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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's the difference between one finger dragging and drag lock? If I go into Settings > Trackpad and enable Tap to click, I can enable the settings Dragging and Drag Lock. What is the difference between these two settings? It appears that they are doing the same exact thing when I try to use them. From my understanding, if I don't have drag lock enabled, I should be able to double tap then drag a window, after I lift up my finger, the dragging should stop. However, that is not the case, I must tap again in order for the dragging to stop. A: If you enable Drag Lock after you do your desire change you must tap you finger to release dragged item but if you disable it if you do your desire change you only need to put up your finger form trackpad.

Q: What's the difference between one finger dragging and drag lock? If I go into Settings > Trackpad and enable Tap to click, I can enable the settings Dragging and Drag Lock. What is the difference between these two settings? It appears that they are doing the same exact thing when I try to use them. From my understanding, if I don't have drag lock enabled, I should be able to double tap then drag a window, after I lift up my finger, the dragging should stop. However, that is not the case, I must tap again in order for the dragging to stop. A: If you enable Drag Lock after you do your desire change you must tap you finger to release dragged item but if you disable it if you do your desire change you only need to put up your finger form trackpad. A: I believe I figured out the difference: Dragging: * *Double tap and hold to begin dragging. *Release the mouse. *Depending on the amount of time that has passed, moving the mouse will do one of the following: * *Brief delay: moving the mouse continues the dragging, essentially behaving the exact same way as drag lock. The cycle is then repeated once you release your finger. *Longer delay: dragging is stopped. Dragging & Drag Lock: * *Double tap and hold to begin dragging. *Release the mouse. *Moving the mouse will continue dragging. *Tap once to stop the dragging. It's that brief delay that was throwing me off. There doesn't seem to be any way to customize the length of this delay. One thing that does help, though, is figuring out exactly how long this delay is. One method for figuring this out is the following: * *Drag an icon from the dock a tiny bit so that if you were to release it, it wouldn't be deleted. *Release the mouse. *Observe how long it takes for the icon to move back to its place. That is the exact amount of minimum time that you should wait when you are finished dragging something.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Triple finger tap for middle click? I can single tap my trackpad for a left click, and tap it with two fingers for a right click. Is there any way to bind a three finger tap to perform a middle click? I tried MagicPrefs, but it's limited to the MagicMouse only, it doesn't work with the trackpad. A: You can try BetterTouchTool. There might be a setting to do that. Maybe you'll even find another gesture to triple-click that you'll like better.

Q: Triple finger tap for middle click? I can single tap my trackpad for a left click, and tap it with two fingers for a right click. Is there any way to bind a three finger tap to perform a middle click? I tried MagicPrefs, but it's limited to the MagicMouse only, it doesn't work with the trackpad. A: You can try BetterTouchTool. There might be a setting to do that. Maybe you'll even find another gesture to triple-click that you'll like better. A: There is also another tool that I like more then BetterTouchTool, it's called MiddleClick and does exactly what you expect :-)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I restore a file from the trash back to its original folder? If I deleted files on my computer and they went to the trash, how can I send them back to the same folder that they came from? On Windows, I can right-click the files and press restore. Copying them to a location manually (e.g. via finder) is not a valid solution, since I don't know where they came from. A: I think you can just right-click the file and select "Put Back"

Q: How can I restore a file from the trash back to its original folder? If I deleted files on my computer and they went to the trash, how can I send them back to the same folder that they came from? On Windows, I can right-click the files and press restore. Copying them to a location manually (e.g. via finder) is not a valid solution, since I don't know where they came from. A: I think you can just right-click the file and select "Put Back"

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone application compatibility Does the Nike iPhone Sport Kit will work on a 2nd generation iPhone that has the 3.0 update applied? In the Q&A on the website, some say it will, but others say it only works on a 3GS iPhone. A: The Nike iPhone Sport Kit only works on the iPhone 3GS and later. It won't work on the first iPhone or on the iPhone 3G.

Q: iPhone application compatibility Does the Nike iPhone Sport Kit will work on a 2nd generation iPhone that has the 3.0 update applied? In the Q&A on the website, some say it will, but others say it only works on a 3GS iPhone. A: The Nike iPhone Sport Kit only works on the iPhone 3GS and later. It won't work on the first iPhone or on the iPhone 3G.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is data transmitted over 3G secure? When data is transferred from my iPhone via 3G, is it encrypted, or is it relatively simple for a hacker to read the data that's transferred to AT&T's cell tower? What about after it reaches the tower? A: If you are operating over https, it doesn't matter through what type of connection you are communicating over. All data is going to be encrypted from your browser to the server program. The only way to brake this is to the eavesdrop mediate the communication between you and the your final destination. To solve this, identity certificate were created. This certifies that you are talking to your final destination and not through some mediator. So as long as identity certificate match, you are safe. If the identity certificate does not match the browser will show you a security warning, saying that the certificate does not match, generally they will leave an option for you to go on with the communication, just in case in the operation you are doing you don't care about security.

Q: Is data transmitted over 3G secure? When data is transferred from my iPhone via 3G, is it encrypted, or is it relatively simple for a hacker to read the data that's transferred to AT&T's cell tower? What about after it reaches the tower? A: If you are operating over https, it doesn't matter through what type of connection you are communicating over. All data is going to be encrypted from your browser to the server program. The only way to brake this is to the eavesdrop mediate the communication between you and the your final destination. To solve this, identity certificate were created. This certifies that you are talking to your final destination and not through some mediator. So as long as identity certificate match, you are safe. If the identity certificate does not match the browser will show you a security warning, saying that the certificate does not match, generally they will leave an option for you to go on with the communication, just in case in the operation you are doing you don't care about security. A: Not in the least. Even HTTPS is secure only from non government or ISP level actors. Check EFF.org for more, but I warn you, it's damned depressing. EDIT: The past is a country that is very hard to visit: Bruce Schneier's analysis on SSL: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/uae_man-in-the-.html Mozilla's discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/OBrPLsoMAR8 The open letter in august detailing the problem from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/open-letter-verizon It's not that they decrypt it, you see. Encryption we are all on equal footing until the quantum key or lock. But people who don't code are not stupid. SSL you can guarantee security to the server, but the certs themselves come from a chain of trust. The phrase "I got that government gig! Homeland Security! Mary Anne's new boyfriend... F**k You!" , or similar must have been said at some point. Amazon was not the only place after Wikileaks to have a group of sedans pull up. The FBI is screaming right now for backdoors in fact, or rather, to legitimize the backdoors they must have. Since government, or industrial actors are not 'actors' but 'people' it is not FUD to question it. An example of FUD, would be to highlight say, the complexity of the mathematics and try to use that to prove an answer wrong, and restore faith in a system that worked in the past, while ignoring the forced trust in humans, and the successful exploit in the wild. Make sense? A: A man-in-the-middle attack or snooping from someone sitting in the same coffee shop is far less likely over 3G. The equipment to do such is far less commonly available, and the expertise required is higher. Neither is guaranteed to be secure from say, a government intelligence organization or other large sophisticated operation, as the 3G encryption is not of that grade. But HTTPS and SSH should protect you from the average snoop over either. A: 3G can be secure or insecure, it's really down to the particular implementation. If you are worried about your data while tethering or using a 3G iPad/iPhone then look at it this way, it's more secure than using free/unsecured WiFi hotspots/networks. Really the answer to your question is that 3G is pretty secure, but it has its flaws. 3G is encrypted, the most common encryption algorithms have been cracked, with the right equipment somebody could intercept your information wirelessly. However, they would need some knowledge, some money and some motivation to do it. Then in addition to that, they would need your device to send unencrypted data (non https) so it could be deciphered. All in all it's pretty unlikely but certainly possible that your information could be intercepted. However, this is a risk for anyone transmitting data anywhere and is not isolated to 3G/WiFi or other mobile device communication methods. Try a google search on 3G security and you'll find plenty of information on the flaws and security holes and how they might be exploited. Just as an example, here are a couple of presentations: 3G Security Overview blackhat.com powerpoint A: A man in the middle attack can also be performed using sslstrip which can easily strip the ssl from https, making it an http connection, intercept all the data and use a fake certificate to re-enable the ssl before sending it out to the destination. In simple words that's the idea. The user will never know what even happened to him/her. This was showcased in Blackhat in 2009 if I'm not mistaken. If Moxie Marlinspike was able to this in 2009, imagine what other pro hackers are capable of doing these days. He was one of the few revealing this for good purposes. A lot of them won't publish the vulnerabilities that they have at their disposal. Don't want to scare you but if you think ssl is secure think twice. It's really up to the browsers to maintain the security of the users. Your faith is really in their hand. A lot of vulnerabilities exist for many years just like the heartbleed before they do something about it.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I bind multiple key shortcuts to the same action? I do a lot of pair programming. Some developers that I pair with use Linux as their primary desktop. So none of the keyboard shortcuts they are used to work. What I would like to be able to do is bind multiple key chords to the same action. For example I want both ctrl-t and cmd-t to open a new tab in chrome. I know that you can rebind shortcuts in system preferences/keyboard. I just don't know how to set multiple keystrokes to the same action. A: It seems like adding a shortcut in the Keyboard preferences will override the built-in defaults. You can use Keyboard Maestro (a paid app) to add such things - easiest would be to add a trigger for the alternative combo which translates into a menu action or into the original keyboard shortcut being sent to the application of choice.

Q: Can I bind multiple key shortcuts to the same action? I do a lot of pair programming. Some developers that I pair with use Linux as their primary desktop. So none of the keyboard shortcuts they are used to work. What I would like to be able to do is bind multiple key chords to the same action. For example I want both ctrl-t and cmd-t to open a new tab in chrome. I know that you can rebind shortcuts in system preferences/keyboard. I just don't know how to set multiple keystrokes to the same action. A: It seems like adding a shortcut in the Keyboard preferences will override the built-in defaults. You can use Keyboard Maestro (a paid app) to add such things - easiest would be to add a trigger for the alternative combo which translates into a menu action or into the original keyboard shortcut being sent to the application of choice. A: I ended using Karabiner probably not as powerful as Maestro, but for simple needs it does the job beautifully. A: I use BetterTouchTool for this. Here you can create a keyboard shortcut which sends a shortcut of your choice. Simply as that!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Third Party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI Cables curious if anyone has any experience with any third party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI cables? I noticed the cables on ebay selling for around $16. Compared to the official cables that run for around $35 seems like a bargin. Wasn't sure if the quality is the same or if anyone has any experience with buying them. Thanks! A: The cables from Monoprice.com have recently changed so they're not shaped as nicely as before, but the quality is still excellent for the price. 6ft cable for $10 shipped. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024604&p_id=5999&seq=1&format=2 The picture isn't faithful to what you'll receive as the Mini Display Port male plug is now a bit bulkier. Still works flawlessly though.

Q: Third Party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI Cables curious if anyone has any experience with any third party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI cables? I noticed the cables on ebay selling for around $16. Compared to the official cables that run for around $35 seems like a bargin. Wasn't sure if the quality is the same or if anyone has any experience with buying them. Thanks! A: The cables from Monoprice.com have recently changed so they're not shaped as nicely as before, but the quality is still excellent for the price. 6ft cable for $10 shipped. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024604&p_id=5999&seq=1&format=2 The picture isn't faithful to what you'll receive as the Mini Display Port male plug is now a bit bulkier. Still works flawlessly though. A: Most third-party cables will work perfectly. In particular, any cables which are digital should perform exactly as their more expensive counterparts. I've personally used a couple of third party cables which worked without issue. I bought a Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable when the MacBook Pro 13" Unibody first came out from www.circuitassembly.com and it's great quality and was cheap too A: A cheap knockoff Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter in I bought on eBay for $7 worked pretty well, but caused a strange problem on my rMBP. Occasionally, when using it, my Wi-Fi would cut out, and switching to an Apple adapter fixed the issue. I tested this six ways to Sunday, and the cheap adapter was definitely the consistent factor. It's a weird issue, but apparently I'm not the only one. A: We got several mini-display port to DVI, VGA and HDMI cables from http://www.meritline.com/ and they work great. In particular, they have a mini-displayport to hdmi, dvi and displayport (all in one) dongle.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone Search does not find historic SMS messages On my iPhone 4, I have a large number of SMS messages (I don't delete them at all). If I want to search for text in a particular message, it appears not to search historic SMSes. In other words, unless the text is visible in the latest messages, viewable on the screen without tapping "Load Earlier Messages", it will not match my string. Am I doing it wrong? Is this a known issue? A: Apple does not search for very old text messages as it makes the search much slower. There is no setting to modify the period of messages it should go through, but if you really need this then you can jailbreak and SSH into your iPhone. You can then edit the .plist file and make it search for messages that are even 2 years old. Note: This will significantly make the searching slow.

Q: iPhone Search does not find historic SMS messages On my iPhone 4, I have a large number of SMS messages (I don't delete them at all). If I want to search for text in a particular message, it appears not to search historic SMSes. In other words, unless the text is visible in the latest messages, viewable on the screen without tapping "Load Earlier Messages", it will not match my string. Am I doing it wrong? Is this a known issue? A: Apple does not search for very old text messages as it makes the search much slower. There is no setting to modify the period of messages it should go through, but if you really need this then you can jailbreak and SSH into your iPhone. You can then edit the .plist file and make it search for messages that are even 2 years old. Note: This will significantly make the searching slow. A: I know it isn't a solution for viewing on the iPhone but there is a program called DiskAid will allow you to view past messages on your computer. It uses your backup files from iTunes. A: Spotlight search not working as expected. Taken from engineerings reply on the issue: ——— "What the customer is experiencing is actually considered expected behaviour. With the release of iOS 10, customers are now only able to search the last 200 messages with Spotlight or the in app search. This would include the last 200 sent and received messages. The 200 searchable messages limit is only after restoring from a backup prior to iOS 10. This is why devices that had the same Messages database and were not restored from a backup when they upgraded to iOS 10 can still search prior to the 200 limit. If the customer would like to see this function in a different manner going forward, please encourage the customer to submit feedback at apple.com/feedback. “

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any free way to have a Mac function as an AirPlay speaker? I have a stereo system hooked up to my Mac mini, but sometimes I'll play music from my laptop. Is there any way for the Mac mini to be recognized as a speaker and allow me to output sound to it (and the speakers connected to it) from my laptop without paid solutions like Airfoil? A: This isn't free, but it's only $2.99 AirServer

Q: Is there any free way to have a Mac function as an AirPlay speaker? I have a stereo system hooked up to my Mac mini, but sometimes I'll play music from my laptop. Is there any way for the Mac mini to be recognized as a speaker and allow me to output sound to it (and the speakers connected to it) from my laptop without paid solutions like Airfoil? A: This isn't free, but it's only $2.99 AirServer A: Currently streaming from iTunes is only supported to Apple TV and Airport Express speakers. (Thanks @Jonathan) You could try a pretty ugly hack of using home sharing to access your laptop music library from your Mac Mini and then control the playback by using vnc or some other remote desktop app to control playback on the Mini from the laptop. A: Try Erica Sadun's AirPlayer. That might very well work. :) A: There is a free utility called shairport which acts as an airport express. If your computers are on the same network, you can use it to stream music between the two, as iTunes will see the computer it is running on as airplay speakers. I recently used it to stream music from my iPod to my computer. A: If music only, there are a lot free options. shairport is a great choice, open source, support almost all platforms. If you also need mirroring, most free tools are broken since iOS9. check this one: lonelyscreen. It is free. Only for mac and windows, no linux. And it can capture and save iOS mirroring. I don't use that much, but it is very convenient sometimes.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Fake rectangle/window visible under some windows tricky question here. I don't know how long this has been going on, but I noticed it only recently. My semi-transparent windows have a “fake” square/window beneath them, which is visible (it also project a shadow, but only when the window is in foreground. Screenshot: (the textedit window serves just as a white backdrop). Video showing behaviour: http://cl.ly/132M2T0p3j0E210d0S2K I initially thought this was just TextMate, but I noticed this on terminal.app too (semi-transparent too). I am running 10.6.6, have no “strange” hacks or input managers installed AFAIR. I understand that this is probably a very exotic bug, so tools that can help me track down the cause are welcome, and I'll gladly accept such an answer. Thanks in advance, A. A: I've seen a similar effect before, awhile ago. It's probably a program running in the background that has a transparent window on the desktop. Do you have anything running in the background that uses transparent windows or window overlays? I seem to remember an old version on Norton AV doing strange things like this many years ago.

Q: Fake rectangle/window visible under some windows tricky question here. I don't know how long this has been going on, but I noticed it only recently. My semi-transparent windows have a “fake” square/window beneath them, which is visible (it also project a shadow, but only when the window is in foreground. Screenshot: (the textedit window serves just as a white backdrop). Video showing behaviour: http://cl.ly/132M2T0p3j0E210d0S2K I initially thought this was just TextMate, but I noticed this on terminal.app too (semi-transparent too). I am running 10.6.6, have no “strange” hacks or input managers installed AFAIR. I understand that this is probably a very exotic bug, so tools that can help me track down the cause are welcome, and I'll gladly accept such an answer. Thanks in advance, A. A: I've seen a similar effect before, awhile ago. It's probably a program running in the background that has a transparent window on the desktop. Do you have anything running in the background that uses transparent windows or window overlays? I seem to remember an old version on Norton AV doing strange things like this many years ago. A: How fascinating! Personally I would dump your Textmate .plist(s) found in ~/Library/Preferences, and see if the window management preferences are garbled just for that app. Worst case scenario, the rest of the Internet is right and there's simply no fix at present. As always, keep them on the desktop until you're certain you can delete them without having worsened the issue.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I type š on an international keyboard? I'm currently writing emails frequently to a Slovenian who has the letter š in his name. I use copy and paste for the letter š, which is quite inconvenient. I'm using the US keyboard layout. How can I type this letter directly from the keyboard? A: Right Option (Alt) v s You must have U.S. Extended keyboard layout enabled for the above to work.

Q: How do I type š on an international keyboard? I'm currently writing emails frequently to a Slovenian who has the letter š in his name. I use copy and paste for the letter š, which is quite inconvenient. I'm using the US keyboard layout. How can I type this letter directly from the keyboard? A: Right Option (Alt) v s You must have U.S. Extended keyboard layout enabled for the above to work. A: You can choose edit menu (in most software) then choose Special Character .. then go to Accented Latin tab and find your character Š. A: Simply hold down the S key and you'll be presented with three options - press 3 on your keyboard to type š. If you need a capital Š just use the Shift Key or Caps Lock. A: If you have the patience to configure the keybindings, you can try Ukelele and create a keyboard layout for your needs. A: I'm not near my iMac right now, so I can't test this. But this usually works for me http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8504.html A: I have long had the same problem. My solution: install the Slovenian keyboard layout and set the shortcut to changing between keyboards to Option+Tab. That works very quickly and gives you all the special letters (they are in place of the paranthesis and quotation keys on an English keyboard.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X? How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X? A: You can use Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Control ⌃+8 to invert the video colours of the whole screen. There's no way to just invert the colours of a single window.

Q: How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X? How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X? A: You can use Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Control ⌃+8 to invert the video colours of the whole screen. There's no way to just invert the colours of a single window. A: In Mountain Lion, the Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+8 shortcut was deactivated. I first had to activate it for it to work via Keyboard Shortcuts in the System Preferences in the Accessibility tab. A: ⌘+⌥+ctrl+8 does the whole screen if that helps. You could make the window full screen! A: Black light software does it, and it does even more.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I change the Guest account's background image? When I login as guest, then change the background, logout, and log back in, the background is not saved. How can I choose which background the guest account will have? A: This article explains it very nice. Basically you are modifying a "User Template" file, which is used to create a fresh new user every time you log in as a Guest. If you're not quite sure on how to do it just ask for help. :)

Q: How can I change the Guest account's background image? When I login as guest, then change the background, logout, and log back in, the background is not saved. How can I choose which background the guest account will have? A: This article explains it very nice. Basically you are modifying a "User Template" file, which is used to create a fresh new user every time you log in as a Guest. If you're not quite sure on how to do it just ask for help. :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I rebind Caps lock to delete/backspace? I tried using DoubleCommand, but it doesn't let you hold down caps lock, and pressing it causes caps lock light to be enabled/disabled. Ideally I want caps lock to never be enabled and for the key to behave exactly as though it were the delete key. Another problem that DoubleCommand has is that every second press just toggles the light, and doesn't delete a character. A: You may want to try Karabiner-Elements (formerly Seil). I use it to bind Caps Lock to Right-Ctrl (not plain Ctrl), so that I can bind Caps Lock to Meta in Emacs (while Ctrl remains Ctrl, and other keys are kept to the usual behavior).

Q: How can I rebind Caps lock to delete/backspace? I tried using DoubleCommand, but it doesn't let you hold down caps lock, and pressing it causes caps lock light to be enabled/disabled. Ideally I want caps lock to never be enabled and for the key to behave exactly as though it were the delete key. Another problem that DoubleCommand has is that every second press just toggles the light, and doesn't delete a character. A: You may want to try Karabiner-Elements (formerly Seil). I use it to bind Caps Lock to Right-Ctrl (not plain Ctrl), so that I can bind Caps Lock to Meta in Emacs (while Ctrl remains Ctrl, and other keys are kept to the usual behavior). A: If you're on macOS Sierra or later, and don't mind using the command line, you can do it with a technique I saw on Hang Lu Su's blog: $ hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x70000002A}]}' In her linked post she gets into other things as well, like making sure this binding survives restarts or mapping any key. Here are the Apple docs explaining the technique used as well as the codes to use for any key. I realize the question and its original answers are older than macOS Sierra, but perhaps this can be useful for people stumbling across it more recently. A: Seil is now obsolete and has been replaced by Karabiner-Elements. https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org A: ControllerMate gets normal auto-repeat, no delay nor light toggle given Apple ➤ System Preferences… ➤ Keyboard ➤ Keyboard ➤ Modifier Keys… ➤ Caps Lock Key ➤ No Action. Control, Meta (Alt) and Control-Meta took extra logic: Peace —Devon P.S. Emacs² & Lisp³ grew up with Rubout left of letter A — see the Knight TV keyboard⁴ and Space Cadet keyboard⁵ layouts with Control-Meta-Super-Hyper-Shift-Greek-Top modifier keys. P.P.S. Password input may require the hardware delete key. P.P.P.S. If you manage to get caps lock functionality on a both-shifts key chord do let me know. P.P.P.P.S. The Mgt forbids me to post these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ links: [2] Emacs [3] Lisp_(programming_language) [4] Knight_keyboard [5] Space-cadet_keyboard A: This is trivial with Karabiner-Elements: * *Go to Karabiner Elements Preferences *Simple Modifications tab *Add Item *From: caps_lock To: delete_or_backspace That's it - the change should apply instantly. You may also want to remap Backspace temporarily to nothing, to make sure you get the new muscle memory and not the old habitual key. In that case, do the same as above but remap From: delete_or_backspace, To: vk_none (disable this key).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I stream Mac audio to Linux computer? is there any way to stream audio from my Mac to my Linux computer (my av receiver is connected to that)? A: I think VLC can stream the audio over the network - take a look at http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/

Q: How do I stream Mac audio to Linux computer? is there any way to stream audio from my Mac to my Linux computer (my av receiver is connected to that)? A: I think VLC can stream the audio over the network - take a look at http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ A: If you don't want to pay money for AirFoil, you can use SoundFlower on the Mac and ESounD or PulseAudio's ESounD-compatible module on the Linux machine. This article explains how to do that. A: You can use AirFoil ($25) for Mac to stream the sound to AirFoil Speakers for Linux (free). This software works great. A: This guide worked for me http://tdotc.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/sound-matters/ Summary: Install Soundflower in your Mac. # open network port 16002 to receive raw data for PulseAudio (in your receiver) while true; do nc -l 16002 | pacat --latency-msec=1; done # connect the audio input on OS X to a remote raw sound sink via esdrec and netcat (in your Mac) esd -tcp -bind ::1 & sleep 2 && esdrec -s ::1 | nc <SERVER> 16002 A: With XBMC installed on a Linux machine and without any other software on my Mac, I can stream anything I want. To do this: * *Configure XBMC as an Airplay receiver : go to System > Services > Airplay and enable Airplay (I do not use password) *On your Mac, Open Audio Midi Setup *Right click on the Airplay item on the left side and choose “Use this device for sound output” from the Action pop-up menu. Now, anything you play on your Mac should output to your Airplay device. To reverse back to normal output (e.g. on a MacBook), right-click on another output (e.g. the standard speaker or integrated output) and choose “Use this device for sound output” from the Action pop-up menu. See also : Audio Midi Setup: Set up your audio devices A: Use ShairPort on the Linux box. Everything can be setup within minutes with zero software installed on the Mac, which is what I wanted. Install from PPA This should work pretty straightforwardly on any Debian-based distro. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dantheperson/shairplay-sync sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install shairplay-sync Install from source These instructions are valid for Debian, and worked on my raspberry pi within minutes. Other distros/OS may need to adapt the packages to be installed. * *Install Alsa: apt-get install alsa-utils alsa-oss libasound2 libasound2-plugins alsamixer *Install PulseAudio: apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils *Install perl SDP. Follow instructions on the perl-net-sdp repo *Clone & install ShairPort: git clone https://github.com/hendrikw82/shairport.git cd shairport sudo make install sudo cp shairport.init.sample /etc/init.d/shairport sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/shairport sudo update-rc.d shairport defaults *(optional) Rename your receiver (like the room name): vim /etc/init.d/shairport Change/add the following: DAEMON_ARGS=”-w $PIDFILE -a AirPlayName” *Start all the services (PulseAudio, ShairPort, etc) *You can now redirect your audio output to your new ShairPort device by alt-clicking the sound icon on your Mac. All of these instructions were found on this blog post and copied here briefly in case the link goes down.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why does my Mac Pro have two ethernet ports on the back of the computer? I'm curious as to how or why I might want to take advantage of two ethernet ports on the back of the tower? A: @Griffo Had some great ideas, I have one more: Share your network connection with another computer. Usually, you'd use a router, but what if you don't have one, or it's misconfigured? You could connect your external network to one port and use network sharing over the other.

