Ask Different Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, November 27, 2014

Top new questions this week: Screen turns off when I move my MacBook when it is on the sleeve I've noticed that when my laptop is on its sleeve and I slide my laptop on it the screen goes black. This doesn't happen when I have the laptop on my lap. Its consistently reproducible. It's somewhat ... retina-macbook-pro display screen-lock   asked by user99925 5 votes answered by Jash Jacob 15 votes What are api.smoot.apple.com and other hosts my iPhone is secretly talking to? Looking through some log files today I found something strange : TCP_MISS/200 4931 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/17.252.11.253 - TCP_MISS/200 4656 CONNECT api.smoot.apple.com:443 - ... ios privacy   asked by André Daniel 4 votes answered by tubedogg 1 vote Retain print spool until printer available? I'd like to be able to add, by script and by hand, files on dropbox to the print queue and for these to be retained there until I'm at a specific printer with my Macbook Pro. As it is now, I add docs ... mavericks printing document-management   asked by MiB 3 votes answered by jherran 2 votes Shutdown cause -112 My 2013 rMBP regularly freezes (screen stays on but freezes as well). I have Yosemite 10.10.1. I couldn't see such behavior in 10.9 and I don't think it's a hardware issue (had the machine serviced ... yosemite retina-macbook-pro shutdown   asked by ff10 3 votes Xcode 6 on Yosemite: Give me back my title bar! On prior versions of OS X and Xcode I constantly used the title bar right-click to view the folder hierarchy of the Xcode project: right-click the title bar and open up the containing folder (or an ... osx yosemite xcode   asked by chaiguy 3 votes answered by jherran 1 vote Can I solder more memory into my MacBook Air I love everything about my Macook Air except its very low maximum memory (and yes I bought it with the maximum available at the time). So I'm thinking "I know how to solder... how hard can it be?". ... macbook-air upgrade memory   asked by iconoclast 3 votes answered by tubedogg 6 votes iTunes hangs at "Step 6 of 7. Importing photos" Everytime I connect my iPhone (4 or 5) to iTunes (v. 12.0.1.26), it begins syncing but hangs on step 6 of 7, "Importing photos". itunes mobile-iphoto   asked by user16834 2 votes answered by mankoff 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Change my Apple ID email address on iCloud account I've had to make a new email address for my new Apple ID account as I forgot my previous Apple ID password and couldn't receive my verification email. Now I have my new Apple ID and password but my ... icloud apple-id documents-in-the-cloud   asked by Jade 1 vote answered by robin0823 0 votes How can I remove a site from the reading list in Safari on my iPhone? How do I edit the items in my "reading list" in Safari? Unlike bookmarks, there doesn't seem to be an "edit" option. iphone safari mobile-safari reading-list   asked by Zach 6 votes answered by cksum 9 votes Can you answer these? Have there ever been malicious MacPorts portfiles? Is there a reason to use caution when installing packages from Macports? I'm still new to *nix land, more a result of projects like Ubuntu making things like installing programs easy. I always felt ... macports open-source malware   asked by Louis 1 vote Mid 2009 Macbook Pro 5Ghz Wifi problem Yesterday, suddenly my Macbook's WiFi stopped working at school. I have reason to think that only the 5GHz band is effected. Personal Hotspot connection via my iPhone still works and my Wifi at home ... macbook-pro networking wifi   asked by moejoe 1 vote Play Floppy Disk Game on my macbook My husband loves this game, called Hellcats Over the Pacific, that I really want to figure out how he can play. It is a 1991 Macintosh floppy disk. Is there a way I can play this on my macbook with a ... floppy   asked by user3688298 2 votes

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