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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I copy the path of a file in Finder? How can I copy the path to a folder or a file? The Info Dialog doesn't allow me to copy the information that stands there ... Is there an easy way to do this? A: There are two ways I do this (and the info window is neither of them): * *Open the Terminal application and drag the item into the window, and a POSIX-style path will be displayed that you can copy and paste. *Use Applescript... ...select an item in the Finder and run this... tell application "Finder" return info for selection as alias end tell ...or create a droplet with this code... on open theFile set thePath to POSIX path of theFile set the clipboard to thePath as text end open Add salt to taste.

Q: How can I copy the path of a file in Finder? How can I copy the path to a folder or a file? The Info Dialog doesn't allow me to copy the information that stands there ... Is there an easy way to do this? A: There are two ways I do this (and the info window is neither of them): * *Open the Terminal application and drag the item into the window, and a POSIX-style path will be displayed that you can copy and paste. *Use Applescript... ...select an item in the Finder and run this... tell application "Finder" return info for selection as alias end tell ...or create a droplet with this code... on open theFile set thePath to POSIX path of theFile set the clipboard to thePath as text end open Add salt to taste. A: The best and easiest way to do this is by creating a "copy path" service, very similar to the shift + Right-Click on a Windows machine. If you frequently need to copy and paste file and folder paths, creating an Automator Service will make your life easier because the service then becomes accessible from the OS X Right-Click contextual menu, accessible from anywhere in the Finder. Follow these steps to set it up (screenshots below). * *Launch Automator *Create a new “Service” *Use the search function to look for “Copy to Clipboard” and drag that into the rightsize panel of the Service Set ‘Service receives selected’ to “files or folders” and ‘in’ to “Finder”. *Save the Service with a name like “Copy Path”. The result: You'll now have the textual path in your clipboard. Sources: CNet, OSX Daily A: Right click on the file, hold down Alt/Option, and an item to copy file path will appear as Copy "<FILENAME>" as Pathname. This is the easiest option for day to day usage, without involving Automator. This seems to be a relatively new feature that was added in OS X El Capitan. (It also works on macOS Sierra). A: Simply drag the file into text editor, and it will give you the full path for that file. A: Method 1: In macOS holding the ALT key(⌥) often shows extra options in context menus. Copy "item" as Pathname. Detail https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/318007/302207 Method 2: If you use TotalFinder, you can Allow path copying from Context Menus TotalFinder makes it really easy to capture a variety of path formats for a selected object. Right-click on any file or folder, select Copy Path, and select the path format you'd like copied to the clipboard. TotalFinder setting path: A: Starting in El Capitan (OS X v10.11), this is really easy: * *Select the item(s) in the Finder *Press Command-Option-C (or hold the Option key down and choose Edit menu > Copy [whatever] as Pathname. A: As already described by ayaz, the Get Info window (cmd+i) has the full path and will allow you to copy it. If you tripple click in the highlighted area (by the red rectangle) the selection will automatically expand to the whole path. cmd + c will suffice to copy it to the clipboard. If you need the path to interact with the Terminal, you can always check one of the “zillion” answers in this Stack Overflow Question. UPDATE: This method seems to be only valid for OS X 10.6.x, previous OS X versions used the non-POSIX path style that looked like path:to:file, whereas the POSIX would be path/to/file. If you are in something older than OS X 10.6, you will have to try one of the other methods described in the other answers (or upgrade to 10.6 ;) A: This is how to create a Service to copy to the clipboard the selected paths in Finder: * *Open Automator. Press ⌘+N and choose Service. *Set "Service receives selected files or folders in Finder.app". *Drag the element "Run Shell Script" to the window. Note: You can select this element if you go to the left of the window and click on Actions, Library, and type part of the name in the search box. *Set "Shell: /bin/bash", "Pass input: as arguments" and type the following in the script box: for f in "$@" do echo "$f" done. *Drag the element Copy to Clipboard. *Save your service in ~/Library/Services/Copy POSIX Paths.workflow (or any other name you like). Now you will be able to run this service if you right click an element and choose Services > Copy POSIX Paths. It will copy the file(s) selected in Finder to your clipboard. I tested this on Lion. I got this tip from Kris Johnson's Blog. A: I will move my comment over as an answer. You should be able to copy the path to a folder/file by highlighting the value next to "Where:" in the info dialog and pressing CMD+c. An easier alternative that requires less effort is right-clicking on that value, and clicking "Copy" in the drop-down that appears. A: * *Start automator *Create a new service *Set the service to acquire files and folder in the finder, and add the run applescript element *Paste this script on run {input, parameters} set mylist to {} repeat with elem in input try set the end of mylist to (POSIX path of (elem as alias)) end try end repeat set oldtid to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return} set flatlist to mylist as text set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldtid tell application "Finder" to set the clipboard to flatlist -- code below will also create an email with the path inside. delete it if you don't want that. tell application "Microsoft Entourage" set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:myFileName, content:flatlist} open theMessage activate end tell end run *Save the result as 'copy and email path' or something. *Now check your ctrl-click menu and your services menu. Nice! A: Sometimes the solution is so simple. Just mark the file in the finder and then press Command-C. The path including the file name is copied to the clipboard and you can paste it in any application.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I take a screenshot on the iPad? How do I create an image, containing a copy of the current screen display, on the iPad? A: Press both the sleep/wake and the home button simultaneously, and release quickly. The screenshot will be taken (in any app) and saved as an image, available within the Photos app.

Q: How do I take a screenshot on the iPad? How do I create an image, containing a copy of the current screen display, on the iPad? A: Press both the sleep/wake and the home button simultaneously, and release quickly. The screenshot will be taken (in any app) and saved as an image, available within the Photos app. A: The Apple Pencil is the fastest way to screen shot an iPad since the buttons may be hard to reach. This also plays well into the new markup tools so you can quickly transform / edit and then share out that screen shot. * *swipe your Apple Pencil from the bottom-corner on either side of your iPad screen to take a screenshot *you can also press the sleep/volume up buttons - release them together to snap *you can also use accessibility + assistive touch to take a screenshot Some great markup tips are at iMore: https://www.imore.com/screenshot-ipad Apple’s markup guide is also quite helpful once you have your screenshot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206885 A: Press both the home button and the power button at the same time. This will save the screenshot to Photos. You can then edit the screenshot as you would a normal photo. I've noticed the screenshot comes in handy whenever you want to copy a photo, but are blocked from downloading it. :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: High volume battery for MacBook Pro Can you advise me of where or if it a high capacity battery exists to replace my pre unibody battery on a MacBook Pro? A: A quick search turned up Fastmac replacement batteries which claim to ...replace the computer’s original battery with a larger capacity and longer lasting advanced power cell battery that utilizes TruePower technology. With up to 68% more capacity...

Q: High volume battery for MacBook Pro Can you advise me of where or if it a high capacity battery exists to replace my pre unibody battery on a MacBook Pro? A: A quick search turned up Fastmac replacement batteries which claim to ...replace the computer’s original battery with a larger capacity and longer lasting advanced power cell battery that utilizes TruePower technology. With up to 68% more capacity...

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I keep my session when I reboot in OS X? When I reboot my machine, I'd like it to reopen all my programs and windows, and put them back in the same place, after restarting. how do I do this? (I'm on 10.6, and use spaces) A: ReLaunch does what you want. Also see a similar question on SuperUser. The only major limitation of Relaunch is it does not (yet) support Spaces (virtual desktops).

Q: How do I keep my session when I reboot in OS X? When I reboot my machine, I'd like it to reopen all my programs and windows, and put them back in the same place, after restarting. how do I do this? (I'm on 10.6, and use spaces) A: ReLaunch does what you want. Also see a similar question on SuperUser. The only major limitation of Relaunch is it does not (yet) support Spaces (virtual desktops). A: You can start as many application at startup by adding them to your Account Prefs : For the windows... I don't think there is an easy way to do it. But if it's some documents, you can added them the same way. A: I started an Applescript to start up the applications that make the core of my day, though I need to add in more functionality like opening specific URLs and folders (though it wouldn't be hard, I just haven't had the time). tell application "Firefox" activate end tell tell application "Versions" activate end tell tell application "NetNewsWire" activate end tell I saved it as an application, named it "AM" and it sits on the far left of my Dock. I come into my office in morning, wake up my Mac, and click the icon.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to delete emails instead of archiving them on iPhone & iPad? This summer Apple changed built-in mail app to support "archive" button (at least for GMail and GApps-based accounts), but I have found that I need to delete emails much more often than archive them. Right now the only way to delete them that I know is moving messages into Trash folder, which is quite cumbersome. Is there a way to bring back "delete" instead of "archive" button or any other way to quickly delete messages? A: Ok, for iPad users. I just literally solved this. I spent around an hour (I know) going through various forums and posts until. Go to settings> Mail,contacts,calendars > account> advanced> and change the check box from archived messages to delete. You also have some options for changing the folder paths here, but don't worry about it. Save the changes and click done. And next time you swipe away a message it would have a red box with trash instead of archive. You are welcome. Bye

Q: How to delete emails instead of archiving them on iPhone & iPad? This summer Apple changed built-in mail app to support "archive" button (at least for GMail and GApps-based accounts), but I have found that I need to delete emails much more often than archive them. Right now the only way to delete them that I know is moving messages into Trash folder, which is quite cumbersome. Is there a way to bring back "delete" instead of "archive" button or any other way to quickly delete messages? A: Ok, for iPad users. I just literally solved this. I spent around an hour (I know) going through various forums and posts until. Go to settings> Mail,contacts,calendars > account> advanced> and change the check box from archived messages to delete. You also have some options for changing the folder paths here, but don't worry about it. Save the changes and click done. And next time you swipe away a message it would have a red box with trash instead of archive. You are welcome. Bye A: One way to do this is to setup gmail using IMAP-setup instead of the normal Gmail-setup. That way you can configure if you want the messages to be archived or deleted when you push the trash-icon. You can find Gmail IMAP settings instructions here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ22euWXYog A: Simply go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Your Gmail Account and turn "Archive Messages" to "Off". A: For iOS 13 in 2019: Settings > Passwords & Accounts > yourEmail@example.com Then: Account > Advanced > Mail > Advanced > Move Discarded Messages Into: Then select Archive Mailbox or Deleted Mailbox This changes the iOS 13 Mail bottom toolbar icon to an Archive box or Trash can, respectively:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where did Mail.app just put my email? Mail.app seems built to punish us for not having inbox-zero. I hear a chime telling me new mail has arrived, but with a list of mailboxes that look like: how can I possibly tell which one has new new mail, as opposed to the old new mail? Or better yet, is it possible to make an email's newness expire after a certain period? A: Create a Smart Mailbox with "Message is Unread" and sort it by Date Received. I have this setup as my default mailbox for processing my email. I also have the Mail.app dock icon badge set to point to this Mailbox so I can see how much unread mail I have, though in your case this won't be an advantage. Pro Tip. Just mark all those messages as unread read. You're never going to read them.

Q: Where did Mail.app just put my email? Mail.app seems built to punish us for not having inbox-zero. I hear a chime telling me new mail has arrived, but with a list of mailboxes that look like: how can I possibly tell which one has new new mail, as opposed to the old new mail? Or better yet, is it possible to make an email's newness expire after a certain period? A: Create a Smart Mailbox with "Message is Unread" and sort it by Date Received. I have this setup as my default mailbox for processing my email. I also have the Mail.app dock icon badge set to point to this Mailbox so I can see how much unread mail I have, though in your case this won't be an advantage. Pro Tip. Just mark all those messages as unread read. You're never going to read them. A: When I used Mail, I had a lot of smart mailboxes, but one of the most used ones (and their main conditions) where: UNREAD (message is unread) TODAY (date received is TODAY) YESTERDAY (date received is YESTERDAY) WEEK (date received is within 7 days from now) MONTH (date received is within 30 days from now). FLAGGED (message is flagged) And every year, I’d create a (new) one like this: 2010 (message is received between 1/1/2010 and 31 dec 2010). 2009 (like 2010, but with the correct dates) etc. Those ones were inside a folder. It allowed me to group messages by year, because sometimes I needed a message that I got in 2008… Of course I’d add other conditions like not in spam/trash, etc. Sometimes you have to “nest” smartmailboxes. Like have one that is message is not in spam or thrash. And then a new smart mailbox that says: Message is not in + other conditions. The reasoning behind all this smartmailboxing is that once you start getting thousands of emails, searching in mail is not fast. For that reason I switched to Gmail, but that’s just my personal preference.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Removing the default author for PDFs This is a real nit that I I'm picking :-). I save a lot of stuff from the web as PDF files. Is there any way to not have the "Save as PDF" use my name as the author of the PDF by default, other than removing myself from my address book? I'll fill it in for those few times that I really am the author. On OS X 10.6.4. A: You are nit picking there! :) It’s a complicated one, but I believe that it might be possible to experiment with: Automator (have an action that takes a PDF and modifies it’s metadata) PDF Services (have a service that is “Save As My AuthorLess PDF”) ;) AppleScript (Both/All of the above) I suggest you google around those concepts. This is a good starting point. All in all, the idea of your script is to use the Automator’s action called: “Set PDF Metadata” (you could then put blank data on purpose): If you create a PDF Service capable of replacing the default one, but that also sets the metadata to Blank, you’ve won.

Q: Removing the default author for PDFs This is a real nit that I I'm picking :-). I save a lot of stuff from the web as PDF files. Is there any way to not have the "Save as PDF" use my name as the author of the PDF by default, other than removing myself from my address book? I'll fill it in for those few times that I really am the author. On OS X 10.6.4. A: You are nit picking there! :) It’s a complicated one, but I believe that it might be possible to experiment with: Automator (have an action that takes a PDF and modifies it’s metadata) PDF Services (have a service that is “Save As My AuthorLess PDF”) ;) AppleScript (Both/All of the above) I suggest you google around those concepts. This is a good starting point. All in all, the idea of your script is to use the Automator’s action called: “Set PDF Metadata” (you could then put blank data on purpose): If you create a PDF Service capable of replacing the default one, but that also sets the metadata to Blank, you’ve won.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I map a middle click to control click? Just started to use a Mac for my new job and not being able to use the middle button to open links in a new tab is killing me. I know I can press control and do a regular click but it's not the same. I know the Mac knows I'm trying to do something because it beeps at me when I press the middle button on my mouse. Is there any hope? Note I tried the trick about setting expose dashboard to - but it didn't work. A: Try holding the Command button instead. A Command click is a middle click. Control clicks give you a right click. What kind of Mac? If you're using a Magic Mouse you can use a program like MagicPrefs to turn a three finger click into a Command click. If you're using the Magic Trackpad or the built-in trackpad on a MacBook/MacBook Pro there is a program called MiddleClick I've used that adds a three finger tap/click ability to map to the Command click.

Q: How can I map a middle click to control click? Just started to use a Mac for my new job and not being able to use the middle button to open links in a new tab is killing me. I know I can press control and do a regular click but it's not the same. I know the Mac knows I'm trying to do something because it beeps at me when I press the middle button on my mouse. Is there any hope? Note I tried the trick about setting expose dashboard to - but it didn't work. A: Try holding the Command button instead. A Command click is a middle click. Control clicks give you a right click. What kind of Mac? If you're using a Magic Mouse you can use a program like MagicPrefs to turn a three finger click into a Command click. If you're using the Magic Trackpad or the built-in trackpad on a MacBook/MacBook Pro there is a program called MiddleClick I've used that adds a three finger tap/click ability to map to the Command click. A: Karabiner can be used to map mouse buttons. I haven't tested the following but it should be something like: { "description": "MouseButton3 to Ctrl+MouseButton1", "manipulators": [ { "type": "basic", "from": { "pointing_button": "button3", "modifiers": { "optional": [ "caps_lock" ] } }, "to": [ { "pointing_button": "button1" "modifiers": [ "control" ] } ] } ] } If you want to limit this mapping to the browser, something like the following in the manipulators block should do it: "conditions": [ { "type": "frontmost_application_if", "bundle_identifiers": ["^com\\.google\\.Chrome$"] } ],

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a list somewhere of all the special characters I can type using the option key? OS X lets me type special characters directly on the keyboard by holding the Option. For example: — is an em dash, “ and ” are curvy quotes, etc. Is there a good cheat sheet listing all these keys somewhere? I tend to find myself holding option and running my hands up and down the keyboard looking for a specific character. A: In the "Input menu" in the menu bar (to switch on System Preferences -> Language and Text -> Show Input method in menu bar.. Make sure Keyboard and Character Viewer in Select Input Methods to use is selected) * * * * * And you have your cheat sheet.

Q: Is there a list somewhere of all the special characters I can type using the option key? OS X lets me type special characters directly on the keyboard by holding the Option. For example: — is an em dash, “ and ” are curvy quotes, etc. Is there a good cheat sheet listing all these keys somewhere? I tend to find myself holding option and running my hands up and down the keyboard looking for a specific character. A: In the "Input menu" in the menu bar (to switch on System Preferences -> Language and Text -> Show Input method in menu bar.. Make sure Keyboard and Character Viewer in Select Input Methods to use is selected) * * * * * And you have your cheat sheet. A: Apple moved things around. Starting with MacOS X 10.9 Mavericks you must go the the "Keyboard" preference pane, then to "Input Sources" and there you can activate "Show Input menu in menu bar". original answer from 2010-10-01: In the preference pane "International" under "Input Menu" activate "Character Palette" and "Keyboard Viewer". You will then have access to the "Keyboard Viewer" in the menu bar. A: There is indeed some software which will help you remind shortcuts. You will find a list of official shorcuts here at apple.com. To learn shortcuts, I find Eve the most appealing. Everytime you are using your mouse to execute a command or action, Eve will remind you of the shortcut which you can use for the next time. Eve supports Mavericks, Lion and Mountain Lion. Their are two more apps which are approaching an another attempt: CheatSheet and KeyCue. They are giving you an instant overview of all shortcuts. Hold the cmd key for a couple of seconds, and a window will pop up with a cheat sheet. While CheatSheet is free, KeyCue costs $19.99

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How secure is Mac OS X's security? My friend's MacBook Pro was recently stolen. Fortunately, it was protected with a password. How secure is the built-in protection ? Can thieves access the data on the hard drive, and at what difficulty? A: The current version of FileVault is secure against currently well-known attacks, if best practices are followed. Some older versions of FileVault had serious issues. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault#Issues and https://discussions.apple.com/message/18835839#18835839 ; both have more detail. With older versions of and incautiously configured installations of MacOS, it's definitely easy to decrypt the contents of a FileVault-protected drive. Fortunately, those known issues in older versions of FileVault have been fixed. Google for examples of some "best practices", such as the NSA's configuration guide for Mac OS X. What was protected by a password is a key question... Do all accounts require a login password? Is there a boot-time password as well? Was Filevault (or other encryption software) used at all? Were good password practices followed? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Q: How secure is Mac OS X's security? My friend's MacBook Pro was recently stolen. Fortunately, it was protected with a password. How secure is the built-in protection ? Can thieves access the data on the hard drive, and at what difficulty? A: The current version of FileVault is secure against currently well-known attacks, if best practices are followed. Some older versions of FileVault had serious issues. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault#Issues and https://discussions.apple.com/message/18835839#18835839 ; both have more detail. With older versions of and incautiously configured installations of MacOS, it's definitely easy to decrypt the contents of a FileVault-protected drive. Fortunately, those known issues in older versions of FileVault have been fixed. Google for examples of some "best practices", such as the NSA's configuration guide for Mac OS X. What was protected by a password is a key question... Do all accounts require a login password? Is there a boot-time password as well? Was Filevault (or other encryption software) used at all? Were good password practices followed? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A: If FileVault is not enabled, there are two easy ways to reset the login password in single user mode without even having access to another computer or installation media. It doesn't reset the password of the login keychain, but the thief could still access most files normally. They couldn't use auto-fill in Safari or log in to accounts in Mail. But if you had set a webmail site to log in automatically and hadn't disabled the option to reset a password with an Apple ID, the thief could reset the Apple ID (it doesn't currently require answering security questions) and use it to reset the keychain password. The hash of the login password (which is usually also the password of the login keychain) is stored in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/username.plist in 10.7 and 10.8. In 10.7 it was easy to crack even relatively complex passwords by using DaveGrohl, but 10.8 switched to PBKDF2, which limits it to about 10 guesses per second per core. A: It depends on exactly what you mean by: it was protected with a password If it means that they were using FileVault, then their data should be pretty much inaccessible. If it just meant that they had a login password, though, all the thieves have to do is boot the laptop off another disk, and they'll have immediate access to everything on the internal drive.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What software alternatives support streaming via AirPlay? The Apple TV arrived! I'm slightly bummed that I can only stream from iTunes, and therefore only use formats that iTunes supports. I haven't found a single other video player that supports AirPlay, though to be fair, AirPlay has only really been around since the new Apple TVs started arriving. What other software supports streaming audio and video to AirPlay devices? If none, is AirPlay one of those closed Apple standards or have other projects pledged to support it? A: To date, there are no 3rd party software implementations of AirPlay. The spec itself is fully patented (though most of these patents relate to the hardware aspects of the system) and is essentially a proprietary standard unique to Apple (though several hardware vendors have announced hardware that will use the standard - XtremeMac, Denon). The current analysis of the protocol itself seems to indicate that it is a further evolution of the previous AirTunes protocol (which itself was built on top of Bonjour), so you are likely to see software implementations appear after developers have had more time to experiment with the protocol.

