You can achieve it with dd command. Here's an example:
$ hexdump StringComparison | head -1
0000000 cf fa ed fe 07 00 00 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00
$ printf '\x11\x11\x11' | dd of=StringComparison bs=1 seek=4 count=3 conv=notrunc
3+0 records in
3+0 records out
3 bytes transferred in 0.000293 secs (10238 bytes/sec)
$ hexdump StringComparison | head -1
0000000 cf fa ed fe 11 11 11 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00
Explanation:
*
*of = input file
*bs = block size
*seek = position (offset)
*notrunc = do not truncate the output.
| Q: Command line tools to replace bytes in a file I need to write a script that patches a few bytes at a particular offset in a binary file. I know of textual tools for this task (sed, though I find it utterly hard to use) but can't find one for binary patching. Are there any?
If not installed by default, anything I can install with Homebrew would be acceptable as well.
A: You can achieve it with dd command. Here's an example:
$ hexdump StringComparison | head -1
0000000 cf fa ed fe 07 00 00 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00
$ printf '\x11\x11\x11' | dd of=StringComparison bs=1 seek=4 count=3 conv=notrunc
3+0 records in
3+0 records out
3 bytes transferred in 0.000293 secs (10238 bytes/sec)
$ hexdump StringComparison | head -1
0000000 cf fa ed fe 11 11 11 01 03 00 00 80 02 00 00 00
Explanation:
*
*of = input file
*bs = block size
*seek = position (offset)
*notrunc = do not truncate the output.
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a2404382dcc96209079d106dcdbcdd97b23d3e1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 'Sign in to iCloud' pop-up won't stop popping up on my iPad This is obviously a common problem but even after following the 're-boot' advice I can't get rid of it. I can't sign in to iCloud because that e-mail address no longer exists and I can't receive the reset e-mail; the 'forgotten password' system rejects my password, my date of birth and my favourite band - all of which are well known to me. Can anyone help me, please?
A: The workable solution (until you get to the Apple store, that is):
Step 1. enter the wrong password and press done until you are presented with the option to reset.
Step 2. press reset and wait until safari is opened.
Step 3. double-click the home button to get the list of opened apps.
Step 4. kill all of the opened apps including the reset password page.
Your iPhone will work until the next restart.
| Q: 'Sign in to iCloud' pop-up won't stop popping up on my iPad This is obviously a common problem but even after following the 're-boot' advice I can't get rid of it. I can't sign in to iCloud because that e-mail address no longer exists and I can't receive the reset e-mail; the 'forgotten password' system rejects my password, my date of birth and my favourite band - all of which are well known to me. Can anyone help me, please?
A: The workable solution (until you get to the Apple store, that is):
Step 1. enter the wrong password and press done until you are presented with the option to reset.
Step 2. press reset and wait until safari is opened.
Step 3. double-click the home button to get the list of opened apps.
Step 4. kill all of the opened apps including the reset password page.
Your iPhone will work until the next restart.
A: The answer below, given by randers4 on Apple forum, worked for me on my iPad.
To change the iCloud ID you have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password for the old ID when prompted to turn off Find My iDevice, then sign back in with the ID you wish to use.
When you do this you may find that the password for your old ID isn't accepted. If this should happen, and if your old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, you need to temporarily recreate your old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your currentiCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice on your devices, even though they prompt you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll.
When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.
A: This happened on my 5s. Steps taken:
*
*Click ok when Sign in prompt appears
*Select reset password
*When reset screen appears push the home button. (Don't reset password)
This stopped the pop-up problem.
A: If you time it in betweet the pop up you can hit settings then wi-fi, once your ipad can get online your password will work and the pop up will stop. You do have to time it by hitting settings and wi-fi inbetween the pop up. It took me about 5 min.
A: If you already connected to a Wifi, then go to Settings > Wi-Fi and tap on Forget This Network. This worked for me.
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312e1603df6e3db07f9a84b988c74dacae806495 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X 10.9.4 shows wrong used disk space The used disk space reported in About My Mac is inconsistent (MacBook Air, mid 2012).
Notice that the used space for Apps is greater than my disk size. I tried different ways to fix it (Disk Utility, fsck command, etc.), but nothing helps.
Any suggestions?
A: These values come from the Spotlight index. So you could try rebuilding the Spotlight index to fix these values.
There are simple instructions from Apple here on how to rebuild the Spotlight index.
You can also do it from the command line using the mdutil command. You'll be prompted for your password to run this command.
sudo mdutil -E /
Please note, whichever way you perform this task, it will take a while to run.
| Q: OS X 10.9.4 shows wrong used disk space The used disk space reported in About My Mac is inconsistent (MacBook Air, mid 2012).
Notice that the used space for Apps is greater than my disk size. I tried different ways to fix it (Disk Utility, fsck command, etc.), but nothing helps.
Any suggestions?
A: These values come from the Spotlight index. So you could try rebuilding the Spotlight index to fix these values.
There are simple instructions from Apple here on how to rebuild the Spotlight index.
You can also do it from the command line using the mdutil command. You'll be prompted for your password to run this command.
sudo mdutil -E /
Please note, whichever way you perform this task, it will take a while to run.
A: See here: 500gb take up space on my HD, but don't belong to any visible file or folder
In short:
*
*not all apps report files moved to trash, but trahs not emptied
*not all apps report backup files (esp. local snapshots of time machine)
*not all apps report ther caches and indexes
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7b62056df9698380eea6535a8563d24bfdaec01d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Inspect Element in Safari? I've tried Firebug Lite for Safari, but content wasn't editable. Is there an alternative to edit HTML, CSS, etc?
A: Just enable Show Developer Menu in Safari's Preferences, Advanced tab.
It will enable the option Inspect Element when you right click the page. You can also start it with Command+Option+I.
You can get more info about this option in Safari for Developers - Tools and Safari Web Inspector Guide: The Develop Menu.
| Q: Inspect Element in Safari? I've tried Firebug Lite for Safari, but content wasn't editable. Is there an alternative to edit HTML, CSS, etc?
A: Just enable Show Developer Menu in Safari's Preferences, Advanced tab.
It will enable the option Inspect Element when you right click the page. You can also start it with Command+Option+I.
You can get more info about this option in Safari for Developers - Tools and Safari Web Inspector Guide: The Develop Menu.
A: You can edit css by double clicking on the "{" symbol present in the right side css section. Also you can edit the html by removing the firebug plugin and then doing inspect element mode.
A: you can do this with simple steps
in menu bar click on Edit->preference->advance
at bottom click the check box true that is for Show develop menu in menu bar
now a develop menu is display at menu bar where you can see all develop option and inspect.
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4dab30d1d2f7d4e722b261212d1794c483c38eab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Dragon Dictate (or Mavericks Dictation): How do they work? Do they have an API? This paper (http://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/implementation_and_acceptance_of_natlink.pdf) explains how NatLink was made, a Python interface to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, on Windows. NaturallySpeaking exposes a COM interface.
For Mac, does Dictate expose any interface?
I'd like to use it for programming, for which I need to script it. Without buying Windows, and another Dragon product, and VMWare, and setting it all up, etc.
Dragon is more accurate than Dictation, but I really need to have control of the grammar and stuff, like this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI).
(I'd like an HTTP API, but I'll take any API. It's 2014.)
I have burning wrist pain, and dictation is the one thing that has given me hope in the past few months. Thanks for the help!
A: http://voicecode.io does exactly what you are describing here and is for Mac. It allows you to extend its grammar resulting in very efficient voice control for programmers.
*disclaimer - I'm the creator of VoiceCode
| Q: Dragon Dictate (or Mavericks Dictation): How do they work? Do they have an API? This paper (http://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/implementation_and_acceptance_of_natlink.pdf) explains how NatLink was made, a Python interface to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, on Windows. NaturallySpeaking exposes a COM interface.
For Mac, does Dictate expose any interface?
I'd like to use it for programming, for which I need to script it. Without buying Windows, and another Dragon product, and VMWare, and setting it all up, etc.
Dragon is more accurate than Dictation, but I really need to have control of the grammar and stuff, like this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI).
(I'd like an HTTP API, but I'll take any API. It's 2014.)
I have burning wrist pain, and dictation is the one thing that has given me hope in the past few months. Thanks for the help!
A: http://voicecode.io does exactly what you are describing here and is for Mac. It allows you to extend its grammar resulting in very efficient voice control for programmers.
*disclaimer - I'm the creator of VoiceCode
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d47ccec6b655a2dae660df1d520101bb83c5943e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does update_terminal_cwd do in the terminal of OS X I am puzzled by it for quite some while now. In $PROMPT_COMMAND of the bash in OS X, there is a command called update_terminal_cwd. I am sure it's not a bash built in, and most likely only exists in OS X. But I don't know what exactly it does. Anyone knows?
A: It updates the prompt to echo the Current Working Directory (CWD) and is defined in /etc/bashrc:
update_terminal_cwd() {
# Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
# including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
# remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
local SEARCH=' '
local REPLACE='%20'
local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
}
| Q: What does update_terminal_cwd do in the terminal of OS X I am puzzled by it for quite some while now. In $PROMPT_COMMAND of the bash in OS X, there is a command called update_terminal_cwd. I am sure it's not a bash built in, and most likely only exists in OS X. But I don't know what exactly it does. Anyone knows?
A: It updates the prompt to echo the Current Working Directory (CWD) and is defined in /etc/bashrc:
update_terminal_cwd() {
# Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
# including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
# remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
local SEARCH=' '
local REPLACE='%20'
local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
}
A: Opaque secret encoded format string, '\e]7;%s\a'. Suspect.
local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
From what I gather, "file://$HOSTNAME" is masked out so you can't see
remote protocol:host espionage.
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44a49e32646bbb5db848f877c877a8444e4d8b84 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Closing other tabs in terminal on Mac? I am using iTerm2, but I wouldn't mind switching back to the original terminal for just this feature.
I open hundreds of SSH tabs every day and often end up working after a while only working on 1 terminal and other SSH tabs don't really matter anymore. In the browser at least you have "closer other tabs", "close left tabs", "close right tabs".
Is there any way to have a "close other tabs" in a Mac OS X terminal?
A: As a work around, you can drag the tab you want to keep to a different window, then close the first window with the extraneous tabs and they are all gone with one click.
| Q: Closing other tabs in terminal on Mac? I am using iTerm2, but I wouldn't mind switching back to the original terminal for just this feature.
I open hundreds of SSH tabs every day and often end up working after a while only working on 1 terminal and other SSH tabs don't really matter anymore. In the browser at least you have "closer other tabs", "close left tabs", "close right tabs".
Is there any way to have a "close other tabs" in a Mac OS X terminal?
A: As a work around, you can drag the tab you want to keep to a different window, then close the first window with the extraneous tabs and they are all gone with one click.
A: As is mentioned in the question comments, this is not possible in iTerm 2. It is possible in the built-in Terminal.app, but that was not the question.
While this isn't an optimal solution, a script has been written to implement this in iTerm. I did not write the script nor have I tested it, so I cannot verify the effectiveness of this solution. You may be able to bind a different keyboard shortcut to this script to satisfy your requirements.
iTerm issue report and script source.
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0adbaee0aef895c6feb829ccd95fae2b9f1f0702 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari seems to be modified I just ran this command and saw that Safari was modified.
$ codesign --verify -vv /Applications/Safari.app/
--validated:/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariForWebKitDevelopment
/Applications/Safari.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ServicesMenu.strings
My questions are:
*
*Is there any way to see what exactly was changed?
*Why Safari could have been modified? (I didn't do it and I don't suspect a virus to change translations)
I'm running Safari 7.0.5 on OS X 10.9.4
A: The way to determine what changed is to diff the current folder against a backup copy from when the code sign was valid.
Why could be as simple and harmless as bit rot or a filesystem error and it could be that some other tool injected code.
Unless you routinely list and checksum each file in /Applications/Safari.app and compare those results, your best bet might be to re-install the latest combo updater from http://apple.com/downloads and re-check that the binary is properly signed. If not, you might need to back up that machine and start with a clean erase and reinstall and watch to see what / when Safari gets modified going forward.
| Q: Safari seems to be modified I just ran this command and saw that Safari was modified.
$ codesign --verify -vv /Applications/Safari.app/
--validated:/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariForWebKitDevelopment
/Applications/Safari.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
file modified: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ServicesMenu.strings
My questions are:
*
*Is there any way to see what exactly was changed?
*Why Safari could have been modified? (I didn't do it and I don't suspect a virus to change translations)
I'm running Safari 7.0.5 on OS X 10.9.4
A: The way to determine what changed is to diff the current folder against a backup copy from when the code sign was valid.
Why could be as simple and harmless as bit rot or a filesystem error and it could be that some other tool injected code.
Unless you routinely list and checksum each file in /Applications/Safari.app and compare those results, your best bet might be to re-install the latest combo updater from http://apple.com/downloads and re-check that the binary is properly signed. If not, you might need to back up that machine and start with a clean erase and reinstall and watch to see what / when Safari gets modified going forward.
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2ad1b89cfd6e3c2ae1dad6f52f7277f09311dc62 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make the green full screen window icon on Yosemite maximize windows On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:
is by default used to make the application full screen.
How do I make it work the same way as in previous versions of Mac OS X, i.e. to maximize the window?
A: @Wladimir Palant has a great solution, using BetterTouchTool to reassign the role of the green button. Works for me!
Note: @Wladimir's answer actually solves this question, not the one he posted in.
| Q: Make the green full screen window icon on Yosemite maximize windows On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:
is by default used to make the application full screen.
How do I make it work the same way as in previous versions of Mac OS X, i.e. to maximize the window?
A: @Wladimir Palant has a great solution, using BetterTouchTool to reassign the role of the green button. Works for me!
Note: @Wladimir's answer actually solves this question, not the one he posted in.
A: Disable option "Double-click a window's title bar to minimize" in Settings -> Dock. Now you can use double click on the window's title to maximize it.
A: Zoom function can now be performed more easily — by double-clicking window title. You don't need to precisely aim at the small green button anymore, which I believe is the reason it has been converted into full screen button by default.
If you hold the shift key and double-click the window title Applications that use "smart zoom" will be forced to do full screen zoom. Smart zoom was a (much missed) OS X window behavior where, rather than fill all of an immense display, the window would enlarge based on its "needs". Apple removed smart zoom behavior form its own apps, but Chrome still does this.
So, in general, make the painful switch to working with the title bar and ignore the green button except for the rare times you truly want full screen. If you get 'smart zoom' and want to fill screen instead, repeat but hold shift key.
A: I've already posted in a similar topic - Check out the free"spectacle" that has a bunch of handy window management shortcuts.. Running that app adds cmd+option+F for true full screen with status bar.
PS. I really hate that instead of adding the "option" key for the current maximize to full screen behavior they just replaced the button that people used for years.
PPS. I tried double clicking windows, it does not work as expected, at best it somehow resizes the screen, so it's maximum height, but it does not fill the entire width of the screen. A chrome window with tabs ignores double clicks.
PPPS. Option+click does not work as expected either - it does the same thing as double clicking the window - the window resizes in vertical direction, but not in horizontal one. (I have two monitor system, and it does not fill either one of them).
