Apple has a new service program for 128GB or 256GB SSD used in 13 inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) sold between June 2017 and June 2018. Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will service the drive free of charge. Please visit this page to check to see if yourContinue Reading
When I tried to install Box drive on a Mac Mini running Mac OS 10.13, I found that the installation was blocked. This is the screenshot with the message. If you click on Open System Preferences, it takes you to the System Preferences. Now, all you have to do isContinue Reading
When I tried to open Outlook on my Macbook Pro, I noticed that the folders are not synced. I checked the account settings and there is a yellow dot by my account. I tried to delete the account and set it up again and I got this error message: AuthenticationContinue Reading
I just upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS 10.13 High Sierra yesterday. After upgrading, I could not run Outlook 2016 any more. I got this message: You can’t use this version of the application “Microsoft Outlook” with this version of macOS. You have “Microsoft Outlook” 15.25 Fortunately, the solution isContinue Reading
One user reported that she could not activate SPSS on her machine. The error is that her account has no permission to activate it. I shared with her with the commands that I used before to activate SPSS. Here are the steps: Open up Terminal application Type in the commands:Continue Reading
I started helping my users with using Python on Mac OS X. This post will be a work in progress. I will add to it when I learn more about using Python on Mac OS X. These commands should work on 10.11 or later. Installing modules The default method ofContinue Reading
There are a few apps which still require the legacy Java to work. If you need to install the legacy Java using command line. Follow these steps. curl -Lo javaforosx.dmg “http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1572/en_US/javaforosx.dmg” hdiutil attach javaforosx.dmg sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/Java\ for\ OS\ X\ 2015-001/JavaForOSX.pkg -target / hdiutil detach /Volumes/Java\ for\ OS\ X\ 2015-001/
I recently purchased an iPhone 6 plus and am in need of more lightning cables. The certified lightning cables are expensive, so I was looking for a good noncertified lightning cable. I then found a combo set which includes a 3 in 1 cable and a 8000 mAh external battery forContinue Reading
We recently had some reports about Macs freeze on booting. The computers are all running the latest Yosemite. Here are the possible fixes for this problem. I listed them here with the detailed instructions on Apple’s website. Reset NVRam. Reset SMC. Boot to Safe Mode and reboot again. On most machines,Continue Reading
Some users reported networking issues on the latest Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. I got this tip from my colleague, and it seems to fix the intermittent network problem. The fix is to create or edit this configuration file /etc/sysctl.conf . Add or edit this line net.link.ether.inet.arp_unicast_lim=0 If you are familiarContinue Reading