Q: Why does my Mac Pro have two ethernet ports on the back of the computer? I'm curious as to how or why I might want to take advantage of two ethernet ports on the back of the tower? A: @Griffo Had some great ideas, I have one more: Share your network connection with another computer. Usually, you'd use a router, but what if you don't have one, or it's misconfigured? You could connect your external network to one port and use network sharing over the other. A: * *If you wanted to connect to two different networks you could use this. So say you had an internal network which you had your own computers all linked to but were not connected to the internet, you could use one port to connect to this network. Then you could connect the other port to a broadband router/modem and access the internet on your Mac Pro. It's really more of an interest to businesses than domestic users. *You could also use the second port to connect to Network Attached Storage (NAS) such as a MyBook World or similar. This would allow you to use the full bandwidth of one port for backups to disk while not affecting the speed on the other network. *Backup interface in case one fails. You could have each interface connect to different switches on your network in case of a failure on one you still have access to the network on the other. *There's also something called link aggregation which allows you to combine the ports to act as one port with twice the speed. However, this depends on your other network equipment supporting this mode. A: Provide one of the ports to a Virtual Machine for bridged networking. This allows the guest VM to have direct access to the network on its own IP instead of sharing the host's network card via NAT. A: * *Connection to the modem for your regular internet. *Network connection to an old Windows computer for easy file and data sharing. I am glad mine has 2 ethernet ports.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I activate buttons with just the keyboard? Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to activate a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this? A: For many dialog boxes you can select the option you want by pressing ⌘+firstletter where firstletter is the first letter of the option you want to select

Q: How can I activate buttons with just the keyboard? Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to activate a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this? A: For many dialog boxes you can select the option you want by pressing ⌘+firstletter where firstletter is the first letter of the option you want to select A: In macOS Big Sur (version 11.3+), System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts Select Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls @Eric Leschinski's answer gives an overview of keyboard shortcuts A: ⌘+. also works for Cancel. And in some applications just pressing the initial letters works. Photoshop is one, but it's pretty common for other cross-platform applications too. Typing ⌘+W+D is a quick way to do something like Close and don't save. A: Enable Keyboard Control of the UI System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts Then select "All Controls" radio button at the bottom, rather than just "Text boxes and lists only". Keyboard Shortcuts * *⇥ (TAB) will move between buttons. *esc (ESC) is cancel. *space (SPACE) selects the active button (blue, outline). *↩ (RETURN) is OK or the default button (blue, pulsing, filled). *For some dialog boxes, ⌘+first_letter will select the button with a certain first letter in the text (as pointed out by @Griffo). A: To elaborate on the answers above, many (most?) dialogue boxes will have the default option in blue. Hitting ⇥ will cycle between options, with a blue outline around the other button, but the default will remain blue. Hitting ↩ will always select the default, space will select whichever button is highlighted. In this example, pressing ↩ will 'Keep .txt' and pressing space will 'Use .bak.' A: See full Keyboard Access at the bottom of the following screenshot: When a prompt window like the one you included appears, the selected button will be highlighted in blue. Screenshot: Then you press the space to action that button. A: Tab to move to the next dialog box. Space to select

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Are there good jailbreak apps that will improve the performance of iPhone 3G? I've an old iPhone 3G that I want to give it to my girl. She don't need it for play big games or stuff like that, but it's really slow in most of common tasks (access contacts, email, etc). And since she isn't going to use many things the iPhone have, I was thinking in jailbreak it to see if there are apps that let you strip some of these things she wouldn't use. Do you know jailbreak apps that strip functionality/features to iPhone 3G? Or it'll going to be slower than now? EDIT: I expect something like remove unused characteristics like folders, or any stuff that make it slower. Kinda downgrading to 3.x but having compatibility with new apps. Since overclocking is not safe for the phone (due to heat and functionality) I prefer to not consider it as an option, but thank you guys that suggested it! A: Not a jailbreak solution, but... turn off SpotLight. Go to Settings > General > Home > Search Results, and turn everything off. This should result in a noticable speedup.

Q: Are there good jailbreak apps that will improve the performance of iPhone 3G? I've an old iPhone 3G that I want to give it to my girl. She don't need it for play big games or stuff like that, but it's really slow in most of common tasks (access contacts, email, etc). And since she isn't going to use many things the iPhone have, I was thinking in jailbreak it to see if there are apps that let you strip some of these things she wouldn't use. Do you know jailbreak apps that strip functionality/features to iPhone 3G? Or it'll going to be slower than now? EDIT: I expect something like remove unused characteristics like folders, or any stuff that make it slower. Kinda downgrading to 3.x but having compatibility with new apps. Since overclocking is not safe for the phone (due to heat and functionality) I prefer to not consider it as an option, but thank you guys that suggested it! A: Not a jailbreak solution, but... turn off SpotLight. Go to Settings > General > Home > Search Results, and turn everything off. This should result in a noticable speedup. A: NB - these instructions apply to iPhone OS 3.0, link to instructions for iOS 4.x at the bottom You can run your iPhones processor at a higher-than-factory clock speed which should in theory make it faster. However, it may cause the iPhone to run too hot so it's something to be aware of. The steps are below: * *Jailbreak the iPhone *Use SSH to navigate to /System/Library/System/System Configuration/PowerManagement.bundle/ *Rename file com.apple.SystemPowerProfileDefault.plist to something else *Restart your iPhone Your iPhone will now run at the default speed for the processor it is built on. You may experience instability as the iPhone was designed to run at a speed lower than the native speeds of the processors it's built on so there's a major health-warning on performing this step. iOS 4.x instructions thanks to @mankoff for his comment pointing out that the instructions had changed with the new iOS version. I expect these will change again in future so be sure to check Google or the search box on this site for latest methods.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Windows 7 Bootcamp not recognising devices Has anybody encountered a problem with the USB driver when running Windows 7 on MacBook Pro 2010 (MC371)? It doesn't recognize any USB drives or USB hard drives. I've tried both Windows Update and Bootcamp update - nothing helps. Where can I find a proper driver? A: Is your Windows 7 64-bit? If so, you might want to install the drivers in the Mac OS X DVD. D:\Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple64.msi

Q: Windows 7 Bootcamp not recognising devices Has anybody encountered a problem with the USB driver when running Windows 7 on MacBook Pro 2010 (MC371)? It doesn't recognize any USB drives or USB hard drives. I've tried both Windows Update and Bootcamp update - nothing helps. Where can I find a proper driver? A: Is your Windows 7 64-bit? If so, you might want to install the drivers in the Mac OS X DVD. D:\Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple64.msi A: Try to Uninstall the USB host drivers using device manager and then "Scan for hardware changes" to re-install them. Might not work but its worth a try. A: The drivers that come with windows should work already. Bootcamp doesn't install any new driver USB-wise. Most likely you got a bad windows installation. I would try the same disc on another machine just to be sure. edit: Unless, of course, it's not an issue with the USB itself. Here's a good troubleshooting guide from microsoft. The only thing that it says about the USB itself is that it may be defective - even if it works on Mac. Hardware issues can be quite complex. A: Finally, I've got the solution. Yesterday I've updated both Win 7 and Windows Bootcamp, and the system found the hardware.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Espresso Libre theme for MacVim? I recently changed editors from TextMate to MacVim. Thanks in part to vimtutor, things are going pretty well. But I miss the Espresso Libre color scheme: Is there a place where I can get Espresso Libre as a MacVim theme? A: If you have the TextMate theme file, you can use this online converter to spit out a (Mac)Vim theme file for you: http://coloration.sickill.net/ It should do a pretty good job of converting it for you, as it did for the ones I've tried.

Q: Espresso Libre theme for MacVim? I recently changed editors from TextMate to MacVim. Thanks in part to vimtutor, things are going pretty well. But I miss the Espresso Libre color scheme: Is there a place where I can get Espresso Libre as a MacVim theme? A: If you have the TextMate theme file, you can use this online converter to spit out a (Mac)Vim theme file for you: http://coloration.sickill.net/ It should do a pretty good job of converting it for you, as it did for the ones I've tried. A: You'll probably be able to find something quite similar if not identical using vimcolorschemetest A: This what you're looking for? http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=45

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to increase size of the Spotlight search results window? Is it possible to increase window width of the Spotlight search results under Mac OS X 10.6.6? I mean the semi-transparent "instant search result" window appearing at the top right corner under magnifying glass, not the Finder window. The standard window is too narrow: longer file names or Dictionary word translations just don't fit there. Why not using more screen space for the search result? A: Have you looked at using 'Alfred' as search tool - It's free on the App Store and very flexible, and has a wider results view. If you try it, take a little time to get familiar with the options - I find it a fantastic time saver.

Q: How to increase size of the Spotlight search results window? Is it possible to increase window width of the Spotlight search results under Mac OS X 10.6.6? I mean the semi-transparent "instant search result" window appearing at the top right corner under magnifying glass, not the Finder window. The standard window is too narrow: longer file names or Dictionary word translations just don't fit there. Why not using more screen space for the search result? A: Have you looked at using 'Alfred' as search tool - It's free on the App Store and very flexible, and has a wider results view. If you try it, take a little time to get familiar with the options - I find it a fantastic time saver. A: There are hacks for the resultant Finder window but nothing for the actual results pane dropdown A: I am not sure this answers to the question (and moreover I am using 10.5), but you already know that if you hover over a result for a couple of seconds, it shows the complete file name and path, don't you? A: I would suggest using Quicksilver. Note that it is still in beta, but it is a pretty stable beta. It is a little complicated to use, but it is more that just a replacement for Spotlight. It has smart capabilities, so it remembers what you typed recently. For me, I use Chrome a lot, so when I type "C" it automatically knows that I want Chrome. It also does provide dictionary results from dict.org and it displays them in a way that you can see them. Let me know if you do use this as it can be confusing for new users.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to make a jailbroken iPhone appear un-jailbroken to network provider? I'd like to jailbreak my iPhone but have it appear to my network provider as if it isn't jailbroken. This should be do-able, but what do I need to do to make this happen? I have an iPhone 4 currently running iOS 4.2. EDIT: Canadian politics is tricky. Part of the potential new copyright law would make defeating any sort of weak sauce encryption illegal. Essentially, the copyright holder would have it's rights fully supported, and as for the user, well they get what's left. This is going on at the same time as our bandwidth cap issues. I just want to be proactive, for when the "unforseen QoS problems" begin to arise here. So, not a neutral ISP situation. A: The network provider can't see if it's jailbroken or not. They might be able to detect if you're using Skype over 3G or other non-3G apps but they won't be able to discover it by simply jailbraking it.

Q: How to make a jailbroken iPhone appear un-jailbroken to network provider? I'd like to jailbreak my iPhone but have it appear to my network provider as if it isn't jailbroken. This should be do-able, but what do I need to do to make this happen? I have an iPhone 4 currently running iOS 4.2. EDIT: Canadian politics is tricky. Part of the potential new copyright law would make defeating any sort of weak sauce encryption illegal. Essentially, the copyright holder would have it's rights fully supported, and as for the user, well they get what's left. This is going on at the same time as our bandwidth cap issues. I just want to be proactive, for when the "unforseen QoS problems" begin to arise here. So, not a neutral ISP situation. A: The network provider can't see if it's jailbroken or not. They might be able to detect if you're using Skype over 3G or other non-3G apps but they won't be able to discover it by simply jailbraking it. A: The only visible change that jailbreaking does is the installation of the cydia app on your homescreen. what i would suggest is to go into cydia and get an app called Poof to hide the cydia icon. You can follow the guide here http://www.iphoneappsandhacks.com/how-to-hide-icons-on-iphone-or-ipod-touch.html, or you can hide it in a folder with a bunch of other apps. A: If that's true why can some apps detect it anyway? I installed e.g. Voddler on my iPhone yesterday; a free app to see movies without a charge. I can't see any movies because the app detected my iPhone as jailbroken and I got a message saying that jailbroken devices are not allowed to play the movies.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Does a Wireshark implementation exist for iPhone 4? Does a Wireshark implementation exist for iPhone 4? I recently felt a need to have some tools with me at all times. A: If you have a jail broken iPhone you can ssh into it and install tcpdump. Tcpdump is a command line program that wireshark is indirectly built off of.

Q: Does a Wireshark implementation exist for iPhone 4? Does a Wireshark implementation exist for iPhone 4? I recently felt a need to have some tools with me at all times. A: If you have a jail broken iPhone you can ssh into it and install tcpdump. Tcpdump is a command line program that wireshark is indirectly built off of. A: There's no WireShark app for iPhone no but there are a few Network Diagnostics tools which may do what you need since you don't state exactly what you want to do. Take a look at Network Diagnostics Utility Pro which is $4.99 and might cover your requirements. A: pirni is an iOS packet capture tool that does ARP poisoning and can dump to PCAP for analysis in Wireshark on a desktop. pirni-derv can do some basic analysis on iOS. A: Unfortunately, there is no official version of Wireshark on iPhone. However, there is one for Macs.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Will I damage my HDD if I transport my MacBook in sleep mode? Is it safe to carry MacBook with HDD in a bag while it has been put sleep? I.e. I know there are some risks of hard disk drive damage if one tries to shake them or rotate them while they're working. But is the HDD working while the Macbook is asleep? A: The HDD is put to sleep while the computer is sleeping. Unless you wake up the computer, the HDD will be safely spun down with the needle out of the way.

Q: Will I damage my HDD if I transport my MacBook in sleep mode? Is it safe to carry MacBook with HDD in a bag while it has been put sleep? I.e. I know there are some risks of hard disk drive damage if one tries to shake them or rotate them while they're working. But is the HDD working while the Macbook is asleep? A: The HDD is put to sleep while the computer is sleeping. Unless you wake up the computer, the HDD will be safely spun down with the needle out of the way. A: MacBooks are fine to be transported when in sleep mode. When a MacBook goes into sleep, it takes 20-30 seconds to save the current state to the HDD, while this is happening you'll see the status light shine brightly. Once it goes into a slow pulse, the MacBook is asleep and the HDD is inactive so there is no risk to the HDD from normal movement in a bag for example. Just make sure you don't throw it into the bag until it's fully asleep. MacBooks also have a 'Sudden Motion Sensor' which can prevent damage to the HDD by the computer parking the head of the HDD if it detects that it is being shaken or is falling. Read about it on the apple support pages or in the excerpt below: Sudden Motion Sensor technology is built-in protection for the hard disk, designed to help prevent disk issues if the computer is dropped or if it senses unusually strong vibration. Apple has adjusted this feature carefully to provide the best balance between protecting the hard drive and preventing unwanted activation of the Sudden Motion Sensor. Most Apple portable owners never need to turn this feature off. Apple suggests that you not modify the settings unless absolutely necessary. In some environments, such as live concert halls, recording studios, or dance clubs, external vibrations may be major enough to cause the module to unexpectedly park the hard drive heads, resulting in interrupted sound or video playback. In these situations, you may find that you want to disable the feature temporarily. Also see page 23 of this manual and page 16 of this manual

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Best audio converter for Mac I'm searching for an audio converter for mac with wide capabilities. It should be able to: * *Convert to flac (not from flac) *Split cue files into separate tracks *Grab audio CDs *Edit ID3-tags in batch mode Ability to convert different audio formats to MP3 and ALAC would be a big plus :) If there is no such ultimate tool, could you please provide links to some separate tools that have the different functionalities listed above. Thanks in advance! A: I use Max converter It can converts to many format but have some cons too :(

Q: Best audio converter for Mac I'm searching for an audio converter for mac with wide capabilities. It should be able to: * *Convert to flac (not from flac) *Split cue files into separate tracks *Grab audio CDs *Edit ID3-tags in batch mode Ability to convert different audio formats to MP3 and ALAC would be a big plus :) If there is no such ultimate tool, could you please provide links to some separate tools that have the different functionalities listed above. Thanks in advance! A: I use Max converter It can converts to many format but have some cons too :( A: My suggestion is the same presented here previously, but I use them for different things. Both Rip and XLD are good rippers for Mac. They support AccurateRip and use MusicBrainz for metadata, so you get certified rips with good tags. I always rip first to FLAC (single FLAC file + CUE) and them convert the rip into individual MP3 files. If I need to rerip, I go for the FLAC file, not the CD. If I used XLD for both tasks, I would be constantly messing with the configuration, changing from FLAC to MP3, and every now and then would forget and rip to the wrong format. So, I use XLD for the initial rip and Max to convert the FLAC into MP3. Later I learned about SBooth's Rip and started using it instead of XLD. Rip's advantage is that it adopts a smarter ripping strategy, only resorting to more powerful ripping technique when it finds a problem. So, initially Rip tries to fast rip a CD and match against AccurateRip, if it succeeds it is done otherwise it will try to overrip and else. So, usually, Rip is a lot faster than XLD and will generate a good rip, but now and then it will rip nothing because the CD has a fatal flaw. For those, I use XLD, that will try a lot harder to make a Rip and produce a file even if it can't rip correctly. A: My favorite converter is XLD. It converts to flac, splits cue files, it supports metadata correction (using CDDB), and embeds album artwork. It is the closest I could find to dBpoweramp. A: Max always crashes for me, had it on a few different versions of OS X too but it has a tendency to crash when you select the formats pane in the preferences. The best fix for this bug that I have found is to trash the files in ~/Library/Application Support/Max then relaunch the application. Stay away from mediahuman unless you like being infected with adware, it is infected with Nod32, a variant of Win32 /drweb OpenCandy.A/ Adware.OpenCandy.39. It is only adware but the way that it embeds itself deep into the OS X system means that it has root access and could quite easily do a lot more harm.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What's the difference between the different "generations" of iPod touches? I've been looking at buying a used ipod touch from craiglist but I'm confused as to what's what. The adds all say things like "2nd generation 8gb" or "3rd generation 16gb" and I'm not sure what the difference is. A: The short answer is processing speed, screen resolution and memory. The newer ones are obviously faster, and the lastest generation (4g) includes both front and back cameras for shooting video and video calling. For a full list of the differences check out this wikipedia page.

Q: What's the difference between the different "generations" of iPod touches? I've been looking at buying a used ipod touch from craiglist but I'm confused as to what's what. The adds all say things like "2nd generation 8gb" or "3rd generation 16gb" and I'm not sure what the difference is. A: The short answer is processing speed, screen resolution and memory. The newer ones are obviously faster, and the lastest generation (4g) includes both front and back cameras for shooting video and video calling. For a full list of the differences check out this wikipedia page. A: The long answer: 1st and 2nd have 128MB RAM while 3rd and 4th have 256. 3rd and 4th also come in 64GB versions as well as 32GB. The 4th added back an 8GB model. 2nd added Bluetooth (Only in iPhone OS 3.0) 3rd added voice control. 4th also has a Retina Display. Though not the same quality as the iPhone 4. Still it's nice and high-resolution. (It's an LCD, not an IPS for price reasons.) And the 4th has two cameras as well. Still not as nice as the iPhone ones. Processor is as follows: 412MHz, 533MHz, 600MHz ARM processors in first three versions. (Underclocked speed) 4th generation replaced the processor with an Apple-made 1GHz A4 processor underclocked to 800MHz. 4th also added a microphone built-in and a 3-axis Gyroscope. The 5th generation will be released in September. This is 99.9% guaranteed. Most likely with some features from the to-be-announced iPhone 5. (iPods are always September every year. It's one of the only predictable things about Apple. iPhones are in June or July when WWDC takes place, but can change without notice.) I could keep going but then I'm just into the useless techy stuff like GPU and weight.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: I rename a app folder on the iPhone 3GS using iTunes 10.1 on Mac; then sync causes it to revert I run iTunes on the Mac MBP (Snow Leopard). I have a folder of apps called New Folder. I click on it to open it, rename it, then close it. It shows the new name. But then after sync it changes back to New Folder. I do wonder if it is some name conflict. The new name was sushi, and there are sushi apps. But what is weird is it does show up with the new name until I press sync. EDIT 2/20/11: It isn't a name conflict; I have seen this at other times. Also it shows all the apps in alphabetical order, it appears. A: You should just edit the folder name on the iPhone itself. Just tap and hold the folder until it wiggles then tap it again to open it, and tap the name to edit it. Unfortunately iTunes often has lots of unknown trouble syncing with iOS devices, much to my own dismay.

Q: I rename a app folder on the iPhone 3GS using iTunes 10.1 on Mac; then sync causes it to revert I run iTunes on the Mac MBP (Snow Leopard). I have a folder of apps called New Folder. I click on it to open it, rename it, then close it. It shows the new name. But then after sync it changes back to New Folder. I do wonder if it is some name conflict. The new name was sushi, and there are sushi apps. But what is weird is it does show up with the new name until I press sync. EDIT 2/20/11: It isn't a name conflict; I have seen this at other times. Also it shows all the apps in alphabetical order, it appears. A: You should just edit the folder name on the iPhone itself. Just tap and hold the folder until it wiggles then tap it again to open it, and tap the name to edit it. Unfortunately iTunes often has lots of unknown trouble syncing with iOS devices, much to my own dismay.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I map buttons on my PS3 controller to keystrokes on my Mac? I purchased a PlayStation 3 controller for use with my Mac. It's paired via Bluetooth. It works great in emulators such as Snes9x, but I'd like to use it for other things as well. Is there any software that will allow me to map buttons on the controller to keystrokes? I've tried USB Overdrive and as far as I can tell, it doesn't do what I want. I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.6. A: Yeah there's an application called "ControllerMate" that you can get here http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/ . You pair the controller to the mac with USB (I think Bluetooth will work too but you might have to look up special instructions), then use this app to bind the controller functions to keys and mouse movements. It works really well. I used to use it to play things like Portal because they don't natively support the PS3 controller.