A: As the below mentioned solution is application-based (i.e. only works for apps like Google Chrome), another way to approach this problem is to ignore the maximize button entirely and to install the open source app spectacle which offers the keyboard shortcut:
⌘ + ⌥ + F
It also has some other nice features, too. And it works for all apps.
In order to maximize the window so that it fills the visible window content, use:
⌥ + Click on green icon
In order to maximize the window both in width and height to the current desktop for applications like Google Chrome use:
⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green icon
You notice the change of behaviour of the button in the way it changes its content from two the arrows to a plus sign.
A: Hold option and left click the green button to have it maximize but not go to full screen.
A: So, pre yosemite, holding "Shift + Left Click" would alternate between the current dimensions and what they'd be if you were to maximize the window to the fully available dimensions.
The "Option + Left Click" alternates between window sizes (the last and the full-height of the screen (less the dock). Also, regardless of where the page is focused, after using the option click, the focus reverts to the upper left of the page (fun-fact).
Another thing to note is if you have more than one window open the "option + left-click" will maximize the secondary window, and depending its current dimensions, adhere to the same scale as if you were to hold down the Option key when click-dragging the corner of the window to manually resize the frame (scales on a fixed ratio).
To answer your question try "Option + Left-click" and/or "Shift + Left-click". Then perhaps try them together ;)
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506a0510e2f23b6b4350bc8d2773c94df9dc8ac5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: see call history from a computer Is there a way to access the call history on an iphone from a computer?
My phone has a problem with the display that stops me from using it, it still turns on, but the screen only displays vertical bars, I can tap the screen and it seems to doing something, it makes various sounds that you would expect it to make when tapping the screen, i think i managed to unlock it, but I can't see what is going on.
I plan to take the phone to someone to see if they can fix the display problem. Until then I would like to retrieve a number from the phone that I most recently called. How can I do this?
Also is there a way to redial the previously dialed number, by pressing a combination of buttons without being able to see the screen?
A: Answer for question #2: use Siri and ask "Redial last number called." I use it all the time while driving (with a Bluetooth headset, of course!)
| Q: see call history from a computer Is there a way to access the call history on an iphone from a computer?
My phone has a problem with the display that stops me from using it, it still turns on, but the screen only displays vertical bars, I can tap the screen and it seems to doing something, it makes various sounds that you would expect it to make when tapping the screen, i think i managed to unlock it, but I can't see what is going on.
I plan to take the phone to someone to see if they can fix the display problem. Until then I would like to retrieve a number from the phone that I most recently called. How can I do this?
Also is there a way to redial the previously dialed number, by pressing a combination of buttons without being able to see the screen?
A: Answer for question #2: use Siri and ask "Redial last number called." I use it all the time while driving (with a Bluetooth headset, of course!)
A: Question 1-
There are multiple apps available to export your iPhone call log.
Example: Export iPhone’s call logs to computer for storage
Question 2- TBD..
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7f4c47dd7c7485f18153031374ba0f62af615f66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CTRL + CMD + SPACE brings up Characters window instead of Emoji window I'm in Mavericks. When using messages to chat with someone, I used to be able to press CTRL + CMD + SPACE and a little Emoji window would popup and I could choose from an Emoji or type the name of an Emoji to filter the window.
A few days ago, something changed. I don't know what. Now, when I pretty CTRL + CMD + SPACE, a separate "Characters" window pops up in the middle of the screen. It contains Emojis along with hundreds of other type of special characters. It's WAY slower than the emoji window and you can't type the name of emoji's immediately without first clicking into the search field. Anyways, its way worse than it was before.
How do I get the little Emoji window back in Messages? What did I do to change this?
A: I think you just need to Collapse the Character Viewer by clicking the button next to the search field.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13867
| Q: CTRL + CMD + SPACE brings up Characters window instead of Emoji window I'm in Mavericks. When using messages to chat with someone, I used to be able to press CTRL + CMD + SPACE and a little Emoji window would popup and I could choose from an Emoji or type the name of an Emoji to filter the window.
A few days ago, something changed. I don't know what. Now, when I pretty CTRL + CMD + SPACE, a separate "Characters" window pops up in the middle of the screen. It contains Emojis along with hundreds of other type of special characters. It's WAY slower than the emoji window and you can't type the name of emoji's immediately without first clicking into the search field. Anyways, its way worse than it was before.
How do I get the little Emoji window back in Messages? What did I do to change this?
A: I think you just need to Collapse the Character Viewer by clicking the button next to the search field.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13867
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a004b208594fd56faa75d68d1ad5844c06de07e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari address bar complete URL with keyboard shortcut Does Safari in OS X have a keyboard shortcut to complete a URL in the same fashion that Chrome does?
I'd like to be able to type in an incomplete address like askdifferent, press a key combo, and have Safari prefix it with www. and suffix with .com, and automatically navigate to that URL.
I've tried all various combination of fn, control, option,command, and return. Most of them will open your search in a new tab.
Does Safari support this, and what's the key combo?
A: There IS a way - in Safari Version 10.0.3 at least.
Type a slash ("/") after the domain name. As in,
semiconducted/<enter>
will resolve to www.semiconducted.com
Voila!
Found at:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4032903
| Q: Safari address bar complete URL with keyboard shortcut Does Safari in OS X have a keyboard shortcut to complete a URL in the same fashion that Chrome does?
I'd like to be able to type in an incomplete address like askdifferent, press a key combo, and have Safari prefix it with www. and suffix with .com, and automatically navigate to that URL.
I've tried all various combination of fn, control, option,command, and return. Most of them will open your search in a new tab.
Does Safari support this, and what's the key combo?
A: There IS a way - in Safari Version 10.0.3 at least.
Type a slash ("/") after the domain name. As in,
semiconducted/<enter>
will resolve to www.semiconducted.com
Voila!
Found at:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4032903
A: Safari 8.0 does: Press and hold the Control key for a moment while you’re editing the location and you’ll see the search icon turn into an icon indicating that it’s interpreting the input as (part of) a URL instead of performing a search. The label “Search selected search engine” next to your text will change to “Go to Site” and the ‘Go to Site “your text”’ menu item in the completions list will be selected. Typing Control+Return will navigate there.
By the way, you can use Control+N (next) and Control+P (previous) to navigate through the completions list using the keyboard. (These are emacs-style navigation key bindings.)
A: Safari doesn't support this out of the box.
You can do this with Keyboard Maestro using a macro such as this:
A: There are many ways to do this.
*
*You can of course use AutoHotKey(ahk) to define any key combo and mapping you want, which can be used in any text-editing environment, not necessarily in a url bar. So this is an overkill. (Other hotkey apps also work.)
*Similar to Internet Explorer(or maybe Chrome, Firefox?), Safari also uses ctrl+enter(or return) as a shortcut to navigate to a website, which is illustrated in Chris Page's answer. However, a slight difference is that, in Safari, you have to hold the ctrl key for a moment(as mentioned in Chris Page's answer), while in Internet Explorer, you can simply hit ctrl+enter immediately after you type the address name, say, you type 'nba' in url bar, then hit ctrl+enter(no pause is needed), it will automatically navigate to www.nba.com . In fact, this shortcut can be found in Internet Explorer's help document.
A: I'm using macOS Monterey ver. 12.5
Using the forward slash \ after the name of the site seems to work:
Cmd+\+Enter will result in https://www.apple.com/
If you press Shift+Enter, it will open a new window and go to the site.
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40a7670329355c214ba678bc0fd1784934cf0521 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to run Say "something" in background in AppleScript I would like to have AppleScript code like this:
row 1
say "some long text here"
row 3
When it starts to speak text, it same time continues to row 3.
I create my scripts in AppleScript Editor and i don't know enough about process control on OS X to understand backgrounding yet.
A: Like this
say "some long text here" without waiting until completion
| Q: How to run Say "something" in background in AppleScript I would like to have AppleScript code like this:
row 1
say "some long text here"
row 3
When it starts to speak text, it same time continues to row 3.
I create my scripts in AppleScript Editor and i don't know enough about process control on OS X to understand backgrounding yet.
A: Like this
say "some long text here" without waiting until completion
A: You can do this by getting Terminal to run the line of AppleScript:
set myscript to "say \"some long text here\""
ignoring application responses
tell application "Terminal"
do script "osascript -e " & quoted form of myscript
end tell
end ignoring
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a67549789b7fdc0c795b2de80d4ea693e4aed103 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Convert Numbers.app spreadsheet to JSON document? Is there a way to export a Numbers.app spreadsheet as a JSON formatted file? I know I can do it manually but this will be used as data input to an iOS app and I'd like to have an automated way to do this to reduce errors.
Here's an image of the rough spreadsheet:
A: I don't believe that you can directly convert a Numbers document to JSON. However, you can export a Numbers document to any number of formats, shown below.
There are a bunch of converters for CSV->JSON. I found two online converters from a quick Google search: Convert CSV and Mr. Data Converter.
This is not an ideal solution if you have a lot of these documents to convert, but I am sure that it will be easier to find effective CSV->JSON converters than Numbers->JSON converters.
| Q: Convert Numbers.app spreadsheet to JSON document? Is there a way to export a Numbers.app spreadsheet as a JSON formatted file? I know I can do it manually but this will be used as data input to an iOS app and I'd like to have an automated way to do this to reduce errors.
Here's an image of the rough spreadsheet:
A: I don't believe that you can directly convert a Numbers document to JSON. However, you can export a Numbers document to any number of formats, shown below.
There are a bunch of converters for CSV->JSON. I found two online converters from a quick Google search: Convert CSV and Mr. Data Converter.
This is not an ideal solution if you have a lot of these documents to convert, but I am sure that it will be easier to find effective CSV->JSON converters than Numbers->JSON converters.
A: I will hold out for a Numbers solution, but meanwhile, I have managed the process by using Google Sheets with this Javascript
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f5b204ce5197acc70374ceb7abc22d73212cee03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to prevent Terminal.app from displaying a tab bar when there is only one tab open The image below is the header that appears when I open Terminal.app. As you can see, only one tab is open, but a tab bar still shows (just has one tab that says "bash"). How can I prevent the tab bar from showing unless there are >= 2 tabs? It was working correctly until recently but I can't figure out what changed or how to fix.
A: Click "View" / "Hide Tab Bar" and the tab bar will go away and come back only when there is more than one tab open.
| Q: How to prevent Terminal.app from displaying a tab bar when there is only one tab open The image below is the header that appears when I open Terminal.app. As you can see, only one tab is open, but a tab bar still shows (just has one tab that says "bash"). How can I prevent the tab bar from showing unless there are >= 2 tabs? It was working correctly until recently but I can't figure out what changed or how to fix.
A: Click "View" / "Hide Tab Bar" and the tab bar will go away and come back only when there is more than one tab open.
A: For all it's worth, in iTerm2 to achieve the same:
*
*To make a temporary change you need to choose Window->Window Style->No Title Bar.
*To make a permanent change, this is part of the profile.
Preferences->Profiles->[Your Profile]->Window->Style == No Title Bar(default is Normal)
Update: Appologies - misread the question and added an answer for iTerm2, which may still be useful to someone. Alternatively the answer can be removed.
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5fe3fee3db2f46b2d2e869276b7770784cf5ce60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Alternative to AlwaysAppendSearchDomains on Yosemite? Since Lion, I have used the AlwaysAppendSearchDomains trick on mDNSresponder to resolve names with dots in search domains.
In yosemite this doesn't work any more. In fact, mDNSresponder doesn't seem to be running:
$ ps ax | grep -i dns | grep -v grep
$
A: I found the answer as I posted this:
To enable mDNSResponder, edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist and remove the lines
<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
Then add -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains to the arguments list further down in the same file:
<string>_mdnsresponder</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder</string>
<string>-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains</string>
</array>
Finally run
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
You can then verify mDNSResponder is running:
$ ps ax | grep -i dns | grep -v grep
10456 ?? Ss 0:00.44 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains
Subdomains of search domains can then be resolved.
| Q: Alternative to AlwaysAppendSearchDomains on Yosemite? Since Lion, I have used the AlwaysAppendSearchDomains trick on mDNSresponder to resolve names with dots in search domains.
In yosemite this doesn't work any more. In fact, mDNSresponder doesn't seem to be running:
$ ps ax | grep -i dns | grep -v grep
$
A: I found the answer as I posted this:
To enable mDNSResponder, edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist and remove the lines
<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
Then add -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains to the arguments list further down in the same file:
<string>_mdnsresponder</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder</string>
<string>-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains</string>
</array>
Finally run
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
You can then verify mDNSResponder is running:
$ ps ax | grep -i dns | grep -v grep
10456 ?? Ss 0:00.44 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains
Subdomains of search domains can then be resolved.
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a310d633ab8555331cb7b9860933a3bc2df582c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Would an app, featuring only a Webview component, get approved for the AppStore? I am not a mobile app developer, but we do feature responsive design in our website which works very well across all mobile browsers.
So if I were to make an app that only contains a fullscreen WebView component that loads the website, would that app be approved to get on the Appstore?
A: Apps which are just web views are specifically against the App Review Guidelines:
2.12 Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
Source: App Store Review Guidelines
| Q: Would an app, featuring only a Webview component, get approved for the AppStore? I am not a mobile app developer, but we do feature responsive design in our website which works very well across all mobile browsers.
So if I were to make an app that only contains a fullscreen WebView component that loads the website, would that app be approved to get on the Appstore?
A: Apps which are just web views are specifically against the App Review Guidelines:
2.12 Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
Source: App Store Review Guidelines
A: In my experience....no, would not get approved.
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62efadc80e7471399c37190e988334a282f871f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How long does it take for a review to appear in the App Store? On Friday, I went into the App Store on my iPhone and submitted a review for a game. I just checked all the reviews for that game, and my review hasn't appeared yet. About how long does it take for a review to appear in the App Store?
A: Usually it shouldn't appear immediately since more often than not, your reviews need to be approved before they are published by Apple for all to see.
| Q: How long does it take for a review to appear in the App Store? On Friday, I went into the App Store on my iPhone and submitted a review for a game. I just checked all the reviews for that game, and my review hasn't appeared yet. About how long does it take for a review to appear in the App Store?
A: Usually it shouldn't appear immediately since more often than not, your reviews need to be approved before they are published by Apple for all to see.
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b92c1a7df111fa70da5afbf225096b9b45ee8801 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't create a new desktop workspace? When I bring up the spaces option (by either pressing the F3 button or 4 finger swipe up on trackpad), the + button in the top right corner is no longer there and I can't create a new desktop space.
I am running mavericks 10.9.4 on a 2012 13" MacBook Pro.
Any suggestions/ideas?
A: The + button only appears if you move your mouse close to the location of the button, or hold down ⌥. Also note that you can have a maximum of 17 desktops, or 16 desktops and Dashboard, then the + button is no longer available.
| Q: Can't create a new desktop workspace? When I bring up the spaces option (by either pressing the F3 button or 4 finger swipe up on trackpad), the + button in the top right corner is no longer there and I can't create a new desktop space.
I am running mavericks 10.9.4 on a 2012 13" MacBook Pro.
Any suggestions/ideas?
A: The + button only appears if you move your mouse close to the location of the button, or hold down ⌥. Also note that you can have a maximum of 17 desktops, or 16 desktops and Dashboard, then the + button is no longer available.
