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Q: What issues might (legacy) FileVault cause? Edit: The below was written before Lion came out, so this post is referring to what is now called "Legacy FileVault", which encrypts only your home directory.
I've enabled FileVault on my computer and haven't had any problems yet, but I've read online that FileVault has issues. What are these issues? Are they out of date and fixed in Snow Leopard or are there still problems that I might have in the future?
I like the idea of my disk being encrypted, and it hasn't seemed slow to me, but I'd like to be aware of any possible pitfalls that currently exist with FileVault.
A: There are a number of possible pitfalls to having an encrypted home folder; most of them are more-or-less intrinsic to the idea, so they're not likely to go away... ever.
UPDATE: Lion's FileVault 2 uses full-volume encryption rather than just home-directory, so it actually does make some of these issues go away and changes several others. I've added notes in [] below. Note that upgrading to Lion does not automatically convert to FV2; you must first turn off "Legacy FileVault" encryption for accounts using the old system, then turn on VF2 to reencrypt.
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*Speed: obviously, the computer has to decrypt the data to read it from disk, and encrypt it before reading from disk, which'll slow down disk access. This usually isn't a big deal unless you're doing something like video editing. There's also a delay at logout as it recovers space in the image (and maybe also backs it up; see below). [VF2 removes the logout delay, and can use hardware AES instructions (on CPUs that support them) to minimize the general slowdown.]
*Too much security: the good thing about FileVault is that nobody can get at your data without your login password (of the computer's master password). The bad thing is that if you forget your password (and don't remember/haven't set a master password), you can't get at your data either. The recommended procedure is to set a master password (before enabling FileVault), write it down, and store the written copy someplace secure (e.g. sealed envelope in a safe deposit box). [VF2 creates a recovery key, which functions very similarly to the old master key. There's also an option to have Apple store the recovery key for you, although I'd recommend using that in addition to (not instead of) storing the key yourself.]
*File non-sharing: FileVault security prevents you from sharing files out of your home folder. Your Public folder, normally accessible by other users on the computer (and if you have file sharing turned on, other computers on the network) is locked in the FileVault and available only to you. [FV2 removes this limitation.]
*Risk of data corruption: normally, if your computer crashes there's a possibility that whatever files you had open could get corrupted; with FileVault, your entire home folder is contained in a disk image, and if that gets corrupted you could lose everything. IIRC both OS X v10.3.0 and 10.4.0 shipped with bugs that could corrupt the types of images used by FileVault (fixed in 10.3.1 and 10.4.1, but still...). So backup is very important if you have data you don't want to lose. [FV2 does not have the image corruption issue, but is still vulnerable to normal volume corruption; it will also limit your options for data recovery somewhat, as not all volume repair/recovery tools support encrypted volumes (yet).] Speaking of which:
*Backup time: backing up the FileVault image file is generally only possible when you're logged out. External volumes (like backup drives) get dismounted when nobody's logged in, creating a bit of a catch-22 for many backup systems. Time Machine gets around this by doing a backup as you log out (after the image becomes accessible, but before the backup drive gets dismounted), so make sure you log out with the backup drive attached from time to time. Other backup systems... who knows. In any case, test to make sure you're actually getting a useable backup. [FV2 removes this limitation. Note that Time Machine under Lion supports encrypting the backup volume, in which case it can only back up when the backup volume is mounted and decrypted.]
*Backup capacity: backup systems generally save space by only backing up files that've changed since the last backup. With your files hidden in a disk image, this isn't really possible. The image is stored as a series of "band" files (in "sparse bundle format"), so the backup system only needs to store the bands that changed, but since these don't neatly correspond to specific files in your home folder, it's still going to use more space than if it could back up the files directly. [FV2 removes this limitation.]
*Backup recovery: since the files you're likely to want to recover from a backup are hidden inside the encrypted image, they're a lot less convenient to recover from backup. When using Time Machine, its slick view-through-time interface doesn't work with FileVault-protected files, you have to find the backup of the image, mount it, and recover the file(s) you want by hand. Similarly, if you want to recover a file from an online backup, you're likely to have to recover the entire image so you can mount it and pull out the file(s) you want. [FV2 removes this limitation.]
One more note: to keep people from bypassing FileVault, make sure you have secure (encrypted) virtual memory enabled (in System Preferences -> Security pane -> General tab), and either log out consistently (yeah, right) or require a password immediately after sleep or screen saver (same place) and set the screen saver to run automatically when the computer's been idle for a while. There is an option to automatically log out after a period of inactivity, but this doesn't always work (a program with unsaved documents will generally prevent logout). [FV2 encrypts the virtual memory swap along with everything else, although the advice about locking or logging off still applies. Also, 10.7.0-10.7.1 were vulnerable to FireWire DMA attacks in some states, but this appears to have been fixed in 10.7.2.]
A: Filevault has/had some issues in the past, but it also had some pros:
PROS:
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*Easy to backup (one big image file)
*Protection from unwanted users trying to read your home folder.
CONS:
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*Forget your password and you can start forgetting about your data. No way you’re going to get it back.
*If the image for your Filevault gets corrupted somehow, your data will be trapped forever in there…
*No recovery software will be able to read through the encrypted data, so forget about this.
*Startup/Shutdown times are a little bit longer due the cleaning and initializing of the image, the same with some big copies to/from your home.
*Free space for the image will only be reclaimed at shutdown (at least it was like that in Leopard) so you might want to restart every now and then if you move large amounts of data inside your home folder.
*Disabling FileVault: Some people have reported problem when disabling filevault (I’ve never done that to be honest). Some even quote that they had to reinstall OS X.
*Time Machine: Filevault won’t backup your home folder unless you logoff, it will happily skip it until you do that.
*Time Machine II: You cannot restore individual files in your home via T.M. (because they are encrypted and out of reach of TimeMachine) ;)
There are some more stuff you might want to consider that I can’t remember right now. Here’s a link that talks about performance (taken from SuperUser).
And if you want to backup your Home folder while using FileVault and while being logged, it is possible, but the backup will be stored unencrypted. Check this question.
A: One big one I can think of is that if you enable FileVault you won't be able to use the new Find my Mac feature in case your laptop is stolen.
You can only use one or the other.
Also, as you might've already found out if you enabled it some things won't be available via GUI anymore so you will have to use the terminal to work with the encrypted disk.
Finally, until Apple releases an update for Bootcamp if you plan on running that you may run into some major problems.
A: One issue seems to be upgrading to Lion. The old FileVault functionality is gone, and you have to first convert your FileVault directories (to normal unencrypted ones). That cannot happen in-place, so you may need quite a bit of temporary disk space.
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Q: Do you have a better way to browse Windows 7 machines in Finder (SL 10.6.5)? Browsing the "network neighborhood" in OS X Finder does show XP machines, but not Windows 7 machines. (Vista machines have a similar problem). I can connect manually to Windows 7 machines ("connect to server" and then specifying "smb://ip_or_name"), but want to be able to browse Win 7 machines automatically.
Browsing works if security is lowered on the Windows 7 machines, and the OS X machine is forced to be the master browser. Question: Who has a better solution? I would like to find another solution without having to change OS X and all Windows 7 machines. Maybe you know some extra OS X software that "makes samba just work right"?
A: Windows 7 has extra network security options, and one of them sets its discoverability. By default in Windows 7, when you connect to a new network you are prompted for what type of network it should be: Public, Work, or Home. These profiles set up the firewall and security options when on that network; I can't off the top of my head list all the things they specifically set up, but when you select Public, sharing and discoverability are locked tight, whereas in Home they are more relaxed.
It's very likely that you have set your network type to Public on your Windows 7 computer. If you open the Network and Sharing Center, under the name of your active network it should say either "Home network", "Work network" or "Public network". If it is indeed set to Public (or Work), click it and then click Home network. You shouldn't have any problems after that.
Alternatively, you can open the start menu and type Network and hit enter. This opens the Network window, which lets you browse other computers on your network. As soon as the window opens, a yellow bar should appear at the top informing you that network discoverability is turned off; click the bar and then click one of the resolution options. This may fix the problem as well.
I haven't had any problem in OS X connecting to my Windows 7 computers that are set to Home network, as they should be. But a Windows 7 computer set to Public network should be basically undetectable.
A: The Non-Ideal Solution
After reading a lot of hints, lowering the required client security on the Windows and making the OS X machine the master browser works reliably for me. However, this solution is less than ideal, as it requires reconfiguring the Mac and every Win 7 computer.
Steps
Changes to Windows 7:
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*change the security policy. Using secpol.msc, go to local security, security options and find "Network security:
Minimum session security for NTLM-SSP based..." both for client and server.
(sorry, may be different, I have a German install).
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*uncheck "NTLMv2 session security required"
*leave "128 encryption required" checked.
128 bit encryption works with Snow Leopard. Unchecking it is required for some older versions of OS X.
Changes to OS X Snow Leopard:
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*edit /private/etc/smb.conf
*locate "os level = 2" and change to "os level = 99" which makes this samba always win
*locate "domain master = no" on next line and change to "domain master = yes"
Starting the new configuration:
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*shut down your OS X and disconnect or shut down all your Windows clients.
*restart OS X. This way, OS X will become the master browser for samba.
*restart or reconnect your Windows clients.
The Very Simple Solution
By using OS X Server (properly configured), browsing will "just work", without the need to reconfigure anything else.
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*Get OS X server.
*Configure SMB as Standalone Server
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*enable Workgroup Master Browser
*enable Domain Master Browser
*enable WINS server
*under Access, allow NTLMv2 & Kerberos, NTLM, LAN Manager (according to what your minimum security should be)
This may be more than necessary, but it made the situation unambigous.
The problem is circumvented. It is not a principal problem of OS X Server, which uses the same Samba build as OS X client. It works reliable with the server solution. Since there is rather little interest in this topic, I will not further investigate, sorry.
About the server cost: It is quite pricey. If you happen to be registered as an Apple Developer, then you can run an evaluation copy of OS X server.
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Q: Use iPod Touch bluetooth to connect mobile phone and use dial-up for internet Is it possible to code a program which connects to my phone and use its dial-up service (GRPS/EDGE) to connect to the Internet?
A: I found the app iBluever which seems to be able to do this job.
Thanks anyway.
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Q: Transfer photos (in iPhoto) and maintain detail? I would like to transfer photos from one computer to another, but I would like to maintain the originals (most of them are re-touched), faces information, gps coordinates, whether the image has been hidden, and it's rating. I know that transferring using the built in sharing mechanism will remove this detail, so is there a workaround?
A: There is a (paid) utility, it's called iPhoto library manager.
From the description on the website:
Makin' Copies
Copy photos from one library to another while retaining titles, comments,
keywords, ratings, and dates
A: Generally speaking, this is metadata that's stored in the iPhoto Library itself; only the GPS coordinates are added to the photos’ file(s). So really, the only way to preserve that would be to either copy the library itself, or use the utility Agos recommended.
Especially when you mention you want to maintain originals + the retouched versions; that's something that the iPhoto Library itself can only maintain.
A: Explore ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library. Right-click on it and choose "Show Package Contents," that will give you access to the various files, with metadata in them, as well as the "Originals" and "Modified" folders. You can pull the originals out of the originals folder, but I think the metadata is stored among the various other files scattered about.
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Q: How to manage Apps without wiping out your iPhone App data? I want one to do one simple task: Manage my iPhone 4 apps using the iTunes interface on my laptop. I've done it before, but now there's a problem.
When I go to the Apps section on iTunes, the apps are all faded out and I can't get access to move Apps around. If I click on the Sync Apps button, I get this message:
"Are you sure you want to sync Apps? All existing apps and their data on the iPhone "[iPhone name]" will be replaced with apps from this iTunes library."
I don't want to wipe my iPhone Apps, I simply want to move Apps around like I used to. I can't say I trust that this iTunes library has all of the Apps correctly. I've run a sync in the past and it deleted Apps I already had installed before.
A: It sounds as though your iPhone and/or iTunes aren’t synced to each other. Unfortunately, for you to manage the apps on the iPhone from iTunes, the iPhone needs to be synced to iTunes. So you’ll have to go through this procedure at least once, and replace what’s on the iPhone w/ what’s in iTunes.
No way around that, but thankfully, any apps you’ve purchased are free to you to download again, so if there are any that are missing in iTunes, just download them again.
But yes, if any of the apps aren’t in iTunes, and you’ve got data stored in those apps, that data will be lost.
A: You may have multiple libraries in itunes and are trying to sync with the wrong library. to choose the correct library hold down shift (in pc) or command (in mac) key when you start itunes. keep the key held down and you will get the option to choose the relevant itunes library.
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Q: Why are my updating iPhone apps "waiting..." forever? I've got an iPhone 4, not quite sure which version of iOS, but I keep current.
Recently, I got an update for one of the apps, started it, and then for some reason it got stuck on "Waiting..." indefinitely. Another app later offered an upgrade, and when I accepted it got stuck on "Waiting...". This has been a few days now, with both 3G and wireless available, with no change.
The apps don't have the "delete" button when I touch and hold on them, and I tried deleting them in iTunes but after syncing my iPhone there was no visible change. (They're free apps, so deleting and reloading is a fine solution, but knowing how to kick-start the updater would be nice.) The App Store app simply tells me they've been updated.
Any suggestions?
A: I get that problem sometimes too on my iPhone 4, especially if I'm updating an app and I lose network coverage.
Here's what I'll usually do, either:
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*Sync with iTunes
*Restart my phone by holding down the power and home buttons.
Either of those fixes the problem for me.
A: This has been discussed in numerous threads in the Apple forums, but as of iOS 9.3.2, Apple do not yet seem to have fixed it. See this one for example:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7236083?tstart=0
Although rebooting your device sometimes fixes this problem, be careful as it may also completely wipe the app from your device, including all data.
Instead, the recommended way is simply to open the App Store app, visit the updates screen, and then stop and restart the update. I've had the update hang on me several times in a row, but it should eventually download and install.
I'm not sure, however, if this method is available for those with Automatic App Updates enabled, since I have mine set to manual.
A: Reboot it. I've seen this problem a small handful of times on my, and one other individual's, iPhone.
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Q: Eclipse: switch between editors keyboard shortcut Is there any keyboard shortcut like ctrl+tab for switching between open editors in Eclipse except for the advertised cmd+F6?
Is there a way to customise it?
A: If I get right you want cmd+option + (→ or ←)
And also you can change any shortcuts by going to Eclipse Preferences (cmd ,) and chose general in left side window and select key then scroll to find your desired shortcuts.
A:
Custom KeyBinding sequence example : CTRL + TAB to switch between visilble Modules or Editors Forward direction using Eclipse RCP.
you press CTRL + TAB second time to open
another editor and close previous editor using RCP Eclipse.
public class Emp_editor_open extends AbstractHandler{
@Override
public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindow(event);
IWorkbenchPage page = window.getActivePage();
//Three object create in EditorInput
ProductEditorInput product_input=new ProductEditorInput();
EmployeeEditorInput emp_input=new EmployeeEditorInput();
UserEditorInput std_input = new UserEditorInput();
IEditorReference[] editors = page.getEditorReferences();
System.out.println("Length : "+editors.length);
if(editors.length==0){
//First Time or empty editors to check this condition
try {
page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID);
System.out.println("product Editor open");
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Product_Editor")){
System.out.println("Product:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle());
try {
page.closeAllEditors(true);
page.openEditor(emp_input, EmployeeEditor.Id);
System.out.println("Employee Editor open");
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Employee_Editor")){
System.out.println("Emp:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle());
try {
page.closeAllEditors(true);
page.openEditor(std_input, UserEditor.ID);
System.out.println("student Editor open");
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
else if(page.getActiveEditor().getTitle().equals("Student_Editor")){
System.out.println("Product:: "+page.getActiveEditor().getTitle());
try {
page.closeAllEditors(true);
page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID);
System.out.println("product Editor open");
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
else {
try {
page.closeAllEditors(true);
page.openEditor(product_input,ProductEditor.ID);
System.out.println("product Editor open");
} catch (PartInitException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
}
Plugin.xml
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.commands">
<command
defaultHandler="rcp_demo.Toolbar.Emp_editor_open"
id="RCP_Demo.Toolbar.emp_editor_open_cmd"
name="Employee_Editor_open">
</command>
</extension>
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.bindings">
<key
commandId="RCP_Demo.Toolbar.emp_editor_open_cmd"
schemeId="org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration"
sequence="M1+TAB">
</key>
</extension>
Key sequence Mapping M1 means CTRL
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Q: Can I transfer or sync purchased as well as non-purchased songs from my iPhone to my computer? So, I wiped my drive clean on my MacBook and reinstalled the OS. Happily the best of my music was safe on my iPhone and I figured it would easily flow back to my iTunes library.
Not so happily, I can't seem to figure out how to get this music, which is mine, to the laptop, which is mine, from the iphone, which is mine.
I don't want to jailbreak my phone just for this one task, I'm running iOS 4.2.1 on an iPhone 3G and my MacBook 5,1 runs OS X version 10.6.5.
I would like my music back. How to do this?
A: Things you've purchased off the iTunes Store can be transferred off your iPhone by right clicking on your iPhone in iTunes and choosing 'Transfer Purchases'. You might need to Authorise your computer first by clicking the Store Menu, and then choosing Authorise This Computer.
For your non-iTunes Store content I'd recommend Senuti (read it backwards!) which lets you copy music from your iPhone or iPad back to your mac. Senuti costs $18, but there's a trial version, which can transfer up to 1000 songs.
Neither of these require a jailbreak.
A: Phoneview - is a great option, as it allows you to access your entire media directory. You can download a fully functional trial copy.
See this similar question: Fastest way to transfer a bunch of photos TO iphone camera roll?
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Q: iPad Refusing to Sync after 4.2 Beta Expired I didn't quite get around to updating to the GM version of 4.2 in the iOS developer channel on my iPad and unfortunately the beta I had installed has now expired.
iTunes says that the software on the iPad has expired, but any attempt to synchronise with the device throws an iTunes error along the lines of "no session could be created with the iPad".
