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Apple Stackexchange Q: RSS reader for iphone I'm looking for an RSS reader that has push notifications but I can also filter the RSS feed, like there's an RSS feed I need to subscribe to but I only want to be notified about posts that contain a certain word in the title. A: The suitable named Push Reader app seems to be what I'm looking for, it has push notifications that we filtered by keywords, not exactly sure where the keywords are used to filter (like body or title etc) but as far as I can see it's pretty good. Edit: it filters by keyword at least in the title. I just got a push notification telling me I have homework ;)

Q: RSS reader for iphone I'm looking for an RSS reader that has push notifications but I can also filter the RSS feed, like there's an RSS feed I need to subscribe to but I only want to be notified about posts that contain a certain word in the title. A: The suitable named Push Reader app seems to be what I'm looking for, it has push notifications that we filtered by keywords, not exactly sure where the keywords are used to filter (like body or title etc) but as far as I can see it's pretty good. Edit: it filters by keyword at least in the title. I just got a push notification telling me I have homework ;) A: There are no RSS readers for iOS which match your feature set yet, however there might be some in the future. A: you can try Pulse app for iPhone. here is the location http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-mini/id377594176?mt=8

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Apple Stackexchange Q: I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. Is this possible? I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. I'm not sure if this would be possible with an Automator script, or if I would have to try to program some type menubar software or something. Any ideas? thanks!! A: Hyperdock will let you do something similar. It doesn't seem to support double clicking, but I have my system set up so a middle-click on the finder icon opens a new window. It's also an awesome dock enhancement, and brings the dock much closer to the usability of the windows taskbar (i.e. you can switch to a specific other window without having to use expose or alt-tab).

Q: I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. Is this possible? I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. I'm not sure if this would be possible with an Automator script, or if I would have to try to program some type menubar software or something. Any ideas? thanks!! A: Hyperdock will let you do something similar. It doesn't seem to support double clicking, but I have my system set up so a middle-click on the finder icon opens a new window. It's also an awesome dock enhancement, and brings the dock much closer to the usability of the windows taskbar (i.e. you can switch to a specific other window without having to use expose or alt-tab). A: The following AppleScript does what you want: on run tell application "Finder" make new Finder window activate end tell end run Open Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript folder, and paste the above in to a new script. Save it somewhere as a "File Format: Application" with "Stay Open" not checked. Then drag that application to your Dock. When you click it, the Finder will be brought to the front and with a new finder window. The disadvantage is, this takes about 1.5 - 2 seconds to run on my machine. I could probably tweak it by making the script stay open and watch for being brought to the front... You might also get better performance by saving it as a normal script in your "Scripts" folder and putting it in the scripts menu. A: All you're trying to do is open a new Finder window, yes? Why not just right-click on the Finder icon in the Dock and choose "New Finder Window"?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Possible to Hide Mac Partition When in Windows? I've found out that if I install Windows 7 and use the Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers (Which I need for the graphics chipset drivers.), the Mac partition appears and is read-only. I'm quite concerned about this, because if my Windows partition is infected with malware, it could be a possibility that the hackers could take data from my Mac partition, even if it was read-only. Is there any way to turn off Mac partition support while booted in Windows? A: I'm not a windows guy, so the steps are probably different but this SuperUser question asks how to disable a partition under Windows XP. The steps may be similar under Windows 7: You could remove the drive letter assignment for the specific partition(s): * *Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management *Expand Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management *Right click the specific partition you like to hide and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" *Select the drive letter shown, click "Remove" and click "OK"

Q: Possible to Hide Mac Partition When in Windows? I've found out that if I install Windows 7 and use the Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers (Which I need for the graphics chipset drivers.), the Mac partition appears and is read-only. I'm quite concerned about this, because if my Windows partition is infected with malware, it could be a possibility that the hackers could take data from my Mac partition, even if it was read-only. Is there any way to turn off Mac partition support while booted in Windows? A: I'm not a windows guy, so the steps are probably different but this SuperUser question asks how to disable a partition under Windows XP. The steps may be similar under Windows 7: You could remove the drive letter assignment for the specific partition(s): * *Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management *Expand Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management *Right click the specific partition you like to hide and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" *Select the drive letter shown, click "Remove" and click "OK" A: From a theoretical standpoint, even if you delete the Boot Camp drivers and/or remove the drive letter, a virus could still interface with the disk at very low level and read your data. From a practical standpoint, this is unlikely to happen as there is much more low-hanging fruit for hackers. Still, if you want to run Windows on your Mac without the possibility, even theoretical, of the compromised Windows system being able to access your Mac data, you have essentially two options: * *Run Windows in a VM and only allow it access to its virtual disk *Turn FileVault on for your user account For the latter option the theoretical virus could still access your applications and general system settings, but it would not be able to access any user data without the FileVault password. A: Remove the following keys from the Windows Registry (backup first) to disable the Apple HFS driver: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AppleHFS] "Type"=dword:00000002 "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Start"=dword:00000000 "Group"="File System" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AppleMNT] "Type"=dword:00000002 "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Start"=dword:00000000 "Group"="File System" You can use the same registry fragment above to restore HFS functionality if you forgot to backup your registry before making any changes. A: I’m sure someone with more Windows experience will provide a better alternative here, because if that is possible, it’s only possible through a Windows setting/hack/etc. I’m sure you can find the HFS+ driver and uninstall it from windows… but I don’t use bootcamp. :( A: In Windows, you can go into Disk Management and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and then Remove the existing drive letter. Then it won't show up in My Computer etc. A: I hid my mac partition (macbppkpro) in windows this way: * *Boot in Mac *Open SystemPreferences(Apple Icon on Topleft Corner) *Go to "Security and Privacy" *Click on "FileVault" tab *Click on the Lock Icon - "Bottom left corner" *Supply your credentials *"Turn on FileVault" button enables - now click on it to encrypt your mac drive. this might take approximately two hours depending on the size of partition. Once the encryption in done restart and boot in windows. You will not see the Mac partition. its not detectable. Mac partition can only be seen when you boot in OS X

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I convert a Word (.doc or .docx) file to a PDF on an iPad? I would have thought this was one of Goodreader's many tricks, but it doesn't seem to be the case. A: If you have network access you could send it to Google Docs (upload, email, whatever) and then fetch the PDF from there.

Q: How can I convert a Word (.doc or .docx) file to a PDF on an iPad? I would have thought this was one of Goodreader's many tricks, but it doesn't seem to be the case. A: If you have network access you could send it to Google Docs (upload, email, whatever) and then fetch the PDF from there. A: You could open it in pages and then export to .pdf. Source: Experience and Apple Website A: I went through this same hassle and it prompted me to write a tutorial on it. A summary: * *Preview the attachment in the Mail app. *Open the attachment from Mail into GoodReader. *Connect GoodReader to Google Docs. *Upload your doc from GoodReader to Google Docs. *Open up the Google Docs site in Safari. *Open your Word file in Safari in Google Docs. *Switch to the desktop version of the Google Docs site. *Download the file as a PDF. A: Simple, local, free solution on the device - no online cloud services required The solution is to open the file in the App Microsoft Word available in the Apple Appstore. Then in the MS Word iOS App, when the document is opened, goto "Print" - "in another App" and Word will convert the docx document to a pdf and open it in another app. (This seems to work even with the free readonly version of MS Word) A: Get Notability - connect to Google Docs, it will convert on opening the file into a PDF all on your ipad, no need for a desktop. A: Tried the notability way. It worked. Thanks Anthony. The steps I followed on iPad- * *Download Notability (I already had it for work reasons. It costs $2.99) *Sync Notability to Google Drive *Open Word Document from email in Notability. It auto-converted the document to Pdf. *Email the document back from Notability to Email as Pdf. Additional steps I followed since I needed to sign and date the document- *Open the document from email in GoodReader (Already had it for work reasons. Costs $4.99) *Sign and date the document in GoodReader and email to the recipient. A: Probably the easiest way to convert a Word Document to a PDF is to use Word Online, part of the free Office Online suite from Microsoft. Once your .doc or .docx file is open, you just select "Download as PDF" and you have your PDF file. This solution requires no 3rd party apps and does everything within the browser for free. A: If you have a .docs on a computer, upload to google drive, open it on iPad, download the file and follow the steps below on "If you are accessing a online .docs" If you are accessing a online .docs * *Open the file online on iPad *Hit share button on upper-right *Find print *After the print window pops up, pinch out (Like zoom out a map) on the preview *You will have a file now that is still named "SOMETHING.docs" but once you hit the share icon again and import it to another app, you will have a PDF file If you are using the word app Open the document, hit the "document with 3 dots" icon on the upper left, hit print, follow step 4 and beyond above. A: Easiest way that I've found if you're using the Microsoft Office App for iPad. 1) File 2) Print 3) Open in Another App 4) Import to iBooks It will automatically save as a PDF file in iBooks. From there you can choose to print or email the PDF. You can also connect iBooks to your iCloud Drive and have it saved there as well. Hope this helps! =] A: IPAD - How to change a .DOCX file into a word or PDF format so you can read it as if it were in WORD. First from the email you receive it from , Open the Doc., download it into "drive" that's the Icon that is shaped like a triangle, (the YELLOW , GREEN , BLUE icon). called "DRIVE" that's it! It will automatically download it as a .pdf so you edit it, move it, and view it better. From "Drive" you can Down load your now .pdf file into Word, Adobe etc. and rename it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why 3G Consume More Battery than Wifi? From what I can recall, both 3G and Wifi should consume about the same about of battery when in operation. However, my field testing seems to indicate that 3G is more battery consuming than Wifi. Is this result general? If yes, why this is so? A: First of all, all wireless systems use the most power when transmitting, ie actively powering the antenna to upload data. Now, just think of the ranges the different systems have to bridge. WiFi works well for like 30 meters, or 100 meters outdoors. Usually, the nearest cell tower is considerably farther away than those 100 meters, therefore, 3G needs more power than WiFi. Add to this that 3G is capable of opening multiple connections at once, and the fact that 3G autmatically boosts power output on weak signals, 3G needs more power.

Q: Why 3G Consume More Battery than Wifi? From what I can recall, both 3G and Wifi should consume about the same about of battery when in operation. However, my field testing seems to indicate that 3G is more battery consuming than Wifi. Is this result general? If yes, why this is so? A: First of all, all wireless systems use the most power when transmitting, ie actively powering the antenna to upload data. Now, just think of the ranges the different systems have to bridge. WiFi works well for like 30 meters, or 100 meters outdoors. Usually, the nearest cell tower is considerably farther away than those 100 meters, therefore, 3G needs more power than WiFi. Add to this that 3G is capable of opening multiple connections at once, and the fact that 3G autmatically boosts power output on weak signals, 3G needs more power. A: RotHorseKid is mostly right, however it's not quite as simple as distance — the operating frequency and bandwidth also affect the power usage. The wikipedia page on dBm provides some approximate power levels for various transmitters, including: * *Maximum output from a UMTS/3G mobile phone as anywhere from 125 mW to 2 W (for various power classes — I'm not sure where the iPhone 4 fits, nor any of the iPhones) *Typical laptop wifi transmission power of 32 mW (and I'm fairly sure the iPhones are below most laptops) with a maximum allowable power of 200 mW *Bluetooth output is 1.3 mW, 2.5 mW or 100 mW depending on range (1m, 10m 100m) Now it's not quite that simple, since the transmitters won't be 100% efficient, and there's associated electronics required for the communications to work (on top of the EM transmissions). Such electronics tend to use more power when they run at higher frequencies, and higher potential bandwidth will require a higher frequency (i.e. the supporting electronics of wifi probably uses more power than the supporting electronics of 3G, which in turn probably uses more power than the supporting electronics of Bluetooth). At a guess, I'd say the supporting electronics would use between 10-100 mW (perhaps someone knows the actual comms chips and can provide specs?), so depending on the power class of the iPhone, it'd be comparable, but I'd still expect 3G to use significantly more power than wifi (and, anecdotally, my iPhone gets hotter when using 3G compared to wifi, which backs this up too).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is iOS 4.2 faster than 4.1 (iPod Touch)? I've read that iOS 4.2 is faster on the iPhone 3G -- they're making a big deal out of this. Is this performance improvement limited to the 3G? I have an iPod Touch 4gen and I'm wondering if I'll see any difference. There's no features of iOS 4.2 that interest me, so I wouldn't bother with the upgrade, but if it also gave me improved performance, I might. Thanks! A: Having used 4.2 GM on my iPhone 4 for a couple of weeks now I personally find it much much better at managing and minimising memory usage (regular checks using iStat). This should translate to better performance on older devices with limited RAM as less RAM to flash swapping will be required.

Q: Is iOS 4.2 faster than 4.1 (iPod Touch)? I've read that iOS 4.2 is faster on the iPhone 3G -- they're making a big deal out of this. Is this performance improvement limited to the 3G? I have an iPod Touch 4gen and I'm wondering if I'll see any difference. There's no features of iOS 4.2 that interest me, so I wouldn't bother with the upgrade, but if it also gave me improved performance, I might. Thanks! A: Having used 4.2 GM on my iPhone 4 for a couple of weeks now I personally find it much much better at managing and minimising memory usage (regular checks using iStat). This should translate to better performance on older devices with limited RAM as less RAM to flash swapping will be required.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I see the system status during boot? I would like to monitor the messages generated when I boot my Mac, similar to what you on a *nix box. Is there key-combo to press/hold that will let me do this? A: You have to press cmd + v upon startup to see the boot output. Press this right after the chime. If you want to make that permanent, you should probably do something along the lines of: sudo nvram boot-args="-v" To undo the above: sudo nvram boot-args= in the Terminal. (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) note: I haven’t tested the above commands, but I’m sure a google query will help you there if you want to make it permanent.

Q: How can I see the system status during boot? I would like to monitor the messages generated when I boot my Mac, similar to what you on a *nix box. Is there key-combo to press/hold that will let me do this? A: You have to press cmd + v upon startup to see the boot output. Press this right after the chime. If you want to make that permanent, you should probably do something along the lines of: sudo nvram boot-args="-v" To undo the above: sudo nvram boot-args= in the Terminal. (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) note: I haven’t tested the above commands, but I’m sure a google query will help you there if you want to make it permanent. A: If you want to see the boot messages after the boot occurred, log in and run sudo dmesg in Terminal.app.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Mail.app doesn't delete the draft email after I have sent it I use Mail.app to access my Gmail account and it doesn't delete the draft email - which is created automatically - after I have sent it. How do I correct this? A: See point #18 on this TidBITS article on making Mail.app and Gmail IMAP co-exist happily -- hopefully it will help? (I have not yet taken all the recommendations they give, but the longer I go on using both, the more I turn back to this to help file off the rough edges.)

Q: Mail.app doesn't delete the draft email after I have sent it I use Mail.app to access my Gmail account and it doesn't delete the draft email - which is created automatically - after I have sent it. How do I correct this? A: See point #18 on this TidBITS article on making Mail.app and Gmail IMAP co-exist happily -- hopefully it will help? (I have not yet taken all the recommendations they give, but the longer I go on using both, the more I turn back to this to help file off the rough edges.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What devices can I Airplay to? With AirPlay will I be able to stream to iPhone, iPod Touch, and/or iTunes, or is it only to Apple TV and 3rd party speakers? A: Yes. Airplay is really a technology platform that allows for streaming media on a local network. It isn't concerned with the type of device that is producing the media or consuming it. To start with, support may be limited and may not come from Apple. However, certainly that will change with demand. For example: * *There is an iOS app called AirPlayer which allows streaming of media to an iPhone/iPod/iPad. *There is a Mac proof-of-concept app also called AirPlayer which allows streaming of media to a Mac.

Q: What devices can I Airplay to? With AirPlay will I be able to stream to iPhone, iPod Touch, and/or iTunes, or is it only to Apple TV and 3rd party speakers? A: Yes. Airplay is really a technology platform that allows for streaming media on a local network. It isn't concerned with the type of device that is producing the media or consuming it. To start with, support may be limited and may not come from Apple. However, certainly that will change with demand. For example: * *There is an iOS app called AirPlayer which allows streaming of media to an iPhone/iPod/iPad. *There is a Mac proof-of-concept app also called AirPlayer which allows streaming of media to a Mac. A: Looks like Banana TV is a currently shipping Mac app (not just a proof-of-concept) that will play Airplay video or images from your iPhone/iPad. (TUAW review) A: Airserver allows you to stream Airplay audio and video from your iOS device to your Mac. Works great. A: You can Airplay to Windows, Mac, Android, or Amazon Fire using Reflector 2. It claims to support sending rom iOS 9 devices also (but I personally haven't tested the iOS 9 support yet). Reflector installs an app that acts as an AirPlay and Google Cast receiver. The app is available for Windows, Mac, Android, or Amazon Fire. Since Reflector supports receiving both AirPlay and Google Cast it can receive audio/video from iOS or Android. It's from Squirrels, the same company that makes the excellent AirParrot app (which allows you send AirPlay audio and video from Windows and Mac to AirPlay and Google Cast).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: I have a 2009 MacBook Air, bought a year ago - will I notice much of a performance improvement if I buy the latest version (Late 2010)? Does the SSD make that much difference? The processor is not much beefier, what are the other factors I should consider/which have an impact? Anyone made the same upgrade and happy with a significant improvement? Or am I just wanting a new shiny thing? A: The flash storage makes a huge difference (a fresh system boots in about 15 seconds, apps will start instantly etc.), and the new MBA does not need to throttle the CPU when it gets hot. So you will probably notice a big improvement. See Macworlds benchmark results, for example.

Q: I have a 2009 MacBook Air, bought a year ago - will I notice much of a performance improvement if I buy the latest version (Late 2010)? Does the SSD make that much difference? The processor is not much beefier, what are the other factors I should consider/which have an impact? Anyone made the same upgrade and happy with a significant improvement? Or am I just wanting a new shiny thing? A: The flash storage makes a huge difference (a fresh system boots in about 15 seconds, apps will start instantly etc.), and the new MBA does not need to throttle the CPU when it gets hot. So you will probably notice a big improvement. See Macworlds benchmark results, for example.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How secure is it to allow Safari to remember passwords on my iPhone? What key does it use to encrypt the stored passwords? If it uses the phone's unlock code, what key does it use for phones that don't have one set up? If someone had access to the hard drive contents (e.g. by connecting it to a Linux machine), how easy would it be for them to decrypt the saved passwords? A: Not a direct answer but I too had similar concerns. With IOS 4.2, they have enabled the remote wipe ability for all iphone4 users via MobileME. So at least, if you lose your phone, you can have it wiped out remotely.

Q: How secure is it to allow Safari to remember passwords on my iPhone? What key does it use to encrypt the stored passwords? If it uses the phone's unlock code, what key does it use for phones that don't have one set up? If someone had access to the hard drive contents (e.g. by connecting it to a Linux machine), how easy would it be for them to decrypt the saved passwords? A: Not a direct answer but I too had similar concerns. With IOS 4.2, they have enabled the remote wipe ability for all iphone4 users via MobileME. So at least, if you lose your phone, you can have it wiped out remotely. A: According to an article on Yahoo News, there are known exploits for Apple's keychain, which would allow an attacker to gain access to passwords stored on the iPhone. I believe that Safari uses keychain to store the username/passwords you tell it to remember.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a Mac OS X Terminal version of the "free" command in Linux systems? On Linux, I often use the free command to see the current amount of free and used memory in the system. For example: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7264256 1010952 6253304 0 371892 189088 -/+ buffers/cache: 449972 6814284 Swap: 8126456 28 8126428 It does not seem to exist when I enter free in Mac OS X's Terminal. Is there an alternative? A: The command you need is vm_stat - similar to the traditional Unix tool vmstat but with a few MACH-specific differences. The man page is well written.

