I am reading this documentation: http://ift.tt/1FAvu2J
In order to register a pass type identifier, I need to be an Apple developer. My pass will be available on a web page (not an iOS app).
Which of the developer programs should I enroll to? iOS/Mac/Safari?
Thanks!
I know that OS X uses the Launch Services.framework to manage the file-extensions. But the icons which belong to the file-extension are part of the Info.plist in the package contents of the 'default-opening-application' of that specific file-extension.
My 'buggy' file-extension is *.cpp used by Xcode as default. Normally it should use the icon given in /applications/xcode/contens/ressources/XXX.icns.
But it doesn't! It's using another cpp icon, which i couldn't find in my whole system - in the Xcode app neither.
After I changed the XXX.icns mentioned above with a custom .icns file and cleared my Icon cache, logged out and restarted my mac:
For roundabout 2 seconds I could see my custom .icns file as the standard icon for the file-extension cpp. This is actually what I want to achieve permanently!
But after a few seconds the icon changes by magic into the other cpp icon, which I can't find on my mac. What is wrong with my Mac.
Little Conclusion:
The (1) icon is shown. But it shouldn't. It should show the (3) if I did everything right, otherwise it needs to show (2).
(1) is the icon shown in the finder (2) is the icon shown in the inspector:
Here is the icons I want to use:
What terminal command should I use to download all Leonardo DiCaprio pictures of this website to my Desktop : http://ift.tt/1vDUJRM
Trying to migrate software on two OS X macs with different operating systems. Source is running mountain lion and target is running Yosemite. Is this an issue?? I'm using an ethernet cable, have turned off firewall and wifi.
My MacBook Air cannot find my microphone. I've checked Systems Preferences and system cannot detect sound input.
I enjoy using the Sublime Text 3 editor—especially the multiple cursors feature.
I constantly find myself in need of the multiple cursor functionality in other OSX apps. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to go about doing this?
As an example: Imagine editing multiple line items in an Outlook message, or appending to several files in Finder at once.
Thanks,
I submitted an app to itunes connect. As I remember, I selected the aforementioned field instead of the other one with automatic release. Now my app status is ready to sale, what should I do next? Where should I "manually release" it? I can't see such option in itunes connect.
Thanks in advance
as instructed I tried to update my apple ID. Now, money that was in account is gone, and I can't get on iCloud via my iPhone, the id is greyed out.
I want to have Preview default to Thumbnail view in the Sidebar. There is a Preference option to display the Sidebar or not. But, there is no option to choose which Sidebar option an individual might want as their default.
Is there a way to do this?
MAC OS x 10.10.2 Yosemite -Dennis
I was reading a post about using Bittorrent Sync on OS X that includes a launchd plist that's supposed to keep the app running in the event that it crashes. It doesn't seem to work, though, since I've had the app crash and not relaunch. I'm looking for help fixing the plist.
The plist looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://ift.tt/vvUEPL">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<dict>
<key>Crashed</key>
<true/>
<key>SuccessfulExit</key>
<false/>
</dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>sync.com.tjluoma.bittorrentsync</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/open</string>
<string>-W</string>
<string>-a</string>
<string>BitTorrent Sync</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
The "clever" bit is using /usr/bin/open to launch the app, with -W to make sure that open waits for the app to exit. But I think that's also why it doesn't actually work. If I'm reading this right, the app will only relaunch if /usr/bin/open crashes, not if Bittorrent Sync crashes. For the above approach to work, open would need to return error status if the app it opened had crashed (and this does not happen).
I know I could fix this by dropping open and instead hard coding the path to the executable as /Applications/BitTorrent http://ift.tt/1BCl19t Sync. But is there an alternative that doesn't require hard-coding the full path? Using open would be elegant, if it worked.
How do I export a Bundle with changes (delta) from Textmate 2?
I have installed the Bundle manually and it appears in the ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Pristine Copy/Bundles directory.