Q: How can I map buttons on my PS3 controller to keystrokes on my Mac? I purchased a PlayStation 3 controller for use with my Mac. It's paired via Bluetooth. It works great in emulators such as Snes9x, but I'd like to use it for other things as well. Is there any software that will allow me to map buttons on the controller to keystrokes? I've tried USB Overdrive and as far as I can tell, it doesn't do what I want. I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.6. A: Yeah there's an application called "ControllerMate" that you can get here http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/ . You pair the controller to the mac with USB (I think Bluetooth will work too but you might have to look up special instructions), then use this app to bind the controller functions to keys and mouse movements. It works really well. I used to use it to play things like Portal because they don't natively support the PS3 controller. A: Enjoy allows to map buttons to keystrokes. Here is the mapping I determined for my PS3 controller (connected via Bluetooth): The OSX mapping is used in games that directly support controllers, as Dustforce - where the SELECT button is mapped as pad0_btn3; there you would, of course, not use Enjoy. Enjoy is a free program for Mac OS X 10.5+, focused on simplicity. +------------------+---------------+-------------+ | button | Enjoy mapping | OSX mapping | +------------------+---------------+-------------+ | left | 8 | 7 | | up | 5 | 4 | | right | 6 | 5 | | down | 7 | 6 | | L1 | 11 | 10 | | L2 | 9 | 8 | | R1 | 12 | 11 | | R2 | 10 | 9 | | select | 1 | 0 | | start | 4 | 3 | | PS-btn | 17 | 16 | | L3(left analog) | 2 | 1 | | R3(right analog) | 3 | 2 | | ◻ square | 16 | 15 | | △ triangle | 13 | 12 | | ◯ circle | 14 | 13 | | X cross | 15 | 14 | +------------------+---------------+-------------+ A: You could try the procedure described here http://forums.macnn.com/77/gaming/377671/gaming-on-mac-with-ps3-controller/ A: The PS3 remote works with Remote Buddy if you're prepared to pay 20 euros (obviously test it out first though — it has a free trial period)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Bandwidth shaper or bandwidth controller application for Mac OS X I'm looking for a bandwidth/packet throttle/shaper program with the following features: * *Similar to Windows-based Netlimiter. *GUI based and not terminal or command line. *Shows list of all applications communicating over network its connections, transfer rates and more. *Set download or upload transfer rate limits for applications, connections or groups of them. A: There are multiple ways to do this. For example, using ipfw, pf, or trickle, or GUI front ends to these, such as: * *Speed Limit (not maintained as of 2014) *Throttled (only 10.4.x - 10.8.x) *Waterroof (10.7): http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ *IceFloor (10.8): http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/

Q: Bandwidth shaper or bandwidth controller application for Mac OS X I'm looking for a bandwidth/packet throttle/shaper program with the following features: * *Similar to Windows-based Netlimiter. *GUI based and not terminal or command line. *Shows list of all applications communicating over network its connections, transfer rates and more. *Set download or upload transfer rate limits for applications, connections or groups of them. A: There are multiple ways to do this. For example, using ipfw, pf, or trickle, or GUI front ends to these, such as: * *Speed Limit (not maintained as of 2014) *Throttled (only 10.4.x - 10.8.x) *Waterroof (10.7): http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ *IceFloor (10.8): http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/ A: For those on 10.7 or newer, the easiest solution to the bandwidth limiting part of the question is Apple's Network Link Conditioner (NLC), a free utility that was originally included with Xcode. Then Apple got all sandbox-happy, so now it's a separate download from Apple's developer web site, called the Additional Tools for Xcode. The important points going for NLC are that it's from Apple, it's got a very straightforward UI, and it works. Some of the other suggestions given in other answers fail some or all of these criteria, particularly in failing to work on newer OSes. As for monitoring per-application bandwidth usage, I recommend iStat Menus. A: Since there wasn't a clear answer here.... somebody recommended vellum and that got me looking into it. Turns out velum gives you a license too their other product "snail" which is exactly what the post originally asked for.... so skip vellum just buy snail. https://www.murusfirewall.com/snail/ A: Charles Proxy Limit the bandwidth and see requests, responses in real time. Charles Proxy has quite a nice GUI. A: Waterroof or Noobproof, both free!! A: take a look at little snitch: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Little Snitch features real-time network monitoring. It started as a nice GUI for adding per-application access rules and has grown into a bandwidth tool as well. I don't know how to use it to shape bandwidth. It's mostly an all-or-nothing, accept/reject network access monitor. Still, it will certainly help you find out which processes are spiking your Mac's network activity. A: In 10.15 and above, try: Vallum

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Apple Stackexchange Q: To-do app for Mac OS X I want to organize my to do's for programming an iphone app. I found this, and I really like it, but is not native to Mac OS X. Is there any app similar to it? A: Things (39$) is best to-do application i've ever used. It's a simple application with powerful features. My favorite feature is synchronizing between mac/ipad/iphone. One disadvantage that it is paid application.

Q: To-do app for Mac OS X I want to organize my to do's for programming an iphone app. I found this, and I really like it, but is not native to Mac OS X. Is there any app similar to it? A: Things (39$) is best to-do application i've ever used. It's a simple application with powerful features. My favorite feature is synchronizing between mac/ipad/iphone. One disadvantage that it is paid application. A: iCal that ships with OS X has a ToDo List feature that works well. You'll need to be more specific about which features of MyTinyToDo you like, if you are wanting better recommendations. A: I use ToodleDo for all of my To Do lists. It's a website so it is accessible anywhere (I use it as the default page in my browser on my laptop) and they have a native iPhone app that does a great job syncing. It's not Mac-native, but it is very agreeable to Mac users and you can export your lists as iCal calendars if you so choose. You get a lot of functionality for being free, but it does pay to subscribe if you have long-term uses for it. A: Just an idea, but you could run MyTinyToDo locally in apache and put it in a widget and put it on your dashboard. Or use GeekTool to float it on your desktop. A: You have a lot of good apps for what you'd like to plan. My suggestions are: Omnifocus for iPhone (it's one of the most expensive on the market but the features are excellent) -Todo a simple but convenient Todo app, really similar to the one you mentionned and easy to handle, with a cloud sync service for tasks 2Do the one that I can't live without (no joke!), probably the most complete planner app on iPhone. Hope this will help you make your mind ;) A: You have the great wunderlist which is free, provides collaboration and a companion iPhone app (also free). Does what it's made for. Customizable and sexy :) (No I don't work at 6wunderkinder!) A: Well if you want "native", Why not simply use Mail? It has a "notes" section and it'll sync w/ any ios device out there... Make a new note & at the top type in "To do" & go for it, doesn't get much more "native" than that.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Mac App Store works like trying to open iTunes via browser Greets everyone. I've updated to 10.6.6 but my Mac App Store doesn't behave well - see screen below: It seems to be constantly trying to open iTunes for some reason. BTW, I'd logged in iTunes with my Apple ID, but this didn't help. Any ideas? A: * *Go to your home folder. (your user name under places on the left hand side) *click on Library *click on Preferences *delete "ByHost" which is a folder. *delete "com.apple.appstore.appstore.plist" which is a file. *delete "com.apple.storeagent.plist" which is also a file. *restart *empty trash *open Mac App Store and it should work. If you're worried about deleting files then just make a copy somewhere else before you delete them. From discussions.apple.com

Q: Mac App Store works like trying to open iTunes via browser Greets everyone. I've updated to 10.6.6 but my Mac App Store doesn't behave well - see screen below: It seems to be constantly trying to open iTunes for some reason. BTW, I'd logged in iTunes with my Apple ID, but this didn't help. Any ideas? A: * *Go to your home folder. (your user name under places on the left hand side) *click on Library *click on Preferences *delete "ByHost" which is a folder. *delete "com.apple.appstore.appstore.plist" which is a file. *delete "com.apple.storeagent.plist" which is also a file. *restart *empty trash *open Mac App Store and it should work. If you're worried about deleting files then just make a copy somewhere else before you delete them. From discussions.apple.com

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why should I jailbreak my AppleTV 2G? Why should I jailbreak my AppleTV 2G? I'm confused on what extra functionality it brings. I understand you can browse the full internet with something like a typical web browser, but that doesn't interest me at all. What else is there? A: Other options are installing XBMC or Plex, and having much more control over your Apple TV - you can then play any media format, more easily access data from your other computers, access the full internet (as you pointed out) and find lots of different plugins for a range of different things. If you are interested, you can check out this article on Lifehacker about jailbreaking and installing XBMC - it's really a very straightforward process. If you'd like to have a play around, you can also download XBMX and Plex for your Mac or PC to see what they are all about. Good luck.

Q: Why should I jailbreak my AppleTV 2G? Why should I jailbreak my AppleTV 2G? I'm confused on what extra functionality it brings. I understand you can browse the full internet with something like a typical web browser, but that doesn't interest me at all. What else is there? A: Other options are installing XBMC or Plex, and having much more control over your Apple TV - you can then play any media format, more easily access data from your other computers, access the full internet (as you pointed out) and find lots of different plugins for a range of different things. If you are interested, you can check out this article on Lifehacker about jailbreaking and installing XBMC - it's really a very straightforward process. If you'd like to have a play around, you can also download XBMX and Plex for your Mac or PC to see what they are all about. Good luck. A: Jailbreaking your ATV2, will open up the hardware to utilize software that is available to enhance your usage. Personally I jailbroke my AppleTV2 because I wanted to be able to watch shows / movies from my home server. Shows / Movies that were NOT in apple approved format, nor were they shows that I wanted to convert and put into iTunes. XBMC is great in that regard, as you automatically get access to a TON of options that you don't get with the standard ATV2 iOS software. Plugins for things like HULU Plus, Amazon Prime, Vimeo, etc. The jailbreak (untethered) is very simple to do, and the tools available make the whole process painless and easy. Just google for details and follow the steps. Another approach that you might not think of is for Canadians, who wish to view American programming (due to limitations and Geo locking). You could easily with a jailbroken TV setup a proxy that would allow someone in Canada to then view US programming without being GEO locked from places like HULU, or AMAZON PRIME, etc;

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I plug two external monitors in to a MacBook Pro? I'd like to use two external monitors for some excels, coding, email, not games or video content. Can someone please explain how I can go about using two external monitors with my MacBook Pro, and realistically, how good will the performance be of the 2nd external monitor? A: In order to attach two or three monitors, you could use a third party device like Matrox GXM (Graphics eXpansion Modules) - you can connect two or three monitors from your Display Port, however, there are some limitations (like the OS does not know natively that there are two or three monitors connected and treats it like one). The price is about $350 for the Tripplehead and around $220 for the Dualhead one. Here is the GXM homepage.

Q: Can I plug two external monitors in to a MacBook Pro? I'd like to use two external monitors for some excels, coding, email, not games or video content. Can someone please explain how I can go about using two external monitors with my MacBook Pro, and realistically, how good will the performance be of the 2nd external monitor? A: In order to attach two or three monitors, you could use a third party device like Matrox GXM (Graphics eXpansion Modules) - you can connect two or three monitors from your Display Port, however, there are some limitations (like the OS does not know natively that there are two or three monitors connected and treats it like one). The price is about $350 for the Tripplehead and around $220 for the Dualhead one. Here is the GXM homepage. A: If you don't yet have the monitors, the cheapest solution is to get a USB monitor (for example, Display Link). Performance is fine for your uses. Display Link sells a monitor with HD (1920x1080) resolution. If you have both monitors already, and they are VGA or DVI, then you can buy adapters for them. Performance should improve somewhat. A: If you have an iPhone or iPad, they can become a second monitor with Air Display. A: I highly recommend Plugable's USB 2.0 to VGA/DVI/HDMI Adapter. It will do up to 2048×1152 or 1920×1200. I use it at work every day, along with a second monitor plugged right into the display port. It uses DisplayLink's chip and drivers, and works well on Snow Leopard and Lion. It's a bit slower to update than the MacBook's internal monitor or the monitor plugged directly into the display port, but as long as I'm not trying to watch video on it it's great. A: I've heard good things about the OWC USB to DVI/HDMI/VGA Display Adapter. Plug it in with USB, and it drives a monitor connected with DVI, HDMI, or VGA up to 1600x1200 pixels (full HD is 1920x1080). A: You can now do this with the Thunderbolt equipped MacBook Pros that also have discrete graphic cards. Both displays need to be the new Thunderbolt displays. I use a DisplayLink USB adapter on my MacBook Pro 13, which works well for everything except fullscreen video and 3D.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Which Mac to develop iPhone apps? I'm a developer working with Windows. I have some cutomers who are interested in iPhone Apps, so I'm looking for a Mac right now. The problem is, that I have no clue at all about what to buy. I don't want to use the Mac as my primary machine, I just want do to the coding on it. So it doesn't need to be that powerful I guess. So what would you recommend? New or used ... Does the Mac work with my USB Keyboard/Mouse? Does it work with my monitor with DVI port? Do I need adapters or completely new Hardware? I read somewhere that I need an Intel CPU. Is this true? A: Any current mac would work just fine. Just pick the form factor you like best at the price you are willing to pay. I use a mac mini for iphone development and it works fine with all my standard peripherals (monitor, keyboard & mouse). I had to get an adapter for the monitor.

Q: Which Mac to develop iPhone apps? I'm a developer working with Windows. I have some cutomers who are interested in iPhone Apps, so I'm looking for a Mac right now. The problem is, that I have no clue at all about what to buy. I don't want to use the Mac as my primary machine, I just want do to the coding on it. So it doesn't need to be that powerful I guess. So what would you recommend? New or used ... Does the Mac work with my USB Keyboard/Mouse? Does it work with my monitor with DVI port? Do I need adapters or completely new Hardware? I read somewhere that I need an Intel CPU. Is this true? A: Any current mac would work just fine. Just pick the form factor you like best at the price you are willing to pay. I use a mac mini for iphone development and it works fine with all my standard peripherals (monitor, keyboard & mouse). I had to get an adapter for the monitor. A: I completely disagree with all Mac Mini suggestions. Get a macbook. Used or new, depends on what you prefer. Or better yet - get the Air which is same price than the macbook. Today a new mini is U$300 cheaper than both the notebooks (which goes for U$999) but you don't have to deal with keyboards, mouses and above all lack of battery. Any computer without a nobreak is a break dealer for developing, from my point of view. Adding all that plus the space used, power consumption and convenience we can easily sum up to macbook being a lot more worth it. Plus, with the air, the SSD makes it worth even a lot more. The mini is good as a home server or any kind of dedicated machine. Never as a desktop nor to have frequent user input - even if it can be set up for such just like any messy PC. Anyway, I'm a long time PC user, I never dropped windows or PC, but if you're going to develop to mac, please, go all in. Learn to enjoy the apple way, to hate it as well, and make that software really a Mac OS one, not a ported piece that doesn't fit in. There are many, many nuances to a true software made for mac that can make the difference for your software being successful on the apple market. You can even use bootcamp to install windows on it if you wish, but like everyone else said, as a developer you are going to fall in love for the mac OS and the amazing hardware (which won't happen if you go Mini). A: Honestly any Mac on the market right now (that is currently being sold by Apple) will do you just fine. Choose based on price, honestly. I would not, however, recommend a Macbook Air if you're not going to be using it like a regular computer. Your best option would probably be a Mac Mini, which has an Intel CPU and plenty of speed and compatibility for what you're trying to do. They are a lot cheaper than alternative Macs, and you can use them with your preexisting monitor/mouse/keyboard setup. This is really nice if you buy one of those little switcher things that allows you to use a single monitor/mouse/keyboard setup with two or more computers. The Mac Mini will work with a DVI port, and if the model you purchase doesn't support DVI on the box, Apple sells a $20 adapter that'll get you what you need cheaply. In summary, Mac Mini is the way to go, imho. The next best option is an iMac, which you might like better (it has a more "Mac" experience which I guarantee you'll fall in love with). A: Agree with the Mac Mini suggestions but just to let you know, if you want a laptop, there'll be no problems either. I have successfully developed 4 apps on a 2009 white Macbook with no issues (I did max out the memory to 4Gig and replace the 120Gb hard drive with a 500Gb one though.) A: The current low level Mac Mini with an upgrade to 4GB memory is probably the best bang for your buck. That's what I have except with 8GB; got my memory from Amazon for $130, cheaper than Apple memory. It's a very capable machine. If you use a lot of programs simultaneously, the standard 2GB is kinda cramped, but 4GB would do fine; it just seemed like a good deal for 8GB and I use more than your average number of apps simultaneously and lots of Safari tabs. The new MacMini is much nicer than the 2009's. I know this because I had one before this one; with 2GB of course :). You're gonna love OS X by the way. Don't be surprised if you ditch Windows in a year. About your specific questions: * *Any current Mac has an Intel CPU. Apple switched from PowerPC back in 2006 and yes you need one, but you don't want a computer that old anyway! *Just about any keyboard or mouse will work fine with OS X. If you are using some kind of fancy mouse or keyboard, then you'll probably will need some third party software to get all those custom parts working, but all the standard parts will work; left click, right click, scroll wheel, cursor control etc. There is a chance however that there is no OS X equivalent of the third party software you may be using. *Finally, Macs work with standard monitors and even regular modern TV's with DVI, VGA, HDMI inputs (virtually all of them do). The most you'll ever need is a common adapter found at Best Buy, Apple Store etc. A: I would go wit the Mac Mini first and hook up my keyboard and monitor to that and would use Remote Desktop to connect to my Windows PC. A: I think for practical reasons you want to use a Mac that has a display large enough to display the entire iPhone4 (or iPad) simulator. It is annoying when you have to move the simulator window up and down on the display to see what's there. You also need a USB port to sync between a real iPhone or iPad and the development machine. Any of the machines that Apple sells will run the developer tools (Xcode) admirably, but do a little homework to see how many pixels you need to display the simulator (and the other tools) comfortably. Most of the developers I know use multiple displays, and so tend to use machines that allow you to hook up a second or even a third display. I am using a 4 year-old MacBook Pro 17". A: I just started iOS development and bought a Mac Mini, it's actually pretty powerful for such a small machine. I did upgrade to 4 gigs of ram though.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to synchronize iPhone with new Mac without losing data? I've upgraded my workplace with a new Macbook, but I've run into several problems. One of these problems is iPhone synchronization. Previously, I synchronized my iPhone with a PC notebook. Now I want to sync it with my new Mac, but I don't want to lose all my app data or re-upload all the music, videos, etc. Is there any possibility for me to sync with my Mac and not reinstall apps and re-upload music? I know I can use an iPhone file manager (my iPhone is jailbroken) to search all the saves and then reinstall all the apps and then transfer the saves back to phone, but it'll take too much time. Is there a more elegant way to do it? A: You can move your iTunes library from your PC to your Mac. As long as the persistent id is the same it won't erase the iPhone. You could also just edit the Mac iTunes library to have the same persistent id your PC library did. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2137

Q: How to synchronize iPhone with new Mac without losing data? I've upgraded my workplace with a new Macbook, but I've run into several problems. One of these problems is iPhone synchronization. Previously, I synchronized my iPhone with a PC notebook. Now I want to sync it with my new Mac, but I don't want to lose all my app data or re-upload all the music, videos, etc. Is there any possibility for me to sync with my Mac and not reinstall apps and re-upload music? I know I can use an iPhone file manager (my iPhone is jailbroken) to search all the saves and then reinstall all the apps and then transfer the saves back to phone, but it'll take too much time. Is there a more elegant way to do it? A: You can move your iTunes library from your PC to your Mac. As long as the persistent id is the same it won't erase the iPhone. You could also just edit the Mac iTunes library to have the same persistent id your PC library did. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2137 A: Recently dealt with this problem with my parents upgrading from an iPad 2 to an iPad 3. The iPad 2 was synced to one laptop, the iPad 3 was destined for another. We synced the iPad 3 to a backup of the iPad 2 and then went to plug it into the new laptop. (NOTE: the new laptop had all files from the old library synced via home share first.) iTunes asked whether to leave it alone or erase the iPad and sync. After playing around and much googling we went ahead and tried hitting erase and sync. When you do this, if the two iTunes libraries have the same iTunes account, it will actually make a full backup of the iOS device BEFORE it "erases and syncs." Once it was done, all files were there, even each app's files and settings. (Such as PDFs saved in good reader). This may not have been the case back in 2008 when http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2137 was posted. But it seems Apple has caught on, and they just need to reword the message box so they don't scare users into thinking they'll lose everything.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I select a song in a playlist in my library in iTunes 10? In iTunes 9 and earlier, I could go to a playlist and hold down option and click the small arrow next to the name of any song in that playlist to select that song in the main library instead of the playlist. This was very useful, for example if I wanted to remove a song from my library, I could use this to "reveal" the song in the main library and remove it from there. (This little icon, when clicked on without option, would open the iTunes store for purchasing the selected song) In iTunes 10, there is no more arrow for me to option click on. How can I select a song in a playlist and go to that same song file in the main library in iTunes 10? A: One way to do this is through the context menu on the selected song. Ctrl + Click (right click), go to the "Show in Playlist" item, and select the "Music" option. You should then be taken to the song in the main library list.

Q: How do I select a song in a playlist in my library in iTunes 10? In iTunes 9 and earlier, I could go to a playlist and hold down option and click the small arrow next to the name of any song in that playlist to select that song in the main library instead of the playlist. This was very useful, for example if I wanted to remove a song from my library, I could use this to "reveal" the song in the main library and remove it from there. (This little icon, when clicked on without option, would open the iTunes store for purchasing the selected song) In iTunes 10, there is no more arrow for me to option click on. How can I select a song in a playlist and go to that same song file in the main library in iTunes 10? A: One way to do this is through the context menu on the selected song. Ctrl + Click (right click), go to the "Show in Playlist" item, and select the "Music" option. You should then be taken to the song in the main library list. A: There's an arrow, it's under "ping" (and if you have Ping Disabled the arrow is still there): When you click on the "ping" icon:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I use the "right-to-left override" in Safari for Mac? I'd like to use the "right-to-left override" (unicode character 202E) in Safari. How do I make it work? A: Open up the Web Inspector with Command+Shift+I and type in this: copy('\u202e'); If this won't throw an error, the right-to-left override is copied to your clipboard. You can try it even in the console, just press Command+V and then type some text. This works cross-platform (just be sure to use Ctrl in Windows), in all WebKit browsers, but only inside the console. Update: I've just installed Safari 5 on Win7 x64, and it seems that the character is copied to the clipboard, but Safari can't handle it. The HTML entity that Dori suggested will work in any HTML document. There, it will work in questions and answers, but not in chat and comments.

Q: How do I use the "right-to-left override" in Safari for Mac? I'd like to use the "right-to-left override" (unicode character 202E) in Safari. How do I make it work? A: Open up the Web Inspector with Command+Shift+I and type in this: copy('\u202e'); If this won't throw an error, the right-to-left override is copied to your clipboard. You can try it even in the console, just press Command+V and then type some text. This works cross-platform (just be sure to use Ctrl in Windows), in all WebKit browsers, but only inside the console. Update: I've just installed Safari 5 on Win7 x64, and it seems that the character is copied to the clipboard, but Safari can't handle it. The HTML entity that Dori suggested will work in any HTML document. There, it will work in questions and answers, but not in chat and comments. A: If all you want is to make it work in Safari: This is left to right, &#8238;but this is right to left,<br /> and then this is back to left to right again. results in: This is left to right, ‮but this is right to left, and then this is back to left to right again. The important bit is the &#8238;—everything after that will be reversed. Note: this assumes that the web page is using UTF-8 (and if it isn't, it should be).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What are the risks of connecting a MacBook to an insecure wireless network? What privacy and security risks am I exposing myself to when I connect my MacBook to an open insecure wireless network? Are there any risks that are worse or better when compared to a Windows PC that's connected to an insecure wireless network?  A: Just because we're rocking a very secure OS, doesn't mean viruses, malware and the like can't happen. Be vigilant, all the time. It is a misconception that you are not prone to virii. Basically: all the same risks as if you connected a PC laptop to an insecure wireless network. Just with a lower probability of getting attacked.

Q: What are the risks of connecting a MacBook to an insecure wireless network? What privacy and security risks am I exposing myself to when I connect my MacBook to an open insecure wireless network? Are there any risks that are worse or better when compared to a Windows PC that's connected to an insecure wireless network?  A: Just because we're rocking a very secure OS, doesn't mean viruses, malware and the like can't happen. Be vigilant, all the time. It is a misconception that you are not prone to virii. Basically: all the same risks as if you connected a PC laptop to an insecure wireless network. Just with a lower probability of getting attacked. A: The primary concern is that any HTTP communications (and other non-secured communications) could be intercepted, including cookies, which often contain your login information. Note that secure communications (HTTPS) have other methods to keep your information safe, so financial communications are usually safe. The secondary concern is that your Mac can be directly attaqued by any other computer within a 50 m radius. If your Mac doesn't have its firewall on, then this attack may lead to some file access (through guest account), and some remote control (through Apple Remote Desktop, VNC or more secret system vulnerabilities). This security risk exists equally whether you are using OS X, Windows, Linux, or any other operating system, and there are no additional risks (nor less) on any platform. A: the simples trick is: 1-someone is looking over your shoulder what you typing (in public place) so DO NOT type, use copy/paste for password (stored previously in a document !) so they do not see which keys you are using. 2- Turn on Firewall, use only httpS in your browser ect... 3-What kind of Public WiFi are you connecting to? 3.1- one where you just jump on (fully open). 3.2 Anyone with logon info can join (bars, hotels, ect (still risky). 3.3 Connecting to a public router (with many others) but you have your unique/personal log in (only router owner/administrator can screw you).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do you use your iPod shuffle or nano? I bought my first Apple product a few months ago, an iPod shuffle, a tiny little music gadget that's fun to play with. However its getting a little boring because I don't know what I can do with it or places I can use it. Currently, I'm limited to listening to it during sleeptime as a lullaby machine. What do you do with your iPod shuffle/nano? how do you get the most out of it? A: Nanos or shuffles are great for workouts at the gym or while running. You can use them just about anywhere. I personally use a Classic for my stuff, but the nano is great if you have a smaller library or want something very mobile. As far as what you can do with it (other than playing music), it really depends on which generation you have. You obviously can't really run 'apps' on it, but many generations (of nanos) had some small games, radios, could play video, etc.

