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Apple Stackexchange Q: Auto Pairing of iPhone with Toyota Prius Every time I want to connect an iPhone to the Toyota Prius, I have to do the following: * *On the Prius, go to the audio screen, then select the bluetooth tab. *Press the connect button. *On the iPhone, go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and tap the connection to the car. *Wait until the two pair, then exit their respective screens. Isn't there a way to have the two pair up automatically as they detect one another? A: (Our Toyota RAV4 is not at home right now, otherwise I would go look in the manual to see what I did). I know for our Toyota RAV4, that I was able to automatically pair my wife's iPhone with the car so that each time the car is turned on (and the iPhone is in range of the car), the bluetooth system takes over and lets us answer the phone through the car. My suggestion is to look in your owner's manual and look up how to affect a default pairing. When my RAV4 comes home in a few hours, I can look up the steps we used.

Q: Auto Pairing of iPhone with Toyota Prius Every time I want to connect an iPhone to the Toyota Prius, I have to do the following: * *On the Prius, go to the audio screen, then select the bluetooth tab. *Press the connect button. *On the iPhone, go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and tap the connection to the car. *Wait until the two pair, then exit their respective screens. Isn't there a way to have the two pair up automatically as they detect one another? A: (Our Toyota RAV4 is not at home right now, otherwise I would go look in the manual to see what I did). I know for our Toyota RAV4, that I was able to automatically pair my wife's iPhone with the car so that each time the car is turned on (and the iPhone is in range of the car), the bluetooth system takes over and lets us answer the phone through the car. My suggestion is to look in your owner's manual and look up how to affect a default pairing. When my RAV4 comes home in a few hours, I can look up the steps we used. A: Yes, you can just keep your iPhone in your pocket (or wherever you like) BUT MAKE SURE BLUETOOTH IS ON. Then inside the car, just touch the monitor and select bluetooth. You will find your iPhone already registered there (you can register up to 10 Phones in the Toyota Prius). So once you click bluetooth, choose your iPhone name, and it will automatically pair. Unfortunately, the car doesn't provide any other easiest option than this. A: I paired my iPhone 6+ without problems. I upgraded to a 7+ and I too could not get it to work via Bluetooth. I learned, besides pairing my iPhone which did work, you also have to push the Setup button and configure the AUDIO to work with Bluetooth. Once I did that it worked like a charm after I push the AUX button.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I make Apple menu shortcut keys work more like Windows? I recently converted from Windows to Mac, but one thing that I really liked on Windows was how easy it was to traverse the menu bar and the associated submenus with the keys. Effectively, I would push the magic menu button and then type letters corresponding to menu options. With Mac the analog is an awkward button combination followed by repetitively hitting up, down, left, and right. So, is there any way to make my Mac behave like a Windows computer in this respect? A: It works pretty much as you describe Windows. If you want a better key combo to access the menu bar, you can customize it under System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard & Text Input > Move focus to the menu bar. Then type to select which menu you want, hit enter, then type to select the menu item. Note that most menu items have keyboard shortcuts. These are written next to the menu item, often a single character preceded by the CMD key.

Q: How can I make Apple menu shortcut keys work more like Windows? I recently converted from Windows to Mac, but one thing that I really liked on Windows was how easy it was to traverse the menu bar and the associated submenus with the keys. Effectively, I would push the magic menu button and then type letters corresponding to menu options. With Mac the analog is an awkward button combination followed by repetitively hitting up, down, left, and right. So, is there any way to make my Mac behave like a Windows computer in this respect? A: It works pretty much as you describe Windows. If you want a better key combo to access the menu bar, you can customize it under System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard & Text Input > Move focus to the menu bar. Then type to select which menu you want, hit enter, then type to select the menu item. Note that most menu items have keyboard shortcuts. These are written next to the menu item, often a single character preceded by the CMD key. A: The fastest way to access the menu items is just by hitting Command Shift ? , and typing the menu item you want in the search box that appears

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why can't I resize my existing partition? I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. I'm using the Disk Utility, but am continually getting: Partition failed Partition failed with the error: The partition cannot be resized. Try reducing the amount of change in the size of the partition. I've tried just resizing by 1 gigabyte and it still fails. Any free tools to fix this? Thanks. A: You've probably got fragmentation of your free space. For some reason, Disk Utility can't figure this out on its own; it just fails. I found a stunningly simple way to resolve this: create a new disk image with Disk Utility that's a little bit smaller than the remaining space on your drive. It took several minutes on my SSD, presumably while OS X moved things around. I imagine it would take significantly longer on a hard drive. When it's done, delete the disk image you just created. You should now be able to resize your partition!

Q: Why can't I resize my existing partition? I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. I'm using the Disk Utility, but am continually getting: Partition failed Partition failed with the error: The partition cannot be resized. Try reducing the amount of change in the size of the partition. I've tried just resizing by 1 gigabyte and it still fails. Any free tools to fix this? Thanks. A: You've probably got fragmentation of your free space. For some reason, Disk Utility can't figure this out on its own; it just fails. I found a stunningly simple way to resolve this: create a new disk image with Disk Utility that's a little bit smaller than the remaining space on your drive. It took several minutes on my SSD, presumably while OS X moved things around. I imagine it would take significantly longer on a hard drive. When it's done, delete the disk image you just created. You should now be able to resize your partition! A: The GUI for Disk Utility has always had problems with resizing volumes. You could try diskutil from the command line, if you trust your skills enough. I'd start the Terminal and write diskutil list to see all devices connected. To resize a volume from the list you'd write something like this (Let's assume that disk2s2 is 100GB): diskutil resizeVolume disk2s2 50g HFS+ Lion 0b This should create a secod partition with 50gb size, HFS+ format(mac format) and the name Lion A: When I ran into this problem, I used iDefrag to defragment the volume, and that let me shrink it. Unfortunately it's not free. It has since occurred to me that it might work better to dismount the partition before shrinking. If you want to try this, you'll need to boot from something else, like your O S X install DVD. A: I don't mean to open up an age old thread, but simply running fsck -fy from single user mode fixed it for me. From the man page: -f Force fsck to check `clean' filesystems when preening. -y Assume a yes response to all questions asked by fsck; this should be used with great caution as this is a free license to continue after essentially unlimited trouble has been encountered. A: This is what worked for me, and avoided backing up and restoring the volume. While you are resizing your partition, do tail -f /var/log/kernel.log or run the Console application and select kernel.log. This will tell you why the resize is failing. Unfortunately, it will only give you the inode number for the file or directory that is preventing the resize. To find the file name corresponding to this inode, you can use the find command from the terminal: $ cd /Volumes/<volume you are trying to resize> $ find -x . -inum <the inode number from kernel.log> Once you find the file, copy it to a different volume, if you want to save it, and then delete it on the volume you are resizing. Then rerun the resize operation and it should succeed. If it doesn't, repeat the above procedure until you are successful. Ref: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2742302

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I force Finder to be opened in a specific size? Possible Duplicate: Mac OS X Lion Finder Window Size Every time I open Finder it open in a small windows I want it open in a bigger window how can I do this? A: The way to set up a "default" Finder window is indeed a bit obscure: first you'll open a new Finder window, and then without clicking on any file or folder arrange the window to your needs (resize, position, define view, show/hide sidebar, etc.) and close it again immediately. Every new window should now use this new setup as a default.

Q: How can I force Finder to be opened in a specific size? Possible Duplicate: Mac OS X Lion Finder Window Size Every time I open Finder it open in a small windows I want it open in a bigger window how can I do this? A: The way to set up a "default" Finder window is indeed a bit obscure: first you'll open a new Finder window, and then without clicking on any file or folder arrange the window to your needs (resize, position, define view, show/hide sidebar, etc.) and close it again immediately. Every new window should now use this new setup as a default. A: Before you resize the open window to your desired size, close all other Finder windows. If another Finder window is open, then your adjustments won't stick. Then close the adjusted window and try opening a window by switching using the File > New Finder Window command or by clicking on the Dock > Finder icon. Note that it doesn't matter for me whether I select an item within the window before adjusting it. I'm running 10.6.6. And if you're opening windows from a CD/DVD, then all bets are off. Finally, if I resize the window and then rm .DS_Store, the new window still uses its most recent size/location. A: OK, I'm not a 100 % sure about that one, but based on my experience, Finder save the window size/look for each folder. Probably in the ._DS_Store file. So, it seems Finder has trouble accessing this file, or that the file is corrupt. Try to delete the ._DS_Store file in your home folder (or whatever folder is opening when you "Open the Finder") and reopen the window. A: First off, each directory has a ._DS_Store file. Each one has a "memory" of how that folder was last displayed. Apple does have a tendency to open it at a "default" size. Any reason the "green" button isn't working?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What are the empty home and net drives? I have two drives on my Mac which are always empty (I've enabled show hidden files in the Finder): What are these drives for? A: Not sure why you're always seeing them -- I don't, even with hidden files enabled -- but they're the root directories commonly used by the automounter when you connect your Mac to an NFS network (which generally means a Unix/Linux network). Users' home directories are usually mounted under /home, and other shared filesystems under /net.

Q: What are the empty home and net drives? I have two drives on my Mac which are always empty (I've enabled show hidden files in the Finder): What are these drives for? A: Not sure why you're always seeing them -- I don't, even with hidden files enabled -- but they're the root directories commonly used by the automounter when you connect your Mac to an NFS network (which generally means a Unix/Linux network). Users' home directories are usually mounted under /home, and other shared filesystems under /net.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iTunes library sync between two computers I have two computers (iMac and a Macbook Air). Whenever I try to sync my iPhone to the Air it will remove all my data. Is there any possibility to have a common sync mechanism in between my two computers (or especially iTunes libraries) so that I can sync my iPhone without any problem. A: The only way to do this, according to Apple, is to set the devices to manually manage content. If you have auto-syncing enabled, it can only be connected to one computer. You can manage your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers1,2 as long as you have set the device to "Manually manage music." Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202

Q: iTunes library sync between two computers I have two computers (iMac and a Macbook Air). Whenever I try to sync my iPhone to the Air it will remove all my data. Is there any possibility to have a common sync mechanism in between my two computers (or especially iTunes libraries) so that I can sync my iPhone without any problem. A: The only way to do this, according to Apple, is to set the devices to manually manage content. If you have auto-syncing enabled, it can only be connected to one computer. You can manage your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers1,2 as long as you have set the device to "Manually manage music." Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202 A: I use ChronoSync from http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html. Their tip for syncing iTunes is at http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_tips25.html. A: When I manually synchronized my entire user profile from my MacBook Pro to my MacBook air, the next Sync on the new MacBook Air behaved normally, and didn't remove anything. You might be able to get by by just copying your ~/Library/MobileDevice , ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync , and your ~/Music/iTunes directories to your user account on your new Mac, but you'd have to do some experimentation to find the required set of directories to keep in sync between the 2 Macs. A: Here is a posting about how to sync your iTunes on 2 machines. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040927151426616 I imagine this would also solve your iPhone sync problems. A: I don't do this with iTunes, but I have a method for syncing apps between machines that works very well. First, install Dropbox or an equivalent file-syncing solution. Then, create a directory for the configuration and library files of the application (I use ~/Dropbox/config/appname/). Move the relevant config directories in there. Usually, this would be ~/Library/Application Support/Appname/ and possibly some .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/. Then you also need to move the actual library into dropbox. Then, create symbolic links to those new locations from the places where the application expects them. Since iTunes can be configured to place its library (the actual music files) in any folder, you don't need to accomplish this by means of a symlink. The command for creating symlinks are as follows and must be executed in a terminal: ln -s newlocation expectedlocation E.g.: ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/iTunes ~/Library/Application\ Support/iTunes If you do this on both machines (on the second - delete all the config files, you should have copied the library you wish to replicate into dropbox) and you don't open the software at the same time on both machines, you should be synced.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Automator choose finder folder and run shell script I've got a simple shell script that I would like to incorporate into an automator workflow. I just need to double click the application , pick a finder folder and run the command. At the moment it is running in my default user directory. I've found how to do this as a service, but I'd like it to work as an application. How can I get to run in the chosen folder? Optionally a drag and drop onto the application would be nice as well. A: You can simply pass the selected folder to the shell script by selecting "as argument" from the "pass input:" dropdown-menu and then adding "$@" at the point in your script where you want the folder path to be used. To use drag&drop, just remove the "ask for finder items" action and let the "run shell script" receive the input from "application can receive files and folders as input".

Q: Automator choose finder folder and run shell script I've got a simple shell script that I would like to incorporate into an automator workflow. I just need to double click the application , pick a finder folder and run the command. At the moment it is running in my default user directory. I've found how to do this as a service, but I'd like it to work as an application. How can I get to run in the chosen folder? Optionally a drag and drop onto the application would be nice as well. A: You can simply pass the selected folder to the shell script by selecting "as argument" from the "pass input:" dropdown-menu and then adding "$@" at the point in your script where you want the folder path to be used. To use drag&drop, just remove the "ask for finder items" action and let the "run shell script" receive the input from "application can receive files and folders as input". A: The way I do this is define the path to a variable, then open up the workflow in a text editor, search for the variable, copy the string, then use $(string) anywhere in the workflow whatsoever (including shell scripts).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I run a cron job on a Mac? How can I make my Mac (running the most recent OS) do a task automatically once a day? For example, I'd like to have it automatically download a copy of this open source algebraic geometry textbook once a day. I have a feeling that some combination of wget and cron should work, but, after googling and reading the cron documentation, I just couldn't get it to work right. A: The cron daemon can be activated by a simple: sudo touch /private/etc/crontab Then it's advisable to enter the full path of your /usr/local/bin/wget (or wherever it lives). Cron does not know of your user's $PATH. Hope it helps.

Q: How do I run a cron job on a Mac? How can I make my Mac (running the most recent OS) do a task automatically once a day? For example, I'd like to have it automatically download a copy of this open source algebraic geometry textbook once a day. I have a feeling that some combination of wget and cron should work, but, after googling and reading the cron documentation, I just couldn't get it to work right. A: The cron daemon can be activated by a simple: sudo touch /private/etc/crontab Then it's advisable to enter the full path of your /usr/local/bin/wget (or wherever it lives). Cron does not know of your user's $PATH. Hope it helps. A: You may use Cronnix which is a free graphical interface for cron : http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7486/cronnix/ A: If you're finding the command line syntax (etc) too confusing/arcane, you might lok at GUI tool for viewing/editing/creating these jobs. In the past I've used Lingon, which has been made available on the Mac App Store now too. I don't need to use it very often, but it's very useful when I do! A: I think in OS X you should use launchctl for "cron jobs". But otherwise your task should be easy to do with a cronjob sudo crontab -e 55 23 * * * wget http://www.math.columbia.edu/algebraic_geometry/stacks-git/book.pdf This should run everyday at 23:55 Update You should specify the output location of WGET with -O /path/to/file A: A more elegant solution (than cron) is to use iCal notifications + Applescript. First, launch AppleScript Editor (located under /Application/Utilities) and paste the following code: set the destination_file to ("~/Downloads/book.pdf") set the contentLink to "http://www.math.columbia.edu/algebraic_geometry/stacks-git/book.pdf" tell application "URL Access Scripting" download contentLink to destination_file replacing yes end tell Save the script and quit applescript editor. Open your iCal and create a new event for today, setting the time you want, select "repeat: Every day" and as an alarm "Run script" and select your applescript. If you want to notified for every download, you may add another alarm with a "Message with Sound", "on date". A: I recommend Macaroni. Its advantage is that when you set a job to run once a day, it runs whenever your computer is on, regardless of the time. So you won't miss a job because the computer was off at the specified time. Macaroni is a tool which handles regular maintenance for Mac OS X, including the Mac OS X repair privileges process as well as Unix-style maintenance. You could do this yourself, but don't you have more interesting things to do with your time?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to auto-close Safari's download window upon download completion? This is the only thing that bothers me with Safari, but it's a big deal. I've looked everywhere but can't seem to find any good suggestions. Is there any way to enable the Safari downloads window to automatically close when a download completes? A: I use the Glims plugin for this, which has a host of other useful features, too.

Q: Is there any way to auto-close Safari's download window upon download completion? This is the only thing that bothers me with Safari, but it's a big deal. I've looked everywhere but can't seem to find any good suggestions. Is there any way to enable the Safari downloads window to automatically close when a download completes? A: I use the Glims plugin for this, which has a host of other useful features, too. A: I use SafariStand from Hetima.com (which also has many other useful features). A: I use ⌥⌘L which doesn't have any other feature and doesn't do it automatically (but doesn't use any extra RAM) ;-) A: killDownloadsWindow: killDownloadsWindow is a lightweight utility that runs in the background and closes Safari's annoying download window when a download finishes. Simple, but effective

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to have the Screen Sharing app in Snow Leopard to remember the last connected host? I'm wondering if there is an easier way. Currently, I launch Screen Sharing app, and a window appears asking for a host to connect to. I'd like it to already have the host field populated with my last connected host. Is there any way to enable such functionality? Thanks in advance. A: Don't know of a way to specifically do that, but you can set up browser bookmarks and/or desktop icons that will connect to specific hosts, if that's any help. For the former, create a bookmark that points to vnc://hostname.blah.com rather than the more usual http://hostname.blah.com. For the latter, create a text file with the .command suffix (e.g. 'myvnc.command') that contains the single line: open vnc://hostname.blah.com which will start the screen sharing session when you double-click it in Finder. You can also drag it to your dock if you wish.

Q: Is there any way to have the Screen Sharing app in Snow Leopard to remember the last connected host? I'm wondering if there is an easier way. Currently, I launch Screen Sharing app, and a window appears asking for a host to connect to. I'd like it to already have the host field populated with my last connected host. Is there any way to enable such functionality? Thanks in advance. A: Don't know of a way to specifically do that, but you can set up browser bookmarks and/or desktop icons that will connect to specific hosts, if that's any help. For the former, create a bookmark that points to vnc://hostname.blah.com rather than the more usual http://hostname.blah.com. For the latter, create a text file with the .command suffix (e.g. 'myvnc.command') that contains the single line: open vnc://hostname.blah.com which will start the screen sharing session when you double-click it in Finder. You can also drag it to your dock if you wish. A: I used to put the ScreenSharing app icon in my dock, but I found a better way. Finder's general "Connect to Server" capability is wonderful. Click Finder, or Command-Tab to it, then in the "Go" Menu, choose "Connect to Server". Alternatively, if you're a keyboard freak like me, make Finder active then press Command + k. Like Calum's suggestion above, the vnc://hostname.local. URI is correct. However, this method (using the Connect to Server window) remembers the last server you connected too :). As an aside, the Connect to Server dialog is infinitely flexible. You can put paths to Samba Shares (smb://), AFP Servers (afp://), VNC/Screen Sharing entries (vnc://), and almost anything with a protocol (except http/https, oddly enough) in there and it'll use it. FTP (ftp://) works, http:// works for Webdav sites, NOT websites, and more. A: Another way could be the following: Once you are connected with screen sharing, take a closer look at title bar of Screen Sharing´s main window. Next to the name of the host you´re connected to, sits a little proxy icon that looks like a document. Click exactly on this tiny icon and drag it to your dock. This will create a file called hostname.vncloc in your dock which you can now click to directly connect to your host. For additional comfort (if you haven´t done so already), while on the VNC connection prompt, make sure to check the checkbox prompting you to add the username and password you use for VNC to your keychain. A: Every time you open a screensharing location, Lion puts an .vncloc file in ~user/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing. Copy that to your programs folder and make a shortcut in dock. Done! Note: Lion has Library folder hidden in default. I use the free and easy dashboard widget to hide and show hidden files (thanks Matt): http://web.me.com/hansen.m/Site/Widgets.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I control an app on my iOS device from Mac or PC I would like to take control of my app on an iOS device (mostly an iPhone) from my MacBook Pro or Windows, doesn't matter which one. I know that it can be accomplished via Veency, and that's exactly what I need - but I do NOT want to jailbreak my iPhone. Is there a similar legal alternative? If not - is it something I could develop perhaps, or will I run into some SDK limitations for such a thing? A: All iOS SDK apps work within a security sandbox, and thus have no access or control over any other apps (with a few tiny exceptions for registered URLs). You could take control of you own app, but no others, including Apple's, on a stock OS device.

Q: How can I control an app on my iOS device from Mac or PC I would like to take control of my app on an iOS device (mostly an iPhone) from my MacBook Pro or Windows, doesn't matter which one. I know that it can be accomplished via Veency, and that's exactly what I need - but I do NOT want to jailbreak my iPhone. Is there a similar legal alternative? If not - is it something I could develop perhaps, or will I run into some SDK limitations for such a thing? A: All iOS SDK apps work within a security sandbox, and thus have no access or control over any other apps (with a few tiny exceptions for registered URLs). You could take control of you own app, but no others, including Apple's, on a stock OS device. A: I found solution using TeamViewer QuickSupport. Install quicksupport for ios on iphone and connect using teamviewer. I can't test, it requires ios11. A: Turn on Home Sharing using Remote 1.Connect iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a Wi-Fi network on the same local network as your Mac, PC, or Apple TV. *Open the Remote app on your iOS device. *Turn on Home Sharing from the Remote Settings screen. *Sign in to the same Apple ID you used on your other devices.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Count the number of open windows Is there a tool to count the number of windows I have open, including on all Spaces? I am curious and too lazy to do it manually. :) A: I guess this AppleScript should do: set numberOfWindows to "0" tell application "System Events" set allProcesses to application processes repeat with i from 1 to number of allProcesses tell process i set numberOfWindows to (numberOfWindows + (count windows)) end tell end repeat end tell

Q: Count the number of open windows Is there a tool to count the number of windows I have open, including on all Spaces? I am curious and too lazy to do it manually. :) A: I guess this AppleScript should do: set numberOfWindows to "0" tell application "System Events" set allProcesses to application processes repeat with i from 1 to number of allProcesses tell process i set numberOfWindows to (numberOfWindows + (count windows)) end tell end repeat end tell

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Service Battery Warning I have a 13" Macbook Pro (2009) and I randomly get the "Service Battery" warning. I haven't noticed a huge decrease in battery life but the cycle count is at 725. I'm out of warranty, and so I'd like to do it myself, but I couldn't seem to find a replacement battery on Apple's web site. All I could find was this article, but I'm out of warranty. Where can I get a new battery? Also, if I don't notice a huge decrease in battery life, should I even be that concerned over this? I've included a few of my stats from system profiler. Charge remaining (mAh): 4102 Full charge capacity (mAh): 4102 Condition: Check Battery Amperage (mA): -477 Voltage (mV): 12271 A: ifixit.com sells a battery replacement (and almost any other part for your laptop), you might want to check it out. Here's the link http://www.ifixit.com/MacBook-Parts/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody-Mid-2009-Battery/IF163-003 The part is out of stock, so you might want to be notified when it is available, it's all in the link.

Q: Service Battery Warning I have a 13" Macbook Pro (2009) and I randomly get the "Service Battery" warning. I haven't noticed a huge decrease in battery life but the cycle count is at 725. I'm out of warranty, and so I'd like to do it myself, but I couldn't seem to find a replacement battery on Apple's web site. All I could find was this article, but I'm out of warranty. Where can I get a new battery? Also, if I don't notice a huge decrease in battery life, should I even be that concerned over this? I've included a few of my stats from system profiler. Charge remaining (mAh): 4102 Full charge capacity (mAh): 4102 Condition: Check Battery Amperage (mA): -477 Voltage (mV): 12271 A: ifixit.com sells a battery replacement (and almost any other part for your laptop), you might want to check it out. Here's the link http://www.ifixit.com/MacBook-Parts/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody-Mid-2009-Battery/IF163-003 The part is out of stock, so you might want to be notified when it is available, it's all in the link.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What IR receivers would work on a 2010 MacBook Air? If you didn't already know, the 2010 MacBook Air doesn't have an IR receiver. Does anyone know of a very small and cheap IR receiver that would work with a MacBook Air and the Apple Remote? Here are a couple of examples, do you know if they work? * *Micro Mini USB to Infrared IrDA Wireless Port Dongle Adapter Receiver PC *Syba SD-U1IRDA-NM USB Fast Infra-Red Adapter Also, are there any good bluetooth remotes that work similarly to the Apple IR remote, and have similar design quality and size? A: For IR, it sounds like you want Twisted Melon's Manta TR1 ($20). As far as a Bluetooth remote goes, it depends on what you want to do with the remote. If all that matters to you is cheap, take a look at the Targus Bluetooth Laser Presentation Remote (~$20).

Q: What IR receivers would work on a 2010 MacBook Air? If you didn't already know, the 2010 MacBook Air doesn't have an IR receiver. Does anyone know of a very small and cheap IR receiver that would work with a MacBook Air and the Apple Remote? Here are a couple of examples, do you know if they work? * *Micro Mini USB to Infrared IrDA Wireless Port Dongle Adapter Receiver PC *Syba SD-U1IRDA-NM USB Fast Infra-Red Adapter Also, are there any good bluetooth remotes that work similarly to the Apple IR remote, and have similar design quality and size? A: For IR, it sounds like you want Twisted Melon's Manta TR1 ($20). As far as a Bluetooth remote goes, it depends on what you want to do with the remote. If all that matters to you is cheap, take a look at the Targus Bluetooth Laser Presentation Remote (~$20).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Snap feature for Mac? Coming from Windows I have gotten extremely used to the Windows Snap feature, which resizes a window when it's dragged to the screen edges. However, it's not built into OS X. Are there any 3rd party utilities that add this functionality? A: Spectacle was mentioned in a question that was marked as duplicate of this one, but has not yet appeared here. It is also open source: * *Spectacle at Github Also, OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) will have a side-to-side snap feature when it is released later in 2015 using Mission Control.

