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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there an app that will make my (jailbroken) iPhone vibrate when a call is answered? I have an jailbroken iPhone and I want it to make a little vibration when the other participant answer the call so I don't have to hold it near to my ear while the phone is dialing. I found this feature in MCleaner app from Cydia but it costs too much and have a lot of other features that I don't need. Is there a better way to do that? A: As someone who is involved in some iPhone developing, I can tell you that you can’t do that with the official SDK, so unless you find another Jailbroken app, there’s no “official” way to do it.

Q: Is there an app that will make my (jailbroken) iPhone vibrate when a call is answered? I have an jailbroken iPhone and I want it to make a little vibration when the other participant answer the call so I don't have to hold it near to my ear while the phone is dialing. I found this feature in MCleaner app from Cydia but it costs too much and have a lot of other features that I don't need. Is there a better way to do that? A: As someone who is involved in some iPhone developing, I can tell you that you can’t do that with the official SDK, so unless you find another Jailbroken app, there’s no “official” way to do it. A: Get Phone Buzzer from Cydia, it works brilliantly, and its free. A: Hey make sure in your settings that you have a vibration selected.... I thought I had the same issue until I realized that a type of vibration wasn't selected. jonlo

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Anyone have any experience installing Corsair CM3X4GSD1066 memory on a Macbook Pro mid 2009? Is the memory compatible for use in the mid-2009 aluminum unibody MBP? Reference: http://www.corsair.com/products/valueselect/default.aspx#notebook The specification is compatible, but from my research, there are at least two conflicting user reviews on this matter: * *Amazon product page, which said that it is compatible, but failed after five months. *newegg product page which says that it is not compatible, however it does not specify the MBP in detail. Sorry I can't provide links for newegg & amazon page, don't have enough rep. Thanks in advance.

Q: Anyone have any experience installing Corsair CM3X4GSD1066 memory on a Macbook Pro mid 2009? Is the memory compatible for use in the mid-2009 aluminum unibody MBP? Reference: http://www.corsair.com/products/valueselect/default.aspx#notebook The specification is compatible, but from my research, there are at least two conflicting user reviews on this matter: * *Amazon product page, which said that it is compatible, but failed after five months. *newegg product page which says that it is not compatible, however it does not specify the MBP in detail. Sorry I can't provide links for newegg & amazon page, don't have enough rep. Thanks in advance.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone 4 requires recalibrating the compass almost every time I use it My iPhone 4 asks me to recalibrate the compass by using a figure 8 motion almost every time I use it. I'm wondering if this happens because my phone is defective, or if other people are having the same issue. A: According to an Apple support article: After updating or restoring your device, you may notice that the recalibration alert appears more frequently. This is expected behavior, because the calibration database is being recreated. The frequency diminishes over time as you calibrate the device for various locations.

Q: iPhone 4 requires recalibrating the compass almost every time I use it My iPhone 4 asks me to recalibrate the compass by using a figure 8 motion almost every time I use it. I'm wondering if this happens because my phone is defective, or if other people are having the same issue. A: According to an Apple support article: After updating or restoring your device, you may notice that the recalibration alert appears more frequently. This is expected behavior, because the calibration database is being recreated. The frequency diminishes over time as you calibrate the device for various locations.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I print a PDF X-1A from a iWork Pages document? In order to use my university's printing shop, they said they need a PDF x-1a format. I noticed in Pages that I can print as "Save as PDF-X" but a little googling says this is not exactly the PDF x1a format, but another one. Googling did not turn up exactly how to get the x-1a format. A: If they can take PDF-X1/a, then they can take any of the others as well; you shouldn't have any problems. PDF-X1/a was simply the first in a long line of iterations of a new PDF schema that basically does a lot of preflighting for you (it's one of the best things to happen in the printing industry in a long time). It means your document is "press ready", which mainly applies to SWOP presses but can apply to small printers as well. As a footnote to all of that... You can also output press-ready PDFs using the Mac OS X-supplied "Save as PDF" button in the print dialog box from just about any application.

Q: How can I print a PDF X-1A from a iWork Pages document? In order to use my university's printing shop, they said they need a PDF x-1a format. I noticed in Pages that I can print as "Save as PDF-X" but a little googling says this is not exactly the PDF x1a format, but another one. Googling did not turn up exactly how to get the x-1a format. A: If they can take PDF-X1/a, then they can take any of the others as well; you shouldn't have any problems. PDF-X1/a was simply the first in a long line of iterations of a new PDF schema that basically does a lot of preflighting for you (it's one of the best things to happen in the printing industry in a long time). It means your document is "press ready", which mainly applies to SWOP presses but can apply to small printers as well. As a footnote to all of that... You can also output press-ready PDFs using the Mac OS X-supplied "Save as PDF" button in the print dialog box from just about any application.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: I uninstalled an app. How do I get it back? Possible Duplicate: How can I find out which apps I have already downloaded on my iPhone? The knowledge base mentions that you get to reinstall the app for free... once you find it again on the store, which is no easy task. There are dozens of apps, all alike the one that was installed. Is there a way to have a list of apps you have bought? At what point of the purchasing process does this dialog appear? Does a price tag appear for already purchased items? If so, does this message appear after you single tap on the price tag, or do you need to risk a double tap? A: On iTunes, under iTunes Store > Account > Purchase History, you've got a list of all your iTunes Store purchases. If you already bought an app, it still appears with the price on the Store. Last time I checked, I had to risk re-buying to see it was free since I already bought it. Hope that helps!

Q: I uninstalled an app. How do I get it back? Possible Duplicate: How can I find out which apps I have already downloaded on my iPhone? The knowledge base mentions that you get to reinstall the app for free... once you find it again on the store, which is no easy task. There are dozens of apps, all alike the one that was installed. Is there a way to have a list of apps you have bought? At what point of the purchasing process does this dialog appear? Does a price tag appear for already purchased items? If so, does this message appear after you single tap on the price tag, or do you need to risk a double tap? A: On iTunes, under iTunes Store > Account > Purchase History, you've got a list of all your iTunes Store purchases. If you already bought an app, it still appears with the price on the Store. Last time I checked, I had to risk re-buying to see it was free since I already bought it. Hope that helps!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the data type of background images in a Pages template? I am trying to teach myself graphic design. The templates in Pages are really nice, but I want to be able to make my own. I was stripping apart a brochure template ("Elegant Brochure"), and found that most of everything on the page was a text box or an image. Once I removed all of those elements there was still a pattern in the background. When I clicked on it, I noticed "x's" on the corners that were immobile instead of the usual white boxes for manipulating images or text boxes. I clicked on the inspector and noticed that these were actually jpegs, but I don't know how to remove them, or in the case of wanting to make my own brochure layout, insert background pictures like that that will stay immobile. A: After flipping through "iWork:The Missing Manual" and digging a little deeper, I discovered that those watermark style background images were immobile because they were "Locked." So I clicked "Unlock" in the Arrange menu, and then I could delete or manipulate those images.

Q: What is the data type of background images in a Pages template? I am trying to teach myself graphic design. The templates in Pages are really nice, but I want to be able to make my own. I was stripping apart a brochure template ("Elegant Brochure"), and found that most of everything on the page was a text box or an image. Once I removed all of those elements there was still a pattern in the background. When I clicked on it, I noticed "x's" on the corners that were immobile instead of the usual white boxes for manipulating images or text boxes. I clicked on the inspector and noticed that these were actually jpegs, but I don't know how to remove them, or in the case of wanting to make my own brochure layout, insert background pictures like that that will stay immobile. A: After flipping through "iWork:The Missing Manual" and digging a little deeper, I discovered that those watermark style background images were immobile because they were "Locked." So I clicked "Unlock" in the Arrange menu, and then I could delete or manipulate those images.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Watch a video while it downloads in iTunes 10 Previously when downloading an iTunes U video I could double click it and the video would start playing while it is downloading. But now after updating to iTunes 10 it doesn't seem I can do that? Is it just me or have Apple gone backwards on this. A: As of iTunes 12, you cannot watch a movie while it is downloading. This is a pretty recent change, but has been proven and is 100% reproducible. You have to wait for the movie or TV show to finish downloading. (Trying to play before it finishes downloading shows a black screen, until download is finished -- then play begins as usual). This is a real shame and makes no sense, given that an Apple TV can actually play while streaming... but, guess that's different software. (Netflix for the win!)

Q: Watch a video while it downloads in iTunes 10 Previously when downloading an iTunes U video I could double click it and the video would start playing while it is downloading. But now after updating to iTunes 10 it doesn't seem I can do that? Is it just me or have Apple gone backwards on this. A: As of iTunes 12, you cannot watch a movie while it is downloading. This is a pretty recent change, but has been proven and is 100% reproducible. You have to wait for the movie or TV show to finish downloading. (Trying to play before it finishes downloading shows a black screen, until download is finished -- then play begins as usual). This is a real shame and makes no sense, given that an Apple TV can actually play while streaming... but, guess that's different software. (Netflix for the win!) A: I'm not sure whether this was available for iTunes U items before, but it definitely isn't available now. As a compromise, you can stream an iTunes U item directly from its listing in the iTunes Store. And yes, you would still have to download it separately if you want to keep it. A: You was previously able to watch while downloading, not to mention it takes over a couple hours to download even with top notch internet.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a good command-line ID3 tool for OS X? Anyone know of a command-line* ID3 tool, with support for ID3v2, that you can get working on Mac OS X with reasonable effort? It should support both reading and writing tags. (* I want to be able to call it e.g. from some Python scripts, so a GUI tool won't do.) The id3tool utility is otherwise good, but doesn't support ID3v2 (and thus doesn't play that well with iTunes). I had to compile it from source, but that was pretty straightforward on a Mac with Xcode & developer tools (including, notably, a C compiler). Anyway, I'd especially like something with similar command-line options as id3tool. Here's an example of tagging one file: id3tool -t "Song Title" -r Artist -a "Album Name" -c 2 track-02.mp3 A: The python module Mutagen is shipped with the command-line ID3 tool named mid3v2 replacement for id3lib's. From the usage documentation : You can set the value for any ID3v2 frame by using '--' and then a frame ID. For example: mid3v2 --TIT3 "Monkey!" file.mp3 would set the "Subtitle/Description" frame to "Monkey!".

Q: Is there a good command-line ID3 tool for OS X? Anyone know of a command-line* ID3 tool, with support for ID3v2, that you can get working on Mac OS X with reasonable effort? It should support both reading and writing tags. (* I want to be able to call it e.g. from some Python scripts, so a GUI tool won't do.) The id3tool utility is otherwise good, but doesn't support ID3v2 (and thus doesn't play that well with iTunes). I had to compile it from source, but that was pretty straightforward on a Mac with Xcode & developer tools (including, notably, a C compiler). Anyway, I'd especially like something with similar command-line options as id3tool. Here's an example of tagging one file: id3tool -t "Song Title" -r Artist -a "Album Name" -c 2 track-02.mp3 A: The python module Mutagen is shipped with the command-line ID3 tool named mid3v2 replacement for id3lib's. From the usage documentation : You can set the value for any ID3v2 frame by using '--' and then a frame ID. For example: mid3v2 --TIT3 "Monkey!" file.mp3 would set the "Subtitle/Description" frame to "Monkey!". A: If you have Homebrew installed (highly recommended), you can just do: brew install id3lib This installs several id3 command-line tools, including id3tag, id3convert, id3cp and id3info. No need for python or perl scripting; just use regular shell commands. Usage: id3tag [OPTIONS]... [FILES]... -h --help Print help and exit -V --version Print version and exit -1 --v1tag Render only the id3v1 tag (default=off) -2 --v2tag Render only the id3v2 tag (default=off) -aSTRING --artist=STRING Set the artist information -ASTRING --album=STRING Set the album title information -sSTRING --song=STRING Set the title information -cSTRING --comment=STRING Set the comment information -CSTRING --desc=STRING Set the comment description -ySTRING --year=STRING Set the year -tSTRING --track=STRING Set the track number -TSTRING --total=STRING Set the total number of tracks -gSHORT --genre=SHORT Set the genre -w --warning Turn on warnings (for debugging) (default=off) -n --notice Turn on notices (for debugging) (default=off) A: You may want to try id3v2. It's based on the id3lib that Huyz mentioned, but seems to be a better command line tool than those with id3lib. It easily dumps the ID3V2 tags from iTunes produced MP3s, but not iTunes produced M4A files (as with Apple Lossless). If you need M4A files, another option is ffmpeg. Its ffprobe command line tool prints out metadata in the files and I believe you can write metadata via ffmpeg. It works with both MP3 and M4A files produced by iTunes. ffprobe may not show all metadata; mp4v2 is another good option. All three programs are easily installed via Homebrew. Right now (Jan 2012) ffmpeg requires gcc to compile, so brew install --use-gcc ffmpeg. A: Having had various 'abort trap' type issues with id3v2 I discovered eyeD3, which is a python module also existing as a command line tool. It seems to be more recently updated than some of the other programs mentioned above. A: There is always AppleScript. I'm not a big fan of it, but iTunes is scriptable and you can manipulate all the mp3 tags from there. You can invoke Applescript from the command line using osascript. A: This site: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ has many good command line scripts and tools that layer on top of itunes to do things with your music library. Some of them may do what you want. Some of the tools are free and some are licensed. A: since you're comfortable with cli and Python, I can recommend some Perl modules on CPAN. MP3::Tag, (as well as MP3::Tag::ID3v1 and ::ID3v2 and ::Utils), MP3::Info, MP3::ID3Lib are all available for reading and manipulating ID3 tags. If you go to search.cpan.org and search for "MP3", you'll find a world* of options! (* Where "world" is a small, limited set of options...) A: This old thread at Mac OS X Hints looks like it might be a good place for you to start. It's from 2003, so I'm not sure if the tool they're talking about is still being developed. You also may have to compile it yourself. A: There's an OS X compatible version of the id3lib library available here on GitHub. It claims to support both ID3v1 and ID3v2.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I write files to iPod's internal disk on Windows? when trying it I get the "can't do that" icon How can I copy new photos to the iPod? A: Got it I used iPhoneBrowser and I could easily add photos to iPod Touch Library :) But there is a problem, with this, I don't get the photos/videos on the PhotosApp on the iPod Touch :(

Q: How can I write files to iPod's internal disk on Windows? when trying it I get the "can't do that" icon How can I copy new photos to the iPod? A: Got it I used iPhoneBrowser and I could easily add photos to iPod Touch Library :) But there is a problem, with this, I don't get the photos/videos on the PhotosApp on the iPod Touch :(

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to recover a deleted file on Mac OS X? We have tried Boomerang but it does not find the deleted file. The file was deleted 3 days ago. I would think it is recoverable, but Boomerang does not show it. Any help would be appreciated. A: PhotoRec is the best tool I've found for recovering files. It does have some baffling limitations however, like the fact that it can't recover .dmg files. It's a command line program but still very easy to use. And it's free :) This step-by-step guide on their wiki makes it even easier.

Q: How to recover a deleted file on Mac OS X? We have tried Boomerang but it does not find the deleted file. The file was deleted 3 days ago. I would think it is recoverable, but Boomerang does not show it. Any help would be appreciated. A: PhotoRec is the best tool I've found for recovering files. It does have some baffling limitations however, like the fact that it can't recover .dmg files. It's a command line program but still very easy to use. And it's free :) This step-by-step guide on their wiki makes it even easier. A: I use Data Rescue software for when there isn't a backup. It's not scammy, it does the job (very well IMO), and doesn't damage drives like some other tools will do.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I choose to unrar with the default application? I recently installed unrar for Mac Os X but i found it useless sometimes and bug-full. So i uninstalled unrar. Now if i open a .rar file, another application (VLC) open it. But i want the default unrar application to manage .rar files. How can i do that? If i select the "Open with" options and i look for that application in the applications folder i cant find it. A: There's no default application to handle .rar file on Mac OS X. You might want to try The Unarchiver. It can open many format besides rar files. Then once you installed it, open its preferences and select all the file format you want him to manage.

Q: How can I choose to unrar with the default application? I recently installed unrar for Mac Os X but i found it useless sometimes and bug-full. So i uninstalled unrar. Now if i open a .rar file, another application (VLC) open it. But i want the default unrar application to manage .rar files. How can i do that? If i select the "Open with" options and i look for that application in the applications folder i cant find it. A: There's no default application to handle .rar file on Mac OS X. You might want to try The Unarchiver. It can open many format besides rar files. Then once you installed it, open its preferences and select all the file format you want him to manage.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to snooze the reminder for a calendar event on iPhone? Is it possible to snooze a reminder for a calendar event when the reminder shows up? I have my calendar set up through an exchange server and would like a snooze feature so I can be reminded of the event 2 or 4 hours after the original notification. If this is not possible is there a good app for recurring events with push notification? A: This is not supported by the default calendar app at the moment. An app called Calendar Alarm from the App Store might be what you're looking for. Its listed features include: * *Works seamlessly together with all iPhone supported calendars (Google Calendar, CalDAV, Outlook, Exchange, iCal). *Snooze function with intervals of your choice.

Q: Is there a way to snooze the reminder for a calendar event on iPhone? Is it possible to snooze a reminder for a calendar event when the reminder shows up? I have my calendar set up through an exchange server and would like a snooze feature so I can be reminded of the event 2 or 4 hours after the original notification. If this is not possible is there a good app for recurring events with push notification? A: This is not supported by the default calendar app at the moment. An app called Calendar Alarm from the App Store might be what you're looking for. Its listed features include: * *Works seamlessly together with all iPhone supported calendars (Google Calendar, CalDAV, Outlook, Exchange, iCal). *Snooze function with intervals of your choice.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Bluetooth Not Available? Mac OS X 10.6.4, MacBook Pro, Apple Magic Trackpad. The trackpad is unresponsive. Right-clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar shows me gray text that says "Bluetooth not available". I don't see a system preference item in which to fight with this, but I don't see anything relevant. A: According to this article, resetting the System Management Controller might to the trick. Here's how to Reset the SMC on Apple's support site.

Q: Bluetooth Not Available? Mac OS X 10.6.4, MacBook Pro, Apple Magic Trackpad. The trackpad is unresponsive. Right-clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar shows me gray text that says "Bluetooth not available". I don't see a system preference item in which to fight with this, but I don't see anything relevant. A: According to this article, resetting the System Management Controller might to the trick. Here's how to Reset the SMC on Apple's support site. A: Under System Preferences there should be a bluetooth preference pane. Make sure it's set to 'on' and 'discoverable'. A: In terminal, also remove the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist files from ~/Library/Preferences. cd ~/Library/Preferences rm com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist rm com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist Then restart. That fixed it for me. A: Resetting the NVRAM as described here solved the issue for me: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063 A: Had this problem since 2015 and I have tried just about everything suggested by this thread similar ones. The only solution I have come across that works 100% for me is by going to System Preferences -> General -> unchecking Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices It has been a month of observing this problem that occured daily and never had an issue afterwards. Hope this might help some of you out there. A: I fixed it by * *shutting down the machine *removing battery *keep power button pressed for 10 sec *start machine again A: I have fixed by the same method as above. shut down, remove battery, hold down power button for 10 seconds, replace battery and re-start

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is this crash normal? My Snow Leopard crashed while I was switching from Itunes to the browser. Basically everything got stuck and a the current song second started to run in loop. Is that normal ? Can it happen very rarely ? Or should I worry ? thanks A: You should worry if it happens to you periodically. If it happened only once, my guess is one of the background process Mac OS X runs from time to time got stuck for a moment. BTW, when you say "crash", did you have to reboot your computer? Or did it just got stuck for a period of time? Anyway, if it crashed, the best you could do is send the crash report to Apple when prompted and check the Usual Suspects: * *Background processes => System Preferences > Account > Login Items (remove the one you don't need. *Check how much free space you have left and start removing the files you don't need *Maybe try to reindex your hard drive

Q: Is this crash normal? My Snow Leopard crashed while I was switching from Itunes to the browser. Basically everything got stuck and a the current song second started to run in loop. Is that normal ? Can it happen very rarely ? Or should I worry ? thanks A: You should worry if it happens to you periodically. If it happened only once, my guess is one of the background process Mac OS X runs from time to time got stuck for a moment. BTW, when you say "crash", did you have to reboot your computer? Or did it just got stuck for a period of time? Anyway, if it crashed, the best you could do is send the crash report to Apple when prompted and check the Usual Suspects: * *Background processes => System Preferences > Account > Login Items (remove the one you don't need. *Check how much free space you have left and start removing the files you don't need *Maybe try to reindex your hard drive A: This is definitely not normal. I started having this problem after I installed "Lion". It happens often, more than several times a day - it freezes, and the only solution is to push the turn off button, turn off the computer, and turn it on again. I did many researches on this issue, also went to the "Apple" store's "Genius" bar where they reinstalled my operating system which did not help at all. They also checked my hardware and said that everything is okay. In my opinion, these might be "Lion's" issues, because lots of people have the same problem, and the problem mainly occurred after the "Lion" install. However, it seems that "Apple" does not even try to fix this issue, or even if they do, they are doing it poorly. Moreover, you might find this useful: "Start up Issues/ Slow speed issues/ coloured beach ball:- (Regular House keeping stuff to clean the computer) * *Reset the SMC (Reset System Management Controller) For iMacs:- Kindly turn off the computer. Remove the power chord from the main plug. Press the Power button (at the back of the iMac for 5 seconds). Reconnect the power cable to the socket and then turn it back on. For laptops (mac book, mac book air, mac book pro) * *Press "left Shift", "left Control", "left Alt" and "Power button' for 5-10 seconds, while the computer is turned off. *Do a PRAM Reset (As soon as you start the computer, press and hold the 4 KEY COMBINATION till you hear 3 successive starting chymes. The keys are " COMMAND" "ALT" "P" and "R") * *Do a Safe Boot As soon as you start the computer, press and hold the "Shift key" for 4-5 minutes, till you see a blue screen. (login window) * *Trash the caches from Home Folder/ Library/ Caches *Trash the caches from Mac HD/Lib/Caches *Trash the start up items from Mac HD/Library/Startup items -Trash the updates from Mac HD/Library/Updates *Delete the Login items from System Pref/Accounts/Login Items *Trash Launch Daemons from Home Folder/Library *Trash Launch Agents from Home Folder/Library *Reset safari, empty caches, delete cookies, -Restart the Computer" P.S.: forum to discuss about this issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2768351 I hope this helps.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why won't Netflix play videos on my iPad? Go to watch any video instantly. Click on play video. It'll say that it's preparing to load. Then it switches to the video screen for half a second, then back to the preparing to load screen, then dumps me back to the browsing for instant videos screen. So the video never played at all. Any idea on how to fix this? A: I managed to resolve this by changing my DNS server to Google's 8.8.8.8. Not ideal, but it worked. Still, any ideas why this is happening?

