Not sure, but the Apple guy said I was very lucky, the logger was recording all my keystrokes but it wasn't actually sending the data anywhere.
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Not sure, but the Apple guy said I was very lucky, the logger was recording all my keystrokes but it wasn't actually sending the data anywhere.
If I were you I would want to know who installed the keylogger...
Are you in a line of work where someone would want to spy on you?
Otherwise is it someone in your personal life?
Sounds like it was someone who either got interrupted while installing it,
or didn't know what they were doing in the first place.
How do you find a keylogger on your computer anyway?
The Apple guy knew straight away, it was the first thing in all the error reports. Not sure how it got there, probably some dodgy installation or something. I'm currently unemployed and don't really take my Mac anywhere, so...
Probably. Where do you download your apps from?
Most of the time I only download the major, popular stuff that nobody has any issues with. I've really no idea where it came from, just glad the issue is (hopefully) sorted now.
I'll be more careful what I download from now on.
Can't wait for 10.10.3 later
Most of the time I only download the major, popular stuff that nobody has any issues with. I've really no idea where it came from, just glad the issue is (hopefully) sorted now.
I'll be more careful what I download from now on.
Can't wait for 10.10.3 later
FWIW you can go to "Security & Privacy" and to "general" and then tell OS X to only allow software to be installed from "Mac App Store and identified developers" then keyloggers are impossible to install unless you are tricked into doing it. Of course you can also over-ride that setting on a case by case basis.
Yeah it was for me too.
All done now though. Probably a 'meme' but everything is nice and snappy. To be expected when I've just have a fresh install from Apple though.
I really need to upgrade this 5400RPM HDD to something better.
Just getting a USB3 enclosure and an SSD is probably going to be a hefty speed increase. Easier than cracking open most Macs these days.
Tempted to remove my optical drive and replace it with an SSD. Which is a thing right, you can do that?
And then keep the HDD in there just for storage. I can't remember the last time I put a CD/DVD into this machine.
That's what I did. I made a Fusion Drive, so my SSD and HDD are a single logical volume, and the OS determines which files go where.
Works mostly fine, except for the occasional IO system overflow that stalls my computer for about 10 seconds. (I don't think my 2011 MBP was designed for that much IO.)
Lol I'm a moron. I explicitly read MAVERICKS, and wondered why I wasn't seeing it. It's the naming conventions, lol.....it all blurs after a while....
minor effort
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Apparently one of the new features in 10.10.3 is a new series of Spotlight suggestions for Look Up (the three-finger tap on the trackpad). I must have accidentally bypassed this introduction screen (the above is not my own screenshot), and I can't find anywhere in System Preferences to activate features like Maps, App Store, iTunes, etc.
Is this feature even working for everyone else?
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
It seems to be automatic. Only shows other tabs when the result matches.
Apparently one of the new features in 10.10.3 is a new series of Spotlight suggestions for Look Up (the three-finger tap on the trackpad). I must have accidentally bypassed this introduction screen (the above is not my own screenshot), and I can't find anywhere in System Preferences to activate features like Maps, App Store, iTunes, etc.
Is this feature even working for everyone else?
For instance, clicking on the word automatic above has a tab for Song that shows me a Miranda Lambert song.
But fuck. Who the hell is Miranda Lambert? I want to see information about the only song called Automatic that matters. Why doesn't it show a list of artists instead? What it shows now is just the album that contains the first most popular result. Which is stupid as hell. It should show me a list of all the songs called Automatic.
It does the same thing for movies. The word Look above shows some movie called Look that I've never heard of.
It'll do the same for addresses and places and apps. Like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Starbucks or Angry Birds. Okay, maybe Angry Birds doesn't work. For some reason it only shows a Wiki article and not a link to the store. Maybe Flappy Bird? Hmm.. Nope. Maybe apps don't work? That's weird.
When they say "You can change it in Preferences" they just mean enable or disable the three finger tap. Not enable or disable different parts of it. (I just looked)
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I'm still not getting movie/music suggestions from this. I guess at the end of the day this is hardly of critical importance, but it's been bugging me since this afternoon.
Thanks anyways, though!
The Real Abed
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Does anything show a song option? Or movie option? Not even if you force it like The Matrix?
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Nope, unfortunately not even for the Matrix. I've tried a number of times with deliberate song/movie titles and nothing pops up.
