Ask Different Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: NTFS USB drives on Yosemite I sometimes need to mount USB drives that are NTFS formatted and write to them. On Mavericks I achieved this using the Homebrew formula ntfs-3g which depends on osxfuse. After upgrading to Yosemite, ... yosemite ntfs   asked by wberry 6 votes answered by Lingnik 0 votes Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite My sound does not work whe I try to turn up the volume it just show this I tried looking on the forums but they didn't help. Thank you for spending the time to answer, if you have any questions ... macbook-pro audio sound-volume   asked by Grapeapplesauce 5 votes answered by Lingnik 3 votes Can I delete things safely from ~/Library? I am running out of storage space on my 2011 MacBook Air. I was thinking I should clean up before I contemplate adding more storage. I notice though, that while I have ~30 GB in ~/Documents, ~2 in ... osx storage   asked by David DelMonte 5 votes answered by patrix 3 votes How do I downgrade from Yosemite 10.10 to Mavericks 10.9? I have the new Yosemite. How do i downgrade to the last version? I really don't like it. Lost Yahoo messenger and a lot of extras I had on my old operating system. yosemite downgrade   asked by David 4 votes answered by thedanielmatt 3 votes Start Apache httpd on boot Since upgrading to Yosemite, Apache httpd is no longer started at boot time. I've tried: sudo launchctl load org.apache.httpd.plist but I'm getting a service is disabled error. I've modified the ... launchd apache   asked by doovers 3 votes answered by Buscar웃 3 votes Computer name keeps changing OSX 10.10 (14A389) Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 my computer name keeps changing adding a (2) and (3) and so forth. Any ideas how to fix this? osx networking yosemite   asked by Andreas Norman 3 votes answered by Andreas Norman 0 votes How long does the new Testflight Beta review process usually take? iOS app reviews generally take around a week or so. Since Apple now requires that new TestFlight beta apps go through the beta review process as well before we can send it to external testers, I have ... ios itunes-connect reviews   asked by chakrit 3 votes answered by MatisDS 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Please share your hidden OS X features or tips and tricks Do you know any hidden or little-known nice feature of Mac OS X? It doesn't matter what it is—maybe just a short terminal command or a keyboard shortcut. Share your experiences on hidden Mac OS ... osx hidden-features   asked by Am1rr3zA 377 votes answered by statictype 261 votes How do I know the IP addresses of other computers in my network? Say that I have two computers connected to the same network. I know that from computer1 and file sharing enabled I can snoop around inside computer2. But say that there is something interesting on ... networking   asked by donkey kong 15 votes answered by michaelmichael 32 votes Can you answer these? How to identify apps requesting to control the computer under Accessibility I currently have this "applet" listed as being able to control my computer. Is there a way to identify exactly what this is? mavericks yosemite assistive-technology   asked by Kyle Falconer 1 vote iTunes showing album as individual songs I just installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. When I want to add a new music album into my music library it is showing as individual songs in the library. osx itunes   asked by Madhubabu 1 vote Disable double-click to maximize in OS X Yosemite In OS X Yosemite, a new feature is that when you double-click on the title bar of an application window, the window will maximize: http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/28/maximize-zoom-windows-os-x-mac/ Is ... yosemite window-manager   asked by Daniel Trebbien 2 votes

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