A: Fun fact: If your desktop background is black (like mine is) you can almost see the "+" icon. If you squint you can see its drop-shadow. It was there all along, but I couldn't see it.
Nice work, Apple.
(I'm on Yosemite, if that matters.)
A: the + button appears at top left if you switch your dock to the right.
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415c4a6bdd1290076485b43e7a55896d9d326936 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any iTunes Connect API? What I am actually looking for is to get the app download statistics from iTunes connect. Ideally a dashboard would be possible with a full API.
There was this idea where some coding could be done in the iphone app section so as to determine if the app is being launched for the first time and so fire a url with the flag. Rather than intercepting or proxying the the communications from the iOS iTunes connect app, I would like to retrieve an app's download statistics from iTunes connect itself.
Is there a public API or private framework to reverse engineer this?
A: As noted in a PDF released by Apple, there is a java tool to export the data from iTunes connect.
This is to compensate the absence of API for iTunesConnect. Still in late 2017, Apple provides no API for iTunes connect or app review services.
| Q: Is there any iTunes Connect API? What I am actually looking for is to get the app download statistics from iTunes connect. Ideally a dashboard would be possible with a full API.
There was this idea where some coding could be done in the iphone app section so as to determine if the app is being launched for the first time and so fire a url with the flag. Rather than intercepting or proxying the the communications from the iOS iTunes connect app, I would like to retrieve an app's download statistics from iTunes connect itself.
Is there a public API or private framework to reverse engineer this?
A: As noted in a PDF released by Apple, there is a java tool to export the data from iTunes connect.
This is to compensate the absence of API for iTunesConnect. Still in late 2017, Apple provides no API for iTunes connect or app review services.
A: after looking everywhere I did not find a PHP version of the reports API so made my own.
You can check it out on https://github.com/Finnb8r/itunes-connect-sales-api-php .
I realize that this is not an Objective-C wrapper but this link comes out on top when generally looking for an API.
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938918e90ef9a9bab8d78ec28c65fa97fd5973e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Messages.app on mac: search in history i've a problem, i'm able to search for string in messages.app. It actually tells me all the matches for every conversation, the problem is that is shows only the last match, how can i go through all the results?
A: You can simply use
*
*⌘ + G in order to jump to the next occurrence
and
*
*⌘ + Shift + G in order to jump to the previous one.
| Q: Messages.app on mac: search in history i've a problem, i'm able to search for string in messages.app. It actually tells me all the matches for every conversation, the problem is that is shows only the last match, how can i go through all the results?
A: You can simply use
*
*⌘ + G in order to jump to the next occurrence
and
*
*⌘ + Shift + G in order to jump to the previous one.
A: Have you tried Spotlight Search?
Cmnd + Space
Make sure Messages is enabled for Spotlight Search in your Mac System Preferences.
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36d47522253b419195c559a0a9212ec02180c876 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View Time Machine backup drive on Windows 7 I use an external hard drive to regularly backup my Mac using Time Machine. However, I wanted to copy the data on this drive to a Windows 7 machine which does not work. It seems, that the PC recognices the external dirve, but does not list it.
Is it even possible to run the hard drive on a PC? I suggest this might be due to the formation. Is there a way to overcome this problem without re-formatting the disk?
A: You can access an OSX formatted disk using 3d part applications such
HFSExplorer or Macdrive
| Q: View Time Machine backup drive on Windows 7 I use an external hard drive to regularly backup my Mac using Time Machine. However, I wanted to copy the data on this drive to a Windows 7 machine which does not work. It seems, that the PC recognices the external dirve, but does not list it.
Is it even possible to run the hard drive on a PC? I suggest this might be due to the formation. Is there a way to overcome this problem without re-formatting the disk?
A: You can access an OSX formatted disk using 3d part applications such
HFSExplorer or Macdrive
A: You can read HFS+ disks on Windows by installing Apple's Boot Camp drivers:
*
*http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
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e251e0c8dc7aa6308bb2170aad61a6d43eb121a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Resetting application window size I would like to know how to reset a user set window size for an application to the one chosen by the developer. Are these settings usually stored in some plist file?
A: It depends on the Application, but mostly it's stored in the defaults database. You can check for example Mail.app with:
defaults read com.apple.mail DefaultWindowState
If You do not know the key just grep with "window" the output from defaults read BUNDLE_ID
where BUNDLE_ID is Your application bundle identifier which can be read like this:
APP_PATH="/Applications/Mail.app"
defaults read "$APP_PATH/Contents/Info.plist" CFBundleIdentifier
You can try to change keys in plists using defaults command or locate plist file in ~/Library/Preferences directory and change it manually.
| Q: Resetting application window size I would like to know how to reset a user set window size for an application to the one chosen by the developer. Are these settings usually stored in some plist file?
A: It depends on the Application, but mostly it's stored in the defaults database. You can check for example Mail.app with:
defaults read com.apple.mail DefaultWindowState
If You do not know the key just grep with "window" the output from defaults read BUNDLE_ID
where BUNDLE_ID is Your application bundle identifier which can be read like this:
APP_PATH="/Applications/Mail.app"
defaults read "$APP_PATH/Contents/Info.plist" CFBundleIdentifier
You can try to change keys in plists using defaults command or locate plist file in ~/Library/Preferences directory and change it manually.
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f9ae6d8f21ec45f1bad030b232d2940df9b3ebda | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent display from turning off with certain applications I have a MacBook Pro, and during media presentations, my screen automatically turns off according to the settings app (which of course is operation as usual, to be expected).
I'm looking for an Applescript, setting, app, commandline command, etc. that could disable the auto screen shutoff per app rather than constantly having to change the setting globally. I've already looked for a setting within the app itself (ProPresenter, in this case) with no luck. I'm also okay if the solution bases its action on the presence or absence of a second display.
A: Caffeine is a small free app that can be used to temporarily override Mac settings such as sleep, screen dimming, and screen savers. The app lives in your menu dock, where you can click to turn it on (fill up the coffee cup) before your presentation, and then turn it back off (empty the coffee cup) after your presentation to set your settings back to normal.
| Q: Prevent display from turning off with certain applications I have a MacBook Pro, and during media presentations, my screen automatically turns off according to the settings app (which of course is operation as usual, to be expected).
I'm looking for an Applescript, setting, app, commandline command, etc. that could disable the auto screen shutoff per app rather than constantly having to change the setting globally. I've already looked for a setting within the app itself (ProPresenter, in this case) with no luck. I'm also okay if the solution bases its action on the presence or absence of a second display.
A: Caffeine is a small free app that can be used to temporarily override Mac settings such as sleep, screen dimming, and screen savers. The app lives in your menu dock, where you can click to turn it on (fill up the coffee cup) before your presentation, and then turn it back off (empty the coffee cup) after your presentation to set your settings back to normal.
A: Amphetamine (which Chris mentioned in a comment) makes it trivial to automatically disable sleep whenever some app is running or frontmost. From what I see online, I'm not sure Caffeine has that feature.
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efb8691c88a2c532c55fa460f6232475b7cdf00a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone setting to turn off auto-detection of phone numbers? In Safari and the Notes app on iPhone, wherever there are strings of numbers they get linked and treated as phone numbers.
I'm sure there was a setting to turn this off but I cannot find it. Where is it?
(Note: I'm not asking for how to prevent this happening on web pages as in this question, just a setting for my phone.)
A: It is currently not possible to disable the automatic linking for phone numbers, web addresses, and email addresses on iOS 7, and it never has been possible on previous iOS versions.
| Q: iPhone setting to turn off auto-detection of phone numbers? In Safari and the Notes app on iPhone, wherever there are strings of numbers they get linked and treated as phone numbers.
I'm sure there was a setting to turn this off but I cannot find it. Where is it?
(Note: I'm not asking for how to prevent this happening on web pages as in this question, just a setting for my phone.)
A: It is currently not possible to disable the automatic linking for phone numbers, web addresses, and email addresses on iOS 7, and it never has been possible on previous iOS versions.
A: On iOS, the phone number auto-detection can be disabled on a per instance basis by enclosing the number with backticks (backquote, Grave Accent UTF-8 0x06).
The following example was tested in a Calendar event note:
`55-01234`
The backtick ` can be reached by a press & hold on the single quote ' of the keyboard.
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74022b1e21199f9125c6e3bff8bfc9392cf6eb4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple ID for employees having no credit card I would like to create Apple ID on my employee's desktop. She has no credit card, I can't create Apple ID without card, having no apple id she cannot update her desktop. Is there any workaround of that?
A: Apple IDs can be created with the None payment method providing you are attempting to do something that doesn't require payment. For example, you can create an Apple ID without a payment method by going to the iTunes Store and purchasing any free app. You will be prompted to create an Apple ID and can select None as the payment method.
For more information, see:
*
*Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method
| Q: Apple ID for employees having no credit card I would like to create Apple ID on my employee's desktop. She has no credit card, I can't create Apple ID without card, having no apple id she cannot update her desktop. Is there any workaround of that?
A: Apple IDs can be created with the None payment method providing you are attempting to do something that doesn't require payment. For example, you can create an Apple ID without a payment method by going to the iTunes Store and purchasing any free app. You will be prompted to create an Apple ID and can select None as the payment method.
For more information, see:
*
*Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method
A: Head over to iTunes and select a free app. It will ask for an account. Create a new account. For payment select None and voila.
Methods to create an Apple id without any Credit Cards
A: The "iTunes Store" workaround George Garside suggested should work, anyway the solution I eded up using for my little sister's account was providing any credit card and then removing it right after the account was created.
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724909bc4c51af8f482db4b1f010c18e7a27f6c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Accept/Maybe/Decline Missing in Apple Mail I'm using Apple mail with a fresh install of MacOS and I'm missing the Accept/Maybe/Decline buttons on calendar invites. My company uses a Exchange 2013 server and some other users do see the buttons. For me, I just see an email with an attached .ics file for the same invites.
Expected behavior seen by some people....
How my mail app shows it...
A: Open the Contacts app, select your own email address in the list of contacts. In the menu on top of the screen, go to "Card" -> "Make this my card". Reload calendar. Then it should work, you will get a notification popup with accept/decline buttons. (I just had the same problem, on a Mac running Yosemite)
Source
| Q: Accept/Maybe/Decline Missing in Apple Mail I'm using Apple mail with a fresh install of MacOS and I'm missing the Accept/Maybe/Decline buttons on calendar invites. My company uses a Exchange 2013 server and some other users do see the buttons. For me, I just see an email with an attached .ics file for the same invites.
Expected behavior seen by some people....
How my mail app shows it...
A: Open the Contacts app, select your own email address in the list of contacts. In the menu on top of the screen, go to "Card" -> "Make this my card". Reload calendar. Then it should work, you will get a notification popup with accept/decline buttons. (I just had the same problem, on a Mac running Yosemite)
Source
A: I had the same issue. After searching forever to find a solution, I stumbled on an unrelated post that fixed the issue. Apparently, if your contact in the Contacts app doesn't have the same email address that you are trying to reply to/from, then you don't get those choices.
Basically, change your contact to be "me" in the Contacts application and they show up. Contacts>Card>Make this my card
A: on my iPhone:
The email address was already part of "my card". Still, I could not reply to ics-meetings copied to my calendar.
In General settings, Passwords & Accounts: make sure that "calendar" is also selected for the email account in question.
Initially, "calendar" was only selected for my iCloud account, but not all of my additional email accounts.
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319ea11edb3cca40dd5919d643cc9b341fe2b943 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I inspect the environment variables of a running process? Is there some equivalent (CLI or GUI) to Linux's /proc/$PID/environ feature?
A: You can inspect environmental variables of running process with
ps eww <PID>
| Q: How can I inspect the environment variables of a running process? Is there some equivalent (CLI or GUI) to Linux's /proc/$PID/environ feature?
A: You can inspect environmental variables of running process with
ps eww <PID>
A: The following adds on to Mateusz's answer, pretty printing the variables one per line:
ps eww -o command <PID> | tr ' ' '\n'
A: See the function EnvironFromProcId():
https://github.com/time-killer-games/xproc/blob/main/crossprocess.cpp
void EnvironFromProcId(PROCID procId, char ***buffer, int *size)
From the specified PROCID, (typedef for DWORD / unsigned long on Windows, otherwise pid_t / int for Mac, Linux, and other Unix-likes), the function shall copy a vector of environment strings (NAME=VALUE) to 'buffer', and the amount of strings shall be copied to 'size'. This function is not thread safe, however the source may be modified so that it can become thread safe. Note that this uses an incompletely-documented structure on Windows, and in order for it to be able to read the environment block between (to and from) both 32-bit and 64-bit processes, it uses a method that is not as performant as the other platforms. It is built with secondary executables compiled directly into the initial one, which gets extracted to the Windows temp directory at runtime, and runs from there. Depending on the architecture of the target process's associated executable image, that will determine the architecture of the secondary executable to run. Wrote for Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. Ubuntu / Debian needs libprocps-dev, also libx11-dev if compiled using the build*w.sh build scripts which include windowing code, (not the default). FreeBSD will need libX11 if built with windowing.
Or, compile from the source code using the build scripts (MinGW / g++ on Windows / Linux, clang on Mac / FreeBSD), then run from the command line passing the --env-from-pid pid command line parameters. Pass the --help parameter for the list of all possible options.
For convenience, example usage is in main.cpp (the actual CLI code): https://github.com/time-killer-games/xproc/blob/fe14ec70e4e58359ddf3d29aa03c86328c97b49b/main.cpp#L153
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480d4cc18fc10b549916c062eccbb7161593f4f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Deleted all certificates by mistake. How to recreate? I started seeing an issue in Chrome (38 on OSX 10.7.5) accessing GitHub. I got a Privacy error. One of the recommendations on SuperUser, and the reply I got from GitHub support, was to delete all expired certificates in Keychain Access, close the browser, and reboot the machine. I followed the advice.
Now, I cannot access many other sites: LinkedIn, StackExchange sites etc. - all with the same error. I'm forced to use another browser (which btw, shows an error next to the HTTPS lock icon). The Keychain Access certificates view does not repopulate. I might have deleted something I shouldn't, but shouldn't new certificates be downloaded as needed? What do I need to do to gain access to all the HTTPS sites again?
A: Restore the contents of these three directories from a recent backup:
~/Library/Keychains
/Library/Keychains
/System/Library/Keychains
On my system this comprises 18 files and a subdirectory in the user folder ~/Library/Keychains
| Q: Deleted all certificates by mistake. How to recreate? I started seeing an issue in Chrome (38 on OSX 10.7.5) accessing GitHub. I got a Privacy error. One of the recommendations on SuperUser, and the reply I got from GitHub support, was to delete all expired certificates in Keychain Access, close the browser, and reboot the machine. I followed the advice.
Now, I cannot access many other sites: LinkedIn, StackExchange sites etc. - all with the same error. I'm forced to use another browser (which btw, shows an error next to the HTTPS lock icon). The Keychain Access certificates view does not repopulate. I might have deleted something I shouldn't, but shouldn't new certificates be downloaded as needed? What do I need to do to gain access to all the HTTPS sites again?
