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a4f40fff4d678030ac867b5bff8025d4b5ce1fb8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I schedule a periodic file permissions repair? Can I schedule a periodical file permissions repair? With Automator, maybe?
A: Go to the terminal and execute "crontab -e" to add a new crontab entry. Now there are numberous syntaxical ways you can accomplish what you want (read about it on wikipedia). The easiest one, however, will be to put
@monthly diskutil repairPermissions /
in it.
Note: You'll be using vi for editing. Press "i" to type, then after you've finished press ESC and type in ":wq" to save and quit.
| Q: Can I schedule a periodic file permissions repair? Can I schedule a periodical file permissions repair? With Automator, maybe?
A: Go to the terminal and execute "crontab -e" to add a new crontab entry. Now there are numberous syntaxical ways you can accomplish what you want (read about it on wikipedia). The easiest one, however, will be to put
@monthly diskutil repairPermissions /
in it.
Note: You'll be using vi for editing. Press "i" to type, then after you've finished press ESC and type in ":wq" to save and quit.
A: You can do this with a combination of iCal, AppleScript, and Shell Scripting.
First, open AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities). Paste this in:
tell application "Terminal"
do script "diskutil repairPermissions /"
end tell
Go to File-> Save As. Select a safe but out-of-the way location. Set the File Format menu to Application.
Then, open iCal. Add a new event (call it something like "Auto-Repair Permissions"). Right-click the even and select Get Info.
Set the Repeat menu to something like Every Month (depending on how often you want to repair the permissions).
Under Attachments, click Add File... Navigate to the file you saved from AppleScript Editor.
Now, iCal will automatically (at the interval you selected under Repeat) open the app you created. That app opens Terminal and runs a command which verifies and repairs your permissions. The Terminal window has a progress meter and a list of the changes its made (along with any errors).
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43029ddc49d55266df73b0c21093d673e1b862ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why Firefox takes so long to open in Mac OS X? When I first boot my MacBook Pro with Core i7, 8 GB ram, and 7200 rpm hard drive running Mac OS X 10.6.7, it still takes a long time (10 or so dock icon bounces) for latest Firefox 4.0.1 to open.
Why is it so slow? Is it something on my part? Or is Firefox just that slow to open? Thanks!
P.S. As a comparison, it doesn't take long a all (a few seconds) for Firefox to open on my Windoze machine.
A: If you have installed many fonts (font packages), you should disable the ones that you don't use. Also try running Firefox in safe mode (without addons). FF4 should start for about 2-3 seconds.
| Q: Why Firefox takes so long to open in Mac OS X? When I first boot my MacBook Pro with Core i7, 8 GB ram, and 7200 rpm hard drive running Mac OS X 10.6.7, it still takes a long time (10 or so dock icon bounces) for latest Firefox 4.0.1 to open.
Why is it so slow? Is it something on my part? Or is Firefox just that slow to open? Thanks!
P.S. As a comparison, it doesn't take long a all (a few seconds) for Firefox to open on my Windoze machine.
A: If you have installed many fonts (font packages), you should disable the ones that you don't use. Also try running Firefox in safe mode (without addons). FF4 should start for about 2-3 seconds.
A: Simply because it is a Mac. It takes longer to open an application than other operating systems, but once it is open it remains open so the program will load faster afterwards.
This is because on a Mac, the X button on top doesn't close the application but rather hides it (unlike a Windows which closes it with the X). Short term this can be a pain in the ass, like I always see it. It might be helpful if you do not shut down your Mac so that all the applications are still running in the background, hence opening a picture, word file or browser might be faster. But many apps running will make a Mac slower.
Mac and Windows user
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0f102f80280f45396d11ded84f8532cba7a1453e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them? I am using different operating systems on different machines on different locations. I am using a USB flash disk to keep my files (source codes etc.).
I am new to Mac OS X and now I realize there are lots of files created with a dot underscore ._ prefix.
Questions
Why are ._ files created?
What are their purpose?
How can I avoid them?
A: To minimise the presence of dot underscore files on non-HFS+ formatted drives, you can use the BlueHarvest preference pane.
| Q: Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them? I am using different operating systems on different machines on different locations. I am using a USB flash disk to keep my files (source codes etc.).
I am new to Mac OS X and now I realize there are lots of files created with a dot underscore ._ prefix.
Questions
Why are ._ files created?
What are their purpose?
How can I avoid them?
A: To minimise the presence of dot underscore files on non-HFS+ formatted drives, you can use the BlueHarvest preference pane.
A: Purposes of .DS_Store and ._ files
https://diigo.com/0nsozp for an annotated view of https://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2006/Jun/msg00180.html where Matt Deatherage (a former engineer at Apple) offers explanations. Also arnotify » On the origins of .DS_Store (2006-10-01).
Since I have seen loss of user data (document content) where ._ counterparts are prevented or lost, I agree that it's:
*
*not acceptable to have things "vanish into the ether".
Purposes of ._ files
In addition to the purposes outlined in geekosaur's accepted answer, here are a few examples of how Apple and third party apps either use or require ._ in some situations …
File business during a copy by Finder
See my answer to a question on Stack Overflow.
NeoOffice use of deprecated codes
HFS type code NO%F without a creator code is:
*
*used considerately, only where appropriate.
NeoOffice example 1
NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 save to JHFS+:
[macbookpro08-centrim:~] gjp22% xattr -l /Users/gjp22/Desktop/product\ of\ NeoOffice\ 3.2.1\ Patch\ 5.docx
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 4E 4F 25 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |NO%F............|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020
NeoOffice example 2
NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 save to a USB flash drive with MS-DOS FAT32, cleaning by BlueHarvest:
2012-05-12 06:42:08.349 BlueHarvest[31146]: Deleted ._product of NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5.docx in /Volumes/FAT32/example.
NeoOffice example 3
NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 save to a volume mounted by OS X with file system type webdav, not SharePoint, cleaning by BlueHarvest:
[macbookpro08-centrim:~] gjp22% mount | grep dav
https://www.box.net/dav/ on /Volumes/dav (webdav, nodev, noexec, nosuid, mounted by gjp22)
[macbookpro08-centrim:~] gjp22% xattr -l /Volumes/dav/product\ of\ NeoOffice\ 3.2.1\ Patch\ 5.docx
[macbookpro08-centrim:~] gjp22%
*
*the save by NeoOffice to the webdav file system did not involve an extended attribute
*BlueHarvest was not required.
Hint: where Microsoft Office fails with webdav to save to Microsoft SharePoint (see below), NeoOffice succeeds.
Microsoft use of deprecated codes
The most recent version of Office requires an HFS type code and HFS creator code when a format such as Microsoft Word (.docx) is chosen. So — it seems that when saving to a file system that does not support those values in a com.apple.FinderInfo extended attribute:
*
*Microsoft Office can not save reliably without creating multiple ._ files.
Microsoft example 1
Word 2011 14.2.1 save to a volume mounted by OS X with file system type webdav, not SharePoint, cleaning by BlueHarvest:
May 11 18:32:49 macbookpro08 BlueHarvest[14649]: BlueHarvest started.
May 11 18:38:37 macbookpro08 BlueHarvest[14649]: Deleted ._Word Work File D_1.tmp in /Volumes/dav.
May 11 18:39:57 macbookpro08 BlueHarvest[14649]: Deleted ._Hello world, this is Microsoft.docx in /Volumes/dav.
May 11 18:42:28 macbookpro08 BlueHarvest[14649]: Deleted ._Hello world, this is Microsoft.docx in /Volumes/dav.
Microsoft example 2
Word 2011 14.2.2 (120421) saving example.docx in the same environment:
2012-05-12 08:01:07.692 BlueHarvest[41131]: Deleted ._Word Work File D_769960778.tmp in /Volumes/dav.
Microsoft example 3
Word 2011 14.2.2 (120421) saving another.docx in the same environment, quitting then reopening, editing then saving, editing then closing and saving:
2012-05-12 08:15:04.252 BlueHarvest[41131]: Deleted ._Word Work File D_.tmp in /Volumes/dav.
2012-05-12 08:18:48.735 BlueHarvest[41131]: Deleted ._another.docx in /Volumes/dav.
2012-05-12 08:21:12.658 BlueHarvest[41131]: Deleted ._Word Work File D_2.tmp in /Volumes/dav.
Hint: Microsoft Office 2011 fails to save to Microsoft SharePoint when the file system type is webdav because SharePoint does not support file names beginning with a dot . (period). See Ask Different answers to Is it possible to mount SharePoint as a volume in 10.6?
Type and creator codes: background, Apple Developer
Apple began encouraging third party developers away from type codes and creator codes more than a decade ago. In Appendix B of the File System Programming Guide, File Types and Creator Codes advises that the codes are:
generally deprecated, you may see them in legacy files and apps and in some places in the system.
A: Use find . -name "._*" -type f -print to list out the files from local path
To remove these, with no warning or confirmation in bulk, use find . -name "._*" -type f -delete to delete all files.
A: It really is simple, NTFS (current Windows) FAT32 (Old Windows) have a very specific data structure for things like permissions, what program is assigned to open this file, creation date, modified date, tags, file comments, icon, and other metadata. You'll also notice that the same properties won't show in the other OS. (IE creation date may say it was in 1/1/1990 and other metadata is not accessible from the other OS. Whenever you are using both a machine writing from HFS to NTFS or FAT32 along with a machine writing native FAT32 or NTFS these . or ._ files along with DS store files will show up. It's show the OS's deal with the incompatibility factor of the varied elements above that aren't consistent. So you probably want to keep these files around if you are switching back and forth between the OS's to use these files. If you are only using one OS or the other ensure you have the media (hard drive, sd card, etc) formatted properly or have a driver which allows your OS to write to the drive format not native to your OS. (These are available for both OSX to allow it to write NTFS & FAT32 files using Native properties and for Windows 7 & 8 to write to HFS+ & EXFat (linux) drives using the native properties.) They aren't free, but if you do a lot of back and forth it cuts out the excess duplicate data cluttering the drive.
A: use rsync
it does not create ._ files
A: These files are created by the operating system to speed up searches, store metadata (data used by the OS) about a folder preferences, etc. Windows and OS X both have these kinds of files. Following, is a description of these files pulled from http://annoying-file-be-gone.snack.ws/faq.html:
.DS_Store – The name of a file in the Apple OS X operating system for storing custom attributes of a folder such as the position of icons or the choice of a background image (Read more)
.Spotlight-V100 – This file holds information to speed up the 'Spotlight Search' feature. Deleting would simply force this information to be re-indexed if you performed another Spotlight Search for an item in this folder.
.apDisk – This file holds information about shared folders and can be safely removed as it will be automatically re-created if Apple needs it.
.VolumeIcon.icns – This file is used to store the icon of the volume (USB device) if the volume uses a custom icon and not the default icon. If you want the device to continue using this default icon, or if the folder/device you want to clean contains an application, you might want to keep this file in your system. As a side note, if you wanted to create a custom icon for your device you could create/download an .icns file and rename it .VolumeIcon.icns and place in your folder/device.
.fseventsd – This file is used as a buffer for the File System Events daemon. If you are using a program that is monitoring this folder/device, this file might be used to store temporary data.
.Trash & .Trashes – These folders are used to hold deleted items the same way that the 'Trash' icon from the dock works. If you don't need this feature on your folder/device, you can clean this folder to save space.
.TemporaryItems – This file is used by the OS to hold temporary data when files are being copied/moved/appended. If you are running any programs that are accessing the folder/device you want to clean, and you aren't copying or moving any files, then this file can simply hold old data for caching.
A: You can't avoid them (but see the dot_clean answer by Saeid Zebardast --they can be removed from a directory if that is what you need). They're created to store file information that would otherwise go into an extended attribute on HFS+ (Apple native) or Unix/UFS volumes; in earlier Mac OS this would be the resource fork. Finder file operations will create them automatically to store the icon information, plus Time Machine stores some information in them so if you copy a file backed up via TM it will have that information copied as well.
(This is nothing new; I've noticed that XP and later leave various turds around as well, although not quite as many.)
A: You can use dot_clean command to remove or merge the ._ files:
dot_clean PATH_OF_FOLDER_OR_DRIVE
If you move files to linux, or have Git Bash on your PC, and have access to the find command, you might also be able to do this:
find . -type f -name '._*' -delete
And they're gone!
A: You can delete them through FileZilla or similar files manager.
A: Yes, some of us have a use for both Macs and windows machines, and I used to use that method. And if you have a USB with a bunch of .jpgs that you want to play as a slide show, you have to get rid of those pesky ._ files to do it. After much searching, I found a way to use my mac to remove the ._ files:
using Terminal:
*
*ls -a will list all files, including the one starting with ._
*to remove just one file from the directory: rm -rf ._whateveryourfilenameis.jpg
*to remove all ._ files: rm -rf ._*
*to remove unwanted directories including .Trashes: rm -r .Trashes*
Cleaned my USB right up for use as a TV input
A: Be careful when deleting ._ related to Git, Visual Studio, and Xcode! I have an app with a lot of .mov and images and these "._" files showed up to be committed. I deleted them via Visual Studio Team Explorer's changes and somehow that project folder bloated from around 500MB to 40GB without adding files...still not sure what happened exactly, but I'm guessing it was related to deleting those files so every commit it cached each .mov and image multiple times before I caught on. I saw each .mov and .png repeated 20-30 times when in Finder > All Files.
Just add "._*" to your .gitignore file and they won't show up as a changed file when using TFS for you iOS Xcode project.
A: I have been using the following method for easy .* prefix file elimination on flash drives: Remove flash drive from Apple computer, insert into a Windows machine, search the flash drive for ".*.*", then when the search displays the files with the ._ prefix, delete them. I never delete .Trashes or .DS Store files. So far no issues. I hope I am not causing a future problem for myself.
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5ec0c653d921c8018d2871f06eeb45833e0122dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to refresh symbolichotkeys.plist without logging out? There is an extremely annoying bug in OS X with a non-Apple mouse where every time I reboot I have to go into ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist, logout, then reset my buttons for Expose and Spaces.
This bug has been around for years now, and Apple refuses to fix it so I'm trying to figure out a way to make starting up a less painful experience. I think it would be bearable if I could just scrap symbolichotkeys and refresh without having to logout. Is there a command or AppleScript that could accomplish this?
A: You can restart the SystemUIServer by killing the process in Activity Monitor. It will auto restart. I think that should give you the desired effect without a reboot/logout.
| Q: Is there a way to refresh symbolichotkeys.plist without logging out? There is an extremely annoying bug in OS X with a non-Apple mouse where every time I reboot I have to go into ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist, logout, then reset my buttons for Expose and Spaces.
This bug has been around for years now, and Apple refuses to fix it so I'm trying to figure out a way to make starting up a less painful experience. I think it would be bearable if I could just scrap symbolichotkeys and refresh without having to logout. Is there a command or AppleScript that could accomplish this?
A: You can restart the SystemUIServer by killing the process in Activity Monitor. It will auto restart. I think that should give you the desired effect without a reboot/logout.
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6134d4f1c47f05e44658ab8360b56d036c509879 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: applescript (osascript) for changing Terminal.app profile Is here a way to changing the Terminal.app profile from the command line?
Here is already couple of questions about changing colors, but I need change the whole profile from the "Basic" (what is my default) to "Homebrew" or "Pro" from the shell script.
Looking for only clean command-line solution (e.g. without clicks, global shotcuts etc.), so probably with osascript. Need it because want change the Terminal.app behavior when ssh-ing into another computer, e.g. font-size, encoding, colors, emulation - the whole profile - not only colors.
Like something next:
some_commands_here to change the CURRENT terminal profile into another
ssh [email protected]
And no, I don't want use iTerm2. :)
Ps: ok, as the last resort, shortcuts are acceptable, but no clicks. :) :)
A: $function setTerm() { PROFILE=${1}; echo "tell app \"Terminal\" to set current settings of first window to settings set \"${PROFILE}\""|osascript; };
Source: commandlinefu.com
When you connect to a remote computer using ssh, the terminal.app settings will set according to the remote bash profile. Therefore you need to define the preferred settings on the remote machine first.
| Q: applescript (osascript) for changing Terminal.app profile Is here a way to changing the Terminal.app profile from the command line?
Here is already couple of questions about changing colors, but I need change the whole profile from the "Basic" (what is my default) to "Homebrew" or "Pro" from the shell script.
Looking for only clean command-line solution (e.g. without clicks, global shotcuts etc.), so probably with osascript. Need it because want change the Terminal.app behavior when ssh-ing into another computer, e.g. font-size, encoding, colors, emulation - the whole profile - not only colors.
Like something next:
some_commands_here to change the CURRENT terminal profile into another
ssh [email protected]
And no, I don't want use iTerm2. :)
Ps: ok, as the last resort, shortcuts are acceptable, but no clicks. :) :)
A: $function setTerm() { PROFILE=${1}; echo "tell app \"Terminal\" to set current settings of first window to settings set \"${PROFILE}\""|osascript; };
Source: commandlinefu.com
When you connect to a remote computer using ssh, the terminal.app settings will set according to the remote bash profile. Therefore you need to define the preferred settings on the remote machine first.
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832b517ffffddc062eb0050de54251629f7ff239 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prettify OS X console by coloring output? OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls.
When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.
What solutions do I have to improve this experience? For the moment I found only this guide for colored ls output under OS X but I am looking for a more complete solution.
A: You can easily change the ls output color by installing "TerminalColors" plugin. I am a big fan of "Solarize" theme which looks terrific on my Mac.
| Q: Prettify OS X console by coloring output? OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls.
When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.
What solutions do I have to improve this experience? For the moment I found only this guide for colored ls output under OS X but I am looking for a more complete solution.
A: You can easily change the ls output color by installing "TerminalColors" plugin. I am a big fan of "Solarize" theme which looks terrific on my Mac.
A: *
*you should change the Terminal.app preferences->advanced into xterm-color.
*enter the following into your ~/.profile
for enable colored ls:
export CLICOLOR=1;
export LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad;
and from now, you will get colored ls output.
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5cc6fd46d28cb8c9a698d02ac5b31e2563efb8b7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Recover docx files We have just discovered that none of the passwords on our word documents work any longer, and I need a recommendation of an application that I can use to recover the files.
I believe the files had been created on a windows based computer, so I do not have much of a problem with using a windows based program if required.
A: This applies to .docx files:
*
*Create a back-up copy of the file
*Change the extension from .docx to .zip
*Open new .zip file
*Extract all files
*In the extracted folder, navigate to word\settings.xml
*Open settings.xml
*Remove the tag w:documentProtection, don't forget to include the < and />
*Save file
*Copy to modified settings.xml to the actual .zip file (over write)
*Rename .zip to .docx
*Open file
Microsoft Office 2007 and up are xml files that can be edited if you know what to look for.
I just want to add that I am NOT responsible for what you do with this information. I do believe that knowledge is power and with power comes responsibility.
| Q: Recover docx files We have just discovered that none of the passwords on our word documents work any longer, and I need a recommendation of an application that I can use to recover the files.
I believe the files had been created on a windows based computer, so I do not have much of a problem with using a windows based program if required.
A: This applies to .docx files:
*
*Create a back-up copy of the file
*Change the extension from .docx to .zip
*Open new .zip file
*Extract all files
*In the extracted folder, navigate to word\settings.xml
*Open settings.xml
*Remove the tag w:documentProtection, don't forget to include the < and />
*Save file
*Copy to modified settings.xml to the actual .zip file (over write)
*Rename .zip to .docx
*Open file
Microsoft Office 2007 and up are xml files that can be edited if you know what to look for.
I just want to add that I am NOT responsible for what you do with this information. I do believe that knowledge is power and with power comes responsibility.
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1e5d2c9d54953a0d04227565c9ac61abd4ec2b35 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do apps on jailbroken iOS devices have uncontrolled access to all my data? I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iOS device but one thing worries me. Apple's restrictive developer API has one big advantage: apps can't tinker with my data outside the app unless I allow them to.
Can apps on jailbroken iOS devices access my e-mails, iTunes account password (through keylogging) and other sensitive information without my consent?
A: Yes. Any jailbreak-only app could potentially do everything you describe because they can acquire root access and run outside of iOS's sandbox.
| Q: Do apps on jailbroken iOS devices have uncontrolled access to all my data? I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iOS device but one thing worries me. Apple's restrictive developer API has one big advantage: apps can't tinker with my data outside the app unless I allow them to.
Can apps on jailbroken iOS devices access my e-mails, iTunes account password (through keylogging) and other sensitive information without my consent?
A: Yes. Any jailbreak-only app could potentially do everything you describe because they can acquire root access and run outside of iOS's sandbox.
A: The author of Cydia ("saurik") recently answered some similar questions on Reddit - here's one comment:
...you should also ask the following modified question: how does Apple reassure people that the apps in the App Store are safe, and are not doing things like uploading their address books to third parties, or tracking their location?
The answer is "they can't": apps are allowed to use the address book and your location, and without reading through the source code (itself an error prone form of analysis) you don't know what the app actually /does/, so you can't make any claims about whether it does these specific things you consider evil or not.
At the end of the day, you really need to just not install software from vendors that you don't trust (and to be 100% clear: I mean the person who actually wrote the software, not the person who sold it to you), and anyone who tries to provide you assurances otherwise is just selling you the proverbial snakeoil.
And from a second comment:
You are correct, however, that applications in Cydia are not checked to see if they are malicious, but neither are applications submitted to the App Store: neither we nor Apple are looking at your source code. There is nothing that keeps a normal App Store application from reading your address book, tracking your location, and uploading all of this to a server; in fact, nothing keeps these same "approved by Apple" applications from using local-to-root kernel exploits in order to bypass the sandbox and take /all/ of your data, including installing a rootkit on your phone.
A: No, they could not, assuming you choose an appropriately difficult root password. If an app 'silently' attempted to gain root access and provided other capability in order to be accepted into the official App Store it would have a better chance to gain root. A crucial factor in an answer to this sort of question is proper choice of passwords. If there are exploits that do not require root password, then ignore the negative answer.
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7fe55a218fbd8ea28edcab3bf1df3432067f0cd5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are my DVD disks in the wrong format? I'm trying to play DVDs on my MacBook Pro however the disk doesn't play it doesn't even mount.
When I check Disk Utility it shows the format as Windows NTFS 3G.
If I try the same disks on another macbook it shows as Universal Disk Format (UDF) and plays fine. How do I fix this?
A: It appears Parallels is the cause of the issue. Found some instructions on paragon-software.com and executed step 1. DVDs now working great!
| Q: Why are my DVD disks in the wrong format? I'm trying to play DVDs on my MacBook Pro however the disk doesn't play it doesn't even mount.
When I check Disk Utility it shows the format as Windows NTFS 3G.
If I try the same disks on another macbook it shows as Universal Disk Format (UDF) and plays fine. How do I fix this?
A: It appears Parallels is the cause of the issue. Found some instructions on paragon-software.com and executed step 1. DVDs now working great!
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06b7312268e72061a3e7da8eea272f7b17acc8a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Print HTML to PDF while retaining hyperlinks I'm trying to create a PDF document from an HTML document.
Of course it's easy to do this using the built-in PDF Printer, however, this does not retain hyperlinks.
I've tried wkhtmltopdf which looked very promising, but it crashes on every attempt.
Is anyone aware of any other options for generating a PDF document from an HTML document while retaining URL links?
A: The built-in Safari browser seems to do this when you do File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF, it works for me as of Version 6 of Mac Safari.
| Q: Print HTML to PDF while retaining hyperlinks I'm trying to create a PDF document from an HTML document.
Of course it's easy to do this using the built-in PDF Printer, however, this does not retain hyperlinks.
I've tried wkhtmltopdf which looked very promising, but it crashes on every attempt.
Is anyone aware of any other options for generating a PDF document from an HTML document while retaining URL links?
A: The built-in Safari browser seems to do this when you do File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF, it works for me as of Version 6 of Mac Safari.
A: Found an answer over on SuperUser.com: wkpdf
Free, works perfectly. All hyperlinks retained.
A: You can do this using Adobe Acrobat.
In Acrobat, go to File-> Create PDF-> From File. Select your HTML doc, let it do a bit of work, and then use File-> Save As to save it.
All hyperlinks will be intact.
A: Old question, but just found out if you open the .html in Microsoft Word and then save as pdf for online distribution, then the link works.
A: I have tried dompdf in the past and has worked very well for me. dompdf PHP
A: Check out the "Save as PDF" browser plugins:
Chrome plugin:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kpdjmbiefanbdgnkcikhllpmjnnllbbc
Firefox plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-as-pdf/
Both are free, but developed by a commercial company http://pdfcrowd.com.
I tried the FF plugin, and except for some minor layout overlapping in the converted PDF document, all hyperlinks were clickable and working.
A: http://pdfcrowd.com only works, if the link is public - so no printing of pages, where you are logged in.
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1b846315e2ba47a39bc0969792436b5d7220c81e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to write the names "iPhone", "iPad", etc. in all capital letters? Just curious about whether it is iPHONE, IPHONE, or just never written in all capital letters. Is there a style guide or something on this issue?
A: There is an Apple Publications Style Guide, and it says to not use all caps for emphasis. (Apple Style Guide, PDF)
I can't recall ever seeing all-capital letters in an Apple publication. In the design world, all-capital letters are generally considered hard to read and, in most fonts, ugly, so it's my guess that Apple would avoid the use of all-caps.
| Q: How to write the names "iPhone", "iPad", etc. in all capital letters? Just curious about whether it is iPHONE, IPHONE, or just never written in all capital letters. Is there a style guide or something on this issue?
A: There is an Apple Publications Style Guide, and it says to not use all caps for emphasis. (Apple Style Guide, PDF)
I can't recall ever seeing all-capital letters in an Apple publication. In the design world, all-capital letters are generally considered hard to read and, in most fonts, ugly, so it's my guess that Apple would avoid the use of all-caps.
