What must I check after I got my new rMBP 13"?

My friend wants to buy new rMBP 13" mid 2014 MGX72 in Malaysia. He's afraid of defects. So he needs advice on how to check whether his new rMBP 13" has problem or not. If it has, he must report it as soon as possible to the Apple Reseller where he bought it in Malaysia, before going home to Indonesia. Help?

Note that this post is basically for my friend. As for me, I'm planning to buy rMBP 15" mid/late 2015. I know this site is not for a question of which mac I should buy, but I asked about technical advice on how to check a new rMBP 13" after I got it so if it has any problem I can detect it and report it soon so I won't have any problems when I'm home.

What I currently know is only check whether the rMBP 13" display doesn't have dead pixel, check the battery, is it running up to around 9-10 hours as promised, calibrate it, uhm, what else? That's all I know. CMIIW.

Sorry my English. Feel free to edit this if you know what I mean.

Incoming call is not registered on iPhone if iPhone turns of before I pick up

The situation:

1. iPhone is low on battery


2. I receive incoming call


3. I try to pick up and phone turns of during that moment

In this situation incoming phone number is not registered on the recent call list.

Is there a way to fix this?

How do i know a mac needs to restart?

Is there a way to figure out from a script whether a Mac needs to reboot? A file, the presence or contents of which i could monitor perhaps?

I'm looking for an equivalent to the file /var/run/reboot-required found on my Ubuntu boxen. My use case would be to centrally monitor my servers (and perhaps laptops) using Puppet, collectd or... well, something.

~llaurén

How can I hide spam emails in my inbox of OSX Apple Mail app?

I label my emails as spam or better "Junk email" in my iPhone and MBA but the emails continue to stay in my inbox. I want to get rid of them without removing them so I can later improve my spam filtering with SpamAssistant in my server. How can I hide spam emails in my inbox of OSX Apple Mail app?

Cannot connect to Apple TV

My Apple TV works perfectly as a stand alone machine. It plays the channels I want to watch. However, Neither my MacBook Air, My iPads, my iPhone 6 and my iMac will no longer connect to AirPlay. All these devices worked perfectly until recently, AirPlay was a wonderful method by which I could stream videos to the Apple TV for watching on the 'big screen'.

Now, none of them connect. they are all on the same wifi network and 'AirPlay' is switched on on the Apple TV. Using the iPad, the 'Airplay' button is there, when I choose to play to Apple TV, the iPad says"PLaying on Apple TV" but nothing happens on the TV. Both the MacBook Air and the iMac are unable to connect to Apple TV. The AirPlay button is there, and when I choose Apple TV, after some moments I get a message "Unable to connect to Apple TV" Even though this says unable to connect to Apple TV, when I use iTunes to stream MP4 files, I go into the menu on Apple TV, Choose 'Computers' and I can access the MP4 files and they play perfectly.

But, as the computers 'cannot connect' I am unable to Mirror my computer screen, hence, I cannot use 'Beamer' to stream other file types such as .avi or .mkv from them to the TV. Also, when I stream live TV from my iPads, they say "Playing on Apple TV", but the Apple TV does not respond by playing the files.

I have reset the Apple TV twice and everything is as should be as far as set up is concerned, and I have checked everything I can think of on the computers and have checked all the settings.

What's gone wrong? I hope someone has an idea that I haven't already tried over the last 5 days of searching for answers on the internet and checking settings on all my devices.

How to decrease trackpad tracking speed on demand?

I'm using separate magic trackpad and (still, but that's not a requirement) Mac OS 10.9.5. I'm looking for some convenient and free way to decrease tracking speed on demand, for example via additional gesture or a keystroke.

I'm a developer, so, quite often I need to precisely move cursor one-two pixels aside while inspecting layouts, picking colors, moving panels here there and currently with magic trackpad that's terrible.

One of good options I'm looking looks like this: scrolling while holding a key produces slow and precise mouse pointer movement.

Tried to search, but not very successfully:

• MagicPrefs: nothing like that, but, seems some plugin may achieve that.


• SmoothMouse: nope.


• SteerMouse: paid, does not support Apple Magic Trackpad.


• ControllerMate: paid, looks like this is what I need, but I didn't manage to achieve what I want (too much time spent).


• iMouseFix: nope.

As an option I could make some script up and bind it to the keys, which will change tracking speed or an entire app, but I'm not sure about that and consider that as a last resort. Don't like additional mouse option for precise movements, also I rarely use macbook's built-in trackpad, so I need something universal.

Dotted underlines in Word for Macbook users 2011

I am doing an editorial job and need to underline some words with red dotted underlines. How do you do this using Word for Mac users? The version I have is 2011, on a Macbook with Snow Leopard software.

Many thanks

Trish

My keyboard is showing special character, and is preventing me from entering my password. How can I stop this through a short cut on my keyboard

My keyboard is showing special character and I want to stop it. But is preventing me from login into my computer

OSX -NSTextField to show Command Key, Control Key, Shift Key, Alt Key symbol to show/edit shortcuts

I am working on an app which records shortcut for my app's functionality.

