Windows 8.1: how to update Broadcom driver without using external drive

I am looking for a way to update a Broadcom driver without using BootCamp or external boot drive.

I have a Macbook pro mid-2012 (non-retina) and successfully had Windows 8.1 running on it, except it does not detect any ethernet and wifi devices.

I used Bootcamp through which I believe I got the latest Windows-support drivers and firmwares.

I do not have access to any external drive to build a boot drive and to any network which I might download softwares directly from a Windows partition. The entry point is the OS X partition.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Retrieve the Apple ID used to download a given app (in iphone)

I have an iphone, which has some apps installed. The Apple ID used to sign in (to iTunes store and App strore) is, say, ID1. When updating apps, in some cases it asks for the password of another ID, say, ID2.

Is there any way to know what Apple ID is associated with each app?

I know that I can remove an app and purchase it under a different ID (which may have cost), and I know that there exists Family sharing, but that does not answer the question.

This is a related question.

Automator workflow/service for Preview images

I'm trying to get the Crop Images and/or Scale Images actions running in a Preview service. I've saved a workflow with some Watch Me Do actions, and I'm able to run the service from Preview -> Services. But if i add either of these actions it skips the Watch Me Do actions and hangs. It seems as if these built-in actions are not using the open image that the service is already processing. How can I include these actions in my workflow? It seems Automator ignores anything i do with the area selection tools (like the "rectangular selection") so i have to use these built-in actions.

If this can be done only in an application or workflow, but not a service in the way i describe, that's fine as long as i can have the watch me do actions and scale/crop actions done on the same file while it's still open, and then loop at the end so i can have the same edits done on the same file multiple times.

thanks

Xbox driver for PS4 for mac?

I have a Duelshock 4 controller and can't play certain games like portal because there is no PS4 support. I heard on windows there are drivers that trick the computer into thinking that the ps4 input is an xbox input but can't find ANY for apple. Is there a workaround or are there drivers for mac that allow me to do the same?

How to automatically refresh external data in excel 2011/osx?

I have an excel spreadsheet that is pulling in data from an external CSV. I want it to refresh every time I open it, because eventually it's going to be pulling data in from 20 different files. At the moment it says

security warning "data connections have been disabled"

And then when I override it, it prompts me to reselect the file in the finder.

It sounds like this is pretty easy in windows excel, prettymuch just enabled a setting in the 'Trust Center'. Only excel 2011 has no trust center...and as far as I can tell, no way to actually do this automagically =)

Macbook Air Battery life

Does updating the Macbook Air to an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, and 512 GB Flash Storage negatively affect the 12 hour battery life?

Paint.NET alternative for Mac OS X

I would be extremely grateful to anyone pointing me in the direction of the Mac OS X analogue for the free Windows image-editing software Paint.NET.

Basically the way I use it is I take lots of screenshots for work, then put arrows in there, some ovals and text - it's all for documentation purposes - mainly for Confluence.

The feature I can't live without is the arrows - they have points where you can easily curve them creating a very good visual e.g. for tutorials.

And of course it's great that you can do all of that in a lightweight app, couple of clicks manner.

Moving a window to the bottom/top monitor with a shortcut

Is there a program that can move a window to the bottom/top monitor with a keyboard shortcut?

Sometimes I need to move a window to the bottom/top, in my case between monitors 3 and 4 and between monitors 5 and 6:

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I use BetterTouchTool to move a window to the left or right monitor:

But it doesn't have the option to move a window to the monitor up or down.

SizeUp has the same limitation:

How can erase my IPhone using just buttons?

I forgot the password to iPhone and I tried to hold down the power button and press the home button simultaneously.

IPhone 5c unlock ?

My brother-in-law works at a bar, he has had thie iPhone 5c there for months , so he took it and tried to fine the owner's # so he could contact them about there phone , but the iCloud didnt let him get far, mounted went by without anyone coming back to claim it. Now he has given it to me , I have tried my hardest to find adleast a # to call but nothing. Any suggestions ?

safari active tab color

Is there a hack or extension to make the active tab in focus a different color than the others? I tried GLIMS but apparently that extension is borked for the latest version of safari.

How do I sign out of iCloud on iOS6

How do I sign out of iCloud on iOS6.

