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Q: Virtual Box on an non-intel Mac is it possible to install VirtualBox on a non-intel Mac ?
My configuration : G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.8
A: No as VirtualBox does not emulate the CPU but virtualizies it as described by Oracle.
You would need to find Virtual PC or Bochs (I have used both in the past) or others in a list from www.macwindows.com
However now getting an extra second hand intel box might well be the easiest thing to do and would definitely provide the faster solution.
A: No you can't unfortunately. See the first line of the prerequisites on the virtualbox support pages here
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Q: Can Virtual PC use the Boot Camp Windows Partition? Both Parallels and VMWare allow you to set up a virtual machine using your existing Boot Camp partition. Does Virtual PC for mac have a similar feature?
A: No as Virtual PC is form PowerPC macs and not Intel ones.
You will need an intel virtualization product e.g. VirtualBox which is free or Parallels or VMWare
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Q: iPhone Email - How to prevent a datestamp from being turned into a Link to Create an Event I have an email that has something like:
XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa
XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa
XXXX 4:20pm Feb 11 assdaasddsadsa
The iPhone keeps turning 4:20pm Feb 11 into a link to create an event on the iPhone which looks real ugly, dark blue link.
Is there a way to prevent this, and tell iOS to ignore this in the Mail App?
Thanks
A: From my experience no,
Apple is just trying to make your life and the recipients lives easier by using microformats, an in this case the hCalendar version so that they can be understood by other programs {like a calendar app}.
see:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar for a full explanation of the format.
The only way-tat i know of-to solve this would be to jailbreak your iphone and change the style of the formatting [or remove the format altogether].
There is an issue with microformats that you may want to consider if you email blind people, see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/removing_microformats.html
I know that this does not explicitly tell you how to sort this yourself, but I hope that with this knowledge you may just overlook the bad style in favour of the time savings that the hCalendar offers you and others.
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Q: How do I uninstall rEFIt? I installed rEFIt in order to install boot camp via a USB key. Now that Boot Camp is installed, I no longer need rEFIt, so I'm trying to uninstall it.
I followed the uninstall directions for "Removal when using rEFItBlesser", because when I installed it, I ran "rEFIt.mpkg" (i.e. the installer package). I trashed the "efi" folder, and "rEFItBlesser". I restarted the computer twice, and the menu still appears when the computer starts up.
A: It seems that the solution is the same one listed there under "troubleshooting". Initially I was thrown off by the wording used. I thought that "If Mac OS X no longer starts up.." meant OS X didn't start up at all, but what it really means is "If Mac OS X does not start up automatically instead of rEFIt..."
I just followed the directions listed there and now it uses the default boot sequence.
A: Here is a video link that I hope you find helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxq8nLX-Uzw
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Q: Can Parallels and VMware Fusion use the same boot camp volume? I'm planning on installing the trial versions of both Parallels and VMware Fusion to try them both out. I have a Boot Camp partition which I want to use instead of installing another OS. My question is if both of these applications can use the same Boot Camp partition without modifying it; such that both could be installed at the same time without it affecting the other.
Update: I installed the VMware Fusion trial version. In order to enable many of VMware Fusion's features, they require that you install VMware tools on the virtual machine. I'm not sure if its compatible with Parallels or if Parallels has its own software they recommend you install on the virtual machine as well.
A: Yes. The virtual machine creates virtual machine files, the data on the volume is separate from that.
A: I would say no, since both Parallels and Fusion require their respective tools and drivers to be installed on the VM.
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Q: Offline webreader for iPod Touch Do you know of a good app for iPod touch that let's me quickly take a bunch of webpages offline that contain some articles I want to read later when I don't have an internet connection? It would be cool if it could also strip out the noise like ads, navigation, header, footer and leave nothing but the actual article. Also when reading later it should give me as much real estate as possible for the actual content having absolutely no chrome visible just like the kindle app.
A: You're searching for Instapaper
(I don't feel the need to write the features list as you did it already in your question :)
A: I also recommend using Instapaper, as I like their features better.
However a friend of mine enjoys read it later
A: or just take a screen shot...(home button+snooz button)
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Q: Can I get push notifications for emails in my Gmail Priority Inbox only? Is it possible to get push notifications only for the emails in the Gmail Priority Inbox and not for the unimportant mail?
I would like to set up my iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1 so that I get notified (with sound, vibration, etc) only when I receive a mail that Google thinks is important to me.
A: After days of searching I have found the solution. https://www.ultimatenotifier.com/
*
*You have to buy Ultimate Notifier from the AppStore. $2.99 at the moment.
*Create a free account on their site or through the app.
*Login to the web interface on your computer and under Add Notification select Add Gmail / Google Mail - NEW Priority Inbox
*Complete the fields username and password with your Gmail username and password. (I know this is a BIG leap of faith.)
*Save.
*Log in to the app on your iPhone to receive push notifications
A: You can do this with MailMinder on an iPhone. Just set up a Source of Gmail with
the folder set to the Priority Inbox, then set up a Minder with a Subject of ...
This will match any message that has a subject with 3 characters. I know the developer
is planning to have a button to match anything in the next release.
Mail Minder has a free mode if you don't mind ads.
A: Try this:
Install Boxcar on your iPhone. Create a Boxcar forwarding email address. After you created it, add the Boxcar forwarding email address in your GMail Settings under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP".
In your GMail Settings create an new filter. Under the search criteria "Has the words" enter "in:important". Test your new filter by clicking "Test Search". If you get your shown your messages from the Priority inbox, then the filter works.
Now under the "Create a Filter" tab check "Forward it to" to the Boxcar forwarding email address. Now you should get push notification from Priority inbox.
NOTICE: I can't assure you that this will work since I didn't try it.
A: Strictly speaking your question is specifically about gmail because first you have to resolve how to separate messages labeled as important and that labeling is a gmail only feature.
On the iPhone side your best bet to have push notifications for selected messages is to create two accounts. The challenge here is how to forward emails to your second inbox (in wich the boxcar suggested by cahuk is a nice idea).
All that being said there's nothing we can do until google fixes those unexpected filter behaviors.
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Q: If I plug my ipod to another computer's itunes, my musics will be deleted? I'm thinking about use Ubuntu's Rythmbox to synchronize music, but I need the iTunes from my windows to get some apps.
If I plug my ipod to a windows with no musics on it (to get my apps), my musics will be deleted from ipod?
A: In my experience, it asks you. You can say no. However, I'm not sure if this requires Manually Manage Music to be checked in the Summary tab.
As always, make a good backup just in case.
A: I can confirm what Nathan G. reported. I have a computer with Windows, and when I plug my iPod on that computer, it says me it is already synchronized with an iTune library; it asks me if I want to synchronize it with the library present on Windows, warning me that the content of the iPod will be deleted, if I decide to do so.
I didn't select Manually Manage Music in both the computers.
A: Go into the Preferences of iTunes. Under the Devices tab, there is a checkbox for "Prevent iPods and iPhones from syncing automatically". Make sure that option is checked and you are in the clear.
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Q: I may have used Disk Utility to erase my drive - is there hope? I have an external NTFS drive from which I was trying to copy some files to my macbook pro 10.6.6.
I was getting error 36 so with disk utility I clicked on Repair Disk. Now all my data is gone!
What gives and how can I fix it?
By the way I was using Paragon NTFS as well.
Part of the log:
2011-02-12 16:32:56 +0100: $UpCase file is formatted for use in Windows NT/2K/XP
2011-02-12 16:32:56 +0100: Verifying 95756 folders ...
2011-02-12 16:32:57 +0100: Deleting entry "._501" from index 0x1b ".Trashes"
2011-02-12 16:33:30 +0100: Correcting error in index 0x30 ($I30) for file 0x1746d.
2011-02-12 16:36:57 +0100: Creating root directory
2011-02-12 16:36:59 +0100: Inserting empty data to files.
2011-02-12 16:37:00 +0100: Verifying files security...
2011-02-12 16:38:50 +0100: Correcting $MFT bitmap data.
2011-02-12 16:38:51 +0100: Correcting $Bitmap data attribute.
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 94.88 Gb in 569134 files
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 111716 Kb in 95758 directories
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 0 Kb in bad blocks in 0 fragments
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 125388 Kb in use by the system
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 4096 Kb occupied by the log file
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 4096 bytes in each allocation unit
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 61049000 total allocation units on volume
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: 31304981 allocation units available on volume
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100: The volume /dev/disk1s1 has been repaired successfully.
2011-02-12 16:38:53 +0100:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Volume repair complete.2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100: Repair tool completed:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100:
2011-02-12 16:38:57 +0100:
A: Try plugging your drive into different computers (Mac and PC). If you don't see anything, you will probably have to send it to a data recovery service if you don't have a backup.
You can also try software to recover data, like DiskWarrior.
As for why DU erased this when you clicked Repair, I have no idea. Are you sure you didn't click Erase, Reformat, or Repartition?
A: I had the same problem, and I resolved it with the chkdsk.exe on Windows. The drive mounted and I was able to recover my files.
A: Highly recommend Get Data's Recover My Files program. You can scan for lost files for free but must pay to save them. However, it's a LOT cheaper than paying for professional recovery service.
A: Get the hard-drive into an external enclosure. Preferably something with a fast interface, like FW800. Image the drive.
Then get yourself some data rescue software (I like Data Rescue 3 -- but there are many out there), and run your recovery software on the image.
Worst case scenario is you send the hard-drive (that you've manipulated very little since you've been operating from a disk image) to a recovery centre.
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Q: Select all songs as compilations How do I select all songs as compilations in my iTunes. I don't want to modify each song one at a time, I have about 2000 songs.
A: Command+A -> Command+I -> Options -> Part of Compilation -> Yes -> OK
Not sure why you'd want to do this and I didn't test it because I don't want to do this to my library but that should be it.
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Q: What are some reasons to run Windows on a Mac? I'm interested in knowing why one would run Windows on a Mac. I may be required by my school to do so, and I'm curious about potential reasons.
So, what are some of the reasons to run Windows on your Mac?
A: As a professional software developer, I often use various versions of Windows inside VMWare on a Mac. Reasons include:
*
*It's easy to back up the virtual machine, so if it gets malware, I can just snuff and restore it.
*If I need to run a Windows program or utility, it can be a lot quicker to start up one of my virtual machines on an already-running Mac than to start a physical Windows computer
*All of my non-Mac Intel machines are usually already doing something useful running Linux, so I'd have to bring one of those down to run Windows on a physical box.
*Most of my Windows software development is maintenance of legacy code from many years ago, and coding/running/testing it in a virtual machine is often faster than the hardware it was originally developed on.
Also, Intel Macs simply are very high-quality Windows machines- Apple's quality control is the best in the industry. Also, Boot Camp doesn't use the stock drivers from NVidia and so on; Apple has their own team that writes Windows drivers custom-tuned for their specific hardware, and they're really great.
How great?
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*When Apple first started shipping Intel-based MacBooks and MacBook Pros, a lot of Windows magazines had articles like, "The best Windows laptop you can buy is a Mac"
*My wife and a friend are gamers, and my wife's MacBook Pro runs rings around his custom Windows gaming laptop
*When my wife's desktop gaming rig croaked recently, she almost got a Mac Pro to replace it
A: the main reason might be compatibility:
There is a lot of software for MacOS X and you can do nearly everything with a Mac and there is software which is even unique on MacOS X.
On the other hand, there is "standard" software for Windows in some areas e. g.
*
*in engineering
*
*CAD
*CAE and
*simulation software
which does not exist afaik for MacOS X.
Converting and exchange with Mac-based applications might be possible, but for such complex data formats like 3D CAD data there is always some (or much) "loss" by converting from one format to another, so it's sometimes the best if everyone uses the same software and maybe even the same version.
If somebody needs to be compatible to such a software, MacOS X might be only the second (or even 3rd) choice (as UNIX or Linux might be more "compatible"), unfortunately.
A: First of all, I would investigate the reasons behind your school asking you to use Windows. It may just be that they're unaware that a lot of Mac software can handle 'Windows files' such as .doc, .xls, .zip (!). Indeed, there's a ton of open source software such as OpenOffice that works equally well on both platforms.
The reasons I have to boot into Windows (using Boot Camp):
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*To use Windows itself, for learning or understanding the new features.
*Software that just has no Mac or online equivalent. There are very few of these but if you've been using a legacy application such as QuickBooks account software for 5 years, it's hard to move away.
*Internet Explorer, to see its' different behaviour.
*Games
*Weird hardware devices where there's no Mac drivers available. Usually, this is a sign of a poor design decision, but there are some obscure bits of hardware that can be manipulated by Windows by not by Mac.
A: At work, it's usually because the company has some application, maybe in-house developed or maybe bulk licensed, that's Windows only. Or the company uses some web service that is only certified to run on MSIE, not Safari (et.al.)
Added:
One company I was visited solved this problem neither by running Windows on their Macs, nor by providing everybody with a Windows PC, but by running virtual instances of Windows PCs (somewhere in the server room or cloud?), and using Remote Desktop apps on Macs and Linux desktops to view the Windows desktops and/or run Windows apps. (It may have been either a VMWare or Citrix infrastructure on the back end.)
A: Microsoft OneNote - It's not in the Mac Office suite.
A: *
*Games
*Internet Explorer: If you are a web developer and want to test your website in IE (which you have to).
Also some corporate intranet applications work only on IE(6/7/8 compatibility mode).
*Microsoft Office: Yes, there is a version for the Mac, but some prefer the Windows version (I remember reading sometime before somewhere, (unable to find the link) that the Windows version is better). Also, people like me who have a Windows PC (my wife's) and a Macbook Pro at home, I can buy one Office Home and Student edition (it comes with licence for 3 installs) and use it on both.
*Learning Windows specific technology. For instance I want to learn C#. C# is best learnt in Microsoft Visual Studio (IMHO).
*Games
*Games
*Games
There was something else too... oh yeah, games.
A: Developing and running .Net applications.
And, no, Mono is not a viable alternative, and likely will never be while MS keeps extending .Net.
A: Work VPN, aventail, not supported on Mac by IT department (even though it sort-of works on a mac...getting IT to do even basic troubleshooting impossible...frustrating as heck)
Also .NOT (sorry, .NET) corporate applications, and communication with the Windows drones.
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Q: Mac Mini fan gone furious
something awful happened to my mini.
I placed it under my aircon, and for some reason, the aircon started to drip.
right on the fan grills on the mini.
not a lot, probably like an eighth of a glass of water.
so, i rushed to unplug everything from the mini.
and leave it to dry.
problem is... when i plug it all in, i start with the power cable.
just when i plug it, the fan gone furious. like 6000rpm furious.
the state of the mini is currently OFF.
that's one thing i'm confused about.
second, after a while the fan speed goes down..
but never really really low.
even when it's off, and the room is cold (not just cool) it's still noticeably whirring.
and the mini is still OFF.
when i turn it on.. after just 15-20 minutes the fan goes furious again.
like 6000rpm.
what can i do to fix this, and how much damage have i done.
and to answer a few preliminary questions.
the mini is a late 2009 mini, C2D, 4GB ram, and usually running on 18C room.
and i've never upgraded any hardware, RAM, HDD, everything.. still as it was.
A: Since it got wet, I'm inclined to believe this is hardware damage.
I recommend that you give it another few days to dry, without use. Keep it completely unplugged for this time.
If that doesn't work, run Apple Hardware Test. If it finds problems, take it to the Apple Store for service.
Good luck.
A: After you've waited for it to dry as Nathan said, if the problem persists you can try to reset the SMC, as it's a common solution for fans not behaving correctly.
A: Is it the older, taller Mini or the newer shorter one? Also, did you take it apart at all while you were drying it?
If the answer to both of these questions is "Yes," then you may have unplugged the fan control cable. Unplugging this cable makes the fan run constantly. You will need to open the case back up and make sure that the little, tiny cable on the front of the logic board is properly plugged in.
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Q: Last import in Address Book A little history: I had a old Nokia 5310. Lost it. I had the contacts backed up in a .vcf file. So imported them to a old Sony Ericsson W700i. Used the W700i for sometime, added some more contacts.
Not got a new Nokia C5. Wanted to import all the contacts to the Nokia and at the same time add them to Address Book so that I can manage all contacts from Address Book and sync with the new Nokia. (Address Book has some old contacts, that are not required to be on the phone but nevertheless necessary, my wife's contacts imported sometime before etc). (Thanks for reading)
I exported the contacts from the phone to a .vcf file and imported it in Address Book.
Wanted to move only these contacts to the Nokia. So thought will open Last Import and sync all of them with the new phone.
But looks like Last Import holds all of my imports, not just the most recent one.
I tried to select a group and then import, but the import does not happen to the group. They are imported to the "All Contacts".
Is there any way to get/select only the most recent imported contacts?
A: Are you comfortable with AppleScript? If so, you could write a script to export the contacts created after a date of your choosing.
A: A smart group with a rule of "card was updated after (date)" would get you close to the correct list. Also, in Lion, Last Import resets the list correctly for each import performed.
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Q: Accessing files from Mac OS X in VMWare Fusion? I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Boot Camp partition. When I launch the virtual machine, I see the C:\ drive which is the BOOTCAMP partition, but I don't see the other hard drive (D:) which is visible when launching boot camp directly. I realize that I can drag and drop files between OS X and the virtual machine, but I was wondering if this is the only method of accessing OS X files from the virtual machine. Is there no way to have it show the second hard drive so that every file I want to access doesn't have to be copied over?
A: I recommend using the Shared Folders feature in VMware Fusion.
I have a Boot Camp partition as well running Windows 7. When I need to access files that are on the Mac OS X side from within Windows, I go the VM preferences and enable each folder I want to share (you can share multiple folders form different locations). All shared folders will then be shown on the Z:\ drive in Windows.
Hope this helps.
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Q: Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut Outlook 2011 to move email to a specified folder? In Microsoft Outlook 2011, I'd like to be able to quickly highlight an email and move it to a folder (e.g. "Processed") with a simple keyboard shortcut.
A: By default there isn't a shortcut to move an email to a specific folder. You can use SHIFT+⌘+M to choose the folder.
However, you can create an Applescript and then map that to a shortcut through System Preferences > Keyboard. Here is a sample script that will move emails to a folder named Processed (here is the original source if you would like to learn more).