A: As initially mentioned by Neil, the Apple Publications Style Guide is the place to look.
From page 34:
*
*What to capitalize: Follow these rules when you use title-style capitalization.
Capitalize every word except:
*
*Articles (a, an, the), unless an article is the first word or follows a colon
*Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, yet, and so)
*The word to in infinitives (How to Start Your Printer)
*The word as, regardless of the part of speech
*Words that always begin with a lowercase letter, such as iPod and iTunes
*Prepositions of four letters or fewer (at, by, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over, to, up, and with), except when the word is part of a verb phrase or is used as another part of speech (such as an adverb, adjective, noun, or verb).
Starting Up the Computer
Logging In to the Server
Getting Started with Your MacBook Pro
That is, the i in words like iPod and iTunes (and iMac, iPhone, iPad, etc.) are never capitalized.
I don't believe that, given a choice, Apple ever uses all caps, although the only specific rule I've found is on page 33:
Don’t use all caps for emphasis.
A: The only official name is "iPhone". If you are putting it in capitals, it is just a matter of choice whether the initial i is uppercase or lowercase. Personally, I think it looks better as "iPHONE".
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7d4f69676e9a80dab442d7d0718b0a3e8364aa6b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add a new application to the Open With menu? How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application?
In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari.
I'm running OS 10.7.4.
A: newtron's second solution worked for me but only after I opened Terminal and executed the following command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
After restarting the system the desired app was in my "open with" context menu.
Thanks
| Q: How can I add a new application to the Open With menu? How can I add an application to the Open With menu (shown after right-clicking) for a given file type, without making that file always open with that application?
In this specific instance, I'd like to the option to open an Web site location (.URL) file with TextEdit, while still defaulting to Safari.
I'm running OS 10.7.4.
A: newtron's second solution worked for me but only after I opened Terminal and executed the following command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
After restarting the system the desired app was in my "open with" context menu.
Thanks
A: Instead of opening the file with the context menu, you can also drag any file to any desired application while pressing ⌥+⌘ keys. This will force any app to try even if it thinks it can't do so. I use this all the time.
A: You can add the option as a Service with Automator and then trigger it with a Hotkey from Keyboard Maestro.
*
*Open Automator and select Quick Action document type (formerly Service)
*Select Files and Folders in the top Workflow receives selected menu
*Search for and select the Open Finder Items action.
*Now select TextEdit in Open with:
*Save the service with a name you want to see in the menus
You can now find this by:
*
*Right-clicking the file and searching near the bottom or in Quick Actions
OR
*
*Finder Menu > Services (with a file selected)
But you don't have to stop there!
I then made a Keyboard Maestro macro so I can just use a Hotkey to do it:
I got this idea from this site:
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2013/05/add-open-with-textedit-or-any-other-app-to-right-click-menu-item.html
A: *
*Add this to the CFBundleDocumentTypes array in /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>url</string>
</array>
</dict>
*/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -f /Applications/TextEdit.app/
*killall Finder
*Change the default application back to Safari in Finder
If the application is signed, modifying an Info.plist invalidates the code signature. It also makes a few applications like TextEdit and WriteRoom crash on launch on 10.8.
A: Try selecting the file in the Finder and doing File > Get Info. From there you should be able to choose any application to open it with. Once you've opened that type of file in that application once, it should start appearing in the Open With menu.
EDIT: The answer above does not work. Alternate suggestion:
I felt bad that my prev answer was incorrect, so I googled around. I found this tip from Mac OS X Hints:
*
*Control-click (or right-click) the app in question and select "Show Package Contents"
*Open the Contents folder in the app bundle. There you'll find a file called Info.plist. This is an XML property list that stores all sorts of information about the app.
*Open the file with your favourite text editor. I recommend Hydra, but TextEdit will do just fine.
*Search for something that looks like the following:
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>txt</string>
<string>srt</string>
<string>suffix1</string>
<string>suffix2</string>
…
and so forth, with the suffices the app is able to open contained within the tags. Then you simply delete [or add --newtron] the suffix for items you don't want [or want] the app to open.
*Save the file, and close it (or quit the editor).
A: One follow-up to newtron's solution:
There you'll find a file called Info.plist. This is an XML property list that stores all sorts of information about the app.
Open the file with your favourite text editor. I recommend Hydra, but TextEdit will do just fine.
Save the file, and close it (or quit the editor).
You can't save the edited .plist if your account doesn't have the correct permissions (the issue I'm dealing with now--even at admin status you won't have read+write permissions over some files and folders...). To save changes to the .plist files you need to give your user read+write permissions.
Some of the default Mac applications make this difficult to do and I'm currently searching for a solution (will update) to do this with TextEdit.
A: This worked for me :
Right click your app and goto contents and open /Applications/*****.app/Contents/Info.plist
Open Plist in Xcode as SourceCode and then place this :
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>jpeg</string>
<string>jpg</string>
<string>png</string>
<string>gif</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>AutomatorApplet.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>AutomatorApplet.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeOSTypes</key>
<array>
<string>GIFf</string>
<string>JPEG</string>
<string>PNGf</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Viewer</string>
</dict>
I had 'AutomatorApplet.icns' in Resources Folder.
A: Check out the tech-recipes.com for detailed instructions. As @Anriëtte pointed out the app should appear on the Open with menu if it can open the specific file.
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a431174fdda4b39469d750b08602fb503b320af0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad IMAP client Can anyone suggest an IMAP client for my iPad2 that can be password protected.
I want to be able to check my work email on the iPad but at the same time I don't want my daughter accidentally mucking about with my emails.
FYI:
The web-access I have to my e-mail is truly horrendous so please don't suggest I use that
A: Simply removing the password from the email setup should help.
| Q: iPad IMAP client Can anyone suggest an IMAP client for my iPad2 that can be password protected.
I want to be able to check my work email on the iPad but at the same time I don't want my daughter accidentally mucking about with my emails.
FYI:
The web-access I have to my e-mail is truly horrendous so please don't suggest I use that
A: Simply removing the password from the email setup should help.
A: Well, the App Store won't allow other IMAP clients as a matter of policy (you're not allowed to duplicate functionality present in native apps), so unless you jailbreak you're not going to find a 3rd party client on the App Store.
The simplest solution to your problem would be to just passcode-protect the iPad so your daughter can't access it.
One alternative (if you don't like your existing webmail) might be to use a 3rd-party webmail client that lets you just check your IMAP email using a web interface. Sadly, Gmail will only do this for POP3, but after a quick Google, it appears some of the links on this page may be useful for that purpose (though I can't vouch for any of them in particular). Mail2Web and MyEmail seem to be the least-obviously-bad choices there.
Anyway, that would add a layer of security between your daughter and your email, effectively substituting for the 3rd party client application you're looking for.
A: Have the iPad lock itself with a numeric password?
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4694c5440612acd2ba8be18b4088a6e64aaab348 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Convert a partition from case-sensitive to case-insensitive I have installed snow leopard on a macbook ans selected case-sensitive file system when partitioning the disk, presuming that it's a standard thing and I'd rather have this system behaving as close as possible to *nix shell.
Although when trying to install Photoshop CS5 recently I got an error message saying that case-sensitive file system cannot be used for installation. Apparently reason is some issues in Apple installer system, which Adobe developers cannot find their way around.
So it looks like I will have to convert the case-sensitive FS to a case-insensitive one.
Are there any tools capable of doing that? Doesn't have to run under macos, anything will do, really (bootable CDs etc)
A: I don't believe its possible to convert your file system once this is selected. The reason you can't convert is because of the possibility of file name duplicates. All you can do is clone the drive to an external HFS+ that isn't case sensitive and then format your internal drive. And clone it back to the internal.
I would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner for its ease of use and the fact its free.
| Q: Convert a partition from case-sensitive to case-insensitive I have installed snow leopard on a macbook ans selected case-sensitive file system when partitioning the disk, presuming that it's a standard thing and I'd rather have this system behaving as close as possible to *nix shell.
Although when trying to install Photoshop CS5 recently I got an error message saying that case-sensitive file system cannot be used for installation. Apparently reason is some issues in Apple installer system, which Adobe developers cannot find their way around.
So it looks like I will have to convert the case-sensitive FS to a case-insensitive one.
Are there any tools capable of doing that? Doesn't have to run under macos, anything will do, really (bootable CDs etc)
A: I don't believe its possible to convert your file system once this is selected. The reason you can't convert is because of the possibility of file name duplicates. All you can do is clone the drive to an external HFS+ that isn't case sensitive and then format your internal drive. And clone it back to the internal.
I would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner for its ease of use and the fact its free.
A: There is a FUSE solution called ciopfs (case insensitive on purpose file system).
I quote:
ciopfs is a stackable or overlay linux
userspace file system (implemented
with fuse) which mounts a normal
directory on a regular file system in
case insensitive fashion.
This may be what you're looking for.
A: It is possible to migrate a case sensitive file system onto a case insensitive file system if you don't have name like:
/directory/file
/directory/FILE
in which case these 2 files should be copied with the same name
thus causing an overwriting. Any decent program to propose this file
system migration should warn you about this name collision.
If Adobe Photoshop refuses to install on a case sensitive file system
this is coming from an internal protection to avoid crashes.
The truth is that Adobe Photoshop
was never written to take care of the case of internal file names.
This is the reason why Adobe Photoshop will never run on Linux, OpenBSD,
FreeBSD or any other Unix.
Adobe never considered quality of software and security as serious
business objectives.
Their recent scandal with customers accounts is the due reward of such a bad care.
This is a shame.
But…
you have the freedom to pay to support them in this way.
A: iPartition claims to be able to do this (for HFS+, not APFS), although I haven't tried it (and it costs money).
Update: Coriolis Systems has shut down, and made iPartition free (although donations are welcome); see the Museum section here for the software and license key. Personally, I applaud this; it's better for everyone when discontinued software is made free rather than unavailable.
A: I converted the default case-sensitive HFS+ partition to a case insensitive one after discovering the problem after installing a new MacBook. I assume here that you have enough disk space on your internal hard drive to duplicate the data and system files that you already have installed.
*
*Use Disk Utility to shrink the size of your existing boot partition to just big enough to contain the existing files.
*Create a new partition that is only Mac OS (Journaled) and is NOT case sensitive.
*Backup the original drive to the new partition. I used SuperDuper! but you can use rsync.
*Boot holding down the Command key and select the new partition.
*Delete the old partition with Disk Utility and increase the size of the new one.
A: Update on iPartition. Over the weekend I used v. 3.6.2 to convert the 1 TB internal flash drive on a MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.12.6) from case-sensitive to case-insensitive. As noted above, you have to make a separate bootable disk with iPartition on it. Since recent macOS installs require so much room, Coriolis Systems deleted the option for generating a DVD for boot several versions back. I used an external clone of my system drive.
Since you are booting off a new disk, you have to re-activate iPartition after rebooting, so make sure to copy the license image (a png with a QR code on it) over to the external bootable drive as well as the app.
Once booted on the external drive, it was simple to select the filesystem for conversion, uncheck the box for "Case Sensitive", and click Go. After maybe 15 minutes, it was done. Rebooting off the internal drive worked fine, as did all of the apps I tried for a quick test.
A few caveats: iPartition does not currently support the new AFS, so it will NOT run on High Sierra (10.13). It does not support CoreStorage, so if your drive in encrypted by FileVault 2, you have to turn off FileVault and wait until the decryption process runs to completion before you start. If you have a Fusion drive, you're out of luck. Also, it warns you that if you have any files in a directory with names differing only by case, it will rename one of them as part of the conversion.
All in all, it was a fairly easy process, and well worth the price of the software.
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a68ce82363d1481b53076c6fd8aad5e05c02a325 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to quickly jump to another application without using command tab I am trying to do a screencast and I use ⌘+⇥ to move from browser to my IDE . During editing I need to remove all the screenshots of me moving from one app to another since that is distracting.
I was wondering if there is any utility I can buy or if there is a trick so that I can quickly move from my browser to my IDE.
Note that my browser and my IDE are of the same size while doing screencasting so they overlap each other. I just need a trick so that browser comes to the top just like that and when I need IDE to the top I can bring IDE to the top with some key combinations on my keyboard.
A: If you press ⌘+⇥ quickly, you switch to the last app used and the icons don't show up.
To make sure it works, ⌘+⇥ to your browser. Then to your IDE. Then, quickly press the ⌘+⇥ shortcut. You'll immediately switch to the browser. Do the same again to immediately switch back.
Hope this does it for you.
| Q: How to quickly jump to another application without using command tab I am trying to do a screencast and I use ⌘+⇥ to move from browser to my IDE . During editing I need to remove all the screenshots of me moving from one app to another since that is distracting.
I was wondering if there is any utility I can buy or if there is a trick so that I can quickly move from my browser to my IDE.
Note that my browser and my IDE are of the same size while doing screencasting so they overlap each other. I just need a trick so that browser comes to the top just like that and when I need IDE to the top I can bring IDE to the top with some key combinations on my keyboard.
A: If you press ⌘+⇥ quickly, you switch to the last app used and the icons don't show up.
To make sure it works, ⌘+⇥ to your browser. Then to your IDE. Then, quickly press the ⌘+⇥ shortcut. You'll immediately switch to the browser. Do the same again to immediately switch back.
Hope this does it for you.
A: Just tested this and it works well.
You will be able to launch each app with a keyboard shortcut of its own by using nothing more than two simple Automator Services, and the Built in keyboard shortcuts.
In this example I am using Preview and Safari.
Create to new Automator Services.
Open Automator and choose 'Service'
First Service.
1,Add a 'Launch Application' action.
2, set the Actions application to 'Preview' by using the drop down in the action.
3, set Service receives to: 'no input' in 'Safari'
(Do this by using the drop downs at the top.)
4, save the Service As Launch Preview
Second Service.
Use the menu file ->New.
And again choose 'Service'
1,Add a 'Launch Application' action.
2, set the Actions application to 'Safari' by using the drop down in the action.
3, set Service receives to: 'no input' in 'Preview'
(Do this by using the drop downs at the top.)
4, save the Service As Launch Safari
System Preferences
Now open System Preferences -> Keyboard.
Go to the Tab:Keyboard Shortcuts
1, Select 'Services' in the left hand pane.
2, In the right hand pane, scroll down to the bottom where 'General' services should be.
You should see your two new services.
3, Double click the blank white space in front of the service name. (As far to the right as the pane allows you )
4,You should now have a text field where you can enter you hotkey for the service.
5,Once done for both service Make sure they are still both ticked and close System Preferences
Now when you are in one or the other app use the keyboard short cuts to switch apps.
Example of keys I used in my test:
While in Safari: crtl+alt+cmd +p t go to Preview
While in Preview: crtl+alt+cmd +s t go to Safari
p.s doing the two services this way will make sure that the hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts, only work when in the said applications. And will not be called when in a third application..
A: There are a number of utilities out there that can launch applications with a key combination. I use Butler, and I used to use DragThing, but there are quite a few out there. These utilities generally allow you to assign a key combination to launching anything. If this is an application and the application is already running, then they'll simply bring that application to the foreground.
A: In BetterTouchTool, you can assign F1, F2 keys to switch between apps, or whichever series of keys you want.
For a more sophisticated example of how I use BetterTouchTool:
I've change F1, F2 to be Google Chrome Tab 1, and Google Chrome Tab 2, respectively. And F11 and F12 to be Sublime Text Tab1, and Sublime Text Tab2, respectively.
You can assign key/key combinations to specific applications made by Script Editor, ie Applescripts.
Simple applescript to open Google Chrome Tab 1:
tell application "System Events"
tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
keystroke "1" using {command down}
end tell
Save the script as an application, and then link a shortkey in Bettertouchtool to box "Trigger Predefined Action", once the box opens, scroll down to "Controlling Other Applications" and click the arrow for "Open Application/File.."
Cheers!
A: If you really don't want to use ⌘+⇥, instead try ctrl+F4 perhaps?
A: You can use ⌘+space to quickly find programs, but for quick switching you may want to check out BetterTouchTool.
See this page on superuser for more details.
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eac77ee6c9c375bda9254e0568982ec934afc32c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to develop an iOS app without a test device? So...I have an iPad and MacBook Pro.
I bought my iPad because I thought I needed it but now I'm thinking to sell it since I just found out that Xcode offers an iOS simulator.
Is it possible to develop a fully working iOS app without actual test hardware?
A: Clearly: No. The simulator does not offer hardware access (gyroscope, accelerometer, etc.) and also, you just don't get the feeling for your App, which is very important in iOS development. You can't use the gestures and you don't know how it reacts if you work with it. so it is definitely not advisable. I tried to use the simulator in the beginning, but some frameworks don't even run on it.
| Q: Is it possible to develop an iOS app without a test device? So...I have an iPad and MacBook Pro.
I bought my iPad because I thought I needed it but now I'm thinking to sell it since I just found out that Xcode offers an iOS simulator.
Is it possible to develop a fully working iOS app without actual test hardware?
A: Clearly: No. The simulator does not offer hardware access (gyroscope, accelerometer, etc.) and also, you just don't get the feeling for your App, which is very important in iOS development. You can't use the gestures and you don't know how it reacts if you work with it. so it is definitely not advisable. I tried to use the simulator in the beginning, but some frameworks don't even run on it.
A: well, it is possible, but you won't be able to do the on device testing. You can develop all iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) and mac applications on mac computer/ laptop; you can test those apps on simulator as well, but for actual testing on device - you need these devices, as simple as that.
So finally, it is possible but it won't be assuring you the quality/ performance of the app unless you test on physical device.
I hope I've been able to help. :)
BRs
-Sudeep
Agicent Technologies
A: Yes, it is possible, but in most cases it's not a good idea. You can certainly use the app and use a lot of things, but -as already mentioned- some frameworks are not present on the Simulator.
One of the notably absent frameworks is the InApp purchases, so if you're targeting that, you won't be able to simulate it (I haven't tried in Xcode 4 tho, but I'm sure it doesn't work).
Also already mentioned are GPS, Accelerometer, Cameras, etc. You can't have those (off the record, as bad as Android 'Simulator' is, you can certainly use some of those in the Android Sim).
Is it recommended? It depends. Nothing will give you better feedback about your app than a real device, however, for certain simple applications, the simulator is definitely more than enough.
Consider (use Google) which features you need for your app, and then take your decision based upon what's available. Don't underestimate the Simulator, but don't try to replace a real device with it because you'll be disappointed.
If you're targeting iPhone and iPad, you'll want to have both, the UI feels (and should) be different.
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d77256995b94948f099e601263c5d6e340e9a54c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the best Homebrew version for an iBook running Tiger? I have an old iBook running Mac OS Tiger, and I want to install the Homebrew package manager on it. Which branch should I choose ?
*
*The Tiger one?
*The PPC one?
*Another one?
A: According to this issue, it seems like the Tiger branch is the most exactly accurate in that case.
| Q: What is the best Homebrew version for an iBook running Tiger? I have an old iBook running Mac OS Tiger, and I want to install the Homebrew package manager on it. Which branch should I choose ?
*
*The Tiger one?
*The PPC one?
*Another one?
A: According to this issue, it seems like the Tiger branch is the most exactly accurate in that case.
A: In this case and noting we are 10 years later I would suggest using macports instead.
Macports continues to support all versions of osx going back to Tiger including all possible CPUS, this includes binaries for most, if not all, of these. Homebrew prefers to update itself and drop support for older OS. This makes it essentially only support recent (usually N-2) versions of macOS.
A: Looks like they add PPC support on the Tiger (see this commit), but the default behavior was to redirect to the PPC branch.
So I'd say go to the PPC branch to be safe.
You might want to contact the developer, too. They're usually eager to help in those kind of community (Github) and he's on Twitter.
You have two choices : the one who made the fork or the original developer
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cd53fd17c7d714d8b04bd84a7c926f9866b6f2b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When waking up my MacBook Pro, the external monitor unpredictably displays "snow flakes" I can't seem to pinpoint a specific cause for this, but sometimes when I wake my MBP the external screen gets fuzzy, like a TV with no reception, but I can faintly see my desktop behind the noise. If I sleep the display again (with hot corners) and wake it up again it's fine. Anyone know how to fix this?
A: I have had the same problem with Maverick (in clamshell mode) / external monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 2443) when I lock my screen and use my bluetooth mouse or keyboard to wake up the computer.
I was able to fix the problem in 2 ways:
*
*open the lid, login and unplu, replug the external monitor (pretty annoying)
*when the multicolor static shows, press CTRL+SHIFT+Eject as if to lock the computer again, then wake up the computer again and I now have the normal login screen as normal (not ideal but less disruptive solution).
I hope this helps !
| Q: When waking up my MacBook Pro, the external monitor unpredictably displays "snow flakes" I can't seem to pinpoint a specific cause for this, but sometimes when I wake my MBP the external screen gets fuzzy, like a TV with no reception, but I can faintly see my desktop behind the noise. If I sleep the display again (with hot corners) and wake it up again it's fine. Anyone know how to fix this?
A: I have had the same problem with Maverick (in clamshell mode) / external monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 2443) when I lock my screen and use my bluetooth mouse or keyboard to wake up the computer.
I was able to fix the problem in 2 ways:
*
*open the lid, login and unplu, replug the external monitor (pretty annoying)
*when the multicolor static shows, press CTRL+SHIFT+Eject as if to lock the computer again, then wake up the computer again and I now have the normal login screen as normal (not ideal but less disruptive solution).
I hope this helps !
A: Since the mac engages the graphics card with the same precision each time you wake from sleep, it's likely a timing issue on the monitor. (I loose or noisy cable could have the same effect, but much less likely and you would probably have other issues if that were he case)
Have you seen if you can reduce the number of settings the monitor has to scan on detecting a new signal.
You can test this by power cycling the monitor the next time it happens.
A: This happens to me with an external monitor connected via HDMI. I've found that it usually resolves itself by removing the DP -> HDMI adapter and re-plugging it in again.
A: The is a firmware update that can help resolve this issue:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201158
One reason I think it occurred for me is the adapter that was in use.
Hope this helps.
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8b9270da53dc8f77c149ee74a2032b0544f42964 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an iPad app to play movies from an SD card? Is there an iPad application which is capable of playing iPad compatible movie files from an SD card via the Apple Camera Connection Kit?
I prefer App Store apps, no jailbreak apps please.
A: The "Camera Connection Kit" is called that for a specific reason. The USB and SD Card readers are meant to either directly connect your camera to it, or just the SD card from it.
This means also that the readers only function with the Photos application, and nothing else. This is also the reason why most external keyboards don't work anymore.
There is no SDK access to the Camera Connection Kit, so third-party apps may not use it.
IIRC, Movies taken by your camera are imported into the Photos app as well. I do not recall whether or not you can view them from within the Photos app.
| Q: Is there an iPad app to play movies from an SD card? Is there an iPad application which is capable of playing iPad compatible movie files from an SD card via the Apple Camera Connection Kit?
I prefer App Store apps, no jailbreak apps please.
A: The "Camera Connection Kit" is called that for a specific reason. The USB and SD Card readers are meant to either directly connect your camera to it, or just the SD card from it.
This means also that the readers only function with the Photos application, and nothing else. This is also the reason why most external keyboards don't work anymore.
There is no SDK access to the Camera Connection Kit, so third-party apps may not use it.
IIRC, Movies taken by your camera are imported into the Photos app as well. I do not recall whether or not you can view them from within the Photos app.
A: This looks like what I was searching for:
zoomIt
It's a piece of hardware that connects to the iPad. With their application you can then access SD cards. According to their app description you can:
*
*display/view a file with a format supported by SDK3.0 or higher
Unfortunately it costs another 60$ and I already bought the Apple Camera Connection Kit.
If anybody tested watching movies with this thing a little comment is very welcome.
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29aded4f7550bfdf5ffe62cf8a15606bd0a10771 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is X11 still used today? I have had X11 installed on my Mac for quite some time (as long as I have owned it I think) and have never used it. Do applications still use X11 or is out outdated at this point? Should I "learn" how to use it because I may use it in the future? The reason I ask is that I read that you can run X over SSH and I thought it might be useful to run a window manager to get some graphics from a remote machine. Then I realized I have never used X11 and launched it only to become confused. So should I use X11 and why?
A: X11 is still used extensively for very expensive *nix-based CAD/CAE software packages.
I used it to run the free Gimp editor on Macs for which I couldn't justify installing Photoshop.
But unless you need some specific *nix software package that uses X11, there is much general need for it on a Mac.
| Q: Is X11 still used today? I have had X11 installed on my Mac for quite some time (as long as I have owned it I think) and have never used it. Do applications still use X11 or is out outdated at this point? Should I "learn" how to use it because I may use it in the future? The reason I ask is that I read that you can run X over SSH and I thought it might be useful to run a window manager to get some graphics from a remote machine. Then I realized I have never used X11 and launched it only to become confused. So should I use X11 and why?
A: X11 is still used extensively for very expensive *nix-based CAD/CAE software packages.
I used it to run the free Gimp editor on Macs for which I couldn't justify installing Photoshop.
But unless you need some specific *nix software package that uses X11, there is much general need for it on a Mac.
A: X11 is used for most Unix GUI apps. All Linux GUI apps use X11 and it is often the easiest way to port them to run on OSX to keep using X11. the only Linux GUI apps which don't use X11 when under a simple port are some of those using Qt and Java apps where the underlying GUI has been ported to OSX aqua.
Command line apps like ssh and other Unix utilities don't use a GUI and so port directly.
You can use Macports, Fink and Homebrew without using a X11 app - it depends on what apps you port.