A: Restore the contents of these three directories from a recent backup:
~/Library/Keychains
/Library/Keychains
/System/Library/Keychains
On my system this comprises 18 files and a subdirectory in the user folder ~/Library/Keychains
A: I finally solved the issue by opening the web sites that misbehaved, one at a time, in Safari. From there you proceed to trust each and every certificate. They are then re-added to your keychain. More can be found in this KB.
I'd like to thank @bmike for doing his best to assist. Restoring from backup would probably work (if I had one - silly me).
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9883301d1e9dd71e0a86561b503809e3347b6cbc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I merge folders using finder? I have a folder (let's name it main-folder and it's mounted via smb) that contains lots of files and subfolders. I want to copy half of the contents of main-folder to a local subfolder (let's call it my-folder). My problem is that one folder is common between main-folder and my-folder. And even though I have pressed the option key, I do not get the merge option.
I know I can use rsync and other similar commands which I've done lots of time. EXCEPT I can't use it this time as I am only copying half of the files/folders. Too tedious to write an exception list.
I was hoping for a similar behaviour when dragging files/folders in Windows Explorer.
Any ideas on how to make it work? Thanks a lot
A: Just hold the Option button when you drag the folder, then will be available the "Keep Both"/"Combine" option so you can merge the folders. Just like the Windows default behavior.
Where did folder "merge" or "keep both" go in OS X 10.9 Mavericks?
| Q: How do I merge folders using finder? I have a folder (let's name it main-folder and it's mounted via smb) that contains lots of files and subfolders. I want to copy half of the contents of main-folder to a local subfolder (let's call it my-folder). My problem is that one folder is common between main-folder and my-folder. And even though I have pressed the option key, I do not get the merge option.
I know I can use rsync and other similar commands which I've done lots of time. EXCEPT I can't use it this time as I am only copying half of the files/folders. Too tedious to write an exception list.
I was hoping for a similar behaviour when dragging files/folders in Windows Explorer.
Any ideas on how to make it work? Thanks a lot
A: Just hold the Option button when you drag the folder, then will be available the "Keep Both"/"Combine" option so you can merge the folders. Just like the Windows default behavior.
Where did folder "merge" or "keep both" go in OS X 10.9 Mavericks?
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9e3e97708b6ad044e2ef377a3b411b2cf4f7b6c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How would my friend install my iOS application without App Store? I am developing my first serious application for iOS and I am doing it for my friend (not for public use). So it will be a gift. Now question:
How would my friend be able to instal this application? Is there any easy way to share my app with him? I am very confused on how I can share my app on private basis with few people only and how they can easily install it.
A: You can share apps you develop by means of Ad-Hoc distribution. This involves adding the UDID of their device to your developer account (and consequently a provisioning profile) which lets you install the app on devices outside of the App Store.
For more information on Ad-Hoc distribution, see:
*
*https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/TestingYouriOSApp/TestingYouriOSApp.html
Apple does not operate a private App Store for non-apple use other than the custom business store and it's unlikely individuals would be accepted into that program so you have to self host the content as described above.
| Q: How would my friend install my iOS application without App Store? I am developing my first serious application for iOS and I am doing it for my friend (not for public use). So it will be a gift. Now question:
How would my friend be able to instal this application? Is there any easy way to share my app with him? I am very confused on how I can share my app on private basis with few people only and how they can easily install it.
A: You can share apps you develop by means of Ad-Hoc distribution. This involves adding the UDID of their device to your developer account (and consequently a provisioning profile) which lets you install the app on devices outside of the App Store.
For more information on Ad-Hoc distribution, see:
*
*https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/TestingYouriOSApp/TestingYouriOSApp.html
Apple does not operate a private App Store for non-apple use other than the custom business store and it's unlikely individuals would be accepted into that program so you have to self host the content as described above.
A: There should be a button to generate a code that allows you to download the app from the App Store for free somewhere in the developer panel.
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49538323262a4141f37dd30a77b59bd3913e978e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCloud preference pane loads indefinitely and prevents access to System Preferences When I open System Preferences, it opens straight to the iCloud pane, which loads a spinner, states that it is loading, and then runs until I give up. While the spinner is up, I can't quit the app or load the pane, nor can I access any other preferences.
I don't have an iCloud account, and I'd like to quit the pane to make changes to my system. Is there any way to disable the pane or this behaviour?
A: Launch Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities) and look for a process named "com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice". Select it, click the little stop sign with the x inside it, and select "force Quit".
| Q: iCloud preference pane loads indefinitely and prevents access to System Preferences When I open System Preferences, it opens straight to the iCloud pane, which loads a spinner, states that it is loading, and then runs until I give up. While the spinner is up, I can't quit the app or load the pane, nor can I access any other preferences.
I don't have an iCloud account, and I'd like to quit the pane to make changes to my system. Is there any way to disable the pane or this behaviour?
A: Launch Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities) and look for a process named "com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice". Select it, click the little stop sign with the x inside it, and select "force Quit".
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91c9384cb057af8f0bdb11e540d6dc1e21b43cfe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does the “Current Period” data usage number mean? In the Settings app, under Cellular > Cellular Data Usage, I see a “Current Period” value of 6.8 GB. However, I’ve checked this number several times over the years, at all different points in my cellular billing cycle, and it always hovers around 6 GB. Is this really the amount of data that I’ve transferred using my data plan since my last bill? If not, what does the number mean?
A: Current Period refers to the period of time since the last reset. This is nothing to do with the cellular plan. You can see the beginning date of the current period by scrolling to the bottom and looking at the date under the reset option.
If you have never reset the counter, it has been counting up like the odometer of a car since you started the OS at a clean restore.
| Q: What does the “Current Period” data usage number mean? In the Settings app, under Cellular > Cellular Data Usage, I see a “Current Period” value of 6.8 GB. However, I’ve checked this number several times over the years, at all different points in my cellular billing cycle, and it always hovers around 6 GB. Is this really the amount of data that I’ve transferred using my data plan since my last bill? If not, what does the number mean?
A: Current Period refers to the period of time since the last reset. This is nothing to do with the cellular plan. You can see the beginning date of the current period by scrolling to the bottom and looking at the date under the reset option.
If you have never reset the counter, it has been counting up like the odometer of a car since you started the OS at a clean restore.
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4800be88811a9f129484bdcf2a37e310d2c7bc69 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Returning to First Screen from last Screen in Mission Control I use Mission Control (on a Mavericks running MacBook Air) a lot, and I was looking for a solution to the following scenario:
I have three (or more spaces open), and I am on the space furthest to the right (the last) in my lineup of spaces. I want to get to my first space (the one furthest on the left). Currently, if I try to go right from this last space, nothing happens. Is there a way that if I swipe right from the "last space", I can go directly to the "first space", and vice-versa?
A: The only way I know to do this is to 3- or 4-finger swipe up for Mission Control (depending on your settings) or use the keyboard shortcut (on my MBP it shares a key with F3), and then select the space that you want.
| Q: Returning to First Screen from last Screen in Mission Control I use Mission Control (on a Mavericks running MacBook Air) a lot, and I was looking for a solution to the following scenario:
I have three (or more spaces open), and I am on the space furthest to the right (the last) in my lineup of spaces. I want to get to my first space (the one furthest on the left). Currently, if I try to go right from this last space, nothing happens. Is there a way that if I swipe right from the "last space", I can go directly to the "first space", and vice-versa?
A: The only way I know to do this is to 3- or 4-finger swipe up for Mission Control (depending on your settings) or use the keyboard shortcut (on my MBP it shares a key with F3), and then select the space that you want.
A: Have you tried enabling keyboard shortcuts for directly accessing spaces by their number?
No, this won't enable the wrap-around functionality that you specifically asked about, but it will allow you to type ⌃+1 (control+1) to jump from space 3 to space 1.
You will need to press fn+⌃+1 if your Mac is set to use the function keys the default way.
A: You can also use ctrl + ⬅︎ or ctrl + ➜ to navigate between screens. And if you've got a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can enable "swipe between full screen apps" in SysPref to do the same at that @aglasser suggested
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f755e8c1d6c74ce49613135131a472763fbcb92c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Secure erase OS X disk via terminal If there's an encrypted (filevault) volume, both of these methods in terminal will erase the given drive. However, what differences exist between the two? Which is more secure?
Option 1:
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Macintosh\ HD disk22
Option 2:
diskutil cs list
// find logical volume group UUID
diskutil delete *UUID*
A: I think the most secure way is to use diskutil zerodisk and then follow up with either command. Both of those commands remove the reference to logical structure on the disk but a good file recovery tool would still be able to recover most material on the unstructured volume by matching file templates to successive sets of bits. You want to write over everything with 0s or garbage before you dereference the volume.
UPDATE: It was negligent of me not to mention that diskutil secureErase also exists and it combines the two commands with options for multiple passes of zeroing the disk.
| Q: Secure erase OS X disk via terminal If there's an encrypted (filevault) volume, both of these methods in terminal will erase the given drive. However, what differences exist between the two? Which is more secure?
Option 1:
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Macintosh\ HD disk22
Option 2:
diskutil cs list
// find logical volume group UUID
diskutil delete *UUID*
A: I think the most secure way is to use diskutil zerodisk and then follow up with either command. Both of those commands remove the reference to logical structure on the disk but a good file recovery tool would still be able to recover most material on the unstructured volume by matching file templates to successive sets of bits. You want to write over everything with 0s or garbage before you dereference the volume.
UPDATE: It was negligent of me not to mention that diskutil secureErase also exists and it combines the two commands with options for multiple passes of zeroing the disk.
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f030df53957cfa5f4e096e90b01f3187bb3d05a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I mount Ext4 using OS X Fuse I installed OS X Fuse on OS X 10.9.4 as outlined in http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/20/mount-ext-linux-file-system-mac/
Unfortunately it does not mount any of my Linux filesystems (on external HD or SD card), either directly or with Disk Utility
Has anyone had any success with this? I note a few others seem to have similar problems.
Is any other package required?
NOTE I can read the data on a Linux machine, so do NOT want other suggestions, but it would be convenient to read on my Mac.
A: Download and install FUSE-Ext2 as described here and then run something like
mkdir /Volumes/Linux
sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk2s6 /Volumes/Linux
You can figure out the device from looking at the output of diskutil list.
| Q: How do I mount Ext4 using OS X Fuse I installed OS X Fuse on OS X 10.9.4 as outlined in http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/20/mount-ext-linux-file-system-mac/
Unfortunately it does not mount any of my Linux filesystems (on external HD or SD card), either directly or with Disk Utility
Has anyone had any success with this? I note a few others seem to have similar problems.
Is any other package required?
NOTE I can read the data on a Linux machine, so do NOT want other suggestions, but it would be convenient to read on my Mac.
A: Download and install FUSE-Ext2 as described here and then run something like
mkdir /Volumes/Linux
sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk2s6 /Volumes/Linux
You can figure out the device from looking at the output of diskutil list.
A: If you only want read support then ext4fuse can do this job. If you already have homebrew then you can install it with:
brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse
brew install ext4fuse
after installation, simply run:
mkdir /Volumes/Linux
ext4fuse /dev/diskXsY /Volumes/Linux
where diskXsY can be found by entering the command diskutil list.
There is currently no write support in ext4fuse.
⚠️ NOTE: by default you'll only be able to mount and see your files with sudo. To mount as regular user add your user to the operator group with sudo dscl . append /Groups/operator GroupMembership <your-user>. Once you've done this you will be able to mount as a regular user and see the files from Finder.
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76bd6cbfb4126f14e57eb2e859fa4351103a7cf2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent iPhone charger from capturing audio My car has an USB connection which I use to connect to my iPhone 4s (with iOS 7.1) as a charger. But the connection also captures audio, so no sound is emitted from the iphone when the usb wire is connected.
Is there any way to control what's the Iphone behaviour when an external device is switched on, just to avoid the audio to be captured?
A: For a solution that doesn't require jailbreaking and modifying your phone's OS, I would suggest a USB charge-only dongle, like this one or this.
Insert that on the USB end of your cable, and it will only connect the charging pins, not the data pins, preventing any audio or other data from transferring.
| Q: Prevent iPhone charger from capturing audio My car has an USB connection which I use to connect to my iPhone 4s (with iOS 7.1) as a charger. But the connection also captures audio, so no sound is emitted from the iphone when the usb wire is connected.
Is there any way to control what's the Iphone behaviour when an external device is switched on, just to avoid the audio to be captured?
A: For a solution that doesn't require jailbreaking and modifying your phone's OS, I would suggest a USB charge-only dongle, like this one or this.
Insert that on the USB end of your cable, and it will only connect the charging pins, not the data pins, preventing any audio or other data from transferring.
A: Have you checked the Control Center for Airplay devices? Normally all Audio capturing devices are listed there. You can check by opening Control Center (swipe up from the bottom) while connected. Now there should be an Airplay Icon and some text "AirPlay". I'm not really sure where exactly it is on an iPhone 4S, I believe somewhere at the bottom. Tap on the icon and you'll get all AirPlay devices connected to the iPhone listed. There select "iPhone" to select the iPhone as the output. I hope I could help,
GeF
A: After googling a while finally I came up with the solution.
The file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.iapd.plist seems to track external devices connected to the iphone. If this file is removed, these devices cannot be selected by Airplay.
I'm not sure which are the implication of removing that file and if I restore it, the Airplay functionality would be restored as well, but the fact is it works.
I don't also understand why Apple has not foreseen the possibility of select iphone speakers instead of remote audio even though a dock connector is plugged. Some reason must exist, but it's difficult to understand.
Obviously you need to jailbreak the iphone to remove that file. I simply use a ssh client to do it.
A: I had the same problem. Docking or cancel, no other options. Like most issues with my iPhone, shutting down fixed it.
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1fc754d7c98a3a92b083d20799da01ed59510595 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Time Machine to NAS, over internet I have a Synology DiskStation NAS that I use for Time Machine backups on my LAN. I want to be able to back up when I'm away from home. I've tried:
*
*Connecting via L2TP VPN running on Synology
*Connecting directly to Synology via AFP
Through both of these methods I can mount the Time Machine share in the Finder, and I've confirmed read/write access to the share when connected over the internet.
However, when I've mounted the share over the internet, and try to "Back Up Now," I get a message that it couldn't find the disk. Even though the disk is mounted.
A: Synology does have this walk-through for doing what you want to do.
I will mention that (quite some time ago) I used a Synology NAS as a time-machine target disk, and I did get it to work, but found it to be highly error-prone. Not what you want in a backup. Also slow. I'm using a drive with a direct USB3 connection now and am much, much happier with that.
| Q: Time Machine to NAS, over internet I have a Synology DiskStation NAS that I use for Time Machine backups on my LAN. I want to be able to back up when I'm away from home. I've tried:
*
*Connecting via L2TP VPN running on Synology
*Connecting directly to Synology via AFP
Through both of these methods I can mount the Time Machine share in the Finder, and I've confirmed read/write access to the share when connected over the internet.
However, when I've mounted the share over the internet, and try to "Back Up Now," I get a message that it couldn't find the disk. Even though the disk is mounted.
A: Synology does have this walk-through for doing what you want to do.
