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Apple Stackexchange Q: DVD Upscaling on OS X "Full Screen" mode in OS X doesn't look as good as my PS3's DVD upscaler. Is there a good way to play DVDs in OS X with high-quality upscaling zoom? A: It seems that VLC can do that, but I can't find a good howto to send to you.

Q: DVD Upscaling on OS X "Full Screen" mode in OS X doesn't look as good as my PS3's DVD upscaler. Is there a good way to play DVDs in OS X with high-quality upscaling zoom? A: It seems that VLC can do that, but I can't find a good howto to send to you.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can Disk Utility format an SD card with FAT32? In the pulldown for "Format", there are only the following options (other than various Mac OS Extended variations): MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT. A: Selecting "MS-DOS (FAT)" will automatically format as FAT16 or FAT32 depending on the target's size.

Q: Can Disk Utility format an SD card with FAT32? In the pulldown for "Format", there are only the following options (other than various Mac OS Extended variations): MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT. A: Selecting "MS-DOS (FAT)" will automatically format as FAT16 or FAT32 depending on the target's size.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I get the Media browsers from the File Open dialog in the Finder sidebar? The File Open dialog has three very useful Media entries in the sidebar (Photos, Movies, Music). They are backed by the various iLife applications, so that you can select, for example, from your iPhoto albums. The Finder windows have a "Search For" section in the sidebar, but the "All Images" entry there is just a smart folder that contains all image files from your whole hard disk with no further categorization. Can I get the Media libraries to show up in the Finder as well? A: A software alternative that provides a media browser from anywhere: http://www.karelia.com/imedia/

Q: Can I get the Media browsers from the File Open dialog in the Finder sidebar? The File Open dialog has three very useful Media entries in the sidebar (Photos, Movies, Music). They are backed by the various iLife applications, so that you can select, for example, from your iPhoto albums. The Finder windows have a "Search For" section in the sidebar, but the "All Images" entry there is just a smart folder that contains all image files from your whole hard disk with no further categorization. Can I get the Media libraries to show up in the Finder as well? A: A software alternative that provides a media browser from anywhere: http://www.karelia.com/imedia/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Preview problem on "iPhoto imported" clips in iMovie I've a strange problem with iMovie : I can preview movie clips that I've directly imported into iMovie, but the ones that have been imported from my camera by iPhoto have a problem : the displayed preview when I do a "mouse-over" is showing another movie clip (always the same, for every movie clip) Is there a way to ask iPhoto or iMovie to "rebuild" this previews ? EDIT : Is there a way to rebuild the cache of iPhoto ? A: Hold cmd+opt while launching iPhoto. Good luck! :-)

Q: Preview problem on "iPhoto imported" clips in iMovie I've a strange problem with iMovie : I can preview movie clips that I've directly imported into iMovie, but the ones that have been imported from my camera by iPhoto have a problem : the displayed preview when I do a "mouse-over" is showing another movie clip (always the same, for every movie clip) Is there a way to ask iPhoto or iMovie to "rebuild" this previews ? EDIT : Is there a way to rebuild the cache of iPhoto ? A: Hold cmd+opt while launching iPhoto. Good luck! :-)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Automatically marking junk mail as read Is there any way to automatically mark junk mail as 'read' in OS X (10.6.5) Mail? A free or shareware utility would be nice. My mail provider supports junk filters that automatically moves selected messages to the junk folder, but does not mark them as read. OS X Mail picks them up (IMAP) and displays the headers in the Junk folder as unread. I would like to continue to use my mail provider's filters instead of just the 'Rules' in OS X Mail because otherwise I show tons of messages in my iPhone inbox, since it does not support filtering. A: Go To Mail -> Preferences -> Junk When junk mail arrives, say: Perform Custom actions Click on the Advanced button at the bottom, which just turned up to be active. Then say "Mark as read" in one of your actions:

Q: Automatically marking junk mail as read Is there any way to automatically mark junk mail as 'read' in OS X (10.6.5) Mail? A free or shareware utility would be nice. My mail provider supports junk filters that automatically moves selected messages to the junk folder, but does not mark them as read. OS X Mail picks them up (IMAP) and displays the headers in the Junk folder as unread. I would like to continue to use my mail provider's filters instead of just the 'Rules' in OS X Mail because otherwise I show tons of messages in my iPhone inbox, since it does not support filtering. A: Go To Mail -> Preferences -> Junk When junk mail arrives, say: Perform Custom actions Click on the Advanced button at the bottom, which just turned up to be active. Then say "Mark as read" in one of your actions: A: The link in the accepted answer is dead. I've been able to solve this using the following AppleScript: using terms from application "Mail" on perform mail action with messages theMessages tell application "Mail" set read status of messages of mailbox "Bulk Mail" of account "Yahoo!" to true end tell end perform mail action with messages end using terms from Using Script Editor, edit the above with the name of your Junk mailbox and account. Save it as "Mark_Junk_Read.scpt" in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail. Then, in Mail, go to "Preferences", "Rules", "Add Rule". Make the rule apply to "Every Message" and tell it to run your script, like so: A: You could add a Mail.app Rule that mark every new mail in the "Junk" folder as read. A: You could create an AppleScript that does this. I haven't looked into it much, but this link appears to have a promising solution. http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8350917 A: I don't really trust SPAM headers. I've seen messages from mail-lists I subscribed to be labeled as SPAM and end up in that folder where I don't see it for ages. As a result I bought a copy of SpamSieve which, after training, does a much better job filtering out the garbage.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Optimal method to test an external hard drive? I've got an HFS+ formatted external drive that is starting to act a bit funny, mainly causing my mac mini (finder) to freeze up on occassion when accessing it. Fearing imminent failure, what is the most comprehensive way to determine the health of the physical drive and the file system? Verify in Disk Utility indicates the disk is fine, but weird behaviour would indicate otherwise. A: Apple's Disk Utility doesn't have false positives but it can miss some errors. Although it's not cheap Disk Warrior is magic for these sort of problems, in my experience it's fixed all non-physical-damage errors that I could throw at it. If you're not keen to spend money, and if you've got the hard disk space, copying the contents off, repartitioning your external drive and copying back on on might clear up your problems. Copying the whole disk's contents (starting with what is most valuable to you, in case it dies while you're copying) is probably a good idea anyway, in case your disk is on its death bed.

Q: Optimal method to test an external hard drive? I've got an HFS+ formatted external drive that is starting to act a bit funny, mainly causing my mac mini (finder) to freeze up on occassion when accessing it. Fearing imminent failure, what is the most comprehensive way to determine the health of the physical drive and the file system? Verify in Disk Utility indicates the disk is fine, but weird behaviour would indicate otherwise. A: Apple's Disk Utility doesn't have false positives but it can miss some errors. Although it's not cheap Disk Warrior is magic for these sort of problems, in my experience it's fixed all non-physical-damage errors that I could throw at it. If you're not keen to spend money, and if you've got the hard disk space, copying the contents off, repartitioning your external drive and copying back on on might clear up your problems. Copying the whole disk's contents (starting with what is most valuable to you, in case it dies while you're copying) is probably a good idea anyway, in case your disk is on its death bed. A: Yes, Drive Genius allows to check surface for bad sectors even in demo mode: There is also option to perform an "Extended Scan" which checks disk for read and write ability of a disk (burn-in test for drives). It also supports block remapping "Spare bad blocks" option but you should backup your data before doing this. There is related question where some more utilities may appear in answers. It's hard not to mention MHDD which gives much more information about what's going on with you disc while it scans it (instead of showing nice visualisation): Here is video from Youtube.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I hide my top menu bar on Mac OS X? I need to temporarily (5 min) hide my top menu bar. Is there a glitch, or something that will let me do that? A: You have a few choices. * *MenuFela, site down, claims to do this. *MegaZoomer claims to zoom an app and hide the menu bar. Not sure if this will work, for example, with the Finder. *MenuShade does a so-so job. Hidden menu, but the shadow is there and the space is not usable *According to this hint you can edit the plist of the app and have the menu bar become hidden. Add the following to the Info.plist in the app bundle: <key>LSUIPresentationMode</key> <integer>4</integer>

Q: How can I hide my top menu bar on Mac OS X? I need to temporarily (5 min) hide my top menu bar. Is there a glitch, or something that will let me do that? A: You have a few choices. * *MenuFela, site down, claims to do this. *MegaZoomer claims to zoom an app and hide the menu bar. Not sure if this will work, for example, with the Finder. *MenuShade does a so-so job. Hidden menu, but the shadow is there and the space is not usable *According to this hint you can edit the plist of the app and have the menu bar become hidden. Add the following to the Info.plist in the app bundle: <key>LSUIPresentationMode</key> <integer>4</integer>

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where did the Trash icon go on iPhone 4 Mail? In Mail on iPhone 4, with software update 4.2.1, it seems my Trash icon has been replaced with "Move to Folder". Is there someway to get the Trash icon back, so I can delete messages with one keystroke instead of two? I use Gmail IMAP. A: It sounds like you might have the Archive button switched on. The latest update assumes you would prefer to archive than to trash. If this is the case, Go to Settings > Mail, Calendar, etc.. > Gmail Mail Account > deactivate Archive button.

Q: Where did the Trash icon go on iPhone 4 Mail? In Mail on iPhone 4, with software update 4.2.1, it seems my Trash icon has been replaced with "Move to Folder". Is there someway to get the Trash icon back, so I can delete messages with one keystroke instead of two? I use Gmail IMAP. A: It sounds like you might have the Archive button switched on. The latest update assumes you would prefer to archive than to trash. If this is the case, Go to Settings > Mail, Calendar, etc.. > Gmail Mail Account > deactivate Archive button.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Educational discount at Apple Retail Stores? Is it possible to get educationally-priced hardware by visiting any given physical Apple Store, or is that only achievable online or at college stores? A: Yes, you can get educational discounts at a physical Apple Store -- I have done it, though it has been a while ;-). They require verification of your status which can generally be done with a student id.

Q: Educational discount at Apple Retail Stores? Is it possible to get educationally-priced hardware by visiting any given physical Apple Store, or is that only achievable online or at college stores? A: Yes, you can get educational discounts at a physical Apple Store -- I have done it, though it has been a while ;-). They require verification of your status which can generally be done with a student id. A: Yes, you can get the educational discount at an Apple Store. Just make sure to bring your student ID.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Installing a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 I'm trying to install a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 with little luck. The printer works fine from my Windows machines. HP doesn't support the MacOS for this printer by default so I followed the instructions from this forum post: http://macosx.com/forums/hardware-peripherals/302806-hp-lazer-1600-printer-driver-mac.html. The post offers several solutions but I followed the instructions from whiskynwhisky and downloaded a Unix driver from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nocydet5wml. The instructions included with the download were straightforward and I now have the driver installed and the printer in System Preferences. Unfortunately while jobs queue and dequeue they do not actually print. Are there other options to get this printer to work on my MacBook Air? Do I need to do something differently with the driver I already have installed? A: HP has published a list of printers not supported on OS X Mountain Lion on their web site: Products not supported The following products are not supported in Mac OS X including the Mountain Lion operating system ... * *HP Color LaserJet 1500 and 1600 Printer series

Q: Installing a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 I'm trying to install a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 with little luck. The printer works fine from my Windows machines. HP doesn't support the MacOS for this printer by default so I followed the instructions from this forum post: http://macosx.com/forums/hardware-peripherals/302806-hp-lazer-1600-printer-driver-mac.html. The post offers several solutions but I followed the instructions from whiskynwhisky and downloaded a Unix driver from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nocydet5wml. The instructions included with the download were straightforward and I now have the driver installed and the printer in System Preferences. Unfortunately while jobs queue and dequeue they do not actually print. Are there other options to get this printer to work on my MacBook Air? Do I need to do something differently with the driver I already have installed? A: HP has published a list of printers not supported on OS X Mountain Lion on their web site: Products not supported The following products are not supported in Mac OS X including the Mountain Lion operating system ... * *HP Color LaserJet 1500 and 1600 Printer series A: There is a app that claims to be able to print to legacy printers. I am unable to confirm that since I do not have such a printer. handyPrint™ v3.1 is a 64bit (core 2 duo or better) Mac OSX application that allow you to print from your iPods, iPads and iPhones on legacy printers that do not support the AirPrint protocol.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a bash command to check to see if Time Machine has finished backing up? I'm writing a script that will rsycnc my Time Machine directory to a remote server using ssh. I've switched from a shell script to an AppleScript and then back to an Apple script and I don't really care what kind of script the solution will require. I've had success starting the backup process with this little snippet of code. do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper >/dev/null 2>&1 &" What I'm trying to do now is have an rsync command performed once that backup is completed. Is there any clean way in AppleScript to check to see if the backup process is completed? Or is there a good "hook" that you can use in bash to check to see if it's completed? A: You might also start the backup with tmutil startbackup -b. -b blocks the command until the backup has finished.

Q: Is there a bash command to check to see if Time Machine has finished backing up? I'm writing a script that will rsycnc my Time Machine directory to a remote server using ssh. I've switched from a shell script to an AppleScript and then back to an Apple script and I don't really care what kind of script the solution will require. I've had success starting the backup process with this little snippet of code. do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper >/dev/null 2>&1 &" What I'm trying to do now is have an rsync command performed once that backup is completed. Is there any clean way in AppleScript to check to see if the backup process is completed? Or is there a good "hook" that you can use in bash to check to see if it's completed? A: You might also start the backup with tmutil startbackup -b. -b blocks the command until the backup has finished. A: Here's one way - I know it's nowhere near a "proper" solution, but I imagine it would work. ps ax | grep "/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper" | grep -v 'grep' What it does is search the process list for the backupd-helper process, then filters out the grep command itself from showing up. If the command returns > 0 results, the backupd-helper process is still active. If not, the process has ended, and so you might assume it's done. A: tmutil status|grep -c "Running = 1" returns '1' when running, '0' when not. A: Absence of backup-related processes is not assurance that a Time Machine backup is complete On the volume to which Time Machine writes its backups: alongside the …/Latest/… directory, consider: * *the ….inProgress/… bundle. If that bundle exists, a backup is incomplete. A: tmutil status is the Lion way now that we have a nice tool for this sort of query. On newer OS, there is an undocumented command tmutil currentphase that shows the name of the current phase. A: The following work for me... Script backup_status: #!/usr/bin/env bash # # Determines if Time Machine is running and works with older Mac OS x versions # if [ x == x`type -P tmutil` ]; then # Older OSx count=`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -c 'CoreServices/backupd'` # Should also detect /Volume/Time Machine …/Latest/… directory ….inProgress/… bundle existence here to make it tight. else # OSx 10.7+ count=`tmutil status | grep -c "Running = 1"` fi if [ $count == 0 ]; then echo stopped else echo running fi Script backup_wait: #!/usr/bin/env bash # # Waits for Time Machine backup to complete # while [ `backup_status` == running ] ; do sleep 2 done A: tmutils only exists from 10.7 on. Before that you can use, as mentioned, /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper to manually run Time Machine. You can then use wait to wait until the process is finished. Without arguments it will simply wait; if you provide the PID you can get its return value (exit status). Particularly, wait $! will wait for the last process started in that shell. However, as Lauri mentioned, this wait will return before time machine is finished because backupd-helper finishes before the backup is done. I was not able to find any process name that indicated that the backup was not complete. Looking at the contents of /var/logs/system.log (or via the Console), I noticed that when the backup is finished, the last thing that is done is to eject the time machine disk image. Sure enough I checked that (this is OS X 10.6.8) during the backup there is a /Volumes/Time Machine Backups. Thus you can simply check if the directory exists. When it no longer does, Time Machine is finished. I am not sure if this will work for everyone since I've followed the directions here to backup to a Windows machine on the network.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I forward delete on iOS? Is there a way to delete text in front of the caret using the iOS software keyboard? The small wireless hardware keyboard accomplishes this with a fn+delete, so there might be a way to use multiple keys to accomplish the same task in iOS? A: Nope. In the stock keyboard provided by the API, a "Forward Delete" (as opposed to a Backward Delete/Backspace), none of the keys, nor combination therein, provide a Delete keystroke to occur. Your only option, as you now see, is to use an external keyboard to accomplish this. Any other options would just be something else entirely. Like selecting a word, and deleting it, or using replace, etc.

Q: How can I forward delete on iOS? Is there a way to delete text in front of the caret using the iOS software keyboard? The small wireless hardware keyboard accomplishes this with a fn+delete, so there might be a way to use multiple keys to accomplish the same task in iOS? A: Nope. In the stock keyboard provided by the API, a "Forward Delete" (as opposed to a Backward Delete/Backspace), none of the keys, nor combination therein, provide a Delete keystroke to occur. Your only option, as you now see, is to use an external keyboard to accomplish this. Any other options would just be something else entirely. Like selecting a word, and deleting it, or using replace, etc. A: This answer won’t solve the problem now, but maybe someday soon. Please go to the iPhone Feedback page and request the feature. It might help if you reference FB9680931, shown below, so we all pile on to the same request.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Fastest way to split a video file into two? Does anyone know of software for OS X that can quickly split a 2 hour H.264 video file into two 1 hour files? iMovie estimates 2 hours just to import the file. I was hoping for something that could do it quicker. A: The easiest tool would probably be Quicktime 7 Pro. I believe it is available on Apple's store for $30. If you prefer a CLI method, take a look at mp4box. It has a -split option that does what you're describing.

Q: Fastest way to split a video file into two? Does anyone know of software for OS X that can quickly split a 2 hour H.264 video file into two 1 hour files? iMovie estimates 2 hours just to import the file. I was hoping for something that could do it quicker. A: The easiest tool would probably be Quicktime 7 Pro. I believe it is available on Apple's store for $30. If you prefer a CLI method, take a look at mp4box. It has a -split option that does what you're describing. A: You might also be able to do this using Quicktime X. Open the movie, then choose Edit -> Trim... Trim away the second part of the movie file and do a save as to get the first part in a separate file. Re-open the original file and trim away the first part, save as to get the second part in a separate file. I've only been able to try it with a 5 minute long movie, which was quick enough, but I'm unsure of how quickly it'll work with a 2 hour movie. A: Movie Splitter Split MPEG-4 movies with ease and speed. Movie Splitter can split your H.264 (.mp4) movie into two halves. A multi-gigabyte split typically takes a minute or two. The bulk of the time is spent reading and writing the file. If an application takes longer than a few minutes, it is likely re-encoding your movie. You do not want this because it risks reducing the quality of your split movie files. Please note I wrote Movie Splitter and am likely bias. A: Some other options are: * *Splitfuse ($12, free to try) *Simple Video Splicer which looks free, but I havn't tried it. You'll see the link on the right of the dev's page. A: http://www.hjsplit.org/ Completely free, completely awesome.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I view and copy an email address in a message header within iOS' Mail.app? If I reply-to-all on an inbound message with multiple recipients within iOS' Mail.app, I can't view or move/copy the email address of any recipients - I can only view the a 'bubble' which contains their name. Curious if there is a way to view the actual email address while composing, and ideally, copy the address (in case I wanted to move it from the TO: field to the CC: field) A: In 4.2 at least, you can tap on the bubble to see the email address, then press and hold on the email address. A copy option will appear above it.

Q: How can I view and copy an email address in a message header within iOS' Mail.app? If I reply-to-all on an inbound message with multiple recipients within iOS' Mail.app, I can't view or move/copy the email address of any recipients - I can only view the a 'bubble' which contains their name. Curious if there is a way to view the actual email address while composing, and ideally, copy the address (in case I wanted to move it from the TO: field to the CC: field) A: In 4.2 at least, you can tap on the bubble to see the email address, then press and hold on the email address. A copy option will appear above it. A: Click on "forward". Then you can see all the headers Then click cancel to go back to the email. A: Press an address bubble for half a second or so until it puffs up a bit then drag it to the To or Cc field to copy it over. Tap to select the name bubble, then tap the now highlighted bubble again to reveal the address.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iMovie 9.0: how do you make clips shorter than 5ms? I'm trying to make a stop motion animation and I can't seem to find a way to make clips shorter than 5ms. By "clip" I mean the images I drag into the time line. I try to adjust it by hovering over the timeline object, click on the cog, then go to clip adjustments, then edit the duration. How do I make a clip shorter than 5ms? A: I don't think it's possible to make the clips shorter then 5ms in any video software, because depending on the frame rate a single frame takes more time (16,6 ms for 60 fps). It doesn't make much sense to add a clip to a video, that is so short that it is not seen on screen for at least one frame.

Q: iMovie 9.0: how do you make clips shorter than 5ms? I'm trying to make a stop motion animation and I can't seem to find a way to make clips shorter than 5ms. By "clip" I mean the images I drag into the time line. I try to adjust it by hovering over the timeline object, click on the cog, then go to clip adjustments, then edit the duration. How do I make a clip shorter than 5ms? A: I don't think it's possible to make the clips shorter then 5ms in any video software, because depending on the frame rate a single frame takes more time (16,6 ms for 60 fps). It doesn't make much sense to add a clip to a video, that is so short that it is not seen on screen for at least one frame. A: I don't have an official document anywhere outlining this as a specific limitation, but having used iMovie for a while, and having just tried to replicate what you're trying to do, I'm fairly confident in saying that this isn't supported in iMovie. Final Cut will certainly support this sort of fine-grain clip control, but iMovie is very consumer orientated and I wouldn't expect it to support something as niche as this. Perhaps it's worth giving Final Cut Express/Pro a try to see if it meets your requirements?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Mac display won't turn on I have an Apple HD display that has been in our IT depart for a few months now. It was working fine until recently (the past month or two). I can turn it on and it will work for a few days, but then it suddenly will stop working. If I unplug the monitor, wait for a few days, and then plug it back in, the monitor will work again for a few more days. I suspect the issue is the 90W power converter, but before I invest the 140 dollars I was wondering: Has anyone else had the same issue? If so, how did you solve it? A: If it is new, then I suggest taking it back to Apple for repair, especially if it still under warranty so that you don't have to spend $140 on what is ultimately a guess.

Q: Mac display won't turn on I have an Apple HD display that has been in our IT depart for a few months now. It was working fine until recently (the past month or two). I can turn it on and it will work for a few days, but then it suddenly will stop working. If I unplug the monitor, wait for a few days, and then plug it back in, the monitor will work again for a few more days. I suspect the issue is the 90W power converter, but before I invest the 140 dollars I was wondering: Has anyone else had the same issue? If so, how did you solve it? A: If it is new, then I suggest taking it back to Apple for repair, especially if it still under warranty so that you don't have to spend $140 on what is ultimately a guess.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone 1 gen , slide to unlock is not responding I have an iPhone 1 gen and the iOS version 3.1.1 the latest for 1st gen iPhone. Suddenly I am not able to slide the slider which unlocks the home screen. A: Your phone has likely hung. Press and hold the power button to try to power it off. If that still fails to happen, the other solution would be to hard reset the iphone: To reset the iPhone, simply press the POWER/SLEEP button and Home button together. Hold them until you can see the boot screen, which is with black background and Apple logo. One point to note is you have to release both buttons at the same time. This will not erase your data. If the iPhone fails to work after that, you might have to restore it using iTunes. But I don’t think that’s the case.

Q: iPhone 1 gen , slide to unlock is not responding I have an iPhone 1 gen and the iOS version 3.1.1 the latest for 1st gen iPhone. Suddenly I am not able to slide the slider which unlocks the home screen. A: Your phone has likely hung. Press and hold the power button to try to power it off. If that still fails to happen, the other solution would be to hard reset the iphone: To reset the iPhone, simply press the POWER/SLEEP button and Home button together. Hold them until you can see the boot screen, which is with black background and Apple logo. One point to note is you have to release both buttons at the same time. This will not erase your data. If the iPhone fails to work after that, you might have to restore it using iTunes. But I don’t think that’s the case.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Did the iPod Nano dock connector change from 5th to 6th generation? Does anyone know if the dock connector change when Apple upgraded from 5th to 6th generation? A: They did, and unfortunately there's no adapter for it yet. You can see more information on the Apple support pages here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1380?viewlocale=en_US My understanding is that the new iPod Nano likely won't fit with a number of older, existing devices. I should also mention that although there's no adapter, it still has a standard Dock connector, so it'll work with your existing cables, etc.

Q: Did the iPod Nano dock connector change from 5th to 6th generation? Does anyone know if the dock connector change when Apple upgraded from 5th to 6th generation? A: They did, and unfortunately there's no adapter for it yet. You can see more information on the Apple support pages here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1380?viewlocale=en_US My understanding is that the new iPod Nano likely won't fit with a number of older, existing devices. I should also mention that although there's no adapter, it still has a standard Dock connector, so it'll work with your existing cables, etc. A: I have a dock connector to 3.5 mm head phone jack that I use to connect to a headphone amplifier, using my 4th gen iPod I got an output. The 5th and 6th gen iPods would not produce an audio out signal using the connector. What I determined is that pin 11 on the dock connector is used to enable audio out on the dock connector if pin 11 is grounded. I took a my dock connector apart and pin 11 was not connected. Determining which pin 11 is was difficult as the connector is quite small. After soldering a jumper between pin 11 and ground my 5th and 6th gen iPods can once again be used with the headphone amplifier. It seem the the 5th and 6th gens check for the pin 11 being at ground before audio comes out of the dock connector, where as the older generations sent audio to the dock regardless. I bought the connector online — I went to the Apple store but they do not have a connector like that, otherwise I would have bought one of theirs. A: I just got the iPod Nano 6th generation, and was able to plug it into my Altec Lansing IMT325 via dock connector without any problems. So, I think the 6th generation iPod dock connector is not different from the 5th generation at all. (The Altec Lansing IMT325 says on the box that it works with iPod Nano 3rd to 5th generation, which led to my original question.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: FM Tuner for iPod Touch Is there a way to add (or even enable) a FM tuner for the iPod Touch? The only thing stopping me from getting one is the missing FM tuner. By the way, I need the FM tuner to listen to TV shows at the gym (they transmit the sound through a FM transmitter). So I cannot replace the FM tuner by Pandora. A: I don't know for sure whether the fourth generation iPod actually has a built in FM Tuner. However, external FM Tuner adapters are quite prevalent. Edit: Whoops, sorry about that, I did link the wrong item. Chops is correct, that was a transmitter. The link now points to the original item I had intended to link.

Q: FM Tuner for iPod Touch Is there a way to add (or even enable) a FM tuner for the iPod Touch? The only thing stopping me from getting one is the missing FM tuner. By the way, I need the FM tuner to listen to TV shows at the gym (they transmit the sound through a FM transmitter). So I cannot replace the FM tuner by Pandora. A: I don't know for sure whether the fourth generation iPod actually has a built in FM Tuner. However, external FM Tuner adapters are quite prevalent. Edit: Whoops, sorry about that, I did link the wrong item. Chops is correct, that was a transmitter. The link now points to the original item I had intended to link.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why don't I have a camera on my iPod touch? Why do a couple of my friends have a camera on their iPod touch and I don't? A: Only the 4th generation iPod Touch has cameras, that is the iPod Touch that was introduced back in September. The iPod Touch you have is either a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation, which means it doesn't have the camera.

Q: Why don't I have a camera on my iPod touch? Why do a couple of my friends have a camera on their iPod touch and I don't? A: Only the 4th generation iPod Touch has cameras, that is the iPod Touch that was introduced back in September. The iPod Touch you have is either a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation, which means it doesn't have the camera. A: As far as I know, only the 4th gen iPod touch has a camera. Yours is probably older. As you can see from the specifications published on Apple's site, there are no mention of a camera for the third gen iPod touch, while the fourth gen has detailed information about it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: OS X application shortcut folder in dock and icon updates after installation Here is the setup: I have the Applications folder right in the dock, which is the default after installation afaik. Now I have a custom build DMG with an application in there which I drag&drop into the Application folder. When I open the Application folder from the dock and look for the newly installed app, it does not have the application icon it should. The App is custom build as well. It uses the info.plist to specify the icon file to be used - which is called cc.icns and located in the Contents/Resources folder I think this might be a problem with the icon cache and can be resolved by logout/login - a solution that I'm not looking for. Afaik there are apps that do not have this problem. (Right? Wrong?) Any suggestions on this? A: If you want to avoid the Login/Logout, restarting the dock should be enough: killall Dock from the Terminal should be enough.