Q: Snap feature for Mac? Coming from Windows I have gotten extremely used to the Windows Snap feature, which resizes a window when it's dragged to the screen edges. However, it's not built into OS X. Are there any 3rd party utilities that add this functionality? A: Spectacle was mentioned in a question that was marked as duplicate of this one, but has not yet appeared here. It is also open source: * *Spectacle at Github Also, OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) will have a side-to-side snap feature when it is released later in 2015 using Mission Control. A: This functionality is now built into Mac OS. Hold down the green resize button, and you then get an overlay on both sides of the screen that show which side you will be snapping to. A: You may also be looking for SizeUp (13$). That emulates the Windows Snap features better, I think. A: Your looking for HyperDock ($9.95) HyperDock brings advanced window management features to Mac OS: - Move & resize windows just by holding down keys and moving your mouse. - Automatically resize windows when dragging to screen edges (Window Snapping). A: I use bettertouchtool which includes this feature for free this also alows you to create custom gestures for your trackpad / magic mouse / magic trackpad A: For window arranging: * *SizeUp $13 *Divvy $14 *Breeze $8 *ShiftIt Free *Mercury Mover $20 *Optimal Layout $14 *Cinch $7 *Moom $10 A: I've discovered another utility (released via the Mac App Store just today!) that seems to provide the exact functionality as Windows Snap. It's called Moom ($5), and it adds an iOS-style popover to the green Maximize button in Mac windows. The popover has buttons that let you do the following: * *Restore original position *Zoom to full screen *Move to left, zoom to half width *Move to right, zoom to half width *Move to top, zoom to half height *Move to bottom, zoom to half height You can use the mouse or keyboard to invoke any of this window moving and zooming, and you get additional functionality if you use the keyboard. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like just the ticket. A: You are looking for Cinch Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as 'hot zones'. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place. A: Cinch ($7) works a lot like Aero Snap. Most of the time it's more convenient to use keyboard shortcuts though. For that I'd recommend ShiftIt. It's free, extremely simple and also has an action for Windows-style maximize. For those possibly looking for snapping windows to screen elements: Zooom/2. A: Magnet, available on the Mac App Store for $7.99 by CrowdCafé is pretty good A: Since Spectacle from the top answer is no longer actively maintained, i would recommend Rectangle as the closest replacement for the Snap feature from Windows. By default you could snap windows to the sides, top/button or in the edges. There are also customizable shortcuts for doing so. And the best part: It is free :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use tethering to share my iPhone's connection with my iPad? I own an iPhone 4 and I am planning to buy an iPad. I am wondering whether I'll be able to use the tether feature in the iPhone to access the internet from the iPad over Bluetooth. If this works, I won't need to get a 3G-enabled iPad; if it doesn't, I'll need a 3G iPad. Any ideas? Thanks. A: iOS 4.3, available for free download on March 11, 2011, includes the Personal Hotspot feature introduced with the Verizon iPhone 4. You can get Internet access via 3G on the iPhone, then use your iPad via a WiFi connection to the phone to share the phone's Internet connection. It doesn't use Bluetooth, but it effectively works as well (better, in fact, since Personal Hotspot supports multiple connected devices and WiFi is faster than Bluetooth). Here is a story from Macworld that discusses how the Personal Hotspot feature works. It's pitched to the feature on the Verizon iPhone, but it should apply to the GSM iPhone 4's running iOS 4.3 as well.

Q: Can I use tethering to share my iPhone's connection with my iPad? I own an iPhone 4 and I am planning to buy an iPad. I am wondering whether I'll be able to use the tether feature in the iPhone to access the internet from the iPad over Bluetooth. If this works, I won't need to get a 3G-enabled iPad; if it doesn't, I'll need a 3G iPad. Any ideas? Thanks. A: iOS 4.3, available for free download on March 11, 2011, includes the Personal Hotspot feature introduced with the Verizon iPhone 4. You can get Internet access via 3G on the iPhone, then use your iPad via a WiFi connection to the phone to share the phone's Internet connection. It doesn't use Bluetooth, but it effectively works as well (better, in fact, since Personal Hotspot supports multiple connected devices and WiFi is faster than Bluetooth). Here is a story from Macworld that discusses how the Personal Hotspot feature works. It's pitched to the feature on the Verizon iPhone, but it should apply to the GSM iPhone 4's running iOS 4.3 as well. A: iOS doesn't support getting internet via tethering, so it won't work via Bluetooth. But iOS 4.3 brings WiFi hotspot to iPhone 4 so you can use that to get internet to the iPad. A: a note: This wifi hotspot will cost you more money through AT&T, as I understand it. If I am correct, and you currently have an unlimited data plan grandfathered in from an original iphone plan, that change will change your data plan too! Be careful what you do and call and/or talk to an AT&T rep in person to confirm/negotiate what you want!!! A: I too have no internet via bluetooth when Iphone4 (4.2.2 and 4.3) is tethered to Macbook . This appears to be broken in OSX 10.6.6 and 10.6.7. 10.6.5 was fine. Wifi tethering with 4.3 works from Macbook. However for Vista (Sony) and XP (Acer mini) I get wifi tethering but no internet connection. A: Bluetooth tethering is available via "MyWi" for iPhone/iPad (Requires jailbreak on both devices) Though it works great.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Screen Record my browser I need to record just my browser and nothing else on the desktop. Does anyone know how I can do that? I know I can do a screen recording with QuickTime, but it takes the entire desktop. I want to stick a demo of something into a presentation, therefore just want the browser visible. A: Quicktime 10 (Lion) now allows you to record an area of your screen, not just the entire screen. Select "File → New Screen Recording," click the red "record" button, and Quicktime will tell you:

Q: Screen Record my browser I need to record just my browser and nothing else on the desktop. Does anyone know how I can do that? I know I can do a screen recording with QuickTime, but it takes the entire desktop. I want to stick a demo of something into a presentation, therefore just want the browser visible. A: Quicktime 10 (Lion) now allows you to record an area of your screen, not just the entire screen. Select "File → New Screen Recording," click the red "record" button, and Quicktime will tell you: A: Screenflow is an excellent screencasting tool. It always records the whole desktop, but you can use its Crop Canvas tool after the recording is done to crop to just the browser screen. A: I used Snapz Pro X for a long time (now on OS X 10.6.6). It allows you to select the size of the screen you want to capture before you start capturing. I like the software and more importantly the support (once I misplaced the serial number after upgrading OS). In my opinion, worth every penny. Link: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ Hope this helps. Please mark your question as answered if this helps, thanks. A: Jing Basic is free and excellent. A: In the end I did the screen recording in quicktime and edited it in imovie. This had a cost of 0 which was pretty important for me as this isn't something I'd of typically done.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Does the iPad 2 Support the iPad 1 Dock? I'm thinking about selling my first generation iPad, but was wondering if I should sell the dock with it. I know that they are coming out with a new iPad dock specifically for the second generation. Will it not fit on the first generation dock? A: It's possible to use the first generation dock, but it's a bit difficult to get the iPad 2 connected, because of the tapered edge: See this link.

Q: Does the iPad 2 Support the iPad 1 Dock? I'm thinking about selling my first generation iPad, but was wondering if I should sell the dock with it. I know that they are coming out with a new iPad dock specifically for the second generation. Will it not fit on the first generation dock? A: It's possible to use the first generation dock, but it's a bit difficult to get the iPad 2 connected, because of the tapered edge: See this link. A: Hard to say for sure if the original iPad Dock will work with the iPad 2. Apple is selling an iPad 2 Dock, however, that is different than the original model. A: I would recommend waiting to sell the dock. I would venture a guess that it will, however, not perfectly. eg, I use my iphone edge dock with my iphone 4 and I think it is great!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I transfer and view xvid (avi) videos on an iPad? What type of video files can I watch on my iPad? I usually only have .avi files; is there an app that will allow me to play them? A: You could also try AirVideo, which will convert and stream xvid (and other formats) from a local PC. You can connect to it via local network or remotely as well.http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html

Q: Can I transfer and view xvid (avi) videos on an iPad? What type of video files can I watch on my iPad? I usually only have .avi files; is there an app that will allow me to play them? A: You could also try AirVideo, which will convert and stream xvid (and other formats) from a local PC. You can connect to it via local network or remotely as well.http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html A: You can use OPlayer HD to watch your video on your iPad. There's also a free ad-supported version available A: I usually use Handbrake to convert everything to .mp4 or .m4v (iTunes-friendly extension) before importing it to iTunes and syncing it to an iDevice. Just open it up and give it a source file, pick the proper preset, and press Go. A: Another idea is converting your videos using Macroplant's Adapter. Quite simple to do. A: Use VLC for the iPad (link is directly to the apple store for VLC) Quicky guide through here

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Did they increase RAM in iPad 2? Since there was no hint about more RAM during the presentation yesterday, did anyone find out if they stay with 256 or (like iPhone 4) increased it at least up to 512? A: Apple never releases information about memory. The current rumour is 512 MB. You should wait until some opens it up (e.g. iFixit). And there you go . iPad-2-Wi-Fi-Teardown. 512 MB of Samsung manufactured RAM.

Q: Did they increase RAM in iPad 2? Since there was no hint about more RAM during the presentation yesterday, did anyone find out if they stay with 256 or (like iPhone 4) increased it at least up to 512? A: Apple never releases information about memory. The current rumour is 512 MB. You should wait until some opens it up (e.g. iFixit). And there you go . iPad-2-Wi-Fi-Teardown. 512 MB of Samsung manufactured RAM. A: You know, I know how much RAM is in the devices I choose as well. I used to be such a predictor of how well a device functions, but I have to admit that Apple's latest round of iOS devices make me not really care anymore. Why worry about when it functions so smoothly. I for one hope more hardware manufacturer's adopt this philosophy, "Make it work well as an integrated device, not as a combination of desperate gadets".

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Apple Stackexchange Q: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open Whenever I connect my iPhone/iPad/iPod to MacMini, It automatically launches iTunes & start syncing every time. I am a developer & I frequently need to connect/disconnect different devices. So, whenever I connect device, I force quit iPhone & iTunes. Can I eliminate the initial launch of iTunes and iPhoto when iOS devices connect over USB? A: You just have to change the prefs of those 2 apps. For instance, iPhoto you have to choose "No application" in the pop-up menu show hereunder : And you adjust the settings of iTunes the same way : just check the checkbox "Prevent ...".

Q: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open Whenever I connect my iPhone/iPad/iPod to MacMini, It automatically launches iTunes & start syncing every time. I am a developer & I frequently need to connect/disconnect different devices. So, whenever I connect device, I force quit iPhone & iTunes. Can I eliminate the initial launch of iTunes and iPhoto when iOS devices connect over USB? A: You just have to change the prefs of those 2 apps. For instance, iPhoto you have to choose "No application" in the pop-up menu show hereunder : And you adjust the settings of iTunes the same way : just check the checkbox "Prevent ...". A: If you don't want iTunes to launch whenever you connect an iOS device, under your Account preference, in the System Preferences app, go to the Login Items tab and remove iTunesHelper.app. This is the app that monitor iOS device connector to launch iTunes. This works when you don't control all the iOS devices that connect as you have to set each to not launch iTunes. A: You could also un-check the box "Open iTunes when this i-Device is connected". You'll find this setting in iTunes, with the device connected and selected in the left hand side info bar. Then at the top, select summary (should default), then de-select that check box under options. A: If you are using Mac OS X Yosemite, you'll have to do another step. I followed these steps but it did not prevent Yosemite from opening iPhoto. Here is a link to preventing just the iPhoto launch from happening in Yosemite. Disable iPhoto auto launch when connecting an iPhone in Yosemite A: Perhaps this article should be updated with the new process for Photos? Launch Photos, Go through the setup process, select the import tab, next to the device deselect "Open Photos for this device".

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Apple Stackexchange Q: how to quickly reboot from OSX to Windows and back From Windows back to OSX is fairly easy. What I would like is a few less steps to get from OSX to Windows. Currently I launch system preferences -> startup disk - then select the bootcamp partition and press restart. Being completely new to OSX it seems to me that a one-click action on the dock should be possible with some sort of automation scripting. Howerver I know nothing about OSX (yet) and how that works. First, is such a thing possible, and second please provide some tutoral links for such automation system. A: Here is an Automator workflow I wrote to accomplish rebooting to Bootcamp automatically: https://github.com/ryanmcginnis/Restart-to-Bootcamp As of El Capitan, it is no longer possible to programmatically set the startup disk, even with SIP disabled.

Q: how to quickly reboot from OSX to Windows and back From Windows back to OSX is fairly easy. What I would like is a few less steps to get from OSX to Windows. Currently I launch system preferences -> startup disk - then select the bootcamp partition and press restart. Being completely new to OSX it seems to me that a one-click action on the dock should be possible with some sort of automation scripting. Howerver I know nothing about OSX (yet) and how that works. First, is such a thing possible, and second please provide some tutoral links for such automation system. A: Here is an Automator workflow I wrote to accomplish rebooting to Bootcamp automatically: https://github.com/ryanmcginnis/Restart-to-Bootcamp As of El Capitan, it is no longer possible to programmatically set the startup disk, even with SIP disabled. A: Note: This does not work on systems with System Integrity Protection enabled Write a shell script that does this #!/bin/sh # tell OSX to change the boot disk # nextonly just for the next time - without the default would be Windows /usr/sbin/bless -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP --setBoot --nextonly # reboot /sbin/shutdown -r now This can be called from a terminal window sudo bootcamp The use Automator to call this via an apple script and save as an application on run {input, parameters} do shell script "/Users/mark/bin/bootcamp" with administrator privileges return input end run A: I'm really fond of rEFIt. rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment. The OP seems to be interested about an OSX-to-Windows only command, so I guess this is not exactly what he wants. Still, I find rEFIt much easier to work with: if I want to go from one OS to another, I just need to reboot and then choose the OS I want. And if you ever need to work with 3 (or more) OS'es, you will see rEFIT is a much better option... It also allows you to boot up from an external hard drive or a pen drive, which is a very nice bonus. Edit From the rEFIt page: 2013-03-29: As you may have noticed, rEFIt is no longer actively maintained. Please check out rEFInd, a fork that is maintaned and under active development. A: It seems this script from SuperUser handles the closing of open windows (and stopping the scheduled restart if user presses 'cancel'): do shell script "hdiutil unmount /Volumes/<Windows_Partition> -quiet" do shell script "bless -device /dev/disk0s3 -legacy -setBoot -nextonly" with administrator privileges tell application "Finder" to restart A: Quick boot does it nicely. It's in the menu bar. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25414/quickboot A: What you can do is creating a shortcut to System Preferences / Startup Disk on your dock in which you can quickly change the startup disk to boot into Windows, directly. For this, drag the StartupDisk.prefPane from /System/Library/PreferencePanes/ into the right side of your dock: Now, you can click it, unlock it, select BOOTCAMP and hit restart. This works especially well on newer MacBooks, because you can use Touch ID to unlock. A: Another way to get from OS X to Windows quickly is to use Bootchamp, which adds a menu bar item like this: For my Windows-booting needs Bootchamp has worked well. (I learned about it from a similar question on Super User I once asked.) A: Hold ⌥ while booting, you'll get a prompt to choose which OS / drive you want to boot from! A: I wanted to use AppleScript instead of BootChamp since I had a problems with an always-running webapp when it resumed state when returning to OS X instead of launching regularly. Trying to bless the volume from an AppleScript did not work on my iMac with a 3TB fusion drive so rebooting after the bless would lead to an error screen "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY". What I had to do was bless the HDD's EFI disk id with the -device switch, mount the BootCamp volume with the -mount switch and skip the -legacy switch. For me the HDD's EFI partition disk id was disk1s1 but you can verify yours by running diskutil list in terminal and look for the EFI device from the HDD (not the SSD). I also wanted to do a "clean" restart so my applications would not resume when returning to OS X so I created an AppleScript that quits specific apps before continuing to the bless and reboot: try set apps to {"Safari", "Google Chrome", "Mail", "Twitter"} repeat with thisApp in apps tell application thisApp to quit end repeat end try delay 2 do shell script "bless -device /dev/disk1s1 -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP -setBoot -nextonly" password "YourPassWordHere" with administrator privileges tell application "Finder" to restart You could skip the part about the password if you don't want to store your admin password in the script in plaintext. If you put the script or an alias of it to ~/Library/Scripts and enable the Script Menu from Script Editor's preference you get an easy way to run it like with BootChamp.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's a good Mac app for making timelines (Gantt charts)? What's a good native Mac app for making timelines on Macs? I'm looking for an easy-to-use program that I can use to create timelines easily without delving into graphics programs like Illustrator. (Which I can use, but would be quite time consuming.) A: Merlin is a fairly user-friendly tool for making Gantt charts. It's commercial software, so it is going to set you back. The interface is a clean "Mac" interface. OpenProj is another possibility, and it is free.

Q: What's a good Mac app for making timelines (Gantt charts)? What's a good native Mac app for making timelines on Macs? I'm looking for an easy-to-use program that I can use to create timelines easily without delving into graphics programs like Illustrator. (Which I can use, but would be quite time consuming.) A: Merlin is a fairly user-friendly tool for making Gantt charts. It's commercial software, so it is going to set you back. The interface is a clean "Mac" interface. OpenProj is another possibility, and it is free. A: Bee Docs Timelines might suit your needs. The marketing is towards the 3D functionality, but I've had good results generating 2D timelines. Doesn't do Gantt charts, though. A: Revised because of edited question... OmniPlan can create very nice looking Gantt charts and timelines out of project plan data. It is a full-on project planning tool, which might be overkill. But the output is quite lovely. A: I've been looking for a replacement for MS Project for a long time. I haven't found an acceptable native app on the Mac that works well enough and opens/saves Microsoft Project files. The best i've found up to now is Gantter, which is web based and integrates with Google Docs. Surprisingly good. For serious Gantt charts, nothing beats Microsoft Project, so i often end up running that in a virtual machine (Parallels) on my Mac. Oh the pain! A: Project Libre is the closest to MS Project. Actually nothing is really close to MS Project. But as a MS Project user, I find Project Libre file compatible and quick to use. A: I've been using TikiToki for a while and it is good for graphical timelines. It has a Web App and desktop app. There's a trial here. And the web app is here: http://www.tiki-toki.com Another option is http://www.scribblecode.com Aeon Timeline which I have used the demo of and found good but haven't purchased yet. A: http://teamgantt.com … used by Oracle, Twitter, Sony. LeProf

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Applescript to retrieve account and password using keychain scripting How can I use keychain scripting to write a script in Applescript that retrieves the login and password of a website from the login keychain, given the website's URL? A: If you know the exact name of the keychain item, you could use the following: tell application "Keychain Scripting" to tell keychain "login.keychain" to get {account, password} of (first Internet key whose name is "www.google.com") Thing is, Keychain Scripting is slow and quite buggy. For example, searching for a specific keychain item in the example above using name contains instead of name is does not work. You would have to use a repeat statement similar to what @Philip posted: tell application "Keychain Scripting" to tell keychain "login.keychain" repeat with x from 1 to (count every Internet key) if name of Internet key x contains "Google" then return {account, password} of Internet key x end if end repeat end tell If you´re okay to use the command line and just want to look up stuff, I´d rather use: security find-internet-password -g -s www.google.com and then grep what you want.

Q: Applescript to retrieve account and password using keychain scripting How can I use keychain scripting to write a script in Applescript that retrieves the login and password of a website from the login keychain, given the website's URL? A: If you know the exact name of the keychain item, you could use the following: tell application "Keychain Scripting" to tell keychain "login.keychain" to get {account, password} of (first Internet key whose name is "www.google.com") Thing is, Keychain Scripting is slow and quite buggy. For example, searching for a specific keychain item in the example above using name contains instead of name is does not work. You would have to use a repeat statement similar to what @Philip posted: tell application "Keychain Scripting" to tell keychain "login.keychain" repeat with x from 1 to (count every Internet key) if name of Internet key x contains "Google" then return {account, password} of Internet key x end if end repeat end tell If you´re okay to use the command line and just want to look up stuff, I´d rather use: security find-internet-password -g -s www.google.com and then grep what you want. A: Keychain scripting is pretty well broken in Lion, so the security command-line tool is your best bet. Alternately, use Red Sweater's scripting addition, which is faster and easier to script for than the old Keychain Access scripts. Red Sweater Blog: Usable Keychain Scripting for Lion A: Keychain is exposed to Applescript via the Keychain Scripting application. There are numerous examples on the web, this being the most basic usage: set theShortUserName to do shell script "/usr/bin/whoami" --get the short userid. This is how your default keychain is labled. tell application "Keychain Scripting" set myKeyChain to keychain theShortUserName set theKeyList to every Internet key of myKeyChain --email keys are normally Internet Keys repeat with x from 1 to (length of theKeyList) set theKey to item x of theKeyList if the name of theKey is "name of key here" then set thePassword to password of theKey --grab the password set theUserID to the account of theKey --grab the userid end if end repeat end tell From MacScripter

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What activities cannot be interrupted? Time was, Macs crashed a lot. (Maybe PCs did too, but I've only ever used Macs). And over time, I became wary of doing two things at once. Today I wouldn't interrupt a back-up but I'm wondering -- is it okay to touch the keyboard during other long-running stuff like a big delete or download? Are there times when one should just leave an activity alone? A: Well, first of all, touching the keyboard will not crash you computer, even if you're doing heavy process. So if you're deleting a big number of files or downloading a big file, you can still go ahead and browse the web or write on a text editor, or whatever. And even if Safari or Pages would crash, the OS is robust enough not to let this crash affect the download. To sum it up, go ahead multi-task! Mac OS X is a really strong OS and you shouldn't worry about asking him to do multiple things, he's great at it.

Q: What activities cannot be interrupted? Time was, Macs crashed a lot. (Maybe PCs did too, but I've only ever used Macs). And over time, I became wary of doing two things at once. Today I wouldn't interrupt a back-up but I'm wondering -- is it okay to touch the keyboard during other long-running stuff like a big delete or download? Are there times when one should just leave an activity alone? A: Well, first of all, touching the keyboard will not crash you computer, even if you're doing heavy process. So if you're deleting a big number of files or downloading a big file, you can still go ahead and browse the web or write on a text editor, or whatever. And even if Safari or Pages would crash, the OS is robust enough not to let this crash affect the download. To sum it up, go ahead multi-task! Mac OS X is a really strong OS and you shouldn't worry about asking him to do multiple things, he's great at it. A: Software still crashes a lot, but moderns OSes (Windows too!), are much better at Sandboxing, a OS software technique which prevents a piece of software which crashes from affecting other running software, or the system stability. Realistically, the only processes which absolutely cannot be interrupted is hardware interfacing, which is almost invariably confined to drivers. It's worth being aware that it was never Macs or Windows Hardware that crashed a lot, it has always been mac or windows applications that are more or less buggy. Indeed, the era of windows 98 BSODs was largely due to the popularity of windows spawning many thousands of poorly written, buggy pieces of software, together with Win98's poor ability to prevent software crashing from affecting overall system stability. However, both OS X and Windows have come very far since then, so ther really isn't any task during which multitasking is likely to cause crashes, unless the task itself is composed of poorly written/buggy software. There are certainly processes which are slowed down by multitasking (sometimes more dramatically then one would expect, hard drive intensive tasks come to mind), but there are no tasks which would be damaged or broken by multitasking, only delayed. A: There are a few things that should be done more-or-less alone. A backup is a reasonable example (although Time Machine tolerates it well), and an even better example would be verifying the structure of the boot volume (this'll abort if there's too much disk activity), or live repartitioning of the boot disk (similar). There are also some combinations that should be avoided, like switching network connections or settings during a download. For the most part, though, OS X is set up to multi-task cleanly and safely, so don't worry about it too much.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iOS RSS reader App for offline browsing? I am looking for an iOS app (iPhone and/or iPad) that lets me store read articles permanently for easy offline browsing. I have tried a bunch of the ones out there, but somehow they just don't work. A: Reeder will do just what you ask for.

Q: iOS RSS reader App for offline browsing? I am looking for an iOS app (iPhone and/or iPad) that lets me store read articles permanently for easy offline browsing. I have tried a bunch of the ones out there, but somehow they just don't work. A: Reeder will do just what you ask for. A: In the title you ask for RSS reader offline. But you also request for "offline browsing" and say nothing about RSS in the body. So, I guess, what you really want is Read It Later (RIL). It doesn't offer offline RSS, but for a good reason: RSS is meant to feed in content, and RIL is content you hand-pick for later offline access. But if you want specifically RSS, then you should probably pick Byline, as @Weirdo suggested. A: I like Byline It does not store articles forever, however, but it caches up to 250 articles and Web pages they link to for offline reading; very handy for crippled RSS feeds that do not include the whole article, but just a teaser and a link to the Web page. It syncs with Google Reader and there is a free, ad-supported version and a reasonable priced app without ads. You can download it from the App Store. A: I use Reeder coupled with Instapaper: see something I want to salt away for offline reading, tuck it into Instapaper which caches it nicely. Instapaper also displays pieces in an "iBooks-like" way for easier reading with typographic control and more. http://www.instapaper.com/ The nice thing about this combo (one could also use Read Later) is that Reeder lets you set up a simple button to do the salting away on its services panel. Very slick.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I extract the audio signal from displayport? I have a macbook pro with minidisplayport (MDP) out. It's plugged into an external monitor. Sometimes via MDP-to-DualDVI, and sometimes directly via MDP. I'd like to extract the digital audio signal from the MDP connection. I've seen cables that go from MDP to DVI+Audio. I want a cable that goes from MDP to MDP+Audio so that I can feed the audio into something other than my Apple Cinema display (which has cruddy speakers). A: Since I don´t assume anyone to ever build a mini DisplayPort to miniDisplayPort+Audio Adapter, and the option of going mini-DP<>Dual DVI<>mini-DP seems to be quite expensive and bulky, why don´t you simply use the optical audio from your MacBook Pro´s audio output?

Q: How do I extract the audio signal from displayport? I have a macbook pro with minidisplayport (MDP) out. It's plugged into an external monitor. Sometimes via MDP-to-DualDVI, and sometimes directly via MDP. I'd like to extract the digital audio signal from the MDP connection. I've seen cables that go from MDP to DVI+Audio. I want a cable that goes from MDP to MDP+Audio so that I can feed the audio into something other than my Apple Cinema display (which has cruddy speakers). A: Since I don´t assume anyone to ever build a mini DisplayPort to miniDisplayPort+Audio Adapter, and the option of going mini-DP<>Dual DVI<>mini-DP seems to be quite expensive and bulky, why don´t you simply use the optical audio from your MacBook Pro´s audio output?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a C compiler for iPad? I would like to study C using iPad. Just simple programs. So, is there a C compiler for iPad? A: If you have an internet connection, you could use codepad.org. They let you compile many different languages from code you paste into a web form. Supports a lot of formats and has some nice sharing features.