Q: Is there a Mac OS X Terminal version of the "free" command in Linux systems? On Linux, I often use the free command to see the current amount of free and used memory in the system. For example: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7264256 1010952 6253304 0 371892 189088 -/+ buffers/cache: 449972 6814284 Swap: 8126456 28 8126428 It does not seem to exist when I enter free in Mac OS X's Terminal. Is there an alternative? A: The command you need is vm_stat - similar to the traditional Unix tool vmstat but with a few MACH-specific differences. The man page is well written. A: free="$(( $(vm_stat | awk '/free/ {gsub(/\./, "", $3); print $3}') * 4096 / 1048576)) MiB free" A: #!/bin/bash top -l 1 | grep PhysMem: | awk '{print $10}' For Unix experts only: top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem:/ {print $10}' A: It seems the reason it's slow is because top -l 1 always delays by one second after completing, the standard delay between refreshes. Adding -s 0 to the command makes it complete instantly: top -l 1 -s 0 | grep PhysMem Also, for clarity, I like showing each mem-component on its line, so I added 9 spaces for alignment with 'PhysMem: ' in the sed replacement string: top -l 1 -s 0 | grep PhysMem | sed 's/, /\n /g' A: Judging by your other question, I think you've found the use of the Activity Monitor utility to look at your memory status, right? Just for the record, it's in /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app. A: You might try the command allmemory if you want a command line tool that reports extremely detailed memory usage. A: The above is way too much effort for my liking, and it assumes that you have a fully fledged install too... If you've booted from a Mac OS X start up disk, then all the above solutions obviously won't work... Just use the command "hostinfo", here's the output from my mid 2012 MBAir running Mavericks (10.9.1): Mach kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel configured for up to 4 processors. 2 processors are physically available. 4 processors are logically available. Processor type: i486 (Intel 80486) Processors active: 0 1 2 3 Primary memory available: 8.00 gigabytes Default processor set: 195 tasks, 961 threads, 4 processors Load average: 1.61, Mach factor: 2.38 The good this about this command is that it comes preinstalled with the 10.9 installer too under /usr/bin, so it's very handy, ideally, if you just want RAM then issue: $ hostinfo | grep memory Don't know if hostinfo exists on any previous OSes though... A: Here's a simple one-liner to make the whole vm_stat output more human friendly: $ vm_stat | perl -ne '/page size of (\d+)/ and $size=$1; /Pages\s+([^:]+)[^\d]+(\d+)/ and printf("%-16s % 16.2f Mi\n", "$1:", $2 * $size / 1048576);' free: 2330.23 Mi active: 2948.07 Mi inactive: 1462.97 Mi speculative: 599.45 Mi wired down: 840.46 Mi copy-on-write: 43684.84 Mi zero filled: 385865.48 Mi reactivated: 608.14 Mi A: top -l 1 -s 0 | awk ' /Processes/ || /PhysMem/ || /Load Avg/{print}' This should do nicely :) A: I think these days, psutil and its meminfo.py script provide the most helpful memory-usage details. To try it: pip install psutil curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giampaolo/psutil/master/scripts/meminfo.py python ./meminfo.py The output it produces looks like this: MEMORY ------ Total : 16.0G Available : 5.5G Percent : 65.8 Used : 13.5G Free : 1.5G Active : 7.4G Inactive : 4.0G Wired : 2.1G SWAP ---- Total : 1.0G Used : 33.5M Free : 990.5M Percent : 3.3 Sin : 15.9G Sout : 71.6M Notice the Available row, which shows an estimate of how much memory is actually available for starting new applications, without swapping. I don’t know of any other MacOS utility providing that available-memory estimate. For the sake of comparison: On a Linux system, the same sort of information is provided in the available column in output from current versions of free: total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.8G 552M 182M 156M 7.1G 6.9G Swap: 0B 0B 0B Total: 7.8G 552M 182M That available column in free output just comes from MemAvailable in /proc/meminfo. And on systems that have /proc/meminfo, psutil also just uses that to estimate available memory. But MacOS doesn’t have /proc/meminfo, so to estimate the available memory in that case, psutil employs the same algorithm used on Linux to calculate MemAvailable for /proc/meminfo. A: In case you're only really interested in swap usage (what would be the last line of output from free): $ sysctl vm.swapusage vm.swapusage: total = 64.00M used = 0.00M free = 64.00M (encrypted) A: Bash commands "free like" for Mac OSX. This is the second reissue of this post. At first, I got two -1. One because I was not describing in English, it is corrected. The other because I used gawk (which is not part of a standard OS X installation), it is also corrected, I now use awk. The -2 are still there ;-). The best is perhaps now to test and evaluate the commands it themselves? I reviewed my first idea to build only one end-user oriented command with a friendly and highly configurable display, I made two: * *free-like.sh a script always oriented "end user", with more accuracy, a "friendly" and configurable display, but with more calculations and resource consumption, *free-like-raw.sh, a command now oriented developer, sysadmin, etc.., with less computation and resource consumption, but also with less precision, less "friendly" display. The data for the physical memory are extracted from the results of the command vm_stat (which returns the results in blocksize). The imprecision resulting from the transformation in bytes (number_of_blocks * block_size, the default value of the calculations) will be between 0 < the size of the block. The data for virtual memory are taken from the top command. The imprecision here is linked to the unit of reference of the top command: kilo, mega, giga. Calculations are made using awk that respects rounded (as opposed to bc). awk is also quicker than bc. You can see the test script here: http://myblog.robert.sebille.name/article29.html#awk-bc You can view the results of the commands in bytes (default), in kilo, mega or giga, with x decimal places in the case of free-like.sh and if you ask the display in mega ou giga. The scripts are too long for a post, but you can find them on this article of my blog: http://myblog.robert.sebille.name/article29.html The article is in french, but it display one example of display for each command and their integrated help (./free-like.sh -h and ./free-like-raw.sh -h), in english. These aids completely describe the commands. The article display also the codes. English is not my mother language. If somebody wants to correct errors in the integrated help, he is welcome ;). yours. A: There is a terminal command similar to free on Mac OS X... it is called top For further information you can check out this Apple Support document. Mac OS X: How to View Memory Usage With the "top" Utility A: This runs at my $PS1: https://github.com/vigo/dotfiles-universal/blob/master/prompts/free_memory (Ruby version: https://github.com/vigo/dotfiles-universal/blob/master/prompts%2Ffree_memory.rb ) A: If case you use fishshell on osx, along with fisher its package manager. I wrote the following extension: https://github.com/fisherman/free It's a complete redo of the free command for osx. See by yourself > free total used free appmem wired compressed Mem: 8.00Gb 6.65Gb 1.95Gb 2.87Gb 2.09Gb 1.86Gb +/- Cache: 1.24Gb 1.87Gb Swap(43%): 2048Mb 877Mb 1171Mb Load Avg: 1.63 1.95 1.95 A: You can try the memory_pressure command. See the output of my system (i5, 4 GB RAM) The system has 2147483648 (524288 pages with a page size of 4096). Stats: Pages free: 90009 Pages purgeable: 139593 Pages purged: 7496548 Swap I/O: Swapins: 470466 Swapouts: 530913 Page Q counts: Pages active: 407739 Pages inactive: 148277 Pages speculative: 16200 Pages throttled: 0 Pages wired down: 263064 Compressor Stats: Pages used by compressor: 122815 Pages decompressed: 7327420 Pages compressed: 17625795 File I/O: Pageins: 1538997 Pageouts: 86692 System-wide memory free percentage: 63% A: There's no exact equivalent that's distributed with Mac OS X, but there are a couple other ways to get the information: * *system_profiler - Shows all of the Mac's System Profile info in the shell *sysctl -a | grep mem or sysctl hw.memsize (total mem) A: Just taking the solution from @zack and adding inactive and speculative blocks. #!/bin/bash FREE_BLOCKS=$(vm_stat | grep free | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/\.//') INACTIVE_BLOCKS=$(vm_stat | grep inactive | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/\.//') SPECULATIVE_BLOCKS=$(vm_stat | grep speculative | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/\.//') FREE=$((($FREE_BLOCKS+SPECULATIVE_BLOCKS)*4096/1048576)) INACTIVE=$(($INACTIVE_BLOCKS*4096/1048576)) TOTAL=$((($FREE+$INACTIVE))) echo Free: $FREE MB echo Inactive: $INACTIVE MB echo Total free: $TOTAL MB A: As @khedron says, you can see this info in Activity Monitor. If you want it on the command line, here is a Python script that I wrote (or perhaps modified from someone else's, I can't remember, it's quite old now) to show you the Wired, Active, Inactive and Free memory amounts: #!/usr/bin/python import subprocess import re # Get process info ps = subprocess.Popen(['ps', '-caxm', '-orss,comm'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode() vm = subprocess.Popen(['vm_stat'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode() # Iterate processes processLines = ps.split('\n') sep = re.compile('[\s]+') rssTotal = 0 # kB for row in range(1,len(processLines)): rowText = processLines[row].strip() rowElements = sep.split(rowText) try: rss = float(rowElements[0]) * 1024 except: rss = 0 # ignore... rssTotal += rss # Process vm_stat vmLines = vm.split('\n') sep = re.compile(':[\s]+') vmStats = {} for row in range(1,len(vmLines)-2): rowText = vmLines[row].strip() rowElements = sep.split(rowText) vmStats[(rowElements[0])] = int(rowElements[1].strip('\.')) * 4096 print('Wired Memory:\t\t%d MB' % (vmStats["Pages wired down"]/1024/1024)) print('Active Memory:\t\t%d MB' % (vmStats["Pages active"]/1024/1024)) print('Inactive Memory:\t%d MB' % (vmStats["Pages inactive"]/1024/1024)) print('Free Memory:\t\t%d MB' % (vmStats["Pages free"]/1024/1024)) print('Real Mem Total (ps):\t%.3f MB' % (rssTotal/1024/1024)) As you can see, you can just call vm_stat from the command line, though it counts in 4kB pages, hence the script to convert to MB. The script also counts up the "real memory" usage of all running processes for comparison (this won't match any specific value(s) from overall memory stats, because memory is a complex beast). Here's an example of the output of the script on my system: [user@host:~] % memReport.py Wired Memory: 1381 MB Active Memory: 3053 MB Inactive Memory: 727 MB Free Memory: 1619 MB Real Mem Total (ps): 3402.828 MB (very slightly adjusted to match the tab sizing on StackExchange ;) A: vm_stat shows you in kilobytes. The oneliner below shows in megabytes: paste <(vm_stat | awk 'NR>1' | grep -o ".*:") <(for i in $(vm_stat | awk 'NR>1' | tr -d '.' | awk '{print $NF}'); do perl -e "print $i/1024" | awk '{printf "%0.2f", $0}'; echo; done) | column -s: -t Returns: Pages free 11.06 Pages active 798.25 Pages inactive 776.03 Pages speculative 9.15 Pages throttled 0.00 Pages wired down 303.27 Pages purgeable 0.95 "Translation faults" 82172.66 Pages copy-on-write 11629.60 Pages zero filled 27685.41 Pages reactivated 1450.70 Pages purged 91.66 File-backed pages 430.20 Anonymous pages 1153.24 Pages stored in compressor 481.75 Pages occupied by compressor 149.91 Decompressions 1277.92 Compressions 1622.33 Pageins 13198.02 Pageouts 66.61 Swapins 54.34 Swapouts 90.63 A: top or htop can also help to solve the problem . A: This works with vanilla Mac OS 10.10 - 13.2, on both Intel and ARM Mac's, to get the amount of free memory in Mb, as defined as memory that the OS would page out and allocate to other processes if needed, plus unallocated memory: page_sz=$(/usr/bin/memory_pressure |awk '/ pages with a page size of / { print $NF+0 }') free_pages=$(/usr/bin/memory_pressure |awk '/^Pages free:/ { print $NF }') inactive_pages=$(/usr/bin/memory_pressure |awk '/^Pages inactive:/ { print $NF }') speculative_pages=$(/usr/bin/memory_pressure |awk '/^Pages speculative:/ { print $NF }') free_mb=$(( (${free_pages} + ${speculative_pages} + ${inactive_pages}) * ${page_sz} / 1048576 )) And, as a one-liner: memory_pressure|awk '/ page size of /{z=$NF+0}/^Pages free:/{f=$NF}/^Pages inactive:/{i=$NF}/^Pages speculative:/{printf "%i\n",(f+i+$NF)*z/1048576}'

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I boot into the EFI firmware shell? I'd like to experiment with the EFI shell on a MacBook Pro 2010 model. I am unable to find the keyboard sequence to hold on boot. Does someone know what the sequence is, do I need to boot from my Snow Leopard CD instead to access this or has the EFI shell been left out (I read that Intel makes it an optional component) ? Thanks, Scott A: Yup, apparently it is missing and you have to install EDK to get it.

Q: How do I boot into the EFI firmware shell? I'd like to experiment with the EFI shell on a MacBook Pro 2010 model. I am unable to find the keyboard sequence to hold on boot. Does someone know what the sequence is, do I need to boot from my Snow Leopard CD instead to access this or has the EFI shell been left out (I read that Intel makes it an optional component) ? Thanks, Scott A: Yup, apparently it is missing and you have to install EDK to get it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I "copy image address" in iOS? On desktops, when web browsing you typically right click on an image and choose an item from a contextual menu to display/copy the image URL. In iOS, when you tap and hold down an image, an action sheet displays asking if you want to save the image, copy to the clipboard, etc. But what if you just want the URL? If safari doesn't offer this functionality, is there a 3rd party browser that does? Specifically, one that works on the iPad. A: Neither iOS Safari nor Opera Mini support this option. However, you can install the 'view source' iOS bookmarklet, as explained here: * *http://fettig.net/weblog/2007/07/02/view-source-for-safari-on-iphone/ And use it to look for the image link within the source you are visiting. This may be cumbersome using older iOS versions, but it is much easier on iOS 4.2, using the 'Find text on webpages' feature which allows you to search for text using Safari's Search field (right of the navigation bar) to look for image extensons like .jpg, .png and .gif.

Q: How do I "copy image address" in iOS? On desktops, when web browsing you typically right click on an image and choose an item from a contextual menu to display/copy the image URL. In iOS, when you tap and hold down an image, an action sheet displays asking if you want to save the image, copy to the clipboard, etc. But what if you just want the URL? If safari doesn't offer this functionality, is there a 3rd party browser that does? Specifically, one that works on the iPad. A: Neither iOS Safari nor Opera Mini support this option. However, you can install the 'view source' iOS bookmarklet, as explained here: * *http://fettig.net/weblog/2007/07/02/view-source-for-safari-on-iphone/ And use it to look for the image link within the source you are visiting. This may be cumbersome using older iOS versions, but it is much easier on iOS 4.2, using the 'Find text on webpages' feature which allows you to search for text using Safari's Search field (right of the navigation bar) to look for image extensons like .jpg, .png and .gif. A: Tap, and hold the image; then choose "copy," open a new browser window, and paste into the address bar. A: Tap and hold, and the 2nd option will be to open it in a new page. Tap that, and you'll get a new window. Tap the URL bar, and Copy. A: [Note: this has only been tested on iOS 5.1.1 on iPad] For a simple image, you can tap-and-hold it and select 'Copy'. This will copy the URL of the image which you can paste wherever you need it. However, when the image is being used as a link to another URL, this method copies the linked URL only. A method that always works is to use the Show Images Bookmarklet (from here - a useful resource any time you want a bookmarklet on iOS).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keyboard rubber spacer broken I bought a wired aluminum keyboard in May this year. Today one of the rubber spacers pressed into the case and I can't get it out. As the keyboard is now extremely loud while typing and not even anymore, I'd like to have it replaced/repaired by Apple. Does anybody have experience with that problem? Is it a pain to get it repaired? A: I don’t have experience with Apple Keyboard problems specifically, but this seems like a problem which Apple would fix by simply replacing your keyboard. Assuming that the spacer broke during normal usage, and that you are still within the original warranty period for the hardware, it’s far easier for Apple to replace the keyboard than to attempt to repair it.

Q: Keyboard rubber spacer broken I bought a wired aluminum keyboard in May this year. Today one of the rubber spacers pressed into the case and I can't get it out. As the keyboard is now extremely loud while typing and not even anymore, I'd like to have it replaced/repaired by Apple. Does anybody have experience with that problem? Is it a pain to get it repaired? A: I don’t have experience with Apple Keyboard problems specifically, but this seems like a problem which Apple would fix by simply replacing your keyboard. Assuming that the spacer broke during normal usage, and that you are still within the original warranty period for the hardware, it’s far easier for Apple to replace the keyboard than to attempt to repair it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Black background on iPhone 4? While I initially liked the ability to set custom backgrounds on my iPhone 4, I've come to find that I'm starting to miss the simple black background I had on my iPhone 3G. How can I set my background back to black? A: Create a black image in your favorite image editor (even Paint will do if you're on Windows), save it as a jpeg, and e-mail or sync it to the phone. Then set that image as the background. Since you're making it all black, I doubt the resolution is going to matter much, but you can always use 960 x 640 to use the iPhone 4's standard resolution. Edit to add a black image that works:

Q: Black background on iPhone 4? While I initially liked the ability to set custom backgrounds on my iPhone 4, I've come to find that I'm starting to miss the simple black background I had on my iPhone 3G. How can I set my background back to black? A: Create a black image in your favorite image editor (even Paint will do if you're on Windows), save it as a jpeg, and e-mail or sync it to the phone. Then set that image as the background. Since you're making it all black, I doubt the resolution is going to matter much, but you can always use 960 x 640 to use the iPhone 4's standard resolution. Edit to add a black image that works:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Cannot restore or recover ipod Classic 80gb I have an ipod Classic 80gb. It is currently stuck on the apple screen. I am unable to recover or restore the ipod. It is not recognized by windows as either a ipod or a mass storage device. When I plug it into my PC nothing happens. It just sits there with the apple logo on the screen. None of the buttons respond with the exception of a reset. (toggle hold switch -> hold center + menu for 6 seconds.) A reset will cause the screen to go blank for a few seconds. Nothing else I have found seems to work. Let me know if you have any ideas A: You can try to diagnose the problem with the diagnostic mode. To enter the diagnostic mode, press the folowing key when the apple logo appears after a reset : iPod 1G, 2G et 3G, press the keys for 5 seconds : * *"back" *"next" *"select" iPod 4G, 5G, mini et nano, press the keys for 5 seconds : * *"back" *"select" In the diagnotic mode, you can navigate in the menus with the back/next keys and launch a bunch of test.

Q: Cannot restore or recover ipod Classic 80gb I have an ipod Classic 80gb. It is currently stuck on the apple screen. I am unable to recover or restore the ipod. It is not recognized by windows as either a ipod or a mass storage device. When I plug it into my PC nothing happens. It just sits there with the apple logo on the screen. None of the buttons respond with the exception of a reset. (toggle hold switch -> hold center + menu for 6 seconds.) A reset will cause the screen to go blank for a few seconds. Nothing else I have found seems to work. Let me know if you have any ideas A: You can try to diagnose the problem with the diagnostic mode. To enter the diagnostic mode, press the folowing key when the apple logo appears after a reset : iPod 1G, 2G et 3G, press the keys for 5 seconds : * *"back" *"next" *"select" iPod 4G, 5G, mini et nano, press the keys for 5 seconds : * *"back" *"select" In the diagnotic mode, you can navigate in the menus with the back/next keys and launch a bunch of test. A: The hard disk has probably failed. If so, your options include: * *Buy a new iPod *Buy a replacement hard drive on eBay (etc) and replace it. *Find a used iPod somewhere and swap parts to yours until it works.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I type Chinese on MacBook Pro? I would like to know how to type Chinese (simplified), using Pinyin, on my MacBook Pro. I went to System Preference > Language & Text > Language, moved Chinese (simplified) on the list right after English, and then under the Input Sources tab, I check Chinese simplified and English. After all these steps, I still have no clue how to type Chinese. (When I open TextEdit, I don't see any language selection.) A: After select pinyin in your input language you can open any editor like textEdit: when you start typing you see the box (like below box) and can select your desire word.

Q: How can I type Chinese on MacBook Pro? I would like to know how to type Chinese (simplified), using Pinyin, on my MacBook Pro. I went to System Preference > Language & Text > Language, moved Chinese (simplified) on the list right after English, and then under the Input Sources tab, I check Chinese simplified and English. After all these steps, I still have no clue how to type Chinese. (When I open TextEdit, I don't see any language selection.) A: After select pinyin in your input language you can open any editor like textEdit: when you start typing you see the box (like below box) and can select your desire word. A: For this and other useful info, there's a whole site: http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a barcode app that works on pictures instead of needing to be connected to wifi for it to work? I've got a couple of barcode apps, but they all require that you have the item, the camera, and the internet connection at the same place. Are there any barcode apps where you can take a picture of the item's barcode, store the picture, and then feed it into the app when you have an internet connection? A: I use RedLaser and it has this capability. If RedLaser can't connect to the internet when you take the picture of the barcode, it will store the number and let you look it up later:

Q: Is there a barcode app that works on pictures instead of needing to be connected to wifi for it to work? I've got a couple of barcode apps, but they all require that you have the item, the camera, and the internet connection at the same place. Are there any barcode apps where you can take a picture of the item's barcode, store the picture, and then feed it into the app when you have an internet connection? A: I use RedLaser and it has this capability. If RedLaser can't connect to the internet when you take the picture of the barcode, it will store the number and let you look it up later:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Problem with ssh agent I'm having a problem using ssh agent to make sure I don't have to enter a password each time a certain program uses my id_rsa private key. I did ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa and it seemed to add an entry to my keychain But it continues to prompt me. When I go into keychain under access control, it looks like maybe it's because it's not set A: Double check your permissions in those files, if they are not like this, it won’t work: -rw------- 1 martin staff 1675 Jul 27 2009 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 martin staff 403 Jul 27 2009 id_rsa.pub UPDATE: If you see that the files have an @, that means they have “extended attributes”. You can see what they are by issuing: xattr -l <filename>

Q: Problem with ssh agent I'm having a problem using ssh agent to make sure I don't have to enter a password each time a certain program uses my id_rsa private key. I did ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa and it seemed to add an entry to my keychain But it continues to prompt me. When I go into keychain under access control, it looks like maybe it's because it's not set A: Double check your permissions in those files, if they are not like this, it won’t work: -rw------- 1 martin staff 1675 Jul 27 2009 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 martin staff 403 Jul 27 2009 id_rsa.pub UPDATE: If you see that the files have an @, that means they have “extended attributes”. You can see what they are by issuing: xattr -l <filename> A: Connect manually from Terminal using the verbose options to see where your problem lies, if it's a client-side problem. You might also want to check the error logs on the server to find out if your publickey is getting rejected. Permissions on the user folder, the .ssh folder, and the files within (like authorized_keys) need to have all group/other write permissions removed, on both the client and the server. SSH is very picky about permissions and will not use anything that is accessible to anyone other than you. A: I had this problem as well. For me /usr/bin/ssh-agent shuts off after a while. pgrep ssh-agent /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s #should show you something like this SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-OYn3ShRY4l/agent.37715; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=37716; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 37716; I even got irritated, and removed the OS X programs from the Access Control side and replaced them with up to date, modern MacPorts versions. All is fine, except that Keychain Accesss is a bit flaky. My version of ssh-add runs forever. You only need to run the 'ancient of days' version /usr/bin/ssh once to get your key into your keychain.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Avoid having to select "Include Network Devices" every time when scanning in Preview I set up a wireless HP Printer for my mother, prints and scans just fine. The annoying thing is that every single time we try to scan in Preview, we first have to do the following: * *Select File > Import from Scanner > Include Networked Devices *Select File > Import from Scanner > Printer name Is there a way to avoid having to do that first step every time? Didn't see a preference in Preview and obviously we aren't going to keep it running all of the time. :) A: That answer is very well done, but an even better option is to use "image capture".