Q: OS X application shortcut folder in dock and icon updates after installation Here is the setup: I have the Applications folder right in the dock, which is the default after installation afaik. Now I have a custom build DMG with an application in there which I drag&drop into the Application folder. When I open the Application folder from the dock and look for the newly installed app, it does not have the application icon it should. The App is custom build as well. It uses the info.plist to specify the icon file to be used - which is called cc.icns and located in the Contents/Resources folder I think this might be a problem with the icon cache and can be resolved by logout/login - a solution that I'm not looking for. Afaik there are apps that do not have this problem. (Right? Wrong?) Any suggestions on this? A: If you want to avoid the Login/Logout, restarting the dock should be enough: killall Dock from the Terminal should be enough. A: Apparently there's an application that takes care of the quarantining 'problem' - that is, when an application is first installed, OS X will not launch it without approval from you, the first time only. There is a utility that can get around this called Deeper. (http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php) Or you can copy/paste this into terminal. defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO (Source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071029151619619) A: In other words, to conclude the answers I've seen to date, there is no such solution without taking further action since the systems security mechanisms is built that way.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to create a bootable USB drive for Disk Utility? Disk Utility says my boot drive need repair. Unfortunately my DVD drive is toast, so I can't boot from the install DVD and make the repair. Is there a way I can create a bootable USB drive and perform the repair that way. I have an 8Gb USB drive. A: In order to create a bootable drive, you need the install DVD (or a copy of it) mounted. Sorry… Do you have a friend with a Mac? If so, you could take the thumb drive & install DVD there and create a boot drive for yourself.

Q: How to create a bootable USB drive for Disk Utility? Disk Utility says my boot drive need repair. Unfortunately my DVD drive is toast, so I can't boot from the install DVD and make the repair. Is there a way I can create a bootable USB drive and perform the repair that way. I have an 8Gb USB drive. A: In order to create a bootable drive, you need the install DVD (or a copy of it) mounted. Sorry… Do you have a friend with a Mac? If so, you could take the thumb drive & install DVD there and create a boot drive for yourself. A: This may not be the solution you want, but you could boot into single-user mode to run a diagnostic on your boot drive. To do this you hold down Command+s when turning the computer on. You'll be dropped into a terminal. Use the fsck utility (filesystem check) to examine the boot drive for repairs: /sbin/fsck -fy This forces the utility to check the filesystem and automatically repair errors it detects. If it the resulting messages reads that the volume appears to be OK, then you've done all you can do from this method. If it reads that the filesystem was modified, run it again. Repeat running the command until you receive the message that the volume is OK, then reboot normally. You can do that just by typing reboot I have had to do this a few times with my own boot drive, and it did fix the problem. * *Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode A: This might be a bit risky, but you could try using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone just the bootable portions of your failing drive to the USB drive. The newest version of CCC can tell you specifically what to copy, but basically you'll want the /System folder and a bunch of other Unix directories, and portions of /Library. This CCC FAQ entry describes what specifically needs to be done to make a bootable clone, but basically you'll want to use CCC to copy: /Library /System /bin /etc /mach_kernel /private /sbin /tmp /usr /var Be warned: if your boot drive is physically failing, cloning it like this might very well push it over the edge and kill it. Back up any important documents first. This is a somewhat risky method!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Menus overlap/hide Menu Extras. How to access? If I have a bunch of menu extras (the things on the top right side of the menu bar, such as time, date, battery status, and other OS X icons, plus 3rd party icons from QuickSilver, DropBox, etc.), sometimes they are hidden if the foreground application has a lot of or long-named menu items. Is there a way that I can access the menu extras that are not displayed because the menu items get priority? I can switch to an app that has fewer menu items, but sometimes the menu extras operate on the foreground app, so this won't always work. A: I've searched far and wide for a way to do the same thing. The best I can come up with is an app called AccessMenuBarApps.

Q: Menus overlap/hide Menu Extras. How to access? If I have a bunch of menu extras (the things on the top right side of the menu bar, such as time, date, battery status, and other OS X icons, plus 3rd party icons from QuickSilver, DropBox, etc.), sometimes they are hidden if the foreground application has a lot of or long-named menu items. Is there a way that I can access the menu extras that are not displayed because the menu items get priority? I can switch to an app that has fewer menu items, but sometimes the menu extras operate on the foreground app, so this won't always work. A: I've searched far and wide for a way to do the same thing. The best I can come up with is an app called AccessMenuBarApps. A: I don't know any way to do this, so I usually switch to finder. Note that some extras can be dragged on the menubar while holding down command; this might get some extras that you need in an app with long menu lists accessible from there. A: Note: See Keyboard icons & terminology if any of this is confusing to you. This may not be a working answer (see below), but it's too big and format-laden for a comment. I notice there's a default shortcut of ^ F8 (and in many cases, Fn ^ F8) which let's you "Move focus to status menus". Having said that, in my tests with it, I can't seem to move left of MenuMeters, which means that, for me, Last.fm, Sparrow, Alfred, LittleSnitch, Dropbox, Divvy, and GeekTool's menus cannot be manipulated in this manner. Given that it ends at MenuMeters, I'm curious if that's just a bug. Try Fn ^ F8 or ^ F8 (as necessary), use your left and right arrow keys, and see if this solves your issue?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What are your "must-have" MacPorts? I hate to be all cliché with yet another "best [something]" question, but I am genuinely interested in what you most often install with MacPorts. When you get a new Mac, which ports do you first install? So far, I've installed wget and watch, since I find those to be very useful on Linux machines. I also installed wine and winetricks to run a Windows program or two. And earlier today I started playing with Scala, so I installed the scala28 port. Tip: to see your installed ports, use the port installed command. A: I just compile from source, since all of the important programs build easily on Mac OS X these days. Here's a great article on the advantages of building your own stuff vs. using package managers. Having said that, here's my quick list: * *Mercurial *Git *GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.x *ffmpeg *MySQL Best directions I've seen for building 32 or 64-bit MySQL on Mac OS X: DIYMacServer

Q: What are your "must-have" MacPorts? I hate to be all cliché with yet another "best [something]" question, but I am genuinely interested in what you most often install with MacPorts. When you get a new Mac, which ports do you first install? So far, I've installed wget and watch, since I find those to be very useful on Linux machines. I also installed wine and winetricks to run a Windows program or two. And earlier today I started playing with Scala, so I installed the scala28 port. Tip: to see your installed ports, use the port installed command. A: I just compile from source, since all of the important programs build easily on Mac OS X these days. Here's a great article on the advantages of building your own stuff vs. using package managers. Having said that, here's my quick list: * *Mercurial *Git *GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.x *ffmpeg *MySQL Best directions I've seen for building 32 or 64-bit MySQL on Mac OS X: DIYMacServer A: In no particular order: * *git - git *signing-party - GnuPG key signing utils, pulls in GnuPG as well *ntop - A Unix tool that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. *sslscan - sslscan queries SSL services, such as HTTPS, in order to determine the ciphers that are supported *watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen *nmap - Network port scan to see what ports are open *coreutils GNU coreutils. Includes gnu versions of basic unix commands, including "color ls" (gls) *pstree - Process tree listing *tcping - tcp based network connectivity checker (like ping but with TCP for when ICMP is blocked) *wget - non-interactive network downloader. Supports http, https and ftp *apg - Automated Password Generator - toolset for generating random passwords A: First thing I do is update to the latest bash version... then I usually grab some updated versions of utilities: * *grep *sudo *man *info (although i had to go with the fink version for this, macports is bugged) *gdiff Then on to my development tools like subversion, git, vim, macvim, python3, etc. I heart MacPorts :P A: * *bash *bash-completion (very important) *nmap *file A: * *wget : is command-line that allow me to retrieve any file using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. *tree : displays a tree-view of my directories & files, with deep-level option. You can participate with your MacPorts by typing : port installed requested A: The Google CL tools are cool and useful (I do a lot with Docs). A: This is my essential list, in the order that I install them. * *arping *watch *wireshark *figlet *git *gnupg *ipcalc *lynx +ssl *minicom *mtr *ncftp *nmap *pstree *pwgen *p0f *ssldump *stunnel *tcpflow *unrar *w3m *wget A: For PHP web development: * *coreutils *kcachegrind *git *svn

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I turn a Windows machine into an AirPlay destination? Is there software available that'll make a Windows PC running XP appear as an AirPlay destination in my Mac's iTunes? I'd like to be able to stream audio from my Macs to a Windows machine I use as my home theater PC that's connected to my stereo. A: If you only want to stream audio, try Airfoil Speakers, part of Airfoil for Windows

Q: Can I turn a Windows machine into an AirPlay destination? Is there software available that'll make a Windows PC running XP appear as an AirPlay destination in my Mac's iTunes? I'd like to be able to stream audio from my Macs to a Windows machine I use as my home theater PC that's connected to my stereo. A: If you only want to stream audio, try Airfoil Speakers, part of Airfoil for Windows A: Here is a fast and simple open source program that works very well: http://sourceforge.net/projects/shairport4w/ A: Reflector 2 allows you to AirPlay audio and video from iOS to Windows. It claims to support iOS 9 now also (note 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). A: Looks like AirMedia Player for Windows is made to let you do this from at least an iOS device, probably iTunes as well. A: I've found this article with a couple of solutions. My favorite option is the Shareport. Another option not yet mentioned could be to share your iTunes library with your windows PC. See this page for more details. A: The WiFi2HiFi app is what you are looking for. It can stream audio from any computer program to the iPhone: http://www.wifi2hifi.com A: Use airparrot to stream your windows screen to ur apple tv. http://airparrot.com

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I mount SFTP/SSH in Finder on OS X Snow Leopard? My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an SSH/SFTP volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think SMB share). I have tried everything I could find (MacFUSE + sshfs (whatever version), Macfusion (couldn't install),...). Is there anyway to do this seemingly simple thing? It feels like I'm missing something here. Also, I'm not looking for an SFTP client for download/upload. My personal machine is an Ubuntu box, and that's easily doable on that. A: As of March 2013, the current free software solution is macFUSE plus a package for SSHFS (a download link on Fuse for OS X webpage). Macfusion is a GUI for easy mounting/unmounting remote shares but it needs to be patched to work with SSHFS/Fuse for OS X.

Q: How can I mount SFTP/SSH in Finder on OS X Snow Leopard? My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an SSH/SFTP volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think SMB share). I have tried everything I could find (MacFUSE + sshfs (whatever version), Macfusion (couldn't install),...). Is there anyway to do this seemingly simple thing? It feels like I'm missing something here. Also, I'm not looking for an SFTP client for download/upload. My personal machine is an Ubuntu box, and that's easily doable on that. A: As of March 2013, the current free software solution is macFUSE plus a package for SSHFS (a download link on Fuse for OS X webpage). Macfusion is a GUI for easy mounting/unmounting remote shares but it needs to be patched to work with SSHFS/Fuse for OS X. A: Well, MacFusion was going to be my answer but since you've tried that I'll recommend my second favourite app when it comes to mounting shares: Panic's Transmit. It's new, very awesome, feature lets you mount any share that it can connect to in the UI as a "disk" in your Finder that you can drag files to. SFTP, SSH, S3...very cool. A: The best solution I've found today (2017) is to use Homebrew and Cask to install osxfuse and sshfs. Note that Homebrew core deprecated all FUSE-related formulae in 2020 so you need to install sshfs from a tap: brew install --cask macfuse brew install gromgit/fuse/sshfs-mac And then: sshfs username@hostname:/remote/directory/path /local/mount/point -ovolname=NAME It works! :-) A: I use Cyberduck for this task. It's a cross-platform (but native on mac) app that is full of features and it's free to use. You can support the developers by donating or buying it directly from the Mac App Store. The developer also has an application named Mountainduck which let you mount the path you want to a folder and access it through Finder app. A: Best ones that you can use are Transmit, like has been said before, or Expandrive, which is probably more like what you're looking for, as finder integration is its main feature. A: Another solution is WebDrive (35$+). I successfully used the Windows version of the same product, so I expect the same from the OS X version. Too bad, that they require you to buy separate licenses for Windows and OS X. A: If you already have FUSE for OS X installed (e.g. you got it directly from SourceForge), then @eskatos solution can reduced to just installing sshfs instead of the whole cask which includes FUSE. You can do this by using: brew install homebrew/fuse/sshfs You might want to check if you have the latest version of FUSE for OS X through your System Preferences while you're at it. A: Given I cannot comment, I'll add to this answer that if you want to unmount the recently mounted sshfs disk, you need to execute: umount <MOUNTPOINT> The sshfs man page states that you should do fusermount -u <MOUNTPOINT> but that command doesn't exist in macOS A: Just in case you are having problems unmounting the disk, you can unmount it simply writing umount ~/mounted/folder hope it saves some headache to someone else A: I use Filezilla, its free, connect as sftp. A: ExpanDrive is a commercial version with an outrageous $50 price tag, but is very clean and slick. It also mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, OwnCloud folders, plus a bunch more and supports ssh keys and sftp. A: You can download CloudMounter from the Mac App Store. This app, permit virtual mount units like, GoogleDrive, DropBox, S3, SFTP, FTP, etc.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: saving login information on iPhone Is there a good app to store login information to various sites and services on my iPhone? A: I like 1Password.

Q: saving login information on iPhone Is there a good app to store login information to various sites and services on my iPhone? A: I like 1Password. A: I like LastPass. More for it's Desktop/Browser Integration than the iOS specific version. A: PassDiary is great, no-nonsense and free.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I get my headphones to work with my iPhone? Am I doing something wrong, or do 1st generation iPhones require particular headphones? My white iPod headphones work, but most of my other ones wont fit? Is the standard solution to purchase an adapter? A: Do you have an original (aluminum backed) iPhone? If so then yes, unfortunately Apple recessed the headphone jack and you do need an extender. If you have an iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4, then you shouldn't need to, as the headphone jack is flush with the device.

Q: How can I get my headphones to work with my iPhone? Am I doing something wrong, or do 1st generation iPhones require particular headphones? My white iPod headphones work, but most of my other ones wont fit? Is the standard solution to purchase an adapter? A: Do you have an original (aluminum backed) iPhone? If so then yes, unfortunately Apple recessed the headphone jack and you do need an extender. If you have an iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4, then you shouldn't need to, as the headphone jack is flush with the device.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I reset my iPhone 1 without using the (broken) power button? The power button on my first-gen iPhone is broken. I remember last time I came across this problem I found a utility (for windows) which caused the phone to reset to enter restore mode (the one with the yellow alert symbol), but I can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what it is? Thanks for any help, Wyatt. A: I don't know about the yellow alert symbol, but a quick google for "iphone recovery mode utility" revealed RecBoot, which looks like exactly what you're looking for. Also, Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings should restart your iPhone.

Q: How can I reset my iPhone 1 without using the (broken) power button? The power button on my first-gen iPhone is broken. I remember last time I came across this problem I found a utility (for windows) which caused the phone to reset to enter restore mode (the one with the yellow alert symbol), but I can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what it is? Thanks for any help, Wyatt. A: I don't know about the yellow alert symbol, but a quick google for "iphone recovery mode utility" revealed RecBoot, which looks like exactly what you're looking for. Also, Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings should restart your iPhone.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I record a phone call on an iPhone? Nothing more to say than "Is there an app to record the current phone call ?" :-) A: Beware of legal issues. You can but you'll need to jailbreak, use extra hardware (plug a mic into the headphone jack), or use 3rd party SIP software. For example, Google Voice has an iPhone app, and Google Voice supports call recording. Google Voice does announce to both parties that it is recording the call.

Q: Can I record a phone call on an iPhone? Nothing more to say than "Is there an app to record the current phone call ?" :-) A: Beware of legal issues. You can but you'll need to jailbreak, use extra hardware (plug a mic into the headphone jack), or use 3rd party SIP software. For example, Google Voice has an iPhone app, and Google Voice supports call recording. Google Voice does announce to both parties that it is recording the call. A: As far as I know 3rd-party, Apple-sanctioned apps - ones you'd find in the App Store, jailbroken apps notwithstanding - do not have access to the phone beyond dialing. In other words you won't find anything in the App Store. A: The best way is to have Google voice account and download there app.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone app to point me back to a waypoint (like a computer game) I'm looking for an app which I can use to find my camper in the desert after going for a walk, or find the b&b i left my bags in after exploring a new city. I'm hoping for something really simple which just points in the right direction and perhaps tells me a distance, like your next target on a computer game. I'm imagining opening a compass and clicking a button to record a place then having a needle pointing north and another arrow point back to the waypoint. Does this exist? A: Motion-X GPS Lite is free, and lets you set waypoints and navigate back to them. Reviewed here. * *Tap Menu > Waypoints to save or select a waypoint *Tap Menu > Compass to see the heading

Q: iPhone app to point me back to a waypoint (like a computer game) I'm looking for an app which I can use to find my camper in the desert after going for a walk, or find the b&b i left my bags in after exploring a new city. I'm hoping for something really simple which just points in the right direction and perhaps tells me a distance, like your next target on a computer game. I'm imagining opening a compass and clicking a button to record a place then having a needle pointing north and another arrow point back to the waypoint. Does this exist? A: Motion-X GPS Lite is free, and lets you set waypoints and navigate back to them. Reviewed here. * *Tap Menu > Waypoints to save or select a waypoint *Tap Menu > Compass to see the heading A: Beacon does exactly this and is free.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a jailbreak for iOS 4.2 I want to jail break my 3Gs running 4.2.1. Possible? A: There is a howto in redmondpie.com for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1, but it appears there is no unlock yet. http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-4.2.1-iphone-4-3gs-3g-ipad-ipod-touch-with-redsn0w-0.9.6b4-guide/

Q: Is there a jailbreak for iOS 4.2 I want to jail break my 3Gs running 4.2.1. Possible? A: There is a howto in redmondpie.com for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1, but it appears there is no unlock yet. http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-4.2.1-iphone-4-3gs-3g-ipad-ipod-touch-with-redsn0w-0.9.6b4-guide/ A: YES! I have it currently on my iPhone 4. It's untethered for last-gen devices, but for the iPhone 4 it's a tethered jailbreak, which means that you'll have to connect it to your computer and use the program (redsn0w) to turn on the phone every time the phone gets turned off or looses power. If you don't turn off your phone a lot, then it's not big issue, though. And because you have a 3GS, you'll be untethered anyway. The jailbreak is at http://blog.iphone-dev.org which is the iPhone Dev Team, the MOST reputable source for iPhone jailbreaking. These are the actual people who do the work (or compile it from Geohot). DO NOT trust any info from places like BigBoss, RedmondPie, UltraPWN, or anyone else. A: It is possible and it includes unlock. All you need is a simple tutorial, Redsn0w and the correspondent firmware. Unless of course you prefer to go the "official" way. I did it with iPhone 3G and the first tutorial. The 3Gs got is the only device that marks the bootrom change. Basically all "i devices" are only able to get a (bad) tethered jailbreak if they're launched after a given point. Here's a long guide with steps on how to check your bootrom to see if you're lucky or not. I'll summarize it for both mac and PC: * *Put your iPhone in DFU mode (not recovery mode): * *Connect your iPhone to your computer. *Turn iPhone off. *Start iTunes. *Hold Power and Home buttons together for 10 seconds or so. *Release Power button but keep holding the Home button until your computer recognizes a new USB device. *iTunes will now recognize your iPhone. Note: Your iPhone screen at this time should be blank (black in color), if not, then you are most likely in Recovery Mode, not DFU mode. *Locate the value [iBoot-359.3] or something alike under System Profiler (mac) or Device Manager (win). Keywords are: USB and Apple Mobile Device (DFU Mode). *If the value after iBoot is 359.3 or lower, that's the old bootrom. Yippie! If it's 359.3.2 or higher, tough luck you're stuck with new bootrom and lame tethered jailbreak.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keep iPhone Screen On (when plugged in) Is there an app (normal, jailbreak) that will keep my iPhone (3GS, OS 4.x) screen on, indefinitely, when it is plugged in, regardless of what app is running in the foreground? A: The have moved the Auto-Lock option from General in iOS 10 (and possibly above): Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock

Q: Keep iPhone Screen On (when plugged in) Is there an app (normal, jailbreak) that will keep my iPhone (3GS, OS 4.x) screen on, indefinitely, when it is plugged in, regardless of what app is running in the foreground? A: The have moved the Auto-Lock option from General in iOS 10 (and possibly above): Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock A: An unexplained downvote brought to my attention this old post, so I decided to update it. I don't have an iPhone any longer, but my iPad screen simply stays on, whenever plugged in or not, if my setting to Auto Lock is set to Never. On iOS 7+ it is that simple. Now, if you want to automatically change it back (which is a completely different question), once you plug it out, you'll need to jailbreak. But since it's complicated and I haven't tried, I'll just give one pointer that seems to do it: get Tasker (found on lifehacker). I personally rather just manually switch it on and off, until apple decides to have some kind of NFC. It should be just around the corner, if not with NFC, then with iBeacon. Old answer (jailbreak only, iOS 4 or less) First, I just tried on my iphone and even calculator stays active after 1 minute, even if the screen dims out. So maybe your question is really just about keeping the screen on. Anyway, I can think of two solutions: kirikae with backgrounder might do the trick as a side effect. If not, you can use SBSettings with Autolock toggle to do it manually and temporarily set the auto-lock to never. All of them you should find in Cydia. edit: as none of the above actually worked, here's some update. Some custom toggles on SBSettings seem to just not work indeed. It's probably due to getting outdated or conflicting with something else, two common problems we find on cydia apps. BigBoss is kind of similar to SBSettings and also have an Autolock toggle. You could use it along with some multitasking, leave it on the background and use it as needed. It hardly have any conflicting issue. Unfortunately I can't find many more ideas to this. Only thing I can assure you is that I just tried SBSettings's Autolock toggle on my iOS 3.1.3 and it works. It also says it's updated to 4, so most likely it's either problem with 4.1 or conflicting with something else you've got installed. And believe me, there are conflicts from the least expected things (look at the comments). A: I use iTunes. As long as you have a song playing the screen will dim, but it won't go black and it won't lock. If you don't want to have music playing you can download a track that's just silence, then put it on repeat. EDIT: I should note that my IOS version is 7.1.0 - can't make any promises about other versions... EDIT: I should also note that the behavior described above only applies when the phone is on external power, that is, iTunes will not keep the phone unlocked when on battery power. A: The Gentle Alarm keeps the screen active when it is plugged in, but I guess that is a feature that each app has to implement, not something that you install to keep the screen active for all apps. A: I use Kensington's Nightstand every night. Sure beats having a separate alarm clock by the bed. And no, you don't actually have to use (or even own) their charger.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Make QuickTime player ignore mouse gestures and touches I like my Magic Mouse, but I often touch it "incorrectly" while watching a movie in QuickTime Player, and QTP then moves the video position forward or backwards or makes a pause or ... . It can be annoying :-( I'd like to make my QuickTime Player ignore mouse gestures and touches. Is it possible? A: You can try BetterTouchTool that will give you much more control. There is a setting that will allow you to add per-application rules:

Q: Make QuickTime player ignore mouse gestures and touches I like my Magic Mouse, but I often touch it "incorrectly" while watching a movie in QuickTime Player, and QTP then moves the video position forward or backwards or makes a pause or ... . It can be annoying :-( I'd like to make my QuickTime Player ignore mouse gestures and touches. Is it possible? A: You can try BetterTouchTool that will give you much more control. There is a setting that will allow you to add per-application rules: A: As Loïc Wolff says BetterTouchTool is a way to disable this horizontal scrolling. I was searching about the same problem and found the solution in this program (BetterTouchTool)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I edit a .plist file? What's the best application to open and edit a plist file ? A: If the plist file is in the XML format, you can edit it in any text editor like TextEdit. If the plist file is in the binary format, you can convert it to XML first by running: plutil -convert xml1 file.plist If you want to go back to binary format after editing: plutil -convert binary1 file.plist If you have Xcode 4.3 or later, you can use it to edit property lists in a graphical editor like this: Xcode 4.2 and earlier came with a separate application for editing property lists (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app/).

Q: How do I edit a .plist file? What's the best application to open and edit a plist file ? A: If the plist file is in the XML format, you can edit it in any text editor like TextEdit. If the plist file is in the binary format, you can convert it to XML first by running: plutil -convert xml1 file.plist If you want to go back to binary format after editing: plutil -convert binary1 file.plist If you have Xcode 4.3 or later, you can use it to edit property lists in a graphical editor like this: Xcode 4.2 and earlier came with a separate application for editing property lists (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app/). A: A fine program like TextWrangler can edit binary .plist files without first converting them using Terminal. Simply open the file like you would any other (i.e. drag-and-drop on the program icon, or the File open dialog, or Open With in the Finder or...) A: Since Apple got rid of the GUI Property List Editor, Xcode is the best free option if you want to be sure of the result. There are some gotcha's using a generic code editor to edit plist files. Since dictionaries use entries like <key>some key</key> <string>some value</string> <key>another key with boolean value</key> <true /> You can create a valid XML file that is not a valid plist file, for example: <key>some key</key> <!-- oops, forgot to enter a value - still valid XML --> <!-- valid XML, not a plist --> <key>another key with boolean value</key> <true>yes</true> If you're willing to go commercial, Plistinator will edit both binary and XML plist files. Full-disclosure: I'm the author of Plistinator and the $12.99 it costs pays for my ramen and rent. A: Free Visual Studio Code editor can open, edit and save plist files in binary format with the help of the Binary Plist extension: A Visual Studio Code extension that enables editing of binary property list files as XML. It is inspired by the BinaryPlist Sublime Text package, although the experience is not as seamless (the user must agree to opening a binary file and the editing takes place in an additional tab). A virtual file system is used to achieve this using the FileSystemProvider API. The extension is cross-platform but primarily uses the macOS plutil binary for conversion, the Python plistlib is used as an alterntative if available. The node package simple-plist is used as a fallback but due to JavaScript not having a float type real values that are whole numbers will be cast to integer types (a warning dialog is shown first). A: On a Terminal window, you can use PlistBuddy, available at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy. PlistBuddy can read and modify values inside of a plist, either interactively or directly on the command line. However, PlistBuddy is not a GUI editor. Usage examples: # Show full help /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -h # Print content of plist /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c print /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist # Print selected content of plist /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'print SkipPaths' /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist A: A PList file, like Mankoff said, is just a specially formatted XML file, so you can actually edit and create them in a program like TextEdit. Because of the specific nature of PLists to Development, however, using a special program like Xcode or Property List Editor becomes a much more fruitful endeavor. This is because it not only automatically formats the XML code for you, but it will actually translate the key identifiers and layers into readable words, and also for some values it will provide a drop-down menu to fill in the correct responses. Especially when dealing with iPhone plists, when multiple runtime variables can be set using the Plist, easily creating new fields and knowing what to put in them makes it so much easier. You can get both Xcode and PList Editor from the Apple Developer website for free by downloading the latest Xcode release. A: I have used PlistEdit Pro for macOS and found it to be useful and comprehensively feature rich. A: BBEdit will open plist files for editing, and do any necessary conversion of file types. It will also handle file permission access, if needed. You can also do things like create Text Filters to do things like encode/decode base64 encoding. It's the essential text editor for Mac. (No connection to the company, just a user for 30 years...!)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I display only battery percentage in menu bar? I'd like to only display the percentage left in the menubar. It seems that it is more useful than any other battery display option, but it isn't available. Is there a work-around? A: I recommend and use SlimBatteryMonitor (donation-ware). It's much more flexible than what Apple provides.

Q: Can I display only battery percentage in menu bar? I'd like to only display the percentage left in the menubar. It seems that it is more useful than any other battery display option, but it isn't available. Is there a work-around? A: I recommend and use SlimBatteryMonitor (donation-ware). It's much more flexible than what Apple provides. A: Hmm. This is a good little app. A little on the pricey side though. http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ A: Assuming you're talking about a Mac, and not an iPhone, iStat Menus 3 is a fantastic application that has a LOT of features, including the one you asked for. In addition to the battery, you can add info to your menu bar such as disk usage, network, internal temp. sensors, and more with graphs and detals. For the battery part, upon clicking on the battery percentage instead of a useless menu you will be presented with information such as battery health, charge cycles, amperage, and cell charges and more, so for only $10 it's a worthwhile investment. One of my favorite features is the date/time thing which actually shows you a drop down calendar and world clocks. Overall, iStat Menus is definitely worth the $10 lifetime investment. Plus, they give out copies on Twitter (@Bjangocodes and @Bjango) all the time.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I get audio CD to open in iTunes for ripping? I have a Macbook Pro (latest version) and iTunes 10.1.1. I have the preferences set in iTunes to prompt to import an audio CD when it's inserted into the drive, and my System Preferences set to throw audio CDs over to iTunes, but whenever I put in an audio CD, it just starts playing (and not through iTunes). I don't see any other players pop up w/ controls, either, and if iTunes isnt' already open, it doesn't open but I see the same behavior (i.e. music starts playing). Any ideas of what I am missing? A: Can you use Expose to show all of the windows running? Have you tried with different CDs, to make sure it isn't one of those CDs that has an application on that just plays the music. I've just tested with the same settings as you (System preferences - Music CD, open iTunes and iTunes, Ask to import) and all it did was open iTunes. Another possibility, have you got any other media player applications running?