Q: Is there a C compiler for iPad? I would like to study C using iPad. Just simple programs. So, is there a C compiler for iPad? A: If you have an internet connection, you could use codepad.org. They let you compile many different languages from code you paste into a web form. Supports a lot of formats and has some nice sharing features. A: If you're willing to jailbreak, the answer is yes. You can install GCC (the same open-source C compiler included with XCode) on your iPad. The process is a bit complicated, but it's certainly possible. You can find instructions here. The instructions I've linked only mention the iPhone, but the same process should work on the iPad. If you're not willing to jailbreak, then the solution VxJasonxV suggested might be your only option. A: Apple does not allow running any executable (machine) code other than that approved by the App store review process to run on an iPad. It might be possible to port a C interpreter to the iPad, as long as it was disabled from downloading C code. A: There are no C compiler App Store apps for any iOS device due to a clause in the iOS Developer Program License Agreement which basically says that: "Apple's iOS SDK prevents any software on the iPhone from downloading or running external executable code" That is taken from wikipedia. I believe I can't link to the agreement for some reason or another. If you just want an editor you might look at Project Edit. EDIT: Looks like the terms were updated but maybe only interpreted code is allowed like what the Pythonista app does for Python but not for compiled code. A: A cursory look at the iTunes Store reveals CodeToGo (iTunes Store Link). Since you cannot compile on the iPad itself, this app leverages a web service (IDEOne) in order to run the program and return the results to your device. The app is USD$3 and a universal binary (iPhone+iPad). The web service appears to be free, if not just a little ugly :). A: The CppCode ios app supports code-complete and does not require jailbreak and internet connection A: PowerC++ is an alternative to CPPCode if your iPhone does not support iOS 8 which CPPCode requires. But PowerC++ only uses a C++ Builder installed in a DOS environment customized for iOS. It seems a bit out of date and doesn't support newer versions of the C++ standards. Caution: it works fairly well most of the time but collapses on the invocation of a few of its functions. In addition, the font size may appear too small and can't be enlarged. A: Here are the C compiler options available via Cydia, along with some non-standard repositories that provide additional tools and packages that are interesting for anyone trying to make an iPad as functional as a computer... A: I have stumbled upon this C/C++ compiler; not sure what it's worth though but it does look like a simple-ish C/C++ compiler for iPhone/iPad. My guess is that it does not actually compile to iOS binary code, but to some sort of bytecode that the program then interprets. That's the only way it could get by Apple QA. A: Actually you can just go to compileonline.com You can use any programming language on this site, for free! Enjoy Online Compilation Just follow the following simple steps to compile and execute any of your favorites programming languages online using your favorite browser and without having any setup on your local machine. Step - 1 Select your favorite language which you want to execute. Step - 2 Type your source using available text editor. Step - 3 Finally click compile button [ Ctrl+E on Windows & Command+E on Mac ] to see the result. A: https://ide.cs50.io/ This is an integrated development environment which runs on a virtual ubuntu in your browser. Works well.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Share links (URLs) between iPads? Is there any easy way to share links between iPads? For example, if my friend is looking at something interesting and wants to send it to me. Is email still the best way? A: iMessage in iOS5 is a great alternative to email as you don't have to mess with a subject and it pushes the link quite rapidly to another iOS device. Settings -> Messages -> iMessage (On)

Q: Share links (URLs) between iPads? Is there any easy way to share links between iPads? For example, if my friend is looking at something interesting and wants to send it to me. Is email still the best way? A: iMessage in iOS5 is a great alternative to email as you don't have to mess with a subject and it pushes the link quite rapidly to another iOS device. Settings -> Messages -> iMessage (On) A: Device-to-Device, only e-mail, or chat software you may both be connected to would be the quickest, non-invasive way. A: Email is probably the best option. Or you could use a social network site. Something like Facebook is pretty good for stuff like that... A: Yes, e-mail. There is actually no easier way on iOS. But I'd advise setting up something like Yahoo Pipe or Twitter Mail so you can send a Carbon Copy to twitter, digg, delicious (all of which are good ways to share links) and / or google bookmarks to be able to choose to have your link into some kind of bookmarking other than private e-mails. A: For compatible iOS devices running iOS 7 and later, the easiest way to share URLs (and various other items) is to use AirDrop, a feature build into iOS. AirDrop works only on iPad (4th generation) and later running iOS 7. The complete list of compatible iOS devices can be found here. For more details, please go through the Apple Support article, Use AirDrop on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to sync usernames/passwords between Mac Firefox & iPad Safari? I use Firefox on my Mac and have hundreds of website passwords saved in its password store. I don't even remember my passwords half the time for the various sites that I use. How can I sync the usernames/passwords between the two devices? I'd also like to be able to sync my bookmarks if possible. I use Firefox Sync to keep my various computers in sync, but of course this will not work with the iPad. A: For passwords, I highly recommend 1Password. It will enter the passwords into Safari for iPad and it will sync your passwords with your Mac (if you setup the sync), and then you can search for what you need on the iPad.

Q: How to sync usernames/passwords between Mac Firefox & iPad Safari? I use Firefox on my Mac and have hundreds of website passwords saved in its password store. I don't even remember my passwords half the time for the various sites that I use. How can I sync the usernames/passwords between the two devices? I'd also like to be able to sync my bookmarks if possible. I use Firefox Sync to keep my various computers in sync, but of course this will not work with the iPad. A: For passwords, I highly recommend 1Password. It will enter the passwords into Safari for iPad and it will sync your passwords with your Mac (if you setup the sync), and then you can search for what you need on the iPad. A: You can synchronize your Firefox bookmarks with your iPad using iTunes: http://www.softsailor.com/how-to/47239-how-to-sync-firefox-internet-explorer-safari-bookmarks-with-your-ipad-iphone.html A: Since nobody else mentioned it, I'll suggest LastPass -- it's another password manager very similar to 1Password. Lastpass acquired Xmarks (a bookmark synchronizing engine for all four major browsers) and you can get a LastPass + Xmarks bundle to sync both your passwords and bookmarks. A: Firefox Home is intended to sync as much data from Mac Firefox to the iPad as possible. If that's not enough, you'll need a desktop program to get firefox syncing data to Safari and then through MobileMe or USB to the iPad. I'd go with 1Password for passwords and Firefox Home for the rest. A: If you create a Firefox account, you can sync your bookmarks and passwords across all devices. I created an account so I could access all my bookmarks and password across an android, iOS, windows, and Mac devices. It works brilliantly to sync everything and back up your information.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can a standalone JDK 1.5 run on Snow Leopard? There's a bug in JDK1.6 in Snow Leopard that's affecting Netbeans. I could solve this issue by using JDK1.5, but I noticed that /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5 links to JDK1.6. Is there a true JDK 1.5 for Snow Leopard that can be downloaded and installed rather than just one that points to the newer JDK 1.6? A: You can successfully add a true 1.5 version by following the instructions here: Installing Java 1.5 on Snow Leopard I'm not guessing about this. I've actually employed this technique for some of my tech support clients.

Q: Can a standalone JDK 1.5 run on Snow Leopard? There's a bug in JDK1.6 in Snow Leopard that's affecting Netbeans. I could solve this issue by using JDK1.5, but I noticed that /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5 links to JDK1.6. Is there a true JDK 1.5 for Snow Leopard that can be downloaded and installed rather than just one that points to the newer JDK 1.6? A: You can successfully add a true 1.5 version by following the instructions here: Installing Java 1.5 on Snow Leopard I'm not guessing about this. I've actually employed this technique for some of my tech support clients. A: Question is a bit old, but may still be relevant to some. I have just succesfully installed JDK1.5 on Mountain Lion by using this script. The nitty gritty details of the script are outlined at http://www.s-seven.net/java_15_mountain_lion. This makes JDK1.5 available at /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.5.0/Contents/Home. A: According to this Technical note: TN2110, J2SE 5.0 (which is synonymous with JDK 1.5) is only available with releases for 10.4 and 10.5 (see table 3 about three-quarters of the way down the document). On Apple's Developer site, you can still download Java packages from the past (note: you will need a developer or iTunes or apple account to see this page). I have not tried to install an older Java install from Apple, so I am unsure if any of these installs will give you a JDK 1.5 that is "unlinked" from JDK 1.6 or if these old installs will place nice together or just replace. In your Utilities folder there is an application called Java Preferences. If you launch that, you can see all the Java runtimes that you have installed already. Before you try downloading past Java installs, perhaps you can use that tool to see if you have a more complete JDK 1.5 installed. Sorry I cannot give you a more concrete answers, but I wanted to at least give you some leads to try. Also, have you tried checking the various support forums available for Netbeans? Perhaps another Netbean Mac OS X Snow Leopard user has already found and published the answer... Good luck!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash? I just ran out of disk space and I have like 15GB in my trash. Is there a way to not keep items older than say 7 days or limit the size of the Trash? I need a way to automatically keep this managed. A: Hazel can be configured to both keep files only for a certain amount of time and to keep the trash under a certain size. You could also add custom rules for deleting large files immediately or deleting files in the trash folders of other volumes.

Q: Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash? I just ran out of disk space and I have like 15GB in my trash. Is there a way to not keep items older than say 7 days or limit the size of the Trash? I need a way to automatically keep this managed. A: Hazel can be configured to both keep files only for a certain amount of time and to keep the trash under a certain size. You could also add custom rules for deleting large files immediately or deleting files in the trash folders of other volumes. A: The Trash is just a special folder (directory) that Apple creates and manages via the Finder so that you have some ability to easily "undelete" items (by removing them from the Trash) before you full-on delete (Empty Trash). Since this mechanism is just a directory on your startup disk, you technically have your entire startup disk's space to use up for Trash if you wanted to. If you wanted some measure of "auto-magical" removal files older than 7 days, you can use a simple bash script: find ~/.Trash -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm -rf {} \; Using your favorite text editor, paste the above line into a new file and then save the file as empty_trash_older_than_7_days.sh. In the terminal, be sure to use the chmod command to make it executable as such: chmod +x /path/to/empty_trash_older_than_7_days.sh This command, when executed in the terminal, will find all the files in your Trash (files from your Startup volume only --more on this in a minute) that are older than 7 days (from the time you run this command) and pass each file to the rm -rf command. Since rm is a unix command and has no notion of the Trash, it just does a unix delete which for our purposes is real delete (like Emptying the Trash). You could then use cron (if you are unfamiliar with Cron, check out the fine Cron entry on wikipedia) to setup a recurring execution of this script. Personally, my vote is to just train yourself to use the Empty Trash menu item every few minutes, days, weeks? P.S. if all this unix-ese is too frightening, I'd wager there are simple Mac Applications that people have written to do just this sort of thing. Hopefully someone with some knowledge of one ore more of these types of applications can offer up an answer or two as a counter balance. Good luck! P.S. I forgot to talk about the non-startup volume... If you delete a file from a volume OTHER than your startup volume, this file will go to the .Trash folder on that volume. For example, if you had a volume named Foo, there would be a .Trash folder at /Volumes/Foo/.Trash. What I have documented above will not delete those files. You'd have to setup something similar for each volume you have. A: John Wiegley's dirscan, in particular the cleanup.py example, is designed to deal with the issues identified with the approaches using find. dirscan provides a more general purpose solution in that you can set it up to scan/clean up different directories in different ways.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Permanently swapping option and command keys on a non-Apple keyboard Whenever I plug my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard into my MacBook Pro, I have to swap the Command and Option modifier keys. How can I prevent these keys from reverting to their default settings whenever I unplug the keyboard? A: I assume you already know about the Keyboard Pref Pane. I had exactly the same problem with an Ergonomic and an Arc. The settings didn't stick with external keyboards. Install KeyRemap4MacBook. It works for any Mac, btw. It remaps keys on all keyboards of a Mac - try to use Enter as Right-Cmd, e.g. * *Set Cmd to Alt etc. for all keyboards in KeyRemap4MacBook (both right and left). *Switch the keys in the Keyboard Pref Pane for the internal keyboard. Et voilà! I figured out that weird hack some time ago. It turned out to be rock solid. Only thing to remember: hardware based utilities such as SteerMouse use the 'real' keys, so you need to switch around some things.

Q: Permanently swapping option and command keys on a non-Apple keyboard Whenever I plug my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard into my MacBook Pro, I have to swap the Command and Option modifier keys. How can I prevent these keys from reverting to their default settings whenever I unplug the keyboard? A: I assume you already know about the Keyboard Pref Pane. I had exactly the same problem with an Ergonomic and an Arc. The settings didn't stick with external keyboards. Install KeyRemap4MacBook. It works for any Mac, btw. It remaps keys on all keyboards of a Mac - try to use Enter as Right-Cmd, e.g. * *Set Cmd to Alt etc. for all keyboards in KeyRemap4MacBook (both right and left). *Switch the keys in the Keyboard Pref Pane for the internal keyboard. Et voilà! I figured out that weird hack some time ago. It turned out to be rock solid. Only thing to remember: hardware based utilities such as SteerMouse use the 'real' keys, so you need to switch around some things. A: Thanks thyx & notme for suggesting KeyRemap4MacBook. Here are my enabled settings: * *General * *Don't remap an internal keyboard *Don't remap Apple's keyboards *Change Command_L Key (Left Command) * *Command_L to Option_L *Change Command_R Key (Right Command) * *Command_R to Option_R *Change Option_L Key (Left Option) * *Option_L to Command_L *Change Option_R Key (Right Option) * *Option_R to Command_R A: thyx is right. Grab KR4MB here: http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ - No need to worry about it not getting updated as the dev is super responsive and is constantly tinkering with the app making it better with every release. Another note is that it's open source so if you know your way around you can make changes yourself but I doubt you will need to. It's great software, I have been using it for years and on a wide variety of keyboards with no problems that could not be easily amended by reading the prepared docs. Give it a try, if you use Safari check out his extension "keystroke." I wouldn't be able to use safari without it. A: KeyRemap4MacBook is now Karabiner (currently 10.6.0); still available at the links above, and also https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ Never used it before, so I can't speak to what changed with the name. It's consistent with the previous descriptions; I used the settings exactly as described in TitaniumDecoy's answer, then also mapped the Application key to Fn. Suddenly, my ancient KeyTronic LT Designer is much more OSX-friendly. There are lots of options, so I can understand the frustration with configuring it. On the other hand, there are lots of options. Maps can depend on which application you're running, and there are a lot of preconfigured settings that take advantage of that feature. The only thing I'd like to see added is to have different maps for different keyboards, automatically and simultaneously. You can disable mapping on Apple keyboards, and/or integral keyboards. But I can't swap CapsLock for Ctrl everywhere (yup, I <3 Emacs), while swapping Option and Command on only the PC-101 keyboard. However, you can create several profiles, and switch between them easily, so that's a 90% solution. Joe Bob says "If you're suffering with a Windows keyboard, check it out."

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal (command line)? Often when I work in the Terminal (the command line) I need to edit some text files. I prefer to edit text files using TextWrangler. How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal? I tried with /Applications/TextWrangler.app/ my_text_file.txt but it doesn't work since TextWrangler.app/ is a directory. A: As a one-time thing, open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app myfile.txt open -b com.barebones.textwrangler myfile.txt # same thing by ID You can also create an alias for opening TextWrangler, that you would put on the .bash_profile file, which is an hidden file by default that is usually in your home directory. This is the command that you could insert: # Type 'tw' on the terminal to open TextWrangler alias tw='open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app' To make TextWrangler the default: * *"Get Info" on a text file in the Finder. *Change the "Open with:" program to TextWrangler, in the fifth information pane. *Click the "Change All..." button at the bottom of the pane.

Q: How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal (command line)? Often when I work in the Terminal (the command line) I need to edit some text files. I prefer to edit text files using TextWrangler. How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal? I tried with /Applications/TextWrangler.app/ my_text_file.txt but it doesn't work since TextWrangler.app/ is a directory. A: As a one-time thing, open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app myfile.txt open -b com.barebones.textwrangler myfile.txt # same thing by ID You can also create an alias for opening TextWrangler, that you would put on the .bash_profile file, which is an hidden file by default that is usually in your home directory. This is the command that you could insert: # Type 'tw' on the terminal to open TextWrangler alias tw='open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app' To make TextWrangler the default: * *"Get Info" on a text file in the Finder. *Change the "Open with:" program to TextWrangler, in the fifth information pane. *Click the "Change All..." button at the bottom of the pane. A: If you have the TextWrangler command line tools installed, you can just type edit my_text_file.txt in the terminal and it should open. If this doesn't work you have to install the TextWrangler command line tools. If you installed the MacApp store version, download the installer from this page: http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/cmd-line-tools.html If you downloaded from the BareBones Software site, there should be an "install command line tools" command in either the Application (TextWrangler) menu or the help menu. I think it's in the Text Wrangler menu. A: If you have the TextWrangler command line tools installed you can use 'edit' to open files in TextWrangler from the command line. You should have been prompted at the initial install to install the tools, or you can go to the preferences and the "Tools" section and click the installer button. It also gives you twdiff, a TextWrangler-based diff tool. You can 'man edit' if the tools are installed to see all the switches available. A: IMO, using open is the correct approach. However it requires a bit of typing, so you may want to consider creating a shell alias for it. This approach is also good if you don't want to change your default editors. $ alias tw='open -a /Applications/TextWrangler.app' $ tw myfile.txt To have the alias available in every shell you open, just add the line to .bashrc in your home directory. If you don't have a .bashrc yet, just create it yourself and add the line. Then open a new terminal tab to try it out. A: Another way to edit the text file: /Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/MacOS/TextWrangler my_text_file.txt Not all applications contain a binary in the MacOS directory the same name as their .app though, so replicating this for another program might be different.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How does finder show a pc computer name but I can't ping it? I have a MBP running 10.6. This is my first mac. In finder, it sees the windows 7 machines and windows home server just find. I can click on those computers and see their shares. If I open up terminal and try to ping the computer name, it doesn't resolve. I have had to add the computers to the host file. I don't understand why finder appears to associate the name with the correct server from the terminal doesn't. Can somebody explain it or explain how I can get the same behavior from terminal? A: If a machine is found via Bonjour/multicast DNS, you may need to add a .local suffix to use the hostname in Terminal. If it was found via NetBIOS (either broadcast or WINS), you may need to use nmblookup to get an IP address: rushlight:10120 Z$ nmblookup mress querying mress on 10.0.204.255 10.0.204.14 mress<00> 10.0.204.14 mress<00>

Q: How does finder show a pc computer name but I can't ping it? I have a MBP running 10.6. This is my first mac. In finder, it sees the windows 7 machines and windows home server just find. I can click on those computers and see their shares. If I open up terminal and try to ping the computer name, it doesn't resolve. I have had to add the computers to the host file. I don't understand why finder appears to associate the name with the correct server from the terminal doesn't. Can somebody explain it or explain how I can get the same behavior from terminal? A: If a machine is found via Bonjour/multicast DNS, you may need to add a .local suffix to use the hostname in Terminal. If it was found via NetBIOS (either broadcast or WINS), you may need to use nmblookup to get an IP address: rushlight:10120 Z$ nmblookup mress querying mress on 10.0.204.255 10.0.204.14 mress<00> 10.0.204.14 mress<00> A: ping on Mac OS X uses basic host lookup via DNS or Bonjour, but your Windows machines are (most likely) being advertised on your network by NetBIOS which ping doesn't consult. A: If the ping can't resolve the host, then it's a DNS issue; your computer doesn't have a way to translate the computer name into an IP address. When Finder looks for computers to share files with, it probably sends a packet to what's called a "multicast" address, which just means it goes to all devices on the network/subnet. It'll say something to the effect of "Hey, do you want to share files?" Any computers with file sharing enabled will respond. This can also be accomplished through Bonjour. As far as how to get Terminal to do the same thing, I don't think you can link it with Finder's list of file-sharing partners. When given a computer name, ping will need an IP to send its request to, and that has to come from either DNS or your hosts file.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why use the terminal in daily non-programming life Disclaimer: I'm a Windows boy awaiting his first mac. I never bothered learning/using command-line interfaces. I've been looking at the Terminal Tips and Tricks topic and I don't see how any of those commands would be faster than using the GUI. For example, someone explained how to search with spotlight, using the terminal. How is this better than just using spotlight? Could you guys give some real-life examples of situations where you really benefited from your terminal knowledge ? A: Many people coming over to Mac OS X come from a Unix-ish environment and prefer terminals, so for them there are command line interfaces to many things. If you prefer to stick with the GUI, no problem.

Q: Why use the terminal in daily non-programming life Disclaimer: I'm a Windows boy awaiting his first mac. I never bothered learning/using command-line interfaces. I've been looking at the Terminal Tips and Tricks topic and I don't see how any of those commands would be faster than using the GUI. For example, someone explained how to search with spotlight, using the terminal. How is this better than just using spotlight? Could you guys give some real-life examples of situations where you really benefited from your terminal knowledge ? A: Many people coming over to Mac OS X come from a Unix-ish environment and prefer terminals, so for them there are command line interfaces to many things. If you prefer to stick with the GUI, no problem. A: Aside for development-related purposes, the command line is an excellent tool for automating actions, scripting, and a host of other things that are probably faster than doing them in say, the Finder. For instance, sometimes I'll be in a folder and want to remove a certain set of files (say, Hello-1.jpg, Hello-2.jpg, Hello-3.jpg, and so on). In the Finder, I'd have to manually select all these files (my Finder is normally set to icon view, so it's a pain to select many files), then move to the trash (granted, I do use the shortcut), and then empty the trash (again, shortcut). For some people, this is convenient enough, but when you get used to using the Terminal, you find that simply typing rm Hello-* is a much faster way to do it. Of course, this is only one example (a complicated process like moving files to a server or batch resizing photos will gain even more from using the Terminal), but the more you'll look into the topic, the more useful you'll find it. If you're willing to adopt using the Terminal, there's really no reason not to (you'll get slightly less productive in the beginning, but you'll get much better fast). A: The command line often has more (and different) options than the GUI tools. Apple's done a good job of giving you the capabilities and tools a normal user needs in the GUI. If you want to do unusual things, it's often missing capabilities you need; for example, I do a lot of sysadmin type work, and often need the additional options that shell commands give. Here's a specific example: if I need to move someone else's files to a different disk, I want to keep them as the file owner. If I use the Finder, I'm going to wind up owning the copied files; if I use sudo cp -Rp, it preserves ownership and permissions. Another example: not all preference settings are available in the GUI, but the defaults command can set anything that's stored in the Apple-standard plist format preference file. Mind you, there are plenty of things that're easy to do in the GUI, but hard/impossible in the terminal. If you want all of the capabilities of OS X available to you, you need to be fluent in both GUI and terminal. A: Personally, I don't think using the command line for searching is better than Spotlight. As with most of these, they are personal preferences. One thing I like to do in the Terminal is when I have a large directory of stuff to delete and I just don't want to deal with the two-step Move to Trash and Empty Trash, I will just use the Terminal to rm the files. As it happens, I am a developer and I end up using the Terminal quite often in that context. But truthfully, you can very easily use a Macintosh without ever opening a Terminal window. A large potion of my extended family is in this group and they do quite a lot with their Macintosh computers. A: Some things are just a bit easier to do from the command line. For example, lets say I wanted to find every mp3 on my system, and copy it to /Volumes/MyMP3s unixish way of doing this (works well, takes a while) find / -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {} /Volumes/MyMP3s \; Works great. 15 seconds of typing vs. quite some time hunting and clicking. Why would you want to use spotlight from the command line? It can make operations like the above faster. Since spotlight is using an optimized database (rather than scanning inodes) it will be faster to find the list of mp3s on your system. You can then do something like this (pseudo code, not tested) foreach file `mdfind -name mp3`; do cp $file /Volumes/MyMP3s done; A: For many typical tasks, the command line is merely an alternative for people who prefer typing to pointing and clicking. Using the command line is also a good way to learn what commands can go into scripts containing long sequences of things to do automatically, which one can then start without having to spend a lot of time repeatedly clicking around for all the individual actions.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Optimizing system for installed software What does it actually do when showing this message on the end of a installation? A: During the "optimizing" stage, the system is "prebinding" executables. As per Wikipedia: Prebinding is a method for reducing the time it takes to launch executables in the Mach-O file format. Prebinding looks up memory addresses of symbols in libraries that the program is using before the program is launched, and stores this information ahead-of-time, so that the computer need not look up (bind) addresses on each launch.

Q: Optimizing system for installed software What does it actually do when showing this message on the end of a installation? A: During the "optimizing" stage, the system is "prebinding" executables. As per Wikipedia: Prebinding is a method for reducing the time it takes to launch executables in the Mach-O file format. Prebinding looks up memory addresses of symbols in libraries that the program is using before the program is launched, and stores this information ahead-of-time, so that the computer need not look up (bind) addresses on each launch.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Problems changing drive icon Want to change the icon of my main drive. I have a bunch of drive icons from interfacelift. They appear to be just .icns packed in the resource fork (%file returns empty, and %cat prints nothing, which is fine, I understand why). My understanding is the way to use these was: * *open the icon file info (cmd-i) *select the icon in the upper left, copy it (cmd-c) *select the drive you want to change pull up info (cmd-i) *paste icon on top of icon on drive Makes sense to me. Doesn't work. Checked from shell, .VolumeIcon.icns doesn't exist on the drive. Any thoughts? I feel dumb, I've done this before, can't make it work now. (10.6.6) A: Did you click on the icon to select it before pasting? I found I needed to do that or it would ignore my paste.