I will mention that (quite some time ago) I used a Synology NAS as a time-machine target disk, and I did get it to work, but found it to be highly error-prone. Not what you want in a backup. Also slow. I'm using a drive with a direct USB3 connection now and am much, much happier with that.
A: This is not a substantial answer, maybe treat it as complementary to the first answer.
I should expect Time Machine over AFP to be relatively reliable with a LAN, relatively unreliable or impossible when limited to a WAN (wide area network).
In the Time Machine Network Interface Specification (TMNIS): Time Machine Server Requirements. I guess that whilst a server may meet those requirements, an aspect of the WAN will defeat a requirement.
The size of bands, within a sparse bundle disk image, may be ill-suited to AFP over a WAN. And so on.
A: I wrote a guide to configuring Time Machine to back up to a cloud server which is almost relevant. And it looks like the DiskStation supports the same IPSec server setup that I'm recommending, so you might be able to crib some parts from my guide to make it work.
Time Machine over the internet works for me, even over a 1Mbps connection connection. Though you have to leave your Mac running for a bit longer to make sure each backup completes, so number of completed backups is going to be proportional to that bandwidth.
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3745b0c1ab185212a7993350fc00b486a68806f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does iTerm store user preferences? Where exactly is iTerm's user preferences file located? What I want is to sync this file over Github between several machines.
A: ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
Also note that you can set a custom location in iTerm Preferences under the General tab.
| Q: Where does iTerm store user preferences? Where exactly is iTerm's user preferences file located? What I want is to sync this file over Github between several machines.
A: ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
Also note that you can set a custom location in iTerm Preferences under the General tab.
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fafe3067826b24d7adf590276936ba5c1334f799 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does `arch` output `i386`? When I run $ arch on my 10.9 2012 MacBook Pro, I get the output
i386
The manpage for arch says that
the arch command is 2-way universal, 32-bit only
However, $ file "$(which arch)" gives
/usr/bin/arch: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
OTOH, python2.7 is running as a 64-bit executable:
$ /usr/bin/python2.7 -c 'import sys; print "%x" % sys.maxint'
7fffffffffffffff
Also, the kernel is apparently 64-bit:
$ file /mach_kernel
/mach_kernel: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
uname agrees:
$ uname -m
x86_64
..or does it?
$ uname -p
i386
A: Here you go:
uname -p print the machine processor architecture name.
uname -m print the machine hardware name.
The arch command with no arguments, displays the machine's architecture type.
Ultimately I suspect this is the answer you want: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12763296/os-x-arch-command-incorrect
For further confusion, run:
$arch
i386
$machine
i486
$uname -m
x86_64
$uname -p
i386
| Q: Why does `arch` output `i386`? When I run $ arch on my 10.9 2012 MacBook Pro, I get the output
i386
The manpage for arch says that
the arch command is 2-way universal, 32-bit only
However, $ file "$(which arch)" gives
/usr/bin/arch: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
OTOH, python2.7 is running as a 64-bit executable:
$ /usr/bin/python2.7 -c 'import sys; print "%x" % sys.maxint'
7fffffffffffffff
Also, the kernel is apparently 64-bit:
$ file /mach_kernel
/mach_kernel: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
uname agrees:
$ uname -m
x86_64
..or does it?
$ uname -p
i386
A: Here you go:
uname -p print the machine processor architecture name.
uname -m print the machine hardware name.
The arch command with no arguments, displays the machine's architecture type.
Ultimately I suspect this is the answer you want: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12763296/os-x-arch-command-incorrect
For further confusion, run:
$arch
i386
$machine
i486
$uname -m
x86_64
$uname -p
i386
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d8704add96900de617aaba77578b6e2062994f82 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 2560x1600 on Dell U3011 with new MacBook Pro I have a brand new MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) and a Dell U3011 30" display.
Is there any way to get the full 2560x1600 resolution on the Dell without the $100 Dual-Link DVI adapter?
I've tried HDMI to HDMI and Thunderbolt (Mini DP?) to HDMI, but I can't get more than 1920x1200. I've also tried resetting NVRAM/PRAM.
A: Try using the mini Display Port to the Dell's Display Port.
That's how I connect to 2 2560*1440 Dell screens.
I've found, in order of reliability
*
*Display Port - works every time
*DVI - works most of the time, can be fussy on some screens
*HDMI - haven't used
*anything > VGA [barely works at all on anything over 1920*1200]
| Q: 2560x1600 on Dell U3011 with new MacBook Pro I have a brand new MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) and a Dell U3011 30" display.
Is there any way to get the full 2560x1600 resolution on the Dell without the $100 Dual-Link DVI adapter?
I've tried HDMI to HDMI and Thunderbolt (Mini DP?) to HDMI, but I can't get more than 1920x1200. I've also tried resetting NVRAM/PRAM.
A: Try using the mini Display Port to the Dell's Display Port.
That's how I connect to 2 2560*1440 Dell screens.
I've found, in order of reliability
*
*Display Port - works every time
*DVI - works most of the time, can be fussy on some screens
*HDMI - haven't used
*anything > VGA [barely works at all on anything over 1920*1200]
A: Despite several sources & specifications stating it is impossible, I have an HDMI output connected to a Dell U2711 DVI input at 2560 x 1440 via a simple HDMI to single link DVI-D cable, because the Dell U2711 accepts single link ~340MHz HDMI on the DVI-D inputs.
Unfortunately, manufacturers don't seem to actually tell anyone if a display has this capability - looks like the Dell U3011 and Philips 288p6 do as well. Good luck confirming this on other monitors.
Here are the lines you have to read between to figure out what is going on:
With some limitations, HDMI and DVI are the same signal. DVI uses dual link (more TMDS pairs) to get higher resolutions, while HDMI ups the per channel throughput with higher cable specs.
An Apple HDMI support article tells us that "MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 and later)" support 4k (3840 x 2160 x 30Hz, 4096 x 2160 x 24Hz) on HDMI. This means 2560x1600x60Hz can work and probably will.
But HDMI only has pins for a single DVI link (4 TMDS pairs), so even if the DVI end of a cable or adapter shows the extra pins, it's still single link, and as everyone knows, single link DVI only goes up to 1920x1200x60Hz. Right? Except...
"... many devices output HDMI over a DVI connector [..] and some multimedia displays may accept HDMI (including audio) over a DVI input." (Wikipedia HDMI article)
A hint! I found confirmation on a random product page on amazon:
"Note 1: Resolutions above 1920x1200 60z require monitors to support DVI-D single link speed of 340MHZ, such as Dell U2711 & U3011 and Philips 288p6."
("active" Mini Displayport to DVI adaptor)
DisplayPort (vs HDMI) still applies here: the adaptor will only work with our "special" monitors, because the DisplayPort++ dual-mode (as in LVDS or TMDS, not dual-link!) version 1.1 transmits a single-link HDMI/DVI signal well above DVI single link specs, just like the HDMI output on my MBP.
By implication, DisplayPort to HDMI at high res should work, but clearly doesn't a lot of the time - searching Amazon for "DisplayPort to HDMI 4K" shows cheap cables and positive anecdotes. And DisplayPort to DVI-D single-link might work at higher resolutions if you have a monitor with this well-hidden beyond-spec feature, instead of having to buy the expensive converter to split it into 2 <165MHz dual link DVI channels.
Thank goodness for standards!
A: The new retina MacBook Pro have the following support over HDMI :
*
*Support for 1080p resolution at up to 60Hz
*Support for 3840-by-2160 resolution at 30Hz
*Support for 4096-by-2160 resolution at 24Hz
Specs at Apple.com.
A: I just bought the mini displayport to DVI adapter(30 euro) but have not got a DVI cable yet. In the apple store they said this would get me the 2.5k resolution.
A: I know it's anecdotal but I thought I'd share my similar situation.
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and I receive the following outputs using these cables:
*
*hdmi -> hdmi only gives me 1080p
*hdmi -> dvi (adapter) only gives me 1600x900
*dvi -> hdmi (adapter) gives me 2560x1440
It's pretty backwards (literally), I know. But it's what's worked for my setup.
A: I'm not sure if Apple changed anything with El Capitan, but I'm able to get 2560x1440 60hz with HDMI. I'm on a rMBP 13'' 2014. I'm connecting to Acer G257HU monitor. I can confirm using the monitor's overlay that it is indeed 1440p 60hz. Just using a standard Amazon HDMI cable.
A: For additional and helpful information see this
http://www.michaellabbe.com/DellU3011MacbookPro.html
(bottom line!)
A: I was able to get the Dell 3011 working at 2560x1600 resolution (30 Hz) when I run Windows 10 on a Macbook Retina and use the HDMI adapter. This means the hardware in the Macbook Retina will support 2560x1600 through the HDMI adapter. I set a custom resolution using the Intel HD Graphics Control Panel functionality. Don't know why this won't work when running macOS, but this would appear to mean that there is a software issue or potential software fix.
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e22d980a57db80e36082e4d0dfa54b7cf3058676 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable Safari's Show All Tabs gesture? Safari's Show All Tabs view is pretty useless, it only shows one tab at a time and is fairly easy to trigger with an accidental pinch gesture. How do I turn it off (as least for the pinch gesture)?
A: You can easily disable this by installing BetterTouchTool, and then for Safari adding a new Touchpad gesture for Pinch Out with no action.
Here's a screenshot:
| Q: How do I disable Safari's Show All Tabs gesture? Safari's Show All Tabs view is pretty useless, it only shows one tab at a time and is fairly easy to trigger with an accidental pinch gesture. How do I turn it off (as least for the pinch gesture)?
A: You can easily disable this by installing BetterTouchTool, and then for Safari adding a new Touchpad gesture for Pinch Out with no action.
Here's a screenshot:
A: This is currently not possible. Apple does not provide a way to turn off this gesture.
Note that if you pinch out whilst still zoomed in slightly, the tab switcher is not invoked.
A: Yes, you can disable it by going to System Settings → Trackpad → Scroll & Zoom and then uncheck the Zoom in or out box. Of course, by doing this, you also won't be able to pinch to zoom in and out on webpages and in other apps.
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87b3a7e04d3a7bc786af1d2d60bdf8bcd753f130 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How many resources does an empty OSX desktop take? By desktop, I mean creating extra desktops that you can flip to for extra screen real estate, not separate monitors. They used to call it spaces.
I like to have a couple ready in case I need them, but most of the time I don't. Wondering what the penalty is for having empty ones running.
A: Quick unscientific testing says: not enough to be significant.
I increased the number of desktops from 1 to 16 (which is apparently the maximum), and kept an eye on the memory usage of WindowServer – it went up a few MB. CPU seemed unaffected too. Definitely neglegible on any modern hardware, and far outweighed by the resource usage of programs like Firefox, which is in the hundreds of MBs.
If you enjoy the extra space, by all means go for it.
| Q: How many resources does an empty OSX desktop take? By desktop, I mean creating extra desktops that you can flip to for extra screen real estate, not separate monitors. They used to call it spaces.
I like to have a couple ready in case I need them, but most of the time I don't. Wondering what the penalty is for having empty ones running.
A: Quick unscientific testing says: not enough to be significant.
I increased the number of desktops from 1 to 16 (which is apparently the maximum), and kept an eye on the memory usage of WindowServer – it went up a few MB. CPU seemed unaffected too. Definitely neglegible on any modern hardware, and far outweighed by the resource usage of programs like Firefox, which is in the hundreds of MBs.
If you enjoy the extra space, by all means go for it.
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f9411f6bfa48e27282f2d43d4e814c7b4ced5c0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Running Eclipse Luna using Oracle Java 8 on Mavericks I am trying to run Eclipse Luna using Oracle Java JRE 1.8.0_11 on Mac OS X 10.9.4. I have added the following line to my eclipse.ini file:
-vm
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java
Eclipse seems to have picked this up, but now I get the following message when starting it:
The JVM shared library "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/../lib/server/libjvm.dylib"
does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol.
I have made sure that both Eclipse and Java are 64 bit versions, and do not know what else could cause this problem. Can anyone propose a fix for this?
Edit: It seems to work when using the JDK instead of just the JRE, but I still would like to know why.
A: JRE is Java Runtime Environment which is used for running java applications. But if you want to develop Java applications and do Java programming, you need JDK i.e. Java Development Kit.
To know more see the following question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906445/what-is-the-difference-between-jdk-and-jre
| Q: Running Eclipse Luna using Oracle Java 8 on Mavericks I am trying to run Eclipse Luna using Oracle Java JRE 1.8.0_11 on Mac OS X 10.9.4. I have added the following line to my eclipse.ini file:
-vm
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java
Eclipse seems to have picked this up, but now I get the following message when starting it:
The JVM shared library "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/../lib/server/libjvm.dylib"
does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol.
I have made sure that both Eclipse and Java are 64 bit versions, and do not know what else could cause this problem. Can anyone propose a fix for this?
Edit: It seems to work when using the JDK instead of just the JRE, but I still would like to know why.
A: JRE is Java Runtime Environment which is used for running java applications. But if you want to develop Java applications and do Java programming, you need JDK i.e. Java Development Kit.
To know more see the following question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906445/what-is-the-difference-between-jdk-and-jre
A: I had the exact same problem. Uninstalling Eclipse and the JRE, and then installing the JDK and re-installing Eclipse worked for me.
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aca5ab3aac3591fa3d70d91e900caa8d2f00d85f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: More than 2500 systemwide processes on OSX 10.9 Attempts to raise the maximum number of systemwide processes above 2500 fail.
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2500
kern.maxproc: 2500 -> 2500
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2501
kern.maxproc: 2500
sysctl: kern.maxproc: Invalid argument
In an archived Apple article, it's mentioned that as of OSX Server 10.6, maxproc was 2500 for each 8 GB of installed RAM.
I'm running OSX 10.9 (non-Server), with 16 GB of RAM, on a 2012 MacBook Pro.
By comparison, the ubuntu linux VM running under OSX supports over 30 000 processes without any special configuration.
Is it possible to raise this limit above 2500? I've already run up against the default limit of 1000 without a great deal of effort.
A: Unfortunately it seems like maxproc is limited to 2500 with OS X unless you install OS X Server. With Server installed you can run the serverinfo tool to set high performance mode.
Just tried this myself and it seems to work.
$ sudo serverinfo --setperfmode YES
Server performance mode was enabled.
Rebooted.
$ sudo sysctl kern.maxproc
kern.maxproc: 5000
I didn't even need to change maxproc, after rebooting it was already set to 5000.
| Q: More than 2500 systemwide processes on OSX 10.9 Attempts to raise the maximum number of systemwide processes above 2500 fail.
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2500
kern.maxproc: 2500 -> 2500
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2501
kern.maxproc: 2500
sysctl: kern.maxproc: Invalid argument
In an archived Apple article, it's mentioned that as of OSX Server 10.6, maxproc was 2500 for each 8 GB of installed RAM.
I'm running OSX 10.9 (non-Server), with 16 GB of RAM, on a 2012 MacBook Pro.
By comparison, the ubuntu linux VM running under OSX supports over 30 000 processes without any special configuration.
Is it possible to raise this limit above 2500? I've already run up against the default limit of 1000 without a great deal of effort.
A: Unfortunately it seems like maxproc is limited to 2500 with OS X unless you install OS X Server. With Server installed you can run the serverinfo tool to set high performance mode.