Q: Why won't Netflix play videos on my iPad? Go to watch any video instantly. Click on play video. It'll say that it's preparing to load. Then it switches to the video screen for half a second, then back to the preparing to load screen, then dumps me back to the browsing for instant videos screen. So the video never played at all. Any idea on how to fix this? A: I managed to resolve this by changing my DNS server to Google's 8.8.8.8. Not ideal, but it worked. Still, any ideas why this is happening? A: This happened to me when I upgraded my router to dd-wrt firmware. If you did this, then you have two choices. * *Change your ipod (ipad) DNS settings to Google as suggested above with 8.8.8.8 or *Disable dnsmasq for both DHCP and DNS. This could cause you to be vulnerable to a rebind attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_rebinding Here is a post on the dd-wrt forum http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=481907 Good luck A: Development versions of DD-WRT now include an option to disable the dns-rebind protection in DNSMasq. This solves the problem. OpenWRT has the same problem as DD-WRT, since it uses the same DNSMasq package. In OpenWRT, you can edit the /etc/ppp/options.pptpd file and remove the stop-dns-rebind line, or just comment it out with a #. Note that while you will still be vulnerable to a dns-rebind attack, so are almost every home and small-office router on the planet, so you will be in good company! :) A: I haven't seen this issue myself, but perhaps the iPad app is behaving strangely under 4.2.1 in regards to multi-tasking? Try "killing" the app in the recently used apps menu, and see if that fixes it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Quick Look won't play sound of .avi files When I want to use Quick Look to quickly check if an .avi file is corrupt, or if the quality is alright, it does not play the sound anymore. Is there a way to enhance Quick Look with "proper" divx capabilities, to prevent mishaps like this? On a related note: I would enjoy .mkv-support, too, if anyone has an idea how to integrate that. EDIT: jmlumpkin got it right, Perian solved the problem. I can now quickcheck .avi files again, properly. Thank you for the quick answer, I would upvote, but it says I need 15 rep first :/ A: Quick Look won't let you do this. Mainly because the core audio/video stuff behind quicktime doesn't support it. The easiest way to do this would honestly be to use VLC. This supports both file types you mention. The other way is to check out Perian, which gives you a bunch of extra codecs. Personally, I would try the VLC way first. You won't be able to view these items with quickview or preview.app, but VLC handles pretty much any file type I have ever thrown at it.

Q: Quick Look won't play sound of .avi files When I want to use Quick Look to quickly check if an .avi file is corrupt, or if the quality is alright, it does not play the sound anymore. Is there a way to enhance Quick Look with "proper" divx capabilities, to prevent mishaps like this? On a related note: I would enjoy .mkv-support, too, if anyone has an idea how to integrate that. EDIT: jmlumpkin got it right, Perian solved the problem. I can now quickcheck .avi files again, properly. Thank you for the quick answer, I would upvote, but it says I need 15 rep first :/ A: Quick Look won't let you do this. Mainly because the core audio/video stuff behind quicktime doesn't support it. The easiest way to do this would honestly be to use VLC. This supports both file types you mention. The other way is to check out Perian, which gives you a bunch of extra codecs. Personally, I would try the VLC way first. You won't be able to view these items with quickview or preview.app, but VLC handles pretty much any file type I have ever thrown at it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keeping music only on iDevice and not in the iTunes Library it syncs with Is it possible to sync music onto the iPhone and then delete it from the iTunes Library to save hard drive space, without having it be automatically removed in a later sync? A: Yes. When you have the device plugged in, click on its icon in the navigation bar on the right, then in the main part of the window turn on manual management for the various types of content as shown across the top of the window. It is, however, a very good idea to have some kind of a back up of your iDevice's content somewhere in case something bad happens with the device. External Firewire and USB hard drives can be had very extremely cheap.

Q: Keeping music only on iDevice and not in the iTunes Library it syncs with Is it possible to sync music onto the iPhone and then delete it from the iTunes Library to save hard drive space, without having it be automatically removed in a later sync? A: Yes. When you have the device plugged in, click on its icon in the navigation bar on the right, then in the main part of the window turn on manual management for the various types of content as shown across the top of the window. It is, however, a very good idea to have some kind of a back up of your iDevice's content somewhere in case something bad happens with the device. External Firewire and USB hard drives can be had very extremely cheap.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: VMware: Shared folders on mac not updated on the virtual machine I'm using vmware on mac to emulate Ubuntu. When I change shared folders files on OSX I don't see the changes (automatically updated) in Ubuntu... When I added the folder, everything was visible and it perfectly worked, but when I edited some files, these become red in the Ubuntu terminal, and I cannot see the new versions of them (even if I restart Ubuntu, I guess the only way is to remove and add the shared folder again). Any help ? A: I've solved. The problem was that I was using symbolic links applied to the files instead of the parent folder.

Q: VMware: Shared folders on mac not updated on the virtual machine I'm using vmware on mac to emulate Ubuntu. When I change shared folders files on OSX I don't see the changes (automatically updated) in Ubuntu... When I added the folder, everything was visible and it perfectly worked, but when I edited some files, these become red in the Ubuntu terminal, and I cannot see the new versions of them (even if I restart Ubuntu, I guess the only way is to remove and add the shared folder again). Any help ? A: I've solved. The problem was that I was using symbolic links applied to the files instead of the parent folder.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: refresh Preview from command line I have a workflow (LaTeX editing in Emacs) which produces PDFs that I then examine in Preview. Preview is smart enough to re-load the PDF when it changes, but it only does so when I click on the application and bring it to the foreground. Is there a way to tell Preview to re-load the document (and stay in the background) using the command line? Edit: To follow up, I'm perfectly happy to do a little AppleScript hacking or whatever (I've never used AppleScript, but it can't be too hard). A: No simple solution that I can think of. * *You can switch to using Skim, or another PDF previewer that supports the behavior you seek. *You can "open file.pdf" to refresh and bring Preview to the foreground, and then another command to bring your editor or terminal in front of it (open file.pdf; open -a Terminal.app).

Q: refresh Preview from command line I have a workflow (LaTeX editing in Emacs) which produces PDFs that I then examine in Preview. Preview is smart enough to re-load the PDF when it changes, but it only does so when I click on the application and bring it to the foreground. Is there a way to tell Preview to re-load the document (and stay in the background) using the command line? Edit: To follow up, I'm perfectly happy to do a little AppleScript hacking or whatever (I've never used AppleScript, but it can't be too hard). A: No simple solution that I can think of. * *You can switch to using Skim, or another PDF previewer that supports the behavior you seek. *You can "open file.pdf" to refresh and bring Preview to the foreground, and then another command to bring your editor or terminal in front of it (open file.pdf; open -a Terminal.app). A: If you want to use Applescript to bring Preview to the front, then all you need is this line: tell application "Preview" to activate You could also use the osascript command in the command line to run that script as well. There are specific things to look out for (escaping quotes and handling multiple lines). Examples on its exact use abound and it has its own man page.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's a good Mac equivalent of WinMerge? WinMerge is an excellent and very powerful file merging tool, but as the name would imply, it's Windows only. What's a good equivalent on the Mac? A: A modern, powerful, but paid (currently Mar-2013 $69.99) file merging application for OS X is Kaleidoscope. It handles folders, files, and even images. Ad copy from the page: Compare text in Blocks, Fluid and Unified layouts in both Two-Way and Three-Way modes. Quickly navigate and search through the most readable diff you've ever seen.

Q: What's a good Mac equivalent of WinMerge? WinMerge is an excellent and very powerful file merging tool, but as the name would imply, it's Windows only. What's a good equivalent on the Mac? A: A modern, powerful, but paid (currently Mar-2013 $69.99) file merging application for OS X is Kaleidoscope. It handles folders, files, and even images. Ad copy from the page: Compare text in Blocks, Fluid and Unified layouts in both Two-Way and Three-Way modes. Quickly navigate and search through the most readable diff you've ever seen. A: Araxis Merge (http://www.araxis.com/merge_mac/index.html) is the gold standard in this area and has a similar cost (what is the weight of bits?). There are Windows and Mac versions, and it is truly excellent if you find yourself spending a lot of time doing multiway diffs and merges (more common in these days of distributed version control systems). The pricing starts (as of Sept 2011) at $129. A: You can use FileMerge, Apple's diff solution. It's free and it comes with every Mac OS X install. The only downside is that you have to install the Developer Tools. You can find them on your DVD install that came when you bought your Mac (Snow Leopard or earlier). You can also get the developer tools from the App Store if your version of the OS supports that. Then, you can find it at /Developer/Applications/Utilities/FileMerge.app A: I've found the following applications: * *FileMerge (opendiff) It's no longer bundled with Xcode Command Line Tools, you must install Xcode from either the App Store or the Apple Developer Website. *DiffMerge *Pretty Diff Open sourced beautifier and language aware code comparison tool for many languages. *Meld Can be installed using Homebrew via command: brew install meld *TkDiff Can be installed using Homebrew via command: brew install tkdiff *TextWrangler *VisualDiffer Available on the App Store *Kaleidoscope Commercial with free trial. *Araxis Merge Commercial with free trial. *KDiff3 No longer in Homebrew, it has not been developed/updated since 2014. See also: * *Comparison of file comparison tools at Wikipedia for the full list. *What file comparison tool can I use under OS X? *Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool? *Code compare and merge tool for Mac OSX A: Maybe you will find the app SourceTree interesting: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git and Mercurial version control systems. Therefor it isn't a general purpose diff or merge tool but it is worth mentioning it. A: There's an application called SemanticMerge for Mac. SemanticMerge, as the name says :-), is a tool able to merge based on code structure instead of blocks of text. It basically means it parses the code first and then merges based on methods, classes and so on, so it is quite refactor friendly since it can match methods/functions even when they've been moved to different locations within the file. At the time of writing this, Semantic supports .NET, C, Java, C++ and JavaScript. A: Beyond Compare is now in beta for the Mac. It's the best diff/merge program I’ve used on Windows and is definitely worth checking out. http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_mac A: Perforce, a source control application, has a free * diff and merge tool that is cross platform and works fine on my mac. It's called P4Merge. http://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce-visual-merge-and-diff-tools It presents file-diffs very nicely and handles three-way merges like a champ. As a long-time WinMerge user I was very happy with it. Its use of little gem-like icons in a 3-way merge takes some getting used to. One icon is for my change, one for their's, and one for the common ancestor. Once you get that straight it was very helpful. * it was free, but may now be subject to Perforce's licensing. Perforce in-general is restricted to a certain number of users and/or files unless you buy it. However, these restrictions only make sense when using their server-side software. These client-only tools can't really be licensed like that. I'll update if I ever hear back from the company on this matter. A: Agree with the recommendation for FileMerge.app. You also have the free, cross-platform DiffMerge program, but I like FileMerge better. A: Stumbled upon this thread today and thought I'd contribute this new cross-platform OSS diff tool that supports file and directory comparision. It is a good alternative to WinMerge for Mac. http://meldmerge.org/ Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems. Meld helps you review code changes and understand patches. It might even help you to figure out what is going on in that merge you keep avoiding. A: I use VisualDiffer. It's not as good as WinMerge, but pretty close and very cheap (only $34.99 at the moment!). It is promising. Here's a screenshot. A: I am a Mac user attached to elegance and esthetics as a significant factor in productivity for cognitive reasons. A fully native and elegant Human Interface is for me of paramount importance. I tried many contenders (Araxis, P4Merge and many others). I purchased several. I loved Changes for a long while. Now my favorite is Kaleidoscope. It provides 3-way merge, it can compare images in a smart way, it has a slick and elegant interface. When an application claims to be cross-platform, that rings an alarm bell. More often than not, it means an ugly, non-native interface. Having to cringe when working is not my idea of having fun at work. A: Meld is a good option.. steps to install meld on Mac : * *Install MacPorts: Installation information can be found in : MacPort installation Before installing MacPort, you have to install Xcode and the Xcode Command Line Tools if your computer doesn't have them. *Open your terminal and execute following commands i) Installing rarian : "sudo port install rarian" II) Installing meld : "sued port install meld" *Configure the dbus service to start at boot I) sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist II) launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plistdf *Add LC_ALL variable to the .bash_profile file at your /home directory export LC_ALL=en_US *Type meld command in the terminal and the application will be launched for you. getting-meld-work-on-mac-os-x A: Changes - http://connectedflow.com/changes/ A: Seems like there were plans to make WinMerge 3 available for Mac too: * *http://forums.winmerge.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=231 *https://bitbucket.org/grimmdp/winmerge/issue/4/mac-os-x-use-winmerge-in-menu I haven't made my choice for Mac. But on Windows I use WinMerge, on Linux Meld (which is also available for Mac), currently using twdiff, I already tried FileMerge.app, and going to try DiffMerge. A note about Meld: Meld does work on OS X and Windows, but there are no all-in-one packages for those systems available at the moment. On OS X, Meld is available from MacPorts or Fink. A: My favorite free solution for merging the contents of files is KDiff3. KDiff3 can do two-way and three-way merges, has a decent GUI and has some pretty powerful features to assist with the merge. My favorite non-free, but inexpensive ($30-ish) solution for merging the contents of files is Beyond Compare 3. Yes, Beyond Compare 3 is only available as a native Windows or Linux app, but I run it in WiNE via the easy to use Wineskin Winery app. When it comes to merging the content of directories both KDiff3 and Beyond Compare 3 can do it, but IMO KDiff3 is not very usable in this regard. Fortunately Beyond Compare 3 excels at directory merges, even on OS X.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: My iPod touch takes gigantic videos; how come it takes such tiny photos? Is there any way to take higher resolution pictures with it? The videos are massive! A: No, you can't currently. Im assuming this is a 4th gen iPod Touch - since its the only one with a camera. It can do 720p videos, but it looks like they also limited the picture size to be about the same. This was a large complaint when the new Touch was announced, since the iPhone now has a 5mp camera.

Q: My iPod touch takes gigantic videos; how come it takes such tiny photos? Is there any way to take higher resolution pictures with it? The videos are massive! A: No, you can't currently. Im assuming this is a 4th gen iPod Touch - since its the only one with a camera. It can do 720p videos, but it looks like they also limited the picture size to be about the same. This was a large complaint when the new Touch was announced, since the iPhone now has a 5mp camera.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: adjust battery-warning-level of magic mouse How can I adjust the level at which Mac OS warns me about the battery of my magic mouse? I always have a lack of batteries, so I would prefer if the battery warning comes up at 15 or 20%, so I could work the rest of the day with the almost empty batteries and put them in the charger before I go to sleep. Right now, if the warning occurs in the morning I have a problem. I tried to steal the batteries out of my girlfriends camera or her wireless keyboard, but she does karate and defends her batteries. Buying another set is not an option. A way to get the battery level via applescript, shellscript, automator, whatever would be applicable too. A: This thread has some scripts that can help you. It seems that you wrap the results of this shell snippet in a nice AppleScript: ioreg -c BNBMouseDevice | grep BatteryPercent

Q: adjust battery-warning-level of magic mouse How can I adjust the level at which Mac OS warns me about the battery of my magic mouse? I always have a lack of batteries, so I would prefer if the battery warning comes up at 15 or 20%, so I could work the rest of the day with the almost empty batteries and put them in the charger before I go to sleep. Right now, if the warning occurs in the morning I have a problem. I tried to steal the batteries out of my girlfriends camera or her wireless keyboard, but she does karate and defends her batteries. Buying another set is not an option. A way to get the battery level via applescript, shellscript, automator, whatever would be applicable too. A: This thread has some scripts that can help you. It seems that you wrap the results of this shell snippet in a nice AppleScript: ioreg -c BNBMouseDevice | grep BatteryPercent A: In my macOS Sierra 10.12.6, there is no BNBMouseDevice. Script which works for me is: ioreg -c AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService -r -l | grep BatteryPercent | sed 's/[^[:digit:]]//g' Source: Check the battery level of connected bluetooth headphones from the command line

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript? I want to restart Safari and reopen it with some tabs that I specify. A: An alternative method is to use Safari's built-in "Reopen All Windows from Last Session" feature: tell application "Safari" quit end tell delay 2 -- Wait for Safari to close tell application "Safari" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Safari" click menu item "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" of menu "History" of menu bar 1 end tell end tell

Q: Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript? I want to restart Safari and reopen it with some tabs that I specify. A: An alternative method is to use Safari's built-in "Reopen All Windows from Last Session" feature: tell application "Safari" quit end tell delay 2 -- Wait for Safari to close tell application "Safari" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Safari" click menu item "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" of menu "History" of menu bar 1 end tell end tell A: To save windows/tabs from a session and be able to reopen them, there's a solution here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20030913153245341 Be sure to read the comments, apparently there have been several updates to the scripts. Edit: Just use Chealion's answer, much smoother. If you just want to open a certain set of tabs, you can use this script: tell application "Safari" set urllist to {"http://google.com", "http://stackoverflow.com", "http://apple.stackexchange.com"} repeat with i from 1 to number of items in urllist set URL of document 1 to item i of urllist if i is less than number of items in urllist then my new_tab() end if end repeat end tell on new_tab() tell application "Safari" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Safari" click menu item "New Tab" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 end tell end tell end new_tab Just list the addresses of the pages you want to open between the {} on line 2. Each address within "" and separated by ,.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: New folders are created in root instead of currently selected folder When I click on a folder and choose File->New Folder the folder is created in the root directory of my current view instead of the currently selected (highlighted) folder. How do I make it so when I create a new folder it will create the folder inside of the current highlighted directory? A: You can't. Finder creates new folders in the folder currently being displayed, not the folder you've highlighted. First you have to display the folder you want the new one in - double click it, then create the new one.

Q: New folders are created in root instead of currently selected folder When I click on a folder and choose File->New Folder the folder is created in the root directory of my current view instead of the currently selected (highlighted) folder. How do I make it so when I create a new folder it will create the folder inside of the current highlighted directory? A: You can't. Finder creates new folders in the folder currently being displayed, not the folder you've highlighted. First you have to display the folder you want the new one in - double click it, then create the new one. A: Open the folder you want to create the new folder in first (double-click). Then choose File->New Folder or Shift-Cmd-N. A: There's no built-in way to do that in Finder (as of macOS 12 Monterey, 2021), but you can create a custom Automator action instead. This will provide a right click menu item, as well as a keyboard shortcut, to create a folder under the selected folder in Finder. See the detailed steps at this answer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I use Mac's Preview application text speech feature? How could I let Preview start speaking a selected paragraph? I found the speech menu item in the edit menu but this starts speaking from the beginning of the document! A: There is a convenient way of making your Mac speak any selected text. * *Open System Preferences. *Select Speech. *Select the Text to Speech tab if it is not already selected. *Check the box for Speak selected text when the key is pressed and provide a key combination of your choice. You can now use the key combination to speak selected text system-wide.