Q: How do I get audio CD to open in iTunes for ripping? I have a Macbook Pro (latest version) and iTunes 10.1.1. I have the preferences set in iTunes to prompt to import an audio CD when it's inserted into the drive, and my System Preferences set to throw audio CDs over to iTunes, but whenever I put in an audio CD, it just starts playing (and not through iTunes). I don't see any other players pop up w/ controls, either, and if iTunes isnt' already open, it doesn't open but I see the same behavior (i.e. music starts playing). Any ideas of what I am missing? A: Can you use Expose to show all of the windows running? Have you tried with different CDs, to make sure it isn't one of those CDs that has an application on that just plays the music. I've just tested with the same settings as you (System preferences - Music CD, open iTunes and iTunes, Ask to import) and all it did was open iTunes. Another possibility, have you got any other media player applications running?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%? Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, Safari hung for over a minute and there were periods where Safari used a very high %CPU: In Mac OS X 10.5, I was accustomed to seeing Safari freeze, but it never used up more than 200% CPU (2 cores x 100%). Is this a bug in Activity Monitor? Or does this mean that %CPU is now more akin to system load? A: The % CPU is relative to 1 core, so 726% is using almost 8 cores. Core is loosely defined, so 1 Hyper-Threaded, "virtual" core looks like 2 cores to Activity Monitor. What type of system do you have? If it is just 2 cores (which is seems to be) then nik's answer sounds correct. A late model 8-core system can look like 16 cores to Activity Monitor:

Q: What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%? Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, Safari hung for over a minute and there were periods where Safari used a very high %CPU: In Mac OS X 10.5, I was accustomed to seeing Safari freeze, but it never used up more than 200% CPU (2 cores x 100%). Is this a bug in Activity Monitor? Or does this mean that %CPU is now more akin to system load? A: The % CPU is relative to 1 core, so 726% is using almost 8 cores. Core is loosely defined, so 1 Hyper-Threaded, "virtual" core looks like 2 cores to Activity Monitor. What type of system do you have? If it is just 2 cores (which is seems to be) then nik's answer sounds correct. A late model 8-core system can look like 16 cores to Activity Monitor:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Freeware for extracting 7zip files? I've used The Unarchiver for this purpose, but it doesn't support extracting encrypted 7zip files. Can anyone suggest any other freeware for this? BTW I'm using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 A: Softonic has a nice list of 7Zip for Mac utilities. Some are freeware.

Q: Freeware for extracting 7zip files? I've used The Unarchiver for this purpose, but it doesn't support extracting encrypted 7zip files. Can anyone suggest any other freeware for this? BTW I'm using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 A: Softonic has a nice list of 7Zip for Mac utilities. Some are freeware. A: Some unofficial p7zip packages for Mac OS X exist, you can try them. A: I've been using 7zX for unzipping 7zip archives. It works with passworded and encrypted (with -mhe=on) archives. http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/products/7zx/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there an iPhone App for reading PDF files? After having used Eucalyptus and Stanza apps on my iPhone, I really can't read printed books while traveling any more. What similar app can I use to transfer, store and read my own pdf files on my iPhone? PS: I know that Stanza has a Windows application that converts PDFs for iPhone, but I am not a Windows user. A: As of 21st June, the Apple iBooks app can read and bookmark PDFs.

Q: Is there an iPhone App for reading PDF files? After having used Eucalyptus and Stanza apps on my iPhone, I really can't read printed books while traveling any more. What similar app can I use to transfer, store and read my own pdf files on my iPhone? PS: I know that Stanza has a Windows application that converts PDFs for iPhone, but I am not a Windows user. A: As of 21st June, the Apple iBooks app can read and bookmark PDFs. A: My wife uses Evernote to read her existing PDFs of her knitting patterns on the iPhone - plus she has the benefit of them being available on the web, and her laptop. It also has a great free version. A: I use Air Sharing which creates a virtual drive on your wireless network. I can copy files (including MS Office and PDF files) to my iPhone and view them. There are other file transfer apps that do similar things. If you're starting with documents that are not PDFs (e.g. Word files), you might find reading PDFs inconvenient since PDFs are inherently page oriented. Stanza's FAQ page has an answer about creating ePub content from other documents. A: Readdle has an iphone app that allows you to download files in many formats from the web to your iphone. They give you some free storage space at their site, but you can sync the files to your phone for reading on a plane, etc. A: GoodReader is very handy. You can wirelessly transfer files and you can even add any web content to the GoodReader library simply by placing a "g" in front of the URL in mobile Safari. A: Adobe Reader by Adobe for iOS can view PDFs A: I use PDFViewer: Transfer your PDF files to your iPhone and view them with this application. A: Another possibility is to use Calibre, it can convert PDF and other ebooks into epub and it is compatible with Stanza on the iPhone for downloading docs into the phone. Internface is definitely not up to Mac standards but it works. A: I copy the PDFs I want to read while being mobile into a folder in my DropBox. And I just view them using the DropBox app. So far, it's ok for simple PDFs, although moving from page to page may stutter a bit. A: I generally recommend Evernote for reading PDFs. There are other iphone apps that can get the job done, but evernote is front of the pack. A: I use Stanza. I've noticed some minor flaws in rendering slides, but it's more than adequate for my purposes. A: iBooks can read PDFs, although I think evernote is the best.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I extend the iPhone's maximum ringtone duration? I'm wondering if there is a way to extend the maximum duration of a custom ringtone i make for my iPhone past 30 seconds. A: Method that semtex41 mentioned still works on iOS 8. On Mac (OS X) you can do this: * *Create two folders, one for short and one for long *Create two .m4r (.m4a, renamed) ringtones, one to each folder * *Short one must be LESS than 40 seconds *Give both files same name *Open iTunes and drag the short tone to tone library *Close iTunes *Open /Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Tones *Rename the ringtone from eg. tone.m4r to tone.m4r_short *Copypaste long version to Tones folder mentioned in 6, and make sure it has same name as short one had *Open iTunes, the Ringtones (or Tones) sections shows, that your tone's length is same as the short one's but content is from the long one. *Connect your iDevice, select Tones, select tones to sync, and click sync *Done!

Q: Can I extend the iPhone's maximum ringtone duration? I'm wondering if there is a way to extend the maximum duration of a custom ringtone i make for my iPhone past 30 seconds. A: Method that semtex41 mentioned still works on iOS 8. On Mac (OS X) you can do this: * *Create two folders, one for short and one for long *Create two .m4r (.m4a, renamed) ringtones, one to each folder * *Short one must be LESS than 40 seconds *Give both files same name *Open iTunes and drag the short tone to tone library *Close iTunes *Open /Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Tones *Rename the ringtone from eg. tone.m4r to tone.m4r_short *Copypaste long version to Tones folder mentioned in 6, and make sure it has same name as short one had *Open iTunes, the Ringtones (or Tones) sections shows, that your tone's length is same as the short one's but content is from the long one. *Connect your iDevice, select Tones, select tones to sync, and click sync *Done! A: A custom ringtone can be up to 40 seconds - my custom ones are 38 seconds, and are made with iTunes - like this: http://artoftheiphone.com/2009/01/19/how-to-create-an-iphone-ringtone-using-itunes/ A: iOS 7 update: the below procedure requires that you first install the ToneEnabler tweak, as Apple changed the way ringtones are loaded. If your device is jailbroken: * *Create your ringtone file (neroAacEnc -if ringtone.wav -of ringtone.m4r). *Establish an SSH tunnel to your device (iphone_tunnel --iport 22 --lport 22). *Connect to your device using WinSCP or similar tool. *Browse to /Library/Ringtones/ (there should be a bunch of .m4r files in there). *Drag and drop your ringtone file in with the others. *Re-open "Sounds" in your device's settings. Your ringtone (of arbitrary length) should now be available to you. Note: Tested on iOS 5.1.1 A: This is a way to trick the iPhone (iOS 6.0) into making ringtones longer than the ~40 second maximum: Note: This may now be a moot point since you can select songs for the default alarm, but the one advantage is it allows the phone to vibrate when it is a ringtone and the vibrate alert is enabled. Summary: Add a short 15sec .m4r song to iTunes. Replace the source file with the full length .m4r version, then drag it from the Library to your iPhone. iTunes will be expecting the short version but will copy the whole thing without error. Prerequisites: Create two .mp3 versions of the song. One the full length, the other a short version <30sec. Detailed instructions: 1) Create two folders. One with the full length version of the song. The other with a 15s version. 2) Add the short version to the iTunes Library via File>Add File to Library 3) Convert the short version to AAC, then search for it in Music. Once you find it, right click to Show in Windows Explorer. Rename the file extension of the short song to .m4r. Keep the Window Open. 4) Move the .m4r version to the short folder in Step 1. 5) Remove the AAC listings in the Music Library. 6) Repeat the AAC conversion for the full version, following Steps 3-5 while working from the full length folder. This is to prevent confusion. Use file size to help separate if needed. 6) From the short folder in Step 1, drag the .m4r into the Library section in iTunes. 7) Rename the short .m4r file extension to .m4r_short 8) Copy the full length .m4r into the short directory. 9) From within the iTunes Library, open Tones and then drag the song to your iPhone. The entire full length song will copy without any errors. A: I'm wondering if there is a way to extend the maximum duration of ringtones for my iPhone past 30 seconds. iPhone ringtones cannot be longer than 40 seconds. A: It's not a carrier setting it's a phone setting. Max I've seen is 30 seconds but there may be a way to get around that. I think that the file format .m4r has to be cut down to 30 seconds to work with the iphone. Even when I made custom ones they had to be edited down to 30 seconds. A: Yes, you can extend your custom-ringtone duration on any iPhone with any iTunes version. No jailbreak required. Here's how: * *Put your ringtone in your device by using the normal iTunes procedure (sync it, drag and drop in Ringtones, etc.). It must be less than 40 seconds. Say 10 seconds. *Make sure it's been transferred in your device by going to Settings → Sounds. *You can already select it as your ringtone if you wish. *Download iBackupBot and install it on your computer (available for free for both macOS and Windows, google for it, first result). *Open iBackupBot. Make sure it detects your device. If it doesn't, just click on the Refresh button (blue circular arrow). *Click on your device name. *Click on "Raw file system". *On the right panel, click on iTunes_Control → Ringtones. *You will see a random-named file ending with .m4r extension. *That file is the ringtone. If you have multiple ringtones, you will see multiple m4r files. *On your computer, convert any full-length song/ringtone of your choice to m4r format. You can use any online service for that. *Once you got your full-length m4r, just rename it to the one currently in the Ringtones folder of your device (as seen in step 8-9). If you have multiple m4r, just choose one. *In iBackupBot, click the Import button located exactly on the top of the folder structure. *Find and select your full-length m4r file. *Confirm to overwrite. *Done.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to crossfade songs on an iPhone? Is it possible to crossfade songs on an iPhone that are played through the iPod app? If there is no native way to do this, are there any apps that can do this? A: I'm sorry, I don't think it is possible (yet). If you had an old iPod Nano/Classic then I might have suggested 'Rockbox' (give it a google). Send Apple a feature request about it, they never know, if enough people bombard them with requests then maybe it will become a native feature. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Q: Is it possible to crossfade songs on an iPhone? Is it possible to crossfade songs on an iPhone that are played through the iPod app? If there is no native way to do this, are there any apps that can do this? A: I'm sorry, I don't think it is possible (yet). If you had an old iPod Nano/Classic then I might have suggested 'Rockbox' (give it a google). Send Apple a feature request about it, they never know, if enough people bombard them with requests then maybe it will become a native feature. Sorry I can't be of more help. A: I added a new app myself, because I wasn't happy with the other ones out there. MediaMix didn't allow scrubbing, and MyDJ applied a flat "n seconds" crossfade to all songs. I wanted something more customizable, so I wrote Muxic. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/muxic-intelligent-crossfading/id547091143?mt=8 A: It isn't the native iPod player, but Media Mix (link to free version) allows crossfading. A: I use My DJ from the App Store, it works fine for me. A: Stop&Go Music Player is perfectly suited for people looking for a very simple way of crossfading songs on the iPhone. Full disclaimer : I made it ! It also has a specific "stop and go" playback mode I needed, and it's mainly designed to be very easy to use (and pretty to look at, I hope !). A: I haven't been able to test it yet, but: Making a playlist in iTunes Highlighting all songs. Right click and choose Show info (In danish: Vis Info) Last menu "Choice" (danish: Valg) Here the bottom entry point is "Albun without pause" No/Yes I have choosen Yes and am now waiting to get home where I have my cable so I can sync with my iPhone 3GS too se if it works. Michal A: One app which does allow crossfading (although you have to do it manually) is called Tap DJ. A: The new Jam Session app I just distributed allows to do exactly that and much more: http://www.jamsession.in It allows to select a number of tunes from the user's library and then play them without gaps of silence between them. The next version shall also allow to handle several playlist and some one in the future also tuen the BPMs of the selected tunes - one I know how to do it...

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPad for lightweight vacation computing? Vacation computing for me these days seems to have fairly few requirements that my phone alone can't easily support: * *Offloading raw SLR photos from SD card to clear space and post online (often to facebook) *Offloading, editing down, and posting videos (facebook) Is the iPad a suitable, flexible, enjoyable device for this sort of thing? If so, are there any apps or workflows that help? A: There are a lot of pro photographers who've started using the iPad for their first pass of editing. Vincent Laforet, who is highly respected wrote about his use of them at "Using the iPad on set". Also "12 Best iPad Photo Apps" has some suggestions.

Q: iPad for lightweight vacation computing? Vacation computing for me these days seems to have fairly few requirements that my phone alone can't easily support: * *Offloading raw SLR photos from SD card to clear space and post online (often to facebook) *Offloading, editing down, and posting videos (facebook) Is the iPad a suitable, flexible, enjoyable device for this sort of thing? If so, are there any apps or workflows that help? A: There are a lot of pro photographers who've started using the iPad for their first pass of editing. Vincent Laforet, who is highly respected wrote about his use of them at "Using the iPad on set". Also "12 Best iPad Photo Apps" has some suggestions. A: You can import photos using the iPad camera kit: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Got any tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X? One tip or trick per answer. My favorite is open . Opens the folder you're currently browsing in Finder. You can also pass URLs, images, documents or else to open. If you specify a program name with -a you can pass the URL, image, document or folder to that program instead, e.g. open -a Preview image.png, overriding the default program set for the filetype. Please don't post duplicates. Search in the question like this: inquestion:this ls -l Mac OS X specific answers only. A: Stop using the arrow keys and navigate the command line more quickly with ctrl+A: moves to the start of the line ctrl+E: moves to the end of the line ctrl+B: move back one character ctrl+F: move forward one character esc+B: move back one word esc+F: move forward one word ctrl+U: delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line ctrl+K: delete from the cursor to the end of the line ctrl+W: delete from the cursor to the beginning of the current word