Q: Avoid having to select "Include Network Devices" every time when scanning in Preview I set up a wireless HP Printer for my mother, prints and scans just fine. The annoying thing is that every single time we try to scan in Preview, we first have to do the following: * *Select File > Import from Scanner > Include Networked Devices *Select File > Import from Scanner > Printer name Is there a way to avoid having to do that first step every time? Didn't see a preference in Preview and obviously we aren't going to keep it running all of the time. :) A: That answer is very well done, but an even better option is to use "image capture". A: tell application "Preview" activate end tell tell application "System Events" tell process "Preview" tell menu bar 1 tell menu bar item "File" tell menu "File" tell menu item "Import from Scanner" tell menu "Import from Scanner" click menu item "Include Networked Devices" -- added a delay because the list of networked printers doesn't appear immediately. AH 11/21/11 repeat until menu item "Printer name" exists end repeat click menu item "Printer name" end tell end tell end tell end tell end tell end tell end tell To use this, copy the script, open the the Script Editor application under /Applications/AppleScript/, and paste into a new script. I am going to guess that click menu item "Printer name" will have to be changed as I don't think the menu item really says "Printer name", I'm guessing it says something like "HP OfficeJet 6500". Make sure that all menu names match. Save the script as either an application, which can be launched from the dock, or a script, which can be run from the AppleScript menu bar item. Note, I believe that you must enable "Enable access for assistive devices" in the "Universal Access" preference pane of System Preferences for this to work:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keyboard shortcut for launching Apps in Dock In Windows 7, Win + 1, 2, 3 ... 9 launches the first, second etc App in task bar. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut in OS X in order to launch Apps that are in the Dock? A: I don't know the exact solution but you can use control+fn+F3 after that you can navigate through Dock with keyboard arrow keys (→ or ←) and press enter on your desire app.

Q: Keyboard shortcut for launching Apps in Dock In Windows 7, Win + 1, 2, 3 ... 9 launches the first, second etc App in task bar. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut in OS X in order to launch Apps that are in the Dock? A: I don't know the exact solution but you can use control+fn+F3 after that you can navigate through Dock with keyboard arrow keys (→ or ←) and press enter on your desire app. A: Just downloaded a 99 cent app from the mac app store called "Snap" that fixes this. Now I hit command-1 and the first app in my dock launches. Awesome! A: As @Am1rr3zA said, you can use the default Control + fn + F3. You can then press Enter or Space to launch an app. You can change the key binding in the Keyboard shortcuts menu in the Settings application. A: This is a neat windows feature to want in the Dock, but if you like keyboard shortcuts, why not get a customizable application, like Quicksilver that lets you do a lot via the keyboard. Its not going to be easy / quick if you have a lot of Apps in your dock to remember a meaning less position number of a icon in a dock, when you could just ask for what you want directly. Something like Quicksilver will not only help you open stuff in the dock faster it will let you open stuff not in the dock at extreme speeds. For example, after getting Quicksilver's attention via a configurable key command, I type "F" and hit enter to open Firefox on my setup. A: Create a Hammerspoon script to assign shortcut keys. For example, this script assigns Option+C to Calendar and Option+M to Mail. shortcuts = { {"C", "Calendar"}, {"M", "Mail"}, } for i,shortcut in ipairs(shortcuts) do hs.hotkey.bind({"alt"}, shortcut[1], function() hs.application.launchOrFocus(shortcut[2]) end) end

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is system maintenance software required? If so, what is the best? On Windows computers, people often use third party software like SystemCare in order to keep their system functioning at top performance. Are there Mac equivalents that monitor startup, configuration and the like? How necessary are they? What is the best general purpose package? A: Are there Mac equivalents that monitor startup, configuration and the like? OnyX, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, iTweax are some options. How necessary are they? Not very. Any optimization that needs to be done is already built into the Mac OS X. What is the best general purpose package? Can't help you there, I don't use such utilities.

Q: Is system maintenance software required? If so, what is the best? On Windows computers, people often use third party software like SystemCare in order to keep their system functioning at top performance. Are there Mac equivalents that monitor startup, configuration and the like? How necessary are they? What is the best general purpose package? A: Are there Mac equivalents that monitor startup, configuration and the like? OnyX, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, iTweax are some options. How necessary are they? Not very. Any optimization that needs to be done is already built into the Mac OS X. What is the best general purpose package? Can't help you there, I don't use such utilities. A: Let me correct your answer ;) Unless you leave your computer on 24 hours a day, and completely shut it down and restart it once a week, some things will grow and grow. Starting with Snow Leopard, OS X catches up on missed periodic routines (purging caches, updating indexes, other stuff that needs to be done periodically). If you are really in doubt, run the following in terminal: sudo periodic daily sudo periodic weekly sudo periodic monthly This will run all the routines OS X runs daily, weekly or monthly to keep the system fresh and fast. A: Let me extend ghoppe’s answer. Not very. Any optimization that needs to be done is already built into the Mac OS X. That is true, but could be misleading. Unless you leave your computer on 24 hours a day, and completely shut it down and restart it once a week, some things will grow and grow. Despite the “customization” options that these tools provide (i.e. change the Dock’s minimize animation to name a trivial one), there’s a maintenance aspect in the tools, that can be handy. I personally have Cocktail (not free) because I got it with a bundle years ago. I’ve used OnyX too, it’s very similar. They are not a must, but Cocktail checks the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drives, executes the maintenance tasks in case you missed them too much, etc. The UNIX under the hood requires Unix maintenance. It’s true, the tools are not required but I’d have one (even if OnyX). Sometimes when you have problems, running the tasks (clearing caches, font caches, etc.) helps. A plus is that Cocktail (and possibly others) also check for “existing” trojans (there are only a handful). It’s all about having a tool that you can easily use to keep things clean. The rest of the options are merely a nice graphical user interface to existing OS X commands, plus the ability to search for corrupted preference files, remove locked files, etc. Most of these things you can do without any utility, but it’s way faster this way unless you know the commands. I’ve used Cocktail for a few years (runs every Friday) and I restart my computer once a month (or when there’s an update) and never associated a problem with this.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What version of Mac Mini supports Leopard 10.5.8? Does Leopard 10.5.8 support the first-ever Mac Mini (M9686*/A, M9687*/A, I think)? Or do I need one of the later ones? I'm buying my first-ever mac this Christmas. A: Yes Leopard supports all Intel and all PowerPC based machines over a minimum CPU speed and the original Power PC minus are in that ranges. Apple doc Snow Leopard (10.6) only supports Intel based machines

Q: What version of Mac Mini supports Leopard 10.5.8? Does Leopard 10.5.8 support the first-ever Mac Mini (M9686*/A, M9687*/A, I think)? Or do I need one of the later ones? I'm buying my first-ever mac this Christmas. A: Yes Leopard supports all Intel and all PowerPC based machines over a minimum CPU speed and the original Power PC minus are in that ranges. Apple doc Snow Leopard (10.6) only supports Intel based machines

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a file copy utility for OS X that's similar to TeraCopy for Windows? On Windows, I use TeraCopy for improved file copying. Are there any similar equivalents for OS X? In particular, I'd like to see things like copy speed. A: The best suggestions from this thread are: * *Pathfinder *XFile *UltraCopier *MiniCopier

Q: Is there a file copy utility for OS X that's similar to TeraCopy for Windows? On Windows, I use TeraCopy for improved file copying. Are there any similar equivalents for OS X? In particular, I'd like to see things like copy speed. A: The best suggestions from this thread are: * *Pathfinder *XFile *UltraCopier *MiniCopier A: Since you mentioned “better” and in particular “copy speed”, I believe the only answer is Xfile. Other than that, nothing will beat cp ;) The world’s fastest file manager for OS X It’s not free, quite the contrary. A: Try Ultracopier, looks a bit like TeraCopy and works on Mac & PC A: While much more than just a copy utility, Pathfinder shows copy speed. Along with Launchbar, it's one of my must have utilities. A: I know this question is nearly 12 years old and may be obsolete but there is actually official TeraCopy for Mac. A: An app I developed, Ultracopier, fits your use case. Here is a YouTube demo showcasing the PC version in action. A: I looked around for something like TeraCopy a while back but everything I found was pretty horrid. In the end I decided to just use cp and rsync on the command line. A: Have you first compared speeds between TeraCopy and the built in Mac OS X file copy? I hate to sound like a generic condescending Mac user, but what exactly is wrong with the built in one? A: You may also consider Hedge for Mac tool. It's mostly for backup purposes and can be used to fast copy large files/folders. It has free version but most interesting features are to be paid. A: There is one application that I found online that works similar to TeraCopy, and that, too, is for Mac OS X and named Turbo Copy Pro. This is a multi-function application and you can view the copy speed and also pause and resume the copy process similar to TeraCopy. The only drawback it has is that it is not free. I have tried and tested the trial version and it worked absolutely fine. Please have a look and post your review.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to get a list of all songs in iTunes? Is there an easy way to get a list of all my songs in iTunes into a text file? A: You can get a nice pdf with the content of your music library: hit ⌘P to open the print dialog, select "Album list" (I'm using a not english version of iTunes, son I'm not fully sure of the label, I mean the third radiobox from the top) and the "Only text" theme (the first option on the select field). Click "Print..." and then Save as PDF. The resulting document is really nice:

Q: How to get a list of all songs in iTunes? Is there an easy way to get a list of all my songs in iTunes into a text file? A: You can get a nice pdf with the content of your music library: hit ⌘P to open the print dialog, select "Album list" (I'm using a not english version of iTunes, son I'm not fully sure of the label, I mean the third radiobox from the top) and the "Only text" theme (the first option on the select field). Click "Print..." and then Save as PDF. The resulting document is really nice: A: This is actually insanely simple: Open iTunes and go into your music library. Click on a song to ensure focus is inside the song list, press ⌘a to select all your songs, then press ⌘c to copy them. Open the text editor of your choice, anything should do, then ⌘v paste your songs! Ét Voíla, all your songs listed in plain text. A: You already have one - albeit an XML file. Default place is ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone app submission process I've submitted my first app on the 20th November but the status is still "Waiting for review", has anyone had longer than this or similar waiting times? A: The approval process varies and there’s no exact number. The factor that determines this is the number of apps in the approval queue. I don’t remember where I read that 95% of the apps where approved within 14 days. I believe this came in a “message” in the dev accounts. But it was more than a year ago. You can see more information in your Developer Account by going to the approval page. (You need a paid account to access that). I haven’t submitted an iPhone App but in my near experience, it’s around two weeks.

Q: iPhone app submission process I've submitted my first app on the 20th November but the status is still "Waiting for review", has anyone had longer than this or similar waiting times? A: The approval process varies and there’s no exact number. The factor that determines this is the number of apps in the approval queue. I don’t remember where I read that 95% of the apps where approved within 14 days. I believe this came in a “message” in the dev accounts. But it was more than a year ago. You can see more information in your Developer Account by going to the approval page. (You need a paid account to access that). I haven’t submitted an iPhone App but in my near experience, it’s around two weeks. A: I waited for 8 days with my first iPhone app. It was incredibly fast IMO. I guess the approval times depends on the type of app you are making and how well your app is put together.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a PDF viewer with a vertical split screen feature? I have a very wide PDF and I would like to find a PDF viewer which would allow me to split the screen vertically so I can keep the left side the same while scrolling the right side back and forth. I found the application http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/, but it only allows one to split the screen horizontally. Is anyone aware of such a PDF viewer on the Mac? A: You can take a snapshot in Skim (File -> Take Snapshot), then using the wonderful ShiftIt move the snapshot and the main view of the pdf to the opposite sides of the screen (vertically) with just a few keystrokes. Or horizontally. Or to all four corners if you want.

Q: Is there a PDF viewer with a vertical split screen feature? I have a very wide PDF and I would like to find a PDF viewer which would allow me to split the screen vertically so I can keep the left side the same while scrolling the right side back and forth. I found the application http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/, but it only allows one to split the screen horizontally. Is anyone aware of such a PDF viewer on the Mac? A: You can take a snapshot in Skim (File -> Take Snapshot), then using the wonderful ShiftIt move the snapshot and the main view of the pdf to the opposite sides of the screen (vertically) with just a few keystrokes. Or horizontally. Or to all four corners if you want. A: A quick look suggests that this feature does not exist in any PDF reader. One responder on this forum [ http://is.gd/i0R12 ] believes that there are no such readers. Most of the links in this Google search [ http://is.gd/i0QQy ] are requesting such a feature be implemented in some reader, any reader. A: PDFpen 11 seems to support vertical split view of the same pdf. https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen/entry/new-pdfpen-11-split-view-font-bar-and-for-pro-users-enhancements-to-interactive-form-creation-and-editing A: Here is a decent workaround streamlined from the hints in the comments to this question. In this example I use the PDF viewer Skim, but it should work the same with any other app. Open Apple's Script Editor that is in the Applications/Utilities folder, and copy the following code. on run do shell script "open -n /Applications/Skim.app" tell application "Skim" to activate end run on open theFiles repeat with theFile in theFiles do shell script "open -na /Applications/Skim.app " & quote & (POSIX path of theFile) & quote end repeat tell application "Skim" to activate end open Save it as an application. Now every time you drag a PDF into the icon, a new instance of Skim will open. I like to use OSX's native split-full-screen view. I found this script online a long time ago and I don't remember where. If anyone knows I'd be happy to give credit. A: PDFexpert seems to be able to do just that.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use a PC/Mac keyboard as a Bluetooth keyboard for iPhone? I'm wondering about the feasibility of using my iMac's built-in bluetooth as a source for keyboard input to my iphone. There are times I want to type longer messages in my iphone, i keep a bluetooth keyboard around just to have a full sized keyboard to use on the iphone. I don't use the keyboard on my iMac because I have an ergonomic keyboard there that I much prefer. What I think would be great is to use that corded ergonomic keyboard as an input to the iphone via a bluetooth device that uses the iMac. Any thoughts on this? A: There are apps in App Store: iKeyboard ($9.99), Type2Phone ($9.99), 1Keyboard ($9.99) and Typeeto ($4.99) that allow to use your Mac's keyboard as Bluetooth keyboard. The obvious requirements are Mac with Bluetooth and recent OS X.

Q: Can I use a PC/Mac keyboard as a Bluetooth keyboard for iPhone? I'm wondering about the feasibility of using my iMac's built-in bluetooth as a source for keyboard input to my iphone. There are times I want to type longer messages in my iphone, i keep a bluetooth keyboard around just to have a full sized keyboard to use on the iphone. I don't use the keyboard on my iMac because I have an ergonomic keyboard there that I much prefer. What I think would be great is to use that corded ergonomic keyboard as an input to the iphone via a bluetooth device that uses the iMac. Any thoughts on this? A: There are apps in App Store: iKeyboard ($9.99), Type2Phone ($9.99), 1Keyboard ($9.99) and Typeeto ($4.99) that allow to use your Mac's keyboard as Bluetooth keyboard. The obvious requirements are Mac with Bluetooth and recent OS X. A: 2017 Edit: As mentioned in other (newer) answers, there are iPhone apps available that can act as Bluetooth keyboards from the Mac. I've been using Typeeto myself. My original answer should be considered quite out of date now. I'd recommend using the dedicated Bluetooth keyboard if it's not too much hassle, as it's currently the most elegant solution. If you really want to type from the iMac though, you'll need a Jailbroken iPhone. There is a VNC server called "Veency" available from Cydia. You'll then need a VNC client for the iMac (I use JollysFastVNC myself). The iMac and iPhone also need to be networked via either Wifi or Bluetooth LAN. You'll want to ignore the video and just look at the iPhone's screen while typing, because it lags heavily. I would love to have something more elegant to suggest, but other mouse/keyboard-only solutions like Synergy or Teleport are Desktop/Notebook only at the moment. A: If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can install a BlueTooth driver that supports external keyboards. A: Try 1Keyboard for Mac Type on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV using your Mac's keyboard. Turn your Mac into a Bluetooth keyboard that works with all of your devices. (source: eyalw.com) A: I've just installed Typeeto today and it seems to work really well. It's easy to pair with multiple devices and then select which one you want to connect.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I change the label of an entry in the Finder sidebar? I have a couple folders in my Finder's sidebar. Since they're nested (on the actual file system), the names aren't very descriptive. Is there a way I can change the name of the entry in the sidebar without changing the actual name of the folder? A: This was possible in Tiger (As far as I can remember or Leopard) but on Snow Leopard, the “alias” is automatically resolved. If you create an Alias on your desktop for a folder XYZ and then drag the Alias onto your sidebar, it’s automatically resolved. So it doesn’t seem to be possible to override this.

Q: Can I change the label of an entry in the Finder sidebar? I have a couple folders in my Finder's sidebar. Since they're nested (on the actual file system), the names aren't very descriptive. Is there a way I can change the name of the entry in the sidebar without changing the actual name of the folder? A: This was possible in Tiger (As far as I can remember or Leopard) but on Snow Leopard, the “alias” is automatically resolved. If you create an Alias on your desktop for a folder XYZ and then drag the Alias onto your sidebar, it’s automatically resolved. So it doesn’t seem to be possible to override this.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to Listen For an Application Launch Event on Mac OS X I wrote an AppleScript to mount a bundled sparse disk image. I want this script to be executed exactly when Time Machine launches. I can check if Time Machine is running with on idle statement, on idle .... return <interval> end idle but I'm pretty sure, it isn't a robust way to do that. IMO making an event trigger for Application Launch event would be a better approach. I appreciate if someone can help me. A: You can use a LaunchAgent (see Lingon) to perform an action when a file is modified. Time Machine has some file somewhere that it modifies each time it starts.

Q: How to Listen For an Application Launch Event on Mac OS X I wrote an AppleScript to mount a bundled sparse disk image. I want this script to be executed exactly when Time Machine launches. I can check if Time Machine is running with on idle statement, on idle .... return <interval> end idle but I'm pretty sure, it isn't a robust way to do that. IMO making an event trigger for Application Launch event would be a better approach. I appreciate if someone can help me. A: You can use a LaunchAgent (see Lingon) to perform an action when a file is modified. Time Machine has some file somewhere that it modifies each time it starts.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Using a US-bought WiFi iPad in the UK with the AppStore? I'm looking to give a WiFi-only iPad to a family member as a gift this Christmas. However, I'm concerned that since I am located in the UK, and the device I purchase will be 'US' configured for the store, etc, I will be unable to configure it to work correctly as a UK iPad, with the correct iTunes store, etc. Is the iTunes store (app, music, video) related to the device software, the network it's accessing from, or the locale of the iTunes account associated with that device? A: The iTunes store is related to the locale of the iTunes account (which is determined by the credit card associated with the account). Several friends of mine have bought iPads in other countries (US and UK) and are happily using them in Sweden with the Swedish iTunes store.

Q: Using a US-bought WiFi iPad in the UK with the AppStore? I'm looking to give a WiFi-only iPad to a family member as a gift this Christmas. However, I'm concerned that since I am located in the UK, and the device I purchase will be 'US' configured for the store, etc, I will be unable to configure it to work correctly as a UK iPad, with the correct iTunes store, etc. Is the iTunes store (app, music, video) related to the device software, the network it's accessing from, or the locale of the iTunes account associated with that device? A: The iTunes store is related to the locale of the iTunes account (which is determined by the credit card associated with the account). Several friends of mine have bought iPads in other countries (US and UK) and are happily using them in Sweden with the Swedish iTunes store. A: Specifically, the locale of the iTunes account is determined by the country of your associated credit card (or gift card). If you entered a UK credit card in your iTunes account, then iTuens will show you only content released in the UK. This is true regardless where the device was bought, and regardless what regional settings and UI language is used.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Application for managing a pdf document library I'm looking for an application that can help manage a library of pdf documents. I prefer open source (or just free beer), but that's not absolutely essential. I am aware of calibre and use it often for my ebooks, including those in pdf format. However, I'd like something for more general purpose use, especially PDFs that are largely - or entirely - graphics based, or contain small amounts of text (like keyboard shortcut reference cards and the like, research papers, and the like). Easy management of metadata, search and filter, and easy access to the files from an application interface are the other main requirements. I don't need any device-sync or transfer capabilities, all the documents in this library would reside only on my MBP. Anything out there that would be useful in this context? A: BibDesk (free) is free, does everything you describe, and integrates well with LaTeX.