Q: How do I use Mac's Preview application text speech feature? How could I let Preview start speaking a selected paragraph? I found the speech menu item in the edit menu but this starts speaking from the beginning of the document! A: There is a convenient way of making your Mac speak any selected text. * *Open System Preferences. *Select Speech. *Select the Text to Speech tab if it is not already selected. *Check the box for Speak selected text when the key is pressed and provide a key combination of your choice. You can now use the key combination to speak selected text system-wide. A: I read the above comment and tried to follow the instructions I was unsuccessful (as I didn't highlight the text). Although, having now solved the issue you need to highlight the selected text and then press the key combination (mine is ctrl+s). Now I use it on all applications including preview, Microsoft Word, chrome etc. I love it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to share an iTunes library with other user accounts on the same machine? I would like to share the iTunes library my the account of my wife. But (in importance order): * *files should not be duplicated *playlist and rating are user dependent *podcast are user dependent Then, she will managed her ipod with her account. A: There's an app called PowerTunes that will keep all of the meta-data for a library synchronized between multiple users on a machine. Playlists, ratings, play counts -- all of that stuff that isn't just the physical files. It'll obviously keep all of the iTunes instances for all users aware of all the current physical files on disk too.

Q: How to share an iTunes library with other user accounts on the same machine? I would like to share the iTunes library my the account of my wife. But (in importance order): * *files should not be duplicated *playlist and rating are user dependent *podcast are user dependent Then, she will managed her ipod with her account. A: There's an app called PowerTunes that will keep all of the meta-data for a library synchronized between multiple users on a machine. Playlists, ratings, play counts -- all of that stuff that isn't just the physical files. It'll obviously keep all of the iTunes instances for all users aware of all the current physical files on disk too. A: I was going to start explaining you what you can (and can’t) do or how hard was this going to be, but a single google query lead me to this excellent thread an Apple forum. I’m going to quote the relevant part, but I suggest you read it all because there’s more information there and more “why” questions. We assume you have copied all the music to a Central location (be it a machine or a NAS drive or whatever), so somewhere in the network or your harddrive all your music files (library) are accessible to your wife and you (and theoretically both can write to that location, important when adding files). It doesn’t matter if they are in different computers or just accounts. With that in mind: * *Each future user of the library should launch iTunes with the Option key held down and Create Library. (A blank one). *With this new iTunes window open, go into iTunes Preferences and UN-check "Keep iTunes Music folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". *Then, they must add the music to the Library, selecting the tracks from the folder where all the music is stored (the common place mentioned above), which will import all the tracks into this new Library without copying the files again (hence why step #2). *From this point they can create their own playlists and stuff and they can even check the things they unchecked in step #2, in case they decide to add new tracks (see drawback), you’ll want to have them in the central location. From this point they both have a Library.XML (stores playlists, tracks location, etc.) and that library.xml points to the physical mp3/4 on the “common location” (tracks are not duplicated as you requested). DRAWBACK (and the fact that there’s no better solution): If either user of the library adds new music, regardless of the “keep music organized” and “copy files” checkboxes, the other user(s) are not going to see the changes. The reason being that they are modifying their local copy of the library “xml” (which is where all the playlist and stuff is stored). If USER1 adds 1 track, USER2 will have to find the track in the library and manually add it to his/her own library. As you can see, iTunes was not really designed for multiuser. Go ahead and read the post, it will give you more pros/cons and maybe other ideas. EDIT: one way to know “what is new” in the library folder (where the music is actually stored) would be to create a smart folder that shows files added in the last “xx” days (for example). :) A: You should make ~/Music/iTunes/ a symlink to a shared location accessible to all users of the computer. A: The best way is to sign in to iTunes match on both accounts. They will then keep in sync. You will have the same playlists on both though.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Offline furigana for iOS Is there any software to compute and display furigana completely offline? It doesn't have to be integrated with any existing app. A new standalone app I type into is fine. A: You have several apps available on the App store now - just search for Furigana. I have a friend that likes this one, but YMMV: * *Furigana Reader - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/furigana-reader/id529433422?mt=8 It does not work offline, so it doesn't meet your requirements unless you fail to find any offline software and can relax that constraint.

Q: Offline furigana for iOS Is there any software to compute and display furigana completely offline? It doesn't have to be integrated with any existing app. A new standalone app I type into is fine. A: You have several apps available on the App store now - just search for Furigana. I have a friend that likes this one, but YMMV: * *Furigana Reader - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/furigana-reader/id529433422?mt=8 It does not work offline, so it doesn't meet your requirements unless you fail to find any offline software and can relax that constraint. A: I'm a little confused here. You want an app that you can type kanji into and get the kana in return. But the only way to type kanji into the iPhone is by typing it phonetically, which gives you the kana for free, essentially. There are a number of self-contained Japanese dictionary apps for the iPhone. Most of them use the EDICT dictionary. I've got one that can import EPWING-formatted dictionaries, and have imported Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary into it. This seems like the closest to what you want. I think. I get the impression that it has the dictionaries built-in, but I could be wrong.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Are there keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp in OS X? How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)? I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps. I also want general solution I get that Kyle Cronin♦ was do the same in some apps, but what about others? is there any tricky solution? A: You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys: fn+↑ is PageUp fn+↓ is PageDown fn+← is Home fn+→ is End

Q: Are there keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp in OS X? How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)? I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps. I also want general solution I get that Kyle Cronin♦ was do the same in some apps, but what about others? is there any tricky solution? A: You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys: fn+↑ is PageUp fn+↓ is PageDown fn+← is Home fn+→ is End A: I found another solution for you while I was playing around with KeyRemap4MacBook. Check out the settings pictured below. See anything you like? :) A: On my MBP it's: CMD + FN + <- for HOME and CMD + FN + -> for END A: ⌘+→ works like a PC's End (moves the cursor to the end of the line). ⌘+← works like a PC's Home (moves to the beginning of the line). ctrl+A and ctrl+E (Emacs-style keybindings) work in most OS X applications as well. A: For Eclipse it appears that these keys aren't even set to anything by default, at least in my installation. You probably need to set them in the preferences: I don't know exactly where the end and home Windows-like functions are in this screen, I couldn't find anything yet that sounds like what they do. Something like "move cursor to end\beginning of line" was what I was looking for. If you're talking about Safari's address bar, try ⌘+→ and ⌘+← for end and home. Those work in lots of other apps as well. A: In Terminal, you can use ⌥ Opt+← for home and ⌥ Opt+→ for end. Although this is on a Swedish keyboard.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I move my menubar to an external monitor? I just asked this question (Using External Monitor and Spaces. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right?) and @calavera gave me a great answer, thanks! But now I have another question. It seems that the menubar wants to stay with the laptop and doesn't seem to be possible to move to the external monitor. Am I beating a dead horse here or is it somehow possible to achieve the layout I'm looking for? See screenshot: (source: mikeschinkel.com) A: SecondBar is also an excellent free app that will add a second menu bar on the other monitor.

Q: How do I move my menubar to an external monitor? I just asked this question (Using External Monitor and Spaces. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right?) and @calavera gave me a great answer, thanks! But now I have another question. It seems that the menubar wants to stay with the laptop and doesn't seem to be possible to move to the external monitor. Am I beating a dead horse here or is it somehow possible to achieve the layout I'm looking for? See screenshot: (source: mikeschinkel.com) A: SecondBar is also an excellent free app that will add a second menu bar on the other monitor. A: Try and drag the menubar icon you're pointing to in that screenshot to the other monitor. It's kind of hard to grab with the mouse pointer but it should work if you can click/drag that white space rather than the blue space representing the monitor.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why does my iPhone alarm go off one hour late? I live in Italy and since the summer time change; I cannot set up the alarm to ring at the appropriate time. I need the alarm to ring at 6:30 am, but if i set the alarm to 6:30 it rings at 7:30 instead. It's very annoying. I tried to delete every alarm i had set before and create new ones, but i doesn't change anything. How can i fix it? A: I believe you’re a victim of the iPhone time bug. You don’t specify your iPhone model nor iOS version, but I’m sure you have the above mentioned problem: Reports from around the world have exposed a daylights savings flaw in the iOS software, which is causing alarms to go off either an hour late or early, depending on where you live. Google for more love in the subject.

Q: Why does my iPhone alarm go off one hour late? I live in Italy and since the summer time change; I cannot set up the alarm to ring at the appropriate time. I need the alarm to ring at 6:30 am, but if i set the alarm to 6:30 it rings at 7:30 instead. It's very annoying. I tried to delete every alarm i had set before and create new ones, but i doesn't change anything. How can i fix it? A: I believe you’re a victim of the iPhone time bug. You don’t specify your iPhone model nor iOS version, but I’m sure you have the above mentioned problem: Reports from around the world have exposed a daylights savings flaw in the iOS software, which is causing alarms to go off either an hour late or early, depending on where you live. Google for more love in the subject. A: I ran into the same annoyance myself, and stumbled into this workaround: Edit the "Repeat" setting for your alarm, and set it either to "Every day" or "Never". Now the alarm goes off when it should, unlike when it's set to e.g. "Weekdays". Here's a screenshot — green works and red doesn't: For more background info, I recommend these MacRumors articles: * *iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug Strikes Europe *Apple Support Acknowledges iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug The latter post contains Apple's recommended workaround (same thing as above, but with some additional information): To resolve this behavior for existing alarms, set the repeat interval to Never. You will need to reset these alarms for each day you need them. After November 7th, 2010, you can set your alarms to repeat again. It's now past November 7, and I just verified alarm works correctly again, even if repeat is set to e.g. "Weekdays". Which is nice. But I hope they fix the bug once and for all before the next DST shift occurs!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Alternatives to command line unzip? I've found that the command line unzip tool doesn't gracefully handle some of the files I'm unzipping: it makes a bunch of junk directories, and creates files whose resource forks aren't found. (Perhaps they were created strangely.) $ unzip -d NEW-DIRECTORY ZIP Anyways, using Archive Utility is a start, because I can run the following and it is close (and it doesn't mess up my files): $ open -a "Archive Utility" ZIP But this does not allow me to specify a new directory for the contents!! It automatically puts them in the current directory. :P What are my alternatives? A: The Unarchiver has a beta version of their command line utility available on their downloads page.

Q: Alternatives to command line unzip? I've found that the command line unzip tool doesn't gracefully handle some of the files I'm unzipping: it makes a bunch of junk directories, and creates files whose resource forks aren't found. (Perhaps they were created strangely.) $ unzip -d NEW-DIRECTORY ZIP Anyways, using Archive Utility is a start, because I can run the following and it is close (and it doesn't mess up my files): $ open -a "Archive Utility" ZIP But this does not allow me to specify a new directory for the contents!! It automatically puts them in the current directory. :P What are my alternatives? A: The Unarchiver has a beta version of their command line utility available on their downloads page. A: I saw this extremely helpful answer to a problem I was having unzipping applications on another board from user patashnik: unzip doesn't handle the embedded resourceforks in ZIP files created by the Finder. If you want to unarchive those files from the CLI, use ditto: ditto -V -x -k --sequesterRsrc --rsrc FILENAME.ZIP DESTINATIONDIRECTORY If you want to unpack the archive in the current directory, use . as DESTINATIONDIRECTORY A: "The Unarchiver" is a great tool, and I highly recommend it, both the GUI and the CLI tools. That said, my unzip command is ditto -xk foo.zip target_dir where 'target_dir' is the directory where I want the files to appear (and it can be '.' if you want them to unzip right there). Note that 'target_dir' will be created if needed. Also note that ditto does not mind overwriting files, so use with care. ditto on Mac OS X is designed to preserve resource forks, etc. so it is my preferred method of unzipping files, especially because it ships with OS X by default. A: 7z can handle some oddly zipped files brew install p7zip 7z x weirdarchive.zip A: you can use also: * *yemuzip and * *stuffit-expander (not free) A: Springy is a very versatile unarchiver. Shareware - and worth it to me. A: brew install unar and then: unar foo.zip

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the best free FTP server for Mac OS X Server? I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on a mac mini and was wondering what the best free FTP server was? I hear okay things about pure-ftpd but I'd like something with an easy to manage UI as well etc... A: Unless you’re planning on running an extremely heavy loaded FTP server (which the mini won’t be able to handle anyway) the built in FTP Server should be enough. Pure-ftpd is a classic in the Unix world and I’m sure you can of course make that run under OS X, but it doesn’t have a “UI”, it’s all command line. (But very easy to configure anyway).

Q: What is the best free FTP server for Mac OS X Server? I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on a mac mini and was wondering what the best free FTP server was? I hear okay things about pure-ftpd but I'd like something with an easy to manage UI as well etc... A: Unless you’re planning on running an extremely heavy loaded FTP server (which the mini won’t be able to handle anyway) the built in FTP Server should be enough. Pure-ftpd is a classic in the Unix world and I’m sure you can of course make that run under OS X, but it doesn’t have a “UI”, it’s all command line. (But very easy to configure anyway). A: edit: sorry, speed read and missed the part about best free server. Rumpus is not free. Hands down best FTP server for OS X is Rumpus. We use it at work to deliver content to clients and also to receive content from providers. Extremely easy to use, but is also very configurable. We have been using it for years & he dev has always replied to our emails within 24hrs. Worth a try, it will not disappoint! A: The built in web server is great, and the Server Admin tools in Mac OS Server also make managing the machine awesome as well. A: That is correct. The build in FTP is great. But Symbolic Links show up as binaries as soon as the mapped driver is not on the system it self but an network share. So it's is not usable for me. And there is no alternative that has the same quality standards as OS X. I've been asking all over the place but the question is asked several times no one has an answer. That is a pitty. Gr. LeoFric

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I automount afp volumes at startup? I bought a NAS to store my media files and I'd like to automount the volumes on startup. Currently I'm opening those volumes as a Login Item under System Preferences > Accounts. This works, but it unfortunately also pops up each volume in a new Finder window on boot up. Checking the hide on the items only hides the processes, not the resulting Finder window from those processes. A solution that avoids those Finder popups would be great. I'd like to avoid any 3rd party apps to accomplish this too. A: I found this script from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050215082247458, but I'll reproduce it below. * *Open up Script Editor and paste in: set sfiles to "afp://user:pass@host/volume" tell application "Finder" mount volume sfiles end tell * *Replace sfiles with the appropriate details of your AFP volume. *Add appropriate other lines for the other servers you have, both above and inside the tell *Save this script somewhere safe and add it to the login item pane (instead of the Volumes you have there now)

Q: How can I automount afp volumes at startup? I bought a NAS to store my media files and I'd like to automount the volumes on startup. Currently I'm opening those volumes as a Login Item under System Preferences > Accounts. This works, but it unfortunately also pops up each volume in a new Finder window on boot up. Checking the hide on the items only hides the processes, not the resulting Finder window from those processes. A solution that avoids those Finder popups would be great. I'd like to avoid any 3rd party apps to accomplish this too. A: I found this script from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050215082247458, but I'll reproduce it below. * *Open up Script Editor and paste in: set sfiles to "afp://user:pass@host/volume" tell application "Finder" mount volume sfiles end tell * *Replace sfiles with the appropriate details of your AFP volume. *Add appropriate other lines for the other servers you have, both above and inside the tell *Save this script somewhere safe and add it to the login item pane (instead of the Volumes you have there now) A: TL;DR Use AppleScript, but do not specify the user name or password. Background In my case, none of the suggestions that I found online worked perfectly. I had several AFP volumes that I wanted to mount automatically. Following the advice given here and elsewhere, the obvious solution seemed to be an AppleScript file with something along these lines: tell application "Finder" try mount volume "afp://user@server/a" mount volume "afp://user@server/b" mount volume "afp://user@server/c" end try end tell Now, this almost works. From the perspective of Finder, it looks as if all volumes are correctly mounted. However, if you use the terminal, you can see the problem. The following has happened: * *The volumes are mounted on directories /Volumes/a, /Volumes/b-1, and /Volumes/c-1. *There are empty directories /Volumes/b and /Volumes/c. Whether you care about it depends on your intended use, but I needed a solution in which the file system paths are more predictable. After spending a lot of time playing with all variants of this, it seems that the crucial thing is the following: If you specify the user name and you have already mounted some volumes from the same AFP server, things go wrong. Hence the following solution. Solution * *Make sure that everything works correctly when you use Finder: you can mount volumes by clicking on the share, and you do not need to enter any passwords. If Finder asks for a user name and password, tell it to remember the password. *Create an AppleScript application as follows. Open AppleScript Editor. Write a piece of code like this: tell application "Finder" try mount volume "afp://server/a" mount volume "afp://server/b" mount volume "afp://server/c" end try end tell Here "server" is the host name of the server (if Finder displays the server name "x", you can try to use the host name "x.local"). Replace "a", "b", and "c" with the names of the volumes that you want to mount. Make sure you do not try to specify any user names or passwords. Compile and save it, using the file format "Application" (you will get the file name extension ".app" automatically). *Test it by running the application that you just created. Most likely it asks for the user name and password; enter them and again tell it to remember the password. *Unmount (using Finder), and try it again. It should just work, without asking anything. The paths should be correct (no -1 suffixes). *Add the application to your login items (System Preferences; Users & Groups).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I make the Globe key disappear from the keyboard? I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a "globe" key is always near the bottom of the keyboard. This annoys the heck out of me because I keep accidentally tapping it. Any way to turn it off? A: Under Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards you've got a list of all the keyboard layouts available. To remove the "Globe" key, you need to have only one keyboard enabled.

Q: How do I make the Globe key disappear from the keyboard? I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a "globe" key is always near the bottom of the keyboard. This annoys the heck out of me because I keep accidentally tapping it. Any way to turn it off? A: Under Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards you've got a list of all the keyboard layouts available. To remove the "Globe" key, you need to have only one keyboard enabled.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Email-based FaceTime on iPhone 4? The new iPod Touch and the Mac FaceTime app both allow the user to send and receive FaceTime calls with their email address/Apple ID as the identifier. Is it possible to set up an iPhone 4 to send/receive FaceTime calls with my email address instead of my phone number? A: On the iPhone itself, you are unable to add "e-mail address aliases" like in the OSX App. The only method of having people call your iPhone is by giving them your phone number. As far as the iPhone making facetime calls, the only easy way I've seen to do it is to already have their Facetime address in your Address Book, or use Safari. Open Safari on your iPhone, go to the URL bar, type: <facetime://their@email.addr>, then tap the "Facetime" acknowledgement button afterwards.

Q: Email-based FaceTime on iPhone 4? The new iPod Touch and the Mac FaceTime app both allow the user to send and receive FaceTime calls with their email address/Apple ID as the identifier. Is it possible to set up an iPhone 4 to send/receive FaceTime calls with my email address instead of my phone number? A: On the iPhone itself, you are unable to add "e-mail address aliases" like in the OSX App. The only method of having people call your iPhone is by giving them your phone number. As far as the iPhone making facetime calls, the only easy way I've seen to do it is to already have their Facetime address in your Address Book, or use Safari. Open Safari on your iPhone, go to the URL bar, type: <facetime://their@email.addr>, then tap the "Facetime" acknowledgement button afterwards. A: I'm not following why everyone else is saying this can't be done. I have people facetime me all the time on my phone, by using my AppleID email address. I also contact others this same way, and it works just fine. In fact it has the added bonus of ringing ALL iDevices linked to that address. So when someone facetimes my AppleID, it rings on my iPhone, Mac, and iPad all at the same time, allowing me to answer it wherever I am at that moment. I didn't do anything special to set this up... just went into FaceTime under Settings, and added the email address(es) I wanted people to be able to reach me on. Works fine. Maybe this is specifically a problem on the iPhone 4 as opposed to the 4s which is what I have? A: I think email address is the only way to do it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to prevent the black screen on iPod Touch? Is there a way to not let the iPod touch switch the screen off? I want to use my iPod as a "count down" timer with the built-in clock app. But after some time, the screen turns black thanks to the energy saver policy. I actually want to see the count down until the time is up! A: I haven't got my iPod Touch with me but this works on the iPhone if you go to Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock and set it to Never. That should work. Let me know if iPod Touch has removed this. Don't know why they would have!

Q: How to prevent the black screen on iPod Touch? Is there a way to not let the iPod touch switch the screen off? I want to use my iPod as a "count down" timer with the built-in clock app. But after some time, the screen turns black thanks to the energy saver policy. I actually want to see the count down until the time is up! A: I haven't got my iPod Touch with me but this works on the iPhone if you go to Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock and set it to Never. That should work. Let me know if iPod Touch has removed this. Don't know why they would have!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I change multiple line code indentation in Textmate? When I use textmate, I select multiple lines and I press TAB, I would like to change the indentation of my code, rather than deleting it. Is there a way to change this functionality? A: Using Alt + Tab also works.