Looking at the device logs, I see this:
Mon Dec 6 11:01:36 * lockdownd[16] <Error>: 2ff66000 spawn_service_agent: Service com.apple.mobile.installation_proxy is currently prohibited from running
Mon Dec 6 11:01:36 * lockdownd[16] <Error>: 2ff66000 spawn_and_handle_checkin: Could not spawn the com.apple.mobile.installation_proxy service agent:ServiceProhibited
Mon Dec 6 11:01:36 * lockdownd[16] <Error>: 2ffe8000 spawn_service_agent: Service com.apple.mobilebackup2 is currently prohibited from running
Mon Dec 6 11:01:36 * lockdownd[16] <Error>: 2ffe8000 spawn_and_handle_checkin: Could not spawn the com.apple.mobilebackup2 service agent:ServiceProhibited
Any ideas on how to get up-to-date without taking the iPad to Apple?
A: Huh, figures I'd find the solution right after I finally ask someone...
Booting the iPad in restore mode allowed iTunes to begin a restore & update process and now my iPad is happily updating to the proper, non-beta release.
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Q: Ethernet via Cinema Display I want Ethernet on a MacBook Air running in clamshell mode. Will the USB<-->Ethernet trinket work from the Cinema Display?
A: I’ve seen people have an external powered Hub connected to the Air, then connect the USB to Ethernet trinket to the hub and have no problems with it. If the Cinema Display functions as a normal hub, then you should have no problems with it.
The USB specification doesn’t make distinctions from internal/external ports (in theory).
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Q: Can I tether with my iPhone 4 without jailbreaking my phone or paying for the additional service? Basically, I want to be able to tether my laptop to my iPhone 4 but I don't want to pay for extra service or lose my unlimited plan. I've heard there were some apps that had easter eggs but are no longer available. I've also heard that you can do some things if you have a developer account.
So, are there any free, simple ways to do this without jailbreaking my phone?
A: It's probably not an easy way but since there have been some apps snuck into the app store that had hidden tethering abilities: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/apple-approves-pulls-flashlight-app-with-hidden-tethering-mode/ It's clearly possible to do this in an app but not one that will be in the official store. One way around this would be to spend the $99 for a developer account, find some source code, compile it and install it onto your device. Don't mind the hand waving around finding appropriate source code though.
A: [Breaking this two answers so I can post both links.]
For a while you could hack it by updating the carrier file (for me it had the side effect of breaking visual voice mail) : http://reviews.cnet.com/activate-tethering-on-iphone-without-jailbreaking Something similar might be possible for iOS 4 but perhaps it's a just a well kept secret.
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Q: How Many iTunes Accounts I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps.
A: I think that Apple's article on iTunes Home Sharing should cover what you're looking for. My husband and I have separate accounts, and anything we both want, we share.
A: It's easy to break things down with the two "rules of 5".
Each account (Apple ID to be technical) can be authorized on 5 computers at the same time.
Each device is happy to track purchases from 5 different accounts.
There is no limit on the number of devices that get to sync to any computer that is currently "authorized" so hundreds of devices can feed from that one iTunes library. All purchases from the 5 accounts that are "authorized" get to sync without passwords being entered.
So if you both had an account - your shared computer would count as one authorization for you and one for your spouse. Each of you could take your iPhones to 3 other friend's house and sync apps and music there (since you used 2 "slots" for your accounts). Most people never come close to the 5 limit.
You do need to know each account's password to update the apps on the go - so having twice the accounts means an extra step to update on the road or having to wait for a password or having the apps download at home by your spouse.
There's no way to split things up later - so if you don't mind the extra hassle of two accounts (and remembering to sign in and out on the computer to keep straight which account is buying what from the computer) it's often better to have two store accounts.
I always recommend if you don't share underwear drawers, don't share iTunes accounts. There's nothing wrong with a little individual space - especially when it's easy to share whenever you feel like it.
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Q: Screen Rotation Lock now turns off iPad speaker After upgrading the iPad to 4.2.1 the screen rotation lock button no longer has any effect on the screen rotation. Instead it turns off the speaker. I've looked in settings but I don't seem to find any way to change this behavior.
A: According to Ars Technica, iOS 4.3 will give you a preference pane to configure this on the iPad (so that you can restore the rotation lock).
A: At iPad: Understanding screen rotation lock, Apple says:
Beginning with iOS 4.2, the switch previously used for screen rotation lock functions as a silence switch for notifications and system sounds.
Sucks, doesn't it?
It is still possible to lock the screen rotation on an iPad (and that article explains how); there's just no hardware solution any more.
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Q: Why is DashboardClient taking so much memory on MBP?
In recent days, the DashboardClient process is taking more memory on my MBP. It's a real memory of 144 MB as seen in Activity Monitor.
I have never seen this process occupying memory like this before, as if like Safari. It's started few back before.
I haven't changed my Dashboard for a couple of months...
I am running OS X 10.6.5
A: Probably the widgets you are using are leaking memory. Try removing them and check which of the widget is taking too much memory.
I use Calendar, 2 Clocks, 1 Weather and 2 Webclips and the Dashboard client is taking up 83Mb. Normally I just force quit if I see it is taking too much memory, and start it again if I need to them back.
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Q: How can I disable the voicemail button on iPhone? I do not use the voicemail at all and from time to time I keep pressing the voicemail button by mistake.
I am looking for a solution to this problem. I observed many others are complaining about the same problem, even on Apple's forum but they closed the thread and keep it unresolved :p
A: I suspect that because the vast majority of people with iPhones do use voicemail, you're out of luck. Apple isn't known for providing settings or options that only a small percentage of users will want, especially if it's a setting that might prove confusing in the future.
Their UI designers likely weighed the number of users who don't want the button vs. the number of users who will be confused because their voicemail button is now missing and decided against the potential confusion. That certainly seems to be how they make most UI decisions.
A: You can disable voicemail button (not remove it) if you jailbreak and install "voicemailblock" from Cydia it will disable it. Works with SBSetting so you can enable and disable the button when you want.
A: *5005*86*XXX#
hit the CALL button after typing that code into the dial screen
Use this to reset where the button dials
XXX can be blank (*5005*86*#) and it will throw an error when this is pressed, or you can put another number in there to make a quick dial to someone else such as a phonecard.
Confirmed working on iOS 4.3
A: You can use NoVoiceMail available on Cydia. Works with iOS 6, too.
A: I spoke to my service provider (DIGI Malaysia) about the issue. They can not help saying its iPhone's domain. The provider is happily making money @ 3 cents (USD) per hit or per mistake
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Q: iphone upgrade - did it back up? If you tell iTunes to upgrade your iPhone from os4 to os4.versionupdate (example)...
Does iTunes automatically back it up before attempting upgrade?
my phone is currently in recovery mode - and I don't know whether it backed up or not (you rookie!!!)
EDIT I have browsed to the back up folder, i.e.
C:\Users\<MY USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
There is a folder with todays date: \a6fbdb939e60771c51f18a68a41e8e0e2d230dcc - would this be the backup done before attempting software upgrade?
A: iTunes creates a backup of your iPhone everytime you sync it, not only when you upgrade it.
If in doubt, sync the iPhone before upgrading.
Here is an Apple Support article about the subject: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
A: iTunes definitively creates a backup before upgrading. The folder you see seems to be this backup.
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Q: How do I enter Dutch names in Address Book? Dutch surnames are kind of weird, in that a lot of them start with small words such as
de/'t/het ("the"), van ("of"), van 't, van der ("of the"), etc. This makes them a pain to enter in most address books, since you really want to ignore that part of the name when sorting, but not when displaying. This means you get "Piet Vries" instead of "Piet de Vries".
While Address Book has the "middle name" field, which can be abused for this, it really isn't meant for it, causing some applications (iCal, for example) to ignore the field, showing an incomplete name.
iTunes solves this problem for artist and album names, giving you a "sort album" or "sort artist" field to enter a string to sort on (so "The Beatles" are sorted as if they're called "Beatles"). I haven't been able to find a similar field in Address book.
So, what is the correct way to make Address Book deal with this?
A: My preference is to list their name as something like "Heirseele, van" because when searching by last name you'll still find them using "van" if you decided to. Putting the preposition in another field is a little hackey (and incorrect from a data-integrity point of view) for me.
For the benefit of others: in Dutch, all those prefixes are part of the name. You refer to someone in Dutch as "Meneer van Heirseele" not as "Meneer Heirseele". Those names haven't joined the prepositions like French names have (e.g., Dupré).
Just my two cents…
A: The better-world answer is that Address Book should allow users to enter Dutch surnames with the tussenvoegsels ..
First name: Rembrandt
Last name: van Rijn
First name: Huig
Last name: de Groot
... and then allow users to specify what collation method to use. That way someone using one collation can exchange contact information with someone using a different collation, and the names will show up where both expect them.
The term for the bundle of preferences which includes grouping and ordering of names, thousands and decimal point indicators, sort order for non-ASCII vowels, etc., is "locale." It's not just the Dutch: Gaelic names treat Mac, Mc and M' as identical.
The Address Book needs work on "locale."
A: If you don't mind misusing a field, you can use the "Phonetic Last Name" field to change the sort order.
A: I would enter the surname prefixes ("de" etc) into the firstname field.
Benefits:
*
*That way, sorting would work correctly regardless whether you prefer sorting by first or last name,
*the full name is always displayed correctly because it simply combines first + last name,
*you don't have to fill in additional fields.
A: They've got prefix and suffix fields, so would it really be that hard to have a mid-fix or whatever the correct english term is field?
Google suggests infix or interfix, BTW.
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Q: Why does iPhone 4 lose its VPN connection on sleep or screen lock? I've setup a VPN connection using AnchorFree.com on my iPhone 4 which works great, the issue I have is when my iPhone goes to sleep or screen locks the VPN connection appears to auto disconnect and doesn't reconnect unless I manually make it. I saw a thread here on apples forums confirming others are seeing this issue but no real solution.
A: I don't know if it will really help you, but the only way I see to walk-around this problem is to set the System Preferences "Auto Lock" to "Never". This will keep you connection alive.
I would do this before every remote work session. Then, reset it to 1 minutes, you're done with it.
A: It's most likely a battery-saving option. If only it would do that with Wi-Fi connections.... :(
Being connected to a wireless signal besides 2G data eats the battery like mad.
A: I have just signed up for VPN service this week and I have been having the same problem. I use it to watch Netflix and listen to Pandora from out of the country. I have been playing around to see if I can get the VPN to stay connected; so far I found a solution that has been working for about an hour or so now.
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 and I have installed backgrounder from Cydia which keeps programs running even when closed or when the screen is off.
After installing this, I installed Pandora from the App Store and, after launching it, I held down the home button to background it.
So far, it seems to be working because Pandora uses my connection and if I keep it backgrounded, it will prevent the VPN from disconnecting.
I have only been using it for a couple of hours so I'm not sure how good of a permanent solution it will be.
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Q: How to set to open folder with enter in finder? I want to set to open a folder in finder with Enter.
I know it's possible to open a folder with ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow but I don't like it and I never use it because it's easier to use the trackpad, but enter would be the easiest way.
I tried to set it trough the keyboard shortcuts but I can't do it.
A: You could also use KeyRemap4MacBook, but it would make pressing return open items even in rename mode. And there are a lot of other places besides Finder where return renames items and other key combinations open them.
If you don't use a QWERTY keyboard layout, change KeyCode::O to KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN:
<item>
<name>Use Return as Open</name>
<identifier>private.app_finder_return2commandO</identifier>
<only>FINDER</only>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, ModifierFlag::FN, KeyCode::RETURN</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::RETURN, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen>
</item>
A: Edit: Well crud, got halfway through typing this up and then found that Karabiner doesn't work on Mac OS 10.12+. They are working on Karabiner-Elements but it's still pre-alpha.
These instructions still work for 10.11 and lower though:
Karabiner was easier than the top answer here because you don't have to make a System Integrity Protection exception (El Cap).
*
*Install app from here: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
*Open Karabiner with Spotlight Search (Cmd+Space)
*In Karabiner search menu (upper left): "use return as open"
*Check the box
*Option-click on Finder in taskbar, Relaunch it.
A: For anybody looking for this in 2018: use BetterTouchTool to make the Enter key simulate ⌘ Command + ↓ Down Arrow key press.
A: Any person new to Apple and Mac would find lot of things un-intuitive or just forced on the user, w/o any options to change it.
Or it might be that just many of us had their first experiences on Win/Linux systems.
But just found this plugin to finder XtraFinder which among lot of other options allows you to ENTER/RETURN to open a file.
Feeling a lot relieved now! Hope it helps.
A: As I know you can not set it to enter in a normal way (but maybe exist some tricky way)
but you can change open shortcut by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts tab from the left window choose Application Shortcuts and press + to add new shortcut then find Finder in Application and choose Open in Menu Title and press any desired shortcut in textbox.
A: PresButan (Mac OS X 10.4.x-10.7.x): An idiotically named solution to a spectacular UI oversight (rather apropos, eh?).
It also lets you use either the backspace or delete key to delete files.
I can confirm it works (just installed it). Apparently it leverages the accessibility system and uses a daemon to catch the return events.
If you are on 10.3-10.5, you also have the option of using ReturnOpen.
A: In current 2022 Karabiner version,
go to "Complex modification" tab > "Add rule" button at the bottom > "Import more rules from the internet (open a web browser)" button at the top
Then you should find "Application specific" -> "Finder" section on the web-page and import it to your Karabiner.
Then use the same button "Add rule" to select rules you like from that group.
(Careful with using backspace, you can't backspace when renaming files)
A: Copy from here: https://superuser.com/a/1758821/1201428
As for today the simple solution is:
*
*Install Karabiner-Elements: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/getting-started/installation/
*Add complex modification rule:
a) Automatically - one click import from official rules site: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#finder_improved_navigation
b) Or manualy - add code into to complex modifications:
{
"title": "Finder: enter -> open, f2 -> rename",
"rules": [
{
"description": "Use Return as Open if not renaming file",
"manipulators": [
{
"conditions": [
{
"bundle_identifiers": [
"^com.apple.finder"
],
"type": "frontmost_application_if"
},
{
"type": "variable_unless",
"name": "onedit",
"value": 1
}
],
"from": {
"key_code": "return_or_enter",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"any"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "o",
"modifiers": [
"right_command"
]
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Use Return to finish renaming when onedit=1",
"manipulators": [
{
"conditions": [
{
"bundle_identifiers": [
"^com.apple.finder"
],
"type": "frontmost_application_if"
},
{
"name": "onedit",
"type": "variable_if",
"value": 1
}
],
"from": {
"key_code": "return_or_enter",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"any"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "return_or_enter"
},
{
"set_variable": {
"name": "onedit",
"value": 0
}
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Use F2 as Rename and set onedit",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "f2"
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "return_or_enter"
},
{
"set_variable": {
"name": "onedit",
"value": 1
}
}
],
"conditions": [
{
"type": "frontmost_application_if",
"bundle_identifiers": [
"^com.apple.finder"
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
The original answer is posted here: https://superuser.com/questions/307048/making-the-backspace-key-go-to-the-previous-folder-in-finder/1636251#1636251
A: ControlOptionSpace serves as an Enter key
Also enabling voice over for when you need to navigate, helps a lot too
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Q: Is there a way to access the TOR network on iOS devices? What are my options for using TOR on an iPod Touch, either using something similar to the VPN settings, or through dedicated apps for browsing/email/RSS ?
A: I suspect you would be able to use TorVPN's PPTP Server, just make sure you switch the "Send All Traffic" switch on the VPN configuration settings to "on". Otherwise it will be astoundingly ineffective :).
Note that I have not used this service, but knowing what iOS supports (L2TP/IPSec, PPTP, Cisco L2TP), I have a hunch that it will work.
A: TOR runs on the TorVPN server, actually - so you don't have to run the client software on your end at all.
To enable it, just log in to your control panel at http://torvpn.com and in your VPN settings click the checkbox that says 'Transparent TOR routing' or something. It's a server side configuration you can do through the TorVPN website. Hope that clears it up.
By the way, PPTP is very unstable in the sense that it works for some people, and doesn't work for others. This is probably because of the GRE protocol and natting issues. I have a feeling PPTP is the only TorVPN supported way that works with iPods, but generally I recommend OpenVPN above all.
ps: i can hardly imagine what you want to do in an iPod that you want TOR for... could you help my curiosity?
A: Yes. Open VPN can be used on all iOs devices. Open VPN Connect is a free app that you can load open VPN config files into. I use it to connect my iOs devices to the Private Internet Access VPN. I think you should be able to use it to connect to tor as well. Hope this helps.
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Q: Does iOS 4.2 change the voltage on the camera kit USB? I want to use my happy hacking keyboard with ipad.
I just read an aritlce about changes on ios 4.2. One of changes I noticed was that voltage changes for camera kit on ios 4.2. I also read that USB keyboards no longer works with camera kit on ios 4.2.
Is that true?
A: I could have sworn I've managed to use a USB keyboard with my iPad, and it shipped to me with 4.2.1 installed. Maybe my keyboard uses less voltage (it's one of those semi-novelty foldable ones).
Perhaps you could get around this limitation with a powered USB hub?
Update: I've recently heard rumour of someone working on a solution for this.
A: Yes it is true, I just connected my USB Key Board using Camera connection adapter, and it shows "Accessory unavailable, The attached accessory uses too much power".
iPad Software Version: 4.2
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Q: OS X: Is there a way to change the default behavior of copy/move overwrite? Problem: Many of my friends are moving to OS X and are frustrated that, unlike Windows and *NIX systems, copying/moving a folder (with sub-folders) deletes the destination folder if a folder of the same name already exists at the destination.
Question: Is there a way to hack the system (or install a plugin?) so that it by default copy/move operations merge the source and destinations instead of outright wiping out the destination and everything inside (with no option for recovery)?
A: EDIT: Based on your clarification, you're looking to merge two directories. See this question for more information. There's no built-in way to do that using the OS X Finder.
As an alternative, you could try using standard unix tools like rsync, which are available via the command line. But this is not a very "Mac like" solution.