But I've made edits with the bundle editor so there are also "delta" files in ~/Library/Application Support/Avian/Bundles
Is there a way to merge these or export a combined version besides manually editing as XML?
I have used the Terminal app on my OS X Yosemite Macbook Pro to SSH to a Linux machine. I have opened "vim" text editor, and want to send the "insert" keypress via SSH to vim, to start editing. Sure, I can hit "i" to start doing that, but I have been using vim for about 97 years, and have taught my fingers to type "insert".
Other stackexchange questions ask about the insert key, and people have had success with fn+m or fn+return. Neither work for me, and I suspect it has something to do with Yosemite or the fact that I am sending the keypress over SSH to a linux remote machine. The fn+m combination simply sends 'm', and the fn+return simply sends a carriage return. Probably the return or m key is being sent over ssh in combination with a function key, and the remote server (Linux) ignores the function key, but recognizes the unmodified key. I think I need the m or return keys to be modified before being transmitted over SSH.
My fiancée's retina MacBook Pro automatically severely reduce (not completely though) her microphone's gain whenever a sound (me speaking or some ambient noise) on my end is sent to her over FaceTime. Basically the audio from her that I hear from my speakers gets very quiet. For example, if my fiancée is talking about about her day, and I say "Ah, OK." as she continues to speak, I can barely hear what she continues to say until I am finished speaking as well.
Completely muting my own microphone stops the issue from occurring.
This issue does not affect her previous MacBook. We can immediately change to use her previous computer to call me, we can talk at the exact same time, and I still hear her at full volume as when I am being silent.
Disabling or enabling "Use ambient noise reduction" on either of our computers does nothing to change the problem.
If she plugs in her Apple earphones to use the microphone and speakers on that, we can talk at the exact same time, and I still hear her at full volume as when I am being silent.
This leads me to believe that the problem lies with her computer, not mine and not the Internet connection being too slow. This also leads me to believe that there is something wrong with her microphone (or software running the microphone) on her MacBook Pro. It seems to be too aggressive in reducing the microphone gain so I don't hear myself from her computer's speakers. While yes, I appreciate not having to hear myself, it worked perfectly with her old computer as I stated above.
Continuing to use her previous computer is not a valid solution. How do I fix this?
I Have a Mac Mini with Yosemite OS X Server, i would like to install wordPress and Magento on the server and use it for local Development before i push my completed sites to the live server with the Hosting Provider.
as of Now I can Access my wiki from outside the network. by http://ift.tt/1EvazQs
the ip address may change from time to time on my server and i have to make a note of it .
the apple Help documents are a bit vague to me as i am new to server and especially Apple server and its Server App.
Also I am able to access the website though not the index page but a image placed in my site/default directory named 1.jpg by going to
if some one could help me shed more knowledge on working with wordpress installation will be of great help.
Thanks !!!
I was trying to organize and select all my old music from my previous computer and copied a folder with all my music files to my mac book desktop. Started deleting all the songs I didn't wanted and after all done, accidentally I selected all the music that was left on the folder and deleted it as well. Is there is a way I can access the trash and see only the latest music files I deleted? If I could see the time they where deleted I knew which music files I have to restore, so I don't have to be restoring all the files, including the ones I do not want!
I am facing very sluggish performance in my MacBook Pro after I upgraded it to Yosemite. Mine is 8GB, i7 mid 2012 system.
Usually I find my unused RAM <25MB even if I work in terminal, say around 8 Safari tabs open (excluded fb) and some light-weight programming editor open.
I remember I never faced such sluggish performance in Mavericks or Mountain Lion. I have closed all unwanted graphical effects, but still no improvement on performance.
Any suggestions?
Below is the screenshot of my activity monitor: 
Please note my Preview was closed while I took this shot; which is in a way super weird.
CPU usage: 
Can I delete the Developer > XCode > Shared folder? I want to clear out space and noticed that it takes up 2 gigs of data. Is it safe to delete? I use XCode often.