Q: How can I change multiple line code indentation in Textmate? When I use textmate, I select multiple lines and I press TAB, I would like to change the indentation of my code, rather than deleting it. Is there a way to change this functionality? A: Using Alt + Tab also works. A: Not sure about changing the tab but you can use CMD + } to indent multiple lines of code at the same time. CMD + { pushes it to the right. A: I like to hold down alt and then use the mouse to select a column of text. Then I hit tab to indent the lines.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Set default input/output sound I have a mac that is hooked into a sound board, I have external sound card that interfaces between the computer and the soundboard, this works great. However, whenever the computer restarts it sets the input & output to the 'internal microphone' and the 'built in output'. I'd like to default to the other soundcard. How can I do this? I'm running OS 10.6.3 A: I use SoundSource (Freeware) to set my output/inputs and they persist (I have a Firewire Audio Interface and a M-Audio Pro USB). What sound board do you have? Why are you running 10.6.3 and not .4?

Q: Set default input/output sound I have a mac that is hooked into a sound board, I have external sound card that interfaces between the computer and the soundboard, this works great. However, whenever the computer restarts it sets the input & output to the 'internal microphone' and the 'built in output'. I'd like to default to the other soundcard. How can I do this? I'm running OS 10.6.3 A: I use SoundSource (Freeware) to set my output/inputs and they persist (I have a Firewire Audio Interface and a M-Audio Pro USB). What sound board do you have? Why are you running 10.6.3 and not .4?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone/iPad alarm clock app with custom radio stream support Is there a iPhone (or even better iPad) alarm clock app that will play a radio stream of my choosing to wake me up? With custom stream I mean the possibility to enter a custom URL to a .pls file, and that pls contains a URL to a mp3. Something like TimeTurner but with the custom stream support. A: TuneIn Radio. I've not looked back since.

Q: iPhone/iPad alarm clock app with custom radio stream support Is there a iPhone (or even better iPad) alarm clock app that will play a radio stream of my choosing to wake me up? With custom stream I mean the possibility to enter a custom URL to a .pls file, and that pls contains a URL to a mp3. Something like TimeTurner but with the custom stream support. A: TuneIn Radio. I've not looked back since. A: Radio Alarm is a great iPhone app that works well with custom streams (.pls file that points to a MP3) and has a lot of well working alarm features. A: Tunemark Radio is a iPad/iPhone app that support custom streams (.pls file that points to a MP3), but isn't really written to work as a alarm clock so has poor alarm features. A: Update 2016 (post iOS 8.0): Bedr radio alarm clock, which is able to run in a background state.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a hard keyboard case for the iPad keyboard? Is there a hard case for the Apple wireless keyboard for the iPad? The case is to make the keyboard safe to transport, like in a backpack or something. A: I couldn't find any hard cases, but Waterfield/SFBags makes some nice soft cases you can use for transporting your Apple Bluetooth Keyboard: (source: sfbags.com) (source: sfbags.com)

Q: Is there a hard keyboard case for the iPad keyboard? Is there a hard case for the Apple wireless keyboard for the iPad? The case is to make the keyboard safe to transport, like in a backpack or something. A: I couldn't find any hard cases, but Waterfield/SFBags makes some nice soft cases you can use for transporting your Apple Bluetooth Keyboard: (source: sfbags.com) (source: sfbags.com) A: I really like the inCase Origami Workstation because in addition to protecting the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, it unfolds to support the iPad in a comfortable typing position. Andy Ihnatko included it in A spring selection of iPad-friendly accessories worth a look Apologies for the commerce link above. The link is to the manufacturer's site and they don't separate product from store. The Origami is widely available from a number of sources—I picked mine up at a local Apple Store—and no endorsement of inCase as the retail outlet is implied.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”? I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the mouse is starting to show its age and I've been looking at Apple's Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, and I'm wondering - do either of these support the "middle click" operation? If not, is there a gesture or a multi-finger click that can be used for the same things (i.e. opening new tabs, etc)? A: Multitouch is another option for adding "middle click" functionality to the Magic Mouse. (Disclaimer, I'm the developer.)

Q: Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”? I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the mouse is starting to show its age and I've been looking at Apple's Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, and I'm wondering - do either of these support the "middle click" operation? If not, is there a gesture or a multi-finger click that can be used for the same things (i.e. opening new tabs, etc)? A: Multitouch is another option for adding "middle click" functionality to the Magic Mouse. (Disclaimer, I'm the developer.) A: Our friends over at SuperUser have an answer for us: Here are two utilities that will allow you to customize gestures on the Magic Mouse, including adding middle click: * *MagicPrefs *Better Touch Tool A: Middle Click is a free app and is perfect for that.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I print envelopes/address labels from Address Book? As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing addresses from Address Book? If so, how would I do this? If not, is there a program that will interface with Address Book and do this? If it's not possible to do envelopes, would it possible to at least print labels? A: Address Book has this functionality built in. First, create a group and drag the contacts you want to send mail to into that group: Select the group, then go File -> Print. Under the Style menu, you will see that you have the option to print either envelopers or address labels. The Layout tab will let you configure what specific kind of labels or envelopes you have:

Q: Can I print envelopes/address labels from Address Book? As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing addresses from Address Book? If so, how would I do this? If not, is there a program that will interface with Address Book and do this? If it's not possible to do envelopes, would it possible to at least print labels? A: Address Book has this functionality built in. First, create a group and drag the contacts you want to send mail to into that group: Select the group, then go File -> Print. Under the Style menu, you will see that you have the option to print either envelopers or address labels. The Layout tab will let you configure what specific kind of labels or envelopes you have:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What devices can receive an iOS AirPlay audio stream? In addition to printing, the other feature in iOS 4.2 that I'd been looking forward to was AirPlay. My understanding from the keynote when it was introduced was that it allowed iOS to stream audio to existing AirTunes equipment (as well as provide video to the new Apple TV), but I can't get my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2 to stream audio to my old Apple TV like iTunes can. Is this a known problem? Are there any workarounds, besides buying one of the new Apple TVs (which I can't because my TV is component, not HDMI)? A: Yes, this would be known. First, the old Apple TV won't be getting the update (since its now iOS based), and therefore wont support airplay. Not sure of any workarounds for an old Apple TV that use the actual AirPlay standard. A hack may exist after 4.2 has been out for a while, but I think most people decided to just move to the new Apple TV instead.

Q: What devices can receive an iOS AirPlay audio stream? In addition to printing, the other feature in iOS 4.2 that I'd been looking forward to was AirPlay. My understanding from the keynote when it was introduced was that it allowed iOS to stream audio to existing AirTunes equipment (as well as provide video to the new Apple TV), but I can't get my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2 to stream audio to my old Apple TV like iTunes can. Is this a known problem? Are there any workarounds, besides buying one of the new Apple TVs (which I can't because my TV is component, not HDMI)? A: Yes, this would be known. First, the old Apple TV won't be getting the update (since its now iOS based), and therefore wont support airplay. Not sure of any workarounds for an old Apple TV that use the actual AirPlay standard. A hack may exist after 4.2 has been out for a while, but I think most people decided to just move to the new Apple TV instead.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I take a screenshot on my Mac? What's the easiest way to take a screenshot of my Mac? I've used Grab.app, but it's a bit annoying just to get a quick screenshot. Is there a faster way? A: cmd shift 3 takes a screenshot of the entire current Desktop (all attached monitors, as separate shots]. cmd shift 4 takes a screenshot of a dragged selection. cmd shift 4 then space (you must press space separately) then click, to take a screenshot of a specific window. Holding Opt ⌥ as you click will remove the drop-shadow. Add control to the shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.

Q: How do I take a screenshot on my Mac? What's the easiest way to take a screenshot of my Mac? I've used Grab.app, but it's a bit annoying just to get a quick screenshot. Is there a faster way? A: cmd shift 3 takes a screenshot of the entire current Desktop (all attached monitors, as separate shots]. cmd shift 4 takes a screenshot of a dragged selection. cmd shift 4 then space (you must press space separately) then click, to take a screenshot of a specific window. Holding Opt ⌥ as you click will remove the drop-shadow. Add control to the shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop. A: Also you may define a shortcut key for copying the selected area to clipboard as I did. Here is how: * *System Preferences *Select Keyboard Pane *Select Keyboard Shortcuts tab *Select Screen Shots from left menu *Double click to the shortcut option of "Copy picture of selected area to the clipboard" and define a key that rarely used (eg:F13) And done! From now on, when press that key, the area selection pointer appears and after you select the region on the screen, it copies the picture to the clipboard and you may paste anywhere. Hope it helps...

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Any Problem in Letting iPhone 4 Battery Drop to 0? Is there any problem if I let my iphone 4 battery drops to 0%? I remember for older smartphones, once your battery flattens out all your data is lost, because they are stored in memory. While I understand that iphone shouldn't have this problem, but I wonder whether is there any problem if the battery goes flat? A: Not really. You won't suffer any data loss because the iPhone keeps everything on non-volatile flash memory. A complete discharge isn't great for the battery, but as long as it's not a regular habit your phone will be OK.

Q: Any Problem in Letting iPhone 4 Battery Drop to 0? Is there any problem if I let my iphone 4 battery drops to 0%? I remember for older smartphones, once your battery flattens out all your data is lost, because they are stored in memory. While I understand that iphone shouldn't have this problem, but I wonder whether is there any problem if the battery goes flat? A: Not really. You won't suffer any data loss because the iPhone keeps everything on non-volatile flash memory. A complete discharge isn't great for the battery, but as long as it's not a regular habit your phone will be OK. A: It should not be problem, but avoid leaving the battery in an uncharged state as this can cause it damage. The phone turns off before the battery is completely discharged anyway to guard against this just don't leave it for days like that. Apple recommend having a complete battery cycle (go from fully charged to depleted and back to charged again) once a month anyway.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: My wireless has been set to “inactive”, how do I reactivate it? I seem to have inadvertently deactivated my wireless in the "Network" section of System Preferences. When I go to the Airport icon in the menu bar it looks like a semicircle that, when clicked on, says "Airport: Not Configured". When I go to configure it, the status is shown as "Inactive", with no "Activate" button in sight. How can I get my wireless working again? A: The toggle to make a network adapter active/inactive is somewhat hidden. Select the AirPort adapter, then click the button that looks like a gear at the bottom of the list. This will open a dropdown and you can select "Make Service Active":

Q: My wireless has been set to “inactive”, how do I reactivate it? I seem to have inadvertently deactivated my wireless in the "Network" section of System Preferences. When I go to the Airport icon in the menu bar it looks like a semicircle that, when clicked on, says "Airport: Not Configured". When I go to configure it, the status is shown as "Inactive", with no "Activate" button in sight. How can I get my wireless working again? A: The toggle to make a network adapter active/inactive is somewhat hidden. Select the AirPort adapter, then click the button that looks like a gear at the bottom of the list. This will open a dropdown and you can select "Make Service Active": A: Seems like a problem with your connection to your network. Check that you're being properly authenticated, e.g. you have the correct WEP key, password.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I print a booklet from a pdf file? I have a pdf document, and I want to print it as a booklet, i.e. two pages of the document on each side of a sheet of paper and so that (when printed) the entire thing can just be folded in the middle to create a small booklet. How can I do this easily? A: "Booklet printing" is called imposition in the terminology of the professional printing business. Cheap Impostor is a utility for doing exactly what you want. It costs US $35, and has a free trial with some features disabled. It is affordable for casual use, but also good enough for professional imposition.

Q: How can I print a booklet from a pdf file? I have a pdf document, and I want to print it as a booklet, i.e. two pages of the document on each side of a sheet of paper and so that (when printed) the entire thing can just be folded in the middle to create a small booklet. How can I do this easily? A: "Booklet printing" is called imposition in the terminology of the professional printing business. Cheap Impostor is a utility for doing exactly what you want. It costs US $35, and has a free trial with some features disabled. It is affordable for casual use, but also good enough for professional imposition. A: Open the PDF in preview, go to the print dialog and you'll find some (hopefully) helpful settings — I say hopefully as I've not done exactly what you're after... Click the little down arrow next to the printer name to expand the print dialog if its not already larger. In the bottom half of the dialog window, there's a drop-down menu where you can select a few relevant options: * *In Layout (in the drop-down menu), Pages per Sheet (you can set this to 2 to have a left and right side on each page) *Also in Layout, Two-Sided (you can choose the paper edge over which the binding would occur — not sure how this works for folding in the middle though... *The drop-down also has a section called Booklet Printing, which has various options that will be of interest to you, mostly the first checkbox to enable booklet printing :) Now I've not done it myself, and I don't know if it'll work for folding the pages in the middle (it looks like its intended for binding the pages along one edge) but that's probably the place to start looking. If it doesn't work as is, then you may need to manually rearrange the pages (which you can do in Preview) to be in the right order so that simple double sided printing with short-edge binding puts the pages in the right places, though this may be quite difficult if there's a lot of pages... Good luck... A: You can use the free python script here. Just add it to your PDF Services folder in your user Library (create the folder if it doesn't exist). It will then appear in the PDF button of your print menu. It's set for A3 sheets, but there are options to change the sheet size (and other things) in the script. A: For a free and universal alternative you can use the pdfbook script, part of the pdfjam collection which is usually included in LaTeX distributions (notably MacTeX). It's simple to use from the command line: pdfbook mypdf.pdf If the above doesn't work, then /Library/TeX/texbin isn't in your PATH (or /usr/texbin for older versions of MacTeX). The best course of action is to ensure PATH is correctly set (lots of command line programs will fail if the PATH variable isn't correct and pdfbook is one of them); this isn't trivial under OS X if you want a consistent behavior between applications launched from the dock and applications run from a terminal so you definitely should search a complete solution to this specific problem. As dirty work-around, you can run export PATH="$PATH:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/texbin" every time before you use pdfbook (including in the service below). If you don't want to use the command line, you can create a service easily. * *Launch Automator (on Yosemite it's in Applications/Others) *Create a new document and select "Service". *On top of the right frame, for "Service receives selected" choose "PDF files". *Search "Run Shell Script" from the bar on the top of the left frame and double-click it. Select to "Pass input" as "arguments" in the newly created window. *Enter a simple script running pdfbook, for instance pdfbook "$@". *Save it as "Create booklet" (for instance). *In Finder, select a PDF file, then in the menu go to Services/Create booklet. My complete script also creates a temporary file and opens the resulting PDF: TMPF=`mktemp -t bookletXXXX` mv "$TMPF" "$TMPF.pdf" pdfbook -o "$TMPF.pdf" "$@" open "$TMPF.pdf" The most obvious problem is the several GB download and installation of a LaTeX distribution if all you want is the pdfbook script. A: You can use the Create Booklet utility1 which adds an option to “print”, from Preview or any other app, to generate a second pdf file with the pages arranged appropriately to print and bind as a booklet. When printing the resulting pdf booklet, remember to select “Two-Sided: Short-Edge binding” in the “Layout” options of the print dialog. 1. No longer free, $9.99 on the App Store as of 09/2015. A: My solution is to install Macintosh version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, available from https://get.adobe.com/reader/, and use it to open the PDF file. When printing from Adobe Reader, there is several options in page sizing and handling : * *Poster *Multiple *Booklet Choose Booklet and you're good to go. See https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-booklets-acrobat-reader.html for more detail. The advantage of this solution that the same solution also works in the Windows world. A: There is a nice App in the AppStore called booklet for about $ 1.00: https://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/booklet/id1375737884?l=en&mt=12 It has a couple of options and does exactly what you want. A: This capability has been added to the native preview app within macOS Catalina - no need to download anything else. In the print dialog, click "Show Details" (if you haven't already), then change the selector from "Preview" to "Layout". You should now see a setting for "Two-Sided" and you can select "Booklet". I also like to select a thin border to see that proper printed pages. Although the preview window doesn't actually show what will print, it does seem to print properly.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use iPhone earbuds as a microphone on my MacBook? The only microphone I have is the one built-in to my iPhone earbuds. I want to try some line-in stuff, so I plugged the headphones into the microphone port. I then went to System Preferences/Sound/Input and selected Line In. It doesn't appear that this is working as a microphone. Should it? A: On late 2008 MacBooks and on, iPhone earbuds will function as headphones and a mic if plugged into the headphone port.

Q: Can I use iPhone earbuds as a microphone on my MacBook? The only microphone I have is the one built-in to my iPhone earbuds. I want to try some line-in stuff, so I plugged the headphones into the microphone port. I then went to System Preferences/Sound/Input and selected Line In. It doesn't appear that this is working as a microphone. Should it? A: On late 2008 MacBooks and on, iPhone earbuds will function as headphones and a mic if plugged into the headphone port. A: This depends - do you have separate jacks for headphones & microphone or just one jack? If you have two jacks you'll have to get a splitter for it to work properly. A: In short, the microphone won't work as a microphone the way you're trying it, but the earbuds will. Longer answer... In order to use the microphone from your iPhone headphones, they must be plugged into the headphones socket. You can see in the images below that the MacBook Pro "Sound" preference pane recognises that they have a microphone and switches the "Built-in Microphone" to the headphones one when they're in the headphones socket. If you plug the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket, it seems to be only set up for a standard stereo 3.5mm jack, and so will use the earbuds (both of them) as microphones — a stereo microphone effectively (though they're not great at picking up sound or well matched to the hardware as microphones, so will require lots of amplification). Sound preference pane without the headphones plugged in the headphones socket: Sound preference pane with the headphones plugged in the headphones socket: Plugging the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket shows no change (i.e. looks like the top image) and having tested it, only the earbuds seem to produce any response in the computer (i.e. they're connected but the microphone isn't). A: You can use the microphone on the iPhone earphones (as well as the volume and music forward/next on newer machines). But I think the reason its not working for you is by selecting Line In. What if you keep it as microphone? A: Apple supports using an "iPhone" headset on Macs that display External Microphone in the Built-in Audio section of System Profiler (Also called System Information on newer versions of the OS). Any computer that displays "External microphone" in the System Profiler will work with the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic. To confirm that External microphone is in your System Profiler, choose About This Mac from the Apple () menu and then click More Info. Select Audio (Built In) under the Hardware section. The operation is plug-n-play, the computer will automatically detect the microphone and earphones when you plug in the headset.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Cutting and pasting files OS X doesn't allow me to cut files. Are there any applications to enable this? A: It is possible to cut-paste files/folders in OSX 10.7 Lion's Finder (so, since 2011), but the OSX way is slightly different from the Windows way. * *⌘-C (copy first) *⌘-⌥-V (now move to it's destination) So, the steps are very similar to copy-paste, but holding ⌥ (option key) moves the file/folder instead of copies it. You can also have a look in the edit menu after copying a file - press ⌥ while looking to see the difference: "paste" changes to "move item here".

Q: Cutting and pasting files OS X doesn't allow me to cut files. Are there any applications to enable this? A: It is possible to cut-paste files/folders in OSX 10.7 Lion's Finder (so, since 2011), but the OSX way is slightly different from the Windows way. * *⌘-C (copy first) *⌘-⌥-V (now move to it's destination) So, the steps are very similar to copy-paste, but holding ⌥ (option key) moves the file/folder instead of copies it. You can also have a look in the edit menu after copying a file - press ⌥ while looking to see the difference: "paste" changes to "move item here". A: Path Finder supports cutting & pasting files, though I can't think of a case where I'd want to cut & paste that drag & drop wouldn't work. A: If you can pay some you can use Moveaddict: And also I found "this solution" but I didn't test it myself. A: You can't cut files, but you can: * *Copy the existing file ⌘C *Delete the existing file ⌘⌫ *Paste in the new location ⌘V Given that anything you can do with keystrokes can be done by AppleScript, all you would have to do is combine the first two to give you the equivalent of Cut (although you might want to have the script pause a bit between the two…).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why won't iPhone mail connected to an Exchange account download email bodies? I bought an iPhone 4 today and after alot of fiddling around I got it connected to Microsoft Exchange Activesync. Mail shows the message headers correctly and a preview of the first line from the body. When I click on any of the message headers, it displays the header information but then it just sits their loading the message body. Eventually it times out and says: The message has not been downloaded from the server How can I fix this? A: Check iphone date and time: Settings->General->date and time. If its point to Automatic, set Automatically OFF Time Zone: Setup your current time zone. Hope it helps

Q: Why won't iPhone mail connected to an Exchange account download email bodies? I bought an iPhone 4 today and after alot of fiddling around I got it connected to Microsoft Exchange Activesync. Mail shows the message headers correctly and a preview of the first line from the body. When I click on any of the message headers, it displays the header information but then it just sits their loading the message body. Eventually it times out and says: The message has not been downloaded from the server How can I fix this? A: Check iphone date and time: Settings->General->date and time. If its point to Automatic, set Automatically OFF Time Zone: Setup your current time zone. Hope it helps A: I have the same issue which appears to be router specific and only related to emails from an Exchange server as Gmail works fine. I have both iphone and ipad which work seamlessly on 3G and the first time I check emails on arrival at home on the wireless network. When I check a second time, the headers appear in the phone / ipad although nothing appears in the body, no matter how long the phone is left. If you go to airplane mode and back, the symptoms are the same as arriving at home. Works one time and then doesn't. I have proved this to the router as I purchased a Thompson TG845 (which is awful to setup) and it works consistently. When I install my preferred Netgear routers, the above problem exists even if I set the iphone in the DMZ. Exceedingly frustrating and it appears as if I'm not the only one to experience this. Changing the time to manual as suggested had no effect neither did aligning it to the Exchange servers time. Look forward to anyone with the techo answer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I delete icons from the 6th generation iPod nano? Is this even possible? I will never use like 90% of them and I'd like to hide them. A: Update: With the new update from Apple (v1.2), it is now possible to remove icons that you don't use, and to change the size of the icons. Under Settings->General->Home Screen you can show/hide individual icons. I don't believe that you can delete the icons. You can rearrange them. I moved the ones I'm not interested in to the last screens so they are mostly out of the way. The User Guide explains how to do this.

