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Q: How to reach websites that have failed while offline? When I try to open a website when my connection is down or while my modem is starting up, my Mac flags this url as unreachable.
When the connection is finally open and internet available, I still can not reach this web site as if the Mac doesn't try to reach it again and still displays me the error page. Other web sites (that I didn't try to reach while offline) are reachable...
Is there a way to reset this information so that the Mac really tries to reach url ?
A: I don't think you are seeing anything out of the ordinary here. My connection goes down all the time, and it's never been immediate for me, but refreshing does bring the site up faster.
My theory is that it just takes another amount of time for the browser to sort out that the connection is available again; the browser periodically pings the system to see if there is a connection available, and the lag you're seeing is waiting for the process to run its course again. Perhaps it pings once a minute as opposed to once every few seconds for fear of bogging down the processor.
Computers, as a rule, don't like it when things unexpectedly fail and thus take longer to get back up and running as opposed to when everything goes right.
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Q: Removing the default author for PDFs This is a real nit that I I'm picking :-).
I save a lot of stuff from the web as PDF files. Is there any way to not have the "Save as PDF" use my name as the author of the PDF by default, other than removing myself from my address book? I'll fill it in for those few times that I really am the author.
On OS X 10.6.4.
A: You are nit picking there! :)
It’s a complicated one, but I believe that it might be possible to experiment with:
Automator (have an action that takes a PDF and modifies it’s metadata)
PDF Services (have a service that is “Save As My AuthorLess PDF”) ;)
AppleScript (Both/All of the above)
I suggest you google around those concepts. This is a good starting point. All in all, the idea of your script is to use the Automator’s action called: “Set PDF Metadata” (you could then put blank data on purpose):
If you create a PDF Service capable of replacing the default one, but that also sets the metadata to Blank, you’ve won.
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Q: Save an attachment to my iDisk Is it possible to save a file received by e-mail to a folder on iDisk ? Watch out : The context is : web browsing on my MobileMe account.
A: Doesn't look like it. It would be a good feature though. You should send them a feature request.
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Q: Office 2008 in native languages I can't find how to buy it, so I assumed that on English is available.
Does anyone know if there are other languages available for this product, or like in Windows version a Profiling Tools that not only change the GUI locale but also adds the dictionaries in that language.
I'm currently searching the Portuguese version for a friend.
A: Office 2008 ships with a Portugese (and a Brazilian alternative) proofing tool as part of the package.
Source: Microsoft's list of proofing tools
A: Office 2008 for Mac is available in the following languages:
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*Danish (as part of the Nordic Pack)
*Dutch
*English
*Finnish (as part of the Nordic Pack)
*French
*German
*Italian
*Japanese
*Norwegian (as part of the Nordic Pack)
*Spanish
*Swedish
Office 2011 added Russian and Polish to this list.
I know that for Office 2008, the CD contained only one language, so it's not like other Mac applications that ship with all languages and change based on your system language settings.
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Q: Turn layout in Pages into a template I have a layout in Pages that I want to turn into a template. Here is what I have so far:
The green rectangle is an inserted shape. I'd like to use that as a title bar basically and put text on top of it. The other thing, I'd like to be able to do create a "title" template of sorts and whenever I need a title page, insert that template page and go from there.
How do I do this?
A: When you have a Pages document, you can always go to File -> Save as Template
After you’ve saved it, whenever you chose New -> From Template Chooser, you have a small section that says “My Templates”:
Your “Custom” templates should appear there.
For the second part of your question, what you need is what Pages call a section. The steps for creating a new section are pretty straightforward and you can find a lot of information on google, see samples here and here (find the part where a new section is created).
In short: Insert a “Section Break”, edit it, change the styles, add what you want (see the links to see tips about different things you can do, like having a different ‘first page’ than the rest, etc.).
Once you’re happy with your “section”, make sure the ‘caret’ (cursor) is blinking in any part of the section and go to Format -> Advanced -> Capture Pages:
The result is a sheet dialog like this:
Give it a name, make sure it includes the pages you want (1, 2, 3 or all, depending upon the complexity of your idea, in your case it would be ‘First Page Only’) and finally save the document as a “Template”.
The page(s) you’ve used to create a Section can be safety deleted before you save the template (unless you want your template to always start with those pages by default), because you have captured them as a section, they will always be available under the new template.
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Q: apple tv and roku - strong wireless? I have a broadband dsl at home, but my wireless signal isnt that strong in the living room. I am excited with getting one of these 2 devices, but I don't know how it will all work without cable.
If I am working at home or downloading stuff, then the available bandwidth is even lesser. Does that mean bad streaming and buffering? Will these devices let me buffer the movie when I am not at home and then watch the stream later?
Thanks.
A: The Roku HD has 802.11b/g WiFi. The Roku XD and XDS have 802.11b/g/n.
The Apple TV has 802.11a/b/g/n.
802.11n is the fastest network speed, and reaches the farthest. If the WiFi in your home is 802.11n, I strongly recommend choosing one of the players that supports that.
A: The new (black) AppleTV has an 8GB flash onboard so it should be able to store 2 or 3 HD movies locally without having to stream them again. I have 10Mbps cable and it only takes 10 seconds or so between purchase and the show starting to play.
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Q: How can I map a middle click to control click? Just started to use a Mac for my new job and not being able to use the middle button to open links in a new tab is killing me. I know I can press control and do a regular click but it's not the same. I know the Mac knows I'm trying to do something because it beeps at me when I press the middle button on my mouse. Is there any hope?
Note I tried the trick about setting expose dashboard to - but it didn't work.
A: Try holding the Command button instead. A Command click is a middle click. Control clicks give you a right click.
What kind of Mac? If you're using a Magic Mouse you can use a program like MagicPrefs to turn a three finger click into a Command click. If you're using the Magic Trackpad or the built-in trackpad on a MacBook/MacBook Pro there is a program called MiddleClick I've used that adds a three finger tap/click ability to map to the Command click.
A: Karabiner can be used to map mouse buttons. I haven't tested the following but it should be something like:
{
"description": "MouseButton3 to Ctrl+MouseButton1",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"pointing_button": "button3",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"caps_lock"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"pointing_button": "button1"
"modifiers": [
"control"
]
}
]
}
]
}
If you want to limit this mapping to the browser, something like the following in the manipulators block should do it:
"conditions": [
{
"type": "frontmost_application_if",
"bundle_identifiers": ["^com\\.google\\.Chrome$"]
}
],
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Q: Is there a list somewhere of all the special characters I can type using the option key? OS X lets me type special characters directly on the keyboard by holding the Option. For example: — is an em dash, “ and ” are curvy quotes, etc.
Is there a good cheat sheet listing all these keys somewhere? I tend to find myself holding option and running my hands up and down the keyboard looking for a specific character.
A: In the "Input menu" in the menu bar (to switch on System Preferences -> Language and Text -> Show Input method in menu bar.. Make sure Keyboard and Character Viewer in Select Input Methods to use is selected)
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*
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And you have your cheat sheet.
A: Apple moved things around. Starting with MacOS X 10.9 Mavericks you must go the the "Keyboard" preference pane, then to "Input Sources" and there you can activate "Show Input menu in menu bar".
original answer from 2010-10-01:
In the preference pane "International" under "Input Menu" activate "Character Palette" and "Keyboard Viewer".
You will then have access to the "Keyboard Viewer" in the menu bar.
A: There is indeed some software which will help you remind shortcuts.
You will find a list of official shorcuts here at apple.com.
To learn shortcuts, I find Eve the most appealing. Everytime you are using your mouse to execute a command or action, Eve will remind you of the shortcut which you can use for the next time.
Eve supports Mavericks, Lion and Mountain Lion.
Their are two more apps which are approaching an another attempt: CheatSheet and KeyCue.
They are giving you an instant overview of all shortcuts. Hold the cmd key for a couple of seconds, and a window will pop up with a cheat sheet. While CheatSheet is free, KeyCue costs $19.99
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Q: How can I prevent the SD version of a TV show from downloading in iTunes when I purchase an HD show? When I buy a TV show in iTunes in high-definition, at the time iTunes starts to download the show, it actually begins downloading two versions of the show: one in standard definition, and one in high definition.
This is a waste of my bandwidth!
I only care to have the HD version of a TV show downloaded. I've tried to cancel the SD version download that's paired with the HD one I ordered, and that temporarily solves the problem, but the next time I use iTunes to download something else, it seems to remember and restarts previously cancelled SD downloads! Must I completely download the SD version, and then delete it in order to clear the queue? That doesn't save my bandwidth :-(
Is there any way to prevent iTunes from downloading the SD version of a TV show I buy in HD?
A: There is no way to prevent this permanently, automatically.
For each individual purpose, you can contact iTunes Music Store customer support, and as them to remove the SD version from your downloads queue, but bear in mind that you will not be able to transfer the movie to any iPods etc that only support SD (most of them, except for the very latest incarnations).
Source: Second result of a google search
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Q: How secure is Mac OS X's security? My friend's MacBook Pro was recently stolen. Fortunately, it was protected with a password. How secure is the built-in protection ?
Can thieves access the data on the hard drive, and at what difficulty?
A: The current version of FileVault is secure against currently well-known attacks, if best practices are followed.
Some older versions of FileVault had serious issues. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault#Issues and https://discussions.apple.com/message/18835839#18835839 ; both have more detail. With older versions of and incautiously configured installations of MacOS, it's definitely easy to decrypt the contents of a FileVault-protected drive. Fortunately, those known issues in older versions of FileVault have been fixed.
Google for examples of some "best practices", such as the NSA's configuration guide for Mac OS X.
What was protected by a password is a key question... Do all accounts require a login password? Is there a boot-time password as well? Was Filevault (or other encryption software) used at all? Were good password practices followed? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A: If FileVault is not enabled, there are two easy ways to reset the login password in single user mode without even having access to another computer or installation media.
It doesn't reset the password of the login keychain, but the thief could still access most files normally. They couldn't use auto-fill in Safari or log in to accounts in Mail. But if you had set a webmail site to log in automatically and hadn't disabled the option to reset a password with an Apple ID, the thief could reset the Apple ID (it doesn't currently require answering security questions) and use it to reset the keychain password.
The hash of the login password (which is usually also the password of the login keychain) is stored in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/username.plist in 10.7 and 10.8. In 10.7 it was easy to crack even relatively complex passwords by using DaveGrohl, but 10.8 switched to PBKDF2, which limits it to about 10 guesses per second per core.
A: It depends on exactly what you mean by:
it was protected with a password
If it means that they were using FileVault, then their data should be pretty much inaccessible.
If it just meant that they had a login password, though, all the thieves have to do is boot the laptop off another disk, and they'll have immediate access to everything on the internal drive.
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Q: What software alternatives support streaming via AirPlay? The Apple TV arrived! I'm slightly bummed that I can only stream from iTunes, and therefore only use formats that iTunes supports. I haven't found a single other video player that supports AirPlay, though to be fair, AirPlay has only really been around since the new Apple TVs started arriving.
What other software supports streaming audio and video to AirPlay devices? If none, is AirPlay one of those closed Apple standards or have other projects pledged to support it?
A: To date, there are no 3rd party software implementations of AirPlay. The spec itself is fully patented (though most of these patents relate to the hardware aspects of the system) and is essentially a proprietary standard unique to Apple (though several hardware vendors have announced hardware that will use the standard - XtremeMac, Denon). The current analysis of the protocol itself seems to indicate that it is a further evolution of the previous AirTunes protocol (which itself was built on top of Bonjour), so you are likely to see software implementations appear after developers have had more time to experiment with the protocol.
A: Take a look at Airfoil.
A: AirPlay is effectively a rebranding of AirTunes and adds video/photo streaming. The AirTunes protocol, called RAOP (really just RTSP w/ encryption) remains mostly unchanged. Video streaming is a different animal. My understanding is that its basically push DAAP.
3rd-Party Software
Audio-Only
Airfoil
audio|acacia
Video+Audio
AirServer
For the sake of brevity and time, this list is non-exhaustive and I've only listed commercial software. I've personally noticed that some of the software products touting AirPlay/AirTunes support don't follow the protocols exactly and results vary. I guess you get what you pay for.
A: I really like Beamer. It's a little pricey ($20), but it was money well spent, for me! It functions very similarly to the ChromeCast, in that you're not actually "mirroring" the content from your computer screen, but rather, casting it wirelessly to the Apple TV. It supports every major file format, to date, as well. What I like most about it, is that one can still thumb around on their computer, while streaming their shows and/or movies. That's always been a huge downfall of the AirPlay function, for me... I am not a fan of mirroring, at all!! Anyhow, hope that helps anyone who may have stumbled across this thread.
A: I know it is old question but it may help others.
You can try AirMyPC software. It can wirelessly AirPlay Mirror your Windows computer to your AppleTV.
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Q: What are Mac OS X diagramming tools like Visio on Windows? Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible equivalent.
Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex information flows with smart objects and interconnect graphics that snap and bend as the user moves things around on the page. It evolved over the years to support other diagram and information flow views like IT diagrams and UI mockups.
What's out there that can replace Visio on the Mac?
A: We produce diagrams.net, it's not as complex as the named tool, but it does the majority of tasks in this field. It's free, plus there's a Desktop version available.
A: As others have mentioned OmniGraffle is a great Visio replacement. But if you want something free, I'd also recommend yED:
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
I use it on my Linux-based systems, but since its java-based, it works well on Mac OS X, as well as Windows.
A: Dia, it's not a native app, it uses x11 but it works ok.
There is also ConceptDraw PRO but this is another of those cross-plantform apps and doesn't work as well as OmniGraffle.
I would probably still recommend OmniGraffle for Mac.
A: OmniGraffle or OmniGraffle Pro: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/feature_comparison/
A: OmniGraffle is awesome, but quite pricy. If you're looking for Visio replacement for specifically UI mockups or really simple diagrams, you can use Balsamiq Mockups
A: Check out GenMyModel, a new browser-hosted UML modeler, cross-platform and free. It works on Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari (Mac OS) and provides UML-compliant modeling with code generation (java, SQL). It presently supports class diagrams and use case diagrams. You can also export images and PDF reports.
A: Surprised to see that Lucidchart isn't on here.
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*HTML5 based
*Supports all the IT libraries I want
*Import and export any Visio files
*It has a visio viewer that allows you to edit and view visio files. This is because its integrated with your google drive so it is easy for Lucidchart to allow you to work on those files and export it.
*Lucid chart has a collaborative interface that allows to easily work with small teams editing rather than having to send a diagram back and forth.
*Its free for a single user. (there are other options which do have prices attached which isn't too bad)
*It has a drag and drop feature which makes it easy to use and is very intuitive.
A: I have just come across another nice (open source) application for creating Diagrams and Mockups - http://pencil.evolus.vn/. It is not as professional and powerful as Omnigraffle, but for many situations it probably is enough, namely simple diagrams and mockups (which can be exported as HTML).
I also use some other solutions for diagrams (including UML diagrams), these are not for mockups:
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*Yed: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
*ArgoUml: http://argouml.tigris.org/
A: An alternative viewer to the one mentioned in Donald B's answer is:
Enolsoft Visio Viewer for Mac
A smart file viewing tool to support the use of Visio files by Mac OS users, enabling them to view, save and print Microsoft Visio drawings and diagrams on Mac OS X 10.7 and higher.
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*View Microsoft Visio Drawings in VSD format easily on Mac.
*Convert Visio to PDF with original elements retained.
*Support multi-tab viewing to switch between multiple Visio files easily.
It is a "Paid-For" product however it is available as a "Free Trial", to allow you to try before you buy (if so desired).
A: While I love Omnigraffle, it isn't cost effective for most. A cheaper alternative for me was Diagrammix, especially since it allows me to use Omnigraffle stencils to create network diagrams, E-R diagrams, and flowcharts, for example.
A: I personally like MaSSHandra. The approach of it is a bit different to what MS Visio has as it is a 3D tool and provides other tools like autodiscovery of networks. And it's cross-platform.
A: Check out Napkin. It's $39.99 on Mac App Store.
A: The Opensource Apache OpenOffice offering includes a visio-like tool which is appropriate for drawing shapes. It supports windows, linux and Mac.
You may give it a try:
https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
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Q: What is the thinking behind pushing the writing area in Pages to the left? For better or for worse, I am so used to Microsoft Word. The page is in the center of the window surrounded by gray. Pages pushes the writing area to the left. Why is this?
I don't like full screen mode (because I don't like to be fully immersed so as to better grab notes, links, do research, etc), and I don't always like the page thumbnails open. I don't like the window to be any smaller than the whole screen because I don't like seeing the clutter underneath windows.
What's the rationale? Is it just to be 'different' than Word?
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*Microsoft Word's Page Layout
*Apple Pages closest attempt to mimic this layout
A: The reasoning behind these kind of differences is what makes OS X different from other OSes. The MS Word behavior you describe was born in (or at least comes from) Windows. The Pages “page” allows you to resize the window and make the content fit the size, therefore occupying the entire document window. Since you can option+cmd+P to show the pages thumbnails, my guess is that the way Cocoa control works makes more sense if the page is left-aligned. Since under OS X you can only resize a window from the lower right corner, this also means they don’t have to worry about keeping your page visible if you perform a fancy resize from a different place (because you can’t). Lower right means you’ll just be making the visible area smaller, but never really “covering” part of the horizontal part of the page, and if you do, Pages will make it smaller to a certain degree until it won’t let you make the window smaller (horizontally speaking).
Could all this be made if the page was in the middle like MS Word?