I accidently rsn rm* command on / and since then I am unable to see my desktop. All I see blue screen with spinning gear. I want to will I be able to get my desktop settings again without compromising all settings? I am specially concerned with software installed via home brew,Databases etc. is it possible to to restore or xopy deleted files by some kind of repair via Cd?
I am running osx 10.6 snow leopard. Irony is I somehow missed my OS and other CDs too that came with my mac
I accidently rsn rm* command on / and since then I am unable to see my desktop. All I see blue screen with spinning gear. I want to will I be able to get my desktop settings again without compromising all settings? I am specially concerned with software installed via home brew,Databases etc. is it possible to to restore or xopy deleted files by some kind of repair via Cd?
I am running osx 10.6 snow leopard. Irony is I somehow missed my OS and other CDs too that came with my mac
I just recently upgraded to XCode 6.1.1 from 5.1.1. When I launch iOS Simulator. I get an error "Unable to boot device in current state: Creating". I have tried deleting the devices and adding them back manually. But that is to no avail. I have reinstalled XCode as well after uninstalling and cleaning my Library and Preferences folders. That also has not worked. I am not sure if there are artifacts left over from 5.1.1 that are causing this.
Does anyone know what the root cause/solution is?
Please Advise
Apple TV audio will not activate my Beltone First TV streamer. Other input sources (cable box, Blu-Ray) work fine with the streamer, but Apple TV does not. Anybody know why? And how to fix it?
Now, this question is for academic purposes only. Please do not take it anywhere else, that's not what it's meant for.
Recently I witnessed how ITunes, which is linked to a certain IPhone may unlock it's first screen - the one which requires a password.
I also know of a few tools which may mimic this effect;
I`m curious about how this mechanisem works. Does apple hold some sort of a "master key" that can be transferred via a USB device? Is that a part of the operating system, ITunes or some of those other tools? Is that a known weakness, or a feature? How do those tools (generally) work?
I know it's not possible to merge libraries using iPhotos and it's possible on Aperture, but how about Photos?
In the latest release of Microsoft Outlook for iOS (as of 2/26/2015), is there a way to change the sort behavior of message within a conversation?
If I'm not mistaken, the messages are sorted from oldest to newest, which requires scrolling to see the most recent. I'd like to change that to be newest to oldest so the most recent message is on top.
Is that possible?
I have a 2011 Mac mini server (quad-core i7, 2.0GHz) and the fan is going bad.
The current fan, part no. 610-0164 is rated 12V 0.66A.
The widely available replacement fans on eBay are rated 12V 0.5A. They are marked as part no. 610-0069.
Does anyone have evidence that the replacement 0.5A fans are suitable for this computer, or should I try to find an exact replacement?
I have a 40 page Pages document which is a transcript from a hand written diary. I wish to use Text to Speech to read passages from my Pages document so that I can check the text against the original version. This works well except that when highlighting a portion of text in the document and I wish to stop (pause) the Text to Speech it only starts at the beginning of the highlighted text and not restarting from the point of being paused.
If I use the start/stop keyboard shortcut in Text to Speech system preferences the situation is worse. No matter if you have a highlighted portion of text it will restart from the beginning of the document!!
So the question is How to pause the text to speech process rather than stopping it?
Good evening, I did not found any stack exchange community that fit the following question, so excuse me if my question is off topic.
So, I am Android Developer and I am working on Apple machines. Recently I bought a macbook pro with 128 GB flash storage but without hdd. The use of the laptop will be only for work and for surfing in the internet. Any multimedia will be stored on a external disc but all the stuff from work I want to be stored in the flash storage. Except of Android Studio , I also use some other tools-frameworks like MAMP , Postgres , gimp etc.
Will be a problem for the laptop and its flash drive if I will not use any external hdd and all the job will be stored in the flash storage?
Thank you in advance.
ps : If there is any more appropriate stack exchange community for this question, please let me know
Has anyone tried to use codesign to self-sign a previously-unsigned kext for personal use under Yosemite (10.10)? Self-signing is discussed in this apple technote, but not for kernel extensions specifically.