A: The following is a list of popular programs that require X11:
*
*Gimp - open source photo editing
*Inkscape - open source vector drawing program
*FreeCiv - open source version of the Civilization games
*Scribus - open source desktop publishing software
Basically, if you plan on using only commercial software, you don't need X11. If you plan on using open source software, you may want to keep X11 around just in case. Many open source projects used to require X11 but now have native Mac versions (OpenOffice, for example).
A: Yes. X11 is very much still in use as it is a very powerful windowing system and there is nothing that Apple has released that replaces the core functionality of X11.
I wouldn't spend time learning X11 in the abstract until you have a need to produce code that runs on X11 or you need to run software that is written for X11.
In a nutshell - it is a very flexible client/server system. The server runs where the keyboard and mouse and display are. The client is the program running locally or remotely on a different computer. For example I can run protein folding engines on large servers that are in a university across the country (or world) and interact with the user interface in a cafe on my MacBook Pro.
I have a choice of a wide variety of window managers to use. The virtual and extended desktop concepts in X11 are very different than Mac's typical you only get a screen if something is physically connected or enable spaces.
There are several downsides in that the system is different and to use it, you have to do some learning. Also - it doesn't map perfectly to Apple - cut and paste can be disorienting, mouse buttons have different functions, keyboard mapping can be tricky, and the uniformity of the Mac interface is disturbed as most X11 programs come with a wide variety of widgets. Even the most die hard fan of X11 chrome has to admit that a lot of it is "quaint" and some of it is really hard to use for people that expect the Macintosh user interface experience. (This is more of a culture thing - some countries have delicacies that are off-putting to others - it's not right or wrong - just different heritages and long assumptions on how something is "supposed to be done".)
Cheers and good luck!
A: Yes.
I personally don't use it because I have Linux installed beside Mac OS X. But many of my coworkers and fellow students use X11 in Mac OS X frequently. This is largely because we need to do plotting a lot, and so we use Gnuplot quite often. Gnuplot has a Mac native terminal (GUI) (I think), but it's no match for its X11 and wx (requires X11) terminals.
Also many other cool stuff (usually cross-platform programs) require X11, for example Wireshark, Audacity (a wave editor), and Inkscape (an awesome vector image editor), etc. Of course Audacity and Inkscape both have their Mac OS X native equivalent, but most of them are large and expansive.
A: Hm. It is interesting to see how much linux-users converted into OS X world. Here is my 0.02$. (as a heavy Linux user in past).
*
*When me converting into OS X (from Linux - approx 6-7 years ago) I started using heavily X11 based applications, simply because i know them much more than X.
*today, I have only ONE application installed what is X11 based and using it sometime - gimp - because I don't want spend much money for a photoshop. Anyway, because i'm not an photo-editor-expert, maybe will find some easy-to-use freeware native cocoa app and will throw gimp out too.
*X11 is really very powerful. Its base design is 30 years old and this showing how stable it is. But have a cost (pros) too - but this answer is not the right place discuss them.
*So, if you have NATIVE variants of your applications, you probably will not need to use it.
*Maybe will need to use it, when:
*
*you haven't native version of some app, what is exists for X11
*you are in heavy X11 envinroment, where is a common way executing things like xterm --display somecomp:0 or soo...
A: I do web-dev and media stuff and I personally think there's no use for X11 on a Mac as long as you're not a unix network administrator or something. There's still no native port of Wireshark, but beside that I don't use X11 at all. Beside Fink and MacPort there's also Homebrew, which is much easier than the other two and there's no X11 required.
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50224d9081fee6d46595e04d21e78f449aeac390 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to default UTF-8 encoding in Text Encoding in Mail.app? I'm using Mail.app.
Often times I would write on reply emails typed in foreign language (Chinese, Japanese), and the receiver will see garbled text (e.g. a bunch of ??? or squares).
The way I solve the problem is: before sending each of these reply email, I go to "Message" -> "Text Encoding" -> select "Unicode *UTF-8*". But as soon as the email is sent, text encoding is set back to "Automatic". On my next email, I have to set the text encoding again to UTF-8.
This is annoying. Is there a way to set UTF-8 as default text-encoding, and not Automatic?
A: Open Terminal.app and type:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
If it does not work, you can revert by using
defaults delete com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset
| Q: How to default UTF-8 encoding in Text Encoding in Mail.app? I'm using Mail.app.
Often times I would write on reply emails typed in foreign language (Chinese, Japanese), and the receiver will see garbled text (e.g. a bunch of ??? or squares).
The way I solve the problem is: before sending each of these reply email, I go to "Message" -> "Text Encoding" -> select "Unicode *UTF-8*". But as soon as the email is sent, text encoding is set back to "Automatic". On my next email, I have to set the text encoding again to UTF-8.
This is annoying. Is there a way to set UTF-8 as default text-encoding, and not Automatic?
A: Open Terminal.app and type:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
If it does not work, you can revert by using
defaults delete com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset
A: One way to ensure all your email goes out as UTF-8 is to include a Unicode dingbat or similar character in every message, as part of your signature or otherwise.
A: It's really odd there is no "standard"/"normal" way to set the default encoding to a user's choice.
By adding a Unicode dingbat character in a signature is more like a trick. The terminal command solution is not working. Even if it's working, it's very odd for a user to set something like this.
I can't believe Apple lets this happen.
It's the most annoying thing after I changed to use Mac. I have to choose the encoding every time I send an email. How ridiculous!
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02f492415bc1e1ea970c853a7da45035f19d33e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the time format used by ls command line on osx? I want to make ls display time in ISO format (military format). How can I change this behavior?
On Linux I knew that I could force ls to display time in long format by usin --full-time but this doesn't work on OS X.
Update: I know that the format used by the command is based on the locale settings. The problem is that on OS X I was not able to use the trick of setting LC_TIME=en_DK.
A: If you install gnu coreutils then gnu ls is available, which will do as required. If you use brew as a package manager, it's as simple as:
brew install coreutils
gls -l --time-style=full-iso
| Q: How do I change the time format used by ls command line on osx? I want to make ls display time in ISO format (military format). How can I change this behavior?
On Linux I knew that I could force ls to display time in long format by usin --full-time but this doesn't work on OS X.
Update: I know that the format used by the command is based on the locale settings. The problem is that on OS X I was not able to use the trick of setting LC_TIME=en_DK.
A: If you install gnu coreutils then gnu ls is available, which will do as required. If you use brew as a package manager, it's as simple as:
brew install coreutils
gls -l --time-style=full-iso
A: OS X's built-in ls command does not take time formatting arguments, but the stat command takes strftime format strings so you can get an approximation of what you want by doing:
stat -l -t '%FT%T' *
The %FT%T produces an ISO8601 local timestamp. Add a %z if you want a UTC offset.
But while the timestamp is right, the rest only approximates what you'd get from ls. For instance, ls -l properly aligns fields into columns, can colorize output, and of course it lists directory contents rather than requiring you to pass all filenames as arguments. You can at least reproduce the proper alignment by piping the output through tr to convert all spaces into tabs:
stat -l -t '%F%T' * | tr ' ' \\t
Alternatively, I think it should be possible to get ls -l to produce an ISO8601 timestamp by defining a custom locale, but I have not seen it done.
A: stat -l -t '%FT%T' *
That worked fine for me. I needed to see both file size and time stamp. Wonder why Apple saw fit to discard the pretty-much-standard time mod o/p from ls -l. I even hauled out my UNIX in a Nutshell!
A: Using macOS Monterey 12 the following works for me:
ls -lD '%FT%T'
I'm using an alias that also preserves colored output:
alias ls="ls -D '%FT%T' --color=auto"
A: ls -l --time-style=iso works fine for me.
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fb68c4e2d20450f4ee10880962b6c5c0cc999e85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing keyboard input language on Mac OSX How do I change (switch) the input language in Mac OSX (English->Russian->Hebrew).
In Windows it is done by pressing alt-shift.
What is the equivalent in OSX ?
A: The shortcuts are ⌘␣ and ⌥⌘␣ by default, but can be changed in Keyboard.prefPane:
| Q: Changing keyboard input language on Mac OSX How do I change (switch) the input language in Mac OSX (English->Russian->Hebrew).
In Windows it is done by pressing alt-shift.
What is the equivalent in OSX ?
A: The shortcuts are ⌘␣ and ⌥⌘␣ by default, but can be changed in Keyboard.prefPane:
A: According to the Language & Text preference pane, the shortcuts are:
⌘-space (command-space) - previous input source
⌥⌘-space (command-option-space) - next input source
Of course these shortcuts are already being used by Spotlight, so if you have that active they won't work.
Fortunately, you can just click the Keyboard Shortcuts button to choose the command shortcuts you'd prefer.
Either way, you should see an Input menu in your menu bar, probably next to the battery indicator. If you don't, you need to go to
System Preferences > Language & Text, click on "Input Sources", and check the languages you want to have added. At that point, the Input menu will show up and you'll be able to set the keyboard shortcuts.
Note that you can also just choose the language you prefer from the Input menu if you don't care about using a keyboard shortcut.
A: Go to > System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources.
Make sure an entry for each of 'English', 'Hebrew' and 'Russian' are checked. (I don't know which encoding you'll choose, e.g. 'Hebrew' or 'Hebrew - QWERTY'). Also ensure the uppermost box, 'Keyboard & Character Viewer' is checked.
Now you'll have something that looks like this:
You can select your language with the mouse or you can activate keyboard shortcuts, as seen below:
Both these keyboard shortcuts are already taken by other functions. These are functions that I use far more frequently than when I want to, in my case, shift between 'Australian' and 'Thai'. So in my case it's not worth making a keyboard shortcut to switch languages. This may be different for you however.
If you wish to activate, say, ⌘Space, you'll first need to disown that from whatever is currently using it. In my case ⌘Space opens a Spotlight search box and I use this all the time.
A: Since 2011, things have slightly changed!
The tab Shortcuts in the keyboard panel now has a new sub-section Input Sources (see screenshot). By default these are unchecked. If you enable both commands they will be available by hitting ^ ControlSpace or ^ Control⌥ OptionSpace.
A: *
*Go to the Keyboard pane in System Preferences
*Select the Input Sources tab
*Click the plus button on the bottom left
*Select your language
*Choose the appropriate language layout
If you still have trouble, refer this brief tutorial : http://www.infozub.com/2013/11/how-to-change-keyboard-language-in-os-x.html
A: After adding desired input sources as user63024 said, you need to check the Shortcuts tab (in my case System Preferences > Language & Region > Keyboard Preferences > Shortcuts) to check whether all your input sources are checked.
Then you can see the shortcuts to switch between them. And of course you can change them if you want. But remember, if you see the alarm icon beside the shortcut, it means some other option uses this shortcut key already, so you have to change one of those shortcut keys as a shortcut key has to be unique.
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380e7d2f33fbfc4e48b9b011d270cca895d433d8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the OS X Mouse Pointer's color? I have some visual impairment, and I often have problems finding my mouse pointer on the screen. I want to change the color of the pointer.
I know in "Universal Access" you can change the size, but it still doesn't help that the cursor 'blends in' with everything else on my screen. I want to make my cursor bright green or red.
I'm using OS X 10.6.7.
A: Anything that allows you to change the color is paid software. Here's MightyMouse.
Unfortunately, it looks like MightyMouse has been discontinued :(
I would recommend this free software that displays a circle around your cursor. When you haven't moved your mouse for awhile and you move it, it'll display a circle around the pointer. Here's the software.
| Q: How do I change the OS X Mouse Pointer's color? I have some visual impairment, and I often have problems finding my mouse pointer on the screen. I want to change the color of the pointer.
I know in "Universal Access" you can change the size, but it still doesn't help that the cursor 'blends in' with everything else on my screen. I want to make my cursor bright green or red.
I'm using OS X 10.6.7.
A: Anything that allows you to change the color is paid software. Here's MightyMouse.
Unfortunately, it looks like MightyMouse has been discontinued :(
I would recommend this free software that displays a circle around your cursor. When you haven't moved your mouse for awhile and you move it, it'll display a circle around the pointer. Here's the software.
A: I think this application may help you:
Mouseposé
A: Try Omnidazzle you can not change the color, like I want to but you can see a thing round the mouse to find it by pressing a key. Try it.
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d3dea77de499f6b600e59a67fe48d61315c6e5e3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I extract application data from an iOS device? I have a third party application on my iPad (Stanza) which has some data that I'm interested in doing some analysis of on my Mac (read statuses). Is there any way to get the data that the application has stored?
A: There is a tool called iPhone Backup Extractor.
It lets you extract app data from an iOS backup, which you create with iTunes.
I posted a detailed tutorial on how to use it on my blog: http://adriansieber.com/how-to-extract-data-from-ios-apps-on-mac-os/
| Q: Can I extract application data from an iOS device? I have a third party application on my iPad (Stanza) which has some data that I'm interested in doing some analysis of on my Mac (read statuses). Is there any way to get the data that the application has stored?
A: There is a tool called iPhone Backup Extractor.
It lets you extract app data from an iOS backup, which you create with iTunes.
I posted a detailed tutorial on how to use it on my blog: http://adriansieber.com/how-to-extract-data-from-ios-apps-on-mac-os/
A: There is no need to jailbreak.
An application like JuicePhone will do the trick, if you have a MacOS X computer. Just make sure you turn off encryption for the backup.
A: I use PhoneView to access (read and write) that data directly on the iPhone. It does not require you to jailbreak, but if you do, you can have more access. It doesn't care if your backups are encrypted as it just asks you for the password before reading the files on the iPhone. I am a very happy customer and have gotten support from eCamm even when I am running beta Mac OS versions with beta versions of Xcode and beta versions of iOS. It is rock solid on the shipping versions of the software and won't hold you back if you like to live on the edge or develop for iOS.
A: In my opinion the best answer is the FREE answer.. which is use ifuse. The details in my answer to an iPhone question. The process/experience of downloading and using iExplorer made me mad enough to find the right answer.
A: Depending what data you want to access, on macOS Catalina (10.15.5) I was able to just connect my iPhone 11 running iOS 14 to my computer with the lightning cable, and then access my phone through Finder.
Scrolling to the far right of the options, there is one called 'Files', which shows me a list of the apps on my phone, and by expanding them, the files accessible within each app (see below):
I'm not sure if this is the same level of access to files the other apps mentioned above can give you, but this was sufficient for my needs, and much cheaper/easier than using a 3rd party app.
A: Jailbreak you iPad if you haven't, and install OpenSSH. Then just scp the stuff you want from the iPad to your computer. Most application-related data are in /var/mobile.
A: I use PhoneDisk. It sits on your menubar, and auto-detects when you connect your iPhone via USB cable.
It can read files directly from your iPhone without having to jailbreak, so it doesn't make any difference if your backup is encrypted or not. To read files from a specific app, select "Change Connection Root" and then the app you want. It will mount the app dir as a disk that you can navigate through Finder.
A: I'm amazed at how many options there are here. I don't use any of 'em, including the one I'm suggesting: Macroplant's iPhoneExplorer. But I doubt they can get much better. This will work both on jailbroken phone or not accordingly, over USB. And it's free. Obviously it's not as feature-full as PhoneDisk, which is simply awesome: they're from the same Macroplant. JuicePhone do look cool for its different purpose (exploring the backups).
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5f983789ce2b1c6d1434f54d36ee416121f4124f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to increase "tracking speed" beyond the maximum? For a Macbook Pro, I've set trackpad settings for Three Fingers to "Dragging":
However the tracking speed is too slow, and often it's impossible to drag for a larger distance due to the size of the physical trackpad.
How do we increase the tracking speed beyond the maximum allowed?
A: The value of the preference is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist and can be changed with something like defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling -float 5.0. The normal maximum value is currently 3.0. Applying the changes requires logging out and back in.
| Q: How to increase "tracking speed" beyond the maximum? For a Macbook Pro, I've set trackpad settings for Three Fingers to "Dragging":
However the tracking speed is too slow, and often it's impossible to drag for a larger distance due to the size of the physical trackpad.
How do we increase the tracking speed beyond the maximum allowed?
A: The value of the preference is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist and can be changed with something like defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling -float 5.0. The normal maximum value is currently 3.0. Applying the changes requires logging out and back in.
A: Mouse Curves is a preference pane that allows you to customize the tracking speed of the mouse and trackpad.
http://triq.net/mac/mouse-acceleration-preference-pane-mac-os-x
A: For those who come here searching for mouse speed up (as me), change the command/property mentioned on the answer of @user495470 to com.apple.mouse.scaling.
So:
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling -float 5.0
is what you're looking for.
Here is @Kodos Johnson :)
A: BetterTouchTool does that, and lets you add application specific gestures as well!
In BetterTouchTool, open Preferences. In the left bar under Advanced Settings choose either Trackpad or Magic Mouse. There is a slider that adjusts the tracking speed.
I don't think I could use a mac without it, at this point. I have my browser-tab-management and finder shortcuts mapped to multitouch gestures.
A: Ordinary trackpad-dragging can be done in segments, the same way mouse-dragging can be done in limited space, by lifting & repositioning {the mouse; your fingers} and making another swipe. In your prefpane, enable one-finger click and drag, and you won't even need to press down.
A: As mentioned before, the file is in ~/Library/Preferences/.
But preferences will be found in more than one file.
.GlobalPreferences.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
Note that .GlobalPreferences.plist is invisible.
Mouse speed is called scaling in .GlobalPreferences.plist.
Setting scaling past 3 with defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 5 has no effect immediately and may require a logout.
file://~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plist
file://~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
file://~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
A: If you turn inertial scrolling on, you can, once you've started a drag gesture, keep two fingers steady and flick with the other one to inertially "drag" the window around your screen(s).
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010625e53987c2034123c739eb9b31e3b2290f47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Error installing lxml on Mac Snow Leopard I am getting what seems to be a common error when trying to install lxml on MacOS 10.6:
Building lxml version 2.3.
Building without Cython.
Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.24
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:161594: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
compilation terminated.
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//cc7Ypl70.out (No such file or directory)
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
I have tried several of the suggestions I could find (setting archflags, linking to gcc-4.0) but still get the same error every time. I have Xcode 4 installed. Any help appreciated.
RESOLVED with: sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" easy_install lxml
No thanks to the question migration. It was beter suited for StackOverflow.
A: There is a workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/790518
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64"
| Q: Error installing lxml on Mac Snow Leopard I am getting what seems to be a common error when trying to install lxml on MacOS 10.6:
Building lxml version 2.3.
Building without Cython.
Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.24
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:161594: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
compilation terminated.
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//cc7Ypl70.out (No such file or directory)
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
I have tried several of the suggestions I could find (setting archflags, linking to gcc-4.0) but still get the same error every time. I have Xcode 4 installed. Any help appreciated.
RESOLVED with: sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" easy_install lxml
No thanks to the question migration. It was beter suited for StackOverflow.
A: There is a workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/790518
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64"
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f63399dc8eeffd8fc2e9cdfb176ea43e6035aec9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Minimal Xcode installation without iOS SDK I am in the progress of switching my MBP to run off an SSD, so I’ve been looking of ways to save harddisk space. Xcode with the iOS SDK weighs around 10GB, and since I don’t really use the iOS SDK for anything this seems like a good opportunity to save space.
Problem is that Apple seems to have removed all Xcode downloads that do not include the SDK. I have tried looking around the site and link-hacking, but nowwhere have I been able to find a minimal Xcode.
I don’t really care if it's Xcode4 or not, I just need it for Homebrew to work. Is it possible to find this somewhere?
(If not, is it safe to simply delete /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform and /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform)?
A: When you run the Install Xcode and iOS SDK installer, during the "Installation Type" step, you can uncheck the iOS SDK box, and leave the Xcode Toolset checked. This will skip the 8.35 GB iOS SDK install.
| Q: Minimal Xcode installation without iOS SDK I am in the progress of switching my MBP to run off an SSD, so I’ve been looking of ways to save harddisk space. Xcode with the iOS SDK weighs around 10GB, and since I don’t really use the iOS SDK for anything this seems like a good opportunity to save space.
Problem is that Apple seems to have removed all Xcode downloads that do not include the SDK. I have tried looking around the site and link-hacking, but nowwhere have I been able to find a minimal Xcode.
I don’t really care if it's Xcode4 or not, I just need it for Homebrew to work. Is it possible to find this somewhere?
(If not, is it safe to simply delete /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform and /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform)?
A: When you run the Install Xcode and iOS SDK installer, during the "Installation Type" step, you can uncheck the iOS SDK box, and leave the Xcode Toolset checked. This will skip the 8.35 GB iOS SDK install.
A: In early 2012, Apple started packaging "Command Line Tools for Xcode". It's a much more manageable 140 MB.
A: You can buy just Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store for $4.99. I believe it is just Xcode, it is a 4.25 GB download.
Hope this helps
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498a7d94377ca3a1d9e6ddb2ca0e972a1340ea4b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change Account Password to Blank I recently changed an account password by accident, and was wondering how to set it back to a blank password via the shell. I have root privileges. Please help :)
passwd USER doesn't accept blank passwords
A: The passwd command rejects the idea that you can have a 0 length password.
Instead use dscl which is more accepting of the notion that the password is nothing.
dscl . -passwd /Users/foo
You can press enter to make the new password blank and then may get an error and have to enter the old password if you are not root
Once you authenticate (or are root already) the blank password will be set for the account in question.
| Q: Change Account Password to Blank I recently changed an account password by accident, and was wondering how to set it back to a blank password via the shell. I have root privileges. Please help :)
passwd USER doesn't accept blank passwords
A: The passwd command rejects the idea that you can have a 0 length password.
Instead use dscl which is more accepting of the notion that the password is nothing.
dscl . -passwd /Users/foo
You can press enter to make the new password blank and then may get an error and have to enter the old password if you are not root
Once you authenticate (or are root already) the blank password will be set for the account in question.
A: You can set the account password to no password using the Users and Groups Pane in System Preferences.
A: macOS no longer allows this using the System Preferences and this is why.
macOS and iOS turn on sharing of all your photos by default so that Apple can keep all the photos of billions of people on their servers.
Additionally they by default turn on iCloud end-to-end encryption for some specific things on your devices and that end-to-end encryption is secured using your local device login password.
Apple wants you to store all your life on Apple servers and they cannot do that if you do not have a local device password. So that is why you are not able to NOT set a password.
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db04157174c4cc2068a6fa8fcd3fca5eba3211a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is there a groove line on the "F" and "J" keys on Apple keyboards? If you look at Apple's keyboards nowadays, you'll see that on the "F" and "J" keys there is a little groove line under the letter.
Why does this exist? What purpose does it serve?
A: Actually, this is a feature of all keyboards, and has been for as long as I can remember. Most keyboards use a line, but older Apple keyboards used a dot.
The goal of the ridge is to allow people who type without looking at the keyboard to easily find the right keys to put their fingers on. These keys are referred to as the home row.
Both Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards (image) have these notches where you place you index fingers on the home row, which shows that the notches correspond to a location and not a particular letter.
Bottom line: If you don't look at your keyboard, these are an important feature to let you put your hands where you need to. If you do look at your keyboard, these don't help you.
| Q: Why is there a groove line on the "F" and "J" keys on Apple keyboards? If you look at Apple's keyboards nowadays, you'll see that on the "F" and "J" keys there is a little groove line under the letter.
Why does this exist? What purpose does it serve?
A: Actually, this is a feature of all keyboards, and has been for as long as I can remember. Most keyboards use a line, but older Apple keyboards used a dot.
The goal of the ridge is to allow people who type without looking at the keyboard to easily find the right keys to put their fingers on. These keys are referred to as the home row.
Both Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards (image) have these notches where you place you index fingers on the home row, which shows that the notches correspond to a location and not a particular letter.
Bottom line: If you don't look at your keyboard, these are an important feature to let you put your hands where you need to. If you do look at your keyboard, these don't help you.
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38498de077f8d0f0597a9ed7b11e02ffdb8e2acf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a complete and detailed description of what Migration Assistant copies over? Does it copy all files in ~/Library ? Including cache files and even things like Flash cookies? What about user created files/folders in / ?
etc etc
A: Migration Assistant is fairly well documented in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413 - basically if a newer or equivalent version of a file is not present, it gets moved by default.
In your case ~/Library is moved if you select that user - you can't deselect it like some other folders in the home folder.
Applications (which includes /Library/Application support as well as /Applications) move when that is selected.
Files in / only move if you choose other files. Everything goes AFAIK. Even ByHost preferences that no longer are used since the host has changed.
| Q: Is there a complete and detailed description of what Migration Assistant copies over? Does it copy all files in ~/Library ? Including cache files and even things like Flash cookies? What about user created files/folders in / ?
etc etc
A: Migration Assistant is fairly well documented in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413 - basically if a newer or equivalent version of a file is not present, it gets moved by default.
In your case ~/Library is moved if you select that user - you can't deselect it like some other folders in the home folder.
Applications (which includes /Library/Application support as well as /Applications) move when that is selected.
Files in / only move if you choose other files. Everything goes AFAIK. Even ByHost preferences that no longer are used since the host has changed.
A: The Migration Assistant will write to the logs, like every other application and service. Please see your logs for these details: /Library/Logs/SystemMigration.log
A: One important file that appears not to move is /etc/hosts. Don't forget to manually copy it.
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1119a7723a036144251f9ff4c469a29febb1bdd2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes in 2 Countries I have an iTunes account in the UK but I am going to spend 2 months of the year in the US. Is it possible for me to download from the US iTunes Store but keep my UK credit card and billing address?
A: No, it's not, you'll need a separate credit card and billing address for each country.
A work around would be to use your US address and use gift cards for purchases.
I do this, as I don't live in the US, but want access to some content only available in the US store.
| Q: iTunes in 2 Countries I have an iTunes account in the UK but I am going to spend 2 months of the year in the US. Is it possible for me to download from the US iTunes Store but keep my UK credit card and billing address?
A: No, it's not, you'll need a separate credit card and billing address for each country.