Q: Problems changing drive icon Want to change the icon of my main drive. I have a bunch of drive icons from interfacelift. They appear to be just .icns packed in the resource fork (%file returns empty, and %cat prints nothing, which is fine, I understand why). My understanding is the way to use these was: * *open the icon file info (cmd-i) *select the icon in the upper left, copy it (cmd-c) *select the drive you want to change pull up info (cmd-i) *paste icon on top of icon on drive Makes sense to me. Doesn't work. Checked from shell, .VolumeIcon.icns doesn't exist on the drive. Any thoughts? I feel dumb, I've done this before, can't make it work now. (10.6.6) A: Did you click on the icon to select it before pasting? I found I needed to do that or it would ignore my paste. A: sigh figured it out. Should have tried this first. I needed to give myself write permissions to the drives. Just added my account as read-write to the drive itself from the info pane. Everything worked after that. A: For anyone coming to this page for help with changing the icons of applications, it might be helpful to know that a similar solution is needed. Select the Application you wish to change the icon of, press cmd i, and look at the bottom of the window. Change "everyone" to read/write and then proceed to drag and drop your icon on the applications icon within the info pane. Don't forget to change the permissions back to read only for "everyone" when you're finished. A: Check to make sure you downloaded the correct version. I just went to interfacelift.com, selected an icon set, chose Mac OS X download. The icon set downloaded and unpacked as folder with the icons as folders. I then followed the same steps you listed above and changed the icon of one of my drives. Before After If you can see the Info window in the 2nd picture (the After), the icon at the top of that window is highlighted with a slight blueish border. That's what it looks like when it is selected. Hope this helps. A: I have found that OSX 10.6 default permissions can cause the problem in third party applications. There is generally not a problem changing Apple icons, because they require your password. To edit the permissions: * *Find your application in finder in the Application folder. *Right click -> Get Info, or select the application and press cmd + i. *Edit the application permission by clicking the lock in the bottom right corder, see picture of bottom of the Get Info panel. *Change the permissions for everyone to Read & Write. Now you can drag the .icns icon image you like over the icon in the top left corner of the Get Info panel.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Center Window on Screen I'm creating a few screen casts and wanted to exactly center my windows in my screen. Any good way to do this on the Mac? I found an Apple Script example (and a few linked screens) but none of them support centering 'Terminal' vertically (although they do support centering other applications vertically). A: I enjoy using SizeUp to manage windows, one of which is a center on screen option. Good luck.

Q: Center Window on Screen I'm creating a few screen casts and wanted to exactly center my windows in my screen. Any good way to do this on the Mac? I found an Apple Script example (and a few linked screens) but none of them support centering 'Terminal' vertically (although they do support centering other applications vertically). A: I enjoy using SizeUp to manage windows, one of which is a center on screen option. Good luck. A: Not sure if this might do what you are looking for as well, but Divvy is also a neat piece of software for arranging windows. I suggest you watch the screencast on their website to see if it does what you are looking for, but basically it has a grid where you can change the size and position of the frontmost window. You can also change the grid it displays to have finer control over the size of the windows you are working with. Hope this helps. A: Kevin. I’m the author of the post that you linked to on incrementalism.net. The reason the Terminal window moves to the top is just a bug in Terminal’s AppleScript support. This version does the vertical centering and works around the Terminal bug: tell application "Finder" set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize end tell tell application "System Events" set myFrontMost to name of first item of ¬ (processes whose frontmost is true) end tell try tell application myFrontMost set windowSize to bounds of window 1 set windowXl to item 1 of windowSize set windowYt to item 2 of windowSize set windowXr to item 3 of windowSize set windowYb to item 4 of windowSize set windowWidth to windowXr - windowXl set windowHeight to windowYb - windowYt if myFrontMost is "Terminal" then set bounds of window 1 to {¬ round ((screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenHeight + windowHeight) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenWidth + windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenHeight + windowHeight) / 2 + windowHeight) rounding as taught in school} else set bounds of window 1 to {¬ round ((screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenHeight - windowHeight) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenWidth + windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬ round ((screenHeight + windowHeight) / 2) rounding as taught in school} end if set the result to bounds of window 1 end tell end try I hope that helps, if you haven’t already paid for one of the other options. I also added a comment with this workaround to the original post. A: Fixes for: * *The bug with Terminal *Weird process names (firefox-bin) *Sizes of menu bar and Dock *Applescript support disabled in Preview *Windows that are almost full width / height will be resized to full width / height Remarks: * *rounding as taught in school isn't really needed * *the default is rounding to nearest, which rounds .5 to the nearest even integer (e.g 22.5 to 22) *Really, mixedCase variable names even here? Still, there's a dozen more things that could go wrong. The Dock part isn't really needed if you have hiding always turned on. (But if for example orientation = bottom, you might want to set dth to dth - 4.) -- defaults write /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool yes tell app "Finder" to set {0, 0, dtw, dth} to bounds of window of desktop set dtw0 to dtw set dth0 to dth tell app "System Events" to tell dock preferences set hiding to autohide set edge to screen edge as string end tell if hiding then set docksize to 4 else tell app "System Events" to tell process "Dock" set sz to size in list 1 if edge = "bottom" then set docksize to item 2 of sz else set docksize to item 1 of sz end if end tell end if if edge = "bottom" then set dth to dth - docksize else if edge = "right" then set dtw to dtw - docksize else if edge = "left" then set dtw to dtw + docksize end if set a to (path to frontmost application as text) try tell app a set b to bounds of window 1 set w to (item 3 of b) - (item 1 of b) set h to (item 4 of b) - (item 2 of b) if w > dtw0 - 40 then set w to dtw if h > dth0 - 40 then set h to dth set item 1 of b to {dtw - w} / 2 set item 1 of b to (dtw - w) / 2 set item 2 of b to (dth - h + 22) / 2 set item 3 of b to (dtw + w) / 2 set item 4 of b to (dth + h + 22) / 2 end tell if app "Terminal" is frontmost then tell app "Terminal" to set position of window 1 to b else tell app a to set bounds of window 1 to b end if end try A: If you want to exactly center them (so horizontally and vertically) then you can use the example given in the comments on the site you linked to, and adapt the answer posted to this stackoverflow question. I ended up with this: tell application "System Events" to tell application "Finder" set {posx, posy, screenWidth, screenHeight} to bounds of window of desktop end tell tell application "Terminal" to set {windowLeft, windowTop, windowRight, windowBottom} to bounds of window 1 set windowWidth to windowRight - windowLeft set windowHeight to windowBottom - windowTop set newBounds to {¬ ((screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2), ¬ ((screenHeight - windowHeight) / 2), ¬ ((screenWidth + windowWidth) / 2), ¬ ((screenHeight + windowHeight) / 2) ¬ } set newPosition to {¬ ((screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2), ¬ ((screenHeight - windowHeight) / 2) ¬ } tell application "Terminal" to set bounds of window 1 to newBounds tell application "Terminal" to set position of window 1 to newPosition Keep in mind that this will center window 1, so if you happen to use tools like Visor, you will have to use window 2 instead. A: An alternative is MercuryMover. 'Center window' is one of the built-in shortcuts. You can move windows around with shortcuts, define custom positions - and do some more. Hint: try the preference file to define custom pixel numbers other than 1, 10, 100. It is expensive with $20, but pays over time. Anyway, there's an old-school trial… MacUpdate: MercuryMover

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to delete another machine's time machine backup? I've used my Time Machine drive to back up my main machine, and also a friend's mac. Her machine is now being backed up on another Time Machine drive, and she'd like me to delete her backup. I'm familiar with the (perhaps obscure) way to delete a particular time machine backup, or how to delete all backups of a particular file, but I have no idea how to delete another machine's backup. If I had access to her machine, I'd plug in the drive and delete the entire backup of her drives using time machine on her computer. Whether or not it is reasonable to have to do this is irrelevant, I guess, because that machine isn't available to me. :) Please nobody suggest I drag her backup to the trash. I did that once and the trash never finished emptying. Any ideas? A: (Unearthing this 12 years old question... but I didn't find an answer elsewhere) On Ventura you need to pass "-p" to specifiy a path, e.g.: sudo tmutil delete -p "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Olivier’s MacBook Pro" It's painfully slow, but it seems to be working

Q: How to delete another machine's time machine backup? I've used my Time Machine drive to back up my main machine, and also a friend's mac. Her machine is now being backed up on another Time Machine drive, and she'd like me to delete her backup. I'm familiar with the (perhaps obscure) way to delete a particular time machine backup, or how to delete all backups of a particular file, but I have no idea how to delete another machine's backup. If I had access to her machine, I'd plug in the drive and delete the entire backup of her drives using time machine on her computer. Whether or not it is reasonable to have to do this is irrelevant, I guess, because that machine isn't available to me. :) Please nobody suggest I drag her backup to the trash. I did that once and the trash never finished emptying. Any ideas? A: (Unearthing this 12 years old question... but I didn't find an answer elsewhere) On Ventura you need to pass "-p" to specifiy a path, e.g.: sudo tmutil delete -p "/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Olivier’s MacBook Pro" It's painfully slow, but it seems to be working A: You can use the tmutil tool to delete backups one by one. sudo tmutil delete -p /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss If you are sure you have selected the correct name, you can delete all backups from that one Mac by not passing in the time and letting it delete the entire folder: sudo tmutil delete -p /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name The sudo command needs your password (and it won't echo to the screen, so just type it and pause to be sure you're dating the correct files before pressing enter). Editor note: Older versions of macOS may not accept the -p flag, and it should be omitted. Run man tmutil to see documentation for the tool (q to exit). A: It should be something along the lines of $ sudo rm -rf /Volumes/BackupVolume/Backups.backupdb/machinename

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Best, or best supported, USB-Serial adaptor for OSX I have various devices to connect to my iMac using good-old RS-232. Of course, I only have USB connectors on my machine. I have a couple of Prolific PL2303-based cables, and they seem to work OK, but the kext provided seems a little flaky and I'm not sure about long-term support. What is the most-stable, best-supported USB-Serial chip-set or cable? A: I have two Prolific USB-to-serial adapters but they are made by different Vendors (one is Prolific, the other ATEN). I've used their supplied drivers just fine. Note that there are open source drivers for these devices too available here: https://github.com/failberg/osx-pl2303 FYI my use case is actually patching them through to a VirtualBox Windows VM and using them in Windows, so I have two layers of drivers and have not had any problems yet. However, I think the best supported USB-to-serial devices are those made by Belkin. This is subjective, but I've used them for years without problem, and they are a large company with a reputation. They will likely be around in the future.

Q: Best, or best supported, USB-Serial adaptor for OSX I have various devices to connect to my iMac using good-old RS-232. Of course, I only have USB connectors on my machine. I have a couple of Prolific PL2303-based cables, and they seem to work OK, but the kext provided seems a little flaky and I'm not sure about long-term support. What is the most-stable, best-supported USB-Serial chip-set or cable? A: I have two Prolific USB-to-serial adapters but they are made by different Vendors (one is Prolific, the other ATEN). I've used their supplied drivers just fine. Note that there are open source drivers for these devices too available here: https://github.com/failberg/osx-pl2303 FYI my use case is actually patching them through to a VirtualBox Windows VM and using them in Windows, so I have two layers of drivers and have not had any problems yet. However, I think the best supported USB-to-serial devices are those made by Belkin. This is subjective, but I've used them for years without problem, and they are a large company with a reputation. They will likely be around in the future. A: Just to be clear, I have not used this device myself. Stewart Cheshire, creator of ZeroConf (the basis of Bonjour), gave a Google Tech Talk on the subject of ZeroConf, and presented a couple of embedded devices (Cameras, and an RS-232 unit). I've always wanted to try this out, but have never had a good enough use to cough up the money to do so. Stewart presented an RS-232 over Ethernet module from SitePlayer. They have a built in web interface used to set up the ethernet and serial parameters, and if I understand correctly, you simply telnet to the device's IP address in order to be presented with the serial interface. (See their pdf on the subject.) A: I'm professionaly using a Roline USB to Serial 0.3 m long adapter. I'm using the PL2303 OSX driver. When I plug my cable, this driver dynamically create /dev/tty.PL2303-0000nnnn. I use it from a Terminal or xterm window with: screen /dev/tty.PL2303-0000nnnn. 0 problem with hundreds of connections on network equipments and servers (Brocade, Cisco, Extreme, Oracle (ex. Sun)…). A: Both Prolific PL2303 and FTDI devices work fine. I'm using a TrendNET TU-S9 v2 currently (PL-2303). Other than the vendor provided driver or driver from Prolific's Taiwan website, options include https://www.mac-usb-serial.com (fairly inexpensive driver), and the nice Mac app https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/serial/ (not free but works well) which has built-in drivers and doesn't require a separate driver installation. I have also seen claims that FTDI drivers are built into MacOS now but haven't personally tested since I don't have a FTDI device. One thing to be aware of - to connect to PC's and certain PC-like devices with serial ports (some routers/firewalls etc) you need a null modem adaptor or null modem cable between your USB-serial device and the PC/device you're connecting to, usually with female-female connectors.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I find my CPU's temperature? There are a number of posts that talk about CPU temperature. Is there a utility built in to Mac OSX that I can use to determine the current temperature of the CPU? A: While iStat Menus @Mark mentioned are no longer freeware, the iStat nano and iStat Pro Dashboard widgets are free. I personally use iStat nano for my system monitoring needs. Here it is showing the temps it can read on my iMac: If you hover over the widget, you can change the view. I usually have it running in "Overview" mode, which shows CPU, RAM, HDD*, fan*, temperature*, network* and uptime info. *) user-configurable, e.g. which temp sensor's readings are displayed

Q: How do I find my CPU's temperature? There are a number of posts that talk about CPU temperature. Is there a utility built in to Mac OSX that I can use to determine the current temperature of the CPU? A: While iStat Menus @Mark mentioned are no longer freeware, the iStat nano and iStat Pro Dashboard widgets are free. I personally use iStat nano for my system monitoring needs. Here it is showing the temps it can read on my iMac: If you hover over the widget, you can change the view. I usually have it running in "Overview" mode, which shows CPU, RAM, HDD*, fan*, temperature*, network* and uptime info. *) user-configurable, e.g. which temp sensor's readings are displayed A: I use smcFanControl which can tell the internal temp of your computer as well control the speed of the fan (in case you need to increase/decrease the speed manually). A: There are APIs that code can call. Various utilities have been written touse them. Ones I have used are Temperature Monitor - free - there is also a Dashboard widget iStat Menus - which now has to be paid for the old version was free

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to correctly pipe output into "say" in terminal I realized that the say command can be great when combined with another command/program because it can read you the output. I tried to pipe the output from leave to say by typing the following in terminal, but it didn't work. leave +5 | say What is the correct way to do this? A: Based on mankoff's answer, this works: leave +1 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done although leave no longer vanishes into the background and lets you carry on typing. Similarly: leave +1 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done & will make it vanish into the background, but will also speak a (harmless) process ID number as well. So neither is quite perfect, but both work. (I was looking for a solution to: ping google.com | say which suffers a similar problem, and someone suggested the above as a solution. I didn't add this as a comment to mankoff's answer because I can't work out how to put spaces and newlines in comments.).

Q: How to correctly pipe output into "say" in terminal I realized that the say command can be great when combined with another command/program because it can read you the output. I tried to pipe the output from leave to say by typing the following in terminal, but it didn't work. leave +5 | say What is the correct way to do this? A: Based on mankoff's answer, this works: leave +1 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done although leave no longer vanishes into the background and lets you carry on typing. Similarly: leave +1 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done & will make it vanish into the background, but will also speak a (harmless) process ID number as well. So neither is quite perfect, but both work. (I was looking for a solution to: ping google.com | say which suffers a similar problem, and someone suggested the above as a solution. I didn't add this as a comment to mankoff's answer because I can't work out how to put spaces and newlines in comments.). A: Your example is, in general, the correct way to pipe normal output to say: cat file | say echo "hello world" | say The specific issue is that the | (pipe) character transfers STDOUT from the command on the left to STDIN to the command on the right. say then speaks whatever is on STDIN. However, leave does not print the output directly to STDOUT. It is either using STDERR, or some other message mechanism. You can pipe STDERR through the |, but the syntax is shell dependent. For bash, you would do it like so, although I'm not sure that this will make leave work with say, as I don't much about leave. cmd 2>&1 |cmd2 A: As an addition to this - if you want to pipe an ongoing file to say, the "recipe" also works with tail: tail -f ~/Documents/activity.log | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done A: I think you simply can´t use leave for that, rather use sleep with the correct amount of seconds (put it into a short script to convert seconds to minutes, hours): sleep 60 && say -v Vicki 'Time to leave!' &

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Will a MacBook7,1's SuperDrive work in a MacBook2,1? A friend of mine has a MacBook2,1 mid 2007 with a dead Combo Drive (long story short, someone at the Apple Store put the wrong drive in), and I have a MacBook7,1 (mid 2010) that I tore down for parts. Normally I'd just try this myself but the drive is at my parents house an hour away and gas is $3.49 a gallon. Does anyone know if they're interchangeable? A: Unfortunately, this isn't possible. The MacBook7,1 has a SATA connection for the optical drive, whereas the MacBook2,1 has an ATA connection for the optical drive.

Q: Will a MacBook7,1's SuperDrive work in a MacBook2,1? A friend of mine has a MacBook2,1 mid 2007 with a dead Combo Drive (long story short, someone at the Apple Store put the wrong drive in), and I have a MacBook7,1 (mid 2010) that I tore down for parts. Normally I'd just try this myself but the drive is at my parents house an hour away and gas is $3.49 a gallon. Does anyone know if they're interchangeable? A: Unfortunately, this isn't possible. The MacBook7,1 has a SATA connection for the optical drive, whereas the MacBook2,1 has an ATA connection for the optical drive. A: As far as the drive goes, it's a standard ATA DVD drive, however it may have a different case (for the screws/connectors). Your best bet (unless someone can come up with the exact answer) is to check iFixit and find the tear down of the models and compare the pictures. I'd say they are, but Macbook internals have changed a lot and you might have to disassemble the whole SuperDrive. For example here's the guide to replace the SuperDrive on the mid-2010 model. Find the other model and compare. But remember, the drive itself may be faster/better but it's the same drive you'll find in any other PC, no matter how Super Apple makes it sound ;)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to hide all file extensions in OS X? Is there any way to globally hide every single file extension in OS X? I've seen the option in the Get Info menu to hide the selected file's extension, but I'd like to never see a file extension unless I chose to. A: In the Finder, selected the Preferences menu item from the Finder menu. Click the Advanced Tab. Make sure to un-check Show all filename extensions. Close the window. I had thought this was unset by default, but perhaps not.

Q: Is there a way to hide all file extensions in OS X? Is there any way to globally hide every single file extension in OS X? I've seen the option in the Get Info menu to hide the selected file's extension, but I'd like to never see a file extension unless I chose to. A: In the Finder, selected the Preferences menu item from the Finder menu. Click the Advanced Tab. Make sure to un-check Show all filename extensions. Close the window. I had thought this was unset by default, but perhaps not. A: The only correct answer is that you should not be doing what you are trying to do. Hidden file extensions is a serious security hole. If you allow file extensions to be hidden, someone can create an application and name it: MyFile.pdf.app and on your machine, you will see a file named: MyFile.pdf possibly even with a PDF icon. Your first thought will not be, "Why is the extension showing?" but rather, "Oh, that's just a PDF file. It's safe to open it." And that's when your machine becomes a zombie in a botnet. You should always leave the "Show all filename extensions" checkbox checked. It's really the only way to be completely safe from those sorts of trojans. A: I use Hazel with an applescript to keep my filename extensions hidden. Hazel is just a way to make sure that anytime I create a new file, the applescript gets run on it. The applescript is pretty easy -- you can see all three lines of it in the screenshot below. I also like to set the color labels by file type, thus the selection of only PDFs and the red color labels. You can skip both of those if you like. Just to be clear, you don't need to use Hazel. You could use folder actions or an automator workflow to initiate the applescript on the files you want to change.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to browse the iBook store without owning an iPad? I am considering purchasing an iPad and one of the uses would be to read books. But I can't find a way to browse the iBook store and see what books they have available without actually owning an iPad. Is it accessible via iTunes? A: Although there is no way to browse the store directly, there is this website which searches the iBookstore for a particular title or author. It also searches the Kindle and Nook stores. http://www.leatherbound.me/

Q: How to browse the iBook store without owning an iPad? I am considering purchasing an iPad and one of the uses would be to read books. But I can't find a way to browse the iBook store and see what books they have available without actually owning an iPad. Is it accessible via iTunes? A: Although there is no way to browse the store directly, there is this website which searches the iBookstore for a particular title or author. It also searches the Kindle and Nook stores. http://www.leatherbound.me/ A: Even since iTunes 10.3 this browsing is possible from a Mac or a Windows OS. Browsing(filtering by rating and so on) iTunes is not as pleasant an experience as on the iPad, so you might also choose to browse the store from an iPod touch or an iPhone if you lack an iPad for browsing the store "natively". A: Pre iTunes 10.3, the iBookstore was only available from the iBooks app on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. If you know someone who has any of those, you could ask to look, but you cannot see in iTunes.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there an app that lets you code and send HTML e-mail from your Mac? Apple Mail doesn’t seem to let you edit the source of HTML e-mails (customised stationery workarounds aside). Is there a Mac app that lets you send HTML e-mails? A bit of Googling turned up HTMLMailer, but it looks like it’s no longer available. A: Direct Mail will do what you're looking for. You can edit the HTML source code of your message by hand, or use the WYSIWYG editor to manipulate your message. Works with Apple Mail stationery, too. When you send the message, Direct Mail will also automatically inline your CSS and apply some tweaks so it renders properly in Gmail, Hotmail, and other "HTML-challenged" email clients. Disclaimer: I'm a developer for Direct Mail.

Q: Is there an app that lets you code and send HTML e-mail from your Mac? Apple Mail doesn’t seem to let you edit the source of HTML e-mails (customised stationery workarounds aside). Is there a Mac app that lets you send HTML e-mails? A bit of Googling turned up HTMLMailer, but it looks like it’s no longer available. A: Direct Mail will do what you're looking for. You can edit the HTML source code of your message by hand, or use the WYSIWYG editor to manipulate your message. Works with Apple Mail stationery, too. When you send the message, Direct Mail will also automatically inline your CSS and apply some tweaks so it renders properly in Gmail, Hotmail, and other "HTML-challenged" email clients. Disclaimer: I'm a developer for Direct Mail. A: MS Entourage sort of supported this, I don't know if its replacement (MS Outlook) still does. Either way, you'd need MS Office to use it, which probably isn't what you want. This article also suggests a way to achieve something similar to it with Mail.app and Safari, but I haven't tried it to see how well it works. A: I had some difficulty using the CMD + I method from Safari however you can also: * *Open your html file in safari *CMD + A (select all) *CMD + C (copy) *Compose a new message in the Mail app *CMD + V (paste) in the body of the new message A: There is an app called Direct Mail that has both a "lite" and "pro" versions. http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/ A: I routinely use Mozilla Thunderbird for this purpose. You can use the menu item Insert > HTML to either insert a blob of HTML or edit the entire source of your message (CMD + A, Insert > HTML) A: You can code and design your Mails as HTML(+CSS) documents, open them in Safari.app and then press cmd+i to have the content automatically transferred into Mail.app Keep in mind that not all CSS-styles are supported by all Mail-clients, a good overview on that can be found here.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes store account with Paypal? I'm Korean and don't have a US address or credit card, but I want to buy content from the US iTunes store. I have a PayPal account connected to a Korean bank. Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes account with PayPal? A: Yes, you can only use PayPal with iTunes US, and in that PayPal, you'll need to have a US bank account or have your locations and any credit cards/debit's on there will have to be located in the US as iTunes checks for that as well. It all has to be in the US, and cannot have any other bank or CC company for any other country.

Q: Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes store account with Paypal? I'm Korean and don't have a US address or credit card, but I want to buy content from the US iTunes store. I have a PayPal account connected to a Korean bank. Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes account with PayPal? A: Yes, you can only use PayPal with iTunes US, and in that PayPal, you'll need to have a US bank account or have your locations and any credit cards/debit's on there will have to be located in the US as iTunes checks for that as well. It all has to be in the US, and cannot have any other bank or CC company for any other country. A: I don´t think using PayPal with a Korean bank is possible (haven´t tried this, of course), but if you still want to do this (even though this is probably not legal!), you should look on eBay or similar Sites for iTunes gift cards. Then you could theoretically create a new account in the US Store by trying to buy something that is free and then clicking on "create new account". Only this would enable you to create an account not associated with any credit card. Next you could activate your Gift card and buy from the US store. Note that you would have to lie about having an actual US address, which will make this probably illegal (or at least breaking the terms of service). A: As an alternative solution, shop the iTunes US Store whilst in an oversea country with Jerry Cards. Receive high quality scan of the gift cards in your email upon verified payment in your email account, with Paypal or most international credit cards. A: Use ebay.com and ask seller to email code. I have done this many many times. Be warned do, in the last year or so also scammers have found a way to make money by buying cards on eBay and then telling the seller it doesn't work (when it did). This has raised awareness on eBay sellers and is one of the reasons people have stopped with just emailing you the code making it much more expensive and time costly to buy this way. I found out that mailing the persons who just added the action telling them your intentions and stating you want to pay with PayPal and are willing to pay the full amount, works the best. Too bad in one way (no more US iTunes Cards from $100,- for $80,-) but seems to work the best. Going after a cheap one takes much more time and hassle (on selling you the code instead of the card with code by airmail). A: Change your "store" in iTunes to Korea since that's where your bank is located. Your money will sit on your "account" not in that "country". Then change your store to the US store and tada, your in biz. It's completely LEGAL people trade cash like that all day long. But I do warn you to check exchange rates, the Korean currency doesn't equal the US currency value. Having an "address" just means the place your at now. ie apartment is fine, just no po boxes, I know several people that have used the local apple store as their "address". This is far from lying & it's none of Apple's biz anyway.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I install Eclipse? I just downloaded the .tar ball and unzipped it. It seems to run as a standalone from the folder that was unzipped in my Downloads folder. However, I want to install this so it is in applications, but there are so many other files like configurations. Where do I put those? I tried dragging just the eclipse.app to the applications folder and when i try to run it, it says the shared dependencies are missing. A: The main Eclipse application needs to be kept in the same folder as its support files otherwise it won't start. What I have done is to keep Eclipse in its own folder, somewhere out of the way, then right-click on the main Eclipse application and select "Make Alias". This will create a file called Eclipse alias. You can then move the alias to wherever you want it to be, without worrying about the rest of the Eclipse files. You can move this alias to the Applications folder, and then rename it back to Eclipse.

Q: How do I install Eclipse? I just downloaded the .tar ball and unzipped it. It seems to run as a standalone from the folder that was unzipped in my Downloads folder. However, I want to install this so it is in applications, but there are so many other files like configurations. Where do I put those? I tried dragging just the eclipse.app to the applications folder and when i try to run it, it says the shared dependencies are missing. A: The main Eclipse application needs to be kept in the same folder as its support files otherwise it won't start. What I have done is to keep Eclipse in its own folder, somewhere out of the way, then right-click on the main Eclipse application and select "Make Alias". This will create a file called Eclipse alias. You can then move the alias to wherever you want it to be, without worrying about the rest of the Eclipse files. You can move this alias to the Applications folder, and then rename it back to Eclipse. A: Unfortunately Eclipse is not a well behaved app. Yo need the Eclipse.app and the other files in the downloaded directory to keep the same relative directory structure. Thus you need to move the whole directory from Downloads as is. I moved it to ~/eclipse.helios and then dragged the Eclipse.app into the Dock.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone Application for Email Address Shortcut Does anybody know of an iPhone application or shortcut that allows you to save your email address access it via a shortcut? This would be super useful when filling in forms in Safari or in when your email address is required in an application. A: An excellent application for shortcuts is Smile Software's TextExpander touch. Because of limitations in iOS, it doesn't work to expand shortcuts in every app (including, sadly, all of Apple's apps). From the manufacturer's site: Given the current feature set of the iPhone OS, TextExpander touch cannot work in the background (as it does in Mac OS X), expanding text snippets while you work in other apps, except for apps with TextExpander-integration built-in. You must first compose your text in the TextExpander touch Compose screen, and then transfer it to another app.