I have created a 2nd AppleID I want to use for iCloud synching, but the only option I get is "Delete Account". I don't want to delete the AppleID (which is used on other devices), just change to the new account

ISO Responsive Icon Solution when changing Icon sizes in OS X Finder

I rarely use the Finder outside of list view, but sometimes I need to view a large folder of images to select from, but by default, the icons/image previews are not large enough for my needs.

So I increase the size of the thumbnail icons in the bottom right of the finder window to determine which image to use. Easy peezy.

However, when I do this, the icons don't cascade down. Instead, I get a scrollbar with icons out of view to the right. This is so Windows 2000.

My solution is to go to View > Clean Up By > Name, and all icons are shown with only up and down scrolling and are the size I want.

Is there some way I can have it so when I increase icon preview size in the Finder, that all images stay inline?

I don't need to set a default size for all icons to load. I prefer the default size for most use cases, aside from this one.

I've attached an animated GIF showing my workflow issue.

tl;dr I want responsive design applied to my finder icons!

Someone else gets my FaceTime calls -- strange problem

Problem:

Occasionally when someone tries to FaceTime me they get someone else (but the same someone else every time)

I'm based in the UK but this person is in the US. My best guess is that they have gotten one of the old phone numbers I used while temporarily visiting the US that must have been associated with my Apple ID at some point.

Is there a way to find all the numbers associated with my ID and remove them? No foreign numbers show up in my iMessages preferences and I cannot find anything in http://ift.tt/k8WFVt

Any suggestions? (It's also possible that I have mis-diagnosed the problem)

Start menu + taskbar for the Mac OS X

I am looking for a start menu and taskbar for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with as many following features as possible (approximately ordered by descending importance):

Start menu:

• Multi-column application list


• Applications shouldn't be split into different categories


• no menu delay (i.e. the delay for opening submenus when the mouse hovers over a folder item should be 0.)


• show the X recently launched applications

Taskbar:

• can be configured to have several rows


• doesn't let other windows to go under the taskbar


• doesn't combine windows belonging to the same application


• is not transparent

Is there any other great option? I am basically looking for an equivalent of Classic Start Menu (Windows).

How do I transfer Clash of Clans from ipod to new ipad

Have a new ipad, How do I transfer from my ipod? And do I have to download CoC on my new device first before starting the transfer?

Mac Messages sending to Wrong Computer

I recently purchased a new mbp to replace an older one. However, I forgot to disable the imessages feature on the old mpb before giving it to a family member. That family member and I both discovered that the messages that should be going to the new mbp are going to the old mbp.

How do you get the messages that were on the old mbp onto the new mbp? I do not have access to the old mbp, and the family member logged out without thinking and could not simply read the messages to me.

Any ideas?

Safari CMD+Click link new tab focus

Is there a way to force focus to a new tab in safari when you cmd+click on links in google search results for example?

Keep sessions between private tabs

I am used to of the old private browsing mode in Safari, where you can keep a login session between tabs. But since this new Safari came with Yosemite, the tabs maintain their own sessions.

Is there any way I can keep the login session between safari private tabs till the private window closes, just like how Google Chrome does?

How to fix Retina iMac "A graphics problem has been detected”?

I'm having a problem with my Retina iMac regularly generating a "A graphics problem has been detected" error. The iMac has the AMD Radeon R9 M295X option.

At the end of the day I walk away from it and leave it to its own devices. I don't power it down or explicitly put it to sleep. In the morning I expect to wake it up and carry on, but it often needs to be powered on and boot up.

When it reboots I see a dialog with the "A graphics problem has been detected" error message.

In the console log I see a series of "Trying restart GPU" messages". Below is the last of these messages and all the log entries before.

Anyone know how to fix this?

