My 4s had the common problem where i could not turn on wifi because the button was gray and would not let me change it. So i tried resetting all my settings and everything and now I can turn on the wifi but underneath the "choose a network" the loading circle keeps on going around and around but nothing ever shows up as a wifi network to join and I know i have wifi in my house because my ipod touch picks it up just fine. What should i do? Thanks
lundi 12 janvier 2015
How to enable spotlight?
I installed an App called cocktail and disabled spotlight. But now the Application does not start and it gives an error of some sort. I deleted the App and I do not have Spotlight anymore.
Can I enable it from some other place? How?
How did a calendar icon make it to my Lock Screen?
The other day I looked at my Lock Screen and to my surprise there was a calendar looking icon on the bottom left. I thought it was kind of odd since I've never seen anything in the bottom left. So I tapped it and sure enough my calendar came up.
This was kind of handy, so I locked the phone again, but the icon was gone. I researched it and the closest I came up with is location based app recommendations.
The odd thing is that I had nothing on my calendar on that day or in the vicinity of where I was at.
So how exactly did the calendar icon make it onto my Lock Screen and how to get it back?
Safari 8 Not Showing Network Requests
I have a feeling that I may have toggled some settings, but I can't find it anymore.
Basically I am trying to monitor requests sent from my webapp. The usual method is Inpect Element -> Timelines -> Network Requests, where Safari gives me a graph and a list of all the requests made.
Now I can see the graph, but I can't see the list of the requests made. Here's a screenshot
SSD upgrade for mid 2012 MBP
I recently started getting performance issues with my MBP while running apps like Xcode and Eclipse. A quick diagnostic of the system showed that it thrashed over 458k times.
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 095 095 062 Pre-fail Always - 458757
I just ordered a SSD to replace the HDD, will this help solve the problem, and also how do I get OSX back onto the computer if I replace the HDD and the new SSD is empty?
How to view Export Mailbox status in Mail App?
How to view Export Mailbox status in Mail App?
I am trying to archive my mails: I created a Smart Mailbox, which includes the mails received in last year, then right click Export Mailbox to a .mbox file.
In the User Interface of Mail App, no export progress/ status is being displayed. How can I view the export status?
I can now only guess the export status is complete or not by checking the .mbox filename contains .partial or not.
Downgrading from Yosemite to Mavericks
I have recently bought a new Mac which contains Yosemite. Unfortunately i have problems with some of the programs I'm trying to run so i want to downgrade back to mavericks. i have constructed a USB flash drive that consists of Mavericks, however every time i select to boot from the Mavericks install USB a circle with a line through it appears on the screen. is there ways past this?
rMBP Mid-2014 Thunderbolt bus bandwidth
I'm thinking of getting an eGPU setup via Thunderbolt going, which will max out the bandwidth available (20Gbit/s) on the Thunderbolt 2 interface.
I'm interested to know if the Thunderbolt 2 controller will be able to handle both ports being maxed out (i.e. 40Gbit/s in total). Is anyone able to shed some light on this?
my finder is not responding and there are no documents on desktop after downloading os x yosemite
ive just upgraded my macbook pro(15 inch, mid 2009) to os x yosemite and it is running slowly and my finder is not responding at all and none of my documents are on my desktop. i have tried taking off the transparency and nothing worked i am not even able to access command + r to reboot my system - i just went into terminal and used the sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100 trick but it doesnt seem like anything has happened. i do however have a a response from "julie:~'my computers name'... the commands i wrote in terminal... client check in failed ... invalid destination port" and so on i need help asap because i need my mac for work
How to enable dictionary shortcut in Emacs
According to describe-key, there is no key binding in Emacs, even though I can't use dictionary shortcut in Emacs.
Is there way enable dictionary shortcut Command + control + D?
Of course I can use the shortcut with other applications.
In finder left panel under Yosemite under 'shared' get multiple drive listing
When I click on 'Shared' in the left panel I see a list of my boot drives with a number in parentheses. For example I see "Gray Study Mac Pro (x) where there are thirty identical entries from (2 to (31). I see the same thing from my Mac Mini but cannot connect to my Mac Pro even though I have designated it shared.
