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Hello does anybody see any error in this? [!] Unable to find the Xcode project `/Users/macbookpro/Desktop/project/platforms/ios/C:\Users\Simos\project\platforms\ios\Project.xcodeproj` for the target `Pods-C:\Users\Simos\project\platforms\ios\Project`. I copied my project from my PC to my Mac in a usb drive. THERE IS NO C:\Users\Simos\ directory on mac. Why ai i getting this?

I am no Mac expert, just an old dude who has had experience with Mac computers since 1995. I read posts here to see if there are problems to which I might be able to offer possible solutions, but am often confounded by posters who offer nothing on the year …

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 …

[ATTACH=left]12481[/ATTACH]The New York Times [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/06/technology/tech-us-france-apple-louvre.html"]reported today[/URL] that Apple has opened its first Apple Store in Paris, underneath the Louvre no less, and just two weeks after Microsoft opened up a [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsofts-windows-cafe-opens-its-doors-in-paris/"]Windows 7 cafe[/URL] in Paris in another location. The idea of these two companies competing in a retail environment, and …

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 …

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. …

Over the weekend news broke that a worm had started infecting Jailbroken iPhones in Australia. Nobody really took the exploit too seriously as all the 'ikee worm' did was change the phone wallpaper to a picture of 80's pop singer Rick Astley in a kind of warped tribute to the …

Jon Lech Johansen is perhaps best known as DVD Jon, the chap who cracked DVD movie encryption at the tender age of just 15. He may soon have to adopt a new nickname, how about iTunes Jon, as he releases software that takes iTunes out of the iPod music equation. …

Hi everyone, My phone 5c runs so slow recently, and I tried to delete some files in my iPhone and get more space. Ah, it doesn't work at all. Do you meet this? My phone has used 2 years and everything goes well until last week. It suddenly changed so …

Somehow, I think my OS X is borked. Whenever you mouseover a menu, it's supposed to highlight, right? Well, mine doesn't... Also, my dock magnification is turned on, but if I highlight apps on my dock, they don't magnify, and it doesn't say the apps name above its icon. If …

My niece is only 8 years old, we really worry about her online safety. Is there any professional parental control software? How about the Aobo Mac Keylogger? Anyone who uses it please give me some advice, thanks!:-/

dear all daniweb users, i start using xamarin to create ios software. in mainstoryboard, i navigate passcodevc view controller to songlistvc view controller. i use scandit barcode scanner script in passcodevc.cs . after barcode scanner script, i want navigate from passcodevc view controller to songlistvc view controller. i use this …

I purchased a used 2011 MacBook Pro laptop. It ran OK for a week but begin to slow down and now boots very slowly. I checked the drive spaces and found it has sufficient hard drive memory. Should I upgrade RAM. Currently it has 4 GB. I heard there are …

My 500GB HDD have 5 partitions including a time backup drive. Few days back I created another partition of size 50GB for some purpose. Later I deleted that partition and tried resizing OS partition to take the space. But everytime I try to resize the OS disk, the disk utility …

I had a interal disk that wouldn't show in the finder at all but was showing as mounted on disk utility. I could get to the disk through a file alias so I know the disk was there and working. I tried numious posts including this one (http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/apple/mac-os-x/threads/94420/hard-drive-not-visible-mac-osx) with not …

Thanks to a federal copyright law ruling on Monday by the Library of Congress, jailbreaking your iPhone doesn’t have to be kept to the underground forums like it's alcohol during a digital prohibition. The process is now completely legal under US law. Grab a glass of e-freedom![ATTACH]16137[/ATTACH]The resulting decision was …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hi, I just experienced this issue after upgrading Xcode to 4.3.3, and thought the fix might be useful to others. The original fix is posted [here](https://devforums.apple.com/thread/141685) and modified [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9325804/xcode-4-3-organizer-crash). Create the file readcert.m with the following code: #import <Security/Security.h> #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> void checkCerts () { OSStatus status; const void *keys[] …

The Flashback Trojan has infected at least 600,000 Apple computers running Mac OS X according to the Russian AV company [Dr Web](http://www.drweb.com/?lng=en) which researched the spread of the malware which was originally discovered at the end of last year and for which Apple issued a security patch just this week. …

The Apple iWork office productivity suite for the Mac has been around for ages, and was recently joined by an iOS version. iWork documents have, up until now, been seen as being pretty safe courtesy of the particular implementation of the 128-bit AES encryption Apple used to secure them. I …

I have had my daughters card in the address book for a number of years with two e-mail addresses, one for work and one for home both on the same card. I now want to delete the work e-mail address which I have done by opening the address book going …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]21548[/ATTACH]Earlier this week a hacker group called Dev-Team launched a revamped website service that enables owners of the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 (amongst a myriad other iOS-powered devices) to jailbreak them in next to no time, for free, online. The [URL="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/890709355/the-return-of-jailbreakme-com"]JailBreakMe site exploits a vulnerability[/URL] with the way that …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]20689[/ATTACH]This week [URL="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html"]on Oreilly.com, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden[/URL] revealed their discovery that Apple tracks and saves your location via iOS4 through your iPhone or iPad. This has sent a wripple of concern across the country and many people are demanding to know why Apple stores this info and how …

Hi all. Some how or other I have started to get the, Bootcamp, icon on my desk top. It seems to be unmovable. Iv'e put it in the trash, I have ejected it Iv'e dragged and dropped it into the HD icon on the desktop. When I boot up every …