21/12/14 3:52:44.000 am kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...
21/12/14 3:52:44.905 am com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DumpGPURestart) Service only ran for 8 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 2 seconds.
21/12/14 3:52:46.919 am DumpGPURestart[1410]: Saved gpuRestart report for kernel to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2014-12-21-035246_newton.gpuRestart
21/12/14 3:52:53.000 am kernel[0]: [1:0:0] GPU HangState 0x000000c0, HangFlags 0x00000007: IndividualEngineHang 1, NonEngineBlockHang 1, FenceNotRetired 1, PerEngineReset 0, FullAsicReset 1
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: 0000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : 0x00000000 : 0x00000000 
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: : ** GPU Debug Info End **
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: ------------------------
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: GPURestartReportEnd
21/12/14 3:52:54.000 am kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...
21/12/14 3:52:54.875 am com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.DumpGPURestart) Service only ran for 7 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 3 seconds.
21/12/14 3:52:57.890 am DumpGPURestart[1411]: Saved gpuRestart report for kernel to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2014-12-21-035257_newton.gpuRestart
21/12/14 3:53:27.298 am apsd[52]: Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.aps-connection-initiate' for ManagedClientAgent[1412]
21/12/14 3:53:27.298 am apsd[52]: Peer connection [pid=1412] lacks APSConnectionInitiateEntitlement
21/12/14 3:53:32.299 am ManagedClientAgent[1412]: No Device Enrollment record info was found
21/12/14 3:56:05.000 am kernel[0]: PM priority notification timeout
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: efi pagecount 67
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall(preflight 1) start 0xffffff82114d5000, 0xffffff8211555000
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall time: 569 ms
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: pages 3753650, wire 316199, act 1921147, inact 20159, cleaned 0 spec 13, zf 55501, throt 0, compr 0, xpmapped 0
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: could discard act 560471 inact 405794 purgeable 211784 spec 262582 cleaned 0
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall preflight pageCount 316199 est comp 50 setfile 836763648 min 2147483648
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: AppleThunderboltNHIType2::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 2 us
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: [0x59c815000, 0x40000000]
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: [0x5dc815000, 0x40000000]
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: [0x0, 0x0]
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: kern_open_file_for_direct_io(0) took 4 ms
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0x0, maxio 2000000 ssd 1
21/12/14 3:56:06.000 am kernel[0]: hibernate image major 1, minor 0, blocksize 4096, pollers 5

How to view current display resolution

How can I find out the current resolution the screen is running at, in OS X 10.10?

Under settings -> display (which is where I think it used to be), it shows the refresh frequency, but not the resolution. Using the monitor's controls, I can see it's running at 3840x2160, but how would one find this out from OS X?

Change home directory with symlink

I added an SSD to my system, so now I have a boot drive on the SSD and my home directory on a different volume. I successfully changed the home directory as specified in Change Users Home Directory. However, this breaks all of the symlinks I've set up for my dotfiles, since things like .bashrc which used to point to /Users/me/.local/dotfiles/.bashrc are now broken.

My fix was to instead change /Users/me/ to be a symlink to /Volumes/Home/Users/me, and set /Users/me to be my home directory. Are there any stability problems with this approach? Will it be noticeably slower than having my home directory actually be /Volumes/Home/Users/me?

iTunes fails to sync

I just bought a new iPhone. I'm trying to sync music to it. iTunes get stuck in "Waiting for changes to be applied..." for what seems like an endless period of time.

Furthermore all of the songs appear on my phone, but they have the cloud icon next to them, which means they aren't actually present on the phone, only the metadata is.

Photos and other data syncs without a problem.

I've tried unchecking the "Sync Music" button in iTunes, but now it still hangs.

How do I even start to figure out what's gone wrong? Does iTunes have crash logs or something?

edit The following message appeared in my Console: 12/18/14 09:49:39.223 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[2164]: 2164:2072015632|AppleMobileDeviceHelper.m:_getDisabledDataClassNamesFromLockdownForTarget| ERROR: Could not find a device with the target identifier d595ce677d5209b98bbdfcfba7d0b020388da8cb. Assuming there are no disabled data classes.

The device is plugged in to my laptop directly (no 3rd party USB adapter)

IPhone 4 Transfering Pictures

I am upgrading my phone from the 4 to the 6 and trying to back up all photos and videos and everytime I move a photo from the Camera Roll to the Photo Stream to upload to the Cloud and the erase from the Roll it also erases the same picture from the photo stream. It defeats the whole purpose...Help !

Is there a video app which can position subtitles over black bars?

I've been happily using VLC for all video playback but now realised it's missing a feature I think is quite essential – having subtitles placed on the black bar below a movie instead of in the actual picture where it wastes screen real estate and annoys. VLC has a 'Force subtitle position' option which does not do anything useful with negative values. MPlayerX allows adjusting the position relative to the bottom, again, no use for negative values.