Q: iPhone Application for Email Address Shortcut Does anybody know of an iPhone application or shortcut that allows you to save your email address access it via a shortcut? This would be super useful when filling in forms in Safari or in when your email address is required in an application. A: An excellent application for shortcuts is Smile Software's TextExpander touch. Because of limitations in iOS, it doesn't work to expand shortcuts in every app (including, sadly, all of Apple's apps). From the manufacturer's site: Given the current feature set of the iPhone OS, TextExpander touch cannot work in the background (as it does in Mac OS X), expanding text snippets while you work in other apps, except for apps with TextExpander-integration built-in. You must first compose your text in the TextExpander touch Compose screen, and then transfer it to another app. A: If you are willing to jailbreak, Action Menu does what you are looking for. I have put my e-mail address in the favorites tab of that program and I can now reach it anywhere.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Reinstall Xcode? I need to reinstall Xcode. It seems that some of the installation did not work correctly and so I need to completely reinstall it. Xcode is a pretty hefty piece of kit and so I was wondering how you go about completely uninstalling / reinstalling it? Thanks A: The Apple recommended way to uninstall and install Xcode is in the "Read Me" document that accompanies each release, which basically says launch the Terminal.app then (if you originally installed Xcode in the standard location) type sudo /Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all You'll be prompted for the superuser id which is generally the same password as the first (non-restricted) user registered on the Mac. I would recommend you restart your Mac before installing (newer and older) Xcode again.

Q: Reinstall Xcode? I need to reinstall Xcode. It seems that some of the installation did not work correctly and so I need to completely reinstall it. Xcode is a pretty hefty piece of kit and so I was wondering how you go about completely uninstalling / reinstalling it? Thanks A: The Apple recommended way to uninstall and install Xcode is in the "Read Me" document that accompanies each release, which basically says launch the Terminal.app then (if you originally installed Xcode in the standard location) type sudo /Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all You'll be prompted for the superuser id which is generally the same password as the first (non-restricted) user registered on the Mac. I would recommend you restart your Mac before installing (newer and older) Xcode again.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is MacBook Pro warming during gaming normal? I have a 2010 MacBook Pro MC371 (Core i5, GeForce 320M, 4Gb RAM). When I launch a game either new one (i.e. Starcraft 2) or rather old (Unreal Tournament 2004, bootcamped) my MacBook gets rather warm, even hot in the top left corner, around the place where magsafe charger is plugged in. The temperature is more than 40C. The fact that confuses me is that this warming occures even when I play old games. Is that OK? A: Yes. That's normal. As for "okay" -- it depends. The heat is coming from the extra graphic activity and CPU activity you're asking your machine to perform when playing the games. The MBPro is vented at the back, along the hinge between the screen and the keyboard, you want to make sure that area is free of obstructions and the hot air can leave escape unimpeded. Long-term exposure to high operating temperatures can certainly be detrimental to the components in your machine. But for the most part, if your machine's venting is unobstructed, it should be able to cool itself adequately.

Q: Is MacBook Pro warming during gaming normal? I have a 2010 MacBook Pro MC371 (Core i5, GeForce 320M, 4Gb RAM). When I launch a game either new one (i.e. Starcraft 2) or rather old (Unreal Tournament 2004, bootcamped) my MacBook gets rather warm, even hot in the top left corner, around the place where magsafe charger is plugged in. The temperature is more than 40C. The fact that confuses me is that this warming occures even when I play old games. Is that OK? A: Yes. That's normal. As for "okay" -- it depends. The heat is coming from the extra graphic activity and CPU activity you're asking your machine to perform when playing the games. The MBPro is vented at the back, along the hinge between the screen and the keyboard, you want to make sure that area is free of obstructions and the hot air can leave escape unimpeded. Long-term exposure to high operating temperatures can certainly be detrimental to the components in your machine. But for the most part, if your machine's venting is unobstructed, it should be able to cool itself adequately. A: Have the same MBP as you and it happens to me as well. As Ian C. says your MBP uses discrete gfx card for games and they tend to heat quite a lot. They use a lot more power to render graphics and using power has a side effect which is heat - normall stuff. What you say was 40C was more likely to be something around 60-70C. 40C is about normal working temperature for it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I make my Mac OS X Terminal color items according to syntax, like the Ubuntu terminal? I want it to have all the colors for syntax folders, etc... How can I do that? A: My terminal colors how to do it download theme from here: http://media.tannern.com/tanner.terminal import into Terminal After installing SIMBL and the correct terminalcolors you can import my terminal theme from the Terminal Preferences window. other tweaks Adding this to the file ~/.profile will make ls color it's output by default. # Make ls use colors export CLICOLOR=1 alias ls='ls -Fa' Adding this will define colors as variables to make a prompt easier to edit. # define colors C_DEFAULT="\[\033[m\]" C_WHITE="\[\033[1m\]" C_BLACK="\[\033[30m\]" C_RED="\[\033[31m\]" C_GREEN="\[\033[32m\]" C_YELLOW="\[\033[33m\]" C_BLUE="\[\033[34m\]" C_PURPLE="\[\033[35m\]" C_CYAN="\[\033[36m\]" C_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[37m\]" C_DARKGRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]" C_LIGHTRED="\[\033[1;31m\]" C_LIGHTGREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]" C_LIGHTYELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]" C_LIGHTBLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]" C_LIGHTPURPLE="\[\033[1;35m\]" C_LIGHTCYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]" C_BG_BLACK="\[\033[40m\]" C_BG_RED="\[\033[41m\]" C_BG_GREEN="\[\033[42m\]" C_BG_YELLOW="\[\033[43m\]" C_BG_BLUE="\[\033[44m\]" C_BG_PURPLE="\[\033[45m\]" C_BG_CYAN="\[\033[46m\]" C_BG_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[47m\]" Adding this will give you a multi-line colored prompt. # set your prompt export PS1="\n$C_LIGHTGREEN\u$C_DARKGRAY@$C_BLUE\h $C_DARKGRAY: $C_LIGHTYELLOW\w\n$C_DARKGRAY\$$C_DEFAULT " For a list of escape sequences to use in prompts check this article

Q: Can I make my Mac OS X Terminal color items according to syntax, like the Ubuntu terminal? I want it to have all the colors for syntax folders, etc... How can I do that? A: My terminal colors how to do it download theme from here: http://media.tannern.com/tanner.terminal import into Terminal After installing SIMBL and the correct terminalcolors you can import my terminal theme from the Terminal Preferences window. other tweaks Adding this to the file ~/.profile will make ls color it's output by default. # Make ls use colors export CLICOLOR=1 alias ls='ls -Fa' Adding this will define colors as variables to make a prompt easier to edit. # define colors C_DEFAULT="\[\033[m\]" C_WHITE="\[\033[1m\]" C_BLACK="\[\033[30m\]" C_RED="\[\033[31m\]" C_GREEN="\[\033[32m\]" C_YELLOW="\[\033[33m\]" C_BLUE="\[\033[34m\]" C_PURPLE="\[\033[35m\]" C_CYAN="\[\033[36m\]" C_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[37m\]" C_DARKGRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]" C_LIGHTRED="\[\033[1;31m\]" C_LIGHTGREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]" C_LIGHTYELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]" C_LIGHTBLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]" C_LIGHTPURPLE="\[\033[1;35m\]" C_LIGHTCYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]" C_BG_BLACK="\[\033[40m\]" C_BG_RED="\[\033[41m\]" C_BG_GREEN="\[\033[42m\]" C_BG_YELLOW="\[\033[43m\]" C_BG_BLUE="\[\033[44m\]" C_BG_PURPLE="\[\033[45m\]" C_BG_CYAN="\[\033[46m\]" C_BG_LIGHTGRAY="\[\033[47m\]" Adding this will give you a multi-line colored prompt. # set your prompt export PS1="\n$C_LIGHTGREEN\u$C_DARKGRAY@$C_BLUE\h $C_DARKGRAY: $C_LIGHTYELLOW\w\n$C_DARKGRAY\$$C_DEFAULT " For a list of escape sequences to use in prompts check this article A: geekology.co.za has an informative blog post on how to do this, "Enabling Terminals directory and file color highlighting in Mac OS X". In case it gets moved or deleted, the basics are: Add to your .bashrc or .profile: export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad Save the file. Open a new terminal and use ls ls -l ls -la ls -lah The rest of the article has info on what the colors do and how to change them (the letters you assign to LSCOLORS is what controls what colors you see). A: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal allows you to customize the sixteen ANSI colors and also supports the 256-color palette. So, installing SIMBL or other extensions to get more colors is no longer necessary. A: People may want to check out zsh + prezto. There's a nice guide here. zsh is already installed in OSX. Prezto just adds stuff to your shell. Activate the syntax-highlighting module, and go to town :) A: Here is what I use in 2023 to get Ubuntu colors for ls (which was my biggest pain when switching to Mac terminal). Looks like the Ubuntu color scheme has changed since the post by @sorens above, as what that post suggests doesn't match what I have on Ubuntu at all. Add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile: # Use default ls output on Ubuntu alias ls='ls -Fa' # Use Ubuntu coloring scheme (as close as it gets) export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExGxFxbaCxbabahbaDacec I believe it's as close as it gets to Ubuntu. I compiled this manually, based on the original dircolors -b output from my Ubuntu (dircolors is the util used to generate coloring of various file/dir types there). I tested it for a while, but if you happen see any mismatches, please write a comment. A couple of mismatches that I believe cannot be fixed on Mac: * *A couple of colors are not an exact match (orange background -> yellow as Mac's ls doesn't have orange, orange foreground -> red) but it looks almost the same on my computer. *Unfortunately Mac's ls doesn't allow coloring of file types, so images, video, audio files and archives aren't colored as in Ubuntu. I see no way to distinguish those files in Mac ls. Which is a huge miss indeed. References This may be useful if you want to tweak the colors. * *My original dircolors -b output (I trimmed the big part with file extension coloring, as I don't believe it can be used on Mac). So that you can compare the differences if necessary and start from there. Not everything below has its match in LSCOLORS variable used on Mac, the latter is much simpler. LS_COLORS='rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:'; *Explanation of dircolors syntax: https://linuxhint.com/ls_colors_bash/ *A more detailed one: http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/2008/04/11/configuring-ls_colors

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can BeejiveIM for iPhone block unwanted add requests? I've been getting a lot of bogus contact add requests from my Yahoo account - it almost always turned out to be a spambots. I wonder if BeejiveIM has a feature that can block these spam requests? If that's not the case, what multi-protocol instant messaging client for the iPhone that can block out these spammers? Ideally they will automatically prompt for a captcha to the requester before showing me the request. A: I don't have a Yahoo account to investigate for you, but I know that with AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) accounts you can change the security settings to: * *Allow Anyone *Allow People in my Buddy List *Allow Specific People *Block Everyone *Block Specific People I would assume that logging into Yahoo! directly that you would have similar settings available to you. Then, no matter what client you would use on your iPhone when logged into the Yahoo! account, the settings you already placed into Yahoo! would translate over.

Q: Can BeejiveIM for iPhone block unwanted add requests? I've been getting a lot of bogus contact add requests from my Yahoo account - it almost always turned out to be a spambots. I wonder if BeejiveIM has a feature that can block these spam requests? If that's not the case, what multi-protocol instant messaging client for the iPhone that can block out these spammers? Ideally they will automatically prompt for a captcha to the requester before showing me the request. A: I don't have a Yahoo account to investigate for you, but I know that with AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) accounts you can change the security settings to: * *Allow Anyone *Allow People in my Buddy List *Allow Specific People *Block Everyone *Block Specific People I would assume that logging into Yahoo! directly that you would have similar settings available to you. Then, no matter what client you would use on your iPhone when logged into the Yahoo! account, the settings you already placed into Yahoo! would translate over. A: You could try this: * *Launch BeejiveIM *Go to 'Accounts' *Tap on 'Yahoo' *Under 'Privacy': Select "Allow buddy list only'

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there away to move between workspaces using trackpad? I want to move to other workspaces using trackpad. How can I do that? A: The best "vanilla" solution I'm aware of is the following: Go to System Preferences > Exposé & Spaces (Exposé tab) > Active Screen Corners and set one up as "Spaces". Then when you quickly move your mouse into that corner it will bring up all available workspaces, and you can click the one you want.

Q: Is there away to move between workspaces using trackpad? I want to move to other workspaces using trackpad. How can I do that? A: The best "vanilla" solution I'm aware of is the following: Go to System Preferences > Exposé & Spaces (Exposé tab) > Active Screen Corners and set one up as "Spaces". Then when you quickly move your mouse into that corner it will bring up all available workspaces, and you can click the one you want. A: Not sure it's possible with the stock software. MagicPrefs and Better Touch Tool let you define trackpad gestures to do pretty much anything, including mapping them to the key sequences for switching between spaces (by default Cmd + arrow keys). A: Warp was designed just for that: Warp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard. Warp offers the ability to display a live preview of a space when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, allowing you to see what you have on another space before actually switching to it. Clicking the preview will then warp you to that space. (Enable this feature by checking the option "Click screen edge to Warp" in Warp's preference pane)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Sharing a VPN connection using Internet Sharing (via Airport) Internet Sharing from my MacBook Pro (10.6.6) to other WiFi devices works fine. But the moment I turn on the VPN connection (PPTP) on the Mac (which I would also like to share), the other devices cannot access anything anymore (everything works fine on the Mac itself). What do I do? A: Linking to rodrigo.sharpcube.com is appalling. I lost hours of my life following it. It's a totally unnecessary wild goose chase into IPFW. Please avoid. The first answer from JRobert is accurate. Here is a more detailed step by step with images.

Q: Sharing a VPN connection using Internet Sharing (via Airport) Internet Sharing from my MacBook Pro (10.6.6) to other WiFi devices works fine. But the moment I turn on the VPN connection (PPTP) on the Mac (which I would also like to share), the other devices cannot access anything anymore (everything works fine on the Mac itself). What do I do? A: Linking to rodrigo.sharpcube.com is appalling. I lost hours of my life following it. It's a totally unnecessary wild goose chase into IPFW. Please avoid. The first answer from JRobert is accurate. Here is a more detailed step by step with images. A: I'd suggest you follow the excellent blogpost by Rodrigo at http://rodrigo.sharpcube.com/2010/06/20/using-and-sharing-a-vpn-connection-on-your-mac/ Worked for me. A: OS-X treats a VPN connection as a totally separate connection from the device (airport, ethernet) it is transported on. So when you turned on your VPN, your airport or ethernet connection was no longer active. If you want to share the VPN connection, you have to set up sharing for it the same way you did for your primary, non-VPN connection. They behave totally separately, for sharing purposes. A: To share a VPN connection on 10.7, using WaterRoof, follow these directions. To share a VPN on 10.8 and above, do the same thing with IceFloor A: Here are instructions for sharing your ExpressVPN connection on Mac OS X using Internet Sharing (uses L2TP.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I re-install Mac App Store I just deleted (via AppCleaner) my Mac App Store app (which I couldn't log into for 2 weeks) with the idea to re-get a fresh app via Software Update. But Software Update doesn't download Mac App Store anymore. How can I re-install Mac App Store on my Mac? Thank you. A: There isn't a stand-alone Mac App Store updater. Your best bet is to reinstall Mac OS X 10.6.6, using the combo update. It's a 1.06 GB download, but it contains all the parts of prior updates (the 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 updates) and should repair your current install.

Q: How can I re-install Mac App Store I just deleted (via AppCleaner) my Mac App Store app (which I couldn't log into for 2 weeks) with the idea to re-get a fresh app via Software Update. But Software Update doesn't download Mac App Store anymore. How can I re-install Mac App Store on my Mac? Thank you. A: There isn't a stand-alone Mac App Store updater. Your best bet is to reinstall Mac OS X 10.6.6, using the combo update. It's a 1.06 GB download, but it contains all the parts of prior updates (the 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 updates) and should repair your current install.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Add big green check mark to Keynote presentation I'm using Keynote '09 for the first time, and I find myself wanting some bits of clip art or additional shapes. At the moment, I just want a big check mark. It's hard to believe that this isn't provided, but I can't find it. A: Most fonts have a check mark dingbat. In a text box, type in option v to see it. Then change the color to green like you would any other text. For additional clip at, look at the dingbat fonts already be installed on your system. Some common ones are webdings, wingdings and zapf dingbats.

Q: Add big green check mark to Keynote presentation I'm using Keynote '09 for the first time, and I find myself wanting some bits of clip art or additional shapes. At the moment, I just want a big check mark. It's hard to believe that this isn't provided, but I can't find it. A: Most fonts have a check mark dingbat. In a text box, type in option v to see it. Then change the color to green like you would any other text. For additional clip at, look at the dingbat fonts already be installed on your system. Some common ones are webdings, wingdings and zapf dingbats. A: Keynote doesn't really come with clip art. It is easy, however, to add images. I did a Google Images search for check mark, and set the color to green. Here are the results (there are many good images). To add the image to Keynote, click See Full Size Image and click-and-drag it to your slide. Enjoy! A: Keynote now has several scalable and editable graphics including a check mark. Select the shape icon, from there sort symbols or simply type in ‘check’ to select. Change the size, color or otherwise adjust. This applies both to macOS and iOS versions of Keynote. iOS version shown below. A: Add a text box. Start typing. Then press CTRL+CMD+space to bring up the characters popover. At the bottom of that popover scroll to the right until you see the ✻ category. Inside there you'll find a couple of different check mark/tick characters like ✓ and ✔︎. Once the symbol is in your document, resize it and choose a colour.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is Airport Express compatible with AirPlay? I have an Airport Express that I have plugged into a speaker system. I can change the music in my house with my iPhone through Apple's Remote app. Great. Now is my Airport Express compatible with AirPlay? Can I 'push' music or sound to my Airport Express and out the speakers that are plugged into it? Or is this only possible with an Apple TV? And if I get an Apple TV can I do what I'm trying to do? 'Push' music from someone's iPhone that is on the same WIFI network as mine to a speaker system? A: With iOS 4.2 you can send music directly from your iPhone/iPad to your Airport Express from any application supporting it. You can also stream both audio and video from your iDevices from Apples applications. Starting with iOS 4.3 you can also stream video from any application, not just applications developed by Apple.

Q: Is Airport Express compatible with AirPlay? I have an Airport Express that I have plugged into a speaker system. I can change the music in my house with my iPhone through Apple's Remote app. Great. Now is my Airport Express compatible with AirPlay? Can I 'push' music or sound to my Airport Express and out the speakers that are plugged into it? Or is this only possible with an Apple TV? And if I get an Apple TV can I do what I'm trying to do? 'Push' music from someone's iPhone that is on the same WIFI network as mine to a speaker system? A: With iOS 4.2 you can send music directly from your iPhone/iPad to your Airport Express from any application supporting it. You can also stream both audio and video from your iDevices from Apples applications. Starting with iOS 4.3 you can also stream video from any application, not just applications developed by Apple.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What SIP voip client for OS X I could use? I'm looking for a, preferably free, SIP client for OS X, one that will allow multiple SIP accounts and preferably supporting g729 audio codec. A: I prefer Telephone App over most the other VOIP clients I have come accross.

Q: What SIP voip client for OS X I could use? I'm looking for a, preferably free, SIP client for OS X, one that will allow multiple SIP accounts and preferably supporting g729 audio codec. A: I prefer Telephone App over most the other VOIP clients I have come accross. A: Blink is a decent free VOIP client for Mac OS, though I'm not sure about g.729 support. For that you may need to look at something like Mirial. They have a Mac version but it doesn't have the Mac feel, and I think its expensive. Bria might be another commercial option as well.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro? Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro? A: Yes, but it only works on Unibody Macs. You can also use the volume and play/pause controls.

Q: Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro? Can I use iPhone headphones with microphone on MacBook Pro? A: Yes, but it only works on Unibody Macs. You can also use the volume and play/pause controls.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting Is there a way to change what app opens a file type programmatically/with a script? Basically, sometimes I'm working on a web site, and I want to set all web files to open with a text editor (*.php, *.html, *.htm, etc...). However, other times, I want to just view the files, so I want them to open with a browser. Right now, I'm dragging items onto dock icons, which works, but is slow, particularly when I'm going through a large number of files with the keyboard only. Basically, what I want is a small applescript/whatever that changes all the open-with settings. That way, I can have one script for each open-with program, and change back and forth. Thanks. A: One option is to edit ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=com.adobe.pdf;LSHandlerRoleAll=net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim;}' You can use PlistBuddy to check if entries already exist, but I haven't found any way to apply changes without restarting or rebuilding the Launch Services database. Using duti, you could run duti ~/.duti after saving this as ~/.duti: net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim .pdf all

Q: Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting Is there a way to change what app opens a file type programmatically/with a script? Basically, sometimes I'm working on a web site, and I want to set all web files to open with a text editor (*.php, *.html, *.htm, etc...). However, other times, I want to just view the files, so I want them to open with a browser. Right now, I'm dragging items onto dock icons, which works, but is slow, particularly when I'm going through a large number of files with the keyboard only. Basically, what I want is a small applescript/whatever that changes all the open-with settings. That way, I can have one script for each open-with program, and change back and forth. Thanks. A: One option is to edit ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType=com.adobe.pdf;LSHandlerRoleAll=net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim;}' You can use PlistBuddy to check if entries already exist, but I haven't found any way to apply changes without restarting or rebuilding the Launch Services database. Using duti, you could run duti ~/.duti after saving this as ~/.duti: net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim .pdf all A: This is doable, but probably isn't as straightforward as you might think. You'll need to get very familiar with Uniform Type Identifiers. Look at Wikipedia's Uniform Type Identifier page. OS X stores information on preferred file associations in a preference file with the name com.apple.LaunchServices.plist. Before you go try to find and modify that file, I suggest you familiarize yourself with OS X's domain hierarchy for defaults (a.k.a. "settings"). A decent article on this can be found here. (Disclaimer: they seem to be selling something on that site. I don't know what it is and have no association with them, the explanation is just a good one.) Now that you know all about defaults and UTIs (er, not the medical kind), now we can talk about setting file associations from a script/command line. First, you'll need to know the proper way to identify the files for which you want to make an association. Remember how I said UTIs were important? There are multiple ways to identify a file. It depends on if the type has been formally declared on your system or not. For example, decent text editors like TextMate or TextWrangler will add quite a few type declarations to the type hierarchy when you use them on your system. If, however, you don't have those applications, you may not have those types declared. OK, enough talk. Examples: Get the UTI for a file: $ mdls myFile.xml ... kMDItemContentType = "public.xml" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.xml", "public.text", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) ... Ok, cool. An explicit content type we can use. Write that down somewhere. $ mdls myFile.myExtn ... kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8048pftb4g6" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.data", "public.item" ) ... Oops. OS X doesn't know about ".myExtn" files. So, it created a dynamic UTI that we can't use for anything. And the parent types are too generic to be useful. Now that we know what our files are, lets look at the LaunchServices.plist file and see what we can do: $defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices { ... LSHandlers = ( { LSHandlerContentType = "public.html"; LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.apple.safari"; LSHandlerRoleViewer = "com.google.chrome"; }, ... { LSHandlerContentTag = myExtn; LSHandlerContentTagClass = "public.filename-extension"; LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.macromates.textmate"; }, ... ); ... } So, when you have a "good" content type to use, the first construct is better. Otherwise the other construct. Note, there are other constructs in that file, but they aren't relevant to what you asked. Just know they are there when you look through the output. As you can see, you'll need to find the UTI for the application you want to use. The UTIs for Safar and TextMate are in my example above, but to generically find the UTI for an application: $ cd /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents $ less Info.plist ... <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.Safari</string> ... NOTE: I have no idea what constitutes the difference between LSHandlerRoleAll and LSHandlerRoleViewer. I can't find documentation on that anywhere. What I do see is that 99% of the time LSHandlerRoleAll is the only one set (i.e. there is no LSHandlerRoleViewer at all) and that it is set to the UTI for the application that you desire to associate the type with. Having brought you this far, I'm going to leave HOW to set the values you want as an exercise for the reader. Messing with these things can be somewhat dangerous. It is entirely possible for you to screw up a file and not have ANY of your file associations work. Then you have to throw away the file and start over. Some hints: * *Read up on defaults write and its syntax *Take a look at PlistBuddy. man PlistBuddy and /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -h *Skip all this nonsense altogether and use RCDefaultApp A: It doesn't really answer your question, but might be a solution. The Inspector in Finder presents information for the currently selected file, or files: ⌘+⌥+I The Summary Info window of Finder is useful when multiple files are selected: ^+⌘+I If you select multiple files of the same type, then either method above will allow you to easily switch the Open with: property for those files. A: Not an answer to your exact question, but another possible solution. You can open a document with a specific application from the command line with the -a argument to open. For example, open all the html files in the current directory. > open -a 'Google Chrome' *.html Open index.html and the javascript controller files in the Atom text editor: > open -a 'atom' index.html js/controllers/*.js Depending on your needs, you could modify this to be an Automator service which could be assigned a shortcut key, taking in the selected file paths as an argument. Here's an example Automator AppleScript that receives files as input and opens the selected files in Chrome: on run {input, parameters} set openFiles to "open -a 'Google Chrome' " --note the trailing space set filePaths to {} --covert the filePaths to posix style repeat with i from 1 to count of input set aFile to input's item i as alias set aFile to quoted form of POSIX path of aFile set filePaths's end to aFile end repeat --convert filePaths list to a string delimited by spaces set tid to text item delimiters set text item delimiters to " " set filePaths to filePaths as text set text item delimiters to tid --Open files via commandline do shell script openFiles & filePaths return input end run Obviously, you could change the app name "Sublime" text editor, save it as another service, and assign them both shortcut keys.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: i need to charge my ipod while connecting to an accessory I'm looking to charge my iPod via USB or car charger while still being able to use a sync cable accessory with the iPod. I'm connecting an iCombie (which is a wireless adaptor) to my motorcycle helmet and want to be able to charge the iPod at the same time. A: I think you are looking for something like the dockStubz Pass-Through connector the idea is that the connector allows you to connect further 30 pin connectors to the bottom, then use a standard micro-USB cable to charge the device at the same time.