A work around would be to use your US address and use gift cards for purchases.
I do this, as I don't live in the US, but want access to some content only available in the US store.
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870b7627c86d6b8921794c4431506d8d809a083c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I clone a hard disk excluding some directories? In preparation for Lion, I want to make a bootable clone of my system to an external harddisk. I use TimeMachine, but I want to be sure I have a running backup.
Of course, there is much stuff on my system which doesn't need to be secured. This includes ~/Library/Caches and especially the installation of the developer tools (/Developer). To save space, I don't want to clone these.
Which tool can I use to do that? I have always cloned my harddisks with Disk Utility, but you obviously can't exclude directories with it.
A: Both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper can clone and omit files or directories from the clone.
| Q: How do I clone a hard disk excluding some directories? In preparation for Lion, I want to make a bootable clone of my system to an external harddisk. I use TimeMachine, but I want to be sure I have a running backup.
Of course, there is much stuff on my system which doesn't need to be secured. This includes ~/Library/Caches and especially the installation of the developer tools (/Developer). To save space, I don't want to clone these.
Which tool can I use to do that? I have always cloned my harddisks with Disk Utility, but you obviously can't exclude directories with it.
A: Both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper can clone and omit files or directories from the clone.
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f2c192b290dd48f27114913d00073a6e007d0046 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Address Book: Is there any way to move the fields up/down? Is there any way to move the fields within Address Book up or down? I like to have order on my address book and it looks really bad when the phone number fields are all over the place.
A: I'm afraid you cannot change the order they appear in, you can only change what fields are shown in the Template Section of the Preferences.
| Q: Address Book: Is there any way to move the fields up/down? Is there any way to move the fields within Address Book up or down? I like to have order on my address book and it looks really bad when the phone number fields are all over the place.
A: I'm afraid you cannot change the order they appear in, you can only change what fields are shown in the Template Section of the Preferences.
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e91d8e19f110d5471766d294d583cadb5c258812 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac App Store: Don't show updates for an uninstalled app I downloaded the free trial ('lite') version of an app on the Mac App Store. I didn't like the app, so I uninstalled it from my computer.
However, the App Store wants me to install updates for this app that I no longer even have.
Is it possible to tell the Mac App Store that I don't want to be notified about updates for a particular app?
A: Nathan - I made a mistake on a mac where I wasn't the main administrator. I sure meant to delete the app and even dragged it into the trash, but a day later when the update bubble was still there, I found I didn't really delete the app (In my case it was installed on a different user on a multi user system and rather than move to the trash, it copied itself to the trash). Once I really moved the app to the trash with an admin user and rebooted, the update badge disappeared.
| Q: Mac App Store: Don't show updates for an uninstalled app I downloaded the free trial ('lite') version of an app on the Mac App Store. I didn't like the app, so I uninstalled it from my computer.
However, the App Store wants me to install updates for this app that I no longer even have.
Is it possible to tell the Mac App Store that I don't want to be notified about updates for a particular app?
A: Nathan - I made a mistake on a mac where I wasn't the main administrator. I sure meant to delete the app and even dragged it into the trash, but a day later when the update bubble was still there, I found I didn't really delete the app (In my case it was installed on a different user on a multi user system and rather than move to the trash, it copied itself to the trash). Once I really moved the app to the trash with an admin user and rebooted, the update badge disappeared.
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c26da299868346b03603df272a6d753820dc1de2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does OS X prevent access to a folder if it ends with the word ".service"? I am sharing a win 7 folder and trying to access it from Osx.
Everything works but if the folder is named something ending with the words ".service" the folder is not accessible any more, the icon is changed and if I try to access it I get the message below.
If I remove the word "service" the folder is accessible again.
The machine is hosted inside a VmWare Fusion machine but I don't think this could be a problem, maybe something related to osx-bsd naming for services.
As I am working on folders where I can't change the names is there a way to prevent this behavior?
A: If Finder thinks it is a bundle, maybe you can right-click on it and "Show Package Contents"...
| Q: Why does OS X prevent access to a folder if it ends with the word ".service"? I am sharing a win 7 folder and trying to access it from Osx.
Everything works but if the folder is named something ending with the words ".service" the folder is not accessible any more, the icon is changed and if I try to access it I get the message below.
If I remove the word "service" the folder is accessible again.
The machine is hosted inside a VmWare Fusion machine but I don't think this could be a problem, maybe something related to osx-bsd naming for services.
As I am working on folders where I can't change the names is there a way to prevent this behavior?
A: If Finder thinks it is a bundle, maybe you can right-click on it and "Show Package Contents"...
A: I don't think there's anything you can do to prevent it.
OSX has decided, for whatever reason, that it's a service bundle (something intended to show up in the Services menu). I'd consider filing a radar about it, but have no idea how likely it would be that Apple would do anything about it. (Were it my call, I would have done something like requiring a bundle to have a valid Info.plist and treat it as a normal directory otherwise.)
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1687024f061f465287e89404c7db026fa876e282 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do I have to drag my new apps into the application folder? I'm a new Mac user and I've been installing a few different apps for different things. A lot of these use .dmg files.
Why exactly do they all expect me to drag the icon into the application folder? What is the point of this?
A: The /Applications folder is just a convenient place to store all of your applications. You can theoretically store them anywhere. Some software (such as Butler) will automatically search for applications in these standard locations, so if you store them elsewhere (such as /Users/Shared/Applications) such software won't find them by default.
Generally there are three standard places to store applications, and 99% of Mac users only work with the first one:
*
*/Applications (available to all
users)
*/Users/username/Applications
(available to the logged in user who
owns that folder)
*/Developer/Applications (available to
all users, used for Xcode software)
| Q: Why do I have to drag my new apps into the application folder? I'm a new Mac user and I've been installing a few different apps for different things. A lot of these use .dmg files.
Why exactly do they all expect me to drag the icon into the application folder? What is the point of this?
A: The /Applications folder is just a convenient place to store all of your applications. You can theoretically store them anywhere. Some software (such as Butler) will automatically search for applications in these standard locations, so if you store them elsewhere (such as /Users/Shared/Applications) such software won't find them by default.
Generally there are three standard places to store applications, and 99% of Mac users only work with the first one:
*
*/Applications (available to all
users)
*/Users/username/Applications
(available to the logged in user who
owns that folder)
*/Developer/Applications (available to
all users, used for Xcode software)
A: You don't have to put your new Applications in the Application folder - it's just the default place to put them.
A: You can create /Applications/Imaging, /Applications/Internet, etc. if you want categorize them. Just don't move any of the standard applications into these folders because further updates will expect them to be directly in /Applications.
A: An application on a Mac is just a folder full of files with a .app extension. However, macOS hides this fact from you and displays the folder as a file with an icon. Now when you download something it's very uncomfortable to download multiple separate folders (without a download manager). Therefore this "App Folder" has to be put inside a single file somehow. This is accomplished one of three ways:
*
*Using a .zip file (a container that compresses its contents to save space)
*Using a .dmg file (which is a flat file filesystem–as opposed to a hierarchical file system)
*Make an installer (which, however, also has to be either in a .zip or .dmg because installers are folders on a mac, too)
Since most apps are self-contained and do not need anything outside of the app folder, an installer is not only overkill but also slower than just distributing the app folder.
You can obviously launch apps from wherever you want; it's only a custom or a recommendation to put them into /Applications as it easier for you to find it again and it works with multiple users.
A: Keep in mind there are plenty of applications that assume they are in a folder called "Applications" and apps that looks for other specific apps in the "Applications" folder.
A: DMG files are compressed and read-only. Applications frequently need to be able to update or change components inside themselves; at a minimum, when a new version is detected and it offers to install an update - it won't be able to delete itself and put the new version in its place. Indeed, you'll probably find that running an application off a DMG will result in an "was downloaded from the internet" message on every launch. That doesn't happen if you move it to the right place.
Running an application off a locked DMG is a sure-fire way to run into problems. Just drag the application to some place on your hard disk - preferably one of the Applications folders.
There are certain locations on your Mac that have special significance to the system - these are places where the Mac goes looking for launchable applications when you double-click a document. They include the top level Applications folder, and a folder called "Applications" in your personal home folder. Mounted DMGs are not part of this, if only because they're not always mounted.
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472715acc3cadb9c8ad730c673a8e0401eed0ccd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to use terminal to copy a file to the clipboard? I got a file on desktop, file name is ded.html. To copy the file, I click the file and press cmd+c.
Now how would I do the same thing using terminal ?
A: To copy a file to a destination, use the cp command.
cp /path/to/file /path/to/destination
See man cp for more information.
| Q: How to use terminal to copy a file to the clipboard? I got a file on desktop, file name is ded.html. To copy the file, I click the file and press cmd+c.
Now how would I do the same thing using terminal ?
A: To copy a file to a destination, use the cp command.
cp /path/to/file /path/to/destination
See man cp for more information.
A: If I'm understanding the question right, what you're after is pbcopy and pbpaste.
Open a terminal and run:
cat ~/Desktop/ded.html | pbcopy
The file is now in your clipboard.
To put it somewhere else (i.e. paste it) run:
pbpaste > ~/Documents/ded.html
Now you should have a copy of ded.html sitting in ~/Documents.
A: Lri’s answer is headed in the right direction, but it has a couple of flaws: there is no need to use Finder (the clipboard is part of the StandardAdditions OSAX), and giving a run handler is a much more reliable way to pass arguments from the command line (since 10.4). Making both of these changes greatly simplifies the “escaping” that needs to be done to enter the program in a shell.
Here is my version (wrapped in a shell function—you could put this in (e.g.) your .bashrc to make it available in your shells):
file-to-clipboard() {
osascript \
-e 'on run args' \
-e 'set the clipboard to POSIX file (first item of args)' \
-e end \
"$@"
}
file-to-clipboard ~/Desktop/ded.html
A file that has been put on the clipboard with this script can then be pasted in Finder to copy the file to another folder.
osascript can also be used as a hash-bang interpreter (since 10.5). Put this in a file (e.g. file-to-clipboard)
#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run args
set the clipboard to POSIX file (first item of args)
end
Make the file executable (chmod +x /path/to/where/ever/you/put/file-to-clipboard). Then run it like so:
/path/to/where/ever/you/put/file-to-clipboard ~/Desktop/ded.html
If it is stored in a directory in the PATH, then you can omit the path to the “script” file.
A: Here's a simple Shell/Bash script. Just paste it in your .bashrc file (or the like):
file-to-clipboard() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "file path/name:"
read FILE
else
FILE="$1"
fi
pbcopy < "$FILE"
}
A: Thanks to @Lri and @Chris Johnsen. Another option for you:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run args
set abs_path to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/greadlink -f -- " & (first item of args)
set the clipboard to POSIX file abs_path
end
You can put this into a script, and place that script in any folder in your PATH. This combined the idea of using osascript in hashbang and using readlink for relative path. This would achieve the same as @Lri's bash function, but has the advantage of not adding anything to your bashrc. You might need to install readline. You can do so with homebrew
brew install readlink
A: There is no way to achieve what you are trying to do using the command line. While Apple offers the pbcopy and pbpaste tools to allow basic copying of text, you cannot use these tools to copy a file in the sense you're looking for.
Without going in to too much technical detail, when you 'copy' a file in the Finder using ⌘C, you're not actually copying the file itself, just making a reference to the file on the clipboard and marking it as a file reference. When an application receives this reference when you paste, it has the responsibility of sorting things out, figuring out what you pasted, and ultimately, working with the file as it sees fit. In essence, when you copy a file in the Finder, it saves the path to the file in a certain way to a certain clipboard, and when you paste, it receives that file path and knows to create a new file using the contents of the old one (copy a file to the clipboard, delete it, try to paste it somewhere else, and see what happens, for instance).
In this sense of copying and pasting, the tools available at hand are not enough to do what you need. As boehj suggested, you can try to copy the contents of the old file into a new one, but this will only work well for text files. Any binary files you get will be corrupted (try doing this with an image – it becomes corrupted).
The traditional command line will fail you in this way, but you can take a look if you'd like into doing this in AppleScript, then invoking that through the command line with osascript.
A: Executing pbcopy < filename command in the Terminal copies the contents of the file named filename.
A: The function below only works with a single file and not with multiple files. It requires GNU readlink which you can install by running brew install findutils.
copy(){ osascript -e{'on run{a}','set the clipboard to posix file a',end} "$(greadlink -f -- "$1")";}
Edit: I removed the tell app "Finder" block.
Edit 2: Reverted back to a version which supports relative paths.
A: With support of relative file:
clip_img() {
osascript -e 'on run argv' \
-e 'set currentDir to do shell script "pwd"' \
-e 'set the clipboard to (read POSIX file (POSIX path of (currentDir as text & (first item of argv) )) as JPEG picture)' \
-e 'end run' "/$1"
# osascript -e 'clipboard info'
}
run clip_img path-to-file to copy image to clipboard, and path-to-file could be relative. The file could be jpeg or png files.
A: I'm only 11 years late but I think I have an alternative, albeit, hacky solution. Here's my script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
fzf -m -e | xargs -n1 open -R
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down'
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "w" using command down'
open -a "Slack.app"
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down'
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 76'
exit 0
A few disclaimers:
*
*This assumes a macOS environment.
*In the script, I'm using a command line tool called fzf which is not needed. It just makes searching for things easier. You can get it from brew install fzf if you're interested.
*My use case was to find a way to search, find and send gifs quickly in Slack. So I named it 'fzygif'.
(The following description references the line numbers in the image above:)
*
*Line no. 3 - fzf -m -e is to allow for multiple files to be selected as well as to search using the exact term used. The result is then piped into xargs -n1 open -R which then applies the open command to each search result, one at a time.
*Line no. 5 - Next I use the osascript -e command to simulate Cmd+C which is the Apple keyboard shortcut for Copy.
*Line no. 7 - Next I use the osascript -e command to simulate Cmd+W which is the Apple keyboard shortcut for Close Window (just doing a little housekeeping along the way; this could be omitted).
*Line no. 9 - Next I open Slack (the intended target for my recently copied gif; open whatever app tickles you).
*Line no. 11 - Next I use the osascript -e command to simulate Cmd+V which is the Apple keyboard shortcut for Paste.
*Line no. 13 - Lastly, I use the osascript -e command to simulate "key code 76" which is the Apple key code for Enter. This is to automatically send the gif in Slack after it's pasted (this too could be omitted).
Since a gif is worth a thousand words? Here it is in action:
Happy hacking!
A: You can use cat 'originfile' > 'destinationfile' on unix environments;
copy originfile destinationfile on windows.
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d67fdaf4f34748bb26f0c041552f4b0779b6da32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a "Focus Editor" shortcut key in Xcode 4? Cmd-1..n are handy for changing and focusing the different navigator tabs so I don't have to take my fingers off the keyboard, but is there a shortcut for giving the focus back to the editor after focusing, say, the Project navigator with Cmd-1?
A: Aw crud, there are all sorts of "move focus to" commands in the Navigate menu that I somehow missed earlier... The combo for "Move Focus to Editor..." is Cmd-J, for example.
| Q: Is there a "Focus Editor" shortcut key in Xcode 4? Cmd-1..n are handy for changing and focusing the different navigator tabs so I don't have to take my fingers off the keyboard, but is there a shortcut for giving the focus back to the editor after focusing, say, the Project navigator with Cmd-1?
A: Aw crud, there are all sorts of "move focus to" commands in the Navigate menu that I somehow missed earlier... The combo for "Move Focus to Editor..." is Cmd-J, for example.
A: I don't have X-Code 4 installed, but Command + ~ will cycle through windows inside an application. So long as it qualifies as a window, I imagine that'd be what you need.
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b56196a420eb15165ad8078e0bf574acb379ec53 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: songs about OS X or iOS? I know of just one song, but are there other songs out there?
James Dempsey - Model View Controller
A: James Dempsey and the Breakpoints do a song every year at WWDC. Knowing the secret to which session will have the song requires knowing some very subtle clues to watch for in some of the Monday sessions.
Besides "Model View Controller" (2003), there's been:
*
*"Fetch Specifications" - 2001
*"Relationships" - 2002
*"Model View Controller" - 2003
*"Modelin' Man" - 2004
*"Release Me" - 2005
*"Endian Reservations" - 2006
*"I Love View" - 2007
*"Designated Initializer" - 2008
*"Pasteboard Writin'" - 2009
*"Anti Patterns" - 2010
Sorry I can't find all of the videos.
There are also comical songs about Mac OS X.
*
*"I'm On A Mac (I'm On A Boat cover)" - 2008
| Q: songs about OS X or iOS? I know of just one song, but are there other songs out there?
James Dempsey - Model View Controller
A: James Dempsey and the Breakpoints do a song every year at WWDC. Knowing the secret to which session will have the song requires knowing some very subtle clues to watch for in some of the Monday sessions.
Besides "Model View Controller" (2003), there's been:
*
*"Fetch Specifications" - 2001
*"Relationships" - 2002
*"Model View Controller" - 2003
*"Modelin' Man" - 2004
*"Release Me" - 2005
*"Endian Reservations" - 2006
*"I Love View" - 2007
*"Designated Initializer" - 2008
*"Pasteboard Writin'" - 2009
*"Anti Patterns" - 2010
Sorry I can't find all of the videos.
There are also comical songs about Mac OS X.
*
*"I'm On A Mac (I'm On A Boat cover)" - 2008
A: There is now an entire album of songs about OS X and iOS development.
The album is Backtrace.
It contains all of the James Dempsey and the Breakpoints songs listed above plus additional materials.
It's available now on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/backtrace/id926558924?uo=4&at=11lpkp&ct=11
I hope you enjoy it!
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cda1a60862297327945a26272f7a81a0cffa8f6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Optimal keyboard shortcut for keyboard layout switching on OS X? Considering that Spotlight is already using ⌘+space and that you cannot use combination of modifiers alone, I would like to see an ergonimic alternative.
I can't use the following combinations due to conflicts with other software
*
*ctrl+space - auto-complete in IDEA
A: I use ctrl + ⌥ + space. It's typeable via left hand, doesn't collide with the search window shortcut (as ⌥ + ⌘ + space does) and I haven't found any other overlap yet.
| Q: Optimal keyboard shortcut for keyboard layout switching on OS X? Considering that Spotlight is already using ⌘+space and that you cannot use combination of modifiers alone, I would like to see an ergonimic alternative.
I can't use the following combinations due to conflicts with other software
*
*ctrl+space - auto-complete in IDEA
A: I use ctrl + ⌥ + space. It's typeable via left hand, doesn't collide with the search window shortcut (as ⌥ + ⌘ + space does) and I haven't found any other overlap yet.
A: I'm using ⌥ + ⌘ + space as it doesn't trigger autocomplete in Eclipse, Idea or Quicksilver/Spotlight/Alfred.
A: How about ctrl + ` (backtick)
Easy to type that with your left hand.
A: I use ctrl + space which is may be the best option I found out to be useful and ergonomic.
A: I use ⌘+⌥+C to trigger my clipboard manager.
I haven't found it overlapping any other keyboard shortcut, and the keys are close enough to be pressed using one hand (the thumb for the modifiers and the index for "C")
A: I use ⌘+⇧+\ (next to Enter). Works fine for me.
A: What's wrong with the default ⌘+⇥? (or ⌥+⌘+⇥ to switch in the opposite order)?
It's perfectly ergonomic to have your thumb on the ⌘ key and use on of your others to press the ⇥ key.
A: I use ctrl+⌥+⌘ for "global" keyboard shortcuts.
ctrl+⌥+⌘ +S seems like a good "switch" shortcut.
You could probably also use ⌥+F[1-12] key if you install Apptivate [$3 on the Mac App Store].
A: I've always been using Cmd+Alt+/ and been pretty happy with it. I don't remember having any conflict with any app.
A: I use caps lock to switch language. 1 keystroke. You can set this in system preferences/keyboard/input sources:
Unfortunately this only works if you are switching between a Latin input source and non-Latin input source like Russian, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, etc.
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d02444a5bff5dc77d58a6481ccd785bcf7a0d199 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Removing gray part of BBEdit/TextWrangler How can I remove the gray part in BBEdit/TextWrangler.
I want it to be white as the other part.
Screenshot (see part marked with red square):
A: It is called the page guide. You can hide it in TextWrangler in two ways:
*
*For a single document, select "Hide Page Guide" from the "View -> Text Display" Menu.
*To hide it for all documents, there is a setting in the "Text Status Display" category.
| Q: Removing gray part of BBEdit/TextWrangler How can I remove the gray part in BBEdit/TextWrangler.
I want it to be white as the other part.
Screenshot (see part marked with red square):
A: It is called the page guide. You can hide it in TextWrangler in two ways:
*
*For a single document, select "Hide Page Guide" from the "View -> Text Display" Menu.
*To hide it for all documents, there is a setting in the "Text Status Display" category.
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1a31e81817fde72ed73e806578cdf4d684b841b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Application Beta Testers? Is there a website, platform, to find beta testers for OSX applications?
A: MacDeveloper.net
From their About page:
MacDeveloper helps companies and individual software developers alike improve the quality of their products by providing a platform to have their applications properly tested from a well informed, and energetic Beta Pool.
| Q: OSX Application Beta Testers? Is there a website, platform, to find beta testers for OSX applications?
A: MacDeveloper.net
From their About page:
MacDeveloper helps companies and individual software developers alike improve the quality of their products by providing a platform to have their applications properly tested from a well informed, and energetic Beta Pool.
A: I would engage people over twitter. It's even harder work attracting the right beta testers than it is being a good beta tester.
A: There is a platform by Stack Exchange. From Abby Miller's post:
We've got a community of talented iOS and OS X developers hanging out on Stack Overflow, and a committed community of power users and enthusiasts hanging out here on Ask Different. Doesn't it seem natural to provide a way to help people interested in testing new software and developers in need of alpha and beta testers find each other?
This program will match developers with potential testers. See the post above for more information and to sign up for the program.
A: You could use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to set up some test scenarios (as "HITs" - Human Intelligence Tasks) if you're willing to shell out a couple ducats.
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9d15002e65ba8165cca275e077929766db1aba5a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Leave Apple Developer organisation and buy personal membership I have an Apple Developer Account, but it's in organization that I no longer work for. How I can leave this organization and buy my own membership in the Apple iOS developer program?
A: It wasn’t as easy when you asked, but now it’s quite easy to add a new AppleID and then switch roles. Even if the company does not want to do any of the work, you can set up a new AppleID and promote that to the owner and then eject your desired account.
*
*https://developer.apple.com/support/roles/
When that is done, you can reapply. I would open a support case with developer support before you start to be sure they can help and you are cleared. They have been exceptionally helpful to us in getting past employees that quit and move the company accounts around as needed. Just give them time to check on things - the more a rush you are in, the more they wonder you’re trying to pull a fast one.
| Q: Leave Apple Developer organisation and buy personal membership I have an Apple Developer Account, but it's in organization that I no longer work for. How I can leave this organization and buy my own membership in the Apple iOS developer program?
A: It wasn’t as easy when you asked, but now it’s quite easy to add a new AppleID and then switch roles. Even if the company does not want to do any of the work, you can set up a new AppleID and promote that to the owner and then eject your desired account.
*
*https://developer.apple.com/support/roles/
When that is done, you can reapply. I would open a support case with developer support before you start to be sure they can help and you are cleared. They have been exceptionally helpful to us in getting past employees that quit and move the company accounts around as needed. Just give them time to check on things - the more a rush you are in, the more they wonder you’re trying to pull a fast one.
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58ea82d0d7613c33c507d8f25bdd359f5ee10ff6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can applications purchased through the App Store be used after deauthorization? If I deauthorize a computer from the account used to purchase a certain app, will that app continue to work as usual?
A: The Mac App Store does not currently have the concept of an "authorized" or "deauthorized" computer. If you download an app legitimately from the Mac App Store, it is DRM free (at least with regard to execution), and completely functional on your computer.
The immediate answer to your question is actually that you cannot deauthorize your computer in the Mac App Store :).
| Q: Can applications purchased through the App Store be used after deauthorization? If I deauthorize a computer from the account used to purchase a certain app, will that app continue to work as usual?
A: The Mac App Store does not currently have the concept of an "authorized" or "deauthorized" computer. If you download an app legitimately from the Mac App Store, it is DRM free (at least with regard to execution), and completely functional on your computer.
The immediate answer to your question is actually that you cannot deauthorize your computer in the Mac App Store :).
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cf34c69066d1584f6278419dc634f71758f49019 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free OS X solution for getting screenshots, cropping and annotating them I am looking for a simple/fast, free solution that will allow me to get screenshots from different windows, crop areas that are interesting to me and adding some comments to them.
It's main use case would be to track UI changes in applications, so it would be a good idea to support layers.
On Windows I was using Paint.NET but this is not available on OS X. Also, do not recommend GIMP, it's free but not simple and loads really slowly.
A: If you prefer an all-in-one solution to the Grab + Preview combination, try Skitch.
The lite version is free and should be enough for your -described- needs.
| Q: Free OS X solution for getting screenshots, cropping and annotating them I am looking for a simple/fast, free solution that will allow me to get screenshots from different windows, crop areas that are interesting to me and adding some comments to them.
It's main use case would be to track UI changes in applications, so it would be a good idea to support layers.
On Windows I was using Paint.NET but this is not available on OS X. Also, do not recommend GIMP, it's free but not simple and loads really slowly.
A: If you prefer an all-in-one solution to the Grab + Preview combination, try Skitch.
The lite version is free and should be enough for your -described- needs.
A: If you are interested in a portion of the screen, try Cmd+Shift+4, which turns the cursor to a crosshair; you can then select the portion of the screen and it will be captured to your desktop. By the way, Cmd+Shift+3 captures the whole screen. As far as annotation, you can follow jm666's suggestion and use Preview.