Q: How do you use your iPod shuffle or nano? I bought my first Apple product a few months ago, an iPod shuffle, a tiny little music gadget that's fun to play with. However its getting a little boring because I don't know what I can do with it or places I can use it. Currently, I'm limited to listening to it during sleeptime as a lullaby machine. What do you do with your iPod shuffle/nano? how do you get the most out of it? A: Nanos or shuffles are great for workouts at the gym or while running. You can use them just about anywhere. I personally use a Classic for my stuff, but the nano is great if you have a smaller library or want something very mobile. As far as what you can do with it (other than playing music), it really depends on which generation you have. You obviously can't really run 'apps' on it, but many generations (of nanos) had some small games, radios, could play video, etc. A: My shuffle has two playlists: * *Sleep: Thirty minutes of soft instrumental music followed by nine hours of rainfall *Wakeup: One hour of four- and five-star songs lasting two to five minutes that have not been played in the past six months It needs a recharge every two days. A: I use my iPod nano in the car to listen to podcasts during my commute. I have a Belkin TuneBase FM Transmitter—the older model of what's shown below—so that I can listen using my car's stereo. A: On my iPod Shuffle (Gen 3) I have one playlist, "Gym" - mainly fast paced rock and electronic music, I use this while I'm training. The shuffle is ideal for this as it is lightweight and clips to my gym kit unobtrusively. That is all I use it for as have an iPhone, so use that as my day to day device, however, even the 2GB Shuffle will hold 12 hours of music if you want to listen to it at work etc, although I appreciate it is a bit trickier to navigate music. A: I use may 6th gen nano (the touchscreen one) as a pedometer and a flashlight when my iPod touch runs out of battery. (Also as practice for iOS accessibility gestures.) A: I have a long commute to and from work and I find that whether I am in the walking part of the commute or the part that involves buses and trains, it helps me relax, pass time faster or wake up better depending on the tracks I decide to play. If I'm at home and want to work on artistic projects, it's also great to use in conjunction with speakers (I use a Bose SoundLink mini). Once I played music while taking a bath it was really nice. Based on how many songs play, you can know exactly how much time passed. Just try to remember the name of the first and last song, and when you're near your computer plug it to iTunes and click from the first to the last song and the total duration will be displayed.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why do I occasionally get the message "could not activate cellular data network" when opening the sms app? It pops up a message telling me this which means I have to tap 'OK' This is seriously annoying, does anyone know why this happens and what terrible event it is supposed to help me avoid? A: This is annoying but you can't turn it off unfortunately. If the iPhone detects a momentary loss of connection to the cell tower and it believes the user is interacting with the phone then it will pop this message up. It's intention is to let you know that you don't have a signal and therefore won't be able to send your SMS, email etc. however more often than not it's a sub-second blip in the signal rather than a total loss. If you watch closely you'll sometimes see the signal bars disappear and reappear as the signal is reacquired. You could try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings to see if somehow you've altered some network setting which is affecting your reception but you'll lose wifi passwords etc I think if you do that.

Q: Why do I occasionally get the message "could not activate cellular data network" when opening the sms app? It pops up a message telling me this which means I have to tap 'OK' This is seriously annoying, does anyone know why this happens and what terrible event it is supposed to help me avoid? A: This is annoying but you can't turn it off unfortunately. If the iPhone detects a momentary loss of connection to the cell tower and it believes the user is interacting with the phone then it will pop this message up. It's intention is to let you know that you don't have a signal and therefore won't be able to send your SMS, email etc. however more often than not it's a sub-second blip in the signal rather than a total loss. If you watch closely you'll sometimes see the signal bars disappear and reappear as the signal is reacquired. You could try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings to see if somehow you've altered some network setting which is affecting your reception but you'll lose wifi passwords etc I think if you do that. A: I had the same problem on a new iPad (2012 model) with T-Mobile in the UK. Solution was easy once I found it (credit: this answer) - just go into Settings > Carrier, and turn off Automatic (i.e. selection of carrier). When your carrier is listed below (may take a minute or two), just select it. This completely fixed the problem, which wasn't fixed by going into airplane mode, rebooting, or tweaking the APN settings. Update: unfortunately this turned out not to be a complete fix after some time using this, though it did improve matters. Using a Vodafone SIM worked fine, so I suspect the problem is with T-Mobile UK.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I open a new customized (color, font, etc.) Terminal window from the command line? I'd like to open a new Terminal window in Terminal.app. I'd also like to be able to customize this window (color, text, etc.), based on one of my pre-defined defaults, or based on something else not yet set in Terminal preferences. A: * *CMD+n opens a new terminal window. *CMD+t opens a new terminal tab. *If you want to open something other than the default Terminal, use the techniques here to open a pre-defined Terminal setup. You can also do CMD+n,i,Tab to bring up the Inspector, then use up/down arrows, or type the names, which lets you choose a pre-defined Terminal. *If you want a setup hard-coded and not yet known to Terminal.app, follow these instructions.

Q: How can I open a new customized (color, font, etc.) Terminal window from the command line? I'd like to open a new Terminal window in Terminal.app. I'd also like to be able to customize this window (color, text, etc.), based on one of my pre-defined defaults, or based on something else not yet set in Terminal preferences. A: * *CMD+n opens a new terminal window. *CMD+t opens a new terminal tab. *If you want to open something other than the default Terminal, use the techniques here to open a pre-defined Terminal setup. You can also do CMD+n,i,Tab to bring up the Inspector, then use up/down arrows, or type the names, which lets you choose a pre-defined Terminal. *If you want a setup hard-coded and not yet known to Terminal.app, follow these instructions.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What readers annotate PDFs better than the Preview app? I usually spend around 3 or 4 hours a day working with and annotating PDFs. I've always used Preview, but there's a few things that bother me about it. Mainly the large icons used when you place notes, which can get in the way in tightly formatted documents. Is there an alterate PDF reader that is any better for annotating documents? A: PDF Expert is hands down the best pdf editor made. Better than Acrobat.

Q: What readers annotate PDFs better than the Preview app? I usually spend around 3 or 4 hours a day working with and annotating PDFs. I've always used Preview, but there's a few things that bother me about it. Mainly the large icons used when you place notes, which can get in the way in tightly formatted documents. Is there an alterate PDF reader that is any better for annotating documents? A: PDF Expert is hands down the best pdf editor made. Better than Acrobat. A: PDF Studio Viewer is a free PDF Reader for macOS that can annotate PDF documents with text and graphical comments including text highlights and markup, shape annotations, text box, typewriter, callout, etc. It can also fill interactive forms. All annotations are compliant with PDF specs and Adobe products and can be viewed by other readers on all platforms. A: Skim is a pdf reader specialy designed to annotate pdf. Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Stop printing and start skimming. Explore the links to the left to investigate Skim and consider helping out with the project. Features: * *Viewing PDFs *Adding and editing notes *Highlighting important text, including one-swipe highlight modes *Making "snapshots" for easy reference *Navigation using table of contents or thumbnails, with visual history *View all your notes and highlights *Convenient reading in full screen *Giving powerful presentations, with built-in transitions *Handy preview of internal links *Focus using a reading bar *Magnification tool *Smart cropping tools *Extensive AppleScript support *Bookmarks *Saving passwords in Keychain *Export notes as text *Automatic download of remote PDFs *Support for Apple Remote Control *Interaction with LaTeX, SyncTeX, and PDFSync *Integration with BibDesk and other third party applications *Spotlight support *Highly customizable *And much more... A: While not meant primarily for your use case, I found Mendeley Desktop to be quite adept at highlighting and annotating. A: There are plenty of good PDF readers on Mac, including: Formulate Pro, http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/19911/formulatepro PDFPen and PDFPen Pro (a little bit expensive but really good software) PDF Checkpoint that I like very much which allows you to automate your workflow. You should try their free version to see which one suits your needs ;) A: I too can share my best PDF experience with PDF Expert by readdle.Very advanced PDF editor/viewer,and also in some very large files where Preview would crash,it didn't.Absolutely worth the money. A: I agree with the previous answer ... so far I think skim is the best. Yet, I had some issues that it would not display the annotations on every platform. I like to use Adobe Illustrator for annotating. Yet, you will need a lot of processing power + it's not really cheap (if you just want to use it for annotating, don't bother buying it). There's also http://jarnal.wikispaces.com/ (opensource, yet ugly java ui) Overview about note-taking software for different platforms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_notetaking_software A: https://getpolarized.io/ is another mediocre, Electron (and web) solution. It is also always-online and has a free plan with 1 GB of storage. It has some integration with Anki. A: To be honest if you are spending that amount of time a day with PDFs its worth buying Acrobat Pro. Its not cheap but nothing else comes close in terms of its feature set. I have found version 10 to be really stable too.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to dock the Adium buddy list to the side of the screen? This seems to be a pretty common feature in most Windows-based IM clients and I'm confused as to why I can't find this functionality in Adium. By "dock" I mean dragging the buddy list to the edge of the screen and having it essentially turn into a sidebar which no windows overlap and which takes up the entire height of the screen. A: You can certainly achieve "something similar" if you tell it to be above other windows and don't hide when in the background (options I don't use or like) Of course it won't be a real "docked" app like the DOCK, but it will behave mostly like it. You can control the vertical and horizontal size: And here's how mine looks: UPDATE to be honest, I use it on the right side, but Adium will "stick" to the Screen side when close to it. The position in the above screenshot was for the purpose of showing you how it "docks" :)

Q: Is there any way to dock the Adium buddy list to the side of the screen? This seems to be a pretty common feature in most Windows-based IM clients and I'm confused as to why I can't find this functionality in Adium. By "dock" I mean dragging the buddy list to the edge of the screen and having it essentially turn into a sidebar which no windows overlap and which takes up the entire height of the screen. A: You can certainly achieve "something similar" if you tell it to be above other windows and don't hide when in the background (options I don't use or like) Of course it won't be a real "docked" app like the DOCK, but it will behave mostly like it. You can control the vertical and horizontal size: And here's how mine looks: UPDATE to be honest, I use it on the right side, but Adium will "stick" to the Screen side when close to it. The position in the above screenshot was for the purpose of showing you how it "docks" :)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I suppress the address bar in mobile Safari? When I add the Nibbble web app to my iPhone home page, it not only installs an icon, but when run, also hides all of the mobile Safari chrome. How does it achieve this? A: You only need the first part of this code to do what you ask, but the rest may also be helpful. // hide the browser chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> //set the phone status bar style; can be grey, black, or black translucent <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> // set the viewport for iOS <meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" /> // set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to the home screen <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/path/to/icon.png" />

Q: How do I suppress the address bar in mobile Safari? When I add the Nibbble web app to my iPhone home page, it not only installs an icon, but when run, also hides all of the mobile Safari chrome. How does it achieve this? A: You only need the first part of this code to do what you ask, but the rest may also be helpful. // hide the browser chrome <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> //set the phone status bar style; can be grey, black, or black translucent <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> // set the viewport for iOS <meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" /> // set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to the home screen <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/path/to/icon.png" />

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there any way to output to two 1920x1200 external monitors with any of MacBook Pro or Air? I understand that you can output to one 1920x1200 monitor while still using the laptop's screen, and one 2560x1600 monitor using the dual-DVI adapter. But can you output to two external 1920x1200 monitors? I don't care if you can still use the laptop's screen in that case. A: Yes you can, you can run one monitor from the normal monitor port and another from a USB port but you need a special connector which makes the Air think it has a 2nd monitor attached. Here's an example on YouTube You need something like the Matrox Dual Head 2 Go which allows you to have multiple monitors with your MacBook. The performance of USB-attached monitors tends to be worse than those connected with display cables so they would be fine for regular computer use but probably not for gaming for example. EDIT With the release of Thunderbolt-capable Macs, you can now drive dual external Thunderbolt displays from MacBooks which have a separate graphics card.

Q: Is there any way to output to two 1920x1200 external monitors with any of MacBook Pro or Air? I understand that you can output to one 1920x1200 monitor while still using the laptop's screen, and one 2560x1600 monitor using the dual-DVI adapter. But can you output to two external 1920x1200 monitors? I don't care if you can still use the laptop's screen in that case. A: Yes you can, you can run one monitor from the normal monitor port and another from a USB port but you need a special connector which makes the Air think it has a 2nd monitor attached. Here's an example on YouTube You need something like the Matrox Dual Head 2 Go which allows you to have multiple monitors with your MacBook. The performance of USB-attached monitors tends to be worse than those connected with display cables so they would be fine for regular computer use but probably not for gaming for example. EDIT With the release of Thunderbolt-capable Macs, you can now drive dual external Thunderbolt displays from MacBooks which have a separate graphics card. A: I've rencently bought a Matrox Dual Head 2 Go that supports up to two 1920x1200 displays. ! You can still use the MacBook Pro main screen while the 2 externals displays are connected ! Plus the control software by Matrox is nice and simple to use . A: I highly recommend Plugable's USB 2.0 to VGA/DVI/HDMI Adapter. It will do up to 2048×1152 or 1920×1200. I use it at work every day, along with a second monitor plugged right into the display port. It uses DisplayLink's chip and drivers, and works well on Snow Leopard and Lion. It's a bit slower to update than the MacBook's internal monitor or the monitor plugged directly into the display port, but as long as I'm not trying to watch video on it it's great. A: In this post, it is shown how to do it by using an external USB accessory, apparently enabling up to six monitors. Sorry the blog is in Italian, but the particular device demonstrated there is evident and some links to further explanations are to English-language sites.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is it possible to return the iPhone to its very original factory state? Back to the screen that asks for SIM insertion and iTunes connection on background. Is it? A: Settings -> General -> Reset -> 'Erase all Content and Settings'. On some devices (3gs and 4) this will only return the iPhone to factory settings (but not activation mode). For the latter, I'd just plug it in to iTunes and click 'Restore'.

Q: Is it possible to return the iPhone to its very original factory state? Back to the screen that asks for SIM insertion and iTunes connection on background. Is it? A: Settings -> General -> Reset -> 'Erase all Content and Settings'. On some devices (3gs and 4) this will only return the iPhone to factory settings (but not activation mode). For the latter, I'd just plug it in to iTunes and click 'Restore'. A: If I understand what you mean is restoring to its original state - * *Connect iPhone to the computer. *In iTunes, under the Devices, select your iPhone. *Select the Summary tab across the top. *Click Restore. A: Yes assuming you haven't upgraded the firmware or OS past the factory state. Whether or not you can revert to factory levels, here is how to get it ready for activation: Remove the SIM and power off the device. Then plug it into iTunes while off and holding the home button all the while until you see the connect to iTunes icon. This is recovery mode but the device still has user data on it. Your computer then can wipe all content and re-install any OS that is the same or newer than the OS that is currently on the device. You can load iTunes with older images than is current but just not older than is currently on the phone. You can't go backwards in terms of undoing an update on the phone without modifying/jailbreaking the device - even then it's not a given and rarely successful in reverting back to factory OS or firmware. Once the restore is complete disconnect the phone from the computer before replacing the SIM card.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iOS: how can I disable calendar alerts? Is it possible to disable alerts coming from the Calendar app? I am talking about the on the screen pop-ups that come before the start of an event. You can turn off the alert sound in the Preferences, but I don't see an option to turn off the alert pop-up. (My iPhone calendar is synchronized with Google Calendar, and so I already alerts through some other means, and don't want to get them one more time on the iPhone.) A: Settings > Notifications > Calendar Here you can select the types of notifications you want for all types of Calendar events, eg you can turn on or off banner pop-ups, sounds, or both, etc.

Q: iOS: how can I disable calendar alerts? Is it possible to disable alerts coming from the Calendar app? I am talking about the on the screen pop-ups that come before the start of an event. You can turn off the alert sound in the Preferences, but I don't see an option to turn off the alert pop-up. (My iPhone calendar is synchronized with Google Calendar, and so I already alerts through some other means, and don't want to get them one more time on the iPhone.) A: Settings > Notifications > Calendar Here you can select the types of notifications you want for all types of Calendar events, eg you can turn on or off banner pop-ups, sounds, or both, etc. A: No, you can't disable pop-up reminders globally. You can turn off an alert by accessing the event properties in the Calendar app, but then it will be disabled in Google Agenda too. A: From iOS 8 there's a circled "i" besides calendars that you can click on to manage settings for individual calendars. At the bottom is the toggle for whether to display notification for this calendar. It is not a global setting but you can toggle it one by one for each calendar, including the Google ones. This should not affect the notification settings you have in the Google Calendar app itself.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I create HTML emails on Mac? I'd like to know the best way to create gorgeous mail templates such as Jumsfot's Stationary Mail ones and send them without having to use Safari. Is there a way to do this easily? A: I've tried this once, when Apple discontinued the iCards, but I wasn't able to do anything that looked nearly as good. There is a tutorial here: The Graphic Mac The full documentation is available at Apple's developer site.

Q: How do I create HTML emails on Mac? I'd like to know the best way to create gorgeous mail templates such as Jumsfot's Stationary Mail ones and send them without having to use Safari. Is there a way to do this easily? A: I've tried this once, when Apple discontinued the iCards, but I wasn't able to do anything that looked nearly as good. There is a tutorial here: The Graphic Mac The full documentation is available at Apple's developer site.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why can't I use .app bundles symlinked into /Applications as default in the 'open with' dialog? I have installed emacs with homebrew, with the --cocoa flag, which makes homebrew create an .app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/<version>/Emacs.app. I have symlinked the .app bundle into /Applications/, to make it easy to open. The problem is that when I try setting file associations for files, I can't set Emacs.app as the default (the Add button is greyed out): Now I could just copy or move the .app bundle into /Applications/, but that would require me to copy it over again every time emacs is updated via homebrew. Is there some other way to solve this? A: I don't know why, but I have figured it out that if I make the symlink to the Contents directory, then associations work fine. That is I do the following in a terminal window, using my personal Applications folder as an example: % mkdir ~/Applications/Emacs.app % ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.2/Emacs.app/Contents ~/Applications/Emacs.app Something about putting the symlink inside the Emacs.app gets the bundle recognized.

Q: Why can't I use .app bundles symlinked into /Applications as default in the 'open with' dialog? I have installed emacs with homebrew, with the --cocoa flag, which makes homebrew create an .app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/<version>/Emacs.app. I have symlinked the .app bundle into /Applications/, to make it easy to open. The problem is that when I try setting file associations for files, I can't set Emacs.app as the default (the Add button is greyed out): Now I could just copy or move the .app bundle into /Applications/, but that would require me to copy it over again every time emacs is updated via homebrew. Is there some other way to solve this? A: I don't know why, but I have figured it out that if I make the symlink to the Contents directory, then associations work fine. That is I do the following in a terminal window, using my personal Applications folder as an example: % mkdir ~/Applications/Emacs.app % ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.2/Emacs.app/Contents ~/Applications/Emacs.app Something about putting the symlink inside the Emacs.app gets the bundle recognized. A: Weird. I just installed emacs through brew and it automatically updated the "open with" dialog to include Emacs.app ; But you should be able to do the following: Directly after opening the "choose an application" dialog, press "/" to get a "go to folder" window. Enter the following path: /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/ and from there navigate to the Emacs.app (at the current version this should be /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.2/Emacs.app) and select it as default application. ======== Could you please run the following command to see whether Emacs is registered in your LaunchServices DB? /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -dump | grep Emacs A: If it's not something you do often, you can navigate to the place where Emacs.app is really and assign it from there. Did you try to change the "Enable: Recommended Applications" dropdown? I believe there's a "All applications" option. Maybe this one will let you select your alias. You said you symlinked the .app. Did you use ln -s? If so, did you try using an alias instead? -- I don't know homebrew very well, but it look like you can extend homebrew with external commands. Try to look if you can get the updated .app file and cp to /Applications. A: My solution is to create a symlink of /usr/local/Cellar in /Applications. Then, you can find the emacs.app you need to use with the "Open with" dialog (in /Applications/Cellar). Alternatively, you may use RCDefault (a freeware app) to config the file extension association. A: The exact paths to your applications shouldn't matter. Once you open the application and close it once, it should add it to your LaunchServices database. Try rebuilding your LaunchServices database by entering the following terminal command: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/\ LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain\ local -domain system -domain user After doing this, open MacVim. It should then populate the Open With... options. Note that MacVim does not automatically associate itself with many file types (unlike, say, BBEdit, which shows up as a default option for almost any file type), only text, code, and html-type files tend to

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I change my display settings if I can't see my screen? I have a macbook in clamshell mode that's plugged into an HDTV for display output. Yesterday, I changed my display settings via the System Preferences. However, I inadvertently picked a setting that is not supported by my screen, and now I can't figure out how to undo the change. The screen is blank. I can open my laptop and go to dual-screen mode and change the settings there, but as soon as I switch back to clamshell mode the system picks the broken display settings again. A: Try to to go /Library/Preferences/ and search for com.apple.windowserver.plist. It's the file that gets updated when you modify the display in System Preferences (I just tried). According to this Apple KB, it's safe to delete it. So move it on your desktop and try to reboot.

Q: How do I change my display settings if I can't see my screen? I have a macbook in clamshell mode that's plugged into an HDTV for display output. Yesterday, I changed my display settings via the System Preferences. However, I inadvertently picked a setting that is not supported by my screen, and now I can't figure out how to undo the change. The screen is blank. I can open my laptop and go to dual-screen mode and change the settings there, but as soon as I switch back to clamshell mode the system picks the broken display settings again. A: Try to to go /Library/Preferences/ and search for com.apple.windowserver.plist. It's the file that gets updated when you modify the display in System Preferences (I just tried). According to this Apple KB, it's safe to delete it. So move it on your desktop and try to reboot. A: From the command line, cscreen lets you adjust monitor resolution.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to use different network connections for different apps At work we have a firewall that prevents certain outbound connections. But I also have a Clear wireless personal hotspot. I would like to use the work connection for normal requests but for certain requests such as my Mysql app, I would like to use my personal wireless. Is there a way to do that without having to switch back and forth. So all mysql connections just know to use one network interface while other requests use the default. A: I've asked the same question a long time ago on superuser.com https://superuser.com/questions/181882/force-an-application-to-use-a-specific-network-interface

Q: Is there a way to use different network connections for different apps At work we have a firewall that prevents certain outbound connections. But I also have a Clear wireless personal hotspot. I would like to use the work connection for normal requests but for certain requests such as my Mysql app, I would like to use my personal wireless. Is there a way to do that without having to switch back and forth. So all mysql connections just know to use one network interface while other requests use the default. A: I've asked the same question a long time ago on superuser.com https://superuser.com/questions/181882/force-an-application-to-use-a-specific-network-interface A: I suggest you look in to routing with iptables. I can't remember how off the top of my head, but it would definitely be possible to just catch packets going to a certain host/port and push them off through another interface. A: To separate traffic by app (and not by destination) would require an OSX version of something like ForceBindIP (for Windows only). No matter how you change the routing tables or ipfw, if you have 2 apps that are trying to reach google.com, they will use the same interface, same route. You might be able to approximate the same kind of behaviour by running each app in a chroot jail that can see only a limited set of devices, and restrict it to a single interface. But that would take a whole lotta configuation for each app. A: I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this using IPTables, but I'm not an expert at that so I can't really give you detailed information. However, that may point you in the right direction. Essentially you would set a route for all outgoing connections on the port you connect to with mysql to use that wireless connection. A: This is most definitely possible, but like the other people here, I don't know how to do it. Just that it certainly can be done. Try asking in https://unix.stackexchange.com/.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone 3G bluetooth unaccessible This is all that's happening. My laptop, my other mobile and my desktop computer all see each other. But my iPhone just keeps "searching". Any tips on what to try? A: Without a jailbreak, iPhone Bluetooth only supports headsets and wireless tethering. Developers can also use the Bluetooth API to allow apps to communicate but this has limited functionality. So basically your iPhone won't discover your phone, laptop (unless it's a MacBook) or desktop because it's not designed to do so. With the MacBook, it appears that the only functionality allowed is data tethering and no file transfers or other features are enabled.