Q: Got any tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X? One tip or trick per answer. My favorite is open . Opens the folder you're currently browsing in Finder. You can also pass URLs, images, documents or else to open. If you specify a program name with -a you can pass the URL, image, document or folder to that program instead, e.g. open -a Preview image.png, overriding the default program set for the filetype. Please don't post duplicates. Search in the question like this: inquestion:this ls -l Mac OS X specific answers only. A: Stop using the arrow keys and navigate the command line more quickly with ctrl+A: moves to the start of the line ctrl+E: moves to the end of the line ctrl+B: move back one character ctrl+F: move forward one character esc+B: move back one word esc+F: move forward one word ctrl+U: delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line ctrl+K: delete from the cursor to the end of the line ctrl+W: delete from the cursor to the beginning of the current word A: mdfind to use spotlight from the command line - really really really handy! Finds things in every directory as well, so it's more useful when looking for files that are part of the system. mdfind -live updates in real time, which again is incredibly handy. A: cd - Will restore the previous directory you were in. Very handy if you accidentally type cd alone without any arguments and end up in your home directory. A: Open a man page in Preview: pman () { man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app } Open a man page in TextMate: tman () { MANWIDTH=160 MANPAGER='col -bx' man $@ | mate } Open a man page in SublimeText: sman() { man "${1}" | col -b | open -f -a /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime\ Text\ 2 } Quit an app cleanly from the command line # Quit an OS X application from the command line quit () { for app in $*; do osascript -e 'quit app "'$app'"' done } Relaunch an app from the command line: relaunch () { for app in $*; do osascript -e 'quit app "'$app'"'; sleep 2; open -a $app done } Uninstall an app with AppZapper from the command line: zap () { open -a AppZapper /Applications/"${1}".app } A: Here's a shell function to get the path of the front Finder window. Can be handy. (I started doing this instead of dragging a folder into the Terminal window.) function fp { osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"'\ -e "if (${1-1} <= (count Finder windows)) then"\ -e "get POSIX path of (target of window ${1-1} as alias)"\ -e 'else' -e 'get POSIX path of (desktop as alias)'\ -e 'end if' -e 'end tell'; };\ ## alias to copy it to the clipboard alias cfp='fp | pbcopy' (This has been in my zshrc a while, but I don't know where I got it / parts of it, otherwise I'd cite credit.) A: Easily burn an ISO from commmand line (with verify burn at the end): hdiutil burn /path/to/iso Without verifying the burn: hdiutil burn -noverifyburn /path/to/iso A: the most interesting pschotherapist you will ever talk to: * *Run emacs *Press ⇧+esc+X *type doctor and press enter *have fun :D A: Get a list of airport SSID /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s the airport utility has a lot more options to manage the airport configuration. Run without the -s to get a list. A: You can drag a folder from the finder to the terminal and it will paste the full path to that file. cd <drag folder to terminal> This is basically the opposite of open in the terminal A: alias to open preview from command line alias preview='groff -Tps > /tmp/tmp.ps && open -a Preview /tmp/tmp.ps' So you can do : echo "toto" | preview cat /tmp/test.log | preview cheat git | preview A: Putting a couple of these together, we can get manual pages in a browser with proper markup: bman () { gunzip < `man -w $@` | groff -Thtml -man | bcat } A: None of these are exactly OSX specific, but here's some stuff from my .bash_profile that I find useful: Colored Prompt: PS1="\[\e[0;31m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\u\[\e[0;34m\]@\h \[\e[32m\]\w\[\e[0;31m]\]\$\[\e[0m\] "; example http://grab.by/grabs/c2c7cdff8e49dd764d326620df762665.png SSH tab completion of hosts that exist in ~/.ssh/config: (found on MacOSXHints) complete -o default -o nospace -W "$(/usr/bin/env ruby -ne 'puts $_.split(/[,\s]+/)[1..-1].reject{|host| host.match(/\*|\?/)} if $_.match(/^\s*Host\s+/);' < $HOME/.ssh/config)" scp sftp ssh Highlighted grep: alias grep="grep --color=auto" highlighted grep http://grab.by/grabs/dd26dd993c74f8dd076e2f911a8e4ec6.png Automagically dump your public ssh key to a host for future passwordless auth: (can probably easily tweaked to add said host to ~/.ssh/config) ssh-setup() { cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh $1 'cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'; } More OSX specific stuff that I've setup forces the machine to take a picture with the built-in iSight every time the machine's lid is open and dumps that image in a directory. Requirements: * *SleepWatcher *iSightCapture Create a directory somewhere to hold all your images. Dump this into ~/.wakeup: date=$(date +%y%m%d_%H_%M_%S).jpg; /PATH/TO/isightcapture -w 640 -h 480 -n 3 -d -t jpg /PATH/TO/PICTURE/DUMP/$date > /dev/null unset date I've been capping a frame every time my MacBook wakes up for the past 3 1/2 years now, it's interesting to see everything compiled into a long video at a high framerate. A: Not installed by default, but MacPorts is great for adding more command line programs. After downloading and installing you can use the port command to find and install more programs, plus much more. port search convert video port install ffmpeg A: My favorite alias: alias redo='sudo \!-1' When you forget to use 'sudo', just do 'redo' to rerun the last command using sudo. A: Use !$ to repeat the last parameter in the last command you entered, for example: ~$ mkdir test-dir ~$ cd !$ cd test-dir test-dir$ !$ is actually short for !!$ which means "from the most recent command, pull the last parameter" See the "HISTORY EXPANSION" section of the bash man page for more. A: afplay ~/path/to/file.mp3 Let's you play songs from the commandline. You can also append [space]& and let it run in the background. :) A: Here's something nice and pointless: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background & Runs your screensaver as your desktop wallpaper. Useless but cool. This does not affect normal operation of the screensaver, but will end after normal screensaver has been activated, either by timeout or by moving the mouse to a predefined hot corner. Alternatively, you can use: killall ScreenSaverEngine A: xattr -h allows you to view file attributes. The most handy use for this command is to remove the internet download warning from the finder: cd /the/directory/where/you/downloaded/all/your/files xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine . A: The OSX installer app has a command line interface too. sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/Growl-1.2.1/Growl.pkg -target LocalSystem Is a one line install command for Growl, GrowlNotify is an extra on the same install disk image. You can find the domains supported by a package file via installer -pkg /Volumes/Growl-1.2.1/Growl.pkg -dominfo A: Create a new directory and enter it: md() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; } For more, see my dotfiles repository on GitHub, and/or view my .osx file for OS X-specific preferences and settings. A: Not a huge feature, but I noticed it wasn't here. ⌥ + mouse drag on Terminal text let's you make a rectangular selection. A: history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r Gives you a list of some of your most recent commands, numbered by how often you use them. A: Repeat the previous command with a substring replacement: Syntax: ^before^after^ Example: You entered: git clonr https://unbelievablylongurl.org/projectdirectory/evenmoreprojects/project.git Use this: ^clonr^clone^ And your command will be re-run with the replaced substring: git clone http://unbelievablylongurl.org/projectdirectory/evenmoreprojects/project.git A: ctrl+A and ctrl+E: Go to the beginning of the line and to the end of the line. This also works in every Cocoa text input! A: (Assuming we're looking for Mac OS X specific tricks.) I've got an alias to launch quicklook on a file from the command line: $ type -a ql ql is aliased to `qlmanage -p 2>/dev/null' $ ql photo.jpg Testing Quick Look preview with files: photo.jpg ctrl+C: Kill it and return to the prompt. A: net rpc shutdown --server=<servername> --username=<username> This will shut down windows boxes. A: You can transfer a working directory from one Terminal window to another with these two commands added to your .bash_profile file: alias cwd='pwd | pbcopy' alias gowd='cd "`pbpaste`"' cwd copies your working directory from one window, and gowd opens that directory in another window. A: In my bash profile I have these aliases: # Alias for "." shows current directory alias -- .='pwd' # Alias for ".." goes to parent directory alias -- ..="cd .." alias -- ...="cd .. ; cd .." alias -- ....="cd .. ; cd .. ; cd .." A: Use Apple’s ASCIIMoviePlayer to play QuickTime movies in the Terminal: (There are also two great adaptations out there that allow using ANSI colour output). On a more serious note: CoreImageTool (3rd party; just google for it) is a great way of using CoreImage filters from the command line. A: sips -i * This automagically creates icon previews for all images. This is better than using the Finder’s “Show icon preview” if you have large files particularly over a server. A: drutil does lots of stuff drutil cdtext shows you the cdtext info (if any) on the CD currently in the drive drutil info shows you the capability of your optical drive(s) drutil eject guess what that does Plus lots more. 'man drutil' to see everything A: I have the following aliases and functions in ~/.bash_profile: alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd .. ; cd .." alias ls="ls -G" # list alias la="ls -Ga" # list all, includes dot files alias ll="ls -Gl" # long list, excludes dot files alias lla="ls -Gla" # long list all, includes dot files alias stfu="osascript -e 'set volume output muted true'" alias pumpitup="sudo osascript -e 'set volume 10'" alias ips="ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1'" alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com" alias flush="dscacheutil -flushcache" alias gzip="gzip -9n" alias ping="ping -c 5" alias ql="qlmanage -p 2>/dev/null" # preview a file using QuickLook # Create a new directory and enter it md() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; } # Define a term using Google define() { local y="$@"; curl -sA "Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}" | grep -Po '(?<=<li>)[^<]+'|nl|perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_)' 2>/dev/null; } # gzip a file with strongest compression settings ubergzip() { gzip -9n < "$@" > "$@".gz; } # Open a man page in Preview.app pman() { man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app; } # Open a man page in TextMate.app tman() { MANWIDTH=160 MANPAGER='col -bx' man $@ | mate; } # Quit an app cleanly quit() { for app in $*; do osascript -e 'quit app "'$app'"' done } # Relaunch an app relaunch() { for app in $*; do osascript -e 'quit app "'$app'"'; sleep 2; open -a $app done } # Uninstall an app with AppZapper zap() { open -a AppZapper /Applications/"${1}".app; } For more, see my dotfiles repository on GitHub, and/or view my .osx file for OS X-specific preferences and settings. A: I often use ⌘+K to have my Terminal screen cleared instead of UNIX Command clear. The difference is clear hides the previous commands from our sight, but we can still scroll back meanwhile ⌘+K clears it completely—we can't scroll back. I like using it because I can always press ctrl+R or type: history | grep command-that-I-want-to-do-again if I want to re-type a command without a need to look at "messy character crowded" Terminal. A: In Terminal's Help menu, you can search for man pages. (The first time you do this, it can take a few seconds to index the man page files, so wait a bit for results to appear, but subsequent searches are fast.) It will show man page results in the Help menu search results. Selecting one opens a window displaying the formatted page. As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, there are a number of enhancements to man page support: * *Man page searching lets you supply section numbers/names in various formats: "2 open", "open 2", "open(2)". It also supports asterisk "*" for wildcard searches. *It now searches all the files in MANPATH (prior to Lion it only searched a fixed set of directories, so, for example, it didn't find any X11 man pages). It doesn't run in a shell, however, so if you want to customize MANPATH you may need to customize man.conf (x-man-page://1/man), or set it in your global environment. *There are commands in the Help menu for opening man pages (Open man Page for Selection) and performing an apropos search (Search in man Pages for Selection). There are corresponding commands in the contextual menu, and there are Services you can enable to perform these lookups from other applications (System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Open man Page in Terminal / Search man Pages in Terminal). *If there is no selected text, Open man Page for Selection will automatically look at the text to the left of the cursor. This means you can enter a command name, then use this command to open the man page before entering command arguments. It'll skip over whitespace. It also understands man page references "open(2)" and URLs "x-man-page://2/open". (If you explicitly select text, it also understands "2 open" and "open 2".) *Man page windows use the "Man Page" settings profile. You can customize this to alter the appearance of man pages displayed using these commands. It also remembers the position of man page windows separately from other windows, so you can have man pages appear in the same place on screen each time, independent of where you place other terminal windows. *⌘+ double-click will open man page references "open(2)", enabling you to navigate references from one man page to another. (⌘+ double-click will also open any recognized URL, or even some patterns like email addresses—creates a new mail message—and domain names—opens in Safari.) *When viewing a man page window (or any terminal whose commands have all completed/exited), Terminal supports some "less"-compatible pager commands: space = Page Down, ⇧+space = Page Up, F = Page Down ("forward"), B = Page Up ("back"), ⌫ = Scroll down one line, ↑/↓ = Scroll up/down one line. A: $ emacs -batch -l dunnet Dead end You are at a dead end of a dirt road. The road goes to the east. In the distance you can see that it will eventually fork off. The trees here are very tall royal palms, and they are spaced equidistant from each other. There is a shovel here. > A: afconvert allows you to convert from and to all audio formats internally known to Core Audio. e.g., converting an aiff file to 160kbps AAC: afconvert track.aiff -o track.m4a -q 127 -b 160000 -f 'm4af' -d 'aac ' A: Quickly check what is eating all your memory: top -o vsize And for your CPU top -o cpu Q to quit A: To make ctrl+← and ctrl+→ useful again, that is going a word forward or backward like they usually do on Linux, you must make Terminal.app send the right string to the shell. In the preferences, go to the Settings tab and select your default profile. Go to Keyboard and set control cursor left and control cursor right to send string \033b and \033f respectively. While your're at it, you can also fix Home (\033[H), End (\033[F), Page Up (\033[5~) and Page Down (\033[6~) so that they send those keys to the shell instead of scrolling the buffer. A: Resample image so height and width aren't greater than specified size, e.g. 100x100: sips -Z 100x100 image.jpg sips supports other operations such as: flip, rotate, crop, image properties query, colour profile query and modification. Check man sips for usage. A: Command line shortcuts to toggle visibility of hidden files in finder: alias show_hidden="defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE && killall Finder" alias hide_hidden="defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE && killall Finder" A: This is more a Terminal meta-hint - you can use Cmd-Shift-{Left arrow, Right Arrow} (Command Shift combined with left or right arrow) to quickly cycle between open Terminal.app windows. A: Here is a script that gets the path(s) to the current selection(s) in Finder: #!/bin/sh osascript` << EOT tell application "Finder" set theFiles to selection set theList to "" repeat with aFile in theFiles set theList to theList & POSIX path of (aFile as alias) & " " end repeat theList end tell EOT How I use it: $ cat `selected` A: If you need to open a Finder window as the root user, you can execute the following from the terminal: In 10.5 and below: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder In 10.6: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder Then, open a new finder window. You'll see that the new finder window opens with root permissions. A: Flush the DNS cache if you are editing /etc/hosts a lot to test staging servers as looking like production. dscacheutil -flushcache A: Ok, definitely not mac specific, but TAB completion in zsh is so good I think it deserves a specific mention. You get completion of options, e.g. find . -d[TAB] will give you -daystart -delete -depth as possible completions. Also path completion is improved over Bash completion, for example, I have a Volume called Wubly, and inside that video/tv/comedy, so typing: cd /v/w/v/t/co[TAB] will expand to. cd /Volumes/Wubly/Video/TV/Comedy (note that it's also case insensitive.) If there are multiple paths that match this pattern, they will be shown. Completion is also interactive, so you can move around the available choices with the cursor controls. A: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal will open a new window if you drag a folder (or a text pathname) onto the application icon. If you drag to the tab bar of an existing window, it will create a new tab in that window. You can also do this from the command line or a shell script: open -a Terminal /some/path/ This is the command-line equivalent of dragging a folder onto the Terminal application icon and will open a new terminal window at "/some/path". Terminal also now supports Services for opening a terminal at a selected folder (e.g., in Finder) or a text pathname using the contextual menu. You can enable them in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services Look for New Terminal at Folder and New Terminal Tab at Folder. You can even assign command keys to them if you like. Finally, if you drag a folder or pathname onto an existing tab (i.e., the tab in the tab bar) and the foreground process is the shell, it will execute a "cd" command in one step. As in previous versions, dragging a folder onto the terminal display will insert the pathname to the folder. A: If you’re like me, you have multiple Terminal.app tabs open at the same time. Now, if you open three tabs at the same point in time, then enter some commands in each of them, then close them all, the Bash shell that Terminal.app uses only remembers the command history for the last tab that you close. So, the command history from the other two tabs gets lost. If you don’t want to lose your command history in any tab, add this to your ~/.bash_profile (or any other file that gets sourced when a new Terminal tab is opened): # Append to the Bash history file, rather than overwriting it shopt -s histappend A: When cding, one of the most useful features is tab completion. For example, instead of entering cd FooBarBazBax, you can enter cd FooB followed by Tab. Tab completion will work as long as the part of the path or filename you entered isn’t ambiguous. However, if you were to type cd foob followed by Tab, the completion wouldn’t work, as the folder name starts with an uppercase F. Luckily, you can make tab completion even more useful by making it ignore the filename case. Add this to your ~/.inputrc file (create the file if you don’t have it already): # Make Tab autocomplete regardless of filename case set completion-ignore-case on This way, cd foob followed by Tab would complete it into cd FooBarBazBax, provided there’s a folder with that name in the current working directory. A: Just type purge and it will make inactive memory as free again. Mac OS X keeps apps in memory for a while after you close them, so they will open fast if you open them again. Purge will remove them from memory and give your free memory back. A: http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump - "cd" that learns. A: With hdiutil you can easilly mount a disk image: hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/lastest_webkit.dmg Dismounting (hacker way): hdiutil detach `df | grep WebKit | perl -pe 's@^/dev/([a-zA-Z0-9]+).*@$1@'` Dismounting (easy way): hdiutil detach /Volumes/<mountpoint> or take the easier approach (that churnd suggested below): hdiutil detach /Volumes/latest_webkit A: Some useful aliases: alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd .. ; cd .." alias ls="ls -G" # list alias la="ls -Ga" # list all, includes dot files alias ll="ls -Gl" # long list, excludes dot files alias lla="ls -Gla" # long list all, includes dot files alias stfu="osascript -e 'set volume output muted true'" alias pumpitup="sudo osascript -e 'set volume 10'" # Get readable list of network IPs alias ips="ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1'" alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com" alias flush="dscacheutil -flushcache" # Flush DNS cache alias gzip="gzip -9n" # set strongest compression level as ‘default’ for gzip alias ping="ping -c 5" # ping 5 times ‘by default’ alias ql="qlmanage -p 2>/dev/null" # preview a file using QuickLook # Upload image to Imgur and return its URL. Get API key at http://imgur.com/register/api_anon imgur() { curl -F "image=@$1" -F "key=ANONYMOUS_IMGUR_API_KEY" https://api.imgur.com/2/upload | egrep -o "<original>.+?</original>" | egrep -o "http://imgur\.com/[^<]+" | sed "s/imgur.com/i.imgur.com/" | tee >(pbcopy); } All of these are in my ~/.bash_profile so I can use them in every Terminal window. P.S. alias chpwn="chown" For more, see my dotfiles repository on GitHub, and/or view my .osx file for OS X-specific preferences and settings. A: textutil is a very handy tool that can cross convert text between HTML, RTF(D), Word (including XML), OpenOffice.org Writer, and the webarchive format. I use it, notably, in a service that converts the selected text to HTML, uploads it to a server then imports it into Instapaper. A: Make files invisible: SetFile file -a V SetFile can change a lot of other file attributes and metadata, as well. SetFile is not a OS X native command it comes bundled with DevTools/Xcode. If you don't have Xcode and don't want to download about 6 GB, you can use sudo chflags hidden|nohidden <file/folder> chflags is a BSD command and it also has a Man Page just enter this in Terminal man chflags for those who don't like to enter commands self and just would like to know what there stands in the man. Here you have: CHFLAGS(1) BSD General Commands Manual CHFLAGS(1) NAME chflags -- change file flags SYNOPSIS chflags [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] flags file ... DESCRIPTION The chflags utility modifies the file flags of the listed files as speci- fied by the flags operand. The options are as follows: -f Do not display a diagnostic message if chflags could not modify the flags for file, nor modify the exit status to reflect such failures. -H If the -R option is specified, symbolic links on the command line are followed. (Symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal are not followed.) -h If the file is a symbolic link, change the file flags of the link itself rather than the file to which it points. -L If the -R option is specified, all symbolic links are followed. -P If the -R option is specified, no symbolic links are followed. This is the default. -R Change the file flags for the file hierarchies rooted in the files instead of just the files themselves. -v Cause chflags to be verbose, showing filenames as the flags are modified. If the -v option is specified more than once, the old and new flags of the file will also be printed, in octal nota- tion. The flags are specified as an octal number or a comma separated list of keywords. The following keywords are currently defined: arch, archived set the archived flag (super-user only) opaque set the opaque flag (owner or super-user only). [Directory is opaque when viewed through a union mount] nodump set the nodump flag (owner or super-user only) sappnd, sappend set the system append-only flag (super-user only) schg, schange, simmutable set the system immutable flag (super-user only) uappnd, uappend set the user append-only flag (owner or super-user only) uchg, uchange, uimmutable set the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only) hidden set the hidden flag [Hide item from GUI] As discussed in chflags(2), the sappnd and schg flags may only be unset when the system is in single-user mode. Putting the letters ``no'' before or removing the letters ``no'' from a keyword causes the flag to be cleared. For example: nouchg clear the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only) dump clear the nodump flag (owner or super-user only) Unless the -H or -L options are given, chflags on a symbolic link always succeeds and has no effect. The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified. In addition, these options override each other and the command's actions are determined by the last one specified. You can use "ls -lO" to see the flags of existing files. EXIT STATUS The chflags utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO ls(1), chflags(2), stat(2), fts(3), symlink(7) HISTORY The chflags command first appeared in 4.4BSD. BUGS Only a limited number of utilities are chflags aware. Some of these tools include ls(1), cp(1), find(1), install(1), dump(8), and restore(8). In particular a tool which is not currently chflags aware is the pax(1) utility. BSD March 3, 2006 BSD A: You can set the system volume automatically too, and kill the screen process afterwards: screen (hit enter) sleep 300; osascript -e "set Volume 10"; say "I am feeling fabulous"; open "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"; killall SCREEN Ctrl-a-d (detaches) A: Simulate to type Command-F, to fullscreen a video from command line. Useful when launching a movie in mPlayer from ssh. osascript <<END tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down} END Of course you can also use this trick to simulate any other "typing". A: what about cat somefile.txt | say say the contents of a text file... or... cat someFile.txt | say -o someAudioFile take your text file, convert it to .aiff A: Text file to an Audio file say -o “audiofile.aiff” -f “textfile.rtf” more syntax here A: Change directory to the directory shown in the top-most Finder window: cdf () { currFolderPath=$( /usr/bin/osascript <<-EOT tell application "Finder" try set currFolder to (folder of the front window as alias) on error set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as alias) end try POSIX path of currFolder end tell EOT ) echo "cd to \"$currFolderPath\"" cd "$currFolderPath" } Another version: f() { cd "$(osascript -e 'try tell app "Finder" to (target of Finder window 1) as text POSIX path of result on error (system attribute "HOME") & "/Desktop" end')" } A: Define a term using Google: define() { local y="$@"; curl -sA "Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}" | grep -Po '(?<=<li>)[^<]+'|nl|perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_)' 2>/dev/null; } For more, see my dotfiles repository on GitHub, and/or view my .osx file for OS X-specific preferences and settings. A: gzip a file with strongest compression settings: ubergzip() { gzip -9n < "$@" > "$@".gz; } For more, see my dotfiles repository on GitHub, and/or view my .osx file for OS X-specific preferences and settings. A: I include all my favorites here: http://rustyisageek.blogspot.com Example: Set Volume to 10 and Say something sudo osascript -e "set Volume 10" | say "hello World" Wait for network to be ready in a script /usr/sbin/networksetup -detectnewhardware A: This is not OSX specific (man says it's from 4.0BSD), but I love it anyways: sudo shutdown -h +45 In the above example, shutdown shuts down your computer in 45 minutes from now (as one might suspect). It's great for when you want to spend "just a little bit of time" on your computer before going to bed / doing the dishes / going jogging / whatever. But when you also know deep down that it's not going to be "just a little bit of time"... Cheers! A: If you use subversion, opens FileMerge for local checked out files that have been changed. Requires installation of fmscripts: cd ~/Downloads && svn co http://soft.vub.ac.be/svn-gen/bdefrain/fmscripts && cd fmscripts sudo make alias sfmdiff='svn diff --diff-cmd fmdiff' Then in a checked out directory: sfmdiff . (or any specific dir or file) A: ctrl-R will allow you to perform a reverse search within your bash shell. It's like an interactive form of history. A: A relevant command for Terminal.app on Mac OS X is to launch Software Update from the CLI: sudo softwareupdate -i -a The bonus is you do not get any nagging from having to click on windows. I run this as part of a update script that is run every week approximately (so that I do not miss the feedback as it may happen when doing this automatically). A: Quick Look is one of OS X's best features. You just have to press Spacebar in a selected file, and you'll see a preview of that file without having to open up an app. It's great, but you can't select any text when you're in the preview. You can add that feature with a Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true killall Finder Use the feature of Quick Look, select the text you want, and now you could copy it. A: dot_clean . This one isn't an every day usage - but it was a big time saver once - I had a SMB fileserver (Avid Unity) that was displaying lots of .filename files for mac users as well as PC users. This cleaning command totally fixed the problem (after running twice) A: You can hold option and click a position in the current line to move your cursor to that position. A: pbcopy and pbpaste: # Copy output of command to clipboard grep 'search term' largeFile.txt | pbcopy # Abuse clipboard contents pbpaste | sed 's/ /%20/g' # get rid of the text attributes when you copy formatted text pbpaste|pbcopy A: opensnoop is my new favorite utility. It uses DTrace to show you all of the files that are being accessed on your system, you need to execute it with superuser privileges sudo opensnoop You can also watch what a particular process opens by passing in the PID: sudo opensnoop -p PID Or watch a particular file to see who's opening it: sudo opensnoop -f /etc/passwd A: history shows a list of the recent commands you've run — something like 500 or 600 commands. I frequently use history | grep something to find a command i've used recently. A: Although I can get around in vi, I use TextMate as my command line editor. You can also pipe things to it. For example ls|mate opens up TextMate with the current directly listing open in a text window. A: mdls will show you all metadata of the file that Spotlight knows about. You can use the resulting attributes in "mdfind" as well. mdutil allows you to switch indexing on or off on certain volumes, and allows you to reset the index etc. systemsetup is BSD specific (not Mac only), but cool indeed, check its manpage. GetFileInfo (I believe you have to get the developer tools in order to have this) allows you to see all associated times (modification, creation, last accessed) and all attributes of a file. automator allows you to run automator workflows from the command line, while osascript lets you run Apple script code. A: It's not built in but this is the most effective way to get my wife to stop using my laptop to read celebrity news for hours after 4–5 requests to get my Macbook back: echo 'The system is overheating and needs to go to sleep now.' | \ growlnotify -a 'Activity Monitor' 'OVERHEATED'; \ sleep 1; \ say 'Overheated system.' Since it's almost always around 70c it's believable. A: Hit and hold esc a few seconds to get a list of every possible terminal command on your system, including built-ins, programs on your path, and aliases. Or, as Martijn pointed out: Just use ⇥ instead, you don't need to hold it for a few seconds even. ⇥ will also complete partially typed commands for you, as well as filenames and command-specific arguments. A prompt asking if you really want to display all command possibilities will appear. Just answer y to get the command list. A: bcat is a convenient pipe between my always-open terminal (xterm under XQuartz) and my always-open browser. it sets up a streaming HTTP server for just one process so things like tar czvf - . | tee bcat will just stream until the command exits. Man pages need a bit of cleanup: man bash | col -b | bcat or just export MANPAGER='col -b | bcat' man bash A: Start a quick webserver from any directory: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 A: Auto-complete a command as an argument. for example start to type: which pyt (now press ⌥+⇧+1) it will complete to which python ⌥+⇧+1 works like tab completion except that it auto-completes using command names instead of file names. A: When you're editing a particularly long and gnarly command line: ctrl+X, ctrl+E will pop you into your editor and let you work on it there. A: The more I use it the more addicted to it I am. screen Along with screen -ls screen -r [session] Very useful for having several screens open on an SSH connection. It saves tons of time especially when you don't have to restart your tail everytime you want to check another log file. A: This is my absolute favorite. Sharing screen captures via the internet is a hassle. I wrote this to make sharing screenshots across chat a one step process using DropBox. (I have subsequently come across apps and utilities that do this, but I think this is perfect, at least for me.) It starts the interactive screenshot utility (same as ⌘+⇧+4), saves it your Dropbox's public folder, copies the URL to your clipboard and opens it in your browser. I run it via LaunchBar, but you could run it from the shell or bind it to a keyboard shortcut to make it as easy as ⌘+⇧+5. You could add something random to the filename if you are worried about privacy. I used to have it scp the screenshot file to my webserver before I switched to Dropbox. You could send the file wherever it would be useful to you. You could even put it in your ~/Sites directory to use it on your local network. If you want sign up for dropbox, you can use my referral link which will give us both bonus storage. =) #!/bin/sh # Integrates Mac OS X's screenshot utility with DropBox for easy sharing. # - Starts the interactive take-screenshot function, saves it to your public # Dropbox (if you didn't cancel it) where it will be uploaded automatically. # Copies the public URL to your clipboard and opens your browser to it. ## Config dropbox_id="112358132134" ## this is fibonacci's dropbox id dropbox_public_folder="$HOME/dropbox/Public/screenshots" upload_delay_in_second=1.5 ## Derivative Variables filename=$(date '+%F__%H-%M-%S.png') save_to="$dropbox_public_folder/$filename" url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/$dropbox_id/screenshots/$filename" ## start interactive screen capture screencapture -i "$save_to" ## if the screenshot actually saved to a file (user didn't cancel by pressing escape) if [[ -e "$save_to" ]]; then ## echo some output in case you run this in a shell echo "Saved screenshot to:" "$save_to" ## copy url to the clipboard echo "$url" | pbcopy ## wait for Dropbox to upload your screenshot, then open in your browser sleep $upload_delay_in_second ## The `-g` flag means it won't bring your browser to the foreground, which ## feels less like getting interrupted. open -g "$url" fi A: Use ctrl+R to active reverse history search. Then start typing a command you've already typed and all matching commands will start presenting to you. To navigate in the reverse history search simply: * *continue typing to narrow down search *ctrl+R: move to the next result *⌫: go back to the previous result *ctrl+C: cancel your search eg. apouche:bin> echo 'type CTRL+R to start reverse search' (reverse-i-search)`fin': find . -exec grep "MainMenu.nib" {} \; See also the accepted answer to "How can I search the bash history and rerun a command?" on Super User. A: diskutil is a very powerful command-line tool for working with disks and disk images. It's gotten me out of some binds. It's not too hard to use. A: I’m not sure; this might work in any decent terminal application, not only in OS X’s. However: Using Terminal.app it is possible to put status information to the actual title bar and not just to the prompt. In order to do that, you need to change the PS1 variable in bash to the following model: PS1='\[\033]0;TITLE\007\]PROMPT' Where TITLE and PROMPT must be substituted to the actual commands which provide the status information. For example, \w lists the current full path; \W the directory name. You can even execute a command by putting it in backticks. (So you could even put the output of arbitrary commands to the title – or to the prompt.) Git users (with git’s bash completion installed) might find the following useful. Add this to your .bashrc export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1 PS1='\[\033]0;`__git_ps1` \w\007\]\h:\W \u\$ ' and the title bar of Terminal.app will show the current git branch (and whether it’s clean or not) followed by the current full path. This gives useful information about where you are only when you need it and does not make the actual prompt overly long. In case you don’t use git very much and only care about the path in the title bar: PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\]\h:\W \u\$ ' A: The say command invokes the system text-to-speech capabilities. say "Hello there." A: !! Runs the last command again. Great for tracking changes. A: Print almost any document as a PDF, as long as it has a correctly defined MIME type in OS/X cupsfilter $filename > output A: I'm going to have to say watching Star Wars from the command line is the best: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl If you say that isn't a command, which it isn't really, just a trick, then I like this: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES A: Mount iDisk from command line: osascript <<END tell application "Finder" mount volume "http://idisk.mac.com/john.doe/" as user name "john.doe" with password "StR0NGP455" end tell END A: Function to make a directory and cd into with a single command: function take { mkdir $1 cd $1 } A: You can browse and search the history by using the cursor keys after adding bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward' bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward' to your .profile. A: open all results of find in a single textmate window: find . -name "pattern"|xargs mate also works with mdfind (spotlight): mdfind -name models.py |xargs mate A: Download a URL to the current dir with curl. curl -O http://growl.cachefly.net/Growl-1.2.1.dmg Especially good for downloading source tarballs that Safari wants to decompress for you. A: In your ~/.bash_profile export PS1="\[\e]2;\h - \w\a\e[32;1m\]%\[\e[0m\] " This puts your machine name and current directory in the terminal title bar, so you can keep track of where you are. This also shows the data in the Window directory. A: Get terminal to open in the last visisted folder: I have longed to get terminal to open in the last visited folder, and ended up making a small bash command that accomplishes that. It furthermore allows one to "cd" to a file, which is very helpful when you want to change your directory to that of a given finder file. Simply write cd, and drag the file to the terminal and your are there. Add the following to your .bashrc or .alias file alias cd=mycd mycd(){ if [ -f "$*" ] then \cd "`dirname $*`" else \cd "$*"; fi echo "\cd \""`pwd`\""" > ~/.todir ; PS1='\[\033]0;`pwd | xargs basename`\007\]\e[31m\w:\e[0m ' } Finally, you need to change your terminal settings: In terminal:settings:shell - make the shell complete the following command: source ~/.todir; clear Next time you start your terminal - you will automatically be redirected to your last opened directory - the terminal title will change title when you use the cd alias, and your prompt will show the full directory path. A: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal supports a few "less"-compatible pager commands when there are no processes running in a terminal. This is useful for paging through and reading text after commands have completed/exited. Supported keys are: space: Page Down ⇧+Space: Page Up ⏎: Scroll down one line ↑/↓: Scroll up/down one line F: Page down ("forward") B: Page up ("back") <: Home (scroll to top) >: End (scroll to end) Terminal has commands that will lookup and display man pages, which these keys are indispensable for viewing. See the Help menu and contextual menus. It also supports Services for opening man pages from other applications (enable them in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services). A: LAME encode .wav to .mp3 This is the original one-liner I used to eventually craft this handy command. find ./ -name "*.wav" -execdir lame -V 3 -q 0 {} \; * *Converts 20Mb .wav (at the highest quality settings) to .mp3 in 3 seconds! *Simply install the LAME binary and you're golden. A: Easy handling of bzip/tar to compress entire directories: # lsZ -- list contents of compressed tar archive function lsZ() { tar tvzf "$1" } # deZ -- silently extract contents of compressed tar archive function deZ() { # extract bzip2 compressed tars as well if [[ $(file "$1") == *bzip2* ]]; then bunzip2 -c "$1" | tar xf - else tar xzf "$1" fi } # enZ -- build compressed tar archive function enZ() { tar cZf "${2:-$1.tar.Z}" "$1" } # enG -- build compressed tar archive (with gzip) function enG() { tar czf "${2:-$1.tar.gz}" "$1" } # enB -- build compressed tar archive (with bzip2) function enB() { tar cf - "$1" | bzip2 > "${2:-$1.tar.bz2}" } # lsB -- list contents of bzip2 compressed tar archive function lsB() { bunzip2 -c "$1" | tar tvf - } # deB -- silently extract contents of bzip2 compressed tar archive function deB() { bunzip2 -c "$1" | tar xf - } A: Silence Idiom - Silence a shell command You can eliminate the standard output from a verbose command with this shell idiom. The idiom is: >&- and you use it like this: noisycmd >&- The command runs but nothing is printed to the standard output stream. A: Send Audio to a Apple Tv/Airplay device via the /usr/bin/say command /usr/bin/say -r160 -a "AirPlay" "hello world" -r160 is Speech rate to be used, in words per minute -a followed by device name or number. Then your text. To list your available audio device /usr/bin/say -a? 39 AirPlay 47 Built-in Output 209 Soundflower (2ch) 74 Soundflower (64ch) Using the numbers will work just as well in place of the device name. /usr/bin/say -r160 -a 39 "Hover over a Method";say -r160 -a "Built-in Output" "I am back" You can also use the -f option to use a text file as your speech text. /usr/bin/say -f ~/Music/foo.txt -r160 -a 39 As you will notice say can expand tilde file paths With say you can do a lot more like save speech text directly to audio file. /usr/bin/say -o ~/Music/hi.aac Hello, World. -o oupt file path. i.e ~/Music/hi .aac file format This saves a .acc file named hi.aac to the Music Directory. Directory paths MUST exist before the command is run. The file does not need to exist first in the directory and if it does it will most likely be overwritten. There are other formats you can use. The man page say will show you the full list of the options. A: I wanted the reverse of the "open ." command, where I could cd to the front Finder window, so I cobbled this together for my .bash_profile: alias fw='cd "$(osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to POSIX path of (folder of window 1 as string)")"' Now the "fw" command sets my current directory to the Front Window (for the fw name). Note that you can type "cd " and then drag the front window to the Terminal to get its path pasted in, then switch to Terminal and hit return. I think this is easier. ;) A: Make All Links In Safari Open As New Tabs New windows, baaad. New tabs, gooood. In general, Safari’s tab controls are wonderful, but one failing drives us crazy: Certain links are allowed to override your preference for opening new webpages in tabs, essentially forcing the application to open a new window. To prevent this in the future, execute this command: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool TRUE. Show Hidden Files in The Finder The names of hidden files always begin with a period--keep that in mind before you delete or edit a file that doesn’t look familiar. Believe it or not, the files you see listed on your Desktop in the Finder do not represent all of the files contained in your Desktop folder. In almost every folder, the OS hides system files that Apple considers too important for the likes of us to mess with (or too mundane for us to be bothered with). Now and again, though, it’s useful to view these files. To see the full contents of all folders in the Finder, execute : defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE. Disable the Dashboard When the Dashboard appears on our Desktop, it’s usually because we missed the delete key and hit F12 instead. We’ve always liked the Dashboard in theory--on occasion, we’ve even downloaded widgets for it. Unfortunately, we never get around to using them, and our aging Mac laptop could use the extra RAM to run real apps. If you’re in the same boat, free up some system memory by terminating the Dashboard with two quick Terminal commands. First, set its default to Off by executing : defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES. Second, kill and restart the Dashboard and Dock with this command: killall Dock. A lot more on this website : Click HERE A: pg with no arguments ping the IP 8.8.8.8 (usefull for basic internet connection test), otherwise ping the given IP. If the IP is incomplete, it is concat with the default prefix 192.168.1 allowing easy local ping (eg ping 3.12 => 192.168.3.12) function pg() { ip4regex='^[0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+$' ip3regex='^[0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+$' ip2regex='^[0-9]+[.][0-9]+$' ip1regex='^[0-9]+$' host=$@ if [[ $# == 0 ]]; then host="8.8.8.8" elif [[ $@ =~ $ip4regex ]]; then host="$@" elif [[ $@ =~ $ip3regex ]]; then host="192.$@" elif [[ $@ =~ $ip2regex ]]; then host="192.168.$@" elif [[ $@ =~ $ip1regex ]]; then host="192.168.1.$@" fi ping $host } A: Add a file named "-i" to your home directory. Now if you accidentally type: rm -rf * it will expand to: rm -rf -i your other files and you will be prompt to confirm or deny the removal of the entire dir. It's pretty hacky, but it's saved my butt before. A: I find it useful to copy text to the clipboard from Terminal.app without using the mouse to make a selection. This seems to only works with the older Terminal.app from Tiger. I just renamed it to Tiger Terminal.app, and it still runs fine on Leopard. Haven't tried it on Snow Leopard. So, with Tiger Terminal, you can do mouse-free copy by typing ⌘+⌥+⌫, then using the arrow keys to move to the start of the area you want to copy. Next, type ⌘+⌥+⌫ again to anchor the selection point. Use the arrow keys (some emacs-like commands also work for navigation like ctrl+E) to move to the end of the region you want to copy. Finally, type ⌘+⌥+⌫ again to copy selection to the clipboard. A: BBEdit version for viewing man pages: bbman () { MANWIDTH=160 MANPAGER='col -bx' man $@ | bbedit --clean } A: List all directories alone in a directory - er - folders in a folder. ls -la | grep '^d' Find sizes of given directory - again - er - folder. du -s dirname A: user42053 mentions adding a file -i to every folder. Gets a bit hairy seeing -i in every folder everywhere else. Easier method would be alias rm="rm -i" A: Drag the proxy icon of a Finder window to get an escaped path; especially useful after typing cd A: I made an alias called dirstat, named for a similar utility. It helps determine where all the hard drive space is being used. Add it to your /etc/bashrc or as a bash script. du -s ./* | sort -n| cut -f 2-|xargs -i du -sh {} A: Automatically update the Terminal.app window title to display your username, host and current directory. If I do the following: cd ~/Developer I want the Terminal window title to be updated to: jason@rocksteady:~/Developer To achieve this, make sure that the PROMPT_COMMAND variable is set in your ~/.bash_profile: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"' Of course, you can substitute whatever suits your fancy. A: I've added the lines below to my ~/.bash_profile file. With the ⇥ you will see the effect by starting a command/path and hitting ⇥ a few times. Change function of ⇥ to scroll through autocomplete options: bind '"\t":menu-complete' SSH as root to...: alias shroot="ssh -l root" Force eject volumes: alias forceeject="hdiutil detach -force" Force quit an application: alias forcequit="killall -HUP" Open man pages as PDFs: pdfman() { man $1 -t | open -f -a Preview; }; Alias pingburst: alias ping2="ping -c2" A: Set bash to exit a script immediately on any error. set -o errexit Always a good idea when developing bash scripts, especially destructive ones. A: An easier way to open and close DMGs is: open <My disk image>.dmg Then to close it: umount /Volumes/<My disk image> A: To connect to a network volume, you could use mkdir;mount and umount;rmdir etc, etc... however that's long-winded and there's a better Mac specific alternative method... You can open a share: open afp://user:pass@server/sharepointname and eject it with: diskutil eject /Volumes/sharepointname By the way, you can also open a dialog to select from a list of all the sharepoints on a server by doing.. open afp://user:pass@server/ Omit the user/password to prompt for credentials in the GUI. A: drutil eject drutil tray eject # analagous to above Opens the CD tray or ejects a CD (for a laptop) drutil tray close Closes the CD tray These are very useful when you are SSHing into another computer. A: You can use esc key as replacement for alt. >ou have to tap it first and then enter the other instead of holding it. It's a standard feature, but more important as the ⌥ key on macs works different as on "windows/Linux" keyboards. You can set the behavior of alt key in preferences to behave like on "windows" keyboards. Though you then will be unable to type important characters as @, \, {, ... Very important if you use emacs in terminal. But suppose there are many commands that require it - eg you can also copy-paste in bash with emacs bindings. A: One I actually use quite a lot is uptime. Simple but nice :) Currently mine returns up 32 days, 14:30. A: Strictly from one Terminal window to itself or another Terminal window: Select text in the normal way, then paste it by moving the mouse to the window you want to paste into, and clicking the middle mouse button. Note that if you have made multiple selections with Command-Option drags, pasting will paste in a newline, which will invoke the current line. This is probably not something you want. A: Local Web Server with Ruby Here is the Ruby alternative to the Python one-liner for a local HTTP server (that is also posted in this thread): ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8000 This will open a server in the working directory with a port number of 8000 so that you can access it in the browser at http://localhost:8000. Change the 8000 to any port number that you would like to use. A: Many answers have been given about how you can drag files and folders into the terminal window but Ciarán Walsh has made a utility called drag that allows you to drag files OUT of the terminal window. It’s even better with my patch that allows multiple files per drag operation. A: I could not believe that the following is missing here. The best improvement of a OS X terminal is to make it feel UNIX/Linux like. My first intention was to show you a proper bash-completion completing several things like ssh or git correctly. I'm talking of standard behaviour I was used to from Linux. But much more important is the missing package manger homebrew. With this you will get plenty of standard unix commands/apps/libraries. First install homebrew via ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" and then get the sophisticated bash-completion via brew install bash-completion Dont ignore the message. You will have to edit .bash_profile. But its worth it. bash-completion completes brew too. A: Ctrl+D is a shortcut for exit. Useful if you often work in nested ssh sessions. A: It's been mentioned already that dragging a folder into a terminal app will get the path typed directly in it. You can additionally drop a folder onto the terminal app icon and a new terminal will be opened in that path directly A: While a top already mentions option (alt)-click to move to a position in the line, in reality this works anywhere in the terminal. I use it most prominently in text editors. Anywhere you can get by arrow-ing alt-click will get the cursor there as well. This is the main reason I stopped using tabs in code in the early 90s, NCSA Telnet included this functionality back then for mac's System 7 and if tried to arrow its way through tabs, so it ended up going all over the place and beeping like crazy. A: I use a lot this command echo | pwd | pbcopy It's simply copy current path to clipboard. I've also binded it with path alias alias path='echo | pwd | pbcopy' A: Add aliases for phrases that you commonly mistype alias sdou='sudo' alias suod='sudo' alias sodu='sudo' alias gerp='grep' A: alias alias_open="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/aliases.zsh" alias alias_reload="source ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/aliases.zsh" alias lsa='ls -lahG' alias l='ls -la' alias ll='ls -l' alias sl=ls # often screw this up alias ..='cd ..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias ....='cd ../../..' alias .....='cd ../../../..' alias ......='cd ../../../../..' ####### # GIT # ####### alias gd="git diff" alias gl="git log" alias gu="git up" alias gs="git status" alias gf="git fetch" alias gr="git remote -v" alias gp="git push" alias gph="git push heroku master" alias gps="git push staging staging:master" alias gpg="git push github master" alias gpo="git push origin master" alias gplh="git pull heroku master" alias gpls="git pull staging staging:master" alias gplg="git pull github master" alias gplo="git pull origin master" alias gpl="git pull" alias gc="git commit -am" alias gco="git checkout" alias ga="git add ." ########## # SYSTEM # ########## alias cwd='pwd | pbcopy' #copy the working directory into the clipboard alias grep="grep --color=auto" #################################################### # Create box of '#' characters around given string # #################################################### function box() { t="$1xxxx";c=${2:-#}; echo ${t//?/$c}; echo "$c $1 $c";echo ${t//?/$c}; } ######################## # Rip audio from video # ######################## # ("$1" for output file & "$2" for input file) function audioextract() { mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy -dumpaudio -dumpfile "$1" "$2" } # extract audio from DVD VOB files # USAGE: audioextractdvd input_file.vob output_file.ac3 function audioextract_dvd() { mplayer "$1" -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile "$2" } ####################### # Backup .bash* files # ####################### function backup_bashfiles() { ARCHIVE="$HOME/bash_dotfiles_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).tar.gz"; cd ~ tar -czvf $ARCHIVE .bash_profile .bashrc .bash_functions .bash_aliases .bash_prompt echo "All backed up in $ARCHIVE"; } A: Useless, but fun. Go and download the ASCII players from Google Docs. Install them in /usr/bin. Now you can have a movie player in Terminal. There is ASCIIbw and ASCIIcolor. I don't think I need to explain that one is color and one is black and white. To open a movie file type: ASCIIbw ~/Desktop/Test.mov A: alias ka="killall" Probably one of my most used commands. I put this in my .bash_profile for easy access. A: When I'm in terminal I expect every action to be given in written form, because there is no GUI. Many of the terminal based apps have some kind of quit command to bring you back to shell. This is what I'm used to when in terminal. To leave a terminal window or tab I aliased following command: alias q="osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"Terminal\" to keystroke \"w\" using command down'" EDIT: better even is to do as Jason commented: configure Terminal.app to close the window if the shell exited cleanly alias q="logout" A: If you have XCode installed, running the command purge at the terminal is really helpful. It frees up all of your active and inactive RAM. It's useful for people like me who do a lot of audio production (or any kind of media editing for that matter) when you only have 4 GB RAM. You would be surprised how fast 4 GB gets used up.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: what is the best way to get my gmail contacts on my ipod touch contacts list i have a new ipod touch and i want to get my gmail contacts available on the ipod touch contacts. what is the best way to do this? A: iTunes offers this option in the sync panel out of the box, at least with an iPhone:

