Screen going stupid

Hi all, I have a question concerning a 2012 MacBook pro screen that occasionally goes stupid. can anyone tell me what it happening? Working away, then this, so holding the power button to reboot and it's ok. Thanks.

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Re-Connecting An External Monitor

Hi all, thanks for the forum.

I'm hoping you can assist me in reconnecting an external monitor to my 2011 iMac. I've had a TV connected as an external monitor for a few years, works great, VERY helpful to the point of being essential.

A few days ago I made the mistake of unplugging the cable connecting the TV to the Mac for about a minute. Now I can't get the Mac to recognize the TV no matter what I do.

There are two Thunderbolt ports on the Mac, and two HDMI ports on the TV. No...

Re-Connecting An External Monitor

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Fun video - Return of the Mac!

Brian Tong created this awesome parody music video celebrating the new 2021 MacBook Pro. I love it… check it out!

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Beep at 3am!

I have two iPhones. My primary phone is, I believe, a 5s.

The second iPhone, a 5 I believe, I use for an alarm clock & checking the time in the night. No SIM & not connected to WiFi.

Worked great for that purpose until this week. Have not changed anything. Beep!

The dang phone beeps, just once, at exactly 3 am. This is enough to startle me awake & that’s the end of my sleep.

Can’t seem to find anything that is amiss in Settings or Extras. Only the basic apps: FindMyMac, Compass...

Beep at 3am!

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Create a bootable installer for macOS - Issue?

I'm in the process of doing a fresh install of Monterey. In past years I would grab my external drive that is half partitioned and used as a backup, and the other is empty and used for whatever OSX version I want to install fresh. One side with my back up files, another side with the bootable drive with whatever OSX. I would run the software DiskMaker X and it would easily allow me to select the empty partitioned portion and format/create it into a...

Create a bootable installer for macOS - Issue?

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Going from High Sierra to Monterey? MBA Early 2015

Hi,

Been a while since I posted. I couldn't find much using google so I figured I would ask here.

I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) currently running High Sierra. I haven't kept up with the OSX upgrades over the years because I've been busy with work/fam-life, and everything has been mostly fine and dandy other than my battery length sucks, but that was expected since the laptop is well over 6 years and used quite frequently.

Anyhow, I have a little bit of time on my hands...

Going from High Sierra to Monterey? MBA Early 2015

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iOS 15 SUCKS

I updated my 12 Pro and websites take forever to load, don’t scroll or show all of the page and if there’s a button on a window inside of a page, it won’t scroll down far enough to hit the button.

WFT??!!

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Favourite Apple TV Original Content

What is everyone’s favourite Apple TV original content? So far, my favourite shows/movies are the following

• Morning Show
• Ted Lasso
• Mr. Corman (this show is ok, not my favourite)
• Finch (I really enjoyed this movie)
• Greyhound (this was a decent movie)

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AppleTV's Foundation

Not much Foundation in the Foundation TV series.
It has robots.
Robots can kill.
Robots have emotions.
Personal shields are used.
Greenlit for series 2!!
Eight seasons of this dross is planned!?!
Just watched the season finale, Preem Palver could have been looking at the Prime Radiant and feeling satisfaction that the galaxy was safe.

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Looking for Mac Pro 2008 Ram

Bought a 2008 Mac Pro that came with 5 - 8gb sticks of ram so yeah 1 is not recognized and sits on the bottom ram board.
I would love to find a matching piece to sit beside it and the only ones I can find are in pairs of course and singles are on a slow boat from China.
I'm hoping someone might have one kicking around and willing to sell it. If you have a pair I could still be interested.
The ram I'm trying to match has a sticker saying

Hynix 8gb 2Rx4 PC2-5300F-555-11
Another sticker has...

Looking for Mac Pro 2008 Ram

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Apple Watch

Just curious who uses an Apple Watch in this group. If you do, post what you like to use it for. I’ll start.
I have a series 4 Apple Watch, which is 3 generations old. Below is the main things I use my watch for.

• Make purchases using tap
• open/close my garage door
• current weather on my watch face.
• Identify songs playing
• remote to control my camera on my iPhone
• remote to control my Apple TV
• track my workouts and connects to Apple Fitness service
• monitor my...