Currently, I am defining the shortcut through my code explicitly using DDHotKey.

Now I want to give user a control to define it by themselves and also want to reflect their changes in the text field along with the symbols for Modifier keys.

I want to achieve it using DDHotKey as it is working perfectly in the current version.

iPad is iCloud locked to a defunct address

I was gifted an iPad from a restaurant owner. This iPad was provided to the restaurant and used to relay orders from a third party service who would deliver their food outside their normal delivery range.

The third-party company that provided the iPad is now defunct, and the iCloud email address has been out of use for long enough to bounce emails back to me immediately.

How can I go about removing this defunct iCloud account from this iPad?

Screen resolution of MacBook Pro Retina

I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina-display (Late 2013 model)

I recently bought a very cheap HDMI cable to plug it on my tv in my room (for Screen Mirroring and sometimes, Screen extend). Since it's cheap, I'm quite worried on a possible effect it would bring to my MacBook's resolution or display or maybe performance or at least, something.

Will it ruin my MacBook in any sort in the long run? Should I just forgo the cheap HDMI and invest on a better quality albeit being a bit more expensive, or Thunderbolt, perhaps? (Never tried Thunderbolt)

Two external keyboards, one for right hand, one for left hand, modifiers do not work

I am in my bed. MacBook (Yosemite 10.10.2) is on my chest.

I have one external keyboard (with trackpoint) for my left hand and another external keyboard for my right hand.

This would be awesome if it would work.

But the problem is that when I hold shift on the left keyboard and press P on the right keyboard then Mac writes a p instead of a capital P.

If I hold shift on the right keyboard and then p on the same keyboard then Mac writes a capital P as it should.

The same problem happens with all modifier keys:

If I try to use one modifier key on one keyboard and the to-be-modified key on the other keyboard then the result is simply the to-be-modified key unmodified.

Any idea what is causing this behaviour ?

How can one fix this ?

iMac and MacBook Air shared monitor

I have used a thunderbolt connection and pressed Command F2 to allow my track pad and keyboard on my MBA to run both screens. However, I want to use the wireless track pad and keyboard that comes with the iMac instead of the laptop track/keyboard. In other words, I would like the iMac to be the primary computer and use the laptop as a secondary screen (with all control remaining with the iMac). Is this possible?

Safari keeps warning "malicious javascript detected on this domain"

Safari keeps warning malicious javascript detected on this domain, and there is only a OK button to click. It is stupid to click OK again and again. How to prevent this?

I think the so-called malicious javascript is just some code for ads, because I saw this warning at a few websites of large company.

Does disabling SIRI still replace it with old Voice Control?

I have 2 questions about disabling SIRI I hope somebody can help with:

1. 
   

   If you disable SIRI in general, will holding the home button (when phone is locked) activate the old Voice Control instead or not anymore? Anybody with IOS 7 or 8 can test this for me?

   
   


2. 
   

   If you go to Settings -> General -> Passcode Lock -> "Allow access while locked", you can disable SIRI when your phone is locked, however will this only work when you enable passcode and not when you disable it afterwards. Anybody can test that for me? Thanks alot!

   
   

Why Doesn't OSX root user automatically default to the same shell as other users

I know this is a stupid question, but I have googled this and searched Stack Exchange, and have not found an explanation for why the root user on OSX doesn't automatically default to the same shell as other users. Seems like this would avoid a lot of complications, but I guess there must be complications with the shells being the same for root as others, but I just don't know what they are.

Thank you.

How do i quickly silence all notifications except for ringer on an iPhone 6?

Sometimes I'm on call for work overnight and would like to know a quick way that I can silence all notifications except for the call ringer. The closest thing I see is allowing calls from everyone on do not disturb but that will allow messages to ring as well.

Can't erase unmountable external HD

My external HD isn't mounted and can't be repaired by Disk Utility. However, I'm also unable erase the disk:

$ diskutil list disk2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Everest                 4.0 TB     disk2s2

$ diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk2s2
Started file system repair on disk2s2 Everest
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required
Error: -69673: Unable to unmount volume for repair

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Everest /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk

Mini Thunderbolt to VGA not showing video on external monitor but Mac says it is

The external monitor used to be working before, but now, there's no video being sent. The monitor is sleeping when I connect, even though the mac says it's connected.

I am using a SyncMaster390b as the monitor.

I tried turning it on and off and reconnecting everything, but still no luck.

Any help?

How can I make 3 external displays function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)?

How can I make 3 external displays (4 total, or 3 if running in closed book mode) function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)?

Regardless of closed-book/clamshell mode, I am unable to make 3 external displays function. I am able to connect it all and power any given two at a time and it obviously has enough power, but it doesn't seem to want to run 3.

I've read mixed answers as to whether it can support 2 or 3 external displays. Someone in a thread on OWC says it can and they show a 15" MBP powering 3 externals.

Is there something I'm missing or a work-around?