In my case, I have an unsigned kext that I'm willing to trust, but I also like the idea of the safety net only loading signed kexts provides in the general case. I'd rather specifically allow this one that I trust rather than just turn off verification wholesale with the dev mode boot option.
ALTERNATIVELY
Does anybody know where the trusted CA certificate(s) are stored for the kernel? Creating one's own CA and installing that in the kernel's cert db would be another way to accomplish the same thing. I could then sign that kext myself.
Is their anyway to keep all apps installed on my mac updated? As soon as some new version for a particular app launches i get the update automatically. I checked few softwares but all of them are freemium, none of them is free. Luckily brew updates packages but what about apps?
If there is no such thing please guide me with way to write a program on my own for my mac(particularly in python).
I have a MacBook Pro on OS 10.6.8 I have tried to upgrade to the current OS. The download appears to work fine, but when I select restart to install, the Mac starts to shut down, then just hangs.
I can only start the Mac again by holding down the on/off switch to turn off, and then turning on again.
What is the solution?
After working several times, the MBP now shows the DVD just fine on its monitor , but not through the projector. Projector working well; instructions on Epson Projector say to press F7. Did that, no change. Need help for future presentations!
Is there a way of using third party software like Better Touch Tool to configure a 4 finger dragging gesture?
I want to reserve 3 finger gestures for many other actions.
I'm using the Mailbox for Mac app.
When I type names into the recipients field, it shows me some names (I assume they're names in my gmail contacts, but I'm not sure).
But it doesn't show me names in my contacts. I think it used to, but I know other clients I've used have offered me both the contacts taht gmail's servers have for my account AND the contacts on my Mac. So...
Is there some setting or trick to get Mailbox to access my Mac contacts?
I have a folder that has several hundreds of thousands of files named like "ABC 123456". I need to add a dash after between the two blocks of text like this "ABC - 123456". Leaving the trailing space.
Automator does not offer a method for counting 4 characters in and inserting an new dash and space.
I have this terminal command and have been tinkering with it.
for file in *.txt
do
echo mv "$file" **"$file" count 3 "- "**
done
Anyone know of an Applescript or can help with the terminal command that will help me rename the files?
Is there a way to hide files and folders from Finder like I do with Nautilus using .hidden config file?
On Nautilus I can create a file named .hidden and put inside it a list of files I want to hide.
# Example of .hidden file
file1.txt
directory
something else hidden
Can I do something similar with OSX Finder without have to prepend a . (dot) before the file name?
I'm trying to expand the hard drive of my Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox from my Macbook Air terminal. But when I type in
VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid>|~/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vdi --resize 20000
I get this output:
Usage:
VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid|filename>
[--type normal|writethrough|immutable|shareable|
readonly|multiattach]
[--autoreset on|off]
[--property <name=[value]>]
[--compact]
[--resize <megabytes>|--resizebyte <bytes>]
Syntax error: No operation specified
But I specified the operation though, so I'm a bit confused.
In december I got a new iPod touch. In the box it came in there was the charger, and also a pair of apple headphones. These headphones are brand new and have never been used, but the plug on them doesn't fit into the jack on my iPod. The plug doesn't fit into the jack on my macbook pro either. I have checked, and there doesn't appear to be any blockages in either of the jacks. On the iPod it goes maybe 70% in, and on the macbook 90%. What could the problem be?
I've done a presentation in Keynote. On the first screen I included a few links to different slides. I tested them in Keynote and they're working, however when I export to PDF they're simply not there anymore.
Note that used Export to > PDF and not print as PDF and I also looked in the export settings and saw nothing related to links..
After reseting to original settings I lost all my data on my HP Split x2
I tried to recover with photorec by putting external hard disk and running app true it with no luck.
Could some one advise me how i could recover all my lost photos?
