The previous owner of my MacBook Air seems to have deleted my game center application. Is there any way I can get that back?
vendredi 28 novembre 2014
Why is my iPhone 5S overheating so much?
Activities such as:
- Phone Calls that last around 10 minutes
- 3G Browsing for 5 - 7 minutes
- Watching videos for 5 minutes
- Using apps such as facebook / instagram etc for 5 - 7 minutes, lead to my iPhone 5S severely overheating.
It heats so much at times that it can't be held any more and you have to set it down for it to cool down.
At times, it randomly restarts when plugged in. When it starts to heat the battery drops sharply and sometimes the phone simply dies
I'm fairly certain that the hardware in my phone is being affected with this overheating
My first year phone warranty ends in 10 days and I'm contemplating whether I should give it to Apple India Service and if they will replace my phone.
Any Solutions? Suggestions? Experiences with Indian Apple Service Centres?
Notes (Mac) can't connect to IMAP account, Mail can
Lately when I try to use the Notes app on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I get a message saying "Notes can't connect to the account JW IMAP", and asking for my password. If I enter the password, then a minute later the same error comes back.
I'm sure this has to do with the fact that my mail moved to a different server. But where is Notes getting the old information? If I choose the Accounts... menu item in Notes, it takes me to the Mail, Contacts, and Calendars pane in System Preferences, which currently has nothing in it. If I click Add Other Account there, it takes me over to Mail, as if I were going to add a new Mail account. But Mail is already correctly connecting to the new server, I don't want a new account there!
Disabling "access to contacts" dialog box with terminal
I am trying to disable the following dialog box that pops up all the time when I open Mail.app:
Is there a way to do so using terminal?
Thanks!
Go to specific desktop on TotalSpaces
I want to make the gesture "three fingers up" to to desktop 1, "three fingers left" go to desktop 2, and so on.
Will a modern Time Capsule work with 10.5?
While at home for the holidays, I noticed that the old iMac is probably on its last legs. I'd like to get a Time Capsule so that the documents are backed up when the time comes. However, the thought crossed my mind that the old iMac with OS X 10.5 might not be compatible with the new Time Capsule.
Mail password problem
I have been having an issue with Mail.app.
After I create an account, even if i do define the password (whether it be via programmatically doing so using applescript OR manually), after I save my changes and close the "Preferences" frame for Mail in which the password can be changed, the password text box resets to be blank. NONE of the other properties change (the username, email, servers etc all are saved and do not reset to be blank text boxes). Here's a visual of the preferences frame with the blank password box issue:
As you can see, the password box is blank and even if i manually change the password and save changes, when I re-open the same preferences window after closing it, the password box is blank once again.
Here is a screenshot of the "Advanced" settings pane: 
Ubuntu HUD in Mac OS
Is there and app or something that gives Yosemite the functionality that Ubuntu HUD has - search menu for items?
I am switching to Mac from Ubuntu. Even thou I was on Ubuntu Linux for only a few weeks and originally came from a Windows background, I got super used to the HUD functionality. I would like to take that with me if possible.
My MacBook Pro periodically displays ads in a banner on the top right that says "Breaking Apple News"
I have OSX 10.9.5. It seems to happen once or twice within a few minutes after I come out of sleep. A smallish banner on the top right kind of slides in place. It's always text that starts with "Breaking Apple News" and then it advertises something.
Is this Malware, or did Apple really stoop to this level? If it's really Apple SW doing this, is it at least optional to disable it? I paid for my MacBook Pro. I don't think slide in ads are appropriate here.
How do I install Flash in the guest account only? (Mac OS X 10.10.x)
Is there a way to install Adobe Flash to the Guest account (only)? I'd like to install to the Guest account so it gets wiped out on reboot. I rarely use Flash, so I want to not have to track updates.
Either that, can I install it to a non-Admin account that I can wipe out when I need to.
Installing Mavericks on a brand new machine that shipped with Yosemite pre-installed?
Due to battery backups not working properly in Yosemite, I need to downgrade a machine to Mavericks. Unfortunately, this is a brand new Mac Mini and it shipped with OS X 10.10.0 installed.