Q: Application for managing a pdf document library I'm looking for an application that can help manage a library of pdf documents. I prefer open source (or just free beer), but that's not absolutely essential. I am aware of calibre and use it often for my ebooks, including those in pdf format. However, I'd like something for more general purpose use, especially PDFs that are largely - or entirely - graphics based, or contain small amounts of text (like keyboard shortcut reference cards and the like, research papers, and the like). Easy management of metadata, search and filter, and easy access to the files from an application interface are the other main requirements. I don't need any device-sync or transfer capabilities, all the documents in this library would reside only on my MBP. Anything out there that would be useful in this context? A: BibDesk (free) is free, does everything you describe, and integrates well with LaTeX. A: Papers2 ($79 for Mac and another 15$ for iPad extension) Does what you want, but is not free, and does not have as good integration with LaTeX. Papers does have support for iPhone/iPad devices (at extra cost). A: Yep (39$) It handles the job of document management pretty well. I have a license and it’s really good at finding all the PDF mess that I have scattered. Then the reading feature and the loupe are nice. They have a trial. A: FingerPDF It is particularly suited for PDF Technical Books, Magazines and Papers A: DEVONthink After a hundred years of research I decided on DEVONthink Pro Office for my academic workflow. I recommend that you don't simply compare the features of the software listed here, but google around for how other people in your field use these apps. It will give you a better idea of what you actually want without trying them all. A: Calibre (free/open-source) Considering its price and features, Calibre should be #1 choice. Still I encountered two important limitations: * *files are stored in a directory structure that you cannot control, root\Authors\Paper. This does make the sharing of this folder with solutions like Dropbox really hard to use. *the GUI is ugly like ** and not so intuitive Please remember that these were the bad points, in addition it has tons of "good points". A: Evernote It's free unless you need one of their premium features. Sadly, doing an OCR pass on uploaded PDFs is one of their premium features, but there are a couple of workarounds: you can either OCR your PDF before uploading it to EN, or upload JPGs instead of PDFs (as Evernote OCRs JPGs). And speaking from experience: even if you think that you'll only need your files at your MBP, you might be surprised how often it's darn handy to have them all available in the cloud. A: Sente Not free, but IMHO has far more functionality and customizability than Papers. (I've used both.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is reassigning or disabling short-key possible? The finder has the Command-H assigned to 'hide finder'. Can I reassign the key to something else? Or can I disable the Command-H short key to hide finder only through menu? A: Yes you can. Open System Preferences, Keyboard. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab at the top. In the left pane, select Application Shortcuts. In the right pane, select Finder.app. Click the + at the bottom of this pane. For Menu Title, type the exact wording / spelling of the menu item in question: in this case Hide Finder. For Keyboard Shortcut, pick another keystroke combination to hide the finder (I use function key F1). Voila. Now go to Finder and look at the Finder menu; beside Hide Finder should be F1 (or whatever you chose).

Q: Is reassigning or disabling short-key possible? The finder has the Command-H assigned to 'hide finder'. Can I reassign the key to something else? Or can I disable the Command-H short key to hide finder only through menu? A: Yes you can. Open System Preferences, Keyboard. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab at the top. In the left pane, select Application Shortcuts. In the right pane, select Finder.app. Click the + at the bottom of this pane. For Menu Title, type the exact wording / spelling of the menu item in question: in this case Hide Finder. For Keyboard Shortcut, pick another keystroke combination to hide the finder (I use function key F1). Voila. Now go to Finder and look at the Finder menu; beside Hide Finder should be F1 (or whatever you chose). A: You can also assign a shortcut to something like the NUL control character by editing the property list directly. defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Hide Finder"="\0";}' If a shortcut was assigned to nil, it would be shown as N in System Preferences and pressing L would trigger it in some applications like Audacity.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone app that shows app usage statistics? I'm looking for an app that can tell me how much time I spend on each installed iPhone app. This would be useful for identifying apps I really should delete, and also "lite" apps I really should purchase. I know such programs existed for Palm devices. They simply looked at the clock whenever the device was turned on & off and whenever a program switch occurred (because the OS provided easy hooks for this), then just calculated running times from these timestamps. PS: I realize that such an app must by nature be in Cydia, because non-jailbroken devices don't reveal such useful information. --> This fact can't be a reason to close this question! A: Cydia's App Stat does exactly what you've requested. As far as I can tell, it exists since April 1st: New Tweak in Cydia, App Stat, shows you your app usage statistics, frequecy of use, use of time and recent use. Supports IPhone, IPod Touch, IPad running IOS 3.2 or later. Free on Cydia Search for it.

Q: iPhone app that shows app usage statistics? I'm looking for an app that can tell me how much time I spend on each installed iPhone app. This would be useful for identifying apps I really should delete, and also "lite" apps I really should purchase. I know such programs existed for Palm devices. They simply looked at the clock whenever the device was turned on & off and whenever a program switch occurred (because the OS provided easy hooks for this), then just calculated running times from these timestamps. PS: I realize that such an app must by nature be in Cydia, because non-jailbroken devices don't reveal such useful information. --> This fact can't be a reason to close this question! A: Cydia's App Stat does exactly what you've requested. As far as I can tell, it exists since April 1st: New Tweak in Cydia, App Stat, shows you your app usage statistics, frequecy of use, use of time and recent use. Supports IPhone, IPod Touch, IPad running IOS 3.2 or later. Free on Cydia Search for it. A: I did some research and I don't think an app that does this is available, even on Cydia. The only information related to app usage stats that I've been able to find is the information that developers can get from their own apps, as explained in this question on StackOverflow

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Apple Stackexchange Q: My apps are using 3.7GB of storage on my iPad, how can I check which app is using what amount? Is there a breakdown that can be viewed somewhere? A: On iTunes itself, on the App section of your Library (top section in the left side navigation bar) you can see how big Apps are by switching to List view (iTunes menu bar -> View -> As List).

Q: My apps are using 3.7GB of storage on my iPad, how can I check which app is using what amount? Is there a breakdown that can be viewed somewhere? A: On iTunes itself, on the App section of your Library (top section in the left side navigation bar) you can see how big Apps are by switching to List view (iTunes menu bar -> View -> As List). A: On the iPad If you go to Settings -> General -> Usage and a list of your apps will pop up right there, along with the amount of storage that they're taking up.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Screen video capture application I am Looking for a program that let's me capture screen videos on Mac OS X. I am requesting it for these two use cases: * *Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window. *Creation of program tutorials. Ideally, it should allow mouse cursor magnification and visual click representation (like, making some visual effect when you click on anything). A different program for each case use is fine if there is not a program that can do both. A: I've found that "New Screen Recording" functionality in QuickTime Player combined with iMovie editing capabilities is enough for my needs. Maybe you can give it a try? Best of all, it's already installed on your Mac. Unfortunately, I can't compare it with Camtasia, as I haven't used it.

Q: Screen video capture application I am Looking for a program that let's me capture screen videos on Mac OS X. I am requesting it for these two use cases: * *Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window. *Creation of program tutorials. Ideally, it should allow mouse cursor magnification and visual click representation (like, making some visual effect when you click on anything). A different program for each case use is fine if there is not a program that can do both. A: I've found that "New Screen Recording" functionality in QuickTime Player combined with iMovie editing capabilities is enough for my needs. Maybe you can give it a try? Best of all, it's already installed on your Mac. Unfortunately, I can't compare it with Camtasia, as I haven't used it. A: After some research I've learnt that for the second use case you can use a separate program that does mouse magnification and keystroke detection in conjunction with a regular screen recording program like Quicktime Player (included on Mac OS X). Mouseposé seems the most recommended one. As for a standalone screen capture program that has more features than Quicktime Player, I've found four that are maybe the most widely used ones: * *ScreenFlow *Camtasia for Mac *iShowU *Snapz Pro X ScreenFlow offers mouse cursor customization, and iShowU offers keystroke and mouse action recording, for showing in the video. ScreenFlow, iShowYou and Camtasia are looking great. Snapz Pro X seems more focused to regular screenshot capturing, but does video as well. A: There's a question about recording the screen of an OpenGL application without stuttering here at StackExchange. A: My firsthand experience with ScreenFlow has been great for creating tutorials. It includes cursor magnification, cursor and window highlighting, etc., and a decent editor. I agree that Camtasia looks great, too, but I've not tried it. A: If it comes down to choosing between Camstasia for Mac and Screenflow, here's a side by side comparison: http://www.skillcasting.com/comparison-camtasia-mac-vs-screenflow/ A: Try Jing. Free version have no cam support, but if you really need it there's a pro version for $14.90 / year. Great app, mac style. A: In 2018, Mojave introduced a new shortcut to do screen recordings. cmd + shift + 5 In the options you can choose to show mouse clicks (or not). And you can select a portion of the screen to record if you don't want it all. A: I can tell you undoubtedly that there is one piece of software that is the cream of the crop when it comes to video recording on Mac. And it's FREE! OBS Studio - https://obsproject.com/ I've tried many screen recorders, most of them have limited trials unless you buy the full version of the software. And many of them (including QuickTime) save in .mov format with bad transcoding resulting in huge file sizes. OBS videos are tiny even in crisp HD. What also makes OBS really great is that you can add different scenes with different video and audio sources and seamlessly swap between your monitor recording built-in auto and swap to your webcam using external microphone audio. You can also live stream directly from OBS. Did I mention it's FREE!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: View metadata for song currently playing on iPhone Is there any way to view metadata (such as composer, genre, year etc) for a song that is currently playing on an iPhone? If there is no way to do so, and no apps which can do this, does the iOS API allow access to this information (i.e. could I write an app to do this myself)? A: Looks like many apps do this. Look at FlickTunes, for instance, which allows you to use gestures to control playback. Or TuneWiki, which tries to look up the lyrics for the current song. So I assume the API is there and you could write an app that displays this metadata.

Q: View metadata for song currently playing on iPhone Is there any way to view metadata (such as composer, genre, year etc) for a song that is currently playing on an iPhone? If there is no way to do so, and no apps which can do this, does the iOS API allow access to this information (i.e. could I write an app to do this myself)? A: Looks like many apps do this. Look at FlickTunes, for instance, which allows you to use gestures to control playback. Or TuneWiki, which tries to look up the lyrics for the current song. So I assume the API is there and you could write an app that displays this metadata.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I extract the audio from a video file? I have a video of a music performance that I downloaded online, and want to extract the audio so that I can store it as a music file. It's a MOV file with the Codecs - "XVID, MPEG Layer 3." What software should I use for best results? A: I can't tell you about best results, but for some results: VLC, FFMPEG, or MPLAYER VLC has a GUI and a Wizard. ffmpeg and mplayer example here.

Q: How can I extract the audio from a video file? I have a video of a music performance that I downloaded online, and want to extract the audio so that I can store it as a music file. It's a MOV file with the Codecs - "XVID, MPEG Layer 3." What software should I use for best results? A: I can't tell you about best results, but for some results: VLC, FFMPEG, or MPLAYER VLC has a GUI and a Wizard. ffmpeg and mplayer example here. A: If it is a MOV file which you can open with QuickTime Player, open it QuickTime Player 7, an optional install in Snow Leopard, and then go to File -> Export, and choose Sound to AIFF for instance. The resulting AIFF file can me converted back to MP3 or AAC with iTunes, for instance. A: Wound up using Audio Hijack Pro for this, was incredibly simple.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Should I use 32 or 64bit Mac OS X apps? I have a 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. A lot of times, software that I want to use is offered in both 32 and 64 bit. What version should I prefer? I know that even some Apple's apps are not yet 64bit - I guess this means something. I also have read that there is no big difference except for maybe driver software. What do you think? A: You should go for the 64bit version. Apple is more and more leaning towards 64 bit adoption. In the end, unless it's some heavy processing application, you won't even feel the difference with the 32bit version. But at least you'll be ready for the future :)

Q: Should I use 32 or 64bit Mac OS X apps? I have a 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. A lot of times, software that I want to use is offered in both 32 and 64 bit. What version should I prefer? I know that even some Apple's apps are not yet 64bit - I guess this means something. I also have read that there is no big difference except for maybe driver software. What do you think? A: You should go for the 64bit version. Apple is more and more leaning towards 64 bit adoption. In the end, unless it's some heavy processing application, you won't even feel the difference with the 32bit version. But at least you'll be ready for the future :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Swap X and Y axes in Numbers? I'm taking an economics course, and for whatever reason economists create graphs with the independent variable (price) on the Y axis and not the X axis. If I only have 1 dependent variable to graph, it's pretty easy just to swap the two, but I need to create a graph with price as the independent variable on the Y axis with multiple dependent variables on the X axis. Is this possible in Numbers? A: I’ve noticed a button you don’t have. What version of Numbers do you have? (I have 09) Look at this: That swaps the columns in the graph (exactly like you describe). I’m not really very good at Numbers. Do you have that? One thing I’ve done, is used the price as a “column” but maybe that’s why you don’t have it? My graphic looks awesome (sarcasm)… (btw I hadn’t saved it and had to do it again)

Q: Swap X and Y axes in Numbers? I'm taking an economics course, and for whatever reason economists create graphs with the independent variable (price) on the Y axis and not the X axis. If I only have 1 dependent variable to graph, it's pretty easy just to swap the two, but I need to create a graph with price as the independent variable on the Y axis with multiple dependent variables on the X axis. Is this possible in Numbers? A: I’ve noticed a button you don’t have. What version of Numbers do you have? (I have 09) Look at this: That swaps the columns in the graph (exactly like you describe). I’m not really very good at Numbers. Do you have that? One thing I’ve done, is used the price as a “column” but maybe that’s why you don’t have it? My graphic looks awesome (sarcasm)… (btw I hadn’t saved it and had to do it again) A: You can build your own transpose function using the index command: The transpose cells all contain this:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where can I download old iOS versions from Apple? I need to test my app with older version of iOS and can't find exactly where to download them from Apple. Anybody know the adress? A: As far as I'm aware Apple doesn't offer the links directly, but iClarified has a complete list of iOS downloads for all models of iPhone available here. It came in handy when I downgraded my old 3G back down to 3.1.3

Q: Where can I download old iOS versions from Apple? I need to test my app with older version of iOS and can't find exactly where to download them from Apple. Anybody know the adress? A: As far as I'm aware Apple doesn't offer the links directly, but iClarified has a complete list of iOS downloads for all models of iPhone available here. It came in handy when I downgraded my old 3G back down to 3.1.3 A: Go to https://ipsw.me Here you can download so many .ipsw

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Navigate through application that have windows shortcut cmd+tab navigates through all open applications. Some Apps can have no windows at all e.g. firefox, finder. Is there a shortcut for navigating through only applications that have at least one window? A: The closest built-in option in OS X is to launch Expose which shows all open windows, then hit the tab key to cycle through all open apps. It will still select those with no open windows, but is a quick alternative nonetheless.

Q: Navigate through application that have windows shortcut cmd+tab navigates through all open applications. Some Apps can have no windows at all e.g. firefox, finder. Is there a shortcut for navigating through only applications that have at least one window? A: The closest built-in option in OS X is to launch Expose which shows all open windows, then hit the tab key to cycle through all open apps. It will still select those with no open windows, but is a quick alternative nonetheless. A: Do you mean cycling through all open windows within a specific App? ⌘tab to switch between different apps and ⌘`(backtick) to swap between windows in that app. Witch is an app that also does the trick more elegant if that’s what you want.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I set up an alternative X11 window manager in Mac OS X 10.6? I've tried to install an X11 window manager in Mac OS X 10.6.5 such as ratpoison via fink, but I can't get it to start. I am also thinking about getting xmonad to work in 10.6.5, does anyone know how to set up such a window manager? A: The Xmonad help page on HaskellWiki has brief instructions for getting Xmonad running on Snow Leopard. You may need to read through the instructions for older versions if some problems arise.

Q: How can I set up an alternative X11 window manager in Mac OS X 10.6? I've tried to install an X11 window manager in Mac OS X 10.6.5 such as ratpoison via fink, but I can't get it to start. I am also thinking about getting xmonad to work in 10.6.5, does anyone know how to set up such a window manager? A: The Xmonad help page on HaskellWiki has brief instructions for getting Xmonad running on Snow Leopard. You may need to read through the instructions for older versions if some problems arise.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I show the hard drive on the desktop My hard drive used to display on the desktop. It's gone missing, how do I get it back? A: Go into Finder, then go to the menu bar and click Finder -> Preferences. Select the "General" tab and check "Hard disks" under "Show these items on the desktop":

Q: How do I show the hard drive on the desktop My hard drive used to display on the desktop. It's gone missing, how do I get it back? A: Go into Finder, then go to the menu bar and click Finder -> Preferences. Select the "General" tab and check "Hard disks" under "Show these items on the desktop":

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I change the name of the hard drive Right now my hard drive is called "Macintosh HD." How do I change it to something cool like "Death Killer" A: You can rename a file or a drive by selecting it by clicking on it, pressing "return", typing the new name, and pressing "return" again to set it. There are a few restricted characters, like :, but for the most part you can name it anything you want.

Q: How do I change the name of the hard drive Right now my hard drive is called "Macintosh HD." How do I change it to something cool like "Death Killer" A: You can rename a file or a drive by selecting it by clicking on it, pressing "return", typing the new name, and pressing "return" again to set it. There are a few restricted characters, like :, but for the most part you can name it anything you want.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone dropped from the top on my Desktop I have a desktop that I put on the floor. I put my iPhone on top of the desktop, and accidentally I stumbled on the desktop and the phone dropped to the floor. When I picked it up the screen was OK, the phone was still functioning as normal. And it appeared as if it never dropped. But what I worried is that it may suffer internal damage that I can't see from the surface. Is my fear warranted? A: The inside of an iPhone is all solid state and can tolerate being dropped. That said, you should thoroughly test the hardware on your phone to see if anything broke. This includes the screen, case, the touchscreen (make sure that touch and multitouch still works everywhere), the headphone jack, all the buttons, the camera and flash, and the dock connector. A bump could have misaligned or disconnected any of the above hardware.

Q: iPhone dropped from the top on my Desktop I have a desktop that I put on the floor. I put my iPhone on top of the desktop, and accidentally I stumbled on the desktop and the phone dropped to the floor. When I picked it up the screen was OK, the phone was still functioning as normal. And it appeared as if it never dropped. But what I worried is that it may suffer internal damage that I can't see from the surface. Is my fear warranted? A: The inside of an iPhone is all solid state and can tolerate being dropped. That said, you should thoroughly test the hardware on your phone to see if anything broke. This includes the screen, case, the touchscreen (make sure that touch and multitouch still works everywhere), the headphone jack, all the buttons, the camera and flash, and the dock connector. A bump could have misaligned or disconnected any of the above hardware. A: Honestly my phone started acting up now and I've had it since they came out . I love my phone and I've had this bad habit of laying it my lap and forgetting about it as I get out of my truck . I've done this at least 10 times and it still functions properly All I have to say is as dainty as I thought this phone would be it survived even my rugged harsh lifestyle. And the thing I respect about it is that at least it breaks down bit by bit instead of leaving you with a brick after the first fall A: What kind of floor did it land on? Carpet: no worries, the fall was too short to cause damage IMHO. Hardwood: no worries but check to be sure (see Kyle's). Concrete: potential damage. Check thoroughly. A: FYI I dropped my iPhone 4 the day before I got my free case... The back glass shattered. What a lame design I thought. Apple store charged me 29 to put a new non breakable backside, and my receotion is better. If I wasn't a stock holder I would have raised my voice, as others reported, and got it free. The shattered phone, worked fine, though a full half of the back was shattered, but didn't lose any of the glass. A: I've dropped an iPhone 3G onto concrete from pocket height, two separate times. It miraculously survived both encounters with only superficial scratches. It's still running fine. Apart from the glass, those things are pretty solid.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What does a CUDA driver do? I've heard talk of installing a CUDA driver for the new unibody mac (Nvidia 330M) to possibly resolve graphics problems (though it seems it actually doesn't do so). I'm not having problems but I was wondering exactly what the CUDA driver does, if it supplements or replaces the default graphics driver, and if it gives better performance. Please explain! A: Nvidia offers a CUDA driver and OpenGL driver, for use with their APIs. The application would need to be recompiled with these options for the .app to use the cuda driver. Here is the latest info, from a last month... http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_2_downloads.html Scroll down to Mac OS X section for some good non-programmer - adv programmer info.

Q: What does a CUDA driver do? I've heard talk of installing a CUDA driver for the new unibody mac (Nvidia 330M) to possibly resolve graphics problems (though it seems it actually doesn't do so). I'm not having problems but I was wondering exactly what the CUDA driver does, if it supplements or replaces the default graphics driver, and if it gives better performance. Please explain! A: Nvidia offers a CUDA driver and OpenGL driver, for use with their APIs. The application would need to be recompiled with these options for the .app to use the cuda driver. Here is the latest info, from a last month... http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_2_downloads.html Scroll down to Mac OS X section for some good non-programmer - adv programmer info.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I keep track of twitter usernames in Address Book? I want to add twitter names to my contacts in Address Book. But I cannot find an obvious place to do so. The best fit would be as instant messaging username, but twitter is not listed among the services. I there a way to add a service here? Does anyone know where they are stored? I could add a new "twitter" label, but I can't stand the "AIM" or "Yahoo" behind it. Any ideas are welcome. A: iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X Lion have native support for Twitter integrated into the Address Book app. On OS X, to add a Twitter field to a contact, select the contact and choose the Card > Add Field > Twitter menu item.