I'm not sure what you're asking, because when you copy a folder from one place to the other, nothing is deleted at all. I assume you're talking about copying a folder from one location to another where a folder of the same name already exists at the destination? If so, The Mac OS X Finder will show you a warning, it won't delete anything without your permission.
If that's not what you're asking, please edit your question to clarify, and comment on this answer asking me to update my answer. Thanks!
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Q: Which Macbook Pro Hi-Res screen is better for editing photos? The Apple shop lists glossy and antiglare options for their Hi-Res screens and I'm not sure what the difference is, and in particular which one is better for editing photos.
A: This is 80% what calavera already said, and I'm only posting it for a few additional details that wouldn't fit into a comment. Translation: Accept calavera's answer instead, if you're thinking about accepting mine.
Glossy is generally considered better for accurate color gamut (I believe that's the proper term). Closer to "real life", full representation, etc. If you're professionally serious, I would still recommend picking up a color calibration kit, but you'll likely have less tweaking to do for accurate representation.
Anti-glare is exactly what it says, and exactly as calavera put it, it doesn't reflect the sun, room lights, generally light sources nearly as strongly, so you can use it nearly anywhere without having to re-orient/re-angle yourself. But, as a side effect of this, colors are dulled, a bit washed out.
Photo editing, video editing, anything that is geared for visual presentation pretty much demands a glossy screen, as opposed to something with just a visual interface (surfing, audio editing). Of course, with Apple making the anti-glare the "special order", it's there for people who need it, but otherwise people get the better choice in the majority of situations, by default.
A: In my experience I would have to say the glossy. Even though the resolutions are the same, I really think that the glossy has much better color reproductions and looks more natural. The anti-glare tends to dull the colors, making it more difficult to judge when making adjustments. In fact, both my wife and I went with the glossy earlier this year for exactly this reason (photo editing). She has a lot more experience with photoshop than I, and she was blown away by the difference in color between the two.
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Q: OS X: Is there a built-in scheduler program? I would like to schedule a task to execute with parameters at a specific time/date in the future.
Does OS X include any such tool (even if it's command-line)? If not, are there any free or relatively cheap tools out there to accomplish this?
A: You can also start Automator workflows with iCal if you just want something simple. Otherwise I would do it through launchd.
A: iCal can be used to run AppleScripts, launch applications, and perform tasks to a schedule.
There are limitations to using iCal, but it is included with Mac OS X and relatively easy to set up. The limitations and a visual walk through on how to set up a scheduled AppleScript are included in the link above.
A: There are two Unix command-line tools that do what you want. at will allow you to schedule a task to execute once at a specific time in the future. Of course, part of the task could be to schedule another task.
cron allows you to schedule tasks to regularly execute at the same time, based on time of day, day of the week, etc.
One thing to note is that both of these will not run tasks if your machine is not running at the time they are scheduled. There are alternatives, such as anacron, that will run scheduled tasks the next time the machine boots.
A: Scheduler for MacIntosh is a gui-based task scheduler for macOS can be downloaded at https://macscheduler.net/. Been using it to run a backup app I wrote. Runs in background, doesn't need to be opened at startup. Can launch apps, scripts, docs.
A: While KeithB's answer is correct, actually, cron is being deprecated in favor of the OS X specific launchd.
Commands to be run via launchd are described in Apple "plists", or property lists, which are really just XML files:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.periodic-daily</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/periodic</string>
<string>daily</string>
</array>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>Nice</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Having said that, it's not a very user friendly (nor Mac-like) way of scheduling commands to be run. This question on SuperUser lists a few GUI alternatives, including:
*
*Lingon (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/) (Free, may not work on 10.6)
*Lingon (http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/) (Not free, works on 10.6)
launchd Editor ($5 Shareware)
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Q: Change completion key in TextMate? Is it possible to change the completion key (escape) to command for instance? How?
A: From the same question asked on SO:
To remap the esc key you have to copy
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict
to
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict
and then edit it, preferably using TextMate :) as Property List Editor messes up the codes.
Look for nextCompletion and previousCompletion and replace their values with whatever suits your needs best.
For example, you could replace \033 (code for esc) to ->|tab.
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Q: My Windows 7 Boot Camp partition is missing. Why doesn't Parallels recognize it? I installed Windows 7 on my (month-old) Macbook Pro using boot camp assistant. I basically used defaults throughout, so I don't think there's anything crazy about my setup.
Usually, after doing this, I would be able to see the Windows 7 partition mounted by OS X, but this time it's missing. The option to use my Boot Camp install is grayed out in Parallels, I assume because it doesn't see the Windows 7 volume (since it's missing.)
I am able to boot into both Windows 7 and OS X and use both of them fine. Windows 7 sees the OS X partition.
I can't seem to find any information about this problem, except some whisperings on some forum, which seemed to suggest that my GPT partition map was out of sync with my MBR partition map. Unfortunately, I can't find that forum post again. This might be a red herring!
I tried doing a Disk Repair in OS X disk utility, but it just tells me it couldn't repair it, and that I should backup everything and reformat (it says that something is broken.) Is there a better way? I am comfortable with commandline tools and doing insane things with partitions, especially if the alternative is to start all over again.
Here is the output of doing sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 708837376] HFS+
*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 709249024 - 204800] HPFS/QNX/AUX
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 709453824 - 267317248] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Man, I'm sorry I totally haven't had time to look into this and respond to the many people trying to help me. I will probably have some time over the coming holidays.
A: Try the fdisk option that repairs the MBR? -u I think.
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Q: transfering iphone data to another computer I have a laptop and want to give it to my sis after I bought a mac mini. Now how can I let my iphone sync with the mac mini for the following data: (I think this applies to any 2 computers)
*
*music not bought on iTunes: copy the folders to the new computer and then sync the iphone with the folder on the new computer. (This seems the best solution, right?)
*photos: the same as music.
*Apps: I can re-download all the apps (free or bought) on the new computer and sync from the scratch, BUT:
*Apps Data: I found no solution so far!!!!
A: Apple has an article called iPhone and iPod touch: About backups that has information about what and where iTunes stores things. These folders are portable and you can move them from mac to mac, PC to mac. I have had no issues when using different versions of iTunes - especially if the "receiving" computer is as new or newer than the "sending" computer. If you can update both before the transfer, that would probably be ideal.
iTunes places the backup files in the following places:
*
*Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
*Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
*Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
After the transfer completes, the backups should show up in iTunes and you can restore your phone form it. Do read the article iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer if you are not certain
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Q: What is a good indestructible iPad case for toddlers? Does anyone know of any iPad cases that are so indestructible, that you would entrust a 3-year-old with an iPad?
A: Check out OtterBox's Defender product line. I don't own any of their products, but I've heard from others that they're close to indestructible.
More details & reviews:
*
*Tough Guys Rock the OtterBox (OtterBox Blog)
*OtterBox Releases Heavy Duty Defender iPad Case (CrunchGear)
*OtterBox's Defender Case puts your iPad in a Batman Suit (ZDNet)
*Otterbox Defender iPad case review: Best rugged case money can buy (Mobile Magazine)
*OtterBox Defender for iPad: When You Need Fully Body Protection (Gear Diary)
A: I don't think there is one. The glass-front of the iPad is way to big for any case to make handling it completely secure.
If I had kids, I would just stay with them and observe them while they play with my gadgets.
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Q: How can I use Google shortening service (http://goo.gl) in Twitter for iPhone? I tried to configure Google service as custom URL shortening service by adding this url http://goo.gl but it's not working.
Any idea ?
A: You need to add a wildcard to the URL to tell the application where to insert the original URL.
Your custom url should look like this:
http://myshortener.com/shorten?url=%@
However, it looks like this isn't as simple as this on goo.gl. I'll update when I find a way without any proxy-site or other things.
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Q: Settings for Firewall and AirPort Extreme Router to Open a Port I am trying to make ports on my OS X 10.6.5 MBP accessible to the open internet.
The only thing I could find in the system firewall was allowing (or disallowing) a particular.app file, but nothing about specific ports. From Googling I read that the firewall is supposed to let an allowed.app use any ports it wants and specification is not needed. I added the .app I wanted to add the port for.
The router is an AirPort Extreme v7.5.1.
I've created a DHCP Reservation based on wireless MAC address for the laptop, 10.0.0.5.
Under Advanced: Port Mapping, I added a new entry with the same values for each combination of fields:
Public/Private UDP/TCP Port: 9000
Private IP Address: 10.0.0.5
I want port 9000 on my public IP address to forward to port 9000 on internal IP 10.0.0.5.
When I test my application after this, it doesn't work.
To further test, I've turned off the system firewall on the laptop, and I've also placed the laptop in the 'DMZ' by checking Enable default host at: 10.0.0.5
Even with this configuration set (disabled firewall in the dmz), a full port scan from GRC Shields Up!! reports no ports open whatsoever. Is that normal for OS X? I come from Windows-land, so that would be a surprise.
Is something wrong here?
A: Something's wrong. If you've only got the Apple device between yourself and the internet - you've verified your external IP, you've lowered your machine's firewall, and you've DMZ'd your internal IP (which you've verified is correct...) - then the only way a connection can be halted is through another piece of software running on your machine.
If you go through all of those steps, you should be completely open to the internet.
A: Wait.
If you are set to be wide open and you are showing as filtered from somewhere outside your network, then look to your ISP.
EDIT: After some research ipfw supersedes the Application firewall ( socketfilterfw) so, setting ipfw to allow the ports you want open should help. Shields up is most likely testing your router, I had a similar issue recently. You'd want to plug directly into your computer, with your network cable, or, with far more sanity than I, use nmap from your phone or something, and check your ports inside of the network.
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Q: How to prevent TextMate from overwriting symbolic links? In a web project I have multiple environments and a .htaccess.<env> file for each of them. In each of the environments I've made a symbolic link from .htaccess to the right file.
Now, whenever I use TextMate to edit the file through the symlink, the link gets overwritten by a copy of the link's target file. How can I make TextMate to preserve the symlink?
A: Disable Atomic Saves in Advanced Preferences.
When atomic saves are enabled, TextMate actually writes to a new file on Save and then moves the file over (hence overwriting your symbolic link).
See http://manual.macromates.com/en/saving_files#atomic_saves for more info.
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Q: iPhone 3GS battery oddities I bought a 3GS in August 2009. After about 9 months I started seeing occasional precipitous drops in battery level overnight (i.e. from 50% to "dead", as in all you see is the red "charge me" icon). This would happen every few weeks, even if I made sure nothing was running in background before going to bed. Since upgrading to iOS 4 and multitasking it's happened once, but in general iOS4 seems to have improved the standby time of the device slightly. Usually I see a 1-2% drop in charge level overnight.
The question: Does the iPhone run its own battery conditioning cycles when it decides it needs to? If not, what would cause this effect?
EDIT: Clearly the battery is not going bad:
*
*The rapid discharge first happened when the phone was 9 months old,
*The phone is now 18 months old,
*The battery behaves normally and holds a charge just fine, and...
*The rapid discharge happens only every two months or so, over the course of a day or two
A: No, the iPhone does not self-condition. Apple has a guide for conditioning laptop batteries, yet I can't find a version for iOS devices (still looking).
There is a general tips page on maintaining great battery life, as well as general terms about battery replacement.
Personally: This sounds like a bad battery. It sounds like it just plainly is not holding a charge after a certain discharge point. Remember that iOS multitasking is not true multitasking. Barring streaming audio (actually persistent audio in general), there is (almost) NOTHING that your phone can constantly do for more than 20 minutes at a time.
I've streamed audio for hours (hours being... maybe 5?) during the day at ~40% and it did get under 20% by the time I was done, this was both on an iPad, and roughly equivalent on an iPhone 4. Connected WiFi, 3G (on the iPhone) enabled but not being the active radio in use, of course.
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Q: How to check what causes iPhone battery to drain out? Last night before I went to sleep my iphone battery was at 30% and the active usage was about 6 hours ( since last full charge). However this morning when I woke up I found that my battery went flat. Upon some checking I discovered that it was on active usage for 12 hours. Which means that when I was sleeping either
*
*Someone played with my iphone for 6 hours, or
*Some rogue apps that ran in the background were silently draining my battery even though they shouldn't
Possibility 1 is very remote. So I would like to investigate on possibility 2. How to know what causes the iphone battery to drain out even when it is not in use?
Edit: I switched 3G and WIFI off when I was sleeping.
A: There is a general tips page on maintaining great battery life, as well as general terms about battery replacement.
Personally: This sounds like a bad battery. It sounds like it just plainly is not holding a charge after a certain discharge point. Remember that iOS multitasking is not true multitasking. Barring streaming audio (actually persistent audio in general), there is (almost) NOTHING that your phone can constantly do for more than 20 minutes at a time.
I've streamed audio for hours (hours being... maybe 5?) during the day at ~40% and it did get under 20% by the time I was done, this was both on an iPad, and roughly equivalent on an iPhone 4. Connected WiFi, 3G (on the iPhone) enabled but not being the active radio in use, of course.
I don't know that you're able to see what's draining the battery, Apple forbids "task management apps". A possible workaround to see if it is app involved or a bad battery, is to drain your phone to a similar level, open the fast app switcher bar (double tap the home button), tap-hold on any application in the task bar until they begin to "jiggle", then press the white minus inside the red circle on EVERYTHING. This will kill any and all tasks that aren't first-party. (For example, it will not stop the occasional housekeeping/tasks that Mail, Phone, Safari, or other built-in apps are allowed to do.)
Having said that, to properly test, ensure that mail's auto-fetch is off (or in push only mode at best), make sure that you have no tabs in Safari with "live" or automatically refreshing content. Safari IS ALLOWED TO BACKGROUND, and has always been able to, to the best of my knowledge. At least since iOS 2.something (where I started with an iPhone 3G).
A: A note to those who find this QA: a link here from Apple can be helpful.
This morning when my battery was draining out, I tried the above tips ( reproduced below), and it worked.
If you have an Exchange email account
you probably have some stale sync
threads. Try this:
Go to Settings/Mail,contacts,calendar.
Tap the name of the account. Turn off
the 3 switches. Back out to the main
settings page. Now launch mail, then
contacts, then calendar to kill the
pending connections. Reboot the phone,
go back to Settings, and turn the 3
switches back on. This will probably
fix it.
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Q: iPhone battery symbol is red, doesn't acknowledge charging, but is apparently charged I have an iPhone 3G,
*
*When I plug in the charger, the big red battery on the locked screen is red, low and doesn't appear to be charging. When I unlock the screen, the small battery symbol on the upper right is green with a bolt.
*When I unplug it, the battery symbol in the upper right is low and red, but the phone seems to be charged.
*The phone syncs to my computer fine when connected.
Does anyone know what the problem is and if it can be fixed? Is it relatively benign, or perhaps an early sign that it is reaching its final stage of life?
Update
Although I am still no closer to the answer, and I had tried powering off manually, I let the battery run out (about 7 days at 1hr/day, no cell phone service) and when I charged it again, the issue resolved.
A: Sometimes it happens when you put your iPhone for charging more time.
Please power-off and restart your iPhone. Mostly this solves problem.
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Q: Where is this "other calendar" coming from on my iPhone I am using Google's exchange service on my iPhone, and I have successfully selected which calendars I want to sync by going to m.google.com or whatever the Sync address is. However, in the native iPhone app, I have this weird calendar called "Birthdays" in the "Other Calendars" section. I have no idea where this calendar is coming from - its not in Outlook (and I don't sync with Outlook anyway), and its not my Google Birthday calendar (the dates are wrong). How do I remove it? I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.1.
A: I believe this comes from the address book. If you add a vcard with birthday information, it gets synced to iCal in this calendar. And then it might be getting synced to your phone.
A: The Birthday calendar is a “read only” calendar automatically created by iCal. You can change what will appear there by modifying your contacts’ birthday (in address book).
If you don’t like it, you can always disable it.
*
*Open iCal
*Go to Preferences:
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Q: Is it possible to have tabs in Finder? I often need to open many finder windows at the same time and my desktop becomes cluttered.
Is there any way to get tabs in Finder so one window can host multiple folders?
A: TotalFinder "brings tabs to your native Finder". It's commercial software, however. There are some other Finder replacements as well.
A: Mavericks (MacOS X 10.9) brings us native tabs in the Finder (finally).
A: A free alternative for OS X 10.6.8 to 10.8.2 is also XtraFinder, which supports Tabs as well.
A: it was already mentioned but PathFinder is an incredible app. Plus there is a mac bundle site with it on discount right now. MacPromo Bundle
A: Update: As shown in File Menu and being consistent with the rest of the macOS shortcuts, command+T will open a new tab. Tabbed Finder was introduced in OS X Mavericks in 2013.
With the native Finder app that comes with OS X is not possible to have tabs.
If you really need them you can use some Finder replacement app, like TotalFinder or PathFinder (both not free).
A: IMO, I would wait before buying any program/app, as the new OS from apple, aka: lion, will probably address the finder and its shortcomings.
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Q: Hide 'On my iPhone' calendar when syncing with MobileMe Ive now switched back over to MobileMe for all of my calendar stuff.
I was wondering though, if I go to 'Calendars', it also displays a calendar 'On My iPhone'. I don't think I would ever want to use it (because I want it to write to one of my two MobileMe Calendars).
Is there any way to remove this other calendar? Or at least make it so its not the 'default' one? Even if I tell the iPhone to not show it - it still wants to write to that calendar by default
A: Yes, I think you can change this settings in iCal, as your mobile me settings are in there. I did this, and my iPhone only shows my Mobile me calendars.
If you use gmail, I would also reccomend BusySync. It syncs anything you add to you iCal, and then iCal and mobile me syncs. Its pure awesomeness in my opinion.
Also, if you have devleoper tools enabled, you can edit the plist mobileme sync-time interval to 1 min, instead of 15. You can access the mobile me plist file in home/library/preferences/byhost/ - the specific file name is like: com.apple.mobilemesync.. or something like that. Im at work, and use a linux system, so if someone else knows, please confirm, otherwise i will update this when i get home.
A: I haven't done this, but --
On the iPhone Under Settings then "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" then the Calendars section there is a preference to set the default calendar for new events created on the iPhone.