You can save the file wherever you'd like, but the default Outlook scripts are saved in:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items/
Note: as of Office 11 SP2, this location has been changed to:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook\ Script\ Menu\ Items/
To create the shortcut, open up the Keyboard Shortcuts panel, and under Application Shortcuts hit +. It will give you a list of applications to choose from (Outlook 2011), and then for the menu title make sure you choose the name of the name of the script as it appears in the menu.
A: This is pretty easy in the version I'm using (14.4.6). Simply select a message and hit the Move button. Move the message to whichever folder you desire. This will create a menu item for moving to that folder in the dropdown.
Open up Keyboard Preferences and select App Shortcuts. Add a new shortcut for Microsoft Outlook. Title it 'Archive Folder Name (Name of your account)' and then select your shortcut.
Now, go back to Outlook and click the Move button, you will see your shortcut is now appended to the new menu item that was created earlier.
A: There's a simpler way with just adding a keyboard shortcut to the app, outlined here.
I'm a big GMail user, and I wanted to map a keyboard shortcut to move a message to an "Archive" folder that I'd created within Outlook on the Mac, just like GMail has an archive keyboard shortcut. That article worked for me.
A: As per akpd's answer but the directory (as of Mac Office 2011) for the Outlook script items is:
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items
(I don't have enough rep to just comment this)
The Applescript should be saved as a script bundle (".scptd") and a shortcut can quickly be added by adding shortcut strings to the filename e.g. "\cm" on "Move to Processed\cm.scptd" will activate with Control-M. The examples of this technique are in the Automator Workflow examples "Sample Automator Workflows" provided by Microsoft.
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Q: Prevent Bonjour Announcements Over OpenVPN We have an OpenVPN server at work, which I use frequently to access private work resources. When I do, the "Shared" listed in Finder populates with all the automatically announced servers/resources at work, but the reverse is also true. My local resources appear to anyone at work, and/or on the VPN as well.
Ideally, I would like to prevent my announcements from going over the VPN link, but would like to have the shares physically at work available to me while on the VPN. If the only method is to disable Bonjour (temporarily), I'll be fine with that, but is there a way to make it only one-sided?
And of course the master question: How do I accomplish this, at all, in the first place.
A: How about blocking udp traffic on port 5353?
A: Usually, Bonjour only works on the local network and only its extension Wide-Area-Bonjour works through VPNs. Did you configure your Computer to use that or did you setup your router to handle that? Also, which other resources appear for the others at work?
But anyway, you don´t have to have File Sharing "turned on" on your computer (which will then cause the broadcasting of your computer´s name over Bonjour) to access others, so just turn off the services you don´t want others to see and you should be good.
A: If you are using OpenVPN, I assume you are using Linux on the server side.
Since OpenVPN is working in layer 2 bridge mode, applying a standard filter with iptables will not work. iptables works on layer 3 and your VPN is before that in the layer 2.
The trick is to use ebtables wich is like iptables but at layer 2.
You can block UDP port 5353 with ebtables.
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Q: iTunes keeps respawning
Possible Duplicate:
Why does iTunes re-open after I quit?
Hey,
I have some rather annyoing behavior with my system:
Whenever I close or kill -9iTunes it just keeps coming back up.
Any ideas how I can find the root cause of this?
A: Do you use any add-ons / controllers for iTunes, like Media Servers (eg. Plex, Front Row) or others for global hot-keys or song notifications? Sometimes these apps use applescript, which tends to launch applications if they´re not already running.
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Q: Can I stream movies from external drive to the new Apple TV? Is it possible to stream movies from an external hard drive (attached to a Mac Mini) to an Apple TV2? The movies on my external drive show up in iTunes on my Mini, but the Apple TV says there are no videos in my library. I don't have room to store them on my internal drive, but it seems like that might be the only way to get them to stream. I have "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" unchecked. Any thoughts?
A: My iTunes music folder and all of my movies (in separate folders) are on an external drive. In fact, it's a NAS RAID box, but it's mounted on my Mac mini.
You just have to load the movies into iTunes. When you do, they'll be visible to the Apple TV. Of course, they have to be in the MP4/M4V favored by Apple. If you want to watch AVIs, etc., you'd have to "hack" your Apple TV. Haven't done this, but it sounds pretty easy these days.
Maybe we'll get an ATV Apps Store soon, and it will be easy to load other apps and stream all sorts of stuff to the ATV...
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Q: Cut command shortcut problem I cannot find the way to change the key shortcut for cut command on my macBook pro.
Where can I change that setting?
I can't find it with the rest of the key command preferences.
A: On my machine, the following works:
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts. Press the [+] button. Select All Applications, type Cut, press your shortcut, and press Add.
Note that on systems still running OS X 10.8 and earlier, it's: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts
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Q: Are there any iPhone apps which can display/edit OPML documents? I'm looking to view/edit OPML files on the iPhone/iPad. Is there an app that can do this?
A: Depends on what you want to do exactly but since OPML is just another Markup Language you can use any text editor or maybe one that's also able to highlight XML. You could also try online tools such as google docs, tho I couldn't myself. Here's another way to read only OPML using iGoogle.
I'll also give a shot and guess what kind of OPML you'd be using and suggest this app.
A: Take a look at CarbonFin and the website https://cfoutliner.appspot.com/ (accessible on any iOS device)
A: Lots of iOS apps support OPML in different ways. All depends on what you want to do with it.
For editing the actual code, you could use Textastic with its super-nice syntax highlighting. Use the built-in XML syntax definition or easily add your own customized for OPML.
For editing it as a mind-map, check out iThoughts or MindNode.
For working with it in outline form, hey! There's OmniOutliner, CarbonFin or MagicalPad.
And coming soon, but not quite yet, writing app Storyist will be supporting OPML. So you can import that finished outline and use it to start writing your novel, thesis, or crackpot manifesto.
A: Outline pro is a really good app
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Q: VMWare Fusion is opening .docx files in Wordpad I enabled the VMWare Fusion setting Open your Mac files and web links using Windows Applications. When I double click a .docx file in Finder, it launches Wordpad in the virtual machine, instead of Word. If I open the file again, it launches Word. If I launch it a third time, it opens Wordpad. It keeps alternating between these two programs.
On Windows, I tried right-clicking the file and going to the "Open With" command. It lists both Microsoft Office Word and WordPad as Recommended Programs. There doesn't seem to be an option to remove WordPad from this list.
When I launch the .docx file from inside Windows, it always opens it up with Word, leading me to believe that this is a VMWare Fusion bug and not a Windows bug.
Is there any way to have .docx files only open up in Word?
A: Take a look at these two questions:
*
*Problem with "Always Open With" in OS X
*How to setup a default program opening an unknown file extension?
It sounds to me as if the correct application will launch once you tell OS X which application it should use.
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Q: Seeing the desktop while in Unity mode in VMWare Fusion? When I run VMWare Fusion in Unity mode, is there any way to see the desktop or access the files on the desktop? Or must I switch into Single Window/Full Screen mode?
A: You can view the Desktop as a folder in Windows Explorer.
A: You cannot view the windows desktop as the "Desktop" in Unity (As @mankoff said, you can open it as a folder). The intention of Unity is to Run Windows apps "side by side" with Mac apps. This means the Mac desktop is the desktop.
I remember there was an option to "Show taskbar in unity" in a older version. Unable to find it in version 3 (did not look for long, anyway I think this is not very useful)
BTW, the way I use VMWare is only for application installs. All my data still stays on my mac (in a special folder if required) but not inside the VM. Helps me back them up, email them if required (even when the VM is suspended). So I never felt a need to see the desktop.
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Q: Auto login boot camp partition in VMWare Fusion? My VMWare Fusion is set up to use a Boot Camp partition. Is there any way to have it automatically login to a user account when the virtual machine starts up, but still require a password when booting via Boot Camp?
The reason I ask is because when launching VMWare Fusion in unity mode, you always have to interact with the machine the first time it logs on. It would be nice if you can just run an application from the VMWare Fusion menu, and have it seamlessly startup the virtual machine, login, and launch the application without any interaction required.
A: As the auto-login or password is in Windows, and Windows doesn't know if it is booted via BootCamp or VMWare, I don't think you can do this from the Windows side.
It doesn't seem likely, but perhaps you can set it to always require password, but then use AppleScript and VMWare, or Automator GUI Scripting, to enter the password for you.
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Q: How do I make an AppleScript file into a Mac App? I have an Applescript that simply opens a Dialog Box, asks for a user input and runs a Terminal Command and spits out the answer. It works great in AppleScript Editor yet I am trying to work out how I could package this Script File along with an icon to make a Mac App for my personal use. Thoughts.
A: In El Capitan at least you can use osacompile, e.g:
osacompile -o MyScript.app MyScript.scpt
A: In Script Editor, select File > Save As and set File Format to Application. (In Mojave and later, the Save As choice in the File menu is not visible unless you hold down the Option key.)
Open Bundle Contents drawer and see the applet.icns file, copy your icon to that.
See "Saving a script as an application" in Script Editor help.
A: to export an an application, do File -> Export and set the drop-down list to "Application"
A: Open the information window for your Application cmd+i and drag your icon file (icns format) onto the top left default icon.
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Q: Is there a Simple minimalistic Twitter iPhone application? I am searching for an iPhone application that does not show or load the timeline. On my phone, I am just interested in tweeting text and/or photos, and consequently, that's what I want my twitter iPhone to do, nothing more, nothing less.
Now I found a good app for just tweeting, but it doesn't let me tweet photos; it's called Birdhouse, it's a really good app. I also have instagram, but it resizes the photos and forces the user to add all kinds of effects. For mentions, which I also care about, I use Notifio which does an amazing job.
So is there an iphone twitter app that let's the user just tweet text and photos, AND that is up to date (by that I mean that it uses oAuth and has been updated once at least in the last three months)? Otherwise, is there a good minimalistic app that just let's users tweet photos with optional text (no effects, no bloat)?
A: Found exactly what you are looking for. It's called SuperPost by, of all people lol,... MySpace. Needless to say, it's free and also can optionally post to Facebook & MySpace simultaneously. It's not too shabby actually.
A: I like echofon and simplytweet. Both of which you can customize to your taste by disabling most, if not all, of other features.
A: Weet & Twitterific are the most minimal of everything I have used. Weet is pretty barebones and lightweight, basically the iPhone version of Itsy. I'm a Tweetbot guy, which is a totally awesome app but it sounds like it does way more than you want.
A: I would say that Twitterific is as close as you can get to minimalist for an iPhone Twitter App - http://twitterrific.com/iphone/
A: If you don't like Instagram, there's also Picplz. It does not alter the image, nor does it force you to add a filter.
But it does not let you tweet just text.
A: I would highly recommend Weet as a minimilistic replacement of the official Twitter application.
Honorable mentions include:
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*Icebird
*Brizzly
A: Personally, I love it when apps have as little chrome as possible. Two twitter apps that are gorgeous and minimalistic (and manage to retain tons of functionality) are Osfoora and Icebird.
Icebird is great because it has little chrome and there are plenty of options (including picture and video uploading to flickr)
Osfoora is great because of its intuitive jump screen, and its minimal tweet composition UI. They also make an iPad version that is absolutely stellar.
Both of these are paid apps though, but I wouldn't hesitate on the $2 or $3 purchase.
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Q: How do I migrate my Aperture library from my primary HDD to an external drive? I have about 53GB of photos in my Aperture library which is stored on my internal HDD. I would like to move this library onto an external hard disk and continue to use Aperture without any loss of images, etc.
Is there anyway I can do this?
A: Yes you can, here are the steps:
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*Connect your external disk
*Open Finder and go to <your home folder>/Pictures
*move the Aperture Library.aplibrary file to a location on your new disk
*Open Aperture and go to preferences ( from menu or by pressing ⌘+, )
*On the General tab, change the location of the library to where you copied the Aperture Library.aplibrary file
That's it, the library is now on your external drive.
A: Or before opening Aperture, hold down the Option/Alt key then click o Aperture to open. Aperture will ask you where your library is, then you can point it to your external drive.
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Q: How can I write a tab character in Safari? I tried using the tab key with the modifier keys, but I didn't get Safari to write a tab character in a text field shown in an HTML page.
Is it possible to do it? If it is possible, how can I do it?
A: Enable the "Unicode Hex Input" input method from System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources and then type Option 0009.
A: Press Cmd-Alt-T to bring up "Special Characters..." in the Edit menu.
Search for "tab" and click Insert. You're looking for the one named "Character tabulation"
The website may not display it correctly,
but it will indent code.
A: I usually wind up typing a tab in TextEdit or Stickies and copy-and-pasting it in Safari.
A: The Wikipedia article titled Control key reports the following text:
Under Mac OS X, the Control key allows the use of Emacs-style key combinations in most text entry fields. For example, Ctrl-A moves the caret to the start of the paragraph, Ctrl-L vertically centers the current line in the editing field, Ctrl-K cuts text to the end of the line to a kill ring separate from the normal clipboard, etc.
The table before that note reports that Ctrl-Q works as "Literal insert." I tried entering Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-I in Safari 5.0.4, and I get a tab in the text entry.
It doesn't work on SE sites, as those combinations are used, respectively, to start a quoted text and emphasized text.
It doesn't seem to work on Safari 5.1, or Firefox 4.
A: You can use control-option-tab.
In other applications you can use option-tab, but in Safari tab and option-tab are used to select elements in web views.
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Q: amplify sound output on Mac
Possible Duplicate:
Do you know a simple sound booster app for Mac?
Is there an app to amplify sound output on Mac OS X, I've put the volume to max and it's still quiet.
A: Boom is a simple program that does nothing except boost the system volume past its maximum. It can also increase the volume of audio files, although iTunes can also do this. It does cost money, but only $5.
A: VLC can boost the volume for stuff played through it by 400%. Your internal speakers might not like being pushed that hard though. You could also try the preamp on the iTunes equalizer. To use the equalizer, in iTunes, click Window > Equalizer and slide the preamp slider upwards. Also, for a system-wide solution there's Audio Hijack but you need to pay for the full product.
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Q: Are There Any Text Browsers for iOS? I want a text-only browser on my iPod. It is not jailbroken (nor do I wish to do so), and it is running iOS 4.2.1. Does anyone know of a way to install any text browser on iOS without jailbreaking? Any of these text browsers would be awesome;
Lynx, Edbrowse, w3m, Elinks, Links, Emacs/W3, Net-Tamer, WebbIE, etc
A: You could go on your iPod to a website like http://pizzaseo.com/tool-lynx.php to emulate the behavior.
A: You could use Atomic Web Browser and turn on Web Compression (uses Google mobilizer). This should leave you with a minimum of graphics on the page.
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Q: Is there an application that moves menulets from the menu bar, and shows them in a little window? Is there a utility that shows the menulets in a window in the style of the old Control Strip (which means a window that automatically shows and hides)?
A: It's not exactly the style used by the old Control Strip, but Bartender hides the menu extra icons, and show them in a little window that appears when clicking on its menu extra icon.
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*Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
*See your menu bar apps when you want.
*Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
*Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
*Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.
For each icon shown in the Menu Bar, it let you decide where the icon should be shown (Bartender Bar versus Manu Bar), and how long the item should be shown when it is updated.
A: Short answer is no.
The menulets are controlled by SystemUIServer, a system application in charge of a number of things one of them being the right side of the menu bar. Unfortunately SystemUIServer is not replaceable, and its behavior cannot be changed.
Note that there are multiple kinds of 'menulets':
*
*System provided menus (the clock, airport signal, time machine...). These do use a private API as they run code inside SystemUIServer and Apple doesn't like people loading code in this sensitive piece of software. Those are present on disk with a '.menu' extension. Those are sitting on the right of the menu bar.
*Third party menus using the private API without Apple blessing. Those usually use a hack to bypass Apple protection (most common hack is MenuCracker, code is on SourceForge). Some of those menus are good and respectful of their environment, some of them are not. Those menulets are freely mixable with the system ones, you can ⌘-drag and drop them to reorder them.
*Applications deciding to provide a quick access menu on the menubar. Those do run in their own process and use a public API to place themselves on the menubar. You cannot reorder them and they always sit on the left of the system menus. SystemUIServer control those icons placement.
It could be possible to write an application capable of loading menulets by emulating the private API, but a number of things will not work as expected (toggle in preferences will not toggle in this app, I'm not sure that some menulets do not use some of SystemUIServer internals...). And anyway, no matter what you do there is no way to control the application positions.
A: A quick Google search landed me on this: Return of Control Strip [macworld.com]
I am not really sure whether this will help you because I have never used Mac OS Classic.
A: Although I do not know of any utility that shows the menulets in a little window, I do know how to move the menulets.
Holding command while pressing down on any of the menulets will allow you to move them.
You can try it on any Apple-made menulet products except Spotlight.
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Q: AppleScript or Automator Workflow for Bulk-Converting Powerpoint Presentations to Keynote I have a large set of Powerpoint presentations that I would like to convert to Keynote. I can convert each one manually by following these steps:
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*In Finder, right-click Powerpoint document and select Open With... -> Keynote
*In Keynote, choose Save As..., check the Save copy as checkbox, select iWork '08 as the format, and click OK.
However, doing this for each document is tedious. I'd like a way to convert them all at once.
I've been trying to create an Automator workflow for this, but have been completely unsuccessful. (I think being a programmer actually makes it impossible to understand the for-the-rest-of-us tools like Automator and AppleScript.) Can anyone help me out?
A: I couldn't figure out how to get Automator to do it, but I was able to beat AppleScript into submission. Just save the following as an Application in the AppleScript Editor, then drag the files you want to convert onto the icon. It will prompt you to choose a folder where the converted files will be placed.
on open droppedFiles
set theDestinationFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose destination folder") as Unicode text
repeat with theFile in droppedFiles
tell application "Keynote"
open theFile
set theSlideshow to slideshow 1
set theDestinationPath to theDestinationFolder & (name of theSlideshow)
save theSlideshow in theDestinationPath
close theSlideshow
end tell
end repeat
end open
(I don't really know what I'm doing with AppleScript. If there are improvements that can be made here, I'd like to know about them.)
A: Did you try to create an Automator workflow using the feature Watch Me Do (which seems appropriate here) ? What problems did you encounter ?