Under 'Devices' There is a list of my Mac Pro's drives with Gray Study Mac Pro (32) then all the other drives.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Rich
The operation couldn’t be completed. (MCMailErrorDomain error 1045.)
I'm experiencing an issue sending out email using Mail.app on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C94b).
... shortly after hitting "Send message" button, I'm receiving following error:
The operation couldn’t be completed. (MCMailErrorDomain error 1045.)
I have NO problem sending out email from my iPhone 6, using same settings and from same network and I am able to connect to remote smtp server via Terminal.app as well. I rechecked my password multiple times and not really sure what else to do...
Any ideas?
Leopard in VMWare Fusion
I have an essential PPC OS X app. I want to use Leopard (10.5) in a Virtual Machine (Fusion).
I have the ISO but when I attempt to install, it says that its not supported.
Any workaround to this?
Automator folder action to rename files from dynamic parent folder name
I'm looking to create a Folder Action that I can assign as needed to a Folder that will rename files added to it with the folder's name plus the basic date/time addition.
So if I make a folder named HelloFolder and add and move a jpg into it, that image would be renamed HelloFolder-date-time.jpg
Why is my iPhone 4s still getting Facebook notifications?
I have all notifications turned off on an iPhone 4s, and have specifically turned off Facebook notifications. Can anyone tell me why I am still getting these notifications on my iPhone?
How do you get iPhone to share contacts with Mac Messages app?
When I get a new text, it appears both in the Messages app on my iPhone and in the Messages app on my Mac. The iPhone text show the person's name, and the Mac text only shows the person's number. I have Contacts checked under iCloud sync. Both OSes are latest.
Blocked sign-in attempt to Google Account
This morning I had an email in my inbox from Google saying "We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account (Date & Time: Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:01:26 AM UTC Location: Oxford, UK)"
They provide a link: http://ift.tt/13ZSu8M
This takes me to the following: 
Originally it showed me the IP of the attack. I then put "what is my IP" into Google to discover that it is actually my own IP, so I clicked the "this is actually me" box, and hence I can no longer show the screenshot with the IP.
My question is: what could have caused this? I went to bed before midnight; I think I closed the lid last night (in which case the machine should have been in sleep mode), but even if I didn't -- I usually leave it on some radio station when I sleep -- it hasn't given me any warnings before, so why now?
The page says it isn't my Mac that is causing the problem. But the only other device I have is my android phone and the Wi-Fi is disabled, and it doesn't have any 3G type Internet. I keep those things off to save battery. It did have Bluetooth on (I must have forgotten to turn that off days back).
I've also got a standard Apple issue keyboard and trackpad, and this morning the trackpad bleated about wanting new batteries.
That's it! That's all the electronic things I have. And a wi-Fi repeater which plugs into the downstairs router via an Ethernet cable.
So what could this warning be? Someone else is attempting to sign into my account from my home IP? That's really unlikely. It is a family home, I doubt one of my family is trying to hack me, I would however be impressed if this were the case. I haven't handed down any old computer equipment either.
So I have no clue.
Can anyone think of any possible explanation?
Cant make calls on my iphone 4s
I have recently bought an iphone4S on ebay that had a broken screen I have replaced the screen and it works fine the only thing is that it wont make or receive calls/texts. Most of the time it says that it is searching for a network when it finds one it still wont let me make calls. the wifi works fine.
Any help/advice will be greatfully received.
Will
I use MacPorts to manage certain *nix packages on my Mac. One such Mac has multiple Python versions installed.
When I switch between Python versions, I use a command like:
port select --set python python27-apple
to set the default python to the Python 2.7 that my Mac shipped with from Apple, as described here.
However, MacPort's select command doesn't change any of the utilities that use python, such as easy_install.