Just tried this myself and it seems to work.
$ sudo serverinfo --setperfmode YES
Server performance mode was enabled.
Rebooted.
$ sudo sysctl kern.maxproc
kern.maxproc: 5000
I didn't even need to change maxproc, after rebooting it was already set to 5000.
A: The idea is the same as Alistair, but we have to use other command in OS X El Capitan.
sudo nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1 $(nvram boot-args 2>/dev/null | cut -f 2-)"
# Check "high performance mode" is enabled.
$ nvram boot-args
nvram: Error getting variable - 'boot-args': (iokit/common) data was not found
# Enable high performance mode
$ sudo nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1 $(nvram boot-args 2>/dev/null | cut -f 2-)"
# Now high performance mode is enabled.
$ nvram boot-args
boot-args serverperfmode=1
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5359
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e2917e54bac97714bd1e7af342b3945434c8448d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How would I bring View Controller Scene in Xcode to the main working area? I cannot figure out how to get View Controller Scene on my main working area in Xcode rather than to have it on top of my working area. I want to be able comfortably navigate thought my view items.
A: In Yosemite, it looks like this
| Q: How would I bring View Controller Scene in Xcode to the main working area? I cannot figure out how to get View Controller Scene on my main working area in Xcode rather than to have it on top of my working area. I want to be able comfortably navigate thought my view items.
A: In Yosemite, it looks like this
A: Look for a button in the bottom-left corner of the canvas where you are building your views. Click that and the Document Outline should open.
A: I had the same problem and I clicked View Controller Scene from the top like you have, then Storyboard Entry Point and tada, it appeared!
A: Editor -> Show Document Outline
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ff985a5ff1a2377fab994a7405e181c7205d9663 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Move the note icons around in Preview? I have added an note to a PDF file in Preview, and the yellow icon is covering up some text, but I can't move it away by dragging:
Any ideas?
A: You can move the note icon by clicking on the Text Selection tool or the Rectangular Selection tool (it looks like a square with dotted corners) and then clicking and dragging the icon to the area of your liking.
Make sure that you aren't in highlighting mode (click off the highlight tool at the top of the page) - you can't move the note around when you're highlighting.
| Q: Move the note icons around in Preview? I have added an note to a PDF file in Preview, and the yellow icon is covering up some text, but I can't move it away by dragging:
Any ideas?
A: You can move the note icon by clicking on the Text Selection tool or the Rectangular Selection tool (it looks like a square with dotted corners) and then clicking and dragging the icon to the area of your liking.
Make sure that you aren't in highlighting mode (click off the highlight tool at the top of the page) - you can't move the note around when you're highlighting.
A: Also, make sure that you aren't in highlighting mode (click off the highlight tool at the top of the page) - you can't move the note around when you're highlighting.
A: If Preview's paging mode is Continuous Scroll it may interfere with the ability to move the position of the note. I realized this when I opened Preview's Highlights & Notes sidebar. I noticed that the notes I added on page 2 were showing up on page 1 in the sidebar. It may just be an old bug that was never fixed. Anyways, I started over by deleting the notes. I found it easier to selected them in the sidebar and delete them there. Then I switched the paging mode to Single Page. Creating new notes in this mode didn't confuse Preview and I had no problem moving them around afterwards.
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90bf596f49f15dd272c5de9f49ae61b72e76f514 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to auto mount SMB storage without nobrowse option? I want to create an permanent SMB mount and read SMB storage in Finder. So I read following articles.
Create a Permanent SMB Mount in OSX (Updated)
Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes
After that, auto mounting SMB storage has worked properly. But Finder can't read the storage because of nobrowse option which I didn't set. Is there a way to auto mount SMB storage without nobrowse option?
The details are as follows.
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.9.4
BuildVersion: 13E28
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/- auto_smb -nodev,nosuid' >> /etc/auto_master"
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/../Volumes/share -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:password@ipaddress/share' >> /etc/auto_smb"
$ sudo automount -vc
$ mount | grep smbfs
//user@ipaddress/share on /Volumes/share (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse, mounted by tommy)
A: Edit to FALSE and remove the # in the following line in /etc/autofs.cfg:
#AUTOMOUNTD_NOBROWSE=TRUE
| Q: Is there a way to auto mount SMB storage without nobrowse option? I want to create an permanent SMB mount and read SMB storage in Finder. So I read following articles.
Create a Permanent SMB Mount in OSX (Updated)
Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes
After that, auto mounting SMB storage has worked properly. But Finder can't read the storage because of nobrowse option which I didn't set. Is there a way to auto mount SMB storage without nobrowse option?
The details are as follows.
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.9.4
BuildVersion: 13E28
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/- auto_smb -nodev,nosuid' >> /etc/auto_master"
$ sudo sh -c "echo '/../Volumes/share -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:password@ipaddress/share' >> /etc/auto_smb"
$ sudo automount -vc
$ mount | grep smbfs
//user@ipaddress/share on /Volumes/share (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse, mounted by tommy)
A: Edit to FALSE and remove the # in the following line in /etc/autofs.cfg:
#AUTOMOUNTD_NOBROWSE=TRUE
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2a2e85e34dca6e01fbae1b4e9fe0f6af2b3adf9e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal/iTerm Autocomplete "greyed" functionality? Not too sure how to describe this... but I saw this on a person's computer a cafe today and didn't get a chance to ask him what plugin/application he was using --
I think it best to illustrate with an example:
Say there's a directory with three folders, 'kitty', 'doggie', and 'frog'.
Typing cd f would make the letters rog appear after the 'f', but rog would be in a lighter color of text (a greyed color) -- it was a sort of "visible autocomplete", not sure what else to call it. Anyone know how to achieve this? Thanks.
A: This is a feature of the fish shell (Friendly Interactive Shell).
fish's scripting syntax is also quite a bit different from bash and zsh's. If you use zsh, you can also try the zsh-autosuggestions plugin on Github.
| Q: Terminal/iTerm Autocomplete "greyed" functionality? Not too sure how to describe this... but I saw this on a person's computer a cafe today and didn't get a chance to ask him what plugin/application he was using --
I think it best to illustrate with an example:
Say there's a directory with three folders, 'kitty', 'doggie', and 'frog'.
Typing cd f would make the letters rog appear after the 'f', but rog would be in a lighter color of text (a greyed color) -- it was a sort of "visible autocomplete", not sure what else to call it. Anyone know how to achieve this? Thanks.
A: This is a feature of the fish shell (Friendly Interactive Shell).
fish's scripting syntax is also quite a bit different from bash and zsh's. If you use zsh, you can also try the zsh-autosuggestions plugin on Github.
A: There is also a plugin for oh-my-zsh:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions. It explicitly aims at Fish-like functionality.
A: Sounds like like iTerm2 feature.
See this for complete list of Features including the Autocomplete and Highlighting.
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ef90e0443328b81d2c271c92aa25de595de3a3e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use Atom as the default editor for "open"? I would like to set Atom as my default editor for open.
In order to do this, I set in my .bashrc:
export EDITOR="atom -nw"
and reload the file with source .bashrc. Anyway, when I try to open a text file through open filename, it always opens it with TextEdit.
I also tried variations of the above, such as export EDITOR=atom, or exporting VISUAL.
I am sure that .bashrc gets loaded on login.
What am I missing/doing wrong?
A: thee's answer doesn't work for Yosemite and El Capitan - use this one instead:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.github.atom;}'
| Q: How can I use Atom as the default editor for "open"? I would like to set Atom as my default editor for open.
In order to do this, I set in my .bashrc:
export EDITOR="atom -nw"
and reload the file with source .bashrc. Anyway, when I try to open a text file through open filename, it always opens it with TextEdit.
I also tried variations of the above, such as export EDITOR=atom, or exporting VISUAL.
I am sure that .bashrc gets loaded on login.
What am I missing/doing wrong?
A: thee's answer doesn't work for Yosemite and El Capitan - use this one instead:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.github.atom;}'
A: The actual answer is:
export EDITOR="/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom -nw"
A: Just right (or control) click a file of the type you want to change and:
"Get Info" -> "Open with:" -> (Select your program of choice) -> "Change All"
You'll have to do this once for each extension (.txt, .rtf, etc.) you wish to update.
A: The open command is part of OS X and uses Finder's default “Open With…” application to open the file, just like double-clicking it in Finder. $EDITOR is used for things like fc where it is used as the default command-line editor (a replacement for vim or emacs).
To use Atom with the open command, you can select a file of the type you want in Finder, press ⌘ command+I for “Get Info”, and then change “Open With:” to Atom, and click “Change All…”.
Alternatively you can define an alias like
alias e="atom -nw"
in your .bashrc and then run e file-to-edit.txt whenever you want to edit a file in Atom.
A: Following this answer on Stackoverflow, the following command should work:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.github.atom;}'
I am not sure how fare this works through. For me, open /etc/hosts opened the file in Atom as expected, but open demo.properties did not.
Edit: Might not work on Yosemite and above, see this answer for a modified version.
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ca5c2c88d121ba52f004641c74d3970ffe1c97e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac internal trackpad and keyboard not working on Yosemite I have found some threads describing this problem on Google, but none of them provided an (working) answer.
I have installed beta of Yosemite on my MBA (2013). I made no back-ups, but it's my secondary computer and I have no important data here. The problem is: internal trackpad and keyboard stopped working suddenly - during internet browsing on Safari. What's more, mac was running pretty slow during the first hours after the problem occured. Then, this issue fixed itself.
When I connect mouse and keyboard via USB - it' all OK.
What I already did:
-PRAM Reset
-SMC Reset
-checked all what I could in system settings UI
-Reinstalling OS X
-Hard reset (erased disc) to factory settings with Maverics OS.
However, it should not be a hardware problem - I can enter recovery mode ( Cmd + R ) with my internal keyboard.
Does someone has any more suggestions ?
| Q: Mac internal trackpad and keyboard not working on Yosemite I have found some threads describing this problem on Google, but none of them provided an (working) answer.
I have installed beta of Yosemite on my MBA (2013). I made no back-ups, but it's my secondary computer and I have no important data here. The problem is: internal trackpad and keyboard stopped working suddenly - during internet browsing on Safari. What's more, mac was running pretty slow during the first hours after the problem occured. Then, this issue fixed itself.
When I connect mouse and keyboard via USB - it' all OK.
What I already did:
-PRAM Reset
-SMC Reset
-checked all what I could in system settings UI
-Reinstalling OS X
-Hard reset (erased disc) to factory settings with Maverics OS.
However, it should not be a hardware problem - I can enter recovery mode ( Cmd + R ) with my internal keyboard.
Does someone has any more suggestions ?
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f48c30202b334216d661c9441b727bc18b0b61ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Applescript File vs Alias I have these two Applescript commands in which they both point to the same file
alias "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
The alias command works just fine. However the file command does not as it reports this error: "Can’t get file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"."
Any idea why the file command fails?
Thanks in advance, Scott
A: You are not referencing the file correctly.
Try
tell application "Finder" to set myFile to file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
| Q: Applescript File vs Alias I have these two Applescript commands in which they both point to the same file
alias "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
The alias command works just fine. However the file command does not as it reports this error: "Can’t get file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"."
Any idea why the file command fails?
Thanks in advance, Scott
A: You are not referencing the file correctly.
Try
tell application "Finder" to set myFile to file "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf"
A: It's not an alias or file command - these are object specifiers. AppleScript proper does not recognize a standard file object, although many applications such as the Finder do.
You can create a file URL object (similar to a file object) outside of an application context that most apps will recognize:
set myFile to "Macintosh HD:Users:scott:Dropbox:Downloads:AppleScriptFinderGuide.pdf" as «class furl»
tell application "Finder"
reveal myFile
end tell
But in general I use aliases everywhere or plain-text HFS path strings, because these can be coerced to anything necessary without having to worry about quoting spaces or special characters.
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62e2fcde37afd7466fa880c30444cf77d32baa79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Iterm2 - Export a single profile's settings for distribution to others I've been getting used to working with Iterm2 over the past few weeks. I have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as keybinding and color changes.
I've been able to encapsulate all of these changes into a discrete Iterm2 profile. However, I'd like to export the settings for this profile and distribute them to end-users.
I know that it's possible to export a .plist file with all of the Iterm preferences, but I'd like this to be separate so that other people can import without impacting other potentially extant profiles.
Are there any clean options for this?
| Q: Iterm2 - Export a single profile's settings for distribution to others I've been getting used to working with Iterm2 over the past few weeks. I have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as keybinding and color changes.
I've been able to encapsulate all of these changes into a discrete Iterm2 profile. However, I'd like to export the settings for this profile and distribute them to end-users.
I know that it's possible to export a .plist file with all of the Iterm preferences, but I'd like this to be separate so that other people can import without impacting other potentially extant profiles.
Are there any clean options for this?
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f3f9276ad7cd07e69a8f2dcafa0d9a7f574d5709 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Non-extractable private key in Keychain Access.app The manual page for /usr/bin/security on OS X 10.9 indicates that there is a -x option for security import to specify that private keys are non-extractable after being imported.
How is this implemented? Are the private keys imported through such means really become completely non-extractable, or is there still a way to get a hold of them through some kind of memory dump?
How do applications still use such keys for their crypto?
I've tried using https://github.com/torsten/keychain_access, with the following patch,
- fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld\n", status);
+ fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld: %s\n", status, CFStringGetCStringPtr(SecCopyErrorMessageString(status, NULL), kCFStringEncodingUTF8));
but I'm getting the following error when trying to export the private key,
Export error: 4294941980: The contents of this item cannot be retrieved.
Is there some other way to get a hold of the non-extractable key?
| Q: Non-extractable private key in Keychain Access.app The manual page for /usr/bin/security on OS X 10.9 indicates that there is a -x option for security import to specify that private keys are non-extractable after being imported.
How is this implemented? Are the private keys imported through such means really become completely non-extractable, or is there still a way to get a hold of them through some kind of memory dump?
How do applications still use such keys for their crypto?
I've tried using https://github.com/torsten/keychain_access, with the following patch,
- fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld\n", status);
+ fprintf(stderr, "Export error: %ld: %s\n", status, CFStringGetCStringPtr(SecCopyErrorMessageString(status, NULL), kCFStringEncodingUTF8));
but I'm getting the following error when trying to export the private key,
Export error: 4294941980: The contents of this item cannot be retrieved.
Is there some other way to get a hold of the non-extractable key?
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026a04a027830865bc0b1bc917c7bb9ee81fc248 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find the log of all mounted volumes? To be more specific, I mean the file that keeps a history of every disk image/volume ever mounted. I know it exists because I found it once, but it was a long time ago and I have no idea how to find it again. It is similar to the InstallHistory.plist file, which logs every program ever installed.
A: You can find the information in /var/log/system.log (or using the Console application). But the information is not kept forever.
For example:
Aug 4 07:34:34 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted External on device disk3
Aug 4 07:34:44 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Time Machine on device disk5
and and a DMG
Aug 5 07:53:25 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Xcode on device disk6s2
After a while system.log is compressed and archived. To search in all the stored logs
cd /var/log/
(sudo cat system.log; sudo gzcat system.log.*) | grep mounted
| Q: Where can I find the log of all mounted volumes? To be more specific, I mean the file that keeps a history of every disk image/volume ever mounted. I know it exists because I found it once, but it was a long time ago and I have no idea how to find it again. It is similar to the InstallHistory.plist file, which logs every program ever installed.