Q: iPhone 3G bluetooth unaccessible This is all that's happening. My laptop, my other mobile and my desktop computer all see each other. But my iPhone just keeps "searching". Any tips on what to try? A: Without a jailbreak, iPhone Bluetooth only supports headsets and wireless tethering. Developers can also use the Bluetooth API to allow apps to communicate but this has limited functionality. So basically your iPhone won't discover your phone, laptop (unless it's a MacBook) or desktop because it's not designed to do so. With the MacBook, it appears that the only functionality allowed is data tethering and no file transfers or other features are enabled. A: Theres a possibility that the last time a firmware was applied, it mucked the bluetooth part. I would suggest a redo from iTunes. Also, you might want to download the iPhone Configuration Utility so that you can peek into the system logs. Might be a chance theres a log stating why it cant work. From personal experience, sometimes, certain apps can muck somethings too. I've done these two actions. (1-tedious but data safe) remove suspected apps one by one from the device and retrying the BT search again in between apps removal. (2-knee jerk & data erased, pls avoid if you really cant part with your data/contacts) backup the device (backup at itunes, backup contacts to sync-able services like yahoo or ms exchange, backup pics and other data to computer), then restore firmware/factory defaults. without restoring your data, test the bluetooth - see if it works. If it does, theres something on your previous setup that is causing it not to work (can be app, or data). Install apps and data one by one and testing BT in between installs to identify which apps is the culprit. Also, you need to recreate/copy/restore/resync your contacts and other data from scratch (not from itunes as it will only bring back the problem again) Good luck!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Safe to post iOS crash logs in public? One of the iOS apps I use has been crashing a lot more than usual lately, so I'm posting about it on their forum. I've got a bunch of crash logs. Is it safe to post iOS crash logs in a public place? Is there any PII in them? I see a lot of hashes in them. Are they completely arbitrary/random, or do they contain my hardware address or something? A: Crash logs are safe to post in public. There is no identifying information about you in them. All of the random looking text you see are addresses of the various methods that get symbolicated by Xcode into method names. This lets the developers see the exact line of code that caused the problem. Also know, it is harder to symbolicate crash logs that have been copied and pasted. It would be more helpful for the developers to get your crash logs in the original .crash file. It looks like this is no longer the case, I had no problem copy and pasting a crash log and symbolicating using the latest Xcode.

Q: Safe to post iOS crash logs in public? One of the iOS apps I use has been crashing a lot more than usual lately, so I'm posting about it on their forum. I've got a bunch of crash logs. Is it safe to post iOS crash logs in a public place? Is there any PII in them? I see a lot of hashes in them. Are they completely arbitrary/random, or do they contain my hardware address or something? A: Crash logs are safe to post in public. There is no identifying information about you in them. All of the random looking text you see are addresses of the various methods that get symbolicated by Xcode into method names. This lets the developers see the exact line of code that caused the problem. Also know, it is harder to symbolicate crash logs that have been copied and pasted. It would be more helpful for the developers to get your crash logs in the original .crash file. It looks like this is no longer the case, I had no problem copy and pasting a crash log and symbolicating using the latest Xcode. A: No - it is not universally or unequivocally safe. Any programmer could save very personal data plainly, so you are at the mercy of the designers and programmers to sanitize and not expose any personal data in a crash. The security by obscurity (values are in hexadecimal) is pretty good and the chance of something sensitive getting exposed is very very low, but sharing a crash report publicly could be hazardous to your privacy. I would say don't post anything until you really understand what a device GUID is and how to read a stack trace or hexadecimal characters. Also your risk is directly affected by the nature of the program. Tiny Wings knows nothing because I've told it nothing. It's also unlikely to have scanned my address book or location/contact information. On the other side, my banking program has to store PIN numbers and things I enter clearly before it encrypts them. 1Password works with sensitive data like my social security number. Even though the program may eventually store the data encrypted - a crash report can crash at the point where the data is being turned into something you see clearly on the screen - a sequence of digits. Basically, for a fleeting moment, the data is not protected. The general question "Is it safe to post?" has to be no without other qualifications on the data stored in the app. Especially when posting it to something so public and permanent as the internet.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I combine multiple screenshots in Skitch? With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, such as Acorn, but is it possible to do this from within Skitch? A: Can't do it with Skitch, as noted. But LittleSnapper will work. It creates an image for each screen, then you can drop them all into a photo imaging app and compose into one image.

Q: How can I combine multiple screenshots in Skitch? With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, such as Acorn, but is it possible to do this from within Skitch? A: Can't do it with Skitch, as noted. But LittleSnapper will work. It creates an image for each screen, then you can drop them all into a photo imaging app and compose into one image. A: Nope, not possible within Skitch. The quickest workaround I've found to achieve that is using Keynote as a canvas, so you can combine the image in no time : * *open a new 'White' theme in Keynote *drag & drop the 2 images from Skitch to Keynote *align the images in Keynote, resize, do some edits if necessary *take a snapshot with Skitch A: It's funny, Skitch has some weird limitations, so I use Powerpoint for this. Insert two screenshots, side by side, group them together then ctrl-click to "Save as Picture"

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Apple Stackexchange Q: iPhone headset mic button not working The little button that sits on the microphone of my iPhone headset stopped working. Normally, pressing the button will pause a song, go to the next song if you double-click it, and go to the previous song if you triple-click it. Now the button doesn't do any of these things, but the headphones and mic are working fine. A: I discovered that the contact was not flush with the top of the iPhone but was a little bit above. When I looked inside the headphone jack with a flashlight it looked somewhat strange at the bottom. I straightened out a paperclip and managed to fish up a small lump of pocket lint that had probably been forming in there for half a year or so. Just wanted to deliver this as a tip for anyone who runs into the same problem, before you send your headphones back to Apple as broken as so many people seem to have done.

Q: iPhone headset mic button not working The little button that sits on the microphone of my iPhone headset stopped working. Normally, pressing the button will pause a song, go to the next song if you double-click it, and go to the previous song if you triple-click it. Now the button doesn't do any of these things, but the headphones and mic are working fine. A: I discovered that the contact was not flush with the top of the iPhone but was a little bit above. When I looked inside the headphone jack with a flashlight it looked somewhat strange at the bottom. I straightened out a paperclip and managed to fish up a small lump of pocket lint that had probably been forming in there for half a year or so. Just wanted to deliver this as a tip for anyone who runs into the same problem, before you send your headphones back to Apple as broken as so many people seem to have done.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I force MacOS to make a binary conversion of filesizes in MB, GB...? I noticed that MacOS (10.6) makes a decimal conversion for file sizes, instead of binary: Is there any way to force it to make binary conversions instead in Finder? Because my mind kinda works in powers of 1024, regarding the file sizes. A: Unfortunately, you can't. See this apple support document which explains that since 10.6 they started measuring storage capacity according to the decimal GB (Gigabyte) rather than binary GiB (Gibibyte) values. This matches up with how hardware manufacturers measure the capacity of storage devices. OS X 10.5 and earlier, along with iPhones, iPads and iPods still use binary measurements.

Q: How can I force MacOS to make a binary conversion of filesizes in MB, GB...? I noticed that MacOS (10.6) makes a decimal conversion for file sizes, instead of binary: Is there any way to force it to make binary conversions instead in Finder? Because my mind kinda works in powers of 1024, regarding the file sizes. A: Unfortunately, you can't. See this apple support document which explains that since 10.6 they started measuring storage capacity according to the decimal GB (Gigabyte) rather than binary GiB (Gibibyte) values. This matches up with how hardware manufacturers measure the capacity of storage devices. OS X 10.5 and earlier, along with iPhones, iPads and iPods still use binary measurements. A: This was changed when OS X 10.6 was released. It is not user-configurable, unfortunately. Related xkcd (comic) strip:

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Using a MacBook Air in the sun? Will using a MacBook Air out in the sun damage it at all? Will it affect any of the paint, the screen, distort the laptop's form, cause excessive heat, or cause any other damage? A: It's a good idea to keep the machine shaded, if only because it's very hard to read any screen in bright sunlight. Also, on my deck in Carmel Valley California I've had a thermometer placed in direct sunlight read well over 100 deg F (37+ deg C) when the air temp has been around 80 deg F (26 deg C). Your Mac exposed in direct sunlight could well burst through Apple's upper limit even when the ambient temperature is below.

Q: Using a MacBook Air in the sun? Will using a MacBook Air out in the sun damage it at all? Will it affect any of the paint, the screen, distort the laptop's form, cause excessive heat, or cause any other damage? A: It's a good idea to keep the machine shaded, if only because it's very hard to read any screen in bright sunlight. Also, on my deck in Carmel Valley California I've had a thermometer placed in direct sunlight read well over 100 deg F (37+ deg C) when the air temp has been around 80 deg F (26 deg C). Your Mac exposed in direct sunlight could well burst through Apple's upper limit even when the ambient temperature is below. A: It shouldn't. Apple's specs page says that you can use the computer in an environment between 50 and 95*F, and up to 90% relative humidity. As we know, you have to be careful with how hot a MacBook Air gets anyway (it will always shut itself down before it becomes really damaged). But as for the paint, screen, form, etc., you should be fine as long as it's < 95* in the sun.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I test iPhone apps downloaded from iTunes in the iPhone Simulator? Is it possible to test iPhone applications which you downloaded from iTunes Store in the iOS Simulator? A: Afraid not. The simulator runs on x86 architecture and the iPhone apps are published to run on ARM.

Q: Can I test iPhone apps downloaded from iTunes in the iPhone Simulator? Is it possible to test iPhone applications which you downloaded from iTunes Store in the iOS Simulator? A: Afraid not. The simulator runs on x86 architecture and the iPhone apps are published to run on ARM. A: That is not the intended purpose of the iPhone Simulator. The purpose of the iPhone Simulator is to give developers a convenient testing platform for the application they are developing in those cases where a physical iPhone isn't readily available. It is currently not possible to install applications compiled by other developers within your own iPhone Simulator. As for testing apps, The App Store does not support demo versions of software or a way to "try before you buy" akin to shareware. The closest developers can get to that paradigm is by offering a "lite" version of their app for free and then a separate, full version for purchase. A: No. iPhone apps meant for an iOS device or App store are compiled by Xcode completely differently from the apps meant for the iOS Simulator (from the same source code, so this Simulator is only good for testing the source, not the App store binary). Completely different and incompatible instruction sets, so no simple hack is possible. Added: In addition, apps downloaded from the App store are partially encrypted, so that only an actual device can see the all executable code at all.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Deleting photos from an iPhone Is there a tweak that lets me delete any photos from my iPhone - including the ones uploaded with iTunes? A: You can definitely do it on the phone, but if you have a lot of photos, that could take a while. Assuming you are on a Mac... Connect your iPhone to your Mac and open Image Capture (in your Applications folder). Click on the iPhone in the device list and it will start building a list of all of your photos. Once it's done, you can select the photos you want to delete (Cmd-A to select all) and then click the delete button at the bottom of the window (looks like a red circle with a slash through it).

Q: Deleting photos from an iPhone Is there a tweak that lets me delete any photos from my iPhone - including the ones uploaded with iTunes? A: You can definitely do it on the phone, but if you have a lot of photos, that could take a while. Assuming you are on a Mac... Connect your iPhone to your Mac and open Image Capture (in your Applications folder). Click on the iPhone in the device list and it will start building a list of all of your photos. Once it's done, you can select the photos you want to delete (Cmd-A to select all) and then click the delete button at the bottom of the window (looks like a red circle with a slash through it). A: If you don't care about the other data on your phone, you could erase the phone's data (including the pictures in those albums) by going to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. Warning: all your data will be lost. A friend of mine actually had the exact same problem a few weeks ago and ended up using this method. A: When you are in the Photos app, simply press anywhere in the image you are viewing, and the toolbars will appear. On the far right of the bottom toolbar, there is a trash can icon. Simply press that, confirm you wish to delete the photo, and that's it. If photos keep coming back that you have deleted, then be sure you are not syncing an album that replaces those images. A: Without using a computer, you have basically 3 options: * *wipe your phone (as others have pointed). *get an app that sync your stuff, such as "Picture Safe" or iFiles. it will require preparation, the photos must be added to the app rather than syncing on iTunes. *jailbreak. then you'll at least be able to delete all the synced photos only. one way is trough iFile. go to /private/var/mobile/Media/Photos/ and delete it. The synced photos are in there but all "encoded" into databases, unlike the photos taken by the phone. There are ways to decode them, but I don't know of any on the iPhone.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Replace Finder with Forklift Is possible to have Forklift open folders, paths, etc instead of Finder? A: Discussion here on replacing Finder with nautilus. You can add a Quit menu item to Finder and quit it like so: defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1; killall Finder Now, run ForkLift. You could try (WARNING: DANGEROUS) to rename ForkLift2.app as Finder.app and replace Finder.app, but I think this would probably just cause problems, possibly severe ones. What do you mean by "open folders, paths, etc."? Almost all Finder interactions on my computer are initiated by me. Just use ForkLift instead. The only time something else uses Finder is if I double-click on a DMG, then it opens in Finder. If you have this, or other specific use cases that you would like to have interact with ForkLift, please clarify or post additional specific questions.

Q: Replace Finder with Forklift Is possible to have Forklift open folders, paths, etc instead of Finder? A: Discussion here on replacing Finder with nautilus. You can add a Quit menu item to Finder and quit it like so: defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1; killall Finder Now, run ForkLift. You could try (WARNING: DANGEROUS) to rename ForkLift2.app as Finder.app and replace Finder.app, but I think this would probably just cause problems, possibly severe ones. What do you mean by "open folders, paths, etc."? Almost all Finder interactions on my computer are initiated by me. Just use ForkLift instead. The only time something else uses Finder is if I double-click on a DMG, then it opens in Finder. If you have this, or other specific use cases that you would like to have interact with ForkLift, please clarify or post additional specific questions. A: Add these to your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist { LSHandlerContentType = "public.folder"; LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.binarynights.ForkLift-3"; } Then reboot. BTW, this answer to Set ForkLift as default file viewer may also work. A: The official site now suggests: defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3; defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.binarynights.ForkLift-3";}' While for the SetApp version: defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.forklift-setapp; defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.binarynights.forklift-setapp";}' A: You can change default file manager like this, but ForkLift or Transmit not work as expected, only Path Finder are #!/usr/bin/python2.6 from LaunchServices import LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType, kLSRolesViewer, LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme from CoreFoundation import CFPreferencesCopyApplicationList, kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, CFPreferencesSetAppValue, CFPreferencesAppSynchronize applicationBundleIdentifier = "com.cocoatech.PathFinder" #"com.panic.Transmit" #"com.binarynights.forklift2" LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType("public.folder", kLSRolesViewer, applicationBundleIdentifier) LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme("file:///", applicationBundleIdentifier) applicationIDs = CFPreferencesCopyApplicationList(kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, kCFPreferencesAnyHost) for app_id in applicationIDs: CFPreferencesSetAppValue("NSFileViewer", applicationBundleIdentifier, app_id); CFPreferencesAppSynchronize(app_id);

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I read the log when I fail with VPN I have a Macbook Pro and I'm trying to get VPN from home to work. It refuse to work. I have turned on verbose logging, but how can I read the log ? A: Whether you choose L2TP over IPSec or PPTP for your settings, the log file is located at: /var/log/ppp.log If you want use terminal to view your log file you can do following: vim /var/log/ppp.log tail -f /var/log/ppp.log (if you want see end of file) less /var/log/ppp.log (if your log file was huge and want to see page by page)

Q: How can I read the log when I fail with VPN I have a Macbook Pro and I'm trying to get VPN from home to work. It refuse to work. I have turned on verbose logging, but how can I read the log ? A: Whether you choose L2TP over IPSec or PPTP for your settings, the log file is located at: /var/log/ppp.log If you want use terminal to view your log file you can do following: vim /var/log/ppp.log tail -f /var/log/ppp.log (if you want see end of file) less /var/log/ppp.log (if your log file was huge and want to see page by page) A: For completeness, I'll add a way to view the log in the GUI. Open the Console utility, select Show Log List from the toolbar (if it isn't already shown), then select FILES > /private/var/log > ppp.log from the sidebar. On macOS Catalina, the toolbar reads "Log Reports", then ppp.log

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Time Machine backup format Is the format of Time Machine's backups documented, or standard? Can I extract the files with a non-Mac system? A: Time Machine is documented well at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427 and this discussion goes into sparse bundles and FileVault so it's worth a read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447315 Since backups to an attached hard disk are written as plain files - that would be easier to connect to a non-Mac system. Backups to a Time Capsule are stored in a disk image in sparse bundle format, you will need to have software that knows how to mount those bundles. Either requires your non-Mac system to be able to read HFS+ volumes - but once over that hurdle, you can simply navigate the Backups.backupdb folder and extract whatever files you need. The folder structure is simply organized by the time the backup completed.

Q: Time Machine backup format Is the format of Time Machine's backups documented, or standard? Can I extract the files with a non-Mac system? A: Time Machine is documented well at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427 and this discussion goes into sparse bundles and FileVault so it's worth a read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447315 Since backups to an attached hard disk are written as plain files - that would be easier to connect to a non-Mac system. Backups to a Time Capsule are stored in a disk image in sparse bundle format, you will need to have software that knows how to mount those bundles. Either requires your non-Mac system to be able to read HFS+ volumes - but once over that hurdle, you can simply navigate the Backups.backupdb folder and extract whatever files you need. The folder structure is simply organized by the time the backup completed. A: It's barely a format at all. Time Machine just keeps multiple directories, each containing complete copies of your filesystem, using hard links to prevent storing unchanged files multiple times. You can get the files off just by copying them out of the correct directory. The only requirement is that if you're mounting the disk locally, your machine has to be able to mount a HFS+ filesystem.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Leopard Mail app keyboard shortcut I've recently switched to Chrome for developing and have thus started using the build-in Developer Tools instead of my previously preferred Firebug workflow. Just today I found a keyboard shortcut (Command-Shift-I) that jumps straight to Inspect Element rather than just opening the Developer Tools like Command-Option-I does. The problem I'm having is that this shortcut also opens the Mail app, which I do not use. I've looked in the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences and I don't see the aforementioned shortcut anywhere. Anybody know where I can disable this shortcut? A: Command + Shift + C Will open up the inspector, and let you click an object to Inspect. https://superuser.com/questions/175529/google-chrome-keyboard-shortcut-to-view-resources-inspect-element

Q: Leopard Mail app keyboard shortcut I've recently switched to Chrome for developing and have thus started using the build-in Developer Tools instead of my previously preferred Firebug workflow. Just today I found a keyboard shortcut (Command-Shift-I) that jumps straight to Inspect Element rather than just opening the Developer Tools like Command-Option-I does. The problem I'm having is that this shortcut also opens the Mail app, which I do not use. I've looked in the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences and I don't see the aforementioned shortcut anywhere. Anybody know where I can disable this shortcut? A: Command + Shift + C Will open up the inspector, and let you click an object to Inspect. https://superuser.com/questions/175529/google-chrome-keyboard-shortcut-to-view-resources-inspect-element A: hotkeys for Chrome on Mac OS X (from here): * *Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + I to open Developer Tools *Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + J to open Developer Tools and bring focus to the Console. *Command ⌘ + Shift ⇧ + C to toggle Inspect Element mode.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray? Is there a command I can enter in Terminal that will force eject a CD or DVD? One that will always work, equivalent to a "Force Quit" for an app? I have an intermittent problem getting the DVD in my Mac Pro to eject. Right now the only solution is to do a full restart, but that is obviously not always convenient. I'm hoping there is a workaround to this through the magical power of UNIX... A: First of all, try the "nice" way using the drive utility drutil tray eject If this doesn´t work (probably because the system can´t unmount the volume), the following command will forcefully unmount the Volume with name "untitled" (make sure you´re using the right mountpoint!!): hdiutil detach -force /Volumes/untitled

Q: Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray? Is there a command I can enter in Terminal that will force eject a CD or DVD? One that will always work, equivalent to a "Force Quit" for an app? I have an intermittent problem getting the DVD in my Mac Pro to eject. Right now the only solution is to do a full restart, but that is obviously not always convenient. I'm hoping there is a workaround to this through the magical power of UNIX... A: First of all, try the "nice" way using the drive utility drutil tray eject If this doesn´t work (probably because the system can´t unmount the volume), the following command will forcefully unmount the Volume with name "untitled" (make sure you´re using the right mountpoint!!): hdiutil detach -force /Volumes/untitled

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air? I have a new MacBook Air. I would like to run Wireshark on it. But when I choose capture in Wireshark there is no interfaces to capture from. Doesn't Wireshark have support for the MacBook Air WiFi nic? How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air? A: You need to set the right permissions. Go into Terminal and enter the following commands: cd /Library/StartupItems sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF You might need to restart the computer to take effect. You also need to be admin (a sudoer) to perform these commands I should mention that you need to have copied ChmodBPF from the .dmg file for Wireshark into the /Library/StartupItems folder as described in the 'Read me first' document. ChmodBPF is a file located in the Utilities folder in the .dmg

Q: How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air? I have a new MacBook Air. I would like to run Wireshark on it. But when I choose capture in Wireshark there is no interfaces to capture from. Doesn't Wireshark have support for the MacBook Air WiFi nic? How can I use Wireshark on a MacBook Air? A: You need to set the right permissions. Go into Terminal and enter the following commands: cd /Library/StartupItems sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF You might need to restart the computer to take effect. You also need to be admin (a sudoer) to perform these commands I should mention that you need to have copied ChmodBPF from the .dmg file for Wireshark into the /Library/StartupItems folder as described in the 'Read me first' document. ChmodBPF is a file located in the Utilities folder in the .dmg A: I just run it by doing sudo open /Applications/Wireshark.app/

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What iPhone apps are available for sending bulk SMSs? What iPhone apps can I use for sending bulk SMSs? Hopefully something very simple to get started with.... A: Built-in Group Messaging On any iPhone with iOS 4 you can enable group messaging which will allow you to message a group and for responses to be sent to the whole group: * *Open Settings *Tap Messages. *Finally, flip the Group Messaging slider to On. Other soltions include: * *Mass Text Message *Beluga *textPlus

Q: What iPhone apps are available for sending bulk SMSs? What iPhone apps can I use for sending bulk SMSs? Hopefully something very simple to get started with.... A: Built-in Group Messaging On any iPhone with iOS 4 you can enable group messaging which will allow you to message a group and for responses to be sent to the whole group: * *Open Settings *Tap Messages. *Finally, flip the Group Messaging slider to On. Other soltions include: * *Mass Text Message *Beluga *textPlus A: MassTextMsg app in the app store. The only one I found that is simple, pulls your contacts from you address book, and doesn't force you to sign-up for an account or a different phone number.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I turn off IPv4 and just use IPv6 on my Mac? Im really just curious to try IPv6 and see what happens. Is it possible to turn on IPv6 and to turn off IPv4 on my Mac? If it is possible, how can I do it? A: I assume you're talking about on your Mac since you don't specify. Yes you can do this but in all likelihood, you won't see much other than your internet connection probably won't work. Most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are not yet ready to handle IPv6 traffic and many won't be right up to IPv6 day on June 8th 2011. Many won't be ready beyond then either. But it won't do any harm to try it out if that's what you're worried about. As an aside, the last batches of IPv4 addresses were distributed recently. To turn IPv4 off go to System Preferences > Network > Advanced > TCPIP Then on the drop-down list next to 'Configure IPv4' select the 'Off' Option. Then beneath that, you can set the 'Configure IPv6' drop down menu to whatever you want.

Q: Can I turn off IPv4 and just use IPv6 on my Mac? Im really just curious to try IPv6 and see what happens. Is it possible to turn on IPv6 and to turn off IPv4 on my Mac? If it is possible, how can I do it? A: I assume you're talking about on your Mac since you don't specify. Yes you can do this but in all likelihood, you won't see much other than your internet connection probably won't work. Most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are not yet ready to handle IPv6 traffic and many won't be right up to IPv6 day on June 8th 2011. Many won't be ready beyond then either. But it won't do any harm to try it out if that's what you're worried about. As an aside, the last batches of IPv4 addresses were distributed recently. To turn IPv4 off go to System Preferences > Network > Advanced > TCPIP Then on the drop-down list next to 'Configure IPv4' select the 'Off' Option. Then beneath that, you can set the 'Configure IPv6' drop down menu to whatever you want.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a remote desktop solution that will transfer sound output to the client? I'm looking for a secure and hopefully free remote desktop client that will allow me to interact with my Mac OS X 10.6 machine from a 10.5 machine that will also transfer sound to the client. At a minimum, the software must support a tunnelable connection. If there is a vetted iPad app out there that will do it, that would work, too! Any suggestions? I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software but it's a little heavy and doesn't readily indicate community acceptance/worthiness. A: RogueAmoeba's AirFoil product may be helpful -- it allows you to send sound from any Mac or Windows machine (or any specific application on that machine) to one or more other Apple devices or Windows PCs on the same LAN. The product has many features, e.g. a custom video player that ensures the sound your receive locally is in sync with any video you are viewing remotely. Because AirFoil only streams audio, you can use it in conjunction with whatever remote desktop viewing solution works best for you.

