dimanche 14 décembre 2014

How can I change the position of alerts pop up?


With Yosemite we got handy, growl-like, alert popups from the notification center. It's great but it often hides handy utils which also take the top right position of the screen.


Is there any way change the position of those alerts (via system preferences, plist, or an app)?





Snow Leopard to Yosemite update button dark grey and disabled


I have checked that my computer is eligible for the new Yosemite update but when I click on the update button, the button goes a dark grey colour so I cannot click it and as a result nothing happens and Yosemite does not install. iMac 24″ 2008 with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.





Reset Time machine?


Sophos has identified 8 trojans/malware all on my Time machine backup drive. What should I do ? Apps -Utils-Airport Util does not show my TM, should it ?





OSX Yosemite can't resize partitions?


A few weeks ago I installed OS X yosemite.I did it on the standard partition, but I had a dual-boot with ubuntu. I realised that the ubuntu boot was gone so I tried to redo it. But in disk utility, when i tried to make Macintosh HD smaller it gave a "Error: -69803: Couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed "


How do I fix this, not just for dual booting but resizing partitions?





How to configure my mid 2012 mac to work properly with Yosemite?


I have a 15' macbook pro with this specs:


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And I'v heard that to have good performance I need to configure some stuff...


Can you help please tell me what should I do?





Sign in without credit card if the Apple id is already created


I have create my apple Id online using chrome and not from the App store or Itunes. Now when i try to download any free app from the app store it gives me a error that the Apple id i am using has never been used before. It takes me to a different page where i have to agree to the agreement and demands the credit card info on the next screen where the "none" option is not available.


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samedi 13 décembre 2014

Finding the Safari settings (default search engine in particular) are stored


Recently, my default search engine changed (from Google to Yahoo) on Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. I could easily changed the settings on Chrome and Firefox but for some reason it doesn't work with Safari.


In the Safari settings, I can change the default search engine to Google but it has no effect and Yahoo is always used. The issue has already been describe (but remained unsolved) here.


I tried going to my safari folder to find out where this information is stored but I don't really know what to look for. I have two folders named Safari:



Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ myname ▸ Library ▸ Caches ▸ Metadata ▸ Safari

Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ myname ▸ Library ▸ Safari


Do you know where I can find the file where the default search engine for Safari is stored?