Q: How can I keep track of twitter usernames in Address Book? I want to add twitter names to my contacts in Address Book. But I cannot find an obvious place to do so. The best fit would be as instant messaging username, but twitter is not listed among the services. I there a way to add a service here? Does anyone know where they are stored? I could add a new "twitter" label, but I can't stand the "AIM" or "Yahoo" behind it. Any ideas are welcome. A: iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X Lion have native support for Twitter integrated into the Address Book app. On OS X, to add a Twitter field to a contact, select the contact and choose the Card > Add Field > Twitter menu item. A: You could add an URL to the Twitter home of your contact and label it Twitter. A: Thanks to the comments on Ipacheco's answer, I ended using a new url labeled "twitter" with a format of "tweetie:@someone" instead of the http:// link to the twitter homepage. This opens up tweetie for Mac and iPhone (now named twitter) whenever you click the link. A: modify your adressbook template as per this post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderwal/3629218638/ then add a little prefpane called MoreInternet as per this post: http://www.macwrite.com/critical-mass/protocol-helpers-and-mac-os-x use e.g. twitter: as "protocol" ... so for me you'd add twitter:@trox in a twitter URL field configure the prefpane to recognize twitter as a protocol and tell it which app to use (your preferred twitter client -- works only if it has a "creator code", so I wasn't able to use TweetDeck :-o) you're all set

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is too much charge time bad for your iPhone? Possible Duplicate: Can I safely charge my iPhone 4 overnight on a regular basis? Is leaving the phone on the charger overnight really really bad for your iPhone? A: Nah. Electricity is PULLED to devices that use it, not PUSHED from the plug. The phone is smart enough to stop pulling when its battery is full. EDIT: However, an adapter can provide incorrect voltage for a device. Don't take what I said there and wire your iphone power adapter to a 220 source, for instance. You can OVERDRIVE a device with too many volts, but you can't send it "too much" of the right voltage, because the amperage is a function of the device's draw. I know I just said that assuming that you understand the difference between volts and amps, but there it is; they're different.

Q: Is too much charge time bad for your iPhone? Possible Duplicate: Can I safely charge my iPhone 4 overnight on a regular basis? Is leaving the phone on the charger overnight really really bad for your iPhone? A: Nah. Electricity is PULLED to devices that use it, not PUSHED from the plug. The phone is smart enough to stop pulling when its battery is full. EDIT: However, an adapter can provide incorrect voltage for a device. Don't take what I said there and wire your iphone power adapter to a 220 source, for instance. You can OVERDRIVE a device with too many volts, but you can't send it "too much" of the right voltage, because the amperage is a function of the device's draw. I know I just said that assuming that you understand the difference between volts and amps, but there it is; they're different. A: No, leaving it charging overnight will not have any adverse effects. All you need to do with the iPhone's lithium battery is be sure to drain it once a month for longevity. Read Apple's iPhone Battery page. [Similar answer for Apple's lithium laptop batteries, iPad batteries, etc.] Also see Apple's Lithium-Ion Batteries page for more info. A: The answer is it's just like an laptop: If it's left plugged in all the time, then the battery WILL eventually die. So the answer is yes, it's OK to leave it plugged in, but not all the time.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Use the power of the graphic card on a MacBook? Is there a way to use the processor of the graphic card on a new MacBook Pro to do some long and repetitive calculations? A: Have you looked at CUDA (nVidia only) or OpenCL to do just this? Both technologies are made to leverage the GPU.

Q: Use the power of the graphic card on a MacBook? Is there a way to use the processor of the graphic card on a new MacBook Pro to do some long and repetitive calculations? A: Have you looked at CUDA (nVidia only) or OpenCL to do just this? Both technologies are made to leverage the GPU. A: Running computationally expensive tasks on the GPU is something that is coded on the development side. This is not something an end user can do directly. If this is something you intend to do from the development side, it should probably be posted on Stack Overflow. Wikipedia: GPGPU A: There are a number of programs written to use the GPU to help users run through various calculations more quickly than with their processor. There is an OpenCL directory here of math programs claiming to use the GPU: http://opencl.name/top/Science/Math/Software/ You'll have to sort through which ones run on OS X. There are OpenCL tutorials on the net, though, and Xcode is inexpensive. If you understand rudimentary programming principles you should be able to modify the examples/tutorials to do what you want. When you get stuck, Stack Overflow is there to help.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Application for Scheduling Tweets There seem to be several Mac applications that will send tweets scheduled in advance, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which is good. The bulk of the Google results are more than a year old. Does anyone have any firsthand experience, and can you recommend something? A: Hoot suite for the iPad. But I'm not a heavy user.

Q: Application for Scheduling Tweets There seem to be several Mac applications that will send tweets scheduled in advance, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which is good. The bulk of the Google results are more than a year old. Does anyone have any firsthand experience, and can you recommend something? A: Hoot suite for the iPad. But I'm not a heavy user.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is Best Practice when storing MacBooks for over a month? We have a pod of 30 MacBooks and MacBook Pros that don't get used over the holidays. What's best practice to store the laptops for 6 weeks? I know that when you store laptops for long periods at half charge, unplugged in a cool place is a good idea, but in practice I've just put them plugged-in in the storeroom! Could anyone share their best practice methods when storing these sort of devices? A: That's what I think Apple suggests when you need to store you MacBook for longer periods: * *discharge your battery to 50% and keep the laptop in a cool place *if you plan to not use the computer for more than 5 months take the battery off the laptop *you will probably need to charge the battery every 6 months to better preserve it.

Q: What is Best Practice when storing MacBooks for over a month? We have a pod of 30 MacBooks and MacBook Pros that don't get used over the holidays. What's best practice to store the laptops for 6 weeks? I know that when you store laptops for long periods at half charge, unplugged in a cool place is a good idea, but in practice I've just put them plugged-in in the storeroom! Could anyone share their best practice methods when storing these sort of devices? A: That's what I think Apple suggests when you need to store you MacBook for longer periods: * *discharge your battery to 50% and keep the laptop in a cool place *if you plan to not use the computer for more than 5 months take the battery off the laptop *you will probably need to charge the battery every 6 months to better preserve it. A: Power it down and make sure it's somewhere where there is no chance of it getting wet.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can Safari remember my tabs from last time? I want my previous browsing tabs to be restored when restarting Safari. I can do this in Firefox and Chrome. Is there a setting or an extension for this? EDIT: So it turns out I was killing (word choice?) the Safari browser (and the Chrome browser for that matter). When I just Quit the browser my previous browsing is always maintained... So rather than get an extension or anything I believe the solution is just to Quit the browser? A: I have been using SafariRestore from Safari Extensions. It works quite well.

Q: Can Safari remember my tabs from last time? I want my previous browsing tabs to be restored when restarting Safari. I can do this in Firefox and Chrome. Is there a setting or an extension for this? EDIT: So it turns out I was killing (word choice?) the Safari browser (and the Chrome browser for that matter). When I just Quit the browser my previous browsing is always maintained... So rather than get an extension or anything I believe the solution is just to Quit the browser? A: I have been using SafariRestore from Safari Extensions. It works quite well. A: Just reopening after quitting Safari doesn't seem to restore the windows for me. (Or anymore?) So to summarize: * *History — Reopen All Windows from Last Session or History — Reopen Last Closed Window *SafariRestore, Sessions or SaveTabs *Glims or Saft *Bookmarks — Add Bookmark for These ␣ Tabs... *In Lion there's Safari — Quit and Keep Windows (⌥⌘Q) A: May I suggest, the free extension, Sessions. It restores last session and even saves sessions for later retrieval. It's stable with useful features like search, export, remove duplicates, micro-management, KB shortcuts & startup behavior settings. A: After starting Safari, you can go to History -> Reopen All Windows from Last Session to have Safari reopen the windows and tabs that were open when you last used it. There's some additional info in this question: Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript?, including a script (Chealion's answer) that can be modified to start Safari and call that menu automatically. A: There are lots of Safari Extensions here... Some of them are Session Managers which will sure do what you want ;-) A: Not automatically, but you can click "Bookmarks \ Add Bookmark for These 3 Tab" which will create a folder containing bookmarks for all the currently open tabs. A: As mentioned in the edited question, the solution seems to be to just Quit (command+Q) the browser rather than killing/restarting etc. A: Glims will remember the history of your previous session, like Firefox and Chrome do. None of the other suggestions here will do that. They'll only show the last page you looked at in those tabs.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where on my Mac are my iPod Touch photos stored? I took some photos on my iPod Touch, and I want to use them on my Mac. I've synced the devices, but I don't know where the photos are. * *I looked in iTunes (since it seems to want to manage everything about my iPod, even the things which aren't "tunes"), but I don't see a photo section there. *I looked in ~/Pictures/ but they're obviously not there. *I looked in ~/Music/iTunes/ (since my mobile apps are stored their, strangely), but no luck. Where are they hiding? A: The photos aren't automatically transferred when you sync in iTunes - you have to use iPhoto or Image Capture to get the photos on your computer.

Q: Where on my Mac are my iPod Touch photos stored? I took some photos on my iPod Touch, and I want to use them on my Mac. I've synced the devices, but I don't know where the photos are. * *I looked in iTunes (since it seems to want to manage everything about my iPod, even the things which aren't "tunes"), but I don't see a photo section there. *I looked in ~/Pictures/ but they're obviously not there. *I looked in ~/Music/iTunes/ (since my mobile apps are stored their, strangely), but no luck. Where are they hiding? A: The photos aren't automatically transferred when you sync in iTunes - you have to use iPhoto or Image Capture to get the photos on your computer. A: You should be using iPhoto (or other digital camera software) to copy these photos onto your Mac, but just for sake of completeness, they are included in the backups that iTunes makes. Those backups can be found in ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backup, but you need a special program (iPhone Backup Extractor) to be able to read them (and that only works if they are unencrypted). You can find your camera roll after extracting the area called "iOS Files" in /Media/DCIM. A: Normally iPhoto handles them. iPhoto stores images within the package ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library, but it's easiest to browse with iPhoto.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Considering 27" iMac. Can I use it as a TV? I may be considering to get the iMac. I don't own a TV, but I would love to be able to use it as such. I understand it has a DisplayPort input for these types of purposes. What would I need to get to get my Wii and analogue TV (PAL) hooked up to this? A: The best way to get TV hooked up to a Mac is through a TV Tuner. The best TV Tuners for Mac are by far the EyeTV tuners. The TV tuner could also be used to hook up to your Wii, however that is a bit impractical. Instead consider buying an adapter from RCA to Mini-Display Port to use your iMac as a Monitor for the Wii.

Q: Considering 27" iMac. Can I use it as a TV? I may be considering to get the iMac. I don't own a TV, but I would love to be able to use it as such. I understand it has a DisplayPort input for these types of purposes. What would I need to get to get my Wii and analogue TV (PAL) hooked up to this? A: The best way to get TV hooked up to a Mac is through a TV Tuner. The best TV Tuners for Mac are by far the EyeTV tuners. The TV tuner could also be used to hook up to your Wii, however that is a bit impractical. Instead consider buying an adapter from RCA to Mini-Display Port to use your iMac as a Monitor for the Wii. A: I don't believe that is an input, but only an output, for a second monitor.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Page down in terminal How can I "page down" in the terminal? A: In order to send a page up/down keystroke to the application, as opposed to scrolling Terminal's window, hold down the shift key while pressing your page up/down keys (or fn-arrows as appropriate for your keyboard).

Q: Page down in terminal How can I "page down" in the terminal? A: In order to send a page up/down keystroke to the application, as opposed to scrolling Terminal's window, hold down the shift key while pressing your page up/down keys (or fn-arrows as appropriate for your keyboard). A: There are two answers to this question. The first is globally useable. I'll assume you're on a narrow/laptop keyboard. In those instances, Fn+Down ▼ acts as Page Down, and just to expand that thought out entirely: * *Fn+Up ▲ = Page Up *Fn+Left ◀ = Home *Fn+Right ▶ = End This will not work properly in some applications. Those that come to mind are things like vim, less, screen, and other "full screen/ncurses menued" programs. The above keystrokes scroll the terminal window, but if the terminal window has not been paged, then scrolling won't accomplish anything. The second half of the answer is one that I can't answer without more detail. Example: * *In less, the spacebar or ctrl ^+f will page down one screen full. *In vim, ctrl ^+f will page down one screen full. *In screen, you will probably never have to Page Down, but if you scrolled back in copy mode, ctrl ^+f works there too. If I haven't answered your question, you will need to elaborate on it, heavily. A: In addition to VxJasonxV’s answer (which is correct), if you want to modify your terminal behavior so using up or down does a pageup/pagedown in vim (and others), you can go to: Terminal -> Preferences -> Click on the Settings Toolbar, then the Keyboard Tab. Add a new keys like this: (showing one example below) * *Page Up: \033[5~ *Page Down: \033[6~ *Home: \033[4~ *End: \033[1~ Here’s an example with the “Cursor up”: Now you can press Up/Down and it will do the pageup/down. I suggest you add a modifier (like Control). Sadly, you can’t use the “Fn” key as a modifier. Note: By default, Control + Cursor Left is delete until the end of the line and control+cursor right is insert (in vim at least), so you can use another modifier if you don’t want to change those.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Fastest way to transfer a bunch of photos TO iphone camera roll? what is the quickest way to transfer a bunch of photos (and videos) that come from an iphone to another iPhone's camera roll? * *Sync with iPhoto/Aperture is not an option: they wouldn't end up in the camera roll *Opening from email or dropbox one by one and saving them is not an option: too many! *A big email is not feasible AirSharing and Dropbox apps are apparently of little help, since I couldn't find a “save all” command. Any suggestion is welcome, third party apps too! A: Phoneview - is a great option. It's fast too. Connect iphone, copy the files to your desired directory, disconnect. Connect other iphone, copy files to desired location on iphone. Boom! Drag n drop ease. Free download, and cheap too. edit: it allows you to see entire disk media folder :)

Q: Fastest way to transfer a bunch of photos TO iphone camera roll? what is the quickest way to transfer a bunch of photos (and videos) that come from an iphone to another iPhone's camera roll? * *Sync with iPhoto/Aperture is not an option: they wouldn't end up in the camera roll *Opening from email or dropbox one by one and saving them is not an option: too many! *A big email is not feasible AirSharing and Dropbox apps are apparently of little help, since I couldn't find a “save all” command. Any suggestion is welcome, third party apps too! A: Phoneview - is a great option. It's fast too. Connect iphone, copy the files to your desired directory, disconnect. Connect other iphone, copy files to desired location on iphone. Boom! Drag n drop ease. Free download, and cheap too. edit: it allows you to see entire disk media folder :) A: You can use " PicBack - Photo Transfer App " it works with a regular USB cable, which is 3x faster than WiFi transfer and there is absolutely no third-party software to install it imports photos and videos directly To camera roll and it can also find duplicated photos , very handy and very easy to use, you can find it at the app store "https://itun.es/i6BG5cC" Give that a try ;) A: The app GoodReader can save videos to Camera Roll. Simply transfer files to GoodReader via iTunes, then in GoodReader select "Manage Files" -> "Export" -> "Save to Photots". A: there is another free way to transfer one photo or many photos from iPhone to computer. That is, you can use Apple's Wifi Photo Transfer to do it. The only disadvantage is that your iPhone and computer should on the same Wifi networks. A: One way to transfer photos to your camera roll: Send the photo via email to yourself. When you open the email on your iphone tap the photo once; camera roll message appears you tap on the camera roll icon and voila! it's transferred to camera roll. A: Check out an app called Folder Plus. Very minimalist design, easy to understand and packed full of useful functionality. Seriously it is one of the best apps when it comes to working with files on your phone. Photos, music, videos, and even incompatible files can be stored and/or passed through the app to their destination. I think there is a free version and a paid version on the Apple App Store. And there is a free OS X companion app that really makes quick work of any files you want to move onto or from your phone called Folder Plus USB. It requires Mavericks or later to run on your Mac. For the record: I have no affiliation with the maker of this app in any way. It really is just a great little program that has gone under the radar for a long time. A: Use AirDrop! There's an (admittedly non-obvious) way to "select all" images in camera roll. Follow the description given here: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/use-trick-quickly-select-all-photos-videos-your-iphone-bulk-delete-share-0312925/ Basically select at least the two newest images by sliding over them with a finger. Then without lifting this finger, use another finger to tap the top of the screen. The screen will immediately jump-scroll to the oldest picture and all pictures will have been selected by this process. Now you can AirDrop them as usual. A: Bump https://bu.mp/ can do this. Also try PhotoSync. A: You can use Rollit to import your photos and videos into to the camera roll.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why are my updating iPhone apps "waiting..." forever? I've got an iPhone 4, not quite sure which version of iOS, but I keep current. Recently, I got an update for one of the apps, started it, and then for some reason it got stuck on "Waiting..." indefinitely. Another app later offered an upgrade, and when I accepted it got stuck on "Waiting...". This has been a few days now, with both 3G and wireless available, with no change. The apps don't have the "delete" button when I touch and hold on them, and I tried deleting them in iTunes but after syncing my iPhone there was no visible change. (They're free apps, so deleting and reloading is a fine solution, but knowing how to kick-start the updater would be nice.) The App Store app simply tells me they've been updated. Any suggestions? A: I get that problem sometimes too on my iPhone 4, especially if I'm updating an app and I lose network coverage. Here's what I'll usually do, either: * *Sync with iTunes *Restart my phone by holding down the power and home buttons. Either of those fixes the problem for me.

Q: Why are my updating iPhone apps "waiting..." forever? I've got an iPhone 4, not quite sure which version of iOS, but I keep current. Recently, I got an update for one of the apps, started it, and then for some reason it got stuck on "Waiting..." indefinitely. Another app later offered an upgrade, and when I accepted it got stuck on "Waiting...". This has been a few days now, with both 3G and wireless available, with no change. The apps don't have the "delete" button when I touch and hold on them, and I tried deleting them in iTunes but after syncing my iPhone there was no visible change. (They're free apps, so deleting and reloading is a fine solution, but knowing how to kick-start the updater would be nice.) The App Store app simply tells me they've been updated. Any suggestions? A: I get that problem sometimes too on my iPhone 4, especially if I'm updating an app and I lose network coverage. Here's what I'll usually do, either: * *Sync with iTunes *Restart my phone by holding down the power and home buttons. Either of those fixes the problem for me. A: This has been discussed in numerous threads in the Apple forums, but as of iOS 9.3.2, Apple do not yet seem to have fixed it. See this one for example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7236083?tstart=0 Although rebooting your device sometimes fixes this problem, be careful as it may also completely wipe the app from your device, including all data. Instead, the recommended way is simply to open the App Store app, visit the updates screen, and then stop and restart the update. I've had the update hang on me several times in a row, but it should eventually download and install. I'm not sure, however, if this method is available for those with Automatic App Updates enabled, since I have mine set to manual. A: Reboot it. I've seen this problem a small handful of times on my, and one other individual's, iPhone.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Eclipse: switch between editors keyboard shortcut Is there any keyboard shortcut like ctrl+tab for switching between open editors in Eclipse except for the advertised cmd+F6? Is there a way to customise it? A: If I get right you want cmd+option + (→ or ←) And also you can change any shortcuts by going to Eclipse Preferences (cmd ,) and chose general in left side window and select key then scroll to find your desired shortcuts.

Q: Eclipse: switch between editors keyboard shortcut Is there any keyboard shortcut like ctrl+tab for switching between open editors in Eclipse except for the advertised cmd+F6? Is there a way to customise it? A: If I get right you want cmd+option + (→ or ←) And also you can change any shortcuts by going to Eclipse Preferences (cmd ,) and chose general in left side window and select key then scroll to find your desired shortcuts. A: Custom KeyBinding sequence example : CTRL + TAB to switch between visilble Modules or Editors Forward direction using Eclipse RCP. you press CTRL + TAB second time to open another editor and close previous editor using RCP Eclipse. public class Emp_editor_open extends AbstractHandler{ @Override public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException { IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindow(event); IWorkbenchPage page = window.getActivePage(); //Three object create in EditorInput ProductEditorInput product_input=new ProductEditorInput(); EmployeeEditorInput emp_input=new EmployeeEditorInput(); UserEditorInput std_input = new UserEditorInput(); IEditorReference[] editors = page.getEditorReferences(); System.out.println("Length : "+editors.length); if(editors.length==0){ //First Time or empty editors to check this condition try { page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID); System.out.println("product Editor open"); } catch (PartInitException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Product_Editor")){ System.out.println("Product:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle()); try { page.closeAllEditors(true); page.openEditor(emp_input, EmployeeEditor.Id); System.out.println("Employee Editor open"); } catch (PartInitException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Employee_Editor")){ System.out.println("Emp:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle()); try { page.closeAllEditors(true); page.openEditor(std_input, UserEditor.ID); System.out.println("student Editor open"); } catch (PartInitException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Student_Editor")){ System.out.println("Product:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle()); try { page.closeAllEditors(true); page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID); System.out.println("product Editor open"); } catch (PartInitException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } else { try { page.closeAllEditors(true); page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID); System.out.println("product Editor open"); } catch (PartInitException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } return null; } } Plugin.xml <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.commands"> <command defaultHandler="rcp_demo.Toolbar.Emp_editor_open" id="RCP_Demo.Toolbar.emp_editor_open_cmd" name="Employee_Editor_open"> </command> </extension> <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.bindings"> <key commandId="RCP_Demo.Toolbar.emp_editor_open_cmd" schemeId="org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration" sequence="M1+TAB"> </key> </extension> Key sequence Mapping M1 means CTRL

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I tether with my iPhone 4 without jailbreaking my phone or paying for the additional service? Basically, I want to be able to tether my laptop to my iPhone 4 but I don't want to pay for extra service or lose my unlimited plan. I've heard there were some apps that had easter eggs but are no longer available. I've also heard that you can do some things if you have a developer account. So, are there any free, simple ways to do this without jailbreaking my phone? A: It's probably not an easy way but since there have been some apps snuck into the app store that had hidden tethering abilities: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/apple-approves-pulls-flashlight-app-with-hidden-tethering-mode/ It's clearly possible to do this in an app but not one that will be in the official store. One way around this would be to spend the $99 for a developer account, find some source code, compile it and install it onto your device. Don't mind the hand waving around finding appropriate source code though.

