Beside the iCloud service, iTunes is the way to go when you need to backup your Apple mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. If you want to secure the backups taken by iTunes on your computer file system, this article will show you where it is stored on your macOS computer file system. Before… Read More »
Having the following issue connecting to a device using SSH after upgrading to macOS High Sierra 10.13.2? Unable to negotiate with 0.0.0.0 port 22: no matching cipher found. Their offer: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se This is an expected behavior if you attempt to connect to a legacy system or network device running older version of SSH. To workaround… Read More »
LogMeIn remote control software cannot be removed without traces by just removing the .app icon/folder from the Application directory like you used to do with the majority of software (it will leave the finder tray icon, will attempt to start on boot, etc.). There is an easy way using the uninstaller script to achieve this… Read More »
With the latest macOS Sierra 10.12 release, you might have observed issue connecting to servers or network devices running SSH. Please note that this article does not necessary apply or macOS, but any running OS with the latest OpenSSH v7. Because of the latest OpenSSH version, some older (legacy) encryption algorithm have been removed from… Read More »
Having this error message trying to update your iPhone 5s to iOS 9.3? Unable to Verify Update iOS 9.3 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the Internet I have encountered this behaviour on a iPhone 5s device and it seem that this is also occurring on older devices such as iPad Air as well.… Read More »
Have you encountered the following error trying to connect to OpenVPN server? JSONDialog: Error running jsondialog, status=(5, [], [‘task_for_pid(): 0x5’]), stdout=[], I have observed the following error message under the following circumstances : Operating system : Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11 OpenVPN client : v2.0.18.202 or older version The problem occur because of the System… Read More »
Mostly as usual, MacPorts have issues after Mac OSX upgrade. In my particular case it was after upgrading from Yosemite 10.10 to El Capitan 10.11. After issuing the following update command : sudo port selfupdate The following error showed up : Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed Please run `port -v selfupdate’… Read More »
You probably noticed since you’ve upgraded to MacOS X Yosemite 10.10 that Java application fail yo start and the following message appear on your screen : To view this web content, you need to install the Java Runtime Environment. If you had Java JRE 1.7.x before the OS upgrade, then be aware that version prior… Read More »
Here is a quick how to show hidden files and folders in OSX Mavericks 10.9. Using the terminal, do the following command to show a specific hidden folder. This example assume you want to display the “Library” folder contain in your user profile : sudo chflags hidden /Library/ ~/Library/ If you’d like to show all… Read More »
If like me you love managing your windows with Divvy on OSX, you might ran into this issue on Mavericks 10.9. The symptoms are : – Divvy is not showing up when pressing the key shortcut combinations ; – You may also see the following error in the system logs (/var/log/system.log) ; Dec 30 00:00:00… Read More »