Q: What software alternatives support streaming via AirPlay? The Apple TV arrived! I'm slightly bummed that I can only stream from iTunes, and therefore only use formats that iTunes supports. I haven't found a single other video player that supports AirPlay, though to be fair, AirPlay has only really been around since the new Apple TVs started arriving. What other software supports streaming audio and video to AirPlay devices? If none, is AirPlay one of those closed Apple standards or have other projects pledged to support it? A: To date, there are no 3rd party software implementations of AirPlay. The spec itself is fully patented (though most of these patents relate to the hardware aspects of the system) and is essentially a proprietary standard unique to Apple (though several hardware vendors have announced hardware that will use the standard - XtremeMac, Denon). The current analysis of the protocol itself seems to indicate that it is a further evolution of the previous AirTunes protocol (which itself was built on top of Bonjour), so you are likely to see software implementations appear after developers have had more time to experiment with the protocol. A: Take a look at Airfoil. A: AirPlay is effectively a rebranding of AirTunes and adds video/photo streaming. The AirTunes protocol, called RAOP (really just RTSP w/ encryption) remains mostly unchanged. Video streaming is a different animal. My understanding is that its basically push DAAP. 3rd-Party Software Audio-Only Airfoil audio|acacia Video+Audio AirServer For the sake of brevity and time, this list is non-exhaustive and I've only listed commercial software. I've personally noticed that some of the software products touting AirPlay/AirTunes support don't follow the protocols exactly and results vary. I guess you get what you pay for. A: I really like Beamer. It's a little pricey ($20), but it was money well spent, for me! It functions very similarly to the ChromeCast, in that you're not actually "mirroring" the content from your computer screen, but rather, casting it wirelessly to the Apple TV. It supports every major file format, to date, as well. What I like most about it, is that one can still thumb around on their computer, while streaming their shows and/or movies. That's always been a huge downfall of the AirPlay function, for me... I am not a fan of mirroring, at all!! Anyhow, hope that helps anyone who may have stumbled across this thread. A: I know it is old question but it may help others. You can try AirMyPC software. It can wirelessly AirPlay Mirror your Windows computer to your AppleTV.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What are Mac OS X diagramming tools like Visio on Windows? Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible equivalent. Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex information flows with smart objects and interconnect graphics that snap and bend as the user moves things around on the page. It evolved over the years to support other diagram and information flow views like IT diagrams and UI mockups. What's out there that can replace Visio on the Mac? A: We produce diagrams.net, it's not as complex as the named tool, but it does the majority of tasks in this field. It's free, plus there's a Desktop version available.

Q: What are Mac OS X diagramming tools like Visio on Windows? Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible equivalent. Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex information flows with smart objects and interconnect graphics that snap and bend as the user moves things around on the page. It evolved over the years to support other diagram and information flow views like IT diagrams and UI mockups. What's out there that can replace Visio on the Mac? A: We produce diagrams.net, it's not as complex as the named tool, but it does the majority of tasks in this field. It's free, plus there's a Desktop version available. A: As others have mentioned OmniGraffle is a great Visio replacement. But if you want something free, I'd also recommend yED: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html I use it on my Linux-based systems, but since its java-based, it works well on Mac OS X, as well as Windows. A: Dia, it's not a native app, it uses x11 but it works ok. There is also ConceptDraw PRO but this is another of those cross-plantform apps and doesn't work as well as OmniGraffle. I would probably still recommend OmniGraffle for Mac. A: OmniGraffle or OmniGraffle Pro: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/feature_comparison/ A: OmniGraffle is awesome, but quite pricy. If you're looking for Visio replacement for specifically UI mockups or really simple diagrams, you can use Balsamiq Mockups A: Check out GenMyModel, a new browser-hosted UML modeler, cross-platform and free. It works on Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari (Mac OS) and provides UML-compliant modeling with code generation (java, SQL). It presently supports class diagrams and use case diagrams. You can also export images and PDF reports. A: Surprised to see that Lucidchart isn't on here. * *HTML5 based *Supports all the IT libraries I want *Import and export any Visio files *It has a visio viewer that allows you to edit and view visio files. This is because its integrated with your google drive so it is easy for Lucidchart to allow you to work on those files and export it. *Lucid chart has a collaborative interface that allows to easily work with small teams editing rather than having to send a diagram back and forth. *Its free for a single user. (there are other options which do have prices attached which isn't too bad) *It has a drag and drop feature which makes it easy to use and is very intuitive. A: I have just come across another nice (open source) application for creating Diagrams and Mockups - http://pencil.evolus.vn/. It is not as professional and powerful as Omnigraffle, but for many situations it probably is enough, namely simple diagrams and mockups (which can be exported as HTML). I also use some other solutions for diagrams (including UML diagrams), these are not for mockups: * *Yed: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html *ArgoUml: http://argouml.tigris.org/ A: An alternative viewer to the one mentioned in Donald B's answer is: Enolsoft Visio Viewer for Mac A smart file viewing tool to support the use of Visio files by Mac OS users, enabling them to view, save and print Microsoft Visio drawings and diagrams on Mac OS X 10.7 and higher. * *View Microsoft Visio Drawings in VSD format easily on Mac. *Convert Visio to PDF with original elements retained. *Support multi-tab viewing to switch between multiple Visio files easily. It is a "Paid-For" product however it is available as a "Free Trial", to allow you to try before you buy (if so desired). A: While I love Omnigraffle, it isn't cost effective for most. A cheaper alternative for me was Diagrammix, especially since it allows me to use Omnigraffle stencils to create network diagrams, E-R diagrams, and flowcharts, for example. A: I personally like MaSSHandra. The approach of it is a bit different to what MS Visio has as it is a 3D tool and provides other tools like autodiscovery of networks. And it's cross-platform. A: Check out Napkin. It's $39.99 on Mac App Store. A: The Opensource Apache OpenOffice offering includes a visio-like tool which is appropriate for drawing shapes. It supports windows, linux and Mac. You may give it a try: https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to update the preinstalled versions of both MySQL and PHP in OS X? I'm running 10.6.4 and PHP reports itself as version 5.3.2 (5.3.3 is available) and mySQL reports version 5.1.45 (5.1.51 is available) I know they are minor releases but is it possible to easily update either of these? If so, any hints or pointers as to how? A: Briefly; no there is no easy way to update them. (Assuming that compiling from source is not considered easy) I would strongly caution against modifying the system installed versions as you're likely to have your updated versions broken when Apple issues an update that updates them. (Usually Security Updates and has bitten some users/sysadmins when Perl has been updated) If you wanted to update them it's a matter of downloading the source files and installing it over top of the provided versions. As a reasonable alternative I recommend installing your own managed version of PHP and MySQL into /usr/local or using your packaging software of choice (MacPorts, Fink or Homebrew) or prepared installer (eg. MySQL's .pkg installer that installs into /usr/local).

Q: Is it possible to update the preinstalled versions of both MySQL and PHP in OS X? I'm running 10.6.4 and PHP reports itself as version 5.3.2 (5.3.3 is available) and mySQL reports version 5.1.45 (5.1.51 is available) I know they are minor releases but is it possible to easily update either of these? If so, any hints or pointers as to how? A: Briefly; no there is no easy way to update them. (Assuming that compiling from source is not considered easy) I would strongly caution against modifying the system installed versions as you're likely to have your updated versions broken when Apple issues an update that updates them. (Usually Security Updates and has bitten some users/sysadmins when Perl has been updated) If you wanted to update them it's a matter of downloading the source files and installing it over top of the provided versions. As a reasonable alternative I recommend installing your own managed version of PHP and MySQL into /usr/local or using your packaging software of choice (MacPorts, Fink or Homebrew) or prepared installer (eg. MySQL's .pkg installer that installs into /usr/local).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: First iPhone, what should I Do? So, I've decided to go for an iPhone 4. But since I am new to the whole iPhone thing, what are the things that I should know, to make the maximum use of the device? Some of the questions I would like to know the answer: * *what are the apps I should install? *How do I charge the battery? *The temperature the iPhone should be exposed to in order to prolong the lifespan? A: 1) That entirely depends on what you want to do. There are a bunch of app recommendation discussions here based around games, productivity, etc. Rather than rehash them, I'd suggest searching those out. 2) Plug it into a USB port on your computer. The phone also comes with a wall adapter for the USB cable so you can charge it from a wall socket. 3) Don't stick it in the oven or the freezer and you should be fine.

Q: First iPhone, what should I Do? So, I've decided to go for an iPhone 4. But since I am new to the whole iPhone thing, what are the things that I should know, to make the maximum use of the device? Some of the questions I would like to know the answer: * *what are the apps I should install? *How do I charge the battery? *The temperature the iPhone should be exposed to in order to prolong the lifespan? A: 1) That entirely depends on what you want to do. There are a bunch of app recommendation discussions here based around games, productivity, etc. Rather than rehash them, I'd suggest searching those out. 2) Plug it into a USB port on your computer. The phone also comes with a wall adapter for the USB cable so you can charge it from a wall socket. 3) Don't stick it in the oven or the freezer and you should be fine. A: Apple has a handy "iPhone Temperate Zone" chart on their iPhone battery page. As for what apps to install: the reason apps are user-installable is because everybody wants different ones! But also, if you're in Malaysia, you probably have a different selection of available apps in your App Store from most other users here, anyway.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Password keeper for iPhone, Mac and Windows? Are there any (preferably free/cheap) solutions for syncing and accessing encrypted passwords on a Mac, a PC and an iPhone? A: http://lastpass.com Runs on virtually anything, and has awesome security. Not the prettiest, but the best features for the price.

Q: Password keeper for iPhone, Mac and Windows? Are there any (preferably free/cheap) solutions for syncing and accessing encrypted passwords on a Mac, a PC and an iPhone? A: http://lastpass.com Runs on virtually anything, and has awesome security. Not the prettiest, but the best features for the price. A: I use KeePassX, which does the job, although it isn't as polished as 1Password the price is right. It does also work pretty well storing the file in DropBox and accessing the same file from KeePass for windows. A: I've used http://supergenpass.com/, it's a bit different than the other solutions but it works well. A: 1Password It's great and syncs on the iOS platform, and has a beta for Windows too now. :) A: I've used PasswordWallet to synchronize my Mac with my mobile device -- first a Palm Pilot, then the Treo, now the iPhone. Very nice, I couldn't manage without it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: In Pages, What is this Line Under a Rectangle Shape? There is a persistent thing going on in Pages where there is a line under a rectangle shape when I make it. How do I get rid of it? I don't want it to show up when I export the document to a PDF. A: Simple. Make sure you've selected the object you want to remove the line from. Click your inspector, and navigate over to the graphic tab (see screenshot). select none. Last screenshot shows the result.

Q: In Pages, What is this Line Under a Rectangle Shape? There is a persistent thing going on in Pages where there is a line under a rectangle shape when I make it. How do I get rid of it? I don't want it to show up when I export the document to a PDF. A: Simple. Make sure you've selected the object you want to remove the line from. Click your inspector, and navigate over to the graphic tab (see screenshot). select none. Last screenshot shows the result.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac? Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac? A: Turns out it needs to be on the internet initially, in order to set up Home Sharing. But once Home Sharing is set up, it can access content on your Mac as long as your Mac is on the same local network, and has iTunes running.

Q: Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac? Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac? A: Turns out it needs to be on the internet initially, in order to set up Home Sharing. But once Home Sharing is set up, it can access content on your Mac as long as your Mac is on the same local network, and has iTunes running.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to have an iPad auto update its date and time? On my iPhone, my date and time are set automatically. Is there any way to do the same thing on the iPad to ensure it always displays the correct time? A: It should update automatically by default (Settings → General → Date & Time). Are you running the latest iPad OS (3.2.2)? I have a vague recollection of a bug in the iPad that caused the time to go out of sync that might have been fixed in a software update. I can't seem to find any info about it, but you might want to update the software just in case.

Q: Is there any way to have an iPad auto update its date and time? On my iPhone, my date and time are set automatically. Is there any way to do the same thing on the iPad to ensure it always displays the correct time? A: It should update automatically by default (Settings → General → Date & Time). Are you running the latest iPad OS (3.2.2)? I have a vague recollection of a bug in the iPad that caused the time to go out of sync that might have been fixed in a software update. I can't seem to find any info about it, but you might want to update the software just in case. A: It seems that the setting is only available on the 3G model. It does not exist on the latest version of iOS (4.2.1) on the Wi-Fi model. A: The Settings -> General -> Date & Time panel looks like this on a Wi-Fi iPad running iOS 4.2.1: Old-school… with a new-school interface.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Has anyone experienced ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? I used a Magic Mouse for the past few months. Very soon after I started using it I developed some aching in my hand. Over time this has grown to be more or less constant, even when not using the mouse for a while. I just switched back to an old bulky Logitech mouse, and just resting my hand on it feels much better. The Magic Mouse seems way too flat to be comfortable for prolonged use. I know this is a rather subjective question, but have other people experienced similar ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? Is there any study about it? A: Probably does. Which is why I picked up the Magic Mouse Fix. Worked excellent. Then I got the Magic Trackpad and realized why I hate mice.

Q: Has anyone experienced ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? I used a Magic Mouse for the past few months. Very soon after I started using it I developed some aching in my hand. Over time this has grown to be more or less constant, even when not using the mouse for a while. I just switched back to an old bulky Logitech mouse, and just resting my hand on it feels much better. The Magic Mouse seems way too flat to be comfortable for prolonged use. I know this is a rather subjective question, but have other people experienced similar ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? Is there any study about it? A: Probably does. Which is why I picked up the Magic Mouse Fix. Worked excellent. Then I got the Magic Trackpad and realized why I hate mice. A: I have serious pain in the base of my thumb because of this device. I will try the trackpad and if that doesn't take care of it, I'll be switching to a Microsoft mouse. A: You're seeing some first indications of RSI because you're using your hand in ways you're not used to, and possibly because the mouse doesn't fit your hand. Switching to a normal mouse is a good first aid, especially since you noticed that the problem disappeared or became less of a problem. For some people, it just takes time to get used to new movements, while others won't be able to use the new device for longer periods of time. Those unlucky people should not force themselves to use devices that aren't comfortable for them, and this might include you. The problem with the magic mouse, IMHO, is that it's too small to really be useful as a gesture device because you're gesturing with the same hand that you use to hold it. That's bound to be awkward, which stresses your hand's anatomy, and some people develop problems from that. Others might not notice any problems -- everybody is different. Solution: * *Change to a different mouse. *If you must use gesture input, use a separate device for that. Apple offers the magic touchpad, which is a simpler and smaller version of the original FingerWorks iGesture series of devices which you can still buy used on eBay. And their laptops have multitouch trackpads too. A: I own a Magic Mouse but don't use it regularly. I haven't notice any aching in my hand. I know another person who suffers from RSI and uses it with his left hand instead of his right. No problem too. A: I would suggest using 3M Ergonomic Mouse. It works best for me and many programmers/hackers I know. A: I've had a magic mouse for just over a week (as part of a new iMac) and have started feeling RSI type pain in my hand just below the fingers after prolonged use (ie., constant use for 30mins or more). I've never had any pain from the 25 years of using a normal mouse on a daily basis. I purchased Apple Care with my new Mac and have contacted Apple about this issue today. Their response was; "This is the first we have heard of this." Despite lots of complaints on the internet about ergonomic problems of the magic mouse, apparently I am the first person to advise Apple direct of this!! Hmmm, i don't think so. Their solution - buy a Track Pad, or buy a USB Logitech mouse. Shocking. I would've expected better from Apple.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use tethering to let an iPad use an iPhone's 3G? Given an iPad that doesn't have 3G but only wifi, can I make this use the 3G connection of an iPhone 4? Does this require a cable between the devices, or does it work over (bluetooth|wifi?) ? A: I don't believe you can do this with the stock phone, however if you decide to jailbreakyour iPhone, you could use an application like MyWi to share your iPhone's 3G connection over WiFi

Q: Can I use tethering to let an iPad use an iPhone's 3G? Given an iPad that doesn't have 3G but only wifi, can I make this use the 3G connection of an iPhone 4? Does this require a cable between the devices, or does it work over (bluetooth|wifi?) ? A: I don't believe you can do this with the stock phone, however if you decide to jailbreakyour iPhone, you could use an application like MyWi to share your iPhone's 3G connection over WiFi A: Official word here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/hey-steve-can-the-ipad-tether-with-the-iphone/ A: You can’t do this without Jailbraking your device (as correctly pointed by Rex). The iOS 4.x doesn’t (not even the latest developer 4.2) have a mechanism to tether with another iPhone/Pad. They can share their connection (via Bluetooth for example) but I haven’t seen a way to tell an iPhone -> pair with that other iPhone and use that internet connection. That is something a Macintosh computer can do, but I don’t believe you can do that with your iPad/Phone. A: Yes, you can. I regularly tether my iPad 2 to my iPhone 4 via bluetooth. However you'll need an unlocked iPhone.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Safari is using too much RAM. How can I reduce its memory footprint? I'm finding Safari (Latest - v5.0.2) to be even more of a memory hog than usual. (Currently using 465mb of RAM with only this tab open, but having been running for a while) Closing it and reopening it lowers it's memory footprint, but it always creeps back up over time. Aside from disabling extensions, any tips to help troubleshoot/reduce it's memory usage? I've been using ClickToFlash which helps by requiring any Flash entity to be manually enabled on each page view. A: This is just a fact of life using Safari. Spend some time browsing Flickr and it's memory usage will go way over a Gig. Gmail is another killer. I think Safari most be doing aggressive in memory caching to speed things up.

Q: Safari is using too much RAM. How can I reduce its memory footprint? I'm finding Safari (Latest - v5.0.2) to be even more of a memory hog than usual. (Currently using 465mb of RAM with only this tab open, but having been running for a while) Closing it and reopening it lowers it's memory footprint, but it always creeps back up over time. Aside from disabling extensions, any tips to help troubleshoot/reduce it's memory usage? I've been using ClickToFlash which helps by requiring any Flash entity to be manually enabled on each page view. A: This is just a fact of life using Safari. Spend some time browsing Flickr and it's memory usage will go way over a Gig. Gmail is another killer. I think Safari most be doing aggressive in memory caching to speed things up. A: There's nothing wrong with turning off flash, but the main advantage is lower processor usage, not just memory consumption (though it's great to see turning it off has lowered Safari's footprint). I don't think you need to worry about what Safari is doing with memory for a couple of reasons: Safari 5 is a 64bit application, where as Firefox and Google Chrome are only 32bit (at least the mac public releases). This is relevant because 64bit applications appear to use more memory while they're running (The Growl team explains this better than I could, here). If you've got free memory, which the OS (and Safari) can release quickly, safely and easily (speaking as a Programmer), why not use it to cache your web content - that's what it's there for. Trust your OS - it's clever, if another application needs the memory it'll just release the not-needed-right-now-bits-and-bobs. Safari also has an unfair advantage- it's made by the same company that built your computer. I'm not saying Safari is infallible, or even that it's the best browser, just that you shouldn't over-think the statistics; memory is there to be used and if it's not negatively affecting your computing experience then don't stress. A: using Safari 5.0.5, I have flash turned off and in running sunspider 0.91 I'm seeing real mem growth to over 1.73GB on a 4GB mac mini (2010), and CPU over 100%. It runs so slow it doesn't complete in over 10 minutes. Running the same in Firefox 5.0 (also 64bit) I'm getting 500mb of real memory 90% CPU, and it completes in less than 30 seconds (and is reporting 300ms as a score... spiffy!). So my answer is... stop using safari on snow leopard and move to firefox 5.0. A: So it appears that Flash is still the main culprit - if you enable any flash in ClickToFlash it stays resident in memory. Following Gruber's advice on Daring Fireball, I've disabled Flash entirely on all browsers except Chrome and this seems to have helped immensely A: You can disable cache in developer toolbar (right click-> inspect element), "network" tab, on the right side of the opened pane. When you hover the element it says "Disable/Ignore cached ressource while loading resource". Once it is red, velvet cache are deactivated and memory consumption is far lower after that. You also have to empty the cache by activating developer mode, open menu "developer" -> "empty cache" and you will see a huge drop in RAM consumed by Safari. There is also another major factor of performance drop : Virtual Memory (swap file). If a process start using it heavily (WindowServer), you will see a huge drop in computer performance because read/write access to disk is monopolized by these processes, leaving little room to other processes for disk access operations. I suspect Catalina to be buggy in that regard as I saw a huge drop in performance after updating due to excessive Virtual Memory usage, reaching as high as 250Mo/s of writing access and 200MB/s of reading access for a SSD. You can try to disable Virtual Memory, if (and only if) you have enough RAM (>=16GB) with this command : sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist If you run into issues after that, like sudden self-awareness making your mac unresponsive or excessive RAM usage, enable Virtual Memory again with : sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to upload a screenshot from an iPad to this site (or other StackExchange sites)? So I capture a screenshot with my handy "[HOME]-[POWER]" combo, and draw freehand arrows on it in Adobe Ideas (because I like their line smoothing) to highlight my problem, but: How do I upload this picture to Ask Different from the iPad? A: Dropbox is a good idea, but since you are using Adobe Ideas, which has an "email photo" link, you could just use the Email Upload features of any photo sharing site (eg. Flickr email upload link, twitpic, etc.), and then copy the link from the browser.