Q: Is there a remote desktop solution that will transfer sound output to the client? I'm looking for a secure and hopefully free remote desktop client that will allow me to interact with my Mac OS X 10.6 machine from a 10.5 machine that will also transfer sound to the client. At a minimum, the software must support a tunnelable connection. If there is a vetted iPad app out there that will do it, that would work, too! Any suggestions? I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software but it's a little heavy and doesn't readily indicate community acceptance/worthiness. A: RogueAmoeba's AirFoil product may be helpful -- it allows you to send sound from any Mac or Windows machine (or any specific application on that machine) to one or more other Apple devices or Windows PCs on the same LAN. The product has many features, e.g. a custom video player that ensures the sound your receive locally is in sync with any video you are viewing remotely. Because AirFoil only streams audio, you can use it in conjunction with whatever remote desktop viewing solution works best for you. A: I immediately thought of something like soundflower, and their support page points to a project called jackaudio that may be able to send audio over a local network. This is, admittedly, separate intended functionality from VNC or other screensharing utilities. A smart guy I know refers to this as 'a wonderful third-party opportunity'. iOS/Pad specific stuff would probably only focus on media, like AirView and StreamToMe. A: This may not fit your needs because I think this requires a person present on both ends, but what I figured out is the simplest free approach I know of: use SoundFlower (a free download from Cycling 74) to pipe your system audio to iChat, and use iChat to send the audio to another computer. In your System Preferences go to Sound and set SoundFlower as both Input and Output. Note that this will make your system sound not go through your speakers, so to turn that back on also run SoundFlowerbed (the front end that comes with SoundFlower) and set SoundFlower's output to the speakers. Now launch iChat and go to Preferences. In the Video/Audio preferences you can set what input to use; it'll probably be defaulting to your microphone but you can set that to SoundFlower. Now when you do a voice chat with someone else they will hear your computer's audio. That takes care of audio. For the video you can use either the screen-sharing functionality built into iChat or use Screen Sharing through System Preferences. A: Logmein Pro will do this. Not free however. It does use encrypted connections and also allows for file transfer. There's an iPad app as well. I think it exactly suits your needs as you've outlined them here. A: Both iRAPP and Aqua Connect Terminal Server can do this. See my reply to this related question for more details and links to those two products. A: VNC and apple screen sharing do not support this, but RDS does. I got nuoRDS working as a server https://www.nuords.com/products/nuords/ and Microsoft Remote Desktop as a client. It only streams certain apps (system, finder, chrome, safari, simple applications) but their support helped me stream more complex apps (for music/audio with CoreAudio). A: I tried both Soundflower and Airfoil. I must admit Soundflower was a bit tricky to get going, but is free. Airfoil works perfectly first time and the price is a reasonable $25 (free trial available). The Rogue Amoeba products are usually pretty solid. A: For the ones still reading this question: Finally found an easy solution for mac, which has a free plan as well!: https://www.remotepc.com/index.html (Be sure to first enable "Enable remote sound" on both (streamer and viewer) and set your playback device on the streamer (Settings -> Audio) to the RemotePC output device.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I draw an arrow in Acorn? Yes, I know Acorn isn't Visio, but still let me ask the question: How can you draw an arrow with Acorn? I am talking about the kind of arrows that Skitch or Jing would draw, and that you typically add to a screenshot to take the viewer's attention to part of the image. A: Acorn doesn't really have native support for complex shapes / arrows like Skitch does - however, you can make an arrow using the Bezier pen tool. You'd select it from the vector tools palette, and click around until you got your arrow. It'll be super annoying to rotate or resize however, and it probably won't look as good. Adding something like this has been on the todo list for a long long time, so hopefully it'll happen in a future release. -gus

Q: How do I draw an arrow in Acorn? Yes, I know Acorn isn't Visio, but still let me ask the question: How can you draw an arrow with Acorn? I am talking about the kind of arrows that Skitch or Jing would draw, and that you typically add to a screenshot to take the viewer's attention to part of the image. A: Acorn doesn't really have native support for complex shapes / arrows like Skitch does - however, you can make an arrow using the Bezier pen tool. You'd select it from the vector tools palette, and click around until you got your arrow. It'll be super annoying to rotate or resize however, and it probably won't look as good. Adding something like this has been on the todo list for a long long time, so hopefully it'll happen in a future release. -gus

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Sort trash files by date trashed One of the nice features of the recycle bin in Windows is the ability to sort it by the date an item was deleted. This way if you accidentally delete something, you can easily find it because it will be at the top of the list. Is there any way to do something similar in Mac OS X's Trash folder? I see that there is a date modified field, but that is not updated when the file is deleted. A: This hint from Mac OS X Hints describes how to create a simple Automator Folder Action that performs touch on every file that's trashed.

Q: Sort trash files by date trashed One of the nice features of the recycle bin in Windows is the ability to sort it by the date an item was deleted. This way if you accidentally delete something, you can easily find it because it will be at the top of the list. Is there any way to do something similar in Mac OS X's Trash folder? I see that there is a date modified field, but that is not updated when the file is deleted. A: This hint from Mac OS X Hints describes how to create a simple Automator Folder Action that performs touch on every file that's trashed. A: Update for OSX 10.9 Mavericks: It appears that you can now sort by Date Added in OSX Mavericks. In Trash right click one of the columns and click to check the Date Added column. The click on the column header until the list of files is sorted by Date Added descending. For OS X 10.7 Lion: Go to the AppleScript Editor, paste in the following script and save it in /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts: on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items repeat with this_item in added_items do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_item & " -exec touch {} \\;" end repeat end adding folder items to Then… * *Right-click on any folder in Finder, go to Services and click Folder Actions Setup. *Cancel the dialog asking which script to attach. *Click the checkbox to Enable Folder Actions *Click the plus sign to choose the Trash. Press ⌘ cmd + ⇧ shift + G and type in ~/.Trash, click Go or press ↩ return, and then click Open. *On the right side, click the plus sign to choose the AppleScript that you saved earlier. Thanks to Graham for the link which pointed me in the right direction. A: I don't think there is anything exactly like that in Mac OS X. However, if you accidentally deleted something in the Finder, you can use the "Undo" command to move the file back. A: Thank you for the above answers. I do not have a right click option on any of my Mac devices, but was able to do this: With Trash folder open, use CTRL + click on a column head. Then choose Date Added from the drop-down menu. Worked perfectly for me, and I hope it works for you. Should be a default column if you ask me!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I copy files from my Mac to PC via Microsoft Remote Desktop? I installed Microsoft's Remote Desktop and connected to a PC. How can I share files between my Mac and PC? When I use RDP on Windows, I can simply add a file to the clipboard and paste it inside the RDP window. The same thing doesn't seem to work in the mac version of RDP. If I try to share one of my Mac's folders with the RDP computer, and then double click that drive in RDP it says: \\tsclient\Downlo1 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied. A: Clipboard RDC is a free open source cross platform utility that uses clipboard to transfer files much like we transfer text to/from servers in RDP. Note, requires Java. Disclaimer: I am the author

Q: How can I copy files from my Mac to PC via Microsoft Remote Desktop? I installed Microsoft's Remote Desktop and connected to a PC. How can I share files between my Mac and PC? When I use RDP on Windows, I can simply add a file to the clipboard and paste it inside the RDP window. The same thing doesn't seem to work in the mac version of RDP. If I try to share one of my Mac's folders with the RDP computer, and then double click that drive in RDP it says: \\tsclient\Downlo1 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied. A: Clipboard RDC is a free open source cross platform utility that uses clipboard to transfer files much like we transfer text to/from servers in RDP. Note, requires Java. Disclaimer: I am the author A: Another possibility is to use a dropbox (et.al.) account. Just log into the same one from both the Mac and the PC. A: Good news, copy and paste seems to work now (and for single files even)! But drag and drop does not seem to. At all. copy and paste: copy (command + c) in OS X Finder, then open an explorer window in rdp and "ctrl+v" in windows A: I ran into the same issue but I was able to paste to \\tsclient\OSX\Users\Shared A: When copying files from Mac to PC using Microsoft Remote Desktop I prefer to share a subfolder, not the entire drive. Here's how: * *In Remote Desktop on your Mac select your PC in the "My Desktops" section. *Click the "Edit" button (pencil icon). *In the popup click the "Redirection" button (folder icon; see image below). *Check the "Enable folder redirection" box. *Click the "+" button at the bottom of that window and browse to the Mac folder you want to share. *Connect to the remote PC. *Look for your shared Mac folder in your PC's "My Computer" directory (see image below). Finally, as noted by @Bart and @robbpriestley in the comments below, if you are already connected to the remote computer you need to re-establish your connection in order to see the shared folder. A: Troubleshooting steps for the inability to copy between a Mac and PC - http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/rdc/item/2aae839c-7f91-4738-aea7-9ffb25dbfe2e?category=ff488916-8b5e-4a0c-af96-37d065645612. I think this answer will likely fix it: Solution: Before you start the Remote Desktop session, make the Mac disks available to the Windows-based computer. 1.On the RDC menu, click Preferences. 2.Click Drives, and then on the pop-up menu, select the option that you want. Your disk or folder is now available so that you can access files that are on your Mac from the Windows-based computer. If you make this change after you connect, the disk or folder that you select becomes available the next time that you connect. 3.On the Start menu, click Computer or My Computer. The Mac disk or folder that you have made available is listed with all other disks and folders on your Windows-based computer. Note If you can't see the Start menu, on the View menu, click Full Screen.To return to window mode later, point to the top edge of the screen until the RDC menu bar appears. On the menu bar, click View, and then clear the Full Screen check box. 4.Open the disk or folder that you want to copy from. 5.On the Start menu, click Computer or My Computer. 6.Open the disk or folder that you want to copy to. You should now have two windows open, one for the location that you want to copy from, and one for the location that you want to copy to. 7.Drag the document that you want to copy to the location that you want. A: Try copy pasting the whole folder. It is easy and quite flexible at the same time It worked like a charm for me. * *Mark the folder in the macOS Finder and press Cmd+C *In the Windows Explorer in the remote Desktop press Ctrl+V (Tested with macOS 10.14.6 + Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.3.8 + Windows 10 Home 1903) A: Your shared folder has a name that is too long. Try calling the share "foo," connecting to terminal services, and then accessing \\tsclient\foo. A: I will second the Dropbox recommendation. This is the single greatest way to keep many different machines in sync with files there is. If you save a file on your Mac, within seconds it seems, the same file is updated on your PC. A second approach is to use LogMeIn Pro which can do this but it costs money. In my experience, the speed of LogMeIn is much faster than RDP for remotely controlling another machine. A: If you right-click on the folder on your Mac and then "Get Info", what permissions do you see? Make sure your username (the user that initiated the RDC session) has read and write access to the folder. If that doesn't work, give "read & write" to "everyone" (be careful with this one - anyone with access to this folder will be able to modify the contents).

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I know which Wi-Fi protocol my MacBook is using? If I have a router that supports 802.11 N, G, and B, how can I know which one of these my MacBook is currently using to connect to the router? I'd like to see proof that it's connected using the fastest protocol available, rather than hoping everything is working correctly. For example, the N protocol may not be compatible with the MacBook (if it's an early draft), so it would use G instead. Another situation may arrise if the N protocol is disabled on the router via its settings, which would also cause G to probably be used. Thus, rather than assuming that it's using the fastest protocol, I want actual proof that shows which protocol is being used. A: Try to Option+click on the wifi icon on the menu bar. You'll see a lot more information about your current wifi connection. It looks something lijke this:

Q: How can I know which Wi-Fi protocol my MacBook is using? If I have a router that supports 802.11 N, G, and B, how can I know which one of these my MacBook is currently using to connect to the router? I'd like to see proof that it's connected using the fastest protocol available, rather than hoping everything is working correctly. For example, the N protocol may not be compatible with the MacBook (if it's an early draft), so it would use G instead. Another situation may arrise if the N protocol is disabled on the router via its settings, which would also cause G to probably be used. Thus, rather than assuming that it's using the fastest protocol, I want actual proof that shows which protocol is being used. A: Try to Option+click on the wifi icon on the menu bar. You'll see a lot more information about your current wifi connection. It looks something lijke this: A: Your Airport card should default to the fastest protocol it is capable of.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Editor or notes application with Markdown support? Are there any editors or notes applications out there that support Markdown? I am often having to make notes or documents where markdown formatting would be ideal, and have gotten into the habit of using markdown on a daily basis. A: It's not a note taker per se, but Textmate has a Markdown mode that will make it easier to use some of the syntax. Like bold, italic, list, etc.

Q: Editor or notes application with Markdown support? Are there any editors or notes applications out there that support Markdown? I am often having to make notes or documents where markdown formatting would be ideal, and have gotten into the habit of using markdown on a daily basis. A: It's not a note taker per se, but Textmate has a Markdown mode that will make it easier to use some of the syntax. Like bold, italic, list, etc. A: If you want a Mac app that actually looks like a Mac app, supports Markdown out of the box (no plugins or add-ons required), and updates on a regular basis, you want BBEdit. I can't recommend it too highly. A: Since you are using MacVim, you might want to try the vim-pandoc plugin, which supports highlighting, folding, snippets, and conversion (though that can also be done from the shell, even within vim, using things like markdown2pdf) to other formats. A: emacs supports markdown if you like it, but I guess if you are not used to it, the learning curve is a bit steep. A: I use Byword with pleasant results. A: I use iA Writer and I am very satisfied (iA Writer is available at the Mac AppStore) A: I used TextMate when I was co-writing a book using Markdown a few years ago. I still write a lot of Markdown, but now my tools of choice are: * *Sublime Text *plus Markdown Editing plugin *plus OmniMarkupPreview One nice thing about Markdown is you don't get locked in to a specialized app like Microsoft Word just to write and read it. What makes for a good toolchain in my experience is a solid text editor as the base, plus good live previewing and some custom coloring of the source. Sublime Text is an excellent text editor (available for Windows and Linux too) and those two (free) plugins trick it out for Markdown nicely. A: On mac try Marked2 http://marked2app.com/ You can basically use the editor of your choice and it will display the markdown when you save the text. Window can float above. Good if you have enough screen realestate to keep your plain text and markdown preview visible at same time. Written by Brett Terpstra who also did NVAlt. A: It's on old question with many answers, but Github now also has their own texteditor which supports Github flavoured markdown (and any other markdown you wish, by means of plugins/settings)! Atom is highly customisable and by default lightweight, so for markdown I think it's absolutely awesome! https://atom.io A: I have been impressed with letterspace It is available both on iOS and OS X, and syncs vi iCloud. Notes are stored in plaintext for easy retrieval/backup/migration. A: Disclaimer: I am just a user of this applicaton and am not in any way affilliated with the devloper. Quiver I have been using Quiver for a bit and have been quite impressed with this $10.00 USD app. It is available on the Mac App Store Features The features are too numerous to mention and I am still discovering many more, however here are a few particularly related to the use of Markdown as requested by the OP. It is important to know that Quiver uses a concept called Cells. Cells can be freely mixed in a single note. Cells are snippets of text, code, Markdown or LaTeX that you can freely mix. You can even set different languages for different code cells inside the same note. Markdown Markdown cells support standard Markdown syntax as well as GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). (I like using it for editing AskDifferent answers, but StackExchange has a few Markdown limitaions easily coped with in Quiver.) Basics Headers # H1 ## H2 … ###### H6 Horizontal Rule --- Italic, bold, strike-through, inline code *italic* _italic_ ~~Strike~~ `inline code` Lists 1. First ordered list item 2. Another item * Unordered sub-list. 1. Actual numbers don't matter, just that it's a number 1. Ordered sub-list 4. And another item. Screenshots Edit | Preview Edit Preview Switch views Export Options etc. Currently five cell types are supported: * *A "Text Cell" lets you edit rich-text in-place. It supports images and links too. *A "Code Cell" packs the awesome ACE code editor, with syntax highlighting support for 120+ languages, 20+ themes, automatic indent and outdent, code completion, and much more. *A "Markdown Cell" lets you write in Markdown with inline formatting and custom CSS options. *A "LaTeX Cell” uses MathJax to typeset mathematical equations in your notes. *A “Diagram Cell” lets you create sequence diagrams and flowcharts from text. Themes and customization Customize themes or use built in ones. The application can be further tweaked with CSS. A: Textmate has a markdown bundle which includes multimarkdown. The bundle allows you to convert to PDF, HTML or to view the generated output on screen. There are also tab-complete commands and a bunch of shortcuts. A: Let's add another: * *Sublime Text 2 A: Mashable has a quite comprehensive list: http://mashable.com/2013/06/24/markdown-tools/. It is from June 2013, but if you combine it with something more recent like http://codegeekz.com/markdown-editors-and-tools/, you might find most of the general purpose markdown editors for the Mac. A: Go Edit for iOS allows you to write text in markdown or rich text (HTML) and makes it easy for you to switch between the two. You can also embed photos into markdown documents from your photo library without needing to upload them into the web beforehand. A: nvALT does the trick. I prefer the plain Notational Velocity myself, but Markdown fans seem to really like the nvALT fork. A: Mou Mou is my favourite Markdown editor for editing GitHub files and other documentation. Its live preview is priceless for editing in this way, especially using the specifically-designed GitHub theme that mimics the end result as shown on GitHub's preview and wiki pages. The app also lets you export to HTML along with the CSS so that you can upload the documentation outside of GitHub but retain the style. The app is one of a very few apps that even supports tables not in the core Markdown: Mou can be launched from the command line with a file using the standard OS X app launching method: open -a Mou text.md A: The original Markdown script by Gruber is part of BBEdit. BBEdit also has a life preview of Markdown documents. If you want more than plain old Markdown, the best application is Multimarkdown composer by Fletcher Peny (the author of MultiMarkdown), or Marked 2 by Brett Terpstra (already mentioned above). A: I use Ulysses on OS X and iOS. It syncs via iCloud and can export to ePub, PDF, text bundle, docx and plain text. http://www.ulyssesapp.com

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What file systems can Snow Leopard read? I just got a MacBook Pro for my parents, and I need to get their files from a Linux desktop machine that most likely has either reiserfs or ext3 file systems. I would like to know if Snow Leopard can read these files if I put the HDD in an external HDD case?? Thanks A: It might be easier to connect the machines on a network and use rsync, nfs or ftp to copy data, no extra software would be needed. If you want to do this you will need MacFuse which allows OS X to read other file systems. A tutorial for ext3 is on this blog.

Q: What file systems can Snow Leopard read? I just got a MacBook Pro for my parents, and I need to get their files from a Linux desktop machine that most likely has either reiserfs or ext3 file systems. I would like to know if Snow Leopard can read these files if I put the HDD in an external HDD case?? Thanks A: It might be easier to connect the machines on a network and use rsync, nfs or ftp to copy data, no extra software would be needed. If you want to do this you will need MacFuse which allows OS X to read other file systems. A tutorial for ext3 is on this blog. A: If you are planning on doing this a lot, there are commecial packages too: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/ There is a free alternatives also though through MacFuse/FUSE: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/files/ A: Mac OS X can read (but not necessarily write): * *HFS+ (Mac OS X default format, in plain, journaled, case-sensitive, or journaled/case-sensitive varieties) *NTFS (but not write, by default) *FAT (32 and 64 as seen in Christian Correa's comment) I would expect it can read but I haven't tested it: * *HFS (the older Mac OS file system [Hierarchical File System]) *UFS (Unix File System; older versions of OS X could format and be installed on UFS partitions) I know for a fact that OS X will not read: * *ReiserFS *ext* (any of the various versions of the ext Linux file system) *just about anything else Check out the Mac OS X column at the incredibly complete Wikipedia article comparing file systems. A: Disk Utility can format a new hard drive using the following formats: * *Mac OS X format *Mac OS X format (Journaled) *FAT32 (MS-DOS) *FAT64, also known as exFAT I believe those would be the same file systems that the operating system can read.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I crop a video? How does one remove a black border around a video. The input video has the size 720x576 and has the output video should be 720x480. I need to crop away 96 pixels from top and bottom. I have gazed through this list of video tools for Mac, but I'm unsure which tools can do this. I have tried MPEG Streamclip and avidemux2, but they doesn't seem capable of it. Preferable a free tool. A: If you are using MacBook or iMac the best app is iMovie. * *Create new project in iMovie *Import video to iMovie and then drag and drop it in your new project *Select you video in project and use crop button in preview window *Export your new video and use it If it is a large file that you need a small part of then first trim the video by pressing command+t when the file is opened in quicktime. Import time to iMovie will decrease by a lot

Q: How can I crop a video? How does one remove a black border around a video. The input video has the size 720x576 and has the output video should be 720x480. I need to crop away 96 pixels from top and bottom. I have gazed through this list of video tools for Mac, but I'm unsure which tools can do this. I have tried MPEG Streamclip and avidemux2, but they doesn't seem capable of it. Preferable a free tool. A: If you are using MacBook or iMac the best app is iMovie. * *Create new project in iMovie *Import video to iMovie and then drag and drop it in your new project *Select you video in project and use crop button in preview window *Export your new video and use it If it is a large file that you need a small part of then first trim the video by pressing command+t when the file is opened in quicktime. Import time to iMovie will decrease by a lot A: You can do this on the command line using ffmpeg and the crop filter. Handbrake is a great tool, however it uses the same ffmpeg libraries that you can use directly from the command line. The basic command is as follows: % ffmpeg -i input_filename -filter:v "crop=w:h:x:y" output_filename * *w = width of the output video *h = height of the output video *x:y = coordinate of the top left corner of the crop box (0,0 is top left) Your specific example, since you want to remove just the top and bottom, you will crop using the center point and just specify the size of the crop box: % ffmpeg -i input_filename -filter:v "crop=720:480" output_filename Using some examples from the ffmpeg page Crop area 100x100px starting at coordinate (12,34) % ffmpeg -i input_filename -filter:v "crop=100:100:12:34" output_filename Same as above, but using the named options % ffmpeg -i input_filename -filter:v "crop=w=100:h=100:x=12:y=34" output_filename Crop an area 100x100px from the center point % ffmpeg -i input_filename -filter:v "crop=100:100" output_filename A: It's kind of hacky, and probably not the best answer but works if you don't want to download any other tools and just use quicktime, and since I love hacks... * *Open video in Quicktime. *Select new screen recording from file menu. *Setup audio source to be built in input from the arrow next to the record button. *After pressing the record button, Select the area you want to record (instead of doing full screen) in the original video. *Start the recording. *Start the original movie playback. *When original movie finishes stop the recording by clicking the Stop button in the menu bar. A: Handbrake is the way to go here, as mentioned by roguesys and canary_in_the_data_mine in the accepted answer. I am using Catalina. MPEG Streamclip does not support this version of OSX, and iMovie's cropping tool is married to the 16:9 aspect ratio. As soon as you open your clip, if it has black bars (which was my case), handbrake will crop them automatically and it will show you in its summary how the converted video will look like. You can tweak out things in the other tabs (dimensions where you can do a fine tune of the cropping, video for the compression codec and other things, filters, audio, etc). Once you're satisfied with the settings in the summary, go to the bottom of the App window, choose the folder where you will save the video, and press the green Start button at the top. A: I've used all built-in video editors on mac. I found that * *Quicktime cannot crop videos unless you upgrade it to Quicktime Pro. But it needs the assistance of a Photoshop mask. Moreover, Apple stopped selling Quicktime Pro since 2017. *iMovie can crop videos but at a fixed aspect ratio of 16:9. *The Photos app on Mac, which used to be ignored, now is upgraded to a decent video editor. It is able to crop the video at a free form. But note that, it is only available on Big Sur. A: In my Macbook Pro (High Sierra), I did: * *Open "iMovie" application *Click on "Create New" *Choose "Movie" *Click on "Import Media" *Choose my video and click on "Import selected" *Right click on video preview, click "Select entire clip" *On the right, where the tool menu is shown, click the third icon (looks like a rectangle, with two diagonal 'Y's on its upper left and bottom right corners: *Click on "Crop" A dashed rectangle appears, resize it select the area you are interested in. *When you are done, click on the checkmark above the upper right corner of the cropped video. *On the upper left corner of the iMovie application, click the "< Projects" button. *A pop up will ask you for the name of the new video. *Type the name and click OK. *Now you'll be redirected to the Projects page. *There you can see your cropped video, and when you hover your mouse cursor, the three-dotted circled icon will appear next to its name - click that icon. *Click on "Share Project" -> "File". *Click "Next..." *You will be prompted to select a name for the cropped video and a location to save (e.g. Desktop). *Click "Save". *Ready, the video is now located where you chose (e.g. Desktop). PS: If you want to trim the video, use QuickTime Player application.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Where in the iPhone file system is iPhone's "Photo Library" found? In the file system on the iPhone, Photos are located under /User/Media/DCIM/* But where should I found Images of "Photo Library" ? A: In case you are still wondering where it is located inside your iPhone, as I just answered elsewhere, this is the place: /private/var/mobile/Media/Photos/ all files inside that folder are relevant. The actual photo data are stored on the Thumbs encoded as ithmb. You'll need some software to decode them. /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/Sync/ is the correct path to "Photo Library"

Q: Where in the iPhone file system is iPhone's "Photo Library" found? In the file system on the iPhone, Photos are located under /User/Media/DCIM/* But where should I found Images of "Photo Library" ? A: In case you are still wondering where it is located inside your iPhone, as I just answered elsewhere, this is the place: /private/var/mobile/Media/Photos/ all files inside that folder are relevant. The actual photo data are stored on the Thumbs encoded as ithmb. You'll need some software to decode them. /var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/Sync/ is the correct path to "Photo Library" A: User/Yourusername/Pictures/iPhoto Library Control+ Click on iPhoto Library to expose the dialog box that includes Show Package Contents Click this Click Masters That's where the images are BEWARE.. don't manually move or delete these files. They are part of an XML database structure which you will screw up if you fiddle with individual files. This is the reason Apple keeps them 'hidden' A: photos are usually stored in 2 folders in iPhone 4 Photos Albums: (1) Camerca Roll (2) Photo Library I use "iPhone Explorer" application (on my Mac, not sure if there's a version for Windows), and get to my "Photo Library" photos by going into: Root/User/Media/Photos/Thumbs In above directory, each picture is stored in a separate folder (at least this is so on my iPhone 4). A: ok so I also found my Photo Library (not cameral roll) in /private/var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/Sync/100SYNCD if anyone is still having troubles!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Change Terminal.app's Default Shell to BASH How can I change Terminal.app's default shell to BASH? For some reason, my friend's Mac (10.6.6) defaults to using TCSH instead of BASH. The obvious remedy is to choose /bin/bash as the command to open shells with (as below), but then it fails to load .bashrc and .bash_profile (even if I give a --source or --rcfile parameter). How can I switch it to use bash the right way? A: By using chsh from Terminal. It changes default shell for user. Alternatively you may setup Terminal to use /bin/bash -l ... this will cause BASH to behave as login shell, i.e. it will read .bash_profile.