This means that regardless of which Python is active, the supporting utilities are always the system default ones:
bash-3.2$ which python
/opt/local/bin/python
bash-3.2$ port select --show python
The currently selected version for 'python' is 'python27'.
bash-3.2$ which easy_install
/usr/bin/easy_install
bash-3.2$ ls /opt/local/bin/easy_install-*
/opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.7 /opt/local/bin/easy_install-3.4
Notice that installing a Python version with MacPorts brings along its easy_install command, but switching to that python using port select --set python27 does not also set /opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.7.
This leads to confusing errors where the wrong version of Python was used to install packages.
Thus, my question:
How can I instruct MacPorts to make appropriate symlinks for Python's additional utilities, not just the single python command?
iCloud Services (iMessages/FaceTime/Continuity) Very Broken on my Mac
I'm having the most frustrating problem with iCloud on one of my Macs. Firstly, the Mac (a late 2012 iMac) was working flawlessly with all iCloud services up until a few days ago. Now, I am able to login to iCloud in my OS X user account fine, but no messages are ever displayed, no continuity features work, Messages will not send (some users show as not being registered with iMessages, some the message simply fails to send, and if I text myself I see the iMessage on that Mac only), FaceTime tries to dial but never completes, etc. This happens on all user accounts with all iCloud accounts on this Mac, not just mine. The same iCloud account works fine on a different computer (MacBook Air) and an iPhone running newest version of iOS 8.
I'm not at all sure if it's related, but I created a Mavericks VM in VMWare Fusion and signed in to iMessages on that VM on the iMac just before the time it started having issues, which worked and continues to work fine.
Here are some things that I've tried:
- reset the PRAM (many times!)
- reinstalled the OS (did not clear the drive first - didn't want to lose my stuff, that's next step. and also it seems insane)
- updated to 10.10.2 beta (this somehow got Messages to start sending SMS (although it is not enabled to do so on my iPhone!) messages but it is otherwise still broken)
- changed iCloud password to force all devices signed into account to sign out
- ensured that serial number shows in About This Mac
- changed my DNS records to google's, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
- tried other iCloud accounts
- turned the computer off for a few hours
- deleted ~/Library/Preferences/ directory and ~/Messages/ directory to force full data reset of Messages app and iCloud preferences, then rebooted, but seems silly since all other users are having issues
- left iCloud logged out for a few hours and logged back in
Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated it. I'm torn between calling Apple support (since the computer is out of AppleCare) and reformatting the computer to try to fix it.
Notification on reminder changes
My family is using Family Sharing to share reminders. Is it possible to be notified whenever someone adds, changes or completes a reminder?
Can I upgrade from 10.8 to 10.9 with a bootable usb installer?
I've got a working bootable mavericks thumb drive... Can I upgrade from mountain lion to mavericks doing the installation from usb drive or must I do a clean install?
How to securely erase an arbitrary SATA drive, utilizing the drive firmware to do so?
The problem with using Disk Utility or dd if=/dev/zero to erase a disk is that:
It applies unnecessary wear to SSD drives.
It sends the drive's capacity worth of zeroes over the drive's interface. If you're on an older Mac that has a poorly performing USB 2 ports, it'll take much longer than necesary. It'll also tax your CPU and USB subsystem with sending all those zeroes around.
The firmware-based secure delete can be much faster than sending zeroes to the drive, even on spinning platter drives. For drives with encryption support, it'll be almost instantaneous, as all the drive needs to do is to overwrite the encryption keys and the data becomes useless. On those drives, and on SSDs, a secure erase should take 1-4 minutes (!).
All modern drives support ATA Secure Erase commands. These commands have the drive's firmware perform the erasure of the data.
On Linux, the hdparm utility exposes this functionality to the user - see hdparm --security-help for details.
Unforunately, there's no hdparm for OS X, since OS X doesn't provide any way for userland to send arbitrary SATA commands to the drive :(
Is there an easy workaround?