Can anyone suggest a player that can do this?

macbook pro 15" mid 2012 with 16gb works slow [on hold]

i ran etrecheck and here is what i got :

Problem description: MacBook Pro works slowly 15” 2012 with 16gb

EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108) Report generated December 20, 2014 at 9:45:46 PM GMT+2

Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products. Click the [Details] links for more information about that line. Click the [Adware] links for help removing adware.

Hardware Information: ℹ️ MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified) MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1 1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core 16 GB RAM Upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok BANK 1/DIMM0 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️ Intel HD Graphics 4000 Color LCD 1440 x 900 NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB

System Software: ℹ️ OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 5 days 11:27:33

Disk Information: ℹ️ APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384 disk0 : (500.11 GB) EFI (disk0s1) : 210 MB Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (43.27 GB free) Recovery HD (disk0s3) [Recovery]: 650 MB

HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N  

USB Information: ℹ️ Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️ Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Configuration files: ℹ️ /etc/hosts - Count: 20

Gatekeeper: ℹ️ Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️ /Library/Extensions [not loaded] com.Avid.driver.AvidDX (5.9.1 - SDK 10.8) [Support]

    /System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded]    com.SafeNet.driver.Sentinel (7.5.2) [Support]
[not loaded]    com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.master (5.9.1 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
[not loaded]    com.wacom.kext.pentablet (5.3.3 - SDK 10.8) [Support]

    /System/Library/Extensions/http://ift.tt/1xyP0MU
[not loaded]    com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.leopard (5.9.1 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
[not loaded]    com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.panther (5.9.1 - SDK 10.-1) [Support]
[loaded]    com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (5.9.1 - SDK 10.6) [Support]
[not loaded]    com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.tiger (5.9.1 - SDK 10.4) [Support]

Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️ [failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist [Details]

Launch Agents: ℹ️ [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Support] [loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist [Support] [loaded] com.avid.backgroundservicesmanager.plist [Support] [loaded] com.avid.dmfsupportsvc.plist [Support] [loaded] com.avid.interplay.dmfservice.plist [Support] [loaded] com.avid.interplay.editortranscode.plist [Support] [loaded] com.avid.transcodeserviceworker.plist [Support] [running] com.canon.MFManager.plist [Support] [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support] [running] com.wacom.pentablet.plist [Support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️ [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support] [invalid?] com.avid.interplay.editorbroker.plist [Support] [invalid?] com.avid.interplay.editortranscodestatus.plist [Support] [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support] [loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Support] [running] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist [Support] [loaded] PACESupport.plist [Support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️ [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Support] [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist [Support]

User Login Items: ℹ️ iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/http://ift.tt/13oAF8E) Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app) EOS Utility ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Canon Utilities/EOS Utility/EOS Utility.app) BambooCore Application (/Library/Application Support/Wacom/BambooCore.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️ AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 [Support] FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support] QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3 Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support] Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9 o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support] WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 [Support] googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support] WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 [Support]

User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️ Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Support]

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️ Flash Player [Support] PenTablet [Support]

Time Machine: ℹ️ Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️ 4% WindowServer 0% fontd 0% java 0% AppleSpell 0% aosnotifyd

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️ 842 MB Finder 120 MB WindowServer 76 MB java 52 MB mds 34 MB mds_stores

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️ 11.61 GB Free RAM 1.53 GB Active RAM 1.70 GB Inactive RAM 1.63 GB Wired RAM 5.74 GB Page-ins 31 MB Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️ Dec 20, 2014, 08:37:05 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/aeselflink_2014-12-20-203705_[redacted].crash Dec 20, 2014, 07:31:56 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/aeselflink_2014-12-20-193156_[redacted].crash Dec 20, 2014, 10:44:39 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VLC_2014-12-20-104439_[redacted].hang

things that were red

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Configuration files: ℹ️ /etc/hosts - Count: 20

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Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️ [failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist [Details]

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Launch Daemons: ℹ️ [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support] [invalid?] com.avid.interplay.editorbroker.plist [Support] [invalid?] com.avid.interplay.editortranscodestatus.plist [Support] [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support] [loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Support] [running] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist [Support] [loaded] PACESupport.plist [Support]

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Time Machine: ℹ️ Time Machine not configured!

any help will be amazing

Arbitrary Editor for Mac

I need a text editor on mac that could open arbitrary file and show its content.