Q: Is there any way to upload a screenshot from an iPad to this site (or other StackExchange sites)? So I capture a screenshot with my handy "[HOME]-[POWER]" combo, and draw freehand arrows on it in Adobe Ideas (because I like their line smoothing) to highlight my problem, but: How do I upload this picture to Ask Different from the iPad? A: Dropbox is a good idea, but since you are using Adobe Ideas, which has an "email photo" link, you could just use the Email Upload features of any photo sharing site (eg. Flickr email upload link, twitpic, etc.), and then copy the link from the browser. A: It appears that you can't do so directly (darn it) so you'd have to do it indirectly. You can either sync it to a computer and then use that computer to ask your question, or upload it to a Web site and then manually use that URL for the image (via either Markdown or HTML). A: Use Dropbox to upload it, then copy the link to the clipboard and paste it in your answer using the Markdown syntax:  A: I use photobucket, it's free has quite good features, and the iPhone app (not sure if there's a specific iPad app) works very simply, choose the photo, press upload, get the link. A: You can use StackAsk to upload images from your Photo library and camera roll into new questions you ask. It works both on iPad and iPhone. You can get it free on the app store, theres a link in this post: StackAsk on StackApps (disclosure: I made the app)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Good Newsgroup Client for OS X I've just switched to OS X and am struggling to find a good, easy to use, and preferably free/cheap newsgroup reader. Does anyone have any good suggestions? A: Unison by Panic is quite good. It's fully featured and looks nice but the UI is a bit wonky at times. https://panic.com/unison/

Q: Good Newsgroup Client for OS X I've just switched to OS X and am struggling to find a good, easy to use, and preferably free/cheap newsgroup reader. Does anyone have any good suggestions? A: Unison by Panic is quite good. It's fully featured and looks nice but the UI is a bit wonky at times. https://panic.com/unison/ A: Unison is very nice and freely available (but not actively developed). OSXnews may not be as polished as Unison, but it works and it is open source. A: "Cheap" is a relative and subjective term, but if you want good, then I highly recommend Unison by Panic Software. A: SeaMonkey is pretty good and it is for free. It is a Firefox-based all-in-one internet suite application featuring a web-browser as well as e-mail, newsgroup, IRC and RSS clients, but it can be set up to only display the newsgroup reader on startup in the preferences under "Appearance". A: I use MacSoup on Lion. It appears dated and some functions like filtering are not as easy to use as they could be, also it can only deal with one newsserver. It also can't show non text news e.g. MIME However it has a very good way of displaying and managing threads which outways its limitations MacSoup is 32 bit only and so only runs on OSX up to Mojave. So I will be back to gnus in emacs.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to delete everything on an iPod Touch? I would like to give my iPod touch as a gift to someone I know, but I want to be sure that there is nothing left on it to avoid giving data with it... How do I clean the iPod ? A: * *Fully charge the iPod Touch *Go to the Settings menu. Scroll down until you see the "General" settings, and hit that, then scan to the very bottom, where you'll see a mini-menu titled "Reset." Press this. This will bring up a few different options, but the one you want is "Erase All Content and Settings." (Settings / General / Reset / Erase all ) you can see full detailed here. Also you can use itunes, and go to the restore feature. This will take your ipod back to factory default.

Q: How to delete everything on an iPod Touch? I would like to give my iPod touch as a gift to someone I know, but I want to be sure that there is nothing left on it to avoid giving data with it... How do I clean the iPod ? A: * *Fully charge the iPod Touch *Go to the Settings menu. Scroll down until you see the "General" settings, and hit that, then scan to the very bottom, where you'll see a mini-menu titled "Reset." Press this. This will bring up a few different options, but the one you want is "Erase All Content and Settings." (Settings / General / Reset / Erase all ) you can see full detailed here. Also you can use itunes, and go to the restore feature. This will take your ipod back to factory default. A: I would also suggest renaming the iPod, which you can do by clicking the name in iTunes after you selected it. Then just type the new name. If I recall correctly resetting it does not remove the name. A: 1, erase all the data from your iPod touch by goning to: Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. 2, restore your iPod touch using iTunes. Refer to the following picture. 3, use data eraser.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keep Preview from autoresizing print output Whenever I want to print a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to shrink the page to fit the bounds of the page. I have to manually select scale: and enter 100 into the text field. Is there a hidden default or other way, to tell Preview to always default to 100% print size? Using a saved print setting as suggested below does not work in this case. I'm using Preview 5.0.2 (504) and Mac OS X 10.6.4, perhaps a bug? When I save the setting I want to have, open another PDF file, select print, and select my saved settings, the scale: setting jumps to some arbitrary value around 100% (90%-105%) and the radio box stays at "scale to Fit:". A: quit the Preview App, enter the following into your Terminal application and then start Preview again. Problem solved! defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0 to revert this setting, you can use the following command: defaults delete com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode

Q: Keep Preview from autoresizing print output Whenever I want to print a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to shrink the page to fit the bounds of the page. I have to manually select scale: and enter 100 into the text field. Is there a hidden default or other way, to tell Preview to always default to 100% print size? Using a saved print setting as suggested below does not work in this case. I'm using Preview 5.0.2 (504) and Mac OS X 10.6.4, perhaps a bug? When I save the setting I want to have, open another PDF file, select print, and select my saved settings, the scale: setting jumps to some arbitrary value around 100% (90%-105%) and the radio box stays at "scale to Fit:". A: quit the Preview App, enter the following into your Terminal application and then start Preview again. Problem solved! defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0 to revert this setting, you can use the following command: defaults delete com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode A: I would use Terminal commands slightly different from @Bart's above, although those work just fine. To disable Preview's default print scaling: defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool false To restore Preview's default print scaling: defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool true That way, the default stays in Preview's plist, so I don't need some external reminder about that default if I'm poking into it next year when I've forgotten I did this. Incidentally, the first time I started up Preview after disabling its print scaling, it seemed to hang on launch, so I force-quit and then tried again and it was fine. Hmm. Tried to edit to make the code lines show... A: The Print dialog window allows the saving of presets. Set things how you want them to be and save the settings. You can apply the settings to all printers or just one printer. You can also change your settings and then select "Use last settings" as well. A: To disable Preview's default print scaling: defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool false To restore Preview's default print scaling: defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool true

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the best way to make backups on my MacBook Pro? What is the best way to make automatic backups on my MacBook Pro? It's more preferable that synchronization will perform via Wi-Fi. I heard that Apple's Time Capsule has short-living time, so I thought that there exists alternate way. I would be glad to see any recommendations and success stories. Thanks. A: I have an external hard disk connected to an AirPort Extreme. Time Machine wirelessly backs up my MacBook Pro to it. In this regard, it works the same as TimeCapsule but as the hard disk is external (and you get to choose it), it doesn't suffer from the same reliability problems. I've found the AirPort Extreme to be a very good Wireless Access Point, too (and not just for Apple devices).

Q: What is the best way to make backups on my MacBook Pro? What is the best way to make automatic backups on my MacBook Pro? It's more preferable that synchronization will perform via Wi-Fi. I heard that Apple's Time Capsule has short-living time, so I thought that there exists alternate way. I would be glad to see any recommendations and success stories. Thanks. A: I have an external hard disk connected to an AirPort Extreme. Time Machine wirelessly backs up my MacBook Pro to it. In this regard, it works the same as TimeCapsule but as the hard disk is external (and you get to choose it), it doesn't suffer from the same reliability problems. I've found the AirPort Extreme to be a very good Wireless Access Point, too (and not just for Apple devices). A: Get an external hard drive at least the size of your internal hard drive and just use Time Machine. It doesn't get any easier than that. A: While it's not automatic my solution has worked well for me. I purchased an external USB drive larger than my MBP hard drive. On a weekly basis I hook up the USB drive and kick off a SuperDuper! smart update from my MBP's internal disk to the external USB drive. When the backup is complete SuperDuper puts the computer to sleep. The next morning I take both off to work and leave the USB drive there until the end of the week when I bring it home to do over again. That gives me a complete, boot-able backup off site. This does not give me 'versioned' backup like Time Machine but it does give me the ability to restore my entire system to a point in time. According to the documentation you can use SuperDuper to backup to a network drive in conjunction with a spares disk image (The documentation walks you through all of the setup)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: When is the locate database updated? I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update. Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option A: The locate database is updated by the following cronjob: /private/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate On Most Mac systems, Cron has been replaced by launchd, and you'll find that /etc/crontab doesn't exist. The schedule for this scheduled job is determined by launchd, and can be seen with one of the following commands: % cat /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist #### SNIP <dict> <key>Hour</key> <integer>3</integer> <key>Minute</key> <integer>15</integer> <key>Weekday</key> <integer>6</integer> </dict> Or, something a little more user friendly: % open /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist launchd will then run the jobs specified in /etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}/*, using this schedule.

Q: When is the locate database updated? I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update. Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option A: The locate database is updated by the following cronjob: /private/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate On Most Mac systems, Cron has been replaced by launchd, and you'll find that /etc/crontab doesn't exist. The schedule for this scheduled job is determined by launchd, and can be seen with one of the following commands: % cat /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist #### SNIP <dict> <key>Hour</key> <integer>3</integer> <key>Minute</key> <integer>15</integer> <key>Weekday</key> <integer>6</integer> </dict> Or, something a little more user friendly: % open /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist launchd will then run the jobs specified in /etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}/*, using this schedule. A: sudo periodic weekly is the easiest way to kick it off the weekly script which will call the normal rebuild of the locate database. As noted launchd will start this script Saturdays at 03:15 AM if the mac is running. If the mac is sleeping at that time, it will run when the mac wakes. It won't run if the mac is powered off at the magic moment. A: From the locate manpage: FILES /var/db/locate.database locate database /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Script to update the locate database /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Script that starts the database rebuild By default, the database is rebuilt weekly through launchd. You can run locate.updatedb manually to do the update.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Good simple Clipboard manager I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini. Any Suggestions? A: I think your best choice is : * *Clipboard Evolved But you can also use these softwares: * *JumpCut (Free and open source) *Clipmenu (As Calavera said :"ClipMenu is nice because it's free") *Clyppan *CuteClip *PTHPasteboard

Q: Good simple Clipboard manager I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini. Any Suggestions? A: I think your best choice is : * *Clipboard Evolved But you can also use these softwares: * *JumpCut (Free and open source) *Clipmenu (As Calavera said :"ClipMenu is nice because it's free") *Clyppan *CuteClip *PTHPasteboard A: Added to the answer: * *Maccy (open source - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy) *Clipy (open source - https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy) *Clip Menu (open source - https://github.com/naotaka/ClipMenu) All the above three are native apps, have search feature, and are really lightweight and fast. I currently use Maccy and before that I had used Clipy which is excellent as well. Old answer: Jumpcut is the pure clipboard app. Clyppan is no longer free. If you do not want all the images you copy to sit in clipboard then Clip Menu can be ruled out and Jumpcut works good. There's a Jumpcut fork - Flycut. I do not see any difference from Jumpcut, except that it(Flycut) seems to be in, relatively more, active development. A: I'd recommend Alfred and its Powerpack for clipboard history. Aside from the actual keeping of history, you can save snippets that you use often and call them up with a combination of letters and search among recently copied texts. Alfred's interface for this is much nicer than Jumpcut's in my opinion. I haven't tried any of the others. I haven't found any application to be incompatible with Alfred either. The price of the Powerpack might seem a little steep for just a clipboard history keeper, but Alfred can do so much more. It has become one of my most essential apps, so give it a try. A: Two other clipboard managers that have not been mentioned include: iClip The simply useful clipboard manager Stuf A clipboard manager with a difference, you can copy and paste between different Macs (and PCs!) over your wired or wireless network! Stuf uses DropBox, so can share your clipboard in the office, or anywhere in the world. A: I'm quite attached to ClipMenu. It's simple, yet powerful enough for all my needs. It even supports snippets which are so useful for a programmer like me. A: If you're already using LaunchBar, it has a clipboard manager built in. It's simple, but works just how I would need it to. A: You can also use the free software Quicksilver with the clipboard module. Here's a tutorial on how to use the clipboard module.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up. A: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open iTunes and select your iPhone in the sidebar on the left. Select the Info tab and choose from one of the available options based on your operating system.

Q: How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up. A: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open iTunes and select your iPhone in the sidebar on the left. Select the Info tab and choose from one of the available options based on your operating system. A: I sync mine with my google id description A: iTunes can create backups of your contacts, photos, videos, text messages, notes, etc. of your iOS device when you: * Sync with iTunes (disabled if you have iCloud backup turned on) * Right-click (or Control-click) the iOS device in iTunes under Devices and choose Back Up Use these steps to manually back up your iOS device using iTunes: * *Connect your iOS device to a computer with the latest version of iTunes installed *Select your iOS device in iTunes under Devices *Right-click (or Control-click) the device and select Back Up Resource: How to back up and restore from a backup http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766 A: In recent firmwares, you can use every Exchange-Provider (including Gmail) for over-the-air-sync of contacts, mails etc. I use this feature to sync my contacts with my Gmail account, but you can use that as a backup too. A: What procedure did you follow exactly? Note that the normal process for contacts is to sync the iPhone with the "Address Book" application. During the Sync iTunes also makes a backup, which can be used if you accidentally wipe the phone. You can also tell iTunes to replace the information on the phone with what is on your Mac, which defaults to the Address Book's contacts. If you did a replace and there weren't any contacts in Address Book, then you could get what you saw. Does any of that make sense? A: Sync your phone with iTunes. Done. A: When you connect to iTunes with USB cable, iTunes backups your contacts. Also you may chose gmail or win address book to backup or sync in itunes. A: Personally I use MobileMe (now iCloud), but iTunes works just fine. A: Alternatively (or as an extra precaution on top of the iTunes backup), you can sync with MobileMe. If you don't have it, sign-up for the trial. Then your data is safely in the cloud and on your computer. A: You can also use iSync (find it with your Spotlight bar) which can do much more than just syncing contacts. Apple's syncing method: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can you install Google Chrome on an iOS Device Is it possible to install Google Chrome web browser on an iOS device? A: No. It's not possible to run Chrome in iOS. I don't see why you'll want to run Chrome, even if it exists. Safari for iPhone uses WebKit, the same rendering engine that Chrome uses. There shouldn't be much difference between the two. Safari is plenty fast on the iPhone. The only other browser available for iPhone is Opera.

Q: Can you install Google Chrome on an iOS Device Is it possible to install Google Chrome web browser on an iOS device? A: No. It's not possible to run Chrome in iOS. I don't see why you'll want to run Chrome, even if it exists. Safari for iPhone uses WebKit, the same rendering engine that Chrome uses. There shouldn't be much difference between the two. Safari is plenty fast on the iPhone. The only other browser available for iPhone is Opera. A: You can now install Google Chrome on an iOS Device. Do note that it does not use the Chrome Rendering engine, but uses the Safari webkit. The "killer feature" though is that it has syncing with your Google Account. A: As it is not available in the app store (at least not here in Germany), it is not possible. Maybe there is an app or possibility for jailbroken iPhones, but I doubt it. A: Google would have to first properly release a chrome app for android before even thinking about an iOS app. Would be shooting themselves in the foot otherwise. Whether or not Apple would approve it would be another story. A: It is not and I doubt that there will ever be such a port, because the model Chrome is based on is that each tab is run as a separate process. As there is no true multitasking in the iPhone (available in public APIs, that is) such app would not be possible to do. If Google ever releases something like that (which would not be approved in the App Store, with the current rules, but for argument's sake let's say it's released as an ad-hoc distribution, or as source code) it would work very differently, thus being a different product with the same brand

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Browsing left (up) in column view with no horizontal scroll bar? Sometimes in an "Open" or "Save" dialog you want to go one directory up. It is in column view, but there simply is no column to the left and no horizontal scroll bar. Is there a way to go up one directory without browsing completely down again from the root directory? A: Pressing ⌘ + ↑ works like a charm.

Q: Browsing left (up) in column view with no horizontal scroll bar? Sometimes in an "Open" or "Save" dialog you want to go one directory up. It is in column view, but there simply is no column to the left and no horizontal scroll bar. Is there a way to go up one directory without browsing completely down again from the root directory? A: Pressing ⌘ + ↑ works like a charm. A: Press ⌘+shift+G and type ".." (two dots).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I connect an iPad to a projector? How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable. A: If you use a VGA connection, the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter might be of interest to you. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A

Q: How do I connect an iPad to a projector? How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable. A: If you use a VGA connection, the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter might be of interest to you. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I revive dead pixels on my iPod Touch (second generation)? I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away. I've checked some other forums and they told me to: * *Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours. *Put it in the freezer (never again) *Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it) Are there any other old wives tales relevant to fixing dead pixels. I've seen some come back and go away so I think it's not a totally lost cause. A: I dont know about how comfortable you are with taking electronics apart, but it sounds like the connector for the screen might be coming loose, or the screen might be on the way out. I would recommend buying a replacement screen on eBay, or paying apple to fix it for you.

Q: How can I revive dead pixels on my iPod Touch (second generation)? I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away. I've checked some other forums and they told me to: * *Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours. *Put it in the freezer (never again) *Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it) Are there any other old wives tales relevant to fixing dead pixels. I've seen some come back and go away so I think it's not a totally lost cause. A: I dont know about how comfortable you are with taking electronics apart, but it sounds like the connector for the screen might be coming loose, or the screen might be on the way out. I would recommend buying a replacement screen on eBay, or paying apple to fix it for you. A: Do you have a dead pixel (black) or a stuck pixel (stuck on one color)? Those suggestions work occasionally for stuck pixels, but if you have dead pixels, you're out of luck, unfortunately.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How Do I Set the Default Language in Pages? In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English. However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English? A: You have to change the settings in the "International" panel in System Preferences. * *Go to System Preferences. *Go to the Language & Text (In 10.6) panel (the language tab appears first by default). *Put your preferred language at the top of the list (you might have to edit the list). Relaunch your iWork application (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your preferred language will be used as default language.

Q: How Do I Set the Default Language in Pages? In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English. However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English? A: You have to change the settings in the "International" panel in System Preferences. * *Go to System Preferences. *Go to the Language & Text (In 10.6) panel (the language tab appears first by default). *Put your preferred language at the top of the list (you might have to edit the list). Relaunch your iWork application (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your preferred language will be used as default language. A: To follow up Martin's answer, for British English you will need to edit the list and check the "British English" tick box. I spent while looking for "English (British)", but it's the former format that appears. A: I suggest that you try Language Switcher. It’s a freeware software, that launches single applications with a different language. I tested it with many software but I don't know if it works for pages too, please try it and tell us if it works or not in the comments. A: I believe the only way to do this is to change the spelling language in a blank document and save it as a template. Under General Preferences, you can select "Use Template:" and choose that template you saved. A: If you don't mind changing the UI in addition to the spell checker, the following commands: cd ~/Library/Preferences/ defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist AppleLanguages "(Dutch,English)" Would make the Pages UI (menu items, spellcheck, etc.) use Dutch first, and then English anywhere where the Dutch translation or dictionary is not provided. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out if it is "British" or "British English" or "GB-EN" or etc. to set it to British English UI and spell checking. Please leave the answer as a reply / comment to this answer. Some more details here and here. A: If you go into the properties box of an existing document, you can change the language of that document to English (Australian) even after you have been working on it for a while. You can even change individual paragraphs or words to separate languages. This means you need to "select all" the text before changing the language. This was in iWork 09 Pages.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Recording the sound of my Mac Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ? For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ? A: Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro can do this for you and much more.

