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Hi guys, i own an iPod Touch 4G but its running slow (even apps and games) on iOS 6.1.6 but was running smooth on the 4.x Firmware, is there any way to downgrade my Device to an Older, Smoother iOS??

Here is the screenshot of a view That I hope to get in my ios app.. The ViewControlelr is embedded on a UIScrollView.as you can see, in the beginning there are 4 important UIViews, namely-"View1", "View2","FixedView" and "SEARCH". The UIScrollView must have size height limit at FixedView. When the "+" …

I am trying to access a site that displays a camera monitoring my granddaughter's daycare. I have installed the latest version of Java on my Mac running Lion. I have added an exception for the website to the security settings for Java but it continues to block my access to …

I have brought a new mac and would like to sync my iPhone content with the new mac (i.e. contact, calendar, apps and etc..) As the the first sync will erase all contents from my iPhone, is there any way to avoid it. If the iPhone backup has been performed …

Hi, I had transferred a few thousand pics to my ipad from my PC. Now my PC , Crashed after that. Is there a way toget those old transferred pics back to my new PC. Have tried Dropbox and sync and iTunes etc. nothing works. These are all good only …

I am selling this 5 year old Mac through online. But before that, I am looking to wipe all its data to an extent where it is unrecoverable. The only question is how should I make sure if my Mac is wiped beyond recovery.

I don't care if there is a Bluray drive built in or not. I have an external one that didn't cost a fortune. What I would like is for Apple or some third party to release some proper software support for Bluray films, in particular those that have some form …

My Mac address book syncs itself with my iPhone. Somehow (I think through Microsoft Entourage??) it silently added contacts to the address book for everyone I sent/received an email to/from. I now have thousands of contacts that have an email address only with no phone number, and I don't want …

#import "Person.h" @class Asset; //i have used import "Asset.h" which contains definition for asset @interface Employee : Person { int employeeID; NSMutableArray *assets; } @property int employeeID; - (void)addAssetsObject:(Asset *)a; - (unsigned int)valueOfAssets; @end I got this snippet from objective c book. In the second line , author has used …

I reluctantly upgraded to Mavericks, initially over fears about my old Adobe CS4 functionality stopping to work. Thankfully, it didn't, but I'm so annoyed by the change in functionality to both Preview and TextEdit as a result of the removal of the "Save as..." command. I can't imagine what anyone …

Hi, I am studying Computer Engineering (2nd year). I would like to buy a laptop but dont really know anything about the laptop market. I was wondering if a Mac would be recommended for me to use for my programming work? Any avice would be appreciated. Thank You.

So I just got a mac mini, hopefully it will last a good 5-10 years, I need mac os for adobe cloud, it is untouchable at the minute, otherwise I would have spec'ed a small mini box wiped it and put linux on. But meh yeosemite icons look and feel …

As any fan of the The Matrix trilogy of films will tell you, the Keymaker is a character in The Matrix Reloaded who has the keys to provide Neo access to the system mainframe and by so doing hopefully save Zion from the ongoing sentinel attack. In the movie, the …

Please let me clarify that as for the ios(iphone) there is need of .app file as opposed to android where there is need of .apk file. Please tell that is there a way to use xamarin studio for ios(iphone) for .app file that can be used in the ios(iphone) without …

According to a [SecureList posting](https://securelist.com/blog/69462/darwin-nuke/) dated April 10th, researchers Anton Ivanov, Andrey Khudyakov, Maxim Zhuravlev and Andrey Rubin discovered a vulnerability in the Darwin kernel back in December 2014. Why is this of interest? Well, the Darwin kernel is an open source part of both the Apple operating systems. The …

Hi peeps, I have just purchased a used iphone 5 from ebay which is apparently locked to a provider, does anybody know where I can find more information about unlocking it? I usually unlock android phones, so I wouldn't expect it to be too difficult, I'm just not sure where …

Iam using windows 8.1 and want to install mac os on my system. please help me a lot. i m new to os .

I have couple of errors with creating and callng functions.pls have a look.I am using swift for coding. [img]http://i.imgur.com/OVARWui.png[/img]

I have a small program for Linklist in C.. ** linklist.h** // // linklist.h // LinkList // // Created by Mayukh Sarkar on 17/04/15. // Copyright (c) 2015 Mayukh Sarkar. All rights reserved. // #ifndef __LinkList__linklist__ #define __LinkList__linklist__ struct LinkList{ int Data; struct LinkList* NextData; }; struct LinkList *Firstdata = …

Ive made a java program to do automated tasks for a game. It takes screen shots with java.robot every 250 milliseconds. The program is working great, but it will always crash at around the 30min mark Im running this program on my mac, and this is the crash report that …

Today I have an ipad, an iphone and a windows laptop. My laptop is nearing the end of its life and needs replacing. Should I replace the windows laptop with an IMac or Air book? The reason I ask is NOT processing power, battery life, or price. Just do I …

I'm really excited about the progress made with affinity. It's a cut of the price of creative cloud. Looks like affinity photo is soon to be released with https://affinity.serif.com/blog/ With an indesign clone coming shortly - all for the princly sum of £39.00 per app. Which is ridiculously cheap compared …

Can Mac OS X 10.8 upgrade now? Mine is Macbook Pro which is brought in 2011.