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Q: How can I transfer iPhone + iPad data to a new computer? I have iTunes installed on my old computer (Win XP) and all iPhone + iPad apps + all backups are done on this computer.
Now I would like to use iTunes on my new computer (Win 7) and retire the old one.
My experiments so far went really bad. If I do the obvious thing and install iTunes on the new computer, then try to sync the iPhone, it completely wipes the iPhone and all app data. That happens even though the iTunes account is the same as on the old computer.
My goal is simple: I want to be able to sync/backup both iPhone and iPad on the new computer without having to completely install all apps again and loosing all the app data on the devices.
This seems to be such an obvious thing - to switch to a new computer - am I just not seeing the easy way to do this?
A: There's an Apple guide to this process
There's also this guide on HowToGeek.com
A: From my experience, unless you use Time Machine or Migration Assistant, it's not that easy task we'd expect it to be. Here's a very complete guide, here's a very simplistic one and here's another one that envolves hacking iTunes library and isn't exactly about just copying.
iTunes is a very messy program and it can easily become hard to keep it clean on just one machine. Transferring it to another machine is adding one more layer of mess.
As last resource, try some third party tool, such as syncopation. I haven't tried any myself, but seems very promising and most of them have free trials.
A: Recently dealt with this problem with my parents upgrading from an iPad 2 to an iPad 3.
The iPad 2 was synced to one laptop, the iPad 3 was destined for another. We synced the iPad 3 to a backup of the iPad 2 and then went to plug it into the new laptop. (NOTE: the new laptop had all files from the old library synced via home share first.) iTunes asked whether to leave it alone or erase the iPad and sync. After playing around and much googling we went ahead and tried hitting erase and sync. When you do this, if the two iTunes libraries have the same iTunes account, it will actually make a full backup of the iPad BEFORE it "erases and syncs."
Once it was done, all files were there, even each app's files and settings. (Such as PDFs saved in good reader).
A: I didn't have any trouble with this when I migrated Macs I copied my iTunes library across manually (iTunes was set to manage the library, so this included everying, apps etc) making sure that the latest iPhone back up was included. I just plugged my iPhone in and it synced as normal.
Obviously make sure you have backed up your iPhone on your old system so that if it doesn't work for you, it can be fixed with a restore on your old system.
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Q: Where are Apple's default desktop images stored? When I go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver, I see many images in folders such as "Desktop Pictures", "Nature", "Plants", etc. Where are these images located?
I want to use them in an application such as SpaceSuit to set them as background images for different spaces.
A: As of macOS 12:
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*Desktop JPEG wallpaper are located in /Library/Desktop Pictures
*Pre-installed dynamic wallpapers (HEIF) are located in /System/Library/Desktop Pictures
*Any dynamic wallpapers downloaded by the user (from the "Desktop & Screen Saver" preferences) are located in /Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/com.apple.mobileAssetDesktop
A: As of macOS 10.15 (Catalina) the location is /System/Library/Desktop Pictures. I'm unsure what version the location switched.
A: They're in /Library/Desktop Pictures/
A: For future reference: up to macOS 12, you can get macOS to show you the folder by opening System Preferences > Desktop and screensaver then double clicking the folder name on the left where it says Apple > Wallpapers. It will open the folder on Finder (which is on /System/Library/Desktop Pictures).
I couldn't find a way to get the folder from System Settings on macOS 13 Ventura.
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Q: router suggestions Any suggestions on buying a good router for my macbook?? I currently have a trendnet router. the wifi(WPA security) keeps dropping on a regular basis.
i am contemplating buying a apple airport extreme...but it costs 179$ ..is it worth the money???
A: You can get the Apple AirPort Express for $100 on Amazon. It's a nice router, with some nifty bonus features like music streaming.
A: The Extreme is an expensive router. But my experience of it is that once set up correctly, it performs flawlessly until the day it dies (several years). On the flip side, you may go through several $80 routers in the mean time instead.
A: Unless you're going to use all the features available from the Airport Extreme then it's probably not the best value for money. You could buy a cheap router which is supported by one of the open source firmware versions which would allow you to 'flash' the firmware and therefore enable options which are normally only available on more expensive products.
Take a look at the following three open-source firmware pages for supported routers and have a read about what features they offer and compare to what you need.
DD-WRT
Openwrt
Tomato
A: Our host, Jeff Atwood, wrote about that here. I went with the Buffalo one; the stock DD-WRT-based firmware is nice as-is.
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Q: iMovie: Crop and letterbox (ignore aspect ratio) I have a project in iMovie and I want to crop part of one of the included clips to a rectangle that isn't 16x9 or 4x3 or any standard aspect ratio. As far as I can see, iMovie will only let me crop in the shape of the current ratio.
How can I get iMovie to let me crop part of a clip to a nonstandard aspect ratio and letterbox the result?
A: There is not any reference to custom aspect ratio on iMovie's manual, neither any setting in the project's or crop tool's properties.
If custom aspect ratios would supported from iMovie, I believe that Apple would make them easy to find..
After all, iMovie is a consumer product, and they have excluded such "advanced" features in order to get more customers to the Final Cut Suite.
The only solution to your problem, would be to crop your footage prior importing to iMovie.
You may use free apps such as MPEG Streamclip or VideoMonkey (which is the open-source version of VisualHub).
Although I haven't used any of them for cropping, they do support custom aspect ratios!
I hope this helps!
A: I came across this page because I had a similar situation and think I have found a solution that worked for me will work for others in the same situation. I was doing a screen capture video and my screen res is 1440x900 (imac). In the video I was making I was doing a tutorial on photoshop and when I opened it up in imovie it only offered 16:9, 4:3, and 3:2. All those aspect ratios would not work for me as it would crop certain tools out of the frame and the viewer would not know what I was clicking on. I chose 16:9 and once I placed the video in the project field I clicked on the small settings box at the beginning of the clip and chose "Cropping and Rotation". Over in the viewing window to the left I chose "Fit" and it changed the aspect ratio to 1440x900 eliminating the unwanted crop. Hope this is helpful to someone.
A: Yes! I figured out how to do this.
The trick is that you must crop the clip BEFORE you drag it into the timeline. If you try to crop after the clip is dragged into the timeline at the bottom, you can only used a pre-formatted rectangle size.
Hope this helps somebody!
A: Leaving this for future reference: now you can crop a video from the imported media section before adding it to the movie.
iMovie will add black bars automatically to fit the video, which you can control using the cropping tool on the clip after adding it to the movie.
A: Actually, you set the aspect ratio, or more accurately the video resolution which determines the aspect ratio, when you export your finalized movie. For instance, I created a video for my Kickstarter.com project (you can see it here: http://kck.st/h0aufg) and I was switching between aspect ratios on export between 4:3 and 16:9. What you see in iMovie is just the source footage. It's the export that matters. You just have to play with the advanced settings for the exported type.
A: The newest iMovie 10.1.9 has a fix. Select the clip. Above the viewing window click the crop icon. Select "Fit". Your clip will revert to the original format.
A: You can crop to any size you like (custom aspect ratio) if you select the video in the 'browser' (the My Media section on the top left panel of iMovie) before importing it to the project (the wide panel at the bottom of iMovie). From there you can zoom in using the chosen aspect ratio
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Q: AppleScript - Changing Width of Dialog Box and Adding Text I have a normal display dialog working using AppleScript within the Editor. How would one increase the width of the display dialog and add text under the input field and above the buttons. In advance, thank you for your time.
display dialog "EXAMPLE" with icon alias ((path to me) & "Contents:Resources:ICON.icns" as string) default answer (do shell script "SHELL SCRIPT HERE " & quoted form of (text returned of (display dialog "Enter String:" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "EXAMPLE"))) buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "EXAMPLE"
A: Regarding "Changing Width of Dialog Box", I know of no method to decrease the width of a dialog box.
How would one increase the width of the display dialog
One unsophisticated method to increase the width of a dialog does exist.
A dialog will automatically widen to accommodate the full width of (so as to not truncate) a button title. Consequently, you can add space characters to the button text (spaced out evenly on both ends for a symmetrical appearance) to increase the overall dialog width.
Using your sample dialog:
It looks funny to have such a broad button, but this is better than nothing, I suppose.
Using this method, you can make an AppleScript dialog as wide as your screen.
I'd prefer that this trick worked with the dialog title instead. But, if a dialog title exceeds the length of the dialog, the dialog title will simply be cut off, and an ellipsis will be appended.
A: You can't control this with vanilla AppleScript. There may be a plugin/hack that lets you do this, but I haven't found one.
The best way to accomplish this is to use Xcode and AppleScriptObjectiveC.
Tutorials and a book on that are available here.
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Q: Use hdmi equipped TV/projector as a Mac monitor I have a TV with hdmi inputs, and I have an old Mac Book Pro with DVI output, and I'm going to buy a new Mac Book Pro which has mini DVI output.
When I want to use TV/projector with hdmi inputs as an external monitor, is it just simply connect them with dvi to hdmi connector?
*
*If so, what vendors are favored with reasonable price?
*If not, what equipment do I need to connect them?
A: New MacBook Pros don't have mini DVI; they have mini DisplayPort. You'll need a mini DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor (third party; Apple don't make one), and it will need to also have an audio connector since mini DisplayPort doesn't include an audio signal.
A: It is that simple. However your resolution will be 1920 x 1080, so the benefit of a larger than 27" monitor is minimal at the distances you would typically have a monitor.
A: Yes you just need a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI converter cable for new Macs and a mini-DVI to HDMI converter cable for older MacBooks. There is no evidence to support that expensive HDMI cables (or DVI cables for that matter) with gold-plated contacts etc. are better than cheap ones. As long as the cable is built to a reasonable standard where it meets the appropriate safety regulations it should perform flawlessly unless you're buying the cable in lengths of 30 foot or more. There are plenty of tests out there to support what I'm saying, I've provided an image and link below to explain further.
http://www.40tech.com/2010/05/13/never-buy-expensive-hdmi-cables-buy-lots-of-cheap-ones-and-still-come-out-ahead/
A: Newest Macbooks appear to only come with Thunderbolt, thus no displayport connections.
EDIT: Thunderbolt accepts Mini Displayport cable connections.
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Q: Selecting buttons with keyboard
Possible Duplicate:
How can I select buttons with just the keyboard?
I have been using OS X for only a while now and am finding certain things a bit hard to do. Consider an option box shown below :-
Pressing an enter key would shut down the system, however how do I select the "restart" or the "cancel" options using they keyboard alone? Whats the keyboard shortcut for that? Arrow keys just dont work.
Coming from a Linux/Windows background, this is really confusing.
A: Use the Tab key to switch buttons then return to activate that.
I think all GUIs I have used - Windows, OS X, X11, old Mac all have this.
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Q: What are the differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash? Terminal.app has a setting to select which shell it uses, and the default setting is "Default login shell (/usr/bin/login)".
What are the differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash?
A: Griffo is correct. Now in your scenario, the difference boils down to the following:
*
*if you pick /bin/login, then this program will check in the user database what your default shell is and run that shell as a login shell, thereby invoking the rc files that are run only when the shell is run as a login shell (in case of bash those are /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and , and ~/.profile.
*if you pick /bin/bash, that shell will be executed as a login shell, independently of what shell is set in the user database. This can come in useful when the shell in the user database does not work properly, or you want to be able to use different shells.
As per the comment by Chris Page, the shell is run as a login shell in both cases.
If you have not changed your login shell from the default, which is /bin/bash, and you have not changed the rc files of this shell, then the difference will not be noticeable.
A: /usr/bin/login is a program used to login to the system and is not something you invoke manually under normal circumstances. Have a look at the info/man pages by issuing one of the following commands:
info login or man login
/usr/bin/bash is a shell and its job is to interpret input from the user and invoke programs. You can also see more info on bash by using the commands below:
info bash or man bash
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Q: Is it possible to disconnect a bluetooth connection using Applescript? I want to disconnect a connection to a bluetooth device through an Applescript. Please note that I don't want to disable or enable bluetooth, I just want to disable one specific connection.
A: Here is what I use for disconnecting my Samsung Soundbar. Also remember that you need to give permission to application to use SystemUIServer steps for that.
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility > [name_of_your_application]
One little remark: you need to have bluetooth icon on your menu bar.
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
set bt to (first menu bar item whose description is "bluetooth") of menu bar 1
click bt
tell (first menu item whose title is "[Samsung] Soundbar") of menu of bt
click
tell menu 1
if exists menu item "Disconnect" then
click menu item "Disconnect"
else
click bt -- close main dropdown to clean up after ourselves
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
A: Bluetooth functionality isn't made available through the Mac OS APIs (System Events being the chief one for things like this). You should be able to do this with GUI scripting (a great intro can be found on the Mac OS X automation site), but this is a really wonky way of doing it and is error-prone (unexpected dialog windows being the single biggest problem).
A: Not sure if this will work, my bluetooth has been b0rk3d for quite some time, but
man networksetup
You should be able to say something like
networksetup -getInfo <interface>
and then you could use the vast array of tragically randomly capitalized switches to work your will upon your bluetooth device, which should be a network interface.
OR
You want to disable one connection, and one connection alone?
/sbin/ipfw -q add deny ip from <bluetooth interface> to [any|badguy.com]
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Q: Is there an iOS PDF reader with support for PDF layers? I was looking for a PDF Reader application which supported PDF layers (turning them on and off).
Do any exist?
A: I think the DocuWorks viewer will, but does not seem to be available in the U.S. store right now for some reason.
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Q: Is there a bluetooth phone that can remain paired with iPhone? What I would like to do is find a bluetooth capable phone that I can pair with my iPhone and will remain paired even if my iPhone is paired with a bluetooth headset at the same time.
I had purchased the AT&T phone model TL92278, but, if I forgot to turn off my headset just before I returned home, the phone would no longer be paired with my iPhone. It was easy, but annoying to have to pair it again constantly.
Basically, I am wondering if there is a phone out there that can remain paired with my iPhone while my iPhone is paired with a headset.
A: I have had good experience with Uniden. They make a range of phones that pair to your iPhone via bluetooth. They are good for incoming but have not yet worked out how to make outgoing calls through them.
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Q: Why is my Apple TV returning errors when I watch movies rented from Apple? Movies start, but a few times per movie, returns an error: "An error occurred while loading this content". It will allow me to start it again, but it's really frustrating. Internet connection seems solid enough- movies in hd start almost instantly, and nothing else on the network hiccups when it occurs.
Any ideas?
A: I had this problem with comcast internet. I believe their "speed boost" traffic shaping tricked the Apple TV into thinking I had something like a 22 megabit pipe - so the movies started playing instantly. When the boost expired, the data rate was much reduced and eventually the movie played past the delivery of the content which means my overall download wasn't fast enough to get the whole movie to my set before the movie ended.
When I changed internet providers the issues have been resolved for me. I stumbled on this by realizing I never got this error when taking my Apple TV to a friend's house with "slower" internet. The confusing part was most of the time - comcast was fast enough - but when it wasn't I still got a great initial "boost" but couldn't really watch the rental due to poor bandwidth.
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Q: What processes run while my Mac is asleep? What processes, if any, run while my computer is put to sleep (not hibernation mode)?
For example, if there's an application which prints a line every second to a file, will it print lines while the computer is asleep? If I have an application running doing video conversion, would it continue its process while the computer is sleeping? If I have an IM application running, will I receive messages while the computer sleeps?
A: Nothing will run while the computer is asleep. Unlike humans, where sleep is different than death, when a computer sleeps it is essentially equal to being powered off.
There are a few subtle differences, the primary being that it wakes up faster than from a cold boot. This is because there is enough power supplied to the RAM (memory) to keep it active, but this does not mean there is power supplied to the CPU (heart), or that any processes are active.
Any processes that are active are below the operating system, in the BIOS of the computer. This is where the "Wake On Lan" feature resides, for example.
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Q: Pdfs on my iPad to my pc I have downloaded some pdf files I need them for school but would like to read them on my PC at home. how do I get them to my PC.
A: Email might be the most noob-friendly.
A: If you have opened the pdf in ibooks on your iPad then when you sync the iPad they should appear in the books section in iTunes. You may need to turn this section on. From the menu bar click iTunes > Preferences (on a mac) Edit > Preferences - then in the General tab tick the box next to books.
It doesn't separate them out into ebooks and pdfs like iBooks does, but if you know what it's called you should be able to find it easy enough.
If you need to find in on your hard drive then right click the file and click 'show in finder' (on a mac) - not sure what you'd click on a PC.
hope that help
A: I would highly recommend Dropbox. It has an iOS app that you can use with your iPad and a PC app as well. Just drop files into the dropbox folder and it will be synced to both your iPad and PC.
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Q: Why does (Apple) Remote Desktop, with client ports correctly forwarded, report as "Offline" to administrator's machine? Administration Target
An iMac Intel Core 2 Duo:
*
*Mac OS X 10.6.6;
*ARD Client 3.4-current;
Router Configuration
*
*WAN-side TCP & UDP 22, 3283 and 5900 forwarded to the iMac.
*In desperation, I DMZed the administration target.
Problem
Before DMZing my administration target (i.e., with only 22, 3283 and 5900 forwarded), the iMac is listed as "Offline" on the Remote Desktop administration screen. However, I can ssh into it from Terminal.app successfully and I can control the screen — I simply can't do any 'special' tasks (copy, install, report, restart, sleep, etc): I essentially can't do anything other than viewing/controlling (and locking) the screen.
Once the host was DMZed, my administration window lists the node as "Screen Sharing Only".
Any ideas?
A: Does The ARD Administrator client use a ping (ICMP_ECHO) to determine client status?
A lot of firewalls silently swallow echo requests, even of the host is up. Therefore, you may be getting false reports about host status.
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Q: How to have my iPad use Win 2008 server's internet connection? I have an iPad that is connected to my network's wireless router. However, this router is connected to my Win 2008 server, which is itself connected to the internet. The iPad is unable to connect to the public url for the exchange server on the server and has erratic internet access, where Windows laptops are provided with faultless internet access, even when they are not a member of the domain.
How do I solve this?
A: It sounds like a dns issue to me. You'll want to have an internal dns server that knows to route *.example.com to your server's internal address and forward everything else to a public dns server like 8.8.8.8, and make sure your dhcp service hands out this dns server.