Q: Change Terminal.app's Default Shell to BASH How can I change Terminal.app's default shell to BASH? For some reason, my friend's Mac (10.6.6) defaults to using TCSH instead of BASH. The obvious remedy is to choose /bin/bash as the command to open shells with (as below), but then it fails to load .bashrc and .bash_profile (even if I give a --source or --rcfile parameter). How can I switch it to use bash the right way? A: By using chsh from Terminal. It changes default shell for user. Alternatively you may setup Terminal to use /bin/bash -l ... this will cause BASH to behave as login shell, i.e. it will read .bash_profile. A: Open System Preferences, select user and right click on its name. "Advanced options..." will appear. Change shell there. If you're die hard Apple user, you probably will have to enable right click first. Depending on your computer model, it can be done under Trackpad or Mouse Preferences. A: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal will create login shells even if you choose a custom shell in Startup preferences. So your initial problem should no longer be an issue on Lion. (Although I recommend setting the shell via System Preferences to ensure it's set for the user account and not just for the Terminal application.)

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Apple Stackexchange Q: What is the iPad's screen refresh rate? Is it 60 Hz like the phones/touches? A: 60Hz. Apple DTS has not changed any of their answers about 60Hz refresh rates with respect to any device model, and no one has reported any higher rate. Update: In 2017, Apple introduced new iPad Pro devices capable of higher display refresh rates than 60 Hz.

Q: What is the iPad's screen refresh rate? Is it 60 Hz like the phones/touches? A: 60Hz. Apple DTS has not changed any of their answers about 60Hz refresh rates with respect to any device model, and no one has reported any higher rate. Update: In 2017, Apple introduced new iPad Pro devices capable of higher display refresh rates than 60 Hz. A: Apple introduced 2nd generation of iPad Pro models in June 2017 which feature ProMotion display technology, which delivers refresh rates of upto 120Hz. ProMotion also improves display quality and reduces power consumption by automatically adjusting the display refresh rate to match the movement of the content. It comes in two variants with 10.5" and 12.9" screen sizes.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: HFS+ case-sensitive or case-insensitive -- which type to use for the primary drive partition? What reasons are there for choosing the case-insensitive version of HFS+ when formatting the primary drive partition? Would case-sensitive not always be the best choice? A: One or other can break applications, case-insensitive is the default however. If you've been using case-insensitive without issues then there are no guarantees that a transition to case-sensitive will go well. Here's one example from the apple support pages: ...don’t assume your third-party software solutions work correctly with case sensitivity. Important: Case-sensitive names do not ignore Unicode ignorable characters. This means that a single directory can have several names that are considered equivalent using Unicode comparison rules, but they are considered distinct on a case-sensitive HFSX volume.

Q: HFS+ case-sensitive or case-insensitive -- which type to use for the primary drive partition? What reasons are there for choosing the case-insensitive version of HFS+ when formatting the primary drive partition? Would case-sensitive not always be the best choice? A: One or other can break applications, case-insensitive is the default however. If you've been using case-insensitive without issues then there are no guarantees that a transition to case-sensitive will go well. Here's one example from the apple support pages: ...don’t assume your third-party software solutions work correctly with case sensitivity. Important: Case-sensitive names do not ignore Unicode ignorable characters. This means that a single directory can have several names that are considered equivalent using Unicode comparison rules, but they are considered distinct on a case-sensitive HFSX volume. A: There is a good reason to choose a case sensitive file system. If you are concerned by the quality and the security of the applications you run you might be interested by any early mechanism which may discriminate badly programmed applications. An application which at one time create a file named conf and later try to open the same file with the name CONF is at least poorly written. This is just plain bad programming practice. This kind of application is filled with vulnerabilities with the same average probability all over its code length. This is a dangerous application. This dangerous application will most probably crash on a case sensitive file system. This dangerous application will not crash on a case insensitive file system. (Some applications will crash on both, but we are not highly motivated to sort out these ones.) Hence a case sensitive file system may be considered as a good tool to early detect and block poorly programmed applications. On the other hand, this level of programming quality control is far from sufficient to ensure that you don't have any other vulnerability. A: There are some significant applications that will not work correctly with case sensitive. And there's really no reason to do it. I'm assuming since you're asking that you really don't have a reason to do it. You're definitely better off not doing it unless you have a specific reason, and don't care that many applications don't work right with it. A: Use the default (case-insensitive) unless you both a) know what you're doing and b) you absolutely have to. There are several programs (Norton Antivirus comes to mind) that won't work properly on a case-sensitive file system. HFS is, by default, case-insensitive but case-preserving (i.e. it doesn't care what you type for comparison purposes, but it will remember what you type). A: One good reason to use case sensitive file system is using git repositories. Syncing them to the repo causes problems again and again, if not using case. But I suggest adding another partition using HFS+ formatted case sensitive for such an application and link the directories you need to that partition. My system partition is still case insensitive not because I kwow why but just because I'm afraid. A: Adobe Creative Cloud apps will not run on a case sensitive system, and can be a major problem A: Adobe programs are infamous for not working on case-sensitive filesystems. Adobe says: You cannot install Adobe products on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system, such as HSFX (HFS+) or UFS. This limitation applies to both the startup drive as well as the drive onto which the software is installed. https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensitive-drives-supported.html Steam cannot be installed on case-sensitive filesystems either. Steam does not currently support case sensitive filesystems or partitions. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8601-RYPX-5789

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Apple Stackexchange Q: OS X Automator “Take Screenshot” Issue I need to automate a screenshot task, so I thought why not use automator? I found the "Take Screenshot" Action and started to play with it. The problem is is that is sets the file name and when the workflow is ran again it overwrites the prior screenshot. I tried selecting this and renaming it but it won't work. Essentially what I want is the normal function of Command + Shift + 3 where it will date-stamp it or something, anything but overwrite!! Any ideas? I've been trying to set "Save To" as a variable. But I can't set the path as well as the file name var like current time. A: Try it like this: This one has a loop built into it, make sure you set 'Timed' to 1 second and the 'Format' of the 'Add Date or Time' step to Hour Minute Second

Q: OS X Automator “Take Screenshot” Issue I need to automate a screenshot task, so I thought why not use automator? I found the "Take Screenshot" Action and started to play with it. The problem is is that is sets the file name and when the workflow is ran again it overwrites the prior screenshot. I tried selecting this and renaming it but it won't work. Essentially what I want is the normal function of Command + Shift + 3 where it will date-stamp it or something, anything but overwrite!! Any ideas? I've been trying to set "Save To" as a variable. But I can't set the path as well as the file name var like current time. A: Try it like this: This one has a loop built into it, make sure you set 'Timed' to 1 second and the 'Format' of the 'Add Date or Time' step to Hour Minute Second A: I tried like this and it worked fine A: Try to make another workflow of the rename action and then run that workflow in the first workflow which makes the screenshots.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I make my Macbook Pro's headphone jack stop "humming"? Switched recently from a Lenovo PC and one thing on my mac bothered me. Headphones plugged into my Macbook pro 13" (latest version) "hum" with static when there is no audio playing. Then after a short period of time, they stop humming, as if all power to the port is turned off. When any sound plays, it starts again. Anybody know of any setting in the Mac "bios" (or whatever they call it) or with drivers or software to get it to stop humming? It's rather annoying. A: What you are hearing is the intrinsic noise of the Macbook's DAC and output buffers. The output does actually power down when it goes unused for a certain period of time, which is why the noise goes away. The analog output is powered down to save battery. Unfortunately, since the noise is intrinsic to the system, the only way to disable it is to completely disable the ability to output any sound. There may be a way to modify the period of time it takes before the output gets powered down, but I am not familiar with any.

Q: How can I make my Macbook Pro's headphone jack stop "humming"? Switched recently from a Lenovo PC and one thing on my mac bothered me. Headphones plugged into my Macbook pro 13" (latest version) "hum" with static when there is no audio playing. Then after a short period of time, they stop humming, as if all power to the port is turned off. When any sound plays, it starts again. Anybody know of any setting in the Mac "bios" (or whatever they call it) or with drivers or software to get it to stop humming? It's rather annoying. A: What you are hearing is the intrinsic noise of the Macbook's DAC and output buffers. The output does actually power down when it goes unused for a certain period of time, which is why the noise goes away. The analog output is powered down to save battery. Unfortunately, since the noise is intrinsic to the system, the only way to disable it is to completely disable the ability to output any sound. There may be a way to modify the period of time it takes before the output gets powered down, but I am not familiar with any. A: Closing my web browser solved my buzz problem! My Mac Pro started an electronic type of buzzing sound suddenly in the past few weeks. The sound was coming from the audio output (headphone jack or firewire audio output - same issue) I had incorporated some new speakers recently and I thought maybe it was some kind of new grounding problem. While attempting to pursue a solution to the problem, on a whim I decided to shut down my mac to see if that might do anything. While preparing to shut down I was closing various programs. Then I closed down Google Chrome, on which I had about 10-15 tabs open... and the sound went away! I've never experienced something like this before. I'm imagining perhaps it was some kind of issue with one of the pages I had up. I've often had multiple browsers windows, each with multiple tabs open and never had this kind of thing happen... so this was unique experience for me. A: The hum is also present for me, even with unplugging everything. Actually, if you have a look (or at least, for me, this is the case) if you touch the body of the machine, it ceases to hum. It must be some kind of static buildup of charge on the aluminium body, and when you touch it, your body acts as a very large condenser. When you can ground the machine with your body, you might want to check the power cord and replace an ungrounded "duck head" or cord with one that goes to a properly grounded wall receptacle. Also, take a toothbrush to the magsafe connectors to ensure all the springs work and make contact to the connector on the mac. If you use an external USB I/O (I use a mixer, for I'm a session musician), the hum is not plagueing the alternative sound source. A: Any of the above may apply, but this solved mine; As soon as I unplugged from power, the buzz went. Nothing to doo with ground loops, or bad connectors ( even though 3.5 mm plugs differ surprisingly ). The answer was that the laptop Battery was long overdue for replacement. When power is put through this for charging, you get the hum. I have about 40min of battery life without main charging. so it is enough to drive some midi gear from a sound font sampler for a few songs, then mute the channel while I feed it mains power again during the break. I double checked the exact setup by plugging to a refurbished MacBook Air and confirmed it. ( actually the wife suggested this solution, you know what they say, don't argue with a woman, she's always right :) A: I found the solution to my problem. For some reason (who knows why) the headphone output was set to 16-bit. Of course that's going to sound awful. To fix this, head to 'Audio MIDI Setup' (can be found with Spotlight) and change the 'Built-in Output' to 32-bits. A: My macbook air also hums into my Bose earbuds. Disconnecting the magsafe power cable lessens it, but not by much. Touching the body of the computer dramatically decreases the hum (the more skin that touches, the greater the decrease). A: Bmike above said that when he touched his, it got rid of the problem. if it's true for you as well OP, try touching the base and a brick wall or something, or lick your fingers and wipe the bottom with them a little. for any other solutions look up how to get rid of static electricity on google. A: My solution: plug in three pronged charger instead of two pronged charger Other answers have mentioned this but with other cruft in the way. A: This is happening for those who are using the MagSafe adapter without the ground. The MagSafe you can connect to the power wall socket in two ways: * *Using the 1.5-meter cable which has grounding pins. *Using the adapter that has only 2 pins and no grounding that's causing the noise. Buy a cable with grounding and the noise will disappear. A: iMac 27 inch - late 2012, i7 Well, Apple probably won't like this advice but it EASILY worked for me : * *I use the headphone jack output for audio playback from my iMac (Pro Tools, iTunes, etc) and after upgrading to the iMac from my Mac Pro (early 2008, quad core) physically configured the same way (headphone jack output to my speakers) the iMac would constantly emit a BUZZ shortly after any sound was outputted from it. i.e. : something like a system sound would play, there would be silence, and then after about 10 seconds or so the BUZZ would constantly output. *read and tried a few things that were completely useless and weird to even give a try (but I did regardless) - things like : 'zap the PRAM' ... reset the SMC ... switch to 32bit .... all weird, misguided and did not solve the problem. *I shut down the iMac, unplugged the power cable from the wall, grabbed a pair of needle nose pliers and then ripped off the GROUND PLUG from the power cable. Plugged it back in, booted back up and SOLVED. Apple's mention of a "ground loop" possibly being the problem in other posts was the best advice I found. They did/would not offer this solution but for me, after working in recording studios for more than 25 years now and experiencing MANY types of grounding issues with regard to BUZZ in the audio signal - it led me to just rip that ground plug off and move forward. *As a professional I cannot profess to know that the possible negative implications might be from having a non-grounded iMac but let me just say that this is not the first time that I have done this with a computer or any type of gear for that matter to just basically "move on". Let's see if Apple allows this post. Believe me - try it! If it doesn't help then make sure that you have a replacement IEC power cable (the one that has a female 3-pronged end and a male 3-pronged end) to swap out to if not successful. A: This post is now the highest ranked answer when you Google macbook headphone buzzing , so I thought I´d leave my answer to this question as well. As others have mentioned above, I also had the issue where I heard a low frequent buzzing/humming sound when I had my headphones (Bose QuietComfort) connected to my Macbook. If I touched the Macbook chassis with my hand, the sound faded. If I lifted my hand, the sound was more present. There appears to be multiple ways to resolve this issue, depending on the root cause! In my experience, adjusting the output in "Audio Midi Setup" did nothing. Instead, I discovered the audio jack connected to my headphone (and not my Macbook) was not fully inserted. When I pushed the connector back into the headphones, the buzz was gone!

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I change the location which Anki uses to save files? The program Anki saves its data to the Documents folder. I would like to move this folder to my Dropbox folder. Anki has no settings which allows you to change the location that data is stored. Is there any way to move this folder to another location and point Anki to the new folder via Mac OS X? I tried moving the folder and then creating an Alias in the same location (with the same name) by ⌥+⌘ dragging the file in Finder, but Anki doesn't see the files in the new folder. A: You may be able to use Symbolic Links to create a link between where Anki stores its files and a folder within DropBox. Information on how to create symbolic links and how they differ from Aliases can be found here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643

Q: How can I change the location which Anki uses to save files? The program Anki saves its data to the Documents folder. I would like to move this folder to my Dropbox folder. Anki has no settings which allows you to change the location that data is stored. Is there any way to move this folder to another location and point Anki to the new folder via Mac OS X? I tried moving the folder and then creating an Alias in the same location (with the same name) by ⌥+⌘ dragging the file in Finder, but Anki doesn't see the files in the new folder. A: You may be able to use Symbolic Links to create a link between where Anki stores its files and a folder within DropBox. Information on how to create symbolic links and how they differ from Aliases can be found here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643 A: When going to documents folder there is a readme with link to the user manual. That page has several ways to pick the data location. Portable mode is my pick. Standalone also looks good. Adding the -b flag was not working until I read On Windows, right-click on the shortcut, choose Properties, select the Shortcut tab, and add "-b \path\to\data\folder" after the path to the program… which should leave you with something like C:\Program Files\Anki\anki.exe" -b "C:\AnkiDataFolder" There are options for Macintosh and flash drive too, all on that same page. A: As of Anki 2.1, the ANKI_BASE environment variable should be work per this. However, you might need to set it in a Launch Daemon / Agent for Anki to figure it out if you use Spotlight. Tested 2.1.0beta4. A: Actually, that is not the best way. You can run Anki in portable mode and specify the path to a different data folder. Create a shortcut to Anki.exe and change the target path to this: anki.exe -b "D:\Anki" Close Anki, move your Anki data files to D:\Anki (or whatever folder you choose) and restart Anki.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to install Ubuntu from OS X? I'm looking for a solution that would enable me to install Ubuntu and run it as a virtual machine under OS X but still be able to boot directly Ubuntu. If possible I would like to test both scenarios: Ubuntu guest on OS X host and Ubuntu host and OS X guest. A: If I remember correctly, you should be able to install Ubuntu into Boot Camp, and then virtualize it using Parallels Desktop. Works great with Windows; most likely with Ubuntu as well.

Q: How to install Ubuntu from OS X? I'm looking for a solution that would enable me to install Ubuntu and run it as a virtual machine under OS X but still be able to boot directly Ubuntu. If possible I would like to test both scenarios: Ubuntu guest on OS X host and Ubuntu host and OS X guest. A: If I remember correctly, you should be able to install Ubuntu into Boot Camp, and then virtualize it using Parallels Desktop. Works great with Windows; most likely with Ubuntu as well. A: * *installing Ubuntu as dual boot with OS X *running OS X from within Ubuntu: * *install VirtualBox *add yourself to disk group: sudo usermod -G disk,vboxusers -a `whoami` *create a virtual disk pointing to your real disk VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/OSX.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative (if your OS X is not on /dev/sda2, change disk and partition number accordingly) * *create a virtual machine with system OS X 64-bit, with the disk pointing to virtual disk you've just created *you're ready to launch A: I also wanted to run ubuntu native on my iMac and could not figure it out for the longest time. I refused to use virtualization software. Took a look at ubuntu's website and the instructions it provides work the best for me. First make bootable Ubuntu USB Stick http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx Restart your computer. Hold down Option ⌥ when chime sounds. Select your installation method (i.e.: install Ubuntu along side OS X) A: People have gotten VirtualBox to use a partition as a drive for a virtual machine. However, I don't believe it is officially supported. This link, while discussing windows as the guest, may point you in the right direction. http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.phpf=7&t=20793&p=89806&hilit=raw+partition+vista#p89806 Old but still contains useful information: http://blarts.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/how-to-run-virtualbox-using-a-physical-partition-using-ubuntu-feisty-fawn/ A: Your best bet is going to require a significant amount of manual work. Technically, you can't Boot Camp Ubuntu as it is a specialized way to streamline Windows dual boot installs on Macs. However, you can use it to create an initial partition, which you delete and format for Ubuntu's use. Alternatively, you can use Disk Utility to decrease the size of your OS X partition. Then use Ubuntu's installer to modify that empty space into usable partitions for Ubuntu. From there, install Ubuntu as usual. (Be sure to hold down C while booting to ensure you boot from the disc.) Finally, you would have to choose your virtualization platform: * *VirtualBox supports raw disc access but has very large warnings against its usage due to data corruption concerns, etc. Chapter 9 of their manual covers raw disc access. *VMware Workstation supports raw disk access, but unfortunately doesn't work on OS X. Even worse, VMware Fusion doesn't appear to support setting up raw disk access from the GUI. The workaround, should you choose the VMware approach, is to use the command line tools and manually editing config files to give you access to raw disk access. This forum thread has useful discussion on this process, as well as other concerns. A: To my knowledge, you can't have an Ubuntu virtual machine (VMware, VirtualBox or even Xen) and then be able to native boot the same. Seems kind of crossed purposes to me... :) A: Yeah your only option is to install Ubuntu and OS X in a dual boot scenario and install VirtualBox on both. the OS X (guest) inside V-Box is pretty difficult to do but definitely possible because I have done it. Ubuntu (guest) inside OS X is simple to set up.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How does autorotation work on the iPhone (in terms of hardware, not software) I have always wondered how the orientation/autorotation hardware works inside an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Originally I thought it was the accelerometer but I don't think it is as an accelerometer can only measure movement and the iPhone knows it's current orientation without any movement. I have assumed until now that there is a little tilt switch inside the phone as well as the accelerometer and that this is used, but really I have no idea and Google isn't helping much! ;) Anyone know how it works? A: It´s called a gyroscope. Have a look at this article on iFixit, it explains it (within an iPhone 4) quite well.

Q: How does autorotation work on the iPhone (in terms of hardware, not software) I have always wondered how the orientation/autorotation hardware works inside an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Originally I thought it was the accelerometer but I don't think it is as an accelerometer can only measure movement and the iPhone knows it's current orientation without any movement. I have assumed until now that there is a little tilt switch inside the phone as well as the accelerometer and that this is used, but really I have no idea and Google isn't helping much! ;) Anyone know how it works? A: It´s called a gyroscope. Have a look at this article on iFixit, it explains it (within an iPhone 4) quite well. A: In the older iOS devices it's the accelerometer - it is detecting the constant acceleration due to gravity. Normal motion produces only short bursts of acceleration, not long enough to trigger rotation. If you put your iOS device in a fast car and accelerated it for several seconds you could probably get it to autorotate the wrong way. A: From what I know, the iPhone (and iPod Touch) didn't have a gyroscope until the latest model. Are you guys sure it's not the accelerometer that did this, and now it is the gyroscope in the most recent models? A: I talked to a person about this topic (who was skilled in electronics as well as in software development), he answered, there is a special IC (integrated circuit) integrated on the circuit boards of some modern mobile phones that determines which edge of the phone is currently downwards which is used in autorotation of screen using software (the driver of the IC). When the screen is kept horizontally, no change in the screen orientation occurs because none of the edges of the phone is found downwards.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How do I enter DFU mode on an iPhone 3G OS 4.2.1? I've tried several solutions to enter DFU mode but none worked: - the Home + Sleep combo - the DFU program here Somebody has an idea? A: DFU has always worked as follows: * *Turn off the phone *Hold power and Home for 10 seconds (exactly 10 seconds, use a clock with seconds) *Release Power, but keep holding Home *After 5-10 seconds you should get the phone detected on the computer with the screen still black. I've tested this on 2G, 3G, 3Gs and works on all of them fine. Here's a video on how to do DFU properly: iPhone DFU Mode Also I just like to note that this procedure must not be mistaken for recovery mode (iTunes cable screen), which is done by: * *Hold Home *Keep holding Home, press power to start the device (1-2 sec is enough) *Release power, keep holding Home until you get to the iTunes cable screen

Q: How do I enter DFU mode on an iPhone 3G OS 4.2.1? I've tried several solutions to enter DFU mode but none worked: - the Home + Sleep combo - the DFU program here Somebody has an idea? A: DFU has always worked as follows: * *Turn off the phone *Hold power and Home for 10 seconds (exactly 10 seconds, use a clock with seconds) *Release Power, but keep holding Home *After 5-10 seconds you should get the phone detected on the computer with the screen still black. I've tested this on 2G, 3G, 3Gs and works on all of them fine. Here's a video on how to do DFU properly: iPhone DFU Mode Also I just like to note that this procedure must not be mistaken for recovery mode (iTunes cable screen), which is done by: * *Hold Home *Keep holding Home, press power to start the device (1-2 sec is enough) *Release power, keep holding Home until you get to the iTunes cable screen A: This is not DFU, this is recovery mode. DFU is: - 2 sec Power - 10 sec Power + Home - 15 sec Home And it doesn't work for me.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I type a backtick (accent grave or "`") on a European (Dutch) keyboard? How can I type a backtick (accent grave, or "`") on an European (Dutch) apple keyboard ? A: According to this image from Apple's KB article, it appears to be between the Z and shift.