Q: Recording the sound of my Mac Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ? For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ? A: Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro can do this for you and much more. A: If you want to do it for free you can download Audacity and Soundflower (if you have a mac) and record the sound straight off your sound card. Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Soundflowerbed: http://cycling74.com/downloads/ Tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/Using_Soundflower_to_record_streaming_audio You mentioned you're using a mac, but for people who run windows, there is likely another program you can substitute for Soundflower to accomplish the same thing, although I have not looked into it. A: Another option, also from Rogue Amoeba, is Piezo which is about 50% the cost of Audio Hijack Pro. So, depending on how complex your needs are, there are two really great options. A: Soundflower has been my optimal software for audio routing. You can grab it here: http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/. Please note that this is only available for Mac. If you own a Windows computer, (or GNU/Linux, Solaris, or FreeBSD, or even Mac as well, in addition to any POSIX-conformant platforms), try JACK at http://jackaudio.org. Both of these are free, so try them out. A: TapeDeck is another such app to the list. It literally has a nice looking interface featuring a classic tape recorder, with a "drawer of tapes" on the side, which is a stack of the recordings that you've made with it before. The data there displays title, time or recording, and the duration. To record, choose the setting "Record using system audio recorder", and it should record the sound straight from your sound card, i.e. whatever comes out of your headphones/speakers. Free evaluation version is available, and if you find it useful for something that you need to do a lot, the full version is worth it. For me, it's been stable and I like the simplicity of the layout, easy little thing that doesn't take too much area on the screen.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X? I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened. Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead? A: You could use Mailplane. Mailplane is a site-specific browser for GMail that offers better OS-level integration. Mailplane can act as the default email client. http://mailplaneapp.com/

Q: How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X? I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened. Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead? A: You could use Mailplane. Mailplane is a site-specific browser for GMail that offers better OS-level integration. Mailplane can act as the default email client. http://mailplaneapp.com/ A: You can do this with Firefox in two steps... * *Go to Firefox preferences, Applications, search for mailto: and change the application action to "Use Gmail". *Follow Apple's instructions here and choose Firefox as the email app. A: Update (1/2014) Turns out Google Notifier for Mac is no longer supported. If you're using Chrome, this is now very simple: open settings, search for "mailto", and set Gmail as the handler for mailto. For Firefox, see this answer. (The remainder of this answer is now obsolete.) While options like Webmailer also do the job, I'll mention yet another way for the sake of completeness: * *Install Google Notifier for Mac. It's an official Gmail utility made by Google. *Open Mail.app, go to Preferences -> General, and set "Default email reader" to Google Notifier.app. (Yep, you need to configure this in Mail even when Mail is what you don't want to use...) Besides directing clicks on mailto: links to Gmail, the Google Notifier comes with some additional features: It adds an icon (like this: ) in the menu bar and notifies you (if configured to do so) about new mail in your Gmail box. Through the icon you can also access your inbox, unread messages, and "Compose mail" screen quickly. Works great for me; I can generally vouch for this useful little app. A: If you use Firefox 3.5 or later: * *Go to Preferences ⌘, and and choose the Application pane. *Find "mailto" in the content type list, and choose what you want. If you want Gmail to open, choose it in the popup menu. Or you can use More Internet, a System Preferences pane that lets you choose which applications are set as helpers for Internet protocols. A: With Webmailer, you can set up any webmail client as the default email client in OS X. A: You do NOT need to install a third party app. Both Google Chrome and Firefox support this functionality. (ok, technically these are third party apps, but lets assume you are not using safari.) Chrome: * *Open gmail in chrome. *In the address bar next to the "bookmark star" you should see a grey diamond. Click on the diamond *Select "use gmail". *If you do not see the gray diamond, follow the instructions below. If you made a mistake and selected "No" and you really wanted to select "Use Gmail" * *With Chrome open, copy and paste this into your address bar at the top: chrome://settings/handlers *Under the Ignored protocol handlers section, Click on X to the right to delete. *Close and open Gmail. *Answer the question correctly this time. :) Source: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/hnRteY7bHfE Alternative way, if you need to do this programmatically. Firefox: See @Am1rr3zA answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer. Safari: See @fpotter's answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer. A: You could use Sparrow which is a very clean and spare Gmail client. I've been using it for a while and love it. Go to Mail.app / Preferences / General / and make Sparrow your default email reader.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to download an MP3 to an iPod Touch? Possible Duplicate: How to download free music from the internet to itunes on the iphone/ipad without using a mac/pc? I have a new (4gen) iPod Touch. There's an MP3 on the web that I want to download so I can listen to it when there's no wifi available. I can figure out how to play it, but I can't figure out how to download it (i.e., save it for future listening). It seems like iTunes is the only way to download audio or video, and it only has a preset list of things that can be downloaded (and a poor search feature!). Do I need to download it on my Mac, and then sync, just to download an MP3? A: You answered your self. You must download the file on your Mac and then you must sync it to your iPod Touch!

Q: How to download an MP3 to an iPod Touch? Possible Duplicate: How to download free music from the internet to itunes on the iphone/ipad without using a mac/pc? I have a new (4gen) iPod Touch. There's an MP3 on the web that I want to download so I can listen to it when there's no wifi available. I can figure out how to play it, but I can't figure out how to download it (i.e., save it for future listening). It seems like iTunes is the only way to download audio or video, and it only has a preset list of things that can be downloaded (and a poor search feature!). Do I need to download it on my Mac, and then sync, just to download an MP3? A: You answered your self. You must download the file on your Mac and then you must sync it to your iPod Touch! A: If you can get yourself a direct link to the MP3 file through Safari, your best bet is GoodReader or something like it. You can put a URL into this app and it will actually download the file to the app's allocated document storage space on your iOS device. It won't add the song to your iTunes library or the Music section of your iPod, but you'll at least be able to play the file offline by opening the GoodReader app and browsing to it. The nice thing about this is that when you get back to your Mac, you can plug in your iPod, copy the MP3 from GoodReader's document storage (through iTunes) to your hard drive, and then add it to your iTunes music library "the right way", so it'll sync into your iPod's Music section from now on. A: If the MP3 isn't trapped in a Flash or Silverlight player, this will work: In Safari, go to Window -> Activity in the menu bar. In the Activity window, you'll see a list of each page you currently have open. Find the one your MP3 is on and look through the listed files. The list shows every file on the currently open pages. Select the address for the MP3 and press Command (Apple key) and C at the same time to copy the address. (This part is the tricky part. If the page it's on has a lot of other files, it can sometimes be difficult to identify the right one.) Now go to Window -> Downloads and press Command and V to paste the address into the download window. This should cause the file you selected to download to your default location for Downloads (usually the Downloads folder within your home folder). Once it's in your Downloads folder, you can just drag it into iTunes. And of course, once it's in iTunes, you can sync to your iPod. A: Download a download app, I used Air Download Lite. Navigate to the webpage, click and hold the link to the mp3 file until a menu pops up. Choose copy from the menu. open the download program and paste the url into the download app, and it should download the file for you. I found this question of yours because I wanted to do the exact same thing. I JUST did it so I know it works. Good Luck!!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"? Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this? A: This happened to my brother's iPhone 4 a few times. When he took it to the Apple Store, they ran a special diagnostic that revealed the phone had reached 200 degrees inside. Needless to say, the phone was replaced.

Q: Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"? Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this? A: This happened to my brother's iPhone 4 a few times. When he took it to the Apple Store, they ran a special diagnostic that revealed the phone had reached 200 degrees inside. Needless to say, the phone was replaced. A: From the User's Guide: If the interior temperature of iPhone exceeds normal operating temperatures, you may experience the following as it attempts to regulate its temperature: * *iPhone stops charging *display dims *weak cellular signal *temperature warning screen appears Important: You cannot use iPhone while the temperature warning screen is displayed except to make an emergency call. If none of the above measures succeeds in lowering the internal temperature, iPhone automatically goes into a deep sleep mode until it cools. You cannot make an emergency call when iPhone is in this mode. Move iPhone to a cooler location and wait a few minutes before trying to use iPhone again. There have been numerous cases of all sorts of consumer electronics melting/exploding, and these have often been settled with lawsuits. It is appropriate that the iPhone take preemptive measures to avoid such accidents. A: This is a long shot but maybe there's a process going on in the background that's using a lot of processor cycles. Consider double clicking the home button and quitting everything running and shutting the iPhone down, then restarting it. Consider turning off bluetooth to see if that's an issue. A: I left my IPhone in car's passenger seat while cleaning garage and had the same message when I retrieved the phone. It was a hot South Florida July day and the phone was hot to the touch. Took phone inside and after it "cooled off", started to work again as normal. A: it is temp pin in battery just try to change your battery thats all

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to write to the Boot Camp disk in OS X? I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition. I don't want to leave OS X to organize files. A: It is possible. You will first need MacFUSE and then NTFS-3G. The User's Guide for NTFS-3G can be found here (PDF).

Q: Is it possible to write to the Boot Camp disk in OS X? I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition. I don't want to leave OS X to organize files. A: It is possible. You will first need MacFUSE and then NTFS-3G. The User's Guide for NTFS-3G can be found here (PDF).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I change the PIN on an iPhone? A simple one, I guess: I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings. A: The setting to change SIM PIN can be found under Settings app → Mobile Data → SIM PIN and not under Settings app → Phone.

Q: How do I change the PIN on an iPhone? A simple one, I guess: I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings. A: The setting to change SIM PIN can be found under Settings app → Mobile Data → SIM PIN and not under Settings app → Phone. A: You can find the option under Settings > Phone > SIM PIN.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to display Google App Contacts in a separate iChat list? I have a few accounts in iChat: * *GMail *AIM *Google Apps (a custom domain) Both GMail and Google Apps put all my contacts in the 'Buddies' list. Can I rename my Gmail list to "GMail Contacts' or something else so that both accounts dont get merged? A: I actually just tried this and iChat does it automatically. As you can see I have a different window for each account, and I think you can actually set the window's title by setting the account description under Settings->Accounts. As you can see I even have different groups for each account. Although I usually have them unified using Chax's feature Use All Contacts window as primary contact list

Q: How to display Google App Contacts in a separate iChat list? I have a few accounts in iChat: * *GMail *AIM *Google Apps (a custom domain) Both GMail and Google Apps put all my contacts in the 'Buddies' list. Can I rename my Gmail list to "GMail Contacts' or something else so that both accounts dont get merged? A: I actually just tried this and iChat does it automatically. As you can see I have a different window for each account, and I think you can actually set the window's title by setting the account description under Settings->Accounts. As you can see I even have different groups for each account. Although I usually have them unified using Chax's feature Use All Contacts window as primary contact list A: Yes, and Yes. Just add a new group, and then drag your Google App contacts to the newly named group. It's really that easy. You can right click on any group name, and select rename. You can also do the same with Adium

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac. A: The .numbers file is actually a directory. There should be an image file.numbers/QuickLook/Thumbnail.jpg that contains a preview of the document. It might contain the information that you are looking for. The contents on the file are actually stored in a compressed xml file file.numbers/index.xml.gz If you are just looking for some bit of information, you might be able to find it in there. For the most part, unless you have something to parse the xml, it would take quite a bit of work to reconstruct the spreadsheet from the xml.

Q: How to convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac. A: The .numbers file is actually a directory. There should be an image file.numbers/QuickLook/Thumbnail.jpg that contains a preview of the document. It might contain the information that you are looking for. The contents on the file are actually stored in a compressed xml file file.numbers/index.xml.gz If you are just looking for some bit of information, you might be able to find it in there. For the most part, unless you have something to parse the xml, it would take quite a bit of work to reconstruct the spreadsheet from the xml. A: This is very difficult to do without a Mac. You possibly could try to manually extract the data by hand or with a conversion tool, but I am not aware of any conversion tools available. Therefore, I highly suggest that you use Numbers to do the conversion. Since you don't have your Mac anymore, perhaps you could borrow a friend's? Also, if there is an Apple Store near where you live, you could put the file on a flash drive and do the conversion there. A: There's a website called Zamzar offering converting services: http://www.zamzar.com. You can upload .numbers (among many other filetypes) and let them convert it to .csv, .pdf or .xls. You can have them mail you a link to download this converted file (for only one day). I don't know if they're trustable, but they just helped me out. A: Perhaps Numbers in iCloud could help, if you have an iCloud account and don't mind uploading your data to a server. https://icloud.com/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can you set custom ringtones for contact groups? In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone). But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".) I think that would be handy—and quite basic functionality, so to speak—but I couldn't find a way to do this through the iPhone UI. Is it possible at all (without jailbreaking)? A: It is unfortunately not (yet or ever?) officially supported as a feature of iOS.

Q: Can you set custom ringtones for contact groups? In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone). But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".) I think that would be handy—and quite basic functionality, so to speak—but I couldn't find a way to do this through the iPhone UI. Is it possible at all (without jailbreaking)? A: It is unfortunately not (yet or ever?) officially supported as a feature of iOS. A: yes, you can assign ringtones to contact groups on iPhone using Grouptones tweak ($2.99 in Cydia, requires jailbreak). See http://grouptonesapp.com for details! A: It had this feature on my 3Gs. I know because I just upgraded to the 4s and it's not there. They changed it. A: Just use this app: GRingtones, it is a group managing app. The most important feature is that GRingtones could set a ringtone for each group! * *Setting a group ringtone *Setting a text tone for a group *Groups could be created, edited, or deleted free. *Searching for contacts is also supported.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How I can save a screenshot of an iPhone application? I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone or iPad application to share. How is that accomplished? A: Press the home button and the sleep button simultaneously. Newer phones have the sleep,on the side instead of the top but save images the same. This will save a picture of the current iPhone screen to the "Photos" application. From there, you can either email it to anyone you want or sync it to your computer. Assistive touch also works on newer iOS versions. * *How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button? On iOS 11 screen recording might be if use for capturing transient events where your reflexes or the device itself isn’t responsive enough at the correct moment. * *How do I take a screenshot in iOS without hitting the Home Button and the Power Button?

Q: How I can save a screenshot of an iPhone application? I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone or iPad application to share. How is that accomplished? A: Press the home button and the sleep button simultaneously. Newer phones have the sleep,on the side instead of the top but save images the same. This will save a picture of the current iPhone screen to the "Photos" application. From there, you can either email it to anyone you want or sync it to your computer. Assistive touch also works on newer iOS versions. * *How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button? On iOS 11 screen recording might be if use for capturing transient events where your reflexes or the device itself isn’t responsive enough at the correct moment. * *How do I take a screenshot in iOS without hitting the Home Button and the Power Button?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What would it take to make an iPad support multiple user accounts? As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with it. Being based on OS X, iOS could theoretically support multiple user accounts. But adding new users (even if done correctly) wouldn't play nice with iTunes. So, what about partitioning the hard drive and installing several instances of iOS? Add a screen early in the boot process that allows you to choose the partition, and thus the user. Itunes would thus be able to sync many users separately on the same device, depending on the chosen partition. To be clearer: I'm not just asking the question, I want to actually do it. Can anybody suggest means to achieve this? Continued my research: apparently, it is possible to modify the Boot Rom (cf. Limera1n). A: One place to look might be at dual booting an iPhone with Android. Update: iUsers for iPad now makes this possible. Check out the video.

Q: What would it take to make an iPad support multiple user accounts? As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with it. Being based on OS X, iOS could theoretically support multiple user accounts. But adding new users (even if done correctly) wouldn't play nice with iTunes. So, what about partitioning the hard drive and installing several instances of iOS? Add a screen early in the boot process that allows you to choose the partition, and thus the user. Itunes would thus be able to sync many users separately on the same device, depending on the chosen partition. To be clearer: I'm not just asking the question, I want to actually do it. Can anybody suggest means to achieve this? Continued my research: apparently, it is possible to modify the Boot Rom (cf. Limera1n). A: One place to look might be at dual booting an iPhone with Android. Update: iUsers for iPad now makes this possible. Check out the video. A: iOS caters to both the iPhone and the iPad. Multi-user support on the iPhone would be superfluous. Multi-user support on the iPad but not on the iPhone would imply considerable fragmentation of the iOS platform. If Apple really wanted to include multi-user support in iOS, partitioning the flash storage and installing several instances of iOS would not be the proper way to go about it. Multi-user support should be accomplished with one instance of iOS and different folders constituting different users' home directories, as is the case with major desktop operating systems. Then user permissions are to be implemented so that one user cannot view another user's files or folders, and thus cannot not read that user's email, etc. Though multi-user support can be properly implemented on the iPad, it is uncalled for as "portable devices" are often "personal devices". A: No non-jailbroken iOS device (publicly) supports multiple accounts, even if one could partition the storage. I have no experience with jailbroken devices so I can't speak to that scenario. I've seen multiple blog entries lamenting the lack of a feature to lock certain types of content (and they even offered up a couple interesting solutions, too). A: iOS itself supports multiple user accounts, but SpringBoard doesn't support them, as it's tied heavily to the mobile user. Some people have put together mods that allow you to add more accounts for the UI/SpringBoard if you're jailbroken, but support for the ones I can find have dissipated. A: As this question was asked and last answered a long time ago - things have (slightly) changed today. There is indeed a (limited) multi-user support today for iPads in the educational market. Multiple managed AppleID accounts can be used on a single device and thus it can be shared among several people. There is more information regarding this here: http://www.apple.com/education/ http://www.apple.com/education/products/#ipad-assistant Even if students share an iPad, they can make it their own. Shared iPad is a new feature in iOS 9.3 We designed it for schools that use a shared device model but still want to provide personalized experiences. Before class begins, you can assign any iPad to any student in your classroom. Students know which devices to use because their pictures are on the Lock screens. And they can access their personal content with a password or an easy-to-remember four-digit PIN. After students log in, their homework, apps, and assignments appear exactly as they left them.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Fast forward / backward on iPod Touch Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ? A: Tap the album artwork to bring up the seek slider. You can then drag the slider to move from one place to another in the track.

Q: Fast forward / backward on iPod Touch Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ? A: Tap the album artwork to bring up the seek slider. You can then drag the slider to move from one place to another in the track. A: Hold the skip forward/backwards button (Other known as "next song" button) for a few seconds. You'll fast forward/backwards in the song.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to connect to wireless TV satellite receiver from Mac OS X How could I connect to my satellite receiver from Mac OS X and be able to watch TV and navigate through channel list? Is there any free software that could do this? A: The closest thing to what you want would probably be the SlingBox. It's not possible to do this with just software, unfortunately. Satellite and cable boxes are pretty locked down, so you need a hybrid hardware/software solution like the SlingBox.

Q: How to connect to wireless TV satellite receiver from Mac OS X How could I connect to my satellite receiver from Mac OS X and be able to watch TV and navigate through channel list? Is there any free software that could do this? A: The closest thing to what you want would probably be the SlingBox. It's not possible to do this with just software, unfortunately. Satellite and cable boxes are pretty locked down, so you need a hybrid hardware/software solution like the SlingBox. A: use dreambox tv satellite receiver , connect to your network and your mac via wireless on the mac !dreamX maybe you have to use VLD video viewer A: Not free and not software, but if you want the best results, you'll need the EyeTV HD from Elgato.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the best icon creator for mac? I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac? A: If you have access to Photoshop, then I highly recommend Iconbuilder from Iconfactory. Back when I doing this, Iconbuilder made the creation of resources for a variety of platforms a snap.

Q: What is the best icon creator for mac? I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac? A: If you have access to Photoshop, then I highly recommend Iconbuilder from Iconfactory. Back when I doing this, Iconbuilder made the creation of resources for a variety of platforms a snap. A: If you just have a tiff file that you need to make into an icon, you can use the built-in command line program tiff2icns. (This is probably not the best all-around answer, but it has been useful to me.) A: It's been years and things are changing, let me answer my own question, What is the best icon creator for Mac? I think the answer is iconutil for me. You can get more info by running man iconutil in Terminal. I also create an Automator workflow: https://github.com/sparanoid/automator-workflows#create-app-iconset You can convert a set of images or a single image to an icon. A: Since it isn't mentioned, I'll do it: IconSlate is a fantastic app for creating both Windows (.ico) and Mac (.icns) icons. Simple to use, beautifully designed and does exactly what it says on the tin. Highly recommended! A: If you want free software your best choice was Pic2Icon and you can also try img2icnsapp free version and if you like it, can upgrade it to pro version. and the best software was iconeer but it's not free and you must pay for it. I also suggest you see this page for more infos.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: If I buy an iPhone app will I have to re-purchase the app if I get a new iPhone? I upgraded from the 3G to the iPhone 4 and forgot to backup and transfer my apps. If I attempt to purchase apps that I have previously purchased, will the Apple store charge me? Or will it recognize that I have already purchased the app based on my apple ID? A: according to the caliban answer on SU: To re-download all your apps into iTunes. 1. First you need to authorize your iTunes. (Store > Authorize Computer) 2. Next, check for available downloads (Store > Check For Available Downloads) iTunes will then check for what you have purchased before, and give you an option to re-download your purchased apps. To see a listing of all the apps you have purchased or downloaded, do this : 1. Go to Store > View My Account 2. Login 3. Click on "Purchase History" You should now see all the apps you have downloaded before

Q: If I buy an iPhone app will I have to re-purchase the app if I get a new iPhone? I upgraded from the 3G to the iPhone 4 and forgot to backup and transfer my apps. If I attempt to purchase apps that I have previously purchased, will the Apple store charge me? Or will it recognize that I have already purchased the app based on my apple ID? A: according to the caliban answer on SU: To re-download all your apps into iTunes. 1. First you need to authorize your iTunes. (Store > Authorize Computer) 2. Next, check for available downloads (Store > Check For Available Downloads) iTunes will then check for what you have purchased before, and give you an option to re-download your purchased apps. To see a listing of all the apps you have purchased or downloaded, do this : 1. Go to Store > View My Account 2. Login 3. Click on "Purchase History" You should now see all the apps you have downloaded before A: No, you will not be charged. You can re-download them in iTunes or directly on the phone. You'll have to hit the "buy" button, but after it starts downloading, you should see a message saying you already bought it once. The alert box includes a button to go ahead and re-download the app, which you will then not be charged for.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Display external video on iMac I am considering purchasing an iMac. Our office situation is such that the new computer will be placed where a monitor is presently located for a Windows laptop connected via a docking station. Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Alternatively, is the iMac capable of hooking up to a second monitor? (my monitor has multiple inputs which I could just switch between) Are there other options that I am missing? A: Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Yes, the latest 27" iMac can act as a monitor via Mini DisplayPort. From Apple: Mini DisplayPort output with support for DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI (adapters sold separately); 27-inch models also support input from external DisplayPort sources (adapters sold separately) You'll need an adapter to convert your laptop output to Mini DisplayPort. Be careful, as some adapters, such as those provided by Apple, are designed to output DVI/VGA/etc, and aren't capable of being reversed to accept it as input. further reading: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924

Q: Display external video on iMac I am considering purchasing an iMac. Our office situation is such that the new computer will be placed where a monitor is presently located for a Windows laptop connected via a docking station. Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Alternatively, is the iMac capable of hooking up to a second monitor? (my monitor has multiple inputs which I could just switch between) Are there other options that I am missing? A: Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Yes, the latest 27" iMac can act as a monitor via Mini DisplayPort. From Apple: Mini DisplayPort output with support for DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI (adapters sold separately); 27-inch models also support input from external DisplayPort sources (adapters sold separately) You'll need an adapter to convert your laptop output to Mini DisplayPort. Be careful, as some adapters, such as those provided by Apple, are designed to output DVI/VGA/etc, and aren't capable of being reversed to accept it as input. further reading: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I adjust the tap-to-click sensitivity on the Magic Trackpad or the built-in MacBook trackpad? I have the tap-to-click feature enabled on my Magic Trackpad and find that it works very well for the most pat. However, I think it tends to be a little too sensitive at times. Is there any secret adjustment for reducing the tapping sensitivity of the Magic Trackpad? I assume that the same setting will also apply to the built-in trackpad on MacBooks. A: Unfortunately the sensitivity of the tap-to-click feature on the trackpad may not be adjusted through the default system software at present. It may only be turned off altogether. However if you download BetterTouchTool it will allow you to adjust tap sensitivity, among other things.