A: i am using jing from techsmith for a long time now and enjoy it very much:
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
you can even record screencasts in the free version. and it's cross platform (windows and osx).
A: Use Apple's built-in Grab.app to capture screenshots, Apple's built-in Preview.app to crop, and the open-source Inkscape to annotate the bitmap.
A: You can do everything from OS X’s Preview app.
Under File you’ll find Take Screen Shot. After you take it, the image will open directly in preview, and you can use the Annotate options under Tools, and more that appear from Show Edit Toolbar under View.
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8fdbe3683a963e76e1813f98ceca127bee7831c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Delete/disable app-installed services? I've written a bunch of services for my own use that I use frequently, but recently it's getting tougher.
I installed some apps (such as Skim.app, apptivate) that introduce their own services (eg. Open URL in Skim) which I don't need/use. These services clutter up my services list though (Skim alone add about 4 services to the list you get when you right click a Finder item).
Is there a way of removing these services from the list? I've tried looking for them in ~/Library/services but they aren't there. Where should I look?
A: In 10.6, you should be able to disable them by unchecking them in the Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Services list in System Preferences. For previous versions of OS X, there's a handy little app called Service Scrubber.
Hunting down and deleting services for apps you've already deleted can be troublesome; there are some detailed hints and tips in this article. Summary: find all the Info.plist files on your system that contain "NSServices", using a terminal command like:
find / -name "Info.plist" -exec grep -l "NSServices" {} \;
and (carefully) edit the suspect Info.plist files by hand.
| Q: Delete/disable app-installed services? I've written a bunch of services for my own use that I use frequently, but recently it's getting tougher.
I installed some apps (such as Skim.app, apptivate) that introduce their own services (eg. Open URL in Skim) which I don't need/use. These services clutter up my services list though (Skim alone add about 4 services to the list you get when you right click a Finder item).
Is there a way of removing these services from the list? I've tried looking for them in ~/Library/services but they aren't there. Where should I look?
A: In 10.6, you should be able to disable them by unchecking them in the Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Services list in System Preferences. For previous versions of OS X, there's a handy little app called Service Scrubber.
Hunting down and deleting services for apps you've already deleted can be troublesome; there are some detailed hints and tips in this article. Summary: find all the Info.plist files on your system that contain "NSServices", using a terminal command like:
find / -name "Info.plist" -exec grep -l "NSServices" {} \;
and (carefully) edit the suspect Info.plist files by hand.
A: If you dislike the way Services are now handled, please leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Not only are Services now hidden in System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts, but also newly installed apps freely add all their services, and worse, by default check them all.
One must go to Keyboard Shortcuts to even learn what was installed, and to uncheck any unwanted, in a small window that does not resize, from a list that gets absurdly long.
There are Services folders in System/Library/, /Library and ~/Library, from which you can trash any you won't use.
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6acc27ffc5c9427eb2cc2fe37477a5112eecd749 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I install apps on Lion without using app store? Is it true that I can only install app from app store in OS X Lion?
Can I not install app from any other source?
A: Not true - mean sure can install apps from dmg.
The Lion remain a full-blown OS, with all common functions, like Terminal.app, root access, Developer system, and so on. When here is no way block installing applications if you will have a root access, so Apple sure will NOT TRY do this.
The following is only my opinion:
On the other side - most of developers will sell their apps via AppStore (because it is easy), so here will be less "demo downloads" (what was possible activated by simple serial#). IMHO, over the time will be here more and more application in AppStore in two versions, like for example:
*
*SudokuLite.app (like current demo versions) - free,
*Sudoku.app (full paid version)
| Q: Can I install apps on Lion without using app store? Is it true that I can only install app from app store in OS X Lion?
Can I not install app from any other source?
A: Not true - mean sure can install apps from dmg.
The Lion remain a full-blown OS, with all common functions, like Terminal.app, root access, Developer system, and so on. When here is no way block installing applications if you will have a root access, so Apple sure will NOT TRY do this.
The following is only my opinion:
On the other side - most of developers will sell their apps via AppStore (because it is easy), so here will be less "demo downloads" (what was possible activated by simple serial#). IMHO, over the time will be here more and more application in AppStore in two versions, like for example:
*
*SudokuLite.app (like current demo versions) - free,
*Sudoku.app (full paid version)
A: No, it's not true. Without breaking the NDA I can say, that many developers made their software Lion compatible and distribute it from their sites.
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288b2723f7078608e3cc55be5a9c8acd1e857ed2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How long does it take to get confirmation? I am an iOS developer and I just enrolled in the mac developer program. The site says i'll get confirmation in 24 hours, what is the 'normal' time in which confirmation is usually received?
A: It depends. It can take a few hours for a personal enrollment to several days for a company enrollment. If you want your company name (rather than your personal name) to show up on your apps, you'll need to take the extra time to confirm.
I also suspect that during times of peak enrollment (say after an announcement like at WWDC) that the confirmation takes longer simply due to the number of people applying to play with the beta.
| Q: How long does it take to get confirmation? I am an iOS developer and I just enrolled in the mac developer program. The site says i'll get confirmation in 24 hours, what is the 'normal' time in which confirmation is usually received?
A: It depends. It can take a few hours for a personal enrollment to several days for a company enrollment. If you want your company name (rather than your personal name) to show up on your apps, you'll need to take the extra time to confirm.
I also suspect that during times of peak enrollment (say after an announcement like at WWDC) that the confirmation takes longer simply due to the number of people applying to play with the beta.
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6381667047a38817d330f8e25ec1223c3ba51cef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows? Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows ?
I have several tables in my sheet and I need to swap columns with rows for each table.
e.g.
A1 A2 A3
B1 B2 B3
C1 C2 C3
should become:
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
A3 B3 C3
thanks
A: With the table selected, simply choose Table > Transpose Rows and Columns.
| Q: Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows? Is there a way in Numbers to flip columns with rows ?
I have several tables in my sheet and I need to swap columns with rows for each table.
e.g.
A1 A2 A3
B1 B2 B3
C1 C2 C3
should become:
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
A3 B3 C3
thanks
A: With the table selected, simply choose Table > Transpose Rows and Columns.
A: You have a one-year old question in Super User about this.
It links to an Apple forum page where you will be told to how to use INDEX and TRANSPOSE functions to achieve what you're looking for.
The Past Special of Excel is way easier but this function is not widely used so apparently dropped from Numbers.
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52758d284f7d85b0feb3b81919279b9328d277c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a fullscreen Terminal app that is faster than iTerm? I am used to using the Terminal in full screen on Ubuntu. On Apple, the native Terminal app doesn't do full screen, and iTerm, which does, is very, very slow when you use a multiplexer like tmux in the Terminal. I'm using iTerm 0.10.
Does anyone know of an OS X Terminal program that can go full screen and that is responsive when running tmux?
A: Try iTerm2. It's supposed to be significantly faster than iTerm, but since I've never used the first version, I can't say for myself.
I have no complaints about it, that's for sure.
| Q: Is there a fullscreen Terminal app that is faster than iTerm? I am used to using the Terminal in full screen on Ubuntu. On Apple, the native Terminal app doesn't do full screen, and iTerm, which does, is very, very slow when you use a multiplexer like tmux in the Terminal. I'm using iTerm 0.10.
Does anyone know of an OS X Terminal program that can go full screen and that is responsive when running tmux?
A: Try iTerm2. It's supposed to be significantly faster than iTerm, but since I've never used the first version, I can't say for myself.
I have no complaints about it, that's for sure.
A: Interestingly, at Apple's special event on June 6, 2011, one of the items in the additional features slides when they were talking about Lion was "Full screen terminal."
So just waiting until next month will probably get you want you want as part of the system software.
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812ea8bd06c4a4f00d5bebdc05c85680dfaf96b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When sharing calendars on iCloud, how do I show other people that I'm occupied, but not why? Now that I will be able to share iCal calendars (e.g. on iCloud, MobileMe), for events that are marked as private is there a way to make other people only see that I am occupied at a certain time but not why? Can I somehow make an event private?
If this still will not be possible, what is the current workaround for this? How could I set up this scenario?
A: The availability picker on Lion (when it even works) only shows the binary status with your busy times blocked.
The CalDAV request to show busy times just shows that you are busy, not why.
If you don't share private events (or keep that secure with a password to subscribe), your event details are as secure as anything on a web server with controls before you can retrieve the data. (not perfect security, but not wide open to anyone)
| Q: When sharing calendars on iCloud, how do I show other people that I'm occupied, but not why? Now that I will be able to share iCal calendars (e.g. on iCloud, MobileMe), for events that are marked as private is there a way to make other people only see that I am occupied at a certain time but not why? Can I somehow make an event private?
If this still will not be possible, what is the current workaround for this? How could I set up this scenario?
A: The availability picker on Lion (when it even works) only shows the binary status with your busy times blocked.
The CalDAV request to show busy times just shows that you are busy, not why.
If you don't share private events (or keep that secure with a password to subscribe), your event details are as secure as anything on a web server with controls before you can retrieve the data. (not perfect security, but not wide open to anyone)
A: As a workaround, you could move the private events to separate calendar, also published, but configured as above. Of course your subscribers would need to add it to their subscription.
A: The issue being raised is bigger than MobileMe or iCloud. It's fundamental to how we all work today. If we aren't all on the same google docs account or the same exchange infrastructure we need to be able to share calendar information.
There are a couple of good solutions that I have used and seen people use in the past.
*
*Use Google Calendar and have iCal sync - share the Google Calendar and enable Sharing but check "Share only my free/busy information" This solution works on all platforms and is free.
*Use tungle.me. It syncs with iCal and gives your people a nice purple-y interface
*Change the way you calendar slightly (sounds strange but I know someone who did this). Create a separate calendar that you will share with people and on that calendar you (manually) block out your free/busy time. The benefit of this is that you have total control and there is no extra syncing.
A: There is a service called Tungle that seems designed to do what you need. It syncs with your calendar, but only displays your availability.
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165c474c3f10b134c4d4c10bdae5d99296e10e9b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I upgrade directly from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to 10.7 Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Can I upgrade to Lion straight from 10.5.8?
For us 10.5 users, is the only path a two step upgrade to 10.6 then 10.7?
Also, is there a hardware compatibility chart? My mac is an older macbook, not sure if it's even supported by Lion.
A: According to this page, you need to get on Snow Leopard before installing Lion. It also gives hardware compatibility requirements, which are basically that you have an Intel Core 2 Duo (note: NOT Intel Core Duo), Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor in your Mac.
| Q: Can I upgrade directly from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to 10.7 Lion?
Possible Duplicate:
Can I upgrade to Lion straight from 10.5.8?
For us 10.5 users, is the only path a two step upgrade to 10.6 then 10.7?
Also, is there a hardware compatibility chart? My mac is an older macbook, not sure if it's even supported by Lion.
A: According to this page, you need to get on Snow Leopard before installing Lion. It also gives hardware compatibility requirements, which are basically that you have an Intel Core 2 Duo (note: NOT Intel Core Duo), Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor in your Mac.
A: Please consider not only the technical but also the legal issues: Lion's license agreement requires that you own a valid license for Snow Leopard before installing Lion.
Check: https://www.macworld.com/article/161087/2011/07/install_lion_over_leopard.html for a detailed explanation of the methods availiabe to Upgrade from Leopard -> Lion
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10945e012c614c0ad156d8d5e991fa77be518056 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS Backup: Restore single program's settings? I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. Both have the same certain application installed, but I want to transfer the Touch's app settings to the iPhone's app.
I already downloaded the iPhone Backup Extractor which lets me look into the backup. All human readable.
Is it possible to inject this part of the Touch's backup into the iPhone's backup and then sync it?
A: Theoretically, it is possible to replace parts of the backup package, but in practice, I have no real success with that plan. Often the format iTunes uses to store the data changes with versions of iTunes and editing files under a database's nose can lead to corruption.
It's easier for me to connect both devices and quit the program to make sure it's a clean boot when you resume the app. Then I use PhoneView to read the preferences from the app bundle on the correct device and replace that folder on the bad device. This way if things crash, you still have pristine backups in iTunes to restore things.
| Q: iOS Backup: Restore single program's settings? I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. Both have the same certain application installed, but I want to transfer the Touch's app settings to the iPhone's app.
I already downloaded the iPhone Backup Extractor which lets me look into the backup. All human readable.
Is it possible to inject this part of the Touch's backup into the iPhone's backup and then sync it?
A: Theoretically, it is possible to replace parts of the backup package, but in practice, I have no real success with that plan. Often the format iTunes uses to store the data changes with versions of iTunes and editing files under a database's nose can lead to corruption.
It's easier for me to connect both devices and quit the program to make sure it's a clean boot when you resume the app. Then I use PhoneView to read the preferences from the app bundle on the correct device and replace that folder on the bad device. This way if things crash, you still have pristine backups in iTunes to restore things.
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9125d9b22db968be8dcd178822db7936c0b415e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Resizing/moving windows with keypress and mouse in Mac OS X A few years ago I remember a friend using an application in Ubuntu that made window management extremely easy. If you wanted to move the active window, you would press a key and drag the window by clicking anywhere on the window. If you wanted to resize the active window (proportionally), you would press a key and turn the wheel. I think this is very intuitive way to resize and move a window.
Are there any free applications for Mac OS X that can utilize similar mechanics?
A: Afloat does moving and resizing as explained, and does more than that. I really loved this application.
| Q: Resizing/moving windows with keypress and mouse in Mac OS X A few years ago I remember a friend using an application in Ubuntu that made window management extremely easy. If you wanted to move the active window, you would press a key and drag the window by clicking anywhere on the window. If you wanted to resize the active window (proportionally), you would press a key and turn the wheel. I think this is very intuitive way to resize and move a window.
Are there any free applications for Mac OS X that can utilize similar mechanics?
A: Afloat does moving and resizing as explained, and does more than that. I really loved this application.
A: Free:
*
*BetterTouchTool
*
*Primarily used for mapping actions to gestures
*Afloat
*
*SIMBL plugin
Commercial:
*
*Zooom2
*
*Allows using fn as a modifier
*Snap to screen edges and other elements
*MondoMouse
*Flexiglass
*
*Also other window management features, like split screen shortcuts
*BetterSnapTool
*NuKit
*HyperDock
*
*Also Aero snap like functionality
A: Not exactly what you want but:
*
*zooming is build-in OS X. Go to System preferences -> Mouse and check "Zoom while scroll wheel while holding Controll". After this you can zoom any part of the screen with CTRL+scrollwheel. It is not an "window zoom" but screen zoom - but sometimes helpful.
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c661c48307cfca916f02f57951c19aee1b29d45c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I delete a paused application download on my iPhone? I started installing an application from the App Store but forgot to check its size. When I check now, it is 50 MB. Now I don't want to download that application any more because I'm on 3G plan which is costly. I paused it but don't know how to delete it. Can anyone help me on how to delete a paused app download?
A: If you can't delete the paused download (which, I'm thinking, suggests you aren't on the most recent release of iOS), then the simplest option that doesn't require a restore is going to be to find a WiFi hotspot and let the app finish downloading. Personally, I'd go that route (especially if out-and-about or on vacation, etc.) before wiping my data and having to restore again.
Alternatively, leave it on paused until you get home to your primary network. Your phone doesn't care two cents about your paused app downloads, so it shouldn't get in the way of anything.
| Q: How can I delete a paused application download on my iPhone? I started installing an application from the App Store but forgot to check its size. When I check now, it is 50 MB. Now I don't want to download that application any more because I'm on 3G plan which is costly. I paused it but don't know how to delete it. Can anyone help me on how to delete a paused app download?
A: If you can't delete the paused download (which, I'm thinking, suggests you aren't on the most recent release of iOS), then the simplest option that doesn't require a restore is going to be to find a WiFi hotspot and let the app finish downloading. Personally, I'd go that route (especially if out-and-about or on vacation, etc.) before wiping my data and having to restore again.
Alternatively, leave it on paused until you get home to your primary network. Your phone doesn't care two cents about your paused app downloads, so it shouldn't get in the way of anything.
A: I can confirm that paused downloads get removed by rebooting in iOS 5.
A: I've successfully deleted them like any other app: press and hold on the icon until all of the icons start shaking, tap the X in the red circle on the icon and confirm the deletion, then press the hardware Home button to end deletion mode.
I will say that these have all been apps that failed to complete downloading, nothing that I've intentionally paused, but I'd think it would be the same.
A: *
*Download and open iTools.
*Click Filesystem.
*Go to the downloads folder.
*Delete everything.
*Reboot iPhone.
After reboot, don't enter your Apple ID.
A: Slide left on download and delete.
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65a544f892202fd3de937b59aba353c8612aee72 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: best free software to make/open rar files Which is the best software to open/make rar files in Mac OS?
I am new to Mac and I want to open rar files.
A: The Unarchiver will open them and almost any other compression format.
| Q: best free software to make/open rar files Which is the best software to open/make rar files in Mac OS?
I am new to Mac and I want to open rar files.
A: The Unarchiver will open them and almost any other compression format.
A: The Unarchiver is probably the most highly regarded piece of OS X software out there for expanding archives.
SimplyRar is free and can help you create RAR files, but the developer doesn't seem to be active any more. Not sure how well it works in the latest OS X release.
RarMachine from CandyWare is $8 and can do RAR archive creation. That's pretty close to free.
Entropy looks pretty snazzy. But $18.
RAR is a proprietary, closed source format. You usually have to license it to build a tool that creates RAR files. They make the unarchiving available for free because it helps them sell licenses for archiving. Hence RAR-creation utilities rarely being free, but unarchivers being available for free.
A: If you are comfortable using terminal app, then you can uncompress a rar file without installing any software on your mac book. Open the terminal application on mac and go to the location where your rar file is and type the following command (replace the compressedfilename with actual file):
tar xvf compressedfilename.rar
The above command will uncompress all files from the compressed rar file in current directory. You can type ls command to view the list of files, or use Finder to view all extracted files.
x - extract the the compress file,
v - verbose,
f - name of archive file
A: I just found this application: http://archiverapp.com. Looks promising!
A: Default Terminal is also the best tool to open rar & zip. If you are comfortable with the terminal then try it without download any third party software in Mac.
For zip files
In the terminal (at .zip location):
unzip <filename>
For rar files
Try using Homebrew...
In a terminal type:
brew install rar
Now to use it just navigate to your file directory and type:
*
*To view the rar file:
unrar l <filename>
*
*To extract the rar file in the same location:
unrar x <filename>
*
*To extract the rar file in the desired location:
unrar x <filename>
In case you face any permission issue: Developer cannot be verified.
'rar' cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
Follow this process:
Open System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> General -> Click the lock to make changes.
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bba41c473ea2a15cf6039c379244c7cbe2b50775 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I boot from my Mac partition? I tried to install Windows 7 on my Mac via Boot Camp, but the disk of Windows 7 doesn't work. When I tried to install the Windows 7 it shows a black screen.
Now I want to boot back to OS X, but I don't know how.
Do I have to re-insert the Mac disk? If yes, how can I take out the disk from the Mac?
A: Hold the option key when you power on and you can choose the working mac partition or insert a bootable DVD to get back to disk utility or a working os. This is called the Startup Manager screen.
The eject key will work once the Startup Manager is running so you can eject the windows DVD.
As I didn't explain the option key - here is a great article explaining how Mac users refer to the keys on the keyboard as well as some handy shortcuts for later once things work again.
| Q: How do I boot from my Mac partition? I tried to install Windows 7 on my Mac via Boot Camp, but the disk of Windows 7 doesn't work. When I tried to install the Windows 7 it shows a black screen.
Now I want to boot back to OS X, but I don't know how.
Do I have to re-insert the Mac disk? If yes, how can I take out the disk from the Mac?
A: Hold the option key when you power on and you can choose the working mac partition or insert a bootable DVD to get back to disk utility or a working os. This is called the Startup Manager screen.
The eject key will work once the Startup Manager is running so you can eject the windows DVD.
As I didn't explain the option key - here is a great article explaining how Mac users refer to the keys on the keyboard as well as some handy shortcuts for later once things work again.
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fed892649c135971bbef2054247d66b352767b91 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I need to delete apps that I have previously purchased and deleted from my account history I need to remove some apps from my account history forever because I don't want them anymore, and because iCloud keeps a new history format I need to know the process which is doing this.
A: I doubt you can. Your account history is on Apple's servers, so you can only read it. I doubt they'd delete anything from there for you just in case you change your mind and want it back. There's certainly nothing on your computer or iOS device that you can tweak to change your history.
| Q: I need to delete apps that I have previously purchased and deleted from my account history I need to remove some apps from my account history forever because I don't want them anymore, and because iCloud keeps a new history format I need to know the process which is doing this.
A: I doubt you can. Your account history is on Apple's servers, so you can only read it. I doubt they'd delete anything from there for you just in case you change your mind and want it back. There's certainly nothing on your computer or iOS device that you can tweak to change your history.
A: Apple now allows you to Hide purchases using iTunes 10.5. Open iTunes Store > Purchases and then look for the purchases you want to Hide and click the X.
Beware it keeps a list of Hidden Purchases you can still view to get them back.
A: While this does not remove the apps from your account entirely, you can remove them from the history list by viewing the Purchased items in App Store>Updates>Purchased and swiping left on the app you want to remove from the history list.
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0877f53df2a5c5d86f8cabae4b3ccf14b61da444 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the default boot option on rEFIt? I have two copies of OS X (10.6 and 10.7). By default rEFIt boots 10.6. However, I want to make it boot 10.7 instead.
How do I do this?
A: You will need to edit the rEFIt configuration file. Since version 0.14, the configuration file has supported adding a default boot selection, as documented in the news section of the website.
However, there isn't very clear documentation on how exactly to do this on rEFIt's website. You could just open the conf file, or view the default on their SVN repo here. This blog does have an example and some documentation that I've used before in a similar situation. You'll want to use the digit option instead of the OS type option (1-N, vs L,W,M).
| Q: How do I change the default boot option on rEFIt? I have two copies of OS X (10.6 and 10.7). By default rEFIt boots 10.6. However, I want to make it boot 10.7 instead.
How do I do this?
A: You will need to edit the rEFIt configuration file. Since version 0.14, the configuration file has supported adding a default boot selection, as documented in the news section of the website.
However, there isn't very clear documentation on how exactly to do this on rEFIt's website. You could just open the conf file, or view the default on their SVN repo here. This blog does have an example and some documentation that I've used before in a similar situation. You'll want to use the digit option instead of the OS type option (1-N, vs L,W,M).
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d03a6d905c71b94365ff32ef80354cbe0664088c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to see what files were changed in TimeMachine? I tried TimeTracker, tms and timedog but none of them works with OS X 10.6
Any suggestions?
A: Since Time Machine uses hardlinks to store unmodified files (and directories), this would mean that changed files in the latest backup will have a link count of 1 since they are unique. Use this together with find to generate a listing:
find /path/to/your/latest/backup -type f -links 1 -print
| Q: How to see what files were changed in TimeMachine? I tried TimeTracker, tms and timedog but none of them works with OS X 10.6
Any suggestions?
A: Since Time Machine uses hardlinks to store unmodified files (and directories), this would mean that changed files in the latest backup will have a link count of 1 since they are unique. Use this together with find to generate a listing:
find /path/to/your/latest/backup -type f -links 1 -print
A: You can use the built in tmutil and GNU gsort:
brew install coreutils
To compare between two specific backups:
cd "/Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/My Mac"
sudo tmutil compare Date1 Date2 | gsort -h -k2
For just the difference between the current backup and the previous backup:
sudo tmutil listbackups | tail -n 2 | awk '{ print "\""$0"\""}' | xargs tmutil compare | gsort -h -k2
A: Lion has come out with the tmutil command and the man page shows that it will crawl a specific backup and report very detailed information on your specific backups. The verbs compare, uniquesize, and calculatedrift look most useful if you don't mind the terminal.
I still use BackupLoupe on Lion (as well as on older OS) and have high praise and thanks to the team that built it every time I need to use it. I should probably send them more money, too. It's that good.
It makes it very easy to see what files are taking the most space between backups and also is indispensable for knowing when a specific file has been changed by tracking each time it is saved as a new version going back in time. It works on a local database so you are not crawling the filesystem each and every query - just once each time to collect the deltas for each backup.
A: The problem with that find command seems to be that HFS allows hard links on directories as well as regular files. As a result, files that have not been backed up for a while will show up with one link but one of their parent directories may have many links.
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b7a024dfc425956950049172baf767d1e8d5e204 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I turn off the screen on the macbook when I have an external monitor set up? I have an external monitor and want my macbook screen to go blank or black so I can focus on the monitor instead. On my windows machine Function F5 does this.
A: Turn on your MacBook without the external display connected.
Close the lid and it will go to sleep.
Connect your external monitor and an external keyboard via USB.
Now wake it up by typing on the external keyboard. If you don't have a USB keyboard (you might be using a BT keyboard and mouse) you can use the Apple Remote to wake up a MacBook when its lid is closed.
The MacBook should wake up with the external monitor as its one and only monitor.
| Q: How can I turn off the screen on the macbook when I have an external monitor set up? I have an external monitor and want my macbook screen to go blank or black so I can focus on the monitor instead. On my windows machine Function F5 does this.
A: Turn on your MacBook without the external display connected.
Close the lid and it will go to sleep.
Connect your external monitor and an external keyboard via USB.
Now wake it up by typing on the external keyboard. If you don't have a USB keyboard (you might be using a BT keyboard and mouse) you can use the Apple Remote to wake up a MacBook when its lid is closed.
The MacBook should wake up with the external monitor as its one and only monitor.
A: Hold down the decrease screen brightness button at the top of the keyboard, it will get dimmer and dimmer, and at the end jump to a black screen (the screen's light will actually be off). To turn the screen back just press the increase screen brightness button.