I read various questions here, as well as some articles from other websites, and created a Mavericks 10.9.5 installer on a USB stick. I can boot from this USB stick on an iMac we have here, but the Mac Mini will not allow me to.
Is it even possible to run Mavericks on this machine--Macmini7,1?
Would it violate the TOS to install a third party hard drive?
Is it a violation of apples terms of service to replace the factory installed hard drive with a larger third party one?
I understand that it is a violation of the terms of service to install OSX on non-apple hardware and I was wondering if installing a third party hard drive would be a violation. If so would I need to buy a first party hard drive directly from apple, or is it completely taboo to poke around inside an apple product?
Lightweight Mavericks installation
What should I do to aggressively lower the memory usage of my Mavericks installation ?
The only things I need to run are XCode and Firefox, everything else can go out the window; I'm not opening any app and yet I already feel the system's slowness, which is understandable because it runs with only 2,5GB of RAM but unfortunately I can't upgrade right now, so what should I disable and where ?
Preview Crashes Repeatedly on Yosemite 10.10.1
I installed Yosemite 10.10.1 about a week ago. Preview crashes all the time whenever I try to perform a search on certain documents. Unfortunately, I can't upload this document because of copyright infringement issues. I never experienced this before (in the many times I searched) with Mavericks but it has happened quite often with Yosemite.
- Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
- What is a possible solution?
Kind regards,
polarise
I would happily securely send the actual document to an Apple employee to reproduce the fault.
Is it safe to download iPhone software version 8.1.1 to iPhone5?
Is it safe to download iOS 8.1.1. for iPhone5?
Uninterruptible Power Supply not shutting down Mac Mini running Yosemite
We just received a brand new Mac Mini, which came with Yosemite pre-installed. Our UPS is set to shut down the computer after running on battery backup for 1 minute. I have tested this with an iMac running Mavericks (10.9.5) and the UPS behaves as expected, but on the Mac Mini running Yosemite the computer does not shut down and just continues to run off the battery.
Updated to add: I tested with the CyberPower 825VA and the Mac Mini running OS 10.10.0. Today I installed OS 10.10.1 update and tested again with the same results. I also tested with a Furman F1500-UPS in place of the CyberPower unit and there has been no change in the behavior.
Updated 11/28/2014--I have verified in Terminal that "haltafter" is on and set to 1. I also tried triggering a shutdown by "haltlevel" 100 (shutdown when battery dips below 100%) and the machine is still not shutting down. I tried booting from an external drive that has OS 10.8.5 on it, but the Mini would not let me do this.
Why does the Finder sometimes refuse to receive a drag-and-drop of a URL from a web browser?
For years I've been annoyed by how most of the time I can drag the favicon from a web browser's address bar to a window in the Finder to create a bookmark file but sometimes the Finder has a tantrum, refusing to accept any more such drags.
I can never figure out the pattern. Many macs later, many versions of Mac OS X later, and still the same occasional stubbornness by the Finder.
False Facetime notifications
I keep getting Facetime Audio notifications from a cousin of mine at random times even though my phone doesn't ring. The notifications always come in pairs with the same timestamp. I thought my cousin was just playing around with me but I have received notifications when he is away from his iPod touch.
I have tried blocking his information as well as deleting him. I still get these phantom notifications. Does this happen for anyone else?
I am on an iPhone 5s on 8.1.1 but this has been going on since at least 8.0 or earlier, if I remember correctly.
Reduce the minimum iphone volume (bluetooth speakers)
When connecting my iPhone (4S or 6) to a JBL Flip 2 bluetooth speakers, the minimum volume is too loud. Under that, it mutes. It is not a problem of the speakers, as the volume using another, non-apple, phone, can be reduced much more.
Is there a way to get finer decrements of the volume than those of the side buttons? Moving the slider suggests so, but it is difficult to control in such small space.
I tried using a volume cap as suggested elsewehere, but there seems to have no effect on the volume precision.
Any ideas?
Programatically change service script settings
I have a service-script which accepts a text and saves it in file. So I need a setting of folder where file will be located and hotkey for command.
Problem is that user may change setting when service works, and service behaviour have to change too.
I am trying to implement that via Cocoa app, which supposed to contain AppleScript with some variables, and installs it by press of button. User is able to change some settings in window and install service again.