A: You can find the information in /var/log/system.log (or using the Console application). But the information is not kept forever.
For example:
Aug 4 07:34:34 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted External on device disk3
Aug 4 07:34:44 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Time Machine on device disk5
and and a DMG
Aug 5 07:53:25 ******** kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Xcode on device disk6s2
After a while system.log is compressed and archived. To search in all the stored logs
cd /var/log/
(sudo cat system.log; sudo gzcat system.log.*) | grep mounted
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708182fed31efa0665dd779ebed4473a0cd53c1f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get rid of the grey bar in safari? How do I get rid of this (see below) grey bar in safari? Its getting very annoying.
Bigger view:
I am using safari 7.5.
A: Go to View → Hide Status Bar or press ⌘/
| Q: How to get rid of the grey bar in safari? How do I get rid of this (see below) grey bar in safari? Its getting very annoying.
Bigger view:
I am using safari 7.5.
A: Go to View → Hide Status Bar or press ⌘/
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5175a604be927bfe07a1de2f2ef3970f7d81cbd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: VPN-Sharing via WLAN Internet Sharing I am connected to a vpn network throught the ethernet port. And I want to share these connection over a WLAN internet sharing my iPhone.
Configuration:
*
*OSX: Mavericks (Version 10.9.4)
*VPN: OpenVPN (with client Tunnelblick oder Viscosity)
*Interface: TAP
I tried a couple of tutorials, but nothing works:
*
*http://rodrigo.sharpcube.com/2010/06/20/using-and-sharing-a-vpn-connection-on-your-mac/
*http://www.sparklabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1129
I also tried the tool IceFloor (hanynet), with the NAT combination and a shared vpn connection:
After assign these services, it looks so:
And my interfaces are:
Is these configuration all, or have i missed something?
A: Try with "share internet connection from tap0 to computers using en0", which is actually what you want, tap0 being the vpn and en0 being wifi.
| Q: VPN-Sharing via WLAN Internet Sharing I am connected to a vpn network throught the ethernet port. And I want to share these connection over a WLAN internet sharing my iPhone.
Configuration:
*
*OSX: Mavericks (Version 10.9.4)
*VPN: OpenVPN (with client Tunnelblick oder Viscosity)
*Interface: TAP
I tried a couple of tutorials, but nothing works:
*
*http://rodrigo.sharpcube.com/2010/06/20/using-and-sharing-a-vpn-connection-on-your-mac/
*http://www.sparklabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1129
I also tried the tool IceFloor (hanynet), with the NAT combination and a shared vpn connection:
After assign these services, it looks so:
And my interfaces are:
Is these configuration all, or have i missed something?
A: Try with "share internet connection from tap0 to computers using en0", which is actually what you want, tap0 being the vpn and en0 being wifi.
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6931182bce9084c560f13dcc5c47c837a8d88722 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I find out of my OS X 10.9.4 is 32 bit or 64 bit? How do I determine if my OS X 10.9.4 is a 32 bit or 64 bit operating system?
I've looked at "About This Mac" but don't understand what the processor information (i.e. 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7) translates into as refers to "bits.
A: Easy - it's 64-bit.
Mavericks is 64-bit only :)
| Q: How do I find out of my OS X 10.9.4 is 32 bit or 64 bit? How do I determine if my OS X 10.9.4 is a 32 bit or 64 bit operating system?
I've looked at "About This Mac" but don't understand what the processor information (i.e. 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7) translates into as refers to "bits.
A: Easy - it's 64-bit.
Mavericks is 64-bit only :)
A: OS X doesn't really have a single overall mode -- it can easily run different components (different processes, the kernel, etc) in different modes. It also has a multi-architecture binary format, so a single program can include both 32- and 64-bit code, and the OS will simply run it in whatever seems to be the most appropriate mode at the moment.
Over the history of OS X, it's gradually morphed from 32-bit only (through 10.2 I think), to fully 32+64-bit capable (10.6), to mostly-64-bit-only (10.8-10.9). Starting in 10.8, Apple removed the 32-bit versions of the kernel and most built-in apps, meaning that it'll only run on 64-bit CPUs. But it's still fully capable of running old 32-bit programs, and there are even a number of system programs that can run in either mode (again, to provide compatibility with old 32-bit software). The most visible example of this is the System Preferences, which normally runs in 64-bit mode, but can quit & relaunch itself in 32-bit mode to run old 32-bit-only preference panes (if you can still find one).
Note that there've never been separate 32- and 64-but versions of OS X. 10.6, for example, would install exactly the same on a 32- or 64-bit computer, and then decide at runtime which mode each program should run in.
Summary: it's not an entirely a meaningful question, but to the extent that it's meaningful Mavericks is a 64-bit OS.
A: I do not believe that Mavericks shipped with a 32-bit version. You are probably running 64-bit OS X.
All of the Core i3, i5, and i7 Mac computers have 64-bit processors.
Apple Support document
To determine if you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of OS X, open a Terminal and type:
uname -a
On a 64-bit OS, the output will end with RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64. On a 32-bit OS, the output will end with RELEASE_I386 i386.
OSXDaily article
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e6a207688314e06ee9175123b2f816f60519ca6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to modify app expose to show only open windows of current application on current desktop? I have OS X 10.8.5. I typically have several windows of some applications open on more than one desktop. When using App Expose, it shows all of the open windows of the current application on all Desktops. Mission Control shows all open windows, regardless of application, on the current desktop but the windows are overlapping. I want to have a way to show just the windows, without overlapping, of the current application on the current desktop.
A: ^ + ↓ will show all the windows of the current app regardless of their desktop (without overlapping)
And if you want to show all the windows(can be of diff apps) of your current desktop without overlapping then uncheck the Group windows by applicaiton check box and your mission control will not overlap the windows
P.S. I have 10.9.4 installed.
| Q: How to modify app expose to show only open windows of current application on current desktop? I have OS X 10.8.5. I typically have several windows of some applications open on more than one desktop. When using App Expose, it shows all of the open windows of the current application on all Desktops. Mission Control shows all open windows, regardless of application, on the current desktop but the windows are overlapping. I want to have a way to show just the windows, without overlapping, of the current application on the current desktop.
A: ^ + ↓ will show all the windows of the current app regardless of their desktop (without overlapping)
And if you want to show all the windows(can be of diff apps) of your current desktop without overlapping then uncheck the Group windows by applicaiton check box and your mission control will not overlap the windows
P.S. I have 10.9.4 installed.
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a6a49eadf3e734d0476a94db633f6652dbea2f50 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac as virtual machine guest: How to use multiple displays? I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to test the software on older versions of OS X as well.
The one problem I have is that neither VMWare nor Parallels seem to work with multiple displays on a OS X Guest (I know they both work with Windows guests).
Is anyone using OS X as guest system, with multiple display support. If so, what is the visualization product and/or workaround?
| Q: Mac as virtual machine guest: How to use multiple displays? I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to test the software on older versions of OS X as well.
The one problem I have is that neither VMWare nor Parallels seem to work with multiple displays on a OS X Guest (I know they both work with Windows guests).
Is anyone using OS X as guest system, with multiple display support. If so, what is the visualization product and/or workaround?
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bc721ab493318463c5353eb6b410068ade2670cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy text from command line as formatted text So I have a script that outputs this
<pre style="background:#f1f1f1;color:#000;font-weight:bold;">echo 'Hello World';</pre>
What I would like to do it copy it to the clipboard as rich text and not plain text. Is this possible?
Right now I have this command:
create-codeblock | pbcopy
This obviously only copies the plain text html code to the clipboard. What I really want is the html formatted version copied to the clipboard. Any thoughts?
What I am trying to do in the end is paste rich formatted text into Evernote.
A: As aglasser commented, you can use textutil like so:
create-codeblock | textutil -stdin -format html -convert rtf -stdout | pbcopy
| Q: Copy text from command line as formatted text So I have a script that outputs this
<pre style="background:#f1f1f1;color:#000;font-weight:bold;">echo 'Hello World';</pre>
What I would like to do it copy it to the clipboard as rich text and not plain text. Is this possible?
Right now I have this command:
create-codeblock | pbcopy
This obviously only copies the plain text html code to the clipboard. What I really want is the html formatted version copied to the clipboard. Any thoughts?
What I am trying to do in the end is paste rich formatted text into Evernote.
A: As aglasser commented, you can use textutil like so:
create-codeblock | textutil -stdin -format html -convert rtf -stdout | pbcopy
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ae0acc90ce956ea37d3b53c8308e58a6460ae035 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: “Sign in to download from the App Store” dialog does not allow paste OSX 10.8.5
I am using lastPass and have the appleID in there so I can copy and paste whenever needed.
Sometimes when I am told I have an upgrade I am asked to sign in to the app store.
Annoying but ok. So I have generated a quite safe password - why am I not able to paste that into the password field? Any setting I can change?
(I obscured the appleID in the picture below)
A: You can use Keyboard Maestro with a macro such as this which takes the current clipboard and inserts its contents by typing it rather than pasting, allowing the clipboard to be entered into fields where pasting is forbidden.
Also, for what it's worth, OS X 10.10 Yosemite does let you paste into the aforementioned field and I believe so does 10.9 Mavericks.
| Q: “Sign in to download from the App Store” dialog does not allow paste OSX 10.8.5
I am using lastPass and have the appleID in there so I can copy and paste whenever needed.
Sometimes when I am told I have an upgrade I am asked to sign in to the app store.
Annoying but ok. So I have generated a quite safe password - why am I not able to paste that into the password field? Any setting I can change?
(I obscured the appleID in the picture below)
A: You can use Keyboard Maestro with a macro such as this which takes the current clipboard and inserts its contents by typing it rather than pasting, allowing the clipboard to be entered into fields where pasting is forbidden.
Also, for what it's worth, OS X 10.10 Yosemite does let you paste into the aforementioned field and I believe so does 10.9 Mavericks.
A: AppleScript
So, as I wrote in the comments, you can do this with AppleScript. Here I show how to create a service that types your clipboard using 'keystrokes'.
First create an automator 'Service' project and add a 'Run AppleScript' module. Enter the following script.
set clipboardText to (the clipboard as text)
set theCharacters to characters of clipboardText
repeat with char in theCharacters
tell application "System Events"
keystroke char
end tell
end repeat
return input
Now you can find this 'Service' in your 'Service' menu.
You can also create a keyboard shortcut (for example ctrlshiftv) in your System Preferences [Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services]. Now you can 'type' your clipboard anywhere when pressing ctrlshift.
A: One possibility - right click & select Paste from the drop menu.
Works for several 'awkward to paste to' destinations.
A: Yosemite (possibly even Mavericks) solved the issue
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ffa6c8bcdf1779bf4d8738ffb74c460def75ee1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to install .dict.dz/.index files to OSX dictionary.app I have a dictionary that consists of a dictionary.dict.dz and dictionary.index files. How can I install this dictionary for use with OSX dictionary app (running Mavericks)?
It works fine with GoldenDict, but I'd prefer to have this dictionary amongst the rest.
DictUnifier, which I have used to install a few other dictionaries, doesn't recognize the file.
A: It looks like your input files are in the DICTD format. This can be converted to AppleDict XML source and then compiled for use with the OSX built-in dictionary using pyglossary as described at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/119166/66812.
| Q: How to install .dict.dz/.index files to OSX dictionary.app I have a dictionary that consists of a dictionary.dict.dz and dictionary.index files. How can I install this dictionary for use with OSX dictionary app (running Mavericks)?
It works fine with GoldenDict, but I'd prefer to have this dictionary amongst the rest.
DictUnifier, which I have used to install a few other dictionaries, doesn't recognize the file.
A: It looks like your input files are in the DICTD format. This can be converted to AppleDict XML source and then compiled for use with the OSX built-in dictionary using pyglossary as described at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/119166/66812.
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618884f341bf0d6cb9d6de7023537ba6b2a14545 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Dragon Dictation mouse clicks I use a speak recognition program Called Dragon Dictation. When I work I use the program for mouse clicks but I have to say "mouse click" which doesn't seem like a big deal but when you're saying it 100 times a day it would be so much easier to just say "click". Most of the commands I can see in AppleScript code and I can copy and paste it to make my own commands. However, the mouse clicks are not shown for some reason.
Update:
Dragon dictation is no longer supported on Mac computers. Here is an alternative for mouse clicks: https://github.com/bobbymay/Dictation-for-macOS
A: You can just install a command-line utility for clicking and then call it via a Dragon dictate command. the utility can be found here:
https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick
then just make a Dragon shell command like this:
*
*name: "click"
*Shell script: /usr/local/bin/cliclick c:+0,+0
you can do the same for double-click, but for right-click, and option-click you need to use some AppleScript. Also, check out this project I'm working on: http://voicecode.io which solves all of these problems plus tons more
| Q: Dragon Dictation mouse clicks I use a speak recognition program Called Dragon Dictation. When I work I use the program for mouse clicks but I have to say "mouse click" which doesn't seem like a big deal but when you're saying it 100 times a day it would be so much easier to just say "click". Most of the commands I can see in AppleScript code and I can copy and paste it to make my own commands. However, the mouse clicks are not shown for some reason.
Update:
Dragon dictation is no longer supported on Mac computers. Here is an alternative for mouse clicks: https://github.com/bobbymay/Dictation-for-macOS
A: You can just install a command-line utility for clicking and then call it via a Dragon dictate command. the utility can be found here:
https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick
then just make a Dragon shell command like this:
*
*name: "click"
*Shell script: /usr/local/bin/cliclick c:+0,+0
you can do the same for double-click, but for right-click, and option-click you need to use some AppleScript. Also, check out this project I'm working on: http://voicecode.io which solves all of these problems plus tons more
A: In Dragon Dictate 4, as in Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Windows, Nuance doesn't let you access the code behind some commands, such as mouse actions.
As far as I know AppleScript has no command to trigger a mouse click without specifying where it should click. You can use Extra Suites (10 USD) to extend AppleScript's ability and define the following AppleScript:
tell application "Extra Suites"
ES click mouse
end tell
Extra Suites has a bunch of other useful commands, e.g. to change the screen resolution or set the sound volume to a specific level.
Example:
tell application "Extra Suites"
ES click mouse with double click
end tell
+100 for Ben for his answer, we need such initiatives to unleash the power of voice recognition for desktop users for Mac and Windows (and Linux seriously needs to get some decent speech recognition software).
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8c123d242b04a751b51912925ca7e35a23d6a727 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how can /etc/ppp/ip-up tell which VPN service is used in OS X I am using /etc/ppp/ip-up to set up some particular routes for an L2TP VN (defined in System Preferences/Network as a service)
I now want to add a new VPN service but use a different ip-up script (or at least have that ip-up script behave differently). I cannot see any distinguishing info that is passed to ip-up though. The parameters are the same, and the 'env' also does not contain a hint to the service name.
(in this case the second service is to the same VPN server, I just want a different set of routes set up depending on which VON I start, so going by the IP addresses ppp gets from remote is no use in this case)
is this even possible?
