In order to use the wireless keyboard and mouse from my iMac, but still keep the iMac running I need a way to force switch off bt. When I use the menu, it blocks it and says you can't switch it off cause then you'll have no input device.
View 6 RepliesIf I select from the menu bar another available wireless network (one without a password for example) and then switch back to my own wi-fi network, am I still safe?
Did the fact that I connected to another network present any risks?
I did not send any private info during that time, any risks of getting hacked?
Sometimes restarting is not enough: you need to power off your Mac, wait for a little, and power it on again.It could be a script which act like the "schedule" program in system preferences: it would switch off the Mac immediately, the add 1 minute to the current time and switch it on again.
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mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
My Time Machine drive is a USB hard disk, and when I plug it in, I am unable to get it to eject (even if the Time Machine preferences show that I am NOT backing the disk up). When I unplug it, I get the warning message about not unplugging drives before ejecting. Is is there a way for me to "force eject" or force anything accessing my time machine volume to shut down, so that I can properly eject it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSo how do I remove bluetooth devices from my bluetooth file transfer list? I have a few extra phones in there that I no longer use.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard that I want to share between a PC and MBP via a DVI/USB KVM switch. I think I can do this by plugging a USB Bluetooth dongle into the KVM's USB input.
If I use the MBP's built-in bluetooth then when I switch from one computer to the other via the KVM, the keyboard and mouse will stay paired with the MBP; but if I disable the built-in hardware then the dongle can provide the bluetooth capability and be switched between the computers.
I've shied away from wireless keyboards in the past because I do alot of online baking and investment activities from my computer. I also love a clean workspace and a wireless keyboard could remove yet another wire from my desk. Do you consider wireless and/or bluetooth keyboards safe?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 and I see unknown bluetooth devices under Bluetooth in System Preferences.
I never used Bluetooth on my MacBook but these devices appear.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I turned off the bluetooth function and my keyboard and mouse wont now work and I cant get back into the system - how do I reactivate without the use of the keyboard ?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
This isn't directly related to macbooks but if I want to use the bluetooth built into my computer to connect to my non bluetooth printer can I buy any USB bluetooth dongle to plug into the printer ( Kodak all in one 5300) or do I need some specific kind? All the ones I look at don't mention anything about printers just connection between computers and phones.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a new macbook pro, can I transmit music through bluetooth to a bluetooth receiver?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHey guys..>I'm trying to set up my jabra bt200 bluetooth headset to work with my mac (osx 10.4.2, 15" powerbook 1.67ghz)...and I can get it to pair, but it won't stay connected for more than a split second. this is a problem i've seen a few people have, looking around on various forums and stuff, and i was trying various solutions when i decided to try doing a firmware upgrade on the internal bluetooth module. I downloaded the firmware updater (1.2), tried to run it and it came up with the following error:
"This computer does not have an Apple Bluetooth module installed. It cannot be updated by this application."
Why would my Powerbook not have an Apple Bluetooth module?!?!?! It's got bluetooth installed, it's internal, but looking at the system profile, it says it's the manufacturer is Cambridge Silicon Radio. So is this normal or what? Is the firmware upgrade even going to help me out in the end? Just to clarify...the powerbook came with bt installed factory...it's not something added by me!
My G4 has suddenly stopped powering up. The power button just keeps flashing slowly, but the monitor shows nothing, any suggestions?
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PowerMac
So I finally install the latest updates from Apple, and reboot, and now my Bluetooth icon says "Bluetooth Unavailable". I have a 1.5Ghz PowerBook G4 with internal Bluetooth. I've been using BT since I got this thing in late 2004. Now the icon doesn't even show up in the control panel.
Has anyone else had this problem? I kind of need the BT to use my current setup. And I'm out of AppleCare time. (It's an OLD laptop.)
When finishing for the night though on a Vista machine I hibernate - actually the auto-hibernate is fairly aggressively set on all my notebooks, so even if I leave it in immediate resume sleep it will hibernate after an hour or so. What it means is that if I'm working off batteries it doesn't end up even flatter the next day.