Apple Watch

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Strange Things are Happening

How's that for catchy title!

They are though... seemingly out of nowhere, my Mac Mail began flagging all my email - on it's own. The flag count just kept climbing. When it stopped, I was able to select all and un-flag, which seemed to work. It was also happening on my mail on the laptop (IMAP). Although I had to manually un-flag on it as well.

I rebuilt Mail, but it left one email in the Flagged folder even though it was un-flagged. I moved that message and rebuilt. It now all seems...

Strange Things are Happening

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late 2014 Mac Mini, Monterey, SSD?

Relatively never used MacMini (HDD) but running very slow on Catalina. Froze in the Monterey upgrade process through SystemPrefs...rebooted into Catalina. Wondering how it will run if I can get Monterey to install (is earliest MacMini to run in Monterey). I'd like to check into installing an SSD which would probably make it much more capable, but the job looks like it will need to be taken apart to do that. Anyone attempt it? Would an SSD give it more life?

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Apple announces Self-Service Repair 😮

Pretty soon regular folks will be able to get their hands on genuine Apple parts for repairing their own devices. It's starting with the iPhone 12 & 13 but will be expanded to M1 Macs at a later date. Also it'll be US-only out of the gate but hopefully that will expand too. Awesome news!

Apple announces Self Service Repair

Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.

www.apple.com

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Microsoft: Alleged rumours pointing to Blizzard Buy-Out

From GameSpy:

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Microsoft has allegedly bought the game division of the French conglomerate Vivendi Universal, according to various online publications. In all rumors on the subject Microsoft has been regarded as the most potential candidate to obtain Vivendi Interactive. If the reports are in fact true we should expect to receive an official announcement soon. Thus far both companies have refrained from releasing anything concrete.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

If Blizzard...

Microsoft: Alleged rumours pointing to Blizzard Buy-Out

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Malware Scanning Software OS 10.9.5

Hey all,

I want to do a general Malware scan of my machine after a photo was inadvertently opened attached to what was definitely spam. I tried the two week trial download of Malwarebytes but it's incompatible with my OS. Does anyone know where I might find a legacy version or are there other (inexpensive or free) options you've used.

Thanks!

M

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SPOTLIGHT

I type in a file I'm looking for

'Submission Notes'

All sorts of web options pop up, but not my file. I dig through my folders and I find it. Back to spotlight....nothing.

What gives? Isn't the purpose to find file names?

I double checked spelling, it was exactly the say way.

macOS Big Sur
11.4
Mac mini (2018)

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Need new Monitor?

So my old NEC 21" monitor may be dead. Hoping it's just a fuse but just in case looking for monitor recommendations. This will be used for photo-editing.

Looks like the old Mac Pro 4,1 has a mini display port on the Radeon Card plus of course the now obsolete VGA. Standard Radeon card. Will it swing anything bigger that 1080x1920P? or should I limit it to that size?

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2016 MBP: NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

I keep getting this when visiting most websites:
"Your clock is behind" or "Your clock is ahead" or "NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID"
You'll see this error if your computer or mobile device's date and time are inaccurate.
To fix the error, open your device's clock. Make sure the time and date are correct.

I've checked the clock and it's spot on with my iPhone and isn't incorrect.

What other troubleshooting is there?

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Uninstall app from Mac 10.15.7

I am trying to update Garmin navigation on our 2019 Honda CR V. I am not having any luck with Garmin Express finding the usb stick that I have formatted and installed info from the car. I have done this before and used the same usb drive so it should work but Garmin Express does not find the drive. I was thinking I should uninstall Garmin Express and reinstall. Maybe that will solve the issue. I have moved app to Trash so is it uninstalled or do I have to empty trash for it to be gone? Do I...

Uninstall app from Mac 10.15.7

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No Safe Mode??

I have a 2020 Macbook Air with M1 Chip.
I cannot log into Safe Mode.I have searched and tried all the solutions from Google and still no joy.
The reason is I seem to have gotten 2 trash bins in my Mac Mail for my Google account. I cannot empty the trash in one of the bins. It deletes but then all the deleted items come back. I have tried all things without access except to log into GMail and delete it from there. One of the solutuins was to try to delete the mailtrash form the Safe Mode. I...