Possibly, but it would have looked much worse and the space on the left of the page would have been wasted space. You would also have a “moving” page when you resize if you had previously zoomed in in order to accommodate the contents in a proper way.
If you keep you document window the size you want to see it, I don’t see why you need the page in the center, since the MS Word border you talk to, is a wasted screen space. If you want to see the text in a more “relative to a real page” thing, you can always use “Page Thumbnails” (and make it bigger) or turn on “Show Layout” shift+cmd+L, but that’s as best as you can get.
I really never thought about this difference until I read your question, but after using Pages for a couple of years, I can say I like the Pages’ approach better.
It’s a matter of window management and operating system differences I guess.
A: The application Isolator might help you, at least a bit. It should allow you to keep the Pages window not maximized but still hide the windows underneath it so you can better focus on Pages.
A: The Microsoft Way =/= the intuitive choice of all humans. It's just what you're used to if you're used to using Microsoft software.
It took me a while to figure out what you guys were even talking about, because I hate seeing that gray wasted space anyway and configure my windows in either program so there isn't any. The Pages way minimizes this wasted space, though, therefore to me it is better. (Though I do wish they had something like the Word 'normal' view.)
A: I don't understand your arguments of "more natural" and "simple and logical" when talking about placing a piece of paper.
If I write something, I like to keep the paper on my right side as I write with my left hand.
I'm not saying this is the only way, I'm just saying that for me it's more natural and more logical to keep the paper closer to my writing hand for less strain and movement of the arm.
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Q: Is it possible to update the preinstalled versions of both MySQL and PHP in OS X? I'm running 10.6.4 and PHP reports itself as version 5.3.2 (5.3.3 is available) and mySQL reports version 5.1.45 (5.1.51 is available)
I know they are minor releases but is it possible to easily update either of these? If so, any hints or pointers as to how?
A: Briefly; no there is no easy way to update them. (Assuming that compiling from source is not considered easy)
I would strongly caution against modifying the system installed versions as you're likely to have your updated versions broken when Apple issues an update that updates them. (Usually Security Updates and has bitten some users/sysadmins when Perl has been updated)
If you wanted to update them it's a matter of downloading the source files and installing it over top of the provided versions.
As a reasonable alternative I recommend installing your own managed version of PHP and MySQL into /usr/local or using your packaging software of choice (MacPorts, Fink or Homebrew) or prepared installer (eg. MySQL's .pkg installer that installs into /usr/local).
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Q: Is there such thing as a SuperDrive enclosure? The OWC Data Doubler allows you to remove the SuperDrive of a MacBook or MacBook Pro and install a secondary drive. This leaves you with two drives in your Mac laptop, and a SuperDrive sitting on your desk. Is there any sort of SuperDrive enclosure that would allow you to put a SuperDrive inside of it, and then plug into your computer via USB?
A: Yes, I have this one. I got it at Fry's in exchange for one by sabrent that didn't work with my mid-2010 superdrive. This new one works just fine with my removed superdrive on 10.6.4, even though the box says it's compatible with basically every version of windows but does not mention OS X.
The one caveat... it comes with a wall adapter for powering the driver rather than a second usb cable. However, I have a USB to male power cable. I plan to remove the power connector and swap it for the connector that is on the plug in adapter that came with the enclosure. The adapter just outputs 5V 2000mA, so I don't see any reason why a straight USB connection wouldn't work just fine.
Check out the MCE Optibay alternatives thread on macrumors.com:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=680228&page=40
A: Yes, OWC sells one that can be purchased in a bundle with the Data Doubler. MCE also bundles one with their Optibay product.
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Q: Experience with iLugger? I have an iMac and I use it for development and video editing. I am looking for greater portability and I'm considering a MacBook or MacBook Pro. My other option is an iLugger.
I'm looking for owners of iLugger to share their experiences with iLugger and if it is a worthy buy.
A: I love my iLugger!!!! You get exactly what you pay for. The only con I can say is the weight upon your shoulder, when using the shoulder strap.. Looks like they added wheels now, so this definitely is a good buy.
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Q: Are there any consumer style websites that offer WebDav support? iWork for iPad now has WebDav export/import options, DropBox doesn't support WebDav.
Where can I find a service that has WebDav support? Besides setting up my own server, is there any consumer (and ideally free) site that does this?
A: The Omni Group Forum thread, List of free webDAV sync providers, has links to a number of possibilities.
A: I believe you are looking for Box.NET. It has WebDav access (among other things)
(Source).
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Q: What does Apple Hardware Test error "4HDD/11/40000004:SATA(0,0)" mean? I have a 2007 24" iMac with 4GB RAM and internal 320GB HD. A while ago the machine froze and then would not boot. When I run the Extended Apple Hardware Test I get the error "4HDD/11/40000004:SATA(0,0)". Is this more likely to be a problem with the HD or the logic board?
A: A quick web search for that error indicates that it is a hard drive error. Some have suggested being able to boot from the disk in either Safe Mode or Target Disk Mode from the system install disk, mainly to get needed content off before a complete failure if it hasn't happened yet. Either way, you need a new hard drive.
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Q: First iPhone, what should I Do? So, I've decided to go for an iPhone 4. But since I am new to the whole iPhone thing, what are the things that I should know, to make the maximum use of the device?
Some of the questions I would like to know the answer:
*
*what are the apps I should install?
*How do I charge the battery?
*The temperature the iPhone should be exposed to in order to prolong the lifespan?
A: 1) That entirely depends on what you want to do. There are a bunch of app recommendation discussions here based around games, productivity, etc. Rather than rehash them, I'd suggest searching those out.
2) Plug it into a USB port on your computer. The phone also comes with a wall adapter for the USB cable so you can charge it from a wall socket.
3) Don't stick it in the oven or the freezer and you should be fine.
A: Apple has a handy "iPhone Temperate Zone" chart on their iPhone battery page.
As for what apps to install: the reason apps are user-installable is because everybody wants different ones! But also, if you're in Malaysia, you probably have a different selection of available apps in your App Store from most other users here, anyway.
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Q: How do I subscribe to podcast in iTunes remotely? I have an iPhone 3Gs that is synchronized with my home PC (Windows Vista).
But I spend most of the day at work (unsurprisingly), I don't have iTunes on my work PC and I never connect my iPhone to it.
Often, while at work, I see a link to a podcast that I want to listen to later - but I can't subscribe to it on the spot (because I'm not near my iTunes PC)
What I want is to subscribe to the podcast on my work PC, over the web (without installing iTunes) and have the podcast waiting for me in iTunes on my home PC.
Is that possible? I can't find anything like this in iTunes and can't find any 3rd party application or service that can do this.
A: I don’t know of a software that can do that automatically, however you have two choices:
1) If you want the podcast to be downloaded and ready, you will have to remote control your home PC and do it normally as if you were sitting in front of your computer. (Either through VNC or Windows Remote Connection)
2) If you don’t mind doing it when you get to your home, you can use a service like Dropbox and have a text file with the URLs. Since Dropbox will sync automatically, you can open the file when you get home and the urls will be there. Or use a service like Instapaper to save the URLs that will be ready when you get home to be added to your home iTunes.
A: Another option is to use an app like Instacast. Instacast allows you to manage and listen to podcasts within the app, all without using iTunes. It features its own player, 2x playback mode, bi-directional skipping and AirPlay support.
A: I was about to post an Applescript to handle subscriptions over mail then I realized you said you were using a PC…
I would go with using something like Instapaper or even just emailing the iTunes link to yourself, then simply click the links when you get home.
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Q: Password keeper for iPhone, Mac and Windows? Are there any (preferably free/cheap) solutions for syncing and accessing encrypted passwords on a Mac, a PC and an iPhone?
A: http://lastpass.com
Runs on virtually anything, and has awesome security. Not the prettiest, but the best features for the price.
A: I use KeePassX, which does the job, although it isn't as polished as 1Password the price is right. It does also work pretty well storing the file in DropBox and accessing the same file from KeePass for windows.
A: I've used http://supergenpass.com/, it's a bit different than the other solutions but it works well.
A: 1Password
It's great and syncs on the iOS platform, and has a beta for Windows too now. :)
A: I've used PasswordWallet to synchronize my Mac with my mobile device -- first a Palm Pilot, then the Treo, now the iPhone. Very nice, I couldn't manage without it.
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Q: Sending link in Safari via IM Does anyone know of a Safari mechanism (extension in Safari 5, perhaps), that will allow a person to send the current URL via instant message? Ideally, it would pop up a list of contacts.
A: If you are using Adium, you can send the current Safari link by clicking on the toolbar item "Insert link to active page in Safari" on the chat window with a contact.
If you need to send it directly from Safari, you may need to create an automator action or applescript service.
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Q: Wifi shared from Macbook comes and goes I have a new iPod Touch, and an old(er) Mac. To connect my iPod Touch to the internet at home, I set up my Mac to share its internet connection (ethernet) over wifi.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel (Core 2 Duo) Mac. For completeness, the "sharing" control panel says:
Share your connections from: Built-in Ethernet
To computers using: (X) Airport
and the Airport Options say:
Network Name: (some name)
Channel: Automatic
[X] Enable encryption (using WEP)
Password: (some 5-letter word)
Confirm password: (again)
WEP Key Length: 40-bit (more compatible)
I used this setup for a couple weeks with no problem at all. A day or two ago, sometime in the afternoon, it got funny: the connection would work for a few seconds just fine, and then cut out for a few seconds, then come back, etc. Sometimes I can sit here with my iPod and watch the network status icon at the top of the display come and go.
It's not a strength issue: I'm right next to it, and it always shows max bars in the iPod control panel. It's not a WEP issue, because it accepts my password, and if I turn off WEP entirely it does the same thing. If I'm in the iPod control panel, it always shows max signal strength for my network -- it just disconnects me regularly, and frequently. (This is especially annoying if I go into an app like Safari, because it asks me to pick a network and retype my password every 10 seconds.) It's not an iPod issue, because the wifi still works perfectly on all other wireless networks I use.
Has anyone seen this before? I haven't tried rebooting yet because I have a ton of things open. Is there some way to restart the networking subsystem on Mac OS that might help this?
A: I suggest you restart your box to make sure that it’s just not a problem there. You could technically turn off the AirPort and turn it back on (that’d restart most of the stuff), however the “problem” could be on the Kernel level, which would only be fixed with a proper restart or even a hardware buffer, which a cold shutdown would most likely fix.
In any case, if you still want to experiment, try changing the Channel from Automatic to something you can use in your country and move it, maybe somebody (neighborhood?) brought new devices or networks next to you and that causes new interference that wasn’t there two days ago.
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Q: In Pages, What is this Line Under a Rectangle Shape? There is a persistent thing going on in Pages where there is a line under a rectangle shape when I make it. How do I get rid of it? I don't want it to show up when I export the document to a PDF.
A: Simple. Make sure you've selected the object you want to remove the line from. Click your inspector, and navigate over to the graphic tab (see screenshot). select none. Last screenshot shows the result.
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Q: Using git on the iPhone I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running 4.0.1, and I recently installed git from Cydia just for fun. I've noticed in recent weeks that a number of developers have been throwing their theme/plugin source code up on GitHub, which is theoretically awesome because updating is a 2-command process (cd /private/var/stash/Themes/<theme>.theme/ and git pull) that can be done on the phone itself.
But when I try to clone a repo, this happens:
Dylan:/private/var/stash/Themes root# git clone "http://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme"Initialize GMT Statusbar Icons.theme/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/var/stash/Themes/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme/.git/
error: File 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (http://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme/objects/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000) corrupt
Getting pack list for http://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme
Getting alternates list for http://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme
Also look at "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitiona
Also look at <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lan
Also look at <h2 class="logo"><a href="http://github.com">Brought to you by GitHub</
Also look at <li><a href="http://github.com/blog" class="blog">The GitHub Blog</
Also look at <li><a href="http://support.github.com">Support</
Also look at <li><a href="http://github.com/contact">Contact Us</
Getting pack list for "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitiona
error: Protocol "http not supported or disabled in libcurl
Getting pack list for <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lan
error: Couldn't resolve host '<html xmlns="http:'
Getting pack list for <h2 class="logo"><a href="http://github.com">Brought to you by GitHub</
error: Couldn't resolve host ' <h2 class="logo"><a href="http:'
Getting pack list for <li><a href="http://github.com/blog" class="blog">The GitHub Blog</
error: Couldn't resolve host ' <li><a href="http:'
Getting pack list for <li><a href="http://support.github.com">Support</
error: Couldn't resolve host ' <li><a href="http:'
Getting pack list for <li><a href="http://github.com/contact">Contact Us</
error: Couldn't resolve host ' <li><a href="http:'
error: Unable to find 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 under http://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme
Cannot obtain needed object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
fatal: Fetch failed.
Can anyone tell me why? Am I missing something?
A: It looks like github is sending you back the 404 page because you're requesting it specifically over http. Try this url instead:
git://github.com/dcinzona/LockInfo-Status-Bar-Icons---Winterboard-Theme.git/GMT Statusbar Icons.theme
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Q: What's a good Windows RDP client for Mac? I administer a number of Windows machines, and am trying to find a really good application to remote desktop in to them from my Mac. I've tried CoRD, and I really like its library approach to saved sessions (as opposed to Microsoft's file based approach), and tabbed sessions are great when working on a bunch of machines. Unfortunately, it's just too buggy for serious use, and given that it averages less than 2 releases a year, I have little hope that that will change. Microsoft's official client is very bare bones and doesn't support connecting on non-standard ports (which I need).
Is there a remote desktop client for Mac out there that's both fully featured and not buggy?
Edit: Apparently the Microsoft doc I read that states that the Microsoft RDC client can't be used on non-standard ports is out of date.
A: In my experienced opinion, CoRD and Jump Desktop are the best RDP clients for Mac. CoRD is more for those that know what they're doing - it's simple, stable, fast and reliable. Jump Desktop however is for those that are new to Remote Desktop Connections and want something that makes things easy. It's easily the slickest RDP client for Mac too and looks great. There's a useful extensive review of the best RDP clients for Mac here: http://machow2.com/rdp-for-mac/
A: Reading this answer I learned about Royal TSX and after a few hours I'm happy with it.
In addition to RDP it has a terminal plugin for SSH/Telnet connections with X forwarding. Mac OS terminal can do the same, but connection documents are handy.
The terminal plugin also allows COM port use. I have not tested this but I hope that works OK because I have not found a good terminal program for plain COM port. I still use minicom.
Licensing terms are generous enough that in my case I can use it for free but I may consider purchasing to encourage the maintenance.
A: Use RDC (Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2)
This free download runs natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs
Use One Mac, unlimited Windows.
A: The best RDP client for OSX (whether free or not) is Thinomenon RDC. It supports audio, printing, scanning, and most importantly, RemoteApp/RAIL.
A: New Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 supposed to be best RDP client for Mac.
Works super smooth btw.
A: Check out Royal TSX if you're after a full featured connections manager that can do RDP as well as other protocols like, VNC, SSH, Telnet, etc.
http://www.royaltsx.com/ts/osx
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the mentioned product.
A: I use a program called CoRD.
It's worked well for me without fussing with any configuration files or properties.
It's been a while since I tried any alternatives, so I'll give RDC another try.
I don't remember why I rejected it before.
A: If you are willing to spend some money, there is LogMeIn, which I have used for my home Macs with great success. On the free side, we used to use "Chicken of the VNC" but decided to go with Microsoft's official client for reasons unknown to me. Six of one half dozen of the other, if you ask me. Frankly, the VNC market is pretty banal.
A: You may want to try iTAP.
It seems it does support NLA per the specs. (I only tested TSG, which works fine).
If you come from CoRD, you will find the overall frame quite basic, but the emulation itself seems to work pretty well (I normally work in full screen mode and switch windows with the top menu).
A: Chrome Remote Desktop is cross-platform. "Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows (XP and above) and Mac (OS X 10.6 and above) desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks."
Used LogMeIn til they yanked free utility, Chrome RD works almost as well, but I can't reboot a computer without losing connection completely. It must then be reconnected locally - AHRRRG.
So, still looking for cross-plat solution, too.
A: Since updating my iMac to El Capitan 10.11.4, CORD Version 0.5.7 (5701) is no longer crashing.
I've been using it since Tiger. It began crashing intermittently with OSX Yosemite, then would always crash on quitting with El Capitan before 10.11.4, and often crash on changing screen resolution. After 2 days of use, I have no longer seen a crash with OSX 10.11.4.
A: try Teamviewer I am not sure about the multiple tabs for easy switch never had a chance to test it. Also you can set it for lan incoming connection so you can connect via a lan rather than internet.
You can create a free account and add all machines to it, So you can even see which system is on and connect with one click
A: Microsoft now has a beta for yet another new RDP client: Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac v8.2.20
It still has a variety of problems, but it at least looks more like a MacOSX application.
A: The best RDP client for Mac is Thinomenon.
I can even run .rdp files from remote apps and work only the application does not show the entire desktop
A: I’m looking for an RDP client to work with Windows on VirtualBox running on my Linux server. The idea is that when I upgrade my Mac with the newer processor, the Linux server can handle the old Intel stuff.
I tried Microsoft’s RDP client, but window sizing is a real pain, and I really hate the way a window floats around inside the larger RDP window.
So far, Jump Desktop is working well, and window resizing is good. It also does for my VNC client. I’ve had a few issues with sessions crashing when adjusting the Windows screen resolution, and have submitted a support request.
A: I use Real VNC. It works really well for me.