Thank you for the help
how to get rid of the conversation icon that automatically uploads to my menu bar when i open my homepage of Google
how to get rid of the conversation icon that automatically uploads to my menu bar when i open my homepage of Google
I want a default keyboard with bigger keys. That's it.
No swype, no swiftkey, nothing fancy, no other cusomizations, i just want... bigger... keys. I have thick fingers and I dont want to use auto correct or prediction.
I know it's possible, because one of the apps I use (Camscanner Pro) has a bigger keyboard (taller) which types significantly better. I am desperate to get that keyboard by default everywhere, or any other third party option or fix that will make my keyboard keys bigger.
How do I achieve this?
*** edit Minuum and Thick Buttons rely on auto predict and dynamically enlarge keys... way too fancy for me: simple, default bigger keyboard, bigger keys. I am happy to sacrifice screen area for bigger keyboard.
I've had Microsoft Office 2011 installed on my MacBook Air, currently running 10.10.2, for several years. A week or so ago I updated Office to 14.4.8.
We're working on rolling out Office 365 (mostly for email) to our end users. Yesterday I installed the downloadable Office 2011 package from the Office 365 portal. From what I can tell this simply installed the same 14.4.8 version that I've been running for a week. Afterwords I installed the standalone Outlook 2015 application from the Office 365 portal.
This morning, upon logging in, I was greeted with a 14.0.10 update for MS Lync, that had been released in mid October. Outside of testing years ago I've never used Lync so I clicked cancel and quit Microsoft Autoupdate. A second or so later it re-launched. I went through this same process 3 or 4 times before, out of frustration, I eventually installed the update.
The update installed without issue and I quit Autoupdate. A few seconds later, Autoupdate launched again, this time showing no available updates. Quit Autoupdate, it launches again, and again, and again.
I plan on killing off the plists for Autoupdate and running through the typical troubleshooting steps but I wanted to see if anyone else had run into this. Because we're going to be rolling this out to a couple hundred Macs in the next month or so I'd like to know if this is a common occurrence or if it's just a fluke on my Mac.
How do I add a hidden administrator user to my Mac if possible? I don't want it to show up on the login screen.
I have a question about Apple network traffic. In my network program I can see these three domains (GET)
These appears when I receive or send text messages from/to my iPhone. The question is:
Does these three domains show up even if it's NOT related to text messages?
Thanks!
I just inherited an old macbook a1226
The os is single Linux 1.99-ubuntu3.10
IT is broken (os) for some reason
(I grow veggies on a permaculture farm... Dont' task me why... ;) )
I'd like to restore IT some sort of OS X native os installed onto IT.
I have tried option c, option r, c on boot to boot on snow Leopard cd... None worked
I am stuck on grub command line and i am lost.
If one of you has an idea, he will be saving my life..
Cheers
lorena
i cant open my clash of clan the new update of clash of clan is 7.1.1 version. but my ipad1 can only install 5.1.1 down. what would i do to transfer my coc to android?
I've Java 1.8 installed on my Mac OS Yosemite... and Terminal shows the following:
mccoy:~ daniel$ which java
/usr/bin/java
mccoy:~ daniel$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
mccoy:~ daniel$ env | grep JAVA
JAVA_OPTS=-Dnode.name=DANIEL -Xmx4g
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
mccoy:~ daniel$
But SQL Developer still starts with some older Java 1.7 and complains... how can I fix this?
As the arrows point, the little blue points before Evernote and MS OneNote.
Keynote has its own shortcuts that overrides mac shortcuts. For example, moving focus between windows is generally ⌘ Cmd-< on Mac, but in Keynote this is Zoom out. Adding ⌘ Cmd-< as the shortcut to change between windows in Keynote in System preferences > App shortcuts does not work for me.
Is there another way of fixing this? I often have several Keynote windows open at the same time and I need a way to change between the efficiently without using the mouse, preferably in the same way as on Mac generally. Zooming in and out in Keynote is not as important, but if this could be changed to ⌘ Cmd-+ and ⌘ Cmd--, that would be great too.