Q: what is the best way to get my gmail contacts on my ipod touch contacts list i have a new ipod touch and i want to get my gmail contacts available on the ipod touch contacts. what is the best way to do this? A: iTunes offers this option in the sync panel out of the box, at least with an iPhone: A: I am using Google Sync for this, it sets my Google Account up as an Exchange server so emails, calendars (multiple) and contacts are synced over the air. There is a walk through on how to set this up on the Google help pages for the sync feature.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iTunes home sharing, between 2 iTunes accounts, but 2 way? The situation is that I have an iTunes library and account and my girlfriend also has an iTunes library and account in her name (on a separate machine). While there is some overlap in our libraries we would like to be able to add music from the other's library to our own, can iTunes home sharing be used for this? Whilst maintaining separate iTunes accounts? (I have only ever used home sharing to sync 2 libraries using the same iTunes account) A: You can use separate iTunes accounts, but the HomeSharing account must be the same. You will need to authorize each other's computers/devices with both iTunes accounts in order to play back content purchased under the other account.

Q: iTunes home sharing, between 2 iTunes accounts, but 2 way? The situation is that I have an iTunes library and account and my girlfriend also has an iTunes library and account in her name (on a separate machine). While there is some overlap in our libraries we would like to be able to add music from the other's library to our own, can iTunes home sharing be used for this? Whilst maintaining separate iTunes accounts? (I have only ever used home sharing to sync 2 libraries using the same iTunes account) A: You can use separate iTunes accounts, but the HomeSharing account must be the same. You will need to authorize each other's computers/devices with both iTunes accounts in order to play back content purchased under the other account. A: Yes this is the purpose of Home Sharing. I have the setup you describe above, which is: * *Two computers *Two user accounts *Two iTunes accounts The result of setting up Home Sharing is that anything added to either account shows up on the other system.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I show a percentage battery indicator on the iPhone? How do I show a percentage battery indicator on the iPhone? A: iOS 4 and later natively provide a setting to toggle display of remaining battery percentage in the status bar of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. * *iOS 9 and later: go to Settings app → Battery → Battery Percentage. *iOS 4 – iOS 8: The option is made available under Settings app → General → Usage → Battery Percentage Apple Knowledge base article Show the battery percentage on your iPhone or iPad. iPhone X cannot display the same in the status bar due to presence of the notch. To view remaining battery percentage on iPhone X, simply swipe-down from top-right corner of the device to open Control Centre to view the reading on-screen. A brief video with the action can be viewed in the CNET article iPhone X: How to view your battery percentage. iPhone 3Gs Instructions: "Settings > General > Usage – and toggle the Battery Percentage setting to On." iPhone 3G Jailbreak then install SBSettings. Select Extras & Options → Numeric Battery

Q: How do I show a percentage battery indicator on the iPhone? How do I show a percentage battery indicator on the iPhone? A: iOS 4 and later natively provide a setting to toggle display of remaining battery percentage in the status bar of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. * *iOS 9 and later: go to Settings app → Battery → Battery Percentage. *iOS 4 – iOS 8: The option is made available under Settings app → General → Usage → Battery Percentage Apple Knowledge base article Show the battery percentage on your iPhone or iPad. iPhone X cannot display the same in the status bar due to presence of the notch. To view remaining battery percentage on iPhone X, simply swipe-down from top-right corner of the device to open Control Centre to view the reading on-screen. A brief video with the action can be viewed in the CNET article iPhone X: How to view your battery percentage. iPhone 3Gs Instructions: "Settings > General > Usage – and toggle the Battery Percentage setting to On." iPhone 3G Jailbreak then install SBSettings. Select Extras & Options → Numeric Battery A: If you have the 3GS model: Settings -> General -> Usage -> Battery Percentage -> ON If you have a jailbroken iPhone: Install SBSettings in Cydia or Install asBattery, also in Cydia, using this repo: http://apt.iphone-storage.de

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use an Advanced Format drive in a Late 2010 13" MacBook Pro? I have the 13" Late 2010 MacBook Pro, and the 250 GB Hard Drive is way to small, so I'm looking to get a bigger one. I wanted to upgrade to a 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue (WD7500BPVT), but I've read reviews that say the Mac will constantly park the head and that I need an HDAPM fix or downgrade to a lower EFI. Is that because it's an Advanced Format (4k sectors) drive, or what causes this? Is there a good way to know if a hard drive is fully compatible or not? Is there any 640 or 750 GB Drive that works in the MBP without having to install fixes or anything like that? A: I read that the larger capacity (750Gb-1Tb) WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are physically a few mm's to thick to fit in MacBooks and MBP's. I cannot answer your question about the software compatibility but in regards to alternatives try this one, from OWC: 750 GB 7200rpm Seagate Hope some part of this helps.

Q: Can I use an Advanced Format drive in a Late 2010 13" MacBook Pro? I have the 13" Late 2010 MacBook Pro, and the 250 GB Hard Drive is way to small, so I'm looking to get a bigger one. I wanted to upgrade to a 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue (WD7500BPVT), but I've read reviews that say the Mac will constantly park the head and that I need an HDAPM fix or downgrade to a lower EFI. Is that because it's an Advanced Format (4k sectors) drive, or what causes this? Is there a good way to know if a hard drive is fully compatible or not? Is there any 640 or 750 GB Drive that works in the MBP without having to install fixes or anything like that? A: I read that the larger capacity (750Gb-1Tb) WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are physically a few mm's to thick to fit in MacBooks and MBP's. I cannot answer your question about the software compatibility but in regards to alternatives try this one, from OWC: 750 GB 7200rpm Seagate Hope some part of this helps. A: I have that exact disk (WD7500BPVT) in my late 2010 (bought it in September) 13" Macbook Pro, and it fits fine. No EFI problems when installing, just replaced the disk, formatted it and installed OS X. Excessive head parking I experienced the excessive head parking problem with this disk. I resolved it by using the hdapm utility to set the disk's power saving settings to the least aggressive setting, which stopped the heads from parking, and it works just fine. I had the same issue (with a different disk) in Linux on my previous laptop; I did an equivalent fix, and it has worked fine for well over 3 years -- so I'm not worried about the disk, but had I known this before buying it I might have chosen a different disk. When I was googling around for a solution to this problem, I got the impressions that lots of disks behave this way, so I guess it's not just the WD Scorpio Blue. This is a very common issue with certain disks on Linux as well. Advanced Format on OS X WD says this about their Advanced Format disks on OS X: Mac OSX version 10.4 onwards (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) can use the GUID Partitioning Table scheme (GPT) which will align an Advanced Format drive correctly. Mac OS versions using Apple Partition Manager (APM) will not align partitions correctly and will not provide optimum performance. Basically; use GPT, and you're good.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I tag Faces on iOS using the iPhoto app? Is there a way to tag photos in the iPhoto library with Faces on iOS? Something like a sequence of screens that just asks for confirmation like "Is this John, yes/no"? A: I'm afraid not. You can do places and whatnot from your i-device, but sadly no faces ability, although I have the feeling Apple will do it in the future. You can quite easily do it on iPhoto however. If you need any help in getting started at all in iPhoto, here's Apple's own support page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/9.0/en/pht2297cf5f.html Hope this helps.

Q: Can I tag Faces on iOS using the iPhoto app? Is there a way to tag photos in the iPhoto library with Faces on iOS? Something like a sequence of screens that just asks for confirmation like "Is this John, yes/no"? A: I'm afraid not. You can do places and whatnot from your i-device, but sadly no faces ability, although I have the feeling Apple will do it in the future. You can quite easily do it on iPhoto however. If you need any help in getting started at all in iPhoto, here's Apple's own support page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/9.0/en/pht2297cf5f.html Hope this helps. A: You can do it now, as of Ios 10: ios face tags A: This might do it - untested but found whilst Googling for another Ask Different question PhotoTime - Automatic Face Sorting & Keywords Tagging for Your Moments https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phototime-automatic-face-sorting/id846435251?mt=8

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where can I get this iPad stand? I am not sure if my question is okay to post or not. I found a cheap, but simple and beautiful iPad stand on a korean website. http://www.funshop.co.kr/vs/detail.aspx?categoryno=1359&itemno=10516 description says that it is from USA. I googled with its name 'easy ipad stand', but I could not find anything. anyone knows where to buy this product? A: That's not an iPad stand—it's just a cheap three wire display stand. It's the kind of stand that can display anything at all, which could include an iPad, I guess (although I'd want something a little more secure, personally). You should be able to get one at your local office supply store for $2-5. Here they are on Amazon at two for $5.65.

Q: Where can I get this iPad stand? I am not sure if my question is okay to post or not. I found a cheap, but simple and beautiful iPad stand on a korean website. http://www.funshop.co.kr/vs/detail.aspx?categoryno=1359&itemno=10516 description says that it is from USA. I googled with its name 'easy ipad stand', but I could not find anything. anyone knows where to buy this product? A: That's not an iPad stand—it's just a cheap three wire display stand. It's the kind of stand that can display anything at all, which could include an iPad, I guess (although I'd want something a little more secure, personally). You should be able to get one at your local office supply store for $2-5. Here they are on Amazon at two for $5.65. A: Sorry, but from what it looks like the product is only available from this website. My only suggestions would be trawl eBay, or try and translate the page using google translate? Sorry I can't help anymore, but someone else may have found something?

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I create an iTunes account without a credit card? I am trying to create a iTunes account for my younger cousin, but he does not have a credit card (he's too young). Tried Google, seems outdated on this issue. A: I seem to have found a method. First i open itunes, app store and click a free app, it will prompt me to sign in or create new acc. When i create new acc i can choose Nil as a payment option. Thanks for the other methods too.

Q: Can I create an iTunes account without a credit card? I am trying to create a iTunes account for my younger cousin, but he does not have a credit card (he's too young). Tried Google, seems outdated on this issue. A: I seem to have found a method. First i open itunes, app store and click a free app, it will prompt me to sign in or create new acc. When i create new acc i can choose Nil as a payment option. Thanks for the other methods too. A: You must first go to iTunes store in iTunes then choose App Store, then select 1 free app (this is the most important steps) and try to get that app. When you try to download this free app iTunes ask you to enter your account so you must press Create New Account and fill the forms but in the Provide a Payment Method steps because you try to download free apps you see below form instead of normal form: You must choose None for your Credit Card. A: Assuming you cannot use the tremendously easier method of a gift card, which Daniel Beck mentioned: iTunes supports PayPal, so use a PayPal account. Whether you use/create your own account, your cousin's account or a dud account is up to you. The billing method can be changed later. A: As others have said, you can create an account by first trying to purchase a free app. This is also documented at Apple's own Knowledge Base: Create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card (I found the link above in this question: How to activate new iPad without disclosing credit card number? ) A: You can also create an account with an iTunes gift card. This has the added benefit of being able to purchase things after you set it up. If you ever want more money in your account balance, simply buy another "gift" card and redeem it to your account!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can you tether via bluetooth? I would like my iPad to connect to the internet via a bluetooth modem (in this particular case, a Samsung Omnia with a more convenient pricing plan.) The iPad has been bought full price and thus should be carrier unlocked. However, when I go Settings → Bluetooth and tap on the device name, the only available option is "Ignore this device." Is there a way to make this happen? To be crystal clear: GPRS/EDGE/3G Bluetooth (Internets) - - - (Mobile Carrier) - - - - - - (Samsung Omnia) - - - - - (iPad) A: I read on forum that one user managed to successfully tether his Omnia to an iPad via the WMWifiRouter, a program that turns the Omnia into a Wireless access point that the iPad can then connect to. I am nearly positive that this will not be able to be done over bluetooth, as the iOS and bluetooth are pretty restricted. Sorry I can't help with the BT issue, and I hope I have provided a decent alternative that you can work with. Cheers.

Q: Can you tether via bluetooth? I would like my iPad to connect to the internet via a bluetooth modem (in this particular case, a Samsung Omnia with a more convenient pricing plan.) The iPad has been bought full price and thus should be carrier unlocked. However, when I go Settings → Bluetooth and tap on the device name, the only available option is "Ignore this device." Is there a way to make this happen? To be crystal clear: GPRS/EDGE/3G Bluetooth (Internets) - - - (Mobile Carrier) - - - - - - (Samsung Omnia) - - - - - (iPad) A: I read on forum that one user managed to successfully tether his Omnia to an iPad via the WMWifiRouter, a program that turns the Omnia into a Wireless access point that the iPad can then connect to. I am nearly positive that this will not be able to be done over bluetooth, as the iOS and bluetooth are pretty restricted. Sorry I can't help with the BT issue, and I hope I have provided a decent alternative that you can work with. Cheers. A: For bluetooth tethering to work you need a device that support Bluetooth PAN profile. I did my own testing and crowdsourcing (it's in Russian) and it seems only Nokia S40 5th edition phones and above are relatively problem free (but not s60 ones). SE is hit and miss and Samsung as far as my sample goes is no-no. You probably have a better luck with some kind of Wi-Fi AP done by app from that phone if it's Android or WM one.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's the best way to import DVD into iMovie 11? My got a new Mac for Christmas and I'm trying to help her import a bunch of DVDs with home movies transferred from VHS into iMovie 11. Google turns up several results but most are trying to sell you an app to rip encrypted DVDs. Other results suggest using Disk Utility to copy the DVD into a .dmg file which iMovie would recognize as a camera it could import from, but that doesn't seem to work with the current version. I was able to use Handbrake to rip it to an MP4 and import that into iMovie but I'm curious if there's a more efficient way that avoids two transcodes and would be easier to explain to my mom. A: Not really, you've utilised the quickest, easiest and cheapest route available with doing it with Handbrake. Don't bother trying to find another piece of software that will do the job better, Handbrake is really the best when it comes to ripping and encoding Apple friendly formats. Thanks, hope this helps.

Q: What's the best way to import DVD into iMovie 11? My got a new Mac for Christmas and I'm trying to help her import a bunch of DVDs with home movies transferred from VHS into iMovie 11. Google turns up several results but most are trying to sell you an app to rip encrypted DVDs. Other results suggest using Disk Utility to copy the DVD into a .dmg file which iMovie would recognize as a camera it could import from, but that doesn't seem to work with the current version. I was able to use Handbrake to rip it to an MP4 and import that into iMovie but I'm curious if there's a more efficient way that avoids two transcodes and would be easier to explain to my mom. A: Not really, you've utilised the quickest, easiest and cheapest route available with doing it with Handbrake. Don't bother trying to find another piece of software that will do the job better, Handbrake is really the best when it comes to ripping and encoding Apple friendly formats. Thanks, hope this helps. A: Handbrake is free but not the most user friendly. Here is a great tutorial on using Handbrake: http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/tutorials/handbrake/index.shtml My personal favorite (for ripping movies for playback on your Mac) is MacDVDRipper Pro ( http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31118/mac-dvdripper-pro) which actually rips the disk image to your Mac retaining the menus and extra features you might have on the DVD. Then you can mount the disk image on your Mac and use it like a "virtual DVD". This software is not free though. A: iMovie can import QuickTime movies, DV video and MPEG 4 video. What's in the VIDEO_TS folder is MPEG 2 video, so that's not on the iMovie list. There are several applications available that will convert video from a VIDEO_TS folder to one of the formats usable in iMovie. MPEG Streamclip is popular. Cinematize is designed for this. Toast and Popcorn 2 can do it. You do not need to rip DVDs unless they are encoded with copy protection. So if these are DVDs you recorded you can just drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive to copy them and don't need another commercial product. I mention this because the main reason people use iMovie is for their home videos, not for editing movies from commercial DVDs.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to create a folder in iBooks? I have iPad and iPod touch. Both I bought just for reading books in pdf format. If it is possible, I want to create some folders to separate the books based on categories I will define. A: Yes, as long as you're running the latest version. * *Tap the button a the top of the bookshelf where it likely says "Books" (though it might say "PDFs") -- this is the Collections button. *Tap "New" to add a new collections folder with a name of your choice. *Tap the "Books" collection and you'll see all of your books. *Tap the "Select" button in the upper-right corner, then tap on all of the books you want to move into a collection. *Tap "Move" and select the collection you want to move the books into. Poof, they're now out of the default "Books" collection and now in the collection you chose.

Q: Is it possible to create a folder in iBooks? I have iPad and iPod touch. Both I bought just for reading books in pdf format. If it is possible, I want to create some folders to separate the books based on categories I will define. A: Yes, as long as you're running the latest version. * *Tap the button a the top of the bookshelf where it likely says "Books" (though it might say "PDFs") -- this is the Collections button. *Tap "New" to add a new collections folder with a name of your choice. *Tap the "Books" collection and you'll see all of your books. *Tap the "Select" button in the upper-right corner, then tap on all of the books you want to move into a collection. *Tap "Move" and select the collection you want to move the books into. Poof, they're now out of the default "Books" collection and now in the collection you chose. A: Yes, with the latest iBooks it is possible to create your own categories of books. When in your iBooks library on the iPod, tap the middle button at the top, it will probable read Books or PDFs, to create/edit your categories. The same functionality is found by tapping the Categories button on the iPad iBooks. Once you have the categories you want, you can move books into them by tapping the Edit button in the library view, tapping the books to select them and then tap the Move button. Select the category you want, and press done. You can then switch between categories from the same screen that you created them.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Tidy up iTunes library? I am trying to do a spring clean on my iTunes library. I have around 500 songs that are tagged incorrrectly. The Name is in the format '11 Artist - Song Name'. Is there any quick way of extracting this and retagging the files without manually editing each of them? Cheers A: You could possibly write an AppleScipt to go through selected tracks, and change the name that way, but you would have to make sure you only select the ones in that format. Ive had to do this a few times before, and have tried various apps, but usually end up just digging in and doing it manually. While it takes time, I can give a lot more care to each thing, espc. artwork and genre at the same time. I usually just take a night and go through everything in groups (like artists starting with an A, then a B, etc).

Q: Tidy up iTunes library? I am trying to do a spring clean on my iTunes library. I have around 500 songs that are tagged incorrrectly. The Name is in the format '11 Artist - Song Name'. Is there any quick way of extracting this and retagging the files without manually editing each of them? Cheers A: You could possibly write an AppleScipt to go through selected tracks, and change the name that way, but you would have to make sure you only select the ones in that format. Ive had to do this a few times before, and have tried various apps, but usually end up just digging in and doing it manually. While it takes time, I can give a lot more care to each thing, espc. artwork and genre at the same time. I usually just take a night and go through everything in groups (like artists starting with an A, then a B, etc). A: Four suggestions of apps I've used in the past. Only one of them is free (and go figure that one isn't exactly iTunes-friendly, not easily anyways). * *Pollux - Pollux was featured on net@nite (Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte), and subsequently died off for months due to illegally using various APIs from services like (IIRC) MusicIP, GraceNote, and other big name commercial music vendors. After negotiating agreements with companies that could provide plenty of helpful information, they re-launched the product with a 20 song tag trial, and unlimited tagging for $10. I believe this is the cheapest app that integrates as well as it does into iTunes. It's UI is geared heavily towards albums, wherein you select all the tracks in an album, then click the Pollux icon in the menu bar, and then click "Tag". It goes about it's business pulling information, cover art, and more (where possible), then does it's work. Updating your music with pretty information. Afterward, you won't re-live this terrible memory. *TuneUp - TuneUp is similar to Pollux, except it's a bit... obnoxious. It runs as a separate app that shrinks iTunes and places itself it the far right of it, like an even more annoying sidebar than Ping. Again, choose your song(s), tell it to "Clean Up", and off it goes searching the internet for all the same information you want to make your information clean as a whistle. You can buy TuneUp for $20 for a year (warning: automatically renewing), or $30 for life. *Song Genie - I'm actually quite a big fan of the Song Genie and Cover Scout duo, perhaps solely because it's UI/UX is ahead of it's curve. You open the app and you get to work. TuneUp is too small and has too few options for checking the details of the data, and Pollux is one-shot (though it allows you to rollback the last action, thankfully). Song Genie uses fingerprinting to identify the song and pull in data. It works very nicely with the iTunes Library, or even any arbitrary folder on your drive. It "rates" your data, and can fill in the gaps marvelously well (lyrics where you had none previously despite having plenty of other information). With a large, attractive, simple interface, it's actually pretty easy to whip through tagging in a quick manner (subject to the CPU speed of fingerprinting, and your internet connection for searching). Unfortunately, this dream team duo is expensive. $30 for Song Genie, and $40 for Cover Scout. I note also their site says "Your Special Price", so there may be some sort of active deal at the time of writing. *MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is in a class all it's own. It doesn't integrate alongside iTunes well, and it's UX flow is god awful. However, if you want absolute control in tagging, nearly the experience of manually writing tags, with just a bit of assistance to make sure you're doing it right, Picard cannot be beat. (And yes, this is a good thing.) Picard is not at all hands off, unlike the majority use cases of the rest of the apps, but this makes it awfully better for more niché releases, and bonus: If it can't find something, do the work and contribute back to the MusicBrainz community! We'd be glad to have you as long as you follow the rules and contribute responsibly. Picard is free, no ads, no account required unless you want to contribute, and I highly suggest you use the Intel-only -NX version, unless of course you don't have an Intel CPU Mac. A: As noted by others This can be done by an AppleScript. Luckily for iTubes there is a collection of scripts to do things with iTunes Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes and for your particular case look at tag script or others A: Try Jaikoz. It is a tool for identifying and tagging songs. It doesn't use the name of the file or the tags for that. It "listens" for the song and generates an "id" for it (search for MusicId in Wikipedia), then searches for that id in MusicBrainz (a giant music database, with better tags than cddb or Gracenotes). The GUI isn't terribly appealing, tough. The benefit of Jaikoz is that it doesn't use the metadata already in the file, that could be wrong. MusicBrainz has very high standard for its tags and is strongly curated. A: What I would suggest is select original tracks by album, one album at a time, and then find the option to 'Get Track names' or something to that effect and click it. That should work, and then move on to the next album. Then, if you have an iTunes account you can 'get album artwork' for even more organisation. Hope this helps in some way.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's a good iOS app for quickly posting screenshots on the web? Something analogous to photobucket for the desktop - whose iPhone app is a bit useless to me because it doesn't enable importing from the camera roll. I'm looking for something that easily allows me to share a screenshot (to embed somewhere, for example in a forum, or on a Stack Exchange question) but don't want to junk up my flickr, Instagram, etc. A: There's also the official Flickr app. It supports uploading photos and videos from the Camera Roll. Flickr specifically will require that you already have an account on the service, most Twitter integrated networks (yFrog, TwitPic) will "create" an account when you use it for the first time. Flickr the site. Flickr.app the iOS app. (Native to iPhone only, obviously works on the iPad using small screen emulation.)

Q: What's a good iOS app for quickly posting screenshots on the web? Something analogous to photobucket for the desktop - whose iPhone app is a bit useless to me because it doesn't enable importing from the camera roll. I'm looking for something that easily allows me to share a screenshot (to embed somewhere, for example in a forum, or on a Stack Exchange question) but don't want to junk up my flickr, Instagram, etc. A: There's also the official Flickr app. It supports uploading photos and videos from the Camera Roll. Flickr specifically will require that you already have an account on the service, most Twitter integrated networks (yFrog, TwitPic) will "create" an account when you use it for the first time. Flickr the site. Flickr.app the iOS app. (Native to iPhone only, obviously works on the iPad using small screen emulation.) A: If you don't want to "junk up" your flickr or instagram or whatever, you could just create another flickr or twitter account only for screenshots. Then you could use these specialized account settings in Flickit or Photoshop Express or whatever. You could also use Dropbox. I love it for syncing files, and it easily works with images too. A: If you have twitter, Echofon uploads pics from the camera roll to Twitpic very quickly. Otherwise, the Flickr iOS app works very well, and you can select any pic/screenshot from your library to upload. Thanks, Hope that helps. A: I like the ImgurFree app. You can take a photo or import one from a Camera Roll. It uploads the photo to imgur and creates a link that you can quickly copy the link in your clipboard or post directly to Reddit, or Email it. Works great for me. It also keeps a history of all the images uploaded using the phone which you can quickly delete from Imgur site if you want.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between Fn and F keys Is there a keyboard shortcut for toggling between Function and classic F keys? A: There is now an app for this: https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor It lets you specify the fn key behaviour depending on a rules engine, and also switches between one behaviour and the other when you press the fn key.