Q: i need to charge my ipod while connecting to an accessory I'm looking to charge my iPod via USB or car charger while still being able to use a sync cable accessory with the iPod. I'm connecting an iCombie (which is a wireless adaptor) to my motorcycle helmet and want to be able to charge the iPod at the same time. A: I think you are looking for something like the dockStubz Pass-Through connector the idea is that the connector allows you to connect further 30 pin connectors to the bottom, then use a standard micro-USB cable to charge the device at the same time.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a comparison of networks and costs for iOS 4.3's Personal Hotspot? Is there a comparison of networks and their cost for the new Personal Hotspot feature? Also, how does the hotspot feature differ from internet tethering in previous iOS versions? A: The hotspot feature is, in essence, very similar to the Internet Tethering feature. The differences are that a) there's no cable required and b) you can connect up to 3* wifi-capable devices, so you're not restricted to tethering only devices that have USB or Bluetooth. *See the below comments for the correct answer.

Q: Is there a comparison of networks and costs for iOS 4.3's Personal Hotspot? Is there a comparison of networks and their cost for the new Personal Hotspot feature? Also, how does the hotspot feature differ from internet tethering in previous iOS versions? A: The hotspot feature is, in essence, very similar to the Internet Tethering feature. The differences are that a) there's no cable required and b) you can connect up to 3* wifi-capable devices, so you're not restricted to tethering only devices that have USB or Bluetooth. *See the below comments for the correct answer. A: Jeff Carlson, writing in TidBITS, has a comprehensive comparison of the Personal Hotspot fees in the US for AT&T and Verizon. Even for non-US users, I think the article will be useful for its discussion of how the feature works. A: Just jailbreak it and do it for free like most people have been doing for a few years now. MiWi works great!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Recall windows to the current space Is there a way to recall an app to the current space? This is possible by turning Spaces off, but that recalls all apps. I just want one. Sometimes a Safari URL gets opened, and since there is a Safari window open on some desktops somewhere, there it goes. It takes a few minutes to find where the link opened. If I could just recall the browser to the current space, it would be nice. A: I don't know how to fetch that window to the current space, but if you switch to the appropriate space where that window is located, you can click on the window title and while holding down the mouse button, press control + 1 to return that window the first space (or hold down control + whatever number space you want to drag it to).

Q: Recall windows to the current space Is there a way to recall an app to the current space? This is possible by turning Spaces off, but that recalls all apps. I just want one. Sometimes a Safari URL gets opened, and since there is a Safari window open on some desktops somewhere, there it goes. It takes a few minutes to find where the link opened. If I could just recall the browser to the current space, it would be nice. A: I don't know how to fetch that window to the current space, but if you switch to the appropriate space where that window is located, you can click on the window title and while holding down the mouse button, press control + 1 to return that window the first space (or hold down control + whatever number space you want to drag it to). A: I'm not aware of any gathering feature. You can quickly move windows between spaces by activating it with the F6 key (or whatever you've set it to in Exposé & Spaces Preferences) to display all of them at once and, in that mode, drag windows from one space to another, pressing F6 again to return to normal viewing.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut for minimizing Mac OS X windows? Is there a (hidden) keyboard shortcut for minimizing the frontmost window (that works in most apps)? A: ⌘+M works in most applications.

Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut for minimizing Mac OS X windows? Is there a (hidden) keyboard shortcut for minimizing the frontmost window (that works in most apps)? A: ⌘+M works in most applications.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I check the health of my SSD disk I replaced my disk with an SSD. Smooth transition, everythng fine. Now, I want to keep the disk health checked, since I know that SSD tend to degrade over time. Which utilities can I use for this task ? A: DiskTester from diglloydTools and its "Recondition" seems like one of the only options.

Q: How can I check the health of my SSD disk I replaced my disk with an SSD. Smooth transition, everythng fine. Now, I want to keep the disk health checked, since I know that SSD tend to degrade over time. Which utilities can I use for this task ? A: DiskTester from diglloydTools and its "Recondition" seems like one of the only options. A: there is no one way to diagnose this info because it depends on the controller type used in the SSD. It is possible that the vendor for your controller or the manufactureer of the controller chip have released software, and this is where you should look. What might they tell you? Summary: an SSD (made with NAND Flash) is composed of "blocks - each one from 4k to 16k usually - that add up to the amount your SSD can hold. Each block can be erased or read from all it once, (although it is possible to write them little bits at a time) but only a certain number of times. It is common to see NAND that has 5,000 to 10,000 times it can be erased. That doesn't sound like a lot (when we are used to talking about gigabytes and gigahertz) but the way in which the SSD writes data to itself - called "wear leveling" - can make this 5k to 10k last a very long time. The only metric worth measuring becomes how many times each cell has been written to (and which cells are dead altogether, which controllers expect and anticipate), but because each controller is different how to get that number (if possible) and what that number means in terms of percent depleted becomes a highly specific question. Bottom line, ask your manufacturer for diagnostic tools.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use Automator or some other method to extract EXIF GPS data from batches of photos on my Mac? I need a way of extracting EXIF GPS data, using my Mac, from a bunch of photos taken on an iPhone. So for example, if I put 1000 photos into a folder, I want an easy way of extracting all the GPS data for each photo into a text file. A solution which gets me close will probably be good enough. I've looked at Automator but don't see a built in way to do what I need. I have Aperture, iPhoto and Photoshop CS4 on my Mac in case someone knows a way of incorporating those applications. A: With Commandline tools this is easy: * *Install Homebrew *brew install exiftools in the Terminal *find ~/Pictures/ -iname '*.jpg' -print -exec exiftool -DateTimeOriginal -GPSLatitude -GPSLongitude {} \; in the Terminal

Q: Can I use Automator or some other method to extract EXIF GPS data from batches of photos on my Mac? I need a way of extracting EXIF GPS data, using my Mac, from a bunch of photos taken on an iPhone. So for example, if I put 1000 photos into a folder, I want an easy way of extracting all the GPS data for each photo into a text file. A solution which gets me close will probably be good enough. I've looked at Automator but don't see a built in way to do what I need. I have Aperture, iPhoto and Photoshop CS4 on my Mac in case someone knows a way of incorporating those applications. A: With Commandline tools this is easy: * *Install Homebrew *brew install exiftools in the Terminal *find ~/Pictures/ -iname '*.jpg' -print -exec exiftool -DateTimeOriginal -GPSLatitude -GPSLongitude {} \; in the Terminal A: There are a number of CLI utilities and scripting libraries available in Fink, MacPorts, and Homebrew available to extract and manipulate EXIF data. A: exiftool can also be used to generate a GPX file which can be processed by other GPX-aware programs. You can download the gpx.fmt template from the exiftool website: exiftool -p ./gpx.fmt *JPG > output.gpx Some useful options: * *-if makes exiftool only process files with a gps tag, *-fileOrder allows processing in a forced order, *-d allows formatting the datatime string. For example: exiftool -if '$gpsdatetime' -fileOrder gpsdatetime -p ./gpx.fmt -d %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ *JPG > output.gpx

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Apple Stackexchange Q: is there free OS X equivalent to Total Commander? is there free equivalent to Total Commander for OSX? * *two panels *drag & drop *tabs *etc ect I found DoubleCommander the best but OSX port has its bugs. muCommander is nice too but not as good as DoubleCommnader. A: TotalFinder became a commercial solution not long ago: the full beta development stage was free and gave me plenty of time to test the software. It's an excellent solution, and I have seen almost every single bug disappear progressively. Even if not a free solution anymore, its source is available on GitHub. I would recommend it on the grounds that it already works wonderfully well, and definitely deserve some support in my (otherwise freeware-oriented) opinion. If freeware is yet a compulsory feature for you, Geekosaur's link has a few options. Edit, 2013-01-07: as mentioned in another answer, XtraFinder looks like TotalFinder, but free.

Q: is there free OS X equivalent to Total Commander? is there free equivalent to Total Commander for OSX? * *two panels *drag & drop *tabs *etc ect I found DoubleCommander the best but OSX port has its bugs. muCommander is nice too but not as good as DoubleCommnader. A: TotalFinder became a commercial solution not long ago: the full beta development stage was free and gave me plenty of time to test the software. It's an excellent solution, and I have seen almost every single bug disappear progressively. Even if not a free solution anymore, its source is available on GitHub. I would recommend it on the grounds that it already works wonderfully well, and definitely deserve some support in my (otherwise freeware-oriented) opinion. If freeware is yet a compulsory feature for you, Geekosaur's link has a few options. Edit, 2013-01-07: as mentioned in another answer, XtraFinder looks like TotalFinder, but free. A: Try XtraFinder. Is like TotalFinder, but it's free A: I am satisfied with Forklift. Although it costs $20 after trial period, it is a simple yet powerful replacement of Finder/Total Commander. What I value the most over other alternatives: * *Simple and clear UI: power is under the hood *Easy switch between 1 or 2 panels (mostly I use only one) *Option to setup shortcuts: Enter to open file, backspace to move up *Regular Expression for filters *Renaming multiple files *Sync folder: showing added/deleted/modified files *WebDav is much faster then in Finder See http://www.binarynights.com for all features and screenshot. A: Path Finder or TotalFinder, perhaps? (Both are commercial.) A: I'm writing an app similar to total commander, Mover - http://themaninhat.com/mover A: You should probably take a look at Disk Order. It was created as a Total Commander equivalent for OS X. http://likemac.ru/english However it's not free either... A: DCommander is a good alternative but it is not free. See http://www.devstorm-apps.com/dcommander-mac/ or itunes directly: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dcommander/id583622672?mt=12 A: FastCommander supports all file operations. Fast, stable, small, lightweight. Can be freely downloaded and used - no restrictions, just nag screen.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why is there a duplicate entry for my TextMate? I was changing the default program to open .txt files with and I noticed 2 entries for TextMate. Its one of those little things that annoy me. How can I fix it? I didn't see 2 directors of TextMate.app in /Applications.! A: Mac OS X automatically keeps a database of all applications and their corresponding file-types called the LaunchServices database. You can examine where both of your TextMate executables are located by opening Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities and entering: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate This will open a long file full of all Applications that your LaunchService DB "knows" on your Mac in TextMate. Examine this file for the "path:" of your duplicate entires of "TextMate". It´s quite likely that you´ve already removed the second "TextMate" but your LaunchServices still remembers it. I guess you should tell the Datatbase to rebuild by entering: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user into the Terminal and then restarting your computer. This may lead to your Mac forgetting some custom "open with.." assignments though.

Q: Why is there a duplicate entry for my TextMate? I was changing the default program to open .txt files with and I noticed 2 entries for TextMate. Its one of those little things that annoy me. How can I fix it? I didn't see 2 directors of TextMate.app in /Applications.! A: Mac OS X automatically keeps a database of all applications and their corresponding file-types called the LaunchServices database. You can examine where both of your TextMate executables are located by opening Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities and entering: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate This will open a long file full of all Applications that your LaunchService DB "knows" on your Mac in TextMate. Examine this file for the "path:" of your duplicate entires of "TextMate". It´s quite likely that you´ve already removed the second "TextMate" but your LaunchServices still remembers it. I guess you should tell the Datatbase to rebuild by entering: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user into the Terminal and then restarting your computer. This may lead to your Mac forgetting some custom "open with.." assignments though. A: Or, it could mean that you have two different versions of TextMate installed. Try searching for textmate in spotlight and see how many applications it finds. Throw the old one in the trash and you should be good to go. I get the same thing with Numbers as I still have the '09 and '10 versions installed... :) Piko

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to purchase an app from the Mac App Store as a gift? Is there a way, in the Mac App Store, to buy an app and to give the license to a friend who has no way to pay for that app? A: No, Apple didn't implement the gift feature in the Mac App Store. I imagine it will happen eventually, but it isn't there right now. Your only option would be to buy your friend an iTunes gift card, which can be used to buy apps. Here's my source

Q: Is there a way to purchase an app from the Mac App Store as a gift? Is there a way, in the Mac App Store, to buy an app and to give the license to a friend who has no way to pay for that app? A: No, Apple didn't implement the gift feature in the Mac App Store. I imagine it will happen eventually, but it isn't there right now. Your only option would be to buy your friend an iTunes gift card, which can be used to buy apps. Here's my source A: I have not seen the option to gift apps in the Mac App Store like you are able to do for apps on iOS devices and in iTunes. However a workaround you could use would be to get your friend an iTunes gift card to cover the cost of the app. The Mac App Store uses the same accounts you would use to purchase content from iTunes or the AppStore on an iOS device. If your friend does not have a credit card to set up an account, it is possible to set up an account without a credit card. To set up an account without a credit card. All you have to do is attempt to download a free application from the Mac App Store (this works in iTunes and on iOS devices as well), when prompted to sign in, click on the button that says "Create an AppleID". This will take you to a page to enter your email and choose a password, security question, etc.. After filling in that information, the next page is the where you enter your payment info. The section where you choose your Payment Type will have an option for none (This "None" option will not appear unless you attempt to download a free application and then create your AppleID). On that page you can also redeem the gift cards, promos etc. Hope this works for your friend A: If you love them a lot, you can log into your account from their computer, download the app, and then after the app has installed, log out of your account by going to the Store < Sign out. It worked for giving my little sister FaceTime. :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Disable Safari plugin without (re)moving the file I've been Flash-free in Safari (5.0.3, my primary browser) for a while now, using Chrome with its bundled Flash Player whenever I have to. I'm also developing a little bit in Flash for school, and have ended up using the Flash Debug Player, since it's really convenient to use trace for debugging. I tried just putting the Debug Player inside my Google Chrome.app, similar to how the existing Flash Player is located, but Chrome refused to detect this, so I had to put it in /Library/Internet Plug-ins, and now Safari detects it too. Is there any way I can get Safari to ignore this plugin, or something that makes sure Chrome can find it, and not Safari? A: Maybe just use the clicktoflash extension (also available from Safari Extensions Gallery)?

Q: Disable Safari plugin without (re)moving the file I've been Flash-free in Safari (5.0.3, my primary browser) for a while now, using Chrome with its bundled Flash Player whenever I have to. I'm also developing a little bit in Flash for school, and have ended up using the Flash Debug Player, since it's really convenient to use trace for debugging. I tried just putting the Debug Player inside my Google Chrome.app, similar to how the existing Flash Player is located, but Chrome refused to detect this, so I had to put it in /Library/Internet Plug-ins, and now Safari detects it too. Is there any way I can get Safari to ignore this plugin, or something that makes sure Chrome can find it, and not Safari? A: Maybe just use the clicktoflash extension (also available from Safari Extensions Gallery)? A: You have to rename the Flash debug plugin, in order to be available to Chrome. * *Go to 'Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/10.0.../Internet Plug-ins' *delete the 'Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin' *put there your debug 'Flash Player.plugin' *rename it to 'Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin' *restart Chrome

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Apple Stackexchange Q: If I install more RAM should I boot into 64bit Kernel? Does it matter? I've got an Early-2009 Unibody Mac Book Pro 17". It came with 4 GB RAM and by default it boots into 32-bit Kernel. I've just upgraded to 8 GB RAM and my main concern is getting maximum performance from my 64-bit version of Lightroom 3 (I scan negatives and edit large tiff files). Now that I've got 8 GB RAM, will booting into 64-bit Kernel give me any performance boost on Lightroom (and even generally)? Should I see a performance boost on 32-bit Kernel with the additional RAM? A: According to this article at macperformanceguide.com, you will see performance gains (5-30%) by running graphics applications in 64-bit mode. Note that you don't necessarily need to switch to a 64-bit Kernel, you just need to ensure that Lightroom runs in 64-bit mode.

Q: If I install more RAM should I boot into 64bit Kernel? Does it matter? I've got an Early-2009 Unibody Mac Book Pro 17". It came with 4 GB RAM and by default it boots into 32-bit Kernel. I've just upgraded to 8 GB RAM and my main concern is getting maximum performance from my 64-bit version of Lightroom 3 (I scan negatives and edit large tiff files). Now that I've got 8 GB RAM, will booting into 64-bit Kernel give me any performance boost on Lightroom (and even generally)? Should I see a performance boost on 32-bit Kernel with the additional RAM? A: According to this article at macperformanceguide.com, you will see performance gains (5-30%) by running graphics applications in 64-bit mode. Note that you don't necessarily need to switch to a 64-bit Kernel, you just need to ensure that Lightroom runs in 64-bit mode. A: As per Apple's web site, no. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4287

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to draw a curved arrow in Keynote 09? I don't find how to draw a curved arrow in a Keynote'09 presentation... I'm sure is really before my eyes but ..... A: Create the Arrow * *From the Insert Shape menu choose the "Draw with Pen" tool: *Click once at one end of your curved arrow: *Click and drag at the other end of your arrow: *Hit the Escape key to stop drawing. *From the line ends menu, choose an arrowhead you like: Edit the Arrow To reshape the curve, click on it once, then click on it again; When the endpoints turn red you can change things: Click and drag the round circles at the end of the gray Bezier handles to reshape the curve (a little practice makes perfect): Click and drag one of the red endpoints to change the start or end:

Q: How to draw a curved arrow in Keynote 09? I don't find how to draw a curved arrow in a Keynote'09 presentation... I'm sure is really before my eyes but ..... A: Create the Arrow * *From the Insert Shape menu choose the "Draw with Pen" tool: *Click once at one end of your curved arrow: *Click and drag at the other end of your arrow: *Hit the Escape key to stop drawing. *From the line ends menu, choose an arrowhead you like: Edit the Arrow To reshape the curve, click on it once, then click on it again; When the endpoints turn red you can change things: Click and drag the round circles at the end of the gray Bezier handles to reshape the curve (a little practice makes perfect): Click and drag one of the red endpoints to change the start or end: A: Maybe you should look at this Thread. They speak about Keynote 4, but I think you can do that in Keynote '09 as well.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I resize OS X main partition when I already have other BootCamp partitions? Short story: partition resizing using Disk Utility fails because MediaKit reports no such partition when I try to shrink it. I also tried the same while booting from the DVD, same result. Details: * *reFIT is installed and partition tables are in sync. Current configuration: * *refit *hfs+ - with OS X 10.6 on it *linux swap *linux ext4 - with Ubuntu on it I can boot both, OS X and Ubuntu, via rEFIt boot menu but I want to shrink the OSX partition in order to add another NTFS partion where I want to install Windows 7 x64. What should I do? A: Here is my current solution: * *boot from OS X DVD - mandatory! *open terminal *diskutil list *umount "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" *fsck -f /dev/disk0s2 *diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 100G

Q: How do I resize OS X main partition when I already have other BootCamp partitions? Short story: partition resizing using Disk Utility fails because MediaKit reports no such partition when I try to shrink it. I also tried the same while booting from the DVD, same result. Details: * *reFIT is installed and partition tables are in sync. Current configuration: * *refit *hfs+ - with OS X 10.6 on it *linux swap *linux ext4 - with Ubuntu on it I can boot both, OS X and Ubuntu, via rEFIt boot menu but I want to shrink the OSX partition in order to add another NTFS partion where I want to install Windows 7 x64. What should I do? A: Here is my current solution: * *boot from OS X DVD - mandatory! *open terminal *diskutil list *umount "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" *fsck -f /dev/disk0s2 *diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 100G A: Easy method: iPartition ($45) It gives you the option in the program to create a bootable DVD if you want to make changes to your boot drive. You could also run it from another Mac with the Mac you want to modify booted into Target Disk Mode. Definitely not free, but it will save you a headache.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a beginners guide to Unix from the OS X point of view? I'm hoping to build on my embarrassingly-limited knowledge of the command line, and I know there are a ton of great resources out there. I'm wondering if there are any books or other resources that are tailored specifically to the OS X user running Terminal. Thanks. A: Well, there is always Apple´s official command line guide but back when I learned my way around the Terminal, I found Unix for the beginning Mage (PDF, free) quite entertaining and educational (given it suits your humour). If you´d rather go for a book, I´d highly recommend "The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood".

Q: Is there a beginners guide to Unix from the OS X point of view? I'm hoping to build on my embarrassingly-limited knowledge of the command line, and I know there are a ton of great resources out there. I'm wondering if there are any books or other resources that are tailored specifically to the OS X user running Terminal. Thanks. A: Well, there is always Apple´s official command line guide but back when I learned my way around the Terminal, I found Unix for the beginning Mage (PDF, free) quite entertaining and educational (given it suits your humour). If you´d rather go for a book, I´d highly recommend "The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood". A: This Mac OS X Unix Tutorial has a lot of information in there which you could start from. All in all, I think that if you start up with any of the good resources on Linux (or Unix), you should be able to get up to speed with most aspects of Unix on OS X. A: O'Reilly has several Learning UNIX for Mac OS X books. They were all published several years ago, and the most recent one is for Tiger. But they are still relevant to UNIX, as one of the great things about UNIX is that the fundamentals are quite stable. A: I'm a fan of Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, by Joe Kissell. It's a $10 ebook that is specifically designed for beginning command line users on Mac OS X. I think it's exactly what you asked for. I find many O'Reilly UNIX books to be frustratingly opaque for the beginner. Book blurb from the above link: If you've ever thought you should learn how to use the Unix command line that underlies Mac OS X, or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal, Joe Kissell is here to help! This 111-page ebook will help you become comfortable working on the Mac's command line, starting with the fundamentals and walking you through more advanced topics as your knowledge increases. And if you're uncertain how to put your new-found skills to use, Joe includes numerous real-life "recipes" for tasks that are best done from the command line. Disclaimer: Though I wrote a Take Control book seven years ago, I have no financial interest in Joe's book. A: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/tutoriallist has reviews of some bash tutorials for beginners. The highest rated one is http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide. OS X-centered lists of shell commands: * *http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/02/15/40-useful-mac-os-x-shell-scripts-and-terminal--commands *http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5435/got-any-tips-or-tricks-for-terminal-in-mac-os-x *https://serverfault.com/questions/7346/what-are-useful-command-line-commands-on-mac-os-x More advanced resources: * */usr/share/doc/bash/bash.html and /usr/share/doc/bash/bashref.html *Stack Exchange API, like https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-on-users#pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=activity&ids=22565&filter=!-079JKuzWRrc&site=unix&run=true *http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ and http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls *http://lri.me/shell.txt and http://lri.me/shell.html *http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/last-month/sort-by-votes *https://twitter.com/climagic A: There is this kid on youtube who runs the macheads channel - best place to start learning the terminal is his 21 part series - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIBH4fNqOc Another source I would point to is the Meet the Command Line series by Dan Benjamin at Peepcode: http://peepcode.com/products/meet-the-command-line A: I have a newsletter and upcoming screencast specifically for OS X users, which you can follow here: http://learning-the-unix-command-line-on-os-x.chipcastle.com/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Which iOS devices can *not* update to iOS 4.3? What is the complete list of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) that are unable to update to iOS 4.3 or higher? A: According to Apple, (scroll to the bottom of the page) only the two most recent generations of each device can upgrade. So both iPads, the iPhone 4 and 3GS and the 3rd & 4th generation iPod touch. One exception: The CDMA (Verizon in the US) iPhone 4 is staying on 4.2.6 for a while. It has some, but not all, features of iOS 4.3. That leaves the first two generations of iPod touch and the original iPhone and iPhone 3G unable to use it. The 3G and second-generation iPod touch got stripped-down versions of 4.0-4.2.1. (No multitasking, homescreen wallpapers, or printing.) The other two devices left out (1st-gen iPod touch & iPhone) didn't even get 4.0.

Q: Which iOS devices can *not* update to iOS 4.3? What is the complete list of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) that are unable to update to iOS 4.3 or higher? A: According to Apple, (scroll to the bottom of the page) only the two most recent generations of each device can upgrade. So both iPads, the iPhone 4 and 3GS and the 3rd & 4th generation iPod touch. One exception: The CDMA (Verizon in the US) iPhone 4 is staying on 4.2.6 for a while. It has some, but not all, features of iOS 4.3. That leaves the first two generations of iPod touch and the original iPhone and iPhone 3G unable to use it. The 3G and second-generation iPod touch got stripped-down versions of 4.0-4.2.1. (No multitasking, homescreen wallpapers, or printing.) The other two devices left out (1st-gen iPod touch & iPhone) didn't even get 4.0.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Options to use iPad as remote photo viewing client As it says here, I can use an iPad as a remote photo vieing client if I buy the WD My Book Live NAS. But I have an old NAS already and I wonder if there are any generic iPad apps that give similar function, but without restriction on a specific NAS? Thanks. A: I use Remiew I can view any photo I saved on my PC from iPad as it gives full control on folder navigation, i.e. I can browse all folders of my pc without any restrictions. One restriction it that it shows images only, no other file types are shown. It was a bit tricky to set it up at first, but it works fine for me and it's free.