A: Taking a page from this answer: https://superuser.com/a/206826/48893 you can write an ip-up script that tests $1 and selectively execute commands for a given vpn interface.
| Q: how can /etc/ppp/ip-up tell which VPN service is used in OS X I am using /etc/ppp/ip-up to set up some particular routes for an L2TP VN (defined in System Preferences/Network as a service)
I now want to add a new VPN service but use a different ip-up script (or at least have that ip-up script behave differently). I cannot see any distinguishing info that is passed to ip-up though. The parameters are the same, and the 'env' also does not contain a hint to the service name.
(in this case the second service is to the same VPN server, I just want a different set of routes set up depending on which VON I start, so going by the IP addresses ppp gets from remote is no use in this case)
is this even possible?
A: Taking a page from this answer: https://superuser.com/a/206826/48893 you can write an ip-up script that tests $1 and selectively execute commands for a given vpn interface.
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556124dc7204b0f5809b3d71d3e19fbbc2b48b26 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to send a pop up message from a Mac to Windows on same network? I want to use the equivalent of net send, but from a MacBook.
I want to send a pop up message from my mac to a windows machine on same network. Is smbutil the command to use?
A: Run the following command, then enter your message and press ⌃D to finish and send.
smbclient -M NETBIOSNAME -U FROMNAME
-U FROMNAME is optional
| Q: How to send a pop up message from a Mac to Windows on same network? I want to use the equivalent of net send, but from a MacBook.
I want to send a pop up message from my mac to a windows machine on same network. Is smbutil the command to use?
A: Run the following command, then enter your message and press ⌃D to finish and send.
smbclient -M NETBIOSNAME -U FROMNAME
-U FROMNAME is optional
A: Maybe for others who find the question:
But it's no pop up!
It's more like a chat.
One machine has to be the Server:
nc -v -l 12345
-v: verbose (more information about execution of the command)
12345: any port of your choice higher than 1024
All other machines can be client(s):
nc -v [ip of server] 12345
-v: look above
[ip of server] to find out ip: ìfconfig | grep inet`(probably one of the 192.168.xxx.xxx or maybe even 172.xxx.xxx.xxx numbers)
12345: again the chosen port of the server
Hope that helps!
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f293fe2c55deb954b9bd07376c15c4922c2520b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make Macports use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) to fetch packages By default, Macports uses HTTP to fetch packages. For example:
---> Attempting to fetch port_cutleaves-0.1.4_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/port_cutleaves
How should a user configure Macports to use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) instead?
A: The obvious solution would be to modify the source URLs for the packages. The source URLs for a lot of packages appears to be /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl.
Having said that, I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to modify that file.
If you do a selfupdate your modified file will be replaced.
Also not all the mirrors are set up correctly to work with HTTPS. For example, the mirror in your example above http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ presents an error if you try to access it at https://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ because the host name of the certificate doesn't match.
| Q: Make Macports use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) to fetch packages By default, Macports uses HTTP to fetch packages. For example:
---> Attempting to fetch port_cutleaves-0.1.4_0.darwin_10.noarch.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/port_cutleaves
How should a user configure Macports to use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) instead?
A: The obvious solution would be to modify the source URLs for the packages. The source URLs for a lot of packages appears to be /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl.
Having said that, I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to modify that file.
If you do a selfupdate your modified file will be replaced.
Also not all the mirrors are set up correctly to work with HTTPS. For example, the mirror in your example above http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ presents an error if you try to access it at https://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ because the host name of the certificate doesn't match.
A: Why would you want to? If you're worried about the integrity of the downloads, you should know that MacPorts will also download and verify a detached RSA signature for each binary archive it downloads – the public key used for verification comes to your local machine using a tamper-resistant path (either an installer .pkg signed with a DeveloperID certificate, or – in case of key updates – signed with the old key).
For distfiles (i.e. source tarballs of software MacPorts wants to build), multiple checksums stored in the Portfile need to match for MacPorts to accept the download as authentic. The Portfiles also come to your machine using a tamper-resistant path.
Replying to your original question: You don't, the mirror infrastructure doesn't support it.
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0f08abaaa839d448dc908fbd243a61a81c134429 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to update Java7 without first uninstalling Java8? On my MacBook I've got Java 6 through 8 installed and I happen to need and use them all on a daily basis. Lately it has been bothering me that every time I want to install an update to Java7 I need to first uninstall Java8.
So my question is: is it possible to update an older release of Java (1.7) without having to uninstall the newer one (1.8)?
Trying to run the update without first removing Java 1.8 notifies me that:
You are trying to install Java 7 Update 67,
however Java 8 Update 05 is already installed.
Visit java.com/newerversionexists for more information.
And the link points to a page that doesn't even exist at the moment.
A: With Mac OS X 10.10 and the most recent JDK versions (7.72 and 8.25) the problem seems to have been fixed.
| Q: Is it possible to update Java7 without first uninstalling Java8? On my MacBook I've got Java 6 through 8 installed and I happen to need and use them all on a daily basis. Lately it has been bothering me that every time I want to install an update to Java7 I need to first uninstall Java8.
So my question is: is it possible to update an older release of Java (1.7) without having to uninstall the newer one (1.8)?
Trying to run the update without first removing Java 1.8 notifies me that:
You are trying to install Java 7 Update 67,
however Java 8 Update 05 is already installed.
Visit java.com/newerversionexists for more information.
And the link points to a page that doesn't even exist at the moment.
A: With Mac OS X 10.10 and the most recent JDK versions (7.72 and 8.25) the problem seems to have been fixed.
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64c49c5c52e89d66c5080bd1f6c8c66c426c1917 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Detach a tab in a fullscreen window in Chrome Is there a way to detach a tab in a fullscreen Chrome window? I find no way. When I need to do this, I have to un-maximize the window, drag to detach the tab, and then restore the window in fullscreen again. This is burdensome.
A: We have a Fix for this!
In Chrome Version 52 beta we can now enable a new Flag to detach a Tab in a Fullscreen Window on Mac. Without Workarounds or extensions!
The Flag:
chrome://flags/#enable-fullscreen-in-tab-detaching
And here the Bug-Report with Status Fixed:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=507942
| Q: Detach a tab in a fullscreen window in Chrome Is there a way to detach a tab in a fullscreen Chrome window? I find no way. When I need to do this, I have to un-maximize the window, drag to detach the tab, and then restore the window in fullscreen again. This is burdensome.
A: We have a Fix for this!
In Chrome Version 52 beta we can now enable a new Flag to detach a Tab in a Fullscreen Window on Mac. Without Workarounds or extensions!
The Flag:
chrome://flags/#enable-fullscreen-in-tab-detaching
And here the Bug-Report with Status Fixed:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=507942
A: I'd been idly wondering about this for a month or two as well. The answer is no, but there is an extension that can enable a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing. Here's a link to the Google Product Forums topic that helped me, too. I haven't tested this extension myself, but the user who posted on Google Forums did.
A: It seems like the extension suggested by Matthew had stopped working for a while, so I'll put in my own solution. I personally use the Mac Fullscreen Tab Mover and binded the commands with option+left/right (so convenient!), but I also found others like Tab Mover which seem to do the same thing.
A: With the latest Chrome Version (Version70.0.3538.110 (Official Build) (64-bit) ) you can drag a tab from full screen mode Chrome. click-hold and drag it horizontally along the top until you reach the next screen. Releasing it at this point will give you the tab on your second screen in non full screen mode. If you click-hold and drag it downwards, it opens the selected tab in a new full screen window on the original screen.
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ca8004ca4eb4fa3ad83a73444ae090082c67899b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the answers to the export compliance questions in iTunes Connect? How do i change the answers to the export compliance questions on iTunes Connect once I've entered them?
I don't know how to get back to that page. How do I get back to that page?
(I'm trying to publish an app)
A: Either uploading a new binary update or rejecting the App's actual binary and then pressing on Ready to Upload Binary should do the trick.
As written under Apple's iTunes Connect Guide:
Cryptography and U.S. Export Compliance
U.S. export laws require that products containing encryption be properly authorized for export. When you’re ready to upload your first binary for your app or upload a binary update, iTunes Connect presents a series of questions regarding software encryption. The questions are designed to determine the level of encryption in the app according to U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) classifications.
| Q: How do I change the answers to the export compliance questions in iTunes Connect? How do i change the answers to the export compliance questions on iTunes Connect once I've entered them?
I don't know how to get back to that page. How do I get back to that page?
(I'm trying to publish an app)
A: Either uploading a new binary update or rejecting the App's actual binary and then pressing on Ready to Upload Binary should do the trick.
As written under Apple's iTunes Connect Guide:
Cryptography and U.S. Export Compliance
U.S. export laws require that products containing encryption be properly authorized for export. When you’re ready to upload your first binary for your app or upload a binary update, iTunes Connect presents a series of questions regarding software encryption. The questions are designed to determine the level of encryption in the app according to U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) classifications.
A: To provide more documentation you can click on the Services Tab (next to TestFlight), then Encryption.
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8f836b8646e198ff2d87d05cf38f015eadf81e8c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: On iOS 8 how do you access hi-res photos when you have the optimize photos on? I the iOS 8 beta 5 they introduced the new option option, Optimize iPhone Storage keeps lower resolution copies of photos on device, and stores original high-res photos in iCloud.
How do you access the hi-res photos when you need them?
| Q: On iOS 8 how do you access hi-res photos when you have the optimize photos on? I the iOS 8 beta 5 they introduced the new option option, Optimize iPhone Storage keeps lower resolution copies of photos on device, and stores original high-res photos in iCloud.
How do you access the hi-res photos when you need them?
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e519683b0d8869226dcc264ce13f62f281e0855c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get notified on new App Reviews? Does anyone know of a solution (app or site) that will automatically notify me anytime I get a review on one of my iOS apps?
A: I'm an iOS developer as well and I faced the same problem of wanting to be notified anytime a customer left a review for my apps on the App Store.
If your team uses Slack, check out https://appreviewbot.com/
Similarly if your team uses Microsoft Teams, check out https://appreviewbot.com/microsoft-teams/
Full disclosure: I created AppReviewBot and thought it might be useful for other indie developers like myself!
| Q: Get notified on new App Reviews? Does anyone know of a solution (app or site) that will automatically notify me anytime I get a review on one of my iOS apps?
A: I'm an iOS developer as well and I faced the same problem of wanting to be notified anytime a customer left a review for my apps on the App Store.
If your team uses Slack, check out https://appreviewbot.com/
Similarly if your team uses Microsoft Teams, check out https://appreviewbot.com/microsoft-teams/
Full disclosure: I created AppReviewBot and thought it might be useful for other indie developers like myself!
A: Apple provides an RSS you can subscribe to. You can find it by doing the following:
*
*Go to iTunes Connect and log in
*Go to Manage your Apps and select the App you're interested in
*Under Links, in the App Information section, you'll find the Customer Reviews
*Opening it will display all of the customer reviews, filtered by country.
*Alongside the combo box to choose between the different countries you've already got reviews in, you'll find the RSS button.
Note: The countries combo box and the RSS button will only be displayed if there are reviews already.
The RSS URL looks like this:
feed:https://itunes.apple.com/COUNTRY-OF-THE-REVIEW/rss/customerreviews/id=APP-ID/sortBy=mostRecent/xml?l=LANGUAGE-YOU-WANT-IT-TO-BE-DISPLAYED-IN
A: If you prefer an email to RSS you can check out Appbot.co. I am in no way affiliated with them but have found it useful.
I get a daily email that has a summary and then each of the reviews grouped by store.
I also get a weekly email that shows all the apps I've signed up for in one email with a summary of how they are doing week over week in terms of number of reviews and stars per review.
A: If you don't want to pay to get Slack notifications for new iOS App Store reviews, you could easily get that configured in Zapier. You get up to 5 free zaps.
Here is a blog post I wrote describing the steps.
You could also download the free App Store Connect app built by Apple and get notifications via the app.
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Q: How to restore a hidden file in Time Machine? I accidentally deleted my ~/.zshrc file and I'd like to get it back from a Time Machine backup. When I enter Time Machine I can see my home directory, but all the dot-files in the directory are hidden in the Finder window displayed by Time Machine.
How can I restore a hidden file like ~/.zshrc using Time Machine?
A: Rest assured that Time Machine is backing up your dot-files! You just can't see them by default in Finder. In order to restore a hidden file like .zshrc you first need to turn off file hiding in finder. You can do this by opening a Terminal window and entering:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Now enter Time Machine and navigate to where your hidden files resided. You should be able to restore them from there.
When you've restored all the files you want you can go back to having Finder hide them by entering:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
in a Terminal window.
| Q: How to restore a hidden file in Time Machine? I accidentally deleted my ~/.zshrc file and I'd like to get it back from a Time Machine backup. When I enter Time Machine I can see my home directory, but all the dot-files in the directory are hidden in the Finder window displayed by Time Machine.
How can I restore a hidden file like ~/.zshrc using Time Machine?
A: Rest assured that Time Machine is backing up your dot-files! You just can't see them by default in Finder. In order to restore a hidden file like .zshrc you first need to turn off file hiding in finder. You can do this by opening a Terminal window and entering:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Now enter Time Machine and navigate to where your hidden files resided. You should be able to restore them from there.
When you've restored all the files you want you can go back to having Finder hide them by entering:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
in a Terminal window.
A: The AppleShowAllFiles pref seems to be gone in High Sierra.
Fortunately, you can now (in Sierra and High Sierra) tell Finder to show you all your "hidden" (dot) files with:
shift ⇧ + cmd ⌘ + .
This works in Time Machine as well.
A: To be able to view invisible files…
Late edit
Since Sierra (macOS 10.12) you can use shift ⇧ cmd ⌘ . to toggle visibility. You only need the old AppleShowAllFiles trick if you want to make the change permanent.
Open Applescript Editor, in Applications > Utilities then copy/paste this to a new script...
Since El Capitan the trick of changing view no longer works, so it's back to quitting the Finder
For a method to make this into a Service with key command see
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/258741/85275
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "YES"
try
set oldHiddenVisiblesState to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"
if oldHiddenVisiblesState is in {"1", "YES"} then
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "NO"
end if
end try
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles " & newHiddenVisiblesState
do shell script "killall Finder"
return input
Mavericks/Yosemite ought to work with this view refresh version, which was faster & smoother, but it just stopped working at El Capitan...
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "YES"
try
set oldHiddenVisiblesState to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"
if oldHiddenVisiblesState is in {"1", "YES"} then
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "NO"
end if
end try
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles " & newHiddenVisiblesState
tell application "Finder"
set theWindows to every Finder window
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theWindows
set this_item to item i of theWindows
set theView to current view of this_item
if theView is list view then
set current view of this_item to icon view
else
set current view of this_item to list view
end if
set current view of this_item to theView
end repeat
end tell
Then Save as an application, which you can then just double-click to toggle showing/hiding invisible files.
You don't need to kill the Finder for this toggle, a refresh is sufficient - & may be faster.
A: You can easily access to your hidden file by using the Terminal.
cd /Volumes/TIME_CAPSULE_DISK_NAME/Backups.backupdb/YOUR_BACKUP/Users/YOUR_NAME
ls -la
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