Q: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between Fn and F keys Is there a keyboard shortcut for toggling between Function and classic F keys? A: There is now an app for this: https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor It lets you specify the fn key behaviour depending on a rules engine, and also switches between one behaviour and the other when you press the fn key. A: You can create application specific shortcuts by creating a custom setting in your private.xml file. Check out the reference documentation for details, or my example below where I'm rebinding the Consumer keys back to Function keys when in PhpStorm (to use the debugger). <?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <!-- PhpStorm & EAP Version --> <appdef> <appname>PHPSTORM</appname> <equal>com.jetbrains.PhpStorm-EAP</equal> <equal>com.jetbrains.PhpStorm</equal> </appdef> <!-- ============================================================ --> <item> <name>Switch to normal function keys when in PhpStorm</name> <appendix>Change consumer keys to function keys in PhpStorm</appendix> <identifier>private.app_phpstorm_switch_consumer_to_fn</identifier> <only>PHPSTORM</only> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::BRIGHTNESS_DOWN, KeyCode::F1</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::BRIGHTNESS_UP, KeyCode::F2</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::EXPOSE_ALL, KeyCode::F3</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::LAUNCHPAD, KeyCode::F4</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::VK_CONSUMERKEY_KEYBOARDLIGHT_LOW, KeyCode::F5</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::VK_CONSUMERKEY_KEYBOARDLIGHT_HIGH, KeyCode::F6</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::MUSIC_PREV, KeyCode::F7</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::MUSIC_PLAY, KeyCode::F8</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::MUSIC_NEXT, KeyCode::F9</autogen> <!-- I want to use these while in PhpStorm <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::VOLUME_MUTE, KeyCode::F10</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::VOLUME_DOWN, KeyCode::F11</autogen> <autogen>__KeyToKey__ ConsumerKeyCode::VOLUME_UP, KeyCode::F12</autogen> --> </item> </root> A: Depending on what you're trying to do, you may be able to cut out the keyboard shortcuts altogether and completely automate this. KeyRemap4MacBook allows you to set key re-mappings based on what application you're currently using. I am using a setting that switches F1 through F12 to standard Function keys whenever I'm using RDC (Windows Remote Desktop). Any other time they operate like their icons (brightness, volume, play, etc). A: There might be an easier way, but the following comes to mind: * *Turn on Universal Access. *Create an AppleScript or Automator App that toggles this via the UI. *Bind that app to a key combo. A: I‘d suggest you try FNable. FNable will switch the behavior for the active application, when you tell it to. The next time you activate this application, FNable will automatically switch your function keys. That way you can use brightness/volume controls in most of the apps you are using and you can use the function keys in those apps where you need to. No configuration needed, switching behavior is just a matter of a single click. If you want to use a global hotkey to toggle the function keys, FNable supports that, too. A: This can be done natively with no 3rd party software needed by opening System Preferences -> Keyboard, and then check/uncheck the box that says "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys". If checked, the keys act as F keys, if unchecked, they act as the system control keys, such as screen brightness, volume controls, etc. (I can't think of a better way to describe them). Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204436 A: i know this is an old question, but what helped me that i didnt find here is using fn + esc. this toggles between using F keys and the media keys.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I completely start over with an iPhone? After a botched attempt at jailbreaking, then removing the jailbreak, half the stuff does not work on the iPhone (apps won't sync, iPod app crashes, Settings don't "take", sync freezes the phone for 5 minutes after iTunes says its done, etc...). I'd like to start over. I will re-download the apps manually and sync all my photos, addresses, etc... after the fact. So how do I start over? I guess, if this was a PC, I'd be asking how to reformat the hard drive. A: Does iTunes recognize your iPhone? If so, you can start (non-jailbroken), by just going to the Summary page when its plugged in and selecting restore.

Q: How do I completely start over with an iPhone? After a botched attempt at jailbreaking, then removing the jailbreak, half the stuff does not work on the iPhone (apps won't sync, iPod app crashes, Settings don't "take", sync freezes the phone for 5 minutes after iTunes says its done, etc...). I'd like to start over. I will re-download the apps manually and sync all my photos, addresses, etc... after the fact. So how do I start over? I guess, if this was a PC, I'd be asking how to reformat the hard drive. A: Does iTunes recognize your iPhone? If so, you can start (non-jailbroken), by just going to the Summary page when its plugged in and selecting restore. A: You could put your phone into recovery mode by turning it off, then plugging it in to your computer while holding down the home button. All the data on your phone will be completely erased.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone application to edit text files I need to edit some local text files on my iPhone but so far, all the apps I have downloaded do not navigate the OS3 file tree for me to open, edit and save them. I need to do this on my iPhone as I can no longer access it via ssh or with the iPhone cable. One of the files I want to edit is an ssh config file which is what is not allowing ssh connections. Any suggestions of applications or other simple methods that I could use? A: You can do this with iFile. This application will let you browse the local file system. Locate your config file, then open it using the built-in Text Viewer (it also has viewers/players for other file formats such as PDF or MP3). Despite the name the Text Viewer will actually let you edit and save the file.

Q: iPhone application to edit text files I need to edit some local text files on my iPhone but so far, all the apps I have downloaded do not navigate the OS3 file tree for me to open, edit and save them. I need to do this on my iPhone as I can no longer access it via ssh or with the iPhone cable. One of the files I want to edit is an ssh config file which is what is not allowing ssh connections. Any suggestions of applications or other simple methods that I could use? A: You can do this with iFile. This application will let you browse the local file system. Locate your config file, then open it using the built-in Text Viewer (it also has viewers/players for other file formats such as PDF or MP3). Despite the name the Text Viewer will actually let you edit and save the file. A: Try this https://apps.apple.com/it/app/pretext/id1347707000 that won’t require jailbreak

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Group running apps in OS X? Since I'm working on several projects that require different resources (shells, files, Chrome windows, etc.), I'd like to organize them better. Is there a Mac utility or something that will allow me to group a bunch of app windows together to represent a specific task? For instance I can group Chrome window, Finder window, shell into one group (this would be one project), and then a bunch of those into another group, etc. A: An out-of-the-box possibility would be to use Spaces to define applications to go to a specific screen on launch, and navigate between Spaces (Virtual Desktops) as a whole. Note, however, that you will have a conflict if you want the Finder to be in two places at once :). Your only option is one specific Space, or globally across all Spaces.

Q: Group running apps in OS X? Since I'm working on several projects that require different resources (shells, files, Chrome windows, etc.), I'd like to organize them better. Is there a Mac utility or something that will allow me to group a bunch of app windows together to represent a specific task? For instance I can group Chrome window, Finder window, shell into one group (this would be one project), and then a bunch of those into another group, etc. A: An out-of-the-box possibility would be to use Spaces to define applications to go to a specific screen on launch, and navigate between Spaces (Virtual Desktops) as a whole. Note, however, that you will have a conflict if you want the Finder to be in two places at once :). Your only option is one specific Space, or globally across all Spaces. A: As @VxJasonxV wrote, Spaces is the solution. If you want a bigger sandbox, you could probably run a dozen VMs if you had a desktop with 32GB or so of RAM. I think you'll need a license for each VM.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Stopping a macports installed mysql daemon I'm trying to reset my root password on a macports installed MySQL on OS X. But none of the ways to do this that I can find works, for various reasons. One reason common to all is that I can't stop the mysql deamon. As I understand it, I should be able to stop it with sudo launchctl stop org.macports.mysql5 Which makes absolutely no difference. No error message, nothing. Is launchd really this sucky, or do I misuse it? Reasonably it should give me an error when it fails, but nope, nothing. Trying to kill the processes with kill -9 just makes them restart again, so that doesn't work either. I also tried sudo launchctl unload org.macports.mysql5 But that gives me this error: launchctl: Couldn't stat("org.macports.mysql5"): No such file or directory (And I must confess I don't understand what "Unload configuration files and/or directories" means, which is what the Unload command apparently does according to the little docs I can find). So, what now? A: The correct answer is sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist And you start it with sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist Thanks to kh13org for the pointer.

Q: Stopping a macports installed mysql daemon I'm trying to reset my root password on a macports installed MySQL on OS X. But none of the ways to do this that I can find works, for various reasons. One reason common to all is that I can't stop the mysql deamon. As I understand it, I should be able to stop it with sudo launchctl stop org.macports.mysql5 Which makes absolutely no difference. No error message, nothing. Is launchd really this sucky, or do I misuse it? Reasonably it should give me an error when it fails, but nope, nothing. Trying to kill the processes with kill -9 just makes them restart again, so that doesn't work either. I also tried sudo launchctl unload org.macports.mysql5 But that gives me this error: launchctl: Couldn't stat("org.macports.mysql5"): No such file or directory (And I must confess I don't understand what "Unload configuration files and/or directories" means, which is what the Unload command apparently does according to the little docs I can find). So, what now? A: The correct answer is sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist And you start it with sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist Thanks to kh13org for the pointer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How much faster is the flash storage on the MacBook Air than SSD? I heard that the flash storage in the MacBook Air is faster than SSD since it doesn't need to go through a SATA interface. How much faster is the MacBook Air's hard-drive compared to a traditional SSD? A: It's still a SATA interface, just miniaturized, hence it's name mSATA. There is a great picture at the following link that shows just how tiny an mSATA drive is compared to a regular 2.5" laptop hard drive. Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an mSATA Form Factor

Q: How much faster is the flash storage on the MacBook Air than SSD? I heard that the flash storage in the MacBook Air is faster than SSD since it doesn't need to go through a SATA interface. How much faster is the MacBook Air's hard-drive compared to a traditional SSD? A: It's still a SATA interface, just miniaturized, hence it's name mSATA. There is a great picture at the following link that shows just how tiny an mSATA drive is compared to a regular 2.5" laptop hard drive. Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an mSATA Form Factor A: From everything I've heard, it's smaller, but not faster. Article. Article. Article. Take a look at the benchmarks, especially in the second article. The second and third say that it still uses SATA, just mini/micro or something like that. A: Directly comparing the new MacBook Air against the older model on SSD performance alone, the new MacBook Air is much faster. This is from personal experience and from benchmarks found on various sites posted below: Old MacBook Air SSD: http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=100432&d=1201904233 New MacBook Air SSD: http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2010/10/116-macbook-air-ars-answers-your-burning-questions.ars/2 Can't comment on SSD comparisons with regards SSD drives found in other MacBook models.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I disable update warnings on my iPhone? I got a bought app (i.e. not a free one - be it given to me, bought by me or gifted, I don't know). It works great. Then some update for it comes along with many other updates for other apps. I press "update all" and every time this one app gives me a notification that I need to buy it because it's a new major version or whatever. Well, I don't want to do it, it works fine the way it is (probably because I was still in iOS 3.1.3)! So, how can I just remove the future updates from the list? If there is any way to do it, that is. P.S.: Now I upgraded to iOS 4, the app stopped working and I decided to just delete it along with another couple of apps which had a similar issue. A: You don't get charged for app upgrades on iOS. You only get notification for free updates.

Q: How do I disable update warnings on my iPhone? I got a bought app (i.e. not a free one - be it given to me, bought by me or gifted, I don't know). It works great. Then some update for it comes along with many other updates for other apps. I press "update all" and every time this one app gives me a notification that I need to buy it because it's a new major version or whatever. Well, I don't want to do it, it works fine the way it is (probably because I was still in iOS 3.1.3)! So, how can I just remove the future updates from the list? If there is any way to do it, that is. P.S.: Now I upgraded to iOS 4, the app stopped working and I decided to just delete it along with another couple of apps which had a similar issue. A: You don't get charged for app upgrades on iOS. You only get notification for free updates. A: It is possible you had run into whatever is described here (the comment 9:09AM on 3-05-2010 and further): http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/04/paid-app-upgrades-coming-to-app-store/2#comments So seems clear iPhone checks the installed apps vs iTunes store but when you click update all and it asks for the updated app, iTunes says "nuh-uh! you did not purchase this one, i am not signing/certifying bundle for you"

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to delete images already imported into iPhoto? I have a large number of random folders of photos on my hard drive, some of which have been imported into iPhoto. How do I figure out which photos have been imported into iPhoto, so I can delete the non-iPhoto copies? A: If you batch drag them, as jmlumpkin suggested, a number of them will be spotted with the 'do you want to import again', and you can apply no to all, then delete the bunch. If hwoever, it accepts them, there are a few bits of duplicate finder software - none of them free (at least not that I've found), but at around $8 - http://www.brattoo.com/propaganda/. I'd love to find something free that did the same! Other helpful things: It may take some time, but letting faces do its thing, you will be able to group up and spot some duplicates.

Q: How to delete images already imported into iPhoto? I have a large number of random folders of photos on my hard drive, some of which have been imported into iPhoto. How do I figure out which photos have been imported into iPhoto, so I can delete the non-iPhoto copies? A: If you batch drag them, as jmlumpkin suggested, a number of them will be spotted with the 'do you want to import again', and you can apply no to all, then delete the bunch. If hwoever, it accepts them, there are a few bits of duplicate finder software - none of them free (at least not that I've found), but at around $8 - http://www.brattoo.com/propaganda/. I'd love to find something free that did the same! Other helpful things: It may take some time, but letting faces do its thing, you will be able to group up and spot some duplicates. A: I would drag each photo to iPhoto individually. It should then tell you 'these already exist in your library, do you want to import again, etc'. I would then visually check to make sure that they are in there, and then delete the folder. If it doesn't give you that message, then you would go ahead and import them, and then can remove the original folder. A: You can delete all duplicate photos under "Last import" section after import

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to run Nautilus on OS X? Is it possible to run Nautilus instead of Finder on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? How? A: Looks like it's available in MacPorts, so you could install MacPorts and then install Nautilus using that: sudo port install nautilus You should then be able to run it using the nautilus terminal command. You may see the following during installation: ############################################################################ # Startup items have been generated that will aid in # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled # by default. Execute the following command to start them, # and to cause them to launch at startup: # # sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ############################################################################ Running the commands manually should be enough to run nautilus directly after installation (without rebooting).

Q: Is it possible to run Nautilus on OS X? Is it possible to run Nautilus instead of Finder on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? How? A: Looks like it's available in MacPorts, so you could install MacPorts and then install Nautilus using that: sudo port install nautilus You should then be able to run it using the nautilus terminal command. You may see the following during installation: ############################################################################ # Startup items have been generated that will aid in # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled # by default. Execute the following command to start them, # and to cause them to launch at startup: # # sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ############################################################################ Running the commands manually should be enough to run nautilus directly after installation (without rebooting). A: While Josh's answer regarding MacPorts addresses how to install nautilus, it doesn't address how to run it "instead of Finder". In the other answer(s), there seemed to be some confusion about whether it would be possible to prevent the Finder from running. Unlike an application such as the Dock, the Finder isn't considered a "required" application. For example, if you were to write an AppleScript to the effect of tell application "Dock" to quit"and then run it, the loginwindow would immediately re-launch the Dock, since it assumes the Dock must always be running. With the Finder, however, as long as you quit it in a way that allows OS X to know that you had a clear intent to do that, the loginwindow won't relaunch it. To do that, all you need to do is simply tell the Finder to quit rather than trying to kill it. When you kill the Finder forcibly by using the Force-Quit option or by using kill or killall in Terminal, loginwindow (or launchd for your user account) will immediately try to relaunch it because it saw that it terminated "unexpectedly". Telling the Finder to quit via an Apple Event won't result in it automatically being relaunched. [EDIT]: In more recent versions of macOS, as I mentioned in this answer, it's possible to prevent the Finder from running by running the following command in Terminal: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Finder.plist Alternatively, in older versions of OS X, an AppleScript like the following could be run at login to quit the Finder: property runningApps : {} property assureQuitMenuItem : true tell application "System Events" to set runningApps to name of every application process if (runningApps contains "Finder") then tell application "Finder" to quit end if if (assureQuitMenuItem) then set quitMenuItem to missing value try set quitMenuItem to (do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults read com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem") on error set quitMenuItem to "0" end try if quitMenuItem = "0" then do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem 1" end if end if A saved version of this in application form is at: QuitFinder.zip (You can open the application in AppleScript Editor to see its contents by dragging the script app icon onto AppleScript Editor's application icon).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can a WiFi-only Kindle connect to the internet through an iPhone? I'm considering getting a Kindle, but am still doubting as to whether the 3G model is worth the extra expense. As I'm also considering getting an iPhone later: on the off chance that I'd ever want to buy a book without a WiFi hotspot nearby, wouldn't it be possible to share an iPhone's 3G connection with the Kindle through WiFi and hence buy a book and read it on the WiFi-only Kindle? A: For information about the full article “iOS 4.3 lets iPhone 4 host wifi over 3G” http://devicegadget.com/apple/ios-4-3-lets-iphone-4-host-wifi-3g/1320/ Thx.. ;)

Q: Can a WiFi-only Kindle connect to the internet through an iPhone? I'm considering getting a Kindle, but am still doubting as to whether the 3G model is worth the extra expense. As I'm also considering getting an iPhone later: on the off chance that I'd ever want to buy a book without a WiFi hotspot nearby, wouldn't it be possible to share an iPhone's 3G connection with the Kindle through WiFi and hence buy a book and read it on the WiFi-only Kindle? A: For information about the full article “iOS 4.3 lets iPhone 4 host wifi over 3G” http://devicegadget.com/apple/ios-4-3-lets-iphone-4-host-wifi-3g/1320/ Thx.. ;) A: I have an iPhone 3G with MyWi 5 on it. I can confirm that other devices such as my laptop (Sony VAIO FWIW) connects well over the WiFi hotspot of the iPhone and can access the internet but that the Kindle WiFi 6" device I also have will not connect. It seems to detect that this is a 3G wifi device rather than a WiFi network and gives me an error message saying I am not allowed to connect to devices of this type. I dont know if the iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s will enable you to connect (as they have built in WiFi hotspots in the operating system) but an iPhone 3G with MyWi 5 definitely wont. Not sure if Android devices will allow you to or not. Hope that helps folks A: Tethering isn't allowed for the iPhone or iPad (at least not without jailbreaking it, I believe). At the same time, I have a wifi-only iPad, and I have yet to find myself in a situation where I was 1.) in a public wifi-less area and 2.) I just had to have a book for the Kindle app at that very moment. The chances are more "off" than "on", realistically, and a little planning gets obviates the scenario you describe. I feel the 3G is a bit of a boondoggle, at least for me. A: You have to jailbreak the iPhone and install an expensive program called MyWi 4.0 (check spelling) from Cydia. This allows the iPhone to host a wifi network that a Kindle can connect to. Ask if you need more details, I'm on my iPhone now so don't want to type much :) A: My mom has a kindle wifi only and when tethering wifi on iPhone 4 kindle says it doesn't allow connecting to tethered connections A: * *You can create a mobile hotspot with an iPhone (if you pay your carrier for the privilege and your carrier supports it) *A Kindle Fire (which is WiFi only) can connect to a mobile hotspot created by an iPhone to connect to the Internet. Given 1 and 2, I assume a "regular" Kindle can do the same. ps - The mobile hotspot prices are insane, and both AT&T and Verizon have done nothing but raise prices as time goes on. But it's possible to do, and if you only need it for a short while you can cancel it when you are done. I would not spend the money on a 3G Kindle unless you wanted to get a Kindle 3 (aka "Kindle Keyboard") where the 3G can be used for more than just downloading books. The new Kindle 4s which have 3G do not let you web browse using 3G, only WiFi. (And if you have an iPhone, there's no way you would ever want to use the horrible Kindle browser anyway.) A: Apple says the personal hotspot requires data roaming needs to be on (hidden at the bottom of one of their support pages instead of the first line). After enabling data roaming my kindle keyboard connected via personal hotspot to my iPhone 4S. A: I use kindle fire hd with iphone 5 but lose connection if you get a call can't do data and phone call at same time but that is an iPhone thing. A: It may be noted to everyone viewing this post that newer iOS brings native mobile hotspot. As of posting iOS 10 is the newest iOS, and iOS 7 allows mobile hotspot for the iPhone 4. The mobile hotspot can be found in your iPhone's settings, with no jailbreak required. If your carrier does not allow you a mobile hotspot, then a jailbreak and installation of MyWi will be necessary. Cheers

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I set up an Apple TV to receive content from a Synology NAS? I have a Synology DS210j NAS. My music and movies are served from the NAS by its built-in iTunes server. The content is then available on my MacBook in iTunes / Sharing Library. I am looking for a way to set up an audio system in my apartment that doesn't need my MacBook. The content would come from the NAS (served by the iTunes server). I'd like to buy a 2nd generation AppleTV to receive the content and then use iPhone's Remote app to control it. I also thought about extending this setup with AirPlay speakers (probably with an Airport Express) which would allow me to control the music separately in every room. Would such a setup work? Can an AppleTV receive content from the NAS/iTunes server? If not, what are the alternatives? A: Watch Erica Sadun's AirFlick project. It can do what you want from a host running Mac OS X, so one would expect a GUI-less version to appear soon that could be ported to your NAS.

Q: Can I set up an Apple TV to receive content from a Synology NAS? I have a Synology DS210j NAS. My music and movies are served from the NAS by its built-in iTunes server. The content is then available on my MacBook in iTunes / Sharing Library. I am looking for a way to set up an audio system in my apartment that doesn't need my MacBook. The content would come from the NAS (served by the iTunes server). I'd like to buy a 2nd generation AppleTV to receive the content and then use iPhone's Remote app to control it. I also thought about extending this setup with AirPlay speakers (probably with an Airport Express) which would allow me to control the music separately in every room. Would such a setup work? Can an AppleTV receive content from the NAS/iTunes server? If not, what are the alternatives? A: Watch Erica Sadun's AirFlick project. It can do what you want from a host running Mac OS X, so one would expect a GUI-less version to appear soon that could be ported to your NAS. A: As far as I'm aware a stock AppleTV will only talk to the iTunes store or a Mac/PC running iTunes. Third party daapd servers such as the one that Synology embed in their NAS line won't work without hacking the AppleTV. Currently the hacks for the black AppleTV are just getting started but Firecore have mentioned being able to play almost any media file from almost any NAS in a upcoming update. See: http://firecore.com/atvflash-black Access Media Anywhere Stream media from most NAS devices. Includes support for AFP, SMB and NFS protocols. A: I have successfully used my Synology NAS directly with my two AppleTVs. There are two different options that I've had success with. * *iTunes Home Sharing *Synology AirPlay support and told it to use the audio renderer that is the AppleTV. Note, you have to be using at least DSM 3.2. Also, I've seen a few problems where it didn't like to play Apple Lossless files via home sharing. A: the apple TV works only with airplay (old airtunes) protocol, which is proprietary and does not allow to do streaming from any other 3rd party devices which includes synology nas severs (and other devices).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's the purpose of the eject button on the MacBook Air? I was interested to see that the power button on the new Airs has been moved to the keyboard, and was anticipating that it would just replace the eject key that has traditionally taken up that position. However, this appears not to be the case (pic is from iFixit's teardown guide): What's the purpose of the eject key with no optical drive? A: Well, The keyboard is the same as other Macbooks (which have SuperDrive), but in any case, if you have an external (USB) superdrive, the button will work as advertised.

Q: What's the purpose of the eject button on the MacBook Air? I was interested to see that the power button on the new Airs has been moved to the keyboard, and was anticipating that it would just replace the eject key that has traditionally taken up that position. However, this appears not to be the case (pic is from iFixit's teardown guide): What's the purpose of the eject key with no optical drive? A: Well, The keyboard is the same as other Macbooks (which have SuperDrive), but in any case, if you have an external (USB) superdrive, the button will work as advertised. A: You can use Ejectulate to map the eject key to show you a list of every ejectable volume, making it useful even on a MacBook Air lacking an optical drive. A: There's also quite a few keyboard shortcuts that use the eject key. * *Control ⌃+Eject ⏏ brings up a screen that has Restart/Sleep/Cancel/Shut Down options *Command ⌘+Control ⌃+Eject ⏏ instantly restarts *(etc.) A: That's funny. I was wondering the same thing when I first opened up my MBA! I asked a Genius at the Apple Store who proceeded to tell me that he had wondered the same thing too, and asked his superior who told him that is was designed for use with the MacBook Air Superdrive, which costs an astounding $79 and is basically a slick looking external DVD writer. Because it's made by Apple it doesn't have any buttons on it, including an eject button. Most new/casual Mac users won't know the drag to eject or context-menu eject methods, so in order to make the drive streamlined with the Mac, they put the eject key on the MacBook Air itself. I guess Apple anticipates a wide user base for the new Superdrive...

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there an Air Video app, but for photos? I was wondering if there is an app for the iPad in order to see photos that are shared in a Windows/Mac folder. I went to Australia and took over 12000 photos, now I want to take a close look at all of them without without importing all to iTunes (so it does not fill up space on my iPad). Something that I could check, mark in order to move/copy to a diff folder so I can edit them later. For iPhone there is the WiFi Photo Viewer but I can't find one for iPad. A: I developed ImageBank for iOS to do exactly this - streams photos from your PC/Mac to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It's universal so it works natively on the iPad, and it even works over 3G. There's a free version too if you want to try it out: ImageBank Lite It's only US $0.99 to buy or upgrade from the free version.

Q: Is there an Air Video app, but for photos? I was wondering if there is an app for the iPad in order to see photos that are shared in a Windows/Mac folder. I went to Australia and took over 12000 photos, now I want to take a close look at all of them without without importing all to iTunes (so it does not fill up space on my iPad). Something that I could check, mark in order to move/copy to a diff folder so I can edit them later. For iPhone there is the WiFi Photo Viewer but I can't find one for iPad. A: I developed ImageBank for iOS to do exactly this - streams photos from your PC/Mac to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It's universal so it works natively on the iPad, and it even works over 3G. There's a free version too if you want to try it out: ImageBank Lite It's only US $0.99 to buy or upgrade from the free version. A: StreamToMe is far better than Air Video in many ways. One prime example is it's ability to remotely view photos. It will work with files stored anywhere or even browse your iPhoto library It also supports audio only files and portrait orientation playback while Air Video does not. It's a universal app that runs on iPhones too and the server app runs on Mac or PC. Price - $2.99. The interface is nicer and there's even a recent history for convenience. It has always perplexed me why AirVideo is more popular. Alternatively, there's another great app you may wanna look at when you get some time called HereFileFile. It does not have an iPad optimized version yet, but they are in fact working on one as we speak. It looks very promising. However, the iPhone version is very nice. It's fairly similar in concept to these other two apps, but there are differences which I won't go into here. A: while it requires a jailbreak, I was really impressed after installing AirServer yesterday - I can run the server on my iPad and use my iPhoto to stream photos over AirPlay - really really awesome when you're not nearby a TV and if you are, you've got the reverse - a mini AppleTV in your pocket with your iPad as a beautiful remote for content! A: On the link you provide, it is marked as compatible with iPad. What's the issue? Moreover, it seems they're running a christmas sale :) Apart my silly remark above (which clearly deserved votes down. Probably let too many neurons in the end of year festivities... :-/) there is an Air Photo HD app. It seems to be a browser of your iPhoto library over the air. Are you using iPhoto? If so, it could be a solution. Though, from the screenshots, I don't know if you can mark them as accepted/rejected. Otherwise, depending on the total size of your photos folder, Dropbox or similar services could be used, as what you'll do on the iPad will then be sync'ed automatically in the cloud (Dropbox free account is 2GB) A: ImageBank for iPhone/iPad does the trick for me! A: Not exactly what you were looking for, but if you had the time/bandwidth, you could upload the 12,000 photos to Flickr. Then you would have many more options for viewing/sharing. You could view the photos via Safari on the iPad or download one of the many applications which support viewing a Flickr feed. Again, not ideal. Food for thought. Good luck! A: If you can't find a dedicated app (and it sure seems like something at least 20 people would have implemented by now) you could go old school and use safari and web sharing. I have used the export to web page and export to slide show functionality of iPhoto/Aperture to save a html folder to the ~/Sites folder. Then it's simple to turn on web sharing and use mobile safari to browse the thumbnail pages or just click through the main images as a slide show. You can also export the slide show and a quicktime movie can be dumped if you would prefer better transitions and full screen with less tapping to navigate. I might try out PixelSync next time I need to rate and do heavier editing from the couch or by handing the iPad to a client. Again - this won't be good unless you want your photos in a managed database as it won't work with just a folder of files. And way out in "the OP didn't even ask this" land is a suggestion to check out PhotoMechanic - it stores all images in a folder but is optimized for extremely rapid optimized rating of many photos. There isn't an iPad/iPhoto link, but I've seen professionals blitz through 4.5k photos at the end of a major marathon and cull that first to 500 and then a second pass to the 35 images that make the day's news media picks for press use. With 12k images you might need a great tool on the computer to narrow down things before you move them to iOS land. A: I'm not quite following the reasoning behind chasing for an iOS app for aide in your sorting process. No matter what app you find, importing to your Mac/PC and using one of many available applications will allow far greater ease and efficiency to go through such a massive bulk of images. Why not import and then sort them in an Aperture library? Your data doesn't get locked in, you can rate, edit, sort, and delete photos, and you can get a 30-day trial. A: If you've willing to put the photos in iPhoto, we've just released an app that will stream them to your iPad over your home Wi-Fi network: AirPics. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/airpics/id475202862?mt=8 It does not support flagging photos, but is good for streaming large albums (I've tested it with more than 3000 photos in a single album on my iPad 2 without issue).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the difference between a "sparse disk image" and a "sparse bundle disk image"? What are the differences between sparse and sparse bundle disk images? A: From the DropDMG manual: Sparse bundle disk images appear as a single file but are actually stored as a folder with many files inside. This makes it more efficient to back them up using Time Machine or other backup utilities, as only the changed parts need to be copied. Additionally, sparse bundle disk images work well with the Compact Image… command. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Sparse disk images are stored as a single file. This can make backups inefficient for large disk images, because the entire file must be copied each time. The Compact Image… command generally does not reclaim as much disk space as with sparse bundle disk images. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

Q: What is the difference between a "sparse disk image" and a "sparse bundle disk image"? What are the differences between sparse and sparse bundle disk images? A: From the DropDMG manual: Sparse bundle disk images appear as a single file but are actually stored as a folder with many files inside. This makes it more efficient to back them up using Time Machine or other backup utilities, as only the changed parts need to be copied. Additionally, sparse bundle disk images work well with the Compact Image… command. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Sparse disk images are stored as a single file. This can make backups inefficient for large disk images, because the entire file must be copied each time. The Compact Image… command generally does not reclaim as much disk space as with sparse bundle disk images. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and later. A: Sparse bundle disk image is an optimized form of the sparse disk image. It optimizes intentionally to reduce network load upon backup of changes to the filesystem at the expense of time and space. Specifically it uses a hashing function to store bits of data across a large directory structure which allows changes to be isolated in smaller band files. When copying the disk image elsewhere, rsync like tools will only need to copy the bands that change which makes incremental copies or backups far faster than moving the entire sparse image. Local storage of the bundle img is less efficient in terms of space used, CPU time needed to process IO to the disk image is increased and when files are deleted, the reclamation of space is delayed and not as complete when compared to a sparse disk image. Unless you are backing up the bands incrementally online (as Time Machine does to Time Capsule) it's usually better to go with the sparse disk image over a sparse bundle. Some software will look inside a sparse image and only copy the changed blocks, but the bundle allows simpler tools to be more efficient moving changes around.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to make an expanding compressed encrypted disk image? I'd like the following setup: * *A DMG file sits on my HD, taking up only the space of the contents, or perhaps only the space of the contents compressed. *If I double-click on it, I need to give a password for it to open *Once opened, I can drag files in and out, as long as I don't fill it up. The theoretical maximum should be the 4.6 or 8.3 GB DVD option from Disk Utility *Once I've added (or removed) files from it, I can eject / unmount it *When unmounted, it returns to the size of the contents and is again password protected. Is this possible with disk images (DMGs)? What is the best way to set this up? A: This is exactly what a dmg does. To create one use Disk Utility and hit the New Image icon. Then choose the size, encryption and choose the image format as one of the sparse images. Even if you choose a large size it will only take up space according to what you save in it.