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Q: Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac? Does the new AppleTV need to be connected to the internet to access content on my Mac?
A: Turns out it needs to be on the internet initially, in order to set up Home Sharing.
But once Home Sharing is set up, it can access content on your Mac as long as your Mac is on the same local network, and has iTunes running.
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Q: iPhone / iPod / iPad Sync Problems I have an iPhone 4, iPod Touch and iPad... And I have problems with syncing.
If I download an app directly to my iPhone and put it in a folder, and then sync my iPhone with my Mac, it will pull that app out of the folder and put it on the last homescreen of my iPhone.
If I download a song to my iPhone and add it to a playlist, then sync my iPhone with my Mac, it will pull the song out of the playlist and maybe even remove it from my iPhone.
If I sync the iPad or iPod with my Mac, it will add a bunch of random apps that I either previously deleted or did not request at all.
Any ideas how I can make this a more managable process?
A: You might have an old version of iTunes which does not support folders. The current version is 10.0.1 so I would highly recommend upgrading. If you have the latest then try to reinstall it. This should fix your app/playlist issues.
As for the applications being randomly added ... uncheck the "Automatically sync new apps" box if it is checked. If it is already unchecked, then hopefully reinstalling iTunes will fix this too.
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Q: Upgrading from Parallels Desktop 5 to 6 caused DNS query resolution "slowness" at Mac OS X level Anybody else feeling this/have any idea how to fix it without reinstalling Snow Leopard?
This seems very similar to problems PD used to have back in 2008 (forum link)
FWIW, my current network interfaces are:
$ ifconfig -l
lo0 gif0 stf0 en0 en1 fw0 vnic0 vnic1 vmnet1 vmnet8
(And yes, as you can see from the NICs, I also run VMWare Fusion 3.1.1, but the issue started upon upgrading to PD6)
$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fd18:d7ce:18ee:1e60:223:32ff:fea0:fade prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN
media: autoselect
status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN
inet6 HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.0.198 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
media: <unknown subtype>
status: active
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr 90:84:0d:ff:fe:ba:6d:2a
media: autoselect <full-duplex>
status: inactive
vnic0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:08
inet 10.211.55.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.211.55.255
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:8%vnic0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 64
media: autoselect
status: active
vnic1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:09
inet 10.37.129.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.37.129.255
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:9%vnic1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 64
media: autoselect
status: active
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet 172.16.155.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.155.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet 192.168.102.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.102.255
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222
A: Start by making some tests in your Terminal:
*
*Use nslookup and try to lookup certain stuff (www.google.com, www.ibm.com, etc) See how it works from there.
*Use ‘dig’ (another command) to do the same. Dig will be much more verbose and will show you more information about the Lookup per se.
*Make sure your DNSs are correct in /etc/resolv.conf (try google’s 8.8.8.8 if unsure).
*Check your Console for possible messages related to Network adapters or loops going on.
Edit: It all seems “normal”. Do you use Shared networking? Can you try disabling vnic0 and vnic1 (those are the parallels ones). I recall having slowness problems (back in parallels 3.x) which I fixed by using Bridged Networking instead of shared. I didn’t think the issue was still an issue a few years later!
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Q: Why does GPS on the iPhone use so much power? I keep reading in articles that GPS on the iPhone, or any cell phone for that matter, uses a lot of power, but I've never heard an explanation of why.
Why is this? The phone doesn't have to transmit like it does with 3G or WiFi.
Does the actual act of receiving and amplifying the signal take a lot of power?
Or is it used by the CPU? I find it hard to believe that the computation necessary to process the GPS signal would tax a modern processor.
So where does the power drain come from?
A: GPS chips draw about 50 mW at full power (see also here, modern mobile chips draw even less). The antenna does not draw power, that's not how antennas work (I assume the signal amplification and filtering is handled inside the GPS chip. If not, this would add slightly to the power draw). So in 1 hour, the chip draws 50mWh from the battery if at full power. The iPhone battery has a capacity of ~5000 mWh (~1400mAh*3.8V), meaning it could power the chip for 100 hours, if that were the only thing it did. In reality, the chip will not continuously run at full power and it will power down even if GPS is enabled, unless an app is actively requiring GPS tracking - in which case a much higher power draw is caused by the CPU and screen (0.5-1.5W).
A: Some real life measurements, taken with GPS tracking on, offline map used (Galileo app), all other radios off (airplane mode) and power save on.
*
*iPhone SE, iOS 9 consumes 220 mW average
*iPhone 5s consumes 480 mW average
for reference, pre-android, GPS with Trekbuddy
*legacy Sonim consumes 700 mW average
This supports the statement above, 50 mW (one quarter) of the power is used for the GPS and the rest for display and other smarts in the phone.
You can always burn more power, but that is not because of the GPS, but most likely for loading online maps with poor/marginal mobile data coverage.
A: To obtain a semi precise GPS position, you need at least three satellites (but usually four or more is required to obtain a decent degree of precision) to triangulate your position. The more you have the better the accuracy.
A GPS receiver needs to power its antenna, and constantly process the signal sent by each satellite. Remember that satellites are continually transmitting messages. (50 bits/sec as far as I can remember)
Satellites emit messages specifying their exact location, trajectory, speed, the time each message was sent and the rough location of all the other satellites in the constellation.
By comparing this info to the time the signal was received a distance from the satellite to the receiver can be determined. When you have three or more satellites you can triangulate your location in three dimensions relative to the positions of the satellites.
The iPhone (and other phones) use A-GPS, which is designed to (believe it or not) among other things, make the GPS work better in poor reception areas (cities?) and reduce the amount of information that the receiver needs from the satellites, thus saving battery power from the Antenna.
The parts of the GPS signal about location, speed and orbital trajectory usually drop out first when in low reception, that’s where A-GPS fits in, feeding that info for every satellite in that part of the world to the phone, from a central database via the mobile network. Now the phone just has to search for the short timing signals from each satellite, which are easier to receive than the other parts of the transmission.
When all that information is calculated, an algorithm (there are a few as far as I know) is used to compute the position of the actual receiver.
Now add to that the fact that GPS messages are encoded and that satellites broadcast the messages at about 50 bits per second. And that each message is really a subset of frames with time, position, error correction, etc, etc.
There are more factors involver, but for the purpose of making this simple, the GPS’s cpu must constantly use the radio (already power hungry) to capture the signal (which may be weak!) for usually four or more (sometimes up to 20!) satellites that are constantly sending packages, then it must decode and process them, perform calculations to analyze the results and in some cases draw a map or feed an application with the info.
As you can see, this sounds easy but it’s not. There’s a lot of CPU processing involved in the back (plus the antenna’s power!)
So the GPS power consumption usually comes from the real time nature of the operation. Powering the antenna, listening for information and processing it, uses power, more than just a standby radio antenna (the phone) waiting for a call. Plus the A-GPS uses also the phone’s radio and (if available) Wi-Fi networks to determine its location (and use less GPS info), which means, more power is used at the same time.
The Wikipedia GPS page has a lot of detailed information if you want to get the specifics and/or dive into more GPS geekery, including the math and error correction stuff.
A: Although Martin's answer has tons of great information, I'm going to add an answer that differs on several key points as I don't feel comfortable editing his article to change it substantially.
In a nutshell, the CPU takes the power and the GPS keeps the CPU from sleeping. Furthermore, with background location updates, apps can now enter low power state even while geo fencing and remote recording is enabled so that the app can wake itself up periodically to get more accurate fixes without keeping the CPU+GPS circuitry active for hours on end. By triggering a high accuracy GPS fix once every 15 to 45 minutes while hiking is far more energy efficient than needing constant location updates which is what the OS changes now allow.
Yes, the GPS antenna circuitry does take some additional power to do the timing calculations and spit out a location but since the antenna is receive only and no signal needs to be amplified, this power drain is more of a rounding error than the cause of high power consumption. The signal processing and complicated math to spit out location, probable error and speed vectors is done in the GPS silicon chip and not the CPU of the phone.
All portable GPS units have to receive and process the GPS antenna signals - so that power usage is likely to be similar across all devices using modern GPS chipsets. Also the energy of two AA batteries is 4.2 WHr which compares very well to iPhone 3 and 4 battery capacities. Thus the big difference in run times between say a Garmin and an iPhone is the app that uses the data runs a much more power hungry iPhone CPU and screen.
Having an app in the foreground constantly processing GPS data (or in the background but sleeping very much less than normal) is what makes the iPhone use battery energy so much faster than a single purpose GPS unit. (whose screen and CPU use much less power and sleep far more of the time than the iPhone does)
A poorly designed iPhone app that is constantly checking and sending / receiving data to report a location or react to the latest new data will use more energy than you might expect. A well designed app that needs to be running all the time will similarly drain the battery of most iPhones in 3 to 5 hours.
If the iPhone is transmitting data or searching for faint cell signals - that circuitry will be on it's highest consumption level. Hiking out of cell coverage is a "double whammy" of the cell modem transmitting on high power to talk to a distant tower or search for coverage at the same time GPS location data is preventing the CPU from sleeping as often. You can see this by going to the settings app and comparing the Standby and Usage times with and without GPS active.
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Q: WiFi Connection Lost Periodically - Must Reboot iPod Touch to Restore I have a 2nd generation iPod Touch running OS 4 that I (usually) leave powered on 24x7. What I notice that I am unable to go online - I cannot check my email, browse the web, etc. My guess is that my wireless router's DHCP tables have recycled (or whatever the right word is) and that the iPod Touch needs to renew its IP address.
If I go to the iPod Touch's Settings it lists my network and the DHCP-granted IP address, DNS settings, and so forth. If I try to renew the lease the existing settings are erased and the iPod thinks for a while before bringing up a new IP address. However, this new one starts with 169.254 (or something like that) when it should start with 192.168. Needless to say, the connectivity problems persist.
The only way I can get back online is to power down the iPod Touch then power it back on, which takes upwards of a minute. Is this a known problem with the iPod Touch? Is it an issue with my router? Am I stuck rebooting the iPod Touch when this situation unfolds?
Thanks!
A: Numbers starting with 169... are self assigned numbers and means the iPhone can't find a DHCP server to connect to.
This used to happen to my iPhone on an earlier OS version (3 point something). I haven't seen it for a while. Switching to and from "Airplane Mode" was enough to get the iPhone to acquire a new address.
PS. Is this an answer or a comment?
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Q: Is there any way to have an iPad auto update its date and time? On my iPhone, my date and time are set automatically. Is there any way to do the same thing on the iPad to ensure it always displays the correct time?
A: It should update automatically by default (Settings → General → Date & Time).
Are you running the latest iPad OS (3.2.2)? I have a vague recollection of a bug in the iPad that caused the time to go out of sync that might have been fixed in a software update. I can't seem to find any info about it, but you might want to update the software just in case.
A: It seems that the setting is only available on the 3G model.
It does not exist on the latest version of iOS (4.2.1) on the Wi-Fi model.
A: The Settings -> General -> Date & Time panel looks like this on a Wi-Fi iPad running iOS 4.2.1:
Old-school… with a new-school interface.
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Q: Has anyone experienced ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? I used a Magic Mouse for the past few months. Very soon after I started using it I developed some aching in my hand. Over time this has grown to be more or less constant, even when not using the mouse for a while. I just switched back to an old bulky Logitech mouse, and just resting my hand on it feels much better. The Magic Mouse seems way too flat to be comfortable for prolonged use.
I know this is a rather subjective question, but have other people experienced similar ergonomic problems with the Magic Mouse? Is there any study about it?
A: Probably does.
Which is why I picked up the Magic Mouse Fix. Worked excellent.
Then I got the Magic Trackpad and realized why I hate mice.
A: I have serious pain in the base of my thumb because of this device. I will try the trackpad and if that doesn't take care of it, I'll be switching to a Microsoft mouse.
A: You're seeing some first indications of RSI because you're using your hand in ways you're not used to, and possibly because the mouse doesn't fit your hand.
Switching to a normal mouse is a good first aid, especially since you noticed that the problem disappeared or became less of a problem. For some people, it just takes time to get used to new movements, while others won't be able to use the new device for longer periods of time. Those unlucky people should not force themselves to use devices that aren't comfortable for them, and this might include you.
The problem with the magic mouse, IMHO, is that it's too small to really be useful as a gesture device because you're gesturing with the same hand that you use to hold it. That's bound to be awkward, which stresses your hand's anatomy, and some people develop problems from that. Others might not notice any problems -- everybody is different.
Solution:
*
*Change to a different mouse.
*If you must use gesture input, use a separate device for that. Apple offers the magic touchpad, which is a simpler and smaller version of the original FingerWorks iGesture series of devices which you can still buy used on eBay. And their laptops have multitouch trackpads too.
A: I own a Magic Mouse but don't use it regularly. I haven't notice any aching in my hand. I know another person who suffers from RSI and uses it with his left hand instead of his right. No problem too.
A: I would suggest using 3M Ergonomic Mouse. It works best for me and many programmers/hackers I know.
A: I've had a magic mouse for just over a week (as part of a new iMac) and have started feeling RSI type pain in my hand just below the fingers after prolonged use (ie., constant use for 30mins or more). I've never had any pain from the 25 years of using a normal mouse on a daily basis.
I purchased Apple Care with my new Mac and have contacted Apple about this issue today. Their response was; "This is the first we have heard of this." Despite lots of complaints on the internet about ergonomic problems of the magic mouse, apparently I am the first person to advise Apple direct of this!! Hmmm, i don't think so.
Their solution - buy a Track Pad, or buy a USB Logitech mouse.
Shocking. I would've expected better from Apple.
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Q: OS X - AppleScript Question about moving files daily to another folder (folders vary) I am currently using this ( http://lifehacker.com/193778/download-of-the-day--auto+applescript-tickler-file ) for a tickler file system and have it setup in my Dropbox (so it works across systems). There are just a couple of things from making it perfect. If anyone can help me out that would be superb.
What I'm after is a script or workflow that will take the folders contents for the previous day (they change each day and are numbered) and move them to the current day. So then I can set it in as an alarm to perform in the morning every day.
Thanks very much.
A: If I understand your requirements correctly, then this script should do what you want. Make sure to change the username on the first line to your username.
set username to "lizzan"
set cy to (year of (current date)) as integer
set cm to (month of (current date)) as integer
set cd to (day of (current date)) as integer
set yd to yesterday(cy, cm, cd)
set yy to item 1 of yd
set ym to item 2 of yd
set yd to item 3 of yd
set yFolder to "Macintosh HD:Users:" & username & ":Documents:To Do:" & yy & ":" & ym & ":" & yd
set cFolder to "Macintosh HD:Users:" & username & ":Documents:To Do:" & cy & ":" & cm & ":" & cd
tell application "Finder"
move every file of folder yFolder to cFolder
end tell
on yesterday(y, m, d)
set d to d - 1
if d ≤ 0 then
set m to m - 1
if m ≤ 0 then
set y to y - 1
set m to 12
end if
set thirtyones to {1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12}
set thirties to {4, 6, 9, 11}
if m is in thirtyones then
set d to 31
else if m is in thirties then
set d to 30
else if leapyear(y) then
set d to 29
else
set d to 28
end if
end if
set yd to {y, m, d}
return yd
end yesterday
on leapyear(y)
if y mod 4 is 0 then
if y mod 100 is 0 then
if y mod 400 is 0 then
return true
end if
return false
end if
return true
end if
return false
end leapyear
Caveat: The script will fail (and have moved possibly only some of your files) if there is already a file with the same name in the folder it is moving to. If you want to replace the files in that case, and avoid failing, add with replacing at the end of line 18 (move every ... to cFolder with replacing).
Edit to add: Oh, just saw that you had it set up in your Dropbox instead of in the Documents folder. Just change the paths on lines 14 and 15 to reflect the path you're using, and it should be fine.
A: A very simple solution is an Automator Application (workflow that runs independently). Took about 15 seconds (literally) to set this workflow up:
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Q: Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save-as-PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS / iOS Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save as PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS using the built-in PDF handling. They display correctly using Acrobat, Photoshop, Inkscape, or probably any other app that uses it's own PDF rendering, rather than the native quartz rendering. This problem is also visible when viewing the PDFs on an iPhone / iPad.
This PDF displays as
http://www.schimmelpenninck.net/pix/blurred_pdf.png
There is a discussion here, but it doesn't have an useful answer.
Is there anything that can be done in Office 2007 on Windows to make it create PDFs that don't have this problem?
A: There isn't anything you do to Word to improve its PDF output. The best way to guarantee solid cross-platform PDFs is to get Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not Reader) and Distiller and make PDFs through those applications. Unless something has changed since the last time I did this on Windows, you'll output to Postscript through the Print window and create the PDF with Distiller, but you need Acrobat to get the drivers and converters. PDF is an open ISO standard, but Adobe's products are still the best way to go here.
A: Just open the Mac Word document in Pages. It saves PDFs more reliably than Word in my limited experience.
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Q: Antennagate: how much of the phone's side should I not touch? Antennagate indicates that I should avoid touching that spot of the iPhone where the two metal pieces nearly touch each other - touching here would electrically bridge the two pieces and decrease antenna performance... but it's nearly impossible to hold the phone and not touch it there! So here's my question:
Question: Should I not touch the two metal parts simultaneously at all, or just not put a finger precisely over the gap? It is okay to touch one centimeter from both sides of the gap? Two centimeters? Half a centimeter?
If I were to just put a little bit of tape over this side, how long should that piece of tape be?
A: Most cases are cheap and will resolve this issue for you completely (and if you have enough money for an iPhone, then you have enough money for a case). I got one and the problem was solved.