It could also be an ipv6 issue, as Apple products are configured to very strongly prefer ipv6 whenever they can. If you have partial ipv6 support somewhere on your network (very possible to have without even knowning) it could be confusing the iPad.
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Q: How often does Google Notifier check for email? I just installed Google Notifier (Mac), and I noticed that it's a bit delayed in when it reports an email has arrived.
It seems that it polls the server every X minutes instead of using push technology. How often does Google Notifier check for mail, and is there any way to modify it?
A: I believe by default it checks every ten minutes. To adjust the interval, click on the mail icon, then hold down the Command and Option keys and click on Preferences.
A box will pop up asking for a key and value. Use AutocheckInterval as the key and type the number of minutes in the value box. Then click Set and you're done. You need to restart it for the change to take effect.
NOTE: AutocheckInterval is case-sensitive
You can also do the following in Terminal
defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier AutocheckInterval #
Replace the # above with a number to represent minutes between checks
A: In addition to @Griffo's suggestion of using AutocheckInterval, you can also undo this change by typing the following in terminal:
defaults delete com.google.GmailNotifier AutocheckInterval
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Q: "System Builder" Windows on VMWare Fusion? I am a web developer, and I want to buy a copy of Windows 7 to use with my currently-existing copy of VMWare Fusion for easier testing of web sites in Internet Explorer. However, the overabundance of Windows versions is confusing me. I believe I want the Professional version, since from what I understand, the Windows XP emulation feature will let me install IE 6 and 7 for testing alongside 8 and 9. However, Amazon is offering me two versions of Windows 7 Pro; a normal boxed one, and a "System Builder" one for half the price. Obviously I'd rather purchase the latter, but I haven't found any clear information as to whether it can legally or technically be used under virtualization or not. Can anyone shed some light on this?
A: The "System Builder" version is intended for OEMs.
Basically, the difference boils down to the fact that microsoft will not provide support (e.g. tech support calls or live-chat) for the OS.
It is perfectly legal, will still receive all the patches and service packs, etc...
Here are more details. It's worth noting that I have transfered OEM versions of Windows XP (though not 7) between multiple computers without any significant issues, and generally if it's not activating, you just call Microsoft and they give you a new code.
Furthermore, since you're sticking it in a VM anyways, you should never really have to worry about windows thinking you swapped the mobo, and trying to reactivate anyways.
Off-topic a bit, have you tried running Internet Explorer under WINE? I know WINE supports IE6, and you may be able to finangle IE7 or 8 into working as well.
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Q: Moving files >4GB from a Mac to a Windows box Normally, when I want to take video files from my Mac to friends who use Windows, I move the files on a FAT32-formatted flash drive or external hard drive, but FAT32 cannot handle files larger than about 4GB.
I could archive the file into some multi-part format (e.g., RAR) or I could use some not-quite-perfect userspace filesystem drivers (MacFUSE) on the Mac to write to an NTFS-formatted disk, but it seems like there should be a better way. What other options are there?
A: You have five options:
*
*Network transfer through FTP or
Samba directly to a NTFS drive on
the windows machine
*External drive with NTFS filesystem, which of course is the
one of the best ways to do it on an
external drive, [edit-add] though you would need some additional software on the Mac's end to be able to write to the NTFS partition.
*Multipart archive, like you said above.
*Use some software on the windows machine to read HFS
partitions. In the past I've tried
the trial of MacDrive and it
worked quite well, but is paid software. There may be some alternative to it.
*(bonus) Do a hackintosh setup on the windows machine, so you can
read HFS partitions :)
*(edit-add) With an external harddrive with NTFS partition and a VirtualBox with linux on it. You can then upload the files through virtualbox, as linux supports writing to NTFS partitions through NTFS-3g. This would be the the "hackiest" way, but it would come at no money cost, because all of the software is free (virtualbox, linux(easiest is ubuntu))
A: If you are under 10.6.5 or later and Windows Vista or above, you can format your memory stick or usb hard drive to exFAT, a newer version of FAT with large file support and almost unlimited partition size. It has no permissions to speak of so it's perfect to transfer files around.
Older systems will not see it however.
I use this file system on my external 1TB WD hdd and it works beautifully.
A: Y'could use ext3 and then install Ext2Fsd in Windows, though you're still using a userspace filesystem driver in that case (albeit one maybe better than MacFUSE's NTFS driver?)...
A: My solution to this is to partition a drive into two partitions: one for actual data formatted as exFAT and one small partition for variants of exFAT driver for WinXP, latest 10.6.x combo update and 10.5.8 Combo update and Paragon beta exFAT driver for 10.5.8 (I've got it during their beta test and since I've never used don't know if it has any time limit=). And I format that small partition in NTFS under Windows so it will not become corrupted with improper eject like FAT32 usually do.
Probably I should cover Linux also but I'm not knowledgable about it.
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Q: White on black without inverting colors? When using Mac OS X, is there a way to have white text on black background without inverting the other colors?
A: Create a Custom ICC Profile
Theoretically this is possible by creating a custom ICC profile for your monitor. However, creating an ICC profile is not trivial.
You can see this ability by looking at some of the specialised profiles in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/. The Gray Tone profile for example compresses all the colours into a single black to white strip.
The Lightness Increase profile's 3D representation demonstrates how any colour can be mapped to any other colour.
There are a number of problems to this approach. Mac OS X's text is anti-aliased. Inverting just black with white will likely result in outlined text; the gray pixels surrounding each letter will not be inverted.
An Alterative Approach: Editing System.clr
An alternative approach is to alter the colours returned by Apple's NSColor class. This class provides the colours and patterns used across Mac OS X. The file that stores the Developer colours is located at /System/Library/Colors/System.clr.
Looking at Apple's Color Programming Topics guide, I suspect a developer may be able to load the file into a NSColorList instance, alter the colour, and write back the file.
This goes against Apple's advice not to alter files in /System, but it is probably your best solution. The modification task requires someone with Objective-C knowledge and available consulting time.
A: You could turn on both color inverting and grayscale mode in Accessibility preferences - that would give you white-on-black without weird inverted colors, but everything would be grayscale.
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Q: How can I leverage multiple iTunes libraries in a LAN to create an office jukebox? Well, we all have Macs, we all have iTunes, and we want to be able to democratically enqueue songs on one of our Macs while being able to choose from everyone's iTunes libraries.
Is there such a tool?
A: You should be able to do this using shared libraries, which would probably be the easiest way and not cause any problems with permissions or anything like that, however it would probably end up with number of separate libraries rather than just having a one large library.
UPDATE:
Having had a bit of a look into the shared libraries feature it could be a decent option if combined with iTunes DJ - which can be turned on in preferences if currently off.
Essentially you would require everyone to turn sharing on for their iTunes library (or specific playlists) then have one of your computers acting as a master which has iTunes DJ setup. You can then add tracks from any of the libraries and have requests and votes for next tracks sent via the Remote app for iPhone or just shouted across the office.
May still not be quite what you're after, but essentially uses features already available in iTunes rather than a 3rd Party app to do it for you.
--
You could try having one folder for music and all linking to it, but you may hit permission issues or DRM or something silly like that.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1203
This tells you how to move the library to a shared folder for one computer to allow multiple users to connect to it, the actual library is still per user, so you may get duplicate files or have to update the library if new files are added. In theory this would allow multiple computers to connect to one collection of music, add to it and play the files others have added. Though my theory is untested and may be flawed (like all good theories).
On a different note:
I was able to have one library (so viewing the same apps, podcasts, music etc. without the need to update it each time you logged in or downloaded new stuff) for multiple users on one computer by copying the whole iTunes folder to the shared folder and then adding an alias to the shared iTunes folder in the Music folder for each users Home folder - which is a bit of a convoluted sentence - which may be of some help, but probably not as the library gets locked when it's accessed by a user, so i can't imagine it'd help for multiple computers. Just another way of doing things.
Hope that helps in some way, let me know id it's absolute guff though.
A: Would MediaRover solve your problem? It creates a shared repository of all your songs, and allows them to be synced, but i don't see why songs couldn't be played from there directly. I'm guessing it might not strictly solve your problem (as i suspect you don't want to have to copy the songs to a new 'library', only enqueue them), but if you want to add them, then it would work.
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Q: What's the advantage of buying an iMac over building a Hackintosh? I'm not looking for a flame war or anything like that.
I am looking at (once I have some money, the hardest part) buying a iMac. Let's just assume one could build a fully working Hackintosh with one's current hardware.
What would be the advantage of buying a new 21" iMac running the same Mac OS X version vs. building a Hackintosh with better hardware?
The chances of me building a Hackintosh is low as I am, well, lazy. :) Just looking for reasons to buy a new iMac.
A: If, as you say, you are "lazy", then you will certainly want to go with the iMac. Building and maintaining a hackintosh is not for the faint of heart. The first one I built took me over a month of trial and error and scouring google before I had what I would call a "functioning" system.
A: The only (as I see it) reasons to build a hackintosh instead of buying an iMac are listed below.
*
*Cost: A hackintosh with the same specs as an iMac will be substantially cheaper.
*Expandability: Let's see, an iMac lets you change the HDD/SSD, and the RAM. If you're good, you can swap the optical drive for a disk drive or a SATA port. If you build it yourself, you can put whatever you want in it and change it as often as you want. Note: Yeah, you could buy a Mac Pro, but they start at $2500.
*Nerd Cred: Building a computer: +10. Circumventing an operating system and its copy protection: +25.
A: Seriously, the most important advantage with Hackintosh will be the knowledge about OS X internal workings which you will get by tinkering with your Hackintosh.
If you do not find messing around your Hack to be exciting then I do not recommend to waste time on it.
And do not expect things working 'out of the box' with some "distribution".
A: The ability to login to the MAS with your Apple ID and download/install Lion from scratch over the internet without requiring any media/recovery partitions etc, just straight through the EFI firmware. That will never happen on a hackintosh.
We had to wait a year, but finally, a genuine differentiator!
A: I own an 2008 iMac, but just recently built a Hackintosh, running 10.7.3 for my girlfriend who couldn't afford a real Mac. I figured if everything doesn't work right, it's no big deal as it will more than likely be used to surf the web, play on facebook, organize photos, etc. What I found out is, the $400 Hackintosh I built runs circles around my $1400 iMac. Granted my iMac is getting old, but the Hackintosh is posting Geekbench scores around 7500, which is the equivalent of a high end 27" 2011 iMac for a quarter of the price (my 2008 iMac scored a 3500 by the way). I've (so far) have had no major problems. I also have working HDMI video out and USB3. It did take some setting up, but now that I know what I'm doing I feel I can confidently build a new one in under 2 hrs, that's building it and installing the software. One side note, the $400 does not include an internal HDD, as I used an old one I had laying around the house. Another thing you will have to add to the price is a monitor and a copy of OSX, if you don't have them. So, when you factor in the price of the monitor and HDD, you could easly double your price.
Also, the argument of a good warranty with the iMac is flawed, in that I get a better warranty on my individual parts. I believe my motherboard alone gets a three year warranty. Also, I can upgrade my computer to future proof it if I need to. It wouldn't take much (time or money) to upgrade the CPU or graphics card compared to buying a new Mac.
I'm going to play around a little more with my girlfriends Hackintosh, including running real software on it, like Adobe Creative Suites and see if I encounter any problems with it over the next few months. If everything works out, I think I'll be building one for myself here soon.
A: If your intention of buying a iMac/Hackintosh is to use it for a long term, then go for the iMac (or the Mac Mini/Macbook/Macbook pro with an external monitor). If it is for just playing around, experimenting or learning OSX internals(as @shpokas
mentioned), or using for a relatively short term, the hackintosh is just fine.
If you think the iMac is too expensive for you, then hackintosh is definitely not the way to go, IMHO, I do not see any ROI in the hackintosh.
A: Some things nobody mentioned: warranty, one of the best cases/constructions money can buy both from a funcional and aesthetical point of view, that sudden peace of mind coming from the realization that you don't need drivers anymore.
A: If you get an iMac you will be somewhat future proofing yourself in terms of future software compatibility. There's no guarantee that something like MacOS X 10.7 will work on your Hackintosh.
A: If you are assuming that you can get (and keep) a hackintosh working properly, the main difference is that the iMac will probably cost you more and looks prettier. The difference is that getting the hackintosh to work will be a massive pain and if it breaks, no one will fix it for you. The iMac will work out of the box and Apple will fix it for you when it breaks. Basically, you pay a bit more money (at least in the 21" case -- the larger screen iMacs are actually pretty cheap for the screen you get) and save a massive amount of time and worry.
A: One of the unique benefits of buying an iMac is their strong resale value. With a hackintosh, the only practical option would be to sell off the pieces one by one, which is both a larger undertaking and less likely to make you as much money.
A: Another thing to consider is desk space. The amount of space an iMac occupies is minimal compared to a hackintosh (assuming the hackintosh is a tower).
A: The guy who built the $400 Hackintosh makes some excellent points. When you break it down, its really unbelievable how much people pay for Apple computers. There is nothing special in that box! With an iMac you have an all in 1 with almost zero upgradability. A smart buyer buys a motherboard with a newer chipset so they can upgrade the CPU/ram/video card easily over the next 2-4 years. Everything about Apple is just a ripoff. Another problem with Apple Minis/iMacs and even the Mac Pro: Temperatures. They are high. Apple is incredibly poor at cooling their machines. You will notice in the new Mac Pro literature there is not one peep about real, measured temperatures. Nothing. Because its a cooling disgrace. Higher temps result in far more hardware failures. I just cannot fathom how any thinking person would want to support such a company.
Now we come to resale value of the Hackintosh: Is it not going to be worth far more than the parts if it flawlessly runs OS X? I bet that $400 Hackintosh could be sold for $600! Strange as it may seem, there are people out there not seduced by Apple style, that value functionality and efficiency, and could care less what a metal box looks like; this is, after all, the center of their informational life. I used to sell computer parts and the Apple buyers were consistently the most clueless by far as a demographic. They knew almost nothing about what they should get or why they should get it. It was quite fascinating to witness over and over. As a group I believe you could say they were very poor at general analysis (say about 90%). Sure there were some bright ones but it was very rare.
Today you need the following used parts to build your OS X/Windows/Linux computer:
$50--Motherboard, newer model, full size or smaller ATX, 4 x DDR3 1600mhz ram slots, USB3, built in HDMI/DVI out, 1 or 2 x PCI-Ex16 / 2 x PCI-E / 2-4 PCI slots, from a good manufacturer like Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, MSI or a few others.
$40--CPU Here is where you economize a bit as CPUs drastically devalue once they are a year or 2 old. Use the newest motherboard and an older CPU for maximum value. Today $40 puts you around 3ghz dual core speed. Shipping costs for CPUs are almost nothing as they can be stuffed in an envelope. Insure with U-Pic.com. Never insure with your shipper! Never put the description of the item on the outside of the box - just an invitation for theft if its valuable.
$30--2 x 2gb DDR3 1600mhz ram.
$15--30gb SSD for your OS and a few programs that need the speed. Or use a mSata if the board has the slot.
$40--1tb Sata drive for everything else.
$20--Power supply, around 500 watts. Without a video card you do not need much power.
$10--Case
$205 total. Get OS X going and you could flip it for $400-500 to someone that sees the inherent problems in something like a Mac Mini.
Oh the monitor: Look at the price now! 24inch used ones are going near $100! But the main thing is you get what you need, not what holy Apple deems you worthy of. Want a triple monitor setup? Want a monitor arm? No problem. Not so with with the iMac. No Vesa bolt holes in the back so you are stuck with their idiotic, zero vertical adjustable stand. All it does is tilt.
You will find that people that know talk in specifics, laying things out in a clear fashion as I hope I have done here.
Now ask yourself: What is the point of using OS X anyway? Its very substandard to Windows and Linux. Its a complete mouse centric OS that often ignores keyboard shortcuts vastly slowing down the user. Its for grandmothers. Very old grandmothers whose idea of technology is a newer design of candle holder and they got that because of the color.
Think and choose well.
$15--Case
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Q: Reading academic papers on the iPhone I frequently want to read academic papers while on the go. They're usually in PDF format, so I sync them to my iPhone with iBooks.
The problem is that most of the papers I want to read are in a two-column format that's extremely difficult to read on the phone's screen - I have to zoom in on a column, scroll down, then scroll up to the top of the next column and repeat.
Is there any software that will "flatten" out the PDF? I love Instapaper for web-based information; something that could turn a two-column PDF into a long stream of text and images would be great.
A: Goodreader for the iphone extracts text and images and fits them to your iphone screen and can be customized to your liking.
A: Calibre can be used to manage eBook libraries including PDF, and has the tools to transform them to other formats, including re-flow of text.
A: For academic papers I would recommend Papers by Mekentosj.
The app is available for iOS and Mac, so you can read, annotate or mark your papers on the go and have all papers in sync with your Mac. At home you can easily work with your papers, because Papers is also reference management software and gives the ability to directly search within your papers and cite within Word, Pages and several other editors.
I have the iOS and the Mac app and I love it.
A: I agree heartily with the answers about GoodReader and (somewhat less heartily) Calibre. This is not the answer you’re looking for, but for academic articles, especially with LaTeX’s wide margins, my iPad is much, much better than my iPhone—usually the entire non-empty part of the page can fit onscreen in portrait mode. (For everything else I use landscape mode.) For reviewing my own LaTeX articles, GoodReader is much better than iBooks, since you can annotate. One gotcha: Apple’s Preview doesn’t display all annotations, so I (reluctantly) use Adobe for this.
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Q: How can I tell if a QuickTime movie is prepared for streaming? I have been given a QuickTime file to place on a web site for my client. I requested the file be prepared for streaming using "Fast Start - Compressed Header" so that the video with start to play as soon as QuickTime player has buffered enough. (We will not be using a QuickTime Streaming Server for this video)
I am unsure if the file provided to me meets my request. For one, it seems to be am MPEG4 file, not an MPEG4 video file wrapped in a QuickTime .mov container. But even when I export a short ~10 second clip using "fast Start - Compressed Header" and open that in QuickTime player, nothing I can see under Movie Properties or Movie Information shows me that I have added a fast start header.
How can I determine if a QuickTime movie file is prepared for streaming using Fast Start, Compressed Header?