I'd assume you could change the default to an existing calendar, move any "On My iPhone" events to another calendar, make sure the changes have synced, and then delete the "On My iPhone" calendar in iCal.
A: Sadly - the only way to remove it is convoluted. Get a backup and make sure you understand the steps.
First temporarily remove all sync accounts (deleting the data from the phone - it's only on the cloud and on the backup now) and then sync with the USB with a checkmark to overwrite the calendar data on the phone one time. Then disable USB calendar syncing and the phone (or iTunes) will prompt and offer to let you delete the calendar at long last.
Only then can you add back the calendars you want from the cloud.
In the mean time, you can go to the settings app, and at the bottom of "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" is a place to set the default calendar for new events.
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Q: Migration and drivers or kext programs? I recently purchased a new iMac. I used the Migration Assistant to migrate users and applications from my previous iMac to this one.
Both are x86 based, and both running Snow Leopard, so as close as possible from that perspective.
While most things came across cleanly, it seems that programs that have lower-level driver like things did not.
My ScanSnap for example did not work, and had to be reinstalled from DVD.
My PL2303-based serial port seems to need a reinstall, and I have not yet tried the blackberry software.
Is the assistant supposed to migrate kext and low-level stuff like that? If not, is there an easy way to find out what is missing? Should I do something different in the future with respect to migration?
A: If it was easy to find all of the system items associated with an application, Migration Assistant would've done it for you; generally, if it can't figure it out, the easiest solution is to reinstall the software that didn't come over cleanly.
There is an alternative, however: clone the entire volume with something like Carbon Copy Cloner. This'll get all of the add-on software fine (except things like hardware-tied license keys and such), but may run into compatibility problems with the new computer. For example, if you clone from an older system to a new one that requires a special build of the latest OS version (with new drivers & such for the new hardware config), you may have to reinstall the OS (from the disc that came with the new computer) to get that to work. Pick your poison...
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Q: Textmate alt-f to move forward by one word I've recently switched from Linux to Mac. One thing that is really killing my emacs memory muscles right now is the lack of alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word.
I've gotten the meta/option flag flipped in Terminal.app preferences (so alt+. now works as expected), but I haven't found a similar option for Textmate. Even better if I could enable it as a MacOS global setting for the U.S. keyboard (so it would work in all input boxes). At the moment I get the following useless (for me) encodings:
alt+f: ƒ
alt+b: ∫
How do I remap alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word?
A: As usual... KeyRemap4MacBook to the rescue :P Its emacs mode will give you those bindings, and you can choose a lot more bindings than that as well:
A: FYI, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Mac shortcuts list, but on my Macbook Air you can press
Ctrl+option+f
and
Ctrl+option+b
to move forward and backward one word, respectively.
A: One way to remap the keys in other applications as well would be to create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
{
"~b" = moveWordBackward:;
"~f" = moveWordForward:;
"~d" = deleteWordForward:;
"~l" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, lowercaseWord:);
"~u" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, uppercaseWord:);
"~c" = (moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:, capitalizeWord:);
}
You could also cp /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict ~/Libary/Application\ Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict and add the same keys there.
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Q: iPhone 4 Custom SMS Text Tones I read about how to add custom ring tones, but those don't show up in the SMS tone tab, just the phone ring tab, is there some way to add custom text tones without jailbreaking my iPhone? :(
A: There are new SMS tones as of 4.2, and you can assign a specific SMS tone to a specific person via the Contacts app also as of 4.2, but you still cannot create custom SMS tones in the stock firmware.
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Q: Smartfolders- Can I narrow the query? When using Smartfolders in Mac OS 10.6.5, is it possible to choose where to search beyond the 2 button choices? One button is usually "This Mac' (too broad) and the other one is a folder that has never been the one I want - in fact, I would want to exclude a particular folder (ie the Library folder in my user directory).
Since we are given a choice of 2 places to query, why not any particular branch of the directory?
A: Ok, there’s a way to “hack” into SmartFolders and change the locations.
Rules:
*
*You can’t do it from the UI
*It involves having the smart folder saved
*I wrote it in spanish a long time ago in a blog post (spanish)
For the sake of helping you (I’m assuming you don’t speak spanish), I’ll transcribe the relevant information here.
Please note that the blog explains how to add more than one location to the search, not how to exclude (something I don’t believe is possible).
So, the short version:
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*Save your smart folder, the search location is really not important (we’re going to change it!) but make sure you use the searching “terms” that you want. Name it something like: IHATESMARTFOLDERS. Ok, you can name it differently if ya wish ;)
*Go to your ~/Library/Saved Searches and you should see your saved smart folder.
*Once you have located your smart Folder, you have to open it with a text editor like TextWrangler (or anything that can save Plain Text). Do not use Pages…
*Once you have it in your favorite editor, go to the end. You’ll see something like this:
<key>FXScopeArrayOfPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/martin/Desktop</string>
</array>
Note My smart folder was created for searching on my Desktop.
Good. As you can see the path is in an Array. If you know something about arrays, you’ll know that they are a collection of items. This means we can go ahead and add more items to this particular collection:
For example:
<key>FXScopeArrayOfPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/martin/Desktop</string>
<string>/Users/martin/Pictures/MacStuff</string>
<string>/Users/martin/Pictures/Me</string>
</array>
I have added two more folders to my smart -not so smart- folder.
Now in order for this to start working you have to:
*
*Save the smart folder (remember to use plain text!)
*Restart Finder.
And voilà.
Sadly, I haven’t found a way to exclude a location.
A: There is a 3rd party app EasyFind which has more constraints and customizations for your searches. I use it much more than smart folders. EasyFind is free from the App Store.
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Q: Custom Application Keyboard shortcut for Safari not always working I uninstalled Flash a little while back, and installed Chrome as a back-up for when I hit something in Safari and want to see the Flash. I have the "Show Develop in Menu Bar" preference set, and created an Application Keyboard Shortcut for Safari, to Develop>Open Page With>Google Chrome. The shortcut I created was ⌘ + K. And it works!
Well, kinda. It seems like every time I quit and restart Safari, the shortcut stops working. But once I navigate back to Develop>Open Page With (I can just cancel when I bring up the menu, I don't need to select anything), the shortcut works again.
Any way to make sure it always works?
A: This is a known “bug” which I don’t know if Apple will ever consider a bug.
The problem is that the list of browsers is generated “dynamically” each time you click on it (or at least the 1st time after Safari has been launched); the reasoning behind this is that different users will have a different set of browsers, so the list cannot be hardcoded. So given the above, the shortcut fails to work until the list has been “generated” by Safari. This occurs when you display the menu.
A possible solution would be to use Automator and create a service that opens the current safari page onto Chrome. But that’s beyond the scope of this answer.
TLDR version: There’s nothing you can do other than file a bug report at Apple if you want to stick with the same shortcut technique. Alternatives involve Automator.
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Q: Apple 30" Monitor Intermitently Flashes Off and On I have an apple 30" monitor plugged into my late 2008 15" Macbook Pro. Every once in a while when I start up the Macbook pro the monitor will first turn on, then off and repeat indefinitely until I unplug the DVI connection. If I place a finger on the power touch switch on the side the monitor, the display will usually stay on as long as I hold my finger there.
Has anyone else had this problem. Anyone know what causes it or if it can be easily fixed.
The monitor is not under any kind of warranty at this point.
A:
I don't know why, but if you unplug the monitor power (not just press the power off switch) and then plug it back in the problem goes away.
My guess is that the on/off switch on the side of the monitor is heat sensitive and calibrated for the temperature of the room, if the room temperature changes, things become un-calibrated, and the monitor starts thinking it's receiving a touch even when it's not.
The stan marsh method resets this calibration.
A: I have a similar problem with my 2009 15" Unibody MBP, intermittently.
It seemed to be to do with the mini-DVI to DVI connector. My laptop goes everywhere with me and is invariably plugged into other things whenever I arrive anywhere, so over time the ports start to get a bit 'soft'. I found that if the mini-DVI to DVI connector wasn't completely sat in the dvi-out socket properly, then the display it was plugged into would flicker.
I have 2 'identical' Apple mini-DVI to DVI connectors, and one of them seems much more prone to being a 'loose fit' than the other one.
Can you borrow another mini-DVI to DVI connector to try it?
Your heat theory is an interesting one but I doubt that the calibration is that sensitive (I've got an older Cinema Display model with the touch-sensitive brightness and power controls, and I've never known it turn itself off/on regardless of the temperature of my office, which varies wildly throughout the year). I could be wrong, though! :-)
A: I also found that @Ben's answer worked for me, but it help kept happening more and more often. Eventually I called Apple because the monitor was still under warranty and Apple replaced the monitor--just the monitor, not the power supply so it seems that @Ben's right on what the problem is.
A: I have the same problem, I think it is temp.and moisture issues.
after about 30 min. I can remove my finger from the on off button and the monitor will stay on. Then if it goes to sleep, it starts all over again
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Q: Can't update cabal in Mac OS X 10.6 I am trying to install cabal (for Haskell) in Mac OS X 10.6.5 (64-bit kernel). When I try the command "cabal update" I am presented with the following error:
cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream
Does anyone have experience with this and knows how to fix it?
Thanks.
A: Apparently:
This bug disappears if you compile cabal-install with GHC 6.12.1. (here and here)
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Q: What hardware needed for multiple monitors (3) on a 2009 MacBook Pro 5,5 with displayport (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video card) I am adding a 30" monitor to my existing setup (a 24" monitor) for use with a 2009 13" MacBook Pro 5,5 with DisplayPort. This is the model with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video card. This MacBook Pro should support the higher resolution of the 30 inch model (2500x1600 res), but...
How do I add the older 24" monitor (1900x1200 res) into the mix?
The laptop stays closed, but technically this is 3 screens. The older monitor only supports DVI and VGA inputs. I have read about several USB to DVI converters on Amazon, most with mixed reviews.
Can anyone recommend a specific piece of hardware known to work?
Later addition:
Thanks everyone for the helpful answers.
Thanks Martin, but the Matrox is unsuitable for my setup as I have one 2500x1600 and one 1900x1200 monitor. The Matrox website says "maximum resolutions of dual 1920x1200 and triple 1360x768 under Mac" and I've read elsewhere that both resolutions need to be the same.
John, Thanks for the tips - that is indeed what I settled on; a Kensington USB to DVI Converter (with DisplayLink 195 chipset).
My additions to your suggestions:
*
*Definitely use the latest drivers, even if beta. I had a major problems with the DisplayLink 1.5 drivers when trying to resume from sleep. The 1.6b3 drivers fixed that.
*You cannot use the Mac built in screen capture on the USB monitor. No biggie, but it tripped me up until I figure out that was the issue.
Rock on.
A: A new product has been announced today about this. On the Windows side, the Matrox DualHead/TripleHead were common, but not available for Mac.
That has recently changed because Matrox Introduces New Mac-Friendly DualHead2Go DP and TripleHead2Go DP Multi-Monitor Adapters.
A: I use a USB to DVI adapter based on the DisplayPort line of products with my MacBook Pro (2007 running Snow Leopard 10.6). Overall, I am quite happy with it however there are a few things you should note:
*
*It does not support hardware acceleration so certain programs, such as iMovie, will refuse to launch when the device is plugged into your computer. iMovie is the only program that I have come across that is affected but I mainly do web development and work in PhotoShop.
*At this time, the DisplayPort drivers do not support color profiles. Your only option for color calibrating your monitor will be whatever manual controls your monitor comes with. It's not a deal breaker for me as I mainly edit text but if you are color correcting photos it could be a problem.
*Small youtube videos play pretty well but you won't want to use the monitor for anything like fullscreen playback. It will work, but the results will be pretty choppy.
*Make sure you are on a USB2 hub or directly plugged into a USB port on your machine. It won't run over anything slower.
You can find a link to my preferred vendor here, though any product with Mac Drivers based on the newer chipset (resolution higher than 1080p) will work:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/VIDU2DVIA/
Don't buy an adapter that uses DisplayPort if it does not specifically say it will work on a Mac. I did so assuming I could use the generic drivers and they did not work.
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Q: Is it possible to shut down an Ipod nano 6th generation? If yes, how?
If no, why such a decision?
A: According to Apple Support:
If the iPod nano is paused, and you
press the Sleep/Wake button to turn
off the screen, the following behavior
will take place:
*
*For 36 hours after pressing the Sleep/Wake button and turning off the
screen, iPod nano is in Standby, and
will quickly wake up when you press
the Sleep/Wake button again.
*After 36 hours in Standby with no activity, iPod nano will shut down
automatically. Pressing the Sleep/Wake
button after iPod nano is shut down
will turn on iPod nano, and boot to
the main Home screen.
(Your iPod nano is considered paused if there is no music or FM radio playback, or an active pedometer session.)
Additional Information
*
*A fully charged iPod nano provides up to 24 hours of music playback time.
A: Press all together in this order -Vol button, then Sleep button, then +Vol button and then hold (so your fingers should not let go of the -Vol when you press the Sleep button) until diagnostics screen, you'll see a teletype sorta menu select standby with the sleep button it will put the nano it sleep but wake up reset
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Q: Keeping iPhone 4 Free from Oil Without Using Damped Cloth The guidelines I read on the Internet ask me to clean the oil off my iphone 4 surface by using a slightly damped cloth.
But is there any method that I can use to clean off the oil without using damped cloth?
A: Apple says:
Cleaning iPhone
Clean iPhone immediately if it comes in contact with any contaminants that may cause stains, such as ink, dyes, makeup, dirt, food, oils, or lotions. To clean iPhone, disconnect all cables and turn off iPhone (press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button, then slide the onscreen slider). Then use a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth. Avoid getting moisture in openings. Don’t use window cleaners, household cleaners, compressed air, aerosol sprays, solvents, alcohol, ammonia, or abrasives to clean iPhone. The front and back covers of iPhone 4 are made of glass and have an oleophobic coating. To clean these surfaces, simply wipe with a soft, lint-free cloth. The ability of this coating to repel oil will diminish over time with normal usage, and rubbing the screen with an abrasive material will further diminish its effect and may scratch the glass.
— iPhone
User Guide, page 54
(emphasis added)
Or in other words: remember that little piece of cloth that came with your iPhone? That's all you should need.
A: I often slide the phone across my sweater (chest or sleeves) - anything that's soft, reasonably dry and clean, and won't scratch the glass will do.
A: I swipe my iPhone 3GS across soft parts of my clothing, which works OK. But any microfiber cloth should work much better than plain cotton, and should also work reasonably well without being damp. You can get them at an optometrist, glasses cleaning cloths are usually microfiber.
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Q: Easy way to get gcc and make in OS X I want to install a few CPAN modules in OS X.
It filed since the module I want requires make and gcc to be installed. A quick google on the subject tells me that I need to install "Apple Developer Tools".
Do I really have to install the entire Xcode package (it's a 3 GB download) just to get make and gcc?
A: I would highly recommend installing the developer tools. They are free from Apple.
If you really don't want Xcode after the fact, you could just remove the Application itself. You may also be able to not install any documentation, which I think also takes a bit of space.
A: You can use osx-gcc-installer to get GCC and related tools without installing Xcode.
Note that there might be legal problems with osx-gcc-installer, and for this reason make-gcc-without-xcode has been made as an alternative. It requires the Xcode installer package, and generates an archive with only the necessary stuff -- no Xcode.
A: While I would certainly suggest that you download and install the developer tools from Apple, you can obtain gcc, etc. in any number of other ways. My favorite alternative would be to obtain it from http://www.macports.org/
There is a nice GUI for it here: http://porticus.alittledrop.com/
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Q: Recommend me a productivity/workflow tool Can anyone recommend me a productivity/workflow tool that does the following?
*
*I would like it to be task based
*I would like to be able to set:
*
*a due-date
*priority
*status (for example: started, paused, waiting for input, finished, cancelled)
*I would like to be able to link directly to one or several emails in my email program (OS X Mail.app or Thunderbird preferred)
*I would like to write notes about each task
*I would like to be able to add attachments (documents and images)
*Some calendar integration would be nice
A: I think you're looking for OmniFocus, which does (if I recall) everything you want, has a system-wide modal "inbox" tool as well as synchronizable iPad and iPhone apps.
Their price point is ridiculously high in my opinion, but people are fanatical about it.
A: I believe Things does all that. I use it. I like it.
I don’t know about thunderbird “linking” but with Mail.app it works. You can “drag” a mail onto a task or things to create a new one. Same with documents.
A: The Hit List also does all this. I'm currently using it. It offers sub-tasks and sub-folders so it is more inline with OmniOutlier than Things (which does not offer sub-folders).
It's currently in Beta, which is nice because it's free.
A: Maybe you want to take a look at Process (Manual in PDF). It’s cheaper than Things and OmniFocus.
note: I’m adding this 2nd answer so people can vote at their discretion.
A: Judging by your description, you might like Kanban Tool (https://kanbantool.com/). It is task-based, you can add due dates, set priorities and change the status of the task. You can add attachments. It also has a time tracking feature (I personally find it very helpful) and is easy to use. There's a free trial, so you can always test it and see for yourself whether you like it or not.
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Q: Can I backup iTunes 9 before upgrading to iTunes 10? I am happy with iTunes 9 and am a bit leery of upgrading to iTunes 10 on my Mac based on some feedback I've heard from others. Can I duplicate iTunes.app in my Applications folder prior to running Software Update to update to iTunes 10, and use the backup iTunes to run iTunes 9 if I am not happy with iTunes 10? I know this works with some applications like Final Cut Pro but not with others like Safari.
A: Don't see why not. If you're paranoid, you may also want to backup the iTunes prefs (~/Library/com.apple.itunes*), and/or any config files you find in your iTunes music folder (~/Music/iTunes/ in my case).
A: I just did this and I can confirm that it did work. However as Harv said, if you do this make a backup of the old files, specifically your library, as iTunes 10 will upgrade your "iTunes Library" file and iTunes 9 will refuse to read it.
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Q: How can I stop spaces from switching automatically? I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space without my requesting it to do so. Why does it do this and how can i stop it? How can I make spaces only switch in response to my requests?