Problem is that I have no idea how to run service from my app.
I've tried osascript, but as faar as I see it only runs script once I didn't found any way to tell Automator to install service, except to paste workflow into /services folder.
So I am a bit confused, I dont see any way how reload service with changed script according to user settings.
Or, maybe, is there some way to use configuration file and static workflows, which I can definately install by telling Automator Add, but I still need configurable shortcut key.
Mac Mail has very slow to send/receive mail (plus other bugs too)
It's been worse since Yosemite.
From the same exchange account (office365) I will send and receive emails instantly on my phone, but they will take several minutes through the app.
Loading existing conversations also often takes a long time.
Conversations often get jumbled up and emails that don't belong will be added to a conversation.
And finally accepting event invitations is a little messed up. I click accept and nothing happens. Then a few minutes later the email will dissapear and the event will appear in the calendar.
I am having these issues on both my laptops.
I've tried offlining and enabling the account. Also tried reindexing.
Does anyone know if these are just Yosemite bugs? Or is there somethinng I can do to fix it?
Thanks!
How can one "view source" of an published iOS app?
I want to build an application similar to Apptopia but only for iOS. I intend to download iOS apps and examine what SDK/CDN/Meta data I can extract from them without violating Apple's ToS. Does anyone have any recommendations on the best approach I can take from here?
Can I take the optical drive out of my macbook pro?
I'm proud to say that I'm the happy owner of an almost antique 2009 MacBook pro. I've had this 15-inch macbook pro for quite a while now and I'm not planning on changing it (have you seen the price of MacBooks these days?). As it is quite old now it is not really working as well as before and my optical drive doesn't work anymore. It does not recognise any CD and keeps burping them out. It doesn't really matter as I've gotten used to it and don't use the optical drive now. So here is my question:
Can I safely take the optical drive out and not replace it with another one ?
I know it is possible to take it out and put an SSD in instead but what about just taking in out? And leave and empty space? What about the cables? Can they just hang in there and not be attached to anything?
I'm just thinking it could lighten up my already quite heavy laptop. Let me know what you think.
Thank you!
Claiming unallocated disk space on disk0 on Yosemite
It all started with trying to use bootcamp assistant to install windows 7. It created the partition and started the windows installation DVD which then didn't recognize the created partition. I came back to yosemite disk utility to find that a partition has been created and formatted FAT32. I removed the 50 GB partition and since then I haven't been able to claim the 50 GB back to original partition or been able to format them again.
Extract target of alias from Terminal
In my Finder windows I have many aliases that target other folders or documents. At the shell prompt in Terminal, these aliases show up as regular files. How can I get the target of an alias so that, for example, I can "cd" to it or perform other command-line operations on the alias target?
Print from launchd task
I have a script that needs to be running in the background periodically (I've put it there with Lingon X). That script (PHP based) is 1. polling a server, 2. retrieving a PDF file from the server 3. Saving it to disk 4. Printing it using exec("lpr myFile.pdf"); 5. Playing a sound using exec("afplay ding.mp3");
When I run the script manually (php myscript.php), everything works perfectly.
However, when the script is running in the background, it does 1, 2, 3 and 5 normally, but does not print at all.
I've tried using lp instead of lpr, I've also compiled and run PDF-Printer (http://ift.tt/1FCp1mV) and still no paper is getting out of my printer. I've also tried another printer (you know...just in case). Still no luck.
I've tried to get the output from the lpr command to see if it was returning any kind of an error message, yet, nothing. There's also nothing in the printer queue.
I've also tried to run this script as root and as a regular user and still nothing makes the printer...print.
Anyone has any idea of how to accomplish this?
Here's the output of lpc status:
Brother_HL_2240_series:
printer is on device 'usb' speed -1
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
daemon present
Keyboard, trackpad stops functioning on Yosemite when USB smartphone plugged in
I am using a Retina MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014 with Mac OS X 10.0 (Yosemite) installed. When I plugin my Android phone via USB, the trackpad and keyboard stop working. Things are still happening on the screen, though, so it's not completely frozen. The only button that works is power button. It happens like 20% of the time I plugin a smartphone. Tried various phones and the issue is still there.
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