A: You may want to try QTIndexSwapper by Renaun Erickson. It's an Adobe AIR app that detects if a movie is ready for web and if not it tries to move the index (header) to the beginning of the file thus allowing a simultaneous download and playback.
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Q: Issue with floating windows and Spaces This problem has been bothering me since I switch to Snow Leopard. When I use applications that have some floating windows (Maya 2011, Adobe After Effects), Spaces seems to bring the floating windows along for the ride. The main application window stays in it's appropriate space. When using an app like Maya, this could be 5-10 windows. A workaround is to click the desktop twice and then jump to a new space, but that is getting old. This was never a problem in Leopard.
Thanks,
Mark
A: Unfortunately, I don't think there is a general solution to this problem. I think each application can behave slightly differently with spaces - either by design, or because the developers haven't configured things properly.
This thread suggests that an earlier version of Maya works better with spaces, for example, while others report that the current version works fine.
However, from my experience with different applications on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion, each application can behave differently. I also know that (at least prior to Lion), developers could instruct different windows to do different things when switching spaces.
My best recommendation would be to contact the developers of these applications, and suggest a better way of handling certain windows. You should also check through the application's preferences beforehand, as some applications may allow you to customise the behaviour.
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Q: I cannot connect to my workplace VPN My workplace has VPN and it works great for me in Parallels Windows XP and Bootcamp Windows Vista. However, with the same config, I can't get it to work in Snow Leopard. I don't know what type of server they are using, but PPTP works for Windows. Any ideas why it may work for Windows and not OS X?
Update: I should also mention that at one point it did work. I couldn't tell you if anything changed at the server between when it did work and when it stopped.
More information: I can connect just fine, but I can't access any resources. I try to ping a known internal IP address and the destination can't be reached.
A: I've had trouble with VPN before on my setup. I fixed my problem, but I had to do a couple of weird things first. Could you tell me more about your settings?
Under System > Preferences > Advanced...
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*Under (tab) DNS > DNS Servers: Do you have your DNS servers set?
a. If so, are they something like 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.4?
You may need to change your home router's IP address if so.
*Under (tab) DNS > Search Domains: do you have a search domain set?
ie. domain.local
I hope changing those settings helps. If not let me know and I'll try to help. VPN has been enormously frustrating for me in the past.
A: In my experience, this is usually due to authentication or encryption. Double-check your settings. Also I wonder if the server may be on an encryption scheme unsupported by OS X.
A: @Am1rr3zA Had the answer in this case, though I have tried this in the past and have had it fail.
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Q: Graphical Ping Plotter, similar to Perfgraph? On Windows, I use a program called Perfgraph, which, among other things, showed a visual graph of ping latency to various hosts in my Task bar. Here's an example:
The ping metric is the graph on the far right.
Does anyone know if something like this is available for OS X? I use it to ping my router and my DNS name server so that I always have a graphical indicator on my connection quality, and if there are problems I know if the source is inside or outside my router.
So far, the only "alternative" is the CLI ping command, which just doesn't present the information in as easily digestible format as Perfgraph.
I don't need all the other functions of Perfgraph, I just want that ping plotter!
Thanks all!
A: I have a nice CLI solution - it's called mtr. It's installable via homebrew or ports.
Here is a screenshot:
A: Nagios does install with ports on MacOS X.
Have a look at these performance graphs.
I must quote here the final message of Nagions installer:
But Nagios is a complex program so you should read the documentation online at
http://www.nagios.org or locally at /opt/share/nagios/docs/index.html to fully understand Nagios.
A: Some time ago I wrote small app called Lagometer which shows ping to selected host (you can set it in preferences) as a graph in menubar. It works only with one host, but should work for you.
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Q: Share the clipboards automatically when using Apple Screen Sharing? Is it possible to share the clipboard of my local machine and a remote machine automatically when using OS X's built-in Screen Sharing utility? The whole Edit -> Send Clipboard, Edit -> Get Clipboard routine starts to feel a little cumbersome if you're doing any regular copy and paste work between your local desktop and a remote session.
A: Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the clipboard can be shared automatically. However, instead of going Edit->Send Clipboard and Edit->Get Clipboard, you can use the get/send clipboard buttons:
They're usually hidden by default, but you can get them to appear by clicking this button in the upper right hand corner of the window:
or going View->Show Toolbar
A: This feature seems to now exist in Apple Screen Sharing Version 1.5 (481.1)
Edit > Use Shared Clipboard
Or View > Show Toolbar and then select Use Shared Clipboard
A: Maybe you might want to switch to JollysFastVNC, which supports pasteboard sync out of the box: http://www.jinx.de/JollysFastVNC.html
Note that it is not free of charge.
You can also get it in the Mac App Store, where the home version (up to 7 computers) costs US-$ 9.99.
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Q: What control character do I send to the terminal to make it delete a full word at a time? I recently discovered that sending \033[5D and \033[5C sends the character to move a full word at a time, making mac os x terminal almost as awesome as the default ubuntu and debian terminals.
So then, the one thing I'm missing is: the control key to bind option-delete and option-backspace to deletion of full words.
A: ctrl+W will delete the previous word.
A: *
*Select "Preferences..." from the Menu "Terminal"
*go into "Settings" and select your default window configuration, go into the tab "Keyboard"
*Have a look at all keybindings, (eg. forward delete is bound to \033[3~ ) and note you can change them by double clicking (thats easier to use than bind in your ~/.bash_profile).
If you choose to use ⌥ as meta-key, ⌥+backspace will work immediately, though this setup might break special characters you can only input by pressing ⌥ together with them (depending on your keyboard layout). If you don´t use that, you can delete by pressing esc and than backspace.
For forward-deleting a whole word, use either ⌥+D or esc and than D.
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Q: How do I search for Safari Extensions? I noticed that Safari has an Extensions Gallery page. I'm wondering how I would search all the extensions to find the one I want.
Does that page list all of the extensions available, meaning I should use Edit > Find...? Or are there many more which aren't listed on the page?
A: There are many extensions not listed on Apple's page. However, if they're not on the main page, they're not on Apple's site at all. Your cmd-f solutions is the best option if you want to search just the extensions that Apple has listed.
If you want to broaden your search to more of the extensions available, turn to third-party sites: http://safariextensions.org/, http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/, and http://www.pimpmysafari.com/category/extensions are all good, more-comprehensive lists.
A: The Missing Safari Extensions Gallery Search Engine is hosted at hakore.com now. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be operative enough to give any search results any longer. Meanwhile Apple has added a rudimentary search to the extension gallery page that at least works and gives some results. This only works for extensions listed by Apple. Google is the only solution I know of at the moment for finding extensions hosted elsewhere.
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Q: A jabber chat client that displays a list of rooms? I'm on OS X 10.6.6, and I've tried Adium and iChat, but neither are iChat isn't capable of showing a list of available rooms anywhere on our company chat server. Does anyone know of a Jabber chat client that can? Thanks!
Update: See my answer at the bottom of the page ;)
Yes Adium can!
A: The only client I've come across that does this is Psi. There's a "Service Discovery" item in the menus, and browsing the conference/muc bridge interface SHOULD list all the registered rooms.
A: So the answer to my question is to use Adium. A lucky discovery: I was about to disconnect my chat account using the File menu, but when I moused over the text "Disconnect: ...", a context menu appeared as one might expect. However, I had never clicked the item labeled Discovery Browser. Under the server's "Public Chatrooms" I found a list with the JID of all the active chat rooms.
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Q: How would TimeMachine work with two external (destination) drives? I would like to backup my data to two external drives. That way I would like this to work is that both disks should have have a full backup of my internal disk. Is this the way TimeMachine would work?
A: I haven't tried it, but since mountain lion, it just works.
A: I don't think time machine will backup to two separate disks simultaneously, but I can give you my backup solution:
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*Time Machine to external drive. Easy and I don't ever have to think about it. Just plug it in and BOOM! backup.
*Second, bootable backup to a second external drive using CarbonCopyCloner. This one runs on a schedule and it's a free program.
*Dropbox. I have the 50gb account, and I store all of my current projects, important documents, and anything else i may need at any time, whether I'm in front of my Mac or not. Using the Dropbox iPhone and iPad apps along with the web interface, I can always get to important files when I need to.
*Finally, I use Arq to backup a copy of my library folder to an Amazon S3 bucket. This one is a paid app, but worth it because I'm paranoid and it makes me feel comfortable that even if both of my backup drives fail, between the S3 Library backup and my documents on Dropbox, I can recover from a disaster quickly and with minimal hassle.
A: You might consider 1 Time Machine disk and 1 disk that is using CrashPlan. The CrashPlan disk can be offsite too.
A: This has always worked well to cycle drives in to back up your files to more than one place. Mountain Lion can now track two drives at once, so you don't need to keep setting up a new preference, but I have used this for several machines since day one with Time Machine.
Before Mountain Lion, you needed to enter the Time Machine preference pane and select each drive as you connected the new drive to break the expectation that the system should back up to a drive that's now not mounted.
I have seen this work well for using multiple drives and cycling them manually for weekly, monthly and more sparse rotation schedules including if you place a drive off-site or keep one drive mostly in a fire safe (in a waterproof container) for enhanced protection in case of a fire (and/or flood).
With Mountain Lion, you can tell the system to alternate between two drives so a simple A/B rotation means you can set it and forget it. If both drives are connected, each backup will alternate between drives, but if only one drive is connected, all backups will go to that drive. When you reconnect a drive that has missed several backups, it's only an hour or two away from being updates.
Of course - you now have two (or more) locations to find any one instance of a file, but again, the longer a file lives - the higher chance it's on both drives. Files you download and delete could only get backed up to one drive, but if a file sits on your mac long enough to get saved to both drives, you'll have at least two copies of it should you delete it and need a recovery later.
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Q: Sync used iPhone for first time My wife received an 3G iPhone from her sister after her sister bought a newer version. My wife has already had the iPhone switched over to her AT&T account but has not synced it with a computer.
I am PC guy and don't know much about Macs in general.
First I want to know how to sync it for the first time. She does not care about any music/pictures/apps etc. What is most important are the contact/addresses/phone numbers.
Further. I want her to be able to sync with her laptop on a regular basis but I want to be able to restore from my computer in case her laptop gets stolen/destroyed/corrupted.
Her laptop is a Windows 7 and my computer is also a Windows 7.
The first time I tried to sync I received an ominous warning about all data being removed or something to that effect. So what is the best way to go about this?
A: The data being deleted is in reference to the data already stored on the phone (e.g. the sister's contacts). An iPhone can only be synced to one PC at a time, and if you want to setup syncing with this new PC, you will need to delete all of the data on the iPhone.
If your wife wants her sister's contacts, then she shouldn't sync and wipe the data before she has a copy of all that info. One way to to get the info on to the iPhone is to sync it with outlook (via iTunes) on the sister's PC. Then export the contact's from Outlook, copy the file to the wife's PC, import into Outlook. Then proceed ahead with the sync that will wipe all the data, and set it up to sync with Outlook. This way your wife will have all the original contacts.
If your wife does not care about her sister's contacts, then you can go ahead with the initial sync that wipes all the data.
When the phone is synced with Windows 7, it will use the following folder for backups: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\. Therefore, you should back up that folder if you want to keep a second copy on your computer.
If the most important data that will be used on the phone is Contact information, I would recommend that instead of using Outlook, that your wife use Google Sync. This will allow her to store all of her contacts in Gmail, such that if anything happens to the phone, the contact info can easily be accessed again online, all without ever having to sync or backup (or double backup) the phone. Google Sync can also sync your Calendar. If you setup a Google account as IMAP, you could even have the Notes synced to the cloud as well.
Keep in mind that when the data gets wiped, everything on the phone will be deleted. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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*Music
*Videos
*Podcasts
*Address Book and Address Book favorites.
*App Store Applications and their data.
*Application settings, preferences, and data.
*Autofill for webpages.
*CalDAV and subscribed calendar accounts.
*Calendar accounts.
*Calendar events.
*Call history.
*Camera Roll (Photos, screenshots, images saved, and videos taken.)
*In-app purchases.
*Keychain (this includes email account passwords, Wi-Fi passwords, and passwords you enter into websites and some other applications.)
*List of External Sync Sources (Mobile Me, Exchange ActiveSync).
*Location service preferences for apps and websites you have allowed to use your location.
*Mail accounts.
*Managed Configurations/Profiles.
*Microsoft Exchange account configurations.
*Network settings (saved wifi spots, VPN settings, network preferences).
*Nike + iPod saved workouts and settings.
*Notes.
*Offline web application cache/database.
*Paired Bluetooth devices.
*Safari bookmarks, cookies, history, offline data, and currently open pages.
*Saved suggestion corrections.
*SMS and MMS (pictures and video) messages.
*Trusted hosts that have certificates that cannot be verified.
*Voice memos.
*Voicemail token.
*Wallpapers.
*Web clips.
*YouTube bookmarks and history.
(This list was slightly modified from Apple's page)
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Q: Best approach for enterprise integration I found information from Apple regarding managing a business with a large number of iPhones and iPads. It looks to me like Apple just builds the libraries, and expects vendors to build applications that actually manage these devices. Of course all of the options that Apple mentions are the typical "call us for a price" places.
Any advice on a simple way to manage iPhones within an enterprise? Recommendations on reasonably priced software? I want to do the standard stuff. Deploy applications, create restrictions, etc.
Just looking for someone with experience that can point me in the right direction.
A: While Apple puts their iOS Enterprise Deployment documentation in their developer area, it doesn't mean that you need custom software to handle iPhones and iPads. It's all pretty much what I think of as standard sysadmin-type work, so while it does require some knowledge of XML files and scripting, it's fairly well documented.
Here are some places to start:
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*iPhone Configuration Utility
*Distributing Enterprise Apps for iOS 4 Devices
*Over-the-Air Profile Delivery and Configuration
*iPhone Configuration Profile Key Reference
A: With more and more companies deciding to go with iPhones and iPads, enterprise deployment of iOS devices is becoming a new focus Apple. In my mind, it's broken up into two segments.
The process Dori outlined is 100% end user driven. You can setup the architecture to have end users navigate to iPCU generated Configuration Profiles via Apache, which will then prompt the user to install them. The same with OTA Application installations. But at the end of the day, you have to either A) Get the user to follow you instructions or B) Do it all by hand. And even then the end user can just go and remove the profile at their will. This is fine for things like VPN and Exchange where the end users want the profile. But if it's something like a passcode or a restriction on App Store content, then you don't have a great way to keep it on the device.
Option B is something called MDM. That's what you were referring to in the beginning. And yes, the last time I check there is absolutely nothing on Apple's developer portal about it. But if you have access to last years WWDC session you can catch a demo of it. It allows for over the air management of iOS devices. Things like the ability to push configuration profiles to devices. But since Apple's not telling anyone how to do this, it looks like you'll have to rely on a vendor for it. Check out a quick Google search for some examples.
So my take is if you're cool with everything be end user initiated, go with A. But if you need to enforce things, I think your only option is B.
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Q: Look Up in Dictionary with "All" filter I like the fact that I can launch the dictionary app by highlighting a word in any any application and then going to (Application Name) > Services > Look Up in Dictionary.
However, this selects the Dictionary filter (instead of All, Thesaurus, Apple, or Wikipedia). I would prefer if it selected the All filter instead. Is there any way to create such a global menu item/shortcut which would do the same thing as lookup in dictionary but have it select the All filter instead of the Dictionary filter?
A: The only way I could get this to work is by creating a new service that looks up the word and than tells Dictionary.app to use the "all" filter.
*
*Open /Applications/Automator.app and select the services template
*in the top right part of the screen, you should see that the default input parameters Automator has selected ("Service receives selected text in any application") is just what you want
*in the left hand search field, search for an Action called "Run Applescript" and drag it into your workflow
*replace the part "(* Your script goes here *)" with the following Applescript, and than choose File->Save. Automator will ask you for a name for your new service (eg. "lookup in all dictionaries" and from that moment on, your service will be available in all applications.
set dictLocation to "dict:///" & input
open location dictLocation
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dictionary" to keystroke "0" using command down
*(optional) You might also want to define a shortcut for you new service by going into "System Preferences">"Keyboard">"Keyboard Shortcuts">"Services", finding your Service in the list of Services, and double-clicking the whitespace next to it do define a global shortcut.
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Q: My old voice memos don't sync via iTunes I have switched computer which I'm using to sync with my iPhone 3Gs. The problem is that all my old voice memos aren't added to my iTunes library, but they're still on the iPhone.
So I wonder how do fix so I can get all my voice memos to sync with iTunes?
A: Voice memo's didn't sync like music with older versions of iTunes. With any current version of iTunes it should sync properly.
I doubt that this question is still active, but for future problems I've added an answer.
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Q: How do I convert a suitcase font? I have a font set - Type: Font Suitcase
I am sure I have used a terminal command to convert it to a TTF or OTF. I don't really want to pay for software to do so. What is the best way of converting these types of font?
A: Font Suitcases can potentially hold 2 different kinds of fonts: bitmap fonts and TrueType fonts. Normally, font suitcases that hold bitmap font data are only one half of the font; to be usable you need to have the additional PostScript Outline font files (these will have an LWFN icon).
Otherwise, the font suitcase can represent a TrueType font, which compared to a "PostScript Type 1 Font Suitcase", is truly self-contained.
I'm not aware of command-line font converters for the Mac. The only type of conversion I could imagine using command line tools would be converting from a resource-fork-based Font Suitcase to a Datafork TrueType font (.dfont), and possibly from a Mac TrueType to a Windows TrueType font (basically you'd need to extract the 'sfnt' resource entries).
To try to figure out if the Mac Font Suitcase is a TrueType font, you can use the following command:
grep -c sfnt /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/..namedfork/rsrc
What this does is return the number of times 'sfnt' is found in the resource fork of the file in question. If this returns 0, the file is most likely not a TrueType font.
Note that by default, terminal command will only act on the data fork part of files. For example:
ls -la /Library/Fonts/BankGothic
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 Mar 7 2007 /Library/Fonts/BankGothic
This shows that the file is empty (has a file size of 0). To specifically target the resource fork, you append /..namedfork/rsrc to the filename as in the following example:
ls -la /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/..namedfork/rsrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 346937 Mar 7 2007 /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/..namedfork/rsrc
EDIT:
If it is a Mac TrueType font, I can convert it to one or more Windows TrueType fonts (.ttf) for you. (For this particular type of conversion, there's no need to use font software; a simple Mac resource editor (and knowledge of this process) should be sufficient. If I do convert it in this manner, I'll provide screenshots of what I'm doing for the record).