Q: Can I tether with my iPhone 4 without jailbreaking my phone or paying for the additional service? Basically, I want to be able to tether my laptop to my iPhone 4 but I don't want to pay for extra service or lose my unlimited plan. I've heard there were some apps that had easter eggs but are no longer available. I've also heard that you can do some things if you have a developer account. So, are there any free, simple ways to do this without jailbreaking my phone? A: It's probably not an easy way but since there have been some apps snuck into the app store that had hidden tethering abilities: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/apple-approves-pulls-flashlight-app-with-hidden-tethering-mode/ It's clearly possible to do this in an app but not one that will be in the official store. One way around this would be to spend the $99 for a developer account, find some source code, compile it and install it onto your device. Don't mind the hand waving around finding appropriate source code though. A: [Breaking this two answers so I can post both links.] For a while you could hack it by updating the carrier file (for me it had the side effect of breaking visual voice mail) : http://reviews.cnet.com/activate-tethering-on-iphone-without-jailbreaking Something similar might be possible for iOS 4 but perhaps it's a just a well kept secret.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How Many iTunes Accounts I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps. A: I think that Apple's article on iTunes Home Sharing should cover what you're looking for. My husband and I have separate accounts, and anything we both want, we share.

Q: How Many iTunes Accounts I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps. A: I think that Apple's article on iTunes Home Sharing should cover what you're looking for. My husband and I have separate accounts, and anything we both want, we share. A: It's easy to break things down with the two "rules of 5". Each account (Apple ID to be technical) can be authorized on 5 computers at the same time. Each device is happy to track purchases from 5 different accounts. There is no limit on the number of devices that get to sync to any computer that is currently "authorized" so hundreds of devices can feed from that one iTunes library. All purchases from the 5 accounts that are "authorized" get to sync without passwords being entered. So if you both had an account - your shared computer would count as one authorization for you and one for your spouse. Each of you could take your iPhones to 3 other friend's house and sync apps and music there (since you used 2 "slots" for your accounts). Most people never come close to the 5 limit. You do need to know each account's password to update the apps on the go - so having twice the accounts means an extra step to update on the road or having to wait for a password or having the apps download at home by your spouse. There's no way to split things up later - so if you don't mind the extra hassle of two accounts (and remembering to sign in and out on the computer to keep straight which account is buying what from the computer) it's often better to have two store accounts. I always recommend if you don't share underwear drawers, don't share iTunes accounts. There's nothing wrong with a little individual space - especially when it's easy to share whenever you feel like it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Screen Rotation Lock now turns off iPad speaker After upgrading the iPad to 4.2.1 the screen rotation lock button no longer has any effect on the screen rotation. Instead it turns off the speaker. I've looked in settings but I don't seem to find any way to change this behavior. A: According to Ars Technica, iOS 4.3 will give you a preference pane to configure this on the iPad (so that you can restore the rotation lock).

Q: Screen Rotation Lock now turns off iPad speaker After upgrading the iPad to 4.2.1 the screen rotation lock button no longer has any effect on the screen rotation. Instead it turns off the speaker. I've looked in settings but I don't seem to find any way to change this behavior. A: According to Ars Technica, iOS 4.3 will give you a preference pane to configure this on the iPad (so that you can restore the rotation lock). A: At iPad: Understanding screen rotation lock, Apple says: Beginning with iOS 4.2, the switch previously used for screen rotation lock functions as a silence switch for notifications and system sounds. Sucks, doesn't it? It is still possible to lock the screen rotation on an iPad (and that article explains how); there's just no hardware solution any more.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why is DashboardClient taking so much memory on MBP? In recent days, the DashboardClient process is taking more memory on my MBP. It's a real memory of 144 MB as seen in Activity Monitor. I have never seen this process occupying memory like this before, as if like Safari. It's started few back before. I haven't changed my Dashboard for a couple of months... I am running OS X 10.6.5 A: Probably the widgets you are using are leaking memory. Try removing them and check which of the widget is taking too much memory. I use Calendar, 2 Clocks, 1 Weather and 2 Webclips and the Dashboard client is taking up 83Mb. Normally I just force quit if I see it is taking too much memory, and start it again if I need to them back.

Q: Why is DashboardClient taking so much memory on MBP? In recent days, the DashboardClient process is taking more memory on my MBP. It's a real memory of 144 MB as seen in Activity Monitor. I have never seen this process occupying memory like this before, as if like Safari. It's started few back before. I haven't changed my Dashboard for a couple of months... I am running OS X 10.6.5 A: Probably the widgets you are using are leaking memory. Try removing them and check which of the widget is taking too much memory. I use Calendar, 2 Clocks, 1 Weather and 2 Webclips and the Dashboard client is taking up 83Mb. Normally I just force quit if I see it is taking too much memory, and start it again if I need to them back.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iphone upgrade - did it back up? If you tell iTunes to upgrade your iPhone from os4 to os4.versionupdate (example)... Does iTunes automatically back it up before attempting upgrade? my phone is currently in recovery mode - and I don't know whether it backed up or not (you rookie!!!) EDIT I have browsed to the back up folder, i.e. C:\Users\<MY USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup There is a folder with todays date: \a6fbdb939e60771c51f18a68a41e8e0e2d230dcc - would this be the backup done before attempting software upgrade? A: iTunes creates a backup of your iPhone everytime you sync it, not only when you upgrade it. If in doubt, sync the iPhone before upgrading. Here is an Apple Support article about the subject: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

Q: iphone upgrade - did it back up? If you tell iTunes to upgrade your iPhone from os4 to os4.versionupdate (example)... Does iTunes automatically back it up before attempting upgrade? my phone is currently in recovery mode - and I don't know whether it backed up or not (you rookie!!!) EDIT I have browsed to the back up folder, i.e. C:\Users\<MY USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup There is a folder with todays date: \a6fbdb939e60771c51f18a68a41e8e0e2d230dcc - would this be the backup done before attempting software upgrade? A: iTunes creates a backup of your iPhone everytime you sync it, not only when you upgrade it. If in doubt, sync the iPhone before upgrading. Here is an Apple Support article about the subject: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766 A: iTunes definitively creates a backup before upgrading. The folder you see seems to be this backup.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why does iPhone 4 lose its VPN connection on sleep or screen lock? I've setup a VPN connection using AnchorFree.com on my iPhone 4 which works great, the issue I have is when my iPhone goes to sleep or screen locks the VPN connection appears to auto disconnect and doesn't reconnect unless I manually make it. I saw a thread here on apples forums confirming others are seeing this issue but no real solution. A: I don't know if it will really help you, but the only way I see to walk-around this problem is to set the System Preferences "Auto Lock" to "Never". This will keep you connection alive. I would do this before every remote work session. Then, reset it to 1 minutes, you're done with it.

Q: Why does iPhone 4 lose its VPN connection on sleep or screen lock? I've setup a VPN connection using AnchorFree.com on my iPhone 4 which works great, the issue I have is when my iPhone goes to sleep or screen locks the VPN connection appears to auto disconnect and doesn't reconnect unless I manually make it. I saw a thread here on apples forums confirming others are seeing this issue but no real solution. A: I don't know if it will really help you, but the only way I see to walk-around this problem is to set the System Preferences "Auto Lock" to "Never". This will keep you connection alive. I would do this before every remote work session. Then, reset it to 1 minutes, you're done with it. A: It's most likely a battery-saving option. If only it would do that with Wi-Fi connections.... :( Being connected to a wireless signal besides 2G data eats the battery like mad. A: I have just signed up for VPN service this week and I have been having the same problem. I use it to watch Netflix and listen to Pandora from out of the country. I have been playing around to see if I can get the VPN to stay connected; so far I found a solution that has been working for about an hour or so now. I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 and I have installed backgrounder from Cydia which keeps programs running even when closed or when the screen is off. After installing this, I installed Pandora from the App Store and, after launching it, I held down the home button to background it. So far, it seems to be working because Pandora uses my connection and if I keep it backgrounded, it will prevent the VPN from disconnecting. I have only been using it for a couple of hours so I'm not sure how good of a permanent solution it will be.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to set to open folder with enter in finder? I want to set to open a folder in finder with Enter. I know it's possible to open a folder with ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow but I don't like it and I never use it because it's easier to use the trackpad, but enter would be the easiest way. I tried to set it trough the keyboard shortcuts but I can't do it. A: You could also use KeyRemap4MacBook, but it would make pressing return open items even in rename mode. And there are a lot of other places besides Finder where return renames items and other key combinations open them. If you don't use a QWERTY keyboard layout, change KeyCode::O to KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN: <item> <name>Use Return as Open</name> <identifier>private.app_finder_return2commandO</identifier> <only>FINDER</only> <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, ModifierFlag::FN, KeyCode::RETURN</autogen> <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen> </item>

Q: How to set to open folder with enter in finder? I want to set to open a folder in finder with Enter. I know it's possible to open a folder with ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow but I don't like it and I never use it because it's easier to use the trackpad, but enter would be the easiest way. I tried to set it trough the keyboard shortcuts but I can't do it. A: You could also use KeyRemap4MacBook, but it would make pressing return open items even in rename mode. And there are a lot of other places besides Finder where return renames items and other key combinations open them. If you don't use a QWERTY keyboard layout, change KeyCode::O to KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN: <item> <name>Use Return as Open</name> <identifier>private.app_finder_return2commandO</identifier> <only>FINDER</only> <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, ModifierFlag::FN, KeyCode::RETURN</autogen> <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen> </item> A: Edit: Well crud, got halfway through typing this up and then found that Karabiner doesn't work on Mac OS 10.12+. They are working on Karabiner-Elements but it's still pre-alpha. These instructions still work for 10.11 and lower though: Karabiner was easier than the top answer here because you don't have to make a System Integrity Protection exception (El Cap). * *Install app from here: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ *Open Karabiner with Spotlight Search (Cmd+Space) *In Karabiner search menu (upper left): "use return as open" *Check the box *Option-click on Finder in taskbar, Relaunch it. A: For anybody looking for this in 2018: use BetterTouchTool to make the Enter key simulate ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow key press. A: Any person new to Apple and Mac would find lot of things un-intuitive or just forced on the user, w/o any options to change it. Or it might be that just many of us had their first experiences on Win/Linux systems. But just found this plugin to finder XtraFinder which among lot of other options allows you to ENTER/RETURN to open a file. Feeling a lot relieved now! Hope it helps. A: As I know you can not set it to enter in a normal way (but maybe exist some tricky way) but you can change open shortcut by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts tab from the left window choose Application Shortcuts and press + to add new shortcut then find Finder in Application and choose Open in Menu Title and press any desired shortcut in textbox. A: PresButan (Mac OS X 10.4.x-10.7.x): An idiotically named solution to a spectacular UI oversight (rather apropos, eh?). It also lets you use either the backspace or delete key to delete files. I can confirm it works (just installed it). Apparently it leverages the accessibility system and uses a daemon to catch the return events. If you are on 10.3-10.5, you also have the option of using ReturnOpen. A: In current 2022 Karabiner version, go to "Complex modification" tab > "Add rule" button at the bottom > "Import more rules from the internet (open a web browser)" button at the top Then you should find "Application specific" -> "Finder" section on the web-page and import it to your Karabiner. Then use the same button "Add rule" to select rules you like from that group. (Careful with using backspace, you can't backspace when renaming files) A: Copy from here: https://superuser.com/a/1758821/1201428 As for today the simple solution is: * *Install Karabiner-Elements: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/getting-started/installation/ *Add complex modification rule: a) Automatically - one click import from official rules site: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#finder_improved_navigation b) Or manualy - add code into to complex modifications: { "title": "Finder: enter -> open, f2 -> rename", "rules": [ { "description": "Use Return as Open if not renaming file", "manipulators": [ { "conditions": [ { "bundle_identifiers": [ "^com.apple.finder" ], "type": "frontmost_application_if" }, { "type": "variable_unless", "name": "onedit", "value": 1 } ], "from": { "key_code": "return_or_enter", "modifiers": { "optional": [ "any" ] } }, "to": [ { "key_code": "o", "modifiers": [ "right_command" ] } ], "type": "basic" } ] }, { "description": "Use Return to finish renaming when onedit=1", "manipulators": [ { "conditions": [ { "bundle_identifiers": [ "^com.apple.finder" ], "type": "frontmost_application_if" }, { "name": "onedit", "type": "variable_if", "value": 1 } ], "from": { "key_code": "return_or_enter", "modifiers": { "optional": [ "any" ] } }, "to": [ { "key_code": "return_or_enter" }, { "set_variable": { "name": "onedit", "value": 0 } } ], "type": "basic" } ] }, { "description": "Use F2 as Rename and set onedit", "manipulators": [ { "type": "basic", "from": { "key_code": "f2" }, "to": [ { "key_code": "return_or_enter" }, { "set_variable": { "name": "onedit", "value": 1 } } ], "conditions": [ { "type": "frontmost_application_if", "bundle_identifiers": [ "^com.apple.finder" ] } ] } ] } ] } The original answer is posted here: https://superuser.com/questions/307048/making-the-backspace-key-go-to-the-previous-folder-in-finder/1636251#1636251 A: ControlOptionSpace serves as an Enter key Also enabling voice over for when you need to navigate, helps a lot too

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is a good indestructible iPad case for toddlers? Does anyone know of any iPad cases that are so indestructible, that you would entrust a 3-year-old with an iPad? A: Check out OtterBox's Defender product line. I don't own any of their products, but I've heard from others that they're close to indestructible. More details & reviews: * *Tough Guys Rock the OtterBox (OtterBox Blog) *OtterBox Releases Heavy Duty Defender iPad Case (CrunchGear) *OtterBox's Defender Case puts your iPad in a Batman Suit (ZDNet) *Otterbox Defender iPad case review: Best rugged case money can buy (Mobile Magazine) *OtterBox Defender for iPad: When You Need Fully Body Protection (Gear Diary)

Q: What is a good indestructible iPad case for toddlers? Does anyone know of any iPad cases that are so indestructible, that you would entrust a 3-year-old with an iPad? A: Check out OtterBox's Defender product line. I don't own any of their products, but I've heard from others that they're close to indestructible. More details & reviews: * *Tough Guys Rock the OtterBox (OtterBox Blog) *OtterBox Releases Heavy Duty Defender iPad Case (CrunchGear) *OtterBox's Defender Case puts your iPad in a Batman Suit (ZDNet) *Otterbox Defender iPad case review: Best rugged case money can buy (Mobile Magazine) *OtterBox Defender for iPad: When You Need Fully Body Protection (Gear Diary) A: I don't think there is one. The glass-front of the iPad is way to big for any case to make handling it completely secure. If I had kids, I would just stay with them and observe them while they play with my gadgets.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone battery symbol is red, doesn't acknowledge charging, but is apparently charged I have an iPhone 3G, * *When I plug in the charger, the big red battery on the locked screen is red, low and doesn't appear to be charging. When I unlock the screen, the small battery symbol on the upper right is green with a bolt. *When I unplug it, the battery symbol in the upper right is low and red, but the phone seems to be charged. *The phone syncs to my computer fine when connected. Does anyone know what the problem is and if it can be fixed? Is it relatively benign, or perhaps an early sign that it is reaching its final stage of life? Update Although I am still no closer to the answer, and I had tried powering off manually, I let the battery run out (about 7 days at 1hr/day, no cell phone service) and when I charged it again, the issue resolved. A: Sometimes it happens when you put your iPhone for charging more time. Please power-off and restart your iPhone. Mostly this solves problem.

Q: iPhone battery symbol is red, doesn't acknowledge charging, but is apparently charged I have an iPhone 3G, * *When I plug in the charger, the big red battery on the locked screen is red, low and doesn't appear to be charging. When I unlock the screen, the small battery symbol on the upper right is green with a bolt. *When I unplug it, the battery symbol in the upper right is low and red, but the phone seems to be charged. *The phone syncs to my computer fine when connected. Does anyone know what the problem is and if it can be fixed? Is it relatively benign, or perhaps an early sign that it is reaching its final stage of life? Update Although I am still no closer to the answer, and I had tried powering off manually, I let the battery run out (about 7 days at 1hr/day, no cell phone service) and when I charged it again, the issue resolved. A: Sometimes it happens when you put your iPhone for charging more time. Please power-off and restart your iPhone. Mostly this solves problem.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where is this "other calendar" coming from on my iPhone I am using Google's exchange service on my iPhone, and I have successfully selected which calendars I want to sync by going to m.google.com or whatever the Sync address is. However, in the native iPhone app, I have this weird calendar called "Birthdays" in the "Other Calendars" section. I have no idea where this calendar is coming from - its not in Outlook (and I don't sync with Outlook anyway), and its not my Google Birthday calendar (the dates are wrong). How do I remove it? I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.1. A: I believe this comes from the address book. If you add a vcard with birthday information, it gets synced to iCal in this calendar. And then it might be getting synced to your phone.

Q: Where is this "other calendar" coming from on my iPhone I am using Google's exchange service on my iPhone, and I have successfully selected which calendars I want to sync by going to m.google.com or whatever the Sync address is. However, in the native iPhone app, I have this weird calendar called "Birthdays" in the "Other Calendars" section. I have no idea where this calendar is coming from - its not in Outlook (and I don't sync with Outlook anyway), and its not my Google Birthday calendar (the dates are wrong). How do I remove it? I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.1. A: I believe this comes from the address book. If you add a vcard with birthday information, it gets synced to iCal in this calendar. And then it might be getting synced to your phone. A: The Birthday calendar is a “read only” calendar automatically created by iCal. You can change what will appear there by modifying your contacts’ birthday (in address book). If you don’t like it, you can always disable it. * *Open iCal *Go to Preferences:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to have tabs in Finder? I often need to open many finder windows at the same time and my desktop becomes cluttered. Is there any way to get tabs in Finder so one window can host multiple folders? A: TotalFinder "brings tabs to your native Finder". It's commercial software, however. There are some other Finder replacements as well.

Q: Is it possible to have tabs in Finder? I often need to open many finder windows at the same time and my desktop becomes cluttered. Is there any way to get tabs in Finder so one window can host multiple folders? A: TotalFinder "brings tabs to your native Finder". It's commercial software, however. There are some other Finder replacements as well. A: Mavericks (MacOS X 10.9) brings us native tabs in the Finder (finally). A: A free alternative for OS X 10.6.8 to 10.8.2 is also XtraFinder, which supports Tabs as well. A: it was already mentioned but PathFinder is an incredible app. Plus there is a mac bundle site with it on discount right now. MacPromo Bundle A: Update: As shown in File Menu and being consistent with the rest of the macOS shortcuts, command+T will open a new tab. Tabbed Finder was introduced in OS X Mavericks in 2013. With the native Finder app that comes with OS X is not possible to have tabs. If you really need them you can use some Finder replacement app, like TotalFinder or PathFinder (both not free). A: IMO, I would wait before buying any program/app, as the new OS from apple, aka: lion, will probably address the finder and its shortcomings.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Textmate alt-f to move forward by one word I've recently switched from Linux to Mac. One thing that is really killing my emacs memory muscles right now is the lack of alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word. I've gotten the meta/option flag flipped in Terminal.app preferences (so alt+. now works as expected), but I haven't found a similar option for Textmate. Even better if I could enable it as a MacOS global setting for the U.S. keyboard (so it would work in all input boxes). At the moment I get the following useless (for me) encodings: alt+f: ƒ alt+b: ∫ How do I remap alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word? A: As usual... KeyRemap4MacBook to the rescue :P Its emacs mode will give you those bindings, and you can choose a lot more bindings than that as well:

Q: Textmate alt-f to move forward by one word I've recently switched from Linux to Mac. One thing that is really killing my emacs memory muscles right now is the lack of alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word. I've gotten the meta/option flag flipped in Terminal.app preferences (so alt+. now works as expected), but I haven't found a similar option for Textmate. Even better if I could enable it as a MacOS global setting for the U.S. keyboard (so it would work in all input boxes). At the moment I get the following useless (for me) encodings: alt+f: ƒ alt+b: ∫ How do I remap alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word? A: As usual... KeyRemap4MacBook to the rescue :P Its emacs mode will give you those bindings, and you can choose a lot more bindings than that as well: A: FYI, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Mac shortcuts list, but on my Macbook Air you can press Ctrl+option+f and Ctrl+option+b to move forward and backward one word, respectively. A: One way to remap the keys in other applications as well would be to create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict: { "~b" = moveWordBackward:; "~f" = moveWordForward:; "~d" = deleteWordForward:; "~l" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, lowercaseWord:); "~u" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, uppercaseWord:); "~c" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, capitalizeWord:); } You could also cp /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict ~/Libary/Application\ Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict and add the same keys there.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone 4 Custom SMS Text Tones I read about how to add custom ring tones, but those don't show up in the SMS tone tab, just the phone ring tab, is there some way to add custom text tones without jailbreaking my iPhone? :( A: There are new SMS tones as of 4.2, and you can assign a specific SMS tone to a specific person via the Contacts app also as of 4.2, but you still cannot create custom SMS tones in the stock firmware.

Q: iPhone 4 Custom SMS Text Tones I read about how to add custom ring tones, but those don't show up in the SMS tone tab, just the phone ring tab, is there some way to add custom text tones without jailbreaking my iPhone? :( A: There are new SMS tones as of 4.2, and you can assign a specific SMS tone to a specific person via the Contacts app also as of 4.2, but you still cannot create custom SMS tones in the stock firmware.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to shut down an Ipod nano 6th generation? If yes, how? If no, why such a decision? A: According to Apple Support: If the iPod nano is paused, and you press the Sleep/Wake button to turn off the screen, the following behavior will take place: * *For 36 hours after pressing the Sleep/Wake button and turning off the screen, iPod nano is in Standby, and will quickly wake up when you press the Sleep/Wake button again. *After 36 hours in Standby with no activity, iPod nano will shut down automatically. Pressing the Sleep/Wake button after iPod nano is shut down will turn on iPod nano, and boot to the main Home screen. (Your iPod nano is considered paused if there is no music or FM radio playback, or an active pedometer session.) Additional Information * *A fully charged iPod nano provides up to 24 hours of music playback time.