UPDATE: Based on the comment, if a piece a tape really is necessary, then by the looks of this product (currently sold out) , you are looking at roughly 1 in/2.5 cm in length starting at the mic/speaker hole on the bottom-left. Good luck!
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Q: Can I use tethering to let an iPad use an iPhone's 3G? Given an iPad that doesn't have 3G but only wifi, can I make this use the 3G connection of an iPhone 4?
Does this require a cable between the devices, or does it work over (bluetooth|wifi?) ?
A: I don't believe you can do this with the stock phone, however if you decide to jailbreakyour iPhone, you could use an application like MyWi to share your iPhone's 3G connection over WiFi
A: Official word here:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/hey-steve-can-the-ipad-tether-with-the-iphone/
A: You can’t do this without Jailbraking your device (as correctly pointed by Rex).
The iOS 4.x doesn’t (not even the latest developer 4.2) have a mechanism to tether with another iPhone/Pad. They can share their connection (via Bluetooth for example) but I haven’t seen a way to tell an iPhone -> pair with that other iPhone and use that internet connection. That is something a Macintosh computer can do, but I don’t believe you can do that with your iPad/Phone.
A: Yes, you can. I regularly tether my iPad 2 to my iPhone 4 via bluetooth. However you'll need an unlocked iPhone.
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Q: Safari is using too much RAM. How can I reduce its memory footprint? I'm finding Safari (Latest - v5.0.2) to be even more of a memory hog than usual. (Currently using 465mb of RAM with only this tab open, but having been running for a while)
Closing it and reopening it lowers it's memory footprint, but it always creeps back up over time.
Aside from disabling extensions, any tips to help troubleshoot/reduce it's memory usage? I've been using ClickToFlash which helps by requiring any Flash entity to be manually enabled on each page view.
A: This is just a fact of life using Safari. Spend some time browsing Flickr and it's memory usage will go way over a Gig. Gmail is another killer.
I think Safari most be doing aggressive in memory caching to speed things up.
A: There's nothing wrong with turning off flash, but the main advantage is lower processor usage, not just memory consumption (though it's great to see turning it off has lowered Safari's footprint).
I don't think you need to worry about what Safari is doing with memory for a couple of reasons:
Safari 5 is a 64bit application, where as Firefox and Google Chrome are only 32bit (at least the mac public releases). This is relevant because 64bit applications appear to use more memory while they're running (The Growl team explains this better than I could, here).
If you've got free memory, which the OS (and Safari) can release quickly, safely and easily (speaking as a Programmer), why not use it to cache your web content - that's what it's there for. Trust your OS - it's clever, if another application needs the memory it'll just release the not-needed-right-now-bits-and-bobs.
Safari also has an unfair advantage- it's made by the same company that built your computer. I'm not saying Safari is infallible, or even that it's the best browser, just that you shouldn't over-think the statistics; memory is there to be used and if it's not negatively affecting your computing experience then don't stress.
A: using Safari 5.0.5, I have flash turned off and in running sunspider 0.91 I'm seeing real mem growth to over 1.73GB on a 4GB mac mini (2010), and CPU over 100%. It runs so slow it doesn't complete in over 10 minutes.
Running the same in Firefox 5.0 (also 64bit) I'm getting 500mb of real memory 90% CPU, and it completes in less than 30 seconds (and is reporting 300ms as a score... spiffy!).
So my answer is... stop using safari on snow leopard and move to firefox 5.0.
A: So it appears that Flash is still the main culprit - if you enable any flash in ClickToFlash it stays resident in memory.
Following Gruber's advice on Daring Fireball, I've disabled Flash entirely on all browsers except Chrome and this seems to have helped immensely
A: You can disable cache in developer toolbar (right click-> inspect element), "network" tab, on the right side of the opened pane. When you hover the element it says "Disable/Ignore cached ressource while loading resource".
Once it is red, velvet cache are deactivated and memory consumption is far lower after that.
You also have to empty the cache by activating developer mode, open menu "developer" -> "empty cache" and you will see a huge drop in RAM consumed by Safari.
There is also another major factor of performance drop : Virtual Memory (swap file). If a process start using it heavily (WindowServer), you will see a huge drop in computer performance because read/write access to disk is monopolized by these processes, leaving little room to other processes for disk access operations.
I suspect Catalina to be buggy in that regard as I saw a huge drop in performance after updating due to excessive Virtual Memory usage, reaching as high as 250Mo/s of writing access and 200MB/s of reading access for a SSD.
You can try to disable Virtual Memory, if (and only if) you have enough RAM (>=16GB) with this command :
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
If you run into issues after that, like sudden self-awareness making your mac unresponsive or excessive RAM usage, enable Virtual Memory again with :
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
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Q: iPads in the corporate world Is anyone using an iPad in the corporate world? If you are:
*
*Is it better than carrying around a laptop, and if so, how?
*Do iPads connect to networks like notebooks do?
*Can I remote into my Windows PC in a corporate environment using an iPad?
A: *
*Yes, it is indeed better than carrying around a laptop, because it is lighter, faster and instant-on "computer". Also great for taking notes during the meetings, answering emails if that is the sort of thing you do. The typing may be a bit difficult if you are too much used to the normal keyboard. Of course, you can attach the Bluetooth keyboard.
*As Philip pointed out, iPad has Wifi, so you shouldn't be having any problems connecting to Wifi network, if your office has one. Also, with 3G you can stay connected even when you don't have the Wifi.
*About the Remote Connection, iPad supports VPN networking if that is needed, and there are several applications on iPad that allow you to use it as a Remote Desktop. But I think it might be difficult thing to get used to - using touchscreen to control the mouse etc.
If you're on an environment which doesn't need custom applications that run on Windows/Computer, and you can get all your work done by just email and the browser, yes iPad can replace your netbook.
A: *
*Yes - lighter and better battery life
*Yes
*Yes
A: While I, personally, haven't had any experience using the iPad in a corporate setting, there are a couple people in my company who are using it in a lot of meetings and seem to be perfetly happy with it for lightweight tasks: taking notes in meetings, quick responses to emails, and the like. Your mileage may vary.
I'm pretty sure the iPad only has the wifi and 3G and I'm not aware of any LAN connectivity unless someone has sorted out an app for that (something like Apple's iDisk app.)
There are several remote access apps out there, LogMeIn has one that comes to mind but that costs a quite a bit of money. My friend uses that and really likes it a lot. but this is to log into a specific machine, not just jump onto network like a laptop would.
A: There are enterprise resources and IT department tools for managing a fleet of iPads (and iPhones) as business computers, on the premises or on the road. If your needs are such, you can also investigate having your in-house programmers develop your own custom apps to enable your employees to use iPads to work with your company's databases. Ask at your local Apple Store or look for someone in the Apple Consultants Network.
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Q: Is there any way to upload a screenshot from an iPad to this site (or other StackExchange sites)? So I capture a screenshot with my handy "[HOME]-[POWER]" combo, and draw freehand arrows on it in Adobe Ideas (because I like their line smoothing) to highlight my problem, but:
How do I upload this picture to Ask Different from the iPad?
A: Dropbox is a good idea, but since you are using Adobe Ideas, which has an "email photo" link, you could just use the Email Upload features of any photo sharing site (eg. Flickr email upload link, twitpic, etc.), and then copy the link from the browser.
A: It appears that you can't do so directly (darn it) so you'd have to do it indirectly. You can either sync it to a computer and then use that computer to ask your question, or upload it to a Web site and then manually use that URL for the image (via either Markdown or HTML).
A: Use Dropbox to upload it, then copy the link to the clipboard and paste it in your answer using the Markdown syntax: 
A: I use photobucket, it's free has quite good features, and the iPhone app (not sure if there's a specific iPad app) works very simply, choose the photo, press upload, get the link.
A: You can use StackAsk to upload images from your Photo library and camera roll into new questions you ask. It works both on iPad and iPhone.
You can get it free on the app store, theres a link in this post: StackAsk on StackApps
(disclosure: I made the app)
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Q: Good Newsgroup Client for OS X I've just switched to OS X and am struggling to find a good, easy to use, and preferably free/cheap newsgroup reader. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
A: Unison by Panic is quite good. It's fully featured and looks nice but the UI is a bit wonky at times.
https://panic.com/unison/
A: Unison is very nice and freely available (but not actively developed). OSXnews may not be as polished as Unison, but it works and it is open source.
A: "Cheap" is a relative and subjective term, but if you want good, then I highly recommend Unison by Panic Software.
A: SeaMonkey is pretty good and it is for free. It is a Firefox-based all-in-one internet suite application featuring a web-browser as well as e-mail, newsgroup, IRC and RSS clients, but it can be set up to only display the newsgroup reader on startup in the preferences under "Appearance".
A: I use MacSoup on Lion. It appears dated and some functions like filtering are not as easy to use as they could be, also it can only deal with one newsserver. It also can't show non text news e.g. MIME However it has a very good way of displaying and managing threads which outways its limitations
MacSoup is 32 bit only and so only runs on OSX up to Mojave. So I will be back to gnus in emacs.
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Q: Photo Taking Application with Jokes I plan to get an iPhone, one of the tricks I can think of is to use it to play a joke on my friends.
This is how the joke goes. I would ask my friend to pose for me in the name of testing the quality of the camera. As I snap his/her photos, instead of showing his/her real face, I want the snapshot to be replaced with a picture of a pig (say), or anything that would elicit laughter.
Is there such an app available?
A: Uff, there are a “lot” of photo + fun applications in the App Store. Here’s a few I’ve tried:
*
*Face Substitution
*Swap Faces: Very funny (has a Lite version)
*Face It: Allows you to add overlays of things (glasses, mustaches, etc)
*Face Melter: allows you to deform a face (it makes you laugh a lot to be honest)
I have performed a “Face” search in the AppStore for iPhone apps and there are quite a lot, I suggest you take a look at those.
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Q: How to delete everything on an iPod Touch? I would like to give my iPod touch as a gift to someone I know, but I want to be sure that there is nothing left on it to avoid giving data with it...
How do I clean the iPod ?
A: *
*Fully charge the iPod Touch
*Go to the Settings menu. Scroll down until you see the "General" settings, and hit that, then scan to the very bottom, where you'll see a mini-menu titled "Reset." Press this. This will bring up a few different options, but the one you want is "Erase All Content and Settings." (Settings / General / Reset / Erase all )
you can see full detailed here.
Also you can use itunes, and go to the restore feature. This will take your ipod back to factory default.
A: I would also suggest renaming the iPod, which you can do by clicking the name in iTunes after you selected it. Then just type the new name. If I recall correctly resetting it does not remove the name.
A: 1, erase all the data from your iPod touch by goning to: Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.
2, restore your iPod touch using iTunes. Refer to the following picture.
3, use data eraser.
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Q: Diagnosing a broken PowerBook I have a 12" PowerBook with no hard drive and a dead screen. I'm trying to determine if the actual LCD is broken or if it is "just" the graphics card, without taking out the screen and transfering it to another computer (which I intend to do if the screen is working).
I've tried connecting the computer to an external monitor, but, since there is no hard drive, nothing happens. The same nothing happens when I connect my working 12" PowerBook to the external monitor.
Is there a secret keyboard combination that tells the PowerBook to throw some characters onto the screen (from BIOS or something), and to mirror or output to the external monitor?
A: Given the two PowerBooks as described in the other questions, here's my 2¢:
Definitions
*
*PB1: the PowerBook without the hard drive
*PB2: the PowerBook without the SuperDrive
Steps
*
*Connect the external display to PB1
*Connect PB2 in Target Disk Mode to PB1
*Boot PB1
If everything works as it should, PB1 should boot and look just like PB2 (as it's booting with PB2's hard drive). At that point, you can run any necessary diagnostics.
A: No. Just get a small, cheap HD (even just a 20 GB will do fine here), put it in, and boot from a system installation disk as if you were going to install the OS.
A: You said you don’t have HD, but I assume you have the SuperDrive that used to come with those. Put the Jaguar/Panther/Tiger CD and boot from it, you should get output.
You might also want to try resetting the PMU of the powerbook. Google or Apple Instructions Here.
EDIT: After reading some more about your problem in the comments, it’s clear now that you have
*
*Powerbook #1: No HDD, Unknown Screen Status.
*Powerbook #2 (Pro): Superdrive not working.
If the above is correct, your choices are:
*
*What Phillip said: get a cheap drive that boots any OS (Linux for PPC would do too) and see if your #1 boots with that USB drive and displays text. with this you cover your screen problem.
*Transfer the #2 Hard Drive to the #1 Machine and see if it boots from there.
*Try booting from #1 Machine that (if I am not mistaken, has a SuperDrive).
Am I missing something?
And to clarify, there’s no Keyboard combination that will output text on a Macintosh PPC other than a verbose mode or similar, but that’s post initialization. There’s no BIOS or anything like that. (That I remember anyway).
Booting from an Install CD has the plus that you can run System Diagnostics if I am not mistaken.
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Q: is there a slipcase for 17" MacBook Pros which opens at the side? I carry my 17" MBP in my laptop pannier, into which it just fits in portrait orientation. I'd like to protect it with a slipcase, but I don't want to have to take the slipcase out of the pannier to get at the laptop. Is there a slipcase on the market that opens at the side?
A: I've certainly seen them around the place, I've got a portrait one myself.
How about this?
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Q: Keep Preview from autoresizing print output Whenever I want to print a PDF file from Preview, the print dialog defaults to shrink the page to fit the bounds of the page. I have to manually select scale: and enter 100 into the text field. Is there a hidden default or other way, to tell Preview to always default to 100% print size?
Using a saved print setting as suggested below does not work in this case. I'm using Preview 5.0.2 (504) and Mac OS X 10.6.4, perhaps a bug?
When I save the setting I want to have, open another PDF file, select print, and select my saved settings, the scale: setting jumps to some arbitrary value around 100% (90%-105%) and the radio box stays at "scale to Fit:".
A: quit the Preview App, enter the following into your Terminal application and then start Preview again. Problem solved!
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0
to revert this setting, you can use the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode
A: I would use Terminal commands slightly different from @Bart's above, although those work just fine.
To disable Preview's default print scaling:
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool false
To restore Preview's default print scaling:
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool true
That way, the default stays in Preview's plist, so I don't need some external reminder about that default if I'm poking into it next year when I've forgotten I did this.
Incidentally, the first time I started up Preview after disabling its print scaling, it seemed to hang on launch, so I force-quit and then tried again and it was fine.
Hmm. Tried to edit to make the code lines show...
A: The Print dialog window allows the saving of presets. Set things how you want them to be and save the settings. You can apply the settings to all printers or just one printer. You can also change your settings and then select "Use last settings" as well.
A: To disable Preview's default print scaling:
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool false
To restore Preview's default print scaling:
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool true
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Q: What can be the different filetypes of videos shot using iPhone/iPod Touch? Is it mp4 or m4v or mov? I'm not sure. Please tell me what can be the different formats shot using iPhone or iPod Touch
THANX!!
A: The iPhone and iPod touch only shoots one format:
H.264 in a .mov container - at 1280x720 at 30 FPS.
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Q: iPhone 4 internet tethering problem I'm a user of Movistar (Spain) iPhone 4 mobile. I'm trying to activate the internet tethering and seems to all work fine. By default can be selectable. So, I put it on and connect it to my laptop (PC).
I can't no where select to connect with my iPhone. How I have to managed the connection?
Thank you in advance!
A: *
*Make sure you have iTunes installed on your PC.
*Enable tethering via USB on your iPhone.
*Connect your iPhone to your PC via USB.
A new driver will automatically be installed and you should be able to use a Local Area Connection that will have been created for you.
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Q: What is the best way to make backups on my MacBook Pro? What is the best way to make automatic backups on my MacBook Pro? It's more preferable that synchronization will perform via Wi-Fi.
I heard that Apple's Time Capsule has short-living time, so I thought that there exists alternate way.
I would be glad to see any recommendations and success stories.
Thanks.
A: I have an external hard disk connected to an AirPort Extreme. Time Machine wirelessly backs up my MacBook Pro to it. In this regard, it works the same as TimeCapsule but as the hard disk is external (and you get to choose it), it doesn't suffer from the same reliability problems.
I've found the AirPort Extreme to be a very good Wireless Access Point, too (and not just for Apple devices).
A: Get an external hard drive at least the size of your internal hard drive and just use Time Machine. It doesn't get any easier than that.
A: While it's not automatic my solution has worked well for me.
I purchased an external USB drive larger than my MBP hard drive.
On a weekly basis I hook up the USB drive and kick off a SuperDuper! smart update from my MBP's internal disk to the external USB drive. When the backup is complete SuperDuper puts the computer to sleep. The next morning I take both off to work and leave the USB drive there until the end of the week when I bring it home to do over again.
That gives me a complete, boot-able backup off site.
This does not give me 'versioned' backup like Time Machine but it does give me the ability to restore my entire system to a point in time.
According to the documentation you can use SuperDuper to backup to a network drive in conjunction with a spares disk image (The documentation walks you through all of the setup)
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Q: iPhone App Update from a Development Point of View I am doing iPhone development and my first app is in the market. First week was pretty good but now it is loosing momentum. If I provide an update to the app will it improve the app exposure in the iPhone app store.
A: All an update will do is reset the star rating for the application if it an .x release (for example, 1.0 to 1.1).
But to take the question and answer a big step further (one that falls well outside the scope of this forum), you cannot rely solely on the App Store to market your app. All of the rules for online marketing still apply.