A: There doesn't seem to be an out-of-box way to do it in Mac OS, but with this third-party plugin https://github.com/Eun/DisableMonitor does the trick! Just download and run the app form the button in the readme shown, and an icon will show in the menu bar like just like Airplay does, and from it you pick the monitor or monitors shown and whether the Disable it.
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4dedfbe5e85c63d9c8dec46fc3f1161f925ee7ea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an offline RSS Reader for Mac OS X? I'm looking for an offline RSS reader, which also downloads images embedded into the feed.
I've tried (and liked) NetNewsWire (and the Lite Version of it), but it does not seem to store embedded images for offline viewing, which is a must for me.
I've no other requirements except this, so it doesn't matter if it syncs to Google Reader or to iOS.
Does anybody know of an application that can actually accomplish this?
A: Reeder supports offline reading of your RSS feed. It will fetch and cache a configurable amount of feed history for you to peruse while you aren't connected to the web. And it'll look darn good while doing it. (Can you tell I'm a fan?)
| Q: Is there an offline RSS Reader for Mac OS X? I'm looking for an offline RSS reader, which also downloads images embedded into the feed.
I've tried (and liked) NetNewsWire (and the Lite Version of it), but it does not seem to store embedded images for offline viewing, which is a must for me.
I've no other requirements except this, so it doesn't matter if it syncs to Google Reader or to iOS.
Does anybody know of an application that can actually accomplish this?
A: Reeder supports offline reading of your RSS feed. It will fetch and cache a configurable amount of feed history for you to peruse while you aren't connected to the web. And it'll look darn good while doing it. (Can you tell I'm a fan?)
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e6f0268ddac10e519c5ccc3d9f80ecfea252ae65 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to draw a curve line on Pixelmator This is probably one of the most important / useful feature in any image editing software - any knows how to draw curved line in Pixelmator?
A: The best you can do in Pixelmator 1 is arcs using the oval selection tool. Select an area with the selection tool set to the circle/oval setting and then trace the selection (Edit -> Stroke) on a new layer. Once traced, erase the part of the trace you don't need. Reposition, stretch and mangle with the layer tools.
Pixelmator 2 adds vector drawing capabilities. It'll be available this summer and it will be a free upgrade for anyone who purchased Pixelmator 1 via the App Store.
Update: Pixelmator 2 was released via the App Store today and the pen tool lets you draw and manipulate curves now. Works great.
| Q: How to draw a curve line on Pixelmator This is probably one of the most important / useful feature in any image editing software - any knows how to draw curved line in Pixelmator?
A: The best you can do in Pixelmator 1 is arcs using the oval selection tool. Select an area with the selection tool set to the circle/oval setting and then trace the selection (Edit -> Stroke) on a new layer. Once traced, erase the part of the trace you don't need. Reposition, stretch and mangle with the layer tools.
Pixelmator 2 adds vector drawing capabilities. It'll be available this summer and it will be a free upgrade for anyone who purchased Pixelmator 1 via the App Store.
Update: Pixelmator 2 was released via the App Store today and the pen tool lets you draw and manipulate curves now. Works great.
A: Pixelmator (1.x) is a raster-based image processing software and doesn't support curved line and other vector functions.
Edit: It seems that the next version will have some vector tools: http://www.pixelmator.com/sneak-preview/
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f303dc41f50bfcb7d4afb5ec3506fa99d25b58bc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I continue to use Win XP in Boot Camp when I upgrade to Lion? I bought my MacBook in mid-2008 with Leopard (10.5.2) pre-installed. On it, I installed (Japanese) Windows XP using BootCamp. I am now up to Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and I can continue to use Windows XP (currently at SP3) with no problems. If I upgrade to Lion, will I still be able to use my existing Windows XP installation? (N.B. If I can't, I shan't upgrade.)
A: The bootcamp partition is not affected. The only thing Apple did different in Lion is that the bootcamp drivers packaged with Lion installations only work with Windows 7, however, if you already have the Snow Leopard drivers installed on you XP side nothing will change...if you need to install a new bootcamp partition you will need to get the bootcamp drivers from your Snow Leopard DVD.
| Q: Can I continue to use Win XP in Boot Camp when I upgrade to Lion? I bought my MacBook in mid-2008 with Leopard (10.5.2) pre-installed. On it, I installed (Japanese) Windows XP using BootCamp. I am now up to Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and I can continue to use Windows XP (currently at SP3) with no problems. If I upgrade to Lion, will I still be able to use my existing Windows XP installation? (N.B. If I can't, I shan't upgrade.)
A: The bootcamp partition is not affected. The only thing Apple did different in Lion is that the bootcamp drivers packaged with Lion installations only work with Windows 7, however, if you already have the Snow Leopard drivers installed on you XP side nothing will change...if you need to install a new bootcamp partition you will need to get the bootcamp drivers from your Snow Leopard DVD.
A: This may have been a problem during the Lion install when it resizes the partitions on the drive, it may have screwed up the XP partition when installing the Recovery Partition...this should only be a problem if your drive is almost full...I have a setup similar to yours (SL on one partition, and XP on the other under Bootcamp) I had 450GB free...I didn't have any trouble.
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cdc43d617b70d6a69c621a916a590cacfb083ce4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to move all iPhoto video files to an external disk or a NAS? The main harddrive of my MacBook Pro is filling up. So I need to move some files to an external medium.
I use iPhoto to import my photos and (HD) videos from my digital camera. I want to keep all my images in iPhoto, but I'd like to move the space consuming videos to another medium.
Is there simple, possibly automated way to move all the video files (.mov) that are in my iPhoto library to an external folder (NAS or disk)?
A: Try this (not automated, because i don't like automated delete for anything):
*
*Make a "smart album" in the iPhoto with the condition "Photo is Movie". With this you get all movies into your new smart album.
*press info (for check how much MB they're occupied)
*Simply drag&drop movies out of the iPhoto (long time)
*ensure (double check) they are really OK
*move the movies from the smart-album into the Trash
*empty
(triple check before deleting - do not blame me, when your computer get destroyed or so)
| Q: How to move all iPhoto video files to an external disk or a NAS? The main harddrive of my MacBook Pro is filling up. So I need to move some files to an external medium.
I use iPhoto to import my photos and (HD) videos from my digital camera. I want to keep all my images in iPhoto, but I'd like to move the space consuming videos to another medium.
Is there simple, possibly automated way to move all the video files (.mov) that are in my iPhoto library to an external folder (NAS or disk)?
A: Try this (not automated, because i don't like automated delete for anything):
*
*Make a "smart album" in the iPhoto with the condition "Photo is Movie". With this you get all movies into your new smart album.
*press info (for check how much MB they're occupied)
*Simply drag&drop movies out of the iPhoto (long time)
*ensure (double check) they are really OK
*move the movies from the smart-album into the Trash
*empty
(triple check before deleting - do not blame me, when your computer get destroyed or so)
A: Just came across this, had a similar need.
Suggest the following changes.
Follow steps
1: Make a "smart album" in the iPhoto with the condition "Photo is Movie".
2: Select a movie in the smart album created at step 1.
3: Press ⌘-a (select all)
4: Choose Export in the File/Menu
5: In the Export Dialog, choose kind:Original, then Export
(optionally, you can choose subfolder :Event Name. This will put the movies in folders based on the event name)
This will export all your movies. Now you simply need to delete the movies out of iPhoto.
I have not found a way to do this in an efficient manner since Apple in their wisdom did not allow you to use delete on movie objects in a smart folder (you can for pictures.. odd, bug I find a lot of these inconsistencies in Apple products), instead you must find the actual file in the event folder and delete from there. You can use the smart folder to take you to a given movie in the smart folders source event by bringing up the context selection menu and choose show event.
A: If you've upgraded from iPhoto to the new Photos app:
For any video files you've imported, you can find the originals at:
~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters
This way, you don't need to do an export; you can just copy.
*
*In Finder, go to Go > Go to Folder
*Enter ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters
*Navigate to whatever video files you want and copy them to your destination.
A: I'm facing exactly the same problem, and I have to say that by far the easiest solution is to upgrade to Aperture ($80), and use it to move the videos from the iPhoto Library (Aperture & iPhoto share the same library format) to the external drive or NAS. The files will thus change from "managed" to "referenced" status. Aperture can do this easily on a per-file basis. Most experts do not recommend using referenced (externally-stored) files with iPhoto.
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f145750df4fe860acff828b135f3c4570520d4dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Examples of apps in the Mac App Store not made with objective-c/c/c++? Are there any apps in the store made using mono, ruby or lisp or put together in another alternative way.
Do you know of any?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm already making apps using cocoa/objective-c, and I really love ruby and obscure languages.
A: It looks like Briquette is written in MacRuby and made it into the MAS, so it looks like there is at least one alternative to Objective-C for MAS apps.
| Q: Examples of apps in the Mac App Store not made with objective-c/c/c++? Are there any apps in the store made using mono, ruby or lisp or put together in another alternative way.
Do you know of any?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm already making apps using cocoa/objective-c, and I really love ruby and obscure languages.
A: It looks like Briquette is written in MacRuby and made it into the MAS, so it looks like there is at least one alternative to Objective-C for MAS apps.
A: I'm fairly certain that Crush the Castle used some sort of Flash-to-ObjC converter.
A: This app is a QT app according to this thread, so QT is ok I in the MAS I guess.
However this doesn't shed any light on wether alternative languages are allowed in the MAS.
A: QuickAlarm was primarily written in MacRuby along with some Objective C routines.
A: There are loads of electron applications. WhatsApp is in the Mac App store, for example.
Perhaps it isn't in as an obscure programming language as you might have been thinking of but nonetheless, Electron is an option other than Objective-C or Swift.
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ca5375f77feb67612842da2927bfdf5a62378a29 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: TCP Test Tool for Mac OS X I have been using this simple TCP Test Tool on Windows. It is a very basic GUI for listening ports and making TCP requests, yet it was very handy. However I could not find anything similar which works on Mac OS X.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
A: You might also find Wireshark useful. I found a good video on Youtube to getting it setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxeHm0BKdwc
All the steps in the video may no longer be necessary as the changelog for version 1.6.0 says the following:
Wireshark is now distributed as an installation package rather than a drag-installer on OS X. The installer adds a startup item that should make it easier to capture packets.
| Q: TCP Test Tool for Mac OS X I have been using this simple TCP Test Tool on Windows. It is a very basic GUI for listening ports and making TCP requests, yet it was very handy. However I could not find anything similar which works on Mac OS X.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
A: You might also find Wireshark useful. I found a good video on Youtube to getting it setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxeHm0BKdwc
All the steps in the video may no longer be necessary as the changelog for version 1.6.0 says the following:
Wireshark is now distributed as an installation package rather than a drag-installer on OS X. The installer adds a startup item that should make it easier to capture packets.
A: The closest free tool might be Nmap and the associated X11 GUI called Zenmap.
It's great, powerful, but the free means you will spend some time getting it set up and running since it's not like buying a desk but more like directions and only the hard to obtain parts needed to make yourself a desk.
You can download all the source for these and compile the programs. For someone familiar with command line and building open source unix tools it might be 30 to 90 minutes of effort to figure out any build errors and correct them.
I don't see an up-to-date package that lets you download and run Zenmap and it runs under X11 so if you are new to X11 - do read up a bit here or on the Apple discussion boards - it's just a little different than a normal mac program so you might also spend some time learning X11 before you will be running the tool.
I don't mean to make any of this seem overly hard. A motivated but absolute beginner can get this all done in a day with luck - just that it's not something you will have running in 5 minutes. Your curiosity to debug networking might make this a great journey in learning how the software really works by looking at the code and seeing the tool actually run.
A: I can definitely recommend Packet Sender for sending and receiving TCP and UDP packets.
Here are some of the advantages:
*
*More focused than WireShark (which core functionality is capturing and analyzing existing traffic) and Nmap (which is mainly a security tool)
*Super-simple utility with GUI, no learning curve
*Open-source and free
*Cross-platform
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be22ce057e2ae21b72b60dd20443530557138330 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I adjust the time delay for when the dock re-appears? I like to hide the dock unless I need it. There is a slight delay before it will reappear. Is there a Terminal setting I can change so that the dock will instantly appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen? I like how things work but want to tweak the timing.
A: *
*defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.6 reduces the delay and makes the animation for showing and hiding the Dock faster.
*defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.05 only reduces the delay before the Dock is shown on hover.
*defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-fullscreen-delayed -bool false only removes the additional delay for showing the Dock in full screen.
| Q: Can I adjust the time delay for when the dock re-appears? I like to hide the dock unless I need it. There is a slight delay before it will reappear. Is there a Terminal setting I can change so that the dock will instantly appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen? I like how things work but want to tweak the timing.
A: *
*defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.6 reduces the delay and makes the animation for showing and hiding the Dock faster.
*defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.05 only reduces the delay before the Dock is shown on hover.
*defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-fullscreen-delayed -bool false only removes the additional delay for showing the Dock in full screen.
A: You can manually set the time it takes for the dock to appear using the defaults write commands:
*
*autohide-delay → custom appearance delay with dock animation
*autohide-time-modifier → custom appearance delay without dock animation
First, activate auto-hide in System Preferences → Dock → Autohide or type ⌘+⌥+D
Then open the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0; killall Dock
*
*0 is the time it takes for the Dock to appear in seconds. You can choose floats and integers e.g. 2, 0.5,...
*killall Dock causes the Dock to restart
*the syntax is the same for autohide-time-modifier
Restore the default behavior using...
defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay; killall Dock
According to MacOSHints this trick was found by reverse engineering from the developer Christian Baumgart of Hyperdock.
A: You can use Cmd-Opt-D to toggle the dock being visible and it seems to happen immediately. Unfortunately, using this moves the windows most applications to make room for the dock. The keyboard shortcut you use can be customized in Apple>System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts.
Depending on what you're using the dock for, you might want to check into other solutions. Personally, I never use the dock and leave it always hidden. For launching applications I use Butler. For seeing what's currently running, Cmd-Tab works for me.
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ea87ee4de2316598cb1413ad76c79e998055909f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete forward on a Macbook Pro? I know this:
*
*Fn + backspace - "del" key (delete letter to the right) <-- where's the Fn key in the MBP?
*Alt + backspace - Delete last word
*Command + backspace - Delete whole line
Now... there is no Fn Key on a MacBook Pro. What key combination should I use, or it's a matter of simply: It's not possible?
A: I use crtl + K to kill the rest of the line, effectivly deleting all text after the cursor on that line.
| Q: How do I delete forward on a Macbook Pro? I know this:
*
*Fn + backspace - "del" key (delete letter to the right) <-- where's the Fn key in the MBP?
*Alt + backspace - Delete last word
*Command + backspace - Delete whole line
Now... there is no Fn Key on a MacBook Pro. What key combination should I use, or it's a matter of simply: It's not possible?
A: I use crtl + K to kill the rest of the line, effectivly deleting all text after the cursor on that line.
A: MacBook Pro 2006 Non-Unibody Fn Key
Edited based on the comment:
MacBook Pro 2011 Fn Key
I suspect you've just missed it, as noted in CajunLuke's comment. I checked several international keyboards as well.
13"
15"
17"
A: As an alternative to Fn+delete, you can also use control+D to trigger a forward-delete, at least in most places. Some older apps may not support it, apparently.
A: My MacBook Pro had a Fn key at lower left, and the pictures I can find confirm this (the keyboard changed several times and mine was an early model).
A: Don't forget the software keyboard viewer in case your hardware key for function is moved or you might have an international keyboard instead of the standard US layout.
A: Once again Keyboard Maestro comes to the rescue. I set Shift-Delete as a hotkey to trigger a fn-delete keystroke. Works a charm.
Keyboard Maestro is worth the price for the time saved. For instance, I set 1 to backspace twice and type my email address,2 returns my wife's email address, etc, etc.
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c36fb4fe9bf06d72ae5bb05311be05d4d2c586a0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does overcharging an iPhone degrade its life? I often like to charge my iPhone for long periods at a time (like say when I'd get home I will just plug it into the charger regardless of how much battery there is left).
Will this spoil my phone by overcharging or will it in any way, degrade my phone?
A: An iPhone (in working order) stops charging when it reaches 100%, even if you leave it plugged in. Or are you perhaps asking about a malfunctioning iPhone, where for some reason this cut-off is not working?
| Q: Does overcharging an iPhone degrade its life? I often like to charge my iPhone for long periods at a time (like say when I'd get home I will just plug it into the charger regardless of how much battery there is left).
Will this spoil my phone by overcharging or will it in any way, degrade my phone?
A: An iPhone (in working order) stops charging when it reaches 100%, even if you leave it plugged in. Or are you perhaps asking about a malfunctioning iPhone, where for some reason this cut-off is not working?
A: It's fine to leave the battery plugged in after the counter reads 100%. Apple's official iPhone Battery guide doesn't mention overcharging the lithium-ion in every iPhone.
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bea76c2150054f102016679b944634d6522de275 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to export all my iPhone contacts to my iPad 2? Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?
A: *
*register for iCloud on source device (iPhone)
*enable iCloud syncing for Contacts
*wait about 10 minutes
*login to iCloud on target device (iPad)
*enable Contacts syncing
*wait a few minutes
Info about iCloud
| Q: Is it possible to export all my iPhone contacts to my iPad 2? Does anyone know of a way to export all my contacts from my iPhone straight into my iPad 2 without having to re-type all of them in?
A: *
*register for iCloud on source device (iPhone)
*enable iCloud syncing for Contacts
*wait about 10 minutes
*login to iCloud on target device (iPad)
*enable Contacts syncing
*wait a few minutes
Info about iCloud
A: Sync from iPhone to your computer, then from the computer to the iPad.
When I got my iPhone I was also able to transfer all data and apps from an iPod touch backup to it. Maybe you can do something similar with the iPad and an iPhone backup.
A: I would advise to directly transfer iPhone contacts to your iPad without the using the iCloud or iTunes.
The last time I tried to transfer my old iPhone contacts to my new iPhone via iTunes sync, it wiped clean my old iPhone - not a pleasant experience.
A: In iTunes, click your phone's name > Information tab > tick the box to sync contacts and choose Windows Contacts, then do the same process for your iPad and sync.
A: You can always sync your contacts with iTunes to your computer and then to your iPad.
If you're looking for a PC/Mac-less experience of transferring your contacts over, try iDrive Lite (App Store link here). It can backup and restore your contacts between devices using a free account.
A: Download an app called Bump to both devices. It uses Bluetooth to transfer stuff, you can tell it to transfer all contacts.
A: Copy Trans Contacts is software that will give u full control over your iPhone contacts.
It will allow u to back up all your iPhone contacts to a PC & then transfer those contacts to your iPad.
http://www.copytrans.net/copytranscontacts.php
A: It's very simple.
*
*Download any iPhone Contact App from the AppStore on your iPad with same apple ID , (I downloaded the App Groups on my Ipad)
*import all your iPad contacts to that app
*Download the same app on your iPhone (depending on your settings, this might happen automatically)
*On your iPad contact app, there is an option to email your contacts. Send them via email from the iPad and open that mail on your iPhone.
*The e-mail will have an attachment; open that attachment on iPhone and add it to the contact app on your iPhone.
A: Export all your contacts of the old Phone in iCloud as one vCard, including all Contacts and send it as an email to your new Device.
see: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/101656/31470
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a2a358ef9cde34dfccb03743c9f779aeddf95ea0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: limit resource use of java app I'm using the 'Diablo' app to mine bitcoins on my work computer.
But since I need to use that computer, I don't want it to consume all my resources as it is wont to do.
Anyway to limit it to use only 3/4 cores or half of the GPU or whatever?
Thanks.
A: It's generally hard to throttle java - doubly so in this case where the app in question is designed to solely focus on crunching as many numbers as possible. Luckily, the diablo miner has an -f option to dial back the computations.
It's trial and error, but you can read up on this huge thread and search for CPU for more details.
"-f 1000 will greatly reduce mhash speed, but increase desktop interactivity. -f should be a multiple or divisor of 60, lower values increase speed but decrease desktop interactivity, higher values do the opposite."
It's best to get GPU only going as CPU mining is very expensive in terms of heat and electricity as well as reduced performance.
| Q: limit resource use of java app I'm using the 'Diablo' app to mine bitcoins on my work computer.
But since I need to use that computer, I don't want it to consume all my resources as it is wont to do.
Anyway to limit it to use only 3/4 cores or half of the GPU or whatever?
Thanks.
A: It's generally hard to throttle java - doubly so in this case where the app in question is designed to solely focus on crunching as many numbers as possible. Luckily, the diablo miner has an -f option to dial back the computations.
It's trial and error, but you can read up on this huge thread and search for CPU for more details.
"-f 1000 will greatly reduce mhash speed, but increase desktop interactivity. -f should be a multiple or divisor of 60, lower values increase speed but decrease desktop interactivity, higher values do the opposite."
It's best to get GPU only going as CPU mining is very expensive in terms of heat and electricity as well as reduced performance.
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934a860fc05874db01841d2d73925df2e78e6f5d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How many HD video minutes do I get per 1GB of free storage? I have 7GB free. If I give that to someone to record, what sort of ballpark figure would I get for a HD video recording? There may be about 10 individual videos being recorded over a couple of hours, if that makes a difference. Maybe just one hour long one.
I just want to know a rough figure but ideally with some maths so I can work it out myself.
A: The iPhone 4S takes video at 1080p and 30 fps and initial tests are showing that video takes 200MB per minute. At roughly 12 GB per hour, what seemed staggering a year ago is now quite quaint with the iPhone 4 recording at less than 5 GB / hour.
MacWorld reports that an hour of iPhone 4 video is 4.8 gig.
The iPhone records its 720p HD video at around 10 megabits (Mbps) per second. That translates to about 80MB per minute, as we noted above, or a staggering 4.8GB per hour. (Hope you sprung for the 32GB model!)
| Q: How many HD video minutes do I get per 1GB of free storage? I have 7GB free. If I give that to someone to record, what sort of ballpark figure would I get for a HD video recording? There may be about 10 individual videos being recorded over a couple of hours, if that makes a difference. Maybe just one hour long one.
I just want to know a rough figure but ideally with some maths so I can work it out myself.
A: The iPhone 4S takes video at 1080p and 30 fps and initial tests are showing that video takes 200MB per minute. At roughly 12 GB per hour, what seemed staggering a year ago is now quite quaint with the iPhone 4 recording at less than 5 GB / hour.
MacWorld reports that an hour of iPhone 4 video is 4.8 gig.
The iPhone records its 720p HD video at around 10 megabits (Mbps) per second. That translates to about 80MB per minute, as we noted above, or a staggering 4.8GB per hour. (Hope you sprung for the 32GB model!)
A: I just made a 15.5 minute test video with my iPhone 5S. File size is 1.31 GB, or 85 MB/minute. 7 GB of storage would handle 82 minutes of video.
Of course the complexity of the video and audio should have an effect on the compression, so this is just a rough guideline.
A: It's impossible to estimate without looking at the footage first, or at least having a description of what will be shot (a crowd of people running around at Grand Central or 2 people sitting on a bench), the lighting conditions (night, with no lights, or day), the way it will be shot (on a locked tripod or over the shoulder, panning left and right like a maniac), etc...
A: 1gb from a
*
*Webacm-30 mins
*iPhone 5s-55 mins
*iphone 5-45 mins
*iphone 4s-30 mins
*iphone 4-27 mins
*iphone 3gs-23.5 mins
*iphone 3g-17 mins
*iphone 2-6 mins
*iphone 1-3 mins
*camera-1.25 hour
*film cam-3 hours
A: It is scientifically proven that 1gb will take a 58 minute video for an iPhone 6.
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f1395954790a1ac49079e2e5f7adf3e6919889f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What app to use for high res webcam photo capture? Photo Booth does 640x480. I know the HD webcam on the 2011 MacBook Pros can do better than that. What app can I use for taking full resolution stills?
A: Photo Booth in Lion does 1080x720 captures in JPEG when the hardware supports it.
| Q: What app to use for high res webcam photo capture? Photo Booth does 640x480. I know the HD webcam on the 2011 MacBook Pros can do better than that. What app can I use for taking full resolution stills?
A: Photo Booth in Lion does 1080x720 captures in JPEG when the hardware supports it.
A: Try the free Skitch (also available from the Mac App Store). One of the many things it can do is a Cam Snapshot. To take one, invoke Skitch, then choose Capture > Cam Snapshot. You may need to fiddle a bit with the size of the snapshot to get full resolution.
This worked to the max resolution of the iSight on my older MacBook Pro; it's worth a try on the current models with their FaceTime HD cameras.
A: I searched for that too. The best option for me was to use VLC.
*
*Open VLC
*Type Cmd+R
*Choose your camera and the resolution that you want (that your camera is capable of)
*Then type Cmd+Option+S to take a snapshot within VLC (aka your photo)
You can also tweak the settings of VLC to chose the name of your output (which can contain variables), and its type (png, jpg, tiff).
A: Kinda roundabout, but you could try this:
*
*Open Quicktime.
*Choose File -> New Movie Recording.
*On the little down arrow to the right of the record button, choose maximum quality. Also drag the record button holder to least obtrusive location.
*Command-3 to fit to screen.
*Take screen shots with command-shift-(3 or 4).
A: Quicky by BlackOp is my choice. it lets you do lossless webcam video capture. I then do a frame dump from the video with Quicktime Pro 7
A: The app Macnification from Orbicule is free, captures high resolution images, allows things like measurements and calibration for microcopes. It is at: http://www.orbicule.com/macnification/
However it is dated, probably won't work with Catalina, is unsigned and comes from a non https secured website.
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a618097c938276f8660587e7801e2e17f41496d8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I copy and paste multiple texts? I would like to copy several different texts/things at the same time and paste them in any order.