Q: Is it possible to shut down an Ipod nano 6th generation? If yes, how? If no, why such a decision? A: According to Apple Support: If the iPod nano is paused, and you press the Sleep/Wake button to turn off the screen, the following behavior will take place: * *For 36 hours after pressing the Sleep/Wake button and turning off the screen, iPod nano is in Standby, and will quickly wake up when you press the Sleep/Wake button again. *After 36 hours in Standby with no activity, iPod nano will shut down automatically. Pressing the Sleep/Wake button after iPod nano is shut down will turn on iPod nano, and boot to the main Home screen. (Your iPod nano is considered paused if there is no music or FM radio playback, or an active pedometer session.) Additional Information * *A fully charged iPod nano provides up to 24 hours of music playback time. A: Press all together in this order -Vol button, then Sleep button, then +Vol button and then hold (so your fingers should not let go of the -Vol when you press the Sleep button) until diagnostics screen, you'll see a teletype sorta menu select standby with the sleep button it will put the nano it sleep but wake up reset

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Easy way to get gcc and make in OS X I want to install a few CPAN modules in OS X. It filed since the module I want requires make and gcc to be installed. A quick google on the subject tells me that I need to install "Apple Developer Tools". Do I really have to install the entire Xcode package (it's a 3 GB download) just to get make and gcc? A: I would highly recommend installing the developer tools. They are free from Apple. If you really don't want Xcode after the fact, you could just remove the Application itself. You may also be able to not install any documentation, which I think also takes a bit of space.

Q: Easy way to get gcc and make in OS X I want to install a few CPAN modules in OS X. It filed since the module I want requires make and gcc to be installed. A quick google on the subject tells me that I need to install "Apple Developer Tools". Do I really have to install the entire Xcode package (it's a 3 GB download) just to get make and gcc? A: I would highly recommend installing the developer tools. They are free from Apple. If you really don't want Xcode after the fact, you could just remove the Application itself. You may also be able to not install any documentation, which I think also takes a bit of space. A: You can use osx-gcc-installer to get GCC and related tools without installing Xcode. Note that there might be legal problems with osx-gcc-installer, and for this reason make-gcc-without-xcode has been made as an alternative. It requires the Xcode installer package, and generates an archive with only the necessary stuff -- no Xcode. A: While I would certainly suggest that you download and install the developer tools from Apple, you can obtain gcc, etc. in any number of other ways. My favorite alternative would be to obtain it from http://www.macports.org/ There is a nice GUI for it here: http://porticus.alittledrop.com/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Recommend me a productivity/workflow tool Can anyone recommend me a productivity/workflow tool that does the following? * *I would like it to be task based *I would like to be able to set: * *a due-date *priority *status (for example: started, paused, waiting for input, finished, cancelled) *I would like to be able to link directly to one or several emails in my email program (OS X Mail.app or Thunderbird preferred) *I would like to write notes about each task *I would like to be able to add attachments (documents and images) *Some calendar integration would be nice A: I think you're looking for OmniFocus, which does (if I recall) everything you want, has a system-wide modal "inbox" tool as well as synchronizable iPad and iPhone apps. Their price point is ridiculously high in my opinion, but people are fanatical about it.

Q: Recommend me a productivity/workflow tool Can anyone recommend me a productivity/workflow tool that does the following? * *I would like it to be task based *I would like to be able to set: * *a due-date *priority *status (for example: started, paused, waiting for input, finished, cancelled) *I would like to be able to link directly to one or several emails in my email program (OS X Mail.app or Thunderbird preferred) *I would like to write notes about each task *I would like to be able to add attachments (documents and images) *Some calendar integration would be nice A: I think you're looking for OmniFocus, which does (if I recall) everything you want, has a system-wide modal "inbox" tool as well as synchronizable iPad and iPhone apps. Their price point is ridiculously high in my opinion, but people are fanatical about it. A: I believe Things does all that. I use it. I like it. I don’t know about thunderbird “linking” but with Mail.app it works. You can “drag” a mail onto a task or things to create a new one. Same with documents. A: The Hit List also does all this. I'm currently using it. It offers sub-tasks and sub-folders so it is more inline with OmniOutlier than Things (which does not offer sub-folders). It's currently in Beta, which is nice because it's free. A: Maybe you want to take a look at Process (Manual in PDF). It’s cheaper than Things and OmniFocus. note: I’m adding this 2nd answer so people can vote at their discretion. A: Judging by your description, you might like Kanban Tool (https://kanbantool.com/). It is task-based, you can add due dates, set priorities and change the status of the task. You can add attachments. It also has a time tracking feature (I personally find it very helpful) and is easy to use. There's a free trial, so you can always test it and see for yourself whether you like it or not.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I backup iTunes 9 before upgrading to iTunes 10? I am happy with iTunes 9 and am a bit leery of upgrading to iTunes 10 on my Mac based on some feedback I've heard from others. Can I duplicate iTunes.app in my Applications folder prior to running Software Update to update to iTunes 10, and use the backup iTunes to run iTunes 9 if I am not happy with iTunes 10? I know this works with some applications like Final Cut Pro but not with others like Safari. A: Don't see why not. If you're paranoid, you may also want to backup the iTunes prefs (~/Library/com.apple.itunes*), and/or any config files you find in your iTunes music folder (~/Music/iTunes/ in my case).

Q: Can I backup iTunes 9 before upgrading to iTunes 10? I am happy with iTunes 9 and am a bit leery of upgrading to iTunes 10 on my Mac based on some feedback I've heard from others. Can I duplicate iTunes.app in my Applications folder prior to running Software Update to update to iTunes 10, and use the backup iTunes to run iTunes 9 if I am not happy with iTunes 10? I know this works with some applications like Final Cut Pro but not with others like Safari. A: Don't see why not. If you're paranoid, you may also want to backup the iTunes prefs (~/Library/com.apple.itunes*), and/or any config files you find in your iTunes music folder (~/Music/iTunes/ in my case). A: I just did this and I can confirm that it did work. However as Harv said, if you do this make a backup of the old files, specifically your library, as iTunes 10 will upgrade your "iTunes Library" file and iTunes 9 will refuse to read it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I stop spaces from switching automatically? I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space without my requesting it to do so. Why does it do this and how can i stop it? How can I make spaces only switch in response to my requests? A: Stop Spaces from switching spaces due to an app coming to the foreground: defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO && killall Dock Or via the GUI: System Prefs > Spaces and then uncheck the checkbox at the bottom: "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" Stop (slow down) Spaces from switching spaces if your mouse presses against the edge of the desktop: defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 60 && killall Dock

Q: How can I stop spaces from switching automatically? I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space without my requesting it to do so. Why does it do this and how can i stop it? How can I make spaces only switch in response to my requests? A: Stop Spaces from switching spaces due to an app coming to the foreground: defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO && killall Dock Or via the GUI: System Prefs > Spaces and then uncheck the checkbox at the bottom: "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" Stop (slow down) Spaces from switching spaces if your mouse presses against the edge of the desktop: defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 60 && killall Dock

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Newly Installed App (gem) Via Terminal, Path? I have used sudo gem install to install a few gems. My question is how do I know where the executable was installed, so I can add it to the path in .bash_profile? A: Ruby "Gems" are not generally applications, most often they are libraries. From the Ruby Gems website 1.1 Really Quick Start Question: I’ve installed RubyGems and I want to install Rails (for example). How do I do that? Answer: gem install rails 1.2 What is a Gem? A gem is a packaged Ruby application or library. It has a name (e.g. rake) and a version (e.g. 0.4.16). (emphasis mine) Also, see this information on how to inspect a gem: 2.5 Looking at an installed gem When you run gem specification progressbar # shortcut: gem spec progressbar you will see all the details of the ’’progressbar’’ gem. You should consult the documentation which came with the gem, or, post more details so we can assist you more.

Q: Newly Installed App (gem) Via Terminal, Path? I have used sudo gem install to install a few gems. My question is how do I know where the executable was installed, so I can add it to the path in .bash_profile? A: Ruby "Gems" are not generally applications, most often they are libraries. From the Ruby Gems website 1.1 Really Quick Start Question: I’ve installed RubyGems and I want to install Rails (for example). How do I do that? Answer: gem install rails 1.2 What is a Gem? A gem is a packaged Ruby application or library. It has a name (e.g. rake) and a version (e.g. 0.4.16). (emphasis mine) Also, see this information on how to inspect a gem: 2.5 Looking at an installed gem When you run gem specification progressbar # shortcut: gem spec progressbar you will see all the details of the ’’progressbar’’ gem. You should consult the documentation which came with the gem, or, post more details so we can assist you more. A: Also if you type: gem list then you will get a list of all the gems that you have installed. At least that way you can check to see if it installed properly and which ones you currently have installed. The path to my gems on my Windows PC is: C:\Ruby192\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems Probably the same location/file hierarchy on the Mac as well. (except for that whole C:/ part ;-) EDIT I took the following quote from the page talking about installing Sproutcore. It might help you in figuring out this path issue. Let me know! (I am a n00b when it comes to this stuff. I just starting learning it yesterday! But I found lots of helpful information!) http://wiki.sproutcore.com/w/page/12412840/Abbot-Setting%20Up if you faced a problem during the last part then this probably because the PATH of the gem isn't the default one. You can call the command as /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sc-init HelloWorld cd hello_world sc-server Or you may reconfigure the path by running the following command PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin export PATH Then rerun sc-init command. Now visit http://localhost:4020/hello_world to see your handiwork. A: Use the gem env command to display where Gems stores everything. Greg:~ greg$ gem env RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - universal-darwin-10 - GEM PATHS: - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 - /Users/greg/.gem/ruby/1.8 - /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :benchmark => false - :backtrace => false - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - REMOTE SOURCES: - http://gems.rubyforge.org/ However, to avoid having to use sudo to install gems into the System version of Ruby, I use RVM, which sandboxes all my gems plus any additional versions of Ruby I want to install. I've been using it for a while and love it. A: I believe that al that is in /usr/bin and similar. You can always try whereis xxxxx and locate xxxx (after both db’s have been rebuilt via the daily/weekly scripts). Most of those things go somewhere inside /usr sometimes /usr/local.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can user accounts be managed via the command line? Is there any way to add, remove, or modify user accounts via the command line? I'm not talking about an account for a system process or daemon, I mean is there any way to add a user account, change, user real names, icons, FileVault protection, Admin/normal/limited user status, and basically do everything else that can be done in the System Preferences Users preference pane, but via some command line utility? A: Solution by @Infamy seems to be for 10.5. On OS X 10.6 each line needs to be changed to look like the following: sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/addusername That is, replace / by localhost, prepend /Local/Default to /Users and invoke the entire command with sudo.

Q: Can user accounts be managed via the command line? Is there any way to add, remove, or modify user accounts via the command line? I'm not talking about an account for a system process or daemon, I mean is there any way to add a user account, change, user real names, icons, FileVault protection, Admin/normal/limited user status, and basically do everything else that can be done in the System Preferences Users preference pane, but via some command line utility? A: Solution by @Infamy seems to be for 10.5. On OS X 10.6 each line needs to be changed to look like the following: sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/addusername That is, replace / by localhost, prepend /Local/Default to /Users and invoke the entire command with sudo. A: To create an account in the Users folder dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli Create and set the shell property to bash. dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli UserShell /bin/bash Create and set the user’s full name. (Displayed in some of the panels/login screen) dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli RealName "Added From Cli" Create and set the user’s ID. (this is the unique id, you need to find out what id your last user create was and add one) dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli UniqueID 503 Create and set the user’s group ID property. (This can be your default group) dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli PrimaryGroupID 1000 Create and set the user home directory. dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/addfromcli Set the password. (dont use password as a password) dscl / -passwd /Users/addfromcli PASSWORD Some more details can be found on OS X Daily

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a good replacement for the Dock? What are the best dock replacements? It's frustrating to keep track of windows in the dock unless they're minimized. For instance, I often have 10-15 separate PDF documents open. It's a mess to keep track of them on the dock. -- Harry Gindi A: A quasi-replacement worth considering is Quicksilver (download: https://qsapp.com/ and guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4), used by a large number of devout users. Though, that it depends on what you're looking to replace: access to apps, documents, tasks etc? It should work great. If you want something that looks vaguely like a dock/taskbar/GNOME panel, it won't replace that.

Q: Is there a good replacement for the Dock? What are the best dock replacements? It's frustrating to keep track of windows in the dock unless they're minimized. For instance, I often have 10-15 separate PDF documents open. It's a mess to keep track of them on the dock. -- Harry Gindi A: A quasi-replacement worth considering is Quicksilver (download: https://qsapp.com/ and guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4), used by a large number of devout users. Though, that it depends on what you're looking to replace: access to apps, documents, tasks etc? It should work great. If you want something that looks vaguely like a dock/taskbar/GNOME panel, it won't replace that. A: http://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar I was impressed with this. It is the closest thing to a task bar replacement I found. Some of its behavior annoyed me so I did not purchase it at the end of the trial. You may fare diffently. The DOCK is rather ill conceived for a variety of reasons, but programs leaving the dock when open is a huge one. Finding open windows is OSX is far more difficult than in Windows. alt-tab > cmd+tab then cmd+~. Seeing the window clearly on the task bar is also nice. EDIT: I found this forum while looking for a replacement for ubar. I was unable to find one worth a crap. So I ended up buying Ubar, even tho it has some issues. Even with its issues it is better than the dock. The dock is a common complaint for windows users; this isnt a case of stubborn users rejecting change or a different way of doing things. This is a case of the taskbar really being the better way fulfill these functions. A: HyperDock gives you window previews for each running app in the dock, which helps tremendously. A: Ubar is very nice. But I don't think it's a dock replacement. Because for me a big job of the dock is the list of icons for my commonly used apps. As far as I can tell, uBar doesn't do that...@Edward A: I'm an ActiveDock developer, the application is actively developing, version 2 is now available https://noteifyapp.com/activedock/ A: System Preferences->Dock: set "minimize windows into application icon".

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I change the keyboard shortcut key to open Quicksilver? Fyi.. I searched Apple.SE and didn't found an answer, so I am posting here. Currently I open Quicksilver by Ctrl + Shift + spacebar. And my Spotlight preference is Cmd + spacebar. Most of the time I use Quicksilver, I would like to change this. I know how to change this for spotlight, but not sure for QS. UPDATE: Now I am able to see the preferences screen with some menu's and here is the screenshot. Am I running very old build/ version ? A: Open QuickSilver, and press ⌘+, to access Preferences. Go to the Command tab and change HotKey Actionvation to the shortcut you want to use. If the command you want to set is the same as the Spotlight one, you'll first have to change the Spotlight shortcut.

Q: How can I change the keyboard shortcut key to open Quicksilver? Fyi.. I searched Apple.SE and didn't found an answer, so I am posting here. Currently I open Quicksilver by Ctrl + Shift + spacebar. And my Spotlight preference is Cmd + spacebar. Most of the time I use Quicksilver, I would like to change this. I know how to change this for spotlight, but not sure for QS. UPDATE: Now I am able to see the preferences screen with some menu's and here is the screenshot. Am I running very old build/ version ? A: Open QuickSilver, and press ⌘+, to access Preferences. Go to the Command tab and change HotKey Actionvation to the shortcut you want to use. If the command you want to set is the same as the Spotlight one, you'll first have to change the Spotlight shortcut. A: I would try upgrading your version. Mine is currently at ß58 (3841). If after upgrading you're still having issues, I would remove the app and all related files/folders and reinstall.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Terminal issue with export PS1="" So I tried to change the output of my terminal prompt but when I try something like /W it just puts the /W not the path. For example export PS1="/W $ "turns my prompt into "/W $" A: It needs to be \W, with a backslash.

Q: Terminal issue with export PS1="" So I tried to change the output of my terminal prompt but when I try something like /W it just puts the /W not the path. For example export PS1="/W $ "turns my prompt into "/W $" A: It needs to be \W, with a backslash. A: That should be a backslash, not a slash: \W.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Connect to Express over Extreme I have an Airport Extreme as my main router in my house and have recently bought an Airport Express to use as an extender. This is all now set up and working fine, with the Express bouncing on the internet connection for me to use throughout the house. However sometimes my phone will connect to the Express instead of the Extreme, although the Extreme is closer. Is there a way to selectively choose which router to connect to? The problem is that there is a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the Express, and this limit is being reached every now and then. A: One way of doing this (like they said in the comments) would be to enable allowed Access control and specifying which devices are allowed to access the express. This is an easy solution if your device's are not going to change a lot :)

Q: Connect to Express over Extreme I have an Airport Extreme as my main router in my house and have recently bought an Airport Express to use as an extender. This is all now set up and working fine, with the Express bouncing on the internet connection for me to use throughout the house. However sometimes my phone will connect to the Express instead of the Extreme, although the Extreme is closer. Is there a way to selectively choose which router to connect to? The problem is that there is a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the Express, and this limit is being reached every now and then. A: One way of doing this (like they said in the comments) would be to enable allowed Access control and specifying which devices are allowed to access the express. This is an easy solution if your device's are not going to change a lot :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Items in desktop folder to appear on desktop Somehow recently I managed to mess up my Desktop folder so the contents are no longer displayed on the actual desktop. Anybody have any ideas how to get this back? It's not a problem normally since I normally use spotlight, but it'd be nice to have. Thanks A: If you don't want to reinstall PathFinder, you can type this command in Terminal.app defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true This will get them back. You might have to log in and out.

Q: Items in desktop folder to appear on desktop Somehow recently I managed to mess up my Desktop folder so the contents are no longer displayed on the actual desktop. Anybody have any ideas how to get this back? It's not a problem normally since I normally use spotlight, but it'd be nice to have. Thanks A: If you don't want to reinstall PathFinder, you can type this command in Terminal.app defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true This will get them back. You might have to log in and out. A: There is an option in path finder to hide finder's desktop and replace it with a version provided by path finder. You might want to try reinstalling it and checking its preferences, particularly the general preferences section.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a presentation mode on mac? When watching a video, or making a presentation, is there an option or a tool to disable all screensaving, energy savings and all? Regardless of if the power is plugged, I'd like to keep the screen fully on. I know I can manually adjust the settings everytime. But is there a "presentation" mode, in addition to "battery" and "power adapter" modes? Or a tool to achieve this? Thanks A: The best 3rd-party based solution for you is to use Caffeine. About Caffeine: A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

Q: Is there a presentation mode on mac? When watching a video, or making a presentation, is there an option or a tool to disable all screensaving, energy savings and all? Regardless of if the power is plugged, I'd like to keep the screen fully on. I know I can manually adjust the settings everytime. But is there a "presentation" mode, in addition to "battery" and "power adapter" modes? Or a tool to achieve this? Thanks A: The best 3rd-party based solution for you is to use Caffeine. About Caffeine: A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu. A: Nothing built-in to the OS, but MarcoPolo can be used to do what you want.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What software for video editing should a G5 Tower Use? My friend has a G5 Tower and would like to create some music videos for his band. I've looked into Final Cut Pro, but unfortunately the latest version is Intel only. I assume if we went that route, he would need Final Cut Pro 5? What are his alternatives? For now it would be safe to say the development would be done as a hobby. Thanks. A: iMovie, part of Apple's iLife suite, is an affordable video editing solution for a hobbyist.

Q: What software for video editing should a G5 Tower Use? My friend has a G5 Tower and would like to create some music videos for his band. I've looked into Final Cut Pro, but unfortunately the latest version is Intel only. I assume if we went that route, he would need Final Cut Pro 5? What are his alternatives? For now it would be safe to say the development would be done as a hobby. Thanks. A: iMovie, part of Apple's iLife suite, is an affordable video editing solution for a hobbyist.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to automate DropBox startup without logging in I'd like to have DropBox running under multiple user accounts on a Mac, even after a reboot. The Mac auto logs in as one user, not me. How to best achieve this? A: You'll have to configure Dropbox identically for all users, at least to the extent of "start at login", and "save password/login information". But if you configure it for all the system users, it should work identically no matter who logs in.

Q: How to automate DropBox startup without logging in I'd like to have DropBox running under multiple user accounts on a Mac, even after a reboot. The Mac auto logs in as one user, not me. How to best achieve this? A: You'll have to configure Dropbox identically for all users, at least to the extent of "start at login", and "save password/login information". But if you configure it for all the system users, it should work identically no matter who logs in. A: Create a script and it in /Library/StartupItems? You may also be able to simply drop an alias in that folder.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to delete duplicate photos from an iPhoto event? I did a stupid thing with one Event in iPhoto library. I thought of making a copy of this Event, and I did use the menu duplicate. Instead of creating another copy of event, it did copies of all the photos inside the existing event. (new to iPhoto usage ;-)) So the big task I have is to delete the possible duplicates of 350 photos. Is there any tool/ option in iPhoto/ apple script etc.. to accomplish task ? A: Just because there are duplicates within iPhoto, doesn't mean that iPhoto actually has duplicated the file. Navigate to ~/Pictures/. Right-click on iPhoto Library, show package contents. Find your event within Originals/<year>/<event name>. Backup the directory. Remove the event from iPhoto - I don't know if this removes the actual folder or not, that's why I suggested backing it up first. Re-add it. Voila. Let me know if it has actually duplicated the files. I know of a great duplicate removal app, but it's not free.