Pages documents created on Yosemite cannot be opened by Pages on Yosemite after latest update (5.5.2)
Seemingly every single document that I created in the previous version of Pages (I update regularly whenever I see that a new update is available) on this same macbook pro within Yosemite will now not open with pages since the latest update (5.5.2). I am still on Yosemite and nothing ha changed aside from updating Pages, Numbers & Keynote.
All of my documents are stored on my internal hard drive. When I attempt to open them I get a message stating the following....
"This document can't be opened because it's too old.
to open it, save it with Pages '09 first"
As I mentioned above, however, these documents were created in whichever version was right before the current version on the same computer with the same operating system (Yosemite).
Help? They are time sensitive documents. For now I may try opening them with my ipad, but wow, if I knew this was going to happen I certainly would not have updated.
Thank you all in advance, for your time and help... so very much appreciated.
SSD upgrade for 2013 21" iMac?
I have got an iMac (EMC 2638) here, with 1TB hard drive. I have read that there is a PCIe SSD slot on those iMacs as well, originally for the fusion drive. Is it possible to upgrade my iMac with such a SSD module? I don't care if it would work as a fusion drive, or simply have it as the main drive for OS and programs.
If this is possible, where can I buy such a SSD module? iFixit has repair instructions, but maybe I can let this be done by my local Mac shop.
RSS app: How to get approval for App Store?
I submitted a RSS reader app, but it just got rejected from the App Store, with this cited:
8.5: Apps may not use protected third party material such as trademarks, copyrights, patents or violate 3rd party terms of use. Authorization to use such material must be provided upon request
We found that your app contains features that may infringe on rights owned by various news and media outlets.
Specifically, we found that your app provides users with a news feed generated from them.
Please provide documentary evidence of your rights to use this content.
Acceptable documentation includes a copy of your contract with the copyright holder or a detailed authorization letter from the copyright holder to your company. Please make sure the documentation you provide specifies the rights for commercial use as the App Store is considered a commercial environment, even if you choose to offer your app for free.
I'm wondering how all of the other many many RSS reader apps got approved, so that I can figure out what to do to get mine approved too.
My app just generates a feed based on interests you select. And that feed pulls from RSS.
Would greatly appreciate any help at all, thanks!!
Can I use a different language wireless keyboard?
My Macbook pro is Japanese with a Japanese keyboard. I want to get a wireless bluetooth keyboard, but I am currently living in the UK and cannot get a wireless Japanese keyboard here. If I bought a US wireless keyboard, would this work with my laptop?
Thanks in advance.
Does iphone have it's own special html markup?
A long time ago (2-3 years) I remember stumbling across a developers guide on the apple website that explained how to create websites and menus using html, these menus and websites would closely resemble the default iphone menu screens - the purpose of this special html markup was to allow website developers to create websites that were properly formatted for iPhones.
I'm not sure if it was a special html markup or something else but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me because I have recently been trying to find it again.
It may have been since discontinued but I'm just curious to find it again if it's still active.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
How can I repair partition map after attempting to dual boot screwed it up?
I tried installing Kali Linux in a separate partition on my MacBook, but after installation was completed, I was unable to boot back into Mac OS (displays a prohibited sign). I think everything went wrong when I let it install GRUB, which may be responsible for the messed up partition map.
I was following this guide http://ift.tt/1C7e4cw, but could not complete the setup of the "Hybrid MBR" because I could not get GDisk, as the MacBook's NIC is not listed in the drivers that came with the distro. Not sure if finishing this step would solve the problem, but at this point I just want to get rid of Kali and get Mac OS back to normal.
As for a reinstallation of the OS from the recovery partition, it doesn't look like this will work, as the Disk Utility is showing all kinds of errors when trying to verify the main volume (see image below). Repair disk doesn't work, by the way. I basically can't reformat anything, all the options are greyed out.
I'm not above wiping the whole drive, but then how will I restore Mac OS? I never had an install disc or anything.
Thanks for any help or ideas!