For example, I want to open "test.pages" file, because I am curious. Textedit denied to open it, textWrangler opened it in disk browser. TextMate did open it , showing first 2 characters as PK, (which i understand as a packed file), but it showed lots of special characters as white spaces, which is not acceptable.

Notepad (or any XYZ editor on windows) could open arbitrary files, without ever complaining about "format".

(On the side note, is there anything I can do to make MAC OS not think of me as an extremely stupid guy who has no technical knowledge at all?)

Compatibility of iMac G3 hard drives, to try to recover data

I have an old iMac 400MHz slot-loading G3 model #M5521 that won't power up (think it's a dead power supply), and I'm trying to get the data off my hard drive. I also happen to have a 333MHz tray-loading G3 model #M4984 and am wondering if I can put the HD from the 400MHz into the 333MHz, just to use to boot up and back up my data onto a flash drive.

Here are the specs: iMac #1 (the one with all my data on it): 400MHz slot-loading G3, Model #M5521, 20.4GB hard drive (may not be the original HD - think it originally came with a 13GB), 320MB memory (256 and 64 cards), dvd drive, serial #RN9445BXHCW, and is running OS 10.3.9. The hard drive says on it: Maxtor HD model # 92049U3, 20.4GB, manufactured 15 July 2000.

iMac #2: 333MHz tray-loading G3, Model #M4984, 6GB hard drive, 288MB memory, CD drive, serial #XB9361VUGSQ, and is running OS 9.2.2.

The questions we have are whether the 400MHZ iMac hard drive can be put into the 333MHz iMac and, if so, whether it would be able to boot/run it given it is running OS 10.3.9. We are trying to do this ourselves, as we are money-limited, and my husband is capable of changing the hard drives, however the 333MHz iMac is the only other machine/method we have to use to try to recover the data. Any info you could provide on the compatibility of the two hard drives/iMacs would be very much appreciated.

Thanks a lot, Cindi

Using two keyboards with different layouts simultaneously

I am using a MacBook with a UK keyboard layout and a USB keyboard also with a UK layout. However, some of the keys are assigned differently on the two keyboards. For example,

Shift-2 is @ on one keyboard, and " on the other. The key to the left of 1 (key code 10) is §/± on one keyboard, `/¬ on the other. Etc.

I have created two .keylayout files, one for each keyboard. Each .keylayout works correctly with the keyboard it was created for, but if I activate one .keylayout, one keyboard works correctly, and the other works incorrectly, and vice versa.

Is there a way to set the MacBook up so that both keyboards work correctly at the same time - i.e. that the key displaying @ on either keyboard sends through @ rather than " etc.?

Will upgrading to Yosemite remove all my tweaks and setting?

I've made many small tweaks and preference customization to the Mavericks install on my Mac. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will those tweaks and preferences be reset and would require me to re-apply them?

Why does my mac keep crashing under panic report?

does anyone understand what this error code could suggest?