[ATTACH=right]15517[/ATTACH]If you cannot wait to get hold of the new iPhone 4, should you have been lucky enough to have successfully pre-ordered, then you could always upgrade your existing iPhone 3G/3GS to iOS 4 and get many of the same features. Be warned, though, the update itself is not without …

I'm having exactly the same problem! I have a brand new imac (OS 10.5.2) and brand new office 2008 but everytime i try to open the drawing toolbar it freezes and i have to force quit. It doesnt freeze for anything else. The same thing happened on my last mac …

How do I open a .mim file? Recently, I sent an email from work to my home. The file was a Microsoft Word document. The file was sent through Internet Explorer. After downloading the file there was a prifex of .mim I only have Stuffit Deluxe from Aladdin Systems and …

We all knew it was bound to happen. Apple’s journey to world domination was first set into motion with the Mac, then came the iPod with it’s market domination. The launch of the iPhone increased their kingdom exponentially and the iPad has continued the legacy. Details came to light today …

Despite [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story292997.html"]the ongoing signal strength problems displayed by the new iPhone 4[/URL], there can be no denying that the latest Apple gadget has been a runaway success. With Apple claiming 1.7 million units sold in just the first three days it would be hard to argue. One of the not …

Apple has kindly donated the source code for the original MacPaint software to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This is in large part thanks to the [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/computer-history-museum-makes-original-macpaint-source-code-avai/"]exhausting efforts[/URL] of Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the developmental team for the original Macintosh in 1984. When …

Apple had a great week last week when it launched the iPhone 4 to much fanfare. [URL="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/29/business/la-fi-iphone-sales-20100629"]1.7 million units[/URL] reportedly flew out the door in the first three days alone setting sales records. People [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/199761/hundreds_wait_in_line_as_iphone_4_goes_on_sale.html"]waited in long lines[/URL]; reportedly longer lines than for the iPad debut or the iPhone 3G …

Someone posing as Apple head honcho Steve Jobs on Twitter has managed to fool a major UK newspaper into reporting that the [URL="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"]iPhone 4[/URL] would be recalled after posting a Tweet which said "We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect". The Daily Mail website …

Okay, i can play runescape on my emac, the only problem is that During the game you need to right click, I know that if i want to right click on a mac all i have to do is CTRL + click , But it doesn't seem to work, Anyone …

Plenty of people have done it, gone online pretending to be something they are not. Indeed, plenty of men have gone online into chat rooms, forums, virtual worlds and social networking sites pretending to be women. Usually it is for the attention, sometimes it is for the sexual kicks of …

Say what you will about Apple, love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit they have a special magic when it comes to creating gadgets that consumers clamor for. They have a unique mix of design, build-up and marketing that when combined drive popularity and sales in huge numbers. …

In a [URL="http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_04/b4164028483414.htm"]very interesting read[/URL] in BusinessWeek last week, writer Peter Burrows describes what he sees as the start of war between Apple and Google with the big prize being the Mobile Ad market. Burrows further speculates that it's possible this could escalate to the point where Apple will make …

Hey Daniweb, I a 13.3 inch Macbook Pro (5,5) running Snow Leopard that I would like to triple boot Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 on. I am running an 80 GB Intel X-25M as my primary drive and I after I have the three operating systems installed via …

Sky, better known for news and sport television broadcasting, has today announced that it is entering the online music business with an ad-free streaming download service. All of the four million songs accessible by users of the service will be available by way of unlimited online streaming as well as …

If you are in the market for a new Apple computer, you might want to wait a few days. It would appear that new super thin iMacs, MacBooks and even a cheaper Mac Mini are on the way real soon. According to [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/03/apple_ads_hint_at_thinner_imacs_lighter_macbooks_cheaper_mac_minis.html"]AppleInsider[/URL] a raft of advertisements were published ahead …

Continuing on its charm offensive, the music industry is apparently not satisfied with the $675,000 fine for sharing 30 songs imposed on Joel Tenenbaum or the $1.92 million Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with for illegally downloading 24 tunes. Now it is going after the lyrics pirates. The what? Well, exactly. …

Safari 4.0.3 is out now and available for [URL="http://support.apple.com/downloads/Safari_4_0_3"]download[/URL] from Apple, for both Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. While there are the usual claims of making things more stable when using third party plugins and in particular for handling the HTML 5 video tag, it is with regards …

This started happening all at once and I don't know why. YouTube videos that I post on my blog are not visible after downloading. When I click on the blank space, the audio plays, but I can't see the video. This is not happening on other blogs that I visit, …

Hi Folks, Do any of you guys know of a good site which gives reviews of Data Recovery software for Macs? Or if any of you guys have used data recovery software for mac and would share your experiences that would be great. Thanks for looking, gn0m3

(powerbook G4 10.2.8) it appears my DiskImageMounter.app has gone missing, i have been informed that this is near impossible to delete. it should be locted in the core services file and it does not appear there?!?! without this i am unable to download anything with the extension .dmg i have …

Every 2-3 pages I open, Keychain opens up asking for a password saying that safari wants to use keychain. It slows my work considerably. Any clues?

Below are the thoughts from a computer professional who has spent the last 10 years supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux computers in a variety of network applications. By no means will this general tips section be exhaustive -- that is what a good book is all about. I am also …