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Why does the terminal on my MacBook Pro seem to send me my iPad instead of the MacBook Pro itself?
Somehow when I open the terminal on my MacBook Pro 16 (2019) it uses my iPad instead of using my MacBook Pro. I moved from Windows few days ago. I use my iPad at school for writing by my hand and ...
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MacBook Pro USB port provides more current in Mac OS X than in Windows
I have a MacBook Pro with both Mac OS X Lion and Windows (under BootCamp) installed. While in Windows, I tried to charge my iPad 3 via the USB port. The iPad says "Not charging", but really, it does, ...
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Can I access mac iTunes library from an iPad?
Can I access my iMac based iTunes library from my iPad over my home wifi? I know I can sync them up but the library is too big.
Edit; just to clear(er), the movies, podcasts etc which are stored on ...
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How to sync apps with one Mac and 3 devices?
We have 1 Mac, with 1 iTunes account, and 3 iOS devices.
Every time we sync one device, iTunes either spams it with ALL apps from ALL devices, OR it removes all of the apps from the device including ...
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Rsync to a WebDAV filesystem on OS X copies all files regardless of being changed or not
I am trying to sync from my (Mac) desktop to an iPad and an iPhone. MacOS X mounts WebDAV as a native file system, but syncing results in all files in my directory structure being copied again.
This ...
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Pulling photos off an iPad
I don't work with or use Mac OS X as I am a Windows/Linux guy. But if I wanted to pull photos off of an iPad with my Windows laptop for someone, how would I do it?
Is it as simple and connecting to ...
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Sync email with iPad keeping mailboxes and previous emails
I use Mail from OS X Lion with an email POP account. I have many mailboxes in order to organize it efficiently. Now I am considering to be able to sync it with my iPad, maintaining the same structure ...
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What are the good iPad VNC clients for controlling a Mac locally? [closed]
Not fussed about controlling a Mac over the internet, or controlling a Windows PC. Just controlling a Mac on the same home network as the iPad.
Free is good, but reliability and a less fussy ...
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M1 Macbook Air not able to run iPad/iPhone apps
I recently purchased an M1 Macbook and I remember one of the key selling points was being able to open iPad/iPhone apps, this isn't the main reason I purchased it but anyways I was planning to use it ...
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Why suddenly the port cannot be connected?
I am running a HTTP Server on my Mac, which is a NanoHTTP Server, not Apache etc. I use eclipse to run it, it runs, and work perfectly, and I got an iPad to access it, it works. The firewall on Mac is ...
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Rich text editor cross-platform
I'm about to write a thesis and I need to work on it on various devices: a MacBook Pro, a laptop with Windows 7 and an iPad. The problem is to find a way to keep in sync everything. I though of many ...
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Trying to access localhost mamp from iPad
I want to visit my localhost that is being served by mamp on my iPad to do some testing. All the places I looked online say just to visit ip:8888.
This results in Safari showing a "server stopped ...
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How to stream movies from LG Network Storage N2B1D to iPad, iPhone, Mac and TV?
I'm the owner of a brand new LG Network Storage N2B1D.
I want to stream movies (or images) through a local network.
For now, I can browse files with a Mac or iPhone/iPad but I can't read content.
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Access Mac from iPad graphically without installations on the Mac
In OS X Lion there is the possibility of screen sharing. I wonder how to access my Mac from my iPad without installing anything on the Mac
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How to put wmv videos into my iPad 2 on Mac?
Recently i made my own videos with Windows Movie Maker and output the vidoes as .wmv format on my computer, now i want to put it onto my iPad 2, so that i can easily share with my friend and easily ...
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