Does anyone know any good Mac OS X software or plugin that can handle multiple copy/paste?
A: Several app launchers also have clipboard history functionality built-in. I personally use LaunchBar, which supports clipboard history for up to 40 items. I previously used Quicksilver before development ceased - though I understand it's now back in development.
| Q: How can I copy and paste multiple texts? I would like to copy several different texts/things at the same time and paste them in any order.
Does anyone know any good Mac OS X software or plugin that can handle multiple copy/paste?
A: Several app launchers also have clipboard history functionality built-in. I personally use LaunchBar, which supports clipboard history for up to 40 items. I previously used Quicksilver before development ceased - though I understand it's now back in development.
A: Check this: http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
Cited from the above:
Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that
is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've
subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's
interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your
clipboard's history.
A: may I add Butler to the lot, http://manytricks.com/butler/
does many more things in fact, but indeed does the multiclip well...
A: I use ClipMenu to handle multiple clipboards. It's nice, has lots of features and it's free.
See also this question: Good simple Clipboard manager
A: I wrote CmdVees to scratch my own itch. It solves my specific problem with copy/paste. It may fit your needs.
A: I wrote this one (no installer, just source): http://github.com/sje397/Clint
Very simple, but quite hackable and works on all platforms supported by Qt and you can network it so that you can share the clipboard across multiple computers.
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86ee256b6cf73a381b992ab713d4eee567064715 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: os x terminal -remove files older than x days trying to create a scripts that deletes files older than X days. It seemed straight forward enough but all files seem to be getting removed?
find /Volumes/Groups/Projects/530_BFAMI/test/ -ctime +30 -print -exec rm {} \;
any ideas welcome!?
Also would be good to print file information for matches as maybe my dates are misleading in finder?
A: To answer the question asked in your comment: You can join separate criteria just by listing them, one after the other. If you prefer, you can use -a or -and in between them, but these are redundant. You can also use -o or -or for the OR operator, and you can use parentheses – which must be quoted to protect them from the shell, as in \( and \) for grouping.
For the full details, run: man find
| Q: os x terminal -remove files older than x days trying to create a scripts that deletes files older than X days. It seemed straight forward enough but all files seem to be getting removed?
find /Volumes/Groups/Projects/530_BFAMI/test/ -ctime +30 -print -exec rm {} \;
any ideas welcome!?
Also would be good to print file information for matches as maybe my dates are misleading in finder?
A: To answer the question asked in your comment: You can join separate criteria just by listing them, one after the other. If you prefer, you can use -a or -and in between them, but these are redundant. You can also use -o or -or for the OR operator, and you can use parentheses – which must be quoted to protect them from the shell, as in \( and \) for grouping.
For the full details, run: man find
A: It is considered dangerous to use -exec rm without first ls. You should probably check that first. Reverse check is also a good hint to tell you if your timing is correct.
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime -30d -exec ls -latr {} \;
OR
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -atime -30d -exec ls -latr {} \;
*
*Constrain your find result. Make sure what you explicitly ask for.
*Compare to see if the opposite result is what actually has been excluded from your original command.
*Probably -mtime or -atime are more appropraite but again compare the result and see if they are actually what you need.
A: Never suggesting -exec rm ....
rm is simply too dangerous command. Always dry-run first. IMHO it is better using this:
find /Volumes/Groups/Projects/530_BFAMI/test/ -ctime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1
this will show the dry-run and only when you satisfied you can add the rm to the end
find /Volumes/Groups/Projects/530_BFAMI/test/ -ctime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
If you start using this piped to xargs version, you can always add more filters, like:
find /some/where -mtime +3d -print0 | grep -ziE '\.(jpg|png|gif)$' | xargs -0 rm
and similar (more) powerful combinations.
A: Try this: find . -ctime +30 | xargs rm -r 2> /dev/null
For some reason, this runs rm twice. So I just redirect the errors to the black hole /dev/null
Enjoy.
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d814007c9d9d2ee31be1054bd53a9f0f576e0d2d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Share links, notes, and pictures between iPhone and Mac? Just like the newly presented iMessage but instead of just between iOS devices, with the Mac too.
I've looked at Handoff. It can only send links to the iPhone from the Mac.
I've looked at Droplr. It requires public sharing on a Twitter account. Not what I want.
I've been using email and have been recommended Evernote. But these solutions require a document that I must create, wait to sync, and/or later delete to free up clutter. I just want to send a quick message.
I just want an app/application pair that can quickly share links, notes, and pictures between devices, like iMessage.
Does what I desire exist?
A: Apple OSX Mountain Lion has been announced, it includes a few of the iOS apps on the mac desktop such as Notes, Game Center, reminders, twitter and message.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/
| Q: Share links, notes, and pictures between iPhone and Mac? Just like the newly presented iMessage but instead of just between iOS devices, with the Mac too.
I've looked at Handoff. It can only send links to the iPhone from the Mac.
I've looked at Droplr. It requires public sharing on a Twitter account. Not what I want.
I've been using email and have been recommended Evernote. But these solutions require a document that I must create, wait to sync, and/or later delete to free up clutter. I just want to send a quick message.
I just want an app/application pair that can quickly share links, notes, and pictures between devices, like iMessage.
Does what I desire exist?
A: Apple OSX Mountain Lion has been announced, it includes a few of the iOS apps on the mac desktop such as Notes, Game Center, reminders, twitter and message.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/
A: The best solution I have found for quick and seamless transfer of clips, pictures and links is PasteBot.
Currently it works for WiFi sync, but in practice, my phone is always with me when I get home and I don't really need the data to get to the mac sooner than when I'm back home. I would expect them to try to extend the syncing to use the iCloud API announced but still in beta testing - but there's no promise it will work just like iMessage over the air using sync.
I don't use PasteBot to share links since I use pinboard.in and instapaper for that and they work so much better for me than getting the links over a clipboard. The announced Reading List sync between iOS and Safari on the desktop might also serve your needs.
Good luck - there are many options and hopefully you find one that works best for you.
A: I agree iMessage is the best solution. For those that (for whatever reason, may not be able to use this) here is a solution for quick notes sync. I created a contact on my iPhone called "My Notes" and put what text I want on the notes section and it instantly syncs with Address Book on my mac. And at the desktop I do the reverse, I go to the same contact and add a note in the notes section and it syncs instantly.
Quick, no file to create/save/manually sync/whatever.
However, it's only for quick text notes, not photos/files/etc.
I thought it was cool ;) but iMessenger is more complete and now it's available... but hey, it's good to have choices.
A: Evernote does this. Photos, notes, screenshots, audio memos, etc. can be captured and shared between your Mac and iPhone.
A: I don't know iMessage and I can't see why you need this, but there is Syncopy. Hope this does it.
A: iTunes.
iTunes will sync Safari bookmarks, Notes app notes and photos.
iMessage doesn't sync anything between devices. It's like GMail for text messaging. You access your text messaging conversations from any device.
A: RE: ".. I just want an app/application pair that can quickly share links, notes, and pictures between devices, like iMessage."
There is nothing I know of that does everything you require as simply as iMessage, but I can give you my solution for this (since this is something that I also require).
For quickly sharing links & notes between iOS devices and a Mac (as well as PCs running Windows or Linux), I use simplenote.
You can create a free account and then start using simplenote on all of your devices, simply through their web login (you can also buy a neat simplenote app so that you can store your notes offline, when you are not connected to the internet, but this is optional).
For quickly sharing photos between iOS devices and a Mac, I use instagram.
Finally, for when I don't want to write a note to myself, but just simply take note of a particular web site (or URL), I use instapaper (which is free a web based service that you can use, as well as an optional iOS app that you can buy).
Please note, since instagram and simplenote both have published their web api's, there are a number of instagram and simplenote clients that you can install on your Mac (again, this is optional, since you can just use their free web based service).
The following are optional apps you can install on a Mac :
For the Mac, I use nvALT, which syncs my simplenote notes without needing to use a web browser to login to their web site.
Also, you may find Screenstagram a nice instagram screen saver on the Mac.
For a full fledged instagram client, try instaDesk, or Carousel.
Hope this helps.
A: Check out the iOS app called Notefile. It syncs seamlessly with the Notefile widget on Mac. Its syncing is just about instanteous with all devices.
A: There is no need for third-party apps whether free or paid.
Notes on iOS syncs with Mail.app on OS X across accounts; iCloud not required.
As far as pictures, they do require iCloud syncing. The photos part are synced to ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub each photo into a file. There exists a script that does copy the photos into a directory of your choice. You can search for it.
For movies I have not found a simple and elegant way to have them sync over the air yet; without the clutter of third-party solution of course.
I hope this does suffice.
It would be nice to click and hold on something you want to share in iOS and request that it be sent to OS X. Right click on something you want to be sent to iOS and have it sent that way as well.
A: Looks like Apple answered my prayers themselves:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/messages-beta/
What a lot of posters weren't getting is that I don't want to use synced notes and email because that requires a tedious "compose" stage and also leaves behind a bunch of clutter that I either have to search through or delete later.
iMessage lets me quickly send a new message and/or file, lets focus on the latest message, and automatically gets rid of earlier messages over time.
A: Currently, the best app for this is DeskConnect.
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fd98f46e219525c2ba5881c4448429301039d40b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Subtitle editor for OSX? I have a video in mp4 (MPEG-4) and I would like to add subtitles to it. What tool or application would you recommend to help me write and sync the subtitles with the video?
A: Never tried this, but is is cross-platform: http://www.aegisub.org/
After i read your comments - IMHO you will need:
*
*Make .srt subtitles in any tools what you can manage to work (timing)
*Optionally repair .srt files in any texteditor - skip this if not needed
*Test the .srt subtitles with VLC or Quicktime/Perian
*If everything is OK - embed subtitles into video with http://code.google.com/p/subler/
| Q: Subtitle editor for OSX? I have a video in mp4 (MPEG-4) and I would like to add subtitles to it. What tool or application would you recommend to help me write and sync the subtitles with the video?
A: Never tried this, but is is cross-platform: http://www.aegisub.org/
After i read your comments - IMHO you will need:
*
*Make .srt subtitles in any tools what you can manage to work (timing)
*Optionally repair .srt files in any texteditor - skip this if not needed
*Test the .srt subtitles with VLC or Quicktime/Perian
*If everything is OK - embed subtitles into video with http://code.google.com/p/subler/
A: An open-source, cross-platform solution is Jubler
I didn't try it, but it has a good amount of users on iusethis.
A: While I've never used this to create raw subtitles, here's the couple of programs I've tried for a similar purpose:
*
*Subs Factory for creating the subtitles ($7.99). I've actually used it to editing subtitles, but well.
*Subler for embedding them into the mp4. I've used this once or twice about a year ago, and it did what I needed. And it's always good to see such a nice project is still active!
A: Sublime HD is great, but its price is just crazy - 230€
A: Not mentioned yet is Annotation Edit.
Probably not suitable at consumer level (€245), but at prosumer or professional level it is a good option. I've worked with it in a movie producing company and it delivered very well.
It has FinalCut integration (import/export) and works with tons of formats.
From the site:
zeitAnker Annotation Edit gives you a sophisticated interface to attribute and subtitle video or audio in very short time. Therefore we developed techniques hardly found elsewhere and took the chance to build a clean and extensible product from scratch.
A: A little bit of digging around turned up Submerge from bitfield. I have not used it, but it looks pretty decent and is listed on Apples's Downloads site. bitfield also has an app named iSubtitle in the Mac App Store which appears to do the same thing.
iSubtitle is $19.99 in the Mac App Store, while Submerge is only $9 from bitfield's web site.
A: Subtitle Edit Pro
I haven't tried it myself, but there is this piece of software: Subtitle Edit Pro.
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0748254f8740d71823692c65304bec9d6219cdc0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Microsoft Word right-to-left (RTL) support I have on my Mac - Microsoft Word 2010, now … I want to write from right to left ( not only text-align right, but direction ltr).
I'll be thankful for some help. :)
A: Word 2016 has this language feature if you can upgrade Word.
There's no right-to-left support for Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac presently. There are several alternative word processors that do support RTL, however:
*
*OpenOffice
*Mellel
*Nisus Writer Pro
| Q: Microsoft Word right-to-left (RTL) support I have on my Mac - Microsoft Word 2010, now … I want to write from right to left ( not only text-align right, but direction ltr).
I'll be thankful for some help. :)
A: Word 2016 has this language feature if you can upgrade Word.
There's no right-to-left support for Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac presently. There are several alternative word processors that do support RTL, however:
*
*OpenOffice
*Mellel
*Nisus Writer Pro
A: After endless effort to find a solution the only thing that worked for me was opening another document that was already saved with a paragraph direction from right to left. Worked like a charm!
A: Nevron Writer for MAC has RTL support though its not perfect - https://www.nevronoffice.com/
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a8f6522aacb7a12f69c327c6eb5e2fdc4b6acfe3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you help me cure font outlines (as opposed to the font itself) showing up in webpages? I am having some issues with fonts rendering improperly across browsers. Essentially i am just getting outlines, an example can be viewed her.
For example on this page. http://book.cakephp.org/view/1442/link all of the navigation links in the teal bar appear as outlines.. as do the main nav items on the left side of the screen. this is how my browser is showing this page
My first attempt at fixing this involved removing all duplicate fonts on my system ( there were a couple ) but that did not seem to fix it. A friend of said it was might be a conflict between Helvetica and Helvetica Neue installed but i need both of those fonts.. any suggestions?
A: You need to empty your font cache and restart--and there are a variety of utilities, some free, that will do this for you.
| Q: Can you help me cure font outlines (as opposed to the font itself) showing up in webpages? I am having some issues with fonts rendering improperly across browsers. Essentially i am just getting outlines, an example can be viewed her.
For example on this page. http://book.cakephp.org/view/1442/link all of the navigation links in the teal bar appear as outlines.. as do the main nav items on the left side of the screen. this is how my browser is showing this page
My first attempt at fixing this involved removing all duplicate fonts on my system ( there were a couple ) but that did not seem to fix it. A friend of said it was might be a conflict between Helvetica and Helvetica Neue installed but i need both of those fonts.. any suggestions?
A: You need to empty your font cache and restart--and there are a variety of utilities, some free, that will do this for you.
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9602c230854b1a68cb74e3ba289da8dbb04a5740 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open PDF using Google Chrome I like the fact that I can use Google's built in PDF viewer instead of a separate application (Adobe Acrobat). Normally I would open a Finder Window with the PDF and drag it to a tab on Google Chrome but this process becomes two steps if the PDF is to be downloaded first.
I tried changing the default application for PDF using "Get Info" > "Open with", but it does not seem to work properly. I still have to drag a file to a Chrome Tab. I would like to ideally double click to open as well as drag to the Chrome icon in the dock.
A: Make sure you click the "Change All" checkbox in the Get Info window.
(Credit for this answer goes to Lyken. There was just no sense in letting this question masquerade as unanswered any longer.)
| Q: Open PDF using Google Chrome I like the fact that I can use Google's built in PDF viewer instead of a separate application (Adobe Acrobat). Normally I would open a Finder Window with the PDF and drag it to a tab on Google Chrome but this process becomes two steps if the PDF is to be downloaded first.
I tried changing the default application for PDF using "Get Info" > "Open with", but it does not seem to work properly. I still have to drag a file to a Chrome Tab. I would like to ideally double click to open as well as drag to the Chrome icon in the dock.
A: Make sure you click the "Change All" checkbox in the Get Info window.
(Credit for this answer goes to Lyken. There was just no sense in letting this question masquerade as unanswered any longer.)
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0fc5e5ddad0b65e13ecaaf8963f4247993bbe03a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Natively written packet sniffer / inspector for OS X I am looking for a packet sniffer / inspector which runs natively on OS X (Cocoa) and not with some sort of compatibility layer like X.
Ideally I am looking for an application with the following qualities:
*
*native (Cocoa) interface
*ability to inspect packet data
*inspect packet data as XML, or RAW formats
*free
A: Packet Peeper is a free, native OS X application for packet sniffing. Not quite as robust as Wireshark (but what is really).
There's also Cocoa Packet Analyzer, which appears to have a nifty plugin framework for extending its capabilities, but I've never used it. It's donation-ware.
KisMAC may also be of interest. Not so much a sniffer as a wireless stumbling tool. I've used it successfully to tune my wireless network in a congested neighbourhood.
Edit: based on your updated desired features I'd say try Packet Peeper. It fulfills both your requirements.
| Q: Natively written packet sniffer / inspector for OS X I am looking for a packet sniffer / inspector which runs natively on OS X (Cocoa) and not with some sort of compatibility layer like X.
Ideally I am looking for an application with the following qualities:
*
*native (Cocoa) interface
*ability to inspect packet data
*inspect packet data as XML, or RAW formats
*free
A: Packet Peeper is a free, native OS X application for packet sniffing. Not quite as robust as Wireshark (but what is really).
There's also Cocoa Packet Analyzer, which appears to have a nifty plugin framework for extending its capabilities, but I've never used it. It's donation-ware.
KisMAC may also be of interest. Not so much a sniffer as a wireless stumbling tool. I've used it successfully to tune my wireless network in a congested neighbourhood.
Edit: based on your updated desired features I'd say try Packet Peeper. It fulfills both your requirements.
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6f57861eb7fa79f6bca898a0cb81c217f8a0e00b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: is it possible to write an application that can block call, disable writing text messages if you are driving is it possible to write an application that can block call, disable writing text messages if you are driving or moving fast, regardless of any version of IOS?
A: No, iPhone apps do not have access to the phone or sms text systems.
There may be such apps in the jailbreak community, but nothing like it will be in the App Store.
| Q: is it possible to write an application that can block call, disable writing text messages if you are driving is it possible to write an application that can block call, disable writing text messages if you are driving or moving fast, regardless of any version of IOS?
A: No, iPhone apps do not have access to the phone or sms text systems.
There may be such apps in the jailbreak community, but nothing like it will be in the App Store.
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6a27ac153ce0a4382fe146b43ecee6b0ec6ffce0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free .CSV text file editor for Mac OS X? I am looking for a free editor to edit comma-delimited text files, or .csv format.
A: Google Docs
I just used Google Docs for exactly this purpose but all I needed to do was extract a column of email addresses from a CSV file.
Note: Google Docs has file size limits, so this is not a silver bullet. A great bullet, but those limitations are critical when applied.
| Q: Free .CSV text file editor for Mac OS X? I am looking for a free editor to edit comma-delimited text files, or .csv format.
A: Google Docs
I just used Google Docs for exactly this purpose but all I needed to do was extract a column of email addresses from a CSV file.
Note: Google Docs has file size limits, so this is not a silver bullet. A great bullet, but those limitations are critical when applied.
A: LibreOffice
LibreOffice does quite a good job now and is compatible even with OS X 10.9
A: Numbers
Disclaimer: Free on new Macs
Apple Numbers also opens and saves to CSV. Just had to add to the list.
Numbers:
Save as CSV after editing:
Note that you can choose text encoding as well when exporting if needed for other systems.
A: DB Browser for SQLite
Not an obvious candidate but very powerful (and free).
Steps
*
*Create an empty Database
*Import Table form CSV file
*With various import options
*Edit, search, plot the data
*Export your edits as (new) CSV file
A: NeoOffice
The latest version of NeoOffice works fine (in that it supports Versions etc) but you need to donate a small amount of money to download it before the end of August 2011.
A: csveditor (Java)
Very simple (no undo), java program (some may stop reading here ;) - does the job
You have to create an empty table upon launch but then you can open any file.
Screenshot:
A: OpenRefine
When interacting with large and messy text csv and other structured text files, I now typically go to Google Refine (now called OpenRefine). I've used it for TSV/CSV, JSON, and XML documents. In my experience it crashes rarely, and is pretty good for mangling data (you can apply transformations with scripting languages).
Its approach is more database-oriented, rather than spreadsheet oriented.
A: Free Microsoft Office Online
What better product than Excel is there to open and manipulate CSV files?
With this option, you don't need to install anything. It has the convenience of Google Docs but the guaranteed compatibility of MS Office.
A: Table Tool
Free and Open Source (MIT License).
Table Tool opens CSV files. It auto-detects character encoding and record separator (comma/semicolon/tab), and supports basic editing operations (like add row, delete row, add column delete column etc).
Table Tool can convert files to a different format.
Table Tool is also available on the Mac App Store.
A: RStudio
RStudio wraps a really nice IDE-like environment around the popular, open source R language. The R language "is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display."1 It includes facilities for importing and exporting CSV data from its built-in data store so you can work on it with its powerful toolkit and then export it back out to CSV.
It's free (as in beer and speech) for use with paid options available if you need someone to yell at when things aren't working quite right.
A: VS Code
Free
Using an extension such as Simple CSV Editor
From the project:
Simple CSV Editor
Simple CSV Editor is just simple editor. Nothing much to say about it. It's much more readable thank plain text csv file. IMO very useful if you have a lot of text in your csv - if you you it as dictionary.
How to run
Use command palette ( shift + ctrl + p / ctrl + p and then type '>' ) and find Simple CSV Editor. Press enter ;)
A: XTabulator
XTabulator edits CSV but is not free.
XTabulator is a tabular data file editor for Mac OS X. With XTabulator, you can edit, manipulate, massage, slice, and dice comma-separated (CSV), tab-separated (TAB), or anything-separated files quickly and easily.
A: Apache Open Office
Free. Reads, writes, creates CSV, Excel, Word and an number of other formats.
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348e09380d2cdc076b6cc14939073eae3703b0ed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Default volume too high for headphones Is there a way to change the default volume setting for headphones/line out, i.e. the one you get after plugging a jack in for the first time since you've turned your Mac on and started OSX?
I'm using a 2008 unibody (aluminum) Macbook, running Snow Leopard. And several times I've run the risk of hurting my ears because of that default value (half of the scale).
A: Take a look at breakaway. You can write a quick applescript to change the volume back and forth when when the headphone is connected/disconnected, and much more
| Q: Default volume too high for headphones Is there a way to change the default volume setting for headphones/line out, i.e. the one you get after plugging a jack in for the first time since you've turned your Mac on and started OSX?
I'm using a 2008 unibody (aluminum) Macbook, running Snow Leopard. And several times I've run the risk of hurting my ears because of that default value (half of the scale).
A: Take a look at breakaway. You can write a quick applescript to change the volume back and forth when when the headphone is connected/disconnected, and much more
A: I had the same problem. Setting the volume as low as it could go was still too loud.
Here's a solution that worked for me:
*
*Download Loopback
*Set it up so that you have the following:
*Sources: Pass-Thru
*Output Channels: Channels 1&2
*Monitors: [Select your headphone device]
Now all audio is routed to a virtual device, which outputs to your headphones. This gives you an additional volume slider for more fine grained control, which will allow you to set your headphones to be much quieter than you could normally with the default OSX volume options.
A: Open "AppleScript Editor"
Add this line:
set volume 1.5
Then File > Save As
In the file format box choose "Application" and check the "Run Only" box. Name the file and save it somewhere you can find it.
Then if you drag that app into your dock, you can right click it, select Options > Open at Login.
This will set the volume to around 3 boxes of the scale on startup. However it will not detect if you have headphones plugged in or not. It will just always set the volume lower.
A: Check these values each time before you plug in your headphones.
Check the box for "Show volume in menu bar." Each time before you plug in any headphones, go to your Menu bar and manually lower the volume.
Trying to solve this problem with AppleScript and the like is severly over-engineering a solution.
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5c15ad1ee2e12e43e45f151386e11ef96caaeb24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change the location of an icon in the menu bar? Every time I start up Radium the menu bar icon for the application shows up in the same place: dead smack in the middle of all my other menu bar icons. Doesn't matter if it's the last menu bar occupying application I've started.
I'd like to have it appear as the icon furthest to left on account of it displaying song information in the menu bar area once I start streaming a station with it.
Is this possible?
I tried a few key + click combinations to see if that would let me drag it around but no luck. It seems stuck in this position.
Edit: I did try a Command+click to move it -- no luck. Same for Option and Control click combinations.
The image below show the current location of the icon. I'd like it to appear to the left of the Sparrow icon.
A: While not a free option, the 1.0 release of Bartender allows you to move any menu bar item around, including system items such as the clock, notification center, and the battery indicator.
| Q: Change the location of an icon in the menu bar? Every time I start up Radium the menu bar icon for the application shows up in the same place: dead smack in the middle of all my other menu bar icons. Doesn't matter if it's the last menu bar occupying application I've started.
I'd like to have it appear as the icon furthest to left on account of it displaying song information in the menu bar area once I start streaming a station with it.
Is this possible?
I tried a few key + click combinations to see if that would let me drag it around but no luck. It seems stuck in this position.
Edit: I did try a Command+click to move it -- no luck. Same for Option and Control click combinations.
The image below show the current location of the icon. I'd like it to appear to the left of the Sparrow icon.
A: While not a free option, the 1.0 release of Bartender allows you to move any menu bar item around, including system items such as the clock, notification center, and the battery indicator.
A: I'm not a fan of adding more clutter (i.e. use extra apps) to de-clutter or organize something + most of solutions do not work well in EL Capitan.
My personal annoyance was Fantastical icon separated from clock. What I found is that menubar icons order loosely follows respective app launching order, i.e. first launched app takes right-most spot, next to OS X system icons space.
All I had to do is re-arrage login items order and menubar icons got in their desired places.
OS X system icons (clock, wifi, battery) still can be re-arranged using CMD-drag.
p.s. to re-arrange login items you'd have to delete and re-add them. No biggie, just Apple-way of doing things lately :)
A: If a menu icon is allowed to move, command + mouse select will work.
You might have to patch the program (or System Ui Server). Have you asked the developer if they can implement this as a feature?
Only the Apple icons are movable on my 10.6.7 systems so it certainly isn't easy for a developer to get this working and may be impossible in practice.