Q: How can I type a backtick (accent grave or "`") on a European (Dutch) keyboard? How can I type a backtick (accent grave, or "`") on an European (Dutch) apple keyboard ? A: According to this image from Apple's KB article, it appears to be between the Z and shift. A: On European keyboard, press alt + 9.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Transfer OS X Dashboard Widgets Between Computers Can anyone tell me an easy way to transfer my dashboard widgets from one OS X computer to another? If there was a way to keep their positioning/settings too that would be great. A: macOS does not have the /Users/[user]/Library/Widgets/ folder on a fresh install. Simply create the Widgets folder and place your widget file in it. Your widget will appear in the Dashboard.

Q: Transfer OS X Dashboard Widgets Between Computers Can anyone tell me an easy way to transfer my dashboard widgets from one OS X computer to another? If there was a way to keep their positioning/settings too that would be great. A: macOS does not have the /Users/[user]/Library/Widgets/ folder on a fresh install. Simply create the Widgets folder and place your widget file in it. Your widget will appear in the Dashboard. A: Widgets are saved at /Library/Widgets/ and /Users/[user]/Library/Widgets/ If you copy /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist that will copy your Dashboard configuration. Each widget will have it's own configuration file in /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/, for example widget-com.apple.widget.weather.plist

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I access TimeMachine data from a machine other than the one that was being backed up? I have an iMac with a dead internal drive. And I have it's TimeMachine drive. I'd like to know that the TimeMachine-based data is safe and sound so I'd like to restore it to my MBPro. But not over top of my MBPro data. Is it possible to connect the iMac's TM drive to the MBPro and rebuild my Documents folder in to a random location (not over top of the MBPro's Documents folder) on my MBPro? A: You can navigate your backup drive in the Finder. Mount it, go to the Backup folder > [name of machine] > [name of volume] > latest > Users > [user name] and restore the files you want. (You can also choose a date instead of latest to restore earlier versions of the files/files that have been deleted.)

Q: Can I access TimeMachine data from a machine other than the one that was being backed up? I have an iMac with a dead internal drive. And I have it's TimeMachine drive. I'd like to know that the TimeMachine-based data is safe and sound so I'd like to restore it to my MBPro. But not over top of my MBPro data. Is it possible to connect the iMac's TM drive to the MBPro and rebuild my Documents folder in to a random location (not over top of the MBPro's Documents folder) on my MBPro? A: You can navigate your backup drive in the Finder. Mount it, go to the Backup folder > [name of machine] > [name of volume] > latest > Users > [user name] and restore the files you want. (You can also choose a date instead of latest to restore earlier versions of the files/files that have been deleted.) A: You can use the Time Machine UI to restore from the backups of a different Mac by option-clicking the Time Machine icon in your menubar or right-clicking the Time Machine icon in your Dock, and selecting "Browse Other Time Machine Disks". (See question 17 from the Time Machine FAQ for more details.) You'll still need to navigate to "Latest" (or an earlier backup) as zevlag describes in his answer if you choose to do this. If you do elect to use the comfort of Time Machine to choose what to restore, you'll want to read question 16 from the FAQ: "How can I restore a file/folder to an alternate location?"

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Apple Stackexchange Q: how can I add command line parameters to an application shortcut Chromium has command line flags. I'd like to use them, but I'd like to put them on the shortcut, since I tend to launch Chromium via spotlight. Is this possible? A: Make an Automator app called "ChromiumLauncher" that runs the commands you want. Drawback is you will get the ChromiumLauncher bouncing in your Dock for a second or two before it goes away.

Q: how can I add command line parameters to an application shortcut Chromium has command line flags. I'd like to use them, but I'd like to put them on the shortcut, since I tend to launch Chromium via spotlight. Is this possible? A: Make an Automator app called "ChromiumLauncher" that runs the commands you want. Drawback is you will get the ChromiumLauncher bouncing in your Dock for a second or two before it goes away. A: It will launch faster if you cut out Automator and just do it with Applescript (and then save that applescript as an application bundle). Here's an example: do shell script "open /Applications/Chromium.app --args --enable-expose-for-tabs"

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to start with a brand new battery? Is there a special procedure to be followed when installing a brand new battery ? Like * *discharging it completely, or not; *leave it fully charged for a certain amount of time, *etc... (It's a battery of a MacBook Pro) A: AFAIK, there's no special procedure for a new MB/MBP battery. I recently replaced my MBP's battery myself, and searched Apple support documents for care instructions, but I couldn't find anything other than the standard "drain it once in a while." Btw, my new battery was completely discharged, and it took about 12 hours to fully charge it. I left it on charge overnight and started using the MBP as usual the next day.

Q: How to start with a brand new battery? Is there a special procedure to be followed when installing a brand new battery ? Like * *discharging it completely, or not; *leave it fully charged for a certain amount of time, *etc... (It's a battery of a MacBook Pro) A: AFAIK, there's no special procedure for a new MB/MBP battery. I recently replaced my MBP's battery myself, and searched Apple support documents for care instructions, but I couldn't find anything other than the standard "drain it once in a while." Btw, my new battery was completely discharged, and it took about 12 hours to fully charge it. I left it on charge overnight and started using the MBP as usual the next day. A: Calibrating your battery means you will preserve the battery life for longer. On its own website Apple says that you should calibrate your battery during the first week and then once every month, and then whenever you purchase new batteries. Source: Apple Support A: Even better: http://www.apple.com/batteries/ It has a lot of good information which can be applied across the board. Although portables with built-in batteries are pre-calibrated and do not require the calibration procedure outlined in this article 1- charge battery until it is full charged and let sit for 2-4 hrs fully charged. 2- remove external power source and let unit run until you get the "battery running on reserve" message from the system (usually around the 2-5% mark). 3- Allow the system to put itself to sleep at this point, or you can put the computer to sleep yourself (waiting for the front LED to ebb) and then remove the battery from the system and leave battery out of the computer for 2-4 hrs at 0% charge. 3.1- I like to tell people that they could set their computers up to run over night playing a DVD with full brightness. This usually kills the battery quickly and then the battery and system will sit the rest of the night inactive (this is also a nice way to make sure the system isn't doing anything to data-critical during calibration). * *Plug the battery into unit and external power to the computer and charge battery to 100%. *That is it. Li-Ion batteries need to be calibrated only once. If used appropriately the battery life space (and charge capacity) will hold longer than manufacturer definitions.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there a way to reach the multitasking bar on the iPad via a keystroke on the keyboard dock? When the iPad is plugged into the keyboard dock, you can reach the home screen by pressing the "square" button in the upper left corner of the dock's keyboard. Is there a keyboard analogue to the double-press that brings up the multitasking bar, or do you have to reach for the physical button? A: Double-hitting the Home key (at the Escape key place) will bring the multitasking bar much like the Home button on your iPad. Confirmed on my iPad Apple keyboard dock.

Q: Is there a way to reach the multitasking bar on the iPad via a keystroke on the keyboard dock? When the iPad is plugged into the keyboard dock, you can reach the home screen by pressing the "square" button in the upper left corner of the dock's keyboard. Is there a keyboard analogue to the double-press that brings up the multitasking bar, or do you have to reach for the physical button? A: Double-hitting the Home key (at the Escape key place) will bring the multitasking bar much like the Home button on your iPad. Confirmed on my iPad Apple keyboard dock.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I wake up my Mac from sleep mode remotely? I use logmein to remotely control my computers. Can I wake up the Mac when it's in sleep mode so that it's offline to the outside world? A: From this post: Most modern computers offer a feature called "Wake on LAN". This is designed to allow a network administrator to turn on a computer remotely, even when it is turned off, by sending a "magic packet". This is used, for instance, to allow backup programs to run at night. Here is a Python script that does this (if your MAC address is01-23-45-67-89-0a: #!/usr/bin/env python import socket s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.sendto('\xff'*6+'\x01\x23\x45\x67\x89\x0a'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80)) Or you can use Wake550. or use this site.

Q: How can I wake up my Mac from sleep mode remotely? I use logmein to remotely control my computers. Can I wake up the Mac when it's in sleep mode so that it's offline to the outside world? A: From this post: Most modern computers offer a feature called "Wake on LAN". This is designed to allow a network administrator to turn on a computer remotely, even when it is turned off, by sending a "magic packet". This is used, for instance, to allow backup programs to run at night. Here is a Python script that does this (if your MAC address is01-23-45-67-89-0a: #!/usr/bin/env python import socket s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.sendto('\xff'*6+'\x01\x23\x45\x67\x89\x0a'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80)) Or you can use Wake550. or use this site. A: Historically, I've accomplished this by two means. First, both methods require you to check "Wake for Network Access" in System Preferences -> Energy Saver (1) If you open Finder, expand the "Shared" section if necessary, and connect to the sleeping computer! This works occasionally, but not every time. The bonus is that (presumably) at this point, I'm doing what I needed to do anyways. (2) If that failed, I generally open Wake On LAN and manually send a Wake request to the computer. A: @Am1rr3zA, I had to add one line to your Python script to make it work, as documented on this page: #!/usr/bin/env python import socket s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1) s.sendto('\xff'*6+'\x01\x23\x45\x67\x89\x0a'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80)) A: You can also wake up your Mac over wireless. First, your Mac must support Wake on Wireless. Second, your router must support Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM). After your enabled WME on your router, you must enable "Wake for network access" on your Mac. Then check the MAC address of your wireless card of your Mac. Put your Mac into sleep. From a second computer log in to your router and with the WOL (Wake on LAN) option wake up your Mac wirelessly by entering the MAC address. Remember, not every router supports WME.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Why does iTunes re-open after I quit the app? Whenever I quit iTunes, it restarts itself. I have iTunes 10.1.12 (the newest one) installed on my Mac. I don't remember exactly when it started—with either version 10 or 10.1. Is there any solution to this? ADDED It was caused by the GimmeSomeTune, after reinstalling it, everything seems to working fine. A: I used to have this problem when I had SRS iWow installed in iTunes. Is that the case for you? If not, do you have any other plugins installed?

Q: Why does iTunes re-open after I quit the app? Whenever I quit iTunes, it restarts itself. I have iTunes 10.1.12 (the newest one) installed on my Mac. I don't remember exactly when it started—with either version 10 or 10.1. Is there any solution to this? ADDED It was caused by the GimmeSomeTune, after reinstalling it, everything seems to working fine. A: I used to have this problem when I had SRS iWow installed in iTunes. Is that the case for you? If not, do you have any other plugins installed? A: I've experienced this problem with iTunes. No matter how many times I quit the app it kept launching again. I believe it has something to do with the headphone jack and the way earbuds with remote controls can play or stop music. It seems like the headphone signal gets stuck in play mode. Unplugging the cord from my MacBook Pro's headphone jack and plugging it back in always solves the problem.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How can I activate my iPod if my PC is running Linux? I just bought an iPod, and when I turn it shows an image with the USB cable and iTunes. It wants me to plug it to a computer with iTunes? But I use Linux, what do I do? A: A few solutions, not all of them good: * *If possible, update to iOS 5 (probably at the Apple Store) and don't use iTunes. *Find a friend with a Mac or a PC and get them to activate it. *Go to the Apple Store (as Randolph said) and ask them. *Run Windows in VirtualBox (or another VM solution), and use iTunes from there. (thanks, Fake Name) *Get sixty million of your best friends to switch to Linux and all complain at Apple for a Linux port of iTunes. *Run iTunes in Wine, if that's possible.

Q: How can I activate my iPod if my PC is running Linux? I just bought an iPod, and when I turn it shows an image with the USB cable and iTunes. It wants me to plug it to a computer with iTunes? But I use Linux, what do I do? A: A few solutions, not all of them good: * *If possible, update to iOS 5 (probably at the Apple Store) and don't use iTunes. *Find a friend with a Mac or a PC and get them to activate it. *Go to the Apple Store (as Randolph said) and ask them. *Run Windows in VirtualBox (or another VM solution), and use iTunes from there. (thanks, Fake Name) *Get sixty million of your best friends to switch to Linux and all complain at Apple for a Linux port of iTunes. *Run iTunes in Wine, if that's possible.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: How to disable visual display of modifier keys? Somehow I have gotten my Mac Mini into a state where every time I press a modifier key - shift, option, command or control - it shows an image of the symbol of the modifier key around the upper right of the screen. This is quite annoying and I do not know what this feature is called so it is difficult for me to find information about it. How can I disable this "feature"? A: Go to System Preferences then select "Accessibility" then in both "General" and "Keyboard" sections, disable the sticky keys in the Keyboard and de-select the Sticky Keys in the Keyboard section.

Q: How to disable visual display of modifier keys? Somehow I have gotten my Mac Mini into a state where every time I press a modifier key - shift, option, command or control - it shows an image of the symbol of the modifier key around the upper right of the screen. This is quite annoying and I do not know what this feature is called so it is difficult for me to find information about it. How can I disable this "feature"? A: Go to System Preferences then select "Accessibility" then in both "General" and "Keyboard" sections, disable the sticky keys in the Keyboard and de-select the Sticky Keys in the Keyboard section. A: It sounds like you have the “Sticky Keys” feature enabled. To control the setting, open the System Preferences application ( > System Preferences…), load the Universal Access preference pane, goto the Keyboard tab. You can turn “Sticky Keys” Off (or On) there. You may also want to disable the “Press the Shift key five times to turn Sticky Keys on or off” feature. Or, if you want the sticky feature without the display, just disable “Display pressed keys on screen” and leave it enabled.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is there somewhere I can write my name on iPod touch, for if I lost it? Where in my iPod Touch I can write my name and phone number, so if I lost it or it been stolen and found by the police (as I read that happened), someone could call me to go get it back? A: No, but you can create an image that has your name and contact info on it, then use that as your lock screen wallpaper. You could also create a note on the device or an "emergency/lost" contact in the address book, but both of those require you to not use a passcode to use the device. A wallpaper with contact info works even if the person who finds your iPod can't unlock it.

Q: Is there somewhere I can write my name on iPod touch, for if I lost it? Where in my iPod Touch I can write my name and phone number, so if I lost it or it been stolen and found by the police (as I read that happened), someone could call me to go get it back? A: No, but you can create an image that has your name and contact info on it, then use that as your lock screen wallpaper. You could also create a note on the device or an "emergency/lost" contact in the address book, but both of those require you to not use a passcode to use the device. A wallpaper with contact info works even if the person who finds your iPod can't unlock it. A: If you are really fussed about this then you can go to an engraver and get your name and phone number engraved on the back. A: You can also install Find My iPod Touch if you have a 4th gen iPod Touch. I'm not sure if it works on earlier models, but it might. Apple's page on Find My iPod Touch A: I put a sticker on back containing my work contact information in large print. Easy to read even if the batteries are dead.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Is the first boot after a full system restore from TimeMachine supposed to take a long time? I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm misunderstanding the restore process. I'm able to restore successfully, but on reboot the machine shows me the white screen with the Apple logo and the spinner. I can hear some occasional sounds from the hard drive in the machine. The occasional hard drive sounds make me wonder if it's doing and fsck or similar operation on the drive before the system boots. It's been at this screen for a good hour now. I have not heard a chime (and have been in front of the machine working the entire time). Is this just what happens after a TimeMachine restore or should it have booted at a near-normal speed? A: Sounds like you have a problem. Have a look at this apple support document on what to do if this happens.

Q: Is the first boot after a full system restore from TimeMachine supposed to take a long time? I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm misunderstanding the restore process. I'm able to restore successfully, but on reboot the machine shows me the white screen with the Apple logo and the spinner. I can hear some occasional sounds from the hard drive in the machine. The occasional hard drive sounds make me wonder if it's doing and fsck or similar operation on the drive before the system boots. It's been at this screen for a good hour now. I have not heard a chime (and have been in front of the machine working the entire time). Is this just what happens after a TimeMachine restore or should it have booted at a near-normal speed? A: Sounds like you have a problem. Have a look at this apple support document on what to do if this happens. A: RESET THE SMC. HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WORKED FOR ME This is how to reset SMC on most modern Mac laptops, none of which have a removable battery: -Shutdown your MacBook Air / MacBook Pro -Connect the power adapter to the Mac -On the MacBook / Pro’s keyboard, hold down the Shift+Control+Option keys and the Power button at the same time -Release all keys and the power button at the same time – the little light on the MagSafe adapter may change colors briefly to indicate the SMC has reset -Boot your Mac as usual A: I ran into the same issue on my MBP 2012 machine. Had an attempted dual-boot setup go south on me and re-format my entire drive, so even lost the recovery partition. I attempted what @IanC described in his comment above - after booting into the internet recovery system and re-installing Mountain Lion (that's what I was offered by the recovery tool!), I did a first boot into the OS, but did not bother proceeding through the setup wizard. I rebooted into the now restored local recovery partition and did a Time Machine restore from my backup drive. It appeared to complete successfully, but I had the same problem where the progress bar reached the end on the boot screen, but the machine never finished booting. No resetting of PRAM or SMC helped either. In the end, I: * *Started from scratch again with the internet recovery *Re-installed Mountain Lion from there *Upgraded that to El Capitan *Re-booted into the local recovery partition *Restored from TM Success! One minor note is when performing the TM restore the second time, I selected the second last restore point rather than the last, just in case it would make a difference. I am assuming the El Capitan upgrade was the actual solution, but in the interests of completeness, I thought this worth mentioning also, in case it is materially significant.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Can I get push notifications for emails in my Gmail Priority Inbox only? Is it possible to get push notifications only for the emails in the Gmail Priority Inbox and not for the unimportant mail? I would like to set up my iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 so that I get notified (with sound, vibration, etc) only when I receive a mail that Google thinks is important to me. A: After days of searching I have found the solution. https://www.ultimatenotifier.com/ * *You have to buy Ultimate Notifier from the AppStore. $2.99 at the moment. *Create a free account on their site or through the app. *Login to the web interface on your computer and under Add Notification select Add Gmail / Google Mail - NEW Priority Inbox *Complete the fields username and password with your Gmail username and password. (I know this is a BIG leap of faith.) *Save. *Log in to the app on your iPhone to receive push notifications

Q: Can I get push notifications for emails in my Gmail Priority Inbox only? Is it possible to get push notifications only for the emails in the Gmail Priority Inbox and not for the unimportant mail? I would like to set up my iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 so that I get notified (with sound, vibration, etc) only when I receive a mail that Google thinks is important to me. A: After days of searching I have found the solution. https://www.ultimatenotifier.com/ * *You have to buy Ultimate Notifier from the AppStore. $2.99 at the moment. *Create a free account on their site or through the app. *Login to the web interface on your computer and under Add Notification select Add Gmail / Google Mail - NEW Priority Inbox *Complete the fields username and password with your Gmail username and password. (I know this is a BIG leap of faith.) *Save. *Log in to the app on your iPhone to receive push notifications A: You can do this with MailMinder on an iPhone. Just set up a Source of Gmail with the folder set to the Priority Inbox, then set up a Minder with a Subject of ... This will match any message that has a subject with 3 characters. I know the developer is planning to have a button to match anything in the next release. Mail Minder has a free mode if you don't mind ads. A: Try this: Install Boxcar on your iPhone. Create a Boxcar forwarding email address. After you created it, add the Boxcar forwarding email address in your GMail Settings under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP". In your GMail Settings create an new filter. Under the search criteria "Has the words" enter "in:important". Test your new filter by clicking "Test Search". If you get your shown your messages from the Priority inbox, then the filter works. Now under the "Create a Filter" tab check "Forward it to" to the Boxcar forwarding email address. Now you should get push notification from Priority inbox. NOTICE: I can't assure you that this will work since I didn't try it. A: Strictly speaking your question is specifically about gmail because first you have to resolve how to separate messages labeled as important and that labeling is a gmail only feature. On the iPhone side your best bet to have push notifications for selected messages is to create two accounts. The challenge here is how to forward emails to your second inbox (in wich the boxcar suggested by cahuk is a nice idea). All that being said there's nothing we can do until google fixes those unexpected filter behaviors.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: If I plug my ipod to another computer's itunes, my musics will be deleted? I'm thinking about use Ubuntu's Rythmbox to synchronize music, but I need the iTunes from my windows to get some apps. If I plug my ipod to a windows with no musics on it (to get my apps), my musics will be deleted from ipod? A: In my experience, it asks you. You can say no. However, I'm not sure if this requires Manually Manage Music to be checked in the Summary tab. As always, make a good backup just in case.

Q: If I plug my ipod to another computer's itunes, my musics will be deleted? I'm thinking about use Ubuntu's Rythmbox to synchronize music, but I need the iTunes from my windows to get some apps. If I plug my ipod to a windows with no musics on it (to get my apps), my musics will be deleted from ipod? A: In my experience, it asks you. You can say no. However, I'm not sure if this requires Manually Manage Music to be checked in the Summary tab. As always, make a good backup just in case. A: I can confirm what Nathan G. reported. I have a computer with Windows, and when I plug my iPod on that computer, it says me it is already synchronized with an iTune library; it asks me if I want to synchronize it with the library present on Windows, warning me that the content of the iPod will be deleted, if I decide to do so. I didn't select Manually Manage Music in both the computers. A: Go into the Preferences of iTunes. Under the Devices tab, there is a checkbox for "Prevent iPods and iPhones from syncing automatically". Make sure that option is checked and you are in the clear.

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Apple Stackexchange Q: Prevent Bonjour Announcements Over OpenVPN We have an OpenVPN server at work, which I use frequently to access private work resources. When I do, the "Shared" listed in Finder populates with all the automatically announced servers/resources at work, but the reverse is also true. My local resources appear to anyone at work, and/or on the VPN as well. Ideally, I would like to prevent my announcements from going over the VPN link, but would like to have the shares physically at work available to me while on the VPN. If the only method is to disable Bonjour (temporarily), I'll be fine with that, but is there a way to make it only one-sided? And of course the master question: How do I accomplish this, at all, in the first place. A: How about blocking udp traffic on port 5353?

Q: Prevent Bonjour Announcements Over OpenVPN We have an OpenVPN server at work, which I use frequently to access private work resources. When I do, the "Shared" listed in Finder populates with all the automatically announced servers/resources at work, but the reverse is also true. My local resources appear to anyone at work, and/or on the VPN as well. Ideally, I would like to prevent my announcements from going over the VPN link, but would like to have the shares physically at work available to me while on the VPN. If the only method is to disable Bonjour (temporarily), I'll be fine with that, but is there a way to make it only one-sided? And of course the master question: How do I accomplish this, at all, in the first place. A: How about blocking udp traffic on port 5353? A: Usually, Bonjour only works on the local network and only its extension Wide-Area-Bonjour works through VPNs. Did you configure your Computer to use that or did you setup your router to handle that? Also, which other resources appear for the others at work? But anyway, you don´t have to have File Sharing "turned on" on your computer (which will then cause the broadcasting of your computer´s name over Bonjour) to access others, so just turn off the services you don´t want others to see and you should be good. A: If you are using OpenVPN, I assume you are using Linux on the server side. Since OpenVPN is working in layer 2 bridge mode, applying a standard filter with iptables will not work. iptables works on layer 3 and your VPN is before that in the layer 2. The trick is to use ebtables wich is like iptables but at layer 2. You can block UDP port 5353 with ebtables.

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