Q: How to delete duplicate photos from an iPhoto event? I did a stupid thing with one Event in iPhoto library. I thought of making a copy of this Event, and I did use the menu duplicate. Instead of creating another copy of event, it did copies of all the photos inside the existing event. (new to iPhoto usage ;-)) So the big task I have is to delete the possible duplicates of 350 photos. Is there any tool/ option in iPhoto/ apple script etc.. to accomplish task ? A: Just because there are duplicates within iPhoto, doesn't mean that iPhoto actually has duplicated the file. Navigate to ~/Pictures/. Right-click on iPhoto Library, show package contents. Find your event within Originals/<year>/<event name>. Backup the directory. Remove the event from iPhoto - I don't know if this removes the actual folder or not, that's why I suggested backing it up first. Re-add it. Voila. Let me know if it has actually duplicated the files. I know of a great duplicate removal app, but it's not free. A: mkdir ~/.Trash/iPhoto-Originals cd ~/"Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified/" find . -type f -exec mv "../Originals/{}" ~/.Trash/iPhoto-Originals/ \; http://osxmactips.blogspot.com/2009/01/delete-duplicate-iphoto-photos.html A: I wrote a $7 app called Duplifinder that finds and shows duplicates in your iPhoto Library: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/ You can view the sets of duplicates, double-click to locate a photo in iPhoto, press Delete to delete a photo from iPhoto. Or just push "Move all duplicates to iPhoto Trash" to clean up. If you have any questions about it please email me at support@haystacksoftware.com. - Stefan

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Music Tracker Software allowing Keyboard Input for Playing Piano I'm looking for a piece of software that is a tracking studio, that allows you to use your keyboard to perform at least piano parts, or at best, any instrument. Needless to say I mean keyboard as in my QWERTY keyboard I'm typing into right now. MIDI support is optional, but probably already there on any piece of software like this. I've used LMMS in the past, which (aside from the hard coded AZERTY input method) was a wonderfully simple program that offered plenty of high-end VSTs and features to grow into. A: You have this in GarageBand. Keyboard mapping. If you decide, one day, to link a midi keayboard, the only thing you need is the Midi to USB cable. Nothing else.

Q: Music Tracker Software allowing Keyboard Input for Playing Piano I'm looking for a piece of software that is a tracking studio, that allows you to use your keyboard to perform at least piano parts, or at best, any instrument. Needless to say I mean keyboard as in my QWERTY keyboard I'm typing into right now. MIDI support is optional, but probably already there on any piece of software like this. I've used LMMS in the past, which (aside from the hard coded AZERTY input method) was a wonderfully simple program that offered plenty of high-end VSTs and features to grow into. A: You have this in GarageBand. Keyboard mapping. If you decide, one day, to link a midi keayboard, the only thing you need is the Midi to USB cable. Nothing else. A: Give Renoise a try — it's keyboard-centric, and supports VST and AU.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why is the input level of the external mic so low? I try to use an external mic to make some audio recordings. But the level of the input is really low ! In fact, the internal build-in mac has a better input level than the external one that is closer to my mouth ! Did I miss something about audio recording ? A: Microphones are hooked up to a pre-amp to boost the signal before recording. The internal microphone on the Mac probably has a built-in pre-amp while the external jack doesn't. Typically external mikes are connected to a sound or mixing board before hooking up to a computer.

Q: Why is the input level of the external mic so low? I try to use an external mic to make some audio recordings. But the level of the input is really low ! In fact, the internal build-in mac has a better input level than the external one that is closer to my mouth ! Did I miss something about audio recording ? A: Microphones are hooked up to a pre-amp to boost the signal before recording. The internal microphone on the Mac probably has a built-in pre-amp while the external jack doesn't. Typically external mikes are connected to a sound or mixing board before hooking up to a computer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Apple TV subtitles How can I find out if (and what languages) subtitles are included in Apple TV movies before i buy it? A: Is this for translation or closed-captioning purposes? The languages a movie supports should be listed in iTunes, and all of the movies should (but might not) have closed-captioning for those with disabilities.

Q: Apple TV subtitles How can I find out if (and what languages) subtitles are included in Apple TV movies before i buy it? A: Is this for translation or closed-captioning purposes? The languages a movie supports should be listed in iTunes, and all of the movies should (but might not) have closed-captioning for those with disabilities.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Passing selected folder path to custom Service executing AppleScript I have a custom Service I created in Automator. Right now, the service shows up in my context (right-click) menu, when right-clicking on any folder. In Automator, I added the Run AppleScript action, to execute this code: on run {input, parameters} do shell script "/usr/bin/find ./ -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print" return input end run My objective is to delete all .DS_Store files in the selected folder (and all folders within it). I normally do this in Terminal by executing /usr/bin/find /path-to-folder -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print, but I would love to get this to work from my custom Service. I'm thinking I need to pass the selected folders path to the AppleScript function (through input perhaps?), but I have no idea how, nor do I see any actions in Automator to pass this. I'm using OS X 10.6.5. Any ideas or suggestions? A: At the top of the screen, above your action, there should be a list-box that says Service receives selected <text> in <any application>. Changing <text> to folders should give you the folders as input.

Q: Passing selected folder path to custom Service executing AppleScript I have a custom Service I created in Automator. Right now, the service shows up in my context (right-click) menu, when right-clicking on any folder. In Automator, I added the Run AppleScript action, to execute this code: on run {input, parameters} do shell script "/usr/bin/find ./ -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print" return input end run My objective is to delete all .DS_Store files in the selected folder (and all folders within it). I normally do this in Terminal by executing /usr/bin/find /path-to-folder -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print, but I would love to get this to work from my custom Service. I'm thinking I need to pass the selected folders path to the AppleScript function (through input perhaps?), but I have no idea how, nor do I see any actions in Automator to pass this. I'm using OS X 10.6.5. Any ideas or suggestions? A: At the top of the screen, above your action, there should be a list-box that says Service receives selected <text> in <any application>. Changing <text> to folders should give you the folders as input.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to change AppleScript path to a Terminal-style path? I have a custom Service that I've created in Automater (I'm on OS X 10.6.5). The Service executes an AppleScript which in turn executes a shell script. Here is the AppleScript: on run {input, parameters} -- do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & input & " -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print" display alert "Path: " & input end run The problem is, the path passed by the Service (in the variable input) looks like: Macintosh HD:Users:Matthew:Documents:Programming:Apple Scripts: And for the command to execute properly, the path needs to look like: Macintosh\ HD/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple\ Scripts/ So, is there a way to translate the first path to the second path? I was hoping for a core function which handles this. But I suppose some kind of regex/find/replace/etc would work? I'm familiar with HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP, not with Cocoa/AppleScript/C. Any direction or suggestions would be great! A: Use quoted form of the POSIX path of input. Without the quoted form of part, it won't handle funny characters (like spaces) in filenames correctly. See this Apple technote.

Q: How to change AppleScript path to a Terminal-style path? I have a custom Service that I've created in Automater (I'm on OS X 10.6.5). The Service executes an AppleScript which in turn executes a shell script. Here is the AppleScript: on run {input, parameters} -- do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & input & " -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print" display alert "Path: " & input end run The problem is, the path passed by the Service (in the variable input) looks like: Macintosh HD:Users:Matthew:Documents:Programming:Apple Scripts: And for the command to execute properly, the path needs to look like: Macintosh\ HD/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple\ Scripts/ So, is there a way to translate the first path to the second path? I was hoping for a core function which handles this. But I suppose some kind of regex/find/replace/etc would work? I'm familiar with HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP, not with Cocoa/AppleScript/C. Any direction or suggestions would be great! A: Use quoted form of the POSIX path of input. Without the quoted form of part, it won't handle funny characters (like spaces) in filenames correctly. See this Apple technote. A: Ok...this was easier than I had realized. After some Googling, it looks like what I need here is the POSIX path of command. This converts a given path to a Unix style path, which is the type of path you would see/use in Terminal. So: POSIX path of input Gives me a path like: /Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/ It seems to take into account that you just need a / at the beginning of the path, rather than the hard drive name. It does not, however, escape \ spaces (or handle special characters) in the path. So, as the other answer here mentions, you need to place the path in quotes ( " or ' ) in order for those spaces (or special characters) to be interpreted literally. You accomplish this by using quoted form of. Here it is: quoted form of the POSIX path of the input -- gives a path like: '/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/'

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Are there any free alternatives to finder? Relatively new to the Mac world, I still find the 'Finder' not really that user friendly. What free alternatives to Finder exist? *I mean really file browsers, not application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy etc.. A: muCommander is a free Finder alternative, if that type of application suites you. (Dual-pane Norton Commander like).

Q: Are there any free alternatives to finder? Relatively new to the Mac world, I still find the 'Finder' not really that user friendly. What free alternatives to Finder exist? *I mean really file browsers, not application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy etc.. A: muCommander is a free Finder alternative, if that type of application suites you. (Dual-pane Norton Commander like). A: I don't know the good free alternatives, but PathFinder is the best file manager I have ever used, and probably one of the best desktop apps I've ever used. The features I use most * *Bookmarks and multiple tabs *Multiple panes *Side panes with folder shortcuts *Drop stack Most importantly, it's not clunky (relatively) and is very reliable. It was worth every cent I paid for it. A: Here's some free alternatives Xfolders and MuCommander are free. A: Another free alternative is xtrafinder http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/ A: Moroshka file manager (free) - in beta, however, but it may suit your needs: I have not yet used it, so offered under advisement (no reflection on product, though!) A: Finder uses spaces and sub-spaces to organize our information. An alternative or a complementarity would be the use of TIME to organize our information. Here is a video presentation : hipSpace Edit: ok, I am the developer of hipSpace, but my app really answers to that question. Just "Save as…" your files in the "hipSpace" folder, that all ! When there are too much files in the space, Release them. It will be easy to retrieve them using the Time navigation (rather than the space navigation of the Finder).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Tools or scripts for tracking a stolen or lost Mac? Actually I do use the prey project but was wondering about other tools or scripts one could use to find back information about a lost/stolen Mac. With features like: -Getting the ip address or any other localization information. -Triggering the webcam remotely. -Protect/destroy personal files remotely A: One of the more popular ones is Lojack, a pretty well-respected software program for both Mac and Windows.

Q: Tools or scripts for tracking a stolen or lost Mac? Actually I do use the prey project but was wondering about other tools or scripts one could use to find back information about a lost/stolen Mac. With features like: -Getting the ip address or any other localization information. -Triggering the webcam remotely. -Protect/destroy personal files remotely A: One of the more popular ones is Lojack, a pretty well-respected software program for both Mac and Windows. A: Take a look at Undercover: it does all that you need, and more (simulating hardware failure, etc.). Their recovery stories section is quite encouraging, too. A: If you are comfortable writing your own script, it is very easy to make a LaunchAgent that uses curl to check for a file on a site you maintain. Web logs now show you the IP. If you put commands in that file, the script on the computer can take action based on those commands. isightcapture can be used to take images from the camera, and screencapture of the desktop (showing email accounts of the unauthorized users). And of course DropBox. If you keep your important documents there, then you can easily delete them. If you want to transfer images from iSight or screencapture off, you can do so. If you want to transfer images on, or upload scripts that a local agent will run, etc, you can do all that very easily. MarcoPolo could be used to take a screenshot and an iSight image each and every time the computer wakes up or changes network, and email those images (along with IP) to an email account, which you only need to check if you don't know where or who is using the laptop. A: I'll throw a couple more track-spy-recover products into the list: BAK2u's Phoenix Anti-theft and GadgetTrak. I have no experience with either, so you'll have to make your own judgements.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: In Activity Monitor, how can Swap Used be more than Page Outs? I am trying to understand the relationship between Page Outs and Swap Used as displayed in Activity Monitor. Currently, Activity Monitor shows: Page outs: 1.6 MB Swap used: 8.1 MB How can there be more swap used than the amount paged out? A: My understanding is this: * *Program needs access to some data. Attempts to do so, and fails, due to lack of RAM. *OS takes control. There is a page-out operation, where physical RAM is copied to swap. *There is a page-in operation, where the required data is copied to RAM. *OS gives control back to program. *Program tries again, finds its data. OS's are getting smart about how they choose what and when to to page in/out. So the operation counts may not be the same, and the swap space may perhaps be in use without there being page outs. Unless of course I'm backwards on what a page-in/page-out operation is. In which case your question makes perfect sense.

Q: In Activity Monitor, how can Swap Used be more than Page Outs? I am trying to understand the relationship between Page Outs and Swap Used as displayed in Activity Monitor. Currently, Activity Monitor shows: Page outs: 1.6 MB Swap used: 8.1 MB How can there be more swap used than the amount paged out? A: My understanding is this: * *Program needs access to some data. Attempts to do so, and fails, due to lack of RAM. *OS takes control. There is a page-out operation, where physical RAM is copied to swap. *There is a page-in operation, where the required data is copied to RAM. *OS gives control back to program. *Program tries again, finds its data. OS's are getting smart about how they choose what and when to to page in/out. So the operation counts may not be the same, and the swap space may perhaps be in use without there being page outs. Unless of course I'm backwards on what a page-in/page-out operation is. In which case your question makes perfect sense.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I group applications? My Applications folder is getting pretty full and I'm starting to lose track of applications. I want to organize them in groups, but I've read that some applications don't properly handle being put inside a folder. 1) What is the truth to this statement? Is there a list of applications with known problems? Is this a thing of the past? Does FileVault have anything to do with it? (I have FileVault turned on) 2) What alternatives do I have? How do you group your applications? I'm currently considering making some other folder in my home directory (maybe "Shortcuts"), with subfolders for groups, and inside of those subfolders making symlinks to applications in the /Applications directory. Then I would drag my Applications folder off my dock and replace it with the Shortcuts folder. Do you see anything wrong with that? Is there any mechanism built into Snow Leopard for grouping applications? A: A little off-topic, but I hardly ever launch Applications from the Finder. They are either in the Dock, or you can get to them with Spotlight (or your favorite alternative app launcher).

Q: How can I group applications? My Applications folder is getting pretty full and I'm starting to lose track of applications. I want to organize them in groups, but I've read that some applications don't properly handle being put inside a folder. 1) What is the truth to this statement? Is there a list of applications with known problems? Is this a thing of the past? Does FileVault have anything to do with it? (I have FileVault turned on) 2) What alternatives do I have? How do you group your applications? I'm currently considering making some other folder in my home directory (maybe "Shortcuts"), with subfolders for groups, and inside of those subfolders making symlinks to applications in the /Applications directory. Then I would drag my Applications folder off my dock and replace it with the Shortcuts folder. Do you see anything wrong with that? Is there any mechanism built into Snow Leopard for grouping applications? A: A little off-topic, but I hardly ever launch Applications from the Finder. They are either in the Dock, or you can get to them with Spotlight (or your favorite alternative app launcher). A: 1) The pre-installed Apple applications generally won't get updated by Software Update if they are moved. The Developer applications won't work properly if moved. I honestly haven't tried complex installs like Photoshop to see if they can be moved. But most applications that you download from a website as a zip or dmg can be installed where ever you like -- I tend to create an "Applications" folder in my home folder for those applications 2) I think your suggestion is the recommended one. Note that the typical way to create what Mac OS X calls an "alias" (kind of like a windows shortcut, more like a unix soft link) is to option+command drag the icon to the destination. You could also have sub-folders in your shortcut folder -- "Games," "Productivity," "Communications." Once the Mac OS X App Store gets started, I think there will be more options for organizing app store apps. A: Very few 3rd party apps need to be in /Applications. You can usually tell as they don't look very Mac-ish, or are low-level requiring an installer and a reboot. I haven't seen any drag-and-drop apps that need to be there. I put everything I install in ~/local/Applications, and I have had zero problems. If you want further classification/categorization, I think your suggestion of Aliases is the way to go. The advantage here is you can have the app appear in multiple places, for example, VLC could be filed under both an "Audio" and a "Video" folder. A: If you take your recommended route (basically making aliases to the apps and grouping them by folder), you could then add these folders to your dock, and basically have a folder for each group. Then clicking on one (say you have a group for network stuff like browsers and FTP clients), click on that - which would thing bring up the list for you to click the icon. A: My answer is as simple as the keystrokes I just used to look something up. (Note: Requires an application launcher such as the built-in Spotlight, or the free Alfred.app) Cmd + Space, terenter ↩ My terminal is now open and I can proceed to run the commands I wanted to. Two other favorites are goo / chr for my browser. But that's pretty much always open anyways. And if it isn't, I rarely invoke it directly, more often just by clicking a link. (Note: for Alfred, the default keystroke is Ctrl+Space instead of Cmd+Space) A: I use something called "Overflow" (15$) that expands the capacity of the dock. A: Folders for Applications is coming with Mac OS X Lion. Folders won't be viewed in the Finder, but via Launchpad you can have apps in folders.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I develop iPhone apps in Windows? I would like to develop iPhone apps without using Mac OS X. Is it possible to do this on Windows OS? A: While you can't develop iOS apps on Windows using full-on Xcode, Objective C, and Cocoa Touch, there are some Windows alternatives that will allow you to develop apps. You lose the flexibility and power of the full programming environment and language, but it's no longer impossible. Here's an article that lists a number of current options. It's not the route I'd go (nor the route I chose), but it's no longer impossible.

Q: Can I develop iPhone apps in Windows? I would like to develop iPhone apps without using Mac OS X. Is it possible to do this on Windows OS? A: While you can't develop iOS apps on Windows using full-on Xcode, Objective C, and Cocoa Touch, there are some Windows alternatives that will allow you to develop apps. You lose the flexibility and power of the full programming environment and language, but it's no longer impossible. Here's an article that lists a number of current options. It's not the route I'd go (nor the route I chose), but it's no longer impossible. A: Not supported and borderline with piracy but if you dig on Internet you can find how to create a virtual machine with VMware that run OS X. I do not post the link here but using Google is quite easy to find a really well made tutorial about how to proceed with detailed instructions. I did it before purchasing a MacBook Pro to test how a Web Application I have work on a Mac and so I also used it to install Xcode, if you have a powerful Windows machine the performance are not so bad, but it's useful just for testing and seeing how the different iPhone developer tools works, if you want to develop something business related your only real option is to purchase a Mac. Regards Massimo A: No it is not possible for full development and submission unless you want to run OS X in a VM on your PC. You can develop, to an extent, on other platforms, but as far as I know you need a Mac to submit. A: Nope, you have to use a Mac. All the tools are on the Mac, as is the simulator program you'll need to test in. Even if you could somehow finagle the whole thing running in Windows you still need a Mac to submit to Apple to get it on the App Store. Cheapest scenario you're looking $699 for a Mac Mini and $99 for the iOS Developer Program (which you won't need until you want to run the thing on a real phone). You can go cheaper on the hardware if you buy it used but something to keep in mind is that it must be an Intel-based Mac running Leopard (10.5) or higher. A: Depending on what you want to do, you can develop web apps that look pretty much the same as an actual application, start from the home screen and even hide the navigation and URL bars. Take a look at Glyphboard, for an example. Native apps require Mac OS X, as far as I know. A: Yes, you can. Check out this website called macincloud.com. Most people are trying to install Mac OS to PC hardware, sometimes it works, the drawback for that is newer mac updates often break the installation. macincloud.com actually allows you to rent a mac and access the Mac remotely. Therefore you always have the latest Mac OS and it is a good way to start developing iphone apps right away since you are actually using a native Mac system. Hope that helps.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness manually using the hot keys although it's set to do so in the displays configuration? A: I have noticed a few times that if I turn the brightness up very high, the auto adjust is not nearly as noticeable as it is on lower settings.

Q: Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness manually using the hot keys although it's set to do so in the displays configuration? A: I have noticed a few times that if I turn the brightness up very high, the auto adjust is not nearly as noticeable as it is on lower settings. A: Theoretically it should, but it is all relative. The ambient light sensor turns the display brighter when its bright outside and dim when it's dark inside. The thing is, the Mac is designed to cater to the user, because supposedly a human being knows what it wants better than a little $.005 photo sensor, so the buttons on the keyboard (F1 and F2) override the ambient light settings for a set period of time, and then still until the light conditions change drastically enough to cause the auto-adjust to kick in again. Going from dark screen to bright screen is almost immediate, but the Mac will take a while to go from bright screen to dark screen except on opening the clamshell or waking from sleep. This kind of makes sense when you think about the real world situations where this would happen. So try this with auto-adjust ON and make sure "dim screen after inactivity" in Energy Saver prefs is off: * *In a really dark room (no light except from computer), open the computer and manually raise the brightness to maximum, screen and keyboard backlight too if equipped. *Hold a small headed, bright flashlight (Mini Maglight or smaller) to the ALS, which is located to the left of the iSight camera on glass-paneled macs or in the speaker grille on older macs. *If the keyboard backlight goes off then the ALS IS WORKING *Lower DISPLAY backlight only to 1 above minimum level (minimum turns backlight completely off) *Put flashlight over ALS *You should see IMMEDIATE increase in backlight to full level. *Remove flashlight, display should readjust immediately to ambient level. Notice how after auto-adjusting the manual override is overridden so you can repeat steps 5 and 7 over and over again for entertainment ;) If the steps above produce no results, restart computer and repeat tests. If still no results take to Apple certified repair center or Apple Store for repair which will likely be covered under warranty. A: From my experience, if you put your head between the camera and the light the sensor will trigger the auto adjust no matter what. A: After manually changing the brightness you need a way to trigger the light sensor. Just place your hand on the camera area, which will make the brightness dimmer and once you remove your hand, the screen brightness will automatically adjust itself.

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