Q: How do I adjust the tap-to-click sensitivity on the Magic Trackpad or the built-in MacBook trackpad? I have the tap-to-click feature enabled on my Magic Trackpad and find that it works very well for the most pat. However, I think it tends to be a little too sensitive at times. Is there any secret adjustment for reducing the tapping sensitivity of the Magic Trackpad? I assume that the same setting will also apply to the built-in trackpad on MacBooks. A: Unfortunately the sensitivity of the tap-to-click feature on the trackpad may not be adjusted through the default system software at present. It may only be turned off altogether. However if you download BetterTouchTool it will allow you to adjust tap sensitivity, among other things. A: Not a complete answer Use BetterTouchTool. Under the Advanced Trackpad->Taps setting is an option to adjust the time and pressure sensitivity for three and four finger taps

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I select only a few specific folders to back up with Time Machine? Can I backup only specific folders with Time Machine? If there is not an "official" way to do this, does somebody know a trick to do so? A: One solution I found is to use Disk Utility to create a new APFS Volume on my main disk, and then I moved all the files I want to back up on this volume (the size of the volume automatically adapts to it's content). Then on Time Machine I excluded all my hard drives except my newly created APFS Volume, in that way it's the only one that gets backed up by Time Machine, and I don't need to update the list unless I add new volumes or hard drives. And if you don't like to have to navigate to this volume to browse your files, you can always create symlinks to them

Q: Can I select only a few specific folders to back up with Time Machine? Can I backup only specific folders with Time Machine? If there is not an "official" way to do this, does somebody know a trick to do so? A: One solution I found is to use Disk Utility to create a new APFS Volume on my main disk, and then I moved all the files I want to back up on this volume (the size of the volume automatically adapts to it's content). Then on Time Machine I excluded all my hard drives except my newly created APFS Volume, in that way it's the only one that gets backed up by Time Machine, and I don't need to update the list unless I add new volumes or hard drives. And if you don't like to have to navigate to this volume to browse your files, you can always create symlinks to them A: Select All the files and folders in the disc that contains the folder you want to back up. Drop them all on the Exclusions window Remove the folder you want backed up from the exclusions A: tmutil enables you to edit the exclusion list from the command line. Because blacklisting folders one by one can be tedious, I wrote deus_ex_tmachina bash script that basically iterate over the folders at the root of your disk and exclude them ; stopping in the middle of the process so you can edit the list. A: You may exclude items from a Time Machine backup as follows: * *Open System Preferences. *Click Time Machine. *After having enabled Time Machine and chosen a backup disk, click Options. *Click + to specify an item that is not to be backed up. The backup disk is included on this list automatically so that it does not back up itself. A: Easily - no. Time Machine's selection only uses exclusion so you'd have to exclude everything but the folders you want. I'd recommend looking at a different solution instead (eg. rsync, Retrospect, or other backup software) A: I'm not sure if time machine follows symbolic links, but if so, you could have a high level directory full of links to the directories you want backed-up, then exclude all the top level directories except that one....slightly roundabout, but not too work intensive (if time machine backs up the content of symbolic links, which I slightly doubt, but should be checked....) I checked. It does not work. Other ideas? A: In my case I have items on an external drive that I want to have backed-up. What I do is create a partition on that drive and then remove that partition from the exclusion list. A: I answered this elsewhere as well, sorry for the redundancy but this question is asked multiples times on this site alone. Time Machine (And excluding files) is not a good solution. Short answer... "Get Backup 3" from the Mac Apps Store. I'm looking for the same solution, (Or was). Basically I want to back up just one folder multiple times a day to a flash drive, similar to the way Time Machine does. BETTER YET! (Million $ idea here...) I would like a local cloud, i.e. I make a change, it updates my local backup on my flash drive to be in sync right then and there when I make the change (Like drop box does). The closest thing I have found is "Get Backup 3" on the Mac App store. You can choose an Origin folder and a destination folder and set it to synchronize the two. You can choose the direction as well which is great, : Folder A to Folder B, or Folder B to Folder A, or even Bi-Directional updates. You can also schedule sync times. I set mine up for close to the end of the day. It backs up and I leave my thumb drive at work in case my laptop ever gets stolen at least I have a copy of my files backed up (Network here is very restrictive and painfully slow). Hope that helps.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Does the new iPod Touch (iOS 4.1 / 4 gen) require that you jail break it to use a Blue Tooth keyboard? I already have a BT keyboard and I don't really want to buy a new one, so my question is, will the BT keyboard I already have work with an ipod touch? Or will I need to use a proprietary Apple solution for that? A: A 4th generation iPod Touch (or an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4) running iOS 4.1 supports third-party bluetooth keyboards.

Q: Does the new iPod Touch (iOS 4.1 / 4 gen) require that you jail break it to use a Blue Tooth keyboard? I already have a BT keyboard and I don't really want to buy a new one, so my question is, will the BT keyboard I already have work with an ipod touch? Or will I need to use a proprietary Apple solution for that? A: A 4th generation iPod Touch (or an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4) running iOS 4.1 supports third-party bluetooth keyboards.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Are there any cool free 3D games on the OS X platform? I've been recently playing Urban Terror, which is a multiplayer FPS game built on Quake 3 engine, and runs across Mac/Linux/Windows. Are there more such games that are * *free *run on immersive 3D engine [not a Flash/HTML5 game] *belong to action-adventure/RPG/RTS/[insert your favorite] genre *possibly multi-platform [not must-have but a nice-to-have] Thanks! A: No discussion of free FPS games on the Macintosh can be complete without a link to Aleph One. And of course, there's that recruiting tool, America's Army. Version 2.5 was available for Mac OS X. I guess version 3 isn't being developed for Macintosh yet…

Q: Are there any cool free 3D games on the OS X platform? I've been recently playing Urban Terror, which is a multiplayer FPS game built on Quake 3 engine, and runs across Mac/Linux/Windows. Are there more such games that are * *free *run on immersive 3D engine [not a Flash/HTML5 game] *belong to action-adventure/RPG/RTS/[insert your favorite] genre *possibly multi-platform [not must-have but a nice-to-have] Thanks! A: No discussion of free FPS games on the Macintosh can be complete without a link to Aleph One. And of course, there's that recruiting tool, America's Army. Version 2.5 was available for Mac OS X. I guess version 3 isn't being developed for Macintosh yet…

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? A: NEW INFORMATION (2018) Please see this question on the relevant site, Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17748195/2684 tl;dr: there is no time restriction on how long you can reserve, but it’s not guaranteed. OUTDATED ANSWER I haven’t seen that option in the Apple Developer Program, but you can reserve a name. After you reserve it, you have 120 days to upload a binary (You have to create an app in the iTunes Connect system). After 90 days, you receive a notification from Apple, saying that you only have 30 days left to upload the app. Once the 120 days are past, "the app name will then be available for another developer to use.” I also believe that if you do not upload anything, bad things happen to your account, but I can’t verify this. Other than that, I haven’t seen a mechanism like “google” for name searching. (Apple might as well do that at some point!).

Q: Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? A: NEW INFORMATION (2018) Please see this question on the relevant site, Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17748195/2684 tl;dr: there is no time restriction on how long you can reserve, but it’s not guaranteed. OUTDATED ANSWER I haven’t seen that option in the Apple Developer Program, but you can reserve a name. After you reserve it, you have 120 days to upload a binary (You have to create an app in the iTunes Connect system). After 90 days, you receive a notification from Apple, saying that you only have 30 days left to upload the app. Once the 120 days are past, "the app name will then be available for another developer to use.” I also believe that if you do not upload anything, bad things happen to your account, but I can’t verify this. Other than that, I haven’t seen a mechanism like “google” for name searching. (Apple might as well do that at some point!). A: Yup, fire up your iTunes Connect account and try to create an app with the name you're looking for. Of course, that does limit you to 120 days before you must submit code...

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can Textmate nicely indent HTML? Does Textmate have a function to nicely indent HTML? HTML Tidy indents it - but it seems to delete tags as well. (This isn't completely proper HTML, but still!) <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/speechapi-1.1.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <body> <!-- All above disappears --> <p>Test</p> <!-- All below disappears--> </body> </html> A: You can press ⌘+A to select all then Text->Indent Selection.

Q: Can Textmate nicely indent HTML? Does Textmate have a function to nicely indent HTML? HTML Tidy indents it - but it seems to delete tags as well. (This isn't completely proper HTML, but still!) <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/speechapi-1.1.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <body> <!-- All above disappears --> <p>Test</p> <!-- All below disappears--> </body> </html> A: You can press ⌘+A to select all then Text->Indent Selection. A: You can use Bundles > HTML > Tidy or the shortcut ctrl+⇧+H. A: I'd like to point out something that crosses a bit the other answers: If you select the text that you wish to format (or reindent), TextMate will apply specific actions only to that. So, if you CMD+A your document and then apply Tidy (either from the Bundles > HTML menu or with the CTRL+SHIFT+H shortcut) it will mostly only do indenting, skipping alerts on validations (that sometimes are unnecessary since we might be working on page snippets). A: You can use Xcode or Dashcode instead if you install the Developer Tools. They come free on the install discs that came with your computer. I believe both Xcode and Dashcode have syntax highlighting. If you want really good software, get Coda. It is a bit pricey at $100, but I would definitely say it is worth it. It has syntax highlighting and (the big part for me) autocompletion. A: Yes. The Tidy call in TextMate's built-in HTML bundle can deal with your HTML. TextMate's Bundles -> HTML -> Tidy produces: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/swfobject.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/speechapi-1.1.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"> </script> </head> <body> <!-- All above disappears --> <p> Test </p><!-- All below disappears--> </body> </html> On your sample code. Nothing disappeared. You also get the following warnings: line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration line 2 column 5 - Warning: <body> isn't allowed in <head> elements line 1 column 1 - Warning: <html> proprietary attribute "xmlns:tal" line 1 column 1 - Warning: <html> proprietary attribute "xmlns:metal" A: The problem I experienced with the built-in Text -> Indent Selection or Tidy solution is that it doesn't play well with partial HTML code. This is for example important when editing in WordPress or working with partials in Ruby on Rails. The solution that worked for me was to add a command to the bundle with a custom Perl script by John Watson that I found here: http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id=28256

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Apple Stackexchange Q: application for iPhone to read bar codes I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that. Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too. A: Red Laser has just updated to read more types of barcode. Plus it's free.

Q: application for iPhone to read bar codes I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that. Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too. A: Red Laser has just updated to read more types of barcode. Plus it's free. A: I use RedLaser for "normal" codes and ZBar for QRCodes. These are the fastest and most stable I could find. Plus, they are both free.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to share a wi-fi connection over wi-fi? The problem is that here is a router (at a cottage), which only allows 2 connections. but we need wi-fi for 8 devices. so the plan is to create another wi-fi spot to share our connection. is there a tool or tutorial for that? A: In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a wired Internet source. So what you need to do is: * *Connect an Ethernet cable from the router (the wired source) to a Mac. *On that Mac, choose System Preferences > Sharing. *Select Internet Sharing. *Choose Ethernet from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu. *Select AirPort in the “To computers using” list, then click AirPort Options and give your network a name and password. *Connect the other computers to the new Wi-Fi network you just created. If needed, there are more details on this Apple help page: Sharing your Internet connection.

Q: Is there a way to share a wi-fi connection over wi-fi? The problem is that here is a router (at a cottage), which only allows 2 connections. but we need wi-fi for 8 devices. so the plan is to create another wi-fi spot to share our connection. is there a tool or tutorial for that? A: In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a wired Internet source. So what you need to do is: * *Connect an Ethernet cable from the router (the wired source) to a Mac. *On that Mac, choose System Preferences > Sharing. *Select Internet Sharing. *Choose Ethernet from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu. *Select AirPort in the “To computers using” list, then click AirPort Options and give your network a name and password. *Connect the other computers to the new Wi-Fi network you just created. If needed, there are more details on this Apple help page: Sharing your Internet connection. A: You could do it with the built-in Sharing feature (System Preferences->Sharing), but it would require two wifi cards in the device acting as the bridge. More broadly, to my knowledge, it isn't possible to share a connection in the way you are proposing with a single wifi card (though you could extend the signal, it would still be limited to the same number of connections as that is bring managed by the original access point). A: Yes you can use Internet sharing with a single WiFi connection. Just enable it from the System Preferences. (The previous poster is wrong. I did this at my Mom's house to allow iPad and iPhone use and it worked fine.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to disable sound when switching Firefox tabs with ⌘1-⌘9 I use the keyboard shortcut ⌘1-⌘9 to switch to tabs in Firefox. In OS X every time I do this there's a sound, which can become annoying when the volume is turned up. I looked in about:config for anything matching sound but wasn't able to figure it out. Does anyone know how to disable this sound? A: That’s certainly not a Firefox sound, at least not one that I’ve heard in the past. * *Do you have any Extension? Try disabling them all for the sake of testing. *Any other application running that could be using the same shortcut? (Safari uses that to access the quick bookmarks where ⌘1 corresponds to the 1st on the left (next to Top Sites) and so on. However, the lack of bookmark, doesn’t produce a sound on my system. I even have “Play User Interface sound effect” checked in Sound Preferences pane. My bet is that you have something else running and that is causing the “bonk”.

Q: How to disable sound when switching Firefox tabs with ⌘1-⌘9 I use the keyboard shortcut ⌘1-⌘9 to switch to tabs in Firefox. In OS X every time I do this there's a sound, which can become annoying when the volume is turned up. I looked in about:config for anything matching sound but wasn't able to figure it out. Does anyone know how to disable this sound? A: That’s certainly not a Firefox sound, at least not one that I’ve heard in the past. * *Do you have any Extension? Try disabling them all for the sake of testing. *Any other application running that could be using the same shortcut? (Safari uses that to access the quick bookmarks where ⌘1 corresponds to the 1st on the left (next to Top Sites) and so on. However, the lack of bookmark, doesn’t produce a sound on my system. I even have “Play User Interface sound effect” checked in Sound Preferences pane. My bet is that you have something else running and that is causing the “bonk”.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Connect iPod Touch to WiFi with hidden SSID is it possible to connect an iPod Touch to a WiFi network whose SSID is hidden? If so, how can this be achieved? Regards, Christoph A: If the SSID is hidden, that means you don’t see the network’s name, so the only way to connect is by manually typing the SSID. You have to select “Other” from the list of WiFi networks.

Q: Connect iPod Touch to WiFi with hidden SSID is it possible to connect an iPod Touch to a WiFi network whose SSID is hidden? If so, how can this be achieved? Regards, Christoph A: If the SSID is hidden, that means you don’t see the network’s name, so the only way to connect is by manually typing the SSID. You have to select “Other” from the list of WiFi networks. A: My wireless home network SSID is hidden, for obvious reasons, when I used my iPod Touch for the first time, I manually entered the SSID name and passcode, but I could not get connected. I have to go into my wireless router and enable SSID, that was the only way I could connect my iPod Touch. The problem is when I turn the iPod Touch off, and turn it back on, the iPod touch still won't see my SSID, after it's hidden again. Ex: if my iPod Touch is connected and I hid my SSID, no problem. When I turn my ipod off and on again, that's when it won't connect because my SSID is hidden. A: Go to Settings > WiFi > Other Enter the SSID of the hidden network A: Having the same issue but leaving the SSID visible seems to take care of that. The only real wireless security anyway is to have a MAC filter list so just go to settings on the IPOD and get it's MAC address to add to the filter list on your wireless router.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to use Regex with spotlight Possible Duplicate: How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? How could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains "Hello" in it's name? A: I’m assuming by “end with” you mean that files have the extension .jar or .doc. And given all those filenames, you want those who have “hello” in their filnames. With that in mind, you’re looking for something like this: (.jar AND “hello") OR (.doc AND “hello”) Additionally, you could extend the number of “words” by adding: (.jar AND “hello” OR “some_other_word") OR (.doc AND “hello”) For more ninja commands for Spotlight, your best bet is to read throughout this interesting doc from Apple, that’s the Spotlight’s Query Language documentation with lots of examples. Finally, if you want to know what attributes are available for you to query directly, refer to this blog post.

Q: How to use Regex with spotlight Possible Duplicate: How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? How could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains "Hello" in it's name? A: I’m assuming by “end with” you mean that files have the extension .jar or .doc. And given all those filenames, you want those who have “hello” in their filnames. With that in mind, you’re looking for something like this: (.jar AND “hello") OR (.doc AND “hello”) Additionally, you could extend the number of “words” by adding: (.jar AND “hello” OR “some_other_word") OR (.doc AND “hello”) For more ninja commands for Spotlight, your best bet is to read throughout this interesting doc from Apple, that’s the Spotlight’s Query Language documentation with lots of examples. Finally, if you want to know what attributes are available for you to query directly, refer to this blog post.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to get rid of firewall "accept incoming connections" dialog? I've accepted this so many times that firewall should already remember it. Do you want the application "AppName.app" to accept incoming network connections? Clicking Deny may limit the application's behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security preferences. Deny | Allow For example, I get it for Eclipse when starting my java programs in debugging mode. Sometimes this dialog is displayed only very shortly, like half second, and disappears. I also get it for iTunes (when I enable sharing my library), and other programs, even though I have them listed in Firewall preferences panel (adv. settings). A: sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /path/to/application.app I've never had to create a certificate using this method. If that doesn't help, try without --deep and without the trailing slash: sudo codesign --force --sign - /path/to/application.app Note, just to make it clearer: After having applied the signature, start the app, accept incoming connections one last time, then quit and start again to verify that the request is gone.