Itunes not synching mp3s in playlist to Ipad
On my main computer I have a fairly large music library that hasn't so much grown as it has accreted over the course of two and a half decades. Because it's significantly larger than the total storage capacity of my iPad I'm using smart playlist synchronization to store just that segment of music on my iPad that I like to listen to often.
However, since the update to 8 or 8.1 or thereabouts, for some reason the synchronization silently fails on a number of songs, primarily mp3s that were not purchased via ITMS or created by using iTunes to rip a CD.
According to iTunes on my PC, the songs in question exist (and play correctly when I ask it to), and are in the playlist designated to sync to the iPad.
According to iTunes on my iPad, the songs in question exist and are in the playlist... But according to settings->storage->manage used->music, they were never uploaded, and any attempt at playing them results in the iPad silently skipping to the next song... and the next, and the next, until it finds one that was uploaded.
(Since my usual method of listening to music involves setting the 'pad to random play, this explains why it took some time for me to realize something was wrong and why I'm not 100% certain when it started going wrong).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's going on, or where I should start looking? I'm rapidly approaching the point where "upgrade to an Android device" starts becoming an attractive solution...
X11 app launching seemingly randomly
Since a month or two, I started seeing an X11 icon in my dock.
Killing it does not kill any other app.
Is there any way to see what process launches this app?
How to reconnect to NFS server using another login?
I use finder.
This is my connection:
nfs://192.168.1.10/nfs/
I logged as a guest before. But now I need to change user. Where I can change login data to connect to nfs as another user?
Deactivate sound for iPhone calls on Mac OS Yosemite
When somebody calls my iPhone it rings on my Mac Yosemite, too - which is great!
But i would love to only have the visual hint and a silent ringtone!
Unfortunatelly i cannot find any settings for this issue.
Who has a solution for me?
Only able to access HTTPS sites; MAMP Apache Server not able to start
Hope this is the right part of StackOverflow for this question. If there's a better forum for this please let me know.
I'm using Mac OSX 10.10.1. The browser version is irrelevant, as I can cURL or check the behaviour in anything from Firefox to Opera and the result is the same.
The problem is that I can only access SSL secured sites, so not even StackExchange.
After restarting, the behaviour disappears and I can access any site I need to.
The only thing that might be causing the behaviour that I can think of is Skype, as it seems to happen after I login to Skype (we use it in the office). I login to Skype using my Facebook details. No-one else in the office does this and no-one else has the problem, so this might be the issue but I don't know why or how to fix it.
Another clue I have is that I am no longer able to use MAMP - the MySQL Server works, but the Apache Server simply doesn't start without anything to say why. Whether MAMP is running or not has no effect on my main issue.
I don't main Mac - my home computer is Windows - so I'm not overly-familiar with the system, and I can't work out why this could possibly be happening.
Any help or pointers would be amazing.
iTunes and XCode not recognising devices after disconnected, until restart
I have a problem which requires I regularly restart my Mac, up to several times a day, to get devices recognised.
When I re-connect a device, iPhone, iPad or iPod, I regularly get the message:
iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. This device is no longer connected.
They no longer show up as active devices in XCode.
When I plug a phone in, it asks me to confirm it should Trust this computer but that doesn't make any difference.
Note that this is on re-connection. The devices are fine up until the point when I disconnect them. That doesn't change whether I "eject" them from iTunes or not.
The problem survived a system restore from backup, which returned some 50GB of space to me. It originally showed up in Mavericks and I have since done an in-place upgrade to Yosemite.
The problem occurs regardless of whether the phones are connected directly into a USB port on the iMac or via the keyboard's extra ports. The devices are all getting power and show up on the System Report as being connected, eg:
USB2.0 Hub:
Product ID: 0x0608
Vendor ID: 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.)
Version: 77.60
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0xfd140000 / 6
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100
iPhone:
Product ID: 0x12a8
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version: 7.01
Serial Number: 52c05c8223d3efc793f2815e9d3dbcc018805880
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Location ID: 0xfd143000 / 10
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
Can't rearrange Dock icons
On OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, I can't rearrange my dock icons. I click one, and drag, but it just stays in place and stops highlighting. Here's a demonstration (GIF).