EDIT 2: See my answer on StackOverflow for "Using OS 9 resource fork fonts with CSS" for a tool I wrote that would allow drag and drop extracting of sfnt resource entries to individual ttf font files.
A: Font Suitcases can also contain PostScript Type 1 outline fonts. The current highest voted answer above does not mention this. And the solution proposed there does not work for these types of suitcases.
Here is a screenshot of what a Type 1 suitcase looks like in OS X:
The steps for converting these to OpenType OTF are:
*
*Download and install FontForge as per http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/.
*With each suitcase file, you will find one or more font data files that are part of the suitcase set — usually with a similar name; these are the files you need to open. For example, the suitcase might be named "Gadzooks Family" and Finder will show its type as "font suitcase"; and with it you might see files called GadzooIta and GadzooMed (the italic and medium styles) which have the Finder type of "PostScript® Type 1 outline font". There is no standard naming convention, unfortunately, but it should be pretty obvious.
*Open one of the PostScript outline font files. FontForge will probably not show the file, since typically they do not have a file extension. Set the file filter in the Open dialog to show all files. This should allow you to open the font. If it worked, you should see a grid of all the font characters.
*Import the kerning data. Go to File > Merge Feature Info… in the menu, and choose the file that is the font suitcase. You should then be prompted with a list of data sources within the suitcase, and you need to choose the corresponding font data from the list. Unfortunately this is more art than science, but the font data should have a name similar to the name of the font style you are editing.
*To verify that the kerning data was imported, choose Metrics > New Metrics Window from the menu, and then in the bar at the top type a couple characters that should have a kerning setting (such as “AV” or “WA” — these are likely suspects, but every font is different), and you should see a value in the Kern box below (for example, maybe "–20").
*Save if you want, using FontForge native .sfd format.
*Choose the File > Generate Fonts… menu command to export the font in the format desired. I got a bunch of warnings when I did this, but it still worked.
*When using this method, I found that a few kerning pairs were lost. I don't know why, but it was usually the same several kerning pairs in each font that went missing. Out of 30-100 kerning pairs per font, maybe 3-5 would be missing. But these can be restored manually. Using the commercial font management app FontExplorerX Pro, for example, you can see all the kerning pairs in a font and their values. You can then manually enter any missing values in FontForge's metrics window before exporting the font.
A: Try Fondu:
A set of programs to interconvert between mac font formats and pfb, ttf, otf and bdf files on unix. Fondu will read a series of mac files, check their resource forks and extract all font related items into seperate files.
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Q: How can I clean up 'Other' storage on iPhone 3G? My iPhone 3G is currently showing 3.1GB of 'Other' disk space in iTunes, and this amount seems to be growing by about 0.1GB every couple of days. I can't find any good references for what this space could actually be getting used for.
I've heard of doing a restore to clear it up, which works, for about a day, but then the 'Other' space starts to quickly accumulate again.
I've also done all the Internet history clearing, turning off of indexing and removing of disabled mail accounts, still no success. I'd love to know how to either clear this stuff up, or see a decent explanation for why my phone is using all this extra space.
Here's a snapshot of what my disk usage bar in iTunes looks like:
UPDATE: My phone is not jailbroken. It is stock IOS 4.2.1.
A: If you are jailbroken you could use iFile (not free, but worth the $4) from Cydia to find out how much space is used by which folder on your iPhone.
In iFile press the blue arrow after each folder and take a look at Size under Attributes. Do this for all the folders and sub-folders until you can zero in on what uses up the space on your device.
A: I had this same exact problem until 2 days ago followed the procedure outlined on this page: http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone/fixing-issue-other-files-iphone-memory/2010/03/31/ and it worked well. Re-created below. I haven't seen my Other size grow since.
Step 1: Turn of sync music in iTunes
When you have synced your iPhone and noticed that “other files” have taken up a lot of storage space on the iPhone, un-tick the “sync music” alternative in iTunes before un-connecting your iPhone.
Step 2: Install DiskAid software on computer/mac (Instead of using DiskAid (paid), I used iPhone Explorer (which is free.))
DiskAid is a neat little software that allows you transfer files to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, treating it as a USB drive. They offer a free trial of the software so no need to purchase it first time you have to use it at least.
Make sure your iPhone is connected with the USB when you open up DiskAid. When the program is running, at the bottom left corner it says “DiskAid folder”, click on the drop down list and choose “media folders”.
Step 3: Go into iTunes Control folder and then the Music folder
In DiskAid you will see an overview of all the folders and files on your iPhone. Go to the iTunes Control Folder and then the subfolder called Music. Under the Music folder you will likely see a lot of subfolders starting with “f”.
Step 4: Delete/remove all subfolders in Music
Delete all the subfolders under the Music folder. They include the files that are hogging your iPhone memory under “other files”.
Step 5: Open iTunes and sync your iPhone
With “music sync” still turned off in iTunes, sync your iPhone. This will remove all music files from your iPhone, but keep all other content. Don’t worry about this though, as in the next steps you will sync the music back onto your iPhone.
Step 6: Unplug iPhone and reboot it
Once the iPhone has finished syncing, unplug it and perform a reboot. The reboot is done by holding down the “power down” button at the top right at the same times as holding down the control button. Hold both of them until the iPhone has switched off and the Apple logo appears on the screen before releasing both buttons. This action will reboot your iPhone.
Step 7: Reconnect your iPhone to iTunes and recheck “sync music”
This will put your music back onto the iPhone, and you should not see any of the “other files” taking up any of the iPhone memory. Once the sync is complete your iPhone should be all sorted again.
If you still see “other files” taking up memory on your iPhone you have likely done something wrong or left out subfolders in step 4.
Also, delete the same type of sub-folders in the PWNTunes Itunes Control folder as well if you are jailbroken and have PWNTunes installed.
A: See here for a similar question. Most likely the "Other" is your jailbreak (Cydia or other)... are you jailbroken?
If not, the other ideas found there are:
*
*Delete Contacts
*Delete Notes
*Delete Calendar Events
*Delete Saved E-Mails
*Delete Old Texts
A: Apart from bookmarks, calendars, contacts, emails, and notes, I noticed that the "yellow" bar increased after I updated to a newer iOS version.
In the first case, it's easy to decrease the memory usage by removing the items that are not necessary (starting from email messages); for the last case, I don't really know how to free the memory.
I don't have much memory taken for other items; it's probable that in your case, the memory is used for email messages, contacts, calendars, or notes.
A: Click Reset Warnings on your device's icon in iTunes, then Sync. This will allow you to see if you have a bunch of apps crashing and leaving crash logs behind.
A: Any app that stores information- Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Dropbox, VLC, Goodreader, etc...- stores those files in "other". If you have opened attachments (documents, PDFs, etc...) in your Mail app, those are also stored in "other" for a short time. Next time you sync your iPhone, check under the "Apps" tab way down at the bottom in the "File Sharing" section. If you have a bunch of apps that have documents in that area and you aren't using the documents, clean them off and see how much smaller your "other" is.
A: I tried some of the solutions here, but nothing worked. So here's what almost worked for me. I have 5.5GB of 'other' that wouldn't go away.
So i connected my iphone to my ubuntu box (10.10) and was able to browse through the folders. By right-clicking each folder and selecting 'properties', i was able to pin down the offending Safari folder, and the file 'goog-phish-shavar.db' within. I couldn't find much info about this file, but it appears to be a sqlite db of domains, possibly for the purposes of fraud control (anti-phishing).
I deleted the file, then re-synced, but found the 5.5 GB still there. So I rebooted, still there. Turned off Fraud warnings, resynced, still there. Rebooted, resynced... still freakin' there! plugged back into ubuntu, found and redeleted, rebooted, verified it was really, really gone in ubuntu.. reconnected and what do you know - it's back again! I can't seem to get rid of it. but at least i know what's taking up all the space. I'll post back here if I can figure out how to get rid of it once and for all.
A: If your phone is not jailbroken, then the only remaining option may be doing a Factory Reset, and set up the phone As a new phone, not from a backup. My Other data appeared to be backup related. This is what I had to do after trying just about every other option mentioned.
Before you do a Factory Reset, do the following first:
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*Transfer your iTunes purchases. Make sure all your apps, books and music from your phone are on your computer. Also that your computer is Authorized to play those purchases so they can be reloaded.
*Back up your photos. I sync with iPhoto, but if you use Photo Stream, make sure to backup your cloud data.
*Sync your notes, contacts and such to the cloud. When I did the reset, I lost my daughters notes, but her contacts were still in the phone. I think this was because I did not have notes synced with the cloud.
Factory Reset
*
*After performing these steps, go to the Summary tab and click
"Restore iPhone"
*Instead of choosing from backup, select "As new phone".
*After the setup completes, you can begin adding back your apps,
music and photos.
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Q: Is there a way to reduce the swappiness of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? I have 6GB on my old Macbook, with an SSD. I would like to avoid writing to the swap file as much as possible. Ever since my upgrade, I have always had at least 1 to 1.5GB memory "free". Yet, I have always had 2 to 25MB of used swap space. (Out of 128MB total) How do I get this to be 0MB swap used unless I run out of "free" memory?
On Linux, there is now a "swappiness" parameter that controls the tendency to use swap. I'd like to crank OS X's "swappiness" down very very low, but not deactivate swap entirely. I'd like to know that my machine will just run slower if it ever runs out of memory instead of having a kernel panic. I'm pretty close to where I want to be, but I'd like to get rid of these writes to a large file that (slightly) shorten the life of my SSD while doing me no benefit whatsoever.
A: I'm not sure that a swap file of 2MB to 25MB is really something to worry about. It might be more useful to look at the values for Page In and Page Out to determine how often data is being written to the swap. The number of page events can be found using the System Memory tab of the Activity Monitor application.
There are a couple of other options that you could try but I think you're probably way out of warranty if you try:
*
*Disabling dynamic pager
*Creating a new paging system
I would just suggest putting up with the existing system since the wear on your SSD is probably minimal especially since SSD wear is a bit of a myth anyway or maybe it's not.
A: For temporary solution, you can run sudo purge to force disk cache to be flushed and emptied which may reduce the swappiness a bit (if you had several large swap files in /private/var/vm, e.g. I've got 17G of them at the time of writing). If won't work, remove the files manually, they would be recreated.
You can also disable dynamic pager (swap daemon), so run in Terminal (restart is required):
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
To re-enable:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Unfortunately in the latest OS X you've to also disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) which is actually not recommended. See: How do I disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) AKA "rootless" on OS X 10.11, El Capitan?
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Q: What's the most complete calendar app for iPhone? I (and I think many of you) would like to find an iPhone calendar app that lets the user add an new event by touching the hour (no the day-view mode) and delay an event, instead of needing to enter, edit, change the time and finally save.
Is there such an app?
A: I'm a big fan of Calvetica, which can do the things you're looking for. And it's much prettier than the default iOS Calendar app.
A: Pocket Informant is probably the most full featured I've seen - almost too full-featured, as it can be a bit overwhelming initially. I use it's built in Google Sync functionality to sync directly to my Google Calendars from within the app itself.
Bonus points for the fact that it actually turns the location field of an event into a map link (Still can't understand why the built-in Calendar.app doesn't do this...)
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Q: Is there an xkeymacs equivalent in Mac? In PC, the utility of xkeymacs.exe enables one to use emacs key in every case. Does Mac have the similar utility? For example, is there a utility that I can use key 'C-x C-s' to send the key 'Command-S'?
A: You could configure some of them in ~/Library/Keybindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict. See hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/cocoa-text.html and this sample file: Emacs Opt Bindings.dict.
Another option would be to use KeyRemap4MacBook. It supports over 1000 preconfigured keybindings, including an "Emacs Mode" section.
A: Edit: It looks like there is a solution described here.
I don't know of a solution, but I'd bet if anything could do this, it would be Ukelele.
Ukelele can assign multiple-character
strings and can create "dead keys",
where a keystroke sets a new state
that modifies the output of the
following keystroke.
Possibly combined with an Automator app. The initial keystroke C-x initiates the app, it captures the secondary keystroke (C-s), uses a lookup table to convert C-s to CMD+s, and then passes that to the foreground app.
A: I don't know xkeymap, but it sounds like you want to do keyboard mapping. Mac OS is built on BSD, hence xmodmap should work...
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Q: RSS reader with Instapaper or Readability integration? One of my main information stream inputs is RSS feeds. Yet many link to long articles on strangely designed web pages, so I regularly read using Instapaper, or Readability.
Is there a RSS reader with built-in integration with Instapaper?
I want to quickly scan lots of feeds, and hit one button to send to Instapaper. Yes I know that I could use Google Reader, on a browser, with the Instapaper extension installed.
I find the web interface of google hard to scan quickly, and I would prefer an offline RSS reader.
thanks
A: NetNewsWire integrates with Instapaper and also syncs with Google Reader.
A: Reeder (for both the iPhone and Mac OS) can send articles to Instapaper.
A: My favourite, Feedler, although only the Pro (paid) version supports Instapaper.
A: There are LOTS of them. My favorites are:
River of News for iPad - $3.99.
MobileRSS for iPad/iPhone/iPod - Free/Paid versions.
Reeder for Mac - Free for now while in beta.
If you use Safari, PureReader extension makes Google Reader webapp SOOO much nicer.
By the way, you didn't say which platform you're using.
A: I'm currently using Gruml, a slightly clunky but useful RSS reader for the Mac. It seems to support a lot of services, including Instapaper. It is also a beta and slightly buggy.
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Q: What's a good XML viewer/editor for Mac OS X? I use XML Editor from XMLmind for editing/viewing XML file in Mac.
It's not bad, but I expect an XML editor for Mac. What options do I have including the commercial/free software?
A: Although it's still a beta I have found Xmplify to be a pretty useful XML aware tool. Copes with DTD, XSD, XPath and XSL transformation in the tool
A: Eclipse works on Mac OS and it is one of the best XML editor around, actually. It has XSD validation, autocompletion towards this schema. Also, it offers a graphical XSD designer.
A: IntelliJ IDEA is overall a good IDE, it's available on Mac, and it supports editing XML in ways such as syntax highlighting, collapsing a given scope, and validating XML. I haven't used it much for XML, but I've had good experiences with that IDE for other purposes so thought I would mention it here.
A: And of course Emacs with psgml-mode or nxml-mode will edit XML.
A: Testing this and that, I settled down with Text Wrangler, with XML Tidy script. It's free and pretty useful for my purposes.
A: OS X Software for Editing XML
*
*EditX (commercial)
*oXygen (commercial)
*XML Edita (commercial)
*XMLMate (free/open source
plugin) for TextMate (shareware)
*XMPlify (commercial)
A: If you have the Apple Developer Tools installed, then you have Xcode and this includes the "Property List Editor" application (Apple plist files are in XML format, hence the name).
You can find the application here:
/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app
A: I found a simple and free software to view, no editor: XML Spy
A: TextMate.
You can download the source code from GitHub and compile it locally. Then in the preferences install the appropriate language bundle. https://github.com/textmate/textmate
If you like the application I would recommend buying the commercial version to show your support to the author.
A: As an alternative to XMLmind XML Editor there's QXmlEdit It is also free and quite feature rich. It's written in Qt and runs on Mac as well as the other platforms Qt supports.
A: I always believe that an open source is the best and simple solutions. You can try BlueFish, or Brackets, I strongly advise you to try it, you won't lose anything.
A: I'm looking for the same thing, and I just came across XMLmind XML Editor. I like how it can load my files pretty quickly.
@rds: I've tried using Eclipse to open my XML files, but it would hang with my files (>15MB). I've come to notice any editor built with Java hangs upon trying to open my file, or at least takes an unbearably long time to load it.
A: I like the look of http://www.sublimetext.com/2
as seen in a Daniel Shiffman tutorial
A: Another option is Microsoft VS Code with an XML extension...
I'm using:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DotJoshJohnson.xml
You can Cmd+Shift+P and type "XML" to find the utils provided by the extension.
Some keyboard shortcuts are provided, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B to format nicely.
Or find elements by XPath query, or display the XPath of the highlighted element.
A: You can try all in one JSON viewer or all in one XML viewer.
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Q: I have to turn off and on my WiFi every hour or so. What's wrong? In my home network, my Apple TV, iPad, and Macbook Air all have the same problem. The WiFi network works fine, but after about an hour or less, the Wifi stops working. Things just hang when I try to things like open a webpage or ping yahoo.com. The WiFi signal icon is still on, however. The fix for me is to turn off my wireless on my Apple device and turn it back on again.
But this is annoying. How can I fix this? I'm using a Zonet Wifi router with WPA2 on. My ASUS Ubuntu netbook has no problems staying on the WiFi network.
A: I agree that since your problem occurs over many devices it is unlikely to be a problem with the Apple devices. I appreciate your point about the Ubuntu device still appearing to work, but it still seems more likely to be a router problem (it could be for example the router is producing multiple errors that the Apple software is catching).
I'd suggest a hard reset of the router as Step 1 (before you do so however make sure you know ALL your current router settings, not just your name and password. I take a screenshot of each setting page)
Most routers have a Reset button you have to press with a paperclip.
Power off the router for several minutes, then apply power and do an immediate reset.
A: Networking problems can be a little bit of hit and miss when troubleshooting. My first guess is that this is not related to your wireless router, but to the way the Apple devices are renewing their IP address from the router (I presume that you are using standard settings and are handing dynamic IP addresses via DHCP). I say this because you mention that your Ubuntu laptop has no issues and because all devices continue to show an active Wi-Fi indicator.
My recommendation would be to first make sure that there are no IP conflicts between your devices. First, turn off the Apple TV, iPad and all Apple devices except for the MacBook Air. Then use the MacBook Air as you normally would to find out if you still loose your connection to the Internet after an hour or so. If you don't loose your connection to the Internet, then turn on the next Apple device and pay close attention to who is the first one to loose connectivity and when.
I have seen this problem happen to me whenever I use the my Clear Wi-Fi hotspot when I am on-the-go. I will get messages from the MacBook (not the iPhone, although I know they both are having the same problem) telling me that the IP was lost because another device is using it. This problem does not occur when I am at home using the Wi-Fi network served by an Apple AirPort Express rotuer.