A: Stop Spaces from switching spaces due to an app coming to the foreground:
defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO && killall Dock
Or via the GUI: System Prefs > Spaces and then uncheck the checkbox at the bottom: "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application"
Stop (slow down) Spaces from switching spaces if your mouse presses against the edge of the desktop:
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 60 && killall Dock
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Q: Is there an easy way to update a NetBoot image? I have a NetBoot image which I use for booting into to do things like disk maintenance and testing new applications without having to install them on my workstation. It's really handy, but I created it a while ago and much of the software on it is now out of date, like the OS, QuickTime, and Safari. I want to update the NetBoot image but the only way I think to do that is to use Disk Utility.app to restore it to a USB drive, boot from the drive directly, make any changes necessary and re-image the USB drive, overwriting the original image.
Is that the best series of steps or is there an easier way to update a NetBoot DMG file?
A: I think you've got the best way, I know you can mount the disk image inside the netboot image, but AFAIK it breaks the netboot; and some updates can't be applied to a non-boot-drive disk image.
If you're netbooting a lot, I'd recommend using DeployStudio, a free, open-source powerhouse for network deployment and the like; it makes it a bit easier to update / deploy images than netboot - but it might be a but much for what you're using netboot for.
A: I would suggest just using a separate user account if you want to test out applications without changing the environment you are working in, if your OS and everything else is up to date.
If that is not the route you are looking for, then I agree with glenstory that your direction is the Apple way to go, and will take more time, but maybe less time than learning DeployStudio which will let you update a netboot image, which Apple's System Image Utility will not.
Finally, a third option is to have an install on an external drive that you can update and boot to to test things. You have the base as the Netboot that you are using, so that is a good base to start from.
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Q: What do you think about Apple's Ping service? Personally, I have not signed up the Ping service that is included in iTunes 10. My main reason for avoiding it is the fact that Apple requires you to use your real, full name for registration.
What are your opinions of the service?
*
*pros/cons
*privacy or security concerns?
*things you wish they had done/not done
*things you'd like to see added
*things you'd like to see removed
*note: this question is serious but also meant as a sort of experiment to see if a discussion question can be useful or relevant on the site. if you hate it or don't want any sort of discussion other than the occasional list question, vote to close but please post a comment explaining your reasoning
A: Primarily, I don't understand the purpose. I don't know a single person in the world whose musical taste I trust, or that I think is similar to mine. I've seen last.fm, facebook, twitter, etc., and they've taught me to ignore musical recommendations.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article about how social network links have so little value because they're so easy. I might get 50 musical recommendations on facebook this week, and I'd only have to click twice to listen, and I'm not going to listen to any of them. But when the guy who lives next door hears me listening to Brahms, and stops in and says "You might like this other thing too!", and brings me a CD, I'll put it in my stereo and listen to it 2 or 3 times.
Second, the interesting music I'd want to share is largely not on iTunes. It's the bootleg of some Asian singer whose recording you can't get here yet (and maybe never). It's the Youtube video of some guy you kind of know playing at a club downtown last week. It's the out-of-print-for-40-years LP on my shelf of an incredible and rare recording of a popular group, that I got at a garage sale once for $4. It's the MP3 preview that some up-and-coming composer dropped on his blog to show you what he's doing.
Like everything Apple seems to do these days, Ping is probably great if you only care about recent mainstream name-brand consumer goods. (Lady Gaga at the announcement!) From a couple of longhairs who started out selling devices to let you make phone calls without paying, Apple has really turned into a company that doesn't care for the fringe -- even the legal fringe.
Third, it's part of iTunes. Back in 2003, I thought iTunes was awesome. These days, it's got so much crap in it, I don't even know how to do all the things I used to know how to do. It's confusing and frustrating and I use it as little as possible -- only for feeding my iPod, for things that can't be loaded directly. (iPods have gotten a lot more complex and confusing since 2003, too, but there's pretty much no competition in this space.) So Ping would have to be pretty awesome for me to want to use iTunes more than once every couple weeks, and it's not.
So if I wanted to do something that I don't, but can do already in better ways, but now do it in an app I hate instead of on the web ... I guess Ping would be for me.
You know what would be a better thing to put in iTunes, since apparently it's no longer just about "tunes"? Recipes! I need to keep track of them somewhere, and iTunes might be better than a bunch of text files. Plus, I actually do trust food recommendations from friends, so Ping-for-Recipes would actually be worth something to me.
A: Weird question, but… a user with a name calavera (which we still don’t know if it comes from Skull in spanish or Sepultura’s brothers) and the Xcode icon on its profile, what can you expect… ;)
calavera as in Manny Calavera, the
travel agent and grim reaper :) --calavera
In any case, here’s what happened with Ping and I.
*
*New iTunes. Oh ping, what’s that?
*10 minutes investigating, registering, etc.
*A few days later. Nobody had it. There was nothing (other than 3-4 authors)
*Found a way to disable it.
*New iTunes update. Native disabling.
*Disabled it all. Removed my ping account.
How could it be better?
I’m not sure, maybe if it was Facebook instead. People already has facebook, nobody wants another social network. Facebook+Twitter is enough for 99%.
I want to tell my friends (or group of friends): Hey, listen to this, it’s cool, you’ll like it.
I want to be able to see what they have found…
For everything else, there’s Mastercard.
A: One day the RIAA will reach for your music through ITunes. Spotlight will tell them where it is on your drive, Ping will tell them what. You think that people who are setting up the equivalent of S.P.E.C.T.R.E won't wait until the political or economic situation of Apple, the leading music player manufacturer, will allow them to purchase, or negotiate a time time to attack "filesharers" in that fashion?
That being said, it's a good idea in principle: People who share my music taste to a high degree, are almost always people I can get along with. But share my mp3 list with Apple's backend? Perhaps not. Last.fm is ok, or SomaFM for variety. I don't need to be a data source any more than I am.
A: Ping does not let me like music unless it is in iTunes, which sharply limits its value as a discovery tool.
A: Remove: ping
Add: Facebook
Instead of trying to create a new social network (which people are quite reluctant to change) they should have partnered with Facebook. Or at least tied into Facebook so that you could find friends using Facebook.
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Q: Newly Installed App (gem) Via Terminal, Path? I have used sudo gem install to install a few gems. My question is how do I know where the executable was installed, so I can add it to the path in .bash_profile?
A: Ruby "Gems" are not generally applications, most often they are libraries. From the Ruby Gems website
1.1 Really Quick Start Question: I’ve installed RubyGems and I want to
install Rails (for example). How do I
do that?
Answer:
gem install rails
1.2 What is a Gem?
A gem is a packaged Ruby application or library. It has a
name (e.g. rake) and a version (e.g.
0.4.16).
(emphasis mine)
Also, see this information on how to inspect a gem:
2.5 Looking at an installed gem When you run
gem specification progressbar
# shortcut: gem spec progressbar
you will see all the details of the
’’progressbar’’ gem.
You should consult the documentation which came with the gem, or, post more details so we can assist you more.
A: Also if you type: gem list
then you will get a list of all the gems that you have installed. At least that way you can check to see if it installed properly and which ones you currently have installed.
The path to my gems on my Windows PC is:
C:\Ruby192\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems
Probably the same location/file hierarchy on the Mac as well. (except for that whole C:/ part ;-)
EDIT
I took the following quote from the page talking about installing Sproutcore. It might help you in figuring out this path issue. Let me know! (I am a n00b when it comes to this stuff. I just starting learning it yesterday! But I found lots of helpful information!)
http://wiki.sproutcore.com/w/page/12412840/Abbot-Setting%20Up
if you faced a problem during the last part then this probably because the PATH of the gem isn't the default one. You can call the command as
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sc-init HelloWorld
cd hello_world
sc-server
Or you may reconfigure the path by running the following command
PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
export PATH
Then rerun sc-init command.
Now visit http://localhost:4020/hello_world to see your handiwork.
A: Use the gem env command to display where Gems stores everything.
Greg:~ greg$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- universal-darwin-10
- GEM PATHS:
- /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- /Users/greg/.gem/ruby/1.8
- /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
However, to avoid having to use sudo to install gems into the System version of Ruby, I use RVM, which sandboxes all my gems plus any additional versions of Ruby I want to install. I've been using it for a while and love it.
A: I believe that al that is in /usr/bin and similar.
You can always try whereis xxxxx and locate xxxx (after both db’s have been rebuilt via the daily/weekly scripts).
Most of those things go somewhere inside /usr sometimes /usr/local.
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Q: How to get the fully resolved path of a symbolic link in Terminal? I have a tangled mess of python installations on my laptop. I was looking at the executables in /usr/local/bin and they are all symbolic links to ../../../Library......
There's some weird behavior surrounding this. If I do ls -lhaG I see ---> and the relative path to the right of the symlinks:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 69B Dec 7 22:29 python3 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/python3
However, I can't seem to get any of the command line tools to resolve that path and display the actual path to python3. I've found some tidbits here and there regarding use of pwd -P and the find utility to do this. The problem is that these don't seem to work on OS X the way that people describe them working on linux (i.e. outputting the full path to the symbolic link). They just print the symbolic links path for me:
FantasticMrFox:bin robert$ pwd -P python3
/usr/local/bin
FantasticMrFox:bin robert$ find `pwd -P` -name python3
/usr/local/bin/python3
Any ideas on what's going on here?
A: I think that pwd -P and readlink are going to be your friends for this task.
"How can I get the behavior of GNU's readlink -f on a Mac?" is a handy resource.
pwd -P only works if you're inside the symlink directory:
14:07:13 jason@mac ~ $ cd bin
14:08:08 jason@mac bin $ pwd -P
/Users/jason/Applications
readlink works by specifying the target (thus it can be used against files):
14:09:03 jason@mac ~ $ readlink bin
Applications
14:09:34 jason@mac ~ $ readlink /var
private/var
The output of readlink appears to be relative to the parent of the specified target.
Ex: The parent of /var is /, so private/var is correct, relative to /. Per my above example of bin -> Applications, both are in my Home Directory, no matter where I run it, the output is the same.
A: GNU coreutils-8.15 added in 2012 a new command-line tool realpath that does what you want: it resolves chains of symbolic links and outputs the result as either an absolute (default) or relative path.
Apple does not yet include realpath in macOS (they sadly seem to shun all GPLv3 tools), but you can easily install it yourself, e.g. using Homebrew: brew install coreutils.
A: In zsh:
echo /usr/local/bin/python3(:A)
Or more robustly, in case there are backslashes in the path:
print -lr -- /usr/local/bin/python3(:A)
This prints the absolute path to the file with all symbolic links resolved (i.e. it's equivalent to GNU readlink -f, not to a plain readlink).
Explanation: the parentheses (…) at the end of a word surround a list of glob qualifiers. A colon : in the list of glob qualifiers starts a list of history modifiers. The history modifier A turns the given path into an absolute path and resolves all symbolic links.
If this is the python3 in your $PATH, you can save typing with equals expansion.
echo =python3(:A)
Even if you aren't running zsh, you can invoke it just for that.
zsh -c 'echo /usr/local/bin/python3(:A)
or (putting the history modifier directly on the parameter expansion)
zsh -c 'echo $0:A' /usr/local/bin/python3
pwd -P can work as well, but only for a (symlink to a) directory. pwd only prints information about the current directory. It doesn't take an argument. So it's useless for a regular file, and for a directory you need to change into it first.
(cd some/where && pwd -P)
With find, I don't even know what you're trying to do.
A: This resolves recursively and returns an absolute path:
$ python
>>> import os
>>> os.path.realpath("/usr/local/bin/python3")
Or the non-interactive version:
python -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath('/usr/local/bin/python3'))"
A: Maybe this discussion on Stack Overflow is of help: How to resolve symbolic links in a shell script
In particular, please consider this answer.
A: There are other answers using a python one-liner, or suggesting to install GNU programs using homebrew so you can have access to readlink -f or realpath. A recent update to macOS (12.3) has apparently introduced readlink -f natively as well.
Developing a solution in Bash to do the job across more platforms is a tricky problem, but the following canonpath function correctly handles the edge cases that cause some simpler solutions to fail:
canonpath() (
# Print absolute canonical path, like GNU's `readlink -f`
# - target may be symlink, file or directory; path may contain ., .., symlinks
tgt=${1:?Non-null path required for canonpath}
[[ -e $tgt ]] || { echo >&2 "target path must exist"; return 2; }
# resolve symlink(s) at basename (possible chain)
while [[ -L $tgt ]]; do
tgt_dir=$(dirname -- "$tgt")
tgt=$(readlink "$tgt")
# handle relative symlink and tgt_dir=/
[[ ${tgt:0:1} == / ]] || tgt=${tgt_dir%/}/$tgt
done
_canon_dir() ( builtin cd -P "$1" &>/dev/null && pwd; )
if [[ -d $tgt ]]; then
# handle paths like this/is/a/link/..
printf '%s\n' "$(_canon_dir "$tgt")"
elif [[ -f $tgt ]]; then
printf '%s/%s\n' "$(_canon_dir "$(dirname -- "$tgt")")" "$(basename -- "$tgt")"
else
echo >&2 "unknown file type"
return 3
fi
)
Testing examples:
# use `set -vx` if you want to see the gory details of unwinding the paths
# can also compare against `greadlink -f` if you have installed it with homebrew
canonpath /var
# outputs /private/var on macOS
ln -s ~/Documents /tmp/alink
canonpath /tmp/alink/..
# outputs HOME path as expected
ln -s /etc /tmp/e
mkdir /tmp/a && cd /tmp/a
ln -s ../e b
cd ..
canonpath a/b
# outputs /private/etc on macOS
touch /tmp/f
cd /tmp/a
ln -s ../f
cd ..
canonpath a/f
# outputs /private/tmp/f on macOS
# rm e f a/b a/f && rmdir a
Handling paths that don't exist
There is a small difference in functionality between the canonpath function above and GNU's readlink -f, in that canonpath explicitly requires that the path must exist. readlink -f allows the final path element to be a broken symlink, or simply non-existent. The function could be adapted to accommodate this functionality, but I suggest simply testing for path existence before calling canonpath, and passing the parent directory of a non-existent path if necessary.
A: You may use readlink -f. It recurses through all the links. Suppose the link is to a path that is further a link. You would like to have the final absolute path.
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Q: Changing modifier keys from the command line As a heavy Emacs user, I like to remap my Caps Lock key to function as the Ctrl key. There is a convenient dialog in the Keyboard Preference Pane to do that. But the problem is that this setting gets lost after someone logs into another account that hasn't this preference set.
So is there any way of doing the same as the preference pane dialog from the command line?
A: Changing preferences and running, defaults -currentHost read -g shows you what changes are being written. I was going to write up a short bash script to automate it, but it looks like I was beaten to the punch:
#!/bin/bash
mappingplist=com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping
if [ $1 == "emacs" ]; then
echo "Switching to emacs modifiers"
defaults -currentHost write -g $mappingplist '(
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 4;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 2; },
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 12;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 10;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 2;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 4;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 10;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 12;
})'
else
echo "Switching to default modifiers"
defaults -currentHost delete -g $mappingplist
fi
The script takes one argument, if the
argument is emacs, then it swaps
command and control, if the argument
is anything else it restores the
defaults.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=949280
A: You can use KeyRemap4MacBook with the PCKeyBoardHack. It also allows you to use Emacs keys in any Mac app, including the ones not using Cocoa such as MS apps.
A: From "Updating modifier key mappings through defaults command tool":
defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1133-50475-0 -array '<dict><key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key><integer>0</integer><key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key><integer>2</integer></dict>
Change 1133 and 50475 to the vendor and product IDs shown by ioreg -n IOHIDKeyboard -r. src 0 and dst -1 would disable caps lock.
defaults -currentHost write -g modifies:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.*.plist
You have to log out and back in to apply changes. If the values are strings (like in the answer by @pithyless), the changes are shown in System Preferences but they don't have any effect.
Values of keys:
-1 none
0 caps lock
1 left shift
2 left control
3 left option
4 left command
5 keypad 0
6 help
9 right shift
10 right control
11 right option
12 right command
A: I wanted to swap Right Command with Right Option keys only.
When I setup global Command and Option swap in System Preferences... > Keyboard > Modifier Keys..., there is following config in the system (which works as expected):
$ defaults -currentHost read -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-591-0
(
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771299;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771298;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771303;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771302;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771298;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771299;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771302;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771303;
}
)
But when I modify it, to swap only Right side as below - it doesn't work:
$ defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-591-0 '(
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771303;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771302;
},
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 30064771302;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 30064771303;
}
)'
It's because values are written as strings not integers. You can see that using:
$ plutil -convert xml1 -o - ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.*.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-591-0</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
<string>30064771303</string>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
<string>30064771302</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
<string>30064771302</string>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
<string>30064771303</string>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
So the right way to update the setting is using XML format:
$ defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1452-591-0 -array \
'<dict>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
<integer>30064771303</integer>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
<integer>30064771302</integer>
</dict>' \
'<dict>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
<integer>30064771302</integer>
<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
<integer>30064771303</integer>
</dict>'
At the end, you have to log off and log in again.
A: Combining a few answers together I came up with this script that seems to work (mapping Caps-lock to Control).
$ keyboard_id = "$(ioreg -n IOHIDKeyboard -r | grep -e VendorID\" -e ProductID | tr -d \"\|[:blank:] | cut -d\= -f2 | tr '\n' -)"
$ defaults -currentHost write -g "com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.${keyboard_id}0" '(
{
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst = 2;
HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc = 0;
})'
Only problem that it doesn't seem to take any effect... :(
I'll update if it I get it to work.
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Q: Can user accounts be managed via the command line? Is there any way to add, remove, or modify user accounts via the command line? I'm not talking about an account for a system process or daemon, I mean is there any way to add a user account, change, user real names, icons, FileVault protection, Admin/normal/limited user status, and basically do everything else that can be done in the System Preferences Users preference pane, but via some command line utility?
A: Solution by @Infamy seems to be for 10.5.
On OS X 10.6 each line needs to be changed to look like the following:
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/addusername
That is, replace / by localhost, prepend /Local/Default to /Users and invoke the entire command with sudo.