Q: How can I delete icons from the 6th generation iPod nano? Is this even possible? I will never use like 90% of them and I'd like to hide them. A: Update: With the new update from Apple (v1.2), it is now possible to remove icons that you don't use, and to change the size of the icons. Under Settings->General->Home Screen you can show/hide individual icons. I don't believe that you can delete the icons. You can rearrange them. I moved the ones I'm not interested in to the last screens so they are mostly out of the way. The User Guide explains how to do this. A: Based off experience with the iPhone and iPod touch I am guessing that the default apps are not deletable. the one app that can be hidden is the Nike running app that is turned on and off in the settings menu. A: You can't, you can only remove them from your home screen. It's simple. Go to Settings < General < Home Screen and then you'll see a menu with on/off buttons. "Off" means that the icon won't show on the home screen and "On" means it will. Simply change the icon you don't want on your home screen to "off" and you're done.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Setting the default browser Is there any way to set the default web browser from within Mac OS? I currently run Firefox 4 Beta, and haven't been able to find anywhere within the browser to set it as the default - possibly because it is a Beta. However, this makes Chrome start up as soon as I click a link from somewhere other than within FF, which is a tad annoying. A: * *Open Safari *⌘, to open Preferences *On the General tab there's a pull down that says 'Default web browser', the the one you want from the list

Q: Setting the default browser Is there any way to set the default web browser from within Mac OS? I currently run Firefox 4 Beta, and haven't been able to find anywhere within the browser to set it as the default - possibly because it is a Beta. However, this makes Chrome start up as soon as I click a link from somewhere other than within FF, which is a tad annoying. A: * *Open Safari *⌘, to open Preferences *On the General tab there's a pull down that says 'Default web browser', the the one you want from the list A: You can also use "Default Apps" for change every default application.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Search for a string in Preview I use Preview's Command-F (find) to search for C# in the pdf document. However, the result is not for 'C#', but just 'C': I get hundreds of meaningless search results. How can I get the search result exactly for 'C#' or 'C++' in Preview? A: I've not found a way to get Preview to search for characters like # or +, but Skim, an alternative PDF viewer (homepage here), is a good replacement/addition to Preview and is able to search more specifically. I've tested it and found it was able to find C++ (without needing any quotes/special options) without bringing up all C results. It was also able to search specifically for accented characters (like é or ö) — though requires such characters to be accented in the search to find them (i.e. you can't search for blah and expect it to match bläh, nor vice versa). In Preview, either search will return matches for both accented and unaccented characters.

Q: Search for a string in Preview I use Preview's Command-F (find) to search for C# in the pdf document. However, the result is not for 'C#', but just 'C': I get hundreds of meaningless search results. How can I get the search result exactly for 'C#' or 'C++' in Preview? A: I've not found a way to get Preview to search for characters like # or +, but Skim, an alternative PDF viewer (homepage here), is a good replacement/addition to Preview and is able to search more specifically. I've tested it and found it was able to find C++ (without needing any quotes/special options) without bringing up all C results. It was also able to search specifically for accented characters (like é or ö) — though requires such characters to be accented in the search to find them (i.e. you can't search for blah and expect it to match bläh, nor vice versa). In Preview, either search will return matches for both accented and unaccented characters. A: Enclose the search string in double quotes, as such: "C++". This will filter the search results from the search for "C" so select Relevance as your sorting criterion from the gray toolbar that appears. All the pages with occurrences of "C++" will then be presented first. A: You could just open the PDF in Safari. Safari has a more standard approach to searching PDFs -- it looks for exactly what you type. Preview used to behave this way, but somewhere around OS X 10.5, Apple tried to make it smarter, e.g., looking for pages that contain some or all of the words you type, instead of treating your words as a phrase. This new behavior in Preview is much less useful to me, but I don't know any way to turn it off. You can partly get around it by putting quotes around phrases, but I haven't found any way to get Preview to search for symbols, e.g., "C++". A: Use Google Chrome's built-in pdf renderer. Enter the file:///path/to/file.pdf URL of the file, or bring up the file browser by entering a know directory, like file:///Users/home and navigate to the file location.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is SIMBL Agent and why is it running on my machine? Is this something loaded by Apple or did it come with some third party app I must have downloaded. A: SIMBL is not a part of Apple's Mac OS X package, but is an extension that can be used by other developers in their own work to extend applications where they may not have the original source code (like Safari). SIMBL-related files can be found either in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.

Q: What is SIMBL Agent and why is it running on my machine? Is this something loaded by Apple or did it come with some third party app I must have downloaded. A: SIMBL is not a part of Apple's Mac OS X package, but is an extension that can be used by other developers in their own work to extend applications where they may not have the original source code (like Safari). SIMBL-related files can be found either in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. A: It is usually used by SafariFlvSniffer.bundle which comes with a video downloader app.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I view movie subtitles on a new AppleTV? I have an .avi and an .srt for a Mandarin movie. I used HandBrakeCLI to generate a M4V file that I could import into iTunes. In iTunes there is an option to turn the subtitles on and off, which works beautifully. But when I move over to my AppleTV and select the movie from my computer's library, the subtitles do not show when played. I don't see any option in the AppleTV UI to turn subtitles on/off during movie playback. All I could find was a setting in the Settings menu to set subtitles to "English" - would this be a global setting? Regardless it had no effect on my movie. How can I view the subtitles when I watch on my AppleTV? FYI here is the HandBrakeCLI command I used: HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.avi -o /Users/emh/Desktop/movie.m4v --preset="AppleTV" --srt-file /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.srt --srt-lang English --srt-default A: Use Subler. Open file, click plus sign at top right to add srt file, and then save. This process is both very fast and easy.

Q: How can I view movie subtitles on a new AppleTV? I have an .avi and an .srt for a Mandarin movie. I used HandBrakeCLI to generate a M4V file that I could import into iTunes. In iTunes there is an option to turn the subtitles on and off, which works beautifully. But when I move over to my AppleTV and select the movie from my computer's library, the subtitles do not show when played. I don't see any option in the AppleTV UI to turn subtitles on/off during movie playback. All I could find was a setting in the Settings menu to set subtitles to "English" - would this be a global setting? Regardless it had no effect on my movie. How can I view the subtitles when I watch on my AppleTV? FYI here is the HandBrakeCLI command I used: HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.avi -o /Users/emh/Desktop/movie.m4v --preset="AppleTV" --srt-file /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.srt --srt-lang English --srt-default A: Use Subler. Open file, click plus sign at top right to add srt file, and then save. This process is both very fast and easy. A: I'm not sure if this will work in your case, but someone on this forum seems to have had some success in a similar situation by simply changing the file extention from .mp4 to .m4v. They were also using handbrake. A: I'm not sure whether you have a problem with the subtitle track for that specific rip you made however, generally, using the AppleTV 2nd Gen, when the movie is playing, you can hold down the 'Select' button on the remote for a few seconds and it will show you a menu where you can choose whether to display any subtitles for this movie and also which audio track to use (useful if you have two language tracks or have also ripped the commentary track to your file). A: Hold down the select button during playback. Doing so will pause video playback and present menus for subtitle track, audio track, and speaker selection. This may be an old question, but Apple's unintuitive UI clearly hasn't changed.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker I have notices that sound only comes out of one speaker on the bottom of my phone. Is it playing in mono or is the other "speaker" actually a microphone? A: The iPhone 4 only has one speaker. The matching screen on the other side of the phone is for the microphone.

Q: iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker I have notices that sound only comes out of one speaker on the bottom of my phone. Is it playing in mono or is the other "speaker" actually a microphone? A: The iPhone 4 only has one speaker. The matching screen on the other side of the phone is for the microphone.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: VLC won't become default for MP3 or MP4 I have tried a number of times to make VLC Media player the default for MP3 and MP4. I open a file and tick the "Always open with" checkbox, but they still open with iTunes and QuickTime by default respectively. Does anyone know how to fix this? A: You can use utility like Magic Launch to do that.

Q: VLC won't become default for MP3 or MP4 I have tried a number of times to make VLC Media player the default for MP3 and MP4. I open a file and tick the "Always open with" checkbox, but they still open with iTunes and QuickTime by default respectively. Does anyone know how to fix this? A: You can use utility like Magic Launch to do that. A: Try one of these 2 solutions I hope they'll solve your problem: 1- use "Default Apps" for change every default application. 2- From the Finder, select a MP-4 file, open the Info panel (File ➔ Get Info or ⌘I), select your preferred application and then click Change All…

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Client torrent for broadcatching I would like to drop Vuze that I've been running for many years now on my G4 Mac mini in favor of a more lightweight torrent client. These two features are mandatory: * *Watched folder *RSS scanner for automatic downloads Any recommendation? A: I use Automatic (I use 1.x version, which was free, I see there’s version 2.x which is a paid update and I didn’t know about. My 1.x works ok), Transmission for the download (it monitors the files that Automatic downloads from a RSS feed I’ve created using ShowRSS (free).

Q: Client torrent for broadcatching I would like to drop Vuze that I've been running for many years now on my G4 Mac mini in favor of a more lightweight torrent client. These two features are mandatory: * *Watched folder *RSS scanner for automatic downloads Any recommendation? A: I use Automatic (I use 1.x version, which was free, I see there’s version 2.x which is a paid update and I didn’t know about. My 1.x works ok), Transmission for the download (it monitors the files that Automatic downloads from a RSS feed I’ve created using ShowRSS (free).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I find out the system temporary directory? I'm testing an app that uses the System temp Directory. Inside of the app, there is some call to a Cocoa function to query this. Is there a way for me to query for this directory name outside of having to write a Cocoa app of my own? Possibly a command that I can issue in Terminal? A: OS X has Python pre-installed, though not necessarily a fresh Python; but this is not cutting-edge stuff. So: Open a terminal cat > hack.py import tempfile print tempfile.gettempdir() ^D python hack.py Credit to nosklo

Q: How do I find out the system temporary directory? I'm testing an app that uses the System temp Directory. Inside of the app, there is some call to a Cocoa function to query this. Is there a way for me to query for this directory name outside of having to write a Cocoa app of my own? Possibly a command that I can issue in Terminal? A: OS X has Python pre-installed, though not necessarily a fresh Python; but this is not cutting-edge stuff. So: Open a terminal cat > hack.py import tempfile print tempfile.gettempdir() ^D python hack.py Credit to nosklo A: env Just type this command into Terminal. With zero arguments it'll print the names and values of variables in the environment. Alternative with a bit more typing: echo $TMPDIR

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to save http-hosted MP3 files directly onto an iPad? Is there a way to save an MP3 from a web server directly onto an iPad? I can stream it through the browser, but there is no obvious "save" capability. Would it make a difference if the MP3 were an email attachment? A: As fas as I know there is no way to save an MP3 file directly from the web. What you can do is jailbreak your iPad and then try saving it.

Q: Is it possible to save http-hosted MP3 files directly onto an iPad? Is there a way to save an MP3 from a web server directly onto an iPad? I can stream it through the browser, but there is no obvious "save" capability. Would it make a difference if the MP3 were an email attachment? A: As fas as I know there is no way to save an MP3 file directly from the web. What you can do is jailbreak your iPad and then try saving it. A: Here's a roundabout way of doing it. * *Create a Drobox account and install the Drobox app on your Mac and iPhone. *Use http://urldroplet.com/ to save the mp3 to your Drobox account. *Open Drobox on your iPhone, you can star it so it's downloaded and kept for offline access. A: You could save it into an app, such as AirSharing, then use iTunes to save the file to your computer, then put it into the Music Library like normal. There is unfortunately no direct way to get a file contained somewhere on the Web, or even in an app, into the music library/video library, without first using iTunes. Same goes for having it e-mailed to you. You can always access the e-mail and re-stream the MP3, but note the emphasis on that. Continually Stream the MP3. You must use iTunes to get it into your library without any other significant process, such as Jailbreak as noted by Chirag. A: GoodReader is what you're looking for. Copy the URL into it or use the built in browser to find the file you want then download it. A: It is possible, by jailbreaking the iPad and then installing a tweak called Safari Download Manager. This will allow you to save any file from Safari to your iPad. A: My favorite is Documents by Readdle. It has a builtin browser. You can simply browse your desired webpage and download different kinds of files like mp3, pdf and others into your iPad directly and enjoy playing or reading them in the same application.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What tools are there for measuring Macbook wireless strength? I often have trouble connecting to wifi with my MacBook Pro. To help identify the problem, I was wondering if there were any tools for measuring wireless signal strength. A: You can get quite a bit of info from the command line, with the (well-hidden) airport utility. With the -I flag it'll tell you about the current network: $ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I agrCtlRSSI: -43 agrExtRSSI: 0 agrCtlNoise: -96 agrExtNoise: 0 state: running op mode: station lastTxRate: 130 maxRate: 130 lastAssocStatus: 0 802.11 auth: open link auth: wpa2-psk BSSID: 0:24:1:0a:42:93 SSID: My Wireless MCS: 15 channel: 5 ...and -s will show more info about other visible networks: $ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group) My Wireless 00:24:01:fa:42:93 -44 5 Y -- WPA(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) hobbit 00:15:05:19:8a:03 -86 7 N -- WEP My Wireless 00:24:01:ef:91:ab -75 3 Y -- WPA(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP) It doesn't have a man page, but if you run it without any options it'll list its options.

Q: What tools are there for measuring Macbook wireless strength? I often have trouble connecting to wifi with my MacBook Pro. To help identify the problem, I was wondering if there were any tools for measuring wireless signal strength. A: You can get quite a bit of info from the command line, with the (well-hidden) airport utility. With the -I flag it'll tell you about the current network: $ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I agrCtlRSSI: -43 agrExtRSSI: 0 agrCtlNoise: -96 agrExtNoise: 0 state: running op mode: station lastTxRate: 130 maxRate: 130 lastAssocStatus: 0 802.11 auth: open link auth: wpa2-psk BSSID: 0:24:1:0a:42:93 SSID: My Wireless MCS: 15 channel: 5 ...and -s will show more info about other visible networks: $ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group) My Wireless 00:24:01:fa:42:93 -44 5 Y -- WPA(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/TKIP,AES/TKIP) hobbit 00:15:05:19:8a:03 -86 7 N -- WEP My Wireless 00:24:01:ef:91:ab -75 3 Y -- WPA(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES,TKIP/TKIP) It doesn't have a man page, but if you run it without any options it'll list its options. A: System Profiler will list available Wireless Networks as well as the following information NetworkName: PHY Mode: 802.11n BSSID: c0:3f:e:df:1b:be Channel: 6 Network Type: Infrastructure Security: WEP A: If you find that your connection problems occur in the same location, you could use a tool like NetSpot that would let you visually see areas of low signal. NetSpot is free and available within the App Store. See below for an example of how a map of your apartment's wifi signal could look. (source: netspotapp.com) Macworld reviewed Netspot and published a brief tutorial last year about how it could be used. A: Another, out-of-the-box way (at least on Mountain Lion): * *Click on the Apple (top left) *About this Mac *More Info *System Report *WiFi This will show you all the info you want for all the networks in range, without needing to install additional software. A: I typically use WiFi Explorer. Its newer than iStumbler and provides the following features: * *Easy-to-use, intuitive user interface. *Graphical visualization of the wifi environment. *Works with 802.11a, b, g and n wireless networks. *Supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands as well as 20 and 40 MHz channels. *Signal quality estimations based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). *Accurate conversion from dBm to percentage (%) for easier analysis and optimization. *Export metrics and network details to CSV file format. *Full screen mode (10.7 or above). *Comprehensive help. *Runs in Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion. It's available in the Mac App store. It's priced at .99 cents. Developers are responsive to questions. A: If you're just looking for a quick signal strength number, option-click on the AirPort icon in the menu bar. Under the connected network you will see several pieces of information: RSSI is your signal strengh in dB. Higher (closer to 0) is better. If you're looking for noise or the signal strength for multiple access points, I suggest checking out iStumbler: A: Is this useful ? I am actually in a relatively small village, not in New York, or LA :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Mac Pro (5,1 - Mid 2010) + Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter + DVI Monitor = blank LCD I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one of the mini DisplayPort ports. This mini DisplayPort to DVI LCD doesn't register at all. I've tried three different models of LCDs. System Profiler simply says "No Display Connected." I have tried restarting numerous times and the only other possible solution I've read is to reset the PRAM. I'd like to know if that's actually worth my time or if I'm missing some other configuration change that's necessary. A: The Mini DP adapter was not fully plugged into the machine. It required a little more force than I was comfortable using to fully seat.

Q: Mac Pro (5,1 - Mid 2010) + Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter + DVI Monitor = blank LCD I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one of the mini DisplayPort ports. This mini DisplayPort to DVI LCD doesn't register at all. I've tried three different models of LCDs. System Profiler simply says "No Display Connected." I have tried restarting numerous times and the only other possible solution I've read is to reset the PRAM. I'd like to know if that's actually worth my time or if I'm missing some other configuration change that's necessary. A: The Mini DP adapter was not fully plugged into the machine. It required a little more force than I was comfortable using to fully seat.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to send attachments to windows users properly I already have Windows Friendly attachments enabled, but I'm still having a problem. Whenever I send a image attachment to windows (Outlook) users, it comes as an inline image, not as an attachment. They can't save the image like a regular attachment. A: Hm, I haven't encountered this problem before, but it might be due to the formatting Mail.app does to the messages. Try making the message plain text by clicking "Format" in the menu bar and selection "Make Plain Text".

Q: How to send attachments to windows users properly I already have Windows Friendly attachments enabled, but I'm still having a problem. Whenever I send a image attachment to windows (Outlook) users, it comes as an inline image, not as an attachment. They can't save the image like a regular attachment. A: Hm, I haven't encountered this problem before, but it might be due to the formatting Mail.app does to the messages. Try making the message plain text by clicking "Format" in the menu bar and selection "Make Plain Text". A: Probably not the best solution, but you could zip the images before sending them (right-click and choose Compress ... on OS X). Archiving and unarchiving zip files is supported natively in Windows since XP (I think), so even non computer-savvy people should be able to open your attachments. A: I remember somewhere around Panther (when I still used Mail.app), that Outlook users (on Windows) would have problems with my attachments. I was trying to find the solution I had to apply and I think this link has most (if not all) the information. It essence it was an Outlook’s bug, but there was a fix. It’s explained there. Regarding the “inline” thing, it’s because Outlook is reading the email as a RichText with inline UUencoded info. As already suggested, try zipping the attachment or send plain text messages to those recipients (there’s a shortcut to easily convert a message to PlainText, see Kyle’s reply).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is a good Time Capsule substitute? I am looking for something similar to Time Capsule, but I am really not interested in the wireless router capabilities. Can you suggest hardware which has the same good qualities (size, silent operation, reliability), interoperability with my Macs, and possibly aesthetics? I've looked at various offerings but I've overall unconvinced by any. A: Any Drobo product will do, but it’s possibly more expensive than a single Time Capsule. The advantages are a lot tho. :) You can compare the different models. I have used a Drobo (not pro, not fs, not anything) and it had problems with certain reliability, but I’ve heard nice things about Drobo FS and even Drobo Pro. There are other NAS out there, so find one that you can afford, seek for reviews and go ahead :). The nice thing about (Drobo in this case) is that you put “normal” drives in there, if one fails, you just replace it. BOom. That simple. It works in practice too. I’ve had two drive failures while using the Drobo.