Hi, I am able to see my HDD and its partitions in Disk Utility but I am not able to see in in Finder or in ls /Volumes/. I have some data that's important and I intend to back it up. Is there any other way to access the HDD. …

Which Apple product is best you thing? ipod, iphone, ipad ?

I have been using windows since 2000 but now i want to switch to ios because windows operating system get corrupt instantly.please suggest me to choose one ?

I just bought a nascita feenix mouse but it doesn´t work propably. When i plug it into my mac it only works a few times and some times if i restart my mac with the mouse plugged in it works again. I was wondering if there was something wrong with …

After i upgrded by OSX to Yosemite Adobe ilustrator crashes when i open it, I thought this may be due to font problems i disabpled the fonts and still crashes when i just open it ... anyone knows what shall i do?

hi my Mac had ma Finder virus so I rebooted back to factory settings I thought I had saved most of my stuff to disc but missed an important Sibelius 7 file which has 9 months of work on it

Does anybody here know some plugins for QuickTime to play Blu-ray on Mac?

As i am learning ios, please suggest some video or material on how can i create tabbed app. i want to create app for technical institute, where i am studying now. Thanks

I'm just trialing affinity designer for Mac and left me just say it does more or less everything photoshop and illustrator does at a fraction of the price $49.00. Wow... Not only that but it imports existing photoshop and illustrator file with almost 100% integrity. Looks like I can say …

Now the OSX new system is free to upgrade, but my computer was brought in 2011.can i upgrade?? thanks

hi , i am new to computers ...i want to know how can i see the bacis services in my apple computer....i know it for windows its like open the task manager click on services tab and i can see the services that are given in side by microsoft. but …

Tried to create secured documents as I used to do in Windows by creating a password for documents. Ran into problems since I did not realize that Apple did not have the same possibility. I created a new folder and moved all my secure documents into it and somehow came …

I just want to share what free software I use to convert DVD movies for playing on my new iPad Air, that is macx free dvd to ipad ripper. This program is totally free. It has the direct preset for iPad and can convert any DVD to iPad with just …

Hello, how can you convince your mom to buy a mac notebook like a normal macbook air 11 inch or a macbook pro retina or not retina. Anyway, my grandfather (from my mom's side) baught a macbook pro retina display 15 inch that costs 1,600 US dollars to my cousin …

Recently, one of my friends on FB asked me a question: Whether can we transfer our iphone voice memos to pc or mac for backup. At once, I answered him roughly: maybe, just a maybe. For I have never done this before, but in order to solve my friend’s question …

I have been programming on a PC with 101 key keyboard for almost thirty years now. Surprise, when this type of keyboard turned out to be very poorly supported by OSX on a Mac Mini. as you know, on the mac mini you have to attach your own keyboard. This …

I run Mavericks up to date and whatever browser I use, the Internet cuts out to it despite the fact that Network Preferences show WiFi and Ethernet (via HomePlugs) connected. If I reboot the computer it is working again for a while. Cutouts can be several times a day and …

Hi there, Last night my macbook powered down, and when it was restarted, the date and time was reset to 12/31/2000. The date was reset to the 27th (last night after midnight) even though it was the 28th. This morning I reset it to the 28th, and the document I …

Since I upgraded to Mavericks, my Ethernet Internet connection via HomePlugs keeps dropping randomly. What is strange is that Network Preferences shows Ethernet as connected with a green light.There appears to be nothing wrong. I've tried rebooting the router without effect and all that seems to work is rebooting my …

For some reason, Excel won't allow me to paste into the find or replace dialog. This is more than a little inconvenient. Am I missing something? Has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix or workaround? TIA!

hello, ts there a way to transfer my whatsapp chats on Android to my new iPhone 5S? I have the whatsapp messages backed up on my computer. Thanks.

I have a dice and chips game that I devised I would like to create for the iPad. The only programming experience I have is with my TRS 80 over 25 years ago using basic. I need to create the play field with dice and chips and be able to …

Hi, I have no idea if this has happened to you before or not but it just happened to me and I am hoping to God one of you brilliant friendly people can help me. I shut down my mac and when I started it up again all the files …

So as I posted before I am thinking on buying an iphone. I want to get into mobile app dev. I dont have a mac (only windows) so I search and found a lot of articles that said that it is basicly imposible to write iphone apps from a windows …

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