Category: Kbase of the Week

Apple Support:

Nokia N70 phones have a “Mark as not done” option for To Do items. If the “Mark as not done” phone option is used on a synced iCal To Do item whose status is “completed,” the status will not change in iCal.

Apple’s solution was … less than helpful:

Change the “completed” status of To Do items in iCal instead of on the phone.

Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

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Apple Support:

Apple Remote Desktop 1.1 for Mac OS 8.1 - 9.2.2 can be downloaded from this document.

The Apple Remote Desktop client update improves reliability and delivers enhanced support for Copy hard Disk on computers running Mac OS 9.

The Apple Remote Desktop v 1.1 administration software must be used to manage any computer running this new version.

Apple Remote Desktop 1.1 Admin can only administer Apple Remote Desktop 1.1 clients. If clients are still running 1.0 or 1.0.1 the ARD 1.1 Admin will show that clients are either “– unavailable –” or it may say “– Old ARD Software –.

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Apple Support:

After you open a project in iDVD 6 that you created in an earlier version of iDVD, an alert indicates that photos used in slideshows, backdrops, or drop zones are missing. You may be prompted to locate the missing items.

To prevent this issue from occurring, update to iDVD 6.0.4 or later.

Out of all of the iLife apps I used back in the day, I think iDVD seemed the most magical. The fact that I could burn a DVD, complete with menus, on my Mac was so, so cool.

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Apple Support:

A very small number of customers with 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro computers have experienced an issue with the battery not charging past 1%.

The battery health status on these devices will also indicate “Service Recommended.” If the status indicates that your battery is Normal, your battery is not affected by this issue.

If your 2016 or 2017 MacBook Pro exhibits these behaviors, contact Apple to get your battery replaced, free of charge. Your computer will be examined prior to service to verify that it is eligible for the free battery replacement.

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Apple Support:

This could be caused by a USB device attached to the computer, an extension conflict, or an item in either the Startup Items or Shutdown Items folder.

Follow these steps to verify:

Disconnect all USB devices (including keyboard and mouse and any USB hubs) and power down the computer as follows:

• iMac - use the front power on/off button to power down.
• Power Mac Cube - hold down the power button for about 5 seconds to power down.
• Power Mac G4 - remove the keyboard and connect a known good Apple Pro Mouse and shutdown the computer via the special menu.

If the computer shuts down without restarting, it is likely the fault of one of the USB devices. Connect each USB device one by one and repeat the shutdown process until you identify which USB device is causing the fault. After identifying the suspect USB device, contact the vendor of the USB device for further instructions on resolving the issue.

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Apple Support, kinda:¹

Let’s say you would like to know what week of the year a certain date falls on. FileMaker Pro and ClarisWorks both have a WeekofYear function which returns the number of weeks from January 1 based on a supplied date. If you want to calculate the number of weeks starting at a date other than January 1, as in a fiscal year beginning date, you can use the following calculation given your file contains the field ProjectDate: Week of Year (calculation, number result) = INT ((ProjectDate - Date (3,1,Year (ProjectDate)))/7)+1

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Apple Support:

Although there currently is no official certification or industry-standard documentation process associated with Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliance, the Newton OS presents no difficulty in handling information spanning the millennium.

The Newton OS, since its introduction, has been designed to use a calculation of “minutes past midnight, January 1, 1904” or “seconds past midnight, January 1, 1993.” This calculation is used for dates prior to and after the year 2000. Therefore, dates at or beyond the 2000 mark, are simply larger numbers as a result of this calculation — and do not have the difficulty other operating systems may have when calculating dates before and after the year 2000.

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Apple Support:

Thinking about getting the iPod adapter for your BMW? Find out the answers to some frequently asked questions.

This old Apple press release has more information on this $149 product:

The new system developed by Apple and BMW enables drivers to seamlessly use their iPod in BMW’s 3 Series, Z4 Roadster, X3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles and MINI Cooper by simply plugging their iPod into a cable located in the car’s glove compartment. With the iPod safely located in the glove compartment and powered by the car’s battery, drivers can now enjoy high fidelity sound through their car’s stereo system and control their iPod using the standard buttons on their BMW or MINI steering wheel.

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Apple Support, on the as-of-this-writing new feature, Legacy Contacts:

The data that a Legacy Contact can access depends on what the Apple ID account holder stored in iCloud and in their iCloud Backup. For example, if they kept all of their photos on a third-party site, those photos aren’t stored with Apple and won’t be in their Apple ID data.

Adding a Legacy Contact is easy, and you should do it.

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Apple Support:

If your Fusion Drive appears as two drives instead of one in the Finder, it’s no longer working as a Fusion Drive. Here’s how to fix it.

Fusion Drive, a storage option on some iMac and Mac mini computers, combines a hard drive and flash storage in a single volume for improved performance and storage capacity. If your Fusion Drive appears as two drives instead of one in the Finder, it’s no longer working as a Fusion Drive. This can happen after replacing either drive of your Fusion Drive, or using software to intentionally split them into separate volumes.

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An article releated to yesterday’s video:

On your Mac, use the Spoken Content pane of Accessibility preferences to customize the system voice, be notified when an alert or app needs your attention, and set other options for content your Mac can speak aloud.

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Is there a single support document that more Mac nerds want to be updated than this one?

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