Is there a way to "blacklist" a stolen Mac?

Yes there is and go into a Apple Store or phone them up and give them the serial number and anywhere its registered or handed in for repair etc it will be flagged up.

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Is there any way to recover a stolen Mac with iCloud?

About less than three weeks ago, my bookbag was stolen and inside was my MacBook Pro. I have an iCloud account and OS X v10.7.3 Lion is installed on the computer. So far, the computer or bookbag has failed to show up and I have already filed a police report, but since it was stolen from a hallway on campus at my college, there's no insurance to replace the computer that was stolen along with the bookbag. I have been keeping a close eye with the computer to see if it will show up on Find My Mac, but so far it has been shown offline. I went ahead and sent a remote lock and remote wipe once the computer is connected to the Internet to see if I can locate it.
I do remember someone telling me something about the remote lock feature and how it's hard to circumvent the feature, like if the person who stole the computer thought all you would need to do is replace the hard drive, but I was told that even replacing the hard drive would not work, because a remote lock is within the firmware or motherboard (logic board). Is this true?
So how would I be able to recover this computer? Also, are there any used, refurbished MacBook, MacBook Pro computers to get to replace this computer if it doesn't show up or isn't recoverable?
I was thinking about replacing this computer with an inexpensive Ubuntu PC laptop....
I did see a refurbished MacBook unibody white (last model) selling on Amazon for $749.

Used Macs of every description are always available on Ebay and Craigslist and from a plethora of online used-Mac resellers. Apple sells refurbished late-model Macs at 10-20% discounts with a new-computer warranty and the opportunity to extend the warranty with AppleCare.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

TS4006 is there a way to track a stolen ph with a special ID if it's activated by another user??

My purse was stolen yesterday and with it my Iphone 5. Seems like they have turned off my device, I also wiped it. so my question is ...
Is there a way to track a stolen ph with a special ID ???

The IMEI number is unique to the phone. If you give this to your carrier they can often use it to blacklist the device, preventing it from being used on their network. Technically they could probably also locate it if it's on their network, but I don't think they would do this without being instructed to do so by the police or a court order.

HT1689 Is there a way to locate my stolen i pod?

Is there a way to locate my stolen i pod?

Only if yu had already turned on the FindMyiPod feature and wifi is on and connected. Go to:
iCloud
However, that can be defeated by turning the iPod off and permentently removd by restoring the iPOd.
Apple will not help
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
Inform the police and change the paswords for all accounts used on the iPod.

Is there any way to find my stolen iPod without find my iPhone app

Is there any way to find my stolen ipod without find my iPhone app.

No app is required.
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

I purchased my macbook pro on the 18th of june 2011, do i still need to purchase the lion or is there a way of getting it from mac complimentry ?

I purchased my macbook pro on the 18th of june 2011, do i still need to purchase the lion or is there a way of getting it from mac complimentry ?

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Is ther a way to speed up a Mac? Mine has gotten slower and slower over time. When memory comes close to full would that have an effect on performance? Is there a way to determine unused programs/software to remove and free space?

Is there a way to speed up a Mac (similar to de-fragging on a PC)? Mine has gotten slower and slower over time.
When memory/disc comes close to full would that have an effect on performance? How should I determine what programs/software to remove and free space?

Things You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to:     OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
                                  The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
                                  The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
                                  The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
                                  Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites Menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
          Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
          OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)
Troubleshooting Applications
I recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail that you can use for removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Corrupted cache, log, or temporary files can cause application or OS X crashes as well as kernel panics.
If you have Snow Leopard or Leopard, then for similar repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
    used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
    requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
    drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file.

Is there a way to hard reset a mac

i wanted to know if theres a way to hard reset a mac runing mountain lion is it the command r thing and if its that waht do you do after that.

See Thomas Reed's article - How to prepare your Mac for sale - although you might not be selling your Mac, going through the steps he provides will give it that 'fresh out-of-the-box' smell...
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I have a Student license for Creative Suite 5.5 for WINDOWS. Is there a way to transfer it to MAC?

I have a Student license for Creative Suite 5.5 for WINDOWS. Is there a way to transfer it to MAC?
As I'm satisfied with what I've got. I would like to avoid purchasing a new license for almost exactly the same thing.
Thanks,
Étienne

Hi Sven,
Welcome to Adobe Forum,
Please delete the C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Adobe\AAMUpdater directory.
Rename the C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE\OPM.db to OPM.old
Then please try reopening your web browser and downloading and installing the Creative Cloud application fromhttps://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud.
Or you can try:
Until this gets sorted out, here are the Creative Cloud direct download links... As/when needed, you can use these to download the Windows or Mac OS installers for any CC program without using the Adobe Desktop App manager.
Please refer to : http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/troubleshoot-creative-cloud-installation-download .html
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Rajshree

I am trying to install my HP desk jet 3050 and it only supports mac 10.6 and hp web site has the same software is there any way to install it in mac 10.6 mode

i am trying to install my HP desk jet 3050 and it only supports mac 10.6 and hp web site has the same software is there any way to install it in mac 10.6 mode it works with lion but i need the software on my mac

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I have already purchased iMovie for my iPad. Is there a way to download to my MAC without having to pay again?

I have already purchased iMovie for my iPad. Is there a way to download to my MAC without having to pay again?

The iPad version is for iOS devices and can't run on OS X.
The OS X version costs 3 times as much and is a separate download.

HT201317 i lost my iphone and had it backed up to icloud and photo stream but i never plugged it into a computer since i had set up photo stream. is there a way to login to any mac device to view my photos or anything?

i lost my iphone and had it backed up to icloud and photo stream but i never plugged it into a computer since i had set up photo stream. is there a way to login to any mac device to view my photos or anything?

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Yes you should be able to log into iCloud on a Mac from system preferences > iCloud and set up photostream to download any photos that are there. You should also be able to use your iCloud back up to restore any replacement phone to reflect the phone you lost.

Is there any way to locate a stolen ipad if I have the Serial number but didn't turn on the Find My Ipad?

My Ipad (and backpack, laptop, & other stuff) was stolen at the Portland Oregon Airport at 1:30 PM on 2/27/12.
unfortunately I had not turned on the Find My Ipad function. I do have the serial number and the IMEI number (although I never enabled the 3g function).
Is there any way to locate or track this?
Earlier discussions suggest this can't be done, but I have registred the laptop with Apple.

No.
Apple are not in the business of tracing your stolen iPad, any more than the manufacturer of your car will trace that if stolen.
Tell your service provider (now, before the thief spends a few thousand on international calls....), the police and your insurer.

Is there a way to find iphone4 stolen after upgrade

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I upgrade from iphone4 to iphone5. Iphone4 recently stolen is there a way to find iphone4.

I'm sorry your phone was stolen Lynett. Did you enable the find my phone feature on your device? Here is some information to help http://www.verizonwireless.com/insiders-guide/tech-smarts/how-to-find-a-lost-smartphone/ .
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Is there a way to disable a stolen iPod touch?

We believe my sons iPod touch 4th gen was stolen. Is there a way to disable it?

There is no way to prevent anyone from using the iPod. All one has to do is place the iPod in recovery mode and restore via iTunes.
Apple will not do anything.
You may be able to wipe as discussed above. (go to icloud.com, log in and go to FingMyiPhone)

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