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after formatting my iphone 3gs, (4.1 ios), would it have a maintained IOS or i vl need to install it again, simply i mean that if i format my iphone then ios 4.1 would need to be installed again or any oyher issues would arise ? please guide me about …

Hi, My Mackook is connected to the internet okay, but neither Safari, nor Firefox are working. The message shows "Firefox can't find the server at ...." It was working fine till last night, when I remember seeing a software update message. I am currently running a Mac OS X Lion …

Hey guys so I purchased a WD myBook essential about a year and a half ago for my Macbook pro. I connected my laptop to a tv, (so I can play my movies through my WD hardrive). After disconnecting it, my laptop isnt recognizing my WD Essential anymore. I cant …

What is the benifit and useful of macbooklaptop in used? I want to know abot it many thig. Such as, uses, benifit, speed etc.

iPhone is not the safest of the devices but certainly one of the most used devices. In the modern era smartphones are also used as a mobile data backup. As these phone can perform almost like a computer, many of the important folders are saved in iPhone. As research suggest …

My MacBook Air laptop keeps shutting off everytime I turn it on. I don't know what i should do. Help?

So, you've either bought the [brand new iPhone 5](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/apple/apple-hardware-and-devices/news/433802/apples-disappointing-iphone-5-sells-out-within-the-hour) or have upgraded your existing iPhone to iOS 6 and discovered, like half the Internet it would appear, that the new Apple Maps which have replaced Google Maps are, to be polite, an utter and total stinking FAIL. I'm no Apple …

I need to switch it off but I'm having trouble finding how. If any of you have Xcode 5, please be a dear and help me out. Thank you!

I just installed gcc 4.9 (with C11 support), and want to add it to Xcode 4.6.3's build options as a compiler option. I ran `make` and `make install`, and the packages are all there (under `/usr/bin/gcc`. Running `gcc --version` confirms that gcc 4.9 is installed rather than an older version. …

I recently got a new macbook pro, can anyone suggest me a really good free python IDE i can use on OS x ?

Hello members... How are you all ???? Is the mac os is free from virus and malwares ??? Or this will make harm to your systems...

What are the features of iphone 3gs?

do you need software to jailbreak an iphone is it that simple? is there no coding? .

Does anyone knows inside facts about iphone i.e. does iphone contain tracker inside. Basically one of my friend brought cheap iphone from someone and he thinks that iphone was stolen...and many people told him that iphone contain tracker or some short of technology that tracks ur location...soo just wondering is …

Hi everyone. I am trying to help a friend with her macbook which faces a mysterious problem. The macbook cannot access certain sites like facebook and pinterest when my friend uses her home wifi connection. The problem appears both on safari and chrome. When she came to my home using …

When clicking on a pdf link in my Chrome browser, a separate tab opens and the pdf image flashes on the screen briefly before disappearing and leaving an empty page. Chrome is up to date as is my Mac with Snow Leopard. What's happening here?

Hello, I just bought osx Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air. The apple store guy said that if you buy a software with an apple ID that someone else is using, that person can get it for free. But when I bought my Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air my …

Some might argue that there are already quite enough different versions of Angry Birds to last a lifetime, or at least a lifetime of minutes to waste on a mobile gaming platform such as a smartphone or tablet. There is some merit to this, and personally I would be quite …

We are proud to announce the first public release of Cassiopeia for MacOSX. Cassiopeia is a scientific wordprocessing and database-based document management system featuring * scientific word processing with focus on content * a super efficient equation editor (based on MathML content markup) * a symbolic algebra system with automatic …

Over the weekend I wrote a news story for DaniWeb which revealed how the iPhone was vulnerable to SMS text message spoofing. This went under the title "[Why Apple was right about iMessage 'fix' for iPhone SMS spoofing](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/apple/ios-iphone-os/news/431373/why-apple-was-right-about-imessage-fix-for-iphone-sms-spoofing)" because, simply put, SMS text messaging is exposed to this kind of …

An ongoing attack aimed at users of the Apple Mac platform is being reported by security researchers. [AlienVault,](http://www.alienvault.com) which has discovered these weaponised attacks in the wild, warns that regular Mac users without IT security software installed could be at risk of infection and hijacking.  The researchers suspect …

Earlier this week, an iPhone jailbreaking guru called pod2g revealed how even the very latest beta versions of iOS 6 cannot prevent the iPhone from being vulnerable to SMS text message spoofing. This technique is often employed by spammers and scammers alike when targeting the smartphone user in order to …

We are making the switch to iMacs later this year but to improve employee productivity and enforce access policies we need to find a "business class" internet filter for our new iMacs. I can always configure our network to block the sites but this is primitive as it doesn't filter …

I have I have iPhone 4S with iOS 6.0, I think DO Not Disturb is not working in my phone. When i turn it off nothing happens.