Q: How to get rid of firewall "accept incoming connections" dialog? I've accepted this so many times that firewall should already remember it. Do you want the application "AppName.app" to accept incoming network connections? Clicking Deny may limit the application's behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security preferences. Deny | Allow For example, I get it for Eclipse when starting my java programs in debugging mode. Sometimes this dialog is displayed only very shortly, like half second, and disappears. I also get it for iTunes (when I enable sharing my library), and other programs, even though I have them listed in Firewall preferences panel (adv. settings). A: sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /path/to/application.app I've never had to create a certificate using this method. If that doesn't help, try without --deep and without the trailing slash: sudo codesign --force --sign - /path/to/application.app Note, just to make it clearer: After having applied the signature, start the app, accept incoming connections one last time, then quit and start again to verify that the request is gone. A: While RedYeti's link is useful, just to save a few clicks for others let me recap how to generate a code-signing cert and to use it for code (re-)signing: * *Create your own code signing cert: * *In Keychain Access, Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Create a certificate. This launches the Certificate Assistant: *Name: Enter some arbitrary string here that you can remember. Avoid spaces otherwise you'll need to escape the cert's name when using codesign from the command line. *Identity type: Self Signed Root *Certificate Type: Code Signing *Check the box "Let me override defaults", this is quite important *Serial number: 1 (OK as long as the cert name/serial no. combination is unique) *Validity Period: 3650 (gives you 10 years) *Email, Name, etc. fill out as you wish. *Key pair info: set to RSA, 2048 bits. Does not really matter IMHO. *From "Key usage extension" up to "Subject Alternate Name Extension": accept the defaults. *Location: login keychain. *Once it is created, set to "Always trust" in the Login keychain: right-click on the certificate, choose "Get Info", and in the "Trust" section, set "When using this certificate" to "Always trust". *Re-signing an app: codesign -f --deep -s <certname> /path/to/app *Verify that it worked: codesign -dvvvv /path/to/app Enjoy! UPDATE: People asked me why this is "not working" in macOS 10.14 "Mojave". Now that I have finally upgraded :-), here's what I learned. Basically, don't use a self-signed certificate for code signing. Generate a certificate using your Apple ID in Xcode instead. To recap the steps briefly: In Xcode > Preferences > Accounts, select your Apple developer ID, click "Manage Certificates", select the "+" in the bottom left corner, it offers you the option "Apple Development". Select that, this will make a certificate for you. By Ctrl-clicking on the new certificate you can export it (in .p12 format), and by open-ing that .p12 file it gets loaded into your Login keychain. You will see that this certificate is valid for a year, "Issued by: Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority". I suspect that is trustworthier than a self-signed certificate. Now you can sign your app as before with codesign -f -s <apple_ID> /path/to/prog. I tried it with a simple binary (compiled from hello.c :-) ), and it could be verified with codesign -v. I haven't tried it with Python packages yet, so I have no advice to people who mentioned in their comments that this cannot sign "python.app". A: If you're programming in Go: http.ListenAndServe(“localhost:8080”, nil) Instead of: http.ListenAndServe(“:8080”, nil) A: Just a note though, if you are using a Virtual environment, be sure to sign the app that is being used for the environment. I know this is obvious, but needed to be said nevertheless. A: I got help in Sayan Mohsin's answer, and I believe it's more generic than go. I had this issue with a piece of software that does not need to allow connections from the outside, only from my machine. Such software does not need to be signed to avoid this warning: it only needs to explicitly listen on localhost only. Depending on your environment, setting a host restriction will be done differently. In my case, I was working with an nginx server, and changing its configuration from listen 8080 to listen 127.0.0.1:8080 was enough to fix it. If this is also your case, you should definitely check out if your server exposes a way to setup host restriction and set it up to localhost or 127.0.0.1. A: If you're looking for a way to disable this alert for the iOS Simulator, you can use this script from Tom Soderling: #!/bin/bash # Script to disable the iOS Simulator app from showing the "Do you want the application xxxx to accept incoming network connections?" pop-up every time the app is run echo "> Enter password to temporarily shut firewall off" sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate off echo "> Add Xcode as a firewall exception" /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode echo "> Add iOS Simulator as a firewall exception" /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Simulator echo "> Re-enable firewall" sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate on exit 0 Note that you have to run it again after every restart. You can do that with launchd by following these instructions. Be sure to specify this: <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key> <true/> A: There are two options here: * *You can simply select "Allow All" in your firewall, or simply turn it off. *You can remove the apps from the list, delete the plist file for those apps, run them, and then add them to the list. The plist is responsible for a lot of behaviors and I'm willing to bet either an upgrade to the OS or the app can cause the "link" to break. About plist files... A plist is a special kind of text file that contains properties the application and other resources, typically the OS, use to retain and reuse information needed to run the application. plist is a file type and has many uses, typically storing user preferences, but, essentially, it is an XML file. You can look to see if there are any caches, which are typically plist files, for the applications in question in /Library/Caches and /System/Library/Caches. There is also one in ~/Library/Caches/ but bad things can happen when mucking around in there, so just leave it alone. The system goes into those folders for a wide variety of reasons, and I usually clean out the first two folders I listed completely about once a month. A: This relates to whether the app is signed or not. If it's not signed, the preference won't be remembered. To see if an app is signed do this in Terminal: cd path/to/your/app codesign -vvv Eclipse.app/ For Eclipse - mine says it's not signed at all. I can't comment further on how to sign the app since I've not bothered to do that but this answer on superuser covers it: https://superuser.com/questions/100013/why-does-the-mac-os-x-firewall-dialog-recurringly-pop-up-and-disappear-by-itself#300841 A: I appreciate that this is an old Q & A, but it was the first hit on google for me when I had the same problem. Just wanted to add something for others that may land here. In order to execute any of the codesign commands outlined here, it is necessary to have the xcode command line tools installed. Without these, one gets an error message: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun To fix this, install the tools with: xcode-select install I would've commented on ahall's post, but I don't have the reputation points to do so. A: My situation involves two copies of Eclipse installed on MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. The first copy was authorised with the MacOS firewall. The second copy would always present the "accept incoming connections" prompt. Choosing "Accept" would continue to present the message after each reboot, apparently the firewall setting was not updated. The solution was to open MacOS System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall, unlock the screen, Firewall Options. Select Eclipse.app "Allow incoming connections" and remove it with the "-" button. The next time I selected "Allow" to the Eclipse "accept incoming connections" prompt was the last. A: The solution for me was to just disable the firewall completely. It's extremely common to create web-enabled pieces of software that are of course unsigned because you're compiling them natively. Open the spotlight with CMD + Spacebar and search "privacy" and select "Security and Privacy". Then switch to the "Firewall" tab and disable the firewall there. A: I got this dialogue box (Canon ccpd) everytime after starting my computer. Open firewall > security and privacy > unlock to enable changes > click on button "Enable stealth mode" > click button "Block all incoming connections". No more irrating dialogue box from Canon printer driver after that. A: I tried all the above in Mac 10.13 and nothing worked. In the end I wrote a script that ran at logout attached to login hook that turned off firewall so when logged in it no longer needed permission then using delayedlauncher ran another script that turned on firewall. All good now

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Spotlight loses index of Applications When I get warnings that my HD is nearly full (Macbook Air, 64GB SSD), spotlight always loses its index of applications. That means that I can't launch Safari or Mail or other apps, which is the only thing I use Spotlight for. Only restarting helps to resolve this. Is there a way to force Spotlight to reindex the Application folder? A: This happens whenever I erase the free space on my hard drive (probably for the same reason -- that process creates a big file that eats up all the free space, then overwrites it, creating a low space condition in the process). Typing this command at the terminal: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name_Goes_Here will rebuild your index. Substitute your own disk's volume name in the obvious place.

Q: Spotlight loses index of Applications When I get warnings that my HD is nearly full (Macbook Air, 64GB SSD), spotlight always loses its index of applications. That means that I can't launch Safari or Mail or other apps, which is the only thing I use Spotlight for. Only restarting helps to resolve this. Is there a way to force Spotlight to reindex the Application folder? A: This happens whenever I erase the free space on my hard drive (probably for the same reason -- that process creates a big file that eats up all the free space, then overwrites it, creating a low space condition in the process). Typing this command at the terminal: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name_Goes_Here will rebuild your index. Substitute your own disk's volume name in the obvious place. A: Another alternative is to just have Spotlight delete it's index which will cause it to create a new one: sudo mdutil -E / If that fails to work, toggling Spotlight on the drive in question will work: sudo mdutil -i off / sudo mdutil -i on / Change / to the path to the external hard drive if appropriate. A: You could drag your application folder to the “Privacy” tab and a few moments later remove it, that ought to cause a reindexing. Maybe unchecking it and re-checking “Applications” also does the same, but I’m not sure about the later. If any attempt to do that fails, you might want to create a fresh index following these instructions. That usually clears any spotlight problems. Also, running so low in disk space is never a good idea, try to make some room for the sake of your OS stability. That is also the reason why restarting fixes it, because when you restart, temp stuff gets deleted and there’s more “room” to play with in your HDD. As you start using your drive, the free space is less, and services start to fail.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone. Is that possible? A: As far as I know, although both iTunes and the iPhone/Pad check automatically for updates, you have to manually start the process. Yes, I know it’s a bad idea, because we almost always click “download all”. Even if you tell iTunes to remember your password, it won’t start the download automatically whenever there are updates. I have been looking for a way to do this since the iPhone 1G and haven’t come across a solution yet.

Q: How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone. Is that possible? A: As far as I know, although both iTunes and the iPhone/Pad check automatically for updates, you have to manually start the process. Yes, I know it’s a bad idea, because we almost always click “download all”. Even if you tell iTunes to remember your password, it won’t start the download automatically whenever there are updates. I have been looking for a way to do this since the iPhone 1G and haven’t come across a solution yet.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client? I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter. $ cd etc $ grep + /etc/auto_master +auto_master # Use directory service $ ypcat -k auto_master No such map auto_master. Reason: Request arguments bad $ ypwhich can't clntudp_create: Can't communicate with ypbind P.S. I would like to create a new NIS tag, but I can't yet. I found this: still trying it: https://superuser.com/questions/163807/setting-up-nis-nfs-on-mac-os-10-6 Not sure if I need to reboot after using DirectoryUtility.app A: I just set the domain name once as root (using sudo) and launchd has launched ypbind for me ever since. The man pages for yp and ypbind might come in handy. Is /etc/defaultdomain set? You could issue a ypbind -ypset to see if any servers are responding but it's better to have a list of masters and slaves laid out in /private/var/yp/binding/DOMAINNAME.ypservers

Q: How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client? I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter. $ cd etc $ grep + /etc/auto_master +auto_master # Use directory service $ ypcat -k auto_master No such map auto_master. Reason: Request arguments bad $ ypwhich can't clntudp_create: Can't communicate with ypbind P.S. I would like to create a new NIS tag, but I can't yet. I found this: still trying it: https://superuser.com/questions/163807/setting-up-nis-nfs-on-mac-os-10-6 Not sure if I need to reboot after using DirectoryUtility.app A: I just set the domain name once as root (using sudo) and launchd has launched ypbind for me ever since. The man pages for yp and ypbind might come in handy. Is /etc/defaultdomain set? You could issue a ypbind -ypset to see if any servers are responding but it's better to have a list of masters and slaves laid out in /private/var/yp/binding/DOMAINNAME.ypservers

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I get Automator to mount a network volume? I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures). I automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default. Is there a way to mount the volumes in Automator? I am open to shell scripting, too. Thanks! A: I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions. 1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this. 2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers).

Q: How can I get Automator to mount a network volume? I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures). I automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default. Is there a way to mount the volumes in Automator? I am open to shell scripting, too. Thanks! A: I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions. 1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this. 2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers). A: I use the following applescript to mount directories in conjunction with MarcoPolo so network shares are automatically mounted when I get to both my office and home. You'll need to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, SERVER/SHARENAME and possibly smb:// depending on your server type. tell application "Finder" try mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER/SHARENAME" delay 1 end try end tell UPDATE: An option without MarcoPolo: You can ping the server first and only try to connect if you get a response. You can then add this script into your Login Items (Let's say you are trying to connect to a server named "some_server") -- (0) Check to see if there server exists by pinging it set max_retry to 60 set k to 0 repeat while (do shell script "ping -c 1 some_server") contains "100% packet loss" delay 5 set k to k + 1 if k > max_retry then error "Server is not responding for predefined period." number 8000 end repeat -- (1) It exists, mount the volume tell application "Finder" try mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@some_server/SHARENAME" delay 1 --Optional, was added due to slow network issues end try end tell

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What does the "i" in Apple product names mean? iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the "i" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple? A: When Steve Jobs first introduced the iMac in 1998, he proclaimed that the i stood for Internet. Jobs went on to say, "i also means some other things to us" and displayed a presentation slide with the keywords: internet individual instruct inform inspire You can even view video of this event. The "i" was first used on the iBook and iMac. These were produced as Steve Jobs wanted a pro and consumer model of a desktop and portable computer. This later rolled out with more products, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Yes the products are trademarked, but using an "i" itself before a product is not trademarked and it cannot be. Here is Apple's trademark list

Q: What does the "i" in Apple product names mean? iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the "i" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple? A: When Steve Jobs first introduced the iMac in 1998, he proclaimed that the i stood for Internet. Jobs went on to say, "i also means some other things to us" and displayed a presentation slide with the keywords: internet individual instruct inform inspire You can even view video of this event. The "i" was first used on the iBook and iMac. These were produced as Steve Jobs wanted a pro and consumer model of a desktop and portable computer. This later rolled out with more products, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Yes the products are trademarked, but using an "i" itself before a product is not trademarked and it cannot be. Here is Apple's trademark list A: I asked a rep at the Apple store. They said that it stood for Internet, on the first iMac.(As others have answered.) Now it is just a brand. A: The whole idea of the first iMac was that you take it out of the box, plug in the power, and then plug in the modem with a phone line. Internet access made easy. The "i" stood for internet. A: According to Wikipedia (for the iMac at least): Apple declared the 'i' in iMac to stand for "Internet"; it also represents the product's focus as a personal device ('i' for "individual"). A: It's the I as in me. It means that these things somehow empower you. A: In technology, the i-word is frequently related to "innovation". So the "i" in iphone could mean "innovative." Berkun, S. (2010). The Myths of Innovation (First ed., pp. 1-82). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use my Mac to re-create an inverted audio noise cancellation effect? I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction. Is there a program able to do this? A: Audacity can do this as far as I know. There is a White Noise generator, and under the Effects menu there is a "Noise Removal" option. I don't know if you can do it in realtime, but you could make a short recording of the ambient noise, run the Noise Removal, figure out what got removed (subtract before and after), and then play that part but inverted. Maybe....

Q: Can I use my Mac to re-create an inverted audio noise cancellation effect? I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction. Is there a program able to do this? A: Audacity can do this as far as I know. There is a White Noise generator, and under the Effects menu there is a "Noise Removal" option. I don't know if you can do it in realtime, but you could make a short recording of the ambient noise, run the Noise Removal, figure out what got removed (subtract before and after), and then play that part but inverted. Maybe.... A: This is not possible because the inverted noise would be picked by the computer mic and "attenuated" again and again causing a very noisy feedback, like an electric guitar near the speaker. Noise canceling headphones have mic separated from speakers.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Spotlight: Don't Index a Volume Is it possible to ask Spotlight to not index a volume ? A: Yes, open the Spotlight prefpane and under the Confidentiality tab (not sure, but on my French system it is called "Confidentialité"), you can add folders and volumes not to be indexed.

Q: Spotlight: Don't Index a Volume Is it possible to ask Spotlight to not index a volume ? A: Yes, open the Spotlight prefpane and under the Confidentiality tab (not sure, but on my French system it is called "Confidentialité"), you can add folders and volumes not to be indexed. A: There are a variety of options to do this: * *Add the drive to the "Privacy" tab in the Spotlight Preference Pane *Turn off Spotlight indexing for the site from the command line: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE *touch /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE/.metadata_never_index on an external drive. A: If it's a removable volume, create a file in its root directory called .metadata_never_index, as in this hint.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Using my current 3G Sim with the iPad I'm thinking of buying an iPad at some point, the one with 3G. I also have a 3G dongle that I'm not really using at the moment and wish to use on the iPad. I understand that it's a MicroSim, and I can chop my SIM down, but are there any 3G sim locks on the iPad itself? The only thing I think I'll need to find out is the 3G settings (if it isn't locked). I'm in the UK and I have an orange contract. So am I right in thinking that if the iPad is not locked to a certain 3G network, I can use this? Thanks A: The iPad with 3G is sold unlocked. In the UK, the iPad with 3G will work with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone. To be pedantic, the iPad's 3G connection will not work with carriers such as T-Mobile USA, which in part uses the 1700 MHz frequency for 3G. The iPad with 3G supports the necessary frequencies to fully work in the UK with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone, and SIMs from these carriers can be swapped seamlessly.

Q: Using my current 3G Sim with the iPad I'm thinking of buying an iPad at some point, the one with 3G. I also have a 3G dongle that I'm not really using at the moment and wish to use on the iPad. I understand that it's a MicroSim, and I can chop my SIM down, but are there any 3G sim locks on the iPad itself? The only thing I think I'll need to find out is the 3G settings (if it isn't locked). I'm in the UK and I have an orange contract. So am I right in thinking that if the iPad is not locked to a certain 3G network, I can use this? Thanks A: The iPad with 3G is sold unlocked. In the UK, the iPad with 3G will work with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone. To be pedantic, the iPad's 3G connection will not work with carriers such as T-Mobile USA, which in part uses the 1700 MHz frequency for 3G. The iPad with 3G supports the necessary frequencies to fully work in the UK with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone, and SIMs from these carriers can be swapped seamlessly.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there anything faster than Veency for iPhone? I want to be able to control an iPhone with a PC or Mac—that is, see the iPhone's screen on a computer and control it with my mouse—via either USB or wireless. Are there any solutions faster than VNC Veency? Veency's frame rate isn't good enough, and I need it to show 16-bit color. A: I've tried Veency on both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and that looks to be the fastest possible speed to get out of it. Unless someone rewrites Veency or writes another VNC server, it looks doubtful that speed would get any better. I've relegated myself to either looking at the iPhone's screen while typing, or pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone. Edit: If you don't mind looking at the iPhone's screen, you could try iSynergyClient, the Synergy+ client for iPhone. Right now it only has mouse support, keyboard support is still in development.

Q: Is there anything faster than Veency for iPhone? I want to be able to control an iPhone with a PC or Mac—that is, see the iPhone's screen on a computer and control it with my mouse—via either USB or wireless. Are there any solutions faster than VNC Veency? Veency's frame rate isn't good enough, and I need it to show 16-bit color. A: I've tried Veency on both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and that looks to be the fastest possible speed to get out of it. Unless someone rewrites Veency or writes another VNC server, it looks doubtful that speed would get any better. I've relegated myself to either looking at the iPhone's screen while typing, or pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone. Edit: If you don't mind looking at the iPhone's screen, you could try iSynergyClient, the Synergy+ client for iPhone. Right now it only has mouse support, keyboard support is still in development. A: There is a new Cydia app, called Display Recorder. Beside screen recording, it has a local web client, with the abilily to stream live view almost flawlessly. You can buy it from the BigBoss repo for $4,99. You stream by opening the Display Recorder app itself, enable web server with the bottom left button, type the url that shows up in a browser on the PC, and select Live View option (while being on the same wifi of cource). It will even add touch and hardware button simulation right away, but sadly no keyboard support, so you'll need to open a VNC client too in the background, possibly set its refresh rate to never, and here you go. Most probably you can even set your video card to rotate the screen to align with the iPhone screen if you prefer landscape.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is possible to use a Micro SIM in iPhone 3GS? I want to use my old iPhone 3GS, but don't want to pay another plan for the occasional use. A: You'd need an adapter like this one to make it fit, but it should work.

Q: Is possible to use a Micro SIM in iPhone 3GS? I want to use my old iPhone 3GS, but don't want to pay another plan for the occasional use. A: You'd need an adapter like this one to make it fit, but it should work.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Downloading voicemail to my laptop How can I download my voicemail from the iPhone to my computer? Technically, I know it is not voicemail on the iPhone - it is in ATT's phone system but you knew what I meant. How can I download my ATT voicemail from the iPhone/iTunes to my computer? A: I use an app called "iExplorer" (formerly iPhone Explorer). It basically lets you reach into the phone to download, modify, replace, or add a file in any (or almost any) directory within the file structure. http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

Q: Downloading voicemail to my laptop How can I download my voicemail from the iPhone to my computer? Technically, I know it is not voicemail on the iPhone - it is in ATT's phone system but you knew what I meant. How can I download my ATT voicemail from the iPhone/iTunes to my computer? A: I use an app called "iExplorer" (formerly iPhone Explorer). It basically lets you reach into the phone to download, modify, replace, or add a file in any (or almost any) directory within the file structure. http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ A: You can't do it in iTunes, and you have to be jailbroken to do it. Here's a good tutorial. * *Jailbreak phone *Install OpenSSH from Cydia *Install CyberDuck (or another SSH program) to your computer *SSH into your iPhone from the computer (here's how) *Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/ *Copy the desired .amr files A: Or use Google voice and you can get them through the browser or emailed to you. A: I use Phone View for this purpose and it works flawlessly. You do not have to jailbreak your phone for it to work. A: There is another way. Per this instructables an iTunes backup of the iPhone contains the voicemail files in these folders: * *~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ Mac *\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ Windows XP *\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ Vista and Windows 7 However, the bad news is that these voicemail files are mixed in with a ton of other random files from your iPhone, and all the files have long, meaningless filenames with no extensions. To determine what the files are, use the file * command. Note that the backup must not be encrypted for this approach to work. file * | grep audio file * | grep GSM (on Windows install Cygwin and use the Cygwin terminal to get the file command) The two file contents that seem likely are RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 44100 Hz Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec (GSM telephony) A: I have a Google Voice number that I just forward important voicemails to. To do this in a typical voicemail system, you'd press 6 for more options, then 2 to forward it. You can keep them in your Google account pretty much as long as you want, or you can simply download them at will. I hope this is helpful.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why don't my arrow keys work in vim under iTerm? They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement. In both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My .vimrc is quite lean and there are no key bindings set in there that would causing this problem. iTerm v0.10. A: The following worked for me. In iTerm2: * *Profiles -> Open Profiles... *Edit Profiles... *Keys tab *From Load Preset... drop-down, pick Terminal.app compatibility

Q: Why don't my arrow keys work in vim under iTerm? They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement. In both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My .vimrc is quite lean and there are no key bindings set in there that would causing this problem. iTerm v0.10. A: The following worked for me. In iTerm2: * *Profiles -> Open Profiles... *Edit Profiles... *Keys tab *From Load Preset... drop-down, pick Terminal.app compatibility A: Try the following: * *From the Bookmarks menu item, select Manage Bookmarks.... *Choose the Default bookmark and click the edit icon. *Change the Keyboard setting to Global. A: This is how I fixed: nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[A <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[B <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[D <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[C <Nop> Note: The "^[" characters must not be typed, instead you get them by doing: ⌃-V and pressing the corresponding cursor arrow position (up,down,left,right). Tested with: iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140629) A: I was able to get this sorted out with iTerm2 Build 3.0.15 and the following excerpt from my .vimrc: " Map alternate key combination for Esc. noremap <c-[> <Esc> " Map arrow keys for nomal mode. nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Up>A <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Down>B <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Right>C <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Left>D <Nop> HTH. A: The fastest (and probably best) way to solve this is to switch iterm profile keymapping to "Natural editing" preset. * *Go to preferences *Go to profiles *Go to keys *Go to keymappings *From preset dropdown select natural editing preset

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What does the plus sign next to the price of an app in the App Store mean? There is often a plus sign in the upper left corner of the price button for an app. Even some free apps have this plus sign. A: It means that it is a universal app, able to run on the iPad and iPhone.