I highly recommend the AirPort. However, if you want to keep using your existing router and you confirm the IP conflicts I suspect of on the paragraphs above, then I suggest configuring your router to not hand out IP's with DHCP, but rather to have your devices use static IP's and see if that helps. It is a little bit of a pain to do so, but it may be the only way your devices can co-exist.
Hope these thoughts help. Good luck.
A: Since it affects multiple devices, I suspect it's a problem with your router. On the official Apple discussion board someone had a similar problem with a Zonet router and the issue resolved itself when they replaced it. Fortunately, routers aren't that expensive - the extremely solid and reliable WRT54GL is available on Newegg for $50 and won't cause any problems for your Apple devices.
A: I'am using an Airport router along with another router (modem). I had no problem for years and it recently become so annoying my experience tell me that the router need to be retired. I do a hard reset first - if it works I will keep it.
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Q: Mail.app and multiple copies of emails I start using Mail.app today. I have two Gmail accounts (one free hosted and one on Google Apps). In Mail.app I created two IMAP accounts according to the official Google manual.
But when somebody send my a mail, I receive two copies of it: one copy in each inbox. Could somebody please explain me what's going on here?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best, Andrej
A: To flesh out an answer from your comment in case other people encounter this problem...
You need to provide the full e-mail address as the username. If you have two accounts with different domains and the same local part and you only specify the local part as the username, it can cause problems.
*
*First.Last@gmail.com
*First.Last@company.com
It may appear that both accounts are 'working' (as in no connection errors) but really it is just connected to the same account twice causing the double messages as you described.
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Q: Ethernet and Airport Problems We have one canon copier machine which is connected to our LAN router via Ethernet cable. Currently, we are connecting to the Internet using a different router. To work with the printer, I need to manually configure the Ethernet connection as follows.
Ip Address: 192.168.1.19
Subnetmask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.1.1
When set with the above settings and connected to both the Ethernet network and the Airport (Internet) network, I can print, but I cannot browse the Internet anymore.
Could this be caused by an ip conflict ?
I can setup like this in windows and can use both printer and Internet at the same time. Should I use the same router for both Internet and LAN connections? Is there any way to solve this?
A: I'm guessing here, but it your network settings may have the ethernet interface prioritized above the AirPort (this is the default setting), meaning that when both are connected it'll try to reach the internet through the ethernet connection. You can check this easily be looking at the order the network "services" are listed in the sidebar of the Network system preference pane. If Ethernet is prioritized above AirPort, change it by selecting Set Service Order from the action (gear) pop-up menu below the service list, then dragging AirPort above Ethernet. Note that you need to click the Apply button for the change to take effect.
A: I suspect the issue might be that your routers probably have the same IP address on both networks. So if your printer router and your internet router both have an IP address of 192.168.1.1 then your Mac may not know which interface to choose for traffic to that network. So it will probably pick the network which is listed first on the list in System Preferences > Network.
You could try reconfiguring the printer router to have an IP address of 192.168.2.1 and setting it to use DHCP with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Then your Mac could have an IP address of 192.168.2.19 and it would know that traffic for the printer should go out on the wired connection.
Just as a note, you can change the order your Mac selects networks by clicking the gear wheel button beneath the interface list and choosing 'Set Service Order' but I don't think that's going to help you in this case.
A: The ideal solution is indeed to simplify your home network by only having a single router (likely the existing Airport router). Using a single router and it's DHCP server will assure that all of your home devices are assigned IP addresses that are within the same IP subnet and can therefore all communicate with one another.
You could consider replacing the second router near the Canon copier with a WiFi-to-Ethernet bridge to provide available wired Ethernet ports but simply bridge them to the existing Airport network. A bridge keeps all the devices on the same IP subnet (unlike a router in it's default configuration). If the router near the copier also has wireless capabilities you may be able to configure it as a bridge instead of a router by looking through it's web configuration screen.
Once all of your wired and wireless devices are on the same IP subnet and using the same router (default gateway) then they will all be able to both see each other on the network and also get to the Internet.
A: Got the Network preferences pane in System preferences. Drag Airport to the top of the list.
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Q: Enter/Return key as CMD + O
Possible Duplicate:
How to set to open folder with enter in finder?
Hi,
I've been using mac for quite some time now, but my problem is that in my daily job I normally use a Windows PC (which require switching between keyboard shortcuts).
now I've become very familiar with all the Mac shortcuts and keys and find it very handy to use (even easier than the shortcuts on Windows).
But one thing keeps bothering me, when I browse through my folders which I normally have in "Grid View" I can't use enter/return to access a folder, but have to use CMD + O.
I find this very annoying because who changes names of folders and files more often then opening one?
and I know this might be the mac way, but is there any possible solution/program to let the enter/return key act as CMD + 0, not looking for a Keyboard Remapping tool.
Kind Regards,
SterAllures
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Q: Why do iPhone App Store ratings and reviews seem to get processed so slowly? I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Apple's ratings/reviews system on the App Store. I've had issues with my own app (ratings/reviews not showing) now I see a major app with similar issues...
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 free app was released just 2 days ago (Feb 14). It now has 29 ratings and 9 reviews (one review is mine posted from night of 2/15). But this has got to be a well downloaded app right? I'm talking 1000's probably just in the first day, so where are the other reviews/ratings?
Does anyone know if:
1) Apple has humans approve all ratings/reviews before letting them show?
2) Apple has an algorithm for passing/rejecting ratings/reviews?
3) What is the exact time delay between posting a review/rating and it appearing on the App Store?
Also-> Have you had any experience with a review or rating not showing in the App Store ever or only after a long delay?
A: Ratings appear very quickly, and do not appear to require approval (can't imagine that they would). The reality is that almost no one rates the apps they download, and since "rate on delete" was eliminated with iOS 4, even fewer ratings will appear. (The removal of "rate on delete," where the OS asked you to immediately rate an app when you deleted it, is generally a good thing, since someone deleting it is much more likely to dislike an app than someone keeping it, which resulted in significantly skewed ratings).
Reviews sometimes appear very quickly -- within minutes of submission -- and sometimes take up to a day to appear. Last year there were some significant abuses of the review system that became public, including mass reviews submitted by marketing companies (through individual accounts set up for that purpose), so it's likely that Apple changed their policies at that point. From what I can tell, if an account has a long history of ratings across multiple developers, reviews can appear very quickly, but there seems to be a delay for new accounts or those with few reviews, which may well be approved by humans.
However, as Phillip wrote, the actual process is entirely unknown, and Apple intentionally keeps it that way.
Personally, its never taken more than a few hours before my reviews appeared, and it's usually within minutes.
Edited to add
Just wrote another review and noticed that below the entry area it says,
If a review is deemed inappropriate, it will not be posted to the App Store.
which implies potential review, and after the review is entered it says,
Your review has been successfully submitted. Please note that it may be reviewed and will not appear in the store immediately.
The "it may be reviewed" at least partially supports my "depends on your account" theory.
A: I think the time for ratings to show in the store is directly affected by the number of ratings submitted and not at all related to time passing.
Once your app hits a (unknown / undisclosed / and perhaps time dependent) critical mass of ratings - the data gets exposed to everyone.
I know nothing other than as a user - sometimes I have left ratings and reviews that never showed up for obscure apps. I have no insider insight and know of nowhere (even inside the NDA discussions) where this is actually documented.
A: This comes up from time to time and, like always, it's probably safe to say that any algorithms related to the App Store rankings, comments, reviews are all company secrets that no one is going to divulge. The same goes for the number of downloads for any app. Unless SI states publicly how many downloads they have so far, there's no way to really find out as Apple treats that information with the strictest confidence. I would be very surprised if anyone had viable (actionable) answers to your questions.
A: I have rated many major apps, mostly with positive feedback, such as GarageBand, The Simpsons Tapped Out, and Bejewled, and I have never seen one of my reviews appear on the App Store.
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Q: Does the iPhone support TRIM for flash memory? I'm asking if TRIM is enabled on iOS because, ever since I ran out of memory on my iPhone (have since cleared a few GB back), it seems to be slower than it was before. My suspicion being that, with most flash memory "sectors" now partially used, every write operation now takes longer…
Relying heavily on flash memory, I wonder if the iPhone implements TRIM (or any "trim-like" feature) to maximize flash memory performance and specifically if that will let me troubleshoot a slow phone and/or know if I would want to jailbreak the device to enable TRIM or otherwise control storage more tightly than iOS is delivered.
A: Since I'm just a generic curious who can do some research on the web, I'll make here some assumptions so we can be on the same grounds:
*
*TRIM is an SSD technology and, as such, can mean too many different things.
*iPhone uses MLC NAND memory, which is indeed a SSD.
*We, people, (such as dhy8386 and maybe even Mr. Brian Klug) love to talk big about things we don't know deep enough. To know more, trust less.
*Apple mostly does not disclose anything technically meaningful about their technology. And it does use many proprietary technologies nobody else does.
*Even today, the iPhone will work way more flawlessly under deep stress (filled memory, many applications, etc) than any Android or Windows Phone. (yes, I've used them all and I currently own a S3)
If you follow every link above deep enough, you may realize it's just not that simple. Even Android's TRIM support probably isn't the same TRIM as a notebook uses on its SSD.
So, it doesn't matter if it supports TRIM or not. The whole point of going with an iPhone is trusting Apple and letting them do the hardcore tech work. And the whole point of jailbreaking is being able to do things Apple can't allow for any reason, such as unblocking carriers. Anything else on JB is doing it wrong (specially now we have android, even for iPhone) - and I'm saying that from my heavy experience using jailbreak from iPhone 3 to 4.
Now, to address your main and unannounced question, best thing you can do to test if your hardware is malfunctioning is to backup your iPhone and reset to factory. Then fill it up with music or pictures, since you suspect a full disk is causing the malfunctioning, and avoid installing applications at all. You probably won't see any problem and, if you do, just send it to warranty. You can also send it to warranty directly, but you risk of it coming back and just losing few days there.
A: It is not a question that can be answered with yes or no as it depends on both which kind of iPhone (model) and version of iOS, you're interested in.
In general I can say that TRIM is not used, simply because TRIM is a specific command found in the SATA protocol. As no iPhone uses a SATA storage interface, they cannot ofcourse implement TRIM.
The disk on the iPhone is actually a NAND flash directly soldered to the PCB in the phone. This means that there's no SATA-connector or PCIe connector or similar. However the actual electrical and logical protocols used for transferring data differs depending on model and iOS versions.
NAND flash chips work differently than an old fashioned hard drive. In order for the kernel and application software on an iPhone to treat them as a linear space of "blocks" or "bytes" something needs to happen.
On iOS 1 and 2 this was done through a flash translation layer called VFL. On iOS 3 and 4.0 Apple switched to using YaFTL and VSFL. On iOS 4.1 and later, they changed again to PPNFTL for those phones that had physical hardware with PPN (Perfect Page New NAND flash). Only on the PPN hardware is there are an actual controller inside the NAND flash. However most of the flash translation work actually still takes place in software.
In addition to handling the conversion between actual "flash realities" and the "linear space of blocks" logical view, the FTL is also responsible for doing wear-levelling. The functionality you know as TRIM is actually deeply rooted in the wear-levelling system.
The short answer is that the use of a "TRIM-like" functionality is very much dependent on your actual iPhone hardware model, the iOS version used and on whether or not Apple has actually decided to use the functionality. It is however clear that Apple designed the NAND layouts and flash translation layers to actually support a TRIM-like functionality, and they did this many years ago. So it would make sense that it is also being used. However it is not documented publicly whether or not Apple actually uses this TRIM-like functionality in practice.
You can read more about the layouts and flash translations layers in iOS/iPhone here:
http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/posts/2012/06/28/low-level-ios-forensics.html
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Q: Is there a way to connect my iPod touch to the internet without wireless connection (say, by usb)? If I have no wireless connection, can I connect to the internet using the usb on the computer, or some other way?
A: Not that I know of however you could try turning internet sharing on on your computer. This will create a wireless network that you can use on your iPod Touch.
This is easy to do if you are using a Mac. Assuming that internet comes in over Ethernet, go to the Sharing tab in the System Preferences application. Click the internet sharing tick box and configure it to share over Airport. (this is from memory as I don't have access to a Mac right at the moment but you can probably work it out.
Some further details are available here.
A: Interesting question. It is like tethering but in reverse. :)
I don't think you have other options beside WiFi if you are not jailbroken. If you are, you could use MyWi to connect your iPod to an iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth. Costs $20 though.
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Q: If iPhones/iPads don't support Flash, how do they play YouTube? Which technology do iPhones and iPads use to play YouTube without supporting Flash?
A: Nivas said all there's to know about H.264, the format used by YouTube to stream video. But that's how the video is encoded and decoded and it's used by flash, iOS (iPhone operating system) and HTML5.
The real difference is how the request for the video is done. In a nutshell, iPhone requests it the same way HTML5 and Flash do but grab the answer from youtube and plays it elsewhere instead of the browser or flash.
On a desktop, when you get to youtube.com it identifies you're on a desktop browser, because the browser informs YouTube about it. Then YouTube points you to the Flash version and all its code is already programmed to play the video in its own way. That also envolves HTML and H.264. So picture the path a byte of the video do from YouTube files to your screen. It'd be something like this:
YouTube streaming server -> your browser -> Flash -> screen.
When you point your browser to the HTML5 version of YouTube, the code in there just expects your browser will be able to play it using no Flash. So the video byte path would be:
YouTube streaming server -> your browser -> screen
It's funny how simple it is to think about it now, but HTML4 never had any code to communicate "play video" on its own, and no browser were expected to be able to do so. So HTML5-enabled browsers actually are video players on their own as well.
Both that new browser and Flash have basically the same source code to be able to decode H.264 and both need the codec to be available from the operating system. But each one have their own implementation of it.
On iOS, whenever it identifies "YouTube" while you're browsing, it looks for either code, HTML5 or Flash embedded, grabs the video reference from that code and just ask YouTube for the video directly. Much the very same way HTML5 does. But instead to play it within the browser, it calls an iOS API to play it from the video player. So the video byte path is:
YouTube streaming server -> iOS video player -> screen
Of course, there's a whole lot more beyond that, but those are the basic concepts. So the technology iPhone uses is all the same and practically transparent to YouTube servers.
A: YouTube also has HTML5 players - they recently changed their embed code to an iframed method which allows HTML5 and Flash to be shown depending on your browser setup, which the iPhone supports.
Essentially, the Flash player is a way of playing a video file, so the file is available in a readable format (as Nivas was saying) that the iPhone/iPad can open in its media player.
Soundcloud also works on the iPhone, which I think is down to HTML5.
A: They use a format called H.264. YouTube and other video sites deliver content in this format also (so that their videos are viewable on iPad/iPod touch).
One advantage of H.264 is that hardware based encoding/decoding can be used.
See also Steve Jobs's Thoughts on Flash
H.264 is one of the formats for video support in the latest version of HTML, HTML 5. Apple supports this in Safari and Google in Chrome*.
*Google recently announced that it will no longer support H.264 in the future versions of Chrome.
Because of this H.264 is kind of hot of late. See these articles.
A: When you upload a video on Youtube, it is converted into multiples formats, sizes and codec (not only FLV/VP6 flash video!).
Doing this, Youtube can serve you the best compatible option when you request a video depending the application / web browser (mobile or not) / bandwidth you have.
A: What does H.264 encoding technology to do with Adobe Flash and applications for embedding content?
H.264 is a protocol codec. This means you use this protocol for "creating" a movie. Once you have the movie, you need an application for playing the movie.
This is what Adobe Flash does (and many other applications).
See the Wikipedia page for more information.
What mr andyface says make much more sense. So I suppose Safari supports HTML5.
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Q: Can't boot Mac, only shows a Folder with a Question Mark? How do I start up a Mac when all it shows is a Folder with a Question Mark, even with a DVD in the drive?
Image courtesy of Loïc Wolff
A: A folder with a question mark means your Mac can't find the system startup software.
Follow the troubleshooting steps in this Apple Support technote: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
A: I just went through this my self!
Your Mac can't find anything to boot from. Or more specifically, it can't find the system folder on your primary boot device.
Try booting from your OS X DVD and running Utilities -> Disk Utility to check your boot drive for errors.
To boot from your DVD, insert in to Mac, turn off Mac, and hold C while you turn it on. You have to hold it until it chimes IIRC. That'll tell it to boot from the DVD.
A: I find both the answers from Ian C. and ghoppe correct and accurate, so I gave them both a +1, because they're both right.
If it was me I'd try the Disk Utility tactic first because you may have nothing more than a case of index corruption on the hard drive and that might fix it up. The next most likely cause, in my opinion, could be that the drive has developed bad sectors in the boot code and it can't even read the startup stuff. Finally, it's possible that the NVRAM/PRAM has become corrupt. This can happen, but not as frequently as the other two. I've seen indexing problems induced into Mac's when the power gets cut on and off quickly during the boot process. If this has happened to you it might be a good possibility, and Disk Utility might be able to clear it up.
If you use Disk Utility and it does a semi-recovery of your HD, it might be rendered read-only, meaning it can't completely reconstruct your index files, but what it can recover will likely be rendered read-only. In this case, a tool such as Disk Warrior may be of use to you, but it's expensive.
If you have an external hard drive that's bootable, you could obtain Scannerz (http://www.scsc-online.com) and scan the drive for bad sectors. Scannerz can also, if used skillfully, determine other problems on your system but it requires a bit of knowledge as to how a system functions. I could teach my dog to do basic drive testing on a drive with Scannerz, but using it to isolate other faults, like bad cables, connectors, or logic board problems requires at least a little knowledge about basic systems and hwo they work. The company that makes this product has some troubleshooting procedures about the process in their downloads section of their web site.
If your a hard core techie, once again with an external hard drive, you could download smartmontools (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki), run it off the externally bootable HD and see if your drive is even working. Both Scannerz and Disk Utility only report what I'd call "threshold" S.M.A.R.T. data (i.e PASS/FAIL) but this can report a lot more. Unfortunately, S.M.A.R.T. can often miss some problems with a drive until an actual write operation occurs and fails, so problems may exist that such tools may miss. smartmontools is command line only and needs to be run via a terminal. Newer versions of Disk Utility also provide better S.M.A.R.T. reporting, but IMHO it's still not stellar.