A: To create an account in the Users folder
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli
Create and set the shell property to bash.
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli UserShell /bin/bash
Create and set the user’s full name. (Displayed in some of the panels/login screen)
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli RealName "Added From Cli"
Create and set the user’s ID. (this is the unique id, you need to find out what id your last user create was and add one)
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli UniqueID 503
Create and set the user’s group ID property. (This can be your default group)
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli PrimaryGroupID 1000
Create and set the user home directory.
dscl / -create /Users/addfromcli NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/addfromcli
Set the password. (dont use password as a password)
dscl / -passwd /Users/addfromcli PASSWORD
Some more details can be found on OS X Daily
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Q: Is there a good replacement for the Dock?
What are the best dock replacements?
It's frustrating to keep track of
windows in the dock unless they're
minimized. For instance, I often have
10-15 separate PDF documents open.
It's a mess to keep track of them on
the dock.
-- Harry Gindi
A: A quasi-replacement worth considering is Quicksilver (download: https://qsapp.com/ and guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4), used by a large number of devout users.
Though, that it depends on what you're looking to replace: access to apps, documents, tasks etc? It should work great. If you want something that looks vaguely like a dock/taskbar/GNOME panel, it won't replace that.
A: http://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar
I was impressed with this. It is the closest thing to a task bar replacement I found. Some of its behavior annoyed me so I did not purchase it at the end of the trial. You may fare diffently.
The DOCK is rather ill conceived for a variety of reasons, but programs leaving the dock when open is a huge one. Finding open windows is OSX is far more difficult than in Windows. alt-tab > cmd+tab then cmd+~. Seeing the window clearly on the task bar is also nice.
EDIT: I found this forum while looking for a replacement for ubar. I was unable to find one worth a crap. So I ended up buying Ubar, even tho it has some issues. Even with its issues it is better than the dock. The dock is a common complaint for windows users; this isnt a case of stubborn users rejecting change or a different way of doing things. This is a case of the taskbar really being the better way fulfill these functions.
A: HyperDock gives you window previews for each running app in the dock, which helps tremendously.
A: Ubar is very nice. But I don't think it's a dock replacement. Because for me a big job of the dock is the list of icons for my commonly used apps. As far as I can tell, uBar doesn't do that...@Edward
A: I'm an ActiveDock developer, the application is actively developing, version 2 is now available
https://noteifyapp.com/activedock/
A: System Preferences->Dock: set "minimize windows into application icon".
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Q: How can I change the keyboard shortcut key to open Quicksilver? Fyi.. I searched Apple.SE and didn't found an answer, so I am posting here.
Currently I open Quicksilver by Ctrl + Shift + spacebar. And my Spotlight preference is Cmd + spacebar.
Most of the time I use Quicksilver, I would like to change this. I know how to change this for spotlight, but not sure for QS.
UPDATE:
Now I am able to see the preferences screen with some menu's and here is the screenshot. Am I running very old build/ version ?
A: Open QuickSilver, and press ⌘+, to access Preferences.
Go to the Command tab and change HotKey Actionvation to the shortcut you want to use.
If the command you want to set is the same as the Spotlight one, you'll first have to change the Spotlight shortcut.
A: I would try upgrading your version. Mine is currently at ß58 (3841).
If after upgrading you're still having issues, I would remove the app and all related files/folders and reinstall.
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Q: Do iOS apps crash regularly? Is this normal? I've been having some trouble with one of the third-party apps on my iPod Touch 4gen, and realized that a lot of apps I use (which isn't many) have been spontaneously exiting, recently. Safari and Youtube both did this a few times today.
Is this normal? iOS apps tend to go back to what they were doing, so it's not that big a deal, but perhaps it's indicative of some hardware or software issue.
I'm using iOS 4.2.1. I don't remember it being quite this bad on 4.1, but that could well just be my imagination.
I looked for crash logs on my computer, but there's been no crash logs created in over a week, even for apps which I know have crashed many times since then. I don't know what that means, if anything.
Should I be concerned? Is there anything I can do? Is there some kind of "is my iPod completely &#@!ed?" diagnostic I should run? I realize this is kind of a vague question.
A: It could be a low memory issue. iOS is supposed to manage memory automatically, but I've found that it's not always perfect. Try quitting every single app and restart the device (hold the power button down for several seconds, then slide to power off, then power on again) to see if that fixes it.
A: Until recently, iOS apps had no automatic memory management mechanism. Thus, developers had to track memory allocations and release them manually. Most developers were good with this. Apple provides tools to check for various kinds of leaks. This is in contrast to Mac apps, that do have semi-automatic memory management via garbage collection.
Some iOS developers did not perform enough testing, or could not find the cause of the leaks, and the App Store checks only for content, not app malfunctions, although of course, if an app is DOA, it is rejected.
With iOS 5, the situation for iOS developers improved. A new memory management system called Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) was introduced. iOS runtime takes care of memory management in app.
Apple provides a handy tool in Xcode to convert apps to make use of ARC.
So, developers now can improve their apps so that the only crashing that happens is with virtual race cars!
A: I browsed on internet and found that app crashing is associated process to low memory and that's why to adjust the processing speed, it simply shuts off the process. Then reboot, refresh and blah blah blah....
I found 2 main causes:
*
*Refreshing rate: I think iOS devices use Dynamic Ram which needs refreshing/rebooting. When we switch on the iOS device. iOS loads and we never shut it off so the OS stays in RAM. Considering this with PC. We boot and OS comes to RAM, we start process and then after using it we shut down. It means every process which was in RAM was sent back to permanent memory with OS as well.
We generally do not shut off the iPad and that's why the OS has a permanent sector in RAM, As the RAM is dynamic it needs to be refreshed but we do not do. Hence it's virtual memory becomes too low and hanging occurs.
*Single tasking device: one process at a time. So earlier devices do hang and applications crash.
Let me know your comments.
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Q: iPhoto and unknown RAW Formats I have a Camera that supports RAW (Panasonic Lumix FZ35), but sadly iPhoto (and Aperture) don't support this format.
Short of reporting Feedback to Apple and hoping for the best, is there any other way to make iPhoto work with this RAW Format, like a "Plugin" that integrates neatly into iPhoto?
I want to avoit having to use Photoshop to edit/convert them to JPG and then put those JPGs into iPhoto.
A: A lot of cameras come with software to convert their RAW files to other formats. If your's comes with conversion then see if it supports regular TIFF.
You might want to look into GIMP, which is a graphic program from the *nix world that runs under X11 on the Macintosh. It's very similar to Photoshop but is free. It has some auto conversion capability and/or might be able to read your camera's RAW files. GraphicConverter might be another option. It's got a long list of formats it supports and converts between.
Converting to JPG changes the file format in ways that make it a lot less flexible. I have my own photography company, and only shoot RAW when I'm doing serious work, because I need the flexibility of non-jpeg. I convert to Photoshop format and do all my manipulation in their format, then save a copy of the final image in Adobe's Photoshop format, then make another copy and save it as JPG, ready for sending to the place that does my prints. RAW and TIFF support better color and greater gamut (light range from dark to light) and you can see the difference after converting to jpeg so I want to avoid the conversion until the last step.
A: Converting to something that isn't RAW means you'll lose data. GIMP and Photoshop are essentially raster image editors so you lose that very useful camera data.
Silkypix is another good alternative for RAW editing and conversion and it supports a huge list of cameras. It is a non-destructive editor so any editing you do leaves the original file unharmed.
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Q: Preview line and half-page scrolling While two-finger scrolling in Preview is nice, it is not very comfortable when slowly reading very long PDFs.
What I've figured out to this point is that I can use space and ⇧+space to move forward and back a page at a time; and ↓ and ↑ arrows to move a couple pixels down.
Is there any way I can set the arrows to move down a line at a time? (Note that with zoomed in document for reading, it takes 3-4 key presses to move down a line)
Or, any way I can set space to move down only half a page?
Maybe there are some other tips for comfortably reading/scrolling long documents?
A: I do not think line or half-page scrolling is possible. I'm not even sure that PDFs have, embedded, a concept of "line". I think that Preview tries to detect that for the purposes of selecting text (major improvements on this from 10.5 to 10.6).
You could set up a program (AppleScript, Automator, etc.), that simulates pressing the down arrow a certain number of times. Now, perhaps you click on the app in the Dock or run it via a keyboard shortcut, or even via a Voice Command, and it will scroll the amount you set it to scroll.
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Q: Ubuntu bootable USB drive does not show up as bootable I tried to make a bootable Ubuntu installation USB drive according to these instructions.
However, when the procedure is finished, the USB drive does not show up in the "Startup Manager", nor does it show up on boot with alt pressed. What could I have missed?
EDIT:
To clear things out; what I want to do is to end up with a dual boot system with MacOSX and Ubuntu 10.10. My CD/DVD drive is kind of dodgy, thats why I want to use an USB drive.
The computer is a MacBook2.1 (Mid 2007) with a C2D 2.16 GHz and 2 GB RAM, native OS is OS X 10.6.5
A: You don’t mention which Mac you have, OS Version or anything like that. It’s as if this question belonged on Ubuntu’s forums :)
In any case, I’m assuming you have some Mac computer and want to install or Boot an operating system other than Windows via BootCamp or the native OS X. In your example you need to boot from Ubuntu.
Turns out your Mac uses EFI instead of the archaic BIOS. So you need a little “helper” program in the boot process to tell the EFI to also look elsewhere.
The steps for installing the tools and the process are perfectly described in the Ubuntu Community Wiki.
Before you go there, bear in mind the following things:
*
*The instructions do not work for new iMacs.
*The instructions are for CD booting (tho you have a link for USB at some point in the document).
*You will need to install rEFIt, I did it on an old Macbook (White) and had zero problems, but the usual warning about “have a backup” applies.
A: If you want to boot from USB you must reformatted your device in a new partition format specific to Intel-based Macs called GUID Partition Table (GPT).
In a Intel-based systems, like the MacBook Pro, you can boot from external USB drives, if drive is formatted appropriately (GPT) and a compatible version of Mac OS X is installed.(like OS X on USB Drive for MacBook Air)
So you can't boot bootable Ubuntu USB by default with your macbook pro because have different Partition table(at least I can't do that).
But I some where read that you can do this if you install rEFIt (you can continue his toturial here)
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Q: iPod Touch 4th Gen dock with AC or USB power and audio out? I have scoured the internet looking for a dock that will allow me to charge an iPod Touch 4th Gen which includes a jack to connect it to an external stereo system.
I understand this can be accomplished with a standard USB charging cable (plugged into a USB-AC converter) and a male-to-male audio cable, but I'd like a classier way of docking the iPod.
A: The Apple Universal Dock provides both a 30 pin connector for charging and/or syncing as well as a 3.5mm audio output jack.
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Q: Terminal issue with export PS1="" So I tried to change the output of my terminal prompt but when I try something like /W it just puts the /W not the path. For example export PS1="/W $ "turns my prompt into "/W $"
A: It needs to be \W, with a backslash.
A: That should be a backslash, not a slash: \W.
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Q: AirPrint in photos app I just tried printing a photo and it cuts off the sides. It's a piece of yet so it's quite important to not cut off the sides. Is there a way to set which part of the photo prints? I ended up taking a screenshot ofthe photo when the UI hid which reduced the quality severely and printed a huge black border around wasting a lot of ink. So is there any way to access printer settings as is traditional on the PC/mac? (Eg choose orientation or greyscale/color)
A: I heard this is 10 times better than the default AirPrint functionality that comes with iOS. It also has tons more useful features. You might want to try the free trial, and see if it works for you!
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/
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Q: ASM for Mac OS X I've been very interested in learning ASM for a long time now and finally decided to get to it.
The problem is I have a MacBook and most of the books teach you based on DOS/Linux or MIPS.
Do you have any good tips for starters in ASM on a Mac OS X?
A: Stackover flow has a good answer on this exact question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5649/x86-assembly-on-a-mac
Basically, XCode includes almost all of what you need for x86 Assembly
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Q: Using select.kqueue() to tell when file is modified in python? How can I use select.kqueue() to find out when a file in a folder has been modified?
A: Found this: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog that seems to be working like a charm!
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Q: Connect to Express over Extreme I have an Airport Extreme as my main router in my house and have recently bought an Airport Express to use as an extender.
This is all now set up and working fine, with the Express bouncing on the internet connection for me to use throughout the house. However sometimes my phone will connect to the Express instead of the Extreme, although the Extreme is closer. Is there a way to selectively choose which router to connect to? The problem is that there is a limit to the number of devices that can connect to the Express, and this limit is being reached every now and then.
A: One way of doing this (like they said in the comments) would be to enable allowed Access control and specifying which devices are allowed to access the express. This is an easy solution if your device's are not going to change a lot :)
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Q: Items in desktop folder to appear on desktop Somehow recently I managed to mess up my Desktop folder so the contents are no longer displayed on the actual desktop. Anybody have any ideas how to get this back? It's not a problem normally since I normally use spotlight, but it'd be nice to have.
Thanks
A: If you don't want to reinstall PathFinder, you can type this command in Terminal.app
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
This will get them back. You might have to log in and out.
A: There is an option in path finder to hide finder's desktop and replace it with a version provided by path finder.
You might want to try reinstalling it and checking its preferences, particularly the general preferences section.
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Q: Is there a presentation mode on mac? When watching a video, or making a presentation, is there an option or a tool to disable all screensaving, energy savings and all? Regardless of if the power is plugged, I'd like to keep the screen fully on.
I know I can manually adjust the settings everytime. But is there a "presentation" mode, in addition to "battery" and "power adapter" modes?
Or a tool to achieve this?
Thanks
A: The best 3rd-party based solution for you is to use Caffeine.
About Caffeine: A tiny program that
puts an icon in the right side of your
menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac
from automatically going to sleep,
dimming the screen or starting screen
savers. Click it again to go back.
Hold down the Command key while
clicking to show the menu.
A: Nothing built-in to the OS, but MarcoPolo can be used to do what you want.
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Q: What software for video editing should a G5 Tower Use? My friend has a G5 Tower and would like to create some music videos for his band. I've looked into Final Cut Pro, but unfortunately the latest version is Intel only.
I assume if we went that route, he would need Final Cut Pro 5?
What are his alternatives? For now it would be safe to say the development would be done as a hobby.
Thanks.
A: iMovie, part of Apple's iLife suite, is an affordable video editing solution for a hobbyist.
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Q: How do I remove CocoaSuite from my Mac? I'm running OS X Snow Leopard & CocoaSuite 1.4.
A: You can try one of the many utilities for removing applications.
For example the free AppCleaner.
A: if you want do it free you can use:
*
*AppCleaner
and if you want to pay a little and gain some extra features use:
*
*CleanApp
*AppZapper
A: Instructions from official CocoaSuite support
To deactivate, delete this folder:
/Library/InputManagers/IMM_Loader
Other files and folders installed that can be deleted (~ stands for your home directory):
/Applications/InputManagersManager.app
~/Library/Application Support/InputManagersManager
~/Library/Application Support/CocoaSuite
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Q: Drag & Drop vs mv - Any difference? Is there a difference between bulk-moving files with Drag & Drop vs mv?
Use case:
Volume External_Drive_A has about 8000 files totalling 9GB. External_Drive_B has 74GB of free space. The desired end result is to move all the files from A to B so that A can be wiped and put to use in another location.
Drag & Drop approach is to open one Finder window for A, another Finder window for B, highlight all the files on A, then command-click-drag them to B.
mv approach is to open a Terminal session and invoke
mkdir /Volumes/External_Drive_B/A_legacy
mv /Volumes/External_Drive_A/* /Volumes/External_Drive/B/A_legacy/
Does Drag & Drop do anything behind-the-scenes in addition to the copy and remove, or is it strictly a thing of Beauty?
Answered by jmlumpkin below:
They differ! Drag & Drop brings the metadata, mv does not. I tested this by adding a phrase to the Spotlight Comments section on a text file's Get Info dialog. When I dragged and dropped the file across volumes, the phrase was present when I invoked Get Info on the destination; but when it used mv, the phrase was missing when I invoked Get Info on the destination.
A: Do not use mv or drag&drop for moving data between volumes.
If anything bad happens during the operation, you will end up with half the data here and half the data there, and it will be hard to figure out where to restart. If this is done over the network, you may not even still have all the data on either volume.
Do a copy (command line or drag&drop), and after that succeeded, delete the source.
A: In earlier versions of the Mac OS, Dragging and Dropping a file was actually closer to the 'ditto' command to retain resource forks, etc.
A: The end result is probably the same, but I would guess that edge cases might be treated differently, also depending on which mv you use (the default in /bin/ or a GNU version in /sw/bin/ from fink, or from macports, etc.)
For example, an OS X alias or resource forks might not be treated properly by the unix toolchain, and there are probably cases where low-level unix file things might not be handled by the OS X drag-and-drop.
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Q: How to automate DropBox startup without logging in I'd like to have DropBox running under multiple user accounts on a Mac, even after a reboot. The Mac auto logs in as one user, not me. How to best achieve this?
A: You'll have to configure Dropbox identically for all users, at least to the extent of "start at login", and "save password/login information". But if you configure it for all the system users, it should work identically no matter who logs in.
A: Create a script and it in /Library/StartupItems? You may also be able to simply drop an alias in that folder.
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Q: Inexpensive AC charger for iPod 3rd gen / 4th gen I have a couple of iPod Touches, a 3rd generation and a 4th generation. I would like to get an AC adaptor so that I can plug them into the wall to charge. The Apple charger is $30, which seems quite expensive to me (the cheapest 3rd-party USB charging units are just a few dollars).
Is there an inexpensive AC charging unit for these iPods? Or am I stuck in the Apple happy place?
As a bonus, I've also got a Garmin Nuvi GPS unit that would be nice to charge with the same device.
A: You should be able to use any USB charger of decent build quality, as long as they follow the USB spec. Emphasis on decent build quality, you get what you pay for sometimes. The Apple charger has the added advantage of working with other Apple plug adapters the MacBooks use, like the travel kit and those longer cords. Plus they look nice ;)
If you're looking for quality-but-thrifty, try finding unused USB ports on other devices, such as the Xbox 360.