This has been so ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, and no version of it ever fixed it.
After restart, I can drag once or twice but I'm not sure what event causes it to stop. If I wait too long after reboot, that privilege is taken away from me.
Any idea what can be done?
How to watch a .ts video file on an iPad
I've got a .ts video file on my harddrive, and I would like to transfer it to my iPad to watch it there. Here's some data about the file in question:
- Size: 3.5 GB
- 1 Video Stream: h264, 1920x1080
- 2 Audio Streams:
- 1st: AC-3, 5.1, German
- 2nd: AC-3, Stereo, English
I only care about the English language track, getting rid of the German 5.1 audio would be fine.
If possible, I would like to avoid re-encoding the video due to the amount of time it takes. Re-encoding the audio (e.g. to AAC) would be fine.
Two questions:
- Is there an app for the iPad that would allow me to watch the video without making any changes? Free solutions preferred.
- If not, is there a process to convert the video (or the container) to a format that is natively understood by iTunes and the iPad? I know that the AC-3 audio may be a problem. Command line solutions are fine. No online conversion services, please.
I've tried the following using ffmpeg (installed through Homebrew):
ffmpeg -i in.ts -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:1 out.mp4
It converted the file, copying the video, and re-encoding the audio to AAC. The resulting file plays fine in QuickTime, but can't be imported into iTunes. I've read about the moov atom and its placement in the file, and the problems with ffmpeg to place it in the right location. Is this what I'm seeing here?
Can I install and use Windows on an external USB 3 drive in Boot Camp
I'd like to try Windows 10 Technical Preview before it is released for purchase. I am curious and have never used a windows based machine before. Question: Is it possible to install and run Windows 10 Technical Preview under BootCamp
Saving GPS Coordinates in Contacts
I live in a country which has few registered Apple Maps addresses. All that i want is to store GPS coordinates in contacts to use those at the Reminders app. I came from diverse forums like this and this but it seems that there isn't a final answer to this issue.
This is what i tried so far.
- If i set an URL field with the following text
http://maps=&q=35.000000,-119.000000it seems that solves the problem since if i tap on that url it redirects me to that specific coordinate in the apple maps app. But it doesn't work at reminders since reminders looks at the address field instead of the URL one. - So i set the coordinates at the address field then (street section) like the following
35.000000,-119.000000which seems that solves the problem but there is a mandatory country name that breaks everything because when i tap it finds the coordinates plus the country which returns a completely different location.
Any extra help is appreciated. Is simple, all that i need is to use the Reminders app location feature with specific contacts GPS coordinates, not geocoding address ones.
Thanks in advance.
How to add srt (subtitles) file to a movie file
I am currently working in google drive where I got a lot of storage available, on which I am storing movie files with the necessary srt file for subtitles. Of course opening them on a PC/Mac will display the subtitles thanks to whichever video player.
My question is, would I be able to see the subtitles when opening the movie files from an ipad on the google drive app? I know this sounds overly complicated, but I am trying to distribute this video for iPad only.
Given that the videos could get to be heavy (few MBs up to a couple GBs), I'm trying to avoid having to download them to the iPad, and open them directly from the "cloud"
I've read a bit about hard-encoding the subtitles, I was basically wondering if there was a workaround to avoid the extra work, as the user might prefer to turn the subtitles on/off.
Thanks! I would appreciate any help.
How do I print an email from Mail.app without mail headers?
I would like to be able to print emails without including the default email headers (from, to, title, date) from Apple’s Mail application. It looks like I am not the only one who wants this as the question has been asked numerous times on the Apple Support Communities.
It looks like the answer used to be going into Preferences, then the Viewing tab, and then select ‘None’ for ‘Show message headers’. [1] [2]
The latest Mail included with Yosemite (version 8.1) does not include the option ‘None’, only ‘Default’ and ‘Custom’. Leaving the custom settings empty will still show the default headers.
How do I hide the mail headers for printing?
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