A: I'd recomend that you read a book that I'm reading these days, Tapworthy. It has a lot of advice on what to add to your apps, what to do to keep them interesting, and so on.
Anyway, you should market the app as if it were you who were selling it. Create a dedicated website, with a big iPhone picture and screenshots or videos inside it. Create a dedicated twitter account, and give out promo codes to influential bloggers and app reviews sites...
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Q: When is the locate database updated? I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update.
Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option
A: The locate database is updated by the following cronjob:
/private/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
On Most Mac systems, Cron has been replaced by launchd, and you'll find that /etc/crontab doesn't exist. The schedule for this scheduled job is determined by launchd, and can be seen with one of the following commands:
% cat /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
#### SNIP
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
<key>Weekday</key>
<integer>6</integer>
</dict>
Or, something a little more user friendly:
% open /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
launchd will then run the jobs specified in /etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}/*, using this schedule.
A: sudo periodic weekly is the easiest way to kick it off the weekly script which will call the normal rebuild of the locate database.
As noted launchd will start this script Saturdays at 03:15 AM if the mac is running. If the mac is sleeping at that time, it will run when the mac wakes. It won't run if the mac is powered off at the magic moment.
A: From the locate manpage:
FILES
/var/db/locate.database locate database
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Script to update the locate database
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Script that starts the database rebuild
By default, the database is rebuilt weekly through launchd. You can run locate.updatedb manually to do the update.
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Q: Will iPhone App Update to new version will remove all the ratings? I plan to update my app with new features. If I publish a new version say V 1.0.1 then will I loose all my ratings from version 1.0.
A: Apple splits your App's ratings into two sections; "Current Version" and "All Versions".
The preference on the App Store is to display the "current version" ratings, however aggregated historical ratings and reviews are also available.
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Q: How can I get Preview to open up in the Foreground? Here's what's currently happening:
I use Chrome. I go to some website that has a PDF that I want to view on a hyperlink. I don't like viewing PDFs in the browser (even though I know this is possible), but prefer to have the pdf download and be viewed in Preview.
When I click the link in Chrome it asks me where I want the file saved, and then it downloads it. I click on the completed download tab at the bottom of the screen, and Chrome remains in the foreground. I can see that Preview has indeed been opened and the PDF is viewable, but I have to switch to Preview to view it using expose or command-tab.
Once the document has been opened in Preview and even when Preview is quit out of, it will always open Preview up in the foreground. This only happens on the first instance of opening a document. Also, if Preview is already open (in fore or background) downloading a new document will bring it to the foreground. So, what's happening only happens when a new document is downloaded and preview is not executed.
Here's what I would like to have happen:
I want to click on the completed download in the Chrome download bar at the bottom, and have it open and Preview and application-switch directly to Preview so that Preview is the foreground active application. This happens when I open other file types, but does not happen with PDFs into Preview.
My question:
Is there a way to change this behavior? Is there a central place where I can change the default behavior of whether apps open in the foreground or background?
A: Auto-opening a downloaded file from a browser is done on pretty much a browser-to-browser basis. Since you asked about Chrome, here's the relevant blurb from Google's Docs:
Automatically open certain types of
files
If you want certain types of files to
always open after they're done
downloading, click the arrow next to
the file button in the downloads bar
and select Always open files of this
type. To prevent potentially malicious
files from automatically downloading
to your computer, this option isn't
available for executable filetypes,
such as those with .exe, .dll, or .bat
extensions (for Windows), and .dmg
extensions (for Mac).
Personally, these features weren't visible when I tried it, but then I hardly use Chrome other than for the odd web site test.
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Q: Good simple Clipboard manager I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini.
Any Suggestions?
A: I think your best choice is :
*
*Clipboard Evolved
But you can also use these softwares:
*
*JumpCut (Free and open source)
*Clipmenu (As Calavera said :"ClipMenu is nice because it's free")
*Clyppan
*CuteClip
*PTHPasteboard
A: Added to the answer:
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*Maccy (open source - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy)
*Clipy (open source - https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy)
*Clip Menu (open source - https://github.com/naotaka/ClipMenu)
All the above three are native apps, have search feature, and are really lightweight and fast. I currently use Maccy and before that I had used Clipy which is excellent as well.
Old answer:
Jumpcut is the pure clipboard app. Clyppan is no longer free.
If you do not want all the images you copy to sit in clipboard then Clip Menu can be ruled out and Jumpcut works good.
There's a Jumpcut fork - Flycut. I do not see any difference from Jumpcut, except that it(Flycut) seems to be in, relatively more, active development.
A: I'd recommend Alfred and its Powerpack for clipboard history. Aside from the actual keeping of history, you can save snippets that you use often and call them up with a combination of letters and search among recently copied texts. Alfred's interface for this is much nicer than Jumpcut's in my opinion. I haven't tried any of the others. I haven't found any application to be incompatible with Alfred either.
The price of the Powerpack might seem a little steep for just a clipboard history keeper, but Alfred can do so much more. It has become one of my most essential apps, so give it a try.
A: Two other clipboard managers that have not been mentioned include:
iClip
The simply useful clipboard manager
Stuf
A clipboard manager with a difference, you can copy and paste between different Macs (and PCs!) over your wired or wireless network! Stuf uses DropBox, so can share your clipboard in the office, or anywhere in the world.
A: I'm quite attached to ClipMenu.
It's simple, yet powerful enough for all my needs. It even supports snippets which are so useful for a programmer like me.
A: If you're already using LaunchBar, it has a clipboard manager built in. It's simple, but works just how I would need it to.
A: You can also use the free software Quicksilver with the clipboard module.
Here's a tutorial on how to use the clipboard module.
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Q: How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB?
I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up.
A: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open iTunes and select your iPhone in the sidebar on the left. Select the Info tab and choose from one of the available options based on your operating system.
A: I sync mine with my google id
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A: iTunes can create backups of your contacts, photos, videos, text messages, notes, etc. of your iOS device when you:
* Sync with iTunes (disabled if you have iCloud backup turned on)
* Right-click (or Control-click) the iOS device in iTunes under Devices and choose Back Up
Use these steps to manually back up your iOS device using iTunes:
*
*Connect your iOS device to a computer with the latest version of iTunes installed
*Select your iOS device in iTunes under Devices
*Right-click (or Control-click) the device and select Back Up
Resource:
How to back up and restore from a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
A: In recent firmwares, you can use every Exchange-Provider (including Gmail) for over-the-air-sync of contacts, mails etc.
I use this feature to sync my contacts with my Gmail account, but you can use that as a backup too.
A: What procedure did you follow exactly? Note that the normal process for contacts is to sync the iPhone with the "Address Book" application. During the Sync iTunes also makes a backup, which can be used if you accidentally wipe the phone.
You can also tell iTunes to replace the information on the phone with what is on your Mac, which defaults to the Address Book's contacts. If you did a replace and there weren't any contacts in Address Book, then you could get what you saw.
Does any of that make sense?
A: Sync your phone with iTunes. Done.
A: When you connect to iTunes with USB cable, iTunes backups your contacts. Also you may chose gmail or win address book to backup or sync in itunes.
A: Personally I use MobileMe (now iCloud), but iTunes works just fine.
A: Alternatively (or as an extra precaution on top of the iTunes backup), you can sync with MobileMe. If you don't have it, sign-up for the trial. Then your data is safely in the cloud and on your computer.
A: You can also use iSync (find it with your Spotlight bar) which can do much more than just syncing contacts.
Apple's syncing method: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386
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Q: Can you install Google Chrome on an iOS Device Is it possible to install Google Chrome web browser on an iOS device?
A: No. It's not possible to run Chrome in iOS.
I don't see why you'll want to run Chrome, even if it exists.
Safari for iPhone uses WebKit, the same rendering engine that Chrome uses. There shouldn't be much difference between the two. Safari is plenty fast on the iPhone.
The only other browser available for iPhone is Opera.
A: You can now install Google Chrome on an iOS Device.
Do note that it does not use the Chrome Rendering engine, but uses the Safari webkit. The "killer feature" though is that it has syncing with your Google Account.
A: As it is not available in the app store (at least not here in Germany), it is not possible. Maybe there is an app or possibility for jailbroken iPhones, but I doubt it.
A: Google would have to first properly release a chrome app for android before even thinking about an iOS app. Would be shooting themselves in the foot otherwise.
Whether or not Apple would approve it would be another story.
A: It is not and I doubt that there will ever be such a port, because the model Chrome is based on is that each tab is run as a separate process. As there is no true multitasking in the iPhone (available in public APIs, that is) such app would not be possible to do.
If Google ever releases something like that (which would not be approved in the App Store, with the current rules, but for argument's sake let's say it's released as an ad-hoc distribution, or as source code) it would work very differently, thus being a different product with the same brand
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Q: How well does the Apple Magic Trackpad perform as a mouse replacement? I'm planning to replace my mouse entirely with the Apple Magic Trackpad on my desktop Mac. My work involves lots of typing (both code and prose). I also use Aperture quite a bit for processing photos. I don't play games; other than chess (Yes, it's that sad.)
Is the Apple Magic Trackpad capable of totally replacing the mouse?
How does its ergonomics compare to let's say the Apple Magic Mouse? Better or worse for the wrist.
Is it accurate enough for touching up photos with Aperture?
Thanks.
A: I've found the trackpad to be great for general purpose use (particularly the 3-finger swipe-to-drag gesture and the wonderful inertial scrolling) but I've found it too inaccurate for GUI development work.
When I'm laying out screens for software development, or creating graphics for said software, it's too awkward to exactly position things with. I suspect you will find a similar problem if you are touching-up images etc.
I've found the ergonomics to be good, to be honest - I mostly use the Magic Trackpad and when that's not suitable for a job (see above) I switch to a Magic Mouse for a couple of hours. I have relatively small hands and find the Magic Mouse to be a really comfortable mouse, with no strain on fingers or wrist even after prolonged use. The trackpad gives you less to 'lean on' but I haven't found myself with any wrist ache or strain even when I've been using it solid for a day, etc.
A: The Magic Trackpad is very similar to the trackpad found on newer Apple MacBooks. It is suitable for most kinds of work. Though it is capable of completely replacing a mouse in function, it is much less adequate, and perhaps even irritating, to use with image editing programs such as Aperture. The wrist motion is in large the same.
A: EDIT: Summary of my answer: It does not perform very well as a replacement for a mouse.
Ymmv I guess. I got into the hype as well, bought it, and eventually put it back into its box and considering selling it on eBay. I'm not wholly disappointed with it, but on 27 inch iMac, I found it to be significantly slower for pretty much any kind of operations, compared to a mouse.
Like you, I was very excited when I heard about it, because I had gotten used to the trackpad on a Macbook Pro during a long holiday. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it doesn't translate well on a large screen. On a desktop computer, you expect to have more control than on a laptop. You have more keys, more space. So no, the Magic Trackpad is not a replacement for a mouse, at least not on a 27 inch screen.
What I did like on the trackpad, mostly, was the ability to scroll pages in the browser with the double finger swipe. Task switching with the trackpad was always awkward.
Since I still felt I needed a mouse, I also unwrapped the bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac, and put the trackpad next to it. That way it took approximately the same space as my aluminium keyboard. Unfortunately I found I had more strain in the wrist because I needed to move the arm between the trackpad and the mouse, and using a cushion under the arm moving sideways from time to time didn't work well. Now that is my opinion as well, but I didn't enjoy the wireless keyboard; it felt cheap and light compared to the aluminium keyboard. Typing on the wired aluminium keyboard felt a lot better. Since it was rather cumbersome to try to fit the trackpad in between a large Aluminium keyboard (comes with keypad) and the mouse, I moved the wireless keyboard and magic trackpad back into their boxes :(
That is my honest opinion. I love Macs. I think the Magic Trackpad is a great idea. I even tried gaming with it. I still wish it worked. But it doesn't. It works better in a few ways, but it can not match the prevision and speed of a mouse.
For a web developer who needs to switch tabs, click small things in the window, toggle the Firebug console and all its panels every now and then, switch between gaezillions of windows; it doesn't work.
Perhaps it is still a good choice for people who do primarily typing and editing documents.
This, for me, would be the perfect aluminium keyboard:
This is not a joke. If that space was used as a trackpad, it would be so convenient to do the swipe gestures for scrolling down webpages. I guess it would be just as useful for most other gestures. Unless you are a hardcore "the vim way" user, like me you will often use the cursor keys. Since the hand often ends up there, and the home/end/pgup/pgwn keys are hardly necessary on a Mac (think Cmd-Left, Cmd-Right, etc), this just makes sense.
A: I mostly use my Mac to write code and have found the Magic Trackpad to be very well suited for this task. The main drawback is drag and drop can be a little awkward - however, its usually possible to find ways around drag and drop in most interfaces.
A: I can't say I've used the Magic Trackpad, but if you're looking for some of the touch gestures and scroll inertia (which I love), while keeping the accuracy of a mouse, I'd go for the Magic Mouse. I've been using mine since they were first released and it's served me very well in everything from image editing to web browsing to programming (can't say enough about how much I love the inertial scroll for getting around large documents...)
The one downside to the Magic Mouse (again, can't say if this also applies to the Magic Trackpad) is that it burns through batteries. Each set of 2 AAs usually lasts me about 2.5 months. For this reason, I also picked up Apple's rechargeable battery set (6 AAs & wall-mounted charger). That was about 2 months ago, and I've been happy with the charger set as well.
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Q: Browsing left (up) in column view with no horizontal scroll bar? Sometimes in an "Open" or "Save" dialog you want to go one directory up. It is in column view, but there simply is no column to the left and no horizontal scroll bar. Is there a way to go up one directory without browsing completely down again from the root directory?
A: Pressing ⌘ + ↑ works like a charm.
A: Press ⌘+shift+G and type ".." (two dots).
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Q: Running Leopard on a MacBook Pro that shipped with Snow Leopard I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6 pre-installed. Is there a way to use this machine to test my software on 10.5?
*
*Do I need 10.5, or is there is a mode within 10.6 with which I can run 10.5?
*If I need 10.5, how can I get it?
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*Do I need to buy the 10.5 OS? (if so, where does one do that?)
*Does 10.6 somehow include 10.5 with it?
*Do I already have a license for 10.5 by buying 10.6?
*How do I install 10.5 once I have it?
*
*Will it work in Virtualbox?
*Do I need to dual boot?
A: No, this will not work. You can have multiple versions of OS X on one machine, but you can only install newer versions than the one that came pre-installed. For example, if your machine came with 10.6.4, you can't run 10.6.3 or older.
When Apple releases new hardware, the drivers for that hardware get rolled into a special build of OS X that comes only on that model. They don't get added to OS X in general until the next point release. (That means that drivers for the hypothetical machine I'm talking about wouldn't be added until 10.6.5.)
Apple doesn't release drivers as standalone software, which effectively makes it impossible to install and older version of OS X than what your Mac shipped with. You'll find that if you put the install disc for an older version in the drive, it either won't boot or it will refuse to install.
However, you can go the other direction. If you have an old Mac running 10.5, you can use Disk Utility to make another partition (HFS+ Journaled), then boot the install DVD for 10.6 and install it to that partition. To switch between the two after installing, hold alt when you boot up. (You can also select the default boot partition through the Startup Drive pane in System Preferences within either OS X install.) Boot camp is not required for this. Boot camp is only required for installing non-Apple operating systems like Windows and Linux.
A: I would think partitioning the disk and using Boot Camp is all you need to do here.
If you don't have a 10.5 disk already, then you'll need to go through Ebay and sites of its ilk. Apple doesn't sell previous versions of OSes.
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Q: How do I see the currently running applications on an iPod Touch? There is only one button at the bottom of my iPod Touch. To close applications, I press the home button. Does it really close applications, or does it just display the home page and an extra thread runs in the background? Is there any way that I can see the currently running applications?
A: In iOS 3, you press the home button, with very few and only Apple-engineered exceptions (eg. the iPod app) the app is closed.
In iOS 4+, there is limited multitasking available to third-party apps. Apple freezes all processes in the background unless they're performing one of the following functions (ripped from Ars):
*
*Audio: you can now listen to streaming music from apps, like Pandora or newscasts through the NPR app, while doing other activities on your phone.
*VoIP: you can carry on Voice Over IP calls on services like Skype without having to quit the app if you need to perform other tasks.
*Location: apps that need to poll your location, such as GPS and direction apps, will be able to do so in the background.
*Local notifications: third-party apps no longer have to rely solely on push notifications if they want to alert you of something on your phone. If you have an alert set in, say, one of Omni's applications, it can ping you when the time comes instead of having to go through a convoluted series of Internet tubes to get to you.
*Complete tasks: if you start a task in an application and then switch to another one (such as downloading a new map in your favorite game), it can now complete the task in the background instead of forcing you to sit there and wait on it.
*Fast app switching: this is basically "pausing" an app where it is, which allows you to quickly switch away from it and then switch back, picking up where you left off.
In iOS 4, double-tapping the home button shows a tray holding both recently-used apps and apps performing the above limited-multitasking functions. You can close them/remove them from the tray by clicking the red "-" sign.
A: If you use iOS 4 (or higher) tapping the Home button to close an app now only hides the app's activity and don't closed really, if you want close app you must "double tap button hold the icon then press the dash to close it"
But if you use iOS 3 or less when you press ipod touch button it close running apps and go to your home page.
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Q: How do I connect an iPad to a projector? How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable.
A: If you use a VGA connection, the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter might be of interest to you.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
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Q: What's the difference between alias and link? I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB.