A: For really cheap chargers that work try DealExtreme, I have one I used to charge an IPhone.
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Q: What to do with single-picture events in iPhoto? I use iPhoto to manage my pictures. I have, therefore, over several years gained quite a set of Events as iPhoto calls them.
I also have lots of one-off pictures that people send me that I want to keep. Not sure they deserve their own event, though, as the Events page is becoming pretty large.
What is a reasonable way to manage these pictures (and I hope that this questions meets the subjectivity benchmark)? Make a "Single Picture" event? Do pictures even have to be part of events, but if not, how do I find them again?
A: Photos need to be part of events; deleting a photo from an event deletes the photo from your Photo Library (unlike albums where deleting the photo just removes it from the album). If I was you I'd create a 'One-Off' or 'Photos I like' event.
You could create a big event for everything you don't want to be in its own event folder. This should let the Events feature be used for what it's designed for - organising your photos by significant dates. If Events seems like too much hassle then you can just ignore them all together, make your own albums and organise them manually.
Personally I just use events to find photos from 'the picnic' or 'that time we went to the airport', I don't bother organising or sorting my events.
A: Personally, what I do, is make a folder called "Random Pics", and whenever I have single picture events, I just grab them in the Events view and drag them on top of the the "Random Pics" event and it adds the pics to that event and gets rid of the single photo event.
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Q: When re-importing music in iTunes, is there a way to set "Replace Existing" as the default and skip the dialog? I lost a big chunk of my iTunes library due to a disk failure. The database is fine, but the song files are missing. Luckily for me, iTunes will let me reimport the CDs and preserve my existing playlists, play counts, etc. iTunes is set to import automatically on disc insertion, so when I stick a CD in I get this dialog:
One or more of the songs you have selected to import have already been imported. Do you want to replace existing songs and import them again? [Replace Existing] [Cancel] [Don't Replace]
So far so good. The trouble is that my library is hosted on a headless G4 Mini, and it's inconvenient to hit "Replace Existing" every time. Even if I connect a monitor and keyboard, the dialog takes a little while to come up, and I'd like to just swap CDs in and out whenever I walk through the living room. There's a few hundred CDs to re-import so I don't want to babysit the process.
I thought about writing an AppleScript to push "Replace Existing" for me, but there doesn't seem to be a way to wait on dialog events. I looked around the iTunes prefs files, etc., for some "always replace existing" option, but no luck.
I figure this is a long shot, but does anyone have any ideas on how to skip the "Replace Existing" dialog or otherwise make this process go more smoothly?
A: If you have enough disk space, maybe you can import the CDs into a new iTunes library, and when it is all done, import again (in one go) from there into the real one?
A: tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
repeat
-- say "Checking for Dialog Box"
try
click button "Replace Existing" of window 1
-- say "Clicked Replace Existing. CD import can now proceed."
on error
-- say "No Dialog Box Found. Will retry in 10 seconds"
end try
-- say "Good Grief"
delay 10
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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Q: How to delete duplicate photos from an iPhoto event? I did a stupid thing with one Event in iPhoto library. I thought of making a copy of this Event, and I did use the menu duplicate.
Instead of creating another copy of event, it did copies of all the photos inside the existing event. (new to iPhoto usage ;-))
So the big task I have is to delete the possible duplicates of 350 photos. Is there any tool/ option in iPhoto/ apple script etc.. to accomplish task ?
A: Just because there are duplicates within iPhoto, doesn't mean that iPhoto actually has duplicated the file. Navigate to ~/Pictures/. Right-click on iPhoto Library, show package contents. Find your event within Originals/<year>/<event name>. Backup the directory. Remove the event from iPhoto - I don't know if this removes the actual folder or not, that's why I suggested backing it up first. Re-add it. Voila.
Let me know if it has actually duplicated the files. I know of a great duplicate removal app, but it's not free.
A:
mkdir ~/.Trash/iPhoto-Originals
cd ~/"Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified/"
find . -type f -exec mv "../Originals/{}" ~/.Trash/iPhoto-Originals/ \;
http://osxmactips.blogspot.com/2009/01/delete-duplicate-iphoto-photos.html
A: I wrote a $7 app called Duplifinder that finds and shows duplicates in your iPhoto Library:
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/
You can view the sets of duplicates, double-click to locate a photo in iPhoto, press Delete to delete a photo from iPhoto. Or just push "Move all duplicates to iPhoto Trash" to clean up.
If you have any questions about it please email me at support@haystacksoftware.com.
- Stefan
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Q: Music Tracker Software allowing Keyboard Input for Playing Piano I'm looking for a piece of software that is a tracking studio, that allows you to use your keyboard to perform at least piano parts, or at best, any instrument.
Needless to say I mean keyboard as in my QWERTY keyboard I'm typing into right now. MIDI support is optional, but probably already there on any piece of software like this.
I've used LMMS in the past, which (aside from the hard coded AZERTY input method) was a wonderfully simple program that offered plenty of high-end VSTs and features to grow into.
A: You have this in GarageBand. Keyboard mapping.
If you decide, one day, to link a midi keayboard, the only thing you need is the Midi to USB cable. Nothing else.
A: Give Renoise a try — it's keyboard-centric, and supports VST and AU.
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Q: Why is the input level of the external mic so low? I try to use an external mic to make some audio recordings. But the level of the input is really low ! In fact, the internal build-in mac has a better input level than the external one that is closer to my mouth !
Did I miss something about audio recording ?
A: Microphones are hooked up to a pre-amp to boost the signal before recording. The internal microphone on the Mac probably has a built-in pre-amp while the external jack doesn't. Typically external mikes are connected to a sound or mixing board before hooking up to a computer.
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Q: iPhone data usage broken down by app My iPhone 4 data usage suddenly spiked. From using 30-40% of my monthly allowance in the average month (3-400Mb out of a allowed 1Gb), recently I used 175% (1.75Gb) in a single day.
I have to assume that they numbers from my carrier are more or less correct. The figure shown in Settings > General > Usage more or less tallies with their report.
There are a few apps (DataMon, etc.) which will monitor usage as a whole, but I'd like an app which can break down my usage by which app is consuming the data. (Ideally 3G vs Wifi too.)
Does anything like this exist - or can it even exist? My iOS coding skillz are not strong, and I can't think how I could do this, but that certainly does not mean that no-one else can.
NB. I'm not too concerned about challenging the figure, I trust it to be reasonably correct based on past performance, but I'd quite like to be able to monitor the apps and decommission those which seem to be using a disproportionate amount.
A: I know this doesn't answer the question specifically, but are you sure you are on wi-fi when its available and not just solely on 3G? I've made that switch in the past and forgotten to go back. Also, have you installed any apps recently around the time the spike occrured?
A: Onavo (available via iTunes) is a great app to monitor and breakdown your usages, it displays data usage by app and compressed data over 3G.
EDIT: The primary goal of this app is to reduce data volume by routing all traffic through Onavo's servers and compressing the data between the phone and the server. Depending on your privacy needs this may not be acceptable for you.
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Q: Apple TV subtitles How can I find out if (and what languages) subtitles are included in Apple TV movies before i buy it?
A: Is this for translation or closed-captioning purposes? The languages a movie supports should be listed in iTunes, and all of the movies should (but might not) have closed-captioning for those with disabilities.
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Q: NeoOffice extremely slow in Mac OS X 10.6.5 I've installed the latest version of NeoOffice 3.2.1 on my May, 2010 2.66 GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.5 (8.0 GB RAM).
Regardless of what I do, whether its Writer, Calc, or Impress, the application's response has been extremely "laggy", (i.e. the exact opposite of snappy...can't think of a good word for it). It always takes close to a second before anything responds to a mouse click, and moving/resizing images is a pain also because the response is so slow.
Question: Is this typical OpenOffice.org/NeoOffice behavior in Mac OS X? Or is there a way to optimise its performance? I doubt it's my hardware being insufficient!
A: I would also take a look at LibreOffice, which is the more open fork of OpenOffice, having used OpenOffice and NeoOffice, LibreOffice is cleaner on OS X then OpenOffice, and does not suffer from the slowness that seems to plague NeoOffice.
A: I do not agree with any of the opinions provided here regarding NeoOffice.
I have used NeoOffice for eight years, as each new version came out. Today I also use OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and I can tell you from my experience that NeoOffice is in no way inferior to those other programs.
I find NeoOffice to be faster than OpenOffice.org (which has all but been discontinued in its development) and LibreOffice. NeoOffice's strength is that it is better integrated into Mac OS X than either OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. It feels more "Mac-like" and uses Mac features, such as the system-wide spell check and Services in some cases. NeoOffice is quirky in places, but the full release version of NeoOffice is not buggy. It is quite stable. Of course if you are working with a beta version of any program, you can expect bugs. I'm using NeoOffice 3.2.1 beta right now myself.
Furthermore, the latest version in beta, 3.2.1, removes much of the deprecated code and replaces it with more up-to-date methods.
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Mac_OS_X_Upgrade_Issues
NeoOffice developers have reimplemented all of the text layout code
using the "CoreText" functions in NeoOffice 3.2 Beta.
I am upset with the tone of many comments made here. Several people who admit to never having actually used NeoOffice have condemned it as being buggy or inferior and say "Why not use something else?".
Why do other posters spread slander and gossip about a program they have no direct experience with? It would be better for you not to post at all if you admit that you don't know what you are talking about.
A: There is a specific reason that NeoOffice, for several years, hung on to deprecated code. This is that NeoOffice was, for several years, the only fork of OpenOffice.org that would run on PowerPC Macs as well as Intel Macs. OpenOffice for Mac, since its first version for Mac, would only run on Intel Macs, so the developers of NeoOffice deliberately back-ported the OpenOffice code to provide NeoOffice to users that still had PowerPC Macs. This was a valuable service to those users.
Therefore compatibility with PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 was a design decision aimed at providing G3, G4 and G5 Mac owners a free office suite. It was the only such program available for that hardware.
It is only in 2011, with version 3.2 and higher, that NeoOffice is being developed more strictly with Intel Macs in mind, on the understanding that today there are very few users who still rely on PowerPC Macs.
A: NeoOffice works ok, but it uses certain technology that is deprecated by Apple. I was trying to find out about that, when I realized that it’s in the front page of NeoOffice. It’s kind of they know that their Java Implementation is using older (and deprecated) APIs…
In any case, here’s the neowiki entry about NeoOffice potential problems with Lion, which describes the three deprecated services being used.
TL;DR Version: They don’t use NSPasteboard and CoreText… this is fail. And of course the future of Java in OS X is, although “guaranteed to exist”, uncertain in compatibility levels. Write Once, Cry Everywhere™. ;)
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Q: Passing selected folder path to custom Service executing AppleScript I have a custom Service I created in Automator. Right now, the service shows up in my context (right-click) menu, when right-clicking on any folder. In Automator, I added the Run AppleScript action, to execute this code:
on run {input, parameters}
do shell script "/usr/bin/find ./ -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print"
return input
end run
My objective is to delete all .DS_Store files in the selected folder (and all folders within it). I normally do this in Terminal by executing /usr/bin/find /path-to-folder -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print, but I would love to get this to work from my custom Service.
I'm thinking I need to pass the selected folders path to the AppleScript function (through input perhaps?), but I have no idea how, nor do I see any actions in Automator to pass this. I'm using OS X 10.6.5. Any ideas or suggestions?
A: At the top of the screen, above your action, there should be a list-box that says Service receives selected <text> in <any application>. Changing <text> to folders should give you the folders as input.
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Q: How to change AppleScript path to a Terminal-style path? I have a custom Service that I've created in Automater (I'm on OS X 10.6.5). The Service executes an AppleScript which in turn executes a shell script. Here is the AppleScript:
on run {input, parameters}
-- do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & input & " -type f -name .DS_Store -delete -print"
display alert "Path: " & input
end run
The problem is, the path passed by the Service (in the variable input) looks like:
Macintosh HD:Users:Matthew:Documents:Programming:Apple Scripts:
And for the command to execute properly, the path needs to look like:
Macintosh\ HD/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple\ Scripts/
So, is there a way to translate the first path to the second path? I was hoping for a core function which handles this. But I suppose some kind of regex/find/replace/etc would work? I'm familiar with HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP, not with Cocoa/AppleScript/C. Any direction or suggestions would be great!
A: Use quoted form of the POSIX path of input. Without the quoted form of part, it won't handle funny characters (like spaces) in filenames correctly. See this Apple technote.
A: Ok...this was easier than I had realized. After some Googling, it looks like what I need here is the POSIX path of command. This converts a given path to a Unix style path, which is the type of path you would see/use in Terminal. So:
POSIX path of input
Gives me a path like:
/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/
It seems to take into account that you just need a / at the beginning of the path, rather than the hard drive name. It does not, however, escape \ spaces (or handle special characters) in the path. So, as the other answer here mentions, you need to place the path in quotes ( " or ' ) in order for those spaces (or special characters) to be interpreted literally. You accomplish this by using quoted form of. Here it is:
quoted form of the POSIX path of the input
-- gives a path like: '/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/'
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Q: will running Google Latitude (or any similar app) in the background significantly affect battery life? I have installed Google Latitude and am wondering how much quicker my battery will run flat? I know the way Apple implemented its "mutitasking" framework minimises the impact?
A: Specifically, the Latitude app (and other background location-updating apps) register themselves for location updates "on significant location change".
How the phone knows the location has changed significantly is when the phone does a cell tower handoff. It's moved enough that it's out of range of the tower it was talking to and its service is handed to the next tower. At that time, if any apps are registered for location updates, the phone fires up its GPS, gets its coordinates, and feeds them to those apps. Those apps then get to do a LITTLE work with what they were told.
When iOS 4 came out, I wrote a little app to play with this API. Basically it just sat in the background and recorded lat/lng for every update it got. Between my office and my house (like 10 miles) it got eight or nine sets of coordinates.
That means eight or nine times (call it once a mile or so) that the phone has to fire up the GPS chip, listen for signals from outer space, and do something with them. That obviously takes up more electricity than if it didn't have to do that.
Is it MUCH more? You know what? Not really. I charge my phone when it needs it (rather than, say, nightly), and I didn't notice it needing it more than usual when my little app was running. So my guess is that Latitude won't be a major battery suck. But it'll definitely suck some.
A: Yes, any app that runs in the background needs some attention from the CPU, and this costs battery power. Further, if the app needs GPS and/or 3G service or other battery-intensive services, then of course the battery will deplete even faster.
But depending on your situation and circumstances, this can be a trade-off that's worth it, especially if you only need to do this for shorter periods of time.
A: Due to the way multitasking is done in iOS 4, Apple tried to implement it in a way to reduce this as much as possible. For example, with the latitude app, it can only poll and post location information at certain intervals.
So, yes, any background app actually working (like GPS or Upload type apps) will use a little more resources than a phone not running them.
But, if one were to run this type of app fully in the background (for example, how some jailbroken apps do), it would be using a significant amount more of power.
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Q: Are there any free alternatives to finder? Relatively new to the Mac world, I still find the 'Finder' not really that user friendly.
What free alternatives to Finder exist?
*I mean really file browsers, not application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy etc..
A: muCommander is a free Finder alternative, if that type of application suites you. (Dual-pane Norton Commander like).
A: I don't know the good free alternatives, but PathFinder is the best file manager I have ever used, and probably one of the best desktop apps I've ever used. The features I use most
*
*Bookmarks and multiple tabs
*Multiple panes
*Side panes with folder shortcuts
*Drop stack
Most importantly, it's not clunky (relatively) and is very reliable. It was worth every cent I paid for it.
A: Here's some free alternatives
Xfolders and MuCommander are free.
A: Another free alternative is xtrafinder http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
A: Moroshka file manager (free) - in beta, however, but it may suit your needs:
I have not yet used it, so offered under advisement (no reflection on product, though!)
A: Finder uses spaces and sub-spaces to organize our information. An alternative or a complementarity would be the use of TIME to organize our information. Here is a video presentation : hipSpace
Edit: ok, I am the developer of hipSpace, but my app really answers to that question. Just "Save as…" your files in the "hipSpace" folder, that all ! When there are too much files in the space, Release them. It will be easy to retrieve them using the Time navigation (rather than the space navigation of the Finder).
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Q: How do I download photos from my iPhone? I find it very complicated to move photos taken with my iPhone into my pc's photo library.
I used to take photos with a compact camera, and pc applications could very easily import the photos because the compact camera shows up as a USB disk -- this way, importing photos was almost a one-click process!
But the iPhone doesn't show up as a disk, and that makes it very messy. I've tried to sync using iTunes, but syncing is not what I want to achieve. I want to move the pics away from the iPhone! I've tried moving them using iFunBox, and while that works, it creates the problem that all photos to get a new timestamp which ruins my photo library.
Question:
How can I easily move photos and videos from iPhone to PC without using iTunes syncing, and keeping the files' original timestamps?
Clarifications:
I'm using Windows 7, and the phone is already jailbroken. I'm looking for a solution that will allow Windows to see the phone's native file system as a normal USB drive from which I can import the pics&vids using a Windows program -- or any other solution that comes as close as possible to this.
Update:
Based on the solutions so far it is clear that extra pc applications won't help. What I need instead is some way of getting the damn phone to present itself to Windows using a drive letter, just like any other disk resource or compact camera does.
This is a good example where I think Apple is being too restrictive with their products; if people want access, then let them have it. If they break it, it's their problem. That's what backups are for. "It just works" only works if you stick by Apple's intended use, and that doesn't include Windows drive letters.
A: When I connect my iPhone to a Windows machine, it does appear as a digital camera and allows me to copy files from the DCIM folder or to use the "Import Pictures" option from Windows.
I just tried this in a Windows 7 VM and was able to view all the pictures in my Camera Roll.
From there, I could drag and drop pictures to my desktop.
I don't have iTunes installed in the Windows 7 VM.
It works the same way in my Windows XP machine, at work. There it is a physical machine and I have iTunes installed, but I can copy the pictures from the iPhone without syncing, anyway.
A: What about this solution?
With the plug-in you can manage music, videos, podcasts and photos for your iPod. You can >add all those files to your iPod, delete and organize them into playlists as well as smart >playlists.