Q: Options to use iPad as remote photo viewing client As it says here, I can use an iPad as a remote photo vieing client if I buy the WD My Book Live NAS. But I have an old NAS already and I wonder if there are any generic iPad apps that give similar function, but without restriction on a specific NAS? Thanks. A: I use Remiew I can view any photo I saved on my PC from iPad as it gives full control on folder navigation, i.e. I can browse all folders of my pc without any restrictions. One restriction it that it shows images only, no other file types are shown. It was a bit tricky to set it up at first, but it works fine for me and it's free. A: Try using a free cloud storage solution such as dropbox.com or box.net. For example, you can install the Dropbox application on any of your PCs / Macs, and upload images to a folder. On your iPad, download the Dropbox app and you will see those files show up. Those solutions serve as an online NAS and it is free to use if you only use <1-2GB of storage space. Many other apps also support them so you can transfer files from and to your iPad. A: Soon, with iOS 5, the new 'Photostream' feature will more than likely fill this need for you: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html A: This app claims to view iPhoto libraries remotely, and this discussion suggests Zumocast and Plex for doing the same. It also implies Zumocast can show folders full of files. Several sites suggest publishing your photo folders as a website in Apache and browsing them in Safari on the iPad, with or without some kind of pleasant web front-end / gallery site. A: I use Cinq for this, it works fine on iPad and iPhone. You'll need to run the helper app on a Mac or PC, and it will drag the photos from your hard drive or NAS and display them. It also allows you to send your photos wirelessly from your iPhone (and i guess iPad 2) to your Mac or PC. Zumocast does something similar, but i preferred Cinq. It seems that Zumocast has suspended downloads for the moment, not sure what's going on. A: AirPhotoViewer Can lets you view photo form your pc over wifi with out sync  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airphotoviewer/id524118762?ls=1&mt=8

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to enable the iOS spell checker in Mobile Safari? The iOS spell checker works for me in all the iOS applications, but it doesn't seem to work for text I type in a text area in Mobile Safari. For instance, spelling errors are underlined in red for emails I type in Mail, but they are not underlined in red in the web-based Gmail. I am not talking about completion feature, but the red underline of misspelled words, which is new with iOS 4, as shown in this screenshot: How can I get spell checking to work for form fields in Mobile Safari like it works in other applications? A: It looks like it's indeed a hole in iphone's safari. I'm not sure if it was always like that or if it's a new undocumented feature that might soon go away. But meanwhile you can try using Inspell if you're willing to jailbreak. There's just no other way to fix such an issue: it's either apple or cydia. Another option, if the error occured only in safari, is using another browser. But that doesn't seem to be this case.

Q: How to enable the iOS spell checker in Mobile Safari? The iOS spell checker works for me in all the iOS applications, but it doesn't seem to work for text I type in a text area in Mobile Safari. For instance, spelling errors are underlined in red for emails I type in Mail, but they are not underlined in red in the web-based Gmail. I am not talking about completion feature, but the red underline of misspelled words, which is new with iOS 4, as shown in this screenshot: How can I get spell checking to work for form fields in Mobile Safari like it works in other applications? A: It looks like it's indeed a hole in iphone's safari. I'm not sure if it was always like that or if it's a new undocumented feature that might soon go away. But meanwhile you can try using Inspell if you're willing to jailbreak. There's just no other way to fix such an issue: it's either apple or cydia. Another option, if the error occured only in safari, is using another browser. But that doesn't seem to be this case. A: I think that has more to do with the way that Google coded their website, than it does with the iPhone itself. Spell-check works everywhere else on the internet that I have seen while using my phone. In fact, I just went on my phone and confirmed it works properly on a couple websites including the web version of Facebook. I would be sending a bug request to Google instead of posting here. That would be much more effective. A: On my iPad Air 2, iOS 9 (it goes back many revisions), I experience the same issue. I can only report that the situation is slightly different when you are talking mobile Safari on iPad. No, words are not underlined in red in Safari, quite sadly. It works exactly as you would want it to in Chrome on the iPad; However the iPhone 6s/ iOS 9 Chrome text entry experience seems to be exactly the same as that of Safari. I guess that is due to different design paradigms and parameters, small screens, tiny keyboard, etc. Highly assisted text entry, autocorrection, predictive text, etc. seem to be more important than underlining spelling errors. Chrome's spell check works just like you would expect, but only when you're using an iPad. This is what I have found in testing today.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What are some Textmate alternatives that have the completion key feature? I am slowly beginning to fear the worst with Textmate and the impending release of Lion and how stable Textmate might be on it. So my question is, are there any Textmate alternatives out there that supports the completion feature (Esc key autocompleting) in the same way that Textmate does? It must be as similar as possible to textmate implementation ideally. Meaning: * *It can autocomplete various language keywords, based on existing language *It can autocomplete nearby words. *It doesn't generate a dropdown showing options, you should just keep pressing the key to cycle through the options. A: The Cocoa build of Emacs 23 is very good and has a ton of extensions and virtually limitless scope for customisation. The learning curve can be a bit steep, but it's well worth the investment in time once you get over the initial hump. If you are comfortable with TextMate, the Terminal and these sorts of things, you will be fine, http://emacswiki.org is a great resource.

Q: What are some Textmate alternatives that have the completion key feature? I am slowly beginning to fear the worst with Textmate and the impending release of Lion and how stable Textmate might be on it. So my question is, are there any Textmate alternatives out there that supports the completion feature (Esc key autocompleting) in the same way that Textmate does? It must be as similar as possible to textmate implementation ideally. Meaning: * *It can autocomplete various language keywords, based on existing language *It can autocomplete nearby words. *It doesn't generate a dropdown showing options, you should just keep pressing the key to cycle through the options. A: The Cocoa build of Emacs 23 is very good and has a ton of extensions and virtually limitless scope for customisation. The learning curve can be a bit steep, but it's well worth the investment in time once you get over the initial hump. If you are comfortable with TextMate, the Terminal and these sorts of things, you will be fine, http://emacswiki.org is a great resource. A: Sublime Text 2 is proceeding nicely. Reminds me a lot of Textmate Overview: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-public-alpha Download for ver. 2: http://www.sublimetext.com/2 A: One option is Smultron, which is available from the MacApp Store for 4,99. It offers exactly what you need (really good autocompletion). You find more information on it in the first comment on this post. There is also a free fork of it named Fraise. I didn't try Fraise yet, but it seems to be as good as Smultron. Another option you have is Vim. But getting to Vim is not easy. If you are coming from TextMate I would recommend MacVim in combination with Janus. It is developed by Ex-TextMate guys that came to Vim and they did a really good job to provide some functionality that TextMate Users love. The Janus Page is btw. a good starting point for a Vim Transition. A: My guess is that TextMate will be updated for Lion so you should be just fine. Textmate has paying customers that expect to be able to use in on the latest version of OS X, and I don't see why the developers would risk losing customers by not updating their software. I would even go so far as to say that the update to Lion might be an ideal time for them to release TextMate 2.0. Admittedly, the release was named in 2009's top ten vaporware by Wired, but then again, so was Starcraft II. Let's cross our fingers because let's face it, TextMate is simply the best. A: Another recommendation for Sublime Text 2 (its in beta, but already more stable for me than Textmate ever was to have switched over to full-time). It has a similar auto-complete behaviour to Textmate that you mentioned you needed, triggered by the tab key by default. However, it doesn't cycle through the different matches with this key - it actually just selects the best match. As pointed out by koiyu above, if you hit ctrl-space it will open the auto-complete drop-down with all the matches that you can choose from. More info on its completion behaviour can be found here Other notable features if you are interested: * *Sublime Text is highly configurable. Everything from the default key-mappings mentioned for the auto-complete behaviour above, down to the colour of the tabs in the interface can be easily changed by modifying the JSON-format configuration files. A lot of things don't have a pretty GUI at the moment but it was easy enough for me to get in there and tweak everything I could possibly want -- ST is a tweaker's dream. *Textmate-compatibility. As an ex-Textmate user, I love that ST is compatible with Textmate snippets, language files and colour schemes. I couldn't find a CMake bundle in Sublime Text by default, so I just copied across the language file from the CMake bundle from Textmate and it worked perfectly. It's definitely one to watch as development has been rapid. A: Vim seems to fit your requirements: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ * *See this: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip91 for dictionary completions *Ctrl-N autocompletes with the words in the files currently open *It does not generate a drop down menu, but you can add it as an option if you change your mind. In addition to that it has macros support, syntax highlighting and many extensions. A: TextMate is probably the most awesome mac text editor, so I'm not sure you'll be able to find a better one. It's tagged at around $50 so, if you take that into consideration, there might be another one up to the challange - but I haven't tried it: BBedit costs $39 until October 2011, when it goes up to $49. Here are two editors I find quite amazing as well: * *Text Wrangler - free and made by the same guys from BBedit, BareBones. *SubEthaEdit - simple and powerful its main feature is collaboration. I trust if none of those 3 satisfy your needs, you're in tough luck. But there are more alternatives.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I format a disk partition from the command line on OS X? How do I format a disk partition from the command line on Mac OS X? In case someone wonders why: because for some people Disk Utility fails. A: diskutil list In my case I wanted to format the parition as NTFS for installing Windows 7 on it. The last parameter is the partition 4 on first disk. diskutil eraseVolume "Tuxera NTFS" my-ntfs disk0s4

Q: How do I format a disk partition from the command line on OS X? How do I format a disk partition from the command line on Mac OS X? In case someone wonders why: because for some people Disk Utility fails. A: diskutil list In my case I wanted to format the parition as NTFS for installing Windows 7 on it. The last parameter is the partition 4 on first disk. diskutil eraseVolume "Tuxera NTFS" my-ntfs disk0s4 A: For those of you looking to format an entire disk and remove all partitions here is the command: diskutil eraseDisk free itsfree /dev/disk6 Even though I am formatting with free space-- I still had to give it a name for the command to work, in this case itsfree. To list your disks diskutil list To securely erase - Needs to have a mounted volume diskutil secureerase freespace 0 /dev/disk6s2 To list available filesystems diskutil listFilesystems A: Multipe partitions sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk9 11 GPT \ JHFS+ one 298.1G \ JHFS+ two 298.1G \ JHFS+ three 298.1G \ JHFS+ four 298.1G \ JHFS+ five 298.1G \ JHFS+ six 298.1G \ JHFS+ seven 298.1G \ JHFS+ eight 298.1G \ JHFS+ nine 298.1G \ JHFS+ ten 298.1G \ JHFS+ eleven R

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Pages templates for Resumes I'm looking for some Pages templates for Resume (software developer CV). Do you have any suggestions? A: There are built-in resume templates in Pages. Select File > New from Template Chooser

Q: Pages templates for Resumes I'm looking for some Pages templates for Resume (software developer CV). Do you have any suggestions? A: There are built-in resume templates in Pages. Select File > New from Template Chooser A: In addition to the built-in templates, you can find some good ones elsewhere. * *iWork Community has some resume templates. *Jumsoft makes and sells really nice templates for many purposes. Look at both their regular and Pro Pages templates. *There's a perhaps-too-fashionable resume template here.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can a keyboard be shared with an iPad? What are the ways for both an iMac and an iPad to share the same physical keyboard? If it's possible to share a regular Apple bluetooth keyboard between both devices without jailbreaking the iPad, I think it would be my favored option. A: I don't think you can. Bluetooth is designed such that pairing is two-way (computer <-> device). You can't pair to a second device without un-pairing from the first device.

Q: How can a keyboard be shared with an iPad? What are the ways for both an iMac and an iPad to share the same physical keyboard? If it's possible to share a regular Apple bluetooth keyboard between both devices without jailbreaking the iPad, I think it would be my favored option. A: I don't think you can. Bluetooth is designed such that pairing is two-way (computer <-> device). You can't pair to a second device without un-pairing from the first device. A: Bluetooth only allows pairing with one device at a time. A: This might help you, or at least lead you in the right direction. http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/716935-synergy-ipad-share-your-mouse-keyboard.html A: Theoretically using the computer as a middle man, You could set a hotkey to switch between the two? No program exists to do it though :( A: This has worked well for me - especially when I turn off the bluetooth on the current device that has the bluetooth keyboard paired, then turn on the bluetooth on the other. Sometimes, then pair to the closest device when I power cycle the keyboard. You have to do the initial pairing on each, but I've not had issues using one Apple Bluetooth keyboard with more than one "computer" - be it a Mac or an iOS device like an iPhone or an iPad. You of course can't have the one keyboard drive both at the same time - this only works in sequence. A: Logitech made a solar bluetooth keyboard allowing keyboard to pair 3 device . With your apple bluetooth keyboard, JUC400 Wormhole switch will do this. Or If you use mac, app "type2phone"is a altinative solution. A: It exists for the Mac, so I guess it could be possible even for Windows. Type2Phone: Virtual Bluetooth Keyboard Type2Phone lets you use your Mac as Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. Type on your full-sized keyboard. The text will appear on your iOS device. Prepare text on your Mac and then paste it to your mobile device. Benefits * *Use your Mac as a keyboard to type SMS text messages at full speed *Send tweets. *Update your Facebook status. *Chat. With the comfort of a full keyboard *Reply to emails on accounts configured only on your iPhone *Paste addresses, passwords, … from your Mac to your iPhone *Use AppleScript to automate text input to your iPhone Requirements * *Mac with Bluetooth enabled *Mac OS X 10.6.6 *iPhone (3GS or later), iPad (all models), iPod touch (3rd generation or later). iOS 3.2 or later *Apple TV with software version 5.2 (January 2013) or later A: An alternative to the regular Apple bluetooth keyboard is the Kanex Multi-Sync Keyboard. This keyboard can be paired with four devices, paired through Bluetooth with each of the devices just once, and you can then use the Multi-Sync Keyboard with it with just a tap of a button. Another device can be connected through USB. This keyboard has a numeric keypad built in for those spreadsheet editing, but also features iOS-specific keys for your favorite iDevice. It operates on two AAA batteries, and can also be used in a USB-wired mode if needed. It retails in the UK at £69.00.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts? Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts? Assume I have corporate and private account. How can I use a single dropbox app for them? A: You can't do it out of one copy of the app, but it seems that you can duplicate the app. You can see (somewhat complicated) instructions here: http://maketecheasier.com/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-in-mac-and-linux/2010/05/24 I haven't done this personally, but this looks like it should work.

Q: Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts? Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts? Assume I have corporate and private account. How can I use a single dropbox app for them? A: You can't do it out of one copy of the app, but it seems that you can duplicate the app. You can see (somewhat complicated) instructions here: http://maketecheasier.com/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-in-mac-and-linux/2010/05/24 I haven't done this personally, but this looks like it should work. A: I do this with one copy of Dropbox. For my secondary account, I run an automator script on login that sets: HOME=$HOME/Desktop/SECONDARY-DROPBOX /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox & I end up with two dropbox icons in the menu bar. I configure one to be alternate black/white icon so I can distinguish visibly between the two. A: My (less complicated?) fix to this was... I have two Mac accounts: Robert, Corp a/c Bob, Personal a/c Dropbox installed on both Accounts synching to /Volumes/Working/Websync/Robert/Dropbox /Volumes/Working/Websync/Bob/Dropbox From a Terminal window in the Bob account bob$>su Robert -c /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox You'll be prompted for password for Robert Dropbox will run something like /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python27.zip /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/plat-mac /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-tk /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-old /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload Open a new terminal shell 'Cmd-T' and then run Dropbox for Bob bob$> /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox I'm running Dropbox v2.8.2 on Mountain Lion Thanks to Mark for his answer to this Can I start an application as another user without actually switching users? Image: Two Dropbox Accounts running A: You can simply do that using multiple OS X accounts, running the same copy of Dropbox in each of them.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Changing Chrome's User Agent? Is it possible to change Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) user agents on OSX? I dont see a menu or preference option for doing so. A: This link shows how to do it using Terminal. The Terminal command that opens Chrome using the Safari user agent string: open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19" I tested this, and it works with the current version of Chrome. You can find various User-Agent strings here.

Q: Changing Chrome's User Agent? Is it possible to change Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) user agents on OSX? I dont see a menu or preference option for doing so. A: This link shows how to do it using Terminal. The Terminal command that opens Chrome using the Safari user agent string: open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19" I tested this, and it works with the current version of Chrome. You can find various User-Agent strings here. A: ScriptNo ...is an extension for Google Chrome which brings some of Firefox's NoScript extension functionality in a user-friendly fashion to Chrome. It also features the ability of user-agent spoofing.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is iTunes required for file management on the iPad? Is it possible manage files on an iPad directly, or do all file transfer (music, movies, etc), have to go through iTunes? A: iPhone Explorer is the best one out there today. By far. On the iPad itself, only if you jailbreak. Then get iFile.

Q: Is iTunes required for file management on the iPad? Is it possible manage files on an iPad directly, or do all file transfer (music, movies, etc), have to go through iTunes? A: iPhone Explorer is the best one out there today. By far. On the iPad itself, only if you jailbreak. Then get iFile. A: iTunes is commonly used to synchronize and manage content (podcasts, songs, videos, notes, calendar, contacts, and books) for iPad owners. The alternative is to jailbreak which requires some technical knowledge on the part of the owner, may not have the features of the latest released iOS (it takes time for jailbreakers to release new jailbreaks), and is not supported by Apple warranty. A: If you have access to a Linux machine then the libimobiledevice library is an alternative to iTunes and you don't need to jailbreak the iPad. With it, you can also mount the file directories of individual apps (whether that helps or not depends on the app). You can't add tunes to the music player, unfortunately, because the database isn't (yet) writeable by Linux tools (though if you jailbreak, you can modify the database version to one that Linux can deal with). To work with iOS5 you need the latest version (from the git repository) rather than whatever version comes with your distribution. According to the website, there are unofficial ports to Windows.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any decent Wordpress blogging client for Mac? On Windows I used to blog to Wordpress using Microsoft Word 2010 blog feature, but the Mac version is missing this feature. I am looking for alternatives, preferably free ones. If you specify a commercial solution please include the price: name (x$). Please do not suggest generic text/html editors and submit different suggestions as separated answers. A: You might consider Flock, a free, Firefox-based browser with many other features, including a built in blog editor. It's quite an unusual program, as you can also use it to manage your Facebook and Twitter accounts and feeds. It's worth a look.

Q: Is there any decent Wordpress blogging client for Mac? On Windows I used to blog to Wordpress using Microsoft Word 2010 blog feature, but the Mac version is missing this feature. I am looking for alternatives, preferably free ones. If you specify a commercial solution please include the price: name (x$). Please do not suggest generic text/html editors and submit different suggestions as separated answers. A: You might consider Flock, a free, Firefox-based browser with many other features, including a built in blog editor. It's quite an unusual program, as you can also use it to manage your Facebook and Twitter accounts and feeds. It's worth a look. A: You have basically two choices, both payware: Marsedit $39.95: "The best way to write, preview, and publish your blog." and Ecto $19.95: "ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging editor for MacOSX" Both programs offer trial versions. A: Unfortunately, the best solutions (ecto and MarsEdit) are not free. There is one alternative, but I would rather promote Sorin's solution of using Flock. If you are a TextMate, you can also use the XMLRPC capabilities of its Blogging bundle to blog from there. Just curious, what more does a standalone editor offer in comparison to the WordPress rich text editor? I blog in plain text/html, but I think I remember the WordPress rich text environment to be rather flexible, with great media support for instance, as long as you are using a browser like Firefox. A: Bits - diary app with photos, tags, cloud sync and wordpress integration. A: You should also look at Blogo Publish text, images, videos, slideshows and more. With a simple, intuitive interface and support for Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine, Blogo is the best way to maintain your blog and spread the word with Twitter, Ping.fm and other supported services. for $25. I have used it before, and it was pretty good. They have a trial period, so you can check them out. A: Byword Publish to WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Scriptogram blogs and Evernote notebooks directly from Byword. Requires a one-time in-app purchase. Price: $10. OSX and iOS. No trial, only available at Apple App Stores. Supports Markdown, not sure about HTML. MacJournal You can keep your world private or, like so many do, share your thoughts and opinions or your entire life. Your MacJournal entries can be published to any of the popular blogging services like Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr and more. Price: $40. OSX only. Has a trial version. Tested in my localhost server and works ok. Can create new posts, or download all existing posts and edit/update them. Doesn't seem to support HTML. myWPEdit myWPEdit is an easy-to-use weblog editor focusing on the most important functions for blogger with easy to use features and a clean user interface. Why should you hinder yourself by using the slow and hard-to-use web interface WordPress comes with, if you could do it with style and comfort of a real Mac application. Price: $10. OSX only. No trial, only available at Apple App Store. Supports Markdown and HTML. A: SmartXBlog is desktop blog editor for both windows and mac , it has WYSIWYG editor, image editor, online news, image and video search, drag and drop option, bookmarks , rss feed available from nearly 100 popular websites and you can even add your own rss, pop up alerts of your comments and you can preview and publish your post directly to your wordpress account .I think it is best available blogging desktop editor for windows and mac. Free trial can be downloaded from http://www.smartxblog.com/ A: You might want to consider WordMark. Way cheaper than MarsEdit. It supports multiple platforms such as Wordpress, Medium, Tumblr, Blogger.... also supports Markdown if you are a fan.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I make spotlight ignore certain file types and directories? Since spotlight continuously updates the index, sometime the file precedence gets changed around and I might type in "saf" and press return expecting to get Safari, but instead spotlight attempts to open some Java jar file. Question Is there any way to make spotlight ignore certain file types or directories? A: There is a way to exclude folders: add a .no_index extension to the file or folder name. But my favourite one is adding a .metadata_never_index file to a folder. Use the following command: $ cd DIRECTORY $ touch .metadata_never_index

Q: How can I make spotlight ignore certain file types and directories? Since spotlight continuously updates the index, sometime the file precedence gets changed around and I might type in "saf" and press return expecting to get Safari, but instead spotlight attempts to open some Java jar file. Question Is there any way to make spotlight ignore certain file types or directories? A: There is a way to exclude folders: add a .no_index extension to the file or folder name. But my favourite one is adding a .metadata_never_index file to a folder. Use the following command: $ cd DIRECTORY $ touch .metadata_never_index A: Short answer: yes. Go to your System Preferences, then Spotlight: You can disable and/or reorder the items in this list. By dragging Applications to the top, "Saf" will match Safari first (because it's an App, regardless of it's location). If, on the other hand, there's a Folder(s) or Drive(s) that you want to explicitly exclude from Spotlight until you change your mind, turn onto the Privacy Tab (on top of that panel) and click the (+) button to browse for a folder. This window also accepts Drag and Drop of Folders or Drives (Volumes). In my Sshot, you can see that I exclude Clone (my weekly clone drive) from Spotlight so when I search for something I don't come up with duplicated results (one from the main drive and one from the backup). I also have added a Public Folder where a lot of ppl drops stuff and I don't care about it nor I want it in my search results. If you want to restore it, you can always remove it from this list (and give spotlight time to re-index it). You can't (as far as I know) exclude by File type. Note: in order to drag a "drive" just go go the finder, click on your Mac OS Volume and then press ⌘↑ (the up arrow) to go back to the "root", you will see your volumes there (among other things). Drag it and drop it onto this Privacy tab and voilá. A: Not being able to exclude by file type is really annoying. This source claims that if you append .noindex at the end of the filename that file is excluded by safari indexing. I have not been able to verify this trick, but could be interesting for others to try it out.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: PDF Voice Reader I have been reading PDF files a lot lately and I would very much prefer it if someone could read it out aloud for me ;). Is there any software that you use that can read PDF files aloud so that you can hear it, rather than read? A: You can do this with OS X's built in speech synth and Preview PDF-reading app. Here's how: * *Open System Preferences → Dictation & Speech → Text to Speech. *Check the box (if it isn't already checked) that is labeled "Speak selected text when the key is pressed". Then, click the "Change Key…" button to the right. Press the keyboard shortcut you want to use (I use shift-cmd-r). *Now, open you PDF in Preview. Select what you want with the Select tool, or use cmd-a to select everything. Press the key you set earlier, and your computer will think for a moment and then read you your PDF. Press your key again to stop.

Q: PDF Voice Reader I have been reading PDF files a lot lately and I would very much prefer it if someone could read it out aloud for me ;). Is there any software that you use that can read PDF files aloud so that you can hear it, rather than read? A: You can do this with OS X's built in speech synth and Preview PDF-reading app. Here's how: * *Open System Preferences → Dictation & Speech → Text to Speech. *Check the box (if it isn't already checked) that is labeled "Speak selected text when the key is pressed". Then, click the "Change Key…" button to the right. Press the keyboard shortcut you want to use (I use shift-cmd-r). *Now, open you PDF in Preview. Select what you want with the Select tool, or use cmd-a to select everything. Press the key you set earlier, and your computer will think for a moment and then read you your PDF. Press your key again to stop. A: An update for MacOS Big Sur (at least) * *Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Spoken Content *Make sure Speak selection is checked *Then highlight some text, right click, and click on Speech -> Start Speaking

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Tile Finder background image in Snow Leopard I have seen a guide/tip on the internet to make Finder tile it's background by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist however the guide is now outdated and no longer works on Snow Leopard. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this? A: It can't be done right now. Even if you made a background image in Photoshop the size of your display and used that, you'll find that with certain views (eg narrowed windows), you'll still see the edge of the image. Someone somewhere just might write an app to do this, and in my opinion it would be popular. Until then, we're stuck with just colors.

Q: Tile Finder background image in Snow Leopard I have seen a guide/tip on the internet to make Finder tile it's background by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist however the guide is now outdated and no longer works on Snow Leopard. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this? A: It can't be done right now. Even if you made a background image in Photoshop the size of your display and used that, you'll find that with certain views (eg narrowed windows), you'll still see the edge of the image. Someone somewhere just might write an app to do this, and in my opinion it would be popular. Until then, we're stuck with just colors. A: Finder provides this functionality in its View Options. Go to icon view (cmd + 1) and open View Options (cmd + j). There you may choose between White color, custom color, or a picture. Select picture, drag and drop your picture there and you're done :) Edit: In order to make the change system-wide, after setting the image you need to click on "Use as Defaults" A: From what I can tell, Snow Leopard did indeed lose the ability to tile the Finder background image. As an alternative, perhaps you could try creating a new large image composed of the image you want tiled manually. Then this could be used as the Finder background image and it will look tiled.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can OSX proxy settings vary by browser? I'm moderately familiar with OSX but am attempting to solve an issue remotely. My girlfriend is in Argentina for a bit, and the IP location bars her from many "US only" sites that she frequents. To combat this, my proposal is to Install another browser (Firefox in this case) and rig that through a U.S-based Open Proxy server. This would be her "US" browser. However, I wasn't sure whether changing the proxy for one browser's settings would change it in a central location for others. So, long question short: can I configure proxy settings for one browser only on OSX, or do they carry between all browsers? Thanks in advance for any help you can give! A: Any application can network directly or use the system settings. As @geekosaur states, Opera has its own setting, as does Firefox (along with the option to use the system settings). Chrome and Safar use the system settings. It's really up to the application developer how they implement their proxy controls (if they even have proxying!).