With luck, it will be something simple.
A: *
*Power off by pressing the Power Button for few second
*Press the Power Button- after the beep sound - Press Command + R
*Connect Internet (it will download the Disk Utility Manger)
*Select Reinstall OS X
A: The temporary solution i have found is to boot in safe mode. Press and hold the Shift key when you turn the mac on, before hearing the boot sound.
This will spare you the recovery procees, cause i dont wanna réinstall everything yet.
Then in safe mode you can launch disk utility, repair some stuff, and then reboot. Beware, do not turn off thé mac, just select "reboot"
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Q: How do iPhone apps push notifications when the app isn't running? I've read some docs about notifications and background work, but there is something I do not understand.
Yesterday, I upgraded to iOS 4.2, rebooted my phone many times, and did not launch any apps. Then this morning I received a push notification from PandoraBox to inform me that an app I've placed in favorite had its price changed.
I wonder how this app, that is not launched, not in background, that cannot know in advance when the price of an app in MY favorites will change, can alert me with a notification this way?
It HAS to run some methods, some code… But I understood that that is not possible. What did I miss?
A: You must have launched PandoraBox before the reboot of your iPhone, right?
When you launch apps that send notifications, they keep the way to identify you and throw notifications to your phone.
So the answer to your question is : "the code is running on some PandoraBox machine, not on your iPhone".
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Q: How can I check ethernet card? I doubt a hardware problem with my ethernet device. I'm unable to connect to Internet. How can I verify if it's a hardware issue or not?
A: If you have access to a second computer, connect it to the same ethernet cable and port. If that computer gets internet access (be sure to disable wireless, so you know it's connecting via ethernet), the first computer's ethernet device is faulty. If the second computer does not get internet access, try swapping the ethernet cable for another (the first could be badly crimped or faulty in other ways), and try another ethernet port.
A: Full hardware testing is difficult. There is an application Tech Tools that can do pretty decent hardware checks on OS X.
Honestly, I you can see information about the NIC under Apple Menu, About This Mac, More Info, Ethernet Cards I would say the device is good. This isn't a 100% guarantee but with the frequency or hardware failure vs network issues I would say validating this would make me look into the network issues first.
A: I think simply connecting the network cable to the ethernet port and turn on the computer. Now it's not turning no the LEDs which means the hardware seems gone!
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Q: How can I convert an AI file to a CDR file? Assume I have an AI file, Adobe Illustrator CS 5 and no CorelDraw. How can I convert this AI file to CDR file? What is the fastest and cheapiest way?
A: What version of CorelDRAW? What's the workflow?
.CDR is a proprietary format, so I'm not aware of any proper supported exporters. The sK1 project reverse-engineered the format, and claims to have the best support. But since recent versions of CorelDRAW can import Adobe Illustrator CS4 files, I think you would get the best results to just save it as .ai and import it into CorelDRAW.
A: This answer may be what you are looking for:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Illustrator-1027/Converting-Illustrator-Corel-Draw.htm
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Q: Security hole in firmware password by installing another boot loader? I set up a firmware password on my MacBook. One thing I don't understand is how I can install a tool such as rEFIt, and effectively bypass the entire firmware password (i.e. installing it never asked for my original Firmware password).
It says on their website:
[...] since “refit.efi” is configured as the legitimate boot loader, it effectively circumvents the firmware password protection.
Isn't that a huge security hole in setting up a firmware password? Doesn't that mean that the securing a computer by setting up a firmware password is only as strong as an admin account's password (i.e. someone that has privileges to install a tool such as rEFIt)?
A: Yes, but this is not particularly a problem with rEFIt, it's intrinsic to the way firmware password and admin access relate to each other -- if you have either one, you can take control of the other. For instance, if you have admin access, you can disable or change the firmware password with nvram command, You can also change the boot volume with System Preferences, effectively bypassing the firmware password protection.
Basically, the firmware password is there to protect the integrity of the computer until the OS starts and can start enforcing its idea of access controls, at which point admin passwords are the relevant control. Don't think of firmware password as a higher-level control, it's more of a supplement.
A: Yes that is correct sadly, although you do need admin access to install an EFI loader to circumvent this most accounts don't have root access and as such you can have an admin account with one password but a different root password altogether. Or you can simply deny your account root access and make another root password.
To add on to this, firmware passwords are not very strong to begin with. If I had physical access to your laptop I can simply reset the PRAM and your password is null and void. It's not supposed to be very strong (to be honest I see no point in it).
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Q: What does a firmware password protect? If I create a firmware password on my MacBook, what does that protect me from?
Does it protect from any of these:
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*Reformatting the hard drive.
*Switching OS to boot from (e.g. if Boot Camp is installed).
*Restoring the laptop to its original factory settings (i.e. reinstalling OS X).
*Installing another boot loader such as rEFIt which bypasses the firmware password
A: Installing a firmware password will prevent anyone without the password from selecting a different boot disk to start up the computer. It will also disable some startup key sequences, like getting into single-user mode. I don't know how the firmware password interacts with something like rEFIt.
However, if someone can open your computer, they can disable the firmware password by pulling one of the sticks of RAM and/or just access your hard drive directly and do what they want with it.
A: All of the above can be performed if the person has physical access to the computer.
See the Apple support page I've linked to below, it explains that resetting the PRAM or Open Firmware will reset the password and allow someone to do any of the things you've listed above.
Apple page on firmware password protection
A: Setting firmware password protects the computer from access to the following features:
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*Blocks the ability to use the "C" key to start up from an optical disc. (Power PC + Intel)
*Blocks the ability to use the "D" key to start up from the Diagnostic volume of the Install DVD. (Intel)
*Blocks the ability to use the "N" key to start up from a NetBoot server. (Power PC + Intel)
*Blocks the ability to use the "T" key to start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature). (Power PC + Intel)
*Blocks the ability to start up in Verbose mode by pressing the Command-V key combination during startup. (Power PC + Intel)
*Block the ability to start up a system in Single-user mode by pressing the Command-S key combination during startup. (Power PC + Intel)
*Blocks a reset of Parameter RAM (PRAM) by pressing the Command-Option-P-R key combination during startup. (Power PC + Intel)
*Requires the password to enter commands after starting up in Open Firmware, which is done by pressing the Command-Option-O-F key combination during startup. (Power PC)
*Blocks the ability to start up in Safe Boot mode by pressing the Shift key during startup. (Power PC + Intel)
*Requires the password to use the Startup Manager, accessed by pressing the Option key during startup (see below). (Power PC + Intel)
Source: Setting up firmware password protection on PowerPC-based Macs
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Q: Installing Windows 7 Updates on Boot Camp partition through VMWare Fusion? I'm using VMWare Fusion with my Boot Camp partition. Are there any problems with installing Windows 7 Updates through VMWare Fusion, or should I boot up into Boot Camp in order to install these updates?
A: It's been a while since I've used Windows, but I seem to recall that Microsoft does provide driver updates with the Windows Update, and whether or not you get the update may depend on the hardware that Windows detects you're running. To be on the safe side, I'd suggest running Windows Update both virtually and natively.
A: I have used Windows updates through BootCamp with no problems.
As for drivers I think they all come from BootCamp so the Apple update would do these and I would do that from BootCamp.
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Q: Mac OS X keeps to ask me if I want to allow iTunes to accept connections Every time I open iTunes, Mac OS X keeps to ask me if I want to allow it to accept connections, even if in the Firewall settings iTunes has been set to accept any connections.
I am not using a beta version of iTunes.
How can I avoid this issue?
A: That's unusual because applications created by Apple should be automatically permitted access through the firewall. Have you modified iTunes (added plugins for example) in any way? You can check if iTunes' digital signature is valid with the following Terminal command:
codesign -vvv /Applications/iTunes.app/
You should get two lines back looking like those in the image below
If these don't match with what I have or even if they do, a reinstall of iTunes or removal of any plugins should fix it.
Use the following steps:
*
*Uninstall iTunes.
*Empty Trash.
*Restart the Mac.
*Reinstall iTunes
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Q: Tool or trick to require doubleclicking to launch apps from dock? Is there a way to make it so that launching an app from the dock requires a double click instead of a single click? I find myself accidentally launching apps and then needing to force-quit them.
I'm hoping for some OS hack or third-party app. Yes, I already have the dock hidden.
thanks!
A: You can move the dock's location and size by going to System Preferences > Dock. Rather than keeping the dock at the bottom, where the mouse needs to be often, move it to either the right or left sides of the screen.
I auto-hide the dock on the left side of the screen (I'm on a 13" MacBook Air, so my vertical space is limited too). You could also use @VxJasonxV's suggestion of removing the apps from the dock. Most of the programs I launch are via spotlight (the ⌘+Space shortcut is very useful). And the last trick I use is BetterTouchTool. I bound five-finger-click to ⌘+Q, which makes it very easy to quit applications, but not so easy that it accidentally quits applications I didn't mean to quit.
A: *
*Don't hide the Dock. You'll be less surprised when it pops out at you and eats your click.
*If applications must be "force quit" when you accidentally open them, get them out of your Dock! Use a launcher like Alfred, LaunchBar, Quicksilver, or Google Quick Search Box. Or even Spotlight!
I rarely, if ever, use the mouse to open applications, much less use the dock.
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Q: Site Blocker for Mobile Safari Google Searches Is there a way to block content scraper sites from Google searches on Mobile Safari? I would like something like the "Personal Blocklist" now available for Google Chrome.
A: Mobile Safari does not support browser extensions, which is what powers the block list.
We may see something in the future, but you're out of luck until then.
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Q: Why does combining a PDF cause its size to be significantly larger? I have 3 files about 40 KB each. When I combine them using Preview and save them as a single PDF file, instead of having a size close to 120 KB, the size is closer to 500 KB.
Why does this happen, and is there any way to retain a small file size when the files are combined?
A: PDFs are funny creatures because Postscript is a very "fat" language; the same PDF can be written multiple ways. I would say that the extra code is probably glue code to put those three documents together and extra bits placed there by whatever utility was used to combine the three.
The best way to get rid of this would be to open the PDF in Acrobat Professional (not Reader) and run it through the "Reduce File Size..." command. This strips out any dead or unnecessary code, optimizes fonts (if two instances of the same font exist, the PDF is rewritten so that only one instance exists), and the like.
Ghostscript probably has a function that does something similar, but off-hand I'm not sure which one that would be.
A: Preview's "Reduce File Size" feature takes a 512KB file down to 254KB, but makes the text very blurry and difficult to read.
On Acrobat Standard (Windows), the "Reduce File size..." feature takes the 512KB file down to 418KB, but maintains the exact same quality that the original had.
Therefore, reducing the file size after the file was combined is not a good option. A better option is to use a more efficient program to combine the files...
I found out that Acrobat Standard is better than Preview at combining PDF files and maintaining a small file size. For example, if you have two 61KB files to combine, Preview will produce a 311KB file, while Acrobat (with the "Default File Size" option enabled) will produce a 106KB file.
A: This is similar to Nate Stevens' answer. For anyone who still has this problem, I had used the "insert" option from the edit menu, and got a file size about 6 times larger than the sum of the individual file sizes.
However, when I simply dragged and dropped the pdfs into the sidebar (thumbnail view), I got just a little larger than the sum of the individual file sizes.
A: I suspect this is caused by images rendered by Preview and re-encoded in a lower compression level. How was your PDF created in the first place?
Another possibility is that characters where seen as character in the original file, but are rendered as bitmaps in the produced PDF.
A: I know that I am years too late to help the author of the original post but I just had this problem and figured it out. I had combined multiple PDF files in preview and they were appearing all different sizes. To fix the sizing go to print the document and instead of printing save as PDF through the print menu. This will give you a new pdf with all pages sized correctly but you will no longer be able to edit any of the text so make all the changes you need before you consolidate the sizing.
Good luck to anyone having this problem. I hope that I have helped.
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Q: Replacement DVD drive for MacBook Pro Howdy. I have a MacBook Pro 15" (MB133LL/A) with a Matsushita UJ-867 DVD drive. The DVD drive is failing and I'm looking for a replacement.
Are there any other supported drives for this machine than the UJ-867?
A: There are some variations in the drives supplied in Apple's products. For example, often Apple will have multiple suppliers for a part, and products often have hardware options. As such there will be other drives that are supported.
I find sites such as iFixIt or Other World Computing that are targeting DIY repair and upgrades are helpful as they provide a guide to which parts are compatible with various Mac and MacBook models.
Here are some results for your MacBook Pro:
*
*15" MacBook Pro optical drives at iFixIt
*15" MacBook Pro SuperDrives at OWC
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Q: Kensington lock for iPhone I'm going to a conference where there be a booth for my company to showcase our product. I'm bringing an iPhone which will be part of the product demonstration.
Now is there any product out there that can help secure the device from theft? I'm not sure where to buy those cables attached to phones at BestBuy and I'd like to be able to remove the cable once the show is over.
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much!
A: Targus makes a line of security locks for iPhones and iPods:
*
*Targus Desktop Security Lock for iPod® (ASP06US)
*Targus Mobile Security Lock for iPod® (ASP07US)
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Q: iOS app to transfer images, photos to another phone via Bluetooth Is there an app that can help me get connected to bluetooth in mobile phones manufactured by companies like nokia, samsunng, etc
A: The iPhone 4 does not support the Bluetooth OPP profiles which you need for standard device to device transfers. All you have available are
*
*HFP (handsfree)
*PBAP (Phonebook access)
*A2DP (advanced audio distribution)
*AVRCP (av remote)
*PAN (Personal Area Network)
*HID (Human Interface)
Peer to peer comms are possible over BT but the app has to implement the protocol stack itself
A: There is word out on a jailbroken app in development called Celeste that should be able to do that and is rumored to be release soon.
If you are still on iOS3 you could try iBlueNova.
A: You can use iBlueNova; it is a commercial app that you have to pay for. Alternatively, you can jailbreak your iPhone and maybe then you can send pictures and files to other phones without needing a commercial app.
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Q: Is it possible to preserve Light Table (or Album) ordering when exporting from Aperture? I'd like to export my Light Table to disk using a custom counter that preserves the ordering of the Light Table. Alternatively, I'd like to do the same for an Album.
Thoughts?
A: This always works for me as is in Aperture (v 3.1.2).
Are you pressing v to get to the browser view for the specific album or light table before exporting. You can drag things into manual order or specify any other sort like Date, Rating or other sorting. At that point when you export as versions, the counter takes the pictures in the order shown.
Here a pair of clips of Light Tables and the control for ordering.
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Q: iPhone calendar alerts are not muted when vibrate switch is on I leave my iPhone in vibrate mode all the time. The switch still works (when I switch it the iPhone shows the ringer on/off notice).
This morning it started alerting me for calendar alerts with both vibration and audible chimes. Note that I'm NOT talking about clock/timer alarms.
I've rebooted the iPhone, and it's still alerting me both ways.
What else should I check?
A: The calendar alert is something that you asked for so will not be suppressed by the Silent switch. According to the HIG the switch is supposed to indicate that you do not wish to hear unsolicited sounds such as incoming call ringtones.
A: A firmware update resolved the issue for me. I'm not sure if something became corrupted, or if a setting had changed inadvertently, but it has been resolved.
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Q: Is Quicktime always pre-installed on the Macintosh OS? Does the Mac come with Quicktime pre-installed?
If so, what OS version (minimum) could be expected to have come with it pre-installed?
A: Every version of Mac OS X has QuickTime. QuickTime Pro is/was an optional paid extra, which included extra codecs and additional functionality.
The situation with "classic" Mac OS was rather more complicated, but I'm guessing you only care about OS X.
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Q: Is it possible to create an icon on home screen to a specific note? I'd like to to add an icon to my homescreen that takes me directly to a specific note. What I was thinking was doing it by having a bookmark in safari that triggers that note, and adding a shortcut to that bookmark to my homescreen. This would open safari, then open notes, to that note, similar to how an iTunes link in Safari opens the app store or iTunes app. Is this possible or is there an alternate solution?
is there a syntax like apps//notes.app/noteid or something to accomplish this?
iPhone 4
iOS 4.2
Why I want it: I use a specific note frequently and I'd like quick access to that one, without opening notes, scrolling to, and selecting it.
A: Unfortunately there's no url scheme for the Notes app, so there's no way to jump to a specific one.
There are two good sites for finding iOS app url schemes, handleOpenURL and the iPhone URL Schemes page on Akosma's wiki. The former has many more urls, but the latter occasionally has something the other doesn't.
A quick search in handleOpenURL for "text" and for "note" only shows one app that appears that it can do what you want (which doesn't mean it's the only app that does so, just that it's the only one listed in the site), though even then I'm not certain you'll be able to create the shortcut by hand.
I'm completely unfamiliar with the app and have no idea whether it's worthwhile, but I figure it's worth passing on: Notebooks for iPhone.
A: If you want to open only the same note every time there is an app for that: DraftPad. It also has some nifty url scheme feature called Assists you might like.
A: If you decide to switch to Notebooks (4.99 Euro at the moment) from the built-in Notes here's how you can create a springboard icon to your favorite note(s). It involves quite a bit of hacking and jailbreaking but I have tested it and it works.
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*Create a homescreen icon for a website (does not matter which, we will replace the URL anyway)
*
*For extra credit swap out its icon by following this tutorial
*Install Notebooks from the Appstore (if you haven't already)
*Create your note in Notebooks. Inside the note tap the second button from the right on the bottom button bar (an curved arrow pointing outwards from a rectangle) and tap "Copy Link". Now the URL for that note is in your clipboard.
*Install iFile from Cydia (if you haven't already)
*Browser in iFile to the folder /var/mobile/Library/Webclips on your iDevice. This folder contains all your homescreen bookmarks (Webclips).
*Look into each subfolder (each has a GUID as a name) until you find the webclip you have just created in point 1. (The easiest way I found is to take a look at the date the files in the folder were created shown right beside the file name.)
*Tap on the "Info.plist" and select "Property List Viewer"
*Replace the content of the URL field with the URL in your clipboard and tap Done.
*Exit iFile and enjoy.
If something goes wrong delete the webclip from springboard and try again.
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