It's been a while since I used an OS X notebook actually on the move on an all-day basis, but the Air is getting a workout in that role at the moment. I know OS X is capable of the same thing but usually only when the battery is on low charge. I notice on the Air the sleep uses up around 10% of a charge during an ~8-hour night and that is not great, especially on top of the mediocre battery life of the Air. Is there a way to set auto-hibernate-to-disk after a certain period of sleep? I know I can shut it down, and a de-hibernate pretty much takes the same amount of time as booting up, but I want my stuff to come up as they're left.
Example: When i drag images or files from an email to my desktop such as photo.jpg that are all named the same, it always makes me replace the first photo.jpg or the second photo.jpg won't be put on my desktop. Is there a way to force it to rename the second photo.jpg to photo2.jpg or something so i don't have to decide to replace or only have one image?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI purchased a new IMac Intel version and I am having a problem with AOL. I have always had a problem with AOL and my Macs (now on number 3). In the past, if I left AOL running it would not allow the Macs to close down without Force Quitting from AOL and AOL would not quit normally. With the new Mac, if I use AOL it won't quit and when I Force Quit it disconnects the Mac from the internet and I have to restart. As I live in Antigua both Apple and AOL have been useless at trying to solve the problem.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHaving these main problems (which I'm sure many have witnessed using Leopard):
(I have a desktop imac (intel core duo 2.66).)
1 The machine often refuses to shut down (or restart) and I get that black veil slide down the screen following the "you need to restart your computer..." message
2. The machine refuses to shut down and just stays on the desktop image with the black spinning wheel spinning endlessly.
3. I'm getting problems with applications refusing to quit (even when using opt-cmd-escape) . even when the computer "acknowledges" that the ap has quit, the icon is still active in the dock underneath.
How can I force the airport of my MBP to transmit only on N ?
View 4 Replies View Relateda known issue with boot camp is the clock's time getting off. When coming back into OS X, eventually it gets set back right. how to get it to sync the clock with the internet faster?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo my Mac Pro (2008, 2.8ghz quad core) won't restart or shut down. It powers up just fine and has no other issues. If I want to restart it, then my only option is to hold down the power button. Here's a console log any ideas where the problem is?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI've tried all the methods. I have a 2+ year old Macbook Pro. The drive was a bit bowed down, but a screw drive forcing the casing back up fixed that. I have tried holding down the eject button on restart as well as the mouse. I tried the command-control-p-o combo and it wouldn't boot into the open firmware.
The laptop keeps trying to read the disk, but the disk is apparently unreadable. So what the hell am I to do? I can't even get into Mac OS X or use the laptop.
My dumb mac is always freezing up and the round rainbow thing will be spinning and I cant do anything but restart. How do I force quit? I know it says it on the mac but I don't get what the symbols are.
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MacBook, iOS 5.1
How to force eject a cd.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I see older posts on this but nothing new, and I was hoping maybe newer versions of Mac OS X have solved this. I have a big family, and often my kids forget to log out of their accounts; eventually, the machine slows to a crawl for all the apps they collectively leave open. Is there a way to automatically force accounts to log off after a certain amount of idle time, or a way for me to "bulk" log them off? Restarting the machine or individually logging into each account is one way to do it, but it sure is inconvenient when all I want to do is hop on for five minutes to check email etc.
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhat is force quit? i try to quit my safari but it wont work so whats force quit?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
After reformatting My iMac core 2 Duo 27inches 3.06Ghz , The computer restarted and hang on to the "Apple" Logo and never seems to stop , has on been on for 2 hours. Try restarting and it's still the same hanging to the Apple Logo. Original cd and software Snow Leopard?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to shut down my Mac, but Mail is running, so I am asked to close Mail first. But I can't close Mail. How do I force Mail to end?
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Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I need to use Rosetta in iMovie for my Chroma Key plugin from Cf/x to work, but when I go to Get info, there is no box I can check for Rosetta, in fact, I can't seem to find anything about Rosetta on my computer. I need Chroma Key for a video this weekend.
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