Q: Can OSX proxy settings vary by browser? I'm moderately familiar with OSX but am attempting to solve an issue remotely. My girlfriend is in Argentina for a bit, and the IP location bars her from many "US only" sites that she frequents. To combat this, my proposal is to Install another browser (Firefox in this case) and rig that through a U.S-based Open Proxy server. This would be her "US" browser. However, I wasn't sure whether changing the proxy for one browser's settings would change it in a central location for others. So, long question short: can I configure proxy settings for one browser only on OSX, or do they carry between all browsers? Thanks in advance for any help you can give! A: Any application can network directly or use the system settings. As @geekosaur states, Opera has its own setting, as does Firefox (along with the option to use the system settings). Chrome and Safar use the system settings. It's really up to the application developer how they implement their proxy controls (if they even have proxying!). A: On OSX, proxy settings are configured centrally in most browsers. Opera uses its own proxy setting, though.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What orthodox file manager for OS X could I use? I'm looking for a graphical file manager fro OS X, for console Midnight Commander is ok. I need two panels, function keys operations and preferably FTP and SCP support. Also, it would be great to be free. A: Marta (free) Simple and fast file manager for basic tasks like copying, moving and managing files. Key features * *Open source *macOS native *Plugins *Macros *Dark/White themes *Installs from dmg/brew *Embedded terminal *Tabs Cons Limited functionality at the moment: * *No file/text search *No remote filesystems support (aws, ftp, etc) PS: I'm neither developer or affiliated with this software.

Q: What orthodox file manager for OS X could I use? I'm looking for a graphical file manager fro OS X, for console Midnight Commander is ok. I need two panels, function keys operations and preferably FTP and SCP support. Also, it would be great to be free. A: Marta (free) Simple and fast file manager for basic tasks like copying, moving and managing files. Key features * *Open source *macOS native *Plugins *Macros *Dark/White themes *Installs from dmg/brew *Embedded terminal *Tabs Cons Limited functionality at the moment: * *No file/text search *No remote filesystems support (aws, ftp, etc) PS: I'm neither developer or affiliated with this software. A: Path Finder Although not free, I have been using Path Finder for years and love it dearly. Two features I like the most from this applications are: * *I can have two side-by-side panels, what you are looking for. Not only that, each panel can have multiple tabs. *I can go into a directory by hitting the return key, cmd+O still works. A: ForkLift (23,99 € / $29.99 / £20.99) Definitely a winner for me. Features list on its website: binarynights.com but it pretty much has anything you'd want from an orthodox file manager and it does look nice too :) A: Mover (free) * *open/run files and apps *batch copy/move/delete, file/folder creation *Operations queue *search files (with wildcards and regex) *show/hide hidden files *keyboard shortcut mapping *move to Trash *customizable UI *listening to file system events A: CRAX Commander This is a graphical, dual-panel file manager with support for operations (copy, move, delete). This software has built-in support for SSH and FTP. This is not free software but you can download a demo version from the program site. A: Double Commander (LGPLv2) Double Commander is inspired by Total Commander, and is a cross-platform application that works well on OSX (I'm running on Yosemite, 10.10.5, Early 2015 Macbook). It is highly configurable (in the screenshot, compared with "out of the box", I have configured the free-space display, enabled the left-sidebar tree view, added zebra-stripes, and used Linux Bionlinum as the display font). A partial feature list from the website: * *Unicode support *Tabbed interface *Multi-rename tool *Custom columns *Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format *Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting *Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR. *All operations working in background *Extended search function with full text search in any files *Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands *Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support *+ supports FTP/Network operations It has recently (as of this posting) reached 0.7 and was noted on Webupd8 where a bit of a review plus more description can be found. For those Mac users who like their apps "pretty", this interface will probably leave something to be desired. For those accustomed to using "commander"-like file managers on Windows or Linux, but now are on Macs ... it is a treat! A: TotalFinder I use http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ A: Xmander (free) Xmander is a simple dual panel file manager with a hex file viewer. You can browse through all your system's files, including the hidden and perform the basic file operations like move, copy, trash or create directory. A: Moroshka File Manager (free) Today I discovered another commander, the Moroshka File Manager. It has multiple tabs. Looks great. In particular the footer of the main-window is neat. A: Cloud Commander is orthodox web file manager for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. * *Open Source (MIT) *Has Web UI *Has build in editor with syntax highlighting. *Has build in console. A: Disk Order ($25) Surprised I haven't seen it mentioned, Disk Order has been around since 2003. My personal choice, can do (S)FTP and all the operation expected from a dual pane file manager in a keyboard friendly way – unlike some of the Finder spin-offs. Not free though and lately updates haven't been happening that often. A: Commander One FREE/$29.99 PRO Another MacOS alternative of Total Commander that runs natively for both Intel and ARM CPUs. There are several versions of Commander One: FREE and PRO versions are distributed through the website as well as Commander One version at the Mac App Store. Major features of FREE version: * *Classic look with dual panes and command line *Build-in multi-format viewer *Advanced search with regexp support *Queue for file operations *Local network client PRO pack extends the functionality with: * *FTP client *Terminal emulator *Support for lots of Cloud services *Mount for iOS and Android devices Note that due to Apple sandbox restrictions, App Store versions of the software don't support some functionality. A: muCommander (free) muCommander has classic orthodox file manager keybindings. Sadly MC is not very mac'ish and lacks multiple tabs. A: FastCommander http://osx-fastcommander.appspot.com Supports all file operations. Fast, stable, small, lightweight. Can be freely downloaded and used - no restrictions, just nag screen. A: Newton Commander (free + open source) * *Each tab runs in its own process. *A tab can run as a different user, eg. root. *No beachballs since it's only the child process that is hanging and not the UI. A: XCommander ($4.99) I have recently noticed XCommander in the Mac App Store. It has classic NortonCommander keybindings, so it's already more usable than PathFinder and Transmit. Sadly it has a long way to go to reach TotalCommander standards. No multiple tabs, no quicklook. What I like though is that it's new and it gets the keybindings right from the start. This is promising. A: Total Commander works on macOS under Wine. By far not the same experience as on a windows box, but adding this answer here for the sake of completeness. The procedure is not complicated, but requires some dependencies which you might have already installed for other purposes: * *Install XQuartz with brew cask install xquartz *Install wine with brew install wine *Download the TC installer, then launch it from the terminal with wine tcmd900ax64.exe. *Create an alias or launcher script which will run wine ~/.wine/drive_c/totalcmd/TOTALCMD64.EXE (if you installed under the default path). For some reason latest versions of wine do not enable font antialiasing by default. It can be enabled with winetricks by doing brew install winetricks and then running winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb in the terminal. It might be possible that certain things, i.e. TC plugins might not work with the 64bit version of Wine. In that case you might want to try with the 32bit version under a 32bit version of wine. Note: An alternative way to do this without having to type in the terminal could be https://www.playonmac.com.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What file comparison tool can I use under OS X? My favorite file comparison tool was Beyond Compare but since I recently switched to OS X, i'm no longer able to use it and I'm looking for an alternative, preferably a free one. Update: I made the mistake not to specify that I am also looking for a tool that does directory comparison, not only files. Because this could make the already answers invalid I made another question for this What directory comparison tools can I use on OS X? A: DiffMerge from Sourcegear is simple and free.

Q: What file comparison tool can I use under OS X? My favorite file comparison tool was Beyond Compare but since I recently switched to OS X, i'm no longer able to use it and I'm looking for an alternative, preferably a free one. Update: I made the mistake not to specify that I am also looking for a tool that does directory comparison, not only files. Because this could make the already answers invalid I made another question for this What directory comparison tools can I use on OS X? A: DiffMerge from Sourcegear is simple and free. A: This is an aggregation of the answers posted on SO's deleted clone, Graphical diff for Mac OS X. It includes links to each product, and the current price since last edit in USD. Note that any links to SO will only be visible to users who can view deleted content, which requires either moderator privileges or 10k reputation on that site. * *Sourcegear's DiffMerge, shareware *Joachim Eibl's KDiff3, free *Black Pixel's Kaleidoscope, $69.99 *Bare Bones Software's TextWrangler, free *Araxis's Merge, $129 + $29/year *Deltopia's DeltaWalker, $39.95/$75.95 *Kai Willadsen's Meld, free *Weipin Xia's DiffFork, $26 *Biscade's RoaringDiff, free *tkdiff, free There were some other suggestions, which were not diff tools in their own right, which I will list below: * *It (Beyond Compare) runs well in Wine, but I miss the shell integration. - Danyal Aytekin, May 11 '12, 13:01 *Eclipse also has a fairly decent comparison mechanism. - JeeBee, Oct 9 '08, 12:45 *P4Merge that comes with Perforce is pretty good and comes for free with perforce client. Both terminal and GUI version. - amok, Jul 7 '10, 23:19 *I had to use Vim because most of diffs mentioned here do not understand UTF-8. - user184880, Oct 6 '09, 9:56 That about wraps up that thread's merge into this one, as covered here. A: You can use diff if you're using the command-line. A: Changes.app has a great reputation and lots of features. Kaleidoscope is great too, and has a beautifully designed UI. It's also worth mentioning if you're doing programming that Xcode 4 has visual diff tools built in now too. A: There's also DeltaWalker. It's $40, and there's a trial available. A: Here are which I've found: * *FileMerge (opendiff) It's bundled with Xcode with Command Line Tools installed *DiffMerge It's bundled with Xcode with Command Line Tools installed *vimdiff It's free and open source. Install by: brew install vim. *Meld Can be installed using Homebrew via command: brew install meld, but probably it won't work. *KDiff3 Can be installed using Homebrew via command: brew install kdiff3 *TkDiff Can be installed using Homebrew via command: brew install tkdiff *TextWrangler *VisualDiffer Available at App Store *Kaleidoscope Commercial with free trial. *Araxis Merge Commercial with free trial. *Changes Commercial with free trial. Check also Comparison of file comparison tools at Wikipedia for the full list. A: FileMerge is bundled with XCode, but I prefer Kaleidoscope which is not free. A: Beyond Compare 4 now runs also on OSX. Visit http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta.php?zz=beta4_whatsnew A: There are a great many comparison tools available. Many do directories and files. Some even perform as merge tools (2 and 3 way). Of these some have already been mentioned in other answers and your choice will depend on what features you require, and how much you are prepared to pay for the tool. There is a good Wikipedia page with a comparison of many of the better known ones. A: I use Folder Sync It costs $8.99 on the Mac App Store. It works really nicely. A: I use Kaleidoscope. Or just plain, old diff from the CLI A: It is not great, but the FileMerge bundled with the OS can be launched from the command line as opendiff a.txt b.txt. A: P4Merge is a free, very nice diff and merge tool. It can: * *Diff files *Do 3 way merges *Do Folder diffs *Visually diff 2 image files! Download it here for Mac and Linux Some screenshots: Visual diff of an image: A: This tool https://filecomparisontool.com * *Web based, so it is compatible *Mobile friendly *Save comparison up to 6 months *Share comparison via URL *It is free! A: vim also has built-in support for side-by-side diff - vim -d file1 file2 Here is a page describing vim diff mode in detail - http://www.carbonsilk.com/development/vim-diff/ A: GitX-dev is a fork (variant) of GitX, a long-defunct GUI for the git version-control system. It has been maintained and enhanced with productivity and friendliness oriented changes, with effort focused on making a first-class, maintainable tool for today's active developers. https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it safe to remove the "Install Xcode" application after installation? Is it safe to remove the Xcode 4 installation program from my Applications folder after I installed Xcode? If there is a free update, will I still get it, or do I have to buy it again? The installer is 4,58 GB, which is space I could use on my hard drive! A: Yes, it’s safe to remove the XCode installer, once you’ve installed the XCode tools. XCode tools can be downloaded for free from Apple’s website. If you are registered at developer.apple.com, you may also download the iPhone/iPad SDK from developer.apple.com, to be able to create iPhone/iPad software (the XCode tools that ship with MacOS X will only allow you to build applications for Mac OS).

Q: Is it safe to remove the "Install Xcode" application after installation? Is it safe to remove the Xcode 4 installation program from my Applications folder after I installed Xcode? If there is a free update, will I still get it, or do I have to buy it again? The installer is 4,58 GB, which is space I could use on my hard drive! A: Yes, it’s safe to remove the XCode installer, once you’ve installed the XCode tools. XCode tools can be downloaded for free from Apple’s website. If you are registered at developer.apple.com, you may also download the iPhone/iPad SDK from developer.apple.com, to be able to create iPhone/iPad software (the XCode tools that ship with MacOS X will only allow you to build applications for Mac OS). A: According to this tread at the Apple discussion forum I can safely (re)move the installer application and still download it again from the App Store without paying again. It is unclear whether I will get update notifications. This comment on a story about an attempt to upgrade Xcode with low disk space indicates that the move to an external disk may be tracked by the OS, and an upgrade via the Mac App Store can result in the moved application (even if it's on an external disk) being upgraded. I did not get an upgrade notification for Xcode 4.0.1, even though my original installer application was still in the /Applications/ folder. I moved the installer application to an external disk (via sudo mv, because dragging it in Finder gave me the message "You may need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer to change the item named “Install Xcode”."), I'll report back what happens when I try to upgrade it via the Mac App Store. A: Additionally, I would back up the installer and save the 4.5 GB download - just in case. A: You can remove it, but my experience has been that you'll eventually want it again, and even as an apple developer you may lose access to it in the future as they upgrade xCode. It's not a big deal if you don't plan on maintaining your older apps, of you will always keep them updated and move them to new versions of xCode as they come out, but the transition from xCode 3 to 4 was hard for many developers, and even now some software is developed in xCode 3 to support kernel drive development for OS X 10.4, which is no longer fully supported in xCode 4. Generally your best option is to store that installation app somewhere you can get to it later. It doesn't need to be on your mac all the time, but you may find yourself needing it down the road if you do develop anything in it you might have to update later.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to create smart playlists on iPhone? I have a problem: each time I create an album in a smartplaylist in iTunes and sync it with my iPhone, I have multiple items of the same album with different artists names. I'm wondering how to create smartplaylists so that I can unify my albums. Have you heard of Smartplaylists? Which app would you suggest me? A: Either you have on your library same album and different artists or, most likely, you're creating some weird rules that generate that behavior, like other folks did. If that's the case, seems like you'd have to change + to ... in any rule that uses the plus sign. Granted, it is inconsistent behavior in this second case and it might get fixed in the future. And, who knows, there might be few other little bugs like this as well.

Q: How to create smart playlists on iPhone? I have a problem: each time I create an album in a smartplaylist in iTunes and sync it with my iPhone, I have multiple items of the same album with different artists names. I'm wondering how to create smartplaylists so that I can unify my albums. Have you heard of Smartplaylists? Which app would you suggest me? A: Either you have on your library same album and different artists or, most likely, you're creating some weird rules that generate that behavior, like other folks did. If that's the case, seems like you'd have to change + to ... in any rule that uses the plus sign. Granted, it is inconsistent behavior in this second case and it might get fixed in the future. And, who knows, there might be few other little bugs like this as well. A: SmartPlaylist $1.99 in the App Store. Amazing app. It lets you sort by many many different parameters (artist, song length, genre, plays, etc.). I highly highly recommend this app. It is a but counterintuitive at first, but stick with it, and you won't regret the $2 you paid for it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Interesting Mac OS X error Has anyone ever seen an error like the one pictured below on Mac OS X? What is it? The system is 10.6.6. I'm quite experienced in OS X but I've never seen such a thing. I was booting in verbose modem, and it looks like the verbose mode came "through". A: Looks like a kernel panic in Verbose mode.

Q: Interesting Mac OS X error Has anyone ever seen an error like the one pictured below on Mac OS X? What is it? The system is 10.6.6. I'm quite experienced in OS X but I've never seen such a thing. I was booting in verbose modem, and it looks like the verbose mode came "through". A: Looks like a kernel panic in Verbose mode. A: It's an old-style kernel panic report. When the kernel crashes, there's no way to log what happened ('cause logging requires a working filesystem, which is part of the kernel...), so OS X used to dump the crash info onto the screen buffer. In OS X v10.2, they switched to a system where it stores the crash info into PRAM, and displays a message that "You need to restart your computer. Hold the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." in 4 languages. After rebooting, the info is transferred from PRAM to a normal log file. ...but sometimes, for some reason, the old-style panic report still shows up under newer versions of OS X. I haven't seen this happen in a while, but apparently it's still possible under 10.6.6. I have no idea what causes it to revert to the old-style report (maybe verbose mode?). See Apple's KB article #HT1392 for more details, and examples of the different panic styles. EDIT: It occurs to me that it might've both written the crash info to the screen, and to PRAM and hence the log files. Check in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and see if there's a matching panic report. A: It's a kernel panic. Looks like a kernel extension with the bundle identifier "com.rogueamoeba.hermes" (Airfoil?) crashed.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: macOS cpu/mem monitor in system tray (menu bar) I would like to monitor CPU and memory usage in realtime with charts on a macOS system tray (menu bar). Is there a utility that provides such functionality? A: iStat Menus is an app by Mac / iOS developers Bjango, but it's not free ($16).

Q: macOS cpu/mem monitor in system tray (menu bar) I would like to monitor CPU and memory usage in realtime with charts on a macOS system tray (menu bar). Is there a utility that provides such functionality? A: iStat Menus is an app by Mac / iOS developers Bjango, but it's not free ($16). A: I also have the same needs but many such softwares are not free, thus I made one myself. Feedback is welcome. https://github.com/ningt/iStats A: This is an old questions, but newcomers might be interested in Übersicht. This allows you to display the information on the desktop, not the menu bar, much like in Conky. Übersicht uses HTML5 web technology, so has a very modern feel to customize. A: iStat Menus 5 now has a free version and works well for monitoring all kinds of system stats, including CPU and memory. A: MenuMeters is popular among the Mac users I know. A: For OS X 10.11 or later, use this fork of MenuMeters: http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/ (Open the .prefPane file by Ctrl clicking and selecting Open.) A: Übersicht allows for creation of conky-like widgets using coffeeScript. coffeeScript uses HTML. So, display options, such as text size, font and opacity of the background are easily set. The widget sits in front of the background image, but behind any desktop items. Übersicht has many user contributed, downloadable widgets. I created a conky-like widget for Mac and OS X using Übersicht: https://github.com/dumbo25/conky-for-mac A: I recommend SystemPal which is available on Mac App Store. A: The iPulse program has been doing this since 2002. It is recently updated for the Mac App Store and El Capitan and also works on older OS. * *https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipulse/id1028916583?mt=12 It's menu centric, dock centric and/or HUD style visualizations so you can choose exactly what and how you monitor the system performance. A: I recommend app called CheckMyMac http://www.nomasoftwares.com

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I increase sudo password remember timeout? I already know that I need to tune /etc/sudoers file but I would like to see full information and also a solution that would not require me to use vi editor. Update: never, ever try to edit the file with something else than visudo. A: Be really careful about modifying /etc/sudoers directly! For instance, I tried the above suggestion directly: sudo sh -c 'echo "\nDefaults timestamp_timeout=-1">>/etc/sudoers' which messed up my /etc/sudoers file (on a CentOS Virtualbox VM). Should have been: sudo sh -c 'echo -e "\nDefaults timestamp_timeout=-1">>/etc/sudoers' Fortunately, I had access to the root account, logged in as root, used visudo and repaired the problem! So, I agree w/ the above comments to use visudo instead.

Q: How do I increase sudo password remember timeout? I already know that I need to tune /etc/sudoers file but I would like to see full information and also a solution that would not require me to use vi editor. Update: never, ever try to edit the file with something else than visudo. A: Be really careful about modifying /etc/sudoers directly! For instance, I tried the above suggestion directly: sudo sh -c 'echo "\nDefaults timestamp_timeout=-1">>/etc/sudoers' which messed up my /etc/sudoers file (on a CentOS Virtualbox VM). Should have been: sudo sh -c 'echo -e "\nDefaults timestamp_timeout=-1">>/etc/sudoers' Fortunately, I had access to the root account, logged in as root, used visudo and repaired the problem! So, I agree w/ the above comments to use visudo instead. A: Run sudo visudo and add this line: Defaults timestamp_timeout=-1 See man 5 sudoers. -1 causes the password to never timeout. You may change the number to whatever you like in minutes. The man page for sudo says that sudo -v "extends the sudo timeout for another 5 minutes". Running 'sudo visudo' instead of editing the file directly causes the system to validate the sudoers file before it commits the changes. For instance, if you leave a stray character somwhere, when you save and exit, it will say "there is an error in the sudoers file, what would you like to do?" ... hence giving you a chance to go back in and edit. This actually just happened to me 10 minutes ago. A: All information for sudoers can be found from the terminal with the command man sudoers You can even user simple text to edit files, however the privs make that difficult. sudoers is -r--r----- (Octal 0440) This indicates that Apple really doesn't want you messing with the file. This really is the core security of the OS. Options for editing are vi, emacs, or my personal favourite BBEdit. A: Disable sudo timeout with this command: sudo sh -c 'echo "\nDefaults timestamp_timeout=-1">>/etc/sudoers' To re-enable sudo timeout with this method: sudo sed -i "/Defaults timestamp_timeout=-1/d" /etc/sudoers

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I make the OS X privilege escalation popup less annoying? I am looking for a way to make the root privilege escalation procedure less annoying - I have to type the password too many times. Is it possible to remember the password once per login session or to remember it for a specific period of time? Or to have the dialog but not require you to type the password? Remark: I'm looking for GUI solution, for console sudo I do have a solution. A: Mac OS X's authorization rights and behaviours can be adjusted through the /etc/authorization file. You must take care when altering this file; mistakes can lock you out of your Mac. There are instructions at the top of the file to get you started. To extend the period of time authorization is granted, look for the appropriate timeout field and increase the value as needed.

Q: How can I make the OS X privilege escalation popup less annoying? I am looking for a way to make the root privilege escalation procedure less annoying - I have to type the password too many times. Is it possible to remember the password once per login session or to remember it for a specific period of time? Or to have the dialog but not require you to type the password? Remark: I'm looking for GUI solution, for console sudo I do have a solution. A: Mac OS X's authorization rights and behaviours can be adjusted through the /etc/authorization file. You must take care when altering this file; mistakes can lock you out of your Mac. There are instructions at the top of the file to get you started. To extend the period of time authorization is granted, look for the appropriate timeout field and increase the value as needed.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to remove unused MacPorts packages? Whenever I install a program via MacPorts, it gets and installs lots of dependencies. When I uninstall said program, how do I make MacPorts recursively remove all unused dependencies with it? A: The command to remove a port and its dependents is: sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents foo However, if the port you are uninstalling has dependents it will not uninstall without the -f (force) flag. Of course you should start by reading over the MacPorts Guide specifically looking into the Uninstall guide section.

Q: How to remove unused MacPorts packages? Whenever I install a program via MacPorts, it gets and installs lots of dependencies. When I uninstall said program, how do I make MacPorts recursively remove all unused dependencies with it? A: The command to remove a port and its dependents is: sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents foo However, if the port you are uninstalling has dependents it will not uninstall without the -f (force) flag. Of course you should start by reading over the MacPorts Guide specifically looking into the Uninstall guide section. A: There's also a script in MacPorts' contrib directory called port_cutleaves you can run to remove unneeded dependencies: http://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/. It'll ask you for each to-be-uninstalled port and allows keeping some, should you want to. This script is available as a port itself. sudo port install port_cutleaves to install and then sudo port_cutleaves to run. A: I have written some scripts to automate port cleanup: https://github.com/vasi/macports-tools The 'macportsfoster' script will output a list of all ports not required by anything in the requested-list, ordered such that 'port deactivate $(macportsfoster)' will remove all of them in one shot. A: To avoid accidentally cutting leaves that might be things you requested you should install the port_cutleaves package then run sudo port_cutleaves https://guide.macports.org/#using.common-tasks.keeplean MacPorts 1.9.0 added the sqlite portdbformat and MacPorts 2.0.0 dropped the old flat format. The sqlite port DB format is the default for new installations; old installations that were upgraded to 1.9.x will continue to use the flat format1. You can convert a 1.9.x flat system to the sqlite format by upgrading to MacPorts 2.0 or by changing the portdbformat value in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf and then issuing a port command as root (e.g. sudo port installed). One of the features of the new format is that it keeps track of “requested” versus “unrequested” port installations. An unrequested port is one that was only installed because some other port depends on it. The leaves pseudo-portname expands to all the unrequested ports upon which no other installed port depends. You can use this to “clean up” unneeded ports even if you did not originally uninstall them with sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies portname (which will do what you want, but only if you remember to use it every time you uninstall something). You should examine your existing leaves before uninstalling any of them. port echo leaves Some common leaves (automake, gperf, libtool, pkgconfig) are build-time dependencies of common ports, so you may want to “request” them (sudo port setrequested port1 port2 port3 …) to avoid uninstalling them just to have to reinstall them later. You can uninstall any remaining leaves quite easily: sudo port uninstall leaves Note: Before pruning your leaves, you may also want to uninstall old versions of ports that are no longer “active”. This may reveal a few more leaves (i.e. ports that are dependencies of ports that are installed, but inactive): sudo port uninstall inactive There are several sections in the MacPorts Guide that also describe the process of using leaves to uninstall unneeded ports. A: From the docs: The uninstall action will uninstall an installed port. %% sudo port uninstall vile Note To also recursively uninstall the ports that the given port depends on, use the ‑‑follow‑dependencies flag. This will not uninstall dependencies that are marked as requested or that have other dependents. To recursively uninstall all ports that depend on the given port before uninstalling the port itself, use the ‑‑follow‑dependents flag. If a port is a dependency of another installed port, uninstall will not remove it unless you remove the dependent port(s) first. To override this behavior, use the -f (force) switch. This will obviously break the dependents. Don't force uninstall ports unless you know what you are doing. %% sudo port -f uninstall vile Note the major caveat in the last paragraph. Dependencies are exactly that—dependencies—and different apps can (will) require the same dependencies. A: I think the other answers, and the --follow-dependents flag, do not do what you want. If you install A, and A requires B, then thanks to the wonderful package management systems, B will be installed for you. You can uninstall B and the --follow-dependents flag will be aware of and remove A. But what if you uninstall A, which is more likely, because A is what you manually installed in the first place? In this case, B is left behind. If you use fink, the debfoster package is designed to clean out your system and remove unused dependencies. Debfoster will help you get rid of packages (libraries for example) get left behind on your system when the program that required it was removed or upgraded to a version that doesn't have the dependency. While debfoster will not work for MacPorts, there appears to be ports of debfoster, for example, portsfoster, although it seems to be discontinued... Perhaps no solution currently exists for MacPorts. A: I had a lot of py36-* packages. As currently Python 3.6 is older, I uninstalled all these packages uninstalling its dependents as: sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents python36 I hope it helps

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