No Safe Mode??

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2011 27" iMac Booting Problem

I have an iMac 27" Mid 2011. It is a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7. It has 32GB 1333MHz DDR memory. My current and last update was High Sierra V10.13.6. It will no longer update my OS.
When I boot up it seems forever to complete. After attempting the boot it does not finish. I turn it off. I then reboot. This time the booting is completed an my splash screen appears. After I log in I get a message that there was a problem and it wants to report to Apple. After this everything works fine.
Is...

2011 27" iMac Booting Problem

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What Firewire Port?

I have a MacBook Pro 13" - mid 2012. I was trying to find a cable to connect from my External HD (Firewire 800 - 9 pin) to the supposed Firewire 800 Port on the device. I have tried 6 pin Firewire and 4 Pin Firewire but neither will fit. Can anyone tell me what Port it is. The Apple site carries no further information just to say it is a Firewire 800 port.
Much appreciated.

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Shaky minus sign on iPhone 7 Plus

G’day,

I randomly get the shaky minus sign when handling my iPhone 7 Plus. See picture.

It can happen when I pick the phone up, put it down or just walking along somewhere.

Tried replicating the behaviour on purpose but no-go on that

Seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

Running iOS 15.1.

Any clues as to why this keep happening?

Cheers.

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why am I automatically following threads?

Title says it all, why are threads I may have posted or looked at having me marked as "following".

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issues installing El Capitan as virtual Machine

I have a MacBook Pro, think it is a 2017 model. I am looking to update the OS as I am Mojave. I am doing this because I need the latest version of Adobe CC. I recently did this to my iMac and things have been working well so I am comfortable switching over the MacBook now as that is really used as a backup machine or for when I do need to be portable. The one thing different between my iMac and MacBook Pro is needing an app that connects to my home RIP that runs my 44" wide format printer...

issues installing El Capitan as virtual Machine

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Pages question.

Hello all, I have a pages question. I have a Facebook page which I load up with song lyric and chord sheets. As I can’t seem to find away to put “folders” for each genre in the file section of Facebook I have come to the conclusion that I need a text file which will be a songbook. What I wish to do is list the songs on the first page and then click on a song title and have that song sheet appear.

Issue is I can’t figure out how to do it or what I would call it to locate any help advice...

Pages question.

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Can't disable alloying "push notifications" popup message

As the title says, I Can't disable alloying "push notifications" popup message.
Help...
I'm hoping some admins or moderators can help me get this damn Pop Up message notice thing turned off and so far nothing I have tried has worked.

I have followed the directions from this site as well, but it did not work:

https://www.space.com/how-to-turn-off-web-notifications-for-chrome-macos.html

None of the clickable options work if I attempt to click on them. The...

Can't disable alloying "push notifications" popup message

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Monitor for Apple Silicon?

Well, the October event came and went without an upgrade to the MacMini, so it looks like I'll have to go with the current M1 model.

But what do I hook up to it?

I'm presently on a 5K 27" iMac. It's pretty....pretty I may / not pass the iMac on to my son to replace his 2011 iMac 21.5" which is exhibiting symptoms of impending doom, and let's face it, is now quite long in the tooth. If the M1 delivers the oomph! everyone claims it does, I may adopt it and build a nice new desk...

Monitor for Apple Silicon?

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should I be worried about jumping from Catalina to Big Sur?

So I made the jump from Mojave to Catalina yesterday. Had to go through and update some apps, find a new solution for my scanning software. All said and done everything is working fine now. I did have to upgrade my font management software, it was 64 bit but it would not run in Catalina. Adobe is all working fine and in general the OS feels very snappy. My biggest concern and reason for not moving ahead before was the 64 bit only OS. Now that I am here, is there anything I should worry about...

should I be worried about jumping from Catalina to Big Sur?

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Google Maps problem on Safari and Firefox

Afternoon all,
When I try to use Google Streetview in Safari and Firefox they crash.
I'll be in map view and will drag Pegman to a street and kablooie!
Safari will flicker and then display the attached message. Firefox just crashes and shows the crash reporter window.
This started happening mid last week.
I have the latest Safari and Firefox. Mac model and OS version attached. Using Adguard 1.10.4 on both.

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