Q: What does the plus sign next to the price of an app in the App Store mean? There is often a plus sign in the upper left corner of the price button for an app. Even some free apps have this plus sign. A: It means that it is a universal app, able to run on the iPad and iPhone. A: It means there are in-app purchases available under that app. You can turn that feature off under your General Settings, Restrictions.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can iPhone be used when wearing gloves? In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses. What are the limitations of how iPhone can be controlled? How can it be used by a person wearing gloves? A: Another solution is to use special stylus like this: http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

Q: How can iPhone be used when wearing gloves? In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses. What are the limitations of how iPhone can be controlled? How can it be used by a person wearing gloves? A: Another solution is to use special stylus like this: http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php A: Here you'll find a list of 11 different gloves to use with your iPhone... A: You can buy conductive thread and then weave the thread into any pair gloves that you own. There's a really overview of what conductive thread is and more information of the different types here: http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/conductive-thread-overview, and there is instructions on how to do this along with a video demo here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-A-Glove-Work-With-A-Touch-Screen/ A: I like these lambswool gloves by Dots. I imagine they use some sort of conductive thread woven in the fabric, and they're quite affordable at $15.50 to $20. A: The screen is a capacitive touch device so it depends on a conductive item contacting it. A number of companies have produced gloves with appropriately conductive finger pads. A: You could be like the South Koreans and use sausages.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Rotated PDF Doesn't Save State? For some strange reason, when I rotate a PDF using the trackpad (Two finger multi-touch rotation gesture.), there's no option to save it and all changes are lost after I close it. (The save button is grayed out.) What am I doing wrong? A: ... Never mind. Apparently rotating using the trackpad of a PDF in Preview is just for cosmetic purposes. You have to rotate using +L or +R or within the Apple-bar menu. Only after that, the save option will be available. :| Strange.

Q: Rotated PDF Doesn't Save State? For some strange reason, when I rotate a PDF using the trackpad (Two finger multi-touch rotation gesture.), there's no option to save it and all changes are lost after I close it. (The save button is grayed out.) What am I doing wrong? A: ... Never mind. Apparently rotating using the trackpad of a PDF in Preview is just for cosmetic purposes. You have to rotate using +L or +R or within the Apple-bar menu. Only after that, the save option will be available. :| Strange. A: Like you said, using + L and +R seems to modify the PDF in place. But if you use the rotation gesture on the trackpad, and use Save As, it will save the PDF with the pages rotated.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use my iPhone as a fax machine modem using the Bluetooth connection? I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac. I can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone. I'm not interested in sending faxes over email and I'm not interested in downloading an app to the iPhone that will send faxes over the internet. I'm interested in using my iPhone as my fax machine modem and printing from my Mac. Anyone know how can I do this? A: I tried to find a solution to do this about a week ago, and found that if you're in the US with a non-jailbroken phone, you just can't. Yeah, it annoyed me, too. There are a number of different Bluetooth profiles; here's Apple's list of Supported Bluetooth profiles. No faxing on there, dammit.

Q: Can I use my iPhone as a fax machine modem using the Bluetooth connection? I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac. I can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone. I'm not interested in sending faxes over email and I'm not interested in downloading an app to the iPhone that will send faxes over the internet. I'm interested in using my iPhone as my fax machine modem and printing from my Mac. Anyone know how can I do this? A: I tried to find a solution to do this about a week ago, and found that if you're in the US with a non-jailbroken phone, you just can't. Yeah, it annoyed me, too. There are a number of different Bluetooth profiles; here's Apple's list of Supported Bluetooth profiles. No faxing on there, dammit.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: "Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space. Any ideas as to how I can partition my drive? Clarification: this is my laptop's internal drive- the one I boot from. I can't boot normally and partition with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. A: Ok, solution found on an old superuser question, posting here for posterity. I just needed to defrag the thing I got Coriolis iDefrag. I ran that on the compact setting (required restarting into it's own special mode, but no disk burning was needed). A few hours later I tried to resize the partition and it worked fine.

Q: "Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space. Any ideas as to how I can partition my drive? Clarification: this is my laptop's internal drive- the one I boot from. I can't boot normally and partition with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. A: Ok, solution found on an old superuser question, posting here for posterity. I just needed to defrag the thing I got Coriolis iDefrag. I ran that on the compact setting (required restarting into it's own special mode, but no disk burning was needed). A few hours later I tried to resize the partition and it worked fine. A: Assuming you're booting from the install disk and not your boot volume: Try making the new partition even smaller the first time... like 20 GB. If it completes successfully, you can usually go back and resize the main partition again to a smaller size. So the second time, you would delete the new partition and add the final 40GB partition (shrinking the boot partition by an additional 20GB). Not sure why this happens, but I'm usually able to do it this way. A: You may be getting the 'not enough space' error since there isn't enough space to hold some files while the reformat is going on. I think to be able to do the format like this, you would have to have at least another 125GB free (to basically store all the other data you are currently using) A: Wipe free space, and then try repartitioning. I'm sure that's all the defrag did that mattered.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to close apps in iphone 4? Possible Duplicate: iOS 4 - can I close and app without it staying open in the background? From what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it. So how can I make sure that all the unwanted apps are closed, so that the memory can be reused? A: You have two options to close an app: * *With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to wiggle, and press the minus icon in the top left corner of the app you want to close. *With the application in the foreground, you can hold down the power key until the "slide to power off" option appears, and then hold down the home button until the the application quits. The first option is faster.

Q: How to close apps in iphone 4? Possible Duplicate: iOS 4 - can I close and app without it staying open in the background? From what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it. So how can I make sure that all the unwanted apps are closed, so that the memory can be reused? A: You have two options to close an app: * *With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to wiggle, and press the minus icon in the top left corner of the app you want to close. *With the application in the foreground, you can hold down the power key until the "slide to power off" option appears, and then hold down the home button until the the application quits. The first option is faster.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. A: Not a direct answer to your question, but you can also use "Suspicious Package", a QuickLook plug-in for Finder, to see what files a package installed: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ Depending on what files were installed where, you may be able to find them in Finder and drag to the trash; otherwise you may have to go into Terminal and rm around.

Q: Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. A: Not a direct answer to your question, but you can also use "Suspicious Package", a QuickLook plug-in for Finder, to see what files a package installed: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ Depending on what files were installed where, you may be able to find them in Finder and drag to the trash; otherwise you may have to go into Terminal and rm around. A: For the most part, Mac applications don't have uninstallers because they're rarely needed. You can almost always just toss the undesired offender into your trash. A: I recommend you try something like AppZapper ($) or AppCleaner (Freeware). There are others that work similarly.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Make an iPhone appear as different model? Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)? A: Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a plist file somewhere in the OS. Either way, this forum is really not the place the find the answer to that question(nor do I think SO is either). You probably should head over to one of the myriad iPhone jailbreak forum. Searching "iPhone jailbreak forum" in Google brings up a whole host of them.

Q: Make an iPhone appear as different model? Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)? A: Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a plist file somewhere in the OS. Either way, this forum is really not the place the find the answer to that question(nor do I think SO is either). You probably should head over to one of the myriad iPhone jailbreak forum. Searching "iPhone jailbreak forum" in Google brings up a whole host of them.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: The Battery Life Span of iPhone 4 I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal? A: Yes, this is normal. If we assume that actively using your iPhone 4 for 30 minutes consumes 5% of its battery life, then you can use it actively for 10 hours. The iPhone 4 supports up to 10 hours of uninterrupted video playback OR up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G OR up to 6 hours of Internet use on 3G, for example. Your experience with your iPhone 4 sounds reasonable.

Q: The Battery Life Span of iPhone 4 I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal? A: Yes, this is normal. If we assume that actively using your iPhone 4 for 30 minutes consumes 5% of its battery life, then you can use it actively for 10 hours. The iPhone 4 supports up to 10 hours of uninterrupted video playback OR up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G OR up to 6 hours of Internet use on 3G, for example. Your experience with your iPhone 4 sounds reasonable.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when editing the movie. Is there any application that does this? A: Not sure which specific screencast you're speaking of, but they may be using Keycastr.

Q: Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when editing the movie. Is there any application that does this? A: Not sure which specific screencast you're speaking of, but they may be using Keycastr. A: For the sake of completeness: Boinx Software's Mouseposé does this (and a lot more) as well ($17).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: "say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) A: For Mac OS X 10.7, Swedish works pretty well by just downloading the Swedish voices using Preferences->System Voice->Customize and setting either as System Voice. It neatly nails even pretty peculiar Swedish words and spellings. No guarantee for other languages.

Q: "say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) A: For Mac OS X 10.7, Swedish works pretty well by just downloading the Swedish voices using Preferences->System Voice->Customize and setting either as System Voice. It neatly nails even pretty peculiar Swedish words and spellings. No guarantee for other languages. A: As far as I know the only way to get a Mac to speak in another language is to get voice resources in your target language. A web site for French blind people recommends iVox. Sorry, no Slovak there I can see. A: Lion has many more voices, including Czech (Zuzana) and Slovak voice (Laura)! A: You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices: say -v \? On my system the output looks like this with the voice name followed by the language abbreviation (I removed the comments): Agnes en_US Albert en_US Alex en_US Alice it_IT Alva sv_SE Amelie fr_CA Anna de_DE Bad News Bahh en_US Bells en_US Boing en_US Bruce en_US Bubbles en_US Carmit he_IL Cellos en_US Damayanti id_ID Daniel en_GB Deranged en_US Diego es_AR Ellen nl_BE Fiona en-scotland Fred en_US Good News Hysterical en_US Ioana ro_RO Joana pt_PT Junior en_US Kanya th_TH Karen en_AU Kathy en_US Kyoko ja_JP Laura sk_SK Lekha hi_IN Luciana pt_BR Maged ar_SA Mariska hu_HU Mei-Jia zh_TW Melina el_GR Milena ru_RU Moira en_IE Monica es_ES Nora nb_NO Paulina es_MX Pipe Organ Princess en_US Ralph en_US Samantha en_US Sara da_DK Satu fi_FI Sin-ji zh_HK Tessa en_ZA Thomas fr_FR Ting-Ting zh_CN Trinoids en_US Veena en_IN Vicki en_US Victoria en_US Whisper en_US Xander nl_NL Yelda tr_TR Yuna ko_KR Zarvox en_US Zosia pl_PL Zuzana cs_CZ This is an example on how to use say with a german voice, as suggested by scottishwildcat in the comments: say -v Anna 'Guten Tag!' In case you want to hear the example list, you can copy this for loop into your terminal, which will result in all installed voices speaking a text example: say -v \? | while read LINE do SPEAKER=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o "^[a-zA-Z\-]*[ ]?[A-Z][a-z]+") TEXT=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o "#.*" | tr "#" " ") echo $SPEAKER echo -ne "This is voice $SPEAKER speaking the example text: \n" $TEXT | say -v $SPEAKER done A: The voices included in Mac OS X 10.6 are optimized for english only. Even if you set your system language to anything different, it won’t work, because it will try to read with english pronunciation, causing funny wordings. Try saying “Hola” for spanish and you’ll see how it says: “hooola” as an english speaking person would read it. A: It might be a bit hard to find the international for OS X Lion, this shows how... http://www.litebeam.net/litebeam/read4me/voices.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RUI5d5L_wr8 A: Yes, with macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, several languages are pre-installed to be used with the say command in the terminal. You can check for the available voices in System Preferences > Accessibility. In the left pane, select Spoken content. From the System Voice drop-down menu, you can see the list of already installed voices. You can change here the default voice. Select Customise to add more voices and more languages. You can pre-hear these voices by clicking on the voice name and then clicking the Play button. Once you select new voices, click on OK and they will be downloaded. It might take a few minutes. You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices: say -v'?' On my computer, this command outputs: Alex en_US # Most people recognize me by my voice. Alice it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Alice e sono una voce italiana. Alva sv_SE # Hej, jag heter Alva. Jag är en svensk röst. Amelie fr_CA # Bonjour, je m’appelle Amelie. Je suis une voix canadienne. Anna de_DE # Hallo, ich heiße Anna und ich bin eine deutsche Stimme. Audrey fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Audrey. Je suis une voix française. Aurelie fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Aurelie. Je suis une voix française. Carmit he_IL # שלום. קוראים לי כרמית, ואני קול בשפה העברית. Damayanti id_ID # Halo, nama saya Damayanti. Saya berbahasa Indonesia. Daniel en_GB # Hello, my name is Daniel. I am a British-English voice. Diego es_AR # Hola, me llamo Diego y soy una voz española. Ellen nl_BE # Hallo, mijn naam is Ellen. Ik ben een Belgische stem. Fiona en-scotland # Hello, my name is Fiona. I am a Scottish-English voice. Fred en_US # I sure like being inside this fancy computer Ioana ro_RO # Bună, mă cheamă Ioana . Sunt o voce românească. Joana pt_PT # Olá, chamo-me Joana e dou voz ao português falado em Portugal. Jorge es_ES # Hola, me llamo Jorge y soy una voz española. Juan es_MX # Hola, me llamo Juan y soy una voz mexicana. Kanya th_TH # สวัสดีค่ะ ดิฉันชื่อKanya Karen en_AU # Hello, my name is Karen. I am an Australian-English voice. Kate en_GB # Hello, my name is Kate. I am a British-English voice. Kyoko ja_JP # こんにちは、私の名前はKyokoです。日本語の音声をお届けします。 Laura sk_SK # Ahoj. Volám sa Laura . Som hlas v slovenskom jazyku. Lekha hi_IN # नमस्कार, मेरा नाम लेखा है. मैं हिन्दी में बोलने वाली आवाज़ हूँ. Luca it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Luca e sono una voce italiana. Luciana pt_BR # Olá, o meu nome é Luciana e a minha voz corresponde ao português que é falado no Brasil Maged ar_SA # مرحبًا اسمي Maged. أنا عربي من السعودية. Mariska hu_HU # Üdvözlöm! Mariska vagyok. Én vagyok a magyar hang. Mei-Jia zh_TW # 您好，我叫美佳。我說國語。 Melina el_GR # Γεια σας, ονομάζομαι Melina. Είμαι μια ελληνική φωνή. Milena ru_RU # Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Я – русский голос системы. Moira en_IE # Hello, my name is Moira. I am an Irish-English voice. Monica es_ES # Hola, me llamo Monica y soy una voz española. Nora nb_NO # Hei, jeg heter Nora. Jeg er en norsk stemme. Paulina es_MX # Hola, me llamo Paulina y soy una voz mexicana. Rishi en_IN # Hello, my name is Rishi. I am an Indian-English voice. Samantha en_US # Hello, my name is Samantha. I am an American-English voice. Sara da_DK # Hej, jeg hedder Sara. Jeg er en dansk stemme. Satu fi_FI # Hei, minun nimeni on Satu. Olen suomalainen ääni. Serena en_GB # Hello, my name is Serena. I am a British-English voice. Sin-ji zh_HK # 您好，我叫 Sin-ji。我講廣東話。 Tessa en_ZA # Hello, my name is Tessa. I am a South African-English voice. Thomas fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Thomas. Je suis une voix française. Ting-Ting zh_CN # 您好，我叫Ting-Ting。我讲中文普通话。 Veena en_IN # Hello, my name is Veena. I am an Indian-English voice. Victoria en_US # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you? Xander nl_NL # Hallo, mijn naam is Xander. Ik ben een Nederlandse stem. Yelda tr_TR # Merhaba, benim adım Yelda. Ben Türkçe bir sesim. Yuna ko_KR # 안녕하세요. 제 이름은 Yuna입니다. 저는 한국어 음성입니다. Yuri ru_RU # Здравствуйте, меня зовут Yuri. Я – русский голос системы. Zosia pl_PL # Witaj. Mam na imię Zosia, jestem głosem kobiecym dla języka polskiego. Zuzana cs_CZ # Dobrý den, jmenuji se Zuzana. Jsem český hlas. (partially taken from https://maithegeek.medium.com/having-fun-in-macos-with-say-command-d4a0d3319668)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to format the OS X installer USB stick that comes with MacBook Air? When you purchase a new MacBook Air they give you a mini-USB drive that is used to reinstall OS X and iLife '11. How can I format this USB stick and put whatever I want on it? The option to format is not available in Disc Utility and the USB stick mounts as a CD. Note: I realize what the disk is used for and what Apple says on their FAQ. My question isn't "What do you think about formatting the USB?" it is "How can I format the USB?" The answer may be that it is impossible. A: From Apple's MacBook Air: Frequently Asked Questions about Software Reinstall Drive: Note: The MacBook Air Software Reinstall Drive is read only. You cannot erase it, reformat it, or reuse it as a general purpose USB storage device. Honestly, thumb drives are dirt cheap these days—why would you want to lose your only way to reinstall your OS?

Q: How to format the OS X installer USB stick that comes with MacBook Air? When you purchase a new MacBook Air they give you a mini-USB drive that is used to reinstall OS X and iLife '11. How can I format this USB stick and put whatever I want on it? The option to format is not available in Disc Utility and the USB stick mounts as a CD. Note: I realize what the disk is used for and what Apple says on their FAQ. My question isn't "What do you think about formatting the USB?" it is "How can I format the USB?" The answer may be that it is impossible. A: From Apple's MacBook Air: Frequently Asked Questions about Software Reinstall Drive: Note: The MacBook Air Software Reinstall Drive is read only. You cannot erase it, reformat it, or reuse it as a general purpose USB storage device. Honestly, thumb drives are dirt cheap these days—why would you want to lose your only way to reinstall your OS? A: It most definitely is possible to reformat these drives and they are awesome 8GB USB ThumbDrives, once you do. However, I did it by accident, playing with the partition tables in Mac OS X Terminal (Command Line) and haven't replicated the process yet. If this sounds too good to be true, check out this little video, I just posted to YouTube: MacBook Air Software Reinstall Drive - HACKED

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Trigger an Automator action with a sound Is there any way to trigger an Automator action with a sound? I'd like to be able to record a sound and trigger an action every time my computer's microphone receives the sound. A: Mac OS X comes with speech recognition (check System Preferences > Speech panel) but it can't easily recognize a generic sound, only built-in commands. Now, it is possible to make an automator action or script that is triggered by an arbitrary phrase. However, if by "sound" you mean a beep, blip, crash or other sound that can't be recognized as a string of phonemes (ie. speech in english or possibly another language) then we're into serious Objective C programming territory here.

Q: Trigger an Automator action with a sound Is there any way to trigger an Automator action with a sound? I'd like to be able to record a sound and trigger an action every time my computer's microphone receives the sound. A: Mac OS X comes with speech recognition (check System Preferences > Speech panel) but it can't easily recognize a generic sound, only built-in commands. Now, it is possible to make an automator action or script that is triggered by an arbitrary phrase. However, if by "sound" you mean a beep, blip, crash or other sound that can't be recognized as a string of phonemes (ie. speech in english or possibly another language) then we're into serious Objective C programming territory here.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keychain prompt - Switch to other window via keyboard Whenever the Keychain prompt pops up, the window has the focus, and I haven't found a way to switch away from it via the keyboard. I know entering my password dismisses the window, but sometimes I'm just browsing the web, and Mail.app will trigger that window, forcing me to change focus. Is there any way to switch out of that window via the keyboard? A: I'm afraid as a security precaution it is not allowed to be switched away from the password prompt. Otherwise malicious apps will be given chance to record your inputs.

Q: Keychain prompt - Switch to other window via keyboard Whenever the Keychain prompt pops up, the window has the focus, and I haven't found a way to switch away from it via the keyboard. I know entering my password dismisses the window, but sometimes I'm just browsing the web, and Mail.app will trigger that window, forcing me to change focus. Is there any way to switch out of that window via the keyboard? A: I'm afraid as a security precaution it is not allowed to be switched away from the password prompt. Otherwise malicious apps will be given chance to record your inputs.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to upgrade iOS without connecting the device to a computer? Is it possible to upgrade the iOS version and apps on an iPhone without connecting it to a computer and going through iTunes? A: Devs still have to upgrade through iTunes, Xcode only lets you put other apps on your phone. So no, there really isn't another way.