Q: What is a good Time Capsule substitute? I am looking for something similar to Time Capsule, but I am really not interested in the wireless router capabilities. Can you suggest hardware which has the same good qualities (size, silent operation, reliability), interoperability with my Macs, and possibly aesthetics? I've looked at various offerings but I've overall unconvinced by any. A: Any Drobo product will do, but it’s possibly more expensive than a single Time Capsule. The advantages are a lot tho. :) You can compare the different models. I have used a Drobo (not pro, not fs, not anything) and it had problems with certain reliability, but I’ve heard nice things about Drobo FS and even Drobo Pro. There are other NAS out there, so find one that you can afford, seek for reviews and go ahead :). The nice thing about (Drobo in this case) is that you put “normal” drives in there, if one fails, you just replace it. BOom. That simple. It works in practice too. I’ve had two drive failures while using the Drobo. A: I am using an old G4 Mac Mini, which you should be able to pick up really cheap, which I have two external drives hooked up to. It is quiet, reliable and looks beautiful but is small enough to fit into even a drawer if you want it out of the way. A: Personally I use a Synology NAS. It has TimeMachine support built-in as well as a lot of other useful features (for example streaming music to iTunes). I have a 4-bay model for increased storage since I also use it as a file-server. There are several models to choose from though. A: The LaCie network space 2 is Time Macine compatible, as are some of the other NAS products in their range. I have the earlier version (not Time Machine compatible) connected to my Time Capsule as a file server and it's just as quiet/stylish but even more reliable than my Time Capsule has been. (I don't work for LaCie, I'm just a happy customer) A: Take a peek at a QNAP NAS - they are being actively developed/supported and have a very impressive feature set, including: * *Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 or ElephantDrive *Full Time Machine support

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What speed does the A4 in the iPhone 4 run at? Apple made a big deal about the iPad's A4 running at 1GHz, but they've never said how fast the iPhone 4's processor is. In the teardown, iFixit mentions that the iPhone 4 uses an A4 but never gives a clock speed. Has anyone been able to find out how fast it actually is? A: According to MacRumors and some German source the iPhone 4 is somewhat slower than the iPad, but still significantly faster than the iPhone 3GS. I guess that its A4 CPU is clocked at about 750 - 850 MHz.

Q: What speed does the A4 in the iPhone 4 run at? Apple made a big deal about the iPad's A4 running at 1GHz, but they've never said how fast the iPhone 4's processor is. In the teardown, iFixit mentions that the iPhone 4 uses an A4 but never gives a clock speed. Has anyone been able to find out how fast it actually is? A: According to MacRumors and some German source the iPhone 4 is somewhat slower than the iPad, but still significantly faster than the iPhone 3GS. I guess that its A4 CPU is clocked at about 750 - 850 MHz. A: The iPhone 4 is based on the same processor that is seen in the iPad and has a clock speed of 1Ghz. The iPhone 4 also has 512mb of RAM which is double that of the 3GS and although never officially announced also double that of the iPad. A: Though it's not confirmed, most sources claim that the A4 in the iPhone 4 is the same processor that runs the iPad, clocking in at 1ghz as you suggested.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I invert the colors on my iPhone? As a prank someone has inverted the colors on my iPhone. Black is white, blue is orange, etc. How do I get my phone back to normal? A: Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility and set "White on Black" to Off.

Q: How do I invert the colors on my iPhone? As a prank someone has inverted the colors on my iPhone. Black is white, blue is orange, etc. How do I get my phone back to normal? A: Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility and set "White on Black" to Off.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I transfer data from a G5 iMac to an i7 iMac? Today's my mother's birthday, and hey gift is a new iMac. Her older iMac has a G5 processor, and is thus stuck on Leopard. She also has an older version of iLife. What will be the best way to transfer the data? Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures? (I know that for some programs I'll require Rosetta.) A: Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures? Yes, this will work just fine. The best way to do it is to get a firewire cable to connect the two iMacs, boot the older iMac into Target Disk Mode, and let the installer on the new iMac perform the migration. I believe that Rosetta isn't installed by default, but when you try to launch a Power PC app you will be prompted to install it.

Q: How can I transfer data from a G5 iMac to an i7 iMac? Today's my mother's birthday, and hey gift is a new iMac. Her older iMac has a G5 processor, and is thus stuck on Leopard. She also has an older version of iLife. What will be the best way to transfer the data? Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures? (I know that for some programs I'll require Rosetta.) A: Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures? Yes, this will work just fine. The best way to do it is to get a firewire cable to connect the two iMacs, boot the older iMac into Target Disk Mode, and let the installer on the new iMac perform the migration. I believe that Rosetta isn't installed by default, but when you try to launch a Power PC app you will be prompted to install it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Avoid iPhone lock on iPod sleep Is there a way to prevent the iPhone from locking when "Sleep iPod" is activated as a timer? I have this alarm clock app (SleepCycle) that needs to be running on an unlocked iPhone to pick up movement during the night. If I also want to listen to music or an audiobook while falling asleep, I set the clock timer to sleep iPod after a certain interval, but this seems to also lock the iPhone, even if I've set auto-lock to never. Any ideas? A: Maybe you can ask the developer of SleepCycle to put some iPod scheduling controls into the app? That seems like the best solution. I do know of one other solution, but I'm afraid it's a Jailbreak app. There's a paid app in Cydia called SBSchedule, which (when combined with the free SBSettings and SBSettings iPod toggle) can toggle the iPod off on a schedule.

Q: Avoid iPhone lock on iPod sleep Is there a way to prevent the iPhone from locking when "Sleep iPod" is activated as a timer? I have this alarm clock app (SleepCycle) that needs to be running on an unlocked iPhone to pick up movement during the night. If I also want to listen to music or an audiobook while falling asleep, I set the clock timer to sleep iPod after a certain interval, but this seems to also lock the iPhone, even if I've set auto-lock to never. Any ideas? A: Maybe you can ask the developer of SleepCycle to put some iPod scheduling controls into the app? That seems like the best solution. I do know of one other solution, but I'm afraid it's a Jailbreak app. There's a paid app in Cydia called SBSchedule, which (when combined with the free SBSettings and SBSettings iPod toggle) can toggle the iPod off on a schedule.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes? How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes so that it shows the lyrics on the iPod/iPad? A: I own iClip Lyrics and I was fortunate enough to download it before they discontinued it. (It still works even though they aren't developing it, and if you can find it online I highly recommend it) All you had to do was play a song, it would search the internet, grab the lyrics, and automatically add them to the ID3 tag for the the MP3 file. There are some other apps out there that do basically the same thing: * *GimmieSomeTune *TuneLyrics *iLyrics

Q: How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes? How do I add lyrics to a song in iTunes so that it shows the lyrics on the iPod/iPad? A: I own iClip Lyrics and I was fortunate enough to download it before they discontinued it. (It still works even though they aren't developing it, and if you can find it online I highly recommend it) All you had to do was play a song, it would search the internet, grab the lyrics, and automatically add them to the ID3 tag for the the MP3 file. There are some other apps out there that do basically the same thing: * *GimmieSomeTune *TuneLyrics *iLyrics A: Right click the song in iTunes and choose Get Info. Second from the right is the section "Lyrics" where you can paste the lyrics of the song. The lyrics will show up on top of the album art when the song is played on the iPod. Tap the album art to show it if you don't have all the controls visible. A: I've written a post on my blog to showcase my findings regarding this question. Check it out: Software to add Lyrics to MP3 files ID3 metadata A: you right click (control click on mac) on song and click get info. From there you press the lyrics tab and enter your lyrics. Hope this helps. A: To add lyrics to a song, I use this dashboard widget: TunesTEXT Very simple but very useful.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where can I find them in my browser? A: When you go to Gmail, you should now see a 'notes' label in gmail. This will hold your notes, but you can not edit them in gmail.

Q: Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where can I find them in my browser? A: When you go to Gmail, you should now see a 'notes' label in gmail. This will hold your notes, but you can not edit them in gmail.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Simple way to see a list of installed iOS apps with their storage space size? The storage on my iPhone is nearly full. Most of the space is used by apps. I'd like to see which apps consume the most space on my device. Is there a way to get a list of the apps with their corresponding used space? By "used space I mean the installation size (bonus for added user data). A: iTunes will give you the list of apps you have including size (and can order these by size to make the space hogs apparent). Unfortunately it will not show you the user data size, nor will it just show you the installed apps

Q: Simple way to see a list of installed iOS apps with their storage space size? The storage on my iPhone is nearly full. Most of the space is used by apps. I'd like to see which apps consume the most space on my device. Is there a way to get a list of the apps with their corresponding used space? By "used space I mean the installation size (bonus for added user data). A: iTunes will give you the list of apps you have including size (and can order these by size to make the space hogs apparent). Unfortunately it will not show you the user data size, nor will it just show you the installed apps A: You can get both the app size as well as that of the data it stores without jailbreaking by using the free application iPhone Explorer (Mac and PC). For data you'll want to open the app folder and then look in its Documents and Library folders (primarily... there may be some data stored in tmp as well, but it never gets backed up and the device will empty it automatically when it needs space). A: iOS 5 has now introduced a new feature under Settings > General > Usage that perfectly displays the amount of data taken up by every app on the device, sorted by top offenders. A: You can also see it in itunes when your iPhone or Ipad is connected on the apps tab There you can sort on size. This is easier as you can see if the app is installed on the device or only available in itunes. You can also remove the installed check box, so at the end of the list Sync and its all sorted A: I managed to get a in-depth view of what is using storage space, but it's really non-trivial to do. Basically: * *Jailbreak Device Then: either: * *Install iOS SMB server (You have to add an additional Repo to Cydia - It's Here) *Mount iOS device on desktop over SMB or: * *Purchase iFile, which has a WebDAV server built into it. *Run WebDAV server on iDevice *Mount WebDAV server on desktop. I did it on windows using NetDrive. I'm not sure what to use on OS X Finally: * *Run a disk space visualization tool on the mounted filesystem. I use Disk Inventory X on OS X and WinDirStat on Windows. Unfortunately, for some bizarre reason, all applications are in folders named using GUIDs, rather than the software name, so you have to actually explore large folders to figure out what app the folder contains. Fortunately, it's generally pretty obvious what the app is, since come of the subfolders seem to have to be the app name. Alternatively, iFile automatically cross-references the app name with the folder name for you, so you can determine what each folder is using ifile as well. On the whole, if all you need to do is see what apps are taking up what, it's probably not worth the effort. On the other hand, if you have already jailbroken (Which you should do anyways - it gives access to many great utilities), it's fairly simple to do. Also, iFile is probably one of the most useful apps for an iOS device. I highly recommend it. A: FYI, using iTunes as described above doesn't work if you don't keep your apps in iTunes! I stopped doing that long ago, after I realized how much space they were taking up on my Mac. Since you can always download an app later, I didn't see any reason to take up all that space on my Mac. I hope this info helps anyone like me who doesn't actually have all their apps on their computer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why can't I delete messages from my IMAP account on my iPhone 4? I have an iPhone 4 and have set up mail with an IMAP account. When I delete a message a popup says Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder. How can I fix this? A: Maybe the trash folder is not correctly set on your iPhone. Depending on the email-provider, you may have to choose the correct "deleted" folder in your account settings on the iPhone. (maybe the translations are not literally, i am using a German iPhone): Go to "Settings" -> "Mail, contacts ...", choose your IMAP account, choose "account info", look at the bottom and choose "advanced". Here you can choose which folder is your trash folder.

Q: Why can't I delete messages from my IMAP account on my iPhone 4? I have an iPhone 4 and have set up mail with an IMAP account. When I delete a message a popup says Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder. How can I fix this? A: Maybe the trash folder is not correctly set on your iPhone. Depending on the email-provider, you may have to choose the correct "deleted" folder in your account settings on the iPhone. (maybe the translations are not literally, i am using a German iPhone): Go to "Settings" -> "Mail, contacts ...", choose your IMAP account, choose "account info", look at the bottom and choose "advanced". Here you can choose which folder is your trash folder. A: I was having a problem deleting an email that said "this message has not been downloaded from server." I couldn't move it to Trash either, even after affirming the prompt to "download message from server." I finally forwarded it to myself and was prompted to download message before sending. I answered yes. I then deleted the forwarded message and the original troublesome message and all is well. A: I had this problem and the following fixed it on my iphone 6. go to mail then mailboxes find "trash" and make sure the box is checked. Solved my problem.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Unexpected files showing up with tar on OS X 10.6.4 When packing and unpacking a tar file on OS X today, I find myself looking at things like: tar tzf ../tanuki-3.5.6.tar.gz ./._. ./ ./._bin I don't think I've ever seem these extra files starting with a '.' before. If I x the file, ls -a does not show them. What are they? A: They're resource forks. The Mac's filesystem supports multiple forks, and some Mac files have two, a data fork and a resource fork. Most file systems don't support multiple forks, so tools will split the resource fork into a separate file prefixed with ._.

Q: Unexpected files showing up with tar on OS X 10.6.4 When packing and unpacking a tar file on OS X today, I find myself looking at things like: tar tzf ../tanuki-3.5.6.tar.gz ./._. ./ ./._bin I don't think I've ever seem these extra files starting with a '.' before. If I x the file, ls -a does not show them. What are they? A: They're resource forks. The Mac's filesystem supports multiple forks, and some Mac files have two, a data fork and a resource fork. Most file systems don't support multiple forks, so tools will split the resource fork into a separate file prefixed with ._. A: I think you'll find that those files (or directories) came packaged within the .tar.gz file. Not normal, but any file can go into a tar. A: Behaviour For the sake of clarity about the issue, the following MWE illustrates what is happening: cas$ tar --version bsdtar 2.6.2 - libarchive 2.6.2 cas$ mkdir o cas$ touch o/a o/b cas$ tar cv o > /dev/null a ./._o a o a o/._a a o/a a o/._b a o/b So each file and directory has a ._ file added to the tar file in the same directory, as mipadi said. This tar, let's call it mactar, avoids collisions by ignoring files beginning ._ in the input, e.g, with: mkdir p && touch p/._a p/._b cas$ tar cv p p/._b > /dev/null a ./._p a p the existence of the p/._a file is simply ignored by tar, and so is the p/._b file, even though that is explicitly included in the CLI invocation. Thus, no collisions can occur. Controlling tar If you have a Unix background, you likely are unhappy about this behaviour. The mactar lacks the expected documentation: the man page is for the regular Free BSD tar and does not mention this idiosyncrasy. However, the generation of the files for the meta forks can be disabled by setting an environment variable, so: export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true. History I'm not quite clear on the timing, but OSX began with the regular Free BSD tar, then Apple circulated an additional utility, tar_hfs that was the ancestor of mactar, and then, I think with Leopard, changed /usr/bin/tar to be mactar.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What does "iTunes err = -3259" mean? I am downloading some iTunes U content in iTunes and am getting stopped (err = -3259) on a number of the downloads. I was hoping to find a list of err codes, but no luck. Found a lot of forum posts for other error numbers, but not that one. Any help? A: I turned off "Allow simultaneous downloads" and now it is consistently downloading without a problem.

Q: What does "iTunes err = -3259" mean? I am downloading some iTunes U content in iTunes and am getting stopped (err = -3259) on a number of the downloads. I was hoping to find a list of err codes, but no luck. Found a lot of forum posts for other error numbers, but not that one. Any help? A: I turned off "Allow simultaneous downloads" and now it is consistently downloading without a problem. A: As I search some I find that it happen because of antivirus: What seemed to work for me was disabling anti-virus software during the load process. I killed my antivirus and then hit refresh on all of the podcasts that failed with err = -3259 and they all finished successfully. Long term I think we need to get apple to resolve this issue, but in the meantime you can temporarily disable your anti-virus, complete your downloads and then bring the anti-virus back up. And some where said that it because parental control: Some of our users are reporting that unchecking Podcasts from the Parental Controls preference pane has resolved the issue. For some of our customers, simply going into: Edit - Preferences - Parental Control and unchecking Podcasts

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What do I type to produce the command symbol (⌘) in Mac OS X? What combination of keys do I press to produce the command symbol (⌘) on Mac OS X? (I copied the above symbol from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key.) A: This is the simple way on how to do it. * *Download BetterTouchTool *Open the application *Select 'keyboard' *Click Add New Shortcut *Set keyboard shortcut to 'Option+C' *Set trigger predefined action to 'Paste predefined text' *Copy '⌘' into the box. *Click Ok Now whenever BetterTouchTool is open all you have to do is press 'Option+C' and it automatically types the '⌘' symbol. You only have to do steps one to eight once.

Q: What do I type to produce the command symbol (⌘) in Mac OS X? What combination of keys do I press to produce the command symbol (⌘) on Mac OS X? (I copied the above symbol from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key.) A: This is the simple way on how to do it. * *Download BetterTouchTool *Open the application *Select 'keyboard' *Click Add New Shortcut *Set keyboard shortcut to 'Option+C' *Set trigger predefined action to 'Paste predefined text' *Copy '⌘' into the box. *Click Ok Now whenever BetterTouchTool is open all you have to do is press 'Option+C' and it automatically types the '⌘' symbol. You only have to do steps one to eight once. A: I also found it hard to find a straight answer for this, so I just went into System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and created a use symbol and text substitution option where when I type (cmd) it replaces it with the command symbol. A: For what it's worth (on OSX and maybe Windows): In Libre Offices's Writer I found the symbol as the 5th entry in both the LiHei Pro and LiSong fonts. A: The Mac Characters popup is definitely the straightforward solution if you need to insert some chacters once in a while. But if you regularly need to use Unicode characters which are not present on your keyboard then a radical solution would be creating your own keyboard layout with Ukelele that will map those characters to your physical keys. The app is only used to create an OSX compliant layout file (XML or bundle) which can then be added via Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > ＋. With Ukelele you can clone your existing standard keyboard (File > New from current input source), and remap any of the keys to your liking. In the default keyboard layout holding the Option key ⌥ in combination with any letter/symbol key will insert extended math characters which normally are never used, e.g. œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ“‘«æ…¬˚∆˙©ƒ∂ßåΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥÷¿˘¯Â˜ı◊Dz¸ÅÍÎÏ˝ÓÔÒÚÆ»’”∏؈¨Áˇ‰„„. Holding down Shift+Option will give you yet another set of special characters. With Ukelele you can remap Option+key and Shift+Option+key to anything you like including Unicode emoji characters. Here is an example of assigning ⌘ to the Option+c combination: You can pick the required character for mapping using the built-in Characters app as explained in other answers. Note: If you have a non-US keyboard (i.e. non-ANSI) you might need to set the correct type under View > Keyboard Type > Coding: ISO While this might be overkill for a single character, it actually makes sense when you want to tweak other things on your keyboard and have complete control. Once you have created your custom layout you can use it on any number of macs by simply copying it to ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts and then adding it in Preferences without the need to use any third party apps. The layout can be installed directly from Ukelele via the File > Install option. Once installed you still need to add it manually via Preferences > Keyboard. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the app author. I simply found the app very useful in solving some issues with my keyboard which had some keys in the 'wrong' place. A: How to type the modifier key glyphs on MacOs: * *"control+command+space" in any application *type "up arrowhead" to find: ⌃ (control) *type "option" to find: ⌥ (option / alt) *type "place of interest" to find: ⌘ (command / super) *type "upwards white arrow" to find ⇧ (shift) A: If you're just looking for the Unicode versions of Mac OS X keys, you can use this Apple support document to copy and paste them: Mac keyboard shortcuts https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 * *⌘ Command (or Cmd) *⇧ Shift *⌥ Option (or Alt) *⌃ Control (or Ctrl) More generally, Mac OS X provides a pane to insert special characters. You'll find it under Edit -> Emoji and Symbols in any program that takes text input. The Command key symbol can be found by searching for it's name "place of interest". To insert the character, double click it. If you're really hardcore and are looking for a way to type the character by entering the Unicode hex code, this is possible: * *Go into System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources, click "+", scroll to "others", select "Unicode Hex Input" and click "Add" *From the input source selector in the menu bar, select "Unicode Hex Input" *To enter a Unicode character, hold down option and type the 4-digit hex code for the character and it will be inserted. In this case, it would be option+2318. A: If you are using keyboardmaestro simply create a macro in the Global Macro Group (if you want to have the macro available globally) as follows: * *Create new macro *Give the macro a name like "insert ⌘" *Add "Typed String Trigger": =cmd *Add "New Action" and choose "Insert Text by Pasting" Now whenever you type the string "=cmd" a "⌘" will be inserted. A: For future reference, you can copy and paste from here: ⌃ <- Control ⌥ <- Option aka alt ⌘ <- Command ⇧ <- Shift These are rendered like this: A: You can also add Your favourite characters to "press and hold" key behaviour. Here's explanation how to do it on apple stackexchange: How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion? Keep in mind that this is done inside System directory, so be careful and remember that there's a chance of losing Your setup after upgrading the OS. A: An answer for OSX Lion (circa 2014): You can also type ⌘+^+Space (aka Cmd-Ctrl-Space) to bring up the characters menu, then start typing to search, and search for place of interest, then press enter to start selecting them, then tab to the correct result, then enter again to insert it. Sounds like a lot, but it can really be narrowed down to ⌘+^+Space, typing pla, and then two presses of Return. A: If you have TextExpander, one can also make a snippet for it, ala Dr. Drang. He also has a Keyboard Library with snippets for a host of keyboard symbols available. A: With the document open, place the cursor where you want the symbol, Open the Character Viewer as described above. Type "Place of Interest" in the character viewer search field. It shows up on at the bottom of the window. Double click it and it shows up where you placed your cursor. Save it to your favorites in the Character Viewer window to make it easier to find next time. This under OS 10.9.1 "Mavericks" A: For my money, PopChar remains the best character/glyph selector utility for finding, browsing, and pasting characters into text. It has been a Mac essential since the 90s at least. https://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/ A: [Answer for people who type Japanese text] Japanese IMEs are surprisingly good at finding characters. If you are already routinely typing in Japanese, then the easiest way the get the ⌘ character is to type k o m a n d o, then press tab and return to select the character in the suggestions popup that appears: That's 9 keystrokes but: * *Much easier to remember than an hexadecimal code (plus you don't need to remember how to enter hexadecimal codes) *You don't need to install or configure anything that you don't have already. *You don't need to start any program. *IMEs spend a lot of effort making sure they are usable absolutely everywhere, so it works in any text field of any program. A: If you writing out keyboard shortcuts for Mac users, I'd recommend using the Apple Style Guide (https://help.apple.com/asg/mac/2013/) way of doing this so whatever you write is consistent with other Apple documentation. In this case you would type out Command rather then use the ⌘ symbol. So, for example Paste would be: Command-V Alternately you could use Key Graphics. command+V The thing is if you are typing it out always use Command. A: I normally use "SHIFT + ALT + K" to generate a  Symbol. Instead of using a ⌘ Symbol whenever writing anything which requires keystrokes / shortcuts because for most of the time that I have been using Apple computers it was called the "apple key" . (and the symbol physically written on the key was a  and not a ⌘)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I view a song's composer on my iPod touch? Is there any way of viewing the composer of a particular song in the Ipod Touch? I know you can sort songs by composer, but what I want to do is while listening to a particular album (classical music), view the composers of the different songs. A: There's a small app you can find here Don't worry, it's all Japanese. But the app works really fine and reads all (!) ID3 tags of the current song playing. Since I am listening preferably to classical music, too, I hate iTunes non-existent ability to show all relevant tag information.