I was trying to install windows on my MacBook and things weren't working during the windows side of the install. After restarting and going to the utility screen by pressing cmd + R, I tried to do a time machine restore, it isn't finding my Mac HD when it asks …

Is there a simple way of running Apple Mountain lion on a PC laptop. I know this seems like a ridiculous question but I have a client who for some reason thinks it should be possible. I think the next thing he wants to do is switch to UNIX. I …

Hi guys I dont know alot about MACs but a charity I help out has asked me to do the following: -I have a rough system in place but it isn't efficient (it has just evolved over time) - I often spend a long time searching for a file and …

Please help, my first post. I have an Intel Mac Pro. Been having no problems to date, But now a problem. I have 2 additional hard drives installed and only one is visible. If I go to the Disk utility I can see the drive, repair or verify it but …

Jail Broken iphone 3gs , successfully connected to itunes 10, ports are working much master, charging ok had 4.1.1 Ios, now download ios 5.1.1 upgrade , trying to update ios to 5.1.1 via restore of iphones, in the middle of extraction it says UNKOWN ERROR : ERROR 3194 why ?

I used iDVD to create a DVD with menu that is perfect for the job. Thing is, I can't seem to get a high res finished product. I saved this as professional quality but the TS outcome lost some major quality. I can't view it on a 1900 X 1640 …

Microsoft has been slowly moving away from the desktop PC software market for many years now, and with the recent launches of Windows 8 and the Surface tablets, along with the latest Windows Phone devices, the whole mobile and touch arena has taken quite a bit of the consumer-oriented focus. …

i have dell laptop in which window 7 installed and now i am facing a problem ,my all drives are formatted by mistake and it is also not show in my lappy , so kindly tell me how it recover and how it appear on my lappy

Against my advice, my sister bought a used 2006 macbook (white). There is no operating system and I have no clue where/how and which version to get (I am not a mac person) help? Thank you!

hello dear friends I wnat to know hos is security involve under Mac OS especially security of the hardware thanks...

am finish to install the operating system but local disk c is not appearing i don't know the problem that's why i want your help my computer is showing only new volume d

Please anybody, I need to backup my macbook before I install windows and I have all my windows backup on the same external hard drive, every time I try to back up my macbook, I get a prompt to erase my external hard drive first and it contains all my …

Hi I put windows on my mac pro and now the mac os has dissapeared I used boot camp.I have tried turnng off and pressing R when starting but it only loads windows 7 can any one help Please

I have a Seagate 500GB external hard drive that has been put in a new casing after some wires in the original came loose. I only got it back two days ago. So today I plugged it into my macbook and everything was fine, and then suddenly the warning/error window …

I changed the computer name of my iMac in System Preferences and then logged out, when I logged back in all my files were gone. They're still on the computer, but I can't open any of them. I opened iTunes and all my music was gone, opened iPhoto and all …

Hey all, Wanted to ask a question about the guest profile on Mountain Lion. I have always been a little insecure about changing and adding new feats to the terminal, so I'm trying to figure out a way that I can be *more* secure. I have recently edited both bash …

Dear Technical Assistance, My macbookpro will not allow me to open a document I saved about an hour ago. The only place it appears is under my word- recently opened file, you cannot find it anywhere else on the computer. When you select it from this window, it says it …

I bought macbook pro few days ago, It was okay but from two weeks when I check the graphic memory from apple menu, it showing me that default intel only 512mb... It was 1024 of Nvidia... what the hell is this.. how to solve this... please help...

Hello. I have a Macbook with OS 10.5 . I Have an external drive that holds all my music over 47,000 songs. And I just recently had to put them all back into my library because I needed to clean up my Itunes (Duplicates started to form and things had …

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PLEASE HELP!! I put a memory stick into my ScanDisk 14 in 1 reader. iPhoto was already open but crashed when the card was inserted, before choosing to import the photos. I force-quit iPhoto, and removed the card from the drive. And now there are no longer photos on the …

I have recently lost my hard drive with all my music on it, but still have music on my iPhone. Im wanting to know how to transfer the iPhone music back onto my PC. Any ideas would be helpfull.........

Hello! I've been trying to do some quick research, and I'm getting some mixed results. I'm always short on time whenever I'm able to finally get online somewhere. I have a MacBook that has a Cat-5 connection, as well as USB connections. The only internet available to me where I …

for example, my text file 1 abc def xyz how can i code a program to count total of line ? thank you.

I'm getting this Unable to find driver for this platform "ACPI", on the kernel panic screen at startup. I can't reboot into safe mode. In single user mod, the same error message appears and I can't type anything after it does. so any 1 can help me help ,me out:sad:

Hi I have recently purchased a MAC and I am having some trouble finding out about MAC software as I have always been a PC users.I am looking for a piece of software that acts as a virtual drive for mounting images on my MAC.The PC software for doing this …