samedi 21 mars 2015

Cannot delete songs from iPhone


On my iPhone I see a list of songs I cannot delete. Here's what I tried:



  • Go to settings -> memory usage -> iTunes -> delete all music

  • Disable iTunes Match

  • Disable show all music

  • Connect to iTunes on the Mac and manually remove all synced songs

  • Swipe to delete does not work

  • The songs do not show any sort if cloud icons


iTunes shows 3.3GB of Audio on my device which I cannot get rid of.


Any other ideas what to try?





Missing songs after 8.0 Update and sync


I did the ioS update a few months back and noticed that the songs I had downloaded in May and June 2014 were missing. Since the computer I used that had Itunes was stolen in July 2014, I had no way to access Itunes. Finally tonight I was able to plug in my phone to Itunes on the computer. The playlists showed up with the missing songs in them. I then selected sync hoping they would be moved to my iphone 5, Instead my playlists are now empty. Is there a way to get my songs back?


Thank you,





Configuring Apple Mail with Gmail Aliases


I am trying to use AppleMail and trying to configure to using gmail alias.


My primary email address is sid@mydomain.com and I have configured this in Apple Mail and able to send / receive messages properly. This primary email has an alias on my google apps for business sid-sales@mydomain.com


Whenever someone sends an email to sid-sales@mydomain.com, I receive it on sid@mydomain.com and on the Apple Mail. So far good.


Now, I want to configure Apple Mail so that I am able to send emails using both my primary email and the alias (and with different names). So, I want to have two email configurations -



- Sid <sid@mydomain.com>
- Sid from Sales <sid-sales@mydomain.com>


I am not able to get this working. I tried adding both the emails separated by a comma in the Accounts section. After doing this, both the emails appear in the From field and I can choose from one but the receiving side is always getting my email from my primary email address. So, if I choose sid-sales@mydomain.com in the From field, the receiver still sees sid@mydomain.com


I also tried changing the plist file by adding EmailAliases - I was able to change the Name but the email address is still sid@mydomain.com


Can somebody please help me with this? I tried searching a lot on the internet but I am not able to find anything which will solve the problem.





USB Hub in 'safe' mode?


I have a powered USB 2.0 hub which suddenly started acting weird. No new devices or anything, same setup as ever. All connected devices still working, except one. The one device (a driverless sound card) did work when connected directly, and it is not USB-powered.


Same problem on two machines, one running 10.9, one running 10.10.


After a lot of disconnecting and reconnecting, it suddenly started working again. I then discovered through System Report (About this Mac -> System Report ... -> USB), that the name of the USB hub didn't say [Safe] anymore, so it apparently was in some weird state at some point.


I've attached an image showing how it looked in System Report.


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Has anyone had similar experience?





How to give custom name to time machine backup


I have used used clonezilla when I was a windows and linux user. I really liked how clonezilla allows you to rename your backup to anything. It is possible to do so during time machine backup? I want to name my backups so I might not flash something else that I don't want.





My Iphone is attached to another person's account


I was given an Iphone before he died. I did a factory reset for the phone and I was told to activate it on Itunes. I connected the Iphone to my computer it was asking me for my the email address and password. Which I don't know. what should i do please. thank you.





vendredi 20 mars 2015

Use keyboard for accessing Emacs Menu


I am using the



brew install emacs


version of gui-based emacs. After using the mac shortcut to access the Menu bar, I am able to use the mnemonic to access the individual top level menu items: e.g.



ALT-F for file


The problem is that then hitting down arrow key or return does not dropdown the menu items. Well .. with two exceptions: the




Alt-E (Emacs) and
Alt-H (Help)


dropdowns actually work. The others? Nothing happens. Only by using the Mouse (which is unacceptable to me for common commands in an editor).


Any hints/ideas on this?