Install WinAmp + mliPod on your computer
To manage your iPod you need two
files, WinAmp itself and the above
mentioned plug-in mliPod.
Download
directly from WinAmp
Download mliPod
A: Creation and modification dates in the Finder or in Windows are never completely reliable as they can be changed by almost anything (as you have noticed). The photos have the real time stamps held internally in the files themselves and any image management software should be going by those, not by what you see in the OS' file system,
Applications like iFunBox on Windows and Image Capture on the Mac to manage file downloads from devices are really the only alternatives to iTunes or iLife.
UPDATE: Do not jailbreak your iPhone. It's usually unnecessary and it voids your warranty. One viable option is to look at PhoneView which offers a disk mode. You don't say what platform you're on, but I've used that in the past on my Mac before I purchased iLife.
I think no matter what, the creation and modification dates in the OS are going to be problematic for you because the files will be new to the OS.
A: Have you seen the free app, WiFi Photo Transfer?
Not sure about timestamps on video, but it's great for quickly grabbing photos and video off your iOS device. Especially since it will zip up photos.
A: I think you can do this by using Diskaid - http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid
It works for Win7 and for both jailbroken and non-j... phones.
You could also give Sharepod at getsharepod.com a try.
A: Here's how I fixed it in Windows 7:
* Press the Windows Start Button
* Select Devices and Printers
* Find the Apple iPhone icon (for me it was under Unspecified)
* Right-click
* Select Troubleshoot
That fixed it and then I was able to browse the phone like a regular drive
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Q: Tools or scripts for tracking a stolen or lost Mac? Actually I do use the prey project but was wondering about other tools or scripts one could use to find back information about a lost/stolen Mac.
With features like:
-Getting the ip address or any other localization information.
-Triggering the webcam remotely.
-Protect/destroy personal files remotely
A: One of the more popular ones is Lojack, a pretty well-respected software program for both Mac and Windows.
A: Take a look at Undercover: it does all that you need, and more (simulating hardware failure, etc.).
Their recovery stories section is quite encouraging, too.
A: If you are comfortable writing your own script, it is very easy to make a LaunchAgent that uses curl to check for a file on a site you maintain. Web logs now show you the IP. If you put commands in that file, the script on the computer can take action based on those commands.
isightcapture can be used to take images from the camera, and screencapture of the desktop (showing email accounts of the unauthorized users).
And of course DropBox. If you keep your important documents there, then you can easily delete them. If you want to transfer images from iSight or screencapture off, you can do so. If you want to transfer images on, or upload scripts that a local agent will run, etc, you can do all that very easily.
MarcoPolo could be used to take a screenshot and an iSight image each and every time the computer wakes up or changes network, and email those images (along with IP) to an email account, which you only need to check if you don't know where or who is using the laptop.
A: I'll throw a couple more track-spy-recover products into the list: BAK2u's Phoenix Anti-theft and GadgetTrak. I have no experience with either, so you'll have to make your own judgements.
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Q: Front Row and iTunes "watched" flags out of sync The watched flag and playback positions in Front Row are no longer in sync with iTunes. Is there any way to resynchronize them?
If it matters, I would rather iTunes' positions replace Front Row's.
These two questions on Apple Support were not useful.
The Cause
I recently crashed, presumably while iTunes was writing the iTunes Library and upon restart, it was "imported", with the damaged copy saved elsewhere. I still have the same iTunes Library identifier because my iPod and iPad sync as usual (rather than complaining that they're synced with another library as happens when you delete and rebuild iTunes Library.xml).
A: I cannot help with your original question, but you may be interested to know that Front Row was quietly removed from Lion, so if you have any imminent plans to upgrade, then it may be worth bearing in mind that you could be wasting your time trying to fix this.
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Q: Connecting a MacBook Pro to a Windows ad hoc network I'm trying to share my wired ethernet connection from my Windows 7 laptop with my MacBook Pro (running 10.6.5). I've just set it up to be an open network; no encryption. I'm pretty sure I set up the ad hoc network correctly, it's broadcasting, and I can connect to the network on the mac.
The catch is that the network shows up under the "Devices" part of the menu, rather than the main networks area. I can't browse to any websites, nor connect to the Windows box via samba. The IP assigned is a 169.254 one.
Is there some setting somewhere that I missed to get this to work correctly? Do I need to manually set this up some how? Here are my network settings:
A: You've set up the connection correctly, but it looks like you haven't set the Windows machine to allow other computers on the ad-hoc network to access the internet. Here are the steps you need (shamelessly taken from this blog post):
Note: I assume that you have ensured that the Windows machine is connected to the internet through some non-wireless method. If not, you definitely need to do that first, otherwise there's nothing to share.
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*Click on the Windows icon, and type View network connections and press enter.
*Identify the wired internet connection and the wireless card. Locate the wired internet connection and right click on it. Select Properties.
*Click on the Sharing tab. Make sure the box Allow other users to connect through this computer's internet connection is checked.
A: For anyone else having this problem, I would recommend an application like Connectify (free and paid versions available).
I had a similar problem connecting both an iPod Touch and a Nokia WLAN capable cell phone to a Ad-hoc network from a Windows 7 laptop. After installing and setting up Connectify in Access Point I was able to connect successfully with the iPod Touch. (The Nokia could now at least see the network, but connection failed.)
Some alternatives to Connectify:
http://alternativeto.net/software/connectify/
A: If your ad hoc address is 192.168.137.1 you should set macbook's ip to 192.168.137.2 or some address like that manually (between 192.168.137.2 and 192.168.137.254) because it is an ad hoc network with no DHCP server. Set router ip to ad hoc's ip: 192.168.137.1.
A: Go to system preferences > network > advanced > TCP/IP tab > on configure IPv4 dropdown click on Manually and set IPv4 address to 192.168.X.X and that will help you connect to internet.
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Q: How can I get my microphone to work on Windows 7 and Boot Camp 2.0? I'm on windows 7 with bootcamp with a bit older iMac. I installed the bootcamp stuff from my Leopard DVD and I updated my bootcamp to 2.0. with Apple Software Update but the Microphone is still not working.
How should I make the microphone work?
A: Are you sure you have all the bootcamp drivers installed on the PC side of things?
Also, what type of microphone is it? Are there updated drivers for it?
Is Windows even recognizing a device is attached? Can you choose it and tell it to find the newest drivers?
EDIT:
Go to ControlPanel > SoundAndAudioDevices and click the 'Voice' tab. Make sure the 'Voice recording' device is correctly selected and click the 'Test hardware' button. You should be able to adjust the record volume. (One possible extra step: have to go to "advanced" and check-mark a box for "boost mic.")
I then determined to try the microphone with headphones on. Sound comes through crystal clear to other people with them on. I don't understand why, but just know that it works fine now. So try some headphones for a temporary fix.
If none of this works for you, it seems that there is no fix for this issue yet and it will have to take another update to the Windows Bootcamp drivers for this issue to be resolved.
A: Having looked around a long time for answer to this question, I finally sorted mine out today. I have an iMac 27 inch (2013) running Windows 7 64-bit, through Boot Camp. I have put up with using a headset microphone for a long as I can remember.
My solution today turned out to be stupidly simple. Go to Control Panel, Sound. Open the "Recording" tab. If you've got a headset connected, and you've got this problem, then I would assume the only thing you would see immediately is "Headset Microphone".
Now right click in the box and you should find an option which says "show disabled devices". When I selected that, my on-board microphone showed up as disabled, but at least I finally had an icon for it. Then it's a matter of right clicking on the disabled microphone (icon), select Properties and near the bottom of that screen there is an options box, which should include "Use this device (enable)". Selecting that option brought it all to life.
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Q: Kingston SV100S2/128G on MacBookPro 6,2 (late 2010) issue
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*I just upgraded the harddrive with the Kingston SSD (100V series), did restore with Time Machine, immediately noticed the battery doesn't seem to play nice, it charges, but the time estimate is quite off. On a 100% full charge, it shows it can run shy of 3 hours, with the computer doing nothing. Another thing is it seems the battery drain is crazy fast.
Does anyone else have the same/similar issue?
another thing is, I am running Snow Leopard, and Trim support says "no", but it is supported on my drive. is that normal?
A: OS X doesn’t support the TRIM command (which is usually tied with the OS and an NTFS volume), however, a few benchmarking have apparently reach the conclusion that OS X’s performance with an SSD drive is not affected like it was in Windows (with TRIM Disabled).
In other words, Windows without TRIM suffered massive performance degradation over time. With TRIM, Windows did well.
OS X, on the other hand, having no TRIM support, didn’t suffer the performance degradation in the first place. The interesting article can be found here at bit-tech.net.
TLDR Version (and I quote):
While we know SSD performance is affected by the OS - after all, you need Windows 7 for TRIM support - but for OS X not to suffer from performance degradation when it's using an SSD seeming stunning to the point of being difficult to believe.
(Emphasis added)
TRIM aside, your battery problem might be mitigated by a few things and there are a few recommendations about how to make it work better under OS X.
The original article is a blog post found here which I suggest you read for more detailed information.
In short:
*
*Modify Sleeping mode so it doesn’t save the content of RAM to drive when closing the lid (if you do this and remove the battery while in sleep, you lose the ram contents and will have to restart your computer).
*Hard Drive Sleep: turn it off, SSD has no reason to go to sleep.
*Sudden Motion Sensor: You can also disable this, an SSD has no moving mechanical parts that may be affected in case of a sudden impact.
*Enable noatime for SSD filesystems. This will make the SSD write less info. (If you’re using FileVault make sure you read the article)
*Spotlight: The article suggests disabling it if you don’t use it, but I wouldn’t do that.
On top of all that, I recommend you do a few things:
*
*Check this question and answers on this site about how to identify possible CPU processes that may be hogging your CPU and therefore eating your battery life.
*Perform a full battery cycle charge. All the relevant information is in Apple’s Battery Page, which is linked in this question on this site too, with some more interesting links you might want to follow.
To address your question, it shouldn’t happen, as SSDs are usually more energy efficient than mechanical drives. I bet either spotlight or time machine are doing some work and draining your battery life.
Try starting your machine in safe mode (hint: press ⇧ shift after the chime) and monitor your battery life there. Don’t forget to perform the battery tips before doing that.
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Q: Why does Safari cache old pages on iPhone even after you've downloaded the new page? This may be a problem specific to Reddit.com, but I find that if I follow a link to another site on mobile safari and hit back, that only part of the time will I see the latest copy of the page. A lot of times, I'll see a copy of the page from weeks ago that mobile Safari has cached for some reason.
For clarity this is what happens:
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*I visit reddit on March 1st in mobile Safari, click some links, everything works.
*Later I visit reddit on March 3rd and I see the March 3rd homepage.
*I click a link to visit another site off of reddit, and then click back to go back to reddit.com
*I see the March 1st copy of reddit.com
A: I would imagine this has something to do with Core Data, memory warnings, or both. If Apple is using its own kit, then it is saving the cache in a Core Data store, which is, essentially, an unordered set. My theory is that when you go to a site, Safari is going to the Core Data store and grabbing the first instance of the URL in question if it exists, which can be old, new, whatever. But since I also don't think that Apple would be nearly that sloppy, I'd say that every page attempts to cache, but the amount of data required to properly cache a site is beholden to memory warnings, which you, as the user, should never, ever see, only this time the newer page simply doesn't get cached and that's why you get random older pages in view.
Okay, that was a bit technical. In short, I think Safari attempts to maintain a clean cache, but memory limitations of the device don't always allow that to happen.
A: I'm having the same problem. If you goto Settings>Safari>Clear Cache it fixes it for a week or so.
The page it's happening to me on is http://www.google.com/m/ig which is my homepage in Safari I use for reading latest news and such.
Also, Philip mentioned that it may be a memory problem, which may be the case on iOS4 but on my 3GS with iOS3, I never had memory problems and animations and such were excellent. I believe iOS4 is very bad at memory/application management in comparison.
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Q: In OS X, I want to change to a non-standard keyboard shortcut for switching spaces In System Preferences > Expose and Spaces > Spaces Tab > to switch between spaces, there is a drop down list that allows you to select a modifier key and the arrows. The arrows are so far away from the rest of the keyboard! I want to bind to the vim keys (h, j, k, l) for (left, down, up, and right). On my Ubuntu machine, I push the equivalent of command-option-j to go down a space. Does anyone know how to change to a non-standard keyboard shortcut on OS X?
(I ran across a post that details how to change the modifiers, but still uses the arrow keys. This is not what I'm trying to do. Custom keyboard shortcuts to change active Spaces desktop)
A: Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Then, on the left side, select Exposé & Spaces. On the right side you will see the current keyboard shortcuts for Exposé and Spaces. If you double click on the shortcut command (literally double click ^1 for instance) you will be able to change this to whatever you want. Just do the key-combo you want to use.
So, once you double-click on the shortcut, it'll show it as editable. Then, press the keys you want the short cut to be, all at once, for instance press Apple and J at the same time, and it'll change the shortcut.
A: I think matthepavkov has your answer, but also check out KeyRemap4MacBook for it's vi modes.
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Q: In Activity Monitor, how can Swap Used be more than Page Outs? I am trying to understand the relationship between Page Outs and Swap Used as displayed in Activity Monitor. Currently, Activity Monitor shows:
Page outs: 1.6 MB
Swap used: 8.1 MB
How can there be more swap used than the amount paged out?
A: My understanding is this:
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*Program needs access to some data. Attempts to do so, and fails, due to lack of RAM.
*OS takes control. There is a page-out operation, where physical RAM is copied to swap.
*There is a page-in operation, where the required data is copied to RAM.
*OS gives control back to program.
*Program tries again, finds its data.
OS's are getting smart about how they choose what and when to to page in/out. So the operation counts may not be the same, and the swap space may perhaps be in use without there being page outs.
Unless of course I'm backwards on what a page-in/page-out operation is. In which case your question makes perfect sense.
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Q: How can I group applications? My Applications folder is getting pretty full and I'm starting to lose track of applications. I want to organize them in groups, but I've read that some applications don't properly handle being put inside a folder.
1) What is the truth to this statement? Is there a list of applications with known problems? Is this a thing of the past? Does FileVault have anything to do with it? (I have FileVault turned on)
2) What alternatives do I have? How do you group your applications?
I'm currently considering making some other folder in my home directory (maybe "Shortcuts"), with subfolders for groups, and inside of those subfolders making symlinks to applications in the /Applications directory. Then I would drag my Applications folder off my dock and replace it with the Shortcuts folder. Do you see anything wrong with that?
Is there any mechanism built into Snow Leopard for grouping applications?
A: A little off-topic, but I hardly ever launch Applications from the Finder.
They are either in the Dock, or you can get to them with Spotlight (or your favorite alternative app launcher).
A: 1) The pre-installed Apple applications generally won't get updated by Software Update if they are moved. The Developer applications won't work properly if moved. I honestly haven't tried complex installs like Photoshop to see if they can be moved. But most applications that you download from a website as a zip or dmg can be installed where ever you like -- I tend to create an "Applications" folder in my home folder for those applications
2) I think your suggestion is the recommended one. Note that the typical way to create what Mac OS X calls an "alias" (kind of like a windows shortcut, more like a unix soft link) is to
option+command drag the icon to the destination. You could also have sub-folders in your shortcut folder -- "Games," "Productivity," "Communications."
Once the Mac OS X App Store gets started, I think there will be more options for organizing app store apps.
A: Very few 3rd party apps need to be in /Applications. You can usually tell as they don't look very Mac-ish, or are low-level requiring an installer and a reboot. I haven't seen any drag-and-drop apps that need to be there.
I put everything I install in ~/local/Applications, and I have had zero problems.
If you want further classification/categorization, I think your suggestion of Aliases is the way to go. The advantage here is you can have the app appear in multiple places, for example, VLC could be filed under both an "Audio" and a "Video" folder.
A: If you take your recommended route (basically making aliases to the apps and grouping them by folder), you could then add these folders to your dock, and basically have a folder for each group. Then clicking on one (say you have a group for network stuff like browsers and FTP clients), click on that - which would thing bring up the list for you to click the icon.
A: My answer is as simple as the keystrokes I just used to look something up. (Note: Requires an application launcher such as the built-in Spotlight, or the free Alfred.app)
Cmd + Space, terenter ↩
My terminal is now open and I can proceed to run the commands I wanted to.
Two other favorites are goo / chr for my browser. But that's pretty much always open anyways. And if it isn't, I rarely invoke it directly, more often just by clicking a link.
(Note: for Alfred, the default keystroke is Ctrl+Space instead of Cmd+Space)
A: I use something called "Overflow" (15$) that expands the capacity of the dock.
A: Folders for Applications is coming with Mac OS X Lion. Folders won't be viewed in the Finder, but via Launchpad you can have apps in folders.
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Q: Output 4:3 video on old Apple TV? I have an old Apple TV that I have hooked up to my 4:3 TV, and I would like to have the output from the Apple TV match the ratio of my TV so there isn't any stretching or squishing. It's running the latest firmware 3.0.2.
A: I don't believe it will be 4:3. One of the requirements for ATV was a widescreen TV. I think it always assumes a 16:9 ratio. As @matthewpavkov suggested, best bet would be to get the tele to force the input into 4:3, but it's very model dependant if the tele actually supports that.
Update: I stand corrected, there seems to be a thread related to this exact issue on the MacRumors fourms http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=658621 However, it seems that it stopped working on the 3.x firmware, so there's an even more hacky way of achieving it here. Sounds horrible though! http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=811425
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Q: Dial another phone, access SMS of another phone using IPOD Touch 4 I have an IPOD Touch 4 and i was hoping to convert it to a phone. However in india we don't have VOIP support, but my phone "HTC TOUCH" supports Remote Sim. I am looking for an app which can allow my ipod to control my phone and also enable me to make calls thru my ipod by dialing on my phone. is it possible?
A: Not possibly currently I'm afraid. Certainly, you'd have to have a jailbroken Touch as a starting point. No way you'd be able to do this on a stock iPod Touch. Even then, I'm not aware of anything out there that will do this.
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