Anonymous UUID: --------------------------------

Wed Dec 17 13:03:49 2014

* Panic Report * panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801d41e80a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f9da63db4, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x00000000205d3000, CR4: 0x00000000001626e0 RAX: 0x0000000000000011, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff81284db4f0, RDX: 0x0000000000000011 RSP: 0xffffff81284db420, RBP: 0xffffff81284db440, RSI: 0xffffff803290c008, RDI: 0x0000000000000000 R8: 0xffffff802f0d0b08, R9: 0x00000000000088ee, R10: 0x0000000000000003, R11: 0x0000000000000002 R12: 0xffffff803290c008, R13: 0xffffff7f9dab0b98, R14: 0xffffff81284db4f0, R15: 0xffffff7f9dab0b80 RFL: 0x0000000000010202, RIP: 0xffffff7f9da63db4, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010 Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff81284db0d0 : 0xffffff801d33a811 0xffffff81284db150 : 0xffffff801d41e80a 0xffffff81284db310 : 0xffffff801d43a443 0xffffff81284db330 : 0xffffff7f9da63db4 0xffffff81284db440 : 0xffffff7f9da62023 0xffffff81284db4b0 : 0xffffff7f9da6031f 0xffffff81284db530 : 0xffffff7f9da5b8fe 0xffffff81284db5c0 : 0xffffff7f9da4201b 0xffffff81284db5f0 : 0xffffff801d67731b 0xffffff81284db970 : 0xffffff801d674487 0xffffff81284dbb40 : 0xffffff801d672459 0xffffff81284dbd10 : 0xffffff801d65d1c1 0xffffff81284dbd30 : 0xffffff801d5d68a2 0xffffff81284dbd60 : 0xffffff801d5b1ec4 0xffffff81284dbdf0 : 0xffffff801d5ad87e 0xffffff81284dbeb0 : 0xffffff801d5b0364 0xffffff81284dbfb0 : 0xffffff801d4192c7 Kernel Extensions in backtrace: com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity(5.4f4)[77BF0BC5-BEF4-34FF-9160-C22D470BB3B2]@0xffffff7f9da39000->0xffffff7f9da47fff com.symantec.kext.ips(3.9.2f1)[70330C8B-669A-35A8-A7DD-9E428BE89B9F]@0xffffff7f9da58000->0xffffff7f9dab0fff dependency: com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity(5.4f4)[77BF0BC5-BEF4-34FF-9160-C22D470BB3B2]@0xffffff7f9da39000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version: 14B25

Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 19 00:26:44 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2782.1.97~2/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID: 89E10306-BC78-3A3B-955C-7C4922577E61 Kernel slide: 0x000000001d000000 Kernel text base: 0xffffff801d200000 __HIB text base: 0xffffff801d100000 System model name: iMac14,3 (Mac-77EB7D7DAF985301)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 35080293823668 last loaded kext at 276550473617: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10 (addr 0xffffff7f9fe4e000, size 69632) last unloaded kext at 337057038683: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10 (addr 0xffffff7f9fe4e000, size 61440) loaded kexts: com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm 12.7.1f4 com.symantec.kext.fw 5.3.1f4 com.symantec.kext.filesecurity 12.7f4 com.symantec.kext.ips 3.9.2f1 com.symantec.kext.pf 5.7.1f4 com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity 5.4f4 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 85.3 com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.70 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.3.1f2 com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.14.37 com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.1.0d1 com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0 com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0 com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 267.0 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 267.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.6.1 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 2.0.2 com.apple.GeForce 10.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1 com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.7.3 com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.4d1 com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.3.1f2 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1 com.apple.driver.AppleHV 1 com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.2.10 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD5000Graphics 10.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferAzul 10.0.0 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1 com.apple.BootCache 35 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 705.4.1 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.6.5 com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC 1.6.5 com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 10.1.2b3 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 901.19.10 com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 3.0.7 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBXHCI 705.4.14 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 3.1 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0 com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 3.1 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 161 com.apple.security.quarantine 3 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 8 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard 175.5 com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 175.5 com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.3.1f2 com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 260.30 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 11 com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 267.0 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.15 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 200.6 com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.2.0 com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAGK100Hal 10.0.0 com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman 10.0.0 com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin 1.0.0 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.8.0d49 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 705.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltEDMSink 4.0.2 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.3.1f2 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.3.1f2 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.9 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 267.0 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 267.0 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.12d1 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.13d1 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 97 com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.7.21 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 156.4 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.4.1 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.4.1 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.7.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 705.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 705.4.9 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter 4.0.6 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPOutAdapter 4.0.6 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily 4.0.6 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 2.0.2 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI 3.1.7 com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily 4.2.1 com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.3b3 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 700.52 com.apple.driver.mDNSOffloadUserClient 1.0.1b8 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.2 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.7.0 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 705.4.14 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.0 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1 com.apple.security.sandbox 300.0 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1 com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2 com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5 com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager 1.0 com.apple.driver.DiskImages 389.1 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 31 com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 3.1 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4 com.apple.kec.Libm 1 com.apple.kec.pthread 1 com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0 Unable to gather system configuration information.Model: iMac14,3, BootROM IM143.0118.B07, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.9 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.17f7 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, PCIe, 1024 MB Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531533641465238412D50422020 Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531533641465238412D50422020 AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x111), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.15.124.12.10) Bluetooth: Version 4.3.1f2 15015, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0 Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1 Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662, 1 TB USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 23.10

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1. 
   

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2. 
   

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4. 
   

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