*
*What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them?
*Which one is preferable? For the case that the link/alias is used only in one machine or networked.
ADDED
http://prosseek.blogspot.com/2012/12/symbolic-link-and-alias-in-mac.html
A: I'm quite confused by sentinel's anwser on create a new file with the path and filename that the file originally had. Also it's abrupt, why you want to do that?
Well, if you understand why and how alias works on using UID and path to the file (while symlink only works on the path), then you can understand the difference and the highly-voted answer more easily.
On HFS and HFS+ file systems, each file and folder has a unique, persistent identifier. Aliases use this identity along with pathname information to find files and folders on the same volume.
Beginning with Mac OS X 10.2, aliases reversed this search order by using the pathname first and unique identity second. This means that if you move a file and replace it with an identically named file, aliases to the original file now point to the new file. Similarly, if you move a file on the same volume (without replacing it), aliases use the unique identity information to locate the file.
When a file or folder moves, the alias may update either its path information or unique identity information to account for the change. If a file moves somewhere on the same volume, the alias updates its internal record with the new path information for the file. Similarly, if the original file is replaced by a file with the same name, but a different unique identity, the alias updates its internal record with the unique identity of the new file. (result of create a new file with the path and filename that the file originally had)
Because aliases use a file system path to resolve a files location initially, they now offer a similar behavior to symbolic links. Symbolic links rely exclusively on path information to locate a file. If you move a file somewhere on the same volume without replacing it, symbolic links to the file break while aliases do not. The only way to fix a symbolic link is to delete it and create a new one.
reference
A: An alias contains two pieces of information: a unique identifier of the file it links to, and the path and file name of the file it links to.
If you rename or move a file, and then create a new file with the path and file name that the file originally had, then any alias that linked to the original file now links to the new file.
However, if you rename or move a file without replacing it, and then invoke an alias, the alias is updated to point to the new path and file name, making use of the unique identifier to do so.
A symbolic link, on the other hand, does not contain a unique identifier to a file, and would appear as broken if the file is renamed or moved and not replaced with a file of the same path and file name.
Your choice should depend on which scenario suits you best.
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Q: What's the tool that can do some actions when a file is copied? I use Cmd+L to make a alias, and the alias has "alia" appended to the original file name. I move the link to a directory, then remove the "alias" part manually.
Is there a tool that can do this kind of automatically? I mean, if a tool can catch the event a file is copied to a specific directory to call a tool (python, ruby or applescript) with a parameter, I can easily rename the file name.
ADDED
Thanks to Ben and Dori, I could get it working.
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*Go to /Library/Scripts/Folder Actions directory to Folder Actions Setup.
*Run Automator
*Utilities -> Run Shell Script
*Use python as a shell, and pass input should be as arguments
*Run the following code
import sys
import os
for f in sys.argv[1:]:
(name, ext) = os.path.splitext(f)
newname = "%s%s" % (name, ".pdf")
os.rename(f, newname)
Philip's method should work, but I think Automator is easier to get it work.
On my Snow Leopard, I couldn't see the folder action context menu.
A: In addition to Applescript, Automator allows you to create Folder Actions as well, at least in 10.6. (This should have been a comment on Philip's post, but I don't quite have enough rep for that yet.)
A: I'm not sure what you're using to make symbolic links (it's not built in to OS X), so I can't say if something could be added at that step.
For Folder Actions, the three places to look are:
*
*/Library/Scripts/Folder Actions
*/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts
*/Library/Scripts/Script Editor Scripts/Folder Actions Handlers
In the first folder, you'll find Configure Folder Actions - run that, and you can enable folder actions, including choosing folders and what scripts apply to those folders.
The last two folders will give you some places to start writing the script you want.
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Q: How can I revive dead pixels on my iPod Touch (second generation)? I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away.
I've checked some other forums and they told me to:
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*Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours.
*Put it in the freezer (never again)
*Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it)
Are there any other old wives tales relevant to fixing dead pixels. I've seen some come back and go away so I think it's not a totally lost cause.
A: I dont know about how comfortable you are with taking electronics apart, but it sounds like the connector for the screen might be coming loose, or the screen might be on the way out. I would recommend buying a replacement screen on eBay, or paying apple to fix it for you.
A: Do you have a dead pixel (black) or a stuck pixel (stuck on one color)? Those suggestions work occasionally for stuck pixels, but if you have dead pixels, you're out of luck, unfortunately.
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Q: Can I remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network from my iPad?
Possible duplicate:
iPads in the corporate world
Has anyone remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network with an iPad? What has been your experience? How do you address the issue of multiple domains? Is this even possible?
Currently, I just connect my laptop to a network cable and remote desktop from one domain into another domain to get to my desktop computer into a different location.
Is this possible with an iPad? How would my regular network cable connect to an iPad?
A: If you’re talking about accessing a Remote Desktop via a RDC Client, There are a lot of applications that work fine. I’m personally using iTap Mobile RDP and it’s fantastic.
A: To answer your networking question: You can connect an iPad to a computer, or to a Wi-Fi connection (or both), but you can't connect an Ethernet cable to an iPad.
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Q: Automator folder action questions As I asked in this post, I could make it that a file in a directory can be renamed automatically, but I have some questions about this action.
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*Where to the workflow files are copied? When I run 'save as', it doesn't seem to show the directory where the file is copied.
*How is this folder action stored and restored so that it runs automatically when system reboots? In other words, I guess I don't have to rerun automator whenever I reboot, how does this possible?
ADDED
*
*I found that the automator workflow is stored in "~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/"
*I also found that folder action from automator workflow is also registered by running "/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Setup.app"
A:
Where to the workflow files are copied?
I don't understand this question.
Is this folder action stored in a system so that it's working even after my reboot?
By default, folder actions are stored in the /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts folder.
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Q: How Do I Set the Default Language in Pages? In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English.
However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English?
A: You have to change the settings in the "International" panel in System Preferences.
*
*Go to System Preferences.
*Go to the Language & Text (In 10.6) panel (the language tab appears first by default).
*Put your preferred language at the top of the list (you might have to edit the list).
Relaunch your iWork application (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your preferred language will be used as default language.
A: To follow up Martin's answer, for British English you will need to edit the list and check the "British English" tick box. I spent while looking for "English (British)", but it's the former format that appears.
A: I suggest that you try Language Switcher.
It’s a freeware software, that launches single applications with a different language.
I tested it with many software but I don't know if it works for pages too, please try it and tell us if it works or not in the comments.
A: I believe the only way to do this is to change the spelling language in a blank document and save it as a template.
Under General Preferences, you can select "Use Template:" and choose that template you saved.
A: If you don't mind changing the UI in addition to the spell checker, the following commands:
cd ~/Library/Preferences/
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist AppleLanguages "(Dutch,English)"
Would make the Pages UI (menu items, spellcheck, etc.) use Dutch first, and then English anywhere where the Dutch translation or dictionary is not provided. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out if it is "British" or "British English" or "GB-EN" or etc. to set it to British English UI and spell checking. Please leave the answer as a reply / comment to this answer.
Some more details here and here.
A: If you go into the properties box of an existing document, you can change the language of that document to English (Australian) even after you have been working on it for a while. You can even change individual paragraphs or words to separate languages. This means you need to "select all" the text before changing the language. This was in iWork 09 Pages.
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Q: Recording the sound of my Mac Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ?
For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ?
A: Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro can do this for you and much more.
A: If you want to do it for free you can download Audacity and Soundflower (if you have a mac) and record the sound straight off your sound card.
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Soundflowerbed: http://cycling74.com/downloads/
Tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/Using_Soundflower_to_record_streaming_audio
You mentioned you're using a mac, but for people who run windows, there is likely another program you can substitute for Soundflower to accomplish the same thing, although I have not looked into it.
A: Another option, also from Rogue Amoeba, is Piezo which is about 50% the cost of Audio Hijack Pro. So, depending on how complex your needs are, there are two really great options.
A: Soundflower has been my optimal software for audio routing. You can grab it here: http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/. Please note that this is only available for Mac. If you own a Windows computer, (or GNU/Linux, Solaris, or FreeBSD, or even Mac as well, in addition to any POSIX-conformant platforms), try JACK at http://jackaudio.org. Both of these are free, so try them out.
A: TapeDeck is another such app to the list. It literally has a nice looking interface featuring a classic tape recorder, with a "drawer of tapes" on the side, which is a stack of the recordings that you've made with it before. The data there displays title, time or recording, and the duration.
To record, choose the setting "Record using system audio recorder", and it should record the sound straight from your sound card, i.e. whatever comes out of your headphones/speakers. Free evaluation version is available, and if you find it useful for something that you need to do a lot, the full version is worth it. For me, it's been stable and I like the simplicity of the layout, easy little thing that doesn't take too much area on the screen.
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Q: How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X? I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened.
Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead?
A: You could use Mailplane. Mailplane is a site-specific browser for GMail that offers better OS-level integration. Mailplane can act as the default email client.
http://mailplaneapp.com/
A: You can do this with Firefox in two steps...
*
*Go to Firefox preferences, Applications, search for mailto: and change the application action to "Use Gmail".
*Follow Apple's instructions here and choose Firefox as the email app.
A: Update (1/2014)
Turns out Google Notifier for Mac is no longer supported.
If you're using Chrome, this is now very simple: open settings, search for "mailto", and set Gmail as the handler for mailto.
For Firefox, see this answer.
(The remainder of this answer is now obsolete.)
While options like Webmailer also do the job, I'll mention yet another way for the sake of completeness:
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*Install Google Notifier for Mac. It's an official Gmail utility made by Google.
*Open Mail.app, go to Preferences -> General, and set "Default email reader" to Google Notifier.app. (Yep, you need to configure this in Mail even when Mail is what you don't want to use...)
Besides directing clicks on mailto: links to Gmail, the Google Notifier comes with some additional features: It adds an icon (like this: ) in the menu bar and notifies you (if configured to do so) about new mail in your Gmail box. Through the icon you can also access your inbox, unread messages, and "Compose mail" screen quickly.
Works great for me; I can generally vouch for this useful little app.
A: If you use Firefox 3.5 or later:
*
*Go to Preferences ⌘, and and choose the Application pane.
*Find "mailto" in the content type list, and choose what you want. If you want Gmail to open, choose it in the popup menu.
Or you can use More Internet, a System Preferences pane that lets you choose which applications are set as helpers for Internet protocols.
A: With Webmailer, you can set up any webmail client as the default email client in OS X.
A: You do NOT need to install a third party app.
Both Google Chrome and Firefox support this functionality. (ok, technically these are third party apps, but lets assume you are not using safari.)
Chrome:
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*Open gmail in chrome.
*In the address bar next to the "bookmark star" you should see a grey diamond. Click on the diamond
*Select "use gmail".
*If you do not see the gray diamond, follow the instructions below.
If you made a mistake and selected "No" and you really wanted to select "Use Gmail"
*
*With Chrome open, copy and paste this into your address bar at the top: chrome://settings/handlers
*Under the Ignored protocol handlers section, Click on X to the right to delete.
*Close and open Gmail.
*Answer the question correctly this time. :)
Source:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/hnRteY7bHfE
Alternative way, if you need to do this programmatically.
Firefox:
See @Am1rr3zA answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer.
Safari:
See @fpotter's answer on this question. Click here to jump to his answer.
A: You could use Sparrow which is a very clean and spare Gmail client. I've been using it for a while and love it.
Go to Mail.app / Preferences / General / and make Sparrow your default email reader.
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Q: How can I run/stop/relaunch an application automatically, at boot/login/some other time? How do you make a script or app to run or stop running automatically when the system is booted, a user logs on, at a specific time, when a disk is attached, etc.?
A: Lingon still works. I just used it last week to create a "scheduled task". After I downloaded it I had to use its auto-updater to get the latest version but it works fine.
A: If it's only necessary to run when the system is booted, just use the Login Items tab of your Accounts preference pane in System preferences.
If it's a script, use AppleScript Editor to save it as an application. If it's not an AppleScript script, you can still use AppleScript to run the script like this:
do shell script "your script here"
A: Don't forget Loginhooks.
Although they run as root, you ought to be able to have it execute a $HOME/.loginhook script using something like this:
#!/bin/sh
home=`eval echo ~$user`
if [ -x "$home/.loginhook" ]; then
logger -t $0 "executing .loginhook of user $user"
su - $user -c "$home/.loginhook"
fi
Then just add whatever commands you want to the ~/.loginhook
Also, although 'launchd' is "the Mac way" crontab is still a perfectly viable option, and is much much easier to hand-edit than XML launchd files.
Personally, I happily paid $5 for Lingon.
A: Gui Method
If you want something to run when a user logs in, the easiest way is to use the GUI. You can
*
*Go to the System Prefs > Accounts > Login Items screen, and add the item there by
*
*clicking the + symbol
*dragging and dropping the .app onto the pane
*In the dock, bring up the context menu for an app, select Options, then select Open at Login
Launchd method
If you want to launch something that is not a .app, or you want to have more control over launching it, such as:
*
*at a certain time or at a specified interval
*continuously re-launching if it crashes
*not related to user login
*as a function of network access
*only run when another process is running
*when a file is added to a folder
*etc.
then you want to use the technical solution that is launchd.
The easiest way to set up a launchd config file is to use a tool to help. At the time of writing the most popular method is Lingon (which has an older free version available from SourceForge), or the PList Website tool.
Hand Coding
If you don't want to use Lingon or the PList Website and only want to use the raw tools available on the system, you can write your own launchd plist by hand
Here is my launchd script to run SomeApp continuously after the system boots (independent of a user logging in). It is in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ and called SomeApp.restart.plist. If it is run based on a user login, it could be stored in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>SomeApp.restart</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/path/to/SomeApp.app/Contents/MacOS/SomeApp</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>5</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>10</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Load it once with
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/SomeApp.restart.plist
*
*The RunAtLoad option will launch the application the first time launchctl runs this.
*The KeepAlive option will re-launch the application if it crashes.
*The StartCalendarInterval will run it at a certain time. Presumably this is mutually exclusive with the previous two, but is included to show what can be done with launchd
*Launchctl will run this after reboots.
There are many additional options that can be found by experimenting with Lingon or by reading the man pages for launchctl, launchd.plist, plist, launchd.conf, etc.
A: Running an app at a specified time can be done easily in iCal, as I have just found out thanks to another forum!
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*Make a new event in iCal for the time you want the app to open.
*At 'Alert' choose 'Open File' - so, you can set a file to open, which will obviously also open the default application for that file type.
*To just open an app, rather than a file, change the 'iCal' dropdown to 'Other...' and choose the app you want to run!
One thing to be aware of is that if you have multiple Macs sharing stuff over iCloud, this event will also run on those apps, which you may or may not want.
To make this only happen on a single Mac, you need to create the event in an 'On My Mac' calendar which you can do as follows...
*
*Hide all other iCloud or shared calendars on the left hand bar by hovering over the calendar name and clicking the 'hide' button which will appear.
*Now right click (or Option click if you're a complete cretin and still haven't realised that you have more than one finger and can change your mouse preferences so that it is slightly more useful than its default 'cretinous brick for cretins' state) and choose 'New Calendar'.
*Because all shared calendars are hidden, this new calendar will be created as 'On My Mac' and will be local to this Mac.
I've only just found this out myself, and was pleasantly suprised by both tips, so thought I'd share them here.
I got the info from these helpful people over here...so thanks you people!...
http://osxdaily.com/2013/04/15/launch-file-app-scheduled-date-mac-os-x/
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Q: How to download an MP3 to an iPod Touch?
Possible Duplicate:
How to download free music from the internet to itunes on the iphone/ipad without using a mac/pc?
I have a new (4gen) iPod Touch. There's an MP3 on the web that I want to download so I can listen to it when there's no wifi available.
I can figure out how to play it, but I can't figure out how to download it (i.e., save it for future listening). It seems like iTunes is the only way to download audio or video, and it only has a preset list of things that can be downloaded (and a poor search feature!).
Do I need to download it on my Mac, and then sync, just to download an MP3?
A: You answered your self. You must download the file on your Mac and then you must sync it to your iPod Touch!
A: If you can get yourself a direct link to the MP3 file through Safari, your best bet is GoodReader or something like it.
You can put a URL into this app and it will actually download the file to the app's allocated document storage space on your iOS device. It won't add the song to your iTunes library or the Music section of your iPod, but you'll at least be able to play the file offline by opening the GoodReader app and browsing to it.
The nice thing about this is that when you get back to your Mac, you can plug in your iPod, copy the MP3 from GoodReader's document storage (through iTunes) to your hard drive, and then add it to your iTunes music library "the right way", so it'll sync into your iPod's Music section from now on.
A: If the MP3 isn't trapped in a Flash or Silverlight player, this will work:
In Safari, go to Window -> Activity in the menu bar. In the Activity window, you'll see a list of each page you currently have open. Find the one your MP3 is on and look through the listed files. The list shows every file on the currently open pages.
Select the address for the MP3 and press Command (Apple key) and C at the same time to copy the address. (This part is the tricky part. If the page it's on has a lot of other files, it can sometimes be difficult to identify the right one.)
Now go to Window -> Downloads and press Command and V to paste the address into the download window. This should cause the file you selected to download to your default location for Downloads (usually the Downloads folder within your home folder).
Once it's in your Downloads folder, you can just drag it into iTunes. And of course, once it's in iTunes, you can sync to your iPod.
A: Download a download app, I used Air Download Lite. Navigate to the webpage, click and hold the link to the mp3 file until a menu pops up. Choose copy from the menu. open the download program and paste the url into the download app, and it should download the file for you.