The only workaround would be to have a script that delays the radium start as the leftmost item is the last to load. If you had a launch script that slept for 3 minutes and then killed, relaunched that app - it would be leftmost until another started... If it was really important, you could kill and relaunch it periodically every X minutes to ensure that over time it's the leftmost icon without you taking manual action.
A: There is a free app for hiding and reordering icons: Broomstick
A: While not able to reorder items as requested in the OP, the free app Dozer allows you to ⌘-drag position two separators also in the menu bar. The icons to the left of one can be hidden/shown with a click or automatically. Already liking this after my first 10 minute test drive of this app.
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9aa3405acc41252c8da7aa8d01b854f5f333542c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download a video from the web to my iPad? There's an m4v video for download on the web that I'd like to watch offline on my iPad. This is the process I know will work:
*
*Open link in web browser on my laptop
*Download video to my laptop
*Stick video in iTunes
*Connect my iPad to my laptop
*Sync
*Disconnect iPad from laptop
*Watch offline
This is what I want to do:
*
*Open link in web browser on my iPad
*Download video to my iPad
*Watch offline
Is there currently a way to do this?
A: This is not possible in MobileSafari on the iPad. There may be an app for it somewhere on the App Store, though.
| Q: How can I download a video from the web to my iPad? There's an m4v video for download on the web that I'd like to watch offline on my iPad. This is the process I know will work:
*
*Open link in web browser on my laptop
*Download video to my laptop
*Stick video in iTunes
*Connect my iPad to my laptop
*Sync
*Disconnect iPad from laptop
*Watch offline
This is what I want to do:
*
*Open link in web browser on my iPad
*Download video to my iPad
*Watch offline
Is there currently a way to do this?
A: This is not possible in MobileSafari on the iPad. There may be an app for it somewhere on the App Store, though.
A: You can get an app called Azul that replicates that functionality.
If you jailbreak it you can get Safari Download Manager, but without jailbreaking your iPad the only way is through apps.
A: You may refer to this guide, it's regarding how to download website video to computer for free. It works pretty well for me.
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76b0fa3e359383831ab1deed17f8165fd101bcfd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I hide folders in OSX? Is there a way to hide folders in OSX like you can in Windows? And if so then how?
A: Any file or folder that begins with a . will be hidden by default, although you can use a utility like TinkerTool to override this.
| Q: How do I hide folders in OSX? Is there a way to hide folders in OSX like you can in Windows? And if so then how?
A: Any file or folder that begins with a . will be hidden by default, although you can use a utility like TinkerTool to override this.
A: The command-line way:
Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and type
chflags hidden /path/to/folder
replacing /path/to/folder with the POSIX-style path to the folder you want to hide (for example, a folder on your desktop called test would be ~/Desktop/test).
To unhide it, type chflags nohidden /path/to/folder.
The freeware way:
I haven't used it, but I've seen the app Hide Folders, by Altomac.
A: In terminal enter the following to show hidden folders:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder;
This will make all hidden folders visible, and will also allow you to prefix a folder with "." directly from finder (making it hidden).
To hide folders again, enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder;
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8e9512b59e8ec29293cea9841a1cae03b3dbc992 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is an unlocked phone and a jailbroken phone the same thing? I just read that apple is now selling unlocked phones? I also read somewhere earlier (probably Wikipedia) that jailbreaking was made legal.
Is jailbreaking and unlocking the same in this context?
Addendum: If they are different, does it also mean that jailbreaking doesn’t unlock the phone? and the steps to unlock are different? I was under the impression that when I jailbroke my phone (using redsn0w), it also became unlocked.
A: As the other answers say, unlocking and jailbreaking aren't the same thing.
There are two ways to unlock a locked phone: You either talk the owner of the lock (i.e., the phone company whose network the phone is locked to) into giving you the unlock code (something which, AFAIK, AT&T won't do under any circumstance), or you do without the unlock code. The latter method requires a jailbreak, since the unlock software certainly falls under the “not approved by Apple” umbrella.
(On a side note, in Europe, phone companies are required by law to give you the unlock code for an unlocked phone once your initial contract (for a year or two?) is completed.
| Q: Is an unlocked phone and a jailbroken phone the same thing? I just read that apple is now selling unlocked phones? I also read somewhere earlier (probably Wikipedia) that jailbreaking was made legal.
Is jailbreaking and unlocking the same in this context?
Addendum: If they are different, does it also mean that jailbreaking doesn’t unlock the phone? and the steps to unlock are different? I was under the impression that when I jailbroke my phone (using redsn0w), it also became unlocked.
A: As the other answers say, unlocking and jailbreaking aren't the same thing.
There are two ways to unlock a locked phone: You either talk the owner of the lock (i.e., the phone company whose network the phone is locked to) into giving you the unlock code (something which, AFAIK, AT&T won't do under any circumstance), or you do without the unlock code. The latter method requires a jailbreak, since the unlock software certainly falls under the “not approved by Apple” umbrella.
(On a side note, in Europe, phone companies are required by law to give you the unlock code for an unlocked phone once your initial contract (for a year or two?) is completed.
A: iPhones have a built-in mechanism that ensures that all code running on it is under the control of Apple (this is called "code signing") and the "key" required to sign your code is one of the things Apple charge you for as an iPhone developer.
Jail-braking disables this mechanism, and allow you to run arbitrary code. This is potentially very dangerous, but may be required to do things not allowed by Apple. A great deal of effort is being done by Apple to stop jail-braking.
An unlocked phone is one not tied to a specific phone company, allowing you to subscribe at any phone company if you want to.
A: Factory unlocked = not locked to one carrier. In some countries, it is only possible to sell factory unlocked phones (by law).
Unlocking = To convert a locked iPhone into an unlocked one. This can be done via different methods.
Jailbraking = Is an activity that allows a user to install non-Apple-approved software onto the iPhone (and to carry out other non-Apple-approved functions).
A: No.
Apple has been selling unlocked iPhones for a long long time since the iPhone 3G, where some countries required phones to be unlocked, and sold the iPhone 4 unlocked by themselves in some countries.
Jailbreaking allows you to install and modify what is in your iDevice.
Unlocking allows you to use it with other carriers (GSM only, CDMA iPhones have no SIM card).
Jailbreaking does not unlock your phone. The jailbreaking tool that you used (redsn0w), probably has a built-in unlocking tool.
A: No, they're not the same thing.
Jailbreaking is a process where the iOS software and device firmware that Apple ships is modified to allow unauthorized/unsigned code to run.
Unlocking means that you can use a GSM iPhone with any GSM carrier, not locked to one carrier in exchange for a discount or an exclusive sales agreement.
Jailbreaking is the first step needed to unlock a phone. Jailbreaking allows additional root access to the device and allows for other app store mechanisms to load apps and code onto the phone.
Some utilities, like redsn0w, will automatically unlock certain models of iPhone in addition to jailbreaking.
Apple has sold authorized unlocked phones in several markets worldwide.
As of June 2011, Apple will sell unlocked GSM phones in addition to the locked to Verizon and AT&T models. Some carriers will unlock an iPhone once your contract is up. There is a lot of confusion in the US on this point due to conflicting law of software licenses and Library of Congress exemptions that permit users to modify their phones for the express purpose of unlocking them when not bound by a contract to one carrier.
A: Ambiguity of “Unlocked Phone”:
Bootloader Unlock aka Jailbreak Vs. Network Carrier Unlock
Bootloader Unlock = Jailbreak
Jailbreaking or bootloader unlocking allows you to gain root privileges and install custom firmware. Do not unlock the bootloader if you are wanting to disable the carrier subsidy lock.
Network Carrier Subsidy Unlock
The ability to use the phone on any carrier, Do not unlock the bootloader if you are wanting to disable the carrier subsidy lock. Jailbreaking and unlocking are not the same thing. You can call a carrier to get a Master Subsidy Lock, also known as MSL. With that number in-hand, you can go about unlocking your device or (phones manufactured from February 2015 onward), MSL will be replaced with the DSU (Domestic SIM Unlockable) system, allowing carriers to unlock devices over the air.
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9abc186a055e301f4477a937cccb84d5edd3ea8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any network monitor software with a notification area icon? I often use my laptop in the subway / office buildings where internet connection may be laggy / absent for some period of time. Is there any network monitorying software that can constantly monitor my network connection quality (for example, by sending ping to google.com every few second) and display a green-yellow-red icon in the notification area so I will know if i have a normal internet connection or not?
Google search doesn't show any such software :(
A: Try PingMenu: https://github.com/kalleboo/PingMenu
| Q: Is there any network monitor software with a notification area icon? I often use my laptop in the subway / office buildings where internet connection may be laggy / absent for some period of time. Is there any network monitorying software that can constantly monitor my network connection quality (for example, by sending ping to google.com every few second) and display a green-yellow-red icon in the notification area so I will know if i have a normal internet connection or not?
Google search doesn't show any such software :(
A: Try PingMenu: https://github.com/kalleboo/PingMenu
A: One solution is to use GeekTool. You'll need to write a small shell script, which would be a separate question.
A: Try http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
A: I fully agree with @mankoff. Using GeekTool would definitely work for this situation. Even though you have lots of windows open there is a setting on GeekTool for keeping it above all windows.
This is how you would make the script stay on top of all windows in the GeekTool interface.
GeekTool is the perfect choice for this situation although you would have to write a shell script as @mankoff said. You will find a great article on getting started with GeekTool here: An article from App Storm on GeekTool.
Here is the website for GeekTool. There, you will find the download button: GeekTool's website
What version operating system are you running?
@zzz said this about the shell script for GeekTool: "The 'shell script' for GeekTool would be "ping -c 1 -W 1 8.8.8.8""
A: Dashboard widget:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Status-Info/PingMonitor.shtml
Or, what is wrong with opening Terminal.app, and run
ping 8.8.8.8
and reduce terminal app to 5 line high... :)
If you want, you can make the Terminal window:
*
*translucent
*sticky
*float above other apps
with the http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/
so, you will get exactly what you want... ;)
If you save the ping into ping.command, you can start it with doubleclick. etc..etc..
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64a0480a91c6adac0904a6c60f985b3ae9be19ff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way I can share a disk image as a remote DVD drive? I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work.
So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?
A: If you can manage a cheap 8GB USB flash drive, try read these links
*
*http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
*http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/02/install-snow-leopard-from-external-firewire-or-usb-hard-drive-or-how-to-upgrade-to-106-without-a-dvd-drive/
| Q: Is there a way I can share a disk image as a remote DVD drive? I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work.
So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?
A: If you can manage a cheap 8GB USB flash drive, try read these links
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*http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
*http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/02/install-snow-leopard-from-external-firewire-or-usb-hard-drive-or-how-to-upgrade-to-106-without-a-dvd-drive/
A: Sure - all macs support network boot. You might look at Deploy Studio for help in setting up a server that can network boot images stored on the remote machine. Borrowing a USB drive or another mac in target mode with a working DVD might be faster - but with a little set up - network booting is very doable.
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7786c138cf52bd1d0f71b5fcbdc870374dd01c97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use my iPhone 3G economically in China? I'm traveling to China and would like to use my iPhone there. I would not like to pay AT&T's crazy and predatory charges. What should I do? I don't have much time and want something low on the 'things can go wrong' scale. Oh, and I have a dinosaur 3G, and a 4G.
A: You can turn on airplane mode, but enable WiFi (Or you could get an iPad with only WiFi), then make calls through FaceTime, or Skype equivalent.
Impossible that you could be charged, but you would have to be near a Wi-Fi source for it to be useful.
| Q: How can I use my iPhone 3G economically in China? I'm traveling to China and would like to use my iPhone there. I would not like to pay AT&T's crazy and predatory charges. What should I do? I don't have much time and want something low on the 'things can go wrong' scale. Oh, and I have a dinosaur 3G, and a 4G.
A: You can turn on airplane mode, but enable WiFi (Or you could get an iPad with only WiFi), then make calls through FaceTime, or Skype equivalent.
Impossible that you could be charged, but you would have to be near a Wi-Fi source for it to be useful.
A: Turn off Cellular Network, 3G and Data roaming. You can still use regular telephone calling and texting.
If you find WiFi you can use Whatsapp or iMessage for texting, and Viber or Skype for calling.
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70ab316d8826858bb0cb157e3b2933e5904bb7ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I setup my printer to print in black and white as default? Is it possible to set up a printer, so it will always print in black and white?
A: @ughoavgfhw's answer is incomplete. Some applications (like Google Chrome) will not use the last used preset, but will use the default preset. In order to have such applications adhere to your default settings, you have to interact with the underlying printing system CUPS. These steps will get you there:
*
*Run cupsctl WebInterface=yes using the Terminal application (only required once).
*Browse to http://localhost:631/
*Go to Printers
*Select printer to modify
*Choose Set Default Options from the second drop-down
*Under Basic set Output color to Black (this step might be different for your printer)
*Hit Set Default Options and presto!
| Q: How can I setup my printer to print in black and white as default? Is it possible to set up a printer, so it will always print in black and white?
A: @ughoavgfhw's answer is incomplete. Some applications (like Google Chrome) will not use the last used preset, but will use the default preset. In order to have such applications adhere to your default settings, you have to interact with the underlying printing system CUPS. These steps will get you there:
*
*Run cupsctl WebInterface=yes using the Terminal application (only required once).
*Browse to http://localhost:631/
*Go to Printers
*Select printer to modify
*Choose Set Default Options from the second drop-down
*Under Basic set Output color to Black (this step might be different for your printer)
*Hit Set Default Options and presto!
A: You can define a preset from the print dialog. First change the settings for what you want, and then choose the Presets > Save As… menu.
If you leave your preset selected, it will be selected the next time also, so you will never have to change it.
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907da164fc6bb2c68b12afb95f306ff5c6173902 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete a file from my desktop using keyboard I have tons of file on my desktop. I am using latest macbook pro.
After selecting the file using mouse I hit delete and then "command and delete" and none of them work.
So finally I hit ctrl + mouse click and then I chose "Move to trash".
Is there a way to delete the file using only keyboard?
A: command+delete works just fine. Highlight the file (single click or use your keyboard to select it), then hold command and without releasing it, push delete. This moves the file or folder to the trash.
Note that delete is in the same place as Backspace on a Windows keyboard.
| Q: How do I delete a file from my desktop using keyboard I have tons of file on my desktop. I am using latest macbook pro.
After selecting the file using mouse I hit delete and then "command and delete" and none of them work.
So finally I hit ctrl + mouse click and then I chose "Move to trash".
Is there a way to delete the file using only keyboard?
A: command+delete works just fine. Highlight the file (single click or use your keyboard to select it), then hold command and without releasing it, push delete. This moves the file or folder to the trash.
Note that delete is in the same place as Backspace on a Windows keyboard.
A: The full procedure to delete a file from the desktop, without the mouse, that should work almost anywhere in OS X, includes the following.
Command-Tab to switch applications until the Finder is the active application.
If any Finder windows are currently open, press Command-Shift-D to open a new window containing the Desktop folder, or Option-Command-W to close all active Finder windows and make the Finder's desktop active;
To highlight the icon, type the first few letters of the icon's name, or press the arrow keys until it is selected (highlighted);
Command-Delete to send the icon to the trash;
Optionally, Command-Shift-Delete to empty the trash.
Learning the keyboard shortcuts takes time, but many of the steps in the Finder can become natural, almost "automatic" with enough practice.
(This answer gives the key names in U.S. English. The Command key is also labeled ⌘; The Option key is also labeled ⌥; The Shift key is also labeled ⇧; and as mentioned by Styfle, the "delete" key is called "Backspace" on other operating systems.)
A: I had an issue with command+delete not working to delete things on the desktop that looked like apps I had installed earlier. Turns out they weren't files, but instead mounted DMG files that needed to be ejected with ⌘+E.
A: Just in case if someone uses external Microsoft Sculpt Ergo keyboard + Macbook Pro 2016. I'm able to move file to Trash with 'Win'+'backspace' keystroke.
A: highlight, then SHIFT + DELETE; click ok
A: TLDR: Use CTRL + d on Windows.
If you find yourself using Apple hardware in a Windows environment (like running Bootcamp on a MacBook Pro or just using an Apple keyboard in Windows), you may notice that delete is mapped to the Windows Backspace key which is never involved in deleting files.
But you can still send files to the recycle bin with CTRL + d.
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03e4bb0b29f9878c14b85d993ee76dcbc13f4643 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Magic Trackpad issue: occasionally it interprets one-finger click as two-finger ("right") click I wanted to see if my technical hiccup was experienced by others, as well as any obvious fix I am missing.
Perhaps 5-10 times per day, my external, bluetooth, apple magic trackpad will interpret a regular click as a two-finger click (ie a right-click.) I believe it is only when I click via the full "press down" method, it does not happen during a mere light-touch-to-click.
So you are using your trackpad, and you go to it to drag something, for instance, but you then find the darn contextual menu popping up on the thing instead! Agh!
I am guessing I may take it in for a regular exchange (ugh, it was bought on USA apple store online and I am in thailand now) ... but thought I would see how wide-spread or solvable it is.
A: Do you have checked this in the SystemPreferences -> Trackpad?
That's mean, than when you do a full-click on the right(left) bottom corner thats mean right-click. For the disable, simple uncheck.
| Q: Apple Magic Trackpad issue: occasionally it interprets one-finger click as two-finger ("right") click I wanted to see if my technical hiccup was experienced by others, as well as any obvious fix I am missing.
Perhaps 5-10 times per day, my external, bluetooth, apple magic trackpad will interpret a regular click as a two-finger click (ie a right-click.) I believe it is only when I click via the full "press down" method, it does not happen during a mere light-touch-to-click.
So you are using your trackpad, and you go to it to drag something, for instance, but you then find the darn contextual menu popping up on the thing instead! Agh!
I am guessing I may take it in for a regular exchange (ugh, it was bought on USA apple store online and I am in thailand now) ... but thought I would see how wide-spread or solvable it is.
A: Do you have checked this in the SystemPreferences -> Trackpad?
That's mean, than when you do a full-click on the right(left) bottom corner thats mean right-click. For the disable, simple uncheck.
A: To resurrect this thread - this was driving me crazy. I thought my MacBook trackpad was failing but I recently went back to using a Magic Trackpad and found the same problem there. What happens is I mostly single click with my thumb but if any of my other fingers touched the trackpad it would fire off a right click.
I was hoping there was a solution where you could specify that the two contact points would have to be close to each other. I couldn't find anything like that.
But I did find MagicPrefs, which lets you customize gestures, taps, and clicks. What worked for me was to set the two-finger click to fire a right-click, and to set the applicable zone to the top 3/4 of the trackpad. This way thumb clicks, which are always at the bottom of the trackpad for me, didn't count as a double click and then fallover to a single click.
A: I don't want to give up right clicking. But I have had the same problem. However I think it might be caused either by hitting too close to right click corner or one of my other fingers either accidentally touching the trackpad or perhaps being detectably close. Try clearly pointing with one finger and the others withdrawn. When doing this you seem to get a "regular click". Working for me - try it.
A: I sometimes scroll on my Macbook when I meant to drag. In my case it's usually due to another finger touching the trackpad or palm pressure too close to it.
A: I think the problem are the rubber of the magic trackpad. Try changing them.
A: I have the same problem... I can avoid it by arching my fingers and clicking with just the tips, but I find that unnatural and uncomfortable, since my fingers are not as flexible as they once were. I think the trackpad sees my single click as a double click because the fingers contact it over a larger surface, and the pressure applied by the flat finger is probably not even. It seems like something that the trackpad software should handle, but there is no way to adjust the sensitivity settings for clicks.
There is no fix other than changing the way your fingers move over the surface.
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1a9d5b35607aba3dc90a7b8fe367427fba867724 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Pro constantly freezing/pausing for fractions of a second I've got a 2008 MacBook Pro (Late 2008/Unibody, MB471LL/A, MacBookPro5,1, A1286) with 6GB of memory and a 160GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD running 10.6.7 (1OJ869). Around a month ago I noticed the machine is constantly freezing all the time for a fraction of a second, it's really regular and barely noticeable in general use. It's more obvious when scrolling down a long page in Safari (5.0.5) but really noticeable when playing YouTube clips, there's constant pauses. The odd thing is that video played by VLC (1.1.9) is totally smooth. I'm thinking it might be a Flash (10.3 r181) thing as it seems Safari-bound.
I can provide any diag information if anyone would like to help me out (ps -a, top etc. just ask). Thanks in advance.
A: EXACTLY that symptoms had my friend, he noticed it mostly in Excel an in the gaming - random freezing, first about a half second, later (1-2 months) became worse between 0,5-30 sec.
It was a HW problem. He bring his notebook to apple service, something (don't remember what) got changed and everything is OK now.
| Q: MacBook Pro constantly freezing/pausing for fractions of a second I've got a 2008 MacBook Pro (Late 2008/Unibody, MB471LL/A, MacBookPro5,1, A1286) with 6GB of memory and a 160GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD running 10.6.7 (1OJ869). Around a month ago I noticed the machine is constantly freezing all the time for a fraction of a second, it's really regular and barely noticeable in general use. It's more obvious when scrolling down a long page in Safari (5.0.5) but really noticeable when playing YouTube clips, there's constant pauses. The odd thing is that video played by VLC (1.1.9) is totally smooth. I'm thinking it might be a Flash (10.3 r181) thing as it seems Safari-bound.
I can provide any diag information if anyone would like to help me out (ps -a, top etc. just ask). Thanks in advance.
A: EXACTLY that symptoms had my friend, he noticed it mostly in Excel an in the gaming - random freezing, first about a half second, later (1-2 months) became worse between 0,5-30 sec.
It was a HW problem. He bring his notebook to apple service, something (don't remember what) got changed and everything is OK now.
A: I had the same problem. It was the motherboard. Check the serial, Apple did replace (for free) a whole bunch of boards because of a failure.
A: Strange as it may sound, it could be the SSD. I have an OCZ Vertex 2 in my MacBookPro7,1 (2010 13") and I discovered that something in iStat Menus was causing disk I/O to stop for a few seconds every now and then. This would manifest itself not by completely freezing the system, but things like when launching apps the icon would bounce and bounce until the I/O resumed, and Chrome would refuse to open new tabs. I got around this by disabling the CPU and sensors widgets in iStat and I haven't had any problems, but there could be a similar app on your system that is causing the problem.
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d204d3d7782f3d623730046b27e68cdfb25fc718 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use Time Machine with Airport Express + USB External Drive? I'm wondering if it's possible to connect an external USB drive to my Airport Express and then run Time Machine backups onto that? A bit like a makeshift Time Capsule.
A: No - airport express doesn't share drives, just printers.
| Q: Is it possible to use Time Machine with Airport Express + USB External Drive? I'm wondering if it's possible to connect an external USB drive to my Airport Express and then run Time Machine backups onto that? A bit like a makeshift Time Capsule.
A: No - airport express doesn't share drives, just printers.
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4ab7b2556a328510195cbdf42c19adbf10eb971a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to pickup iPhone calls on my Macbook Pro? I have my iPhone headset plugged into my Macbook Pro so that I can listen to some proper music and have my Iphone 4 lying next to my MB Pro.
Now, of course, it would be really really fancy if there was a way I could proxy my incoming iPhone calls to my MB Pro via Bluetooth (essentially turning my MB Pro into a bluetooth headset) so that I can still pick up calls with my iPhone headset, even though it is plugged into my MB Pro.
Is there a way to do this?
A: This is a feature apple brought with the lastest OS X : OS X Yosemite.
OS X Yosemite is still a beta and will be released publicly in fall 2014.
| Q: Is there a way to pickup iPhone calls on my Macbook Pro? I have my iPhone headset plugged into my Macbook Pro so that I can listen to some proper music and have my Iphone 4 lying next to my MB Pro.
Now, of course, it would be really really fancy if there was a way I could proxy my incoming iPhone calls to my MB Pro via Bluetooth (essentially turning my MB Pro into a bluetooth headset) so that I can still pick up calls with my iPhone headset, even though it is plugged into my MB Pro.
Is there a way to do this?
A: This is a feature apple brought with the lastest OS X : OS X Yosemite.
OS X Yosemite is still a beta and will be released publicly in fall 2014.
A: As of June 2011, BluePhoneElite was providing this feature, supporting a great range of mobile phones, but it became abandonware! :(
Their website is suggesting Phone Amego as an alternative. It may worth to check it out.
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d3c73ec6467a256e4ebb8453570e7d6cfdd2a9e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iCal sending decline e-mails when it purges old calendar entries I have iCal version 4.0.4. I have enabled the "Delete events 30 days after they have passed" preference option. When iCal purges these events, it is sending a decline e-mail to the event organizer.
Is there a way to stop iCal from sending decline e-mails when it automatically purges calendar entries?
A: I turned off my internet connection. Declined(works for Accept as well) the invites in iCal.
iCal sends the messages to your email client. I deleted them from the Mail/Outbox manually.
Then I turned the wifi card back on.
Done.
| Q: iCal sending decline e-mails when it purges old calendar entries I have iCal version 4.0.4. I have enabled the "Delete events 30 days after they have passed" preference option. When iCal purges these events, it is sending a decline e-mail to the event organizer.
Is there a way to stop iCal from sending decline e-mails when it automatically purges calendar entries?
A: I turned off my internet connection. Declined(works for Accept as well) the invites in iCal.
iCal sends the messages to your email client. I deleted them from the Mail/Outbox manually.
Then I turned the wifi card back on.
Done.
A: Turn off automatically retrieve invitations from mail if you don't intend to handle them sooner manually.
Once the invitation is in iCal - it's job is to send a decline message when it gets declined or deleted. There is no easy way to delete the notification or temporarily ask mail to not send mail before the purge happens.
Just wait until Mobile Me changes again and all your old accepted invitations get an email that you are again accepting their past invitations. ;-)
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