Q: How do I view a song's composer on my iPod touch? Is there any way of viewing the composer of a particular song in the Ipod Touch? I know you can sort songs by composer, but what I want to do is while listening to a particular album (classical music), view the composers of the different songs. A: There's a small app you can find here Don't worry, it's all Japanese. But the app works really fine and reads all (!) ID3 tags of the current song playing. Since I am listening preferably to classical music, too, I hate iTunes non-existent ability to show all relevant tag information. A: I don't think this is possible in the default 'Music' app which is quite simple and straightforward. The only solution would be to add the composer to the track's title but I suppose you already thought about this one... Finding another app for paying music but with more options would be another solution. Are you open to having another application for playing music?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: In iOS 4.2, how do you search within a web page in Safari? I already have it installed (the gold master), but I can't for the life of me figure out how to search a page. A: Searching in a page has been added on to the Google (or whatever you use) search facility. Just tap the search field and enter your search term. Instead of launching the search, scroll down to the bottom of the suggested searches and there will be a section labeled "On This Page". Tapping "Find "___________"" will launch the in-page search feature.

Q: In iOS 4.2, how do you search within a web page in Safari? I already have it installed (the gold master), but I can't for the life of me figure out how to search a page. A: Searching in a page has been added on to the Google (or whatever you use) search facility. Just tap the search field and enter your search term. Instead of launching the search, scroll down to the bottom of the suggested searches and there will be a section labeled "On This Page". Tapping "Find "___________"" will launch the in-page search feature. A: An unofficial method is to use the "Find In Page" bookmarklet. Available here.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Run Command Line Script from Finder's contextual menu I have a shell script that deletes exif data from images. I would like to right-click the folder with the images and execute the command from the context menu. How can I do this? The Shell script is: exiftool -all= -overwrite_original test where test is the dir with the images A: If you're using Snow Leopard, you can create a Service, and it'll show up in a submenu of the contextual menu (as well as in the Services submenu of the Finder menu). To do this: * *Run /Applications/Automator.app *Choose the Service template *Set the Service Receives Selected pop-up (above the workflow column on the right) to "Files and Folders" *Find the Run Shell Script action in the second column (the search field at the top can help), and drag it to the workflow column *Set the action's Pass input: pop-up to "as arguments" *In the template script that appears, replace echo "$f" with exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f" -- the script should now look like this: for f in "$@" do exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f" done *Save the Service with some descriptive name

Q: Run Command Line Script from Finder's contextual menu I have a shell script that deletes exif data from images. I would like to right-click the folder with the images and execute the command from the context menu. How can I do this? The Shell script is: exiftool -all= -overwrite_original test where test is the dir with the images A: If you're using Snow Leopard, you can create a Service, and it'll show up in a submenu of the contextual menu (as well as in the Services submenu of the Finder menu). To do this: * *Run /Applications/Automator.app *Choose the Service template *Set the Service Receives Selected pop-up (above the workflow column on the right) to "Files and Folders" *Find the Run Shell Script action in the second column (the search field at the top can help), and drag it to the workflow column *Set the action's Pass input: pop-up to "as arguments" *In the template script that appears, replace echo "$f" with exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f" -- the script should now look like this: for f in "$@" do exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f" done *Save the Service with some descriptive name

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Changing sort options in icon view Is there any way to sort files in any way other than NAME while in ICON view? This is typically when in a file dialog (i.e. browser upload window) there are no options for sorting by Last Modified or similar, you have to be in DETAIL view for that. Please see this screen shot as an example: http://cl.ly/0w0f3L0z3z0Q2n2E042F A: No. I would suggest heading to http://bugreport.apple.com and filing a bug there. Apple does base, in part, what they do on the number of similar bug reports they get. If enough people want this same enhancement and file bug reports, there is a good chance Apple will get it done.

Q: Changing sort options in icon view Is there any way to sort files in any way other than NAME while in ICON view? This is typically when in a file dialog (i.e. browser upload window) there are no options for sorting by Last Modified or similar, you have to be in DETAIL view for that. Please see this screen shot as an example: http://cl.ly/0w0f3L0z3z0Q2n2E042F A: No. I would suggest heading to http://bugreport.apple.com and filing a bug there. Apple does base, in part, what they do on the number of similar bug reports they get. If enough people want this same enhancement and file bug reports, there is a good chance Apple will get it done. A: File dialogs have had a pop-up menu for changing the arrange by mode since Lion: There's still no way to change the sort by mode in icon view or column view. And the shortcuts for changing the sorting modes don't do anything.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Safari has some strange colors now Safari has suddenly started showing some strange GUI colors on the bookmarks screen. They seem to have started shortly after applying the latest iTunes update, although not IMMEDIATELY after (a few hours, and only after rebooting my machine). This is what it looks like now (I have not changed any settings): Is there a way to make it appear normal again? EDIT: I have uninstalled, rebooted, and even tried removing all apple settings from my "AppData" directory. Nothing is helping so far. A: I don’t have a lot of Windows Expertise, but I assume that uninstalling Safari (and iTunes) and try installing them from scratch (after a nice reboot), might fix it.

Q: Safari has some strange colors now Safari has suddenly started showing some strange GUI colors on the bookmarks screen. They seem to have started shortly after applying the latest iTunes update, although not IMMEDIATELY after (a few hours, and only after rebooting my machine). This is what it looks like now (I have not changed any settings): Is there a way to make it appear normal again? EDIT: I have uninstalled, rebooted, and even tried removing all apple settings from my "AppData" directory. Nothing is helping so far. A: I don’t have a lot of Windows Expertise, but I assume that uninstalling Safari (and iTunes) and try installing them from scratch (after a nice reboot), might fix it. A: I'm not a Windows 7 user, but I'd guess Safari is inheriting these colours from your appearance settings in your control panel, especially if you've deleted AppData/reinstalled. Have a try playing with your Display Control Panel (especially the window appearance settings) to see if that fixes things, maybe Safari is using non-standard windows' colours for its bookmark background. Windows XP's Advanced Appearance Window: A: Its due the the color management profiles on various screens. A fix can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939395 * *Click Start, type Color Management in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. *In the Color Management dialog box, click to select the Use my settings for this device check box. *In the Profiles associated with this device list, click the color profile that you want to remove, and then click Remove. *Note If you receive a warning message, click Yes. *Close the Color Management dialog box and then restart the computer to apply the setting. I also found if you just delete the other one, then re-add sRGB IEC61966 2.1, and set it as default, you don't even have to reboot and it just works. and it solved the same issue I was seeing in other Applications, but mostly Safari

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to upload files to a website from Safari on iPhone? I'm trying to upload a photo from my iPhone 4 to a website. However, the browse button to display the select file dialog is disabled. Normally this works fine on my Windows PC. Should I be able to select image files to upload from Safari on iPhone? A: Specifically the browse button is disabled because there isn't a file browser (like Windows Explorer/Finder) on the iPhone. Most people don't notice that, because the iOS is designed around avoiding the need for a user interface to the iPhone's file system. For simplicity's sake file management is turned into a programing problem instead of a user problem. For security's sake applications can't directly access the documents of other applications. As Jawa mention, a lot of sites have iPhone applications to allow uploads.

Q: Is it possible to upload files to a website from Safari on iPhone? I'm trying to upload a photo from my iPhone 4 to a website. However, the browse button to display the select file dialog is disabled. Normally this works fine on my Windows PC. Should I be able to select image files to upload from Safari on iPhone? A: Specifically the browse button is disabled because there isn't a file browser (like Windows Explorer/Finder) on the iPhone. Most people don't notice that, because the iOS is designed around avoiding the need for a user interface to the iPhone's file system. For simplicity's sake file management is turned into a programing problem instead of a user problem. For security's sake applications can't directly access the documents of other applications. As Jawa mention, a lot of sites have iPhone applications to allow uploads. A: No, uploading from mobile Safari is not possible. That's why about every other site that utilizes user uploads (e.g. Flickr, Facebook, Picasa) have either made their own upload app for the iPhone, or there are some apps that can handle many sites, such as Pixelpipe. A: As of iOS 6, Mobile Safari now supports file (image) uploads, from the Camera Roll, albums, and photostreams. Note that iOS 6 is only available for the iPhone 3GS and newer. A: You can't upload files using mobile Safari. Even though, you can either use iCab Mobile browser which support file upload or can use native iOS applications which are seamless integrated with a webspage. Here are some of them: QuickPic Aurigma Up A: You can enable the browse button in Mobile Safari using a Cydia App: Safari Upload Enabler.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Apple TV (2nd generation) - video quality seems poor I thought I'd switch from a Mac Mini to the new Apple TV (2nd generation) as my primary video device. Unfortunately I find the video quality disappointing: Text (menus, etc.) is shimmery, and video seems coarse, like broadcast TV. I've tried it with an iTunes rental, with Netflix, and with a movie streamed from a computer. The results were poor each time. I switched back and forth between the Apple TV and the Mac Mini to confirm, and the image is indeed much sharper on the Mini. The Apple TV is connected via HDMI to a Sony KLV-S32A10 32" LCD with 1366x768 native resolution. Is this normal? A: The problem was with the TV settings - it has three "Picture modes": vivid, standard, and pro. It was set to vivid, which adds artificial sharpening. With this set to "Pro", it looks terrific.

Q: Apple TV (2nd generation) - video quality seems poor I thought I'd switch from a Mac Mini to the new Apple TV (2nd generation) as my primary video device. Unfortunately I find the video quality disappointing: Text (menus, etc.) is shimmery, and video seems coarse, like broadcast TV. I've tried it with an iTunes rental, with Netflix, and with a movie streamed from a computer. The results were poor each time. I switched back and forth between the Apple TV and the Mac Mini to confirm, and the image is indeed much sharper on the Mini. The Apple TV is connected via HDMI to a Sony KLV-S32A10 32" LCD with 1366x768 native resolution. Is this normal? A: The problem was with the TV settings - it has three "Picture modes": vivid, standard, and pro. It was set to vivid, which adds artificial sharpening. With this set to "Pro", it looks terrific.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Mute specific program Is there any way to mute a specific program? I want to be able to mute Firefox. A: Here an answer from our friends over at SuperUser. TL;DR: You can, but only with some extra software. They suggest AudioHijack Pro

Q: Mute specific program Is there any way to mute a specific program? I want to be able to mute Firefox. A: Here an answer from our friends over at SuperUser. TL;DR: You can, but only with some extra software. They suggest AudioHijack Pro A: AudioHijack is the only software I've found that can route application sound. If you are looking to capture/block sound from Chrome/Chromium you are out of luck though. AHP cannot handle that software yet due to the way Chrome's processes are spawned on the fly.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Textmate: removing sidebar on the left Is there a way to remove this sidebar from Textmate? A: From the View menu, select Gutter, and click to uncheck all of the selected view options there, i.e. Foldings, Bookmarks, Line Numbers, and Soft Wrap Indicators. Once all of the above are unchecked, the gutter will disappear.

Q: Textmate: removing sidebar on the left Is there a way to remove this sidebar from Textmate? A: From the View menu, select Gutter, and click to uncheck all of the selected view options there, i.e. Foldings, Bookmarks, Line Numbers, and Soft Wrap Indicators. Once all of the above are unchecked, the gutter will disappear.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: "Remove personal information" default save in Office for Mac 2011? Is anyone aware of a way of setting Office for Mac 2011 to automatically use the "remove personal information" option on every save? A: The best way I can see of doing this is to modify or create a new blank template with the setting baked in. * *File -> New From Template -> Blank Document *Make Privacy changes as before *Save as Word Template (This will normally appear under my Templates, but I presume you could overwrite the existing Blank template, wherever it is located). *Then when creating a new document, use the new template you created. Jonathan

Q: "Remove personal information" default save in Office for Mac 2011? Is anyone aware of a way of setting Office for Mac 2011 to automatically use the "remove personal information" option on every save? A: The best way I can see of doing this is to modify or create a new blank template with the setting baked in. * *File -> New From Template -> Blank Document *Make Privacy changes as before *Save as Word Template (This will normally appear under my Templates, but I presume you could overwrite the existing Blank template, wherever it is located). *Then when creating a new document, use the new template you created. Jonathan

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I change the location of macOS screen captures? As a developer, I take a lot of screen captures. I often take screen shots to share with Stack Exchange members in chat. The problem is my Desktop is so cluttered with screen captures that they're now overlapping! I'd like to save all screenshots in a dedicated folder or directory. In macOS, how do I change the default location where screen captures are saved? These are the screen shots taken with CommandShift3 or CommandShift4 keyboard shortcuts. I would prefer a solution which doesn't require installing any software. A: As of macOS 10.14+, you don't need any specific software or scripts. The default screenshot location can be changed in the Screenshot app UI: * *Enter Screenshot mode: * *Press Command+Shift+5 *Press the Touchbar's Screenshot button *Go to the floating screenshots options window. *Select Options > Save to > Other Location... *Choose a new screenshot location. Select "Options" here: Now all screenshots will be stored at the chosen location.

Q: How do I change the location of macOS screen captures? As a developer, I take a lot of screen captures. I often take screen shots to share with Stack Exchange members in chat. The problem is my Desktop is so cluttered with screen captures that they're now overlapping! I'd like to save all screenshots in a dedicated folder or directory. In macOS, how do I change the default location where screen captures are saved? These are the screen shots taken with CommandShift3 or CommandShift4 keyboard shortcuts. I would prefer a solution which doesn't require installing any software. A: As of macOS 10.14+, you don't need any specific software or scripts. The default screenshot location can be changed in the Screenshot app UI: * *Enter Screenshot mode: * *Press Command+Shift+5 *Press the Touchbar's Screenshot button *Go to the floating screenshots options window. *Select Options > Save to > Other Location... *Choose a new screenshot location. Select "Options" here: Now all screenshots will be stored at the chosen location. A: According to this page... defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <path> Also, to turn on/off shadow: defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false And to change file type: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type <format> You'll want to killall SystemUIServer to make the commands take effect. A: If you use TinkerTool you can change the location that screen capture will saved: And also you can Add control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop., and paste it in image Editor like Acorn. A: I realize this question was asked years ago... Nonetheless, I arrived here yesterday trying to fix the names (base filenames) of the screencapture PNG files. Later I found the answer I needed, so I offer it here for future visitors. If you hate the names looking like: Screen shot 2011-07-05 at 5.38.53 AM Then you can fix it in three steps: First, run: defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "screenshot" Or use any word you want as a replacement for the default "Screen shot." Then (bust out your superuser/sudo privileges and) edit this file: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings If your computer is not localized to use the "English.lproj", then locate the appropriate lproj in that same Resources folder. Here is what to edit in Localizable.strings: /* Format screencapture file names */ /* "%@ %@ at %@" = "%1$@ %2$@ at %3$@"; */ "%@ %@ at %@" = "%1$@_%2$@_%3$@"; Keep the left-hand-side as "%@ %@ at %@" and alter the right-hand-side (after the equals sign) to your liking. In the above snippet, underscores are used where previously whitespace was used. Lastly, of course: killall SystemUIServer I found this info on this webpage, and it works for me on 10.6. A: Apple's answer: Where to find screenshots By default, screenshots save to your desktop with the name ”Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.” In macOS Mojave or later, you can change the default location of saved screenshots from the Options menu in the Screenshot app. You can also drag the thumbnail to a folder or document. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 A: Use the screen shots from Preview. You can save to any place you like, change the screenshot's name or file type. It is under Previews File menu.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where does Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 (for taking screen captures) originate from? I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? What is the history of that command? Where does Command+Shift number originate from? A: What’s an FKEY? FKEY’s (Function Keys) are resources containing executable code that are called upon by hitting the keys Command-Shift-# (any number 0-9) at the same time. In the standard System file there are two FKEY’s; with an ID#3 and #4 that are used to dump the current screen or window onto disk or printer.1 So far as I can remember/find, screenshot commands were first added to the OS itself in System 6.2 1 Text and image from FKEY that runs other FKEYs! by John Holder (MacTech magazine, 1988) 2 Further reading/references: Mel's Macintosh Universe: Macintosh Plus and a forum posting from 2003, How do I take a screen shot (the latter of which features some guy named Chealion).

Q: Where does Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 (for taking screen captures) originate from? I know that on Mac OS X, you can take a screen capture of the entire screen with Command+Shift+3 and you can take a screen capture of just a selection (or a window) with Command+Shift+4. Is there a rationale for this keyboard combination? What is the history of that command? Where does Command+Shift number originate from? A: What’s an FKEY? FKEY’s (Function Keys) are resources containing executable code that are called upon by hitting the keys Command-Shift-# (any number 0-9) at the same time. In the standard System file there are two FKEY’s; with an ID#3 and #4 that are used to dump the current screen or window onto disk or printer.1 So far as I can remember/find, screenshot commands were first added to the OS itself in System 6.2 1 Text and image from FKEY that runs other FKEYs! by John Holder (MacTech magazine, 1988) 2 Further reading/references: Mel's Macintosh Universe: Macintosh Plus and a forum posting from 2003, How do I take a screen shot (the latter of which features some guy named Chealion). A: Dori's answer was correct, but I figured I'd add just a little more history. Early Mac Keyboards did not contact Function Keys (F1 through F12 etc). In place of Function Keys, they allowed the user to type Command+Shift+1 through Command+Shift+9. Prior to Mac OS X, the system software contained a "Suitcase" called "System". This was the heart of Mac OS classic, and contained the code necessary to boot and run the machine. However this code was not located in the data fork of the file, it was located in the proprietary Mac OS Resource Fork which is set up like a database -- every resource has a type, which is a four byte value, and an ID. Prior to Mac OS 9, all application code was in resources of type CODE. In the system suitcase, there was a special resource of type FKEY. These were essentially just CODE resources, with the exception that FKEY resources 0 - 9 would be executed when the corresponding Command+Shift+number key was pressed. If I recall correctly, the Command+Shift+1 FKEY ejected the floppy and the Command+Shift+2 FKEY ejected the floppy in the second drive (external or of a two-floppy Mac (e.g. some SE/30s)). But there were software developers out there who made FKEYs. I remember as a kid having all the open FKEY "slots" filled. One let me draw freehand on the screen (my love for freehand circles started early :-) and one put the Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters at the bottom of my screen. A: Apple Technical Note OS01, dated "Mar 01 1985", describes the mechanism of command-shift-1 through command-shift-4. Originally, 3 took a screenshot to disk, and 4 sent a screenshot directly to the printer. They didn't all use FKEY. 1 and 2 were processed by GetNextEvent, but captured by the system. 3 and 4 used the FKEY defined in the System file. 5 through 9 were available for the user, via FKEY. 0 doesn't seem to have been supported. According to Wikipedia's table of release dates, this technote was written just before System 2.0 was released. They also claim (without reference) that System 2 introduced this shortcut for screenshots. Perhaps Apple wrote the technote prior to the actual release.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I unmount a drive every time I reboot? As relates to an answer to a previous question, I'd like to unmount a built-in hard drive every time I boot up. (Or alternately arrange for it not to be mounted). How do I do this? A: The following Hint on Mac OS X Hints details a way to do this. Basically you'll create (or modify) the file /etc/fstab and add a line similar to: UUID=F0E430C1-5558-3BB3-9FA9-6904B663FEEA none hfs rw,noauto The actual UUID will vary, you can find the UUID for your disk in system.log: In Mac OS X Panther, Disk Utility and the diskutil command doesn't display the UUID value. But if you look in the system.log file, when the disk is mounted, you can see something similar to this (line breaks added for narrower display): … localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk1s9 hfs 77F3E84D-E0ED-3194-96A5-BED10893FFF4 FireWire HD /Volumes/FireWire HD … localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk1s10 hfs F0E430C1-5558-3BB3-9FA9-6904B663FEEA Mac OS X Disc /Volumes/Mac OS X Disc The string before the volume name is the UUID for the disk.