The Real Abed
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That is strange. I assume you really are on 10.10.3. There must be something somewhere not turned on. I don't know what it'd be though.
Under preference -> Spotlight,, there's a button for "spotlight suggestions in look up" check to see if that's checked.
Otehrwise maybe you have to be logged into the iTunes store perhaps?
edit: I tried unchecking it and it also removes the wikipedia option. Seeing as you have it, consider whether it's an iTunes thing. Like are you logged in? Which region are you? ARe you in a region where they sell movies?
The more i think about it, and play with it, it's kind of a revelation. like highlight mcdonalds and it adds a map tab.
Otehrwise maybe you have to be logged into the iTunes store perhaps?
edit: I tried unchecking it and it also removes the wikipedia option. Seeing as you have it, consider whether it's an iTunes thing. Like are you logged in? Which region are you? ARe you in a region where they sell movies?
The more i think about it, and play with it, it's kind of a revelation. like highlight mcdonalds and it adds a map tab.
Make sure location services are enabled for spotlight in privacy prefs.
And spotlight suggestions aren't available in all countries: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions-spotlight-suggestions
And spotlight suggestions aren't available in all countries: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions-spotlight-suggestions
LyleLanley
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When the hell are we getting Siri on OS X?
infiniteloop
Member
Photos > Preferences > iCloud
Oh, there. Thanks.
Guess this will take a while.
I see there's an option to enable/disable Photo Stream. Is there any reason to keep it enabled? I've turned on iCloud Photo Library on all my devices.
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Is there best-practice for managing images on a NAS in Photos? I'm a little confused as to how I can still have my Photos library file on my Macbook, but have the images on my NAS as well without sucking them into the library on my Macbook and blowing my storage up.
Screensaver for Apple TV? Ever since enabling iCloud Photo Library on all my devices back when it was in beta, my Apple TV has been the rogue device showing all of these images in my Photo Stream, despite the fact I had zero way to manage those images and delete them successfully until now. Good thing I don't take dick pics.....
Screensaver for Apple TV? Ever since enabling iCloud Photo Library on all my devices back when it was in beta, my Apple TV has been the rogue device showing all of these images in my Photo Stream, despite the fact I had zero way to manage those images and delete them successfully until now. Good thing I don't take dick pics.....
Perhaps OS X 10.11?
I hope this year's update is more of an optimisation update, rather than a complete overhaul.
Keep refining battery usage, power, etc.
Junior Mint
Member
So.. sounds like photostream is useless if you have iCloud photo library on then
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Never tried turning it off. If it lets you it should be OK I mean, you've got a backup, right?
It's not on by default now, is it? I only have it on on my laptop.
The Real Abed
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I hope so. I've said my idea before but I'll abridge it here. Make it so using BlueTooth, all your devices are aware of their proximity to each other. Then figure out which one is being currently used. And when Siri is activated via voice, use that machine. But make it so when one device has Siri activated, you can switch it over to another one instantly. (Use the Hand Off feature) Hand Off should be more refined too. Make it so it works between selected websites on OS X and their app counterparts on iOS. Like Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, (Which currently just opens Safari then switches immediately to YouTube which is wasteful) the Google app and other sites and apps. Let the devs of those apps also bring over the data you already have set up. Like text in a search box or what you've typed into your Tweet box so far. If I'm on a YouTube page on OS X, even if it's not a video itself, say a playlist or a channel's video listing, let me migrate that over to the YouTube app as well. Right now it only redirects to YouTube if you're in a video. But otherwise it keeps it in Safari on iOS and when you try to view a video you end up playing it in Safari, which last time I checked had a super shitty fullscreen mode that didn't even remove the toolbars. (Google's fault there. It's the only fullscreen video player I've ever seen do that.)
Oh, that was abridged? Okay. Whatever. Just refine Hand Off. Implement Siri. And the rest can just be refinements and optimizations. More tighter iOS to OS X integration is all I expect.
And make iCloud Drive more like DropBox. But they won't. So I'll just continue to use it for photos only.
Well, I don't have an Apple TV.
I guess I can safely turn off Photo Stream, then. I wonder why it is still enabled by default, though.
Well, Photos.app has stopped uploading photos. It has been stuck at 994 remaining since yesterday. I have restarted the app, restarted the Mac, and of course I paused and resumed the upload process. It just doesn't work.