Q: How to make an expanding compressed encrypted disk image? I'd like the following setup: * *A DMG file sits on my HD, taking up only the space of the contents, or perhaps only the space of the contents compressed. *If I double-click on it, I need to give a password for it to open *Once opened, I can drag files in and out, as long as I don't fill it up. The theoretical maximum should be the 4.6 or 8.3 GB DVD option from Disk Utility *Once I've added (or removed) files from it, I can eject / unmount it *When unmounted, it returns to the size of the contents and is again password protected. Is this possible with disk images (DMGs)? What is the best way to set this up? A: This is exactly what a dmg does. To create one use Disk Utility and hit the New Image icon. Then choose the size, encryption and choose the image format as one of the sparse images. Even if you choose a large size it will only take up space according to what you save in it. A: You can not write to a disk image where the format is compressed … files in and out … The compressed formats do not allow addition, edition or removal. You can use existing files to create an image with a compressed format. Write once. If you create a new blank disk image that is compressed — with or without encryption — it will be relatively useless: Compressed — write once. The one write occurs when you create the image — not afterwards. The resulting volume is read only: You can use Disk Utility to convert a compressed image to a format that allows writing. At http://www.wuala.com/%23%23Apple-support/members/grahamperrin/2011/08/04/a/?mode=gallery I posted a five-minute movie showing two conversions.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad? If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad? A: Yes, the app will be available for both if compatible. However, note that: * *classic iPhone apps don't look very well on the iPad *"plus" applications look well on both the iPad and the iPhone *HD applications only work on the iPad So basically: * *some vendors are nice and provide "plus" apps that look good on both platforms (e.g. Smurfs' village) *some other vendors are not so nice and force you to buy both the iPhone and iPad version (e.g. Angry Birds)

Q: If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad? If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad? A: Yes, the app will be available for both if compatible. However, note that: * *classic iPhone apps don't look very well on the iPad *"plus" applications look well on both the iPad and the iPhone *HD applications only work on the iPad So basically: * *some vendors are nice and provide "plus" apps that look good on both platforms (e.g. Smurfs' village) *some other vendors are not so nice and force you to buy both the iPhone and iPad version (e.g. Angry Birds) A: Yes. Purchases are tied to your iTunes Account, not to the device. A: iTunes purchases are tied to your account. The current policy (January 2011) is that you can download apps for free once you've downloaded them the first time. Music and movies do not have this courtesy. That said, if you purchase an app with your iTunes account on your iPod, you can log into that account on your computer, iPhone, or iPad and download it again. Good luck!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Download size/time of iTunes Movies and Rentals + Apple TV use What is the range of file sizes that are downloaded when purchasing or renting a movie via iTunes? This would be useful in estimating the time to download. Apple's help is very vague just saying that "The download time depends on the speed of your Internet connection." without providing any references to file size or anything to help work out a time. Do rentals buffer and allow immediate playback - or is the complete file required? With the new Apple TV not having local storage - how does it deal with movie purchases or rentals? Does it require a computer with home sharing enabled to download it to? A: A single movie will usually be between 1-2G. The amount it will want to buffer will depend on the speed of the buffering. Having a reliable sustained download speed of about 300K/s then it should buffer and start playing within a few seconds.

Q: Download size/time of iTunes Movies and Rentals + Apple TV use What is the range of file sizes that are downloaded when purchasing or renting a movie via iTunes? This would be useful in estimating the time to download. Apple's help is very vague just saying that "The download time depends on the speed of your Internet connection." without providing any references to file size or anything to help work out a time. Do rentals buffer and allow immediate playback - or is the complete file required? With the new Apple TV not having local storage - how does it deal with movie purchases or rentals? Does it require a computer with home sharing enabled to download it to? A: A single movie will usually be between 1-2G. The amount it will want to buffer will depend on the speed of the buffering. Having a reliable sustained download speed of about 300K/s then it should buffer and start playing within a few seconds. A: The Apple TV has 8 GB internal memory for buffering (You can't access this and you can't put your own files in that memory). Rentals (just like Netflix) only need to buffer a very small part, so they play almost immediately and stream after that. I don't know how much of the movie it keeps, but even if you fast-forward it always only downloads a minimal part of the movie. I don't think you can purchase movies on Apple TV, only rent them, but I may be wrong. I don't know how purchases work, but for rented movies it simply downloads whatever it needs to start playing back from Apple if it's not in the buffer.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Using time capsule as a shared iTunes library Is it possible to use a time capsule as a shared iTunes library? To be clear, by shared library I mean a library that all the computers running iTunes in the network would recognise as a shared library and not merely a shared location to be configured in iTunes. A: No, the Time Capsule doesn't have the software to run an iTunes library. It can be used as external storage as you mentioned configuring it as a shared location. In this case iTunes would be running on another computer rather than on the Time Capsule.

Q: Using time capsule as a shared iTunes library Is it possible to use a time capsule as a shared iTunes library? To be clear, by shared library I mean a library that all the computers running iTunes in the network would recognise as a shared library and not merely a shared location to be configured in iTunes. A: No, the Time Capsule doesn't have the software to run an iTunes library. It can be used as external storage as you mentioned configuring it as a shared location. In this case iTunes would be running on another computer rather than on the Time Capsule. A: I have actually tried this and there are two ways the first is the shared location works well most of the time. However, lose a connection while you are connected and you will lose configuration with teh destination folder. Best work arround is to have an external HDD or the TC with all your music connected to one computer and then make your library shared so that the other computer can access the music over the network.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Alternative to iTunes? Over the past decade I've come to acquire a random selection of large hard disks from my older computers. While most of the stuff on it isn't vital, there are fair bits of music I made over the years just sitting on them. I'd like to have all these files stored in some kind of library kinda like the way iTunes does it... HOWEVER. A lot of it is either crap, or the disk may even contain large groupings of game audio files etc. I don't want to bog my actual iTunes library down with this nonsense. So can anyone recommend me an alternative that will essentially scan these old disks and add any content to its library. A: You should try Songbird. It's an open source media player with Firefox-like extensions. It supports lots of file formats, unlike iTunes.

Q: Alternative to iTunes? Over the past decade I've come to acquire a random selection of large hard disks from my older computers. While most of the stuff on it isn't vital, there are fair bits of music I made over the years just sitting on them. I'd like to have all these files stored in some kind of library kinda like the way iTunes does it... HOWEVER. A lot of it is either crap, or the disk may even contain large groupings of game audio files etc. I don't want to bog my actual iTunes library down with this nonsense. So can anyone recommend me an alternative that will essentially scan these old disks and add any content to its library. A: You should try Songbird. It's an open source media player with Firefox-like extensions. It supports lots of file formats, unlike iTunes. A: In addition to Songbird that lpacheco suggested (and also I think it's best Alternative) you have some other choices: * *Instinctiv *EverPlay *PicoPlay *Banshee *VoxApp A: You could create alternative iTunes libraries. Just hold the Option key while starting iTunes and point it to a new directory. To go back to your main library quit iTunes and start it again while holding the Option key. If you are on Windows, the Alt key should have the same function, I don't remember which one. A: One option would be to create playlists for all of these files you don’t really like and then have a smart playlist which displays all music not in those playlists. Then, all you have to do is avoid the main library view of iTunes and only use that smart playlist as your stating point whenever your browsing for songs to play. It’s not an optimal solution, however, because every now and then iTunes will show you the main media library again and you’ll have to manually select the smart playlist view again. (And because you get a useless number before each entry.) I’d be great, if iTunes had an option to create a second (or even more) ‘Music’ view in the library for all the stuff that is secondary.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I cancel an app installation on the iPhone? I started downloading an app then realized that it's really big (over 600 MB) and that I don't want it anymore. Is there any way to cancel the installation? A: I just figured out one way to do this: * *Pause the download on the iPhone by tapping the icon. *Connect the iPhone to iTunes. This will cause iTunes to start downloading the app. *Go to the Downloads tab in iTunes and delete the download.

Q: How can I cancel an app installation on the iPhone? I started downloading an app then realized that it's really big (over 600 MB) and that I don't want it anymore. Is there any way to cancel the installation? A: I just figured out one way to do this: * *Pause the download on the iPhone by tapping the icon. *Connect the iPhone to iTunes. This will cause iTunes to start downloading the app. *Go to the Downloads tab in iTunes and delete the download. A: * *Pause the download by tapping the icon *Turn the phone completely off (with red slider) thus disconnecting the phone from the app store *Turn the phone back on, when prompted to sign into the app store click cancel so that the download does not resume *Press and hold an icon to enter "shakey" mode *You should now be able to delete the icon/download by tapping it. I was prompted that I would still be able to down load from the app store A: I found that turning off the iPhone,waiting 10 seconds,then turning it back on,and then deleting the app(holding it down till it shakes and then tapping the x) worked best. So that's what I recommend. But I also like trying different things to fiind the one that works for you!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I use a non-Apple keyboard with OS X? Recently I've been thinking about the idea of migrating from PC to Mac, specifically Mac Mini. The biggest issue however is hardware, since I'm not sure what will and what won't work on OS X. First issue that comes to my mind is keyboard, currently I'm using Logitech G15. If I connect it to a Mac, how well will this work with OS X specific keys like Option, Cmd, etc? Does it work out of the box with all keyboards, or should I rather buy the Apple keyboard? A: If the keyboard is USB, it should be fine. That USB thing is important though - there are no PS2 ports on a Mac. I was able to use my cymotion keyboard with no hassle, but as Kyle pointed out, I needed to remap one or two keys.

Q: Can I use a non-Apple keyboard with OS X? Recently I've been thinking about the idea of migrating from PC to Mac, specifically Mac Mini. The biggest issue however is hardware, since I'm not sure what will and what won't work on OS X. First issue that comes to my mind is keyboard, currently I'm using Logitech G15. If I connect it to a Mac, how well will this work with OS X specific keys like Option, Cmd, etc? Does it work out of the box with all keyboards, or should I rather buy the Apple keyboard? A: If the keyboard is USB, it should be fine. That USB thing is important though - there are no PS2 ports on a Mac. I was able to use my cymotion keyboard with no hassle, but as Kyle pointed out, I needed to remap one or two keys. A: I use a PC keyboard with my MacBook Pro and I just recently ran into a problem. I'd like a quick keyboard shortcut to sleep the computer without a popup. There is a shortcut that uses the "eject" button, but my keyboard has no "eject" button. There doesn't seem to be any way to redefine the shortcut, or any way to emulate the "eject" button. So that's a data point for you. A: I'm using a Microsoft keyboard with my new Macbook pro and its fine. Recommend the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboard 4000 v1 to anyone. It will save your wrists. A: Macs work just fine with non-Apple keyboards. Alt becomes option, and the Windows key becomes the command key. And if you want to rearrange them, you can easily do so in the System Preferences: However, I prefer to use Apple keyboards with my Mac as they have buttons on the top to control expose, volume, and pause/rewind/fastforward of media playback. Apple keyboards also have the command key better positioned for keyboard shortcuts than the Windows key is on regular keyboards. A: Just in case Keyboard pref setting doesn't stick, try to combine it with KeyRemap4MacBook Some explanation by myself over there. Btw, don't be surprised if vendor's drivers act weird or even cause kernel panics - last time I checked, three months ago, the Microsoft driver still wasn't fully functional on Snow Leopard. And I installed it on my Mom's mini…

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I set Spotlight metadata to files? I am looking for a command line utility (I need to use it in a script) that can set Spotlight metadata to files. A: You can always use the command line tool xattr, which lists/reads/writes/erases the filesystem's extended attributes of a file. That's what spotlight uses to build it's index. Note that spotlight information keys are prefixed with com.apple.metadata: As quick example, to change the display name on spotlight of a file: xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDisplayName MyNewFilename.txt ActualFile.txt to access xattr help, type on t: xattr -h

Q: How can I set Spotlight metadata to files? I am looking for a command line utility (I need to use it in a script) that can set Spotlight metadata to files. A: You can always use the command line tool xattr, which lists/reads/writes/erases the filesystem's extended attributes of a file. That's what spotlight uses to build it's index. Note that spotlight information keys are prefixed with com.apple.metadata: As quick example, to change the display name on spotlight of a file: xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemDisplayName MyNewFilename.txt ActualFile.txt to access xattr help, type on t: xattr -h A: I don't think there's a way to -- the Spotlight indexes are generated by metadata importers that scan files and figure out their properties. If the relevant importer doesn't detect some property, then as far as Spotlight is concerned it doesn't exist. Now, it might be possible to change the actual file in such a way as to add properties to its index entry. This page claims you can add extended attributes starting with "com.apple.metadata:" and they'll be added to the spotlight entry for the file, but I couldn't get it to work. The SpotMeta project extends the import system to add extended attributes to the spotlight database, but only works on OS X v10.4. Not an actual solution, but that's as close as I could find... A: Here is a Python function I use to write Finder Comments to a file using the system shell. They show up in Spotlight, but not in the Get Info box... def writexattrs(F,TagList): import subprocess """ writexattrs(F,TagList): Writes the list of tags to xattr field of file named F """ plistFront = '<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><array>' plistEnd = '</array></plist>' plistTagString = '' for Tag in TagList: plistTagString = plistTagString + '<string>{}</string>'.format(Tag) TagText = plistFront + plistTagString + plistEnd WhichAttribute = "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment" # Other attributes you might want to try: ["kOMUserTags","kMDItemOMUserTags","_kMDItemUserTags","kMDItemkeywords"] XattrCommand = 'xattr -w {0} \'{1}\' "{2}"'.format(WhichAttribute,TagText.encode("utf8"),F) # optional, print command format to check: # print XattrCommand ProcString = subprocess.check_output(XattrCommand, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,shell=True) return ProcString A: If you have installed Apple Developer Tools (usually appears under /Developer/Tools), then you have access to the SetFile and GetFileInfo commands which both assist in manipulating metadata of files. Additionally, I found a set of command line utilities called osxutils that may prove useful with additional requirements that come up while writing your scripts.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What MIDI hardware do iOS 4.2 compatible devices support? (Apologies ahead of time if this question belongs in the audio production stack exchange. Since this question directly involves iOS, it seemed more appropriate here.) A while back I ran across a webpage which claimed to have a maintained list of which midi devices were tested on iOS devices for compatibility. Does anyone know where I could find this list or one like it? (For those interested, it was discovered during the betas for 4.2 that, by using the camera connection kit, one could connect certain midi devices to the iPad and transfer midi data back and forth.) Thank you, -b A: I just came upon the site I was looking for in relation to this question. I'm posting it in case others inquire. http://iosmidi.com/ -b

Q: What MIDI hardware do iOS 4.2 compatible devices support? (Apologies ahead of time if this question belongs in the audio production stack exchange. Since this question directly involves iOS, it seemed more appropriate here.) A while back I ran across a webpage which claimed to have a maintained list of which midi devices were tested on iOS devices for compatibility. Does anyone know where I could find this list or one like it? (For those interested, it was discovered during the betas for 4.2 that, by using the camera connection kit, one could connect certain midi devices to the iPad and transfer midi data back and forth.) Thank you, -b A: I just came upon the site I was looking for in relation to this question. I'm posting it in case others inquire. http://iosmidi.com/ -b A: Every USB device that is compliant to the USB Midi class specification which does not draw significant power from the USB port works as a midi device using the camera connection kit. Most devices that do draw from USB power can be run using a powered hub connected to the camera connection kit when the powered hub is plugged into an electrical outlet. Some USB midi devices do not completely follow the USB Midi class, and they may not work, or will only work erratically, but this is rare.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to make terminals open side-by-side? I use terminals a lot, and I frequently open and close them. The problem is that whenever I open a new terminal using ⌘+n it overlaps the current one, and I have to move it out of the way first. Is there a way to make them open side by side from top left to bottom right? A: This behavior won't happen in OS X by default, but a whole bunch of 3rd party window-arranging apps ought to be able to help: * *SizeUp http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ *Divvy http://mizage.com/divvy/ *Breeze http://www.autumnapps.com/breeze/ *ShiftIt http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/ *Mercury Mover http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/details *Optimal Layout http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ *Cinch http://irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/

Q: How to make terminals open side-by-side? I use terminals a lot, and I frequently open and close them. The problem is that whenever I open a new terminal using ⌘+n it overlaps the current one, and I have to move it out of the way first. Is there a way to make them open side by side from top left to bottom right? A: This behavior won't happen in OS X by default, but a whole bunch of 3rd party window-arranging apps ought to be able to help: * *SizeUp http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ *Divvy http://mizage.com/divvy/ *Breeze http://www.autumnapps.com/breeze/ *ShiftIt http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/ *Mercury Mover http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/details *Optimal Layout http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ *Cinch http://irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ A: You could also check out iTerm 2. One of the nice features it has is the ability to split panes, each one of which shows a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement. It also offers a number of other improvements over Terminal.app. A: Try using the tabs feature. When you're in a Terminal window, press Cmd+T and a new tab will open up alongside your current one, just like in Safari. You can even rename the tabs by double clicking the tab header, and assigning a title. Hope this helps. A: There is not going to be a way to accomplish this out-of-the-box, you will have to have some sort of third party window management utility. There very well may be one that works automatically, but I haven't quite found one yet :). My two recommendations (in this order only because I've used Divvy, not SizeUp) are: * *Divvy - $14, Divvy is a very sleek little utility. On it's face, the use case is to have the application window open and active that you wish to resize, then call up Divvy either by clicking it's icon in the menu bar, or hitting a defined activation shortcut, which calls up a 6x6 grid on all active screens (multi-monitor aware!) which you can drag a cutout on to move+resize your application window. Your use case would likely involve creating a global shortcut to define a 1/2 left and a 1/2 right cutout on the primary screen. You can then click the terminal you want, press this series of shortcut keys, et voíla, 1/2 width slots for your terminal windows. * *SizeUp - $7, SizeUp will likely be quicker to start for you if all you ever want is the 1/2 left 1/2 right capability. It already has predefined shortcuts for halfs, corners, and moving windows around Screens and Spaces, but that is (to the best of my knowledge) where the functionality ends. Check them out, decide what you want, maybe do a little more research to see if something else exists. I seem to recall seeing a question on this site regarding the Windows 7 feature of Window snapping. Drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize it, left to 1/2 left it, right to 1/2 right it, but again my term selection seems to be... inefficient. That and window shopping for price is always in your best interest. A: Apart from the tools already mentioned above, there is BetterTouchTool, a very nice utility that allows custom finger tap gestures on a Magic Mouse or any multitouch trackpad. I have configured it to make windows snap to the left or right half of the screen by simply using a two-finger hold-and-tap gesture. Not as nice as a tiling window manager, but quick and easy nonetheless.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Fast or automatic way to organize iphone/ipod apps Is there a tool or application that can help me quickly organize my iphone applications? The standard way of dragging and dropping 1 application at a time in folder is too frustrating for me. I gave up after 1 hour of trying... I found it to be such a waste of time ... I am looking for an application to automatically organize my apps in the standard folder categories at least (Productivity, Navigation, Photography, etc). I was not able to find one in the iTunes store. Any suggestions? A: Connect your phone to iTunes, go to your phone in the sidebar, and select the Apps tab. There you should find some slightly less tedious app management where you can rearrange icons and/or screens. Perform a sync when you're finished reorganizing. There's also a Jailbreak app called MultiIconMover, but the Jailbreak apps for messing with icons is a whole other kettle of fish...

Q: Fast or automatic way to organize iphone/ipod apps Is there a tool or application that can help me quickly organize my iphone applications? The standard way of dragging and dropping 1 application at a time in folder is too frustrating for me. I gave up after 1 hour of trying... I found it to be such a waste of time ... I am looking for an application to automatically organize my apps in the standard folder categories at least (Productivity, Navigation, Photography, etc). I was not able to find one in the iTunes store. Any suggestions? A: Connect your phone to iTunes, go to your phone in the sidebar, and select the Apps tab. There you should find some slightly less tedious app management where you can rearrange icons and/or screens. Perform a sync when you're finished reorganizing. There's also a Jailbreak app called MultiIconMover, but the Jailbreak apps for messing with icons is a whole other kettle of fish... A: You don't have to do it one icon at a time: just hold SHIFT to multi-select icons on a single page! (You can multi-select folders along with the icons, too). Then you can drag them all at once to a new page, or inside an existing folder (or out of a folder). Much faster than one at a time!! A: Have you been doing the organisation on the device, or in iTunes? I find iTunes a lot easier for this. A: Take look at this video. You create category and then go select apps you want in that category from list as oppose to dragging them. I find it a lot more faster and easier to do: InstallerApps A: There is a jailbreak tweak called mutliIconMover which will let you move multiple icons at once. I find it indispensable for quickly re-arranging my icons.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to upload screenshots directly to FTP or image hosting and give me the url? Is there any application for screenshots that could upload directly to FTP or any image hosting site and just give me the URL? I come from the Windows world, where I got used to FastStone Capture, where you basically press print screen, click on FTP and it copies the URL into clipaboard so you can immediately paste it for example on IM. A: If you use Dropbox (and you should), I recommend GrabBox. When you take a regular screenshot (command-shift-3, command-shift-4, etc.) it automatically uploads it to your public folder, grabs the public URL, optionally shortens it, and copies it to the clipboard.

Q: Is there any way to upload screenshots directly to FTP or image hosting and give me the url? Is there any application for screenshots that could upload directly to FTP or any image hosting site and just give me the URL? I come from the Windows world, where I got used to FastStone Capture, where you basically press print screen, click on FTP and it copies the URL into clipaboard so you can immediately paste it for example on IM. A: If you use Dropbox (and you should), I recommend GrabBox. When you take a regular screenshot (command-shift-3, command-shift-4, etc.) it automatically uploads it to your public folder, grabs the public URL, optionally shortens it, and copies it to the clipboard. A: i think tinygrab (http://tinygrab.com/features.php) can do it you can also roll your own if you want. Here is a link to the code below for working with imgur: #!/bin/sh # version 0.3 # 2010-02-12 # description: bash alternative to grabup using imgur.com # todo: add error code checking/reporting # report upload speed & time via growl # copy to clipboard on 'click on notification' apikey="7d9157e3bb2823aadb62a40e30e10dcc" growlecho (){ echo $@ | /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -t QuickGrab -a /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app; } # work in temporary directory tempdir=`mktemp -dt quickgrab` cd $tempdir # start screencapture in interactive mode unless... if [[ "$1" == "-m" ]] then screencapture -m tmpfile.png else screencapture -i tmpfile.png fi # check if tmpfile.png exists before continuing if [ -f tmpfile.png ] then # upload via imgur.com api & output to response.log curl -F "image=@tmpfile.png" -F "key=$apikey" http://imgur.com/api/upload.xml > response.log LOGFILE=./response.log # if no errors (return 1), copy url A1=`xpath $LOGFILE "/rsp/@stat='ok'"` if [[ "$A1" == "1" ]] then # copy url to clipboard & growl success echo `xpath $LOGFILE "//original_image/text()"` | pbcopy growlecho `xpath $LOGFILE "//original_image/text()"` else # growl failure growlecho "$A1" fi fi # delete temporary directory rm -r $tempdir A: Two of the best apps for this are CloudApp and Skitch. Cloud app has an option to automatically upload screenshots (image courtesy of Softpedia). It is very drag and drop friendly and pastes the URL to your clipboard for convenience. Skitch is a little more heavy on the screen snapping controls. It's like grab on steroids. You can quickly hide private information, point out items, and edit the snap before uploading. The free version of both are well worth it. Both have paid upgrades that are low cost, but you don't need to pay to use either. I have also heard really good things about Droplr so you might check it out as well. Both CloudApp and Skitch are available on the App Store. The two are better together - skitch is better for grabbing a great screen shot, and droplr for upload and sharing it. A: Dropshare is another paid option that has come along - in the vein of TinyGrab and LittleSnaper (which Realmac has replaced with Ember) mentioned already. Both the OS X and iOS version can: * *Upload to S3, Rackspace or your own server (via SCP over SSH) *Global hotkeys for uploading clipboard, screenshot/recording or note (MarkDown supported) *Create optional, custom landing pages for your files *Sync connections/preferences via Dropshare's own sync service *Shorten URLs using services or custom shorteners *Delete previously shared files directly via the app Three-day trial of the OS X version's available at their site. I've been pleased using it for the past few months. A: I wrote a small python script to do that. It will not just auto upload screenshots to imgur but also copy screenshot url to clipboard and open up browser with link instantly. Check it out: Video Demo: Link A: LittleSnapper is designed to work with FTP and copy the URL after upload. Upload is a separate step from snapping, so you will have to set a key command or automate that for the exact functionality you ask. There is a free trial version from the RealMac website - so you can see if it's what you want before buying a license.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to show hidden files and folders in Finder? I have a folder that starts with a dot . but am unable to display it in Finder. How can I say that for folder x, Finder should also display hidden files/folders? A: I don't think you can set this for individual folders. To set it globally, so that Finder always shows hidden files, run Terminal and enter the following two commands: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true killall Finder To switch back, do the same but substitute false for true. This works all the way through macOS Catalina (and betas for Big Sur).

Q: How to show hidden files and folders in Finder? I have a folder that starts with a dot . but am unable to display it in Finder. How can I say that for folder x, Finder should also display hidden files/folders? A: I don't think you can set this for individual folders. To set it globally, so that Finder always shows hidden files, run Terminal and enter the following two commands: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true killall Finder To switch back, do the same but substitute false for true. This works all the way through macOS Catalina (and betas for Big Sur). A: In the Finder, press CommandShift. to show hidden files & folders. A: You can customize Finder through Terminal commands such that it defaults to show/hide hidden files. To show hidden files and restart Finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app To hide hidden files and restart Finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app s A: I myself use hiddenfiles widget. it's so easy to use. Beside that you can use free 3rd-party software like Deeper or TinkerTool.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: New Apple ID not pushed to iPhone I recently changed my Apple ID from an old email address to my current one. I updated the Apple ID in iTunes and then synced my phone with iTunes. Now, however, when I try to download new apps (or update existing ones), I get the standard notification asking for my Apple ID Password, however the Apple ID that is displays is my old Apple ID. When I enter in my password, it tells me that "Your iTunes Store password was incorrect. Please Try again". I believe the problem is that for some reason iTunes is not pushing my new Apple ID to the device. Anyone know how to rectify this problem? A: On your iPhone, go into Settings -> Store, sign out of your old Apple ID and sign in with your new one.