Q: How can I unmount a drive every time I reboot? As relates to an answer to a previous question, I'd like to unmount a built-in hard drive every time I boot up. (Or alternately arrange for it not to be mounted). How do I do this? A: The following Hint on Mac OS X Hints details a way to do this. Basically you'll create (or modify) the file /etc/fstab and add a line similar to: UUID=F0E430C1-5558-3BB3-9FA9-6904B663FEEA none hfs rw,noauto The actual UUID will vary, you can find the UUID for your disk in system.log: In Mac OS X Panther, Disk Utility and the diskutil command doesn't display the UUID value. But if you look in the system.log file, when the disk is mounted, you can see something similar to this (line breaks added for narrower display): … localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk1s9 hfs 77F3E84D-E0ED-3194-96A5-BED10893FFF4 FireWire HD /Volumes/FireWire HD … localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk1s10 hfs F0E430C1-5558-3BB3-9FA9-6904B663FEEA Mac OS X Disc /Volumes/Mac OS X Disc The string before the volume name is the UUID for the disk. A: Use a LaunchAgent (see Lingon) that runs at boot to unmount. If it runs too quickly, add a wait/pause/sleep. The action that unmounts can be in whatever you preferred scripting/automation language is (bash (hdiutil), Automator, AppleScript, etc.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I enable the Java console in Firefox? I'm using MacOSX 10.5.8 and the default Java provided by Apple (e.g. /usr/bin/java -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java). My web browser is Firefox 3.6.12. I'd like to view the Java console to debug some Java applets which I access with Firefox. How can I enable the Java console? A: This is not done via any Firefox configuration option, but an account wide Java setting: Open the Java Preferences utility which you can find in Applications -> Utilities. There, under the Advanced tab, and "Java console", choose "Show console".

Q: How do I enable the Java console in Firefox? I'm using MacOSX 10.5.8 and the default Java provided by Apple (e.g. /usr/bin/java -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java). My web browser is Firefox 3.6.12. I'd like to view the Java console to debug some Java applets which I access with Firefox. How can I enable the Java console? A: This is not done via any Firefox configuration option, but an account wide Java setting: Open the Java Preferences utility which you can find in Applications -> Utilities. There, under the Advanced tab, and "Java console", choose "Show console".

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do you connect the new MacBook Air to the Cinema Display? The MacBook Air has the magsafe and a USB port on one side of the chassis and the mini display and another USB port on the other side of the chassis. Does the 3-port cable for the Cinema Display work, seeing as how the magsafe and the mini display are on opposite sides instead of all lined up like on the MacBook Pro? If so, is it graceful or ungainly? A: Yes, it works, but it's not graceful, it's ungainly: Source: Apple Insider

Q: How do you connect the new MacBook Air to the Cinema Display? The MacBook Air has the magsafe and a USB port on one side of the chassis and the mini display and another USB port on the other side of the chassis. Does the 3-port cable for the Cinema Display work, seeing as how the magsafe and the mini display are on opposite sides instead of all lined up like on the MacBook Pro? If so, is it graceful or ungainly? A: Yes, it works, but it's not graceful, it's ungainly: Source: Apple Insider A: I didn't know myself, but a little google-fu revealed the answer (hat tip: AppleInsider, scroll down for image on page.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Driving down the road and GPS works on iPod? I was riding in the car today and the as I was traveling home, decided to pull up maps on the iPod. I know that GPS isn't used by iPod and uses wifi to triangulate it's position. However I wasn't connected to any wifi as I was traveling through town and my iPod kept up with my position? How? A: I'm guessing, since I couldn't find any confirmation, but the iPods use the Skyhook network, which is basically a big database of wifi access points and their approximate location. Since you wouldn't have been connected to a network, (here's the guess) the geolocation service must've cached some amount of the database for your general area.

Q: Driving down the road and GPS works on iPod? I was riding in the car today and the as I was traveling home, decided to pull up maps on the iPod. I know that GPS isn't used by iPod and uses wifi to triangulate it's position. However I wasn't connected to any wifi as I was traveling through town and my iPod kept up with my position? How? A: I'm guessing, since I couldn't find any confirmation, but the iPods use the Skyhook network, which is basically a big database of wifi access points and their approximate location. Since you wouldn't have been connected to a network, (here's the guess) the geolocation service must've cached some amount of the database for your general area. A: I don't think you have to have a WiFi connection for it to triangulate off of WiFi signals. As long as you have WiFi turned on, the iPod can see the WiFi networks within range. It doesn't have to be connected to any of them. note: the following is mostly speculation The iPod has a WiFi receiver in it that's on all the time (unless you purposely turn it off). The receiver is constantly listening for WiFi signals. If you open your Settings and look at WiFi you'll see a list of WiFi access points that are within range. Your iPod might not be connected to any of them but it knows their name (more importantly the unique SSID) and it knows how strong the signal is. The iPod also stores a database of the locations of known SSIDs. Then it does some fancy calculations. So, if it knows that SSID A's signal is stronger than SSID B's signal it assumes you're closer to A. With enough signals around you, it can make a pretty good approximation of your location. Even moving quickly, it can sense changes in signal strength as you move and recalculate your position. In a town/city you'll likely have a lot of known signals. Try driving out on a remote highway. You'll likely lose any position information.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iOS apps take up more space than advertised? I would like to download "RAGE HD" which the App Store says is "643 MB", but after clicking "BUY NOW" there is a message: There is not enough space to download "RAGE HD". Please delete some photos or videos. But my "About" screen says I have "898 MB" available. How much extra space should I need to be able to download this game? A: You have to take into account that the exact number is an approximated value and that the device needs additional space to install the application. I’m guessing that although the application says it’s 643Mb, it really uses some more when it gets installed. You’re really pushing the limits of your iOS there :)

Q: iOS apps take up more space than advertised? I would like to download "RAGE HD" which the App Store says is "643 MB", but after clicking "BUY NOW" there is a message: There is not enough space to download "RAGE HD". Please delete some photos or videos. But my "About" screen says I have "898 MB" available. How much extra space should I need to be able to download this game? A: You have to take into account that the exact number is an approximated value and that the device needs additional space to install the application. I’m guessing that although the application says it’s 643Mb, it really uses some more when it gets installed. You’re really pushing the limits of your iOS there :) A: Due to the way items are synced to the iPod and iPhone, you need a bit more space than the size of the app. So although the app may only take up 643MB, you'll actually need more to sync it. A: I don't know the answer to your question in general, but as far as RAGE HD goes (all numbers on my Mac): Size shown in Finder: 779.7 MB Size shown in iTunes (Library > Apps): 743.6 MB Size needed to install on my iPad (Devices > my iPad > Apps): 1.18 GB                                            I think that's your answer, there   ↑

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Apple Stackexchange Q: User defined menu shortcut doesn't work with Safari I want to add a shortcut to "refresh" the web page in Safari (5.0.2). I added a shortcut definition in the System Preferences. I disabled the usage of the Fonction keys by the System. I have "F5" shown next to "Reload Page" menu item. But, this does not work. What went wrong ? A: As other commenters have said, it works once the menu has been shown at least once. Safari seems to build its menus differently from other apps, and seems to do it dynamically when you open them the first time. Hence, the system has no way to know that such a Refresh menu item exists unless you've tried opening the menu once.

Q: User defined menu shortcut doesn't work with Safari I want to add a shortcut to "refresh" the web page in Safari (5.0.2). I added a shortcut definition in the System Preferences. I disabled the usage of the Fonction keys by the System. I have "F5" shown next to "Reload Page" menu item. But, this does not work. What went wrong ? A: As other commenters have said, it works once the menu has been shown at least once. Safari seems to build its menus differently from other apps, and seems to do it dynamically when you open them the first time. Hence, the system has no way to know that such a Refresh menu item exists unless you've tried opening the menu once.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Does the iPhone support the camera connection kit in 4.2? I know that the camera connection kit accessory has so far only worked on the iPad. I assume that this is the case because the iPad was running a special version of iOS 3, but seeing as iOS 4.2 is now in GM for both iPhone and iPad, I'm wondering if Apple has extended support for this accessory to the iPhone as well. A: You can use the CCK to export photos off an iPhone and import them to the iPad (which isn't new), but no one has yet been able to get the CCK to hook an iPhone up to anything else.

Q: Does the iPhone support the camera connection kit in 4.2? I know that the camera connection kit accessory has so far only worked on the iPad. I assume that this is the case because the iPad was running a special version of iOS 3, but seeing as iOS 4.2 is now in GM for both iPhone and iPad, I'm wondering if Apple has extended support for this accessory to the iPhone as well. A: You can use the CCK to export photos off an iPhone and import them to the iPad (which isn't new), but no one has yet been able to get the CCK to hook an iPhone up to anything else. A: They are already working on the iPhone 4 (but only on the iPhone 4, not on previous models) as of iOS 4.0. I guess they are also compatible with the iPod touch 4G.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I make VLC output its sound through USB headphones? Whenever I plug-in my earphones with a round connection into my MacBook Pro, the sound automatically switches to them. Whenever I plug my headphones with a USB connection (Logitech USB ClearChat Comfort Headset) and I am playing sound in iTunes, the sound automatically switches. Whenever I plug in my headphones and VLC is playing, the sound continues to play through the speakers. Is there any way to make VLC work with my USB headphones? Update: It seems that the headphones don't work properly with Skype either. A: VLC can't switch audio interfaces on-the-fly. You either have to stop playing media entirely, and go into the preferences and change it, then start playing your media again; or, the slightly easier way: * *Kill VLC *Plug in headphones (and ensure they become the primary output sound device, hold option and click the sound icon in your menu bar, select usb headphones if necessary) *Start VLC Assuming VLCs preferences are still set to use the Default Audio Device for output, then it'll use them when you start playing content again.

Q: How can I make VLC output its sound through USB headphones? Whenever I plug-in my earphones with a round connection into my MacBook Pro, the sound automatically switches to them. Whenever I plug my headphones with a USB connection (Logitech USB ClearChat Comfort Headset) and I am playing sound in iTunes, the sound automatically switches. Whenever I plug in my headphones and VLC is playing, the sound continues to play through the speakers. Is there any way to make VLC work with my USB headphones? Update: It seems that the headphones don't work properly with Skype either. A: VLC can't switch audio interfaces on-the-fly. You either have to stop playing media entirely, and go into the preferences and change it, then start playing your media again; or, the slightly easier way: * *Kill VLC *Plug in headphones (and ensure they become the primary output sound device, hold option and click the sound icon in your menu bar, select usb headphones if necessary) *Start VLC Assuming VLCs preferences are still set to use the Default Audio Device for output, then it'll use them when you start playing content again. A: Ask and you shall receive... I logged this as a bug on VLC and they delivered within 2hrs! https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9231 A: Since you're getting iTunes and system sounds through the headset, it should be set as the default audio device, but check the the Sound Preferences pane to make sure. After this, try restarting VLC to get it to use the new default audio device. This should also work for Skype, however Skype should have options in the preferences menu that will let you choose the audio output/input device. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any similar option in VLC. A: Exiting VLC player, and then changing the default Sound Output to Logitech USB Speakers worked for me. So long as the Logitech speakers are plugged in before you open VLC player and System preferences are set correctly then VLC should play through the Speakers. I know a lot of people use VLC player instead of Quicktime, because some Windows files don't play sound on Quicktime, but work perfectly on VLC player. Although this may have changed since Snow Leopard and the latest version of Quicktime. Hope this helps. Toria A: Hmm, I can switch audio devices in VLC on the fly without problems: It defaults to the device defined in the system settings on startup. A: I've just solved the problem like this (without killing the app): I went into the Bluetooth settings (long click on the main icon in the main settings of my smartphone) and saw that "Media audio - Connected to media audio" was checked. I unchecked it, checked again, and yey, the sound is coming from the loudspeaker, finally :) I hope I won't have to do this every time though :/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I change the playback speed in iTunes? On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x. Is there a way to do the same in iTunes? A: There is a Mac menubar app, that allows you to change the playback speed in iTunes. http://wetfish.de/

Q: How do I change the playback speed in iTunes? On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x. Is there a way to do the same in iTunes? A: There is a Mac menubar app, that allows you to change the playback speed in iTunes. http://wetfish.de/ A: This is not natively possible in the Mac version of iTunes (nor Windows for the matter). You don’t mention if you have OS X or Windows. If you have the former, you have two choices: 1) If the podcast is an MP3 file, you can convert the file to an AAC file in iTunes (with an extension of m4a.) and then change the extension to m4b; the file becomes an audiobook which can be played faster if I am not mistaken. 2) Another alternative is to hear it in Quicktime, which has speed controls: Right click the file in iTunes and choose "Show In Finder”. Option-click the file (right click) and select “Open With…”, select QuickTime. Once in Quicktime option-click the "Accelerate" button to change the playback speed. A: The way I did it was (windows 7 not sure how it would work on mac) copy and paste the podcast from itunes into my doccuments and then open the podcast in VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html) i assume there is a download for Mac as well. VLC has speed controls and plays every type of file as far as im aware. Under the playback options it has a speed setting. NB VLC also good for vidoes with out of sync A/V as has sync settings. A: You can use Winamp or Windows Media Player and the Chronotron plugin to change tempo or pitch. A: Soundforge nits free and it will change tempo without changing pitch. It works well.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Boot MacBook Pro into non OS X operating system from external harddisk I have a MacBook Pro and an external HDD with Ubuntu, I can use this HDD to boot other machines into Ubuntu but no amount of pressing option would make my MacBook Pro think that the drive is bootable. Is there a setting or an option that I have missed? A: The problem is that “other machines” (namely PC computers) use BIOS and Macintosh computers use EFI. Rather than boring you with the details, let’s just say that in order for your “EFI” to find your Ubuntu partition, you have to perform some magic. The instructions for doing that are everywhere, (for example: here). I believe that you need to install rEFIt in order to have an “EFI” compatible bootloader. TL;DR version: A Mac won’t boot directly into another operating system’s boot (GRUB/LILO/WINLOADER/ETC), you need an “EFI” compatible loader (enter rEFIt). I hope this points you into the right direction.

Q: Boot MacBook Pro into non OS X operating system from external harddisk I have a MacBook Pro and an external HDD with Ubuntu, I can use this HDD to boot other machines into Ubuntu but no amount of pressing option would make my MacBook Pro think that the drive is bootable. Is there a setting or an option that I have missed? A: The problem is that “other machines” (namely PC computers) use BIOS and Macintosh computers use EFI. Rather than boring you with the details, let’s just say that in order for your “EFI” to find your Ubuntu partition, you have to perform some magic. The instructions for doing that are everywhere, (for example: here). I believe that you need to install rEFIt in order to have an “EFI” compatible bootloader. TL;DR version: A Mac won’t boot directly into another operating system’s boot (GRUB/LILO/WINLOADER/ETC), you need an “EFI” compatible loader (enter rEFIt). I hope this points you into the right direction.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: I forgot the passcode for my iPad restrictions. How can I disable them? I added restrictions to my iPad and I forgot the passcode for them, now what? Is there a way to remove it without resetting the device? A: The short answer is no. The long answer is wipe the device and then start over. If you have a backup, hopefully it's from before the restrictions were set.

Q: I forgot the passcode for my iPad restrictions. How can I disable them? I added restrictions to my iPad and I forgot the passcode for them, now what? Is there a way to remove it without resetting the device? A: The short answer is no. The long answer is wipe the device and then start over. If you have a backup, hopefully it's from before the restrictions were set. A: There's a tool that can recover the restrictions passcode from a device backup, called pinfinder. Download the tool at the pinfinder github page, make an unencrypted backup and follow the instructions. A: According to Apple: If you lose or forget your Restrictions passcode, you'll need to erase your device and then set it up as a new device to remove the passcode. Restoring the device won't remove the passcode. So apparently restoring from a "pre restrictions" backup won't help either. A: Alternatively one can use Forgot iPhone via iCloud to Erase their phone if the problem is similar to this This will wipe your entire data and you can setup your iPhone as new.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: OS X Package Management I'd like to know if anyone out there has done a comprehensive comparison of the various package manager solutions available for OS X. More specifically, I'm looking for: * *A list of all the major package managers (ie. MacPorts, Fink, etc) *A pros and cons list or comparison matrix (either self-written or a web link to one) *Information about any caveats for particular systems *Information about possible incompatibilities or reasons for not having multiple package managers installed simultaneously *Subjective reasons why you think one is better than another Update Nov 29, 2010 Chiggsy gave a great answer but I would really love some more input on this. I've been using MacPorts recently and it seems to be pretty well done. I like that its command line options work in a similar fashion to subversion and that it has an interactive mode. A: Homebrew * *Easy to use *Always up-to-date *Easy to extend (Github-based)

Q: OS X Package Management I'd like to know if anyone out there has done a comprehensive comparison of the various package manager solutions available for OS X. More specifically, I'm looking for: * *A list of all the major package managers (ie. MacPorts, Fink, etc) *A pros and cons list or comparison matrix (either self-written or a web link to one) *Information about any caveats for particular systems *Information about possible incompatibilities or reasons for not having multiple package managers installed simultaneously *Subjective reasons why you think one is better than another Update Nov 29, 2010 Chiggsy gave a great answer but I would really love some more input on this. I've been using MacPorts recently and it seems to be pretty well done. I like that its command line options work in a similar fashion to subversion and that it has an interactive mode. A: Homebrew * *Easy to use *Always up-to-date *Easy to extend (Github-based) A: Good question: For me, macports is the one. Why? I'll bypass a lot of stuff and cut right to the chase: The party is over with regard to malware, trojans and the like. Paging through the last security update, there were some vulns that were from the summer although the cure only came last week. Redownload the developer tools, recompile your macports install, and you have a functioning toolchain that is not dependent on Cupertino, since the Dev Tools from your install disk will serve. Who uses an old version of Openssh? Now it does take some care and feeding, like running port selfupdate every day, and the big tip is to check port variants so if you have a python dependency, you can run port install python +no_tkinter and avoid the agonizingly long Tk install, which would be most unwelcome on a Quartz architecture anyway. With this, you can freely run software update and not have your stuff break, since it does not depend on anything but the compiler from apple. I've used it for a long time, and although I tried some others, namely Homebrew, I think that depending on apples versions means inheriting their security flaws. Remember that PDF hole on the iphone? I deploy on Linux anyway, so for me, macports tree is the 'office' and my budding MacOS dev career is 'home' Just an opinion, but the separate tree for all the code is a big plus for me. A: The dark horse package manager for OS X is of course: * *darwinup It's seldom used and sparsely documented, but it does ship from Apple and managed packages on OS X/Darwin.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What tools allow for creation and editing of a PDF document on OS X? I would like to create a PDF document with images, text and table of contents. I have also other PDF documents that I would like to merge in this new PDF. Do you know some tools/software for creating PDFs? A: You can actually merge multiple PDFs right from Preview.app. Just open two PDFs in two separate windows, turn on the sidebars, and drag pages from one sidebar to the other. This won't provide you with a table of contents, but you can always just make something in TextEdit, export it as a PDF, then add it to the beginning of the document.

Q: What tools allow for creation and editing of a PDF document on OS X? I would like to create a PDF document with images, text and table of contents. I have also other PDF documents that I would like to merge in this new PDF. Do you know some tools/software for creating PDFs? A: You can actually merge multiple PDFs right from Preview.app. Just open two PDFs in two separate windows, turn on the sidebars, and drag pages from one sidebar to the other. This won't provide you with a table of contents, but you can always just make something in TextEdit, export it as a PDF, then add it to the beginning of the document. A: I use Adobe InDesign for this kind of thing... more flexible than AcrobatPro. Allows total control over what you import into the pdf (text,images, other pdfs, etc.) and the ability to create clickable TOCs. If you are going to do a lot of this, or a lot of print, it is worth the investment. A: PDFPen and PDFPenPro from Smile Software have many capabilities and are quite affordable. A: fast free way: * *Print each file as PDF: File->Print->save as PDF * *Use this free utility to merge PDF's to one PDF file http://lifehacker.com/279571/merge-multiple-pdfs-with-combine-pdfs-21 Otherwise use Adobe Pro for Mac A: Microsoft Word 2011 does a solid job of creating content and saving to PDF. File > Save As then change Format to PDF.

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