Oh, and the Safari keyboard lag still shows up from time to time. And Mission Control still lags like a cheap Chinese Mac ripoff.
Great update!
Oh, and the Safari keyboard lag still shows up from time to time. And Mission Control still lags like a cheap Chinese Mac ripoff.
Great update!
Mr. Wonderful
Member
I love how Photos, as a background process, uses all your available upload bandwidth, to the point where your Internet in your house in completely unusable.
I almost think either the ISPs are throttling us, or Apple's servers' storage can't keep up, because I had the freeze behavior, too. Or most likely, this is just a software glitch.
I almost think either the ISPs are throttling us, or Apple's servers' storage can't keep up, because I had the freeze behavior, too. Or most likely, this is just a software glitch.
I wouldn't mind it using my full bandwidth if if would actually do something. But it doesn't.
Speaking of slow connections: I've been trying to download the recent Xcode update since yesterday morning. It's that slow, even though the update is just 1.4GB. ETA is all over the place, ranging from 40min left to 10 hours left. And whenever I put the Mac into standby mode, there's a chance the download starts from zero again when I turn it on again. Oh, and once the total size of the update when from 1.4GB to 2.5GB. The next time it restarted, it was 1.4GB again.
Having had my MBP back a few days now and it's still working fine, I really want to get an SSD, it would really transform my system I think.
I've got the stock 5400rpm 750GB HDD in there, and since reinstalling all the apps I need, I'm still left with 727GB of HDD space.
I could get say, a 120GB SSD to go inside, and put the stock drive inside an enclosure for storage. Any recommendations on decent-priced SSDs? I'm in the UK if that affects anything.
I've got the stock 5400rpm 750GB HDD in there, and since reinstalling all the apps I need, I'm still left with 727GB of HDD space.
I could get say, a 120GB SSD to go inside, and put the stock drive inside an enclosure for storage. Any recommendations on decent-priced SSDs? I'm in the UK if that affects anything.
I get that Safari keyboard lag. Late 2013 rMBP. No way in hell I'm using Safari when it performs like that, so annoying. A machine as beefy as mine shouldn't lag like that in a browser.
I don't think I've noticed any Mission Control lag though.
I'd say get the cheapest Crucial SSD available. The Crucial M550 is on a clearance sale I believe, you may find a decent deal there, otherwise the Crucial MX100/BX100 work just as well. You can't really go wrong with any of the SSDs from the more known brands as they all offer much better performances and access times than the HDD but I personally prefer Crucial above all others, including Samsung.
Is the set-up process straightforward?
Software-wise? A clean install is probably preferable: http://macs.about.com/od/OS-X-Yosem...-OS-X-Yosemite-on-Your-Macs-Startup-Drive.htm
There are simpler options like cloning your HDD to the SSD or using Time Machine to restore a back up but they may negatively influence performance.
The Real Abed
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So I was trying to update from the 10.10.3 Public Beta 3 to the final 10.10.3 but when it went to install and reboot after it downloaded the update it got stuck on a black screen with the cursor visible. It sat there for a few minutes before I got worried and started hitting keys only to have it beep at me. So I decided to force shutdown and rebooted.
Now it's booted back up, the update is no longer available in Software Update and my version is now the final build.
So either that was the fastest update ever or it fooled itself into thinking it's updated. Thing is Safari is updated so it must have updated. But I don't know when it updated. It only just finished downloading the files. Usually updates take like 20 minutes.
I'm a little confused. I'll have to see how well the update goes on my iMac.
Now it's booted back up, the update is no longer available in Software Update and my version is now the final build.
So either that was the fastest update ever or it fooled itself into thinking it's updated. Thing is Safari is updated so it must have updated. But I don't know when it updated. It only just finished downloading the files. Usually updates take like 20 minutes.
I'm a little confused. I'll have to see how well the update goes on my iMac.
Is it possible the final public beta wasn't that different from the final release? I mean if this pretty much the same maybe it only updates what it needed to.
I'm not familiar with the beta, and this kind of thing is exactly why I don't participate in them. It's not worth the hassle.
I used to used program called time tracker (software in alpha, ironically lol) made by pacifist dev, that looks at your time machine backups and figures out the delta files - the actual files that were replaced in each backup. I'd use this to see what actually gets changed each back up. Haven't used it in a while though. For a whilentbwasnt giving the deltas properly.