Q: Is it possible to upgrade iOS without connecting the device to a computer? Is it possible to upgrade the iOS version and apps on an iPhone without connecting it to a computer and going through iTunes? A: Devs still have to upgrade through iTunes, Xcode only lets you put other apps on your phone. So no, there really isn't another way. A: Well, you can connect it to an Apple computer running Xcode and upgrade it there. But most non-developers would find that more horrible, not less.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why are the iPad games Epic Citadel and Gravity HD crashing on startup? I've got 2 iPad games that crash (vanish from the screen) on startup. The games are Epic Citadel and Gravity HD. Both apps go through the loading sequence then the screen goes black and returns back to the main iPad screen. I have tried reinstalling Epic Citadel with no luck. I don't want to delete and reinstall Gravity HD as I would lose where I am up to. I have raised a support call with the latter game but have not heard anything (2 weeks ago). Any ideas on what to do? A: Try rebooting the iPad to free up some memory. Hold the lock button until the "slide to power off" slider comes on, slide it, then turn the iPad back on.

Q: Why are the iPad games Epic Citadel and Gravity HD crashing on startup? I've got 2 iPad games that crash (vanish from the screen) on startup. The games are Epic Citadel and Gravity HD. Both apps go through the loading sequence then the screen goes black and returns back to the main iPad screen. I have tried reinstalling Epic Citadel with no luck. I don't want to delete and reinstall Gravity HD as I would lose where I am up to. I have raised a support call with the latter game but have not heard anything (2 weeks ago). Any ideas on what to do? A: Try rebooting the iPad to free up some memory. Hold the lock button until the "slide to power off" slider comes on, slide it, then turn the iPad back on.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Log out other user w/o first switching to that user My wife use separate accounts and quick user switching on a MBP running 10.6. Sometimes I want to log her out to free up some RAM, but I'd like to avoid logging in as her, logging out, then logging back in as me. I have seen a terminal solution... is there a better way? Thanks! A: I think the simplest way of doing it is : sudo killall -9 -u wifes_name

Q: Log out other user w/o first switching to that user My wife use separate accounts and quick user switching on a MBP running 10.6. Sometimes I want to log her out to free up some RAM, but I'd like to avoid logging in as her, logging out, then logging back in as me. I have seen a terminal solution... is there a better way? Thanks! A: I think the simplest way of doing it is : sudo killall -9 -u wifes_name A: Using the Terminal, you can kill her loginwindow process and any programs she has open will be closed... but this will cause her to lose any unsaved work she has! In fact, this is the very reason you need to log in as her to log out: When you log in as her, all her programs again have access to the GUI, so they can prompt you to confirm closure, save changes or take other action before logging out. If you're sure that she only has things like a web browser, iTunes, etc open, not Pages, Word, Photoshop, or anything else with documents, then you could try from the terminal: kill `ps awwwwux | grep her_short_username | grep loginwindow | grep -v grep | awk "{ print \$2 }"` On OSX 10.10.4: (slight edit from last comment): export pn=`ps awwwwux | awk '/her_short_username/ && /loginwind[o]w/ { print $2 }'` sudo kill -9 $pn A: You can use the Activity Monitor to log another user out by killing their login process: * *Run Activity Monitor *In the filter at the top-right, type loginwindow *Click the row with the user's name in the User column *Click Quit Process, then Force Quit, and type your password. This is just a nicer(?) GUI version of Josh's answer. Before step 2, you can review the other user's running processes to see if they are running any apps that might lose data on logout. A: This command is simpler than the one suggested and it will have the desire result to kill all the user's processes (I had to run it twice) sudo pkill -9 -u user If you just want to kill the loginwindow process for that user you can do the following: sudo pkill -9 -u user loginwindow A: In my opinion, the possible loss of data far outweights the possible gain in RAM. Moreover, it has been a long time since Unix was able to swap memory to disk when a process was idle.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's a good iPhone app that will let me view files on my network? I'm looking for an app which provides functionality similar to Apple Finder's "SHARED" feature, or Microsoft Windows Explorer's Network Neighborhood. Basically, I should be able to use my iPhone to access shared files on computers that are on my same network. Any suggestions? Specifications: * *Doesn't require software to be downloaded/running on any of your machines. The only piece of software the solution requires is the iPhone App. *You should only be able to access files that are shared on the network. *You should be able to access files on network drives that aren't connected to computers (e.g. NAS). *Doesn't require jailbreaking the phone. Examples of things I'm not looking for: * *A screen sharing solution (e.g. remote desktop, logmein, etc.), this violates #1 and #2 above. *Far Finder: violates #1 and #2, possibly #3 as well. A: I think NetPortal by Stratospherix may do what you want. I use their FileBrowser for iPad, but I haven’t tried NetPortal, which is their iPhone version. They also have a free NetPortalLite version. (Sorry, I don’t have the rep to include more than one hyperlink.)

Q: What's a good iPhone app that will let me view files on my network? I'm looking for an app which provides functionality similar to Apple Finder's "SHARED" feature, or Microsoft Windows Explorer's Network Neighborhood. Basically, I should be able to use my iPhone to access shared files on computers that are on my same network. Any suggestions? Specifications: * *Doesn't require software to be downloaded/running on any of your machines. The only piece of software the solution requires is the iPhone App. *You should only be able to access files that are shared on the network. *You should be able to access files on network drives that aren't connected to computers (e.g. NAS). *Doesn't require jailbreaking the phone. Examples of things I'm not looking for: * *A screen sharing solution (e.g. remote desktop, logmein, etc.), this violates #1 and #2 above. *Far Finder: violates #1 and #2, possibly #3 as well. A: I think NetPortal by Stratospherix may do what you want. I use their FileBrowser for iPad, but I haven’t tried NetPortal, which is their iPhone version. They also have a free NetPortalLite version. (Sorry, I don’t have the rep to include more than one hyperlink.) A: You are going to need an AFP or SMB client then - thats what the machines themselves are doing. I don't think there are any AFP or SMB clients in the app store - therefore you may have to jailbreak your phone to use one - and after a few searches, still don't know if there are any available (I do however find a lot of options for mounting your iPhone on your Mac). A: You can try LogMeIn. It's a service for the Mac that sits in your menu bar and an application for the iPhone that gives you VNC/RDC-like access to your Mac. I've had great success with it in the past and the free service is really easy to use. A: Remote file browser, works well.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to view Adobe Photoshop PDFs on my iPad I'm attempting to deploy a PDF I created in Photoshop on my iPad using the PDF Pro app. When I view a text PDF, everything works flawlessly - however, when I put my image-loaded PDF on the device, it fails to load (and, if it matters, displays a completely wrong file size next to it). I'm willing to use other means, but I need to be able to view PDF's with images ASAP for a company meeting tomorrow. How am I able to get this to work? A: Photoshop PDFs are a bit wonky even outside the iPad, and I have found it best to flatten and place them in InDesign and output a PDF from there. Even so, the iPad's PDF support is limited and searching the web for "iPad PDF viewing" yields a lot of reviews for PDF-reading applications. In the end, however, it would be best here to have a Plan B (i.e., laptop and projector) if this so important. PDF support for the iPad still has a long way to go.

Q: How to view Adobe Photoshop PDFs on my iPad I'm attempting to deploy a PDF I created in Photoshop on my iPad using the PDF Pro app. When I view a text PDF, everything works flawlessly - however, when I put my image-loaded PDF on the device, it fails to load (and, if it matters, displays a completely wrong file size next to it). I'm willing to use other means, but I need to be able to view PDF's with images ASAP for a company meeting tomorrow. How am I able to get this to work? A: Photoshop PDFs are a bit wonky even outside the iPad, and I have found it best to flatten and place them in InDesign and output a PDF from there. Even so, the iPad's PDF support is limited and searching the web for "iPad PDF viewing" yields a lot of reviews for PDF-reading applications. In the end, however, it would be best here to have a Plan B (i.e., laptop and projector) if this so important. PDF support for the iPad still has a long way to go. A: You can now get Adobe Reader for iPad. It is the best software for displaying everyday PDFs. However as @Philip Regan has pointed out, Photoshop PDFs are a bit funny outside Photoshop

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where do the Notes associated with Gmail accounts get synced to on iPod touch? I noticed that notes, like Calendars, get synced with a Gmail account on the iPod touch. But where do they get synced to? Where can I access them online? A: There's a difference between syncing with iTunes and over the air sync. If you set up your Gmail account to use over the air sync then when you open up the Notes app (on the iPod), you should notice a back button on the top left that allows you to change which account you use for notes. If you choose your Gmail account and start creating notes, you will start seeing them appear in your Gmail account, under the "Notes" label. This sync happens automatically once you press the "done" button on each note (as long as you have an internet connection). This has nothing to do with iTunes sync. You will only see notes that you create under this account in Gmail. You will not see all of your old notes. For that, see this question.

Q: Where do the Notes associated with Gmail accounts get synced to on iPod touch? I noticed that notes, like Calendars, get synced with a Gmail account on the iPod touch. But where do they get synced to? Where can I access them online? A: There's a difference between syncing with iTunes and over the air sync. If you set up your Gmail account to use over the air sync then when you open up the Notes app (on the iPod), you should notice a back button on the top left that allows you to change which account you use for notes. If you choose your Gmail account and start creating notes, you will start seeing them appear in your Gmail account, under the "Notes" label. This sync happens automatically once you press the "done" button on each note (as long as you have an internet connection). This has nothing to do with iTunes sync. You will only see notes that you create under this account in Gmail. You will not see all of your old notes. For that, see this question. A: It syncs the notes from the Notes application on your iOS device to the Notes using a special mailbox on the Mail Accounts you have enabled (eg. your Gmail account here). They should appear in the Notes section in Mail.app on your Mac or in a label called "Notes" on Gmail. A: add notes to your email address ex : if your email is sam@gmail.com just type sam+notes@gmail.com and send it then you can filter it in your inbox with label NOTES

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air without a SuperDrive? Is it possible to install Windows 7 as a second OS on a Macbook Air with no access to a superdrive? And if it is, how? A: The most straight forward method to actually getting this done is to get your hands on an external DVD drive that connects via USB but is not the point of your question. Yes it is possible; you'll need to get your copy of Windows 7 DVD put onto a USB thumb drive. (There are several guides available online - I've not done it myself so I can't recommend one) Another alternative requires a lot of extra work and is really designed if you're planning to image or install on multiple MacBook Airs; it's possible to NetBoot your MacBook Air using the USB Ethernet adapter. (Source) This requires either a rigged out version of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server handy. With DeployStudio you can install a pre-made image of Windows 7 that way.

Q: Can I install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air without a SuperDrive? Is it possible to install Windows 7 as a second OS on a Macbook Air with no access to a superdrive? And if it is, how? A: The most straight forward method to actually getting this done is to get your hands on an external DVD drive that connects via USB but is not the point of your question. Yes it is possible; you'll need to get your copy of Windows 7 DVD put onto a USB thumb drive. (There are several guides available online - I've not done it myself so I can't recommend one) Another alternative requires a lot of extra work and is really designed if you're planning to image or install on multiple MacBook Airs; it's possible to NetBoot your MacBook Air using the USB Ethernet adapter. (Source) This requires either a rigged out version of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server handy. With DeployStudio you can install a pre-made image of Windows 7 that way. A: I created a bootable USB stick with my Windows Vista DVD. I followed the instructions on Install Win 7 on MacBook Air from a USB drive. A: Even better way is to use VirtualBox to install windows or other OS on mac book. You can always delete it when you want. With a little loss in speed, you gain a lot. See : http://www.virtualbox.org/ I had blogged on how to install ubantu Linux with VirtualBox. Installing windows is no different. * *http://pyfunc.blogspot.com/search/label/VirtualBox

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I set OS X to automatically open ICS files in iCal? Can I configure OS X so that the default open action on an ICS files is to open it in iCal? A: If you highlight the file in the finder, press command-i to open the file info dialog. Change the entry "Open with" to "iCal" (select "other" and browse for iCal if it is not listed). Press the button "change all" to make "open in iCal" the default action.

Q: Can I set OS X to automatically open ICS files in iCal? Can I configure OS X so that the default open action on an ICS files is to open it in iCal? A: If you highlight the file in the finder, press command-i to open the file info dialog. Change the entry "Open with" to "iCal" (select "other" and browse for iCal if it is not listed). Press the button "change all" to make "open in iCal" the default action. A: Take a look at this Apple StackExchange question and answer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard that has bigger sticky notes? Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard to write down notes? N.B. What I use now are yellow small sticky notes (I'm using 8 on several spots on the scren). I really love them, but sometimes it would be useful to enlarge them and make them bigger rather than put several of them into one. A: I had the exact same problem, and thus i created "Bigger Notes" widget. You can find it here: https://github.com/fauria/bigger-notes Hope it helps. Regards.

Q: Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard that has bigger sticky notes? Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard to write down notes? N.B. What I use now are yellow small sticky notes (I'm using 8 on several spots on the scren). I really love them, but sometimes it would be useful to enlarge them and make them bigger rather than put several of them into one. A: I had the exact same problem, and thus i created "Bigger Notes" widget. You can find it here: https://github.com/fauria/bigger-notes Hope it helps. Regards. A: UPDATE: KNotesWidget link is broken. I searched and found it here. Perhaps you’re looking for KNotesWidget. (link is broken) Provides an alternative to Apple’s stickies widget with more functionality: * *unlimited text size *resizeable *collapseable *allows instant spawn of another k-note A: Unfortunately I haven't come accross anything like Stickies on OS X. I'm writing this in the hope a Mac developer researching the topic sees an opportunity. Features from Stickies that I am missing: * *Toggle Stickies on and off with a global keyboard shortcut. *I don't want to go through the Dashboard, I want Stickies to pop on my desktop on command! *Set an alarm for any Sticky. Awesome for reminders, or daily tasks. The Sticky note goes to "sleep" (it hides) and will pop on your desktop at the required time. You can even have it play a sound and animate! *Simple auto formatting of links. You can drag the browser's uri to a Stickies. You can click links in Stickies to open in browser. Great for keeping lists of articles to read (why would I create a new online account, or use a browser extension when I can freely edit my list anyway I want? Not to mention it is saved somewhere on my harddrive that I can easily read without the application running, and backup). *If the text gets long, a scrollbar appears. You can choose how much screen estate to use for your Stickies. *You can easily set the title of the Stickies. *You can manage the Stickies, hide ones you don't want to see now, and bring them back later. So in effect it also works as a small notes database, but it is primarily a great scratchpad. *Being able to hide a Stickies is great because sometimes you may want to keep a Stickies visible while working on something, and you might want to hide others which get in the way. *Stickies had awesome shortcuts like: bring back all "hidden" stickies in view. *They were not as pretty as OS X Stickies, but you could set transparency and colours freely. In general I find Mac apps to be superior in usability and looks, but this is one type of app where nearly every attempt I've seen on OS X veers towards "personal wiki" (too much), or online synching (don't need), or just plain clunky (dashboard widget). I used Stickies on Windows for YEARS. I would totally pay 20 € or more for that on OS X. A: I know this is old but Ill add one that I just found in case people are still looking at this. It's called WikityWidgets I have yet to use it because I just downloaded it but does look like it will be pretty good. A: I'm using SimpleNote on my Mac and iPhone for pretty much all my note-taking. It automatically syncs notes between computers/devices, so might not be for you if you only want local notes. I find it's really convenient for accessing my notes everywhere, though. It doesn't look like big sticky notes, instead you get a list view of your notes with a preview, from which you can open the entire note. I find it really pretty, but it might not be the aestethic you're after. Edit: Forgot to mention that I use the DashNote widget on my Macs. There are other options as well, but they mainly come as stand-alone programs. A: http://junecloud.com/software/dashboard/notefile.html Just what you asked for. Its much better than the default stickies. A: I use Tomboy notes. It's similar to stickies, but with some nice extra features. * *Link notes together simply by typing a previous notes title in your current note *Recently accessed notes are quickly accessible *You can 'pin' notes so that they are always quickly accessible *Create multiple notebooks Searching notes and linking related notes together is really easy. The only feature I think it's lacking is a way to sync with my iPhone. A: Check out Secret NotePad. It looks like you can resize it, lock it, and apply various styles to it. It also looks pretty nice. A: Don't use stickies, especially the widget ones that come with the computer because if you click the checkmark box they disapear and you loose all your information. Unless there is a majic way of recovering the data. A: Simple Antnotes (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-antnotes/id846599902?mt=12) is a good one. Pros: 1. A nice interface with a widget. A click will bring it all and another click will hide it all. No accidental delete. Easy to use hide options. 2.Resize, start on login options. 3."Make on top" option with a nice pin button. (ONE THAT IS REALLY HELPFUL) 4."Make translucent on inactive", "Hide on inactive" options. Cons: Looks like there is only mac app and there is no iOS app. so no sync. They have a pro version also.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Suggestions for an iPhone app for contacts I am looking for an iPhone app for our sales team that would allow them to do the following: * *Group contacts into custom groups *Add meeting notes against a contact *Locate contacts on a map (optional provide directions from current location) *Store extra images such as business card against a contact *Doesn't screw up Outlook contacts A: Here's one that appears to do what you want, and happens to be free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ycontacts/id340140852?mt=8

Q: Suggestions for an iPhone app for contacts I am looking for an iPhone app for our sales team that would allow them to do the following: * *Group contacts into custom groups *Add meeting notes against a contact *Locate contacts on a map (optional provide directions from current location) *Store extra images such as business card against a contact *Doesn't screw up Outlook contacts A: Here's one that appears to do what you want, and happens to be free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ycontacts/id340140852?mt=8 A: You might need to use something like Bento or FileMaker.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Voice memos not being deleted from iTunes I have iTunes (10.0.1) syncing with my iPhone (4.1) with the Voice Memos option enabled. I created a single voice memo. I synced the phone and the voice memo transferred correctly. I then deleted it on the iPhone and synced again. iTunes still has the voice memo in the "Voice Memos" playlist. Additionally, when I click the iPhone's "Voice Memo" playlist in iTunes, I see the one file there, but it has an exclamation mark near the number. I have 2 questions: * *What does this exclamation mark mean? There seems to be no way to get more info about it. *How can I get iTunes to delete the voice memos when I delete the on the phone? A: A workaround that I found, is to go to iTunes Music library, find the voice memo, and then manually delete it from there. After you sync, the Voice Memo playlist will be deleted from underneath your iPhone (in iTunes), so you won't see that file that had an exclamation mark anymore.

Q: Voice memos not being deleted from iTunes I have iTunes (10.0.1) syncing with my iPhone (4.1) with the Voice Memos option enabled. I created a single voice memo. I synced the phone and the voice memo transferred correctly. I then deleted it on the iPhone and synced again. iTunes still has the voice memo in the "Voice Memos" playlist. Additionally, when I click the iPhone's "Voice Memo" playlist in iTunes, I see the one file there, but it has an exclamation mark near the number. I have 2 questions: * *What does this exclamation mark mean? There seems to be no way to get more info about it. *How can I get iTunes to delete the voice memos when I delete the on the phone? A: A workaround that I found, is to go to iTunes Music library, find the voice memo, and then manually delete it from there. After you sync, the Voice Memo playlist will be deleted from underneath your iPhone (in iTunes), so you won't see that file that had an exclamation mark anymore. A: Right click on the mouse and you should be able to see delete.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I get a refund on an iOS app I just bought? I just bought an iPhone app knowing that it may or may not provide the feature which was the entire reason for me buying it. I figured I could always get a refund if it doesn't do what I want. It doesn't. But now I've realized I don't know how to get a refund. Is it possible? A: In iTunes, go to Store ->View My Account ->Purchase History. Select Report a Problem. Fill out the form explaining what happened, and Apple will get back to you with information about whether your refund has been approved or denied.

Q: How do I get a refund on an iOS app I just bought? I just bought an iPhone app knowing that it may or may not provide the feature which was the entire reason for me buying it. I figured I could always get a refund if it doesn't do what I want. It doesn't. But now I've realized I don't know how to get a refund. Is it possible? A: In iTunes, go to Store ->View My Account ->Purchase History. Select Report a Problem. Fill out the form explaining what happened, and Apple will get back to you with information about whether your refund has been approved or denied. A: I have not had success with "Reporting a problem," because my requests have been ignored in three different cases now. Here's my workflow that has worked for me each time: * *Purchase App *Find something wrong with App *Report a problem (it will be ignored, but do this just to say you did) *Contact credit card provider and dispute the charge with your reasons (mine are usually "software did not work at all" or "as promised") *Wait 3-5 business days *Credit card provider resolves dispute, issues refund *Apple disables AppleID due to "security risk" of account access *Contact apple support by emailing or asking for a phone call *Wait 1-2 business days for response *Kindly explain what happened, they respond by following a walkthrough of re-enabling your account after verifying security questions

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