Q: New Apple ID not pushed to iPhone I recently changed my Apple ID from an old email address to my current one. I updated the Apple ID in iTunes and then synced my phone with iTunes. Now, however, when I try to download new apps (or update existing ones), I get the standard notification asking for my Apple ID Password, however the Apple ID that is displays is my old Apple ID. When I enter in my password, it tells me that "Your iTunes Store password was incorrect. Please Try again". I believe the problem is that for some reason iTunes is not pushing my new Apple ID to the device. Anyone know how to rectify this problem? A: On your iPhone, go into Settings -> Store, sign out of your old Apple ID and sign in with your new one.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to stop "password reset" emails from Apple? Every day or two, I get another "how to reset your AppleID password" from Apple. They assure me my account is secure. I've never gotten more than one of these from any other individual service, ever. It's getting pretty annoying with the Apple ones, though. Short of deleting my Apple account altogether, is there any way to stop this? A: If you're getting these, it might mean someone is trying to hack into your Apple account. And they don't know your password. Though they would be stupid to keep pressing the Reset link unless they're also trying to hack into your email account to get the email too. I don't assume the emails come with an IP of the computer sending the request? Maybe you could contact Apple and see if someone on an outside IP is trying to access your stuff.

Q: How to stop "password reset" emails from Apple? Every day or two, I get another "how to reset your AppleID password" from Apple. They assure me my account is secure. I've never gotten more than one of these from any other individual service, ever. It's getting pretty annoying with the Apple ones, though. Short of deleting my Apple account altogether, is there any way to stop this? A: If you're getting these, it might mean someone is trying to hack into your Apple account. And they don't know your password. Though they would be stupid to keep pressing the Reset link unless they're also trying to hack into your email account to get the email too. I don't assume the emails come with an IP of the computer sending the request? Maybe you could contact Apple and see if someone on an outside IP is trying to access your stuff. A: You can stop getting these emails by switching your account to two-step authentication now that iCloud and Apple ID support that. Do keep in mind, that if you receive that email, someone (or some bot / computer script) is telling Apple to begin the reset procedure for your account and if they happen to have compromised any step in the email chain between you and Apple - they can take control of your account. You'll no longer have security questions to ask and Apple will never allow the password to be reset via emails from iForgot.apple.com. You'll instead get a SMS code (or iMessage) to a trusted iOS device or use your recovery key and current password to reset the password going forward. * *Apple ID: Frequently asked questions about two-step verification for Apple ID - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570 A: I get these all the time, and it's not even Apple's fault. If—like me—you: * *Use a me.com or mac.com email address as your Apple ID *Have a common username (such as steve, @ either mac.com or me.com) Then every Joe or Jane who comes along thinks that they have joe@mac or jane@me, can't sign in, and tells Apple to reset the password. Apple does what it should do and sends you an email telling you how to reset your password. Again. And again. And again. If you're in the same situation, there's nothing that can be done about it (short of giving up that nice mac.com address). A: Check that the home page/remembered pages in one of your browsers is not the password reset URL. Is there a particular time every day that you get them? A: I got three then the next one said you've changed your password...I think my account was hacked. Another today so whoever it was us still trying! Don't ignore the emails

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What control / access does the exchange team have over my iphone when using the exchange connector? I work at a small company (80 employees), when we deployed MS Exchange anyone who connected their iphones using the exchange connector lost the icon to the camera on the home screen. The engineers made some changes and the camera icon returned. What other access / control does the exchange team have over our phones? Can they view email (personal and exchange?), photos, web history etc? A: From a quick glance at http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/ -- Exchange can set password policies, network access (including VPN), restrictions on use of YouTube and iTunes, prohibit app installs and use of the camera. More information at: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pdf I don't see anything about viewing web history, etc. -- but if you are on a company WiFi they could theoretically see what websites you are viewing.

Q: What control / access does the exchange team have over my iphone when using the exchange connector? I work at a small company (80 employees), when we deployed MS Exchange anyone who connected their iphones using the exchange connector lost the icon to the camera on the home screen. The engineers made some changes and the camera icon returned. What other access / control does the exchange team have over our phones? Can they view email (personal and exchange?), photos, web history etc? A: From a quick glance at http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/ -- Exchange can set password policies, network access (including VPN), restrictions on use of YouTube and iTunes, prohibit app installs and use of the camera. More information at: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pdf I don't see anything about viewing web history, etc. -- but if you are on a company WiFi they could theoretically see what websites you are viewing. A: They can reset your iPhone remotely. That's for certain. I had to go through that process when I left my old employer and had my personal iPhone connected to work via the Exchange Connector. You'll be able to restore it from a recent backup.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I add an arbitrary RSS feed to Flipboard? Would you please confirm that it is not possible to add an arbitrary RSS feed to Flipboard on my iPad? I find this so hard to believe that I'm in doubt I missed something... A: Actually, it can be done very easily: Just put the name of the feed, or its URL, in the search box. Flipboard will find it. And then, you can select it, and add it.

Q: Can I add an arbitrary RSS feed to Flipboard? Would you please confirm that it is not possible to add an arbitrary RSS feed to Flipboard on my iPad? I find this so hard to believe that I'm in doubt I missed something... A: Actually, it can be done very easily: Just put the name of the feed, or its URL, in the search box. Flipboard will find it. And then, you can select it, and add it. A: Actually you CAN load a specific feed to Flipboard. Start by adding Google Reader. Then launch into it, and click on the downward facing Triangle next to the headline "Google Reader." It will then pop up a window showing you your various feeds. Select the one you want, and its name will appear as the new headline and you will only see stories from that feed. Then click the little "+ content" symbol in the upper left, and it'll add just this single RSS feed to your main flipboard page. A: You are correct that you cannot add an arbitrary feed, and as @Mike Scott noted, you have to add your entire Google Reader account. Frustrating because Flipboard is absolutely not a good way for me to read the bulk of my feeds -- Reeder is perfect for them -- but I'd love to add a few feeds that I rarely read to Flipboard, feeds that fit its visual style. A: You can add an arbitrary RSS feed by creating a Google Reader account, adding the feed to that, and then linking it with Flipboard. A: From the Flipboard tips page: Discover Great RSS Feeds. You can use the Google Reader service to access RSS and then read and interact with your feeds right in Flipboard. You can also use the Search feature to find any RSS feed by name, website URL, or RSS link. A: More to the original point, unlike Twitter, Google Reader is not fully integrated with Flipboard as you can not add RSS feed to your Google Reader on your iPad app. Disappointing as Google Reader is a best archiver/database of all feeds you are following. A: Yes, but it's based on blekko.com cached search result which may not be up to dated.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone: how to see if GPS is working Is there a way where I can see if GPS is working? Or what the location service is using right now and why it is not using GPS? (Because the location service has become very inaccurate after a recent jailbreak I did and I was wondering how I can check if it is really not working anymore or if I just had bad luck.) A: I'm guessing turning off WiFi, standing outside and opening up Maps.app would do the trick, if it correctly displays where you are it works, if it doesn't... it doesn't.

Q: iPhone: how to see if GPS is working Is there a way where I can see if GPS is working? Or what the location service is using right now and why it is not using GPS? (Because the location service has become very inaccurate after a recent jailbreak I did and I was wondering how I can check if it is really not working anymore or if I just had bad luck.) A: I'm guessing turning off WiFi, standing outside and opening up Maps.app would do the trick, if it correctly displays where you are it works, if it doesn't... it doesn't.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Local reverse/duplicate image search for Mac? I'm searching for an application to find duplicate images. In my Linux days, there was a nice Gtk+ application which I could provide some folders and which would list all duplicate images based on some algorithm to determine image-equality (It could detect duplicate images even if one image had a lower resolution or was color shifted) It was also possible to modify the threshold to prevent false-positives. So far, I found nothing for Mac OS X which could do this. Nice GUI is a plus. A: dupeguru picture ed is free and does exactly that. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22724/dupeguru-picture-edition

Q: Local reverse/duplicate image search for Mac? I'm searching for an application to find duplicate images. In my Linux days, there was a nice Gtk+ application which I could provide some folders and which would list all duplicate images based on some algorithm to determine image-equality (It could detect duplicate images even if one image had a lower resolution or was color shifted) It was also possible to modify the threshold to prevent false-positives. So far, I found nothing for Mac OS X which could do this. Nice GUI is a plus. A: dupeguru picture ed is free and does exactly that. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22724/dupeguru-picture-edition

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Monitoring and disconnecting users from an AirPort Extreme Does anyone know a simple way to monitor who is connected to an AirPort Extreme, see the bandwidth they are using, and the ability to disconnect them or throttle their bandwidth usage? I know for disconnecting two options would be 1. updating wifi password and restarting the AirPort Extreme 2. setting a limit by MAC address but I am looking for something that wouldn't involve restarting the AirPort each time. A: Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a native way to do this. With regard to detailed bandwidth monitoring, the Airport Extreme supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) so if you want to put in a bit of effort, you could set up Cacti http://www.cacti.net/ and point that at the base station. As far as remote disconnection of users, there is no way that I know of short of the two options you mentioned.

Q: Monitoring and disconnecting users from an AirPort Extreme Does anyone know a simple way to monitor who is connected to an AirPort Extreme, see the bandwidth they are using, and the ability to disconnect them or throttle their bandwidth usage? I know for disconnecting two options would be 1. updating wifi password and restarting the AirPort Extreme 2. setting a limit by MAC address but I am looking for something that wouldn't involve restarting the AirPort each time. A: Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a native way to do this. With regard to detailed bandwidth monitoring, the Airport Extreme supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) so if you want to put in a bit of effort, you could set up Cacti http://www.cacti.net/ and point that at the base station. As far as remote disconnection of users, there is no way that I know of short of the two options you mentioned.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iTunes: What is the usefulness of checked/unchecked songs? I know the functional effect of unchecking a song: it doesn't play (except when explicitly double-clicked) and doesn't sync with an iPod/iPad. But how is this useful? Does Apple officially recommend any sort of usage of the checkboxes? Or, more subjectively, do you make use of the checkboxes in iTunes, and if so, what songs do you check or uncheck and why? A: It keeps holiday music out of my playlists, off my iPhone, until I want to overdose on them from December 24th through 25th every year. For that alone: I love the check box.

Q: iTunes: What is the usefulness of checked/unchecked songs? I know the functional effect of unchecking a song: it doesn't play (except when explicitly double-clicked) and doesn't sync with an iPod/iPad. But how is this useful? Does Apple officially recommend any sort of usage of the checkboxes? Or, more subjectively, do you make use of the checkboxes in iTunes, and if so, what songs do you check or uncheck and why? A: It keeps holiday music out of my playlists, off my iPhone, until I want to overdose on them from December 24th through 25th every year. For that alone: I love the check box. A: I think you sort of answered your own question as far as "usefulness" of the feature. As far as a use case I would use the check boxes more when I had a larger capacity iPod that could fit my entire music library. The songs I would uncheck would be skits on hip-hop/rap albums and I have a few theme songs from movies or tv shows I would also uncheck. I would then select the "Only sync checked songs" option in iTunes so I would only have to plug my iPod in and it would automatically sync my library except for those that were unchecked. A: I uncheck tracks that contain dialogues, like the Pulp Fiction OST, interviews in Beatles at BBC, or an interview at the end of the Aqualung 25th Anniversary. A: There are a few good case scenarios here to show why they exist. One for myself is that I have a lot of lectures in my iTunes library, but do not want to listen to them regularly. Unchecking them will ensure they neither sync to a device, or play unless I selectively choose to play it. A: Almost all the answers so far seem to be things where a smart playlist might be a better solution… but given that, here's mine: There are a lot of bands that have one great album and a few hit-or-miss albums. For them, I buy the good album + the greatest hits. But that leaves me with duplicated songs. Yes, they're really good songs, true, but they're still dupes. Those, I check off so they only show up once. A: They can be used to solve the dreaded "remove all files with exclamation marks" problem. See https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/35813/646 A: Some DJ dance compilations add, in addition to all tracks, a mixed version of the album as a single 1-hour-length track. (As the last track in the album). It's very useful for this scenario. A: I typically don't uncheck tracks, but when I do, it's typically because I've ripped an entire CD, and there are tracks that I don't think I will want to hear, except on rare occasions. If I wasn't completely pedantic about having everything I own in my library, I'd probably just delete those tracks, but I don't want to have to dig the CD out of a box and re-rip it, should I change my mind in the future. I think most other uses are better supported using smart playlists. IMO, checkboxes became mostly pointless after Apple introduced smart playlists. A: In my case, I've added an audiobook to my iTunes to listen to on my iPhone while I'm out of the house and want to, but can't, read my book. (I get carsick while reading, etc.) However, it's 20 discs long and averages 20 tracks per disc. I want to keep it in my iTunes because I spent quite a bit of time adding all of these discs and adding information, but I also don't want to have it popping up with my music randomly! Also, I don't want to bloat my poor phone with the entire thing. So I sync like four discs at a time, and uncheck the ones I've already listened to and ones I don't want on my phone yet! A: I have a lot of duplicate songs - the same song by the same artist, from different CDs. I compare them and uncheck the one that is not as good quality as the other.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved? When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved? A: There's also a special folder inside your iTunes library folder (Whatever you set it to if not default) called "Automatically Add to iTunes" which is a watched folder. Any time you add a file to it, while iTunes is running, it'll grab it and move it to the correct location. I just use this now. I keep an alias to it in a Stack on my Dock.

Q: When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved? When I add a file to iTunes library, does iTunes make a copy of it? If yes, where is the copy saved? A: There's also a special folder inside your iTunes library folder (Whatever you set it to if not default) called "Automatically Add to iTunes" which is a watched folder. Any time you add a file to it, while iTunes is running, it'll grab it and move it to the correct location. I just use this now. I keep an alias to it in a Stack on my Dock. A: If the option "Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library" is activated, iTunes makes a copy. The default storing location is: * *Windows 7: \username\Music\iTunes *Windows Vista: \username\My Music\iTunes *Windows XP and 2000: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes *MAC OS X: ~/Music/iTunes/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to arrange or categorize the imported pdf assets from within iTunes first and then sync the devices (iPod,iPad) with iTunes? Categorizing the pdf assets from within iPad or iPod is possible now. But I think it is more elegant if I can make the categorization from within iTunes in advance. Is it possible to arrange or categorize the imported pdf assets from within iTunes first and then sync the devices (iPod,iPad) with iTunes? A: You might want to look at Calibre. Famously one of the ugliest Mac apps ever created (although it's much nicer looking now), Calibre is an e-book manager. You can use it to process your books, categorize them, tidy up the metadata etc. and then hit "send to device" to copy the books into iTunes. I originally used it because my ePub collection for my Sony Reader was in it, and so it was the easiest way to get that to my iPad, but I've stuck with it because it has lots more features than iTunes.

Q: Is it possible to arrange or categorize the imported pdf assets from within iTunes first and then sync the devices (iPod,iPad) with iTunes? Categorizing the pdf assets from within iPad or iPod is possible now. But I think it is more elegant if I can make the categorization from within iTunes in advance. Is it possible to arrange or categorize the imported pdf assets from within iTunes first and then sync the devices (iPod,iPad) with iTunes? A: You might want to look at Calibre. Famously one of the ugliest Mac apps ever created (although it's much nicer looking now), Calibre is an e-book manager. You can use it to process your books, categorize them, tidy up the metadata etc. and then hit "send to device" to copy the books into iTunes. I originally used it because my ePub collection for my Sony Reader was in it, and so it was the easiest way to get that to my iPad, but I've stuck with it because it has lots more features than iTunes. A: Within iTunes-Books, you can view all the ePub books and PDFs you have available to sync to your iPhone or iPad. The PDFs will have a spiral bound edge and the ePubs have either a brown generic cover, the cover art included in the download or the cover art you added via "Get Info"-"Artwork". If you rename the PDF with a number (01-10...) before the title, it will automatically sort via name and put the 01s together Alphabetically and so on down the number line. This is not as nice as setting up a "compilation" like you can do with audio books or multi-CD albums but it should sort your PDFs for you. A: I took a quick look in the iTunes Music Library.xml and couldn't find my books in there (music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and audiobooks are all in there - books and pdfs are missing). The Book category does not seem to affect the Album/Grouping/Genre metadata of the book (from iPhone to iTunes) and the Album/Grouping/Genre metadata does not seem to affect the Book category (from iTunes to iPhone). If I remember correctly, the iBooks app asked me if I wanted my bookmarks and other data to be stored on my AppleID account and I confirmed. If the categories are stored along with the bookmarks in the cloud then you are in tough luck until Apple decides to add this functionality to iTunes.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Portable apps for Mac? Windows users have the luxury of being able to load a flash drive with specially-modified "portable" applications, which run and keep all data contained on the flash drive so that moving them from computer to computer doesn't change the experience or modify the host computer at all. In the past I have gotten various apps from portableapps.com for this purpose. Now that I'm a Mac owner, I wonder, is there an equivalent for Mac? At first thought I figured applications could just be copied from the Applications folder onto a drive, since they are self-contained; but I do know a little bit about how they actually store preferences in other directories and some even store things in the Library folder and stuff like that. So applications aren't truly natively portable, even if they require no installation. Are there any portable Mac apps out there? Are there some recommended websites for these apps? A: Big list of Portable Mac Apps here * *http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps *http://osxportableapps.sourceforge.net/ And if you use Google, you'd find those, and many many other sites...

Q: Portable apps for Mac? Windows users have the luxury of being able to load a flash drive with specially-modified "portable" applications, which run and keep all data contained on the flash drive so that moving them from computer to computer doesn't change the experience or modify the host computer at all. In the past I have gotten various apps from portableapps.com for this purpose. Now that I'm a Mac owner, I wonder, is there an equivalent for Mac? At first thought I figured applications could just be copied from the Applications folder onto a drive, since they are self-contained; but I do know a little bit about how they actually store preferences in other directories and some even store things in the Library folder and stuff like that. So applications aren't truly natively portable, even if they require no installation. Are there any portable Mac apps out there? Are there some recommended websites for these apps? A: Big list of Portable Mac Apps here * *http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps *http://osxportableapps.sourceforge.net/ And if you use Google, you'd find those, and many many other sites... A: There's a portable Firefox for Mac; I don't know about anything else. It seems that portable Mac apps aren't as useful as portable Windows apps, as you'd usually use portable apps on a kiosk computer or on a loaner computer, and there are very few kiosk/loaner Macs around.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Video/Image processing on Apple iPhone4 I know iPhone 4 supports H.264 and MPEG-4 as video codecs, and JPEG and M-JPEG as image codecs. I'm looking to get some information on the iPhone 4's video and image codecs and processing chips/SoC parts. * *Does anyone know which vendor provides the SoC's to enable image/video compression and processing on the iPhone 4? *Are the video/image codec solutions - 'Software codecs' on a specialized dsp-core/processor or hard-wired as in a FPGA/ASIC solution? Any pointers would be useful. A: I think you'll get the answer in the iPhone 4 teardown that the guys at iFixit did sometime ago: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1 You will be able to see there what components are inside the iPhone 4, but I'd guess all the video compression/decompression is processed by the A4 processor (an ARM Cortex A8 core variant). http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1

Q: Video/Image processing on Apple iPhone4 I know iPhone 4 supports H.264 and MPEG-4 as video codecs, and JPEG and M-JPEG as image codecs. I'm looking to get some information on the iPhone 4's video and image codecs and processing chips/SoC parts. * *Does anyone know which vendor provides the SoC's to enable image/video compression and processing on the iPhone 4? *Are the video/image codec solutions - 'Software codecs' on a specialized dsp-core/processor or hard-wired as in a FPGA/ASIC solution? Any pointers would be useful. A: I think you'll get the answer in the iPhone 4 teardown that the guys at iFixit did sometime ago: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1 You will be able to see there what components are inside the iPhone 4, but I'd guess all the video compression/decompression is processed by the A4 processor (an ARM Cortex A8 core variant). http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1 A: Goldenmean- It's hard to determine, isn't it? No credible online documentation for A4 cores other than ARM + Imagine Tech. As far as I can tell, Apple currently provides frame (stream) based H.264 decode API, but not encode. That could be because there's not enough horsepower for multiparty video conf (encode + multiple decode)... or it could just be there is a hardware-assist encode but Apple doesn't want to make it visible through APIs (royalty/licensing issues come to mind). Our calculations show NEON is not enough for multiparty video conf -- or at best it may work but shut down everything else. -Jeff

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why can't I delete movies from my iPhone 4, either from the phone or through iTunes? I was on vacation and took some videos, and now the iPhone 4 memory is near full. So I tried to delete other experimental movies I made using Handbrake, so that I can take more video or photos, but if I plug the iPhone 4 into my Notebook computer, I can seem to delete it on iTunes? Maybe because the computer I sync with the iPhone 4 is at home (a desktop), but not with me on vacation. I can't delete it on iTunes, can't delete it on iPhone itself. I am stuck during the vacation, or is there a way to handle it? A: While not a SuperUser-compatible answer, since the computer interface is missing, I just did the following: * *Open the iPod app *Go to Videos *Swipe over a video from right to left *Press Delete *Confirm *Done! No computer needed. Also works for music

Q: Why can't I delete movies from my iPhone 4, either from the phone or through iTunes? I was on vacation and took some videos, and now the iPhone 4 memory is near full. So I tried to delete other experimental movies I made using Handbrake, so that I can take more video or photos, but if I plug the iPhone 4 into my Notebook computer, I can seem to delete it on iTunes? Maybe because the computer I sync with the iPhone 4 is at home (a desktop), but not with me on vacation. I can't delete it on iTunes, can't delete it on iPhone itself. I am stuck during the vacation, or is there a way to handle it? A: While not a SuperUser-compatible answer, since the computer interface is missing, I just did the following: * *Open the iPod app *Go to Videos *Swipe over a video from right to left *Press Delete *Confirm *Done! No computer needed. Also works for music A: I'm not aware of anyway to delete music/video directly from the phone, without connecting back to the original iTunes and telling it to remove the file. If you're jailbroken you could SSH/SFTP into the phone and try removing the file from the phone but I'm not sure what affect that would have on the iPod's index of files. I think you might be stuck until you can get back to the original system.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I force password protection of specific apps on the iPad? I am unable to find out how to force the iPad ask for my password when I want to use certain applications (e.g. e-mail) I want to be able to share the iPad but I don't want anyone to have access to my e-mail account. The only way I can see to do this is to create and delete the account every time I use it, but this is an extreme hassle. Ideally it should simply ask for my password whenever I want to access my e-mail. How can I do this? A: That's not a general feature of iOS. You can lock the entire device, but not certain applications. The iPad mail app does not have this as a specific feature either - when adding an account you must store the password so it can check for new mail in the background. There are some third party apps for iPad that require a password to access them but I'm not aware of an email app with this feature. But it might be worth a search.

Q: Can I force password protection of specific apps on the iPad? I am unable to find out how to force the iPad ask for my password when I want to use certain applications (e.g. e-mail) I want to be able to share the iPad but I don't want anyone to have access to my e-mail account. The only way I can see to do this is to create and delete the account every time I use it, but this is an extreme hassle. Ideally it should simply ask for my password whenever I want to access my e-mail. How can I do this? A: That's not a general feature of iOS. You can lock the entire device, but not certain applications. The iPad mail app does not have this as a specific feature either - when adding an account you must store the password so it can check for new mail in the background. There are some third party apps for iPad that require a password to access them but I'm not aware of an email app with this feature. But it might be worth a search.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I connect the location of a calendar event with the iPad maps app? I would like to be able to either navigate from a calendar event to its location within maps, or view all upcoming events on a map. Preferably, both. How do I connect the location of a calendar event with the iPad maps app? A: Sadly, (as of iOS 4), this cannot be done. The location field of an event does not recognise an address, no matter how perfectly you enter it. [UPDATE] In iOS 5, the location field in any calendar event will (if properly formatted) hyperlink to the Maps app.

Q: How do I connect the location of a calendar event with the iPad maps app? I would like to be able to either navigate from a calendar event to its location within maps, or view all upcoming events on a map. Preferably, both. How do I connect the location of a calendar event with the iPad maps app? A: Sadly, (as of iOS 4), this cannot be done. The location field of an event does not recognise an address, no matter how perfectly you enter it. [UPDATE] In iOS 5, the location field in any calendar event will (if properly formatted) hyperlink to the Maps app. A: It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but you could try pasting in a maps.google.com link into you calendar events. For example: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Infinite+Loop+1,+Cupertino,+CA,+United+States&sll=37.331693,-122.030764&sspn=0.007311,0.009871&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1+Infinite+Loop,+Cupertino,+Santa+Clara,+California+95014&ll=37.331906,-122.031262&spn=0.007311,0.009871&z=17 If you open this link on an iPad it should take you to the Maps application. But you would have to do this manually on a computer for each event. A: There are several apps that have this featured into them. Many of them are free. I think downloading a free app with this feature would be the simplest most straight forward way to do this.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where are good places to buy RAM (memory) for a Mac? What reputable stores exist for purchasing RAM for a Mac? A: Macs and PCs use the same type of RAM just like they use the same type of Hard Drives, if you buy RAM directly from Apple it is definitely marked up. I have personally had good experiences with Kingston. Other popular 3rd party suppliers are New Egg, Tiger Direct, and Crucial.

Q: Where are good places to buy RAM (memory) for a Mac? What reputable stores exist for purchasing RAM for a Mac? A: Macs and PCs use the same type of RAM just like they use the same type of Hard Drives, if you buy RAM directly from Apple it is definitely marked up. I have personally had good experiences with Kingston. Other popular 3rd party suppliers are New Egg, Tiger Direct, and Crucial. A: Personally I go with OWC. They are more famous for all Mac related upgrades. Here is the memory upgrade link http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/ Main advantage is you can choose RAM based on your model/ make of the year etc... A: Once you figure out what brand(s) of memory you're looking for, the place to start shopping is DealRAM.com. You put in what computer you have, and it'll tell you what your options are and where to buy at the best price. A: I'm surprised no one has mentioned RamJet for Apple memory. Their prices are good, shipping is excellent and their web site is optimized for eliminating mistakes in ordering the incorrect memory. I find their site to be the best reference on the web for rapidly finding the memory needs for any Mac bar none - even Apple's on-line documentation pales in comparison to RamJet for memory specifications or planning an upgrade. They use pictures of the products and have very good descriptions to figure out exactly what mac you own. I've made perhaps 8 purchases from them and shipping, returns and customer support are top notch. I do regret buying from one of the "cheapest" vendors linked above when the product they sold didn't work and they charged me incorrectly for the return / exchange. It eventually got sorted, but I'll never get back the time and effort to clear up their mistakes on that one order. Do your homework on what happens if you need support down the road and know the time periods for returns / warranty / support if you care. I'm more value sensitive than price sensitive but RamJet is generally very competitive on price as well. I'd also put Crucial and OWC in the tried and true category, but I've never seen a time when their prices were lower enough for me to not spend my time and $$ with RamJet.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's the racoon doing in my apple? I'm not normally one for paraniodly checking my activity monitor for rogue processes; but this one just has my internal nature-watcher all curious. Why is there a racoon running under my root user? What's it doing? Foraging? Looking for nuts and berries? Staring at headlights? A: From Apple's documentation: racoon speaks the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish security associations with other hosts. The SPD (Security Policy Database) in the kernel usually triggers racoon. racoon usually sends all informational messages, warnings and error messages to syslogd(8) with the facility LOG_DAEMON and the priority LOG_INFO. Debugging messages are sent with the priority LOG_DEBUG. You should configure syslog.conf(5) appropriately to see these messages.

Q: What's the racoon doing in my apple? I'm not normally one for paraniodly checking my activity monitor for rogue processes; but this one just has my internal nature-watcher all curious. Why is there a racoon running under my root user? What's it doing? Foraging? Looking for nuts and berries? Staring at headlights? A: From Apple's documentation: racoon speaks the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish security associations with other hosts. The SPD (Security Policy Database) in the kernel usually triggers racoon. racoon usually sends all informational messages, warnings and error messages to syslogd(8) with the facility LOG_DAEMON and the priority LOG_INFO. Debugging messages are sent with the priority LOG_DEBUG. You should configure syslog.conf(5) appropriately to see these messages. A: The documentation link of the main answer is now dead, but you can still run: man racoon and obtain an answer: racoon is used to setup and maintain an IPSec tunnel or transport channel, between two devices, over which network traffic is conveyed securely. [...]

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