I found this question of yours because I wanted to do the exact same thing. I JUST did it so I know it works. Good Luck!!
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Q: Can I assign Magic Trackpad 3-finger swipe up/down to scroll to top/bottom? I have the trackpad on my Macbook pro set up to scroll to top/bottom on a 3-finger vertical swipe. As far as I can tell, that option isn't there for a Magic Trackpad.
It's very confusing to have both devices behave differently on the same gestures. Is there a way to fix this?
A: My Magic Trackpad did this right out of the box. I believe you should select "Swipe to navigate."
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Q: In itunes, how do I view entire album of currently playing song? If I have a playlist of songs, and I want to go from a song and play the entire album, I can't see anyway to do this except manually finding album in music list. There must be a better way. This is using itunes 10
A: If you normally sort your overall library by album, you can right click on the currently playing song in a playlist and select Show In Playlist -> Music. This will take you directly to that song in your music library.
A: If you don't have the little arrows visible, perhaps with the new version of iTunes + Ping, you can make them re-appear:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows 1
If you Option + click on the arrow for an album, you'll see all songs in that album. The arrow next to the artist name to links to all songs by that artist. If you don't want to press Option then you can run this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
And the normal behavior will be to show you your songs, and the meta behavior will be to link into the iTunes Store.
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Q: Best practices for a backup and fresh install I try to keep my mid-2009 Macbook Pro (5,3) pretty clean but over the last year I have definitely felt things slowing down a bit. I'm anxious to do a fresh install but I want to make sure I have a backup of everything at least, but an easy restore procedure would be best. I have files that aren't in the standard home folder locations, so I want to make sure I get everything.
What are your best practices for backing up before a fresh install?
A: (Option #1)
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*Get Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! (yes, with an ‘!’).
*Get an external Firewire or USB2 Drive that has the same or bigger size than your current drive.
*Using either of the above programs, make a perfect clone of your entire Old hard drive.
*Boot using the image in the New drive to make sure it works (either program will explain how to do that, it’s just pressing a key at startup).
*Once you’re sure your new drive boots and all your information is there, shutdown the computer, disconnect the new drive and store it in a safe location.
*Proceed to format and reinstall your computer with your OS X DVD.
*At the end of the install, decide whether you want to transfer all your information automatically using migration assistant (usually a good idea, but if there’s something “bad” with your profile, it will likely be copied over again, however this time the operating system will be fresh and you can always create a new user and manually replicate things). If you go this route, you’ll need to connect your New drive so Migration Assistant can pull the data (it won’t alter the New drive, it will read it only).
*(Optionally) Do not transfer any settings with Migration assistant and do it Manually after the install is over. This is good if you have problems in your profile, but it’s a tedious work if you had years of “stuff”. You can have Migration Assistant to only transfer your documents (to save you the trouble later), but if you transfer your “Network Settings” and your “Applications” any problem you had in the past may “come back” in those two. You can always manually drag the apps from new drive to Old drive after the install. And unless you also drag their ~Library/Application Settings stuff, they will be “brand new and unconfigured”. I believe you get the idea.
(Option #2)
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*Do the same thing as Option #1, except that instead of making a clone (and booting from it), perform a full Time Machine backup to that new external drive.
*Once you have the backup continue with step number 6 up there. Remember that Migration Assistant will have to be told to “migrate from a Time Machine backup” instead of “just another volume”.
Which one is better?
There’s no better or worse, but a few things must be observed:
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*A full clone, although may seem tedious, it’s a fully working volume that’s identical (well, almost) than your original one, it boots, you can even work from there in case of hard drive failure, in no time you have your computer back. That’s priceless in some environments and under certain circumstances. The clones can later (daily, hourly, etc.) be updated and it takes a fraction of a second to update (just like Time Machine doesn’t make a full backup every time). SuperDuper is very good at that and was a pioneer at doing it right and fast™.
*A Time Machine, although a very nice and handy thing (and I do recommend you also have one once you have your working machine reinstalled and migrated), is not bootable and in case of total hard drive failure, you wouldn’t be able to start working immediately, because Time Machine backups are not bootable and the recovery process is somewhat slower and more prone to errors (in my humble experience).
*With that being said, Time Machine wins hands down when you “need to find that file I had on my desktop a couple of weeks ago”. Since Full Clones (and their incremental stuff) usually do not keep history of changes (CCC has some stuff about that, but the space used grows really fast), then you always have the “latest” copy of your drive, but you cannot go back to your drive the way it was “a month ago”.
So there you have the two main methods.
An ideally backup plan (without going paranoid), will consists of a weekly (or daily) clone/snapshot to a bootable drive that you can store a few feet away from your computer every now and then and an “all the time” Time Machine drive sitting there, keeping your computer’s changes up to date in a short interval. This covers the two main problems:
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*I need last week’s file and I need it now! (Time Machine)
*My Drive crashed but I need to continue working now! (Clone)
Good Luck! :)
A: Ideal procedure: replace your hard disk with a new hard disk and keep the old one.
Hard disks have a limited lifespan and are expected to wear out eventually.
You can choose to place your old hard disk in a casing so that you can connect it to your Mac via USB and even boot from the old hard disk when connected in this way. This offers seamless transition between your new and old computer states, a great way to make sure you have a backup of everything you need, and an effective measure to make sure your hard drive won't crash anytime soon. Your current hard disk is relatively new though, and probably won't crash very soon, but if you're willing to start afresh, I strongly recommend this method.
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Q: Mac ports package name search from command line? I tried to install gnuchessc with Mac ports, but there's nothing like that.
sudo port install gnuchessc
Error: Port gnuchessc not found
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.
Actually, it should have been gnuchess not gnuchessc. Is there a way to let Mac Ports teach me that there is gnuchess instead of gnuchessc from command line?
A: port search $TERM
The MacPorts Guide is really useful for these sorts of things.
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Q: Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"? Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this?
A: This happened to my brother's iPhone 4 a few times. When he took it to the Apple Store, they ran a special diagnostic that revealed the phone had reached 200 degrees inside. Needless to say, the phone was replaced.
A: From the User's Guide:
If the interior temperature of iPhone exceeds normal operating temperatures, you may experience the following as it attempts to regulate its temperature:
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*iPhone stops charging
*display dims
*weak cellular signal
*temperature warning screen appears
Important: You cannot use iPhone while the temperature warning screen is displayed except to make an emergency call. If none of the above measures succeeds in lowering the internal temperature, iPhone automatically goes into a deep sleep mode until it cools. You cannot make an emergency call when iPhone is in this mode. Move iPhone to a cooler location and wait a few minutes before trying to use iPhone again.
There have been numerous cases of all sorts of consumer electronics melting/exploding, and these have often been settled with lawsuits. It is appropriate that the iPhone take preemptive measures to avoid such accidents.
A: This is a long shot but maybe there's a process going on in the background that's using a lot of processor cycles.
Consider double clicking the home button and quitting everything running and shutting the iPhone down, then restarting it.
Consider turning off bluetooth to see if that's an issue.
A: I left my IPhone in car's passenger seat while cleaning garage and had the same message when I retrieved the phone. It was a hot South Florida July day and the phone was hot to the touch. Took phone inside and after it "cooled off", started to work again as normal.
A: it is temp pin in battery just try to change your battery thats all
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Q: Is it possible to write to the Boot Camp disk in OS X? I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition. I don't want to leave OS X to organize files.
A: It is possible.
You will first need MacFUSE and then NTFS-3G.
The User's Guide for NTFS-3G can be found here (PDF).
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Q: How do I change the PIN on an iPhone? A simple one, I guess:
I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings.
A: The setting to change SIM PIN can be found under Settings app → Mobile Data → SIM PIN and not under Settings app → Phone.
A: You can find the option under Settings > Phone > SIM PIN.
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Q: Replacing SuperDrive with secondary storage? I'm familiar with the OWC Data Doubler, a kit which allows you to remove your Macbook's SuperDrive and replace it with secondary storage.
What alternatives exist for this product?
A complete answer might explain the pros/cons to removing the SuperDrive as well as tips for proceeding.
A: I can only give you an overview of my own personal experience with the process and hardware I used. Alot of this is copy pasted from my posts on the thread related to this on macrumors.com. Here goes:
I bought the ebay optical bay caddy linked here. Works great. Depending on your model, I would recommend using the "Optical Drive Replacement" guide on ifixit.com (here is the link to my particular model, the mid-2010 15in). Once you remove the drive, you have to do a bit of ad-lib in order to install the caddy.
The only issue with this caddy is that two screw holes on the outside facing part of the macbook case do not have a matching hole on the caddy. So the caddy is held in place by one screw on the innermost side. The screw hole that DOES exist on the caddy is actually not part of the caddy at all. You remove a little bracket from the superdrive and use the 2 screws it was secured with to attach it to the caddy in the same position.
It seemed pretty wobbly to me so I just took 3 pieces of electrical tape, folded each one on top of itself once, and stuffed them into the spaces where the caddy had wiggle room between the other components and parts of the case. Problem solved... the enclosure doesn't move one bit inside the case. I think it might even dampen the noise a bit since it keeps the metal from contacting other metal bits.
So, the important bits about the superdrive replacement:
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*BACKUP YOUR DATA: probably the most important thing you can do before attempting this procedure
*If possible move your User's directory to a separate volume before doing the upgrade: this will make it easier to clone your data later on... for specifics see my question here
*Follow an ifixit guide step by step and label your screws: i used one of those 2 week pill boxes and put labels on the days that corresponded the step number
*use good screwdrivers: I highly recommend the ifixit bit driver set as they all fit correctly and lessen the chance you will cause damage or strip your screws
*put your boot drive in the original HDD spot: otherwise you may have issues with sleep and hibernation
*make a bootable copy of your installation discs: put the OSX install DVD on a thumb drive or a partition so that you'll be able to boot from it in an emergency without reinstalling the SuperDrive (it may be possible to boot from the superdrive externally but I haven't tested this)
*for info regarding installing your superdrive in an external enclosure, check out my answer to this question
PROS
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*You have the option of drastically increasing your storage space or using a SSD to dramatically speed up your OS X experience.
*My system boots from the SSD in about 15 seconds including 3 programs launching and about 7 or 8 menubar apps
*All of my data is located on my original 500GB HDD and is separated from my boot volume in case of OS or disk failure
*did i mention it's lightning fast?? :P
CONS
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*have to cart around an external superdrive enclosure if you want to use cds or dvds
*a HDD in the caddy is definitely noisier than a HDD in the original slot. I have a feeling this could be mitigated by some noise dampening but I haven't really worried about it too much
*you're pulling apart your MacBook so there is always some risk that you'll break something through user error
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Q: Automatically quit Terminal when typing exit Scenario
I use terminal to SSH a lot, however would like the Terminal App to quit when the last Tab closes using exit. I already have the terminal window itself set to close on successful exit, however Terminal keeps running. I followed Ricky Campbell's tutorial here which uses an AppleScript to quit terminal. The AppleScript works perfectly when running outside of Terminal, however I somehow can't get the trap command to work that needs to be placed in the terminal.
For reference I will post the relevant text here:
Now we need a way to kickoff the script. This can be done with the bash command “trap”, having it listen for the EXIT signal. Since I want this to happen everytime my user opens a shell, I add it to my .profile file. I do this with nano:
$ nano ~/.profile
In this file add the following somewhere. You may need to edit the path to the AppleScript file you created earlier:
trap '/usr/bin/osascript $HOME/Scripts/QuitTerminal.scpt' EXIT
All this does is listen for the EXIT signal within bash and when it gets it, runs the script we created earlier.
Question
How do I go about troubleshooting this problem. For some reason the trap is not firing or working the way it should, even after numerous reboots. Is there an alternative way to get the Terminal App to close when the last tab exits?
Solution
The links provided by Dori led to the solution. The article suggest that the trap command should be in .profile, when in fact it has to be placed in .bashrc. Moving it to the correct script fixed the problem.
A: The approach given here looks a little simpler—maybe it would work for you?
If you don't want to remember to type "quit" instead of "exit", and you're using bash, just add the following to your .bashrc or other shell startup script:
trap '/usr/bin/osascript -e "tell application \"terminal\" to quit"' 0
What's it do? When the shell receives signal 0 (zero), that is, told to exit, it will execute this command as the last thing it does. This allows your shell, etc, to exit gracefully, and asking Terminal.app to exit via applescript makes sure it does the same. In other words, type 'exit', and your shell exits, then Terminal quits, all cleanly and the way nature intended.
The full thread can be found here.
A: You can also use this convoluted command, which does not trigger a warning about terminating its own process:
osascript -e "do shell script \"osascript -e \\\"tell application \\\\\\\"Terminal\\\\\\\" to quit\\\" &> /dev/null &\""; exit
Or, you could define an alias (such as quit or exit) in your profile:
alias quit='osascript -e "do shell script \"osascript -e \\\"tell application \\\\\\\"Terminal\\\\\\\" to quit\\\" &> /dev/null &\""; exit'
A: You does not need trap any signal.
Simply, put the osascript command into your ~/.bash_logout file (create it, if does not exists)
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to quit"
The .bash_logout is executed by bash after you logging out. You can enter any shell command into this file, each will executed when you logging out.
For example, you can open a Finder window in the folder where you was last, before exit, with open . or like...
open .
say "Good bye, my master - leaving terminal now, continue with Finder"
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to quit"
and so on...
A: I find this url for multi tabed Terminal case.
http://cyberdork33.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/make-osx-terminal-quit-when-last-window-closed/
just tested on os x 10.8.2
TL.DR:
for the tab part(exit to close current tab)
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Shell
When the shell exits: Close if the shell exited cleanly (or Close the window)
Prompt before closing: Never(or Only if there are processes other than the logins shell and: Insert "osascript")
for the last tab part(exit to close this last tab and whole terminal windows and quit Terminal.app):
1) append to ~/.bash_profile:
trap '/usr/bin/osascript $HOME/Scripts/QuitTerminal.scpt' EXIT
2) create Scripts/QuitTerminal.scpt
tell application "Terminal"
# If there is only one tab remaining, and it contains the word "logout"
# then this is the final window
if (count of (tabs of (every window whose visible is true))) = 1 then
try
set theContents to words of ((contents of tab 1 of window 1) as Unicode text)
set exitLastTab to (theContents contains "logout")
on error
set exitLastTab to false
end try
if exitLastTab is true then
quit
end if
else if (count of (tabs of (every window whose visible is true))) < 1 then
# If no window remains open, then obviously we can quit the app.
# This would occur when the final window is closed without 'exit'
quit
end if
end tell
Hope it helps.
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Q: How to display Google App Contacts in a separate iChat list? I have a few accounts in iChat:
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*GMail
*AIM
*Google Apps (a custom domain)
Both GMail and Google Apps put all my contacts in the 'Buddies' list. Can I rename my Gmail list to "GMail Contacts' or something else so that both accounts dont get merged?
A: I actually just tried this and iChat does it automatically. As you can see I have a different window for each account, and I think you can actually set the window's title by setting the account description under Settings->Accounts. As you can see I even have different groups for each account.
Although I usually have them unified using Chax's feature Use All Contacts window as primary contact list
A: Yes, and Yes. Just add a new group, and then drag your Google App contacts to the newly named group. It's really that easy. You can right click on any group name, and select rename.
You can also do the same with Adium
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Q: How to convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac.
A: The .numbers file is actually a directory. There should be an image
file.numbers/QuickLook/Thumbnail.jpg
that contains a preview of the document. It might contain the information that you are looking for. The contents on the file are actually stored in a compressed xml file
file.numbers/index.xml.gz
If you are just looking for some bit of information, you might be able to find it in there. For the most part, unless you have something to parse the xml, it would take quite a bit of work to reconstruct the spreadsheet from the xml.
A: This is very difficult to do without a Mac. You possibly could try to manually extract the data by hand or with a conversion tool, but I am not aware of any conversion tools available.
Therefore, I highly suggest that you use Numbers to do the conversion. Since you don't have your Mac anymore, perhaps you could borrow a friend's? Also, if there is an Apple Store near where you live, you could put the file on a flash drive and do the conversion there.
A: There's a website called Zamzar offering converting services: http://www.zamzar.com.
You can upload .numbers (among many other filetypes) and let them convert it to .csv, .pdf or .xls. You can have them mail you a link to download this converted file (for only one day).
I don't know if they're trustable, but they just helped me out.
A: Perhaps Numbers in iCloud could help, if you have an iCloud account and don't mind uploading your data to a server.
https://icloud.com/
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Q: How do I launch an app at start up but as a specific user? I want to launch an app at login but have it running as a specific user. Here's the use case:
I turn on my Mac and login in as Ben. In the background iTunes is launched for Bill. Ben can launch his own instance of iTunes and access Bills songs via iTunes sharing. Ben doesn't care have access to Bills instance of iTunes. All other iTunes on the local network can also access Bills shared iTunes library.
Please don't suggest iTunes specific solutions (e.g. Home Sharing) as I also want to run other apps in a similar fashion.
Is this possible?
A: If you just have two users, you can auto login as Bill, have Bill's account auto-launch multiple apps (see launchd, or via the GUI under User Accounts), and after a timed delay switch users (again, launchd or an Automater App + "sleep 30;" + this), returning you to the login screen. You now manually log in as Ben.
If you want multiple apps running under multiple user accounts in the background, it gets a bit more complicated. Please clarify if this is the case.
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Q: Can you set custom ringtones for contact groups? In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone).
But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".)
I think that would be handy—and quite basic functionality, so to speak—but I couldn't find a way to do this through the iPhone UI. Is it possible at all (without jailbreaking)?
A: It is unfortunately not (yet or ever?) officially supported as a feature of iOS.
A: yes, you can assign ringtones to contact groups on iPhone using Grouptones tweak ($2.99 in Cydia, requires jailbreak).
See http://grouptonesapp.com for details!
A: It had this feature on my 3Gs. I know because I just upgraded to the 4s and it's not there. They changed it.
A: Just use this app: GRingtones, it is a group managing app.
The most important feature is that GRingtones could set a ringtone for each group!
*
*Setting a group ringtone
*Setting a text tone for a group
*Groups could be created, edited, or deleted free.
*Searching for contacts is also supported.
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Q: How I can save a screenshot of an iPhone application? I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone or iPad application to share.
How is that accomplished?
A: Press the home button and the sleep button simultaneously. Newer phones have the sleep,on the side instead of the top but save images the same.
This will save a picture of the current iPhone screen to the "Photos" application. From there, you can either email it to anyone you want or sync it to your computer.
Assistive touch also works on newer iOS versions.
*
*How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button?
On iOS 11 screen recording might be if use for capturing transient events where your reflexes or the device itself isn’t responsive enough at the correct moment.
*
*How do I take a screenshot in iOS without hitting the Home Button and the Power Button?
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Q: High quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4 Can you recommend a high quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4? (Apparently there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones)
A: By "there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones," are you referring to the fact that no one has ever gotten them to work together?
The iPad, yes—but not the iPhone 4.
(Which, I think, answers the question about which mic I recommend…)
A: It looks like the Tascam IM2 is the only game in town (and just released). Its features are 125dB SPL, 95dB S/N, 20Hz-20kHz, if eBay listings are believable.
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Q: Why does battery die during sleep mode? I'm running MacOSX 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro.
I was working on my computer last night. I finished work, closed the lid and expected the computer to go to sleep. I assume this is the Apple Safe Sleep mode. My battery was about 70% charged.
Tonight, I open up my laptop and discover that the computer refuses to start and battery has been completely discharged. When I plug the computer in again, all information from my previous session was lost. It's as if the computer shut down completely.
What's happening here? Shouldn't the computer go to sleep and save all information to disk? When I wake the computer up from sleep mode, shouldn't it restore all information from my previous session?
This only happens about 5% of the time that I close the lid. Usually, this works as I expected.
Update to answer @zneak's question:
This is the hardware model, according to About this Mac: More Info...: Hardware.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
A: What happened could’ve been because of different reasons. Certain old Macbook Pros had troubles with sleeping (hence why zneak wants to know about the model).
However I believe that your computer woke up (wake on lan? hung process?) during the night and it burned through your battery. What are your Energy Settings?
Also, get some sort of CPU meter like MenuMeters or iStats Menu (€) and make sure your CPU/Cores are not 100%, that indicates a process that’s using all your CPU power (and a lot of energy!)
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Q: Audio book just becomes silent on iPhone after a few hours, no issue with desktop player I built an Audio Book (an M4B) file from a set of MP3 files. The result lasts 18h30, and was encoded using Free MP3 to Audio Book Converter. The resulting file uses AAC version 4 - LC - SBR.
When reading this file with Windows Media Player, I encounter no issue. But on the iPhone (a 3GS running iOS 4.0.1), the sound just abruptly stops at after a few hours (approx. 5 hours), always at the same place: the player still plays the file, but it emits no sound. Another file, encoded the same way, gave me the same problem: at some point, the sound just stops.
Previous audio books that I had built had no such issue. They last around 10 hours, which is still more than the time at which the two problematic files stop.
Any idea about what could be going on? Is it not possible to reliably build large audio books for the iPhone?
[EDIT] I just tried to delete the book from the iPhone, and download it again. Noticed two things: while the length displayed on the book library is 26h36m43, the length displayed in the player itself is only 13h15m21 (one half)... Other thing is that now, it stops after only a few minutes...
[EDIT] An audio book I converted with the same program is available here (290MB). On my iPhone, all sounds disappear at 30m57s. I uploaded it twice, with the same result.
A: It may have been an issue with that iOS version, or the conversion program itself.
Ultimately, however, now that iOS 14 will be released this year, this question is largely unnecessary in 2020 and beyond.
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Q: Is the upgrade to 4.1 worth it? I currently have a jailbroken 3Gs iPhone running 4.01.
I've really used the jailbroken part, but it's good to know that I can tether my laptop to the phone should I ever need to.
Having said that, is it worth it to upgrade the phone to 4.1 (which hasn't been jailbroken yet)? Does it fix the sluggishness issues that were caused by the upgrade from iPhone OS 3.x to iOS 4.x?
A: There have been no reported issues with sluggishness on the iPhone 3GS.
The issues with sluggishness relate to the iPhone 3G. The update to iOS 4.1 resolves these issues.
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Q: What would it take to make an iPad support multiple user accounts? As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with it.
Being based on OS X, iOS could theoretically support multiple user accounts. But adding new users (even if done correctly) wouldn't play nice with iTunes.
So, what about partitioning the hard drive and installing several instances of iOS? Add a screen early in the boot process that allows you to choose the partition, and thus the user.
Itunes would thus be able to sync many users separately on the same device, depending on the chosen partition.
To be clearer: I'm not just asking the question, I want to actually do it. Can anybody suggest means to achieve this?
Continued my research: apparently, it is possible to modify the Boot Rom (cf. Limera1n).
A: One place to look might be at dual booting an iPhone with Android.
Update: iUsers for iPad now makes this possible. Check out the video.
A: iOS caters to both the iPhone and the iPad. Multi-user support on the iPhone would be superfluous. Multi-user support on the iPad but not on the iPhone would imply considerable fragmentation of the iOS platform.
If Apple really wanted to include multi-user support in iOS, partitioning the flash storage and installing several instances of iOS would not be the proper way to go about it. Multi-user support should be accomplished with one instance of iOS and different folders constituting different users' home directories, as is the case with major desktop operating systems. Then user permissions are to be implemented so that one user cannot view another user's files or folders, and thus cannot not read that user's email, etc.
Though multi-user support can be properly implemented on the iPad, it is uncalled for as "portable devices" are often "personal devices".
A: No non-jailbroken iOS device (publicly) supports multiple accounts, even if one could partition the storage. I have no experience with jailbroken devices so I can't speak to that scenario.
I've seen multiple blog entries lamenting the lack of a feature to lock certain types of content (and they even offered up a couple interesting solutions, too).
A: iOS itself supports multiple user accounts, but SpringBoard doesn't support them, as it's tied heavily to the mobile user. Some people have put together mods that allow you to add more accounts for the UI/SpringBoard if you're jailbroken, but support for the ones I can find have dissipated.
A: As this question was asked and last answered a long time ago - things have (slightly) changed today. There is indeed a (limited) multi-user support today for iPads in the educational market. Multiple managed AppleID accounts can be used on a single device and thus it can be shared among several people. There is more information regarding this here:
http://www.apple.com/education/
http://www.apple.com/education/products/#ipad-assistant
Even if students share an iPad, they can make it their own.
Shared iPad is a new feature in iOS 9.3 We designed it for schools that use a shared device model but still want to provide personalized experiences. Before class begins, you can assign any iPad to any student in your classroom. Students know which devices to use because their pictures are on the Lock screens. And they can access their personal content with a password or an easy-to-remember four-digit PIN. After students log in, their homework, apps, and assignments appear exactly as they left them.
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Q: Songs Won't Appear On Ipod After Syncing I have been having issues with syncing my iPod and would be extremely grateful if anyone could help.
When I connect my iPod to the computer it shows on both the iPod and iTunes that it is syncing. However the songs that I have added a week ago still won't go on to the iPod and I have tried syncing it several items. The songs are downloaded from iTunes so I don't understand why it won't work.
A: Can you check if your iPod is set for syncing all music ? Attach your iPod to your computer and in the iTunes sidebar select the iPod. Click on Music and check if the setting is enabled or not. Also check if your enabled manually manage songs.
Also, check the Apple Support Article on how to manage and sync the music to your iPod.
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Q: Command Line method to backup using two Time Machine disks Does anyone know of a command line method to select the active Time Machine disk? I would like to alternate between two backup disks for redundancy. I would like this to be automated, presumably via cron, perhaps launchd.
There is an AppleScript method to swap disks, but I am doing remote system administration and cannot rely on GUI scripting. I would presume there is sufficient control of Time Machine using the defaults command, but am not sure how to achieve this yet.
A: Note: The restore component of backing up like this has not yet been tested.
Get the ID of the attached drive
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias
Eject, plug in 2nd drive, make it the Time Machine drive with the GUI, repeat.
Write (rather than read) the ID:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias '<00000000 014e0002 ....>'
source & thanks to Christian Stocker. Key comments from that post:
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*http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/defaults.1.html "WARNING: The defaults command will be changed in an upcoming major release to only operate on preferences domains. General plist manipulation utilities will be folded into a different command-line program."
*Also the property DestinationVolumeUUID should be set.
A: If your need is to have redundancy on Time Machine backups, an alternative is to maintain a clone of your Time Machine Volume. I use SuperDuper! for that purpose.
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Q: Why doesn't iOS 4 have any apps to match Locale on Android? Locale seems to be one of the coolest apps on the Android devices. Lets you reconfigure multiple aspects of your phone depending on location. I for example would like to change my default calendar depending on if I'm at work or not.
I've done a lot of digging to see if iPhone has a similar app. And all I can find are old articles saying that since iOS doesn't support background tasks (Which it does now), that this feature isn't even possible. Now that we have background tasks, I can't see whats holding this back, especially in the jailbreak community.
I'm posting this to see if anybody out there has an app in progress, or has anymore information that I haven't been able to dig up.
Thanks
A: While iOS doesn't support generic background tasks (i.e. doing whatever you want in the background), it does support taking some action when a user enters certain geographical bounds, so it seems like this could technically be possible when moving from work to home or elsewhere.
My guess is that it is because iOS is very restrictive about what an app can change about the phone interface. You mention changing the default calendar configuration, which an application cannot do currently with public APIs. Apps are mostly restricted to changing their own settings or firing their own events rather than having access to other apps on the phone.
Could this change in the future? Sure, if Apple adds more public APIs to change various system or app options. But it seems unlikely considering their interest in a consistent user experience.
A: Implementing such an app on the iPhone would require that either GPS or wifi is active all the time (or at least regularly), which might drain the battery.
Also, this app would have to run as a background service all the time, which iOS doesn't really allow. You can run any number of apps but when memory runs low, the least used apps get shut down by the OS. This app should have to be protected against shutdown, which iOS doesn't support. For this reason, this app needs to be written for jailbroken iPhones only.
Therefore, you won't find such an app in iTunes, but you might find it in Cydia (now or in the future), but I don't know.
Note: I've not jailbroken my iPhone 4 yet but situations like this make me want to. I think that Apple puts too many limits on the devices. If people want to run XYZ on their devices and it redcues their battery life to a few hours, let them if they really want to.
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Q: Free (if possible) Video Converter I've been getting along with VisualHub (defunct) for a while now, but recently I've needed an expanded set of Codec's, in particular Theora and VP8.1
A: FFmpeg might be what you're looking for. It is free and supports Theora and VP8.
A: A couple free programs:
*
*Miro Video Converter - Free but very limited in terms of customization. But does support Theora and VP8l
*FFMPEG on the command line - Harder to use but it's free.
*Video Monkey - Based on the open sourced replacement of Visual Hub
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Q: Can I use the sound output on both my late 2009 iMac and my Cinema Display? I purchased a 27" Cinema Display to go with my late 2009 iMac.
What I would like to do is use the speakers on both displays. This doesn't seem possible using System Prefs -> Sound. I can only set it to use one set of speakers or the other.
Ideally I'd have the cinema display output the left channel while the iMac outputs the right.
Is there a way to use them both?
A: I don’t know if you can get away with that, but I do know what you can’t do with “the tools you have”.
The first approach would be to - having both output devices connected – create an Aggregate device that encompasses both.
Let’s say one device is called: Headphones and the other is Display.
The initial approach would be to create the Aggregate device in your Audio MIDI Setup panel, add Headphones and Display as devices, mute Headphones’ left channel and then Display’s right channel. Then happily select this new Aggregate device as your sound output and be super happy.
Sadly that doesn’t work. (I’ve tried it). Apparently the clock synchronization between the “devices” doesn’t happen and OS X doesn’t really care, therefore only one device outputs audio. (Sad, but true).
(more information on how to create an Aggregate device that can be found on this Apple Article)
What to do?
There’s hope, but I haven’t tried this solution.
The idea would be to create an aggregate device of your two sources (Display and Headphones) like we did before, then install JackOSX, set its preference to your new aggregate device, start the Jack’s router, set AudioMIDI Setup to use Jack for I/O, open an app to play your music and connect its output send channels to whatever system playback channels you want in Jack Connection manager.
That might work and I suggest you give it a shot.
More simple solutions, might involve cabling, Y-Splitters and weird things which I don’t think you want to dive into (specially given that all the audio is Digital and internal, you’re not talking about external speakers per se).
Finally, although it doesn’t provide simultaneous playback, changing sound sources is very simple with a free utility like SoundSource from your menu bar. (I do it all the time to switch from headphones to speakers).
Hope something of this makes sense.
A: Get two sets of external speakers (one for each monitor), and plug them into a Y-splitter cable, and plug that into the Mac. You'll get the sound balance you seek and, unless you are a hardcore audiophile or have perfect hearing, you won't notice the difference between the analog/digital sound and experience better sound overall.
Just because there are speakers on your Apple hardware doesn't mean you have to use them, or to put it another way: two pairs of powered, external, analog speakers will beat the sound of the internal-but-wired-the-same-way-as-external speakers any day.
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Q: Sorting by multiple criteria in iTunes So I have a playlist with a bunch of albums in it that I would like to sort by album name. This is mostly fine, except where you have two albums from different artists that have the same album name, such as here:
Note that 'Aphex Twin - Classics' and 'Ratatat - Classics' are being merged together.
This is in Album List view, sorting by Album. Album by Artist does not work as it primary sorts alphabetically by Artist instead of alphabetically by Album, which is what I want.
What I would expect to see here is 'Aphex Twin - Classics' first and then 'Ratatat - Classics', because iTunes should know that it has two albums but from different artists.
It looks like you can can set the 'Album Artist' in the id3 tags and it will then sort by that, which means to make this work correctly I'd have to retag all my music and copy the artist into the artist album tag (unless it already existed yadda yadda). This is less than ideal, is there another way?
(Thinking about this I'm imagine it happens because of how iTunes tries to deal with compilations, which imo really needs to be overhauled, but that's another story)
A: I believe that currently the only way to do this is by setting the Album Artist. Considering that you only need to set the Album Artist for albums that you are having problems with, and that you only need to copy and paste the artist name once for each album, it doesn't seem very tedious.
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Q: How can I change the background and text colour for messages in Mail.app I much prefer reading white text on a black background. Is it possible for me to configure Mail.app so that messages are displayed white-on-black instead of the other way around?
A: Yup. Go to preferences -> Fonts & Colors -> click "Select" on "Message font" -> do your thing. :)
A: The more universal way to do this is to turn the entire screen opposite (White on Black).
System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Invert Colors
You can assign a hotkey in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Accessibility > Invert colors
Default shortcut is: ctrl + option + cmd + 8
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Q: Fast forward / backward on iPod Touch Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ?
A: Tap the album artwork to bring up the seek slider. You can then drag the slider to move from one place to another in the track.
A: Hold the skip forward/backwards button (Other known as "next song" button) for a few seconds. You'll fast forward/backwards in the song.
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Q: How to connect to wireless TV satellite receiver from Mac OS X How could I connect to my satellite receiver from Mac OS X and be able to watch TV and navigate through channel list? Is there any free software that could do this?
A: The closest thing to what you want would probably be the SlingBox.
It's not possible to do this with just software, unfortunately. Satellite and cable boxes are pretty locked down, so you need a hybrid hardware/software solution like the SlingBox.
A: use dreambox tv satellite receiver , connect to your network and your mac via wireless
on the mac !dreamX
maybe you have to use VLD video viewer
A: Not free and not software, but if you want the best results, you'll need the EyeTV HD from Elgato.
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Q: What is the best icon creator for mac? I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac?
A: If you have access to Photoshop, then I highly recommend Iconbuilder from Iconfactory. Back when I doing this, Iconbuilder made the creation of resources for a variety of platforms a snap.
A: If you just have a tiff file that you need to make into an icon, you can use the built-in command line program tiff2icns.
(This is probably not the best all-around answer, but it has been useful to me.)
A: It's been years and things are changing, let me answer my own question, What is the best icon creator for Mac?
I think the answer is iconutil for me. You can get more info by running man iconutil in Terminal.
I also create an Automator workflow:
https://github.com/sparanoid/automator-workflows#create-app-iconset
You can convert a set of images or a single image to an icon.
A: Since it isn't mentioned, I'll do it: IconSlate is a fantastic app for creating both Windows (.ico) and Mac (.icns) icons. Simple to use, beautifully designed and does exactly what it says on the tin. Highly recommended!
A: If you want free software your best choice was Pic2Icon and you can also try img2icnsapp free version and if you like it, can upgrade it to pro version.
and the best software was iconeer but it's not free and you must